The New Paper, 13 August 1988

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1 38 The New Paper
  • 18 1 the new paper SATURDAY AUGUST 13, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper the new paper
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    • 91 1 WHAT NOW, if* I COACH? U JEFF LOW ASKS g SEAK POH LEONG ff ffm as Singapore gets HillHI v* p»l ready for its next f/ t3 match on against H SLAUGHTER IN BURMA M Eyewitness tells of soldiers on the rampage. Medics at Rangoon hospital are lined up and
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  • 27 1 Tiny Eileen Chai ends Singapore's nine-year gold-medal drought in gymnastics. She brings one home from Asean Schools Gymnastics Championship in Bangkok. Picture/ SAM YEO
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 334 2  -  By Augustine Low Reporting from Bangkok A HORRIFIED traveler says soldiers killed medics who lined up outside a Rangoon hospital to protest that they had no medical supplies or blood for transfusions. Mr Abdul Rahim, safe in Bangkok after a tense business trip into Burma,
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    • 110 2 WE ARE going to Swing Singapore on Saturday night, Aug 27, to make up for the street dance of 8-8-88 that grew so big it had to be stopped. This time there will be plenty of room, lots
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    • 63 2 Facelift: France marks the bicentennial of its revolution next year, but a festive mood is already in the air up the Eiffel Tower. Here, a painter touches up the famous Paris landmark, which has been around since 1899. The tower is repainted every seven
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    • 314 2 THE PUNISHMENT for a stepmother who beat her 5-year-old stepson to death is three months in prison and a lifetime of remorse. District Judge Francis Tseng imposed sentence after hearing the case against Ms Norwati binti Rashid, 28. The grieving natural mother of
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    • 196 2 Wire services. "OPENNESS" is both a headache and a pain in the rear end for the Soviet Union's many newspaper and magazine addicts. They can't read as much as they want to about dramatic political change for the same reason that they can't get enough
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    • Article, Illustration
      311 3  -  Stories/ Trudy Lim P HOTO buffs who shot roll after roll of film on National Day probably have the photographs in their albums by now. Today, you can collect the photographs in just 30 minutes. It is even faster if you have the negatives just 5 minutes. That
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 32 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over many areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 25 degrees. Sunset today: 7.14 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.04 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 150 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. Academics: Academics are members of colleges or universities who teach or do reesarch. Aristocracy: People of the highest social level especially from the upper class or noble families. Commemorative:
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    • 114 4 Lianhe Zaobao. SEVEN school children from Taiwan are here to prove they can be quicker than electronic calculators at doing sums mentally and with an abacus. Aged 7 to 12, they will show their math skills at 2.30 pm today at the Singapore Chinese
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    • 287 4  -  By Leong Chan Teik A MONEY changer felt angry when ha was nearly cheated by a sleight of hand recently. When he read a similar story in The New Paper two days ago, he rang our HoUinePlus to tell us he would show how the trick is done.
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    • 132 4 THE force is here. The "force of friendship'! Friendship Force International of the United States is an organisation that encourages friendships between people of different countries. Its founder-president, Mr Wayne Smith was in Singapore recently. "We want Singaporeans to visit our
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    • 189 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram THERE are hundreds of young people in Singapore who want to go to school but can't. There is no room for them. That's because they are mentally disabled and the special schools for them are full. More than 120 children are on
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    • 429 5  -  The manager of this beer garden on Sentosa got the idea from an article in this paper. Instead of the usual girls in high-slit gowns, he wants little people (or dwarfs, elves, gnomes, leprechauns, whatever!) to serve drinks. He advertised in The Straits Times. So where are
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    • 175 5  -  By Lois Ng MORE than one million visitors will have enjoyed the fun when the 10-day National Day Carnival at Marina Square and the waterfront ends tomorrow. Its organisers are confident that this magic figure will be easily reached. The crowds have been drawn
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    • 252 6  -  CARTOON TO THE EDITOR By Leong Chan Teik and Michelle Oh EVERYONE thought 8-8-88 was a lucky day. But Kelvin Chua Kiam Lip thought it was plain funny. So he drew a cartoon and named it "The No. 8 Auspicious Day". The cartoon pokes fun at superstitious
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    • 107 6  -  By Abdul Hadhi EIGHT is supposed to be a lucky number. But how about six? Well, that would depend on who you are. If you are Rosli Sidek, you would not want to hear the number six for some time to come. Rosli, 23,
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    • 290 6  -  By Irene Ng A JUDGE did the unexpected at the height of a courtroom drama yesterday. He disqualified himself from a hearing. Magistrate Vincent Yeoh made this startling decision during the trial of Johnson Raj s/o Arumugam, who is accused of insulting the modesty
