The New Paper, 24 August 1988

Microfilm: NL16640
Total Pages: 34
1 34 The New Paper
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    12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24, 1988 m (P) m/4/M SO CENTS
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      131 1 H t A STROKE BP OF LUCK ■H Selangor loses when scores a K| goal against itself. As Jeffrey LJ Low sees it, "How lucky can Singapore be?" jl 'I JUST SOBBED' Little girl struck down on Owen Road crawls to kerb and cries. But driver Lim Tian Swee just
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    Lock icon Sneak attack on Orchard Road?
    46 1 It looked like a military invasion on Orchard Road last night. While you slept, soldiers swarmed the_roadway, set up barricades, scampered over rooftops. This was a dry run testing communications for Swing Singapore on Saturday night./ Page 5 Picture/ NlCKLAUS D'CRUZ
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      He couldn't be bothered...
      459 2  -  By Irene Ng A MOTORIST hit a young girl who was crossing the road. Dazed and bleeding, the girl crawled to the kerb and cried. But the span, Lim Tian Swee, did not help her or call the police. He just sat in his car for
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      These people cared...
      459 2  -  By Chris Segura I HAD just left the Redhill MRT station with my young son when I heard tyres screech, a loud whumph, and I saw a small boy sail into the air and skid across the asphalt of Tiong Bahru Road. My son told me later
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      Lock icon Away from the terrible quake
      50 2 Fofloni wsit Mother and sleeping babe await treatment at Dharan Bhopa camp in Nepal after being rescued from the terrible earthquake that shook part of the country. The camp is run by British Gurkhas who have treated over 500 victims of the quake. Picture/ Reuter
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      Lock icon Jaws: Running amok in a tank
      117 2 Wire services. AMERICAN diver and lawyer Wiley Beevers has learned a curious lesson: Sharks won't hurt him in the ocean, but they will try to kill him in restaurants. Beevers was feeding lettuce to fish inside a giant glass tank in a New Orleans,
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      SORRY
      60 2 IN THE article "Welcome to the club" published on Saturday, we said NTUC Club members have free use of the pool at the Pasir Ris Resort. The NTUC Club has clarified that members who do not stay overnight at the Pasir Ris chalets will have to pay a charge.
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      TV — the way we see it
      122 3  - TV the way we see it SKETCHES AND STORY; Ambrose Poh M IGHT as well admit it. Television is as much a part of the human condition as eating, sleeping, talking and sex It has slithered from the living room into the kitchen and even the shop walkway. It has
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      COMMUNITY VIEWER
      139 3 T HIS television viewer draws his inspiration from the herd instinct. After all, people need people. At one time found in the kopi tiam, this viewer has now moved to standing outside TV and video shops during the evenings where a small crowd will gather in front of
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      32 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over many areas in the afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 7.11 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.02 am.
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      323 3 V y "W E COMES home after a hard LJ day's job and plants himself in JL front of the TV set. Within the said Tan Kim Heng, a stock (j* /f*\" broker in busy Shenton Way. ,Hll f[\ C lift 7|\ Jw > "I can be very alert on
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Keeping trains on track
      347 4  -  By Leong Chan Teik WHILE you slept, a lot of work was done to make sure you have a safe, smooth train ride on the SMRT during the day. It happens every night. Men from the SMRT carry out a routine of inspections and repairs on
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      Have a swinging time but...
