The New Paper, 22 August 1988

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1 36 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper MONDAY AUGUST 22, 1988 Ma (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 141 1 e new Miss Singapore/ Asia Pacific, is a stay-at-home. M ,.'3^ Edwimd Chen Zhkai, our pinup, is true-blue to his girlfriend. GO FLY A KITE Raymond Chua and wife Jenny are among five Singaporeans going to France for the international kite festival./ Page 3 i. v7/ iIrN B Br b
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  • 43 1 A powerful earthquake shatters Nepal, killing at least 217 and injuring 1,088. Hundreds of homes collapse. Rescuers fear after-shock while they search the rubble for bodies. "We have not seen anything like this before."/ Page 10 Picture/ REUTER
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 347 2  -  By' Thusitha de Silva NOW when you get a fever doctors may give you a condom for the thermometer. Disposable probe covers made of soft plastic that resemble condoms are being used with thermometers by doctors. "They provide a barrier and are supposed to
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    • 120 2 Wire services. HUNDREDS of drunks rampage in a small town south of Moscow. They come close to seizing the armoury at the local police station. Villagers in the Ural Mountains stage a day-long riot in which one man is killed. And paratroopers battle police in Moscow. Six
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    • 39 2 Muscle bound: Husband and wife team of Takayuki and Sakura Ichikawa of Japan pose in the mixed pairs event of the Asian Body Building championships in Singapore. They place second. See story page 34. Picture/ Afp
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    • 265 2 HASSAN bin Afmat was a true believer. He thought he had bought $2,000 worth of magic. It was a white stone that would make all his wishes come true. The 36-year-old teacher from Brunei was standing in front of Oriental Supermarket at
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    • 110 2 Vaar Name (Age) Constituency e ec t e d S Ra jaratnam (72) Kampong Glam 1959 Toti Chin CHy (66) Rochore i959 Ong Pang Boon (59) Tolok Ayer 1959 E W Barker (67) Tanglin 1963 lokYoun Thong (58) Quoonstown 1963 Fong Sip Chee (50) Kg Chai Chee 1963
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    • 313 2 CALL a community centre in your constituency if you need to check if your name is on the voters' roll. Your name should be there if you were 21 or older on July 1 this year. Not all CCs will have the roll but
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    • 393 3  -  A commercial artist, a 65-year-old salesman in a liquor store, a driver and a couple will make up the Singapore challenge in "aerial combat" over France next month. By Geneieve Kwek H OME-MADE Singapore kites will fly in France next month. Five Singaporeans will "go fly their
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 30 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 7.11 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.03 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 263 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram WOMEN are pushed and jostled, and are not offered a seat on a bus can this be happening in Singapore? Ask a pregnant woman and the answer could well be yes. "People here have no consideration for us. They are in such
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    • 215 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. ■Coyly: Shyly. When a girl behaves coyly, she pretends to be shy in the presence of others so as to get their attention. Innovative: Someone who is innovative introduces
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    • 267 4  -  By Leong Chan Teik A RED carpet, overhanging greenery on walls, sound-proof music rooms, the choicest squash courts.... It sounds like a fancy country club, but it isn't. It is a fancy new community centre. The old image of community centres as stark and simple
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    • 271 5  -  Charity can be pretty tough work. Witness 36 swimmers who took the plunge at the Holiday Inn pool and swam stroke after gruelling stroke to raise over $6,000 for deprived children. ByL Leong Chan Teik WHEN colleagues approached systems analyst Soh Lay Khuan about doing
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    • 61 5 THIS fairly new car was travelling along Thomson Road towards Sembawang when the driver lost control and rammed into a tree just before the traffic junction of Ang Mo Kio Ave 1 and Thomson Road. The accident happened at about 12.30 am yesterday. The driver and
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    • 302 6 IT WAS a busy election weekend, though the hustings have not begun. People's Action Party leaders spoke at dinners, walkabouts and a party rally attended by 2,000-plus members. Two opposition parties named more candidates for the Sept 3 general election. The Singapore Democratic Party has
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    • 389 6 THE number of constituencies has been increased from 79 to 81 for the Sept 3 general election. Last week the People's Action Party introduced 17 new PAP candidates. Two more, Mr Mah Bow Tan and Mr Ng Pock Too, will be contesting. They
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    • 424 6 Singapore Democratic Party THE Singapore Democratic Party named eight candidates over the weekend. They are part of its 20-strong team for the Sept 3 general election: JUFRIE MAHMOOD, 38. Executive committee member at SDP. Contractor. Has a secondary school education. His second elections contest. Lost in Kam