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    • Article, Illustration
      358 7  -  By Lois Ng F I OOD and burnt incense may delight the hungry ghosts as they break loose from hell this month. But they also give hell to estate cleaners. About 30 huge containers of burnt joss papers can be collected in just four hours in one
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    • 133 8 Parliament supports the principles of the plan for an elected President. The White Paper on it will now be used as the basis for preparing a Bill for debate in Parliament. Mr Goh Chok Tang, the First Deputy Prime Minister, said he did not
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    • 191 8 INPARUAMENT An elected President would have too much power and this could bring about a "lameduck" Prime Minister. This is the main worry of many Singaporeans, said Dr Tan Cheng Bock, MP for Ayer Rajah. Tan, the government's Feedback chief, recently met some professionals and grassroots leaders
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    • 232 8 A former minister said he did not like the plan for an elected President. Another former minister and the Opposition MP Chiam See Tong said they did not like some parts of it. Mr Ong Pang Boon, who left the Cabinet in 1984, asked
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    • 331 8 First Deputy Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong yesterday gave these replies to several points raised by MPs: Appointment of key civil servants: The President's agreement is needed only in the appointment of people with authority to recruit, promote and transfer civil servants. This would include
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    • 279 8 We asked you for your ideas on what should be done about that postponed Orchard Road party. Now it's officially ON and the date has been set: Saturday, Aug 27. Our Hotline Plus buzzed yesterday with party suggestions from 35 callers. ONE thing is clear. These readers
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    • 278 8 IF football fans have strong feelings about the dismal record of the Singapore team in this year's Malaysia Cup, they didn't show it yesterday to Singapore captain T. Pathmanathan. Pathmanathan, 32, one of our guests, drew mainly loyal supporters on the videophone. They heard him
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    • 202 8 YOU have until late Sunday to use the videophones at Metro Marina. The lines will be disconnected on Monday. SBC stars Xiang Yun and Zheng Wanting will be our weekend guests between 6pm and 7.15pm. Xiang will be on tomorrow; Zheng will take calls today.
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    • 200 9  -  By Michelle Oh s I OUTH Korean cars are making a dent in the sale of Japanese cars in Singapore. Japan's Toyota and Honda are still selling the most. But South Korea's Hyundai has already sped past Nissan. Hyundai's distributor here, Komoco Auto, sold 1,784 Hyundai
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    • 217 9  -  By Ng Wan Ching A THIEF snatched her bag. She screamed. In 15 seconds, more than 50 neighbours dashed to the scene on Wednesday night. Some of them were armed with wooden batons. "Most of them live on the second floor so
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 353 10 Wire services SOUTH AFRICAN President Pieter Botha warned on yesterday that a sanctions bill passed by the US House of Representatives might "obstruct or make impossible" South Africa's plan to grant independence to Namibia. South Africa has administered Namibia for 73 years. "The recklessness of members of
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    • 169 10 AFP. CHINESE Communist Party members who have sexual relations with foreigners or hire prostitutes during trips abroad will be expelled from the party or punished, the Legal Daily said in Beijing on Friday. "Those who frequent prostitute or drug circles during their contacts with foreigners (and)
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    • 178 10 Daily Mail. THE Daily Telegraph gave the birth of a baby girl on Aug 8 to the Duke and Duchess of York 20 column-inches on the front page. The Times gave it a large front page picture and 1,000 words. The Guardian gave more words than
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    • 75 10 Tiny but costly: These wide-eyed pygmy marmosets are tiny enough to perch on two human fingers. The 7-month-old critters from the Nihondaira Zoo near Tokyo are less than 8 cm 'long and weigh about 56 g each. Even when they 're full grown, they'll
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    • 199 10 AP. THREE members of a US government team taking part in a nuclear experiment in the Soviet Union engaged in "some unauthorized souvenir collection" there, the White House said on Friday. But Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, basing himself on available information, said that "we don't believe
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    • 86 10 AFP THE mental hospital caring for John Hinckley cancelled an outing for him on Friday. Hinckley tried to shoot President Ronald Reagan in 1981. St. Elizabeth's Hospital announced the decision at a court hearing after federal prosecutors noted "disturbing entries" this week in his hospital records and
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    • 272 10 UPI. SHE was worse than an animal. Her house was filled with decomposing animal carcasses, 64 cats and dogs and eight birds in rooms piled with their own excrement, animal regulation officers said in Los Angeles. They want
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    • 73 11 Goodbye to war For nearly 10 years, thousands of Soviet soldiers fought Muslim nationalist guerillas on behalf of the Marxist regime in Afghanistan. Although the Mujahideen remain undefeated, the Soviets are now leaving the Afghan government to fight its war without the support of Soviet troops.
