The New Paper, 25 October 1988

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  • 16 1 the new paper TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1988 m (f) m/4/M SO CENTS the J new" paper
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  • 39 1 The winner: Ms Panpradub Preetanuch (centre), 24, gasps as she's crowned Miss Asia Pacific 1988. This is the second international beauty title this year won by a Thai. Page 14 HU" J Picture/REUTER
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 309 2 THE SINGAPORE solution: Stay alert for early signs of change. Stay flexible, able to adjust quickly. It is easy to say, hard to do. But this is the basic code Singapore will follow to become a fully developed country. In today's talk before the Global Strategies Conference,
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    • 44 2 Race: It may look like something out of the American old West, but these cowboys buffalo boys? are actually showing their stuff in Chonburi province, Thailand, as part of a festival that marks the end of the Buddhist Lent Picture/ Reuter
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    • 285 2 IHT. BURMA'S unrest is expected to cause a major surge in heroin exports to Europe and America as well as other parts of Asia. Anti-drug officials say the military regime of General Saw Maung is too focused on controlling political opponents to crack down on
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    • 253 2 SHE wept, claimed abandonment. He listened, gave her shelter. She stole $8,000 in cash and jewellery. Kind-hearted Mr Li Xingquan, 47, took pity on the woman who said her name was Ah Poh, about 50, when he met her at a temple at Boon
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    • 88 2 Wire services. VIOLENCE is what sells on French television. A survey by the Le Point weekly in Paris shows that within a single week, the country's four commercial stations depicted 670 murders, 15 rapes including two victims under age one sodomy, 848 fights,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 23 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Sunset today: 6.50 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.46 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 314 3 T HIS is Singapore's answer to the American Cabbage Patch doll. The little cuties even have the same puckered mouth. The difference is they don't come from a cabbage patch but a construction site. They are the Samsui dolls. The person who makes them,
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    • 377 3  -  By Geneieve Kwek GRADUATES of the Singapore Polytechnic will get their first clubhouse this Thursday, five months earlier than scheduled. The clubhouse, a renovated military barracks named Guild House, will open to coincide with the polytechnic's 34th anniversary. "The polytechnic was founded on Oct
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    • 370 4 Poor salary is one reason for the shortage of nurses, said Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, Acting Health Minister. Last March in Parliament, he revealed that the Ministries of Health and Finance were working on better pay scales and working conditions for nurses. JOY
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    • 198 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. art nouveau: Art nouveau is a decorative art form which uses flowing lines and leaves. It was common at the end of the 19th century in Europe and America.
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    • 214 4 EITHER be a good Housing Development Board neighbour or get ready to dole out $1,000 fines. The HDB has the power to curb such antisocial behaviour as using void decks to fix motorcycles or cars, stealing dirt, burning turf or choking refuse
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    • 389 4 IF one of their cars splits into two in an accident, most automakers would be trying to limit the bad publicity. Not Daimler-Benz, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars. The company says its car broke into two because it was so well made. In fact, it
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    • 949 5 Free trade is the key to a prosperous and peaceful world. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew made this point again yesterday when he opened the three-day international conference on Global Strategies: The Singapore Partnership. "It would be a tragedy if America and Western Europe were now
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    • 448 5  -  By Irene Hoe THE man, the message and the occasion all were applauded when the Prime Minister opened the Global Strategies conference yesterday. The Economic Development Board organized the conference to make an impact. It has judging from the enthusiastic reactions of a sampling
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    • 474 6 ONE might think that honest people those who find thousands of dollars AND return them to their owners go home and sleep soundly ever after. That's not necessarily so. Many such people say their friends sneer at them, and make fun of them for
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    • 317 6 MAKING money in the stock market from a jumbo jet will be possible by the middle of next year. That's when Singapore helps launch a world-wide satellite communications service for aircraft. The system is called Skyphone. Passengers can use it to get current information
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    • 191 6 ONLY new Filipino maids will be employed on the more generous new terms of work. Maids with old employment contracts will not have to go by the new conditions when renewing their contracts, a spokesman of the Foreign Maids Employment Agencies Association said. The
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    • 96 6 THE Singapore Bus Service (SBS) will be looking at Japan to make its buses even safer. Three SBS officials will visit that country next month to study its Safe Driving Supervisor Scheme. Under the scheme, driving supervisors are engaged to promote safe driving.
