The New Paper, 29 December 1988

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 13 1 the new paper THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29 f 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 298 1 I SCHOOLBOY fiHgJ I CHEE LEONG HPH I MAY GO PRO |Pvl i PRINCE CHARLES' HORSE 1 FAILS DRUG TEST I GO Fm ROUGH i GAMES 1 Jogging and aerobics <C^^ are not enough. National Development Minister S =*=rn Dhanabalan wants i J-S children to take up £-U jjj L
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 335 2 OVER-PROTECTIVE parents should sit back a little and allow their children to take the rough and tumble (K~ active sports and games. "We do not want to develop a population of 'couch potatoes' whose gymnastics and activities are confined only to
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    • 154 2 THERE were no caps and gowns, but it was a special convocation just the same. Towner Primary School held a Primary School Leaving Examination convocation ceremony this morning as a morale booster. "Many pupils here are not high achievers and they don't normally get prizes," said
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    • 95 2 Bernama. WELL-KNOWN Indonesian singer Broery Pesolima and former husband of superstar Anita Sarawak, married 19-year-old university student Wanda Latuperisa on Monday. The wedding took place in a Jakarta church. It was Broery's second marriage and it coincided with his 44th birthday. A reception is planned for
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    • 67 2 IN The New Paper yesterday, we did not name the organisers of the Hong Bao Special celebrations correctly. The event is being jointly organised by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Sin- gapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations, the Lianhe Bao Group, which includes Lianhe Zaobao
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    • 283 2 A JURONG Town in Thailand? Yes, an industrial estate much along the lines of Jurong Industrial Estate is being planned for a site near Bangkok. Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) is currently looking at various plots of land to buy. It is also negotiating with
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    • 372 3  -  By Lois Ng CHRISTMAS is hardly over and some early birds have begun preparing for the Lunar New Year. Shopkeepers in Chinatown said that as early as mid-De-cember people came by to look for cards and decorations. The early buyers took some
      Pictures/ Sam Yeo  -  372 words
    • 335 3 TOLERANCE of other races and other religions must be firmly stated in the creed that Singapore will live by. Trade and Industry Minister Lee Hsien Loong made that clear last night in outlining four principles he would like to see put into a national
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    • 35 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.09 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.06 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 574 4 The tragedy happened on Christmas night. Miss Pang Lian Tee, 23, was walking on a pedestrian crossing on Alexandra Road. Her boyfriend was waiting for her on the other side. Suddenly a car roared up. Miss Pang never had a chance. She was hit and
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    • 591 4 MISS Pang Lian Tee and her boyfriend had been looking forward to Christmas night. They planned to exchange presents and spend that special day's fading moments together. It never happened. Her boyfriend watched her die instead. Yesterday, the 30-year-old service engineer
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    • 393 5  -  By Trudy Lim TWELVE property management companies are eyeing the new Ang Mo Kio town councils' management contracts. And big names in the business can be found among these 12 companies, which have sent in pre-qualification application forms for the contract tenders. These forms
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    • 128 5 A MALAYSIAN student of Nanyang Technological Institute may not be able to continue his studies here if he is convicted of stealing from a fellow student. Low Cheng Keat, 22, yesterday admitted stealing a fellow-hostelite's bank cards and using them to withdraw nearly
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    • 164 5 THERE is a fishy reason why chicken prices have recently gone up. A fish shortage made many consumers in Malaysia, from where most of our chickens come, switch to the bird. But the main reason for expensive chickens is the price hike of 60 cents
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    • 312 6 Business Times. PIRACY and thievery on Asean's high seas seem to be sinking. Cases of armed robbery and theft on board ships took a dive from 35 last year to just 10 by early November. The Singapore National Shipping Association (SNSA) said the figures are
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    • 373 6 THIS year's 10 cases of armed robbery and theft on board ships reported from January up to early November: 1. April 27, 5.35 am: Four men armed with a gun and parangs tied and gagged the master of the Klang Reefer in the Banka