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    • 259 7  -  By Angeline Song CHRISTABEL Teo, all of seven years old, cried when she lost one of her earrings just before taking part in her school's "graceful clothes" design contest on Saturday night. She thought she would surely lose. But her pretty white
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    • 82 7 DISTRIBUTORS of Tiger Balm from 14 countries are here to discuss marketing plans for the herbal ointment. The three-day 1988 Tiger Balm International Conference begins today at the Westin Stamford and Westin Plaza. It is organised by the newly-formed Tiger Balm Limited, a subsidiary of Haw
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    • 251 7 BRUNO is dead. Long live Alvin. Mr Goh Han Chin's Doberman Bruno was poisoned and killed by men trying to break into his house. Goh bought Alvin two weeks later. Four men have been picked up by police this month in
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    • 142 8 THE National Computer Board thinks WordPerfect is perfect. It has selected this American wordprocessing software for use in government offices and by statutory boards that are computerising. So far, the Trade Development Board and the National University of Singapore have made bulk purchases of the software. A
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    • 149 8 THEY sell the cars you get around in, so why not phones for those on the move? Not long ago, cars with status had earphones. But earphones don't budge from cars, while the new handphones go anywhere with you. So it's easy to predict the
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    • 171 8 JOY D'Vision are bringing joy to student Derek Michael Lauchengco. Derek, who has bone cancer, is organising a charity Live Aid concert on Thursday and Saturday for his school. After reading Derek's story in The New Paper, Mr Jack Tan, the manager of Joy
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    • 380 9  -  They swam, biked and ran, all 240 of them. But for many it was only a warm-up for the real thing: The Singapore Triathlon in October. By Karen Goh MORE than 240 people in Singapore are fit and ready for challenge... a triple challenge, even. These
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    • 252 9  -  By Chua Chin Chye IT WAS not the light of love that shimmered in the bushes along the Bedok coast, a lovers haunt, on Friday night. It was a drug pedlars' mobile hideout. Police arrested one suspect and found 35 straws of heroin.
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    • 293 9  -  By Angeline Song THE child's delight in kites dancing in a windblown sky has quite a following among grown-ups in Singapore. Adults fly kites for relaxation. Others do it to lose weight, or as a cure for gambling. Flying 20-cent "fighting kites" at the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 481 10  -  By Tamal Mukherjee THE earth moved. The air hissed. Houses swayed. Houses collapsed. And hundreds died. The time was 7.19 am yesterday when the worst earthquake in the last 50 years hit the Indian subcontinent. Tremors were felt from Delhi to Dhaka. But the epicentre of
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    • 216 10  -  By Abdul Hadhi Conflicting death counts from the Nepal earthquake put the toll as low as 217 and as high as 350. But all accounts agree on one thing: More than a thousand people were badly hurt and many more may
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    • 163 10 Wire services. THE Soviet Union's recent tolerance of protest ended Sunday when club-swinging riot police broke up a large demonstration in Pushkin Square, Moscow. Dozens of protesters were jailed. The demonstrators were marking the 20th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Foreign journalists
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    • 162 10 Wire services. A WOMAN who won a two-year fight to enroll her 6-year-old AIDS-afflicted daughter in school in America finds her victory bittersweet. "This is the closest Eliana has been to a classroom. But I can't send
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    • 335 11 Wire services. DIPLOMATS say first reports of 24,000 massacred in the tiny African state of Burundi were overblown. A better estimate of the dead, they said, would be about 3,000. And it is possible that the toll could be much lower than that. Western diplomats
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    • 69 11 Tuning it out: Bomb blasts and the rat-a-tat-tat of heavy machine guns remain a daily fact of life in Lebanon. In the latest incident, 14 people were wounded when a car rigged with a 40-kg bomb exploded. But for the children of Lebanon, who have
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    • 119 11 AP. THE BODY of a Soviet rocket seen flaming through the sky in several states of the US crashed yesterday in northern Canada. No one was injured, and no damage was reported. A Soviet satellite that is out of control is also expected to fall
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    • 202 11 AP. THE wall poster has replaced newspapers in embattled Burma. This is to give news about the riots and rallies for a nationwide strike to end oneparty rule. Yesterday 2,000 demonstrators in Burma called for the strike as truckloads of soldiers stood
