The New Paper, 25 January 1989

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  • 13 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1989 MO P) I 79/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 287 1 THE EVIL PERSUADER I N| 'I m With cheap tricks and glib tongue, H Adrian Lim led his followers into H perversion and death. Alan John, in I U 'II book extracted by The New Paper, I 11 I k I I I |H ■K tells how such a cult
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 256 2 NST. POLICE think two Malaysians, maybe four, drowned in the icy Niagara River when a dingy overturned as they tried to sneak into the US from Canada. However, the only body recovered was that of 39-year-old Ms Cheah Fong Yew, of Perak, Malaysia.
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    • 225 2 THE Wah Chang Group has doubled the bid for the Ball With A Cause to $20,000. The money is for the development of soccer excellence. "In Singapore we have a company soccer team," said Mr Ho Kwon Ping, Wah Chang's President. "But we
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    • 177 2 POPULAR Malayalam actor Prem Nasir died in India last week. He was 60. He died in a Madras hospital early on Jan 16 from ulcer complications, Indian newspapers reported. Mr I S Menon, who used to edit the local Indian Movie News magazine, said:
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    • 104 2 Wire services. A MALE nurse who wrote as a hobby has won Britain's richest literary prize the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Mr Paul Sayer's The Comforts of Madness beat four other contenders for the $70,000 prize, announced yesterday in London. The odds had
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    • 59 2 THE later copies of yesterday's The New Paper reported: "Singapore ships will no longer have to pay a tax on freight when they call at Chinese ports. Chinese ships calling here do not need to pay such a tax." The second sentence should have read: Chinese ships calling here
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    • 102 2 A MAN who threatened police officers with knives last year was sentenced to a total of seven months in a magistrate's court yesterday. Hawker's assistant Mohamed Noor bin Mohamed Hussain, 33, was given six months for criminal intimidation and a one-month term for attempted
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    • 122 2 A STUDENT went for a ride in a car he found unattended with the key in the ignition, returned it, then took it again and again over a two-week period. Yesterday in court, Krishna Raymond Edmond, 19, entered a guilty plea to charges of
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 321 3  -  By Geneieve Kwek FOR the past two weeks, Reservist Staff Sgt Ong Tuck Soon has literally been defending his home ground. His battleground is six blocks of flats in Boon Lay Drive, just five minutes away from his house. "I could just walk home," said the 38-year-old.
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    • 317 3 TWO blocks of flats at Boon Lay Drive in Jurong were "recaptured" by some 200 reservists yesterday morning. Earlier on, more than 200 of the "enemy" from Delta Company, had occupied Blocks 196 and 197. But they were not going to stay there long. Reservists from Charlie
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    • 348 4 GUNMAN Tan Chiang Lai, who shot himself dead in Toa Payoh almost 20 years ago, has returned from the grave. A shrine of sorts has mysteriously appeared at the Rasa Singapura Food Centre. A Hotline caller tipped us off on this. At the "shrine" a
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    • 219 4 Do you know who put up the shrine Do you think it should be taken down? Would you ait at tables next to it? Call HotlinePlus. TAN CHIANG LAI, 29 when he shot himself dead in Sept 1970, had been a secret society member since
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    • 176 4 THE Minister for the Environment, Dr Ahmad Mattar opened a threeday seminar dealing with land-based pollution of the seas today. Called the COBSEA Seminar on the Assessment and Environmental Impact of Pollution From Landbased Sources, it is a follow-up to a training course held in
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    • 138 4 A JOBLESS man caught with 6,163 pirated video tapes and 26 recorders has been jailed for 2Va years. Sim Boon Seng, 47, drew the jail sentence after failing to pay $126,000 in fines. Seng had been charged under the Copyright Act. He was fined a
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    • 263 5 HISTORIC Jinriksha Station, the old rickshaw centre in Chinatown, wants to get hip and go up-market. Next year the 86-year-old building could become a posh jewellery centre. Or it might be a high-tech computer software design centre. Or nine other things. Ten companies and
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    • 225 6  -  By Yusman Ahmad A HOUSEWIFE who yelled at a group of people outside her flat to pipe down had her window smashed last Sunday. It was nearly midnight, the housewife, Ms Zaliha Namat, said. The group three men and two women were shouting and arguing
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    • 160 6 TOUR guides who speak foreign languages, such as Japanese, can now charge $85 for taking tourists on a half-day tour of Singapore. This is up $15 from last year's fee. Guides who speak English and local dialects or languages can now charge $50, up from
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    • 87 6 HOW many illegal foreign workers were caught in the last two years, an MP has asked the Minister for Labour. This was one of the three questions Dr Wong Kwei Cheong (Cairnhill) submitted for oral answers from the minister. Besides the number of illegal
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    • 256 6 A CONTRACT labourer gave a horrifying eye-witness account in a district court on Jan 20 of an accident in which a van hit a boy at a pedestrian crossing, killing him. It happened at the junction of Sembawang Road and Yishun Avenue 3 on March
