The New Paper, 31 August 1990

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1990 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS
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    37 1 Congming (above) with his bandaged arm. He caught fire when his hike exploded in a stunt (right) for a Hongkong Man catches fire #s fo'fe explodes Q Picture/ Kenneth Koh Picture/Shin Min Daily News
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 322 2  -  By Brendan Pereira PLAINCLOTHES policewomen have been deployed at some department stores in Orchard Road to curb pickpockets, particularly women gangs. This police action follows a large number of such crimes in the tourist belt over the last two months. Up to mid-August, there have
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    • 217 2 JOHOR's first choice goalkeeper, Hassan Miskam, has been banned until Dec 15 and fined $975 for violent behaviour. The disciplinary board of the Football Association of Malaysia came down hard on Hassan and several other players including Selangor striker P Somasundram and Johor
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      219 2 THE former chief editor of The New Paper leaves journalism today after more than 33 years in the profession. Mr Peter Lim joined The Straits Times in 1957 as a $150-a-month reporter. He rose to become editor of the afternoon daily, New Nation, and later columnist and editor-in-chief
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    • 512 3  -  By Vivien Chiong d I AREDEVIL stunt-rider Lin (Congming caught fire when his bike exploded while filming a stunt on Wednesday morning. But he escaped serious injury. When interviewed yesterday, Lin, 32, a Taiwanese, looked fine, except for a bandage on his right arm.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 86 4 HOT STORIES MALAYSIA will raise its petrol prices tomorrow. Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said yesterday an announcement would be made today. But, she said, the increase in prices won't be very much. She said the Government would absorb a part of the rise
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    • 83 4 INDONESIA fears an influx of 250,000 of its nationals who are now in the Middle East. Of them, more than half are in Saudi Arabia. About 700 are in Kuwait. Manpower Minister Cosmas Batubara said: "If they all come back it's going to be a headache. Finding jobs
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    • 92 4 THAILAND'S Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan has dismissed fears about the Gulf crisis. He said the crisis would boost Thai exports "While others are engaged in war, we must be rich," he said. He cited Japan as an example. He said Japan got rich by exporting goods
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 64 4 NOT a blanket right to die but a humane death with dignity. Former Senior Minister Mr S Rajaratnam championed this cause yesterday. Should people who become "vegetables" be kept alive on support systems or should they be allowed to die in dignity, he asked. One solution: A
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      • 51 4 BURMA'S opposition is defying the powerful army which has been running the country since elections in May. Two political parties are coming together that won most of the seats in the elections to form a Parliament. But the army has refused to transfer power to the polls
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      • 55 4 PHILIPPINES President Corazon Aquino is under siege. Reports have surfaced that the army chief, General Fidel Ramos, is plotting to overthrow her. General Fidel Ramos denied the charges. The Straits Times' Manila correspondent Abby Tan said the public perception is widening that Mrs Aquino is fast
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    • 81 4 The Straits Times: Extra role for Elected President. Business Times: More nowers to he vested in proposed elected President. Lianhe Zaobao: Elected President given greater powers. Berita Marian: Three extra powers for Elected President. SBC morning news: President Hush wants US allies to share the costs of carrying out
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  • 369 6  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Lois Ng THREE major travel agencies will be battling for your dollar this weekend. Chan Brothers, Ken-Air and SA Tours are holding big travel fairs in two hotels and a shopping centre to woo you into signing up your year-end holidays early. Common
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 535 8 The top achievers of Singapore paid tribute to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the Westin Hotel on Wednesday night in what was grandly called the Establishment dinner. It was attended by 1,100 of Singapore's best and brightest. But where were the women, asks IRENE HOE
