New Nation, 14 September 1982

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  • 18 1 new nation PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents
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  • 312 1  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO from KUALA LUMPUR THE Malaysian Press staged a mass boycott last night at The Asian All-Star spectacular being held in conjunction with the Asian Film Festival. The journalists, who had complained about bad organisation, finally decided to walk out when they
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  • Newscan
    • 70 1 KUALA LUMPUR: Genting Bhd and Magnum Corp Bhd share prices were down 23 cents and 18 cents respectively following Malaysian Premier Datuk Sen Mahathir Mohamad's announcement that steps were being taken to ban Muslims from gambling at the Genting Highlands casino. New
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    • 74 1 AP STRASBOURG: The European Parliament last night approved a report seeking to banish war toys by a vote of 82-45 with 12 abstentions. The Parliament, the directlyelected advisory branch of the 10-na-tion European Common Market, does not have the power to outlaw war toys in
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    • 80 1 AP ATHENS: A Greek freighter was hit by an Iraqi rocket in the Persian Gulf over the weekend but all 21 crew members were reported safe, the Merchant Marine Ministry said yesterday. A ministry spokesman said the rocket struck the 10,800-tonne Evangelia S. and
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    • 52 1 UPI CHICAGO: Three people alerted by their friend's screams interrupted a rape attempt yesterday and chased the attacker into a lagoon where be drowned. The attacker thrashed about in the lagoon after he fell into it and shouted out "I can't swim" before he disappeared in the
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  • 212 1  -  GROUP OF OFFICERS TAKEN TO TASK FOR ALLEGED FALSE OVERTIME CLAIMS By K.K. FONG CISCO is taking 11 of its uniformed men to task for allegedly making false overtime claims. Two sergeants were allowed to resign after the investigation started about three months ago. This is
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  • 128 1  -  By JUDY WALKER WORKMEN have knocked down a wall in the Neptune Theatre Restaurant to allow the reigning Miss World, 19 year-old Pilin Leon, make a grand entrance in a golden Cadillac during the Miss Singapore World finals on
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  • 49 1 THE mysterious haze, which has enveloped Singapore on and off for the past three weeks, returned late yesterday morning. It reappeared only a few hours after the Environment Ministry had announced that the level of fine suspended particles in the atmosphere had dropped and was average.
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    • 15 1 ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL REPORTS! TREND B1 MISS WORLD WANTS TO BE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST: AS
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    • 278 2  -  More come here for sex-change operations Medical File Stories by JULIE LIAU JAPAN is world famous for plastic surgery, but there is one form of reconstructive surgery the Japanese prefer to have done in Singapore sexchange operations. One local surgeon, trained in Britain, has done 25
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    • 239 2 AN operation to implant a little plastic l?ns in the eye can give trouble-free vision to some patients who have had their cataracts removed. A cataract is caused by clouding or thickening of the eye lens, leading to loss 01 sight and occurs mostly
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    • 58 2 MORE than 500 clinical biochemists, pathologists and doctors from 40 countries will attend the Second Asian-Pacific Congress of Clinical Biochemistry next week. The week-lons congress, organised by the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry, the Academy of Medicine, the Health Ministry and the National University of Singapore,
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    • 263 2 A new life thanks to our medical sexpertise MASAKUZU TOKUCHI, at the age of 34, is one Japanese who, thanks to Singapore medical expertise, is looking forward to a happy new lease of life. From a Japanese rural community steeped in customs and traditions, Masakuzu was one of those unfortunate
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    • 232 2  -  By JACKIE SAM SALES enthusiasm has landed a supermarket in a "milky" soup, making CASE the Consumers' Association of Singapre unhappy. Fitzpatrick s in Bukit Timah Plaza displayed a. "pyramid" of S-26, a brand of baby milk, unaware that it was
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    • 323 3  -  PARENTS URGED TO CONFORM TO AVOID CONFUSION ARISING FROM DIALECT NAMES By YONG POW ANG CHINESE parents are being strongly urged to transcribe the names of their new-born babies in hanyu pinyin when they register them in the long term interests of their children. The
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    • 255 3 HUNGRY ghosts have taken a further bite out of shrinking car sales. Representatives from a number of major motor distributorships confirmed that there is a noticeable shortage of Chinese customers. This first became apparent in mid-August, when the month-long
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    • 213 3 TRADERS in Chinese art and craft from all over Asia are negotiating deals with Beijing officials at the People's Association International Expo in Kallang. The traders were invited here by the officials for talks during the exhibition. Sixteen officials, four
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    • 185 4 BOOKS by Harold Robbkis may be bestsellers, but you will not find them on the National Library's bookshelves. The prolific American author cannot even be found in the American Library Resource Centre. And the British Council Library concentrates on books about English literature and British
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    • 193 4  -  ASIAN WORKERS SUFFER FROM EQUIPMENT MADE FOR LARGER WESTERNERS By LYE YIN FONG MANY Asian workers suffer from having to operate machines designed by and for much larger Westerners. The results can be aching muscles and stiffness after a day's work, says Mr Kazutaka
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    • 125 4 TOP MANAGERS will be told on Thursday bow to reduce job hopping. Japanese management expert, Masaaki Imai, will tell managers from the Civil Service and the [trivate sector and union eaders how to encourage employees to stay with a company by mapping out a career path for them.