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    • 284 6 FIRMS that employ many workers cannot duck the higher foreign worker levy. But they can have free help on how to automate. The service has been available since Jan 1. It is free this year. But from next year, users will have to pay a subsidised
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    • 119 6 MEMBER of Parliament Dr Tan Cheng Bock is resigning as head of the Government's Feedback Unit a post he has held for four years for personal reasons. When his term expires in April, he intends to step down. He said he wants to devote more
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    • 134 7 M[ Citizen takes your times Hi as seriously as you do. £h j Some times matter more than others. Because for some jjj sports, time control becomes a key element. Since what it finally F^™ means depends on how long it takes you to do it. That's why the Citizen
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 391 8 THE Government's call for children to play more robust games has prompted their parents to insure them against the school of hard knocks. Almost every school is encouraging parents to take up a $3 per year insurance policy for their school-going children, said some insurance companies. Some
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    • 282 8  -  By Trudy Lim MALE sex appeal can be bought. For $55. From a 9cm plastic spray bottle. Just a spray of a concentrated hormone solution called Aeolus 7, will make women flock around the spottiest man. Or so its distributors would like us to think.
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    • 149 8 DOES the Aeolus 7 spray really work? We asked The New Paper's acting head of office attendants, Anwar Hashim, 22, to check it out. He did. Some people wrinkled their noses in disgust. "Do you smell something?" Anwar asked hopefully. "Yes, someone is using insecticide. Baygon
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    • 181 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. amulets: Small objects that people wear or carry around because they think that these will bring them good luck or protect them from evil or injury. audible: Loud enough
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    • 469 9 PARLIAMENT RESUMES TODAY THE Internal Security (Amendment) Bill is expected to be the main issue at this afternoon's Parliament sitting. The Home Affairs Minister, Prof S Jayakumar will move its second reading. He will explain why the Government proposed the bill. MPs will then
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    • 97 9 A 35-YEAR-OLD man has claimed trial on a charge that he deceived a hospital clerk into believing he was the natural father of a baby given to him by an unmarried mother. Mr Abu Hassan bin Sahari, 35, was charged in district court yesterday. It was
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    • 80 9 A COLLISION between a scooter and a car along Waterloo Street seriously injured a man on Monday. The scooter, driven by Mr Ho Wing Fat, 43, was travelling towards Middle Road from Stamford Road at about 1.30 pm when a car suddenly made a right turn into
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    • 116 9 A CORONER'S Court has ruled that a 28-year-old odd-job labourer leaped to his death off a high-rise building last November because he was heavily in debt. Yesterday's verdict on Mr Law Wah Ann, a Malaysian working in Singapore, was suicide. Testimony heard by the court was that
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 337 10 Wire services. D ELEGATES from Asian jcountries are meeting in [Bangkok to find ways to keep Aids from sweeping the only A. i.1 1J i. A. part of the world not yet badly hit by the fatal disease. Officials at the conference,
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    • 46 10 Aidt: Women's rights activists, concerned at the spread of Aids, protest against the presence of US sailors in Thailand with eye-catching posters. The sailors, from the US aircraft carrier Nimitx, are now in the beach resort of Pattaya on shore leave. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 205 10 Wire services. POLICE in Seoul have cracked a case in which scores of South Korean women were tricked into arranged marriages with poor or disabled Japanese. Three persons were arrested yesterday and charged with defrauding 60 women out of more than $635,000 in marriage-broker
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    • 145 10 Wire services. ONE of America's most heavily Republican counties ranks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev higher than the man it voted for the White House George Bush. In recent elections, Orange County, California, has given the Republican candidate his single largest margin of victory anywhere
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    • 145 10 Wire services. THE French President and the country's most influential newspaper have crossed swords over a report on a stock scandal. The Le Monde newspaper put its reputation on the line yesterday when it repeated charges that President Francois Mitterrand had received a
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    • 153 10 Wire services. A GIANT panda named Meimei has been voted "mother of the year" by zookeepers in south-west China. They say the award recognises the number and hardiness of her offspring. Meimei, a resident of Chengdu Zoo in the capital
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    • 54 11 Buried: Rescue workers use a crane to lift rubble, just some of the destruction in a village in Tajikistan created by a powerful earthquake that struck Soviet Central Asia. The quake, which killed some 1,000 people, was the second to devastate areas in the Soviet Union in
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    • 219 11 Wire services. GANG warfare has come to Moscow. The government daily Izvestia reported yesterday that raiders burst into a late-night Moscow cafe, knifed customers and set fire to the place with Molotov cocktails. The paper said it was almost certainly an outbreak of gang warfare.