      212 4 YOU are invited to the biggest and the longest street party ever in Singapore. Date: Saturday, Aug 27. Time: 9.30 pm to 1.30 am. Place: Orchard Road between the junctions of Scotts Road and Clemenceau Avenue. So come along to swing and have some good,
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      Lock icon Troops on Orchard at dawn
      356 5  -  By Brenton Wong ORCHARD Road looked like it was under sneak attack last night. Actually, it was a preparation for what may be one of the most festive Saturday nights in Singapore history. From 1.30 am until about 3 am, the organisers of Swing Singapore
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      A matter of style and substance
      551 6 IT HAPPENED again this week. The Prime Minister gave an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the second generation ministers. Then, for the second time in three days, the First Deputy Prime Minister felt a need to respond in public. It started on
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      There'll be change and no change
      414 6  -  By] H.L.Lim NOMINATIONS for the Sept 3 general election start at 11 this morning. By noon when they close, the ruling People's Action Party is unlikely to have at least 41 walkovers. That is the minimum needed to form the next government. The number
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      THE OPPOSITION
      317 6  -  Reporters/ Augustine Low, Michelle Oh and Chitra Rajaram National Solidarity Party THE NSP announced two candidates yesterday, making a total of eight: Mr Mohamad Affondy bin Abdul Rahim, 31. Field manager in insurance company. Former relief teacher. Member of Workers' Party, 1981 to early 1988. A levels. Married,
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      The students want to know
      495 7 IT WAS not quite rapid fire that university students directed at the Prime Minister on Monday. For one, some of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's answers were very long and detailed. He had come prepared for at least three of the questions: On his assessment of
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      THE PARTIES' MANIFESTOS
      334 7 SEVEN political parties are putting up candidates to contest the general election on Sept 3. We give a summary of each of their manifestos. PEOPLE'S ACTION PARTY THE PAP is campaigning on the slogan More Good Years. Its programmes to achieve this goal for Singaporeans include: Have
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      Lock icon Research on birds at Jurong
      300 8 BIRDS will be on the minds of some 20 brains. And for the first time too. Pink pigeons, penguins and songbirds will be the subjects, at first. Other birds may be added to the list. Twenty final year science undergraduates from the National University will
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      Bread and butter take the cake
      252 8 BREAD and butter took the cake at the National Trades Union Congress hall last night. No it was not the scene of a high tea party, but a debate between members of the NTUC. The motion was "That bread and butter issues still remain
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      Better business in store for booksellers
      150 8 LOCAL bookseller* and publishers can look forward to better business abroad after the 20th Festival of Books and Book Fair. The organisers have invited representatives from Asean countries to visit the fair for three days, during which They will have business meetings with local
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      11 schools closed today for nomination
      197 8 STUDENTS of 11 schools are on holiday today thanks to the election. The schools are being used as nomination centres today. All activities in the schools' premises will be suspended from 8 am to 3 pm. One principal said she was told about the
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      120 5 I FOOD I |pi COURT I I FORUM h£>bl CALLERIA I GIVES YOU osr\ M'O'R'E I R tosay S I From now till 7 September 1988 I j I you can save 50 cents on your I I| nextlunchordinneratan V° four l I (Each voucher is redeemable for I ()nt
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon US law hits ideas thieves'
      190 10 Wire services. President Reagan today signed into law a sweeping overhaul of American trade laws that he said would block "international thievery" of US ideas. The law's main targets: Japan, Taiwan and West Germany. The trade law represents more than three years of work by
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      Forces open fire in Burma
      186 10 STATE-run Rangoon Radio said today that security forces had again fired on protesters who tried to attack them. Diplomats cited unconfirmed reports of 31 killed and 80 wounded in the incident, which occurred on Monday in the southern town of Moulmein. Other reports put the
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      Lock icon Tension increases in Pakistan
      190 10 Wire services. Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims are celebrating their most sensitive religious festival amid unrest sparked by the death of President Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq. More than 5,000 troops were deployed at Shi'ite holy places in Karachi to guard against trouble during the mourning festival of Ashura, often marked
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      No more, computer matchmaker
      182 10 TEAHOUSES and discos are putting China's famous state-run computer matchmakers out of business, leaving mostly the short and unschooled as customers. The official Xinhua News Agency says many of the Beijing centres have been forced to shut down. The slowdown among the lovelorn seeking computerised help
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      Lock icon Soviets deny blast deaths
      100 10 Wire services. THE Kremlin has denied Western reports that hundreds of people were killed when Moslem rebels destroyed an ammunition dump north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Soviet Foreign Ministry said there were no deaths and no serious injuries. A spokesman confirmed that the explosion had oc-
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      Lock icon Bribes cost more in China now
      119 11 Reuter. INFLATION has pushed up the cost of bribing officials in China. In the early 1980s, a businessman needed only to present a few cartons of cigarettes to smooth the way for a contract. But Chinese newspapers say corrupt officials today want businessmen to
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      Lock icon Silence covers anti-IRA plans
      247 11 Wire services. MARGARET Thatcher's government has adopted a policy of "cautious silence" towards plans for dealing with renewed assaults by the Irish Republican Army. "You don't tell your enemy precisely what it is you're going to do ever," Mrs Thatcher said yesterday. But that reluctance to
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      Lock icon US boosts tension, N. Korea charges
      195 11 Wire services. NORTH Korea has accused the US of increasing tension between the two Koreas because it needs a reason for keeping nuclear weapons in that part of Asia. Ambassador Ri Tcheul told the 40-nation Geneva Disarmament Conference that more than 1,000 nuclear weapons
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      Lock icon Sinatra wins claim in US
      218 11 Wire services. A US court today upheld a $900,000 claim by Frank Sinatra that a Swiss clinic lied when it claimed he sought help to make himself young again. The singer was featured in an Oct 23, 1984, cover story by the National Inquirer tabloid
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      Lock icon Still going strong...
