The Straits Times, 10 January 1988

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  • 657 1 Wall Street plunges 140 points Late burst of program trading, deficit worry sparks slide NEW YORK WALL STREET stocks suffered their third-largest drop on Friday, closing more than 140 points lower as the market succumbed to renewed worry about the US financial deficits and a late burst of program trading.
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  • 292 1  -  KONG SOOK CHIN By MORE than 41,000 Singaporeans who did not vote m the 1984 general election are being given a chance to get their names back on the electoral •register. They must either have a good reason
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  • 409 1 PEN ANG: A bid by millionaire Datuk Loh Boon Siew to make two of his daughters directors of Loh Kah Kheng Holdings Sdn Bhd, his late son's company, has been stopped, for the moment, by his daughter-in-law. Datuk Loh, known to many as
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  • 200 1 THIS is only a fraction of the 25 million $1 coins that Miss Ng Juay Huang, 32, and her fellow production operators at the Singapore Mint are churning out m time for the Lunar New Year season next month.
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  • 132 1 A MALAYSIAN worker was seriously injured after an air-condi-tioning unit he was repairing m Jurong exploded m his face yesterday. Police said Mr Tan Jee Hock, 30, was carrying out repairs at M C Packaging at Gul Circle when the accident occurred. Mr Tan, an
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  • 332 1  - SIA may buy into other carriers RAV DHALIWAL By SINGAPORE Airlines is poised to seize opportunities to buy into foreign airlines or to set up joint-venture domestic airlines m foreign countries to stay ahead of its competitors m the future. The airline's Director, Corporate Affairs, Mr Mathew Samuel, revealed that
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    • 8 1 Police nab 13 m mini-Haadyai raid Page 10
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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      516 2 FROM WAR TO WORDS: The Vietnamese backed Cambodian regime has shifted from a policy of fighting to one of negotiation, a Bangkok newspaper has reported. This was because the regime has admitted that it could not defeat the resistance guerillas, said the Bangkok Post, citing a transcript
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    • 194 2 CURBING FAN VIOLENCE: The draw for the European Championship soccer finals will be the easiest thing to do when soccer chiefs meet on Tuesday m Dusseldorf. Much harder to solve will be the ugly question of how to control fan violence, which while surprisingly improved m England, continues almost
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    • 713 2  -  ONG MING SEING The Brady report on the October stock market crash By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON A presidential commission set up to study the October stock market crash has called for a radical overhaul of financial markets m the United States. It
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    • 491 2 The Economist to close its Spore bureau THE British weekly, The Economist, will close its Singapore bureau at the end of this month following a decision to shift to Hongkong as its base for Southeast Asian coverage. The Singapore bureau chief, Mr John Andrews, 41, told The Sunday Times yesterday
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    • 263 2 THE Far Eastern Economic Review is seeking legal advice over how, or whether, it should publish a letter by the Prime Minister's press secretary, Mr James Fu. According to the Business Times' weekend edition, the Review's editor, Mr Derek Davies, is taking
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    • 160 2 WASHINGTON Will a depression occur this year, just as the Great Depression of the 1930s followed the stock market crash of 1929? The prospect is highly unlikely, said the Brady Commission. The report said there were two important differences between the market decline of
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    • 526 2 Large firms using program trading blamed for collapse WASHINGTON A handful of the nations largest institutional investors, employing two types of computerised trading, were mostly responsible for last October's stock market collapse, the Presidential Commission headed by Nicholas Brady has said m its report. It blamed the automatic trading programs
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    • 288 3 A CAMERA capable of taking a full 360 degree panoramic picture has been developed by a Singapore businessman. So far, according to Mr Ho Koon Sang, 53, "panoramic" lenses have been limited to a maximum of 320 degrees, but
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    • 383 3 'Don't leave infants unattended with playthings' THE death of seven-month-old Jotham Lee Ming Zheng, who suffocated last week after a toy cup he was playing with got stuck over his mouth and nostrils, should be another grim reminder to parents
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    • 205 3 Toys that can be harmful to tiny tots eyes, buttons, fur, cloth, colouring, limbs and stuffing can all be potential hazards. Check that seams and all parts are securely fastened so that they cannot be pulled or bitten off. Check for toxic fumes by sniffing it. Check for colour-fastness by
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    • 341 3 JERUSALEM A saboteur has infected Hebrew University computers with an electronic "virus" that threatens to destroy thousands of files and wipe out years of research, a university employee said. "It is the most devastating thing we have ever come across,"
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    • 413 3  -  SALIM OSMAN By MAJLIS Pusat, the Central Council of Malay Cultural Organisations, has submitted a six-point summary of its panel discussion on the Team MP proposal to First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. It said that while community leaders agreed that
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 185 2 Showers over a few areas m the afternoon. TEMP. (C) up to 6 am tomorrow: 32 max., 24 mm SUNSET today: 7.14 pm; Sunrise tomorrow: 7.11 am. TRAVELLERS' WEATHER Adelaide 23/27 C Hazy Los Angeles 9/17 C Cloudy Amsterdam 2/6 C Goudy Madrid -1/10 C Cloudy Athens 8/16 C Goudy
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 401 4 JERUSALEM Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has told three American senators that once Israel restores order m the West Bank and Gaza Strip it would propose negotiations with the Palestinians to establish local autonomy m the occupied territories. Senator Alfonse D'Amato later told reporters
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    • 59 4 PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti, facing bankruptcy as well as political crisis, announced on Friday that it was printing US$2O million (Ss4o million) worth of nejv money. Banking sources said Haiti was also considering suspending its foreign debt repayments, currently at about US$5 million a month m interest
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    • 185 4 BEIJING China has said that its army's strategic missile force had successfully developed a nuclear counterattack capability. In a brief report on its front page yesterday, the People's Daily said the missile force had become "a very important symbol of national defence". It quoted
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    • 264 4 One dies, 3 hurt as runaway snow tractor hits ski lift pylon VAL D'ISERE (France) One person died and three others were injured yesterday when a snow tractor hit a ski lift pylon at this Alpine resort causing two lift cabins to fall, police said. The snow tractor was transporting
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    • 138 4 HONGKONG The colony's stock exchange, stunned a week ago by the arrest of three top officials, announced a management shake-up yesterday to give its tarnished image a new shine. The Hongkong bourse, which formed a new management group shortly after the arrest of vice-chairman
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    • 266 4 Mubarak arrives in Saudi Arabia at start of Gulf tour CAIRO Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak arrived m Saudi Arabia yesterday at the start of a week-long tour of Gulf Arab states vulnerable to Iranian threats. Mr Mubarak, due also to visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and
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    • 34 4 BELFAST Three men were arrested and a large arsenal, including 50 Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and several grenade launchers, was seized on Friday from Protestant loyalists m Northern Ireland. Dolice said. AFP
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    • 495 5 BANGKOK The Vietnam-ese-backed Cambodian regime has shifted from a policy of fighting to negotiation since it cannot defeat resistance guerillas, Premier Hun Sen has reportedly told his Cabinet m Phnom Penh. But he also said the new approach was aimed at dividing Prince
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    • 261 5 Story of Miami Vice unfolds in city's police department MIAMI The story reads like a script from the TV show Miami Vice: Young renegade policemen suc<*umb to the temptations of the drug trade, using the power of their badges to steal cocaine, sell it for profit and terrorise any opposition.
