The New Paper, 16 February 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 182 1 EXPOSED Bedok rapist is I I revealed by those closest to him. His family knows as a man son. His friends talk of the lustful way he looked at women and his boasts of sexual Wr ,3 adventures. A victim recalls his knife, his V threats, his slaps and his
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    • 31 1 'KILLER SQUADS TRACK RUSHDIE' /Page 9 WORLD 9-11 STOCKS 11 FASHION 12 FOOD 13 SHOWTIME 14,20-22 TV GUIDE 15 CENTRESPREAD 16 RADIO 23 COMICS 24,25 FASTADS/JOBS 26 SPORTS 27-31 MONEYWORDS 31
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 500 2  -  Augustine Low Augustine Low THE government has no objections to the setting up of a commercial TV station here, said Dr Hong Hai, chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Communications and Information. "But programmes and services offered will have to conform with
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    • 414 2 PRIVATE detectives trailed Francis Seow in the United States. The purpose: To get evidence backing the prosecution case that his claim of ill health was a trick to avoid returning to Singapore for trial. The detectives, hired by the Singapore Government, reported that Seow made
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    • 38 2 IN yesterday's story "Court gets private-eye report on Seow", we named one of the doctors who certified that Francis Seow was not well enough to travel as Dr Jonathan Fry. It should have been Dr Jonathan Fine.
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    • 235 2 BALL WITH A CAUSE THE Ball With A Cause bidding resumes today after a two-and-a-half-week pause. Bonvests Holdings Ltd has upped it by $10,000 to $60,000. The autographed soccer ball was put up for public auction by Mr Goh Chok Tong, the First Deputy
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    • 103 2 Wire services. A US jury today awarded $29 million in damages to the former homosexual lover of actor Rock Hudson. He claimed Hudson concealed that he had Aids in order to continue their sexual relationship. A Superior Court jury in Los Angeles ruled that Hudson,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 24 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Minimum: 22 degrees. Sunset: 7.21 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.16 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 501 3  -  By Irene Ng WHEN nature calls, students at some schools must ask for an exit pass before answering. The school officials say the permit helps prevent students from using a trip to the 100 as an excuse to skip into the blue. The
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    • 192 3 WARNING signs spelling out the penalty for carrying firecrackers into Singapore have been up at most international entry points. They state very clearly that offenders will be jailed and caned. Customs officers put them up just before the Lunar New Year. "We put up the signs every
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    • 643 4  -  THE BEDOK RAPIST was a quiet, hardworking, dutiful son to his family. To his friends he was a buaya, always bragging about his conquests and his prowess. To his victim he was a sweaty man with a knife who slapped her,
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    • 530 4 One of Teo Kim Seng's victims spoke to The New Paper about her ordeal. Several times during the interview she broke down and cried. This is her story: "IT was in February last year. I remember it was during the Lunar New Year. I
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    • 421 5  -  By Chow Wai Fong BEWARE! That saline liquid you use to rinse your contact lens may be contaminated. It can damage your eyes. In extreme cases, it can cause blindness. A group of Singaporean eye specialists known as optometrists found this out after studying five
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    • 168 5 KEEP the pedestrian crossing over Orchard Road outside Lucky Plaza. That's the urgent plea from the shopping centre's management. The plea has gone to National Development Minister S Dhanabalan. It should have reached his desk on Tuesday, the day after the closure of the crossing.
