The New Paper, 22 September 1988

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  • 15 1 the new paper THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1988 Ma (P) 179/4/88 SO CENTS the new paper
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    • 59 1 ENTARY |™«sSjpQ k the winners before they j ace with Trackform. Special guide to top contenders, chances. Pace 18 VIUUK.CO. CABBIES UP IN ARMS Taxi drivers are carrying weapons screw drivers and clubs. They're scared. Three murdered, more than 80 robbed so far this year. They complain: Help comes too
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    • 85 1 FREE WORKER TRAINING Government will give employers money to help train workers in new technical skills. Page 2 LEGS ON HOLIDAY V I M |L Br M mm idI V 1 If Page 5 DEATH STAB IN OFFICE Identity card shows alleged killer of ex-airline hostess once shared home with
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  • 40 1 Passers-by pry open doors of ambulance that crashed on ECP, trapping a patient, her husband and crew of three inside. Road curved but driver didn't. "I wonder why he went straight?"/ Page 7 Picture/ Aundry Gan
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 267 2  - More to upgrade skills By Augustine Low EMPLOYERS can soon tap a new source to help pay for training workers. The government is willing to give them money to teach workers new technical skills. This new Emerging and Critical Skills Development Grant Scheme was announced this morning by Trade and
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    • 410 2  -  By Harjinder Kaur TAXI drivers are carrying less cash and more weapons to avoid being robbed or attacked here. Common weapons are screwdrivers and wooden sticks. Many drivers carry no more than $20 in cash. Others stash their cash in unlikely places in the cabs. Some
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    • 41 2 OUR report yesterday headlined, "Find your favourite food here", said that Samy's Curry Restaurant serves a set lunch of either beef or mutton. We were wrong. The set lunch is either fish or mutton, as Samy's does not serve beef.
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    • 276 2  -  By Thusitha De Silva Ng Wan Ching WHEN Mr Chan Yuen Cheong heard his secretary scream he rushed out of his office to a dreadful scene. He found Ms Katherine Wong Lai Fong dying, gushing blood with a crazed man beside her, stabbing himself and slashing
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    • 286 2  -  By Cheng Shoong Tat IN GUANGZHOU. CHINA PEOPLE in Guangdong have now picked up many activities done by the Hong Kong people, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew observed last night. (21/9). "There is nothing which the people in Hong Kong do which the people in
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    • 278 2 THE STRANGE fate of Mr Sevalingam Kumarasamy was due to misadventure and Singapore Airforce Major Peter Wong was not criminally liable, the coroner ruled yesterday. Mr Kumarasamy was on his motorcycle last April 30 when a jet fighter piloted by Major Wong flew overhead, trailing
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    • 222 3  -  By Lim Swee Hong IT could have come from a glutton's nightmare. There were a giant hamburger, oversized sticks of satay, enormous ketupat, larger-than-life french fries... These are the gross items in a telematch with a food theme shown at a preview at Amoy Quee camp, off
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    • 241 3  -  By Ng Wan Ching AN SBS bus turning into Alexandra Road from Tanglin Road hit and killed Ms Andrea Mak Lai Mui yesterday. She was walking across Alexandra Road, heading home to Leng Kok Bahru in Tanglin, when death struck. Ms Mak, 20, a student
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    • 104 3 THE Bukit Batok gas explosion has claimed its fourth victim. Amutha Alagursamy, three, died late last night in the Intensive Care Unit of Singapore General Hospital, one day after her mother's death.. This leaves only her elder sister Indrani, five, as the sole survivor of the
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    • 23 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 7.00 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.54 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 505 4  -  Teachers will soon be less burdened. The School Link programme is aimed at computerising administrative work in schools. By Geneieve Kwek INSTEAD of pushing paper, school teachers and administrators can now save time by pressing the right key. The School Link programme will help them do
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    • 194 4  -  By Abdul Hadhi THE first time Low Kok Lup tried to steal something, he left his loot and his passport behind. On his second try he was caught doing it Low, 33, admitted to twice stealing copper pipes in court yesterday.