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    • 234 11 Wire services. THE Philippines' chief censor has warned two curvy actresses that there will be no more bumps-and-grinds on prime-time TV while the kids are watching. The warning issued to Carmi Martin and Alma Moreno is part of a continuing crusade by censor Manuel Morato against
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    • 118 11 Wire ser -vices. SOMEWHERE in the American city of Detroit, Mich., is a man with a white tuxedo, a big stack of $50 bills and a generous nature. For the past few months, such a man has been appearing around the city in a
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 31 12 WORLD AUG 1988 M.C.I(P) 209/7/87 A Scorching 304-page Bumper SEXY LONG HAIR How to wear it for the office The Helpless Woman Worker Is Most Stressed! Not the high-powered Big Boss
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 59 13 Off the marie The last thing George Bush wants to do at a state fair in Ohio is be nasty to reporters covering his campaign for the presidency. But accidents will happen. Here Republican Bush grimaces after hurling an iron horseshoe near a fence where reporters
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    • 253 13 Wire services. FOR generations of British drinkers, the most dreaded words in the English language have long been: "Time, gentlemen, please." Those words told patrons of pubs, clubs and hotel bars that their midday tippling was at an end and there would be
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    • 233 13 Wire services. PAKISTANI police are holding more than 80 people for questioning in the death of President Zia ul-Haq, official sources said today. /'Police are looking into the possibility that the fatal crash was caused by a powerful bomb concealed among 20 crates
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    • 146 13 Wire services. NATIVE Taiwanese and low-ranking civil servants may soon get a chance to visit China. Taiwanese newspapers reported yesterday that the government plans to further ease travel curbs to the communist mainland. China Times quoted Interior Minister Hsu Shui-teh as saying native Taiwanese
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    • 164 13 Wire services. JAPANESE police have launched a na-tion-wide hunt for a woman suspected of plotting to disrupt the Seoul Olympics. Tokyo police officials yesterday declined to release her name, saying only that she was 35 years old and was known to have
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    • 174 13 Wire services. UNITED Nations officials said today that the ceasefire between Iran and Iraq was holding despite charges of abuse by both sides. There were signs of a slow return to normality. Some transport services were restored in parts of western Iran regarded as battle
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  • Showtime
    • 481 14  -  Unlike Magnum P. 1., real-life detective work is a far cry from macho TV stuff, say private investigators operating in Singapore. They are easy enough to track down, being just a phone call away. The listings of detective agencies take up five pages in the Yellow Pages.
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    • 222 14 COPS and robbers and deeds of der-ring-do by private eyes are firm favourites of viewers on both sides of the Causeway. As soon as a series ends its season, a replacement is quickly slotted in by the networks so as not to disappoint the fans.
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    • 549 15  -  By Vivien Chiong T HEY are Singapore's Fab Four. Kay Hamid, Rahimah Rahim, Christina Ong and Gina Ler can easily pack a full-house in any club here. But they have been "missing" from the local night scene for the past few years. All four
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    • Article, Illustration
      249 15  -  By 1 Vivien Chiong HACKEN LEE: MYTH OF SUMMER (translated) POLYGRAM CASSETTES Hacken Lee is a budding Alan Tam-sound-a-like. His image is that of a healthy teenager, brought out by the colourful album cover. His songs are also catchy and light-hearted. Four songs come from the TV serial The
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    • 142 15 Today. SINGER Michael Jackson is secretly planning the party of the decade for his 30th birthday. The bash will be around the time of his final Wembley concert on Saturday. Jackson, who turns 30 on Aug 29, promised Hollywood stars he would fly them
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    • 139 15 Daily Mail. OLD Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, is the big scoop of the year for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After months of planning by the station's big wigs, the man will appear in an exclusive interview with Australian presenter Clive James. This be telecast
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1884 17 Television g|W7 M Tea-Break Special—Pop Club Barry Manilow: Cine Showcase GEMS Jack London (B/W) ,a Big Fun On Swing Street Anna Karenina (B/W) V\ r A M (SBC 5, 4.05 pm) Wm, (SBC 5,10.30 pm) (SBC 12,10.25 pm) Ar t^ Bi Tsr t ■p L 31 V r JH 2ftfeTSsdSSl
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 49 18 Coordinator/ WONG SING YeONG pi<w SteV£n Le£ HK Marriage on hold; Handsome, tanned and muscular, Edmund has many young female admirers. His affections, however, are reserved for his girlfriend Ann Marie Ang, 24, a secretary. m But marriage has to wait till Edmund thinks he is financially stable. A