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    • 532 7  -  By Irene Ng BETWEEN 70 and 80 per cent of mentally ill people charged in court have spent some time in mental hospitals before. Most of them have been treated for schizophrenia or sub-normal intelligence and then released, a psychiatrist from Woodbridge Hospital told The New Paper
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    • 185 7  -  By Ronald Wong T iHE boy who lost his two middle fingers in a chopper attack on Friday has a good chance of being able to write and do normal things with his hands, said one of the doctors who operated on him. The spokesman said
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    • 197 7 THE MRT extension from Clementi to Jurong East will be worth a ride for the view alone. "The Chinese Garden and the Lakeside stations offer passengers the most scenic views on the MRT," said a spokesman for the Mass
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 395 9 Wire services. PRESSURE is building in China for 84-year-old Deng Xiaoping to step down. Mr Deng announced during the 13th Chinese Communist Party congress a year ago that he would retire and give up all his official posts. But he remains the country's real
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    • 165 9 Wire services. ISRAEL has launched new air raids in southern Lebanon as further retaliation for a suicide car-bomb attack that killed seven of its soldiers. A military spokesman said the army had seized seven Palestinian guerillas yesterday who were on a mission to Israel to seize
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    • 171 9 Wire services. THE White House denies that Mr Ferdinand Marcos made multi-million dollar contributions to President Ronald Reagan's election campaigns. "This is an old story, put out many times," President Reagan's spokesman, Mr Marlin Fitzwater, told reporters. "He (Reagan) has never received money from Marcos," Mr
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    • 42 9 Reminder: If these 1,000 Frenchmen appear to be dead, they've made their point. They are acting in a safety film to remind drivers that about 1,000 people die in motor accidents in the country every month. Picture/ Afp
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    • 85 9 Wire services. AN ANCIENT stone carving that Thailand said was stolen from its country will be returned by the Art Institute of Chicago in the United States. The relic will be exchanged for an artifact "of equal artistic merit", said a spokeswoman for
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    • 195 9 Wire services. PILOT error is blamed for the fiery collision of three Italian stunt-team jets that killed 69 people at an American air base in West Germany. An inquiry by Italian, American and West German experts said American organisers of the Aug
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    • 213 10 Wire services. THE military remained the dominating force as Indonesia's ruling Golkar party shaped up its new 45member executive board today. Also to be selected: A new secretary-general, a key post in this political party of 30 million members. A seven-man electoral college was named
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    • 125 10 Wire services. A ROMAN daughter just gave birth to her mother's son. But the child will be her half-brother, not her son. Confused? Read on. The 20-year-old daughter with the consent of her fiance offered to "lend" her uterus to bear her 48-year-old mother's child,
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    • 55 10 Backer What the pacifier in bis mouth signals is unclear. But the badges on this elderly Lithuanian man's Jacket make it plain that be backs both Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and more freedom for the republic of Lithuania. He was among delegates at a congress
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    • 280 10 Wire services KREMLIN leader Mikhail Gorbachev says talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Moscow broke diplomatic ice between the nations. At the end of a two-and-a-half-hour meeting in the Kremlin yesterday, both Mr Gorbachev and Mr Kohl said their countries should become friends.
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    • 53 10 Art: Some 1,000 people are needed for this huge display of two crushed soda pop cans on a four-ha soybean field in Kansas. Artist Stan Herd calls his creation, Ottawa Beanfield War. It symbolises how soda pop cans almost always end up crushed as litter in somebody's
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    • 219 10 Wire services. AT LEAST four more people have been confirmed killed in military re-education camps set up by former South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, officials say. A Defence Ministry spokesman said this brought to at least 54 the number killed in the camps.
