The New Paper, 30 March 1989

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 111 1 rtrtlff fltltMtii rnmn here for earnings and also care, /to$* 4 MURDERS MOSQUE Shot dead in their mosque: Benelux's Muslim leader and his deputy. Police think they were killed because the Imam did not violently condemn Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses. On seeing the two bodies, the Imam's wife
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    • 57 1 BADMINTON BEST FOR ASIA That's a promise, says Asian Badminton Confederation. It will scrap the Konica Cup and launch the Asian Cup next year. The Asian Cup will have "all the frills and thrills of the World Cup...everybody knows the world's best players are in Asia." Page 31 OUR FOUR
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  • Article, Illustration
    42 1 That's a 1.5m spear sticking out of his skull. Doctors spend two and half hours removing the double-barbed spear from Mr Van Hoa Pham in Melbourne. He was accidentally shot by a spear gun on Monday. His condition now: Recovering. Picture/REUTER
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 498 2  -  By Yusman Ahmad A I SYNDICATE is buying passports from Indian visitors here and selling them to illegal workers. It reportedly pays $500 for a passport. 1 The syndicate also mails some of these A_ 1 O *11 A A A 1 passports to Canada. Sikh
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    • 190 2 Wire services. EXPLOSIVES left under a seat on a British Airways plane after an anti-terrorist exercise remained undetected when the aircraft resumed normal services. BA spokesman Derek Ross said yesterday that cleaners found a police "dog training aid" containing explosives under a seat at the rear of
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    • 190 2 THE First Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh Chok Tong, will call on Indonesia's President Suharto in Jakarta today. Mr Goh is on a three-day visit, described as mainly social. But business creeps in between the tennis, golf, lunches and dinners. He and his host,
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    • 95 2 Lianhe Zaobao. A THAI illegal worker yesterday jumped off a ship which was to take him home. He is still missing. Other Thai workers on board said they saw the 22-year-old man moving about on board before noon yesterday. Later he was seen jumping
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    • 42 2 CITY Developments, which has made a record-breaking $100,000 bid for The Ball With A Cause, gave $30,000 to the Jurong Bird Park, not to the Zoo (TNP March 25/26). The donation was for the purchase of a pair of Manchurian cranes.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 30 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.12 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.05 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 445 3  -  By Loh Tuan Lee FROM the air, Marina South looks like a colourful toy town. The low sprawling buildings are a brilliant contrast to the sombre skyscrapers of Marina City across the bay. On the ground, the first building to greet you is a Sentosa
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    • 394 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram MORE and more foreign women involved in prostitution here are seeing Singapore doctors. The women go to the clinics to find out if they: Have caught a sexually transmitted disease, or Are pregnant. Four doctors interviewed said that they see between
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    • 110 4 THE driver of this car was seriously injured when it skidded and crashed into a barrier early this morning. The accident occurred at 4.05 am opposite Yong An Park condominium in River Valley Road. Mr Chua Teck Heng, 25, and his passenger, Mr Tay Sing
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    • 103 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. bass: The lowest male singing voice. a bone to pick: Something to complain about. enlisted: Persuaded someone to support or help in something. intricacies: Fine and usually complicated details.