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    • 77 5 PUT on a look that is bound to be qnlte a sight! This young West Berlin woman displays new designs m glasses intended for informal use and for parties. The designs are for those who want a change of view. One is for those who seek
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    • 326 5 LAGOS Nigerian police protecting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher hit and shoved members of her staff while holding back "fantastic numbers" of well-wishers m the northern city of Kano, Mrs Thatcher's chief press secretary, Mr Bernard Ingham, was at one point hit m the
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    • 246 5 BANGKOK Three United States congressmen are m Hanoi for talks on the nearly 1,800 Americans missing m action (MIAs) m the Vietnam War and on the related issue of private aid for Vietnam's war victims. "Our primary concern is talking
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    • 326 4 Chun offers to hold separate talks with Dae Jung, Young Sam SEOUL South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan has proposed unprecedented talks with opposition leader Kirn Dae Jung "for national reconciliation", a presidential aide said yesterday. Presidential chief secretary Kirn Yoon Whan told a news conference that Mr Chun also
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    • 162 6 Tests 'prove Aids not spread by mosquitoes' WASHINGTON Epidemiologists have concluded from blood tests and interviews with Aids victims m the Florida town of Belle Glade that the disease is not linked to mosquitoes. Instead, it has spread m the migrant farming town through the same modes as m large
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    • 201 6 NEW YORK A deadly storm that swept out of the Rockies on a six-day rampage across the country moved out to sea at the weekend after shutting down the federal government m Washington and snarling air and ground traffic m Boston and
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    • 148 6 SYDNEY About 40 scouts at the world jamboree were injured by flying tent poles and debris during a violent storm on Friday night, as high winds lashed the site, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Jamboree public relations director Brian Chaseling yesterday said two scouts
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    • 517 6 ATLANTA It has given generations of wide-eyed adolescent boys their first chance to ogle bare-breasted women from remote corners of the world. And it has served as the flagship publication for the largest non-profit scientific and educational institution m the world. National Geographic, the yellow-bordered
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    • 342 6 Gromyko's praise of Stalin may point to Kremlin discord MOSCOW Soviet President Andrei Gromyko sounded a rare note of praise for Josef Stalin's foreign policy, indicating possible high-level discord over the late dictator's legacy. Mr Gromyko said Stalin, Communist Party chief from 1924 to 1953, "fought like a lion" after
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    • 315 6 NEW YORK A 21-year-old university dropout has gone on trial for the murder of a young woman, m a case exposing the sexual rites, drinking and drug abuse of sophisticated children from a privileged background. But the celebrated
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    • PEOPLE
      • 54 7 A 22-YEAR-OLD stockbroker has become the latest darling of Britain's royal watchers after being invited by Queen Elizabeth's youngest son, Prince Edward, to spend the New Year weekend at the family retreat m Sandringham. Raven-haired Georgia May (right) was reported to have got alone well
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      • 58 7 FIRST Lady Nancy Reagan is m serious need of a new hairstyle, according to a vote of 35 hairstylists at the Raymond and Nasser beauty centre m New York's Madison Avenue. "During all seven years as First Lady, Mrs Reagan has clung loyally to the same
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      • 49 7 FORMER Asian sprint ace Dr Mani Jegathesan (above, m file picture) has been appointed director of Malaysia's Institute of Medical Research. Dr Jegathesan, 45, won his highest sporting laurel when he bagged the 100 m gold medal m the 1966 Asian Games m Bangkok. NST
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      • 40 7 NEPAL'S Minister of State for Tourism Ramesh Nath Pandey has praised South Korea's Heo Young Ho, 33, for conquering Mount Everest. The minister said the feat gave "great pleasure" to the Nepalese as well. AP
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      • 64 7 THE youngest sister of China's "last emperor" is now a retired teacher who lives m a two-room apartment and says she does not regret being born too late to have ever known life as a princess. Jin Zhijian, 66, said m an interview that "I
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      • 44 7  -  PETER HAZELHURST UNLIKE the proverbial old soldier, Japan's former prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is not fading away. At the moment, he is m the process of establishing what his aides describe as the most authoritative research institute m Asia.
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      • 79 7 SINGER Frank Sinatra (right) made peace with the Australian media yesterday, 14 years after his previous appearance m the country was cut short when he insulted reporters. Sinatra, 72, who laughed and joked with reporters and posed for photographs with them on the Gold Coast, said his
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    • 270 7 ROME Italy's porn queen-turned-politician, Hona "Cicciolina" Staller, says she is going to run for election to the European Parliament even if she is dropped by her own Radical Party. "I can easily get half a million votes," Cicciolina (little cuddly
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    • 763 7 LAGOS (Nigeria) "Merchant bank lawyer orders wife out as lady love moves m." "Man escapes death plot by ex-lover." Every Thursday, people here eagerly turn to the pages of Lagos Life for the latest news m the war of the sexes. The spicy
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    • 180 7 SYRACUSE (New York) A 75-year-old man, certified blind and confined to a wheelchair, was startled by an intruder m his home on Friday. So he grabbed a gun and shot him. Mr Harry Covard, who critically injured 22-year-old Wil- liam Carter, said: "What
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    • 190 7 LOS ANGELES British artist David Hockney has fallen into deep water with local health authorities over a painting at the bottom of a Hollywood hotel swimming pool, but legislators are coming to his rescue. On Friday, Democratic assemblyman Mcl Roos and
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    • 359 7 Police looking for woman's head in freeze lab RIVERSIDE (California) Mrs Dora Kent has lost her head. That is what police and coroners determined after searching a laboratory that specialises m cryonics, the practice of freezing dead bodies and body parts. The search of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation on
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    • 432 7 EVEREADY TRACK THEMRT CONTEST Win glorious Club Mcd holidays! At left we show the MRT North-South line which joins Yishun to Marina Bay and an East-West line that passes through City Hall and Raffles Place towards Tanjong Pagar. Just fill m the missing station names. Then enclose the plastic wrapper
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 540 8 Army stops fighting in Quezon to try free abducted 2 Philippine troops deployed to prevent polls violence and fraud MANILA Security forces have declared a ceasefire m five towns to help free two election candidates who were kidnapped by suspected communist insurgents. Meanwhile, armed forces chief General Fidel Ramos ordered
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    • 385 8 NUSA DUA (Indonesia) Asia-Pacific countries led by Australia yesterday pressed the United States, Japan and the European Community for early reform of world trade m farm products. Delegates at an international trade conference at the Indonesian resort island of Bali said they discussed
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    • 279 8 Relatives perform rites over Korean Air crash site BANGKOK Relatives of victims of the Korean Air jetliner, which crashed m the Andaman Sea off Burma, yesterday performed final rites over the crash area, airline officials here said. The relatives of the 115 victims of the Nov 29 crash were on
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    • 159 8 JAKARTA Indonesian President Suharto has expressed the hope that cooperation between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) can pave the way for stability m the region. Speaking at a ceremony to receive PNG's new Ambassador to Jakarta, Mr Sebulon Kulu, the President said co-operation
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    • 99 8 BANGKOK An Australian woman whose body was found m remote jungle m northern Thailand last week died of a heroin overdose, police sources said yesterday. They said a post-mor-tem on Ms Ewa Margaret Czajor, 30, whose body was found 200 m
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    • 298 8 Rebels out to enslave Filipinos by terror, says Aquino MANILA President Corazon Aquino has said the communist rebels are intent on enslaving the people of the Philippines "by terror". Her scathing attack followed a series of assaults by the rebels on military and police stations m northern and central towns
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 210 9  - Govt's attitude towards Open University idea frustrating: Vice-Chancellor By R. VASANTHI KUALA LUMPUR The j government's non-commit-tal attitude towards set- ting up the Open Universi- ty is not only disappointing but frustrating as well, University of Malaya Vice-Chancellor, Royal Professor Ungku Aziz, said yesterday. He said that academi- cians and
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    • 131 9 JOHOR BARU The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong yesterday presented letters of appointment to two judges of the High Court of Malaya. They are Datuk Lamin Haji Mohamed Yunos and Datuk Wan Adrian Ismail. Datuk Lamin was previously the solicitorgeneral based m Kuala
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    • 421 9 KUALA LUMPUR The government will train 1,000 unemployed graduates m the next 2M years as tax agents to assist businesses and co-operatives file their returns. About 550,000 sole proprietorships, partnerships and co-opera-tives will get the benefit of their services. Deputy Director-General
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    • 318 9 KUALA LUMPUR The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) has drawn a blank on the whereabouts of missing woman magistrate Balbir Kaur, believed to be still hiding m the country. ACA director-general Zulkifli bin Mahmood said the authorities are still looking for her. He said ACA had checked
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    • 367 9 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, has assumed control since Thursday of financiallytroubled Co-operative Central Bank (CCB), the country's largest co-operative bank. "This course of action is necessary to allow us to undertake an assessment of CCB's assets and liabilities and continue
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    • 230 9 KUALA LUMPUR Former Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd managing director (administration) Datuk Choo Jhing Hwa was arrested yesterday for alleged criminal breach of trust of M 52.3 million belonging to Bandar Raya Development Bhd. Two fellow MPHB directors were also arrested. One of them is
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    • 255 9 Family of Bangkok fire victim may sue hotel PENANG The family of one of the two Malaysians who died m Bangkok's First Hotel fire on New Year's Day may take legal action against the hotel for alleged negligence. A daughter of the late Mrs Yeap Kheng Guan, 56, yesterday said
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    • 164 9 Umno Youth urges 'Solidarity Day protest against Israeli atrocities' KUALA LUMPUR Umno Youth yesterday urged all state Islamic religious councils to declare Friday "Solidarity Day" m protest against Israeli atrocities m Palestinian territories occupied by Tel Aviv. A statement from the movement's international bureau said all mosques and religious schools
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 297 10 THE Housing Board will be able to concentrate more on building better flats for the people once town councils take over the task of managing housing estates, the Trade and Industry Minister and Second Defence Minister (Services),
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    • 183 10 Shipyards told to stop relying on contract workers SHIPYARDS enjoying better times were yesterday told to stop relying on contract labour and employ more direct workers instead. National Trades Union Congress president Oscar Oliveiro said last night that "contract workers should supplement direct workers rather than the other way round".
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    • 55 10 A CONCERT series featuring the Singapore Symphony Orchestra kicks off on Wednesday at the NTUC Union Hall at 8 pm. Second Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong, who is the Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress, will launch this first m the Culture Nite quarterly series of
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    • 267 10 12 out of 1,800 aspirants make it to Chinese Talentime finals JUST 12 out of 1,800 hopefuls have made it to the finals of the Chinese Talentime this year. Having battled their way through the semi-finals yesterday, and with their sights set on fame and fortune, they will sing their
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    • 46 10 VOLUNTEERS are needed to sell flags and car stickers on the annual flag day to raise funds for The Lions Home For The Elders on Jan 23. The flag day is organised by the Lions, Lioness and Leo Clubs of Singapore and Johor Baru.
