The New Paper, 31 March 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 94 1 2-MONTH EXTRA FOR 10% The maximum performance bonus of two months' salary for civil servants will go to only about 10 per cent of Administrative Service superscale officers. And up to 95 per cent of these senior civil servants can get the bonus too: one month for average performer; IV2
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  • 57 1 Caught with their shirts out and moments before they had their pants down: Singapore's top military man and commercial crimebuster. Winston Choo (right) the general and Glenn Knight the crimebuster do a quick change before going on the catwalk in the Anglo-Chinese School fund-raising fashion
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 532 2  -  By Ronald Wong THE Government is reviewing the contents of a new locally-pub-lished magazine which is full of pictures of nude and semi-nude women in sexy poses. The review comes after the publications unit of the Communications and Information Ministry received complaints from the public
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    • 540 3 A few big names, including Lt-Gen Winston Choo and Mr Glenn Knight, modelled yesterday at an ACS fund-raiser. GENEIEVE KWEK catches the nervy scene NO one thought that walking could be so difficult. Certainly not the 31 prominent professionals and businessmen and women who agreed to model
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    • 264 3 THERE was enough costume jewellery in the jar to fill a shop. Or two. This central feature of Monet's Big Bash 89 jewellery promotion has attracted more than 1,000 pieces of second-hand trinkets over its eight days. Most were gold- or silver-plat-ed,
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    • 161 2 I Get a FREE fiajjS I equalizer or audio Ppß I rack and SAVE Lfl I up to $470 I Now when you buy any one of these two Sherwood I hi-fi systems (at reduced prices), you can choose to take home either an equalizer qi an audio rack at
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 27 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over many areas in the afternoon. Max temp: 31 deg. Min: 24 deg. Sunset: 7.12 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.05 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 339 4 THE Thais' loss, the Malaysians' gain, it seems. The departure of about 12,000 illegal Thai workers means more work for some of the Malaysians employed. And more money too. The New Paper interviewed five Malaysian workers here. They said they are expecting more money in
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    • 338 4 Malay Mail. MALAYSIAN police sealed off part of the Kuala Lumpur railway station as a train carrying illegal Thai workers from Singapore pulled in for an hour-long stopover last night. The train is on its way to Bangkok. More than
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    • 234 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram AT least three new patients turn up every week at Singapore General Hospital, sneezing and sniffing and saying they are suffering from "sinus". But what they are actually suffering from is a condition known as rhinitis. "It is one of the most
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 400 6  -  Stories/ Irene Ng S OME 300 childcare supervisors and teachers met yesterday. Their main concern pushy parents. But they were encouraged to put the past behind them and get parents involved in their programmes. At least three out of seven childcare experts stressed this
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    • 208 6 HERE are some of the stories of pushy parents. Some parents demand that their 2 Vfe -year-olds learn more academic subjects, such as the alphabet and mathematics. Forget play, they say. And at the end of the day, they want proof that
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    • 179 6 IT WAS more than a fiveyear silence that Liew Kok Kwa broke when he at last met his elder half-brother, Mr Liew Tiong Hwa. He also broke his arm with a 38 cm parang. The incident took place on July 21, 1987, when Mr
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    • 115 6 FOUR old HDB apartment buildings will be quickly reduced to rubble on April 10 with controlled blasts of explosives. The buildings are Blocks 192, 193, 196 and 197 in Boon Lay Drive, the Housing Board announced today. The blocks will be exploded two at
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    • 160 6 A MONTH-OLD baby died after she choked on milk that she vomitted up in the night. The child, Cai Xiumei, who was mentally handicapped, lived in Bedok North Ave 2. The accident happened on Oct 7 last year, the Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday. The baby was
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 183 7 And you know it full well by now. Flexibility-the chance to make more money Singapore Government Securities. if you trade Or even sell your bonds The one investment that IN THE anytime you need the cash; really delivers what it ups AND JX)WNS with no loss of interest promises. earned.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 511 8 THE maximum performance bonus of two months' salary will go to only about 10 per cent of the superscale officers in the Administrative Service. At the bottom, the quota is 5 to 15 per cent of those whose performance is held to be below average.
