The New Paper, 6 September 1988

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1 36 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 97 1 X1 IT A MAN-EATER T DANCE OF sis'" Flash-fire shuts down world's largest nuclear-power plant. /Page 11 I# I ■■■Ij KIDNAP HOAXES What to do when your phone BH a or we your mum." Page 6 A man's dance leads to a wild night of bloodshed at club in Kallang.
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 1 READ RIDE Look what happens when you put 60 kids on an MRT train and fill their arms with books. Some fall all over themselves laughing (right), some actually read. Reading Month "T highlight. Picture/ Nicklaus D'CRUZ
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 329 2  -  By Chua Chin Chye FOUR men were slashed and stabbed early today in a bloody brawl outside a Karaoke nightclub at Kallang. Three were warded in hospital with serious injuries. Contractor Mr Seah Siow Chuan, 24, who had one slash wound, received outpatient treatment. About 20 men
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    • 87 2 Security: As conflict on the Israeli -occupied West Bank has worsened, tensions throughout the Mideast have risen. Private security firms across Israel have seen business booming. At left, freshly graduated security agent Sigal Nachsun, 23, prepares to fire her automatic pistol on a shooting
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    • 152 2 AFP. A CANDIDATE for the Teresina City Council in north-east Brazil has a special way of winning hearts and minds of female voters. He tosses women's panties into the crowd. Deusdedit Nunes dos Santos throws hundreds of cotton and nylon panties into the crowd at each campaign stop.
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    • 45 2 UPI. ARAB states, anxious to preserve an American presence in the Persian Gulf, are pressing Washington to keep the USS Vincennes on patrol The vessel, one of the US Navy's biggest cruisers, shot down an Iranian jetliner on July 3. UPI.
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    • 474 3  -  Our reporter checks out the places Jetstream contest winners will visit By Ng Wan Ching N I PINJA! The word sent a shudder of fear through lord and peasant in feudal Japan. The ninja lurked in the shadows and their craft was death. If the Samurai
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    • 145 3 THE Ninja House which Jetstream Contest winners will visit has existed for more than 300 years. But it was opened to the public only 24 years ago. Most of the visitors to the Ninja House are locals. That's because the mysterious ninja have
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 31 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas in the early afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 7.06 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.59 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 359 4  -  By Irene Ng THERE was no smile on Sarjit Singh's face yesterday when he found out he was on candid camera. Only a deep frown. The pictures taken foiled his plans. Sarjit, 40, a salesman, claimed trial because he had planned to deny
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    • 186 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. ■Amnesty: Amnesty is the official pardon given by the state especially to people who are guilty of political crimes against it. Calibre: The calibre of a person refers to
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    • 182 4 THE Filipino maid knew exactly what her employer's penis looked like and that cost Dharmasingham Joseph 24 months in prison. The 38-year-old businessman began serving the sentence yesterday after losing his appeal. Justice Lai Kew Chai said he agreed with the
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    • 192 4 WHAT THE NEW PAPER OFFERS JOANNA Woo is 26. She is a secretary in a computer firm. And reads The New Paper every day. She is a football fan, and an avid follower of our Malaysia Cup stories. She sometimes reads the Straits Times, but not
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    • 66 4 1 STARTING A SMALL BUSINESS In Singapore. covers almost every aspect involving the setting up of a business organisation Any potential entrepreneur will do well to read this book as it will help him speed up and smooth out the setting up process." Air Lim Kee Ming, Past President of
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    • 600 5 Qood ideas keep coming up SHARP POCKEIMAIES THHT MMMBBt HAMS. PHONE NUMBBtS.SOB)UUSAHD MORE! Ifs like having a good personal diary wherever and numbers in alphabetical order for quick, easy You can even do instant currency conversions you go. Only you wont have to flip pages, scribble access. There's also a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 216 6  -  By Ng Wan Ching PAY up, or your mother and daughter will be hurt! That's the message a woman executive got over the phone in June this year. The caller spoke in English. "He demanded that I put $20,000 in a plastic bag and
