Streats, 3 November 2000

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  • 24 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 3 November iOi O j Another quality publication of off* Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 641 1 *JKS investigations got underway into the Singapore Airlines crash, several factors emerged yesterday. The first: Taipei authorities are not sure if the runway lights were fully lit. The second: Tyre marks found on the grass between the runway and the taxiway do not belong to the
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  • 30 1 smecRASH TWO injured passengers who died in hospital yesterday pushed the death toll from Tuesday night’s crash to 81. Another 82 people were injured and 16 were unhurt.
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  • SQ006CRASH: The Aftermath
    • 775 2  -  by Calvin Low Additional reporting by Sarah Ng WE don’t have that information.” “You’ll have to check with the Taiwanese authorities.” “We don’t know.” In six press conferences since SQOO6 crashed in Taipei last Tuesday night, Singapore Airlines’ vicepresident of public affairs Rick Clements has uttered the
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    • 104 2 -AP SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines confirmed yesterday that one of its flights to London was turned back immediately after take-off due to engine trouble, hours before the ill-fated SQOO6 flight crash. On Tuesday, Flight 320 to London took off at 12.30 pm from Singapore
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    • 105 2 -AP SYDNEY A Singapore Airlines flight f from Sydney to Singapore made an unscheduled landing early yesterday after developing a problem in one of its engines. The airline released a statement early yesterday saying flight 5Q232 from Sydney to Singapore developed a generator
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    • 897 3 All they wanted were answers. What happened to Mr Tan Yip Thong? Is he dead or alive? But they got nowhere. Angry, the sister-in-law of Mr Tan stormed into a room at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport at 2.20 am yesterday, just as SIA vice-chairman and CEO Dr
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    • 334 5 CJYong calls him an 'international smuggler of birds of endangered species' IT was a crime that ruffled the feathers of Chief Justice Yong Pung How. Bird breeder Kuah Kok Choon, 26, already had a string of convictions for smuggling endangered birds and possessing illegally-acquired
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      98 5 THE PROSECUTORS listed his past convictions: In 1994, he was caught for the unauthorised import of six exotic parrots in Perth, Australia, and fined A 510,500 (559,570). He was also fined As6oo for giving a false statement In April 1996, he was fined $3,200 for trying to smuggle
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    • 84 5 Our weather girl says It's not a great day to do your i laundry today, but if you must, wait till the rain clears w up before you hang out f your clothes. There'll be thunderstorms islandwide in the late morning and early afternoon. Temperatures will hit a high of
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    • 104 6 onekindact Sharbina,22, customer service staff LAST week, I left my wallet in a taxi. I did not even know that it was lost. Fortunately, the taxi driver, a Mr Ong, was kind enough to ring to inform me that he had found it. He even went
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    • 243 6 A YOUTH decided to beat up transvestites and steal from them. Angelo Ng Chek Kiang, 21, a national serviceman got five of his friends together to target the transvestites in Changi Village. At about 4am on June 4, Ng scouted for a victim there, with
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    • 288 6 Impotence pill has varying effects on different races VIAGRA works better on Singaporean Chinese men than Indians and Malays. Doctors here carried out a year-long study into the efficiency and safety of the male impotence drug and revealed their results to a meeting of
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    • 271 6 A SQUASH enthusiast who took up the sport four months ago collapsed during a game and died shortly after. Mr Tan Peng Hoe, 33, a Malaysian working here, lost consciousness at the Yio Chu Kang Squash and Tennis Centre on Wednesday, at about 6.30 pm,
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    • 169 6 A DISGRUNTLED employee who was fired from his HDB job four years ago kept visiting his former workplace to harass its management. Jobless Tee Teng Heng, 38, was convicted in April and fined $5OO for criminal trespass. He appealed and was sentenced to two weeks in
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      • 146 6 HE battered her with his crutches and made off with her handbag and jewellery. On Oct 29 at about 7.30 pm, a 57-year-old Chinese housewife was in a lift while on her way home at Blk 285, Choa Chu Kang Avenue 3. Two Indian men, one of whom