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    • 342 4  -  By Geneieve Kwek MR Merlin Lim does not own a camera, but he takes pictures for his Community Centre's functions. It started last year. Mr Lim, 44, thought it was a good idea to take pictures for other parents as well, at his son's
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    • 130 4 CHILDCARE centre teachers got a big pass mark today from Dr Seet Ai Mee, Minister of State (Community Development and Education). She praised their ingenuity at improvising teaching aids from old bits and pieces when there was not enough money to buy them. Dr Seet
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 472 6 Four women learner drivers in Kuala Lumpur were barred from taking their driving tests because they wore tight jeans. This stringent dress code was imposed to prevent public comments that the woman passed because she wore clothes that distract the tester. Reporter CHOW
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    • 158 6 from $45 to $50. DRIVING instructors will charge $2 more an hour from Saturday. On that day, learner drivers will have to pay $14 an hour for Class Three driving lessons. Vehicles such as cars fall under Class Three. This increase was announced by the Singapore
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    • 292 7 MR Christee Dass has a soft spot for ice cream, especially Meadow Gold Soft Spot. Why, yesterday he helped himself to no fewer than 24 sticks, all free. To be fair to Mr Dass, a 32-year-old security officer, the ice cream was for his
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    • 187 7 BUY two cans of baked beans and win a trip to Bangkok. Sounds tough, but that is what Ms Lim May Pheng got. Ms Lim, 38, a housewife, bought two cans of Heinz baked beans costing $2.05 each from Yaohan and won the first prize
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    • 115 8 TAXIS will be able to carry paid advertisements outside, just like buses and some vans. That was disclosed in Parliament yesterday. Last night The New Paper artists decided to give readers a preview of ad-dressed cabs. Dear NTUC Comfort, we hope you don't
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    • 515 8 HEALTH The Health Ministry went through an intensive check-up yesterday. The acting Health Minister spent more than an hour assuring MPs that medical care in Singapore is healthy. It was the 12th and final day of this year's Budget debate. Parliament has adjourned until April 7
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    • 293 8 ACTING Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said people can afford hospital care. The proof? Some 93 per cent of bills are settled within six months. However, that answer raised a question Mr Yeo did not address: how many such cases involve payments from more
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    • 200 8 HIGHLIGHIS A NEW physical education programme featuring aerobics-style exercises is in the works. To help overweight children fight flab. ALL new polyclinics in major new towns will have senior citizens' health care centres. GENERAL health screening examinations for adults costing only $60 at
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    • 143 8 FURTHER limits on appeals to London's Privy Council in both civil and criminal cases are the aim of a bill before Parliament. The Judicial Committee (Amendment) Bill would restrict appeals in civil disputes only to cases where all parties involved agree to be
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    • 829 9  -  By Augustine Low HOW do you ease the flow of goods and people across the Causeway to save time and money? This was the question on the minds of most investors from both sides of the Causeway at a seminar yesterday. Among their suggestions:
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 353 10 Wire services. THE spiritual leader of Muslims in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg has been murdered. Police think he was slain because he did not violently condemn Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Imam Abdullah A 1 Ahdal, 35 of Brussels Mosque and his deputy, Mr Salim
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    • 181 10 Wire services. A PREGNANT Italian woman won a fight with China by threatening to have her baby right outside the Chinese Embassy in Rome. An embassy official sounded the surrender yesterday. He said Beijing agreed to grant an exit visa to the woman's husband,
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    • 240 10 Wire services. A TURKISH lawmaker was shot dead when he tried to stop a fight between two armed MPs inside Parliament building in Ankara. Mr Abdurrazzak Ceylan, 40, was trying to stop a quarrel involving independent MP Zekik Celiker and the ruling Motherland Party deputy, Mr
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    • 175 10 Wire services. AN eight-year US study confirms that lesser surgery called a lumpectomy works as well in treating breast cancer as removing the entire breast. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday. Until 1985, virtually all women in
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    • 90 10 Wire services. A STOWAWAY aboard a Philippine Airlines plane was arrested after he was found hiding in its toilet. Immigration officials in Manila said yesterday that Muhammad Naser Jabar, 27, a Pakistani, had earlier failed to pay a $328 fine for overstaying his welcome. The
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    • 336 11 Wire services. F I OUR opposition parties in Japan are now talking about shaping up a coalition government to take over if Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita falls. Beset by a stock-profiteering scandal, the Prime Minister's political popularity has sunk to record lows. Only 9 per
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    • 200 11 Wire services. GUATEMALAN authorities have cut off food and water supplies to convicts who seized a prison and hold some 600 civilans hostage. "It's the only way we can pressure them," said Mr Carlos Ramos Moncada,ln-spector-General of Prisons, yesterday. Mr Ramos spoke to
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    • 106 11 Wire services. DIVORCE is thriving in China's big cities. For every 100 couples who get married, 30 couples go to court to get divorced. The China Daily in Beijing said yesterday that courts handled 630,000 divorces last year against 500,000 in 1987. Divorce suits
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    • 45 11 Private meeting The Spanish Prime Minister, Mr Felipe Gonzalez (left), greets his Malaysian counterpart, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid. Dr Mahathir, who underwent open heart surgery in January, is on a three-week holiday.
