The New Paper, 23 February 1991

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1 43 The New Paper
  • 13 1 the new paper Nikon SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1991 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS
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    • 64 1 H W. -1 /*/H^I l( i fcj^^B y<a Amy Yip gpes nude (right) in —Trew photo album./ Page 10 [pUBIN, Government concept plan shows possible MRT extensions to islands; Extension to Woodlands confirmed /Page 8 Pulau n Tekona WOODLANDS P.L* 0 CENTRAL YISHUN Ubin o o <VCHOA CHU KANG j
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 391 2 w ft B Wire services. IRAQ this morning denounced as "shameful" a US ultimatum for Baghdad to start pulling out from Kuwait within 24 hours or face a ground war. A statement by the ruling Revolutionary Command Council did not say if President Saddam Hussein was
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    • 23 2 Desert siestd: American soldiers resting on Friday after a steak lunch in the Saudi desert. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 205 2 Reuter. Iraq must begin large-scale withdrawal from Kuwait by 1 am tomorrow. Withdrawal to be completed within a week. Within the first 48 hours, Iraq must remove all its forces from Kuwait City and allow for the prompt return of the legitimate government of Kuwait. Iraq
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    • 93 2 Wire services. Iraq to start withdrawing from Kuwait a day after a ceasefire comes into effect. The withdrawal shall be completed within three weeks. Iraq will withdraw from Kuwait City, the emirate's capital within the first four days. All prisoners of war all be set tree and repatriated
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    • 152 2 Wire services. THE tough conditions set by the US are aimed at preventing President Saddam Hussein from gaining anything from his invasion of Kuwait, said observers. "There's not going to be a negotiation. There will be no face-saving solution for Saddam," said
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    • 148 2 HOTUNEPLUS TO share a point of view, call Hotline Plus at 734-7711,0r write to The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Rd, S'pore 0923. Eskinol Facial Lotioa is aa effective facial cleanser, which deep cleanses and whitens the skin, leaving it dearer and fairer. A continuous use of Eskinol
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 164 4 HOT STORY THE school environment can help students become good citizens. That is the premise of the new Civics and Moral Education Programme to be introduced next year for students in upper secondary levels, says Dr Tay Eng Soon this morning. The Senior Minister of State talks
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      2 4  -  Pat
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 78 4 SINGAPORE Telecoms is expected to be made a private company in October, Business Times reports today. Its shares will be offered to the public sometime next year. BT sources say that the study on Telecom's privatisation is expected to be ready in a few months' time. The
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      • 79 4 THE price of petrol is now 2.5 cents lower per litre at all stations islandwide. This follows pump price cuts by five oil companies yesterday. Caltex first reduced its prices on Thursday evening. The five are Esso, Shell, Singapore Petroleum Company, BP and Mobil. Leaded petrol now costs
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      • 87 4 TRADE negotiators held meetings in Geneva on Thursday to restart the Uruguay Round of talks on liberalising global commerce. This followed a breakthrough on agriculture. The Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Mr Arthur Dunkel, plans to set out a programme of work for all
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      • 91 4 INDONESIAN parties may spring some "surprises" at the next presidential election in 1993. This was indicated by representatives from the United Development Party, the Indonesian Democratic Party and the ruling Golkar group. They said they had candidates in mind who could be put forward. But with more
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    • 74 4 The Straits Times: President: All have a stake in S'pore. Business Times: Government to increase citizens' assets. Lianhe Zaobao: Wee Kim Wee on take-off of next lap for Singapore: Stronger sense of collective responsibility and identity. Berita Harian: Make bold ideas a reality. SBC: President Bush has given Iraq
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  • 517 5 Mountain bikes are the latest two-wheeled craze in town. Eve n police have ordered 380 of these bicycles for their Neighbourhood Police Posts. COLIN CHEONG finds out why the bike is so hot THENEWSTODAY M OUNTAIN-bikers say one thing. That's for public relations purposes to
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 234 6 President Wee Kim Wee opened the third session of the current Parliament last night. Here are highlights of his speech SCHOOLS More schools and teachers. All secondary and later primary schools to go single session. Better ratio of teechers to students. EDUCATION Every child to get at
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    • 20 6 P X. eople are our most precious resource. We will devote a larger percentage of our GDP to education.
