The New Paper, 8 December 1989

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  • 13 1 the new paper FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8 t 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS
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    • 153 1 3 WOMEN AND A PHANTOM MONK The cite involved three women and a phantom monk. One women was supposed to have a streak of bad luck. The other two convinced her she could change her fortunes by getting a monk to pray for a fee of $1,700. It turned out
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    • 131 1 HER JOB TAKES HER ROUND THE WORLD PoochU (that's the girl in denims) is only 12. But she has danced her way around the world in the last two years. Next stop: To be a teen singing idol. Poochie is here with the LA Gear troupe. She performs today and
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 478 2  -  By Elena Chong o NE woman's sob story made a judge pause in court yesterday. She is involved in a cheating case featuring three women and a phantom monk. District judge Tan Siong Thye found her guilty of cheating but said there were unusual
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    • 55 2 With Santa, to Santiago: Chile's opposition presidential candidate Patricio Aylwin's supporters hold up his Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus campaign posters. He is doing all right The latest opinion polls give him more than 50 per cent of the vote in first free presidential
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    • 94 2 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Lee will leave for a private visit to Penang and Kedah tomorrow. Mr Lee will spend four days on Penang Island, two days in Alor Star and another two days on Pulau Langkawi. The Prime Minister
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    • 124 2 TEN pairs of speakers worth $360 a pair are for the taking in The New Paper/AR promotion tomorrow. All readers have to do is to present a coupon from tomorrow's paper at Par Audio on the fourth floor of Shaw Centre between noon and
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    • 113 2 AP. OFFICERS of the Narcotics Bureau in Hongkong have arrested a Chinese believed to be a key figure in an international drugs trafficking organisation. Police declined to give the name of the man, aged 34, who was arrested last night at Hongkong's Kai Tak International Airport. The
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    • 567 3  -  By Ng Wan Ching THE problem was a wee one. But, gee, it gave birth to a big advertisement. It all began with a jewellery shop called Gee. When one of its partners left the business, she started another shop called Gee Wee.
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    • 157 3 SIXTY young people will do their bit for the community this morning. The boys aged 13 to 21 will help police officers cheer up the old folks at the St Andrew's Cathedral Home for the Aged in Clementi. The event, Police and
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    • 280 3 FIRST ask: what do you want out of life? Then see if your career fits in with your life's goals. It should not be the other way round, where your career becomes your whole life, says Dr Margaret Gremli. A consultant who specialises in education
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    • 79 2 HOTUNEPLUS IF you want to share a point of view, call our HotlinePlus on 734-7711, or write to The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. BEFORE YOU*S HEAD FOR *mTHE COOL, HF*iP| A IL. IL -A ROBINSONS
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  • 326 4 SINGAPORETODAY IN the movies, the stars usually get the limelight. But at Tang Dynasty Village, the spotlight will be on the scenery. When completed in 1991, the complex will be the star of a sound and light show. The Egyptian pyramids, the Acropolis in
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    • 117 5 I THE SUN. THE ORIGIN OF TIME IT GAVE US THE TIME, LONG BEFORE WE WERE AWARE OF IT. I THE EARTH S STATELY ORBIT ROUND THE SUN BRINGS THE ETERNAL CHANGES OF THE SEASONS AND. AS IT SPINS ON ITS OWN AXIS, DAY TURNS INTO NIGHT AND NIGHT INTO
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  • 323 6  -  Chinese firm bags $160 m contracts SINGAPORETODAY By Ng Wan Ching A CHINESE company is exhibiting a device that it says will make it easier to diagnose breast cancer. It is on show at the Singapore Informatics '89 fair. The firm has already bagged contracts worth
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 223 8 BEN Foods is moving into the cafe business. Its first outlet, Le Cordon Bleu Patisserie, is inside the Smart supermarket at Marina Square. Ben Food hopes to open more cafes in the Smart supermarkets. There are six other Smart stores but some may not be