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    • 112 11 Wire services. PAKISTANI security officials have arrested a suspected Indian spy near a heavily-defended uranium enrichment plant at Khauta. The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) said yesterday that security officials arrested the Indian national, identified as Mathol, on Monday night. He had earlier been spotted acting
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    • 161 11 Wire services. MUJAHIDEEN commanders based inside Afghanistan have rejected President Najibullah's latest offer of a ceasefire, reports say. The Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said the decision by 35 commanders from several rebel groups was unanimous. Dr Najibullah's offer to allow rebel groups to have self-government was
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    • 43 12 Fiery act: Lulu, a miniature pinscher, dazzles passers-by with its skill during a street performance in Kuala Lumpur. The 14-year-old doe does the stunt twice a week for loose change that the spectators toss into its owner's bucket Picture/ Reuter
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    • 217 12 Wire services. A HARDLINE Sikh separatist group says militants should stop murdering Hindus to back demands for an independent homeland in India's Punjab state. The switch by the Babbar Khalsa (Sikh Lions) marks an important turning point in the campaign for a Sikh homeland called
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    • 199 12 Wire services. PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat has been nominated to be president of Palestine a state that exists only on paper. The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committee made the nomination, a spokesman said yesterday. Mr Arafat has been committee chairman since 1969. The PLO's Central
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    • 109 11 CATCH YOUR FAVOURITE STAR AT WINNERS' BAR It's OSCAR NTH! This is the night for stars of the silver screen. It's the night too, tor all movie buffs. To catch, with abated breath, the golden moments in winning the coveted Oscars; all the glamour, excitement and elation of movie-world recognition.
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      261 12 Wire services. SHARES fell on the London Stock Exchange yesterday after the release of last month's trade figures showing that the British trade deficit had widened to £1.7 billion. The Financial Times 30share index closed 2.5 points down at 1,705.5. Volume was light, with 449.8 million shares changing hands,
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    • 94 12 Reuter. THE Nikkei index reached a new high today. The Nikkei was up 106.50 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 32,843.78 in the first 10 minutes of trade, after hitting a record traded high of 32,845.44 just one minute before. The previous record traded high of 32,738.06 points was
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    • 52 12 FT Industrials Wed 1,705.50 (1,708.00) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,281.52 (2,275.54) ST Industrial Wed 1,194.63 (1,188.50) NST Industrial Wed 2,075.32 (2,064.81) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 3,032.98 (3,033.03) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,479.30 (1,486.20) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 32,737.28 (32,306.36) Figure# in brackets refer to those of the previous
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    • Article, Illustration
      258 12 Wire services. WALL Street stocks edged higher in another quiet session yesterday. The Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials closed 5.98 points up at 2,281.52. Volume totalled 144.24 million shares against 146.42 million on Tuesday. Gainers narrowly outnumbering decliners, 724 to 646 with 560 stocks unchanged. Analysts
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 671 13 Race Course Road, citadel of south Indian curry food here, is under siege. RAVINDRA KUMAR profiles the invaders A I T first sight, they seem as out of place as kueh lapis in a French restaurant. But the North Indian restaurants along Race Course Road '(Singapore's
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    • 249 13 HOW THEY RATE Delhi Restaurant 60, Race Course Road Open daily 11.30 am to 11.30 pm DELHI Restaurant has been around less than a year. But its pedigree shows in its chefs' qualifications. The executive chef, Mr Percy Khambatta, has worked in many restaurants in Bombay, India.