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    • 245 11 Wire services. AT LEAST 11 Hindu "untouchables" were killed in India's northeastern state of Bihar when a gang armed with firearms and knives attacked two neighbouring villages, news reports said on Friday. The Press Trust of India news agency said at least two people suffered serious
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    • 112 11 Bernama MALAYSIA is looking for a man to send to the Soviet Union to become a cosmonaut. Someone will be selected by the end of the year, a government official said. Datuk Amar Stephen Yong, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, said the Soviets have
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    • 47 11 FOUR suspects have been arrested in a sensational murder case in Canton, China. The men, aged 23 to 31, were accused of killing three people and trying to steal 985,000 yuan ($531,900) on Tuesday, the Chi-nese-language Ta Kung Pao of Hongkong reported.
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    • 111 11 AP A FOUR-WEEK-OLI) West German baby boy is Europe's youngest heart transplant patient. Identified only as Sebastian, he was born with a heart that could not pump blood fast enough to keep him alive. Dr Heinrich Netz said a 30-member medical team handled the operation
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    • 84 11 Reuter. THREE people were hurt and hundreds rescued on Friday when a fire broke out in the Empire State Building, one of the world's tallest buildings. Acting fire chief Homer Bishop said the blaze broke out on the 86th floor, where an observatory
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    • 60 11 AFP. A BRITISH soldier was shot dead by two gunmen in the Belgian port of Ostende on Friday night. The gunmen fled on foot. Police think it may be the work of the banned Irish Republican Army (IRA). The IRA recently warned that it would attack British
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    • 71 11 Quintuplets: The Munich /oo claims a world first with these snow leofMrd quintuplets. The six-week-old cuhs. three males and two females, made their public debut yesterday. Elli. their 7-year-old mother, is the first of her kind in captivity to give birth to five
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    • 263 12 Wire services. SOUTH KOREA'S blood banks are being topped up as a precaution against a terrorist attack at the Seoul Olympic Games, health officials said on Friday. The officials in Seoul said they were worried that with 250,000 foreign visitors at the games
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    • 109 12 AP. A TAIWANESE on Interpol's "most wanted" list was caught in the US when he tried to buy a motel in San Antonio, Texas. Huei Ko-Chin, 40, had put down $200,000 in cash as the down payment when he was seized by federal agents. Mr
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    • 67 12 Words of courage: Lui Jinghseng lost his arms in an industrial accident 10 years ago. But refusing to accept his handicap he makes the best use of his artificial hand—a brace by learning the art of Chinese calligraphy. Here, Jingsheng writes the Chinese characters which
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    • 124 12 Wire services. AN INDIAN tribe of Vermont that wants back land lost to white settlers in colonial times, gave the town government of Swanton 30 days to clear out." It also demanded $200 million in "back rent and damages." Homer St. Francis, chief of
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    • 63 12 Watery grave: These Egyptian divers are looking for human bodies but all they have found so tar is a suitcase belonging to an Italian passenger. Nineteen people are still missing after the luxury tour boat Nubia capsized in the Nile river near Edfu
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    • 125 12 UPI. A DATING service owner cannot cash in on the marriage of two lonely hearts she brought together, says a Miami judge. Bobbie Heiman went to court when two clients who used her service refused to stick to their contracts. The couple had agreed to
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  • STOCKMARKETS
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      217 13 Wire services SHARES ended the trading account with a rise, although off the day's highs, on the London stock exchange on Friday. The Financial Times 30share index was up 7.2 points at 1,484.8 at the close. Volume was 495 million shares, compared with Thursday's 465.4 million shares. British shares
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials FRIDAY 1,484.80 (1,482.10) Dow lons Average FRIDAY 2.037.52 (2.039.30) ST Industrial FRIDAY 1,132.10 (1,135.32) NST Industrial FRIDAY 1,838.64 (1,848.12) Hongkong Hang Song FRIDAY 2,600.93 (2,595.28) Australian All Ordinaries FRIDAY 1,623.20 (1.617.00) Nikkei Stock Average FRIDAY 27,833.51 (27,784.98) Ficuret in bracket* refer to thoae of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      281 13 Wire services. STOCK prices drifted lower on the New York stock exchange on Friday as rising interest rates kept a damper on the market. Blue chips finished with a small loss, unable to capitalise on a modest closing gain on Thursday and scattered buying by bargain-hunters. Analysts said
