The New Paper, 23 August 1988

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1 36 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY AUGUST 23, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 cents
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    • 118 1 VJgjBjy A $3°,tt00" QUESTION a The flashing green arrow at traffic junctions! It's a daily headache for Singapore drivers. It's legal to go. But fishmonger who does and HHj hits a bus is fined $3,000. 1 LOOKING FOR SELANGOR'S 99 SCALP JBH Poh HH Leung's pre- ✓< <fl game jitters.
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    • 21 1 WORLD 10,11,13 STOCKS 12 SHOWTIME 14,15,24,25 TV GUIDE 17 FOODNOTES 22,23 SHOPTALK 23 COMICS 26,27 FASTADS/JOBS 28,29 RADIO 30 SPORTS 31-35
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  • 27 1 Crowds swarm the streets of cities across Burma demanding a better life. Students seek guns to give revolution sharp teeth. /Page 11 Picture/ REUTER
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 332 2  -  By Irene Ng A FLASHING green arrow at the traffic lights often puts drivers on the blink. Should they go, or should they stop? One driver didn't. He hit a bus. And had to pay $3,316 plus costs and interest. "It's a common dilemma
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    • 59 2 Flex-time: No one in modem American politics can run for the White House without showing voters he has the strength of a bear and the courage of a lion. Here Republican George Bush does pre-jog stretching exercises for photographers. A long run followed, presumably taking
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    • 28 2 ON Aug 19, we wrongly labelled the residential area in the story "Taking the plunge at home" as Faber Garden. The area is in fact Faber Hills.
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    • 29 2 WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over many areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 7.11 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.02 am.
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    • 157 2 Wire services. SOME say it could only happen in the American South, where many children are brought up on the Bible and a meal called grits. An 11-year-old boy who liked to give fire-and-brimstone sermons was tossed out of school for telling the principal to "go
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    • 97 2 Wire services. WEST German police have been charged with criminal negligence in a hostage-taking drama that followed the country's most spectacular bank robbery. The charges say police provoked the fatal shooting of two teenagers by the robbers. The two victims were Emanuele di Giorgi and
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    • 714 3  -  By Paul Zach M I OHAMAD Ali Lane in Chinatown has a junk market that really lives up to the name. No one could find any possible use for some of the things sold there. But that doesn't seem to matter. The lane, next to
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  • SINGAPORETOCAY
    • 257 4  -  By Ng Wan Ching A MAN whose car keys were stolen has decided to sell his car as a precaution. Thieves stole Mr Ang Ah Soon's bag and car keys, and then valuables in his car at the ■Toa Payoh
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    • 219 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram "CONDOM" thermometers are inaccurate and not necessary say many Singapore doctors. These are thermometers with disposable probe covers made of soft plastic. They are said to look like condoms. A doctor who called The New Paper today said that he would never
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    • 211 4 SINGAPORE Polytechnic keeps getting bigger. In its latest $30.4 million expansion, 25,000 square metres will be added to the campus by 1991. At present, there are about 9,800 students on an overcrowded campus designed for 9,000. The school is going to be big enough to handle
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    • 251 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. ■Abused: If a person abused some other person, he has said unkind, cruel or rude things to him. Arrogant: Proud. A person who is arrogant behaves in a proud,
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    • 125 4 YOU will soon be able to plant. Chinese rock melons, usually grown only in cooler climates, in your flat. Singapore World Trade has successfully experimented with planting various varieties of melons, said Lianhe Zaobao. The company imports the planting set, which costs $50, from Taiwan.