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    • 362 9  -  By Chitra Rajaram SOME doctors have postponed their operations this month as patients do not want to become victims of the "hungry ghost". This has resulted in a drop in the number of scheduled surgery cases in at least four hospitals here. No
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    • 410 10  -  About 900 Science, Education, Law and Arts graduates received their scrolls yesterday. It was the third day of the National University of Singapore Convocations at the Kallang Theatre Colin Cheong ON THE CONVO BEAT CONVOCATING these days is like getting married. You have photographs on ceramic plates,
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  • 282 12  -  SINGAPORETODAY ESTHER TAN NEW BEAT{ ARE you a homemaker getting bored at home but finding it difficult to re-enter the workforce? Or, a retiree with too much time on your hands? Maybe you can start a small business and be your own boss! A
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 250 14 PARLIAMENT Parliament has been adjourned AN elected President could stop the Government from abusing its powers to deal with subversion, religious extremism and corruption. The Constitution (Amendment No. 3) Bill, introduced yesterday, has added these checks to the role of an elected President proposed a few
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    • 100 14 COMPLAINTS of national servicemen can be reported by the press. But members of the SAF cannot speak directly to the press without official approval. Minister for Trade and Industry Brigadier-General Lee Hsien Loong made this point yesterday. He was answering a question by Mr
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    • 105 14 VEHICLE certificates of entitlement (COEs) must be kept transferable. It enables those who did not tender or who made unsuccessful bids to get one in the open market, said Minister for Communications and Information Dr Yeo Ning Hong. He strongly defended the system in answer
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    • 108 14 THE half-tank rule helps Singapore use the petrol tax to curb car use here. It also cuts the loss of duty on petrol bought outside Singapore. Thus the rule is here to stay, Brigadier-General George Yeo said. The Minister of State (Finance and Foreign
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    • 131 14 RENT controls will be lifted in several conservation and non-conservation areas to allow re-development projects to start without further delay. National Development Minister S Dhanabalan told Parliament rent control on tenanted properties in these development areas will be lifted in three phases
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    • 72 14 OTHER new bills introduced in Parliament: The Employment of Foreign Workers Bill. It seeks to impose heavier penalties on employers of illegal foreign workers. The Central Provident Fund Act (Amendment No. 2). It would cap the amount of CPF contributions on additional wages for those earning total wages
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 246 17  -  By Angeline Song YOU could become a calendar girl. Van Der Horst, a local engineering company, is looking for 12 pretty women for their 1991 calendar. The calendars will be distributed to the company's predominantly male customers. In the past 10 years, only professional
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    • 136 17 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. discerning: Showing good judgment. A discerning person is someone with good judgment. discriminating: Distinguishing between good and bad. A discriminating person knows what is good and bad. extraordinaire: Extraordinary.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 221 19 AFP. WEST Germany's ruling and opposition parties have reached a compromise on the thorny issue of abortion rights in a unified Germany. This was the final obstacle tQ the signing today of a unity treaty with East Germany, the chief of the Federal Chancellery,
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    • 127 19 A MALAYSIAN woman who ended up looking ugly after plastic surgery has won compensation from the beautician who recommended it The beautician paid Madam Li Amu $3,584 for agreeing not to sue her. The amount was what Madam Li, 40, had paid for the surgery, the
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    • 215 19 Wire services. GRUKSOME details in the media about a series of killings have terrorised residents of a Florida town. News reports have said that the person who has so far killed five people, slashed torsos, shredded flesh and left a severed head |>erched on a