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  • Showtime
    • 327 14  -  By Lo Tien Yin T HE ghost month draws out not only the spirits but also the opera troupes. Round the island, gongs and cymbals are sounded as troupes are hired to entertain the ghosts. The activity is misleading. Professional street-opera troupes are dormant most
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    • 160 14 STREET opera was forced to change through the years as modern entertainment shaped audience tastes. And so in the '60s when gongfu films were the rage, operas offered gongfu too. Acrobatics used to be more common than martial arts. Similarly 20th Century costumes
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    • 213 15  -  LUNCHTHEATRE By Adeline Woon THEATRE buffs who skipped lunch to watch the Necessary Stage's Round and Round the Dining Table at the Shell Theatrette yesterday were treated to a cheeky pre-curtain tableau. While trying to disguise the embarrassing rumbles from their tummies, they watched a stage hand
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    • 329 15  -  By Geraldine Goh YOU may have heard the music of Ron Goodwin many times. But you may not even know it. He wrote the score for The Guns Of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines, Frenzy, and dozens
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    • 393 16  -  By Vivien Chiong M OON is a star who walks the streets of Hongkong without fear. "No man would dare attack me," Moon Lee, female gongfu star said yesterday. The Hongkong actress is in Singapore with co-star Alex Fong. She will be at the Lido and
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    • 320 16  -  BY Wong Sing Yeong CHOW YUN FATT and Kenny Bee can show off their wives all they want. Our TV stars prefer to keep mum about their romances. Some even tried to keep their marriages a secret. But when you are spotted shopping
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1540 17 RACHOGUDE EMMMM E33CE*|CMIMHD|i3iia^M %✓£§>>£//C% "••N o (Programmes in English) NOON 0» Track: Rom Tucker play. NOON Newsdesk: PresenU the world JV\ J**®* ™P r Kool you some new songs and hands news including reports from <J nm ß NOON Easy Listening: Features the out a little advice in his pro-
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  • Update
    • 1457 18 SATURDAY At MARIN m and tomorrow: NAVAL DIVING SHOW. Members of the Naval ULJ Diving Unit will leap into the sea from helicopters. They will then be picked up by speeding dinghies, just like in real-life military missions. Area G, 3.30 pm. Tomorrow at
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    • Article, Illustration
      41 18 bands compete for a chance to play in rojitest. diving display. TOMORROW ss Delicious I steak lunch for 12 at a special promotion at Mariner's Corner. S}OUT AND ABOUT: Works of top award-winning photographers from 45 countries on show.
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    • 101 18 Don't miss the spectacular fireworks display over Marina Bay at 8.30 tonight. The 25-minute show at the National Day Carnival promises to bring out the M oohs w and M aahs" from spectators. This display won the first prize in an international competition in Monte Carlo
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    • 82 18 ft The National Day Carnival r ends today. So take the family for that one last bash. The kids can play Jv i arcade games, ride the ferris wheel and cycle mini-trishaws. You can buy D snake-skin pouches and other bargains at the pasar L
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1873 19 Television screen Saturday Night Movie Applause— The 1988 Montreux^^^f gems r —Never Give An Inch 1 Live At Ronnie Scott's Rock Festival T A r -~H~ -I m 1 :|V (SBC 12,10.20 pm) (SBC 5,8.00 pm) j MEMPHIS Slim a Uving legend of BANANARAMA, Climie Fisher, H THIS absorbing saga
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    • 31 20 MM WOWI S3 S3 WATCH IT S3 WATCHABLE ff/0-xhe New Paper -Jetstream Tour Contest And win an all expense paid Adventure in Japan. Check out our entry form on Page 37
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1587 20 Television s r§Jhr 1 sh >I f erS °h THIS movie is about a cricket Wdis staHn this^ram^y^^two^ 11 rit husband (James Naughton)i makes aUving ■»'between the local team kSd a West twitoeiSOTMlmaSane P#** „a A U w a f ah l erol f aealCT.She hires Charlie (John Lndian group
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  • Update
    • 1456 21 SATURDAY At .\1 ARINA > and tomorrow; NAVAL DIVING SHOW. Members of the Naval 1 J Diving Unit will leap into the sea from helicopters. They will then be picked up by speeding dinghies, just like in real-life military missions. Area G, 3.30 pm.