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    • 249 8  -  NEWBEAT Esther Tan THE People's Association plans to hold more personal enrichment talks at community centres. How to Get More out of Your Travel, Home Decor Trends and How to do Better at Interviews are just some of them. Some may want to read
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    • 444 9  -  By Thusitha De Silva IT was thumbs-up all round at the new Singapore Indoor stadium on Wednesday. There was exciting action on the courts. And the stadium facilities made it a joy to watch. The Seiko World Grand Prix badminton finals featured world-class players such as Morten
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 415 11  -  By Julia Goh MR Cheng Yew Keow had a sore throat. He took some medicine. Within three hours he was dead. The cause: A severe allergic reaction to the antibiotic tetracycline, which is often prescribed. He had received the medication from a doctor. Mr Cheng apparently did
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    • 218 11 SENTOSA expects to welcome three million visitors next year. And, for the next few years, it expects the number of visitors to grow by 10 to 15 per cent each year. "Sentosa aims to be the premier holiday resort of the region," says Mr Eugene Yap,
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    • 324 12  -  By Ronald Wong A GRAND Muslim feast will end an exhibition on halal food in August next year. The spread will be created by chefs from various Muslim countries, and will be the culmination of the Ist International Muslim Food and Technology Exhibition (Imfex
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    • 210 12 TWENTY-FIVE people have subscribed to the Mobile Voice Mail service since its launch last Friday. There are 3,000 Voice Mail boxes available on a first-come, first-served basis. Said Mr Derrick Tan, corporate communications officer of Singapore Telecom: "More than 50 people have called up
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 415 15  -  By Ronald Wong RESTAURANTS that serve hygienic, safe and nutritious food could one day carry a logo from the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir). This is the hope of Dr Vincent Yeo, 36, manager of Sisir's food technology department. "This logo shows that
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    • 135 15 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. cameo: a short piece of acting. infrared light: Infra-red rays of light are rays which are invisible because they are below the colour red in the spectrum. accentuated: When
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    • 233 16 The latest bilingual edition of the Singapore Street Directory is now available. We take a look between the covers to see what's new GETTING lost is common among many holiday makers heading for Pasir Ris. One reason was much of the network of roads and
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    • 306 18  -  By Trudy Lim THE master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, would have loved being in my shoes on Wednesday. I had an experience that could have been straight from his classic film, The Birds. The feathered creatures were everywhere. One swooped over my head. In front
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    • 41 18 SIP an audio-visu-al show, and stroll paat flood-lit bird enclosures to a moonlight dinner by the lake. ;51 r> m wV' *.V toT Mr and Mrs Stephen Pord ware flown In from Britain. The project took off. Mr
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 283 21 Reuter. THE Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Party has given the go-ahead for the Baltic Soviet republic to move towards a multi-party system. "The Party's Central Committee met today and all agreed that Article 6 could be thrown out when parliament meets again late
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    • 122 21 Wire services. A RENAISSANCE bronze statue that went unrecognised in a back yard for more than 30 years, fetched $20.5 million in London yesterday a world-record auction price for a sculpture. Sotheby's auctioneers said a London art dealer, Mr Cyril Humphris, outbid an anonymous
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    • 120 21 Wire services. A DOCTOR accused of soliciting college students to have sex with his wife in a phony research project was found dead yesterday. He apparently committed suicide. Police were called to the home of Rodney Thorp Wood, 60, in New York state early yesterday. They found
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    • 336 22 AFP. WITH the bloody coup in Manila all but over, pressure is mounting on President Corazon Aquino to revamp her government and carry out urgent reforms before time rims out About 200 rebels remain holed up at the Mactan air base in Cebu, central Philippines.