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    • 415 5  -  By! Lim Phay-ling A HAMMER shatters into pieces before it hits a glass. Special effect or camera trick? A bit of both, really. "The whole idea was to expect the unexpected, which is what The New Paper is all about," said
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    • 238 5  -  By Lois Ng THE pretty girls and young boys selling The New Paper in the Orchard Road area yesterday found ready buyers among tourists, office workers, students and even touts at Lucky Plaza. A man was heard asking an attractive vendor: "Why
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    • 353 6  -  By Karen Goh SINGAPORE commuters would rather look at each other than read. Trains in Britain, the United States and Japan are usually full of people reading newspapers, novels, anything. But a reporter's quick survey shows that our MRT commuters are more interested in each other
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    • 417 6 MADAM Hor Kwai Ying knew her husband was going crazy. She coaxed him into going to see a doctor. She got him to visit a temple for prayers. But it all came too late. i■ Airport policeman Teo Khay Hua, 39, continued
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    • 203 6 ROULETTE for the rich with a pick-up and drop-off service. And all being offered in a Bukit Timah bungalow. This was one of the three dens of considerable size raided by the police anti-gambling squad over the past five months, arresting a number
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    • 327 8  -  By Abdul Hadhi THE TWO top exhibition organisers in Singapore have merged. This is expected to affect strongly the convention industry. Cahners Exposition Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd and Interfama Trade Fairs Pte Ltd signed their merger agreement on Aug 8. It becomes effective today.
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    • ELECTIONS88
      • 648 8 THE OPPOSITION YUHUA has a People's Action Party MP, unionist Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon. As of last night, it looked as if she would have two rivals in the Sept 3 general election. The Singapore Democratic Party announced last night that Miss Toh Kim Kiat
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      • 257 8 THE PAP SlNGLEmember constituencies with PAP MPs will be grouped in twos or threes to form town councils. That will happen in phases after the Sept 3 general election. It will allow sharing of costs. The exception I_*AT\ A will be Bukit Panjang,
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    • 308 9 SOME residents of HDB flats are playing with fire. They continue to burn joss papers along the corridors of their flats. Some even do it inside them. The Fire Bureau says they should not be doing it in either place. "It is not an offence
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    • 153 9 THE eggs looked real enough. Then someone in the crowd muttered cynically that they might be fake. And, as if to prove them wrong, 44-year-old Gordon Koh stepped on them and they cracked into a gooey mess under his feet. "I was only doing it
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    • 237 9 KEEP no medical secrets. It could be a matter of life and death. This is what teachers and principals of junior colleges and pre-university centres say. Nineteen-year-old Ong Kok Kheng collapsed and died on Friday while doing physical exercise in school.
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    • 46 9 For traditional parents to plan ahead... YOUR BABIES'CHINESE HOROSCOPE Astrologer/geomancer Chc)ng Swan Lek tells parents the strengths and weaknesses of the 12 animals and what is in store for the parents of a baby born in the coming years. In the latest issue of YOUNG PARENTS
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    • 213 9 Jacks Place Presents 16ways to savour fine Airflown New Zealand Beef 15/8/88 to 15/9/88 A variety of Choices. 16 different ways to enjoy fine Airflown New Zealand Beef all cooked to perfection by our chefs at Jack's Place. Order whatever you fancy from this special menu. Try our famous Jack's
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  • WORLDTOCAY
    • 387 10  - Mountain of filth and joy ASEAN I ASIDES By Irene Ng THE pay is all right about $6 on a good day but the working conditions are among the world's worst: a stench like rotten eggs, filth everywhere and brain-deadening noise. I For 20,000 professional scavengers in Manila, the workplace
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    • 179 10 Wire services. INDIA has charged the wife of Indian badminton champion Syed Modi with involvement in his murder, the Press Trust of India reports. Ameeta Modi was arrested at the Modis' home in the northern city of Lucknow. Her 27-year-old husband, India's badminton champion for