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    • 194 6 THE 101-year-old National Museum will close from Jan 16 for 14 months for a $5.5 million restoration job. The National Museum Art Gallery and the Young People's Gallery will however still be open until August next year. Restoration will be carried out in three
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    • 339 7  -  By Chow Wai Fong CLUBBING is in. But not the kind that hurts. Teenagers are flocking to clubs set up by manufacturers to promote their products. The New Paper spoke to four such clubs, including the Bee Dees. It was formed by a women's
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    • 118 7 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. abortive: Unsuccessful or fruitless. asylum: Protection that is given by a government to foreigners who leave their own country for political reasons. bloodletting: Violence and bloodshed between rival groups
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    • 548 8  -  By Nicklaus D'Cruz THE late photographer Kouo Shang Wei's last wish was that his treasured photographs of the Singapore River be seen by the public. Now his wife plans to make that dream come true by holding an exhibition. No date has been
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  • 575 9 Wire services. A WORLD WIDE search was under way today for the terrorists who blew apart a Pan Am jetliner. Investigators reported yesterday in Lockerbie, Scotland, that a bomb made of powerful plastic explosives caused the Dec 21 crash. A search for those responsible was
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  • 208 9 Wire services. SNOW is a rarity in the Middle Blast. But not today. A storm moving through the area over the past three days dropped up to a metre of the rare stuff in places, and weathermen were predicting more on the way. No weather-related
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  • 143 9 Lianhe Zaobao. HONGKONG airport was told by Interpol on Tuesday that terrorists were planning to blow up planes of a certain airline flying between Canada and Europe, as well as the airline's office in Hongkong. According to the Hongkong daily, Kuaibao, Interpol urged the
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  • 162 9 Wire services. SPREADING certain kinds of rumours has been made a crime by the Soviet Supreme Court. The court ruled yesterday that "agitation aimed at firing up race and ethnic hatred and dissension" would be a criminal act under Article 11 of the law on criminal responsibility
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 166 10 Wire services. A RICH man was ordered to be whipped and put to death in Iran after being found guilty of fraud and a sexual offence. A mullah serving as a judge in Teheran's First Criminal Court imposed punishment on Ali Mousavi. The sentence
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    • 50 10 Wire services. A GROUP calling itself Soldiers of the Right today claimed responsibility for shooting a Saudi diplomat in Karachi, Pakistan. The group issued a statement in Beirut accusing Hassan Ali al-Amiri, a Saudi vice-consul, of working for the United States and Israel. Wire services.
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    • 253 10 Wire services. JAPAN'S new Justice Minister has been linked by reporters to an insider stock-trading scandal. Mr Takashi Hasegawa was appointed to the post earlier this week. His main job is to root out political corruption of the kind he is now accused of engaging in himself.
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    • 144 10 Wire services. INDONESIAN foresters who do not follow the rules could face subversion charges, says Attor-ney-General Sukarton Marmosudjono. Mr Sukarton, who spoke yesterday in Jakarta, said the government had received reports of numerous violations by people given permits to harvest Indonesian forests. Indonesia
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    • 218 11 Wire services. VIETNAM has adopted a new constitution that reflects a desire for better relations with the US, China and other former foes. The Vietnam news agency reported yesterday that the constitution replaces eight specific references to former enemies with more
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    • 294 11 Wire services. NEW Soviet moves have increased fears that the USSR could disrupt supply lines between the US and its European allies in wartime. Allied defence officials are most worried about the beefing up of the Soviets' Arcticbased Northern Fleet. Colonel Gullow Gjeseth, spokesman
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    • 155 11 NST. TWO men watching a fierce fire ruin a factory in Kuala Lumpur were killed when a tank of gas exploded, scattering shards of steel like shrapnel from a mortar shell. Mr Lockman Hassan, 29, and Mr Harun Alwi, 21, were standing about 30
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    • 50 11 Safe hands: Chinese police were called out to restore order after race riots in Nanjing. Chinese students were protesting actions of black African students, one of whom is seen here being hustled into a bus that took him and others out of the city. Picture/ Reuter.