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    • 117 5 PARKLANE Shopping Mall tenants might just have seen the last of "floods" coming from its toilets. The ejection pump in the basement toilet has been repaired. The sewer pipe on the first storey has been cleared. This action follows a report in The New
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    • 582 6 It's easy to get dope in Singapore. But how does one manage to buy drugs without prescription? The New Paper talked to six doctors and six pharmacists, who insist that these drugs are easily available because they come from abroad A I N ILLEGAL drug
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    • 138 6 I WHERE PILLS ARE SOLD AT a number of shops in Singapore, controlled drugs can be bought without a prescription. These are small shops in remote, dark corners selling magazines, newspapers and cigarettes. The New Paper checked out a couple of them off Selegie Road. They
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    • 205 6 WHAT THE AUTHORITIES SAY AT Changi Airport, Customs officials need to balance between checking for illegal items and helping passengers on their way. So not everyone coming through is searched. "There are no hard and fast rules," said a spokesman of the Enforcement Division of the
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    • 83 6 THE impact of information technology on Singapore society will be discussed by 180 participants at a two-day symposium starting tomorrow. One result of the symposium should be an agenda for future research to be conducted here in information technology (IT), the National Computer Board said
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    • 141 6 IT would not be easy for Singapore to become a world centre for the arts. But "small as we are, we do have considerable talents in Singapore", said Brigadier-General (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong yesterday._ "We also have room for artists to realise their ideas
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    • 306 7 F I l AST food could become turbo-charged, su-per-fast food if Singapore Polytechnic Chemical Process Technology Department's finalyear projects get taken up commercially. Take a new soon kueh packet mix, for instance. This is composed of dried ingredients in correct proportions. The busy cook is
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    • 173 7 THE CENTRAL Executive Committee of the People's Action Party has named Brigadier-General (Res) Lee Hsien Loong to a new post of second assistant secretary-general. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew retained his post as secretary-general, and First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong remains
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    • 143 7 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. burnished: Shiny, bright and smooth. compounded: Made worse by adding to a problem. erratic: Describes something that changes unexpectedly and is not regular in movement. floundering: Struggling or losing
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    • 746 8  -  By Ng Wan Ching GUNSHOTS fired in two different parts of Tampines early yesterday sounded like a wargame, a breaking laundry pole and a pet parrot clanking its chain. To some residents of the area, it sounded like nothing at all. They slept right through the
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    • 384 8 NEIGHBOURHOOD Police Posts again proved their value this week. In three big ways. Three major crime events landed on convenient NPP desks in the middle of all the standard neighbourhood complaints. According to a police spokesman, Case 1 is being handled by the Criminal
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 361 9 Wire services. DIPLOMATS say chances are dimming for a breakthrough at the Cambodian peace talks opening in Jakarta today. Low-level meetings were scheduled to begin this afternoon. They will set the agenda for a more formal session that begins on Sunday. The goal: Arrive
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    • 148 9 Wire services. FEARS of post-election bloodshed led Sri Lanka to clamp a 21-hour curfew across the island this morning. The curfew requires all Sri Lankans to remain in their homes until tomorrow morning. Millions turned out yesterday to vote in the first parliamentary elections
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    • 204 9 Wire services. AN anti-terrorist expert says an Iranian death squad is probably already in Britain trying to find the author Ayatollah Khomeini wants executed. "It is possible that a hit squad may have been dispatched from Iran, but it is quite likely that a sleeper
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    • 224 9 Wire services. SW E DEN'S King Carl XVI Gustaf has injected a note of royal outrage into a growing row with neighbouring Norway over the clubbing to death of baby seals. In an almost unprecedent- ed intervention, King Gustaf challenged Norwegian Prime Minister Gro
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    • 145 9 Wire services. A SURVEY says stress is the most serious health hazard facing working women in the USA. Next in line: ailments linked to computer video terminals and workplace chemicals. The Bureau of National Affairs, a private publisher, conducted the survey. It
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    • 116 9 Wire services. GUERILLA attacks against Israel must continue even if they threaten the PLO's new diplomatic relations with the US, a PLO leader says. "US comments doubting PLO credibility about peace will not change its policy, especially concerning national armed struggle," Mr
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    • 364 10 Wire services. H ORRIBLY deformed animals born far from the Chernobyl power station have created fears about lasta ing damage from the 1986 Soviet nuclear accident. Moscow News reported yesterday that the number of deformed pigs and cows born since the accident at a
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    • 136 10 Wire services. AFGHAN guerilla leaders have agreed on a tentative plan for an interim government. The plan will be debated for several days before it is voted on by 400 delegates to a resistance council meeting in neighbouring Pakistan. The government's prime minister would be