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    • 122 22 AP. SEVERAL thousand people yesterday took part in a demonstration for religious freedom in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. At a rally organised by the independent Society for the Defence of Religious Freedom and Spiritual Values, speakers read the text of three petitions to the National
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    • 332 23 Wire services. EAST Germany's Commu-nist-led government coalition agreed at unprecedented talks with opposition groups yesterday to recommend free elections on May 6. The decision after seven hours of round table talks underlined the urgency of reforms as signs of social turmoil grew throughout the
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    • 145 23 AFP. AN attempt to introduce water buffalo into New Zealand's sheep and cow dominated rural landscape was slammed on Thursday by the opposition National Party as a bizarre way to waste taxpayers money. Agriculture minister Colin Moyle told Parliament on Wednesday that buffaloes had been
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    • 171 23 Reuter. CZECHOSLOVAKIA has a new Prime Minister. He is the former first deputy Prime Minister Marian Calfa. His first task will be to form a new government acceptable to the opposition. In a day of fast-moving political developments, the Communist Party expelled its former hardline
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    • 193 24 Reuter. PLAYBOY magazine has published a special edition showing founder Hugh Hefner's new bride spread across 97 pages in various stages of undress. "Just in time for holiday gift giving," the magazine said in announcing the publication earlier this week. Mr Hefner, 63, has also bought
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    • 258 25 Wire services. STEROIDS could be as addictive as cocaine or heroin. A report by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine says some users have been unable to quit even though they know they are suffering psychiatric disturbances. The report appears in this week's Journal of the American
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    • 182 25 Wire services TEN more bodies have been pulled out of the rubble at the site of Tuesday's powerful truck bomb explosion in Bogota. That brings the death toll to 52, police said. Local hospitals were strained to capacity treating more than 1,000
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    • 116 25 AFP. CHICKENS have been big news in China this week. Yesterday, China laid claim to "the highest chicken farm in the world". The official Xinhua News Agency said the Huaqing Egg and Poultry Co is situated 2,300 m above sea level in far-western Qinghai province. The
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    • 138 23 High Tea High Style At The Harvest Dining Room A superb spread of sweets and savouries awaits you at The Harvest, level 4, Victoria Wing every Saturday, 3.00 pm to 5.30 pm. At i A 4.15 pm, Marisalon models present trendy office and after-five wear by local and foreign designers.
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      257 26 Wire services. SHARE prices drifted lower in thin trading on the London stock market yesterday, wiping out an opening rally early on as selling in stock futures contracts filtered through. The Financial Times 30share index ended 9.0 points lower at 1,850.9. A Confederation of British Industry report pointing to
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    • 61 26 Reuter. TIGHTER margin requirements on investors and uneasiness about possible overheating of the Nikkei dampened buying as share prices eased in mixed trade. Traders noted scattered interest in both high-priced and laggard stocks, with particular focus on main issues. The key 225-share Nikkei slipped 43.71 points or 0.12 pet
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    • 52 26 FT Industrials Thu 1,850.90 (1,859.90) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,720.78 (2,736.77) ST Industrial Thu 1,445.54 (1,443.33) NST Industrial Thu 2,718.07 (2,702.36) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 2,770.00 (2,756.39) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,634.90 (1,637.60) Nikkei Stock Average Thu 37,858.11 (37,654.29) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous
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      253 26 Wire services. AFTER oscillating for most of the day within a narrow margin, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange fell sharply just over an hour before the closing bell yesterday. With just an hour left to trading, the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials was
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    • 38 26 7 Drinks are at Happy Hour prices all day on Sunday at Bibi's Theatre Pub. V (December only, excluding eve of public holidays). Come early. Stay late! JIV| J Peranakan Place, 180 Orchard Road Tel: *****66 Theatre Pub
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 1616 27 r THE PHIL J| lIk SUPER silvers show I |I PI ii' middleweight w m a JP j l hj CHAMPIONSHIP A A I Phil Silvers: Sgt £//iro is demoted to m li' h wfr/ &ascMi*~ M il IplpwiCintl —sa jjfti H™F —i™' ICMCFI H. X"™ fM j I I
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  • spotlight
    • 1087 28 There is a place in Singapore where you can legally make that much or a lot more with the flick of a finger. Or you can lose it just as fast. It is Simex. Here, people and companies play a real-life game of high finance called
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    • 435 28 A FUTURES market is exactly that. It is a market where quantities of commodities, metals, conencies and bonds all fovfng prices that vary over a period of time—— are bought and sold. v But in this marks* the trading goes on before the
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    • 365 28 THE world of finance like the world of gambling has its share of dishonest people. They come up with unethical ways of trading on futures markets for their own personal gain. One futures trader, who did not want to be named, recalls a scam which
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    • 166 28 bid: An offer to buy at a specified price. hand signals: Hands or palms turned Inward and pulled to the body means you are bidding or buying. The opposite indicates you are offering or selling. The number of fingers extended, along with your outcry, represents the number of contracts
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    • 1632 29 f THEPHIL (it\ SUPER SILVERS SHOW J f MIDDLEWEIGHT w m A J I M CHAMPIONSHIP T A I 1 1 Sugar Ray Laonard: Taies on 1 f Ifl IBI«llMiHd« I i 1 lil II I Roberto Duran in their third fight I ■■TJTVTIHI 11 JVIVr 101v/lX SI GREYSTOKE THE
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 335 30 CHILDREN in New York have found a new and high-risk craze riding on the tops of lifts as they rush up 30-storey buildings. The game, dubbed "Elevator Action" has caused scores of injuries and also led to the death of a 12-year-old boy this
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    • Article, Illustration
      38 30 Cool cat A stray cat marches in step with a military policeman during ceremonies marking the 62nd birthday of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej. In the background are men of the Royal Guards Force. Picture/ Ap
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    • 151 30 Wire services. AN appeals court yesterday upheld the acquittal of American film director Martin Scorsese and the organiser of the Venice Biennale festival on contempt of religion charges. The charges were brought against them for the screening of the film, The Last Temptation of Christ.