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    • 89 6 THE police say that if you receive such a call, you must: First check with the family member concerned to see if the caller is speaking the truth or not. If the family member cannot be immediately located, the matter should be reported to the police. In
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    • 266 6  -  BY Trudy Lim THE Middle East ceasefire was good news for most people, but for Sembawang Salvage Co Pte Ltd (SEMCO) it meant a loss of income. The company has had to change its business emphasis in the Gulf. It specialises
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    • 147 6 FOUR young girls who attacked and robbed four older ones on their way home after a midnight show were arrested yesterday. The young gang of four, whose ages ranged from 14 to 16, struck on Aug 21 in Bedok. The older girls were walking home
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    • THE CARING TEACHERS
      • 298 6  -  By Chitra Rajaram EMOTIONAL problems in schoolchildren are the toughest to deal with, teachers here say. Helping them in other areas their intellectual, social and physical growth is easy, and teachers pass with flying colours. A group of 20 principals and teachers agreed on this at
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      • 239 6 A SECONDARY One pupil at Raffles Institution went to see his principal with a problem. His parents wanted him to stop taking part in all the school's extra curricular activities because he had failed his second language examination. The boy wanted principal
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    • 313 7  -  By Lawrence Low PUT a crowd of children and an armful of books on board an MRT train. Watch what happens. Some won't read. Some will read as much as half a book. This putting together of child and book was the Read and Ride event,
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    • 120 7 IT'S Reading Month right now. And even busy hotel staff are reading for a change. Doing its bit to promote the reading habit is the Royal Holiday Inn hotel. It has set up a mini-library in the personnel department with books donated by the staff. "The
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    • 402 8  -  By Geneieve Kwek EVEN film stars have an easier life. Yew Hong Yeow, 13, had a more than 12hour day yesterday on his first day as the first envoy of the Community Chest's Care and Share month. Hong Yeow, who has Down's Syndrome, had to perform,
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    • 352 9  -  BY Trudy Lim THE value of the New Zealand dollar has fallen sharply recently. But Singaporeans with bank deposits there are not losing sleep over it. High interest rates in New Zealand have more than made up for the currency's reduced value. Mr
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    • 178 9  -  By Trudy Lim PUTTING your money in foreign currency deposits is a risky business, warn money dealers and consultants. It is not for the ignorant. Mr Benny Tan, financial consultant with Shearson Lehman Hutton Pte Ltd, an American investment company, said: "For Kiwi dollar deposits,
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    • 421 9  -  By Lois Ng THE front and rear rifle sights are lined up on the target. Then comes the tricky part. Take a deep breath, then slowly let it out. And as you do, begin sq-u-e-e-zing the trigger very gently. The rifle
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    • 143 10 NOW you can't miss it. This large new speed limit sign on the road is for people who may not have noticed the 'Reduce Speed Now' signs. Notice it. It has been painted on the road, along the Macßitchie Viaduct, (picture left) because
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    • 368 10  -  By Karen Goh THERE'S no such thing as a child over 12 as far as children's concessions are concerned. Once the child is 12, it's full payment time at Sentosa Development Corporation, Singapore Cable Car, Omni-Theatre, and Jurong Bird Park. Most
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    • 147 10 WHILE taxi driver Koh Eng Guan, 32, was taking a dip in the sea off the East Coast Park last Sunday, someone was taking a dip into his valuables left in his parked car. Koh had left the vehicle in the
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    • 216 10 NEXT time you see a gathering of students in a car park, don't jump to the conclusion that they might be playing truant. They could be learning mathematics. This they might do by, say, counting the number of car lots. This
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 273 11 Wire services. A FLASH-FIRE has shut down the world's largest nuclear power plant. A senior Soviet energy official told Tass there were no injuries and no leak of radiation from the five-year-old reactor, located in the Republic of Lithuania. The reactor is identical to the
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    • 58 11 Disorders: Wearing their distinctive berets, Moscow's newly-formed riot squad hauls a demonstrator to a bus in Moscow. Despite Mikhail Gorbachev's more tolerant policies, demonstrators are still tightly controlled, especially in the Soviet capital. This protester belonged to the Democratic Union, which picked Pushkin Square for its demonstration.