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    • 60 10 Wire services. A JAPANESE lawyer told the United Nations that some 100,000 prisoners are tortured in Japan's jails. Masatoshi Uchida, in a statement to a UN panel probing human-rights abuses, said prisoners are often forced to squat on their heels and are forbidden to lean
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    • 244 11 Wire services. POLAND today imposed a curfew in three provinces and ordered troops to secure factories in a bid to halt the gravest challenge to communist rule since 1981. Strikes at the plants raised a "specter of anarchy" and were a "glaring violation of peace and
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    • 72 11 Royal baby: After two weeks of name-guessing, the latest addition to English royalty has finally been given a name Beatrice Elizabeth Mary. The young read head, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, will also be known as Princess Beatrice of York. This picture of
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    • 147 11 -Reuter INDONESIA has a new political headache as a result of its annexation of East Timor 12 years ago. This one centres on Jakarta's plan to head the coalition of more than 100 small nations that claim they do not
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    • 64 11 When the 'big one strikes A house no more: The toll in lives and property continues to mount in the worst earthquake to hit Nepal and India in 50years. At least 900 people have been counted dead so far, and officials fear the total may rise further. Here, residents in
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    • 201 11 at ca: AP. BURMA'S students are reported to be trying to come up with guns and other weapons to give the rebellion new teeth. Huge crowds took to the streets in Burma yesterday to demand a better life and political reform of the rigid
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    • 194 11 Wire services. A GUNFIGHT erupted outside a Manila restaurant while South Korean opposition leader Kim Dae-jung was dining with Philippine officials. The politicians were not involved, but three people were wounded in the shooting. Police said it started when a police informant became angry because the
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    • 182 11 Bernama. PRIME MINISTER Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad says political enemies are telling lies about him in an attempt to win a by-election in Johor Baru. His sharpest criticism was aimed at Datuk Musa Hitam, a former deputy prime minister who broke with Mahathir over political differences.
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    • 235 13 Wire services. SOUTH AFRICAN, Cuban and Angolan military men today signed a treaty ending 13 years of war in southern Angola. A cease-fire took effect on Aug 10. But today's action formally declared an end to the fighting and provided for creation of a joint
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    • 178 13 NST. WILD elephants seeking the warmth of the East-West Highway in Ipoh have sent blood pressures up at the Public Works Department. Reason: The animals have trampled road signs and damaged barriers erected by the PWD to warn motorists of crumbling sections of the highway. Their
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    • 61 13 Fatal inferno: The first pictures of a fatal Soviet train crash on Aug 16 have become available. This one, taken by a passenger, shows a woman making a quick search for her belongings as the express train Avrora pride of the Soviet rail system bursts into flames
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    • 63 13 Passing the torch: Come September, the flames of the Olympics will burn brightly in Seoul as man competes with man in a test of human endurance and skill. Here, a Greek athlete receives the torch from the high priestess in Ancient Olympia during a rehearsal of the
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    • 165 13 Wire services.. PAKISTAN'S caretaker Cabinet has declared that it will continue the policies of President Zia ul-Haq despite rumours of a planned military coup. Mr Ismail Patel, spokesman at the Ministry of Information, said: "We are hearing the rumours but there is no basis to
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    • 138 13 Wire services. THE Hongkong Prison Authority has promised to investigate complaints that jailers beat Vietnamese refugees staging a hunger strike. A government spokesman confirmed yesterday that about 100 refugees complained about beatings on July 19, one day after beginning a prison camp hunger strike. A Correctional Services
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    • 146 13 Wire services. THE Soviet news agency Tass claims that Afghan rebels fired poiBon-gas shells at government troops near the border with Pakistan. Tass did not say when the attack occurred and gave no casualty figures. It said a cloud released by artillery explosions drifted away from the