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    • 208 31 USA Today. FOR the first time in the United States, a man is being tried for murder because his dog killed a boy. Michael Berry's pit bulldog mauled James Soto, 2, in June 1987 when the boy wandered next door into Berry's unfenced yard. Prosecutors
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  • Showtime
    • 537 32  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang RAMLI Sarip is all set to become the first local singer to stage his own show at the National Stadium. And the Raja of Rock expects at least 20,000 to pack the stadium to watch his Konsert Seni Dan Suara on Saturday, Dec
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    • 436 33  -  By Vivien Chiong POOCHIE is young, vibrant and hot. She has been dancing around the world in the last two years. Next step: Becoming a singing star. Perhaps even the next Debbie Gibson. Poochie is the star of LA Gear's Poochie and the Hotshots.
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    • 181 33 THE smiling face you see in your pin-up today is the same kindly look you saw in the SBC serial, Turn of the Tide. Holland Zhu Houren has an actor's face. He is not dropdead handsome but he exudes charisma. At 34, Houren leads a happy
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 438 35 The New York Times. "I NEVER used to have an image," Phil Collins said. "Then suddenly I turned around and someone had stamped 'middle-of-the-road balladeer' on my back. "Some of the people who have commented on how many new ballads there are on my new
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    • 1676 36 Gallery TRAVEL IMPRESSIONS. See the colourful paintings of Spanish artist Joan Redorta at an exhibition organised by the Delia Butcher Gallery. He gathers a stock of rich narrative material from his travels to faraway places such as Mali in West Africa. His paintings captivate the
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    • 318 37  -  By Geraldine Goh THERE is no need to pine for a "traditional" Christmas anymore. Snow and a fireplace are out, but you can have a real pine tree all right. Spruce trees (a species of pine) from Santa Claus' homeland are available in
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    • 336 47 tH Employment 831 Employment PROPERTY EXECUTIVE The Job The successful candidate will be responsible for the maintenance and operation of building/plumbing services in Raffles City. Requirements Applicants should have a Diploma in Building or equivalent qualifications and at least 3 years' relevant experience in maintenance of commercial buildings such as
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    • 191 48 ■Fifa gives an amnesty for all players shown the yellow card once in World Cup qualifying matches ■Barcelona coach Johan Cruyff s decision may put Ronald Koeman out of Holland's friendly against Brazil AFP. PLAYERS booked in World Cup qualifiers have been granted an amnesty for
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    • 180 48 Reuter. DUTCH captain Ronald Koeman will probably miss Holland's World Cup warm-up match against Brazil on Dec 20. Barcelona coach Johan Cruyff has insisted that he takes some time off soccer. "As far as we know Cruyff wants all Barcelona players to take a break from
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    • 162 48 Wire services. ROY Wegerle, the South Afri-can-born striker with English First Division side Luton Town, wants to play for the United States in the World Cup finals. The talented 25-year-old is qualified to play for three countries. He has English resident status, a Scottish mother and an American
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      233 49 AC MILAN 1 BARCE 0 AP. AC MILAN captured the European Super Cup yesterday. It beat Barcelona 1-0 in the second leg in Milan to win the trophy 2-1 on aggregate. The first leg ended 1-1. Alberigo Evani scored the winner in the 60th minute with a powerful
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    • 251 49 RACING with DENNIS CHIA SAHABAT, a shock winner at Penang last time out, is maintaining his winning form and can keep up his good work in Class Two. He displayed splendid form at Singapore this morning. The Michael Ho trained gelding was keen to gallop but