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    • 145 11 Wire services. FOOD-SHORT Africa needs a half-billion dollars in the next 10 months to battle what is becoming the worst plague of desert locusts in recorded history. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation appealed yesterday to member nations to make the money available.
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    • 235 11 Wire services. THE American Dream a home and car for every family and freedom from want is fading for many. This is suggested by two new studies of the US economy, released yesterday. It is especially true, say the studies, for young people, as the rich
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    • 132 11 AFP. ANOTHER spy scandal makes a lot of people wonder how many North Atlantic Treaty Organization secrets are really secret. In the lastest, a Belgian Air Force colonel stands accused of selling military secrets to what is only described as "an eastern European nation." This is
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    • 65 11 Fairest of them ell: Thousands of Thais gather to welcome home a local woman, acclaimed as the loveliest in the universe. Porn tip 1 Nark hi runkanok, the new Miss Universe, greets the crowds as she returns to her hometown in Chachoengsao province, near Bangkok. It
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    • 190 11 UPI. WHY is England plagued by soccer hooliganism, mean kids and weekend rural rowdiness? Two leading nutritionists blame it all on junk food and soft drinks. In a report published yesterday in London, they said: "You cannot hope for good behavior on a
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    • 338 12 Wire services. TERRORISTS from the Japanese group called the Red Army may already be in South Korea to try to ruin the Olympic Games with bloody outrages, security officials report. Seoul's massive protective screen won't work, said a French security official who asked that neither he
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    • 78 12 High hopes: Although surrounded by floodwaters, these Bangladeshi villagers cannot find any drinking water. The floodwaters carry cholera a deadly disease caused in part by the rotting flesh of drowned animals. These villagers rowed their tiny boats many kilometres and still came up empty. Here they
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    • 189 12 Wire services. THE US is shipping arms directly to Afghan rebels in violation of the Geneva accords, says Moscow. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov, speaking at a news conference yesterday also denied Pakistani charges that the Afghan Air Force had bombed a
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    • 133 12 Wire services. THE brother of former South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan has been convicted of corruption. A court in Seoul sentenced him yesterday to seven years in prison and a fine of just under $9 million. The conviction was the
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    • 139 12 Wire services. THE scourge of drug abuse and narcotics trafficking is among the issues targetted for action by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Cyprus. The six-day conference, which brings together 99 heads of state, opened yesterday amid the tightest security in the group's history.
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  • WORLDTODAY/ STOCKS
    • 363 13 R I k APID economic growth is causing la- bour pains in many Asian countries, a survey by Reuter News Agency shows. Officials report shortages of trained workers in Japan, Singapore and Hongkong. South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand all face unrest by workers demanding more
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    • 141 13 Reuter. TANZANIA it holding a rare auction of more than 1,200 kg of elephant tusks seized from poachers. The Tansania National Parks Corporation has invited potential ivory buyers to make their bids by Oct 4. A corporation statement in Dar as Salaam «aid
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    • 140 13 Reuter. Taiwan plans to buy four American-made passenger planes to help reduce its trade surplus with the US. A spokesman for the Civil Aeronautics Administration in Taipei said the government would sign a contract today with McDonnell Douglas Corp for four
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    • 152 13 AP. THE presidential campaign of George Bush has received its first security scare. Secret Service agents yesterday arrested a man they said was carrying an electric stun gun during a campaign appearance by the Republican in San Diego, California. The unidentified man had
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    • 159 13 Make peace with Arabs Peres Wire services. Israel's Labour Party has kicked off its election campaign with a demand for a peace breakthrough and a pullout from the Gaza Strip and Arab areas on the West Bank. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, leader of the centerleft party, yesterday said the right-wing
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    • Article, Illustration
      283 13 AFP. THE London Stock Exchange began the week on a bright note, and the FT 30 closed at 1,420.5, up 14.6 points, yesterday. After a strong start in the wake of Wall Street's sharp rise at the end of last week, the London market consolidated its gains, boosted by
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    • 71 13 Reuter. SHARE prices were slightly higher in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, but action is expected to be slack with no stimulus from Wall Street, which was closed yesterday. Most of the institutional investors are staying out of the market ahead of September accounting year-ends, brokers
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    • 14 13 The New York Stock Exchange was closed yesterday to mark Labour Day.