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    • 244 11 Wire services. IRAQ says it is ready to take part in any pact setting a new production ceiling for Opec members. Baghdad's offer was made yesterday as oil prices in the world market took a sharp plunge after an Opec meeting in Madrid ended without
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    • 139 11 Wire services. INDONESIAN Economy Minister Radius Prawiro says his government is about to lift more controls from business. "We will soon be announcing yet another package in our programme of continued economic reform," Mr Prawiro told an Australian-Indo-nesian business meeting in Bali. He said
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    • 46 11 Shocking: Experts say cockroaches are so tough that even nuclear war cannot wipe them out But Australian inventor Greg Jeffreys believes the days of roving roaches are over. He says that with this 2,800 volt electronic zapper, no cockroach can survive. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 119 11 Wire services. VIETNAM has taken its first steps to control black-market trafficking in foreign exchange. It took the measures, say diplomats, because the black-marketeers are taking money that the country's hard-pressed economy badly needs. Under new rules, the Vietnamese government will use
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  • STOCKS
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      258 11 Wire services. SHARES lost ground on the London Stock Exchange yesterday and the FT 30 share index closed 9.9 points down at 1,499.4. The market mood was depressed by falling oil prices, weaker sterling and concern over Thursday's British trade figures for September. A slight reduction in losses was
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    • 89 11 SHARE prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange were mixed in opening trade with some buying filtering in after two days of losses Upwards momentum, however, was somewhat suffocated by a drop in Wall Street prices overnight, brokers said. "There is not much encouragement from Wall Street overnight, which is
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    • 53 11 FT Industrials Mon 1,499.40 (1,509.30) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,170.34 (2,183.50) ST Industrial Mon 1,044.47 (1,038.42) NST Industrial Mon Closed (1,725.23) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 2,562.46 (2,581.69) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,587.20 (1,594.40) Nikkei Stock Average j Mon 27,281.54 (27,338.57) I Figures in brackeU refer to those of the
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      293 11 Wire services. WALL Street stocks closed lower after a seesaw session yesterday. Much of the loss was due to depressed bond prices. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 13.16 points to 2,170.34. Losers outpaced gains 866 to 591 on a volume of 170.6 million shares. The market lost
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 371 12  -  Bombay Woodlands Restaurant 583 Orchard Road, #81-06 Forum Galleria Lunch 12 noon to 3 pm, dinner 6 pm to 10.30 pm Reservations advised. Tel: 235 2712 Prices from $1+ to $12+ By Lim Swee Hong M I R RANJIT Sood, one of the directors of Bombay Woodlands, says
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    • 340 12 THE sign on the restaurant door said "closed" at 12.16 pm on the opening day of Bombay Woodlands Restaurant last Thursday My three lunch partners and I hesitated. Then the smart aleck among us said, "Aiya, they put the sign wrongly lah." She was wrong. The restaurant
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    • 496 12 NOTE: Yesterday's extract from the survey on supermarket prices by the Consumers' Association of Singapore showed you where the cheaper food prices are. The second and final extract today covers detergents, beer and other household items. The full survey can be found
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 435 13  -  Stories/ Josephine Ng m I ORE Singaporeans are buying crystal, say spokesmen for the stores that stock the glittering glass. The trend started about five years back, says a buyer from Tangs department store. And the climb has been slow but steady Singaporeans buy about 20
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    • 323 13 THE person who takes over Madame Ma-rie-Claude Lalique's crystal design business won't find her job easy. Not only has she to be a world-class designer, her work has to reflect the Lalique tradition. Whoever it is, he or she will not have the surname Lalique.