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    • 27 6 JLhe Government will set up a Service Quality Improvement Unit under the Prime Minister's Office, to monitor and improve upon the standard of public administration.
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    • 57 6 In a shrinking world, to think in terms of Singapore International is a matter of necessity, not choice. We will help Singaporeans overseas to organise themselves in clubs and associations, to keep them conscious of their national identity. We will set up a Singapore International Foundation to build
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    • 63 6 M y Government supports the efforts of Mendaki and other community organisations to uplift the Malays. Mendaki plays a key role, but to succeed, many groups must contribute, not Mendaki alone The measure of their success is not whether Malays have caught up with other Singaporeans. Rather it is
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    • 209 6  -  THE English edition of The Next Lap went on sale this morning at most bookshops. Editions in Chinese. Malay and Tamil will be available soon. The hardcover book costs $9 a copy. By Irene Hoe THIS crystal ball is an open book. Called The
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 403 8  -  By Irene Hoe t I HE MRT may go to Pulau Übin and Pulau Tekong if Government carries out proposals detailed in the Singapore Concept Plan. A new North-East MRT line will link the MRT's East-West line at Outram Park to Seletar and
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    • 155 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. configured: When you configure something, you shape it. crestfallen: Someone who is crestfallen is rather sad and disappointed about something. cyst: A growth containing liquid that appears inside your
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    • 338 8 The New Paper/OshKosh B' Gosh® "Picture Perfect" Photo Contest. mk 1 I Vl' 1 VJ I *****1 v I I b A 1 m cmiK fB \&mj Kids look adorable in OshKosh B 1 Gosh! We are looking for Singapore's most adorable kids. Just enter your l favourite children's photograph
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 442 10 N 1 UDE pictures of Amy Yip have hit the market in an eye-popping new photo album now on sale in Hongkong and Taiwan. The shots were taken from the film Erotic Ghost Story, reports the Chinese-language Shin Min Daily News. In the pictures,
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    • 141 10 POOR TICKET SALES THE turnout for Amy Yip's shows in Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang fell far below the organiser's expectations. Only half of the 7,(XX) seats were occupied on the first night of her Lunar New Year Show in Ipoh. This dropped to 30 to
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    • 489 11  -  By Yaw Yan Chong MORE than $1 million worth of drugs were in his flat but the landlord knew nothing about it until his tenant was arrested yesterday. The 26-year-old tenant the leader of a local drug-traf-ficking syndicate was caught with about 2.6 kg of heroin. This
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    • 139 11 CONFIDENT, serious and quiet that was how his landlord described the drug syndicate leader. He has a muscular build, dressed simply in T-shirts and pants, but carried a hand-held phone. "He hardly says anything to me unless necessary. But he always speaks with this air of
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    • 125 11 THE arrests and the recovery of the drugs form a major breakthrough. The Central Narcotics Bureau's deputy director, Mr Masbollah Fazal, said the 2.6-kg haul was one of the biggest from a local syndicate. Most of the other big hauls were made when the drugs were in transit
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    • 377 12 T WO schoolgirls and a 19-year-old boy have been caught removing money from two donation cans. The 16-year-old girls, Sec 4 students from Katong Convent School, had been asked by their school to sell flags to raise money for the Young Woman's Muslim Association, a
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    • 131 12 HERE'S an opportunity to watch the stars come out and play in a soccer match this Sunday at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The friendly match against the Singapore Veterans is scheduled at 9.30am. Among those playing will be SBC stars Hong Peixing, John Lin, Huang Wenyong,
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    • 138 12 KATONG Convent School's principal Mrs Karen Oei said she has decided to let the matter rest. "The girls did fiddle with the tin, but they said that they meant well," she told The New Paper yesterday. "They said they wanted to find out how much
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    • 296 13 RESIDENTS in the Amoy Street area came to the aid of a lorry driver who was sandwiched between a truck and a wall outside a temple for almost an hour yesterday morning. Mr Yao Chengchun, 50, was finally rescued with the help of passers-by
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    • 263 12 AmmoN Of Coats 0 Praamrtadby Yak Sang (Hay) Farm Pta Ltd m mpcxtwd ipeoes of dairy goats from Minnesota J. JT- USA goat-mfcmo ctemoratratloni m capture your New yff i, <£§ Year photographs with the goats j V JMy|B. Exhibition Of JflW CHINA m CULTURE f f PrtfsenOfd by J