      75 11 A survivor: Mevlud Dawitadze. at left, is said to be a living witness to more than a century of Russian history. He claims to be ill. If that is true and doctors do not dismiss his claim he would have lived through the days of the Czar,
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      Lock icon Japan to continue defence buildup
      226 12 Wire services. JAPAN plans to continue a five-year defence buildup despite warmer relations between America and the Soviet Union. The decision, announced in Tokyo yesterday, is likely to keep Japan's military spending above 1 per cent of its gross national product. A self-imposed lid on
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      Lock icon Prayers and sweets after killer quake
      199 12 Wire services. ALL across Nepal today, prayers are being offered to Shiva the Hindu god of destruction. Worshippers offer sweets, milk and coconuts to appease Shiva, who they believe unleashed the earthquake that ravaged Nepal and parts of India. Women dressed in colourful saris
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      Lock icon A quarter million have AIDS
      130 12 Reuter. HOW many people in the world now face slow and almost certain death by AIDS? The latest official guess is 250,000. This estimate by the World Health Organisation is 100,000 higher than the WHO estimate issued last month. The new estimate also said between
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      Lock icon Dancing to ancient beat
      69 12 Best foot forward: Three weeks remain before the Olympic Games open in Seoul. South Koreans have spent million of dollars to ensure the success of the world's premier sporting event. Here, young soldiers take part in a traditional Korean Buddhist dance, "Light and Sound". These young
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      Corazon determined to carry out husband's will
      449 12  -  By William L. Chaze FOREIGN EDITOR IT WAS just over five years ago that Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino was slain as he returned from a lonely exile in America. His murder Aug 21, 1983, touched off a spasm of sentiment that swept
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      27 11 This Long!" Wl^SSfi liJ* Clis j|j||! j m.r-t. .I I I IIHI I I .jfll Singapore's Longest Lasting Battery. It outperforms any otter batteiy sold fin Singapore.