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  • STOCKS
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      254 12 Wire services. SHARE values had a dull day on the London Stock Exchange yesterday and the Financial Times 30-share index closed 7.3 points lower at 1,477.2. Trading was veiy quiet due to a lack of buying interest and investors remained cautious ahead of the UK trade figures to be
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    • 132 12 Reuter. SHARE prices fell in initial trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today after a sharp drop in Wall Street. The Nikkei index sank 132.36 points, or 0.47 per cent, to 27,946.82 in the first 10 minutes of trade. Mining, rolling stock, fishery, oil, non-life insurance, rubber, food and
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      265 12 Wire services. WALL STREET stocks closed at their lowest levels since the end of May and below the psychological support level of 2000. Analysts said weaker bond prices, thin trading and persistent fears of higher interest rates and inflation all pressured equities prices. The Dow Jones average of
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  • Showtime
    • 509 14  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang NIGHTSPOTS are cashing in on the stroll down memory lane. While only three jazz clubs come easily to mind, at least six nightspots have opened offering oldies but goodies since June last year. The latest opened just last Friday. Mr Yahya Razak,
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    • 233 15  -  By Hope Barrett OUR REPORTER IN HONGKONG M I ODEL Michele Reis was crowned Miss Hongkong 1988 at the Academy For Performing Arts on Sunday night. Tipped as a hot contender for the title throughout the pageant, Michele, 18, won not only $260,000 worth of
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    • 419 15  -  By Wong Sing Yeong THE delayed telecast of the Malaysia Cup match between Singapore and Pahang comes on tomorrow on Channel 12. The Singapore versus Negri Sembilan match will be shown this Friday. Three other home matches, against Kelantan, Brunei and Sabah, will
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    • Article, Illustration
      201 15  -  By Danny Tan YOUNG MAN RUNNING COREY HART (EMI-MANHATTAN) MONTREAL-BORN Corey Hart has received less recognition than he deserves. Apart from having a voice best described as a cross between Sting and Journey's Steve Perry, he is also a multi-instrumentalist. If you liked his previous hits Sunglasses At Night,
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  • 1340 16 spotlight BIGGER and better is the story of the National Day Parade in recent years. Singaporeans now expect it to be that way. But can we or should we keep on spending millions of dollars on the annual bash? Or should we do it differently
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1686 17 Television gems Name: Dancer Y Co-Hostess Twinkle W (sbcs, *10.35pm) *w a nua/nu oiuuenis <sbc 12,7.30pm) jH CHRISTINE Michaelson (Kate Capshaw), a former (SBC 5, 9.30 pm) COMEDIAN Bob Newhart u 3e et J a^ nt l is nw-a happUy married teacher. And her PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew Frann
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  • 1352 21 spotlight BIGGER and better is the story of the National Day Parade in recent years. Singaporeans now expect it to be that way. But can we or should we keep on spending millions of dollars on the annual bash? Or should we do it differently
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 484 22  - Dinner’s served at tea time By Lim Swee Hong THE elegant ritual of five o'clock tea has brewed up, almost unnoticed, into something Brunch breakfast and lunch combined is a recognised meal in Singapore. Now high tea is coming to be seen here as an early dinner. Ms Susan Amy,
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    • 251 22 Have a cuppa with muffins, scones and rojak "ENGLISH" tea at hotels usually consists of the by now familiar scones, sandwiches and a selection of French pastry and cakes. For more ethnic tastes, some hotels also offer a mixed spread of teatime goodies. These can include nonya kueh, mee siam,
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 29 22 GO August: Out Now! This month, we're into FEMALE CRIMINALS, EXPAT MEN, ADVENTUROUS LAWYERS, MACHO HANG-UPS, GREAT-LOOKING WOMEN and RICE. How's that for a mixed diet? GO GET IT.
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  • FOODNOTES/SHOPTALK
    • 461 23  -  By Lim Swee Hong Upstairs, Tudor Court 145-A Tanglin Road Tel: 732-3811 9am to 6pm I AM at the window seat of Upstairs, the latest tea place in town. He sits across the table, adjusts his tie and toys nervously with his fork.