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    • 72 11 Wire services. INDIA and Pakistan have agreed not to attack one another's nuclear plants. The Times of India newspaper says they will soon sign a treaty to this effect. It said the pact could be signed during Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's current visit to Islamabad for
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    • 172 11 Wire services. IF YOU think your job is tough, try being a British consul. The year now ending was especially bad for them. They had a tough time dealing with citizens requesting anything from underwear to a cure for baldness, said Mr Timothy Eggar
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    • 998 12  -  By Rosnah Ahmad ONLY Nature's ill-winds outblew the winds of change which swept Asia in 1988. People power which gained force with Mrs Corazon Aquino's vault to power in the Philippines two years ago again shaped many of this year's more memorable events. Among them:
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    • 326 13 Wire services. CAUTIOUS whispers of a possible truce are circulating in the riot-torn West Bank and Gaza Strip occupied by Israel. There was nothing open and direct about the move. But both Palestinian and Israeli sources confirmed yesterday that a proposal for a conditional truce
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    • 52 13 Wire services. THE fact that the US talks to the Palestine Liberation Organisation does not mean it accepts the principle of a Palestinian state, Israeli radio reports. Voice of Israel radio said President Reagan stressed the point in a message to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
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    • 162 13 Wire services. AN OFFICIAL inquiry has found that Australian aborigines are dying in police custody, many hanging themselves in despair. The five judges who conducted the inquiry into 103 deaths, mostly of prisoners jailed for minor offences, called for urgent steps
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      253 10 Wire services. SHARES saw their gains consolidated on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30share index closed 10.9 points up at 1447.1. However, dealers said turnover was pathetically low after the four-day Christmas holiday weekend which ended yesterday morning. Volume was a scant 198.4 million shares. The
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    • 8 10 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 10 FT Industrials Wed 1,447.10 (closed) Dow iones Average Wed 2,166.43 (2,162.68) ST Industrial Wed 1,046.93 (1,036.53) NST Industrial Wed 1,813.90 (1,798.54) Hongkong Hang Song Wed 2,696.44 (2,656.59) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,486.80 (1,484.10) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 30,159.00 (30,050.93) Fifuraa in br*ck«ta refer to thoM of tha pravioua trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 10 Wire services. A SPURT of late buying in the blue-chip sector helped Wall Street stocks to a modestly higher finish in light trading yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 3.75 points to finish at 2,166.43. Advancing issues outpaced declines 784 to 589, with 110.6 million shares changing
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  • Showtime
    • 427 14  -  By Adeline Woon DRAMA in 1988 was something to make a song and dance of. There were more musical dramas staged. Significantly, they were local productions. And for the first time, local English drama found its way to TV. We are still in the middle
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    • 374 14  -  By Lo Tien Yin SINGER Ramli Sarip's heart is as big as his voice. Six months ago, he thought a pop concert would be a good way to raise funds for the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). This Saturday, Singapore's very own Live Aid
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1812 15 Television s iEI eC Power sbc^w^ Japanese Economic Miracle, how Gary US Bonds and Chuck Berry < Miti (The Ministry of International umeB LeOMrtJ Bernstein: Conducts the Wiener make special guest apearances. Trade and Industry) has tried to Symphony No 94 in(>maior Philharmoniker. 5 Thursday FEATURE special amatohy of JAP
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • 273 17 TIBET'S tragedy has always been its geography. With an 8,000 km border, the once-independent land of Tibet lies between India and China, with another huge power the Soviet Union sprawling to the west. At one time or another, Tibet has been caught in the crossfire of
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  • 297 17 IN the language of Tibet, Dalai Lama means Ocean of Wisdom. The present Dalai Lama spiritual as well as temporal head of Tibetans is regarded as the 14th incarnation of the Buddhist god Avalokitesvara. It was not always so. His early boyhood was
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 279 20  -  Tlm Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch By King Edward VII Hall residents Victoria Theatre Jan 3 and 4 8 pin PREVIEW/ By Adeline Woon GOPHER Gulch is a town you will instantly recognise as the stereotyped cowboy town with a cactus in front