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  • WORLDTODAY/STOCKS
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      Ringgit fell unchecked
      222 13 BANKERS say Malaysia is seeing a strong economic upswing but the ringgit keeps falling lower on the money market. Some economists are happy to see it happen. In recent weeks the ringgit has slumped to some of its lowest levels against other money. It hit its all-time
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      Formosa Air seeks mainline links
      55 13 TAIWAN'S Formosa Airlines has applied for permission to begin direct flights to mainland China. Officials declined comment on the unusual move. Observers said it was unlikely that direct air service to the mainland will be approved because that would violate Taipei's "no contact, no talks,
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      Lock icon Killers on the prowl
      79 13 Whale watch: Researchers keep their eyes on a pair of killer whales swimming past their boat in Johnstone Strait, just off the north-east coast of Canada's Vancouver Island. The whales are bringing an influx of tourists and their dollars to the region. It has become one
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      Lock icon Aids drives latex prices up
      225 13 Reuter. WITH the killer sex disease Aids driving up the price of latex for condoms, a condom manufacturer is putting a new plant where the rubber grows in Sri Lanka. The Ansell division of Australia's Pacific Dunlop said the $80 million plant will be near
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    Lock icon London
    265 13 Wire services. SHARE values fell sharply on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, but the slump bottomed out as news of an early rally came from Wall Street. The Financial Times 30share index closed 11.1 points lower at 1,466.1. Volume was a modest 319.2 million shares, up from 231.5 million
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    Lock icon TOKYO
    86 13 Reuter. SHARE prices were slightly higher in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today with no new surprises to push the market sharply one way or another, brokers said. Short-term, fast in-and-out trading mainly by individuals and companies speculating in domestic-demand related issues was predicted by market analysts,
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    INDICES/Closing
    51 13 FT Industrials Tue 1,466.10 (1,477.20) Dow Jones Average Tue 1,989.33 (1,990.22) ST Industrial Tue 1,067.02 (1,075.73) NST Industrial Tue 1,757.34 (1,772.11) Hongkong Hang Song Tue 2,532.13 (2,564.14) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,629.90 (1,645.30) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 27,919.95 (28,079.18) Figures in bracket* refer to thoee of the previous trading
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    Lock icon New York
    270 13 Reuter. WALL STREET stocks edged lower in light trading yesterday, ignoring a strong rally in the bond market on news of modest US inflation and lower durable goods orders for July. The Dow slipped 0.89 points to 1,989.33, easing below the three-month low reached in the prior session.
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  • Showtime
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      No more surfing for Brian
      553 14  -  By Danny Tan I F Reg Dwight (Elton John) can Strike Back, so can Brian Wilson, the 46-year-old exBeach Boy. It is the comeback of the year in more ways than one. Unlike Elton John's album which launches a dramatically different musical style, the album
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      Wilson turns the tide after 20 years with Love and Mercy
      158 14  -  REVIEW/ By Danny Tan BRIAN WILSON (Sire/Reprise Record 9 *****-1/ Cassette #9 *****9-4) THE COMEBACK album of the year? Possibly. The strong melodies are all there, from the title track, Love and Mercy, to Melt Away. Also the album
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      Lock icon Beauty World returns
      328 15  -  By Brenton Wong BEAUTY World returned for its second run last night to yet another sell-out performance at the World Trade Centre Auditorium. The play saw certain changes in scripting and staging and drew several people who are seeing it for the second time around. All seven
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      A dream or reality?
      247 15  -  FIRST NIGHT/ Lo Tien Yin WHAT is reality? China Dream, staged by the Shanghai People's Art Theatre, explores this question. The answer they offer seems to be... they don't know either. What inspired Shanghainese playwrights, Fei Chun Fang and her husband, Sun Hui Zhu, was the
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    Lock icon BIG TEST FOR NEW UMNO
    13 16 asean asides Graphic/ The New Paper Art Department
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    Battling for hearts and minds
    507 16  -  "'r'liliiTlm By Yusman Ahmad TOMORROW'S Johor Baru parliamentary by-election will help decide the future of Umno as a political force in Malaysia. The party is making its stand in the place where it was founded 44 years ago with the announced aim of protecting ethnic
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      1728 17 Television J® screen M'The Persuaders MSk Midweek Sports Videofashion Monthly U[ gems r Five Miles To Midnight (r) Malaysia Cup '88 The Fashion Vanguard Wt\ (SBC 5, *12.05 am) (S^3 (SBC 12, 7.30 pm) HBi3ffl|§. AFTER six matches without a win, ROGER Moore and Tony i Singapore triumphs against Pahang
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      79 18 jJfekMK Madonna Louise Ciccone Birthday: Aug 16 Blrtkplacr. Bay City, Mgbtl.«2m Wdgkts4kg Eya: Green A Fivitriti calaan turquoise rosary her grandmother gave mH.. mom: An apartment Malibu, California Marital *tatM: Her First kit Holiday *ifrf HgSKtMtLike A Otkar Mts: Material %k Don't Preach Commotion. Picture/WEA BROADWAY GAL I Always the