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    • 359 10 Wire services. THE heavily favoured Rain Man has received eight Oscar nominations, including best film and best actor for Duatin Hoffman. The nominations were announced yesterday in Hollywood, California. Hoffman, already an Oscar winner, plays an autistic savant who has a photographic memory and
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    • 149 10 Wire services. FILM star Jane Fonda and her husband, politician Tom Hayden, have separated after 15 years of marriage. The separation was announced yesterday by a spokesman for the couple in Los Angeles, California. He said it was a private matter and that there would
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    • 303 11 Wire services. LARGE numbers of non-tribal residents of India's northeastern Assam state are fleeing their homes to escape violence by tribal separatists. The Press Trust of India (PTI) reported yesterday that the army and security forces were put on alert after separatists killed a
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    • 56 11 Daring: This is the balloon in which Fumio Niwa is riding high-altitude winds in his attempt to be the first to make a solo crossing across the Pacific Ocean. Mr Niwa, who took off from Japan, was drifting towards Hawaii last night and, if the winds are
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    • 109 11 Wire services. MALAYSIA Airlines may seek compensation from Boeing for the delayed delivery of two aircraft Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said yesterday in Kuala Lumpur that officials were looking at the contract with Boeing to estab- lish whether the delays were
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      275 11 Wire services. SHARE prices closed mixed in slow trading on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Buying interest dried up amid uncertainty about interest rates and British corporate earnings. The Financial Times 30share index closed 2.4 points up at 1,677.4. But leading exporters eased in line with a weaker US
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    • 81 11 Reuter. SHARE prices rose in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The Nikkei index gained 68.33 points, or 0.21 per cent, to 32,217.81 in 10 minutes of trade. The Nikkei rose 166.59 points to a record close of 32,149.48 on Wednesday. The biggest gainers were non-life insurance,
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    • 51 11 FT Industrials Wed 1,677.40 (1,675.00) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,303.93 (2,281.25) ST Industrial Wed 1,122.56 (1,120.17) NST Industrial Wed 1,968.24 (1,963.67) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 3,100.87 (3,099.97) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,478.80 (1,485.80) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 32,149.48 (31.982.89) Figure® in brackets refer to thoee of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      285 11 Wire services. WALL Street pulled out of a week-long slump yesterday with a rally led by blue chips. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials closed at 2,303.93 points, a gain of 22.68 points. About 154 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange against 149.56
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 272 12  -  By Bill Crider F kASHION designers have I their way with women but they have never been able to make men jump through the hoop. Designers keep trying but it's a hard and thankless slog. Males are such hidebound, creatures. For them, a big change
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    • 291 12 New York Times. WHEN the smile face became a fad in 1970, it was like a lighthearted punctuation mark at the end of a stormy decade. Now, after nearly 20 years in eclipse, the happy face is beaming again Its 100-watt smile is lighting
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 298 13  -  By Lim Swee Hong MR DELI of Royal Holiday Inn closed yesterday. Now, the sausages at six other hotels will not taste the same again. The delicatessen supplied sausages to them. But no one from Royal Holiday Inn will reveal the names of the hotels. "It's trade
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    • 710 13 A wave of hysteria over listeria has swept Britain, adding to the confusion on what's safe and what's unsafe to eat. With proper precaution, wise shopping and correct cooking methods, you can take the risk out of eating IPS s EEMS everything from soft cheese to
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  • Showtime
    • 595 14 The Hui formula works again this Lunar New Year as it has in previous years. Their two current films are showing to full houses. More than 15 years after their first film, new generations of fans still love their wacky ways. TOH HAI LEONG
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    • 248 14 ■Mr KMiMth Tan, 26, chairman of Singapore Film Society: Many Hongkong comedies rely mainly on slapstick to entertain. The Hui brothers also use slapstick but the subject matter of their films the topics and the issues on which they build their satire are common,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1772 15 nr\ t Tf lelevision aP|l MMxsA Hitchcock Presents F' 1 About Men Thursday Feature Special Long jj SCREEN M (Bpm, SBC 5) (Bpm, SBC 12) Journey Home ifl B Don t Sell Yourself documentary looks into men's A THRILLER starring Meredith Dennison (David Soul) and his expectations, their feelings and
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  • Article, Illustration
    997 16 spotlight AFTER nearly 30 years of taking pretty pictures, Chua Soo Bin, 56, opted for something more challenging. Like photographing 14 old men patriarchs of Chinese painting and living treasures who have guided trends in Chinese painting this century. The project started as one man's dream and ended
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 367 18  -  By Vivien Chiong I 9 CAN touch you, you can touch me, but I can't touch myself what am I?" m Chinese cross talk master Ma Ji posed this riddle. Side-kick-disciple Zhao Yan exclaimed: "It's your nose!" "Wrong! It's my elbows!"