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    • 180 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. Careens: If a person careens, he moves forward rapidly while swaying from side to side. Concocting: Concocting is creating something unusual by adding together different things. Couched: If something
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    • 274 4  -  By Lois Ng IT'S standard practice in the US. Britain will make it compulsory from Oct 1. But the one-shot triple vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella is not available in government clinics here. Private doctors who have been giving this shot since
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    • 232 5  -  By Brenton Wong NOBODY minded the store yesterday at Isetan. It was the company's annual staff day, the only time of the year when everybody gets the same day off. And for 21 of the staff, it was fun and games at the Pasir
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    • 163 5  -  By Chitra Rajaram RADIOGRAPHY training at the National University University Hospital (NUH) for the first time in Singapore has resulted in the winning of a special award. Radiography is the study of X-rays and their use in medicine. Specialists are in very short supply here.
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    • 454 6  -  By Karen Goh ALL over the world people know that Singaporeans hate cats. We don't let them in our homes. We won't feed them. We abandon kittens. We break their tails, or cut them off. We fear them and force them to survive in drainpipes.
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    • 333 6  -  By Leong Chan Teik THE Markham Bay is back on an even keel. A 6 pm status report from PSA yesterday said: "Although the vessel is upright, it has not been towed off." But one of its ballast tanks was ruptured, a PSA spokesman
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    • 161 6 ONE at a time. That's police advice to goldsmiths who show jewellery to customers. Generally, goldsmiths show up to four pieces at one time. The advice came after a goldsmith shop in Rochor Centre reported that a woman customer stole $2,421 worth of
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    • 68 6 SHOWING up at religious functions is not part of an MP's task, said Dr Augustine Tan, the MP for Whampoa, yesterday. "The MP's role is to look after the interests of constituents...why should he be faulted for not attending religious functions?" he said. Dr Tan,
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    • 275 7 Look at what the HDB is delivering. A new kind of mail box for your convenience. THEY may be slightly smaller but they are more convenient. This is what people had to say when told of the new-style mail boxes installed in a pilot project
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    • 340 7  -  THE ASSIGNMENT: CHECK OUT NEW MAILBOXES ON THE WAY, THIS HAPPENED... By Karen Goh OUR New Paper car was just behind an ambulance when it crashed on East Coast Parkway yesterday with a patient on her way to Mount Elizabeth Hospital from Changi Airport. It was about 2
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    • 426 8  -  By Joe Nathan BOOK publishers and distributors have brushed aside the charge that local books are expensive. Publisher Goh Eck Kheng was even willing to show The New Paper just where the dollars go when you buy a book. The graphic shows where the money went
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    • 346 8 A BURGLAR managed to steal at least $10,000 in valuables from about 20 flats during the past two months using the tools of his trade. He carried a mini-telescope, pliers, an extendable hook, three handgloves and a handsaw in his clutchbag. That's what police found
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    • 252 8 A GUEST at the Shan-gri-La hotel wanted to play tennis at five in the morning. The hotel made special arrangements for the courts to be opened at that time just for him. And to ensure that its guests get personal attention, there is at least
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    • 138 8 POLICE believe an elderly woman who was roughed up and robbed last week died "because she was overawed by the sudden attack". Doctors said 64-year-old Madam Ng Joo Lang died of pneumonia onTuesday. She had been in a coma since the attack last
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 206 9 Wire services. A CURFEW was imposed for the first time yesterday in the disputed Azerbaijani territory of Nagorny Karabakh following a new wave of violence. Tensions have been rising in the last three days between Christian Armenians and Muslim Azerbaijanis. Nagorny Karabakh is an enclave in
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    • 94 9 Wire services. IRAQ's plan to divert the course of a disputed waterway is "ridiculous", says Iran's acting commander in chief. "We will give more explanations about the issue whenever we feel the matter is serious," the Iranian news agency quoted Mr Hashemi Rafsanjani as saying. He said