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Mon 1,420.50 (1,405.90) Dow Jones Average Mon closed (2,054.59) ST Industrial Mon 1,067.04 (1,049.27) NST Industrial Mon 1,771.92 (1,730.13) Hongkong Hang Song Mon 2,508.19 (2,449.89) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,571.80 (1,546.30) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 27,341.58 (27,116.50) Fifurw in braclwU refer to thoM of the previous trading
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  • Showtime
    • 385 14  -  By Vivien Chiong ANDY Lau looks set to become the this year's Golden Horse Best Actor. Five of his films have been entered to compete for Asia's most prestigious film awards. The closing date for nominations is this coming Monday. So far it looks
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    • 175 14 WHO WON'T BE IN ALTHOUGH the nominations for this year's Golden Horse close this coming Monday, there are three notable absentees from the line-up. They are Maggie Cheung, Wong Jo-yin and Nina Li Chi. All three make easily more than 10
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    • 306 15 BRUCE Springsteen is telling a story. His rapt audience includes 250 reporters and photographers, Sting, Peter Gabriel and Tracy Chapman. Springsteen speaks: "I think that rock at its best makes freedom. That's what Amnesty International does. I'm here to help Amnesty do its job."
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    • Article, Illustration
      237 15  -  By Sonja Tan and Toh Hai Leong ■BIG (Orchard) IN THE same mould as the switcheroo movie Like Father Like Son, Big is about a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were big, and wakes up the next morning all of 35 years bigger. A delightfully hilarious true-to-life story. Times:
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 79 15 THE CANDY BARS SWEETEN TOUR NIGHTS WITH THE CANDY BARS The Candy Bars are back again. Four lowly Filipinos who HI sweeten your nights with song. Popular hits, oldies evergreens and country classics. To the accompaniment of guitars and a lovely refreshing drink. Only at the Lounge. Every avtiituj front
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  • Article, Illustration
    708 16 spotlight THE Sunderbans. In Bengali, it literally means "beautiful forest." The name fits. It is a cluster of islands where the Hooghly, a tributary of the Ganges in India, meets the Bay of Bengal. Tigers live in the Sunderbans. So do desperate men and widows. TAMAL MUKHERJEE outlines
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1739 17 Television Rk SCREEN Cultural Moments Maharajas Kings Hunter Night On 1 fIR j|MB GEMS W Madam White Snake (C) To Commoners Bald Mountain Yl fJ T T A W KRr 19 QWnm) (SBC 12, 8.00 pm) (58C5,9.45pm) r> 1 T (OZJO i/, v.ovpmj IttSßlil lllXll TODAY'S princely rulers have GEORGE
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    • 190 17 69 B9 10.45 pm Tuesday aro -f Premiere Gunsmoke: Return To Dodge: Marshall Matt Dillon (James Arness) comes out of retirement to face an old adversary named Mannon (Steve Forrest) who has just been released from prison. 12.30 Close wrav j Return of a legend: SBC5,10.45 pm. u a 10.30
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  • 103 18 The band owes a lot to lead singer Carol Decker's high vocals and weirdly flashy image. Carol is quite a character, appearing for an interview once wearing pointed ears (like Spock's) and openly admitting that she has "fallen asleep with my head down a toilet many a time".