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    • 310 20 Reuter. PRESIDENT George Bush is sending two top officials to Europe, the Middle East and Asia to generate financial support for the US military build-up in the Gulf. He also wants US' richer allies to help those countries badly hit by the economic embargo
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    • 119 20 TURKEY: Losing millions for cutting off the flow of Iraqi oil through a pipeline that crosses its border. Tourism industry expected to lose as much as $1.75 billion this year. EGYPT: Crisis has virtually ended the flow of about $1.75 billion a year in remittances
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    • 134 20 Reuter. PRESIDENT George Bush yesterday spurned a challenge to debate the Gulf crisis with Iraq leader Saddam Hussein on television. He branded the Iraqi leader's taped appearances with Western captives manipulative and cynical. Mr Bush said Saddam's appearances were "so brutal and so totally
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    • 254 20 Wire services. IRAQ was arranging yesterday to evacuate some British women and children from Baghdad aboard an Iraqi aircraft. Britain's Virgin Atlantic Airways said yesterday that it had Iraqi permission to pick up more evacuees. The British Foreign Office said Iraq was arranging to
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    • Article, Illustration
      242 20 .1 jordan Crown Prince Hassan appeals for world help to feed and repatriate more than 75,000 people stranded on Jordan's eastern border. Volunteers needed to offer medical help and hand out food to these evacuees from Iraq-occupied Kuwait at two border camps. "7 "V L-V OTHER DEVELOPMENTS Arab
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    • 366 21  -  By Yaw Yan Chong SOME of the names in the provisional Kuwaiti "government" announced by Iraq belong to dead Kuwaiti soldiers. The visiting Oil Minister of Kuwait's Government-in-ex-ile, Dr Rasheed Salem Al-A-raeeri, revealed this in Singapore yesterday. He did not give details but stressed that proof
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    • 209 21 AFP. AN Iraqi official has warned that it would be dangerous for Thailand to allow US forces use of Thai bases. The warning was given by Mr Khalaf Khatav, a member of the Iraqi ruling Arab Socialist Party (Baath), who was in Bangkok on
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    • 130 21 AFP. THE deployment of US forces in Saudi Arabia threatens the strategic balance in the region as well as the Soviet Union's southern flank. This was stated by the Soviet commander of the Warsaw Pact forces, General Vladimir Lobov, in Moscow yesterday. Gen Lobov
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      230 21 AFP. INSTITUTIONAL bargain hunters responded to upturns on other world markets, particularly Tokyo, to take shares higher yesterday. The market was off its best by the close after a weak opening on Wall Street. The FT-30 shares index closed up 29 points at 1,687.9, but gilts had a mixed
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    • 73 21 STOCKS opened weaker as a scarcity of new trading factors here prompted the market to take its cue from losses overnight on Wall Street. The key 225-share Nikkei average was down 105.21 points or 0.41 per cent to 25,564.75 in the first 10 minutes of trading after gaining 775.17
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    • 51 21 FT Industrials Thu 1,687.90 (1,658.90) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,593.32 (2,632.43) ST Industrial Thu 1,259.63 (1,214.56) NST Industrial Thu 2,931.56 (2,871.62) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 3,064.19 (3,015.95) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,503.30 (1,487.20) Nikkei Stock Average Thu 25,669.96 (24,894.79) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      236 21 AP. PRICES fell sharply on Wall Street yesterday, ending the stock market's four-day winning streak as oil prices rose and pessimism deepened over the economy and the Gulf crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had gained more than 149 points in the previous four sessions, lost 39.11
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  • spotlight
    • 1559 22 "What appears as suicide could be murder..." So begins Murder is My Business, a factual account of medical investigations into local crime cases written by Prof Chao Tzee Cheng, a senior forensic pathologist, with Audrey Perera, a freelance writer. This is the first of three instalments
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    • 184 22 IT is the job of a forensic pathologist a medical detective to probe, find and record the truth. Forensic pathologists are best-known for the kind of work that you will read about in this book examining blood-splash patterns, stab wounds, and bruises. The autopsy (the word comes from the Greek,