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    • 193 9 Wire services. EMPEROR Hirohito's health is steadily improving but a new chapter in the Japanese monarchy is about to begin. The Crown Prince is taking over his father's duties. The government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita said it would announce today the appointment
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    • 186 9 Wire services. RESEARCHERS from the US have created a powerful protein that can kill cells producing the Aids virus. The protein, CD4-Pseudo-monas Exotoxin, acts like a guided missile that can search out and destroy only those cells infected with the Aids virus. "In test tube
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    • 85 9 Wire services. FIVE people were killed in an attack on the home of a member of Sri Lanka's ruling party. Mr M. Edwin, a businessman, was not at home when the attack occurred on Tuesday in the southern Sri Lankan town of Hambantota. Police said
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    • 150 9 Wire services. THE Prime minister of Malaysia says his nation will also be a NIC by the year 2000. NIC is short for Newly Industralized Country. Singapore is among those that have achieved such status. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad says Malaysia's
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    • 172 10 Wire services. AN IMMIGRATION policy calling for fewer Asians could isolate Australia from other nations in the Pacific Basin, a senior minister said yesterday. Primary Industries and Energy Minister Mr John Kerin said Australia could lose vital trade and investment opportunities unless attitudes changed. "If
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    • 54 10 AP. A DOZEN winners of the Nobel Prize have asked the United Nations to reject the Khmer Rouge-backed coalition that represents Cambodia at the UN. In an appeal yesterday, they said the record of the Coalition Government of Democratic Cambodia, which includes the Khmer
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    • 187 10 UPI. STANDING behind bul-let-proof glass to open a paper mill in violent Punjab state yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Mr Rajiv Gandhi told 10,000 people: "Stand boldly against the bullets." In nearby Amristar this year bullets flew by the thousands as the Indian army battled militant Sikhs in
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    • 158 10 Wire services. THE Vietnamese Foreign Minister has followed the Soviet leader Mr Mikhail Gorbachev's lead by saying that the Soviet Union has the right to negotiate with Washington for pullouts from Cam Ranh Bay and the Philippines. Mr Gorbachev in a key speech on Asia on
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    • 230 11 Wire services. BURMA'S bloody crackdown on rebels cleared Rangoon's streets yesterday. The seething nation was tense but unarmed rebels were no match for soldiers willing to shoot them. The government acknowledged that the army had killed 67 protesters demanding democracy. Diplomats said the real death toll was
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    • 193 11 Wire services. OVER 5,000 Filipinos marched in Manila yesterday to denounce what they called the dictatorial "US-Aquino regime". "We did not kick out Marcos to replace him with another fascist dictator," trade union leader Leto Villar told the crowd of workers and students.
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    • 125 11 Wire services. HAITIANS infuriated by years of cruel rule are imposing "people's justice" and killing members of the oncedreaded secret police known as the Tontons Macoutes. There were increasing signs of mutiny in the armed forces. Nine military commanders or high-ranking police officers
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    • 56 11 Aftermath: At least 15 people were injured when a bomb exphxled at a bus stop in central Johannesburg last night. The terminus is reserved for whites in South Africa only. No group has claimed responsibility so far. Here an injured woman gets a helping hand
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    • 180 11 UPI. TAIPEI'S ruling Kuomintang expelled a senior member yesterday for visiting China and meeting government officials. The action underlines the Nationalist Party's determination to enforce its policy of barring official contacts with China. Mr Hu Chiu-Yuan, a legislator, is still in China. He was thrown out
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    • 117 11 UPI PAKISTAN political leader Benazir Bhutto gave birth to a 3.2 kg son yesterday in Karachi. Her mother, Begum Nusrat Bhutto, said the baby was delivered by Caeserean section four to five weeks prematurely. No explanation was given as to why the birth
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    • 83 11 Wire services. THERE is an imaginary taste of the Olympic Games right in the midst of busy Kuala Lumpur. The Restoran Mohideen in Petaling Jaya offers customers a wide range of athletic delights. It has Olympic Biriyani or Seoul Fried Chicken 88. Patrons who remember