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    • 232 13 Nur Jehan Restaurant 66 Race Course Road Open daily 10 am to midnight THE menu written in Punjabi on the glass pane at the entrance says it all. This restaurant is run by folks originally from Punjab. The food served here is of the hearty variety that
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  • 496 14 Showtime NYT. THE Oscar, like the Maltese Fakon, is the stuff that dreams are made of. And for" Allan Carr, producer of the 61st Academy Awards show which will be telecast over SBC 5 at 9.40 pm this is a dream come true. He still remembers listening
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1758 15 rn* television mm A The gjst Annual Small World Corsica The Planets The Blue Planet SCREEN# Academv (B.oopm, SBC 12) (6.00pm, SBCS) GEMS documentary features the OUR planet Earth is known as the ("9.40 pm, SBC 5) anc people of Corsica, one of the Blue Planet for is almost entirely
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  • fashion
    • 259 16 It's a glamorous tribute to swim wear this season clean-cut designs that rekindle the Fifties' fire torched by the likes of Esther Williams (left) and other bathing beauties. BRENTON WONG holds the look together. FIFTIES' glamour makes a big splash this year. Hollywood is the inspiration
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    • 345 16 WHILE you are romping on the beaches or splashing about in a pool, don't forget to protect your skin. It is a medically proven fact that ultraviolet rays from sunlight speeds up ageing and wrinkling of the skin. The damage is irreversible. This
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 672 20  -  SBC choir Victoria Concert Hall April 9, 5 pm Tickets $3, $5 Central Booking Office By Lo Tien Yin w Y HERE are the boys when you need them? There are only nine of them in the 27-strong SBC choir which needs eight tenors and
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    • 375 20  -  By Lo Tien Yin COMING up next... a new SBC cook show that is the opposite of RTM's Wok with Yan. Wok is all bustle and sometimes blunder in the kitchen. But SBC's new show, The Chef's Choice, starting on April 2 at
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    • 107 20 ERIC TSANG, 36, is one of Hong Kong's funniest comedians and among the friendliest as a person. He has been in the movie business for more than a dozen years, first as a stuntman, then a director and actor. He used to play professional football, and
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    • 500 21  -  By Adeline Woon v i VICTORIA Theatre will come alive with song in May when ST*ARS stage their forthcoming musical, The Sound of Music. It promises to be a lively affair. With 14 i children in two casts the Red
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    • 285 21  -  Arts Circle Degas Sunday, April 2 9.30 pm, SBC 12 PREVIEW/ By Geraldi Geraldine Goh EDGAR Degas is a celebrated 19th-century French artist and sculptor whose works have been admired by critics and collectors. Degas had a skilled hand in capturing on canvas the motion
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    • 158 21  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Lo Tien Yin MEN didn't fare very well last night on TV. Usually, the man spikes a woman's drink, the better to ensnare her right? Wrong. In A Long Way Home (6.45 pm, SBC 8), it was the other way round. Yueqing
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    • 476 22  -  By Vivien Chiong A private person with no private life. That is the way local singer Thomas Teo sees himself. He 'is also about to release his sixth solo album this Friday. Thomas, 27, who lives by himself, admits he likes being alone.
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    • Article, Illustration
      242 22 A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese are together in this witty comedy. Worth seeing! Times: Cathay 11am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pm. RAIN MAN (Lido, Changi 1) A HEART-WARMING tale of fraternal love starring Dustin Hoffman as the autistic elder brother and
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 596 23  -  Stories/ Karen Goh THE big names in adults' shoes are trying for a toehold in the kiddie market. The latest entrant is Puma. Its infant sports shoes were introduced last week. Made for the footsies of babies from eight months to five years old, they
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    • 173 23 SHOPPING BUG THIS new machine lets you look at your slides and negatives on a TV screen. It also doubles as a video recorder. According to its agent here, Tithes Corporation, Fotovix II is a video-film processor that is a first of its
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 306 24 THE DRIVE IS ON! SINGAPORE BUSINESS invites you to join the 4711 ICE SPORTS East Coast Explorer Car Rally 28th April to Ist May. Y ou will have four days to j| enjoy the sun, sea and surf /v* and soak up the romantic, exotic _NL TeNwe atmosphere of Trengganu.
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1441 26 RADIOGUIDE E2M3BH E23HEQB miniaaiKinifl EEHH HOOK News la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) MOOM |j?** r i n BrM,f ind Wejth#f NOON Good Music, Conpany aad Ma: "00" Ns**d**k 12.05 Luachdate: Listen to a selection NOON F>«v Lfetaaiar- I i®ht inatru- „w vL Enjoy your lunch break with a 12.30 Sedety
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  • SPORTS
    • 265 27 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA A LOCAL racehorse trainer and his owners have requested the chief stipendiary steward of Malaysia to conduct an enquiry into the running of their horse which ran at Ipoh last week. In a letter to Mr Bernard McKay, chief stipendiary steward, and
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    • 249 27 NEWCOMER Guoling did a winning gallop on a yielding track at Kuala Lumpur this morning. The Henry Tan trained horse was full of running when doing 600 m in 36.6. i Guoling was ridden by A. Rahman. All fast work was done on the sand track.