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      • 124 6 A MAN was killed when fire broke out on the tanker LNG Hoegh Galleon, which is berthed at Wharf 19, Sembawang Shipyard. Mr Abdul Samat bin Mohd Salleh, 60, who was working on a lower deck was found lying near a staircase after the blaze
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      • 98 6 THNG SIEW was in the drug rehabilitation centre from June 1996 to Feb 1998 but still didn’t kick her habit for her children’s sake. Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers observed Thng, 41, acting suspiciously at a bus stop in front of Blk 96, Tiong Bahru Road on
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      • 117 6 THE church donation boxes were filled with contributions, but a thief had no qualms about helping himself to the cash. Police arrested a suspect in the crime yesterday at about 3.30am.Tw0 officers on patrol observed a man behaving suspiciously at a bus stop along Bt Batok
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    • 199 8 betweenthelines crashes in the group within three years is bad. It could raise questions, especially if this crash is due to pilot error. An analyst who requested anonymity (She was referring to the crash of a 737 jet belonging to SI A subsidiary Silk Air
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    • 589 8 IF I HAD stayed there long enough, you could have sent me mail at: Leonardo Da Vinci Airport c/o wire basket bench Airport Lobby Lounge Rome, Italy But one night was all I needed (all I could take) to put my survival skills to the test
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 268 9 Bernama There have been 13 cases of people running amok in past 2 years inM'sia KUCHING A man went wild and hacked his own mother and family members to death in the latest incident of an amok attack in Malaysia. All in all six people
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    • Article, Illustration
      39 9 Beatles lookalikes crossing George Street in Sydney, as part of a promotion for a two-day Beatlefest starting today at The Rocks in Sydney. Inset: The real Beatles crossing the famous Abbey Road in London Pic: AFP
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      • 62 9 Log on to Comedyworld.com and laugh yourself silly several times over. This well-rounded site allows you to read, listen, watch or even share humour with other people. A Comic Community section brings together aspiring ha-ha acts with tips like showcasing your talent on MP3. Be warned though
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    • 247 9 -AFP PHNOM PENH A Cambodian author who wrote a book about an acid attack on a karaoke starlet by the jealous wife of a top official wants asylum in the US following threats on his life. Kong Bun Chhoeun, the uncle of the young
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      • 87 9 -AFP JAKARTA The youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto failed to answer a summons to submit himself to be jailed for 18 months for corruption, and sent his lawyers instead. Erman Umar, one of the lawyers for Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra, said his client
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      • 90 9 -AFP HONGKONG Twenty -six Chinese stowaways who hid in a US-bound container last month appeared in court yesterday. Accompanied by a large number of police officers, the 26 illegal immigrants from China’s Fujian province, aged between 16 and 36, were taken to Tsuen Wan magistracy in
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      • 81 9 AP BANGKOK Villagers who recently escaped Myanmar said the army used them as unpaid labourers and porters to carry ammunition. This was despite an International Labour Organisation (ILO) ultimatum to the military regime to end the practice or face sanctions. Three villagers who fled across the mountainous
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      • 77 9 Reuters SYDNEY Daily application of a cream used to treat warts has shown a 90 per cent success rate against a common form of skin cancer. Dermatologist and researcher Professor Robin Marks said a two-year study of the cream showed that it contained a chemical which
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      • 86 9 -AFP HANOI Vietnamese public prosecutors have decided to launch the first legal action against state officials caught up in a huge corruption scandal that led to the sacking of a deputy prime minister last year. Seven disgraced officials, including departmental directors or assistant directors, are to face
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 235 11 -AFR Reuters SUVA Furious gunbattles between rival government troops left at least two dead and 10 wounded in the Fiji capital yesterday. Special forces troops involved in Fiji’s May coup were reported to have mutinied and tried to seize the army headquarters.