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    • 191 20  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Geraldine Goh AN EXCITING three-part British thriller, Dead Entry, made its debut over SBC 5 yesterday at 5 pm. Set in Bristol, England, it portrays an adventurous teenager, Charlie Armstrong, who happens to see the police fishing out the body of a scuba
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    • 145 20 IT WAS her good friend who suggested to Sandra Kesslar that she take partin the Mrs Singapore contest. Sandra said: "The two of us used to take part in beauty contests when we were single. So recently when she suggested that we take part
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    • 601 21 K EVIN Costner is one of the few leading men in Hollywood who can call their own shots. His career is in high gear with two big hits behind him and a new one about to shift him to even higher gear. Costner starred as
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    • Article, Illustration
      288 21 WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (Orchard) A MUST-SEE movie where cartoons share top billing with human actors. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, it stars toons Roger and Jessica Rabbit, and Bob Hoekins as the human detective who helps Roger when he is accused of murder. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30
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    • 313 22  -  By Vivien Chiong REPORTING FROM HONGKONG I F ALAN Tarn throws away sunglasses to fans at his concerts, George Lam throws tennis balls. He had the tennis balls flying at the Hongkong Coliseum where I watched Lam 88/89 Live. It was the fourth day of
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    • 286 22 GEORGE Lam is distinguished by his moustache as much as Nana Mouskouri is by her trademark spectacles. Lam Hongkong's actor and singing star is a familiar name here too. But for those who do not know who he is, Mr Macho appears in the
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    • 340 22  -  Times Two Neptune Theatre Restaurant Last Tuesday, 9.30 pm Kasbah lounge Mandarin Hotel Nightly until Saturday FIRST NIGHT/ By Geraldine Goh IT WAS a combination of good rhythm and singing that made the American pop duo, Times Two, a hit with the generally young
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    • 390 23 TRYTHIS MAKING your own salted eggs is more hygienic (you know exactly what goes into the salting medium), and a lot more fun. Black sand is not the only thing that can do the job of salting eggs. Ordinary salt water works just
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 119 24 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne w—WHAT x wwwa AllgUSta/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill (LOOK fiU&J&A.YOU 1 1 HME.ID FtCEII&EN itfßfe AU7TIAUSR I V2_>^ WITH YtURHtf? LIKE dHjwjtA aifTHIAJG Sy George the Robot/stephen Stanley jT is -Tugs* AvtrrHifjq r »star mucM —V» 1 c DfJ r SAY CUtJrT DO, IM PhfiRAMMIO I
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1474 26 RADIOGUIDE mmd WM iiiM MOOW N#WSBri#< (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Good Music, Company and Me: NOON Newsdesk <J yyVy ASCS 12-05 L Bt n to a selection noon Easy Listening: Light instru- E "i°y J 0 lunch bre k with a 12.30 Seckty Today: A weekly look at OV WWA
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  • SPORTS
    • 139 27  -  |RACING By Dennis Chia CHAMPION racehorse He's Dawan has been ruled out of the Hong Kong Invitation race next month. The shocking revelation came when an X-Ray done on the Coulee Man gelding indicated that there were hairline fractures of the joints. Dr. Lim
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    • 289 27  -  By Malcolm Bastians QUICK Turn, who can provide champion trainer Teh Choon Beng his only classic win this season on Sunday, showed dazzling form on the track this morning. With Ismail Ismadi astride, Quick Torn ran a restrained sprint over 600 m on grass in 39
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    • 235 27 AP. A STEEPLECHASE horse owned by Britain's Prince Charles has failed a dope test, authorities said in London yesterday. The Jockey Club informed trainer Nick Gaselee that Devil's Elbow, a four-year-old gelding and the only horse the prince has in training, tested positive for three
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    • 308 27 Reuter. INDONESIAN badminton ace Icuk Sugiarto has moved into a hotel near the Senayan Complex in Jakarta to prepare for the Grand Prix finals in Hongkong on Jan 4-8. Icuk said yesterday he could not afford to make the two-hour return trip daily from his
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    • 114 27 Reuter. AUSTRALIAN rugby union wing David Campese showed his genius again yesterday when he scored one try and created another in the Barbarians' 36-19 win over Leicester. Campese, one of three overseas players invited to play for the club in their annual Christmas fixture at Leicester,
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    • 291 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Atlanta 128 New York 126, Houston 101 Miami 93, Cleveland 107 Chicago 96, Dallas 110 San Antonio 101, Milwaukee 120 Indiana 107, Denver 130 Boston 109, Golden State 119 Philadelphia 112, Los Angeles 104 Seattle 100, Sacramento 112 Portland
