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Monday, August 19. 1996
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In Singapore, flush or pay
The Associated Press
SINGAPORE — The mark of a gracious society is a clean public toilet.
So says Singapore's government, which is launching a two-month campaign today to get people to leave public lavatories clean after using them.
Officials say the toilet-training drive is in response to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's call for Singaporeans to measure social progress by the cleanliness of their public facilities and their appreciation of music.
The state of public toilets reflects concern for public property and consideration for others, while the ability to sing and appreciate good music is a mark of gracious living. Goh said in April.
Hence the theme of the Clean Public Toilets Education Campaign: "Our Social Habits Reflect Our Progress
Towards A Gracious Society."
"We would like to involve the community in campaign activities, raise public awareness on what good toilet behavior is and persuade the public to adopt correct public toilet habits and make these habits a norm of gracious society," an Environment Ministry spokesman said.
Goh noted, however, that a gracious society was probably 15 to 20 years away.
The ministry has surveyed about 800 of the 12,000 public toilets and will check them in two months to measure the results of the campaign, the spokesman said.
Public hygiene is hardly a side issue in Singapore. Elevators in some apartment buildings are equipped with specialized sensors that detect the high salt content in urine, activate a hidden video camera and alert the janitor.
Transgressors must await rescuers, who turn them in to police.
The toilet-training campaign is the latest display of official concern about flushing.
Officials first imposed fines on those who failed to flush after using public lavatories in 1989.
First offenders may be fined as much as $106. Repeat offenders face a $355 fine, while those who fail to flush three or more times may have to pay as much as $709.
According to a 1992 ruling, owners or occupants of buildings with public lavatories must equip them with basic amenities, including toilet paper, soap and clean towels, or face the same scale of fines as wanton non-flushers.
Public toilets are defined as those to which the public has access, including those in hotels, stores,and cinemas.
Lebanese Christians Muslims go to polls
The Associated Press
BROUMMANA, Lebanon— With troops and tanks deployed in the streets, Lebanese Christians and Muslims voted yesterday in parliamentary elections that were hotly contested but unlikely to change the pro-Syrian character of the legislature.
Lebanon's Christians, who largely boycotted parliamentary elections four years ago, joined Muslims in sizable numbers in voting that ultimately will fill all 128 seats in the half-Christian, half-Muslim Parliament.
mentary election since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. The country still is rebuilding from the conflict, and its policies remain mostly under the control of Syria, which has 40,000 troops in Lebanon and is the main power broker.
It was the second parlia-
One election-related death and 16 arrests were reported in fighting between supporters of rival Drusen candidates, officials said.
About 656,000 Lebanese were eligible to vote in the Mount Lebanon region in the central part of the country. There were 180 candidates contesting 35 seats — 25 Christian, five Druse,
three Shiite Muslim and two Sunni Muslim. The first results were not expected until today.
There will be voting on five successive Sundays in the separate regions to fill the entire Parliament.
Interior Minister Michel Murr, whose ministry supervises the elections, expected an overall turnout of about 50 percent, compared with only 13 percent nationwide in 1992. In Druse and Muslim areas, turnout was projected at more than 50 percent.
Right-wing Christians participated in greater numbers this time.
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