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    • 122 10 PARTS of Thomson Road and Upper Thomson Road will be closed to traffic for a few hours on four days from Wednesday while surface-fin-ish spraying work is carried out on the Macßitchie viaduct. The parts affected are between
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    • 155 10 THE opposition Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS) will hold a public discussion on Malay representation m Parliament and other issues at its special delegates' conference today. Party secretary-general Mohamed Awang told The Sunday Times yesterday that the conference was called to discuss the
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    • 408 10 POLICE arrested 10 men and three women m a late-night raid on a Pasir Ris construction site which had gotten a reputation as a "mini Haadyai" of late. The swoop, on Friday, followed press reports on the gambling and prostitution there,
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    • 85 10 THE Sunday Times reported last week that flying displays will be held on all five days of the Asian Aerospace exhibition from Jan 27 to 31. The aerial displays will m fact be staged only on four days from Jan 27 to 30. Also, the
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    • 64 10 HOME Affairs Minister and Second Minister for Law, Professor S. Jayakumar, will speak at the NTUC Fair Price staff dinner and dance at the Raffles Ballroom, Westin Stamford /Plaza, on Tuesday. Also present will be the Second Deputy Prime Minister and NTUC Secretary-General,
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    • 218 10 ABOUT 10 million Japanese can catch a glimpse of Singapore's golf courses on Thursday m a sports programme called Professional Baseball News. The show is a popular latenight programme on the commercial station Fuji TV. And the television crew
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    • 165 10 HANDCUFFED and taken away m a police car, the suspect waited for the right moment to escape. It came when the police car stopped at a traffic junction m Jurong. Abu Bakar bin Mohamed, 40, suddenly sprang into action. He punched the police officer
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    • 321 10 Kim Keat civil defence day expected to attract record 8,000 THE year's first civil defence exercise, to be held m Kirn Keat constituency, is expected to attract more than 8,000 people the largest number to attend the exercises so far. Organisers of the Kirn Keat civil defence day-cum-exercise this Saturday
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      86 10 SAF exercises THE Singapore Armed Forces will be conducting military exercises m Lim Chu Kang, Tuas, Hong Kah, Marsiling, Mandai, Loyang, Sembawang and Wing Loong from tomorrow until Sunday between 7 am and 11.59 pm daily. Meanwhile, the Republic of Singapore Air Force will be carrying out live-firing exercises at
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    • 676 12  - 18 vie for Asian aerobics title L. E. PREMA BY More taking part-time law courses but few end up with degrees SE ■■< people from six i countries are vying to be Asian Fitaerobics ipion. The winner, who will be i at the championship fitonight, will get a chaltrophy, an
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    • 760 12 More courtrooms to help meet needs of next century: CJ THE seven judges and three judicial commissioners of the Supreme Court yesterday played hosts to lawyers and other well-wishers at the traditional opening of the new legal year. For the first time m Singapore's legal history, the number on the
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    • 326 12 Senior lawyers urged to share experience with younger members SENIOR lawyers can help m the development of the law m Singapore by passing on their experience and the traditions of the profession to younger lawyers, Attorney-General Tan Boon Teik said yesterday. "A responsible profession cannot adopt the attitude of leaving
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    • 521 12 Unfounded complaints against lawyers may lead to defamation suit MEMBERS of the public do not have a free licence to complain to the Law Society against any lawyer merely because of dissatisfaction or frustration. They might well run the risk of being sued for defamation if their complaints contained anything
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    • 347 13 By AGNES WEE FORGET the weary old cartoon stereotype of the secretary who sits on the boss's knee. What today's executive wants on his lap is a computer. Laptop computers are swiftly becoming indispensable to people on the move. Their popularity has risen
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    • 570 13 Hotel Morningside property for sale with 10.3 m price-tag THE Hotel Morningside property, which hit the headlines eight years ago when three armed men clashed with police there, is making news again, though of a different nature this time. It is up for sale. The owners are asking for at
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    • 273 13 A TOURISM council, an umbrella organisation for major private sector groups m the industry, will be set up m March. Mr P. R. Gopal, president of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) confirmed this on Friday. He said the
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    • 128 13 A WOMAN hurled four flower pots from the corridor of her sixth-floor flat after a quarrel with her husband over some missing money, a court heard on Friday. Guo Ah Moi, 41, was jailed for 10 days after she admitted the rash act which
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    • 205 13 A BAILOR yesterday lost $250,000 after an accused person he stood surety for absconded. Mr Wong Wah Tong, 35, a freelance garment broker, was one of two sureties for Malaysian businessman Khoo Sin Muay, 45, who failed to appear m court on Dec 15
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    • 104 13 AN UNIDENTIFIED man, believed to be a Thai construction worker, died m hospital about three hours after being stabbed at an industrial site m Jalan Papan, Jurong, early yesterday. Police said the man was found bleeding profusely at a makeshift shed by two colleagues
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    • 450 16 Drive to stop careless lane switching starts Tuesday THE Traffic Police are launching a four-week lane discipline campaign to promote orderliness and discourage careless lane switching among motorists. The campaign, the first of its kind m Singapore, starts on Tuesday and will last until Feb 8. The Traffic Police Commander,
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    • 143 16 Last viaduct beam for MRT phase 2B now in place- MASS Rapid Transit contractors yesterday laid the last viaduct beam for Phase 2B of the system. The lowering of the beam between Bukit Gombak and Choa Chu Kang stations along the western branch line was celebrated by the contractor, RSEA
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    • 34 16 THE Minister of State for Education, Dr Tay Eng Soon, will be the guest of honour at the official opening of the sth Discovery Art Exhibition at the Shell Theatrette next Monday.
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    • 458 16  -  RAY DHALIWAL Seminar on Singapore Transport m Transition By THE Mass Rapid Transit system could be extended to Changi Airport and make a $2 million-a-year profit, says a team of National University of Singapore academicians. Its
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    • 169 16 PARTICIPANTS at interschool meets this year will wear their names on their backs if a proposal by Dr Tay Eng Soon, the Minister of State for Education, is adopted. It would make interschool events more interesting and challenging, Dr Tay said at
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      • 62 16 AN UNEMPLOYED man was yesterday charged with murdering a man m Ang Mo Kio last August. No plea was taken from Tan Boon Tiong, 28, who is said to have murdered Mr Ong Chin Poh, 21, with three unknown men at Block 716, Ang Mo Kio
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      • 75 16 A MAN was yesterday charged with misappropriating $32,665 from his employer. Kwan Chuan Siak alias Kuan Chuan Siak, 44, is alleged to have committed criminal breach of trust of the amount belonging to NEI Parsons Ltd. The alleged offence took part at Liv Fang Road m
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      • 105 16 A YOUTH and his three alleged accomplices, including two girls, were charged on Friday with gang robbery. Nor Azlee Khan bin Syed Mahmat, 16; a 13-year-old boy; and two girls, aged 14 and 15, are alleged to have robbed national serviceman Sahmad bin Ghani, 19, of
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      • 97 16 AN ELDERLY man was charged on Friday with four counts of abetment-by-conspiracy to cheat and one of keeping stolen goods. Chia Ah Kwee, 75, unemployed, is alleged to have conspired with Tan Cheng Chwee and others to cheat by using dud cheques to pay for goods
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      • 43 16 FIRE GUTTED a one-storey foam factory at 16 km Tampines on Thursday night. The blaze broke out m the zinc-roof wooden structure at about 9.30 pm. Three fire engines brought the fire under control by 10.40 pm. No-one was hurt.