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  • Article, Illustration
    815 21 (Especially The Cult series) LiMWwaiiCal Psychic Girl llf Willi If I Samper Fi Akira V for Vendetta Actio* Conies Kmmn SekideSqaad Shade* Use Saga (Dr Zero, Powemne, St George) WOU rltnM Flash Cosmic Odyssey A GROUP of Cyborgs raided a bank in Shenton Way. But the uncanny XMen brought
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 308 22  -  By Brenton Wong A TIRED but happy Natalie Wong won the Miss Singapore/Asia Pacific Quest '88 at the Neptune Theatre on Saturday night. The 19-year-old project co-ordinator was third time lucky. She had entered two other contests last year but only came
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    • Article, Illustration
      225 22  -  BY Sonja Tan and TOh Hai Leong RAMBO 111 (Cathay/Palace) RAMBO fights to rescue his mentor, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna). The best scene with the best special effects, just before Rambo doubles up after sending off Mousa and Hamid, has been cut. Times: Cathay: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30,
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    • 335 22  -  By Ting Mei See THE programme promised a riotous, musical comedy. It was quite musical. And sometimes comical. But not exactly riotous. Set in the fantasy land of Indera Maya, the play Don't Lose Your Head revolves around the Emperor's stolen chests of gold
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  • FASHIONTODAY
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      292 23  -  By Ronald Wong D lAMONDS are a Girl's i Best Friend, sang Marilyn I Monroe. It's a different tune with the boys though. Singapore men still shy away from diamond jewellery. Patrick Lee, 31, a designer who works for Fook Cheong Goldsmith, said: "Men in Singapore still think
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    • 277 23  -  By Ronald Wong MOST Singapore men will wear diamond jewellery but only simple stuff, nothing flashy. This was the feeling of men who were asked if they would wear diamond accessories created by seven designers. Diamond cufflinks, tie pins or tacks, and rings were acceptable
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    • 283 23  -  By Josephine Ng Wu Weiqiang dresses up by dressing down. He loves wearing T-shirts. In fact, he collects those that mark special events. His favourites are two T-shirts that note of a xinyao (locally-composed ballad) record called Ah Ben. "It is special because the record is
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 437 24  -  ARTSCENE By Lo Tien Yin A FORMER art curator of the National Museum thinks Singaporeans are now giving local artists more respect. But Ms Constance Sheares, now an independent art consultant, thinks people still need to know serious art from decorative art. Constance has just helped
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    • 435 24  -  By) Lo Tien Yin THE lack of two oil drums almost stopped the show for the Shanghai People's Art Theatre. The troupe came on Friday to stage the play China Dream at the invitation of the Chinese newspapers, Lianhe Zaobao/Wanbao. Opening night
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    • 371 25  -  Two Hongkong gems are at our cinemas this week. One is Moon Star Sun. A rather exploitative melodrama, it however boasts the current three top female HK stars Carol Cheng, Cherie Chung and Maggie Cheung. The other is the highly recommended comedy, Chicken
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    • 177 25  -  By Vivien Chiong WHILE Moon Star Sun tugs at the heartstrings, Chicken and Duck Talk attempts to tickle the ribs. Michael Hui stars as Hui, the old-fashioned owner of a Chinese eating house that specialises in barbecued duck. Across the road, a new
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    • 257 25  -  By Lo Tien Yin EX-LOUNGE singer Dawn Gan will soon be singing a new song about lounge singers. It will be the theme song for SBC's new serial on the lives of singers, to be shown early next year. It will also be recorded as an
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 177 28 Five-Foot-Way trades, aftectionately known in the Hokkien dialect as "Gho Kha Ki" trades, have been in existence since the early days of Singapore's history The term "five-foot-way" has its origins in Singapore's founder's planning scheme Sir Stamford Raffles' planning etipulated that all buildings were to have a covered walkway or
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 138 28 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne IT'LL COST YOU 1/ 700 01/ CX& ?/tforf CAfiJ i| I SUCK ONI A LEMON OEFOCE 700 BUCKf TO YOt/ SAY THAT MTHOUT I I COME OUT OF MY OFFICE I AllgUSt3/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill lIPRB w**r T got FKMarTHgr p\ 55 74 vSJSH!? I
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 177 30 Reuter. SEBASTIAN COE'S case for inclusion in the British Olympic team rests with the International Olympic Committee, British Olympic Association chairman Charles Palmer said in London yesterday. Coe, Olympic gold medallist over 800 and 1,500 metres and Britain's most prolific world record setter, was the
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    • 331 30 It was Johnson's second 100 m defeat in four days. This time Calvin Smith and Dennis Mitchell pushed him into third spot AP, Reuter. WORLD record-holder Ben Johnson lost a 100-metre race yesterday at the Cologne International track and field meet and Carl Lewis wasn't even there.