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    • 88 11 Wire services. THE party of Indian Premier Rajiv Gandhi is set to take control of two states after securing majorities in elections to the local legislatures. A nine-member Congress (I) Party government was sworn in yesterday in the northeastern state of Mizoram.
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    • 152 11 Wire services. TO preserve diplomatic niceties, China has dropped the police watch on an African student accused of injuring a Hehai University worker during a Christmas Eve brawl. Xinhua News Agency said officials cancelled the last five days of surveillance on Mr Alex Dzabaku Dosoo for
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    • 208 12 Wire services. WHEN you climb Mount Everest, you're at the top of the heap the junk heap says the man who first conquered the world's tallest mountain. Sir Edmond Hillary wants the mountain closed for five years so that it can
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    • 281 12 Wire services. BURMA'S political parties have sent protest letters to the military rulers demanding the immediate release of arrested organisers. The National League for Democracy (NLD) said party organisers were being arrested under the Public Order Protection Act for alleged disruption of law and order. The
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    • 158 12 Wire services. THE curator of a French museum has been accused of looting priceless treasure from ancient underwater wrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. Alex Pollino, of the Antibes Archeological Museum, was charged yesterday in Nice, France, with the theft of some 400 items up to 3,000
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    • 168 13 Wire services. BRITAIN'S Princess Diana says soap operas on television drive people to drink. The princess does not drink. She told a former alcoholic at a south London rehabilitation centre that people find that fact strange. "She said that when she
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    • 259 13 Wire services. FOES of South Korean President Roh Tae Woo are demanding that he fulfil his promise of a national referendum on his performance. They said yesterday that they will fight any attempt to avoid a vote. Leaders of the three rival opposition parties,
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    • 264 13 Wire services. THE Irish Republican Army claims to have disbanded a unit that kept killing the wrong people by mistake. A spokesman said in Belfast, Northern Ireland, yesterday that the seven-member unit in a border area had repeatedly embarrassed the outlawed IRA and Sinn
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      255 12 Wire services. SHARES ended higher on the London stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30-share index closed 11.2 points up at 1580.7. Some 562.8 million shares changed hands against 649.9 million on Monday. Market makers initially marked prices lower in expectation of a decline. But this was quickly reversed
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    • 77 12 Reuter. SHARE prices rose to record levels in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The Nikkei index was up 79.80 points, or 0.25 per cent, to 31,637.48 in the first 10 minutes of trade, just after touching a traded high of 31,641.56. Gains were led by non-life
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    • 56 12 FT Industrials Tue 1,680.70 (1,569.60) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,256.43 (2,218.39) o ST Industrial Tue 1.087.68 (1,096.00) D NST Industrial Tue 1,878.33 (1,888.63) d HongVong Hang Seng Tue 2,901.03 (2,897.53) Q Australian All Ordinarie* Tue 1,524.70 (1,522.90) a Nikkei Stock Average Tue 31,557.68 (31,332.88) Fifuna in hrackr-U H>fer In