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    Lock icon BIG TEST FOR NEW UMNO
    13 19 asean asides Graphics The New Paper Art Department
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    Battling for hearts and minds
    509 19  -  "roillilrpr By Yusman Ahmad TOMORROW'S Johor Baru parliamentary by-election will help decide the future of Umno as a political force in Malaysia. The party is making its stand in the place where it was founded 44 years ago with the announced aim of protecting ethnic
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      178 20 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 M 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
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      152 20 COMICFEUEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne soop vhtfE OLP Ffcl&flDS/ "A &00P YJItJS, OLP\ A #AJ2A\ nee... C momsy Ttieze ANYTUIte O£TTBP? XWZJ^ZV-.'&TVBZB/ AllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill YHAT $UCVU> (^o| fWTM».O fjf^ George the Robot/stephen Stanley N /aikwN i L- "V 1 J Dllffy/Bruce Hammon A I'm APPROACHING THIS WHOtf. EXPERIENCE-
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      186 21 COMICFELEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Single Slices/Peter Kohisaat *)B*CoODttvl IN Wlens* OP "WC AM UftM, "TIC ftCCOftNtSftlll M*Cli Of Mb l)-*i MTWN lAinrl s A CMt 4TUM NMT OMK-C I AH **6* Ptmftll r* AH UAN Itf TWO iW UK* IHSTfAb Of ft SKc U<«4 W u I nwNWWAAt.IT rt moM
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    Woman keeps calling
    821 22 —m A PROBLEMSHARED/HORIZONS Dear Aggie I am 35, happily married with a young child. I take good care of my family. Recently, I attended a company convention held at a hotel in West Malaysia. I had to stay overnight. In the evening, I went to the hotel
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    No room at the top for womanly tears
    306 22 IT IS now accepted that women executives bring a softer, more human side to the office. But there is one human activity women are still not allowed to do at the office they are not allowed to cry. If they break into
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  • FOODNOTES
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      What's cooking for mums
      433 23  -  Certain foods are considered healthy, others harmful for young mothers. But what is this traditional diet and is it really necessary? BY Lim Swee Hong RESTAURANT butcher Thomas Ng took three weeks off from work when his wife had a baby. It was not to play
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      What tradition prescribes
      193 23 CHINESE: Lots of liver, kidney, chicken, fish, or lean meat cooked with sesame oil and fried ginger shreds is recommended. Pig's stomach with pepper soup is for getting rid of wind. Vegetables and fruit cause wind. But most women eat unchilled fruit and non-cooling vegetables like kailan
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      1679 24 RADKXXJDE HOOK News hi Brief (Programme# in Mandarin) MOO" s #^ff" y **j J®?? 1 M <d IT an i,.rM.t." li. n Take a break with and 12.30 Ceeatre Steries: David Neal Sy 12.05 Laachdate. See Air Ravea. NOON bay Usteaiag: A midday selec- popular inatrumentals in thia reads H
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  • SHOWTIME
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      QUICKTAKES
      126 25 RAMBO 111 (Cathay/Palace) RAMBO fights to rescue his mentor, Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna). The scene with the best special effects, when Rambo forces a bullet from his body, has been cut. Times: Cathay: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm. Palace: 7.15, 9.30 pm. ■ANGEL II (Shaw cinemas) THIS
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      Lock icon Kylie's on a real money roll
      481 26 Daily Mail. M ONEY is important but it is not the be-all and end-all, says 20-year-old Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. She raked in more than $2 million last month according to The Daily Mail of Australia. The former TV star has so far
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      Lock icon Jazzing it up with Jeramzee
      162 26  -  By Karen Goh FLUSH from the success at the Montreaux festival, Jeremy Monteiro has his itinerary mapped out. And come November he will lead his group Jeramzee to the Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur Jazz Festivals. Yes, it certainly looks like they're going places and no
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      Melinda triumphs as the friendliest of them all
      173 26  -  By Brenton Wong WHOOPS and cheers accompanied Melinda Matthews when she went up to receive her Miss Friendship title last Friday night in Bangkok. It was during the Miss All Nations International '88/'B9 contest that the results were announced. The event was
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      218 28 r Reuter. FRANCE'S most expensive soccer player Eric Cantona has been indefinitely suspended from the national team. The ban was imposed yesterday as a result of his strident attack on national trainer Henri Michel at the weekend. Jean Fournet-Fayard, president of the French Football Federation, announced that
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      455 28 ENGLISH SOCCER'S SECOND DIVISION CHALLENGERS AFP. CHELSEA is the bookies' favourites to go straight back from Division Two to the top flight in the new season that starts on Saturday. But manager Bobby Campbell knows it won't be easy. He thinks the team faces a tough
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      THE OPENING ACTION
      46 28 Second Division: Brighton v Bradford, Chelsea v Blackburn, Hull v Manchester City, Leeds v Oxford, Leicester v West Bromwich Albion Oldham v Barnsley, Shrewsbury v Portsmouth, Stoke v Ipswich, Sunderland v Bournemouth, Walsall v Plymouth, Watford v Birmingham, Swindon v Crystal Palace (postponed).