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    • 111 8 ABOUT $30,000 worth of liquor was stolen from a Geylang bar on Wednesday. At about 2 am, the manager of Kim Leng Bar, Mr Seah Kim San, closed the Lorong 25A premises for the night and went home. A cleaner who came to
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    • 273 8  -  By Loh Tuan Lee WHY is Spitfire Leather Enterprise's small shop in Peninsula Shopping Complex jam-packed every day with bubbling teenagers? Because Spitfire is one of just two shops that specialises in skateboarding equipment, that's why. Nor is it just a shop. It's become almost
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 403 10  -  NEWBEAT This column tells you about the various activities of the People's Association. It is written by the PA's assistant director (programmes). NewBeat will appear every Friday. By Esther Tan GATEBALL is a Japanese game, played by only about 300 people in Singapore. They are mostly civil service
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    • 291 10 FIRST Deputy Prime Min--1 ister Goh Chok Tong says a National Ideology must win acceptance by most citizens before being made official. Therefore, he said, the Singapore Government will take its time in shaping a set of principles for the nation to live by.
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    • 169 10 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. aggression: The quality of anger and determination that makes one ready to attack people. angina: Sharp pains in the chest caused by a heart disease. broiling: Grilling. concede: Admit,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 206 11 Wire services. POLICE have beefed up security for Belgium's Islamic community following the murder of a Muslim leader and his aide in a moeque. Imam Abdullah al-Ahdal, the Saudi leader of Muslims in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, and his aide, Mr Salim el-Behir, were
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    • 337 11 Wire services. Artillery shells hit a fuel depot and started a fire that turned Christian east Beirut into a huge bomb. Explosive gas spewed over a wide area yesterday. Shells continued to fall. Forty or more people were' injured by a thunderous butane tank blast at the
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    • 53 12 The tops: The fairest of them all in the 1989 Miss Japan Grand Prix beauty pageant bask in their moment of glory. The pageant was held in central Tokyo yesterday. Winner Norie Sawamoto is flanked by Ms Swimsuit Haromi Sugimoto (left) and another runner up, Ms Mieko
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    • 209 12 Wire services. SIX of America's biggest companies have agreed to invest up to $20 billion in joint ventures with the Soviets. An agreement was signed yesterday in the Kremlin, heart of the Soviet government. The pact breaks new commercial ground. For the first time,
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    • 204 12 Wire services. VIETNAM'S communist leaders want the pace of economic reforms to be stepped up. They issued an order for more reforms at the end of the sixth plenary meeting of the Vietnam Communist Party's Central Committee. Their statement at the end of
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    • 214 13 Wire services. NEW DELHI police have arrested a fake doctor who performed at least 2,500 operations at his high-priced clinic. Police raided the posh nursing home of H S Rajput in the fashionable New Delhi suburb of Vishal Enclave. His arrest came after a man filed
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    • 135 13 Wire services. A LAWYER for Mr Ferdinand Marcos has demanded that the US pay some $400,000 in medical bills for the former Philippines president. The demand is based on a claim that Mr Marcos has been held in Hawaii against his will. He was
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    • 247 13 Wire services. ARMED inmates holding hundreds of hostages inside Guatemala's largest prison ended a five-day revolt after the government agreed to changes. A spokesman for Pavon Prison, located near Guatemala City, said yesterday the 1,400 rebellious inmates surrendered their weapons and freed the hostages. The
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    • 37 13 Ceremonial: British Premier Margaret Thatcher beats an African drum to declare the official opening of a gold mine in Bindura. Mrs Thatcher is in Zimbabwe as part of a six-day African tour. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 158 13 Wire services. THE Anchorage Daily News in Alaska won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting about alcoholism and suicide among the native Eskimos. Two prizes were awarded for international reporting one to Mr Glenn Frankel of The Washington Post, reporting from Israel and
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    • 245 13 Wire services. US PRESIDENT George Bush has urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to take an active role in bringing peace to Nicaragua. Mr Bush made the call in a letter to the Soviet President, a White House spokesman said yesterday. Mr Bush "would like
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    • 98 13 Wire services. A PUBLISHING house in western China has been binding 30 pages of a pornographic novel into elementary school grammar books. The China Daily News in Beijing said yesterday that officials at the publishing house had yet to determine if a worker planned a
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    • 69 11 Why not reality? \bu could wait a lifetime for a dream. Some of us are waiting for our dream person to come along. But while waiting, have you wondered how many special people have walked into our lives then out again? Because we were too busy looking for a dream.