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    • 290 16 MRT did not stop rise in new car sales last November IN SPITE of the start of the Mass Rapid Transit system, the sale of new cars continued to increase last November largely due to the economy's recovery, motorists expecting year-end bonuses and new models m the market. There were
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    • 181 16 Bofors-linked graft case: AC engaged FORMER arms firm executive Tan Kok Cheng, accused of accepting $2.5 million m kickback from Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors, has engaged a Queen's Counsel. Tan's trial, originally scheduled to begin tomorrow, has been postponed. It will be held from March 7 to 31. Mr Louis
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    • 230 16 FOR these fresh-faced Canadian high school students, life on the ocean wave can involve a stom-ach-churning climb up rope "ladders" to the top of their ship's mast, or taking turns at the helm. But they take it m their stride, as part of their
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      • 286 17 TIME was when a scandal hit either the Hongkong or the Singapore stock market and pundits m the other unaffected city would be rubbing their hands m glee. For what was lost to one was believed to be gained by the other. Similarly, Singapore's more
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      • 157 17 What The Sunday Times reported on Feb 3, 1963 AT LEAST 107 left-wing politicians and trade unionists m Singapore were arrested yesterday m the biggest and "most important" security operation since the Emergency. The swoop, aimed at preventing subversives from establishing a "Communist Cuba" m Singapore and
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    • 1345 17 British Prime Minister MARGARET THATCHER believes her destiny has yet to be fulfilled MARGARET HILDA THATCHER was born on Oct 13, 1925. She and husband Denis have a son and daughter, twins. 1947: Research chemist. 1953: Called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn. 1959: MP. 1970: Secretary
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    • 916 18  - Bosses must face up to growing yen for free time Tan Sai Siong 4 For just as there is a large group aiming to become 60-hour chiefs, so there is an increasing pool of 30-hour Indians, who work m order to afford their free time. These want m more free
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    • 814 18  -  Murray Seeger SEVENTY years after cutting its ties to the inner circle of the capitalist world, the Soviet Union has returned, hat m hand. Moscow is asking investors m Switzerland to bet with their cash on the future of economic reforms m the world's
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    • 681 18  -  Kwan Weng Kin A politician whose position depends on the vote of the people has to be able to win over his listeners through logical, lucid and convincing arguments delivered m a way that will command respect. ON Christmas Eve, I chanced upon the
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      • 439 18 YOUR article "Pirates go for the songs and not singers" (Sunday Times, December 13) has had an unwanted effect on our company's image and reputation. The general impression given is that cover versions are an illegitimate business. Admittedly, you preceded your reference to our
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      • 436 18 PROFESSOR Lim Lan Yuan asserted m his book, "A Guide to Management Corporation" that maids are entitled to use a condominium's swimming pool, presumably as of right. Is this an opinion of law? Let us look at the whole question from a common sensical
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    • 2168 19 Prolonged economic sluggishness will bring increased political unrest and a lower standard of living for nearly everyone, reports STEVEN GREENHOUSE of the New York Times Many economists are clearly chagrined that the leaders of the industrial world do not seem terribly alarmed about the slowdown.
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    • 291 20  -  MALCOLM BASTIANS By Our man on the track IPOH First-up winner Le Joueur should, on form, be a shoo-in victor m Race 6 for Class 3 Div A runners. The Ace Of Aces five-year-old New Zealand gelding flew home to win drawing away by
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    • 348 20 ChecMoh. ..fast gallops RACE Racing Editor Malcolm Bastians Lionel Lee Martin Tay Weng Sook 1 Telepathy 6 Take Five 6 Take Five 6 Take Five 9 0 Little Darling 1 8 Papatol 1 Telepathy 1 Telepathy 1 Telepathy 1 Telepathy 10 Star O'Day 9 O Little
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    • 450 21  -  JACK ELLIOTT By MELBOURNE Four-time Sydney champion jockey Malcolm Johnston, who is now sitting out his 40th suspension, is dejected about his troubles with the stewards. He said yesterday that he had given a lot of thought to riding overseas
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    • 112 21 Another tumble for Barrett MELBOURNE Jockey Chris Barrett, who resumed race riding last year after being at death's door following a race pileup m 1966, was again injured at Sandown racecourse yesterday. He was tossed off and landed heavily when his mount, Menina, stumbled. He was taken to hospital with
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 711 21 321 Deaths 321 Deaths LIM YAM SIONG 59 YRS OLD patted away peacefully on 9 January 1988, leaving behind: Wife: Yap Hock Choo Sons: Daughter*: David Lim Hui Min Heather Lim Nyuk Yin Valerie Lim Nyuk Eun Brothers: Sisters: Anthony Bong Kim Song Lim Slew Yoong Jerry Lim Kim San
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    • 44 21 322 Acknowledgements 322 Acknowledgements The Family Of The Late MR HEE CHIN KAN departed 30th December 1987 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks appreciations to all relatives, friends, staff and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations wreaths during their recent bereavement.
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      60 21 CRUZ ANTHONY CHARLEY EX-TECHNICMN P.W.D. AGE 69 Passed away peacefully on 9/1/88 having behind beloved: Wife: Mary Cruz Son: Joseph Cruz Daughter-in-law: Helen Lee Grandson: Jason Benedict Cruz to mourn hi* loss. Cortege leaves 52, Rosyth Road on Monday 11/1/88 at 2.00pm for the Church of Immaculate Heart
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    • 118 21 323 Condolences 323 Condolences THE BUDDHIST UNION TAN TIONG CHUAN Age: 63 with regret, the sudden demise of its Hon. Treasurer and Trustee, Bro. Tan Ttong Chuan on Thursday, 7.148 and extends its sincere condolences and heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved wife Mrs. Lily Tan and their family. May he
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    • 101 21 The Family Of Th* Late MR LUI LEONG YING wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to their relatives, friends and staff of: SGH Ward* 74 and 75 RSAF Tengah Air Baa* Civil *vi«tk>n Authority of Singapore (Engineering Division) CO, OC, Officer* and men of Alpha Co.
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 181 22 322 Acknowledgements 324 In Memoriam AL-FATIHAH We, the family of the late HAJI AHMAD BIN HAJI ABDUL SHUKOR Departed 6th January 1968 wish to express our appreciation to relatives and friends (or their kind assistance, condolences and donations during our recent bereavement. Our special thanks also to the staff of
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    • 148 22 324 In Memoriam 325 Requiems 3RD ANNIVESARY THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MARUDY KUNASINGAM DEP: 13TH JANUARY IMS Invites relatives and friends on 11th January 1988 (Monday) from 9 am onwards to Apt. Blk. 202 Aye. 6/3 Ang Mo Kio #05-1672 to offer prayers for the departed soul. Please treat
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  • SPORT
    • 1055 22  -  ROB HUGHES Somerset part-timers full of passion and optimism Talk of Soccer THE fever burns. It always peaks this time of year, but we English never resist it, never outgrow it, never shrug it off. Thank God those who claim immunity are probably deadened by
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    • 134 22 RIYADH Kuwait drew 0-0 with Saudi Arabia on Friday to retain their lead m the Western Asia soccer qualifying group for September's Seoul Olympic Games. In the same group m Muscat, Iraq thrashed Qatar 4-1. The game was played there because the world soccer authorities have banned
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    • 254 22 LAUSANNE (Switzerland) Rumania on Friday became the fifth Sovfet bloc country to announce their participation at this year's Summer Olympics m Seoul, the International Olympic Committee said. Rumania's telexed reply, along with a confirmation from Burma on the same day, brought to 145 the number of national
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    • 130 22 Three new sports get nod LONDON The number of sports m the 1994 Commonwealth Games is to be cut, the Games Federation have decided here. Three new ones tennis, table tennis and squash will be introduced but archery, canoeing, fencing and rowing will be scratched. Jamaica's Michael Fennell and Dick
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    • 281 22 Back on familiar ground: Aberdeen new boy Charlie Nicholas could not have picked a better place for his eagerly-awaited return to the Scottish Premier Division scene yesterday than Hibernian. The 26-year-old Scottish international striker, who left Arsenal for £500,000 ($1.83 million) earlier m the week,
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    • 355 22 PARIS A French soccer club threatened with relegation suffered a setback on Friday when football officials refused to sanction the US$2OO,OOO ($406,000) transfer of a Paraguayan star to their ranks. The French Football Federation's executive committee dealt a blow to First Division Brest by refusing
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    • 799 22 Security plans main topic in Uefa talks LONDON— When the continent's soccer chiefs meet next week to make the draw for the European Championship finals m June, they will have more to contend with than the simple task of placing eight teams into two groups. Tuesday's draw m Duesseldorf takes
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    • 1098 23  -  ALAN HUBBARD ALWAYS ON SUNDAY Back m 1968 Chief Justice Earl Warren of the United States Supreme Court explained why he invariably turned first to the sports section of the newspapers. "The sports pages record man's achievements," he said. "The front page
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    • 101 23 CHICAGO A restaurant owner who wants to put some bite back into the Chicago Bears plans to feed them alligator meat before today's play-off game against the Washington Redskins. "You are what you eat," said Steve Locke, 27, owner of the Smokehouse Express Restaurant. "This should
