The New Paper, 10 August 1988

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1 36 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10, IMS MCI (P> 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 87 1 THEIR LONG MARCH It was a kid's nightmare. They lost their parents in the Orchard Road crush on Monday night. And they had no money. But Roger, 12, and Sharon, 8, found their way home. On foot. All the way from Orchard Road to Serangoon Gardens. Page 2 WORLD NEWS
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    • 7 1 LONG SERVICE MEDALS: ALL THE NAMES |-g-|
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  • 57 1 Even though it was some 21 hours late. Not at Orchard Road, where the dancing was to have started, but at the National Stadium. After the parade. At last the people danced. And screamed. And sang. It was an explosion that finally took off on high./
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 341 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching TWO children walked all the way home to Serangoon Gardens from Orchard Road on Monday night. They had been separated from their parents outside the MRT station just before the start of the Big Birthday Party. Roger Tan, 12,
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    • 151 2  -  By Thusitha De Silva THE firemen called twice. To put out two fires at the same shop at different times in a day. The owner of Liang Yu Sing Kee, a motorcycle repair shop at Jalan Besar Road, received
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    • 160 2 IT PAYS to haggle over prices when you buy anything in Singapore, a Tokyo newspaper tells its readers. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, an important economic newspaper, sized up Singapore in a three-page special supplement published in Tokyo on Singapore's National Day. Lianhe Zaobao said the
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    • 98 2 Reuter. PREGNANCY has slowed the political campaign of Pakistan's main opposition leader—Benazir Bhutto. Aides say she may have to bypass rallies for health reasons. She seeks a parliamentary seat in the November election. Bhutto, 35, the opposition's most popular leader, expects her first child towards
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    • 239 2 GLOWING promises of big profits must be examined very carefully. Seven Singapore investors now know this but for them it may be too late. They say they were cheated out of thousands of dollars by what they thought were Swiss investment companies. Brochures and newsletters
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 34 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas in the early afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 25 degrees. Sunset today: 7.14 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.05 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 328 3  -  t was hot yet chilling. Dark yet enlightening. At the end of the tunnel, guests to the Horror House, NUS Students' Union's Open House idea, had a better idea of what the university offers By Loh Tuan Lee IT WAS dark and hot, but the
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    • 207 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. Assassination: A murder. Assassination is the act of killing for political reasons or for reward. Caddy: A person who is paid to carry golf clubs and equipment for a
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    • 298 4  -  By Angeline Song A GOLF course for workers is being planned. The National Trades Union Congress plans to have the $20-million course near the Yishun New Town Centre. "We want to make this type of rich people's games available to our workers too,"
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    • 85 4 MOMENTS after an unidentified couple saw a man sitting on a void deck above the entrance of an underground carpark on Sunday morning, they heard a thud and found, him lying on the ground. An ambulance officer arriving at the Tong Building in Orchard Road
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    • 139 4 TWO MORE banks will soon be part of the 12-bank plastic cash system called Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore, better known as Nets. Business Times reports that Nets Pte Ltd has agreed to admit Asia Commercial Bank and Tat Lee Bank. Details on this
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    • 215 4  -  By Michelle Oh MRS Chen Kim Kee wanted to have her baby on 8-8-88. But she hesitated as she was not due until Aug 10. "But when my doctor asked if I wanted to have the baby on that day because it was auspicious, I
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    • 162 4  -  By Chua Chin Chye STOLEN gold usually finds its way back to where it was stolen from the goldsmith's shop. But the $1.2 million worth of gold stolen on Monday from a goldsmith shop on Yishun Ring Road might have been smuggled across the Causeway,
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    • 76 4 A MAN, found in Chai Chee Street with a head injury last week, is now in a coma. He is believed to have been left there after a fight. Mr Salim bin Abdul Abbu, 24, is at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Anyone
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    • 264 5 BEFORE YOU BUY A MULTI-ROOM AIRCON, ASK YOUR DEALER THIS SIMPLE QUESTION: "CAN IT COOL MORE THAN 2 ROOMS AT THE SAME TIMET Chances are hell say yes. If he's a Daikin dealer Because only Daikin Econair has a compressor that lets you cool up wmr to two, three, four
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  • NATIONALDAY
    • 278 6  -  By Danny Tan and Geneieve Kwek AFTER the National Day Parade yesterday, the stadium throbbed to an hour of song and dance. The concert started at 8.50 with La Bamba by Sheikh Tahir and the Tropical Katz and did they move to the