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    • 247 28 Reuter. ITALIAN athletics chief Primo Nebiolo yesterday denied reports that he would resign within the next few days because of a series of damaging scandals. Nebiolo, 65, president of both the Italian Athletics Federation (Fidal) and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, said the matter of his
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    • 211 28 Reuter. TWO-TIME Olympic champion Carl Lewi* may miss the fifth World Cup in Spain in September, according to his manager Joe Douglas. But the 27-year-old American, who won gold medals in the 100 metres and long jump at the Seoul Games, will make several outdoor appearances
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    • 98 28 Reuter. BRITAIN'S Olympic 100 metres silvermedallist Linford Christie said yesterday banned Canadian world champion Ben Johnson should be allowed to resume his athletics career. Johnson was stripped of the Seoul Olympic gold medal and banned from competition for two years for taking anabolic steroids. "People murder people
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    • 285 29 SOCCER AFP. KENNY Sansom will be gunning for his fifth consecutive victory at Tottenham in the English First Division on Saturday. But Spurs star Paul Gascoigne has a warning for the former Arsenal fullback who has helped to revive Newcastle. "The Arsenal supporters slaughtered me when
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    • 154 29 AFP. WALSALL has ended speculation that Terry Yorath would be approached to become its next manager. Following Tuesday's sacking of Tommy Coakley, reports had suggested that Yorath could take over at the struggling English Second Division club. But the idea has only stemmed from the fact
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    • 198 29 AFP. PUNTERS who believe that Norwich City can cling on to its perch at the top of the English First Division can still make a killing with the bookmakers. The Canaries are the first Christmas leaders for years that virtually no-one wants to put any
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    • 154 29 AFP. THE Polish Football Federation has asked Fifa to suspend defector Andrzej Rudy for five years. PFF secretary Zbigniew Kalinski said they wanted Fifa to consider First and Second Division footballers in Poland, where the game is making the transition to full professionalism, as being
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    • 176 29 Wire services. WEST Germany's Footballer of the Year Juergen Klinsmann, reported to be joining Italian League leader Inter-Milan, said yesterday a decision on the move would not be made until March. Klinsmann said that a report he had already signed to play for Inter next season was not
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    • 492 30  -  By Alfonso Chan TOP junior tennis player Wong Chee Leong may get a chance to play professional tennis with a little help from the International Tennis Federation. The world's governing body for tennis has a special "development fund" to groom Asian junior players for
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    • 253 30 I HOPMAN CUP TENNIS Wire services. PAT Cash's comeback continued to gain momentum on Wednesday when he led Australia to a 2-1 win over Britain and into the semi-finals of the inaugural Hopman Cup international mixed team tennis competition in Perth.
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    • 145 30 NST. WHEN semi-professional soccer is introduced at national level next year, the Sabah Football Association will go one step further doing the same with their own League. To complement the FA of Malaysia's Semi-Pro League, the Sabah FA will introduce semi-pro soccer to clubs in
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    • 122 30 NST. THE Football Association of Selangor, in cooperation with Public Bank, has set up the Arumugam Trust Fund. This is in recognition of the contribution made by the late international goalkeeper. The proceeds from the Fund, to be administered by Public Bank, will go to Arumugam's wife,
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    • 426 31  -  Stories/ S Gulam ALL-ROUND discipline will be the order of the day when the new Premier League soccer season kicks off on Sunday. In an effort to make the semi-pro-fessional League live up to its name, the seven clubs have been told to pay
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    • 289 31 V SUNDRAMOORTHY may play five matches for Jurong Town Football Club in the Premier League competition, beginning on Sunday. The only snag is that he has first to get a release from his Swiss club, Old Boys of Basle with whom he has a contract
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  • 885 32 ►Out&About I —sf BIRDS OF THE BIBLE fr You have read about them, I 1 especially on Sundays. Now see 30 birds that have been featured in the Bible. Visitors can also watch quail eggs hatch and a mother hen with its chicks. 9 am to 5.30 pm. Avian
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