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    • 407 5  -  By JUDY WALKER THERE will be no more beauty contests for Pilin Leon, the reigning Miss World, when she gives up her crown and title in November. Nor does this vivacious 19-year-old brown-eyed Venezuelan beauty, who arrived in Singapore last night,
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    • 174 5 DETECTIVES are on the lookout (or two men after a daring $400,000 hold-up at a goldsmith's shop in Bukit Merah Central yesterday. An alarm sounded by one shop employee caused the robbers to leave before they had time to get even more
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    • 68 5 BEACH Road police mounted an anti-crime operation over the weekend and checked on 136 people. Forty-nine people were taken to the police station where they were questioned before being released. The operation began at 9.30 pm on Saturday and ended at 4.30 am the next
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  • world
    • 173 6 Reuter BEIRUT, Tims. LEBANESE army units with armoured cars and personnel carriers edged into leftist-held parts of West Beirut yesterday in a determined bid to take control of the mainly Muslim-inhabited area. After heavy clashes on Sunday with leftist militiamen resisting their advance,
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    • 166 6 AP QELCHEIM (WEST GERMANY), Tuet. ABOUT 1,200 US troops flown non-stop from North Carolina parachuted into a field in southern Germany yesterday in the largest trans-Atlantic airborne drop in history. Two battalions of the 82nd Airborne Division and enough heavy equipment to fill eight
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    • 415 6 Syrian troops denied reinforcements and supplies Reuter BEIRUT, Tuesday ISRAELI planes have cut off Syrian troops in northern Lebanon from reinforcements and supplies by sealing off the strategic Beirut-Damascus highway west of the Bekaa Valley. They did this in five hours of air
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    • 138 6 FOR an Arab king whose reputation for lavish hospitality saroasses that of everyone cue, King Hassan of Morocco sprang a surprise. Arab leaders attending the 12th Arab League summit in. Fes rode to King Hassan's summer palace in a lorry. The dignitaries some oil-rich billionaires and
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    • 415 6 UPI VATICAN CITY, Tues. THE Vatican, displaying unprecedented bluntness, yesterday rejected Israel's criticism of a planned meeting between Pope John Paul II and guerilla chief Yasser Arafat as "an outrage." The Vatican's first official statement on the meeting between the Pope and
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    • 373 8 Iran factor spurs rethink UPI Reuter NEW YORK, Tues SAUDI Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, reportedly is considering cutting its official crude oil price a move that may spur other members of the Ortanisation of Petroleum Ixporting Countries to follow suit, according
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    • 106 8 UPI Reuter WASHINGTON, Tuesday RETT AIL sales in America fell bv nearly one per cent last month, the Commerce Department said, disappointing both storeowners and economists looking for a boost from the July tax cut. The renewed slump in sales made July's revised increase of 1.2
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    • 44 8 KUBA, a six-year-old African elephant, sports her new tennis shoe an orthopedic shoe specially made to correct her weak ankles. Rise Dmytriw, an animal keeper at Indianapolis Zoo checks the fit of the size 200 "designer" tennis shoe. PICTURE: AP
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    • 126 8 AP THE HAGUE, Tuesday AN internationally known defence specialist said a conventional Soviet attack against Western Europe in the near future is "absolutely minimal," and a nuclear attack even less likely. However, Prof Michael Howard told the International Institute of Strategic Studies annual conference here this
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    • 252 9 Wrath of nature 1 UPI TOKYO, Tuesday RESCUE workers dug furiously yesterday, searching for more victims of typhoon Judy, wnich killed at least 26 people, flooded more than 60,000 nomes and caused millions of dollars of damage before dying out in the north Pacific.