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    • 348 6 POP singer Mark Chan monkeyed around on the videoRhone* for Metro Marina's big [ational Day crowds yester- day. From the newsroom of The New Paper, Chan egged people on the other end of the line into making monkey faces into the camera. Chan hit it off with
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    • 381 7 THEY were VIPs and their screams of excitement could be heard above the din of exploding fireworks. They were our eight young guests, who had their first grandstand view of the National Day Parade last night. The New Paper wanted readers to
      Pictures/Steven Lee, David Tan, Simon Ker, Aundry Gan  -  381 words
  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 118 6 I YOUR FUTURE... ...THE ADVANTAGE To ensure a bright future you need CAREER GUIDANCE Our systematic assessment will help you to I A Know Yourself Understand your strengths and weaknesses and make them work in your favour Know Where YouH Fit Best Understand the best options based on knowledge of
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  • 4127 8 LONGSERVICEMEDALS This year, 358 people have been awarded the long service medal. Here is the list of recipients. <1 take pride in wearing my uniform. 9 SSG Othman bin HHm, 44, C>«M«y Serjeant Malar with Km National Cadet Carps SGT Abas bin Salim, Mobile Training
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  • 207 10  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Chitra Rajaram AN OUTBREAK of election fever has been reported in Singapore. The students and teachers at St Gabriel's Secondary School caught it. They went to the polls on Monday as part of its Speak Your School Languages campaign after a month of rallies and
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 289 11 Wire services. A MALAYSIAN Supreme Court decision has boosted the political position of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. The court yesterday upheld a lower court ruling that declared illegal his old ruling party. His rivals want to revive the United Malays National Organisation (Umno). The prime minister and
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    • 205 11 Wire Services. THE money-short United Nations has created a $148 million unarmed peacekeeping force to monitor the Iraq-Iran cease-fire scheduled to begin on Aug.2o. Advance parties of a UN observer force mission are heading for Iran and Iraq. The action follows yesterday's announcement by
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    • 54 11 Cool attraction: When the heat wave strikes, it spares no one not even king of the mud. Here, Goede the Hippo refuses to leave the cool comfort of a canal in Krimpen, the Netherlands. He had escaped from a nearby circus. I Aumni nil m i
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    • 90 11 Join Us: After a day of violence in which 36 Burmese were slain by security forces, a demonstrator pleads to a soldier to break ranks and join the protests. He adds drama to his plea by kissing the soldier's boots, kneeling beneath the raised barrel of
      Picture/ Reuter  -  90 words
    • 119 11 Wire services. AMERICAN Secret Service agents assigned to protect Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis need some protection themselves. Two agents were robbed of pistols, radio gear and identification badges in a Boston burglary. Their red-faced bosses in Washington say the theft will not
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    • 200 11 Wire services. CHINESE families are pushing children to learn too much too fast in an attempt to get them on the fast track, an official newspaper says. The Guangming Daily said China would soon confront "a family education crisis." It said parents had stopped
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    • 82 12 A prayer for victims: On Aug 9 1943, American pilots dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki a few days after dropping one on Hiroshima. More than 40 years later, the horror of the world's first nuclear attack remains firmly imprinted in the minds of
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    • 116 12 Wire services. DRUG-TRAFFICKING in Africa's Ivory Coast can be a snaky business. Consider two hapless drug pedlars in the city of Abidjan. They worried both about someone stealing their cache and about troublesome police nosing around. They decided to dig a deep
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    • 177 12 AFP. CHINA should create a second army to make weapons and sell them on the highly profitable world market, a newspaper says. Shanghai's World Economic Monitor daily said a second or "productive army" could earn a lot of money to help support China's
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    • 137 12 Wire services. TAIWAN'S bus drivers stranded 10,000 commuters in the island's first legal strike by public service workers. More than 200 drivers, calling for wage increases and benefits, struck when talks between labour and the Miaoli Bus Co. broke down. The law allows workers to
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    • 241 12 Wire services. NEWLY arrived Vietnamese refugees in the Philippines admit murdering and eating the flesh of three of their own to survive a voyage to freedom. Their story was told by a United Nations rescue worker who interviewed 52 survivors. The refugees said that in
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    • 156 12 Kid gets into systems and trouble AP. A TEENAGE computer whiz is in serious trouble in the US, accused of breaking into big computer systems to steal over $2 million worth of computer programs. Herbert Zinn Jr, 18, of Chicago, was charged with using his personal computer for electronic theft.