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    • 164 23  -  By Lim Phay-ling 1 T IS about 2" cm tall wr 1 shinv I t r ev Priced between $.>9.50 they arc obviously for very iv*.«!.,< i.' parents who dote on their kids. Or lor adults who already have everything. The teddy bears are also
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 357 24  - Love Dudley or hate him Actor Dudley Moore brings on extreme reactions. You hate him. Or you love him. Our reporters say why. BY Sonja Tan By Agatha Koh C IUDDLY Dudley Moore is a ibig little kid, or little big kid, it doesn't matter which. Either way he's always
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    • 401 24  - Tops in Emmy nominees L.A. Law By! Lim Kuan Chiang o NCE again, L.A. Law has the most nominations for the Emmy Awards this year. For the second year running, this NBC TV drama dominates the line-up for the awards the Oscars of TV. The popular serial about the goings-on
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    • Article, Illustration
      162 24  -  By Sonja Tan and TOH Hal Leong BABY BOOM (Prince 2) JC WIATT (Diane Keaton) is Tlie Tiger Lady, married to her five-to-nine job and about to be made partner in the firm. Then she inherits a baby. Adorable twins, Kristina and Michelle Kennedy, give great performances. Times: 11
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    • 404 25 This is the seventh lunar month the month of the ghosts. The Chinese believe the gates of Hell are opened at this time. Burnt offerings are made to the hungry ghosts, but some also safeguard their homes by asking for the help of
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    • 326 25  -  By Wong Sing Yeong LAST Sunday at 3 pm on Channel 8, we saw Part One of The Blue And The Black, a 1965 movie starring the late Lin Dai. It has been acclaimed as one of the greatest Chinese films of all time.
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    • 146 25 Aug 28: Tlm Mm Aid The Black. Starring Lin Dai, Kwan Shan and Angela Yu Chien. Sept 4: laeMe The FerhMdea City. Starring Ivy Ling Po and Chin Feng. Sept 11: My Ovaaai Beet Starring Lily Ho, Essie Lin Chia, Chin Han, Ching
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    • 176 26 Five-Foot-Way trades, affectionately 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 26 Miscellaneous
    • 148 26 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/Dik Browne POtf'T tk&ZY! Well, <£ET A 600P SEAT MoW MUCH Pit? YOU TIP HIM II I TIPPEP THE MBAPWAITEK Jy 2a^ AllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill /what Af& you A rr pep&fjps. if ue we itA f#j? £10 xu 6eT mim a wave tp YOUR RAP F£*
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 181 27 COMICFEUEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Single Slices/Peter Kohisaat Cathy/Cathy Guisewite ia 1 Don t give me that gimme-a-second-chance-"HOll I LOST TNI MEtfWT". 1 EVCITV VEAK ANOTHER WfIWAW ["THE BITTERSWEET KEAUiA- 1 I 6C CAMVMt A FEW 1 I m-harmless look.'* ..."WO RXWDS OFF M 100 AMKES A ZILLIOM OOILAKS JTW* OF
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 207 28 S A large I group of I RVwlr 437,000 potential I who said they would I read' The New Paper. I (Prelaunch Survey, November 1987). I Recruit effectively withTast Ads Our Appointments Classified Section The New Paper, Singapore's newest HHHHHHH 9HPVHIHH English weekday noon tabloid, delivering informative and easy-reading news
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    • 296 29 APPONTMENTS We are a subsidiary of VARTA BATTERIES AG, W. Germany, one of the world leaders in the manufacture of a wide range of batteries. We invite applications for the position of: Machine Setters (3 Vacancies) Requirements: NTC-3 in Maintenance or General Fitting Should have Ito 2 years' related experience
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 1791 30 RADKX3UIDE QM2MQ3 EDHI^H NOON Nni la Brief (PropuunM in Mtndirio) MOOM Bud Mwk, Crapin Aad Mk NOON Niaiiiik <T 12.05 LaacMatK Thomas Jacob UOOH fM I ~«„.,r Some liaht in- Afternoon troaU in this lunch 12JO WNheat Strings; Dan Zerdin ax ITS OV MooN dishes out choice numbers mimbers for
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  • SPORTS