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    • 226 9 OUTSPOKEN criticism of Malaysian commitment to border action against Muslim rebels by a Thai general has sparked a sharp reply from a Malaysian journalist writing in the Bangkok Post. Journalist Rahim A Karim said that Lt-General Harn Leenanong, a border commander, had accused
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    • 241 9 LONELY hearts in Malaysia have been swindled by a bogus computer dating service. The match-making outfit, run from a one-table office in Kuala Lumpur's Jalan Ipoh area, was discovered after lonely singles seeking partners sent in money but were not introduced to anyone. Their case
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    • 76 9 Reuter KARACHI, Tuesday POLICE mounted a big manhunt after a member of Pakistan's civilian advisory council, the country's interim parliament, and two of his employees were shot dead here yesterday, official sources said. The sources said council member Zahoorul Hasan Bhopali died in hospital
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    • 67 9 Wrath of nature 2 AP CALISTOQA (California): An air tanker dumping fire retardant on flames that went out of control along the highway near the summit of Mt St Helena on Saturday, causing a plume of smoke to hover near the Napa Valley Wine Country.
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    • 63 9 Wrath of nature 3 AP BANGKOK: Eight people died in seasonal floods which inundated 13 Thai provinces and more heavy rain is expected this week, officials said. More than 20,000 villagers in the provinces of Surin, Sisaket and Khon Kaen are still trapped in their
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    • 732 10  -  TODAI'S GRADUATES ARE DOING WELL AT ELITE LEVELS OF JAPANESE SOCIETY SCRATCH a Japanese government official or the head of a major corporation, and you're likely to find a graduate of Tokyo University a public Institution whose diplomas virtually guarantee a career at the elite levels
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    • 307 10 wkJHA JbJHMI PSA POLICE were rightly jubilant over breaking np a gang which had been systematically stealing slop oil collected from ships in the harbour for recycling. But almost as they were patting themselves on the bach, came the shattering revelation that under their very
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    • 322 10 GANNET CHAIN AIMS FOR 2.3 MILLION AMERICAN MOBILE READERS WITH LAUNCHING OF 'USA TODAY' BRUSHING aside pessimistic forecasts of market analysts, the Gannett Company, the largest American newspaper chain, will launch the country's first national general interest daily newspaper this month. Gannett is aiming for an
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  • opinion / letters
    • 142 11  -  V. NIGEL SMITH I WRITE as an expat and ex-Scout and by definition an ex-bob-a-job participant. The original motivation behind the bob-a-job scheme was to give a willing and perhaps charitable service to people of humble means, an extension of the good deed a day law. In
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    • 208 11 We decided to close the correspondence on this subject on Saturday, but received more letters over the weekend. A selection is published here. Editor. AS AN ex-Scout, I disagree with Mr Robert Teo's argument (NN, Sept 10). Scouts have been told to accept
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    • 51 11  -  C. K. NG AS SINGAPORE is a small place, will the local soft drinks and beer manufacturers do away with the middlemen, i.e. wholesalers or distributors, and deal directly with retailers. In this way, they can save costs and perhaps pass this saving to tne
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    • 417 11 THIS refers to the Job Week report on Sept 7 and letters on the subject on Sept. 10. Mrs Alice King and B. K. Ang appear to be over-protective towards their boys. The spirit of Job Week is to let Scouts "earn" money through
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    • 386 11  -  ZHONG RHONG CAI LABOUR is in many respects the exceptional factor of production. Unlike other factors, labour is active and not homogenous. Otherwise, a single wage rate would prevail in the labour market. A trade union is an organisation of wage earners having
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    • 117 11  -  POH KANG CHOR RECENTLY there has been much debate in the press about people with criminal records for minor offences. We would like to inquire if it is permissible for such individuals to do voluntary social work. A close relative committed a minor offence a few
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    • 332 11 ON SEPT. 6,1 went shopping at Oriental Emporium Woodlands with my two little girls. We were leaving the store at about 8 p.m. when suddenly we were knocked aside roughly by a man from behind. We did not know what was happening. I caught
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    • 223 11 EXCELLENCE does not remain alone; but it is sure to attract a neighbours. CONFUCIUS. TODAY is the 257th day of the year, with 108 to follow. On this day... In 1752, Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar. In 1774, the Russian pretender Pugachoff was delivered by the Cossacks to the Russian