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    • 50 30 Reuter. BULGARIA'S Yordanka Donkova set a world record of 12.215 ec in the 100 metres hurdles, regaining the best mark from compatriot and arch-rival Ginka Zagorcheva at a meet in Stara Zagora. The 26-year-old European champion set the time in this central Bulgarian town on Saturday. Reuter.
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    • 82 30 Reuter. NORWAY'S Grete Waitz, the 1983 world women's marathon champion, said yesterday she had decided to compete in the Seoul Olympics after undergoing a cartilage opration on her right knee. "It's not an easy decision, but I've decided to give it a try," said Waitz, the 1984
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    • 223 30 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international events ATHLETICS Cologne Grand Prix: Men 100 m: 1 Calvin Smith (US) 10.16 2 Dennis Mitchell (US) 10.27 3 Ben Johnson (Can) 10.29; 400 m hurdles: 1 Danny Harris (US) 48.37 2 Kris Akabusi (Brit) 48.89 3 David Patrick (US) 49.05. Women 400
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 279 31 The horse that nobody wanted has become the first since World War II to chalk seven straight wins. DENNIS CHIA has the story on Saratoga Six T HE highlight of the first weekend's race at Penang was a horse that nobody wanted initially but went on to
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    • 202 31 BUKIT TIMAH trainer William Chua had mixed fortunes at the Penang races last week. He saddled two winners and thought he had a champion in the making when disaster struck. His charge, Billebug, having only his third start in the country, made hacks of his opposition
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    • 75 31 AUSTRALIAN striker Dave Mitchell scored twice as Feyenoord Rotterdam's new-look side held European Cup winner PSV Eindhoven to a 2-2 draw at the start of the Dutch soccer season yesterday. Feyenoord led 2-0 at halftime after Mitchell struck in the 19th and 21st minutes. Striker Hans
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 246 31 OFFICIAL SOFT DRMK OF THE 1988 OLYMPICS two Seoul Olympic trips worth $13,000 Highlights of the Questkms(acioss): lo Enter Ist Prize PvtravaPan7A 1. Almost half a century after Jesse 1 Owens won four track and field golds XL™'"" 6 1 double return deluxe tour package to the in Berlin 1936,
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 116 31 TVSPORTS MONDAY 9pm: Sporting c ass Soccer (82 school: Midfield play. v ivJ\ 10pm: Pre-Olympics. TUESDAY 2 10pm: Malaysia Cup '88. WED a I 1u I 10.30pm: Countdown to '88. 11pm: Midweek Sports Malaysia 11« Cup '88 S'pore v Pahang. i£ I 10pm: Pre-Olympics. 11pm: World Wrestling Challenge. TOURS nii2
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  • SPORTS
    • 261 32  -  SINGAPOREOPEN By Shahiron Sahari CHAN See Huey may have done well in her first heptathlon in the Singapore Open yesterday, but she knows the next step will be even more difficult. Her 3,938 score, a national record, earned her second spot overall, behind
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    • 49 32 Lltt change-over: Haron Mundir (centre) receives the baton cleanly from Tan Yew Yong (No. 6136) for his final leg spurt in the 4xloom relay to win the gold medal for Singapore. This was the race in which Indonesia's Purnomo Juhdi dropped the baton.
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    • 223 32  -  By Abdul Shukor INDONESIAN sprinter Purnomo Juhdi has every reason to feel dismayed. For the last three days at the Singapore Open Track and Field Meet at the National Stadium, he has had nothing but bad luck. On Saturday, in the men's 100 metres final, he was
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    • 209 32 WHILE Indonesia's Eduardus Nabunome awaits judgment, Singapore's Syed Ahmad Syed Taha has given further notice of his potential. Eduardus easily won the 10,000 metres in 30min 47.915 ec in the Singapore Open yesterday, but his chances of being selected for the Seoul Olympics remain slim. "I
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    • 212 32 JAPAN'S Chie Kato's training regimen is unique. She has no coach but learns from books and video tapes of top javelin throwers. "I have plenty of books on javelin and I watch throwers like Fatima Whitbread on video," she said in Japanese. "At the moment
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  • SPORTS/BOWLING
    • 121 33  -  BY Alfonso Chan THE PERFECT WIN RAHMAN Noor's talent was spotted by bowling officials a long time ago. He started bowling seriously eight years ago. But it was only yesterday that the 32-year-old proved himself by winning his first major title the Singapore International Open Bowling Masters.
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