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    • 293 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: NY Knicks 128 Portland 124, Cleveland 102 Dallas 90, New .Jersey Nets 111 Atlanta 108, Philadelphia 117 Boston 115, Houston 120 Seattle 117, Chicago 115 Golden State 106, San Antonio 130 Washington 114, Phoenix 127 Los Angeles Lakers 104.
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    • 430 28  -  Geylang 5 Ba testier 1 By Abdul Shukor GEYLANG International did not, after all, need the spirits of the game to win the Premier League title at Jalan Besar last night. A performance of calm authority was enough to demolish a dispirited Balestier United, who lost
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    • Article, Illustration
      242 28 SALIM Moin crowned his night of glory with a simple flick that finidy broke Balestier United's hearts. But a few minutes before six yesterday evening, the 27-year-old Geylang International skipper became the proud father of a baby boy. Three hours later, he was given the joyous toss
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    • 172 28 THE Rain Man was at Jalan Besar Stadium last night And he presented Geylang International with a bottle of champagne. "I would have given it to Balestier had it won. That would have made the League more open," said the Rain Man, a.k.a. K Suppiah, Jurong Town's manager.
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    • 264 29 AFP, Reuter. TITLECHASING Marseille ignited a smouldering row yesterday after signing the Bordeaux captain and French international Jean Tigana on loan until the end of the season. The move, still to be ratified by the French League, came only 48 hours before the deadline which allows
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    • Article, Illustration
      302 29 AFP. LIVERPOOL swept aside the challenge of Derby County at Anfield yesterday as it continued its stirring march to overhaul Arsenal at the top of the English First Division. Anfield's biggest crowd of the season, 42,518, roared Liverpool on as only bad luck, bad finishing and the
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    • 187 29 MEXICAN World Cup striker Hugo Sanchez scored twice to help Real Madrid romp to a 4-1 win over Celta de Vigo in a Spanish Cup quarter-final first-leg yesterday. Sanchez, on the bench for the first half hour, continued his free-scoring form with a 39th-minute penalty and
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    • 67 29 AFP Reuter. WORLD Cup hosts Italy went down 1-0 to a robust Rumania in a friendly international in Sibiu, Ru- mania, yesterday. The winning goal came in the 48th minute from midfielder Ovidiu Sabau. The best Italian effort came in the second half when Gianluca Vialli
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    • Article, Illustration
      526 29 Wire services. KEITH Houchen, hero of Coventry's FA Cup success two years ago, is to sign for Hibernian in a $850,000 deal. The 28-year-old striker, who has been with the English First Division side since 1986, travelled to Edinburgh yesterday to complete the transfer. SIGGI Jonsson, the Icelandic international
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    • 592 30 Take your pick from the Under-14s, Singapore's most successful soccer side last year. S GULAM, who watched the boys in action during the FAM/Milo Cup last December, picks the ones most likely to succeed THE exploits of the Singapore Under-14 team left a deep
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    • 256 30  -  By Abdul Shukor IZMAN JUMAAT, Hasrin Jailani, Zainal Abideen Ahmad and Effendy Sabtu. Remember these names. For these are the four youngsters tipped by our. local coaches as Singapore's future football stars. The boys, with 11 others, formed the Under-14 winning team in the
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    • 435 31  -  By Bernard Pereira THE Konica Cup Asian invitation badminton tournament has been scrapped. Replacing it will be the Asian Cup, which will be run on the same lines and with the same prestige as the World Cup. This was decided at the Asian Badminton Confederation meeting in
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    • 296 31  -  By S Gulam FORMER national defender Norhalis Shafik has accepted a three-year contract to turn professional with Trengganu. Though Norhalis has turned out for Trengganu for the past three years, he never had a contract. He was playing only on a verbal agreement. And he
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    • 306 27 EMPLOYMENT Do you onjoy reading The Now Papor? If so, horo'a an opportunity for you to Join ua on tho Entortainmont/ TV Dosk. We need a dynamic female to take care of all the administrative and clerical functions of the Desk. It would help If you are an ardent follower
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  • UPDATE
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