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  • WORLDTODAY/ STOCKS
    • 125 12 Wire services IT'S entrepreneurial spirit, Nevada-style. A group plans to sell shares in the largest legal brothel in the United States. The group plans to raise 5547.5 million to buy two Mustang Ranch brothels in Storey county from the present owners who started the business 20 years
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    • 63 12 High and dry: Hurricane Gilbert, one of the most powerful storms in history, has long died hut its legacy lives on in this Mexican beach resort. Some 75,000 residents in Cancun on the Yucalan penisula are left without electricity and clean water to drink. Here three
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    • Article, Illustration
      271 12 AFP. SHARE prices ended higher yesterday on the London Stock Exchange. The Financial Times 30-share index rose 13.9 points to close at 1,443.8. The market continued to be supported by a steady opening on Wall Street and was stimulated throughout the day by mining and investment group Minorco's $10
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    • 333 12  -  By Trudy Lim AT LEAST $20 million worth of oil deals were made each day during a three-day oil conference in Singapore, an observer estimated. The Asia-Pacific Petroleum Conference '88 wound up yesterday. Dr Fereidun Fesharaki, a member of the conference's panel of
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    • 81 12 Wire services. GOLD closed below $816 an ounce in New York yesterday for the first time since February 1987. "If this continues, gold could fall to $652 to $663 within a month," said a trader with a major firm. Gold has been
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    • 80 12 Reuter. SHARE prices rose in opening trade on the' Tokyo Stock Exchange today in buying carried over from Wednesday's late rally, with some support provided from a slightly higher Wall Street overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index gained 86.33 points, or 0.31 per cent, to 27,798.99 in the first
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Wed 1,443.80 (1,429.90) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,090.50 (2,087.48) ST Industrial Wed 1,046.53 (1,039.95) NST Industrial Wed 1,730.01 (1,724.66) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 2,432.00 (2,423.23) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,542.80 (1,545.50) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 27,712.66 (27,548.58) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      267 12 AFP. TRADING on Wall Street was cautious yesterday. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials hovered within a narrow range before closing up 3.02 points at 2,090.50 points. Fewer than 128 million shares changed hands in light trading, with decliners outnumbering advancers 703 to 679; 525 shares
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  • THE NEW PAPER SPECIAL PULLOUT
    • SEOUL BEAT
      • 351 13  -  Ken Jalleh Jr IK ANG PENG SIONG'S hopes of breaching the ranks of the world's top 100 m freestyle swimmers ended with a whimper in 52.535 ec way off his national record of 51.09 set in the LA '84. Age has caught up with Singapore's top
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  • SEOULBEAT
    • 605 14 UPI. THE greatest track and field THE greatest track and field competition in history starts at the Olympic stadium tomorrow, For the first time in 12 years, track superpowers East Germany,the United States and the Soviet Union will face each other beneath the Olympic flag and the
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    • 634 15 ftiatofi W<: gaining fame and fortune in i < Los Angetes. He's come a long way and yesterday gave a pprfnrmannfi. KEN JALLEH JR reports! CARL Lewis certain knows CARL Lewis certainly knows how to handle the press, if yesterday's performance is anything to go by. Carl
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    • 375 16 UPI. HEARING and sight disabilities are no handicap to Olympic swimmers Tamas Darnyi, of Hungary, and David Wharton, of the United States, when they are in the pool. Darnyi, 21, broke his own world record in the men's 400-metre individual medley here yesterday when he won the
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    • 316 16 AP. THE soaring days of the man they call "The Albatross" may be on the wane. Far from his high-flying performances in the 1984 Los Angeles Games, West Germany's Michael Gross watched his wings get clipped in not one, but two races yesterday. He failed even
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    • 566 17 ONE of the first rules in sports journalism is: Don't cheer. Don't be biased. Don't be anyone's man. That rule was broken yesterday. Only the most emotional moment could justify such behaviour. Only the greatest upset by the lowest underdog, a David bringing a dastardly Goliath
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    • 127 17 SINGAPORE'S hopes in yachting sank further when their boat capsized after a good start off Pusan yesterday. Siew Shaw Her and Joe Chan recovered well after a disastrous first day to shoot into the 12th spot at the start. But just when everything was