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  • STOCKMARKETS/WORLDTODAY
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      277 13 Wire services. SHARE prices closed sharply lower on Tuesday on the London Stock Exchange on news that the US Federal Reserve Board had raised its discount rate from 6 to 6.5 per cent. The Financial Times 30share index was off 13.6 points at 1,501.1 Volume was a moderate 424.9
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    • 48 13 Reuter. THE Nikkei share index fell 233.01 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 27,937.35 in first 10 minutes of trade on the Tokyo stock exchange on Wednesday. Securities, banks, nonlife insurance, railway/bus, retail, electrical, credit/lease and rubber shares led the declines. There were no ad- vancing sectors.
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Tuesday 1,501.10 (1,514.70) Dow louts Average Tuesday 2,079.13 (2,107.40) ST Industrial Tuesday (1,177.87) NST Industrial Tuesday 1,878.17 (1,879.92) Hongkong Hang Seng Tuesday 2,634.04 (2,659.10) Australian All Ordinaries Tuesday 1,657.20 (1,644.10) j Nikkei Stock Average Tuesday 28,170.36 (28,253.12) Figure* in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      298 13 Wire services. A SURPRISE half-point rise in the discount rate by the Federal Reserve sent investors scurrying to sell and blue chips to their lowest close in several weeks. Traders said some programmeselling exacerbated the losses, but stocks later made a partial recovery. The discount rate was raised
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    • 211 13 Wire services. THAILAND will he run for the next four years mainly by wealthy businessmen and ex-soldiers. The 24 full ministers in the 44member cabinet announced yesterday by new Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan include 12 businessmen and eight retired soldiers. The lone woman is
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    • 212 13 Wire services. JAPAN has become the first foreign power permitted to buy long-term land rights in Communist China— where all land is supposed to belong to the people. Sun Enterprises Ltd. of Japan beat out five other firms to win rights to a
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  • Showtime
    • 419 14  -  By Brian Miller SO YOU didn't get to dance even after sacrificing dinner just to be there early. Chances are, you were one of the 100,000 who left disappointed. Perhaps, feeling a little cheated. But, in all honesty, don't you think that the organisers of
      Picture/ NICKLAUS D'CRUZ; picture/ David Tan  -  419 words
    • 103 14 OUT of 17 callers who rang Hotline Plus, six had something to say about the cancellation of Monday's giant disco party. Five thought the show should have gone on, while one caller undergrad Eric Neo complimented the organisers and the performers on a job well
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    • 226 14  -  NATIONAL DAY PARADE By Brian Miller LET'S get one thing straight. I didn't have a choice. I wanted the real thing. But they thought I'd said the "reel thing." And because of this bit of miscommunication, I was going to have
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    • 373 15  -  By Hope Barrett OUR HONGKONG REPORTER IN the Hongkong version of My Fair Lady, the roles are reversed. Anita Mui takes on the Higgins role. And her Eliza? None other than Chow Yun Fatt. The two top stars appear in Golden Harvest's new comedy,
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    • Article, Illustration
      243 15  -  By Vivien Chong LIKE FATHER LIKE SON (Orchard) An old idea, but it succeeds. Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron act as father and son who switch identities. What they do with each other's life provides the laughs. Times: 11.15 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm. RAMBO 111 (Overseas Theatres/Cathay
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  • National Day
    • 387 16 The stadium clock marks the time. The party that was to have begun at midnight Monday in Orchard Road was in full swing some 21 hours later. Concert time and dance time came after the National Day parade. On a stage the stars, like
      Pictures/ Steven Lee, David Tan, Simon Ker, Nicklaus D-cruz, Sam Yeo, Aundry Gan, and CHOO ChWEE HIJA; Reporters/Irene Hoe. Augustine Low. Irene Ng, Danny Tan, Geneieve Quek, Ambrose Poh and Lo Tien Yin  -  387 words
    • 393 21 The stadium clock marks the time. The party that was to have begun at midnight Monday in Orchard Road was in full swing some 21 hours later. Concert time and dance time came after the National Day parade. On a stage the stars, like