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      261 12 Wire services. SHARES fell on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, with the market depressed by both the larg-er-than-expected trade deficit and the weakness of the pound. The Financial Times 30share index closed 18.8 points down at 1,686.7. The British trade deficit last month was £1.7 billion, it was announced
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    • 86 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened at a new record traded high on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The market got a boost overnight when the US dollar fell against the yen. The Nikkei index rose 95.81 points, or 0.29 per cent, to a record traded 32,921.94 in 10 minutes of
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    • 52 12 FT Industrials Thur 1,686.70 (1,705.50) g Dow Jones Average Thur 2,281.34 (2,281.52) ST Industrial Thur 1,190.80 (1,194.63) NST Industrial Thur 2,080.07 (2,075.32) Hongkong Hang Seng Thur 2,980.76 (3,032.98) Australian All Ordinaries Thur 1,467.30 (1,479.30) Nikkei Stock Average Thur 32,826.13 (32,737.28) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous
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      262 12 Wire services. WALL Street stock prices were mixed yesterday, pausing after their rally of the past three sessions. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, up 38 points in the week's first three trading days, dipped 0.18 to close at 2,281.34. But on the broader front, with some
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  • 436 14 FOODNOTES ALL things Qing and imperial await diners at a grand banquet on Friday. Diners will be served by waitresses dressed in Qing-period costumes and with exclusive crockery. They will use silver cutlery and embroidered napkins evoking that era. And for table decorations, there will be
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    • 437 14 TIIE NEW PAPER/MONET PROMOHriOX come, claim your Flash at Scotts Shopping Centre W could win you this set of Monet I a ■Jewellery.... and more. iRL below at the booth and 10 lucky winners will receive Monet Gift V MORE REASONS TO BE THERE Bring your accessories* (any J*. y
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    • 129 15 USE THIS TO PROGRAMME YOUR The National G-50 MC gives you video playback 3 systems. 888 You can even play pre-recorded NTSC tapes on a PAL TV. Enjoy jjjj j.. i!l 1111 11 111 11M 111 I I'l 1111 111 MLW J J playback in LP SLP modes. Compatible with
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1630 15 Television Kfci Friday Night Movie G™**"* Small' Creat reS jjj Islands of M M A VAthis 19&t crcmedy, Goldie jfT THIS debut programme is a ISOLATED in the vast expanse of J *k W Hawn plays a waitress who goes Hm* dramatisation of James Herriot's the Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands
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      756 16 The annual fight for the Oscars is over at last. But the action wasn't only In the Shrine Auditorium In Los Angeles. KEVIN UM grunts and growls with his feNow armchair critics In Hollywood to flte this first-person report. ON the mean streets of south-central Los Angeles yesterday,
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    • 523 19 French diplomat takes Chinese actress for his mistress, only to discover that she is actually a spy and a man. David Hwang's play M Butterfly won the American-Chinese playwright a Tony after its Broadway debut. PHILIP CHIN, a Singaporean, living in London for six
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    • 531 20  -  By Brian Miller MEL Ferdinands has quit the group Gypsy. Starting tomorrow, he opens at Club 392 with his new band, Broad Sword. The switch came as a complete surprise to the local entertainment fraternity. Mel said yesterday he quit Gypsy for purely "professional" reasons:
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    • 158 20 Wire services. RINGO Starr was back at work at Abbey Road studios, London, last Monday for the first time since his treatment for alcohol abuse and all he had to do was act naturally. The former Beatle recorded a new version of his 1965 hit,
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    • 406 20  -  Crimewatch Resuming on April 1 8.30 pm, SBC 5 (English) 10.00 pm f SBC 8 (Chinese) By Lo Tien Yin CRIMEWATCH producer Robert Liu has a problem: There are not enough unsolved cases to feature. "It shows that we have an efficient police force," he
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    • 249 21  -  The Dead Pool Capitol, starting on Friday REVIEW/ By Sonja Tan CLINT Eastwood has aged tremendously. That's what strikes you when you watch The Dead Pool, the fifth in a series of Dirty Harry movies. This Dirty Harry is a reversal of ideas, for Inspector
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      289 21 mm aft MM JM g iAIA a«f> •A FISH CALLED WANDA sss Lee Curtly Kevin Kline and John Cleese are together in this witty comedy. Worth seeing! Times: Cathay —11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pm. H WOHQNfi GIRL (Orchard and Marina 1) MELANIE Griffith plays a young woman