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  • business
    • 590 12  -  Move to comply with official open-door policy By CATHERINE ONG THE Singapore Society of Accountants (SSA) has formed an accreditation committee to look into the recognition of foreign-trained accountants and the use of international accounting firms' names in Singapore. The committee was set up
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    • 173 12 UNITED Overseas Bank group has increased interest on one and three month fixed deposits by half a percentage point. New.rates are 7 per cent for one month and 7.5 per cent for three months. Prime lending rate and other deposit rates are unchanged. United Overseas Finance has
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    • 216 12 INTERNATIONAL banks with money to lend reckon Singapore is an excellent risk, Euromoney magazine says. However, the best two bets are Sweden and Britain, the magazine says. And, surprisingly in view of the political uncertainties that have beset Hong Kong recently, the colony is rated
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    • 115 12 Analysts said these concerns encouraged traders to cash in on some of the dramatic gains the market recorded in August and the first few days of September. The Dow Jones average closed with an 11.87 gain at 918.69 Volume totalled 59.52 million shares, against 70.26 million in
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    • Update
      • 57 12 THE China National Offshore Oil Company has signed its first joint venture agreement with a foreign firm, the Geophysical Company of Norway (GECO). GECO officials said the 50-50 venture would provide survey services to international oil companies planning to drill off the Chinese coast. It is
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      • 57 12 THE Taiwan government is conducting a feasibility study on the possible establishment of a free trade zone in Taiwan, to attract foreign technology and capital, especially Chinese capital from Hong Kong, an official of the study panel said. The findings will be presented to the
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      • 62 12 THE Swiss wholesale price index fell 0.2 per cent last month after a 0.2 per cent July gain, the Department for Industry, Trade and Labour said. The index, base 1963, stood at 169.5 at end-August, against 169.8 in July and 166.6 in August 1981. The August
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      • 76 12 UPI MEXICO'S worst financial crisis in decades threatens hundreds of hotels with bankruptcy and forced two national airlines to cancel 16 domestic flights during the weekend, government and private officials said. Photos published in national newspapers on Sunday showed Mexico City's once-bustling airport virtually deserted
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      • 71 12 Reuter CHINA expects a record harvest of early rice this year, up three per cent on 1981 at 53 million tonnes, according to official Agriculture Ministry estimates. Early rice accounted for just over a third of China's total rice harvest of 143.2 million tonnes last year. The
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    • 571 13 Continuing losses cited as reason for the sale KULIM (M) is disposing of the entire shareholaings of 4.5 million shares of TT$l (Trinidad-Tobago dollars, or about $0.83) each in Mount Irvine Bay Hotel (MIBH), its whollyowned subsidiary incorporated in Trinidad and In a
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    • 159 13 SINGAPORE share [>rices closed generally ower on profit-Taking in moderately active trading, dealers said. Central Sugars fell 25 cents to 8.60, Genting 23 to 2.91, Magnum Corp 18 to 2.60, National Iron 10 to 5.35, Straits Trading 14 to 4.46, Hong Leong Finance 20 to
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    • 93 13 JACK CHIA, the chairman of Jack Chia Industries Group, says that all divisions of the group, except the timber division, made profits in the year ended 31 March, 1982. Since the timber division ceased operations on September 30 last year, the chairman
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    • 98 13 THE bullion markets will remain tense, with wild swings in gold prices as the market place continues to be plagued with rumours and concern about a possible collapse of the world banking system, DBS warns In its Weekly Money News. There was a general reluctance
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    • 95 13 OIL (Asia) has announced that Dipa Holdings (Pte) Ltd has purchased 30 per cent interest in each of its two subsidiaries, Borneo Straits (B) and Ocean Inchcape (Brunei). This follows Oil (Asia) Group's policy of inviting local partnership in its activities in
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    • 432 14 Genting Bhd and Magnum Corp Bhd share prices fell following the announcement of a government proposal to curb gambling in Malaysia, according to newspaper The Star. (See story, top right). New Nation Business Desk looks at the position of Genting and reports on the reactions
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    • 577 14 OVER AT CAMERON HIGHLANDS CAMERON Highland's status as a choice holiday hill resort in Malaysia will be enhanced by the construction of a new multi-million holiday complex which is expected to be completed in early 1984. To be known as the Strawberry Park Holiday Resort Complex, the