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      330 50 Wire services. All-seater stadiums: Professional soccer in Holland will be played almost entirely in all-seater stadiums within the next 10 years. This follows an agreement between the clubs and the Dutch Football Association (KNVB). As part of Holland's bid to rid itself of a growing hooligan problem, the clubs
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    • 278 50 EUROPE KICKOFF: ENGLAND, ITALY, SPAIN. WEST GERMANY, FRANCE Reuter. RESURGENT Aston Villa faces a major test of its transformation into English First Division title contender tomorrow. It plays leader Liverpool at Anfield. Under the direction of manager Graham Taylor, Villa has won eight of its last
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    • 289 50 Reuter. ITALIAN League leader Napoli will will use a trip to ninth-placed Bari on Sunday to try to win back the respect of its fans. Napoli lost its hold of the Uefa Cup when it was beaten by Werder Bremen on Wednesday. A string
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    • 343 51 MORE WORLD CUP ACTION ON P49 Reuter, AP. ORGANISING committee chairman Hermann Neuberger has said the decision to seed England for next year's World Cup finals was based on sporting criteria and not for reasons of security. Said Neuberger: "England has qualified for the sixth position according
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    • 500 51 Reuter. ROME: Italy's capital boasts some of the country's most famous sights from the Colosseum to St Peter's Basilica. Traffic is chaotic and prices in shops and restaurants tend to be high. The Olympic Stadium, with 80,000 seats, will host six matches, including the final on July
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      298 52 There was a hush in the Chinese camp at 8.35 last night. You would have been forgiven if you thought a funeral was in the offing. It was, in fact, the end of Yang Yang, the best men's singles player in the world. BERNARD PEREIRA reports FOR Allan
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      179 52 "BIRDS" are not the only winged creatures that are seen flitting around in the cool clean air of the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Flies have also invaded the hall. One possible reason is that workmen are still putting the finishing touches to the $68 million sporting centrepiece in time
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      195 52 Men's singles: Alan Kusuma (Indo) bt Yang Yang (C) 15-8, 15-10; Foo Kok Keong (M) bt Anders Nielsen (Eng) 15-2, 12-15, 15-10; Poul-Eirk Hoyer-Larsen (Den) bt Donald Koh (S) 15-1, 15-9; Steve Baddeley (Eng) bt Ardy Wiranata (Indo) 15-9, 15-3; Eddy Kurniawan (Indo) bt Wu Wenkai (C) 15-11,
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    • 118 52 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: BILLIARDS British Open Championship Semi-finals:P Gilchrist (Eng) bt I Williamson (Eng) 935-827,N Dagley (Eng) bt E Hughes (Ire) 1505-903. SOCCER European Super Cup 2nd leg: AC Milan (Ita)l Barcelona (Spa) 0 (AC Milan won 2-1 on agg)Division one Czechoslovakia: Dukla Prague 1
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  • SPORTS
    • 170 54  -  MORE GP FINALS ACTION ON P53 By Bernard Pereira STEVE Baddeley raised the Union Jack and the eyebrows when he demolished Indonesia's boy wonder, Ardy Wiranata, in one fell swoop last night at 15-9, 15-3. The Indonesian finished the game not knowing what hit him. Left-hander
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      167 54 6.30pm Mixed doubles: Jan-Eric Antonsson/Maria Bengtsson (Swe) v Jesper Knudsen/Nettie Nielsen (Den); Eddy Hartono/Verawaty Fajrin (Indo) v Jan Paulsen (Den)/Gillian Gowers (Eng) Women's singles: Susi Susanti (Indo) v Zhou Lei (C); Tan Jiuhong (C) v Pernille Nedergaard (Den) 7.15pm Men's singles: Jens Peter Nierhoff (Den) v Steve Baddeley
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      228 54 Susi Susanti v Zhou Lei, 6.30pm: Zhou Lei beat Eline 11 II Coene last night but she wasn't impressive. Susi excused herself from my interview to watch her play. Later, she modestly said "I will try my best against Zhou Lei. I know I am better but I
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