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    • 347 22 BUYING a video tape to keep has yet to catch on in Singapore. Right now, CEL. Video is the only major distributor selling tapes to the public, mainly in bookstores and video libraries. The target buyer is what CEL's Fabian Lek calls
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    • 462 22  -  Stories/ Wong Sing Yeong I IVE years ago a video buff who managed to rent an original copy of F Raiders Of The Lost Ark would have felt like Indiana Jones uncovering a treasure. Up-to-date English video tapes were rare then. Those available were
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    • 123 22  -  SEENLASTNKJHT By Wong Sing Yeong A REVISED version of a banned song, Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary, was heard over SBC 5 last night on the delayed live telecast of the 61st Oscar Awards ceremony. But amid the pomp and glitter nobody cared if the
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    • 57 22 I I Cockpit ISolfl Travellers' Palm I Restaurant RUSTTAFEL I a Javanese set lunch I served by charming I waitresses in national I costume brought I back by popular I demand at I $14.50 I Daily 12 noon 2.30 p.m. I (Sub|«ct to 10% service charge and 3 cess) I
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    • 97 22 (W Ml I WVONEW HOME VQ6Q WW MM WHI ulI :HIH ill i'* te.»- BSr JC loßeB her job as management con- BUT everything starts to fall apart. i RVTH ®V She decides to get away from The heating system conks out. The roof U4| New York with Baby Elizabeth.
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 546 23  -  By Brenton Wong SILK Route is the title of China Silk House's dinner fashion show with an international flavour on April 22. Twelve models are flying in from China to take part. A China Silk House spokesman said: "Many of the models here are over-exposed.
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    • 169 23 THAT 40-second Fahrenheit commercial you see on TV cost Parfums Christian Dior about $750,000 to produce. The ad for the men's fragrance was shot Down Under in the deserts of Broken Hill and the beaches of Mission Beach. And more will be spent in Singapore
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    • 122 23 RECEPTION to Dior's Farenheit was generally favourable. All the 10 people interviewed found it pleasant and subtle. Tom Rao, in his 30s, who is doing public relations and promotions for Hotel Properties, has been using it since October last year, when he
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 189 24 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne HBPTmakB TVEM AM OFFO2-TUgY p*M\Oti&TO &eiL I AllgUStfl/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill —X I&CP&TIOtftCH?) I PUAWY. HAV£ A IOOKt If*Y S3P (SW George the Robot/stephen Stanley nj~ I i^ W¥ l a® f -g* Ki€>f\ OU? U CAOtsTT KrJcr*/ ftyft-v pl« t was A -ru«*£ 7
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    • 152 25 COMIC RELIEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Single Slices/Peter Kohisaat Cathy/Cathy Guisewite fftmll i I EIECTRA, V SHE'S NOT ISHEU M®N- Y OH, FOR I GUESS YENJOY VOUR HOW CAN SHE HOWI CAN MBY ANY- O€R WHERE EN'S SAKE. VOU'RE RI6HT, BUSINESS eut'C TIICT A B/JCV ff I LCAV6 MORE. SHE'LL IMI
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1324 26 RADIOGUIDE MMm EZM39I iNamaamrii?! EH3HH NOON N««t la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Newt la Brief ami Weather NOON Seed Music, aad Me: NOON Hewdeih 12.05 Laachdate NOON Easy Listealag: A selection of tajert A musical treat to keep you 12.30 Short Story Lie's Seeg: Lia 1 00 Nt«i and
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 369 27 THE EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFIED SECTION HSTads 737-1166 /> cv I SfcHaupor] Asian Computer Services Asian Computer Services is the leading computer, software and services company authorised by IBM to market the Personal System/2, System 36, System 38, AS/400 and 9370 Information Systems. We also offer bureau services on an IBM Mainframe,
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    • 351 27 EMPLOYMENT UJS. Equipment Representative for Amui countries requires: 1) JUNIOR SECRETARY 2) GENERAL CLERK/ TYPIST GCE '0' Level Able to type 40 w.p.m. Speak Mandarin 1-2 yean wortdng experience Good telephone etiquette Operating knowledge of telex, fax machines and computer will be advantageous Positive attitude towards work responsibilities Preferred applicants
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    • 274 27 FAR EAST INVESTIGATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT Duo to our rapid expanoion we oook able bodies between 18 45 of age to work so: 1) CLERK (FEMALE) 2) ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS I 111 (SECURITY PERSONNEL) For assignments at Jurong, Katong, City, Buklt Tim ah, West Coast, Kallang and Marsiling area. Salary depends on
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  • SPORTS