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  • 1457 18 THE NEW PAPER SPECIAL MEN 100 m World record: 9.83 (Ben Johnson, Can, 1987). Olympic record: 9.95 (Jim Hines, US, 1968). 1988 best: 9.93 (Carl Lewis, US). Top contenders: Linford Christie (Brit); Chidi Imoh (Nig); Ben Johnson (Can); Carl Lewis, Dennis Mitchell, Calvin Smith (US); Raymond
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    • 367 18 The New Paper-Lotto Olympic Contest Everyday this week, there will be two Olympic sports symbols for you to identify. All you have to do is to fill in the correct event associated with the symbols and you stand to r win attractive Lotto and The New Paper prizes. Each coupon
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1800 19 Televisions M Discoveries Underwater Thursday Feature Special SCREEN M Seoul Olympics'88 Wfm Ships Of Trade Thief Of Hearts s GEMS Men's Individual rio .oo pm, SBC 12) ao .30 pm, SBC 5) Ail-Round Final SINCE the Bronze Age, trade was A ROBBER breaks into a couple's (4.00 pm, SBC 12)
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    • 307 19 I 5 5 S3 59 10.30 pm Thursday V ■< Feature Special Thief Of Heart*: See Screen Gems. 12.15 Close u q 10.30 pm Tamil Cinema Oorukku Upadhesam (Part 000 One): Pandian (S V Segar) is introduced by a matchmaker to a prospective bride named Janaki (Oorvasi). Janaki proves to
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    80 20 Angelic-looking Gabriela Sabatini, who has the ground strokes of a young Chris Evert, took the international tennis arena by storm four years ago when, at 14, she became the youngest person ever to win a match in the US Open. Name: Gabriela Sabatini Nationality: Argentinian, from Bueno6 Aires
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  • 1455 23 THE NEW PAPER SPECIAL MEN 100 m World record: 9.83 (Ben Johnson, Can, 1987). Olympic record: 9.95 (Jim Hines, US, 1968). 1988 best: 9.93 (Carl Lewis, US). Top contenders: Linford Christie (Brit); Chidi Imoh (Nig); Ben Johnson (Can); Carl Lewis, Dennis Mitchell, Calvin Smith (US); Raymond
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  • SEOULBEAT
    • 302 25  -  By Tan ALTHOUGH this is the Seoul Olympics, the Americans and Japanese athletes feel as if they are on home base, JI SP ng by P*ctator support received. The American support at the Games has been strong, due in no small
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      314 25 A GHOSTLY silence. That's the atmosphere inside two large hotel banquet rooms reserved for American celebrations. The US delegation, expecting the gold medals to come flowing by from Day One, has alas not been able to use the "champagne" rooms at all. Except for a few officials and guests
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    • 98 25 Wire services. MITKO Grablev, of Bulgaria, winner of the 56kg Olympic weightlifting title, was stripped of his gold medal this morning by the International Olympic Committee for testing positive for a banned drug. Grablev won his weight class on Monday, but the lOC said analysis
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    • 187 25 Wire services. THE MINISTRY of Transportation said 130,922 tourists arrived in Seoul from Sept 1 through Sept 18. Before the Games opened, officials said they expected 250,000 people, but revised that number down to 150,000 just before the opening ceremony. Some 70 per cent of tickets for Olym§ic events
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  • SPORTS
    • 190 26 AFP. EXTRA-TIME goals by Steve Bruce and Brian McClair gave Manchester United a hard-earned 2-0 victory over Newcastle in the semi-finals of the Mercantile Credit Centenary Trophy soccer match yesterday. United meet Arsenal at Villa Park on Oct 9 in the final. The match attracted less
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    • 177 26 Reuter. AJAX Amsterdam, that sacked its coach Kurt Linder yesterday, lost 4-1 to PEC Zwolle the same evening and sank to 13th place in the Dutch First Division soccer standings. Ajax held the score at 0-0 up to the half-time whistle, having squandered several scoring chances. PEC Zwolle
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    • 128 26 AFP. CLIVE Allen maintained his striking form yesterday. His seventh goal of the season helped Bordeaux to a 4-1 French First Division soccer victory over struggling Lens. Lens took a shock eighthminute lead through Philippe Maufroy. But the home side replied three minutes before the interval
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    • 111 26 AFP. SPANISH First Division soccer champions Real Madrid put its disappointing League form behind it yesterday. It beat bitter rivals Barcelona, managed by Dutchman Johan Cruyff, 2-0 at home in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup. Two second-half goals, the first from Michel and