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    • 348 23 Police charge Ciccarelli with assault ICE HOCKEY TORONTO Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of Minnesota North Stars right wing Dino Ciccarelli on a charge of assault m connection with a stick-swinging incident during a National Hockey League (NHL) game, officials said on Friday. Earlier, the NHL announced
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    • 469 23 BLACKPOOL (England) Steve Davis effortlessly brushed aside the challenge of Steve Newbury to reach his third major final of the snooker season m the Mercantile Classic here yesterday. Davis, the world No 1 and defending Mercantile champion, was as
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    • 410 23 ATHLETICS John Treacy, of Ireland, and Norwegian Ingrid Kristiansen are favourites to win the men's and women's competitions m what organisers describe as the world's richest road race on Australia's Gold Coast today. The 15-km race, to celebrate the opening of a tourist complex, has US$l4O,OOO ($280,000) prize
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    • 354 23 NEW YORK Half of the eight remaining teams m contention for the Super Bowl have displayed little stability at the most critical position m American Football quarterback. Through injury or ineffectiveness, Washington, Chicago, Minnesota and Indianapolis have all been forced to juggle quarterbacks and soothe bruised
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    • 236 23 WINTER SPORT DENVER Having abandoned his attempt to land the first quadruple jump ever m competition, three-time defending men's champion Brian Boitano, 24, made history m a different way at the US figure skating championships here. Boitano inspired the crowd and the judges with a scintillating
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    • 144 23 BASKETBALL LOS ANGELES The sudden heart-attack death of seemingly healthy basketball great Pete Maravich has focused attention on a far more common fatal condition faced by men past 35 than most want to believe. The 40-year-old Maravich, who died after taking part m a pick-up basketball
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    • 414 24 Controversy and rivalry on the cards in Sprite circuit By JANICE SEAH CONTROVERSY might whip up the waves as much as the competition at the first Sprite International Boardsailing Circuit m Kuantan and Singapore from Jan 26-Feb 2. The circuit, which carries International Board Sailing Association ranking points, has attracted
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    • 426 24 Sidek pair clinch annual gold award KUALA LUMPUR National badminton doubles aces Razif and Jalani Sidek were awarded the 1987 Sam-Benson Hedges gold award for excellence m sports m a glittering ceremony at the Hilton Hotel here on Friday. For their latest achievement, they were given a gold medallion and
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    • 949 24  -  JANICE SEAH SAID AND DONE &6$t catamaran &< in Sing*!p0n?» 8tnc6 they began sailing together about fc^r years ago, they have won so many Iocs' unes that Alice, who crews for Scott, say;; she's \o count. They won the King e Cup Hob? 16
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    • 249 24  -  TAY CHENG KHOON By ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MONTH/ RAZALI RASHID literally kicked his way into contention for this month's Sunday Times/Coca-Cola Sporting Achievement of the Month award. The 21-year-old striker, who played for Sawarak m last season's Malaysia Cup, did not disappoint his
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    • 561 25 Come-from-behind victories put Hall and Misbun in limelight HONGKONG None of the top four men's singles seeds managed to make the semi-final line-up, leaving England's Darren Hall and Malaysian Misbun Sidek to share the spotlight m Friday's closing round-robin stage of the U*****,390 ($272,800) Seiko
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    • 255 25 toping: Beat Sunio Men's singles Group 1: Misbun Sidek (Mai) bt Ib Frederiksen (Den) 10-15, 15-9, 15-4; Yang Yang (C) bt Torben Carlsen (Den) 15-4, 15-7. Group 2: Xiong Guobao (C) bt Icuk Sugiarto (Indon) 15-5, 15-8; Poul-Erik HoyerLarsen (Den) bt Tsui Chau Lam (HK) 15-10, 15-4. Group
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    • 76 25 CHINA'S Zhao Jianhua (right) injured his lower back m the third game against Denmark's Jens-Peter Nierhoff on Thursday and had to drop out of the Seiko World Grand Prix badminton finals m Hongkong. A Chinese official said that Zhao, the joint-third seed with Indonesia's Icuk Sugiarto,
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    • 308 25  - Ex-Dutch national Bo to help Cup squad JANICE SEAH HOCKEY By WHILE Malaysian Lawrence van Huizen works on the schools and clubs, former Dutch national Mrs Bo Koolen will crack down on Singapore's Junior World Cup hockey team to New Delhi this year. The Singapore Women's Hockey Association have had
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    • 111 25 Pakistanis go on a goal spree LUCKNOW Pakistan, fielding seven members of the victorious Asian junior championship side, trounced Kenya 5-1 m the Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament here yesterday. Pakistan took the lead after 25 minutes through Qasi Mohib. But straight after the break, Kenya made up for
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    • 252 25 AUCKLAND India's Ramesh Krishnan is within reach of his second international tennis title m New Zealand within a week after comfortably winning his semi-final against American Jim Pugh at the Auckland Grand Prix tournament yesterday. Krishnan beat Pugh 6-2, 6-2 m little more than
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    • 240 25 GOLF GOLD COAST Welshman lan Woosnam fired a flawless six-under-par 66 yesterday to move into the lead with Australian Ossie Moore m the U*****,000 ($720,000) Sanctuary Cove Classic tournament. Moore also carded a 66 on the par-72 Sanctuary Cove Resort course, joining Woosnam
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    • 346 25 TENNIS SYDNEY TOP SEED Pam Shriver overcame a groin injury she suffered during a quarter-final match to beat Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, of West Germany, 7-5, 6-2 m the semi-finals of the US$2OO,OOO ($400,000) New South Wales Open tennis championships. In the men's competition, the
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    • 432 25 CRICKET ADELAIDE All-rounder Richard Hadlee again played an influential role as New Zealand beat Sri Lanka with one ball to spare m their World Series Cup cricket match at the Adelaide Oval here yesterday. Man-of-the-Match Hadlee checked the Sri Lankan
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    • 89 25 LONDON Mike Gatting has not been punished over his row with a Pakistan umpire, but English cricket officials warned on Friday that future dissent would be dealt with strongly. The Test and County Cricket Board warning came after their inquiry into England's recent tour of Pakistan, during
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    • 84 25 BOWLING Grand Slam Classic: Ist weekly final (Orchard Bowl, 9am). SOCCER Premier League: Jurong Town v Safsa (Jurong), Geylang Int. v Police (Geylang). NFL Dlv 1: Toa Payoh Utd v Jubilee (Toa Payoh). Dlv 2: South Avenue v Marine Castle (Bedok), Redhill Rangers v Changi Utd (Queenstov/n). All
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    • 281 25 Serving notice on Kooyong from new USssom 'Park' MELBOURNE Tennis takes a step into the 21st century next week with the opening of the US$5O million ($100 m) National Tennis Centre, the new home of the Australian Open Grand Slam tournament. The spectacular complex known as Flinders Park" has been
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    • 155 25 MOTOR SPORT ARLIT (Niger) A Dutch rally driver was killed yesterday when his truck rolled heavily m the first fatal accident of this year's Paris-Dakar race. Kees van Loewvezijn, 31, died m his 600-hp DAF turbo twin truck on the 668-km desert stage between the Niger towns
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    • 15 25 K<onica Cup A(v^: ASIAN BADMINTON invitation championship 1988 Date: February 2-7 Place: Singapore Badminton Hall
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      • 395 26 LONDON A late goal from Mark Golley kept non-League Sutton m the English FA Cup yesterday after they had seemed set tO faU at home tO Middleshrninrh m thP third rnnnH Drougn m tne uura round. He nodded m an 82ndminutP
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      • 48 26 dramoorthy scored twice m Singapore Indians' 3-2 win over ua*a Lumpur Indians m the 30th Bardhan Cup soccer final at Merdeka Stadium yesSundram scored the Republie's first and winning goals while K. Doraisamy scored the second. Fandi Ahmad and Serbegeth Singh replied for Kuala Lumpur NST
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    • 413 26  - Touch judge walks out after dispute with ref J. RAJENDRAN RESULTS AT A GLANCE Singapore Rugby Union Cathay Club 56 Blacks 0; Safsa 20 SCC Pacific Airways Cap knockout Tankards 3; Bucks 16 Johor Bam quarter-finals: Singapore Cricket Anchormen 3. Report: TOUCH judge Anthony Tan walked out during a rugby
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    • 307 26 WORLD GRAND PRIX BADMINTON FINALS Chinese ace mauls Misbun for final clash with Eddy HONGKONG Xiong Guobao's speed and fitness proved too much for Misbun Sidek m yesterday's semi-final match ,aL n•. v /-i j n_. of the Seiko World Grand Prix Badminton Finals. The Chinese player
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    • 167 26  -  JOE DORAI -PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER PREVIEWS: JURONG v SAFSA SEVEN days ago, Jurong Town FC, making their first appearance m topclass company, rocked the Singapore soccer scene with an unexpected 2-0 triumph over Division One and President's Cup champions Tiong Bahru CSC
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    • 185 26  -  JOE DORAI GEYLANG INT v POLICE ALL-CONQUERING Geylang International will find out today whether the absence of their top striker, Razali Rashid, will affect their hopes m the Singapore Pools Premier League. For when Geylang face another unbeaten side m Police this evening at Geylang Stadium
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    • 325 26 THE alarm bells continue to ring for Balestier United. Although they managed a 2-1 win over Tampines Rovers m a Singapore Pools Premier League soccer match at Hougang Stadium yesterday, their indecisive backline will give their officials cause for concern. Having conceded four goals m their previous
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    • 314 26  -  JOE DORAI MAHMOOD GAZNAVI RESULTS AT A GLANCE Premier League Tiong Bahru 2 Bukit 1 Telok Kiirau Utd 0. Divteian Changi CSC 1; Balestier Utd 2 Tampi- Tw« Hai Sing Pk 2 Sembawang 0; nes Rovers 1. Division Ooe Kaki Victoria FC 1 Punggol CSC 1.