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    • 257 14 REACTIONS REACTION from tour operators to the announcement about Genting was mixed. Two said their business could be affected by 30 to 40 per cent while another said his firm would not be affected at all. An official of Kim Travel Service said business would be
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    • 251 14 MAGNUM Corporation Berhad (Magnum) will be affected severely if the Malaysian government bans the sale of four-digit lottery tickets, Magnum's major source of income. The company's hope is that diversification into several fields will enable it to absorb the shock. Magnum's largest shareholder is the
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  • sports
    • 321 16 UPI RIO DE JANEIRO, Tu«s. WORLD Cup stars Zico and Junior were out of form yesterday and their team Flamengo, Brazil's defending national and world club champion, was held to a 1-1 draw by Bangu in regional championship matches. Flamengo and Vasco de Gama,
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    • 502 16 Reuter TOKYO, Tuesday SINCE the early 1970s Japan has been swept by a wave of enthusiasm for tennis and work has started on a sports complex that will have Tokyo's first public tennis centre as its main feature. The complex will house a
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    • 200 16 Reuter ACAPULCO, Tuesday PLANS which would allow the world's top tennis players to compete in the 1988 Olympic Games will be the main topic of discussion when the International Tennis Federation (ITF) begins its two-day annual meeting here tomorrow. The ITF has already
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    • sports / racing
      • 767 17 WITH the sweet taste of success still lingering after last weekend, it would not be surprising to see more horses from Auric Stable winning races soon. At Kuala Lumpur this weekend one of their horses, String O'Pearls, could win again if
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      • 382 17  -  By B J SMITH THE Perak Turf Club deserves accolades for the exhilarating Perak Derby carnival meeting which culminated in the running of the $200,000 Derby on Sunday in front of a capacity crowd. The week preceding the Derby was full of social events which involved
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    • 524 18 Connors star who doesn't cut corners Four-time US Open champ's view from the top Reuter NEW YORK, Tues JIMMY Connors was back on top of the men's tennis world yesterday and, despite a hint that he might retire, was believed almost certain to try for a fifth US Open title
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    • ROUNDUP
      • 89 18 Reuter BANGKOK, Tuesday The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not yet decided whether to grant its patronage to the 1982 Asian Games in New. Delhi later this year, lOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said. Speaking at Bangkok airport on a stopover on his way
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      • 43 18 Reuter Puerto Bican Mi- Buel Olan won on decisions against Tony Pruitt of le United States on Sunday in a bantam bout in the Simon Bolivar world amateur boxing championship. Pruitt of Missouri, was unable to neutralise Olan s advance. Beuter.
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      • 40 18 Sandra Spuzich shot a five-under-par 67 on Sunday to come from four shots behind ana win a U*****,000 (5|525,000) Ladies' Professional Golf Association tournament by one stroke over Switzerland's Carole Charbonnier. Spuzich, 45, had six birdies and a bogie.
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      • 48 18 Reuter Two Ethiopians Getchew Kebede and Megersa Tulu took the first two places in Manila's third world marathon on Sunday. Getchew completed the course in two hours 27 minutes and ten seconds with Megersa nine seconds behind. Carlito Solis of the Philippines was third in 2:39.23. Beuter.
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    • 29 18 CHRIS Evert-Lloyd shows off her Ladies' Singles trophy after winning her sixth title at the US Open tennis tournament in New York on Saturday.
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    • 336 18 Badminton j Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Tues SOME of world's top badminton players meet here in the second Alba World Cup championships this week, including India's Prakash Padukone fresh from his victory in the Hong Kong open. Padukone, the 26-year-old defending champion, will pit
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    • 404 19 WORLD-RENOWNED coach Fumio Ogura, in Singapore with the Japanese women's youth hockey team, cannot understand why Singapore sent a team to the recent Junior World Cup 'and yet will not be represented in November's Asian Games in New Delhi, reports R MANORAJ He
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    • 804 19  -  Enthusiasts believe European approach is better SPORTSFOCUS Hockey By R MANORAJ AFTER West Germany's triumph over Australia in the Junior World Cup hockey championship final in Kuala Lumpur, which saw Pakistan barely hanging on to third place and India well out of the running, the European success sparked
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