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    • 828 23 fridaytv end mamm fr,day (Channel 8, 9.30 pm) (Channel 5, 8.20 pm) U wff TIANSHENG (John Hong, right) is framed THE topics for tonight's discussion by Wenfeng for kidnapping Manhua. The I are Engulfed by Iraq, Beyond Junk Wm police find the ransom money in his dye and The Man
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  • 230 24  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By l Vivien Chiong MOST of us would have gone through the stage of trying to emulate some celebrity during our adolescence. It is part of growing up, but it can be quite irritating to our family members and friends. That's what happened
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    • 93 24 THE PILL BEAUTY ON A SINGAPORE RIGHT NOW! Do women still BUDGET MODELS Local fashion takes need to worry The $45-Face Strike an its cue from the fall about the risks? international pose collections I STILL LOOKING WHAT MEN FOR MR. PERFECT? Common mistakes ENVY ABOUT Or are you willing
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    • 229 24 fridaytv THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA X (PART 2) JH (Channel THE Phantom, Erik (Charles Dance), is in love with M' Christine (Teri Polo, left), the opera company's newest member who has an incredible Erik attempts to win Christine's heart. He kidnaps brings her to his Wm by her beautiful
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  • Showtime
    • 324 25  -  By Alfonso Chan f I i ANCY performing to an audience of 300 million? That's what Farid Ali, Singapore's musician extraordinaire, will be doing in Holland next month. The 27-year-old Berklee College of Music (Boston) graduate has been invited to perform at the Holland World Song
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    • 268 25 ANOTHER talent may be poached by our neighbours, if recognition i9 not given soon. Farid Ali may be one of Singapore's best musical talents in a long while, but like Fandi Ahmad, may soon end up spending his creative energies in Kuala Lumpur. How else can
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 197 27  -  STORM IN SHANGHAI II 12 episodes From Sept 8 SBC 8, 6.45 pm PREVIEW By Lo Tien Yin D I OUBLE, bubble, toil and trouble, here's a sequel to Storm In Shanghai. When will trouble ever end? The storm boils again for Adam Cheng. In
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    • 185 27 TODAY S PIN UP q STEFFI Graf, the World No. 1 and the US Open defending champion, is all set to claim the Grand Slam title again. In three years, West German Steffi, now 21, has established herself as the most outstanding player on
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    • 441 28  -  By Vivien Chiong YOU can now stash away sexy Fei Xiang's poster with his old Li's. Here comes another suave six-foot heart-stealer Taiwan's latest heartthrob He Duling. Though he has been in showbusiness for only one year, his striking good looks and 1.85
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    • 301 29 IT pays to be a man at least in Hollywood. For toting a machine-gun around, Sylvester Stallone, for instance, regularly commands salaries four times as much as Meryl Streep does for actually acting. And Eddie Murphy, an unlikely candidate for an Oscar, gets double what Oscar-win-ning Jane Fonda
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    • 55 29 The Men: Jack Nicholson $19.1 m Eddie Murphy $17.4 m Arnold Schwarzenegger $17.4 m Tom Cruise $13.9 m Mel Gibson $12.1 m Bruce Willis $12.1 m The Women: Jane Fonda $8.7 m Meryl Streep $8.7 m Sigourney Weaver $8.9 m Sally Field $5.2 m Michelle
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  • SHOPTALK
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      433 30 Three retail giants give their views on what the Singapore shopper will be like in the 90s and how they plan to meet the challenge. CSHANTHENI reports QUALITY not quantity. That is, what the 90s shopper will look for. The new breed of Singaporean, the children of today's
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    • 223 30 EYETOEYE The Singapore Contact Lens Society a society of qualified optometrists writes this weekly column on eye care. Address your queries to. Eye to Eye, c/o, Shoptalk, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. LAST week, we gave tips some tips on things to
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    • 240 35 •31 Employment i I EXPANSION Plans Include You! Yamaha Music School, Singapore's largest Music Education Establishment, has grown even bigger with the opening of two new schools at YISHUN and PASIR RIS. Be part of our family, you will be pleasantly surprised at the benefits we have In store just