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      • 443 2  -  SERENA TOH TV PREVIEW Lovelaw Thursday, Ch 1 2, Bpm By AMERICAN girls tread the line between prudish and easy, while some Japanese girls turn to the theatre for "passion without the complications of real sex". For Indian youngsters, the reel-life passion they see
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      • 728 2  - An old man plods on and tells of silence and Beckett ANNE LOW TV PREVIEW Samuel Beckett Silence to Silence Wednesday, Ch 12, 8 prn By THE horizon beyond the grey sky is also grey; an old man m a grey cloak plods on moving, yet not moving. This is
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        • 479 2 Heigh-ho and Off to Canada Ivan goes IT IS time for Hongkong's top compere to say goodbye. Ivan Ho (right), who is emigrating to Canada, will leave for his new home at the end of this month, according to Hongkong press reports. As expected, his colleagues at TVB gave him
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      • 451 2 WHAT Fred Dryer wants, he is likely to get. Not because of his formidable size he is a daunting 1.98 metres, 99.6 kg but because of tenacity. Take football. For 13 years, he played for the New York Giants and Los Angeles
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      • 927 3 Her children are her friends and it is not unusual to find modern mum Kartini Mohd Isa spending Saturday nights jamming, singing or at a lounge with her family. SUMIKO TAN meets Mrs Photogenic. WHEN 15-year-old Azmy Hassan goes out with his mother, friends
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      • 320 3 WHEN an old burly cowboy pits his wits against a suave hotel magnate, the classic un-derdog-versus-establishment tale seems about to unfold. Only m this case, the underdog proves top dog. For this is no ordinary Texan but J.J. Starbuck (Dale Robertson), the eccentric
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        • 426 3 BEAUTIFUL blonde Brigitte Nielsen, who has just been offered a whopping US$l million (Ss2 million) deal to join the TV series Dallas, says she is really a quiet stay-at-home girl. "What I really love is to sit at home and watch videos with my
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      • 594 4 His is the face to watch out for this year. There's even Oscar talk about young actor Charlie Sheen m the US hit movie Wall Street. CHARLIE Sheen is draped limply across a couch m his press agent's den. He is hurting. He had submitted to
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      • 432 4  -  TOH HAI LEONG A BETTER TOMORROW At Cathay cinemas Starring Chow Yuen Fatt, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung Directed by John Woo By JOHN Woo's gangster film, A Better Tomorrow II is the sequel to last year's mega-hit. A Better Tomorrow I featured Chow Yuen
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      • 445 4  -  TOH HAI LEONG THE HORSE HERDSMAN Showing at Golden Cinema Starring Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan Directed by Xie Jin By XIE Jin's The Horse Herdsman is essentially about a father and son reunited m Beijing Hotel after a 30--year separation. It opens with
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      • 609 4  -  STEVE JACOBI By DESPITE being an ambitious film, Mona Lisa is also accessible and compelling. It takes its title from Nat King Cole's song, and is partly about the ironic and illusory nature of that romantically feminine image. However, it is also a crime thriller,
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      • 858 7  -  LIM SEX POP REVIEW By POPPED IN, SOULED OUT Wet Wet Wet (Mercury) IT IS unfortunate that this selfprofessed soul group from the United Kingdom is being packaged and sold as a teenybopper attraction. Otherwise, this is quite a serious attempt at new material with strong
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      • 356 7 NOW that he's 40, flamboyant showman Elton John is dumping all those crazy oversize glasses, wild wigs and flashy ensembles. The legendary pop star, whose glittery style has been a trademark for 16 years, says the next time he tours, "it won't be with
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      • 506 7 LONG-haired David Coverdale the former Deep Purple lead singer looks like a throwback to the days when such heavy-metal dinosaurs as Led Zeppelin and Blue Oyster Cult first roamed the arenas and pop charts. But Coverdale, who now fronts his own band, Whitesnake, has simply
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    • Young Life
      • 239 15 THIS week, we feature the ancient civilisation of the Egyptians which was one of the greatest m all the world. It lasted for over 3,000 years, and the famous pyramids they built are still intact today. The wealth and power that the country had at its zenith must
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      • 297 15 IF you look m dark corners, you might spot a spider's web, and surprise the spider sitting snmPwhPrP nparhv At sitting somewhere nearby. At other times, it could be the spider's turn to startle you by suddenly appearing where you are not expecting it.
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      • 375 15 ghghgfhgfhgfh THE north east of Africa is a dry and dusty place but still saw the rise of the great Egyptian civilisation m 3,000 BC. This was made possible by a river the Nile. Every year it would flood and cover the land with a new layer of
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      • 713 16  - Back to colonial times ANNE LOW TV PREVIEW Heiress Tomorrow, Ch 8, 10 pm I By THE clock goes back m time again for SBC's new drama serial of the year, Heiress. Set m colonial Singapore of the early 1900s, popular Xiang Yun is Wan Er, the heiress and the
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    • 364 1 rtrtretr A Catholic boy finds himself caught in a maelstrom SBC 5 9.00 A.M. OPENING AND PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS FOLLOWED BY THE WIND IN THE WLLOWS. 9.30 DEMfS THE MENACE. Cartoon. 10.00 F.I.T. Tips on healthier eating and the dangers of dehydration. 10.30 WORLD GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 1987. 11.30 WORLD OF SPORTS
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    • 386 1 (jgKggjggBBSK^ CAL. Produced by David Puttnam, this drama is about a 19-year-old Catholic boy from Northern Ireland caught up in events from which there is no obvious escape. Stars Helen Mirren and John Lynch. Ch 12, 10 pm. BLIND JUSTICE. It is a nightmare of mistaken identity when a man
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    • 367 1 rtretretertre A man who's incriminated by his own identity Exhibition at the National Museum by self-taught artist Thang Kiang How M- AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: From Flowers In The Mist To The Galaxy Series. An art exhibition by Thang Kiang How, a self-taught artist who paints mainly nature m acrylic
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    • 83 1 Singapore. Starts at 10.30 am, Changi Sailing Club. m AUDITIONS: Men, women and children of all ages are required for two lighthearted plays by Playact Productions, the first community centre-English drama group. 2 to 6 pm, Siglap community centre, 6, Palm Road. Those interested m helping backstage are also welcome.
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    • 323 1 trretretretretr Claudia Cardinale in gunslinging Western rT'ijll T THE BOTANIC JS£S I GARDENS: fQjJ Band performance by The Hawaiianaires. 5 to 6 pm. Girl on a Bicycle. Sculpture donated by Singapore Ambassador to France. Mr David Marshall. This companion to an earlier donation, Girl on a Swing, is also by
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    • 709 5 1= YOUR WEEK AHEAD MONDAY M~ WILLIAM DANIELL A VOYAGE ROUND GREAT BRITAIN 1814 1825: Exhibition. Prints taken directly from William Darnell's original copper plates which provide a fascinating record of British coastal scenes during the early 19th century. Mondays to Fridays: 10 am to 7 pm, Saturdays: 10 am
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    • 73 5 SINGAPORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Thursday, Radio 5, 10.15 pm Recorded last Friday, this concert features Verdi's La Forza del Destmo Overture, Jongen's Sympho- nic Concertante for Organ and Orchestra Op. 81 featuring organist Nicolas Kynaston, and Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. OPERAS Saturday, Radio 5, 10.12 pm Part one of Verdi's
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    • 537 5 I WEDNESDAY SAMUEL BECKETT SILENCE TO SILENCE Ch 12, 8 pm An excellent profile of the Irish playwright, poet and author who has been hailed by many as the grand old man of Theatre of the Absurd. Featuring extracts from his poems and the plays Waiting For Godot and Endgame.
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    • 936 14 141 For Sale: Other Makes •70 MINI COOPER, HKX) C.C, new Uix insurance, very good original cond. $5,200 o n o. *****27 ■70 VOLKSWAGON 1300 Beetle, new tax. beautiful cond $13,000 0.n.0. Tel: *****58. 72 JAGUAR 2.8 Auto XJ6. Beautiful cond. View: 31. Jalan Ishak, Spore 1441 '73 AUSTIN 1300GT.
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    • 964 14 144 Vehicles Wanted URGENTLY REQUIRED. AN' makes/ models including com merclal vehicles The extra that you want could be at thi no: 253-8877 Victor Koh, Singa pore Used Car Pte. Ltd. ATTRACTIVE CASH PAYMENT fo all used cars, pickups vans Tel: *****73. Pager *****05. BEST PRICE OFFERED for all ye
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    • 1597 14 173 Accommodation 173 Accommodation m Available: Available: i Apartments Apartments i v»la*^ Lon 9 or Short Lease \JS^^ FAR EAST PLAZA 1 r Hotel Style 1 LUXURIOUS APARTMENTS f 1 At the junction of Scotta/Orchard Road, next to Hyatt Hotel. .|fc Advance Booking Available JaR I 14,000 sq ft Hotel
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    • 766 14 186 For Sale: 186 For Sale: Private Apartments Private Apartments I First-class hill-top Condominium at Holland Road I SPffllßH V1U865 ro jg. p| Freehold Land /<^ PDBO houand r^T) mme£ jjate r r r rHiH Occupation ii s"V^lfiE| =No Restriction On Foreigners t \^^P g QO/ Housing Loan With 5
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    • 690 14 191 For Sale: HDB Apartments 3 RM. TELOK Blangah Way Blk. 33. Renovated. All broken marble wardrobes cabinet. No blocking near HDB centre. Exclusive. *****66 Ken 3-RM. TOA PAYOH $35,000; A.M. Kio $49,000; corner L-shaped $58,000; Bedok North $48,000. 4-rm. A.M. Kio $72,000/ $80,000/ r $82,000/ $86,000. 452-3275. c 5-RM.