    • 172 28 WORLD TABLE TENNIS AFP. AS the line-up for the second stage of the team competitions at the World Table Tennis Championships fell into place, only the Nigerian men looked likely to gatecrash the expected party of the established order. The top 16 in both men's
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    • 394 28 KICKOFF: ENGLAND DIVISION ONE AFP. NORWICH face a virtual make-or-break home match with Liverpool tommorow in its bid to capture the English League title for the first time. Victory over the champion will carry it level with leader Arsenal on both points and games, although George Graham's
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    • 158 28 AP. TOP seed Gabriela Sabatini lost her first set in six matches at the International Players Championships, but rallied to beat Helena Sukova and the enter the final. Sukova, seeded third, missed three easy volleys in the final game as Sabatini broke her to win, 6-7 (7-2),
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    • 189 28 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Atlanta 120 Washington 102, Boston 106 Portland 97, Indiana 96 Miami 89, Chicago 106 Milwaukee 102, Detroit 108 Utah 104, Los Angeles Clippers 114 Sacramento 108. ICE HOCKEY NHL: Detroit 4 NY Rangers 3, Toronto 3 Minnesota 1, NY
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    • 394 28 Wire services. ITALIAN First Division side Fiorentina is negotiating to buy English striker Gary Lineker from Barcelona. Fiorentina, currently seventh in the Italian league, has not yet made a bid for the player, though. The deal may hit problems, however. Lineker has had a poor season with the Spanish
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    • 182 29 THE nine cyclists who represented Singapore in the recent Sprite Federal Territory Invitational cycling championships are in no danger of being banned. This assurance came from Mr Eddie Loh, president of Singapore Amateur Cycling Association. Said Loh: "We were invited to the meet and
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    • 352 29  -  The Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress has drawn up plans to go back to the past to create a brighter future for the sport By Alfonso Chan THE newly-elected Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress, headed by president Robert Tan, has given top priority to winning gold
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    • 275 29  -  By Alfonso Chan MIKE TYSON could have winced at the flurry of shots that flew about last night at the Singapore Novices Boxing championship finals. At best they resembled a shadow of the way he boxed, at worst it was a comic parody of
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    • 290 29 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA MONEY Mart wound up his Cup preparation with a splendid workout at Kuala Lumpur this morning. With A. John astride, he sprinted over 600 m in 39. The going remained yielding and all fast work was done on the sand track. Old
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    • 320 30 GOAL scorers are a rare commodity these days. Their skills often make the difference between joy and sorrow. When a player like Fandi Ahmad comes around he can command a high price. Zainal Abidin may not be a Fandi in the making, but he's still
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    • 500 30 The glamour and glory of being a soccer star may be too good an offer to pass for a teenager. But not to three of Singapore's most promising players. And certainly not to their parents. Paper first, before play, they say. S GULAM seeks their views
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    • 318 31  -  Will Jurong have to battle Sunday's President's Cup final without their star goalkeeper? Or will David Lee recover in time. He isn't the only one keeping his fingers crossed. His team-mates and his manager are hoping he gets the green light from doctors By S Gulam T
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    • 254 31 PREMIER League tournament committee secretary Peter Wong has decided to quit next month. He said yesterday that he had wanted to resign earlier but was told to stay on till the end of the season. The Premier League the title has been won by Geylang
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    960 32 Out&About —FINGERS, FEET AND \V\ FUN.Storytelling, action 1 1 rhymes, songs and poems. For those between ages five and nine. Free. Limited to 40 children on a flrst-come-flrst-served basis. Storytelling Room, Marine Parade Branch Library. 3 pm. MAKE A MOVIE AND WIN. Use the attractions and scenery at Sentosa
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  • 17 32 OUT AND ABOUT: Fingers and feet CENTRESTAGE: Double bill COMING UP: Fashion at Orchard Road
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    86 32 The name aptly describes this new trio from Manila. Its repertoire ranges from classical jazz to broadway hits as well as the top 40. Ifs led by Rick Tlnio on the guitar and features Marissa Tinio on the piano and Angelo Esteban on the violin. The trio performs nightly starting
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