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      261 12 Wire services. SHARE prices soared 9n Wall Street yesterday with the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials zooming to its highest level since before the Oct 19, 1987, stock market crash. The Dow soared 38.04 points to close at 2,256.43 points. The gains were broad-based with 1,016
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  • 578 14  -  y&cwtin*c By Pauline Loh T HE images of 14 great Chinese brush artists from China, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York have been gathered between the covers of Mr Chua Soo Bin's new book, Portraits of Excellence. It took the 56-year-old Singaporean photographer four years to
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1633 15 T f Videofashion News The British Insight The Animals in Australia in JBKjy GEMS (7.20pm, SBC 12) Rupert Murdock's "Sky" channel in (9.30pm, THIS fashion magazine takes Britain and the row with the British MANY of the most interesting viewers to London to view the 4 9 Satelite Broadcasting. The
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  • spotlight
    • 2035 16 The sordid crimes of Adrian Lim have been before. A newly-published byk, AjdnJohn tells them anew In up your day yqu will see In his foreword ihiIIIiIii llil i story Is would people ready^^spirit mediums their supernatural provided a larger-than llln l ready to seek dealing with
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    • 201 16 PERHAPS the most important lesson Adrian Lim learned about the occult was that spirit mediums were often mere tricksters. The show-stopper of his first teacher, Uncle Willie, was his ability to remove evil from people's bodies. The evil appeared in the form of blackened needles poured out
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 387 20  -  Savefi-Yaar Itch Sat, Jan 28 10 pm, SBC 8 PREVIEW/ By Lo Tien Yin WATCH out for a battle between talent and sex this Saturday over TV. In Seven-Year Itch, a Hongkong production, Sylvia Chang is the one with talent. She's proved that over
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    • 333 20  -  Thurs, Fri v Sat 9 pin, SBC 12 PREVIEW/ By Geraldine Goh Geraldine Goh MALGUDI may just be a town born in the mind of R K Narayan, one of India's leading writers in English. But viewers familiar with Mysore and towns in South India
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    • 140 20  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Lo Tien Yin LAST night's first episode of the new serial Bandits From Hongkong (6.45 pm, SBC 8) explains why so many celluloid rescue missions these days have to be one-man operations. Once upon a time, people went about their
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    • 131 20 WITH five albums to its credit, Headwind is blowing heavy on both sides of the Causeway. The Malaysian band first performed in Singapore in 1987 at the nowclosed Rainbow Theatre Lounge. It whipped up such a hurricane on the local nightscene that Celebrities brought them back twice
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    • 360 21  -  By Wong Sing Yeong WE don't try to choose problem films, insist organisers of the Second Singapore International Film Festival. But the best ones including Mephisto, Closing Ranks and Karambolage were withdrawn because of censorship. The Hungarian film Mephisto was "incredibly highly-acclaimed", insisted Ms Christina
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    • 277 21  -  REVIEW/ By Sonja Tan YOUNG migrants living and growing up in Australia. That, in essence, is the focus of two films called Rabbit on the Moon and Silk Dreams. They were two of the four narrative films picked as tops from a field of
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    • 168 21 RED HEAT (Cathay cinemas) ARNOLD Schwarzenegger is Moscow's toughest detective. He is sent to the United States to track down one of his country's most wanted cocaine smuggler. WILLOW (Cathay) WILLOW Ufgood, a Nelwyn dwarf, undertakes the task of getting baby Elora Danan out of evil Queen Bavmorda's grasp.