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 276 13 "GET INTO HOT SOUP 'At Lipton, we make our Cup-a-Soup range from only high fi quality, wholesome V>UD-a-OOUP ingredients. With real M JfPwL pieces of beef, chicken, vegetables and croutons. So you f 9 enc^OT a^onc just add boiling water and you've AND TO! recorder VHRSOBO 2nd Prize Sanyo 14"
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 388 14 A MAN who kept an eight-year-old girl captive for 56 hours and repeatedly assaulted her was sentenced to life last week in Britain. Little Gemma Lawrence's ordeal touched the heart of the nation last summer, the British newspaper International Express reported. It
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    • 168 14 A GERMAN boy spent 43 minutes at the bottom of a frozen lake and lives. Mario Schmoeckel, 11, was given up for dead after he plunged through the ice of a lake in Cologne last week, the British newspaper, International Express reported. The boy
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    • 405 14 Reuter. SHOOTING broke out in and around the military academy in the Albanian capital Tirana yesterday between reformist officers and hardliners attempting a coup, opposition Democratic Party sources said. "There is fighting and shooting in the military academy and several people have been seriously
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  • 38 15 *m M H;V M (TO ME Jfe ESJ} I Bnli Meet Craig Foster, the Aussie soccer player tipped to be Singapore's answer to Alistair Edwards and Abbas Saad now with Johor Pages 22 to 24
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  • SCENE & HEARD
    • 569 16  - ‘Gulping cockroaches is easy’ Chen Shucheng Stories/ Lo Tien Yin ONE muscular SBC star is afraid of chickens. Another cannot bear ants. And while a director is terrified of cockroaches, one actor thinks nothing of swallowing live roaches. Coming face to face with their secret fears is all part of
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    • 294 16 ANYONE with a fear for feathered things should recall Tippi Hedren's role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic The Birds. She entered a bedroom upstairs and was nearly pecked to death. While filming the scene, she nearly was. Yet psychologists say your fears will disappear, if
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    • 338 17  -  Texan beauty claims she posed for poster. Another model says she stood in for Roberts, who refused to undress for hot movie scenes Stories Lo Tien Yin LOOK again at that film poster of Pretty Woman. Roberts' body in the poster is not her
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      22 17 Slick Switch: Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Seems it's not her body you see in the film's sex scenes.
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      447 18 SO how would some SBC stars look if their bodies were replaced in promotional posters? SBC's promotional posters are never "doctored", said an SBC spokesman. They don't feel the need to substitute Zoe Tay's body in a poster because the emphasis is not how great the characters
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      470 19  -  RIANG TIRANA Coming to Raja Cinema PREVIEW/By Anuar Othman WHAT do you do when you are in college? Concentrate on getting your certificate or falling in love? Or both? Mixing studies and romance seems to be the "in" topic now with Malay movies for young viewers. In
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  • 310 20 MYWORD Why give tax-free perk to smokers leaving the country when it's denied to those entering Singapore? WE had heard of one-way streets. We have you to thank, Airtropolis, for adding one-way smokes to our vocabulary. Starting Jan 1, the sale of duty-free cigarettes to
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    • 452 20 The New Paper Saturday Special fpS TOWIV? Talk about Bridgestone and tyres come to mind. Not any more. More than 60 yean ago, Bridgestone diversified from its business of manufacturing tyres to the manufacturing of golf equipment. Its sports technology now includes golf and J tennis equipment, mountain bikes and
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  • 209 21 Rolling stone Mick Jagger was a worried man last week. He discovered a "lump" on his body and thought he had cancer. He immediately went for tests hut, luckily for him, the lump turned out to be a harmless cyst. However, the doctors have recommended that
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  • 140 21 IT'S good to know that many of our top local stars believe that Orchard Road isn't the only place for night entertainment. Last week, I spotted five "big names" enjoying themselves outside the neon-light glitter of Orchard Road. Jacintha Abisheganaden looked relaxed and quite
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  • 207 21 HAVK we become slaves to our pagers you know, those little things that go beep at the oddest times of day? 1 believe we have! And to prove it, let me tell you a little storv that was related to me by a popular local deejay.