      Pictures/ STEVEN LEE, DAVID Tan, Simon Ker, Nicklaus D-cruz, Sam Yeo, Aundry Gan, and CHOO CHWEE HUA; Reporters/[RENE HOE. AUGUSTINE L()Wr Irene Ng. Danny Tan. Geneieve Quek. Ambrose Poh and Lo Tien Yin  -  393 words

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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 2135 17 Television screen M Videofashion Monthly Australia's Improbable Magnum, P.I. I gems r New proportions Animals The Survivors Deja Vu, Part Two unou~'u FROZEN conditions in the Alpine (SBC 5, 7.55 pm) W x see how brand new proportions are areas contrast harshly with the scorching THOMAS Magnum (Tom Selleck) F
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 640 22 In the last of our Michael Jackson series of extracts from his book, Moonwalk, he talks about hitting the big time MOTOWN had never recorded a kids' group. In fact the only child singer they had ever produced was Stevie Wonder. So Motown were
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    • 432 22 THE Motown studio, which was known as Hitsville, USA, looked kind of run-down, which was not what I'd expected. We wondered who we might see, who might be there making a record that day. Dad had coached us to let
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    • 335 23  -  By Vivien Chiong WHEN Australian star Kylie Minogue was recording her third single, Got To Be Certain, earlier this year, she collapsed from exhaustion. According to a British pop magazine, a sobbing Kylie said: "I can't go on. I'm only a
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    • 468 24  -  By Wong Sing Yeong Y rOU may think you are seeing SBC actor Zeng Yaofeng flying across the TV screen, barely missed by a spear in a coming episode of The Golden Quest, now showing over Channel 8. In fact, it is 17-year-old Hum Peng Seng,
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    • Article, Illustration
      210 24  -  By Danny Tan NORTH AND SOUTH: GERRY RAFFERTY (POLYDOR) POOR Gerry Rafferty! Except for the mega-hit Baker Street, he has been largely ignored by the public since he went solo way back in the mid-70s. But North and South gives him the chance to change all that. Cuts Above
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  • Article, Illustration
    563 25 FOOTNOTES SOYA beans may be small, hard and a boring beige colour. But these beans are pow-er-packed. And they can help prevent heart attacks. Soya beans contain more protein than any other animal or plant food. Weight for weight, soya beans contain twice the amount of protein found in
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • 990 26 DEAR AGGIE SHAREAPROBLEM AGGIE will give advice every Wednesday in this paper. Questions Aggie can't answer will be put to other experts like doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists. Call our Hotline Plus on 734-7711, open every day from 7 am to 7 pm. Or don't
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 243 27 COMICFELIEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Single Slices/Peter Kohisaat Np.MItHK IiTDOMUOI! NO, I'm NOT STATING I'm 6aN6 DOT TO iOU.ttNRTF'. W rMnll nRop""""W T i'.o VF¥l JO OJME ANb VISIT, JU4T To WMOUV WH EOTH 6tT I 7, nil M. 1 V VI WHO l iflSrtUKifHiMNfi l *0 MTS GOIN6 JwiluSe I
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 1596 30 RADIOGUIDE mssW |EHii™|EH2^e|lssE]ii!HHa|liiai^™ NOON News la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Bead Mask, Cempaay Aad Ma: NOON Newsdesk (W UM LaacMata: Join Jenny Teo for NOON Easy listening: Some instru- «•••<*"» of muaica A en^ r 12 50 Caaatry Stariaa: See Air Raves. session of music ana songs by mental
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  • SPORTS
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      158 31 AP. Matt biondi, who made the US Olympic swimming team in the 200 metres freestyle in Austin on Monday, posted the fastest time in the world this year in the 100 m butterfly to qualify for last night's final in the event. Biondi is bidding to make the
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    • 78 31 HAPPYHOMECOMINGS AFP. STEVE HODGE, Tottenham's homesick former England midfield player, is to rejoin his first club, Nottingham Forest, in a $2.01 million deal. The 25-year-old ex-Aston Villa star had his wish to return to the Midlands granted when Spurs manager Terry Venables agreed the fee with Forest