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    • 370 26 RACING with DENNIS CHIA JOCKEY K.C.Woon completes his two-month suspension this week and has quickly dispelled rumours that he was stabbed in the neck at Kuala Lumpur recently. He said he was upset by the reports and showed me his neck, which did not reveal
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      198 26 AFP. HEARTS goalkeeper Henry Smith suffered another Hampden nightmare yesterday and gave Rangers a place in the Skol Cup soccer final for the seventh time in eight years. Smith, whose fumbles cost Hearts its Scottish Cup semi-final clash against Celtic last April, turned in another horrific exhibition in
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    • 425 26 RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASEBALL Japan's Central League: Yomiuri 5 Chunichi 3, Hiroshima 3 Yakult 0, Hanshin 6 Taiyo 1. Pacific League: Nippon Ham 4 Seibu 3, Hankyu 3 Lotte 0. SOCCER English Division Two: Brighton 0 West Bromwich Albion 1, Leeds 2 Barnsley 0, Leicester 1 Plymouth
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    • 339 27  -  By Judy Khaw TOH WEE BENG feels as much at home at the computer as he does at table tennis. We found Wee Beng hard at work at the personal computer doing graphics designing. Only the bat lying around was the tell-tale sign that Wee Beng plays
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    • 190 27 HIGH-RANKING Keisiku Uchida will lead a six-strong team from Australia's Kei-Shin Kan Karate Association for a friendly triangular against Singapore and the Singapore Ashihara Karate Association next month. Sensei Uchida, a sixth dan black belt and chief instructor of the Sydney-based group, will
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    • 72 27 NATIONAL heptathlon re-cord-holder Chan See Huey will attend the International Olympic Committee Solidarity coaching course in Hongkong from Oct 17-23. The course will concentrate on jumps and sprints. Chan, 25, also a long-jump-er, hopes to take part in the event in next year's Southeast Asia
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    • 336 27 The New Piaper-letstreamTbur Contest sAa all-expense paid adventure Jjp£~in Japan is vcHirs^. Every day, there are stories marked with a tick in The New Paper. But only one has a double border. Look for the tick with this double border I, I and write down the headline of this story
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  • MALAYSIA CUP
    • 366 28  -  By S. GULAM TOMORROW'S match against Trengganu will test the Singapore side's fighting spirit. This is not only the opinion of coach Seak Poh Leong but also that of Major Abbas Abu Amin, chairman of the Football Association of Singapore. Said Major Abbas: "In terms
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    • 184 28 THREE weeks ago Borhan Abu Samah played his first full Malaysia Cup game this season in Malacca. Now, five matches later, and a goal to his name, he is Singapore's regular stopper. Ironically it was the injury of skipper T. Pathmanathan that has given Borhan the
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    • 174 28 THEIR strikers' form have boosted Trengganu's confidence against Singapore at the Sultan Ismail Nasaruddin Shah Stadium tomorrow. It hopes to maintain a streak of home wins over Singapore. "We should have no problems collecting full points against Singapore," said coach Abdul Rahman. Confidence stems
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    • 236 29 J K/V/Srf KN/N/Nf mamm <VVNAAAA/ Ampriran Ton 40 Mmencan lup f U (Radio I, 9.05 pm) a Ui Z 5 O SHADOE Stevens takes you on an exciting countdown of the top 40 hit songs in the U3A thic tL cm,, UoA this week. Ihe songs include Love Bite (Def
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    • 832 29 RADIOGUIDE EHUnBl EHEBi NOON Newt In Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) 12.05 Lunchdate: A selection of good musical fare to keep you enter- NOON Easy Listening: Presents Nicotained. las De Angelis' Superheat gui1.00 News and Weather Report un g 8 an d Unchained 1.15 Lunchdate (continued) CA Fo A1 > Seasons.
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    • 665 29 NOON Good Music, Company And Me: N <> 0N Newsdesk Enjoy some entertaining musi- 12.30 Sportsworld: Faddy Keeny files cal fare while you have your reports from Seoul, keeping lunchbreak. you updated with the latest 12.15 Time Warp: Featuring snippets news in th e 8 P« r t* «ena. on
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  • Showtime
    • 275 30  -  STORIES/ Lim Kuan Chiang THE Minister stole the show THE Minister stole the show last night's SBC-RTM Orchestra Gala Concert, Rampaiseni *88. Datuk Moharaed Rahmat, the Malaysian Minister for Information, delighted the capacity audience at the Kallang Theatre by coming on stage to sing at the
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    • 157 30 A SPECIAL radio request programme where you can dedicate songs to your friends across the Causeway and vice versa. Sounds great? Well, it could happen. This idea of a joint SBC-RTM radio programme was mooted by Datuk Mohamed Rahmat, the visiting Malaysian Minister for Information, yesterday.