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    • 285 36 831 Employment #JURONG CORPORATION WALK-IN INTERVIEW Dates Time Friday, 9.00 am 12.00 noon 31.8.90 2.30 pin 4.00 pm Saturday, 01.9.90 9.00 am -12.00 noon Applications arc invited for the following position:Gross Salary Range: $626 $1633 pm Qualifications/Requirements National Trade Certificate -Grade 111 (Theory Practical) OR Singapore Cambridge GCE 'O' Level
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  • SPORTS
    • 402 38 Reuter. DEFENDING champion Bori§ Becker, an advocate of not peaking too early in Grand Slams, sped past his second dangerous opponent to reach the third round of the US Open tennis championships yesterday. Becker, seeded second, turned back Frenchman Yannick Noah 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 in an
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    • 335 38 Wire Services. SERGEI Bubka of the Soviet Union, unbeaten in major championships since 1983, crashed out of the pole vault final without a medal at the European athletics championships in Split, Yugoslavia, yesterday. The reigning world and Olympic champion, who was a 19-year-old teenager when
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    • 200 38 Men: Brad Gilbert (US) bt Rick Leach (US) 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 6-2; Aaron Krickstein (US) bt Jason Stoltenberg (Aust) 6-4, 6-2, 6-4; Michael Chang (US) bt Jimmy Arias (US) 7-6 (7-3), 6-3, 6-2; Franco Davin (Arg) bt Glenn Layendecker (US) 6-7 (8-10), 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; Darren Cahill (Aust) bt
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    • 209 38 GAME, SET AND DIET PEPSI In The 1990 Volvo Supertennis Challenge 29 September 1990 Win free tickets to the greatest tennis challenge of all time with Diet Pepsi' I, *J Watch Stefan Edberg. twice winner of the Ford Australian Open and PjL'V Michael Chang, the youngest man in history to
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    • 429 40 ABDUL SHUKOR previews the Lion City Cup TODAY'S TIES NAPOLEON was certain that he had a destiny. The rest of us are probably not so sure. While we may see a clear pattern to our lives with hindsight, it is sobering to think back to the
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    • 166 40 SINGAPORE'S Lion City Cup coach Vincent Subramaniam has set a target for his boys: A berth in the semi-finals of the Lion City Cup starting at the Toa Payoh Stadium today. And Vincent, who is also the national team's assistant coach, is confident they will achieve
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      137 41 S'pore's hopes for same kick-off times: KL bent on beating S'gor for S'pore, reports S GULAM THERE will be no change to the kick-off times of three crucial title-deciders this weekend, says the Football Association of Malaysia. This means Singapore will play Perlis at Kangar at 4.45pm, while
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    • 254 41 S'pore's fate in that KL-Selangor clash: KUALA Lumpur has promised to go all out to beat Selangor on Saturday at the Merdeka Stadium. And that's good news for the beleagured Lions, hoping for the Semi-Pro League soccer title. "No favours for Selangor though we are from the same
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    • 151 41 Wire Services. ARGENTINE international Jorge Burruchaga is to have an operation on his right knee next Tuesday and his club Nantes fear he could be out for up to six months. The World Cup midfielder has already had operations on both knees and doctors believe he may have torn
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    • 89 42 Reuter. FLAMBOYANT Colombian goalkeeper Rene Higuita missed a penalty but his side, Atletico Nacional, still reached the semi-fi-nals of the Libertadores Cup with a 2-0 victory over Brazilians Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. The keeper, whose antics cost Colombia dearly in
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    • 127 42 AFP. NEW coach Paulo Falcao has rang the changes for his first match in charge of Brazil. Falcao, who played for Brazil in the 1982 World Cup, has picked only one player who went to Italy for the World Cup finals in June, for the Sept
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      383 42 being unable to play for his club, Fandi said he did not like the place and has even lost weight. KLFA secretary K Rasalingam Malay Mail. FANDI AHMAD is fed up and wants to rejoin the Kuala Lumpur soccer team. Already the Singaporean has inquired in a
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    • 157 42 "I'M IN a dilemma," said the 28-year-old Singaporean. "I know the FAM has already sent the ITC. I spoke to Datuk Paul Mony (the FAM executive secretary) several times. "I now understand he has sent a copy of the ITC four times. But
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