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  • 199 21 HEY all you female fans of singer Douglas Oliveiro. I've got news for you. The sexy star of the band Energy doesn't believe in using a towel to dry himself. He prefers a hair-dryer! This I discovered during a visit to Fire Pub last week. After watching
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    48 21 WHO says professional footballers just make money and more money? Cameroon World Cup football stars Roger Milla (above) and M'bouh M'bouh have been made honorary members of the Junior Common Room at Magdalen College, Oxford. Wonder whether this will entitle them to free food in the tuckshop?
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  • COVERSTORY
    • 1015 22 ON THE BALL: Australian footballer Craig Foster, the FAS' first foreign .sign-up this season, is set to be Singapore's latest heart-throb. ABDUL SHUKOR spent four days with him in Melbourne recently CRAIG FOSTER At Sunshine George Cross, Craig and brother Paul are the club's two most valuable
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    • 118 22 Full name: Craig Andrew Foster Date of birth: April 15, 1969 Height: 1.85 m Weight: 75 kg Marital status: Single Playing history: At 10, he was New South Wales state captain for the Under- 12 side in the Australian Championships. At 16, he was picked to play for
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    • 329 23 8.30 am On a typical day, Craig Foster has his "brekke" (Australian for breakfast), which consists of orange juice and two slices of bread. 9 am After finishing up, he walks out of 444 St Kilda Street in Melbourne for his daily 5 km run on
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    • 252 23 SUNSHINE George Cross manager Gary Hasler gave Craig the thumbs up. He said "Craig is a steady player and is the backbone in our team. He should do well in Singapore as he can adapt to all types of soccer styles." Craig has "gained
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    • 173 23 gapore last year. "It was superb. The football, the weather, the food. Fantastic. Singapore is an ideal place to live and play." Craig knows. He spent a total of two weeks in Singapore, one when he was on his way to play in Germany and the other
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 249 24 A OH NO, HOT THE CRUMMIES! You know I'm BAD! For Sleazy Song of the Year, I wont to thank my mother I'm GLAD, you know IT! once again, the unanimous and father, who brought me Hooo, Hooo! Yo, I used choice is...you guessed it... into this world so I
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  • ETCETERA
    • 142 25 Seeking the truth in an untruthful world, with patience in the most im patient of professions, editors often question with wide-eyed incredulity the veracity of each story thus: Really, meh? Truly, fact is stranger than fiction. So true that, in this age of cynicism, far too
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    • Article, Illustration
      156 25 FIRST, an item about Patriots and missiles. USA Today reports that Mr Victor Kiam, owner of the New England Patriots (a gridiron football team), was forced by feminists to apologise for a remark he made concerning a woman sportswriter. Some background: Ms Lisa Olsen, a Boston Herald sportswriter, had
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      67 25 A DOCTOR with a name of rare distinction made a killing with some coins on Wednesday. The good doctor disposed of a coin the shape of a beetle and the colour of rust at th< Taisei Stamps and Coins auction for a whopping $288,000. His total collection from the
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    • 156 25 WHAT does Abdul Rahman Nairn and Belgian cyclist Danny de Bie have in common? They have a strange way of using material meant for their appendages, such as condoms and socks. De Bie was caught cheating during a dope test. He didn't want to risk testing his own urine,
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    • 64 25 ISABELLE Gilloux is a 23-year-old stu dent doing a doctorate on orangutan be haviour. i She was in Singapore to study Ah Menu's lifestyle (ST, Feb 21). Though she has a pen chant for apes, she intends to widen her research to include more big land animals. "1 cannot
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      78 25 AND now earrings, and three men who caused a ripple bv piercing their nipples (TNT, Feb '20). While I do not consider myself a prude, and while 1 remain a firm believer in freedom, fads and fashion statements, I fail to see the point. If our Maker had meant