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    • 162 30 KATHY Ibrahim rocks a lot these days. But this singer who is better known for her powerful ballads says she's been rocking for the past 11 years. "I feel I'm a rock singer. I sing with power which is what rock is
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    • 270 30 IF you missed the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, you can still catch a small portion of it here. The Kartal Folk Dance Group, which represented Turkey at the opening ceremony in Seoul, will give one show at the Victoria Concert Hall on
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 599 33  -  By Griselda Loo THE season celebrating 25 years of television ends with some great blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger grabs you by the throat in The Terminator, a sci-fi thriller, which kicks off great movie viewing from Oct 4. SBC has more special movies in store for
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      246 33  -  By Sonja Tan and Vivien Chiong MONSTER IN THE CLOSET (Capitol) A MADCAP movie about monsters murdering people in their closets. When the monster finally emerges from the closet, he causes such mayhem that the President declares a national emergency. The' army is sent to kill it. Times: 11
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    • 430 36  -  Stories/ Lo Tien Yin IT WAS almost typical Club Med after-dinner entertainment, except that the dance was no revue-type offering by club staff but classically Indian. Guests were entertained by two Malaysian dancers talented newcomer Geetha Shankaran and established dancer, Ramli Ibrahim, during the Club's
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    • 439 36 WITH headband and long locks, he looks like a displaced hippie living in the '80s. And no wonder too. For it was during the "hippie" era in the '60s that Dr Wan Ahmad Zawawi, 41, got involved in street music and the subcultures
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    • Article, Illustration
      351 37  -  By Ting Mei See THEY WERE born for this THEY WERE born for this Mife. MuBt b€ the things our dad fed us. So said the Brothers 4. Well, if it's not the diet then it must be something in their blood for the whole Contreras family are
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    • 403 37 USA Today. PRINCE told 13,000 rapt fans PRINCE told 13,000 rapt fans at the Met Centre during his concert last week: "This is not music.This is a trip. Destination Utopia." Prince is behind the wheel of this two-and-a-half-hour joy ride that careens from the bedroom
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 568 38  -  By Lim Swee Hong DRINK it because it's chic. Drink it because it tastes good. But be aware that most brands of mineral water contain more minerals than you need to stay healthy. "The average person really doesn't need it," says Mrs Tan Wei Ling, a nutritionist with
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    • 133 38 ADISHTOTRY Preparation: 15 min. Cooking: 35 to 40 min. Serves four. Note: Can use ordinary potatoes too. Microwave: Not suitable. INGREDIENTS 1 kg sweet potatoes, washed 90 ml vegetable oil 10 ml whole coriander seeds 10 ml whole black mustard seeds 30 ml (2 tbsp) sesame seeds
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    • 146 38 Preparation: 10 min. Cooking: 10 min. Serves four. INGREDIENTS 500 g frozen sweetcorn 25 g butter 1 red pepper, de-seeded 1 green pepper, de-seeded 1 bunch spring onions, sliced salt and freshly ground black pepper METHOD 1. Cook corn in boiling water for 5 min. 2. Cut peppers
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    • 232 38 MORE Singaporeans are drinking more mineral water. Three major supermarkets told The New Paper that sales are bubbly. The NTUC Fairprice Co-operative stores said there has been a 15 per cent increase since last year. "Due to demand, we've also brought in at least five
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 347 39  -  By Brenton Wong IT'S gender-bending time again in Paris. There, they say it's a subtle form of cross-dressing that's going to be the rage for men at the end of the year. Jean-Paul Gaultier started it about three years ago. Amid gasps, his
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    • 230 39 THE fashion critics rave about the latest dandified fashions, but Singaporean men remain unimpressed. Of the 10 men interviewed, all felt the colours and styles were inappropriate, both for work as well as leisure. Mr Adrian Tang, 30, a computer analyst programmer
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    • 297 39 AFP. ADMIRED for its billowing grace or dismissed for its figure-hiding folds, the Korean native costume has become a familiar sight because of the Olympic Games. Seen on hostesses at Olympic sites as well as on women of all ages in the streets of
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  • UPDATE
    • 859 40 ►Gallery r~—X SPORTS ON CANVAS. V This is a timely exhibition by two Dutch artists, considering what's happening in Seoul these days. Jan Van Diemen paints athletes in almost abstract fashion. He uses rich colours of red, yellow and blue. Leentje Linders etchings are less
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    • 14 40 COMING UP: Ballet for lunch FOOD: Skewered delights GALLERY: Sports on canvas
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      103 40 OLYMPICS sportsmen are battling for it now in Seoul. But at one time warriors literally fought for it. And artists made statues and other works of art for their kings from it. Gold has been prized for centuries. In Java, craftsment shaped it into statues, rings, pins and
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