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  • Article, Illustration
    708 21 spotlight TTHE Sunderbans. In Bengali, it literally means "beautiful forest. The name fits. It is a cluster of islands where the Hooghly, a tributary of the Ganges in India, meets the Bay of Bengal. Tigers live in the Sunderbans. So do desperate men and widows. TAMAL MUKHERJEE outlines
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 522 22  -  By Lo Tien Yin GIRLS rather than boys prefer to take up dancing, you would have thought. But, the new professional Singapore Dance Theatre thinks otherwise. It finds it easier to recruit male than female dancers. When the company was first launched, Anthony Then,
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    • Article, Illustration
      226 22 US RAM KISSES HIM PAM Dawber turned up on the set of hubby Mark Harmon's big-screener Worth Winning and stopped Eroduction when she found im in bed doing a love scene with co-star Lesley Ann Warren. No, Pam wasn't green-eyed and angry she giggled, "No, no, that's not the
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    • 376 23  -  By Griselda Loo I COULD have danced all day, but I couldn't keep up with young Kenny. Kenny Ng Yun Ting, two, is SBC actor Huang Wenyong's son, and he dances each time he hears his favourite song, Getting To Know You. Three times the
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    • 147 23 TEACHERS at the SBC Childcare Centre are not only keeping the children happy, they are keeping parents pleased, too. Mohd Irwan's mother, Zalinah bte Md Zin, 27, is a typist with SBC's tender unit. "Irwan has improved a lot," she said. He has
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  • 504 24 FOODNOTES H i lAVING a baby need not make you fat. Not if you dispel the myth of "eating for two". A recent British study done on 88 mums-to-be showed that expectant women need only eat a little extra, about 200 to 300 calories more. You
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 754 25 Customers say they are never around when you need them. Bosses say they are irresponsible and fussy. Is it any wonder few girls want to work as sales assistants today? LIM PHAY-LING spoke to bosses and salesgirls. She even played salesgirl for a day in an
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    • 191 25 SHOPPINGBUG WHAT do you give to the man who has everything? Apparently, a new fragrance that's designed for the born winner. The new men's, scent Maxim's Pour Homme debuts today in department stores. Pour Homme ("men") is yet another addition
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 121 26 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible d k Browne AllgUSta/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill (YameawazAH f ANP PUT your ANP iw&Mtp Jkty 1 YWPSW>e*ANP 2^7 I ORUSH WW* HAIR... \oo QOMXHV&..J 0 i 'M. George the Robot/stephen Stanley Hey; C VIL, (75 {§^"IT'S A OAck.- A I \o W-Tv^-Bocrf. fcjnbrJ YAW. rf X
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 128 27 COMICRELIEF Orchard Road/coiin Goh Single Slices/Peter Kohisaat Cathy/Cathy Guisewite FROfl THE Time WE'RE OLD fWITH ei/tRV vtflß, THE com-1 [The RELATION' explain why it makes me so dizzy." ENOUGH TO SPE/VC, WOMEN PARISONS /IRE MORE IMTENSE. |UNTIL FINALLS— H SHIP 1 N T VOICE /I CERTAIN COMPETITION CONFIDENT OF OUR
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 171 30 Lunchdate (Radio 1,12.05 pm) THOMAS Jacob plays the songs Flashdance (Irene Cara), Move Away (Culture Club), That's The Way It Goes (Gregory Harrison), I Can't Help Myself (Eddie Rabbitt), Blue Kiss (Jane Wiedlin), I Don't Want To Lose Your Love (John O'Banion), I Believe In You (Barbara Dickson) and Baby
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    • 1179 30 RADIOGUIDE EMDBi EililEO* EHSH33 NOON News In Brief NOON Easy Listening: Featuring N(W)N R M M 12 05 Lunchdato- See Air Raves Roberto Delgado's Dancing NOON Good Music, Company And Me. 12.05 Lunchdate See Air Raves Tropical Skies and Gui- )ee J a V Mark va <tylenb«rg 1.00 News and
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    • 404 30 NOON Newsdesk 12.30 Without Strings: Dan Zerdin continues his exploration of the wind band repertory of the Rast 200 years from Handel to lessiaen. He comes up with some names you might not readily associate with music for wind alone. 12.45 Reflections: A time set aside for religious reflection. 12.S0
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  • SPORTS
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      400 31 Reuter. ORDER in the court was restored when the top seeds went back to work yesterday after the previous day's washout. No. 1 seed Ivan Lendl and sixth seeded, five-time champion Jimmy Connors, were the first leading players to take to the featured courts on a busy
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    • Article, Illustration