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    • 116 25 IT isn't easy being a soccer professional. Especially if you're a Brazilian, a breed of men synonymous with soccer brilliance. Tiong Bahru's two Brazilian imports made their first match appearance last week. Reports say they were not exactly impressive. P N Sivaji, the Tiong Bahru coach, probably justifying his
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  • Article, Illustration
    102 26 SITTING TALL: That could well have been tiny Nelso de la Rosa's reaction when he came face to face with Alani Channa, of Pakistan, who holds a record as one of the world's tallest men. De la Rosa, from Santiago, is 110 small wonder himself. The 22-year-old is listed
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    • 913 27 saturdaytv SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES POSBANK LUCKY CITY SQUEEZE (Channel 5, 1 am) DRAW SHOW (Channel 8, 10.15 pm) who seems to be always in s TO helD celebrate this irranH I businessman "fancies a trouble with the law. The mAg2& At9|UM draw, the POSBank Grand ~l beautiful young employee
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 842 28 sundaytv Embassy employee, a young and beautiful innocent MATI TUC DDICAMKTD "TWfc ;V £> X® abroad who finds herself caught up in a murder, IflMILUUfl. I fit r mOUllLH frt' IB* when a petty criminal is found murdered in her (SBC 12, 5.05 pm) jfcJWjL M apartment. But Hayden has
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 388 29 7L 0 KUWAITI resistance fighters were left bleeding for days until they died after being crucified by Iraqi soldiers, the International Express newspaper reported. The severed heads of other Kuwaitis were also left on stakes outside their homes, a spokesman for the Kuwaiti resistance in
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    • 250 29 AP. THE US marines fought its fiercest battle of the war to date on Thursday. They knocked out Iraqi tanks and ammunition trucks and captured 81 soldiers, a US marine spokesman told reporters yesterday. The Iraqi soldiers threw down their weapons after
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    • 267 29 Wire services. IRAQ is alleged to have set ablaze at least 100 Kuwaiti oilwells in the past 24 hours. This was stated by US Brigadier-General Richard Neal at a military briefing in Riyadh last night. He said pilots flying over Kuwait had
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    • 25 29 A breather: US Army Sgt James Magill watching Saudi kids play soccer on a street in a border town Picture/ Reuter
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    • 130 29 SORTIES MORE than 2,700 Allied sorties were flown yesterday, for a total of about 91,000 in the 37 days since the war began. US warplanes rained napalm and fuel-air bombs onto Iraqi positions in Kuwait. Iraq fired one Scud missile yes- terday morning towards Saudi Arabia,
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    • 394 30 AP. c I APT Scott "Spike" Thomas 1 spent two of the longest hours of his life collecting r Iraqi stones as souvenirs for the members of the search-and-rescue team who snatched him out of Iraqi territory. They were a small sign of gratitude
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    • 164 30 AFP. US Marine planes have started dropping napalm on Iraqi tanks and artillery pieces which could be used for chemical warfare. The pilots from the Marine 231 st Attack Squadron based in Northeast Saudi Arabia said yesterday some of their Harrier jets have been armed
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    • 270 30 MANY US soldiers in the Gulf are making their last call home. But their conversations have taken on a dark air. They talk about where they want to be buried and what kind of life they want for their children they may never see
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    • 100 30 GULF [e>AY| m s au( Ji Arabia has started to assemble 37 I > former Iraqi military and political officials to form a potential government-in-exile for Vll jL' \»V a post-Saddam Baghdad. j ra q fi res its first Scud missile on Bahrain. No damage reported. US Defence Secretary Dick
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 336 31 r SATURDAYRADIO News on the Hour NOON News in Brief 12.03 PM Popular Classics 12 05 PM Real Fun with Roger Kool 100 News and Share Market Review 1.15 Traffic Report/Interlude j 30 Popular Classics (cont'd) 1 30 Love on the Airwaves 2.00 Programme Summary 2 30 Movie Memories 2.02
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 352 32 COMICRELIEF SATURDAYRADIO Orchard Road/coim Goh EE9flHHii r NOON Future Hits NOON Newsdesk Mb > THOUGHT 1 W[uOHM HAPPENED? ...AT LEAST MlOO TOO, 1 100 PM News 1230 PM 011 th SheH ruuiOciOT\xic< NOT 10U ENJOYED I TOU WERE HAVII\J6 OMTII AUfJT HIM? I 1.10 Random Rhythms 12.45 Financial News OURKtLHUVbS...