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    • 86 31 Wire services. SCOTTISH international Steve Archibald ended an eight-year exile from his native country of Scotland yesterday when he signed for Premier Division side Hibernian. The 31-year-old striker, given a $875,000 pay-off by Spanish club Barcelona last month, opted for the Edinburgh team ahead of English champions
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    • 93 31 RACING MORNING TRACKWORK SIXTEEN locally-based Class 111 horses has been hastily entered for one race this Sunday to beef up the depleted race card at Kuala Lumpur this weekend. And a few came out for testing workouts to brighten up a dull morning. Impeccable, one of trainer three
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    • 435 32 ATHLETICS: END OF A LEGEND? Reuter. SEBASTIAN Coe may find his latest setback too much even for his great resilience. Superstar Coe has had to contend with triumph and disaster in almost equal measure during a decade at the forefront of world athletics. But being left out of
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    • 95 32 Reuter. A THE British Amateur Athletic Board yesterday dismissed as "nonsense" a claim by Sebastian Coe's father, Peter. He had said that his son had been left out of the team to the Olympics for political reasons. Board spokesman Tony Ward said: "Seb spent too much time
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    • 471 32 Wire Services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASEBALL American League: Toronto Blue Jays 5 Kansas City Royals 1, Minnesota Twins 7 Cleveland Indians 2, Detroit Tigers 3 Texas Rangers 2, Seattle Mariners 4 California Angels 3, Oakland A's 9 Chicago White Sox 5. National League: Pittsburgh Pirates 1 New
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 276 31 THENEWPAPER METRO PRESENT A VIM V> ATMETRO T* MARINA NOW! V 2 Jrian Miller (above) talking to Ricky Poon, a 28-year-oW SBC actress Chen Bifeng (above) talking to teenager -C<» technician. Cecilia Lee. Ricky: I like betting and I read The New Paper's racing Cecilia: How long dd it take
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  • SQUASH/EASTASIAJUNIOR
    • 398 33 SHAHIRON SAHARI previews the East Asia Junior c'ship Singapore players were all beaten in the early rounds of the Malaysian Junior Open. Yet they look forward to the East Asia Junior competition with.... SINGAPORE'S junior squash team will have a baptism of fire today when it
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    • 154 33 SINGAPORE'S national squash player Basil Lui is an optimist. "It's not as bad as it seems," said Basil, yesterday. "We were just very nervous." He was referring to the early exits of all the Singapore boys from the Malaysian Junior Open in Kuala Lumpur last week. Those defeats
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  • MALAYSIACUP
    • 443 34  -  By S. Gulam IT'S about time Singapore bucked up and showed its mettle. If nothing is done to check the slide now, it'll be too late to save the team's pride in the Malaysia Cup. This call comes from national skipper T. Pathmanathan, who
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    • 411 34  -  By S. Gulam HE may be down, but he is certainly not out. Out-of-favour Razali Saad is not prepared to take his exclusion from the Singapore first eleven sitting down. He wants his place back. He is ready to fight to regain his central midfield
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    • 478 35 National soccer coach Seak Poh Leong, severely criticised by the Press following his team's 1-0 defeat by Perlis and a streak of four draws, has thrown open Singapore's training sessions for all to see. S. GULAM has the declaration. IT'S dreadful to be in Seak
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    • 147 35 WANTED: Die-hard football fans to travel to Kuching on Aug 14. No promise of first-class football, but accommodation at a first-class hotel is guaranteed. A local travel agent is organising an overnight tour to watch Singapore play Sarawak this coming Sunday. But after the national team's
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  • Update
    • 931 36 M ARIN KM I(K TALKING PUPPET. Ventriloquist Tay Thong and LTJ his puppet will thrill the kids with his voice-throwing tricks. Free. Area D. 6 pm 6.30 pm. CHORAL PERFORMANCE. Listen to the voices of the People" s Association Junior Choir as they sing popular and
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    • 19 36 FOOD: Waffles for the sweet-toothed COMING UP: Xinyao concert ►AT THE CARNIVAL: Meet the talking puppet i
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