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    • 248 11 Reuters MANILA Philippine Finance Secretary Jose Pardo said he would meet today with four senior Presidential economic advisers who are reported to have resigned. The resignation reports follow accusations that have linked President Joseph Estrada to illegal gambling syndicates. “That’s what I heard, but I
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    • 292 13 -AFP JERUSALEM Israel and the Palestinians have reached an understanding to try to end more than a month of deadly violence wracking the Palestinian territories. A spokesman from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s office said yesterday: “During a meeting held tonight (Wednesday) in Gaza, an
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 13 Devotees of Lord Krishna and members of International Society of Krishna Consciousness wave at a helicopter showering flowers in New Delhi during an annual procession Pic: AP
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    • 207 13 Princess Di reappears as ghost in TV show Reuters LONDON Princess Diana is to reappear on Britain’s television screens as a ghost in a satire programme. Impressionist Rory Bremner plays the ghost of Diana in a sketch in which she sympathises with a troubled looking Prime Minister Tony Blair, according
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      • 32 13 A first day cover bearing 10 copies of the penny black the world's first postage stamp used on May 6,1840, which is to be acquired by the Royal Philatelic Collection Pic: AP
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      • 111 13 Reuters ANKARA Five people were killed when two rival mafia gangs clashed in a maximum security prison in the western Turkish city of Usak, Turkish state minister Tunca Toskay said yesterday. “The incident was described as a clash between organised crime gangs,” Mr Toskay said
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      • 71 13 AP UNITED NATIONS -Yugoslavia s new democratic government joined the United Nations. This opens a new chapter in Belgrade’s relations with the international community after eight years of UN ostracism under former strongman Slobodan Milosevic. By acclamation and with a loud round of applause, the 189-member General
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      • 66 13 AFP BOGOTA The Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) has released all of the people it kidnapped six weeks ago from a resort a diplomatic source said, as right-wing paramilitaries took seven lawmakers hostage. The diplomat said that a total of 21 civilians were released in six waves between
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      • 63 13 AFP TEHERAN Six prisoners were killed and 25 wounded in an attempted prison breakout in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz. During the escape attempt on Wednesday evening, the prisoners all said to be jailed on drug-related offences engaged in a shootout with guards at
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    • 341 14 WASHINGTON Hundreds of millions of window blinds have been recalled for repair in the US because they pose a risk of strangulation to young children. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on Wednesday. The CPSC said that since
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    • 46 14 gofigure How many percent of juvenile shoplifters were males? Fifty-six per cent. About 60 per cent of items stolen cost less than $2O. Boys preferred toys such as yo-yos and Digimon, while girls stole accessories and cosmetics. Students Care Service’s year-long survey of 163 youths
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    • 59 14 Actors who played the von Trapp children in The Sound of Music in a horse carriage in Salzburg on Wednesday. (From left) Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich), Duane Chase (Kurt), Debbie Thurner (Martha), Angela Cartwright (Brigitta), Charmian Carr (Liesl), Kym Gareth (Gretl) and Heather Menzis (Louisa), and as
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    • 229 14 -AFP LONDON What sweeps penguins off their feet? British scientists who aim to find out are heading for the Falkland Islands to unravel the mystery of why penguins there seem to topple over whenever a helicopter flies past, British newspapers reported yesterday.