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    • 738 33 SUNDAYRADIO News on the Hour 600 N«w»brt.f. Summary 6.00 AM NrnkrM, Weather 6.00 AM Singapore Good Morning 6.00 Rac« Commentaries and 4-0 6.05 Breakfast Classics 6.05 Contemporary Hits of the 7.00 News Results bOO AM Ne»sbnef j w News, Weather 1980s-1990 7 Safety Alert •7 00 News hin 715 Breakfast
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  • 653 37 $150,000 TUNKU 66LD CUP SPORTS/RACING W ITH the scratching of his ageing pair of champions Colonial Chief and Grand Illusion, cup specialist Ivan Allan has only last week's impressive winner Gold Pavilion to take on a field containing seven entries from his old rival Teh Choon Beng.
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    • 369 38 SCHOOLS NATIONAL B DIVISION SOCCER JIN TAI 6 NAVAL BASE 1 Other results: Bedok South 4 SJI 3. East View 4 Henderson 2. Mei Chin 0. Si I mg 1. MacPherson 1 SVI 3. Assumption English 2 Yishun 2. Boys Town 5 Ang Mo
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    • 81 38 WAS THE 32nd minute opening goal scored by Naval Base's Kevin Malcolm against Jin Tai an offside goal? That was the question many fans and officials were asking after the match. Linesman Mohammed Hairi raised his flag when Kevin was about to latch on to a high ball, with
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      50 38 ROBERT LIM, one of the coaches from the Singapore Sports Council/FAS Milo Elite squad, is present at almost every match these days. His job is to scout for talent. No wonder he's been labelled Ton to after the Indian scout who accompanies the Lone Ranger. Scouter: Robert Lim
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      492 39  -  Brian Miller F OR Frankie Minoza, the 1991 Singapore Open golf championships at Tanah Merah ended at the stroke of five yesterday evening. That was when he failed to birdie the last hole and so missed the halfway cut by a single stroke. Minoza's two round total was
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      765 40 The talk at Napoli centres around two superstars. While incumbent Diego Maradona is showing a new lease of life, the club is reported to have tabled a $23m bid for Paul Gascoigne the likely replacement for the Argentine playmaker AFP. The new Maradona? AN unnamed Italian club, believed
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      342 40 Wire services. NEIL Webb and Mike Phelan are back in contention for Manchester LJnited's Rumbelows League Cup semi-final second-leg at Leeds tomorrow. Roth players missed the last two games because of hamstring trouble. United is likely to drop Lee Martin and let Clayton Blackmore operate at left back with
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    • 100 40 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: SNOOKER British Open 4th rd: Tony Meo (Eng) bt Doug Mountjoy (Wales) 5-4, Robby Foldvari (Aust) bt Neal Foulds (Eng) 5-4. SOCCER English I)iv Three: Crewe 1 Shrewsbury 2. SQUASH Welsh Classic Q-finals, Men: Chris Dittmar (Aust) bt Mark McLean (Scot) 15-4.
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    • 264 41 Fans seem to be deserting the Premier League this year. Gates have dropped by about 11 per cent compared to last year. Will things improve when the second round starts today. S GULAM reports... WEEKEND FIXTURES i Today: Police v| Jurong Town I Bedok, 4.45pm; Tyrwhitt v
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    • 101 41 WHAT THE FAS SAYS YES, there is a drop in attendance. But it's not too drastic and it should improve for the second round, says the Football Association of Singapore. K Mahalingam, the Premier League Committee secretary, provided statistics to show that the top clubs
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    • 333 41 WHAT THE OFFICIALS SAY A TOP club official fras blamed the decentralisation of the Premier League for the drop in attendance. "Decentralisation has not worked," said Balestier United president S Thavaneson. "It has affected our gates badly. "The drop in attendance is really bad.
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    • 550 42 The pressures of managing Liverpool, England's leading club, for six years have driven Kenny Dalglish into retirement. The English soccer world pays tribute to one of the game's great achievers Age: 39 Became playermanager: 1985 Club honour** 1 IWUVHI 9m O League titles and 2 FA Cups, including
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