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    • 751 14 191 For Sale: HDB Apartments )-RM. CORNER FLAT at A M Klo We. 10, Blk 440, high fir Interssted contact Mr Yew. *****19 }-RM. EVERTON PARK 81k.6. Mid floor, renovated. $75K. (CPF: &83K). *****08/ pg. *****54 (agt) 3-RM. FLAT IN Lorong Lew Lian for sale Selling for $50K 0.n.0. Contact
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    • 781 14 262 Home Tuition ABLE CURRENT SCHOOL teachers, grads., full-time tutors j with many years experience, t Past students scored well. Notes t given. All dlsts. *****47. CHINESE/ MATHS TUITION for Sec. 3, 'O', N' students with 1 notes clear explanation by experienced tutor (m group). Tel. 250-8538 GRADUATE TEACHER EXPERI-
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    • 448 14 269 Driving Instruction EFFICIENT ft RESPONSIBLE driving instructor using upgraded reaching techniques. Free final theory Tel: 755-3576. EXPERIENCED DRIVING INSTRUC rOR giving lessons for Kg. Übi rest Ctr Tel: *****21, Mr. Llm. 270 Dancing Instruction Dane* with grace A confktonc* at SUNNY LOW DANCE STUDIO > B«ginn*ra Social Dancing 6p.m.
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    • 135 15 Learn and Discover... the fun m Children's learning w f Wy* o^ &T TIMES 1000 WORDS TIMES 1000 WORDS IN PICTURES DICTIONARY has been Th,s full-colour picture word compiled with the aim of making book ,s designed to introduce earnin 9 both st.mulatmg and The 1000 vocabulary items can be
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    • 287 16 Xiang Yun as the flamboyant heiress. _/Vj V^y TUDOR TEF<RME HCUSEs( T"f; j -1 *jy _^W^^^yBwf j!j^ig;|L' jT m m m a i.ii i i nrij! «i"r- wWwB8HHIiw»iBHKBHBBBMBBHB|E»"'r hi' ri 3^^^^B^'. :^K^^Kf^^ B^gsy*0 O^^^SSS*^xS^S^' aJ iffiiHl ere t^ e old inspires, the new and modern delights K R? 'fe^ffli -r'j$\
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    • 646 1 WORKING EIGHT TO ONE rhe money is good, but the social stigma isn't. So Nho fills such night-life roles as lounge hostesses, social escorts and masseuses in the "good-time" industry today? CHUA CHIN CHYE reports. SINGAPORE a sterile and sanitised city? This is the oft-held image, and regarded with some
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
      • 198 1 A figure it makes sense *I\IEnPARF As if the pleasant surprise of the price wasn't enough, and even individual reading lamps. we've also given you more standard features than any You'll also appreciate the sheer elegance of a Stellar. other car m its class. Stylish and classic m its aerodynamic
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    • SOCIETY
      • 812 2 41 really feel secondclass now. I want to save up enough money so that I can look after myself and my parents. In the long run, it is not m worth it. s Linda NIGHTCLUBS, dance halls and midnight parties were once taboo subjects for Linda.
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      • 1012 2 4 Everybody will ask why I work here and offer their sympathy. Then they ask whether they could have more than a m massage. Jenny ANOTHER 45 minutes. Another $10 for Jenny. At 21, she is the youngest of 20 masseuses at an Orchard Road health
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      • 909 2 4 My sister is going to pre-university next year; my brother is m National Service. Maybe i will quit m four years' time. Anyway, you can't work long m this job. Men like to go out with young girls. Christine "WHO CARES?" Christine
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      • 389 2 SALE 24/12/87 to 24/1/88 EVERYTHING MUST GO INCLUDING DISPLAY STANDS, PORCELAINWARES, HOUSEHOLDWARES, AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AT YEO TECK SENG DEPARTMENTAL STORE #01-16 BUKIT TIMAH PLAZA, JALAN ANAK BUKIT 1 1 1/2 KM, UPPER BUKIT TIMAH ROAD, SINGAPORE 2158. jk g ,s j till I l^H Train tor a new, more
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      • 461 2 P^New Year, Mew Furniture $$?#5 l i r> a^^ I I^^UFERBAIffiAiri PRICK! I Ho^SSfalSSaWe iBiSZII S 3BB i m ji,»-M l A_jft>Wßawl IVIPORT-FVPORT British Training Programs available on: 4 4HS^ I m ~Zj -^M^Vk, IITII V/IVI I^/11 \7l\l Principles of Modern Management 0 ftSli i fViKMV^t^M ..JtlHaWMl mm. L-^- A
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    • FASHION
      • 627 3  -  LIM PHAY-LING Forget sculptured silhouettes and your jar of gel. Hair styles for 1988 are easing into more natural styles By AFTER years of squeezing gel, spritzing mousse and other glob on our hair, hairstylists have finally decided that this is the year to go "natural". Whew! It's
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      • 170 3 PAINLESS PARENTING YOUNG PARENTS points the way For ali Spore parents s&sjtmk Hlk. Let us tell you that there is no such thing as an Ungifted Jf U^^^^^ M WHkI r-- aHS'^w^^ child and show you ways to help an Academically -XjM .al %/^^l 1 1 *■^^imJ^Wm A special survey
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    • FOOD
      • 896 4  -  CHANTAL NAIR f AFTER FIVE By THE story goes like this: Once upon a time there's this "adventurer" called Brannigan. He decides to ditch his day job because he's suddenly got a bad attack of wanderlust. So he jumps onto a junk and
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      • 1209 4  -  MARGARET CHAN EAT IN By KARE-KARE (Oxtail stew m peanut sauce) SEAFOOD SINIGANG (Tamarind sour soap) "BUT ma'am, you won't like Filipino food. It's too sour," protests your new maid. Employers who yearn for Filipino calamares (deep-fried squid) and vinegar-laced dishes often have their expectations
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      • 666 4 EAT OUT IT IS rare to find aristocratic North Indian cuisine at humble food centres. For while most other hawkers make do with a wok and gasstove for cooking, the North Indian stallholder must first invest m proper equipment such as the tandoor.