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 157 16 Reuters LONDON British pop icon Robbie Williams said he had offered to donate his bone marrow to save the life of a fan who needs a transplant. The flamboyant star said he was so moved by the plight of leukaemia-sufferer Johanna Mac Vicar, 23, that
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    • 196 16 -AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s top Tamil guerilla leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, met Norway's peace envoy, Erik Solheim, and put forward conditions for opening fresh negotiations, the rebels said. The elusive leader of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held a rare meeting lasting two hours
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    • 151 16 -AFP ISLAMABAD Jemima Khan, the wife of Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan, lashed out at Western media and US politicians yesterday for alleged bias against Muslims. In a News Daily article, she said United States politicians and the media were slaves to the powerful Jewish
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    • 212 16 Reuters TORONTO Bei Dao, whose writings inspired China’s Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989, says he is no dissident poet Referred to by detractors as one of the “misty” poets, he says he would prefer to shed all the labels and just write poetry. “I’m
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    • 229 17 -AFP GOLD COAST (Australia) A proposed horse show and restaurant theme park in Australia has axed US entertainer Dolly Parton amid claims that she was too greedy. The break-up has thrown into doubt the future of the As6o million (Sss6 million) Aussie Stampede
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    • 146 17 TAIWAN pop diva Chang Hueimei will be up for grabs when her contract with Forward Music expires in March. That is, if she doesn’t decide to stay on with her current music company. The singer, more affectionately known as Ah-Mei, will be releasing her final
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    • 152 17 WHEN it comes to W talent poaching, LMedia C o r p Studios faces 1 threats not only from SPH iMediaWorks. I Hongkong entertainment M and production companies are jr also giving it a run for its money. Actor Chunyu Shanshan (left), who impressed viewers
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    • 173 17 Reuters LOS ANGELES Psychic spoon-bender Uri Geller is suing Nintendo for allegedly depicting him as a monster. The Japanese game-maker had turned him into an “evil, j occult Pokemon character” by naming a monster in the blockbuster cartoon series after him, he claimed on Wednesday. The
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      • 428 20  -  by Diana Ser GETTING ready for a Big Date shouldn’t be a frantic affair. You want to be in the right frame of mind to present your best side to your date, especially if he is gorgeous. And you want to look million dollars
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            83 20 10pm, TCSS This one is for all you i Grisham fans. When a I black man in a small, I racially-divided Missis- 1 sippi town, Carl Lee (Samuel L Jackson), kills the two white rapists of his 10-year-old daughter, it is up to Matthew McConaughey’s character,
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          • 44 20 7.30 pm, TCS 5 A 10-year-old boy and a Chinese girl travel through the beautiful wilderness of China to rescue a Panda cub from poachers. So it’s an old story, but its still heart-warming and watchable, especially after a tough week.
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          • 67 20 NBA TIMBERWOLVES VS SPURS 9pm, Star Sports (SCV 24) It’s a match-up among some of the brightest stars and most talented big men in the NBA. At last season’s end, Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves scored in double figures in 210 consecutive games. Can the Spurs counter his streak
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          • 75 20 Bpm,TCS 8 i Yes, it’s finally f here. 'After more I than a year of de- I lays, Christopher 1 Lee finally gets a chance to show off his mug in this period drama about the adven- tures of a debonair swordsman (played by Jimmy Lin).
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          • 68 20 11.30pm,TCS 8 I Andy Lau stars as a gangster who was abandoned as a boy and raised by a man living in Temple Street. r He becomes the unofficial headman of the area. Life gets complicated when he has to choose between his life and his
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    • 437 21  -  by Diana Ser Your first meal in the morning could very well set the tone for the rest of your working day IF breakfast is part of your morning rush, then you are just like 90 per cent of Singaporeans, according to the latest survey on
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        420 22  -  TQpaie. two shoes by Wileen Chang Give us a call Everyone seems to think they know where the best food can be found. So, why not share your secrets with us? And if your recommendation is good, we'll give you a limited edition Streats watch. You can
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      • 92 22 Yeo Keng Nam Chicken Rice BBraddeHßoad Tel: *****61 Open: 930 am to Bpm (closed on Mondays) Jesse Teo, 31, Customer Service Officer recommends you give this Chicken Rice eatery a try. She says: "There are generous strips of succulent soft-skinned white chicken flesh that comes with a
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      • 84 22 HOW TO EAT A CRAB Break one crab leg from the body and crack it into sections with a cracker. Remove the meat with a fork or a nutpick, then dip it into whatever sauce your heart fancies. With hard-shell crabs, first pull the legs from the body