      97 31 AFP. EL N A Rein a c h learned an important lesson yesterday: Do not wake Martina Navratilova up. Navrati- lova took a nap before her match on the court and said she was half-asleep until she was down 0-4. "I told somebody to wake me up when
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    • 206 31 Reuter. Men's singles third round: Ivan Lendl (Cze) bt Scott Davis (US) 6-1, 6-4, 6-3; Jimmy Connors (US) bt Pieter Aldrich (SA) 6-3, 6-2, 6-3; Jakob Hlasek (Swit) bt Anders Jarryd (Swe) 6-2, 6-4, 6-2; Jorge Lozano (Mex) bt Guillermo Perez Roldan (Arg) 6-4, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6
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    • 78 31 Reuter. JOHN Aldridge is to stay with Liverpool. There was speculation that the striker would move to European soccer champion PSV Eindhoven. Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, responding to a message from Eindhoven that it was interested in the striker, said: "John Aldridge is going nowhere." Earlier reports
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    • 583 31 Wire Services. RESULTS of yesterday's international snnrtfi* AMERICAN FOOTBALL National League: Buffalo 13 Minnesota 10, Chicago 34 Miami 7, Cincinnati 21 Phoenix 14, Detroit 31 Atlanta 17, Los Angeles Rams 34 Green Bay 7, San Francisco 34 New Orleans 33, Pittsburgh 24 Dallas 21, Philadelphia 41 Tampa Bay 14,
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    • HEALTH&Fitness
      • 477 32 Don't get bored with the same old exercises. There's a whole new way of getting fit, of shedding those extra kilos. SHAHIRON SAHARI suggests three methods... TIRED of the same old routine? Or have you never even started that search for fitness because running, swimming or
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      • QIGONG
        • 114 32 STARTING position: Stand at attention with heels together or feet shoulderwidth apart, toes pressing against floor and arches lifted. Arms hang both sides. Put tip of tongue lightly against hard palate, and breathe with your nose. Look straight ahead and relax all bone
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        • 103 32 STARTING position: Stand at attention with heels together or feet shoulderwidth apart, arms hanging naturally at both sides. Movements A: Raise right hand overhead, palm turned up and fingers held together and pointing leftward. At the same time, press left hand down, fingers pointing forward. B: Return
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        • 98 32 STARTING position: Stand at attention with palms pressed tightly against thighs. Movements A: Turn slowly to the back to look left. B: Return to starting position. C: Turn slowly to the right to look back. D: Return to starting posi- tion. Repeat these movements many
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      • 85 32 STARTING position: Stand at attention, palms pressed against the front part of thighs and legs straightened. Movements A: Raise both heels, drawing head up as if to lift a weight on its top. B: Return to starting po- sition. Repeat these movements many times. You
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      • 117 32 EXERCISE persistently. You'll never achieve the aim of keeping fit and preventing or curing chronic diseases if you, as a Chinese saying goes, "go fishing for three days and dry the net for two." When doing the exercises, relax both physically and mentally. When exertion is needed,
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    • 272 33  -  Stories/ Bernard Pereira FIELD any Chinese player in any international badminton tournament, and he will give his opponent a run for the money. That's what they're saying after seeing how China came down like a ton of bricks on what's left of the rest of the world in
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    • 449 33 BARCELONA 92 IN 1974, the Soviet Union joined the International Badminton Federation. Come 1992, it hopes to put its first man on a golden shuttle flight to the Barcelona Olympics. Did you know that the Russians have 108,000 registered players? And that some two
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    • 99 33  -  By S. Gulam VETERAN Jeffrey Lazaroo is back. He is determined to play Friday's Malaysia Cup soccer tie against Brunei. But he has to be fit for it. He has recovered from the flu and the groin injury that saw him miss last Sunday's cruncher against Kelantan.
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    • 422 34  -  The pressure picks up for Ang Peng Siong with his return from the US this morning. As he shifts into top gear, the freestyle ace now realises he will have to go it alone Ken Jalleh Jr RED tape and the price of a ticket threaten
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    • 182 34 OLYMPIC backstroke hope David Lim returned this morning with good news he recently achieved a personal best of 26.485 ec in the 50 metres backstroke. Though there won't be a 50m backstroke event in Seoul, David is buoyed by the time because it could mean
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