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    • 252 13 SHOPPINGBUG PLAY watches, with their bright colours and changeable watch straps may be all the rage, but companies who make classic watches pitch theirs on improved technology. The Longines Conquest VHP, with its titanium handcrafted case and bracelet, is designed to take hard knocks. It is also
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  • Showtime
    • 354 14  -  By Vivien Chiong T HE Land of Smiles has done it again. Thailand won its second international beauty title this year when Panpradub Preetanuch, 24, was crowned Miss Asia Pacific 1988 in Hongkong last night. Exactly five months ago, another Thai beauty, Porntip Nakhirunkanok,
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    • 386 15  -  By Wong Sing Yeong T HERE are now 26 confirmed entries for the second Singapore Film Festival to be held from Jan 14 to Jan 28 next year. The organisers, however, hope to screen at least 60 films. The confirmed entries include Wings of Desire,
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    • 278 15 USA Today A HUNDRED years after his last kill, Jack the Ripper stalks on. He is the star in two television shows a four-hour CBS programme Jack the Ripper, and a live syndicated special called The Secret Identity of Jack the
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • spotlight
    • 669 16 SHE met the hurdle with aggressive confidence not a waver, not a flicker of doubt. A touch of the whip sent her mount into a strong canter. Ears pricked back, the grey cleared the jump effortlessly, earning in return a pat from its rider. Still, and in all
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    • 378 16 Horse--riding in Sinuajxdv ZORRO did it The Lone Ranger did it, too. Queen Elizabeth did it sideways but only on her birthday.• And ex-Beatie Ringo Starr once tried but couldn't stay on. So you, too, want to ride a horse. It is not an
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1927 17 rp j SCREEN Tuesday Premiere Three Up Two Down Talentime 88 GEMS J Summer of Fear HI Met by Candlelight (Second Semi-final) (Live) I WHEN Daphne has no present for MORE budding stars display their WES Craven, America's BEBL Nick and Angie's first wedding talents tonight. The soloists are master
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    • 669 21 SHE met the hurdle with aggressive confidence not a waver, not a flicker of doubt. A touch of the whip sent her mount into a strong canter. Ears pricked back, the grey cleared the jump effortlessly, earning in return a pat from its rider. Still, and in all
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    • 379 21 Horse-riding in Singapore ZORRO did it The Lone Ranger did it, too. Queen Elizabeth did it sideways but only on her birthday. 9 And ex-Beatle Ringo Starr once tried but couldnt stay on. So you, too, want to ride a horse. It is not
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 307 22  -  PREVIEW/ By Vivien Chiong WALK On Fire is a movie about cops under fire. It shows the dangers policemen face even when they are offduty. It opens on Thursday at Shaw Theatres. The film begins with a cop, played by Sam Lui, chasing two criminals from Macau
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    • Article, Illustration
      163 22 PARTRIDGE PATERNITY USA Today reports that David Cassidy, the former Partridge Family teen idol, is being sued by a woman who says he fathered her 18-month-old daughter and refuses to support the girl. DUFFY AFTER DALLAS PATRICK Duffy says he hopes to become a country and western singer after
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    • 314 23 UPI COMING to America, starring Eddie Murphy and directed by John Landis, takes a lame idea and some very talented actors and manages to avoid complete disaster. But just barely. Murphy plays a corny hero, Prince Akeem, who drifts from his native African nation
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    • Article, Illustration
      197 23 DIE HARD (Cathay cinemas) BRUCE Willis plays John McClane, a New York cop who wages a one-man war against high-tech thieves who have taken over a high-rise building. GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (Orchard) MOVIEGOERS will not be disappointed by Good Morning Vietnam. Thanks to Robin Williams, who plays fast-talking army
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    • 465 23  -  By Wong Sing Yeong THERE was a time when viewing Chinese movies on television meant watching Taiwanese actress Chen Chen cry a river or faceless gongfu actors execute high kicks. The films were mostly made in the 70s, a low period for the Chinese