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    • 349 23 Just one question RECENTLY. I was transferred to another Giordano outlet in the suburbs as part of an internal exchange programme. I was in for quite a culture shock because shoppers in city areas, who tend to quite chatty, can be quite
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    • 267 26 Once again 555 presents a star-studded gift to all its commuters this time at a bigger-capacity venue by Yvonne Kwok GOOD news, all bus commuters. SBS wants to thank its customers for their support by presenting a free concert on Nov 26 at the Singapore
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    • 363 27 -ap LOS ANGELES Cher, Ben, Whoopi. The stars are conning out this week for their presidential favorites. Cher, the last to leave Al Gore’s Westwood-area rally on Tuesday night, was up on Wednesday at 4am on the West Coast to give drive-time interviews to
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    • easyStreats sports people
      • 174 32 Reuters ROME Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti revealed on Wednesday he had turned down the chance to renew Sven Goran Eriksson’s contract as coach. “There was the possibility of renewing Eriksson’s contract for another three, four or five years,” he said. “I didn’t feel like doing it
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      • 242 32 Reuters LONDON Things could get worse before they get better for Middlesbrough coach Bryan Robson. Its 0-1 loss in the third round of the League Cup at first division Wimbledon on Tuesday was its fourth straight defeat. Robson, who has spent £7B million ($195 million)
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      • 154 32 Reuters NEW DELHI Mohammad Azharuddin was once held up as a shining example of all that was stylish, dedicated and disciplined in Indian cricket. Now his career is in tatters as India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) slammed his reputation. The CBI said he admitted
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 444 33 Upgrade for Singapore team after hiccup over flight plans THE Lions almost had to resort to taking a bus all the way to Songkhla, Thailand, yesterday for the defence of their Tiger Cup title. That is because they almost could not get enough seats for a
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      • 429 33 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's squad for the Tiger Cup is to be accompanied by a police officer in a bid to prevent any bribery attempt by bookies. Dell Akbar Khan, secretarygeneral of the Football Association of Malaysia, said District Superintendent of Police Abdul Rahim
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      • 371 34 -AP STUTTGART Star-studded defending champion Bayern Munich was sensationally ousted 2-4 in the second round of soccer’s German Cup by Fourth Division Magdeburg in a penalty shootout on Wednesday. Magdeburg goalkeeper Miroslav Dreszer dived to his
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      • 300 34 Reuters LONDON Leicester City was thrown out of the English League Cup by struggling First Division soccer side Crystal Palace after a 0-3 defeat in the third round on Wednesday. Goals from Clinton Morrison, Steve Thomson and Andrejs
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      • 150 34 Reuters PARIS Struggling Olympique Marseille may turn to Eric Cantona to solve its problems, according to a report in Wednesday’s edition of the tabloid Le Parisien. The newspaper said majority shareholder Robert Louis-Drey-fus has asked Cantona to consider a role as manager of the bestsupported
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      • 101 34 Reuters ROME Italian champion Lazio fought back from a goal down to beat Brescia 2-1 on Wednesday while Juventus lost by the same score at home to Udinese. Early-season pacesetter AS Roma went down 0-2 at Inter Milan, ending the only 100 per cent
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      • 96 34 Reuters BARCELONA Valencia retained its two-point lead at the top of the Spanish First Division on Wednesday as title favourite Real Madrid and Barcelona both lost further ground. A second-half goal from Norwegian John Carew was enough to give Valencia a 1-0 win at home to
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      • 542 35 -AP LOS ANGELES -The Los Angeles Lakers celebrated beforehand. Utah’s aging superstars made sure the celebrations were premature. Karl Malone scored 12 of his 26 points in the final 6V2 minutes and pulled down 11 rebounds and John Stockton had 21 points and 14 assists on
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      • 220 35 -AP CLEVELAND Lamond Murray scored all six of Cleveland’s points in the second overtime before slapping the ball away from Doug Christie just before the final buzzer as the Cavaliers won their home opener 102-100 over the Sacramento Kings. Murray, who finished with 18 points, reached
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      • 302 35 Reuters NEW DELHI Betting on cricket has become one of India’s biggest organised rackets both in terms of money and volume of deals, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report into match-fixing. The report, which accused former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin of fixing
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 457 23 Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 A happy medium could be mutually unsatisfying. Even so, your first goal should be to break the general tension caused by the extremes of a few people. Everyone shares the same hunger even if appetites differ. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 18 N Draw strength
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    • 120 25 Let us spruce up your home: Ten winners will each win a $5O Actus voucher u i m 5» 4 i Exercise your eye. There are some elements that are different in these two pictures. Simply count the number of differences. There are differences between the pictures. Q Four QSeven
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