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    • 214 18 WHILE everyone was star-gaz-ing at Joan Chen and Dolph Lundgren over at the film festival, Cliff Richard quietly slipped in for a five-day holiday and left just as quietly. But we managed to catch him when he was staying at Pan Pacific last month. He
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    • Article, Illustration
      310 18  -  By Vivien Chiong CHRIS WONG: A SHORT STORY (Polygram) CHRIS Wong is one of the most promising newcomers in Hongkong. The talented singer/songwriter surprised everyone when his first LP leapt up the pop charts. A Short Story is his third album in less than two years. Particularly good listening
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    • 288 19 F I ROM Siberian Cossacks and the 'Great Leningrad Theatre of Modern Ballet to a recital by Greek pianist Dimitri Sgouros Forum Management Services has certainly switched its tune. The promotions company which made a name for itself by bringing in Soviet dance spectaculars is
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    • 433 19  -  By Lo Tien Yin FINALLY, a Singapore whodunnit with lots of false clues to keep you guessing until the last gasp. Somewhat after Agatha Christie's style, it is the last offering in the TV series, Drama Made In Singapore. Death at the Drama
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    • Article, Illustration
      205 19 COCKTAIL (Orchard and Marina 1) LIGHTWEIGHT entertainment that is mildly enjoyable. The story revolves around a young barman (Tom Cruise) who gets caught up in the world of easy money and sex. Times: Orchard 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm. Marina 1 1, 3.30, 7, 9 pm TWINS
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    • 457 20 Wire services. B RITISH rock awards hit a sour note on TV but Phil Collins, Annie Lennox and Tracy Chapman came out of it happy winners. The big night for rock, British Record Industry Awards, was nationally televised by the BBC
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    • 244 20 Los Angeles Times Syndicate. THERE'S probably never been a sweeter-sounding duo in pop music than the Everly Brothers. John Lennon and Paul McCartney would likely have agreed. Back in the early 60s, the two young rockers from Liverpool based their early harmonies on those
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    • 296 20  -  By Vivien Chiong MORE than 300 women have applied to be extras for a new SBC TV serial about female swimmers. Filming for the as-yet-unnamed serial starts next month and SBC drama artistes are currently attending swimming lessons four days a week. The prerequisites for the
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    • 168 20  -  f SEENLASTNIGHT By Ting Mei See IMITATION may be the sincerest form of flattery, but one can take it too far. Watching The Making of a Gentleman (RTM 2, 6 pm) is like seeing Eddie Murphy's Trading Places. Only this Cantonese version, with Liu Wai Hung playing
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  • SPORTS
    • 210 25 RACING... with MALCOLM BftSTIftNS Cinta Mania, who looks like she has come to hand, is shaping up to break the ice in the tough Class 4 Div C race over 1,200 m on Sunday. With Luke Dania aboard, the five-year-old New Zealand mare was hardheld
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    • 144 25 RACE 1: Restricted Terms Div D 1,200 m (2.15pm): Act Of Will, Razzle Dazzle 11, Treasure Map, Golden Star 11. RACE 2: Class 4 Div B 1,700 m (2.50): What To Do 11, Master Wishes 11. RACE 3: Class 5 Div A 1,400 m (3.20): Day To Remember,
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    • 390 25 AP. T HE California Horse Racing Board will Hie accusations against Eclipse Award-winning trainers Laz Barrera and D. Wayne Lukas for running horses that tested positive for cocaine, the board said yesterday. At the same time, Leonard Foote, executive secretary of the board, said he
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    • 249 25  -  By Malcolm Bastians RACING fans may see lots more of popular Japanese rider Mitsuhiko Michikawa, 33, if his application for a long-term licence is approved by the Malayan Racing Association tomorrow. Ipoh trainer Chong Keng Leong submitted an application for Michikawa just before the Lunar New
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    • 637 25 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: NY Knicks 129 Charlotte 117, Philadelphia 113 Indiana 108, Cleveland 109 Miami 98, Houston 137 Boston 123, Dallas 117 Los Angeles Clippers 98, Milwaukee 132 New Jersey 91, Atlanta 106 Chicago 98, Utah 119 Denver 105, Seattle 129 San
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    • 208 26 AFP. ENGLAND right-back Gary Stevens is poised to become the latest part of Terry Venables' rebuilding programme at Tottenham. The Spurs boss is reported to be on the point of making a $3.4 million bid for the Glasgow Rangers defender, who only moved to Scotland last summer.