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 21 TODAY •MM|)G20UT AND ABOUT: Ten bands compete for a chance to play in an international contest. I S3 AT THE CARNIVAL: Thrills and spills in a naval J diving display. A TOMORROW g)F00D: Delicious steak lunch for 12 at a special promotion at Mariner's Corner. G0OUT AND ABOUT:
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    • 100 21 Don't mist the spectacular fireworks display over Marina Bay at 8.30 tonight. The 25-minute show at the National Day Carnival promises to bring out the M oohs" and M aahs" from spectators. This display won the first prize in an international competition in Monte Carlo last
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    • 78 21 ends today. So take the J family for that one last jm bath. The kids can play jflV arcade games, ride the ferris wheel and cycle mini-trishaws. You can buy K .snake-skin pouches and m other bargains at the pasar I malam. Then see gong
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1948 22 RADIOGUIDE c 1 I ;T^Ty rr^tT7l l rTTTi^I^M 0 tm News la Brief am New* la Brief mm Breakfast Clafc Wake up to I m World News 0.05 ©a Air Wake up to a boat of 8.83 Highlights ef tka Bay's pre- M ll j i ht mu,ic »P un
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 321 23  -  By! Lim Swee Hong ME I L Y N Choo is 21, has an Arts degree, and spends her days putting sugar turtle doves on wedding cakes. No, Meilyn doesn't work for the Social Development Unit. She's a cake maker and is now the creative
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    • 199 23 BOOKSFORCOOKS Asia The Beautiful Cookbook Author: Jacki Passmore Publisher: Merehurst Press, London Price: $47.50 (Promotion I Price) Available from Times The Bookshop. j IF you believe cookbooks I are just collections of recipes, j think again. Here is a book that im- presses with its
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    • Article, Illustration
      210 23 THE hints you need to he a super cook: BROWN SUGAR Brown sugar won't harden if you store it in the freezer, or if you keep it in the refrigerator in its original packaging. Make sure the packaging is always well closed after use. KETCHUP To get ketchup
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 116 24 A Scorching 304 page Bumper D E Jk MH WH AT S WITH MEN w& H Many Women say their Doctor's > y£\ y% I P~H l H NOT A Friend r Aspecial report! not her high- powered Boss The wives and daughters of Asia's assassinated leaders fight for power
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 155 25 COMICRELIEF n^C CCS/Pet6r KohlSa3t CstHV/Cathy Guisewite rrr H It s almost spring and I ve got to find a r i raow w«Y....jiiTCir r mi, «tch...n Won. I am' mo A [Mine o€*koll gjrtfriend. Pretty soon It will be summer... wortttourrt m**wri swrnrt mmm\ rSLTZFSZ- then autumn...and then winter again!