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    • 336 22 SINGAPORE fans are likely to be asleep when highlights of the Paul McCartney phone-in to Soviet pop fans on Thursday are first broadcast here. It will be aired over the BBC World Service, on the 15-min-ute Multi-track 3 programme on Friday at 2.30 am local time. There
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    • 169 22 LOCAL BBC fans who will miss the opportunity to speak to Paul McCartney can instead try to talk to world leaders. Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski of Poland will feature at 10 pm local time on Feb 19 over the BBC World Service's Phone-in, initiated
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    • 220 22 Phantom fever strikes again in Los Angeles USA Today. PHANTOM frenzy is beginning all over again, this time in Los Angeles. The blockbuster, Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera, doesn't open until May 31 at the Ahmanson Theatre. But already $8 million in tickets have been sold
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    • Article, Illustration
      300 22 USA Today USA Today. USA Today. BACK TO COURT GRIFFIN O'Neal is due back in a Maryland courtroom on a charge of violating his probation for a 1986 boating accident that caused the death of his friend Gian-Carlo Coppola, son of director Francis Ford Coppola. O'Neal, 25, son of
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  • HORIZONS
    • 1004 23 Dear Aggie, I am a widower in my early 30s and I have a young child. Do you think I need to remarry? How and where can I find a suitable girl and if I do, should I tell her that I am a widower? How
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    • 538 23 USA Today. A NEW book that says almost half the children of divorcees still suffer a decade later, has set parents and professionals arguing. Ms Judith S. Wallerstein, author of a 10-year research project on divorced families, says a startling number of
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1416 26 RADIOGUIDE mmnm dnnsi ezhebei imqunMrifli hhshi NOON News in Bri«f (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News In Brief and Weather Re- NOON Ooed Music, Company and Ma: NOON Nswideik 12.05 Luachdate: A musical selection NOON Usteaiag: Light and easy part Noon-time musical entertain- 12 JO Business Matters: A weekly for your
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 253 28 —1 The Reds are losing flr J their colour, both on the pitch and off it. *§S3fiS£l While their performances have been floundering, it appears that there is also discontentment among the players AFP. TROUBLE is brewing at Liverpool. After Bruce Grobbelaar was talked into coming off
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    • 264 28 AFP. LOU Macari has to live with one of his biggest mistakes. He admitted yesterday that he now regretted not taking the manager's job at Chelsea last summer. The Swindon manager said he allowed himself to be talked out of working with Stamford Bridge
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    • 119 28 AFP. FORMER international soccer star Paddy Crerand was yesterday acquitted of punching a 31-year-old man. The man was alleged to have been punched in the face, with his nose broken in two places. A jury at Manchester Crown Court took more than two hours to find
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    • 320 28 Wire services. MALCOLM Allison, the flamboyant manager who has coached in a dozen countries, returned to Portugal yesterday to take over struggling Farense. A spokesman for the club, which is third from bottom of the First Division, said Allison had signed for the rest of this season with
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    • 351 29  -  By Alfonso Chan INDONESIA'S Icuk Sugiarto has been made top-seed in the men's singles event of the Konica Cup Asian Invitation badminton championships next month. Second seed is Zhao Jianhua, of China, while Malaysia's top player Foo Kok Keong shares the third and fourth seedings with
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    • 155 29 CING... with MALCOLM BASTIfl FORMER champion jockey Chris Gwilliam, 41, will be riding as a visitor at Bukit Timah this weekend. His application for a visiting licence was turned down last week but the 1980 champion appealed successfully. He is sponsored by Singapore trainer
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    • 266 29 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Cleveland 142 Golden State 109, Indiana 117 Denver 102, San Antonio 119 Miami 101. ABC Junior Crown Champi* onships in Manila: China 112 Pakistan 45. BOXING IBF Welterweight: Manning Galloway (US) bt Said Freddy Skouma (Fra) on pts. SOCCER
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    • 180 29 QUICKSILVER 111, who was scratched last week because he was coughing, showed that there was nothing amiss this morning. The gelding strode out fluently with apprentice Saifudin up over 600 m on grass in 37.3 sec today at Bukit Timah. Yesterday, the Spectacular Bid four-year-old American gelding registered
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    • 404 30  -  THE CASE Of THE TWO TYRWHITT THAIS Tyrwhitt Soccerites, in its fight for fairplay, talks of more evidence of slip-shod work in the Premier League committee. Yesterday's reports in The New Paper said delay in lamination of cards led to the semi-pro league's first major dispute.
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    • 250 30 THE Johor Football Association yesterday revealed there could be more than five players involved in the bribery scandal exposed last week. Eight players have given statements to a three-man investigation committee. The JFA said so far five players have confessed. JFA secretary Mr Mustafa
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    • 142 30 JOHOR FA secretary Mr Mustafa Said has denied reports that three state players Khalid Shahdan, Hassan Mishkam and Ramlan Sarin an had been cleared of bribery charges. "That's not true," Mustafa said. "No one can be cleared until all investigations are over." He was
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    • 248 30 Jurong v Safsa THE Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association, languishing at the bottom of the Premier League soccer table, promises to stun table-topping Jurong Town at Jurong Stadium tonight. The two teams were scheduled to play last Wednesday but the match was washed out and postponed
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