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 73 22 Fi in someone 4 overseas about Stagapore. It's the weekly newspaper, printed on light weight paper in convenient v It carries business, economic, political and general news on Singapore as well as xP investment news and sports round-ups. The more important regional and Asean news, and executive appointment advertisements are
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 218 24 NOW m Fashion Voyage m with GO on the Equator 1 Dream n Date: Saturday, 19 November '88 beauty Time: 3pmto 5 pm AMD THE east The Oriental Look i r r. ii. wows the west Join us tor afternoon tea on board Singapore s sparkling What Makes A Woman
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 409 25  -  By Griselda Loo h ,ERE'S a side of last night's Debate 88 finals you didn't see on television. While waiting for the judges' decision, NUS's Tan Cheng Yew tried out the judges' seats and then the chairman's, to find out how it feels to
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    • 383 25 SBC'S latest stars Zhu Le Ling, the elusive maiden in Mystery's Butterflies, and Zhang Sui Fa in We Are Family are hardly household names yet. But already another hunt for fresh faces is on. SBC's ninth artists training course will begin once enough students
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    • Article, Illustration
      163 25  -  By Danny Tan RAnLE AND HUM U2 (ISLAND) This is the soundtrack album of the autobiographical movie on one of rock's most charismatic bands, U2. The movie is called Rattle and Hum and is directed by a little known 26-year-old director named Phil Joanou whose main credits include two
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 150 26 Do you find the thought of being interviewed somewhat daunting? Do you have sleepless nights before the interview? This book offers some useful hints to help you prepare for an interview. It explains some important do's and don'ts, and provides an insight into the way many interviewers work and think.
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 1819 30 RADIOGUIDE mm 'LMAHi ism ■.n'lHi'mm mm NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Good Music, Company and Me: NOON Newsdesk <Cl XjKyftW 12 05 Lunchdate: Listen to some en- Mn ny r,.* i w,.,m*nt»l Tune m OT B me V?* 1 80U d8 12.30 The Spinners and Friends: The
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  • SPORTS
    • 426 31 HEALTH &Fitmss NYT. DONT crash diet. A new study has shown that athletes who gain and lose weight repeatedly may end up burning calories more slowly than normal. This supports the disputed theory that crash dieting causes slower metabolism, making it easier to gain weight
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    • QIGONG — Yijinjing (Forms 3-6: series continued from Oct 11)
      • 67 31 STARTING position: Stand with feet shoulderwidth apart. Raise both arms shoulder-high sideways, with palms turned upwardMovements: Inhale to expand lower abdomen fully. When breathing out, concentrate on palms as if they were holding up heavy weights. Every time you breathe out, exert more inward strength
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      • 66 31 STARTING position: Stand with feet shoulderwidth apart. Raise both arms shoulder-high sideways. The fingers point upward and palms face outward. Bend fingertips towards head so that palms are extended outward. Movements: Breathing is as before. When breathing out, extend palms outward as if pushing something
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      • 109 31 STARTING position: Stand with feet shoulder-width apart. Place palms together in front of chest, with fingers turned upward and the tips of thumbs pressed against chest (Fig sa). Movements: When breath- ing in, keep elbows level and draw palms slowly
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      • 148 31 STARTING position: Move left foot a step to the left side to form a left bow step, with left leg bent at knee and right leg fully stretched. Body is held straight naturally. Raise left hand with palm facing upward, while
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    • 270 32 AFP. CANADIAN sprinter Ben Johnson, who tested positive for drugs after winning the Olympic 100 metres dash, was officially suspended for two years by the Canadian Track and Field Association yesterday. His coach, Charlie Francis, was suspended indefinitely. The CTFA also announced two limited inquiries into events