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    • 303 26 Reuter. PORTUGAL 1 BELGIUM 1 A FREAK goal by late substitute Marc van der Linden gave Belgium a hard-earned 1-1 draw against Portugal yesterday in a World Cup qualifier in Lisbon. The Antwerp winger fired over a speculative cross from the right in the 83rd minute and the
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    • 137 26 Reuter. SPORTING Gijon fought back to hold visitor Real Madrid to a thrilling 5-5 draw in its second round first-leg Spanish Cup match. Real, which thrashed Sporting 5-1 in a league match at home on Sunday, was leading 5-2 in the second half in yesterday's
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    • 233 26 AFP. cup THE own-goal heartbreak of defender John Pender shattered little Bristol City when it was just five minutes from the most astonishing Cup victory of the season. But it could not deflate the Third Division side's outrageous Wembley ambition as it goes into the second-leg
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    • Article, Illustration
      126 26 Wire services. GARY Gillespie has been named fit to play for Liverpool in Saturday's FA Cup trip to Hull. The Scottish central defender has been out for a total of 23 matches after surgery for knee ligament damage. BERRY Armstrong was given a one-year conditional discharge by magistrates yesterday
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    • 144 26 AFP. THAILAND'S prospects are slim in the 1990 World Cup qualifying matches beginning on Sunday, head coach Pravit Chaisam said here. Thailand is in Asian Zone Group 5 with Bangladesh, Iran and China. But Pravit said the Thais still hope to win their home matches
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    • 345 27  -  By Shahiron Sahari IT'S ALL systems go as sprinter Haron Mundir strengthens his quest for that elusive South-East Asia Games gold medal by sacrificing everything for fulltime training. Haron, Singapore's top sprinter, has been granted 10 months paid leave to make an impact during the
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    • 368 27  -  By Bernard Pereira EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Lee Young Suk, South Korea's No. 1 woman player, should be the one to watch in next week's Konica Cup Asian Invitation badminton championships. Not China's world champion Han Aiping. They are tipped to meet in the singles final. And, barring the presence
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    • 259 27  -  By Dennis Chia THE second Nature Farm Biathlon on March 19 has run into a roadblock because cycling on expressways is an offence. The Traffic Police has now ordered a re-routing of the cycling event. Officials of Coastal Cycling Club, organisers of the biathlon, were told
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    • 440 28  -  GEYLANG 5 TYRHITT 1 By Abdul Shukor m i 1 ORE than 400 football fans were given a belated hongbao at Toa Payoh Stadium last night during the Geylang International-Tyrwhitt Soc.cerites Pools Cup match. Instead of paying the normal $2 entry fee, the spectators were allowed
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    • Article, Illustration
      343 28  -  JURONG 1 POLICE 0 By Shahiron Sahari A LEOPARD never changes its spots, so the saying goes, and Yahya Madon shouldn't have changed his last night. The Police midfielder normally blasts his penalties to the keeper's left, but against Jurong Town at Jalan Besar last night, Yahya changed
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    • 293 29  -  By Abdul Shukor CHIA CHEW LAN is set to become Singapore's first touring woman squash professional, and possibly the Republic's first professional sportswoman when she leaves for Europe next month. The 29-year-old national squash player leaves for Holland on March 1 to compete in
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    • 252 29  -  By Abdul Shukor INDONESIAN world junior bantamweight champion EilyaB Pical has been warned against going on with his scheduled title fight on Feb 25 at the National Stadium. Syamsul Anuar, an ex-In-donesian champion and a boxing columnist, sounded the warning as Pical prepared for battle against
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    • 1170 30 PHOTOS OF CHINESE ARTISTS. An exhibition held in conjunction with the launching of a book by photographer Chua Soo Bin called Portraits of Excellence Fourteen Contemporary Chinese Painters. Chua spent the last four years compiling photographs of distinguished Chinese artists in China, Hongkong, the US
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    • 14 30 CENTRESTAGE Anita Sarawak FOOD: Thai cuisine COMING UP: Singapore stories on stage
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    • 83 30 THE Goethe-Institut is screening the German film, Grandison, today. It is based on the colourful biography of a 19th cen4t*dler and mail nL)flct#%ttbter whose sucraids made him he li i illn horfourable andjB#f$ebted member Heidelberg society. But the law finally tracked him down and arrested
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