    • 240 31 The world's fastest man has been beaten twice with the Olympics little more than a month away. Can he recover in time? He thinks so. AP. A LITTLE more than a month before the Seoul Olympics, 100-metre world champion Ben Johnson's hopes at the Summer Games are
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    • 137 31  -  MORNING TRACKWORK I oc Byl Dennis Chia STRONG Campaign, still looking for a win after seven starts, showed winning form in preparation for his race on Sunday. With apprentice Samsuri up, he shaped up well over 600 metres in 36.7 seconds, finishing strongly. The going
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    • 156 31 RESULTS of yesterday's international sports BASEBALL Korean League: Bing-Grae Eagles 8 MBC Dragons SOCCER World Cup African Zone qualifier let rd, 2nd leg in Tunisia: Guinea 3 Tunisia 0. East German First Div: Csrl Zeiss Jena 2 Karl-Marx-Stadt 1, Chemie Halle 1 Lokomotive Leipzig 0, Wismut Aue 2 Dynamo
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    • 252 31 SoT" Yl win"""" two Seoul Olympic trips wortli $13,000 Highlights of the Quesrions(acroBs>. To Enter Ist Prize extravafianza 1- Almost half a century after Jesse Owens won four track and field golds 1 double return deluxe tour package to the in Berlin 1936, another black Ah Olympics worth $13,000 which
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  • SPORTS
    • 293 32  -  By Judy Khaw Kenneth Tan and Ong Keng Wan have found a way to combine their passion for bikes and fitness by cycling to and from work. That Kenneth is the national cycling champion doesn't make a difference. Biking is his way of keeping in
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    • 267 32  -  SIMPLY SHOOMER ..J* PETER WATSON MOST new players use a "house cue" one provided by a club for general use. But once you get serious, you may want to buy one. Prices range from about $30 to more than $1,000! They come in one or two pieces,
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    • 77 32 WHEN you buy a cue, the tip is likely to be flattened and looks like the drawing above (left). Use a very fine file or sandpaper, working downwards around the edges, to round it off. The reason: A slightly rounded tip will give you a fraction more
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    • 171 33  -  By Abdul Shukor THE badminton doubles pair of Chong Soon Onn and Wong Kong Kay has done it again. They won the final of the Pesta Sukan Championship at the Singapore Badminton Hall last night. Chong and Wong proved an almost flawless matchup in beating
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    • 255 33 [SINGAPORE OPEN REVIEW...By ALFONSO CHAN WE ARE poor! This is the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress' rare admission following the just concluded Singapore International Open championships. And it has nothing to do with the $50,000 and a BMW car given by sponsors for Karen Lian's perfect game on
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    • 63 33 Reuter MANCHESTER United's Irish international defender Kevin Moran said yesterday he had agreed to join Spanish First Division club Sporting Gijon on a free transfer. Moran, 32, who was been at United for 10 years, said he had signed a two-year contract. "The offer
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    • 81 33 kjl i cxi AFP. BRITAIN'S Olympic marathon saga took another turn for the worse yesterday when Paula Fudge turned down selection for Seoul. The 36-year-old became the fourth athlete in a week to reject a place to Seoul. Priscilla Welch and Ann Ford, Fudge's twin sister,
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  • MALAYSIACUP
    • 585 34  -  Jeffrey Low An early-morning Seak Poh Leong isn't usually a pretty sight to watch. Those furrowed brows and pursed lips...either he's had another sleepless night or he's having one of his daily attacks of headache. Either way, the cause is football the Singapore team. And either he's
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    • 308 35  -  WATCH OUT ...FOR 'SPIDERMAN' ARUMUGAM By S. Gulam IF SINGAPORE fails to score tonight, it will not be for lack of trying, but rather, because of R. Arumugam's acrobatics between the posts. "Spiderman" has promised to spin his web in an effort to stop Singapore
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