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    • 122 32 AFP. THERE is a tug-of-war between First Division rivals Aston Villa and Middlesbrough for Manchester United's former England striker, Peter Davenport. Alerted by the news that Middlesbro had agreed to a $2.6 million fee for Davenport, Villa manager Graham Taylor warned that he would be
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    • 152 32 FOREIGN RACING Reuter. FORMER British champion jockey Lester Piggott was released from Highpoint Prison on parole yesterday after serving a third of a three-year sentence. Piggott, 52, was jailed in October last year for income tax evasion and customs fraud. Prisoners are eligible for parole after
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    • 188 32 MORNING TRACKWORK... ...WITH DENNIS CHIA RIGOLLETTO 111 can provide trainer Gary van Breukelen with his first winner in his comeback as a trainer in Singapore this week. A first up winner but relegated to second after an objection, Rigolletto II worked with
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    • 92 32 Reuter. ENGLAND and China drew 3-3 in the third of a 12-match table tennis series of internationals in Stalybridge, England, yesterday. China have won one match and drawn twice in the series. Individual results (English names first): Desmond Douglas lost to
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    • 184 32 AFP. POUL-ERIK Hoyer-Larsen has jumped into the world's top 10 in the men's singles badminton Grand Prix after his victory in the Danish Open at the weekend. The Dane climbed from 13th to seventh following his win over China's Zhang Qingwu in
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    • 419 32 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: AMERICAN FOOTBALL National Football League: New York 23 Atlanta 16, Philadelphia 24 Dallas 23, Pittsburgh 39 Denver 21, Detroit 7 Kansas City 6, Cincinnati 44 Houston 21, New Orleans 20 Los Angeles 6,Minnesota 49 Tampa Bay 20, Buffalo 23 New England 20,
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    • 265 33  -  By Abdul Shukor FED-UP with soccer after Singapore's exit from the Malaysia Cup? Here's a chance, as a prominent sportswriter said, to "pick up your shattered pieces, mend your broken hearts" free of charge. It's the match between Saudi Arabia Under-16 and Australia Under-19, at
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    • 222 33 EAT your muesli, drink your milk, and maybe you'll be big and strong, like Shane Barr of Australia. The number two seed in the Carlsberg Singapore Men's Open is a blond and blue-eyed Australian who loves muesli. Muesli? For the uninitiated, muesli is a
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    • 201 33  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan THE Tiger Beer Pacific Rim Tennis Championship to be held here early next year will offer prize money equal to the current Carlsberg Singapore Men's Open, although it won't be part of the Association of Tennis Professionals circuit. tt will be an invitational tournament, involving top
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    • Article, Illustration
      197 33 and scowls PRAY for sunshine, everybody! The Carlsberg Singapore Open grasscourt tournament at the Singapore Cricket Club end of the Padang is in danger of being moved to another venue if rain continues to fall. Yesterday's first round matches were all cancelled as the SCC's chief groundsman advised the tournament
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  • MALAYSIACUP
    • 438 34 SELANGOR I K. LUMPUR I The battle's on for the right to be the King of Klang Valley. Selangor now reigns, but KL aims to take over the mantle. Forty-five thousand Selangor fans will be at the Merdeka Stadium tonight to ensure that their team will not
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    • 144 34 SOME call it Yellow Fever. Others call it Yellow Alert. Whatever it is, Kuala Lumpur will be wary of the colour yellow tonight w ww 0 It's not the Selangor team jersey that's worrying the KL players and officials but the referee's yellow card.
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    • 283 34 TWO MEN ON A MISSION THEIR rivalry stretches over a decade. And they are still battling away. One in the prime; the other in the twilight, of their respective careers. Tonight, all eyes will be on Fandi Ahmad and R. Arumugam. It is their shot
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    • 163 34  -  By Abdul Shukor KEDAH vs SARAWAK FIVE key Sarawak players are out of the first-leg semi-finals against Kedah. The five Daud Hamid, Buseman Ismail, Abdullah Salim, Razak Ismail and Johnny Peter, are ruled out through suspension and injuries. Daud and Buseman are
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