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 424 26 Build up your child's COMICRELEF Word Power with Hagar the Horrible/Pik Browne Til PVI 13 TUB cLvtAeie&r) l( I BUT zeFie*s&! II 13 KV TAH6ALNeJ \S/) V**K' A new series of 10 books, speciaNy designed to fltf nrTTL. help young children team new words within l|[|j; lj|[f |Hll I J©
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 422 27  -  For youngsters, any time to play? By Harinder Gill YOUNG people at a recent youth forum claimed that life is mostly work and very little play. But these were people in their early 20s. What about younger Singporeans? Do they feel the same? GREGORY LEOW YEUN
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    • 197 27  -  By Harinder Gill THERE are about 1,800 Singaporeans in British institutions of higher learning this year. And each year, the numbers go up despite rising fees. To accommodate the growing interest, representatives from 20 British universities and polytechnics will visit Singapore this month. They will meet
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 74 27 Your last chance to talk to the celebrities and see them live through the videophone! The videophone is in Singapore! For fun and for free, go to the Metro Marina and try the technological marvel. Call The New Paper on one of the two videophones and you can talk to
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 267 28 IS WoKir x uN>e/ stalls J AUGUST sto 14, 1988 I AUGUST sto 14, 1988 V"| Hi Mon to Fri spm to 10pm Mon to Fri spm to 10pm m I Ull I Sat/San &P. Holiday 1 lam to 10pm I Sat/Sun &P. Holiday 1 lam to 10pm Marina Centre
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 306 29 UPI. IN A growing controversy over how Elvis Presley should be depicted on a commemorative postage stamp, the Graceland estate of the king of rock n roll has weighed in on the side of a slim, trim Elvis. The US postal service has not decided whether
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    • 186 29  -  By Barbara Bright Reuter. A I CTRESS Glenn Close, whose revenge with a knife scared millions in Fatal Attraction, has turned to other sexual revenge. She will star in an 18th Century French novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, being filmed near Paris. Close says she
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    • Article, Illustration
      286 29  -  By Adeline Woon FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC (Lido) CORRINE (Victoria Tennant) is suddenly widowed and penniless. She returns to her father's mansion to live. But he mustn't know that she has four children or Corrine will be cut out from his will. So, the children are kept locked in
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
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    • 378 34  -  Stories/ Shahiron Sahari SINGAPORE lost 1-2 to Hongkong yesterday to finish last. But its display was definitely better than what the scoreline seemed to suggest. All Singapore's three players won their first games in the tournament, finally giving team manager Hubert Hill reason to smile. "The
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    • 216 34 ZAINAL Abidin didn't just coach the Singapore team here in Kuala Lumpur he also managed to get a few games as well. He played matches against Malaysian counterpart Maj S. Maniam and his army mates, as well as Malaysian junior open winner Stephen Meads of England at the posh
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    • 70 34 Malaysia 8 Philippines 0 (Malaysia first): Lim Kim Jbn bt Reuben Espiritu 8-3, 10-9, 9-0; Chris Chan bt Manus! Yam 5-9, 9-7, 8-10, 9-1, 9-2; Jay Lim bt Edgar Balisber 9-2, 9-3,9-4. Hoifkoif 1 Singapore 1 (HK first): Peter Sih lost
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    • 240 34 CHRIS Chan got his revenge, and Malaysia won the inaugural East Asia junior team squash championship yesterday. Chris, 17, beat Manuel Yam 5-9, 9-7, 8-10, 9-1, 9-2 in a rivetting match. His win gave Malaysia an unbeatable 2-0 lead over the Philippines and thus the
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      137 35 SCHOOLSPORTS Eileen Chai did Singapore proud when she ended a nine-year gold drought in gymastics. ABDUL SHUKOR reports. HOORAY! THE gold medal drought in Singapore gymnastics is finally over. Pint-sized Eileen Chai brought one back from the last week's fourth Asean Schools Gymnastics Championship in Bangkok. It
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    • 174 35 Comebacks are not always celebrated. But don't tell May Chow that. JUDY KHAW reports. HOUSEWIFE May Chow showed that age or a lay-off is no barrier to successful bowling. After staying away from bowling for 18 months when her husband was down with heart trouble, this
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    • 125 35  -  By Alfonso Chan THE Asian Bowling Federation will meet next month to discuss how bowling can be squeezed into the Asian Games in 1990. Dr Ong Teck Thian, recently voted into the ABF as a committee member, said China has not closed its doors to
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    • 162 36 TARGET:GOALS FANDI Ahmad aims to maintain his scoring record. Fandi scored all the goals in Kuala Lumpur's 1-0 and 2-0 victories over Selangor in 1986 and last year. And he hopes to do the same when they meet in this year's clash at Merdeka Stadium tomorrow.
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    • 148 36 TARGET: FANDI SELANGOR centre-back Zulkifli Ahmad has star striker Fandi Ahmad on his mind. He aims to "cut" the striker to size when the two teams meet tomorrow. "They don't call him an aerial king for nothing, and I have to outjump him to make
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