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      • 52 4 New Lucozade puts back the twirl m your world J*|f Lucozade Orange Barley and Lemon Barley are made with liquid glucose, the most natural form of energy the body can use instantly. With the added goodness of pure fruit juice and natural barley, Lucozade replaces lost energy fast. Bounce back
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    • SPECTRUM
      • 1320 5 At Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying Destitutes m Calcutta, nuns work tirelessly to relieve human suffering, aided by foreign volunteers. But hanging over the order and its 200 missions worldwide is the question of what will happen when Mother Teresa is gone. RICHARD
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      • 656 5  -  JOY ASCHENBACH By AT SEA for two months m arctic waters, explorer Henry Hudson entered m his log on June 13, 1608: "This morning one of our companie looking over boord saw a Mermaid... from the Navill upward, her backe and breasts
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      • 478 5  -  DAVID WYNNE-JONES By IT'S over! The interminable Christmas rush is finished for another year. Down came our festive decorations this week; down came the many Christmas cards; and much more significantly, our Christmas tree. I coped with the pre-Christ-mas rush, the
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      • 179 5 Guess how many GoldStar video cassette tapes correctly and drive this Stellar home. On display there is a car filled with GoldStar video cassette tapes at Parkway Parade (Ground Floor) from 24/10/87 to 31 /1 /88. you can win these fantastic prizes! To participate, all you have to do is:
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    • Home Buyers' Guide
      • 746 6  -  LOH KENG FATT By HOW THE property market fares is often dependent on the state of mind of a nation. When things are on the up and go, people feel a sense of well-being. And this can have a salutary effect
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      • 1723 6  -  DANIEL NG An eight-page guide for those who want to buy a house By of Jones Lang Wootton I THE SINGAPORE t^"—^ property market m■ like all other pjQgnL international < ta ßr*}A property markets has faced periods of boom and bust. Over the last 16
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      • 546 7  -  LOH KENG FATT By BEFORE you venture into buy■Ti ing property, it is jrflSal always a good S^/* idea to engage a qualified valuer to put his professional finger on its worth. But, what do valuers look for when they try
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      • 244 7  -  YEO KIM SENG By ■ON THE quiet roads along Waterloo Street a 15-storey residential development called Mm Yuan is fast taking shape. Mm Yuan's site, according to a spokesman for Guan Tong Realty Pte Ltd, is one of the few areas
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      • 620 7  -  ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM By YOUR imported wallpaper has sprouted new flowers of crayon origins. The sofa shows "maps" of spillage of months past. The prized Persian carpet seems to have acquired a new design of what looks vaguely like dried paw prints. Sigh.... If
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      • 726 8  -  HAYATI ISMAIL WHEN you see flourishing and luxuriant greenery m an apartment, bear m mind that a lot of work and effort have gone into making it so. Caring for plants involves not merely seeing that your charges are getting the right
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      • 514 8  -  YEO KIM SENG By j 1 A CAREFULLY x^-v landscaped garden 'pwdgwrf* is an investment tSjjjl that will yield a iiir' lot of satisfaction trappy for its owner. J The key to how a landscaped garden develops lies m its maintenance. Free advice, however, is
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      • 585 9  - Two who find home a breeze YEO KIM SENG By i 1 THE sea has genJ erally held its pcK«J9m> rennial charm as can be seen by the j» 1 1 hundreds who flock to the beach 1 during their leisure, on weekends and public holidays. Not many, however, are
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      • 480 9  -  YEO KIM SENG COUNTRY-LIVING within easy reach of the city is what old colonial bungalows m Changi can offer their tenants. A few of these bungalows dot the stretch of East Church Road exuding a sense of tranquility and spaciousness. The bungalow that
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      • 768 10  -  YEO KIM SENG New HDB pricing polic By PRICES of Housing Board re-sale flats are not likely to be affected by the board's new pricing policy —at rSSQk least not until the policy affects the "N~Hf^ posted prices of HDB flats. The posted
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      • 544 11  -  LOH KENG FATT By 1 THINKING of buyng a house at an ■*-jf- auction? The ad-J-ngBlH vice from the ex- > perts is to attend one or two auc--1 tions first to get a feel of what it is like before you join m
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      • 399 11  -  LOH KENG FATT By PICTURE a sprawling bungalow and the good life of golf and pleasure boating. And all these for less than what it would cost m Singapore. Mr Douglas Stern, manager of the property department m Dominion, is equally excited about
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      • 667 12  -  ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM By INTERIOR decorators tell us how best we can design our homes to suit our lifestyle and personality. But what about them? What do they prescribe for their own dwellings? We took interior designer Peter Tan, a partner with Attitudes Interior Shop
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      • 606 12  -  DIANE LIM By lI A NEW kind of window frame has come to town. Unplasticised polyvinyl chloride (uPVC) windows and doors are very popular m Europe now, said Mr Charles Fair ham, business development manager for Fersina UK. Mr Fairham, 44, was m Singapore
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      • 487 13  -  ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM By "1 A DREAM home need rf'ilLjyJ'"!, not be expensive. This is the message of Model p figjSl => A P artment 88- an exhibi"XjET/' tion now on at the World Trade Centre till Jan 17. I 1 No run-of-the mill furniture
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      • 200 13 CHOOSING flooring for the home is not easy. Floors hold the decor scheme together and a wrong choice can make the furniture and fittings look awry. Many new homeowners, baffled by this wide range, take the easy way out. They follow what others have picked, that is,
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      • 281 13 HOME-BUYERS who are beach-lovers can look forward to another haven for resort living near Pasir Ris beach expected to be completed before the end of the year. Called Clydescove the Mediterranean of Singapore the development comprises of 15 units of two-storey terrace and semi-detached houses m
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      • 251 6 J* SBUJMi M mmmMi »1 We offer home loans without •Up to $50,000 renovation loan you having to come up for 5 years irst tlfne with the usual 1 Loan Penod home owners downpayment. Other attractive Persona Service JT l^" A3/ of lilt features include: Even before you look for
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      • 239 7 GRACIOUS LIVING AT ITS BEST!! HIM 72, Waterloo Street PI 1 H IIT"! /Tx. J Affordable luxurious apartments WHY lilt ctifOUnd m prime location. V All II 7"1 ii_l 15*toreyBlock-Only26units AW WhOl >OU Call Settle Oil Special Rates and Loan Package up to v X3^~*rL^ 100% financing for Purchasers are
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      • 644 8 I "IN THE PARK 9 <storpw SEMI-DETACHED 'Quick access to CTE Expressway to/from TOWN y MRT Stations at Y.o Chu Kang Ang Mo Kio 2-Storey TERRACE HOUSES (61 Units) Sapore united estates (pte, ltd Nestling m the serenity of Seletar Hills. LILAC PARK (A wholly-owned Subsidiary of makes elegant living
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      • 172 9 INTEREST RATES: 11% c£&^ <-M r V I^^^ Now get a Fixed Rate Loan- fixed for 5 years at 8%. i 8% 0 IST YEAR 2ND YEAR 3RD YEAR 4THYEAR STHYEAR Now you can chart out your peace of mind. Here's another great banking idea from Citibank, when the first
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      • 682 10 F house down the jßHHßfodftlij^n^l^cost am JSHS %-W ir B fIHfIHHfIHH I .-*v™S^ j JBJffIBeBHBHg^. '*ES£t-' 1 r^" i '*fBBBHE» illl HlHii^liHl Dllpß-U li^^h N I ■IHtHnHiL LLiii P mm IHmh n— h I I 1 «HI HHH Wm UIL m wM m iBBBwHB I^^BLdWBIBMhi mBBBBI We have built the
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      • 204 10 Some of the most successful ERA sales agents are still going to school. When you join ERA you I can earn more than the J". •-.'<■ I average real estate agent. HH|^fiHraK Vou can earn more because kSH y° u e^ rn more. BBPHP^^B IBrI As an ERA Real Estate
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      • 170 11 i» lAjmunni i aff flH| >i^^H^^^^ t t; -yf l^B^^l \.^V y TJK v Apartments guaranteed to put a smile on your lips. Apartments designed, detailed and on the island, absolute quick minutes appointed m the spirit of unrest- from Orchard Road. With every rained luxury, and ultimate good taste.
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      • 1152 11 113 For Sale: Houses 114 For Sale: Private 1 1 5 For Sale: Private 116 For Sale: Private 117 For Sale: Private Apartments Apartments Apartments Apartments D.lO LEEDON PK vicinity, s/storey bungalow on high ground. ***** mDGEWO OD. lunalilo rise 2 dist 12 balestier ct. 3 bdrms dist 15 bayshore
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      • 424 12 The Only All-Copper 9 Money Saver. j^^^^^»»*»~t^»LHMi&M Stiebel Eltron Storage Water Heaters I*: are designed with an all-copper, corrosionfree inner container that provides for better heat conduction. Helping you to conserve energy and save money. B^H Instant Hot Water m 1 The all-copper heating element at the A d&^ "7T%
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      • 270 13 SCSMMTrVti^rft^ Cake ™"^^jSßp^ Occorating OF CARPET AND ft-* jIJ Impi them upo THE NEAT LIMES OF IL^^k A r MO^ AC Wm I v JS2ii X i (^^C^*^s Wo^P^ Imß I revo u^ onar y Quality makes m =~m m LjO»^^lgg|P^^ PHjBJr j it rot-proof, scratch-proof I *^k. JpP*^^^/ ?larne-proof.
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      • 451 13 WE WERE COMPLETEL V SOLD OUT ON CL YDESVILLE AND NOW there is... CLYDESCOVE Mediterranean ambience for Singaporeans who love resort living Eight Spanish styled semi-D's and seven terrace houses close to Pasir Ris beach resorts are specially designed for your tasteful living. j^Hll -■> MSWW w mm*-^^mmm* *i+■ 1
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    • TIME-OFF
      • 280 14  -  MAY HO trtretretret By AFTER making umpteenth dives at the same spot, don't you get bored? What else can you do besides dive? These are questions die-hard divers are asked time and again. But with fanatics, a dive m Singapore waters is still fun
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      • 609 14  -  SAM FANG rtrtretretr By SPEAR-FISHING while free diving requires enormous stamina, cool nerves and some "fish-sense". This sea-hunt is considered a sport m most European countries because the odds are loaded neither against the hunter nor the hunted. Hence, some countries ban the use
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      • 941 14  -  A. C. LEONG By SOON, celosias and peonies will be nodding m the wind. Eager customers with an eye to courting good fortunes as Chinese New Year approaches will pluck the blossoms from nurseries and install them m the most auspicious corners of their homes. Besides the
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      • 254 14 trrtrtret THIS is the last Topshot column and it is heartening to note that some took the trouble to brave the rain, risking their cameras and constitution. Ahtischoo! Judging by the photo editor's comments, the three photos selected betray finer points of photography they are
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      • 283 14 Give $10 m the name a^ A of love. See it stretch f\y beyond the imagination/n^l Now CHILDRENCARE, a special charity project by mPm^^ Great Eastern Life, invites you to donate a mere $10 /^m^k to the Community Chest of Singapore, m the name M^^m of a child* S' In
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