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      Lock icon Wright not for sale
      69 28 AFP. MARK Wright is not for sale, Derby manager Arthur Cox has ruled. That was the response Tottenham manager Terry Venables received when he approached the First Division soccer club for the defender yesterday. "We are aiming to strengthen our squad, not weaken it," Cox said.
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      Lock icon Ardiles for QPR?
      104 28 AFP. OSVALDO Ardiles will meet Queens Park Rangers manager Jim Smith and chairman David Bulstrode today to discuss joining the London club. The 36-year-old Argentinian was released by Tottenham at the end of the season. But he has made good recovery from a knee operation and wants
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      Lock icon Daniel comeback
      72 28 Reuter. ARGENTINE defender Daniel Passarella has came out of retirement. He signed for First Division club River Plate yesterday. Passarella, 35, said a month ago he was definitely quitting the game. He had just turned down an offer to end his career with River Plate, the club which
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      Lack of beef on turf
      300 29  -  By Dennis Chia THE SELANGOR Turf Club is in a shambles, and its next meeting, beginning next week, is in jeopardy. Out of a total of 323 horses in training in Classes Two and Three, only 198 entries (97 in Class Two and 101 in
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      451 29 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sport: ATHLETICS Berne International: Men: 800 m: 1 Joaquim Cruz (Bra) 1:44.58 2 Ocky Clark (US) 3 Sammy Koskei (Ken). 1,500 m: 1 Mahmoud Kalboussi (Tun) 3:38.17 2 Peter O'donoghue (NZ) 3:38.24 3 Tim Hacker (US) 3:38.39. 110 m hurdles: 1 Tonie Campbell
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      US jockey Sellers all set to return home
      214 29 MORNING TRACKWORK with DENNIS CHIA AMERICAN jockey Mark Sellers has cut short his riding stint here to return to Oklahoma. Sellers, 29, granted a riding permit until the end of the meeting, left on Monday, promising to return for the new season.
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      165 30 THE SEB COE ISSUE: SHOULD COE GO? Should Seb Coe be allowed to go to Seoul despite Britain's decision to leave him out? Yes, say the lOC. No, say two of his team-mates AP. THE final decision on whether double Olympic champion Sebastian Coe runs
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      Lock icon No, says Cram
      109 30 AFP. STEVE CRAM yesterday joined the growing ranks of those opposed to an attempt by International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch to allow double Olympic champion Seb Coe to run in Seoul. "What I object to is the rules being changed for one person," said Cram,
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      90 30 AFP. ALLAN WELLS believes Sebastian Coe should be excluded from Seoul. The 36-year-old former Olympic sprint champion said: "I think it's wrong. I think it's above and beyond the rules. I think Seb should have to abide or die by the rules," said Wells. "He's a great
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      Heads, he wins
      422 31  -  MALAYSIACUP Itop-scorers CHART I By S. Gulam T HE mere sight of Fandi Ahmad is giving goalkeepers the jitters, espe- cially when he soars to meet the crosses in the penalty box. The Kuala Lumpur striker has used his heading ability to stunning effect this Malaysia Cup
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      347 31 The NewPaoer-letetreamTbur Contest An all-expense paid kyrairg Every day, there are stories marked with a tick in The New Paper. But only one has a double border. Look for the tick with this double border iLJU and write down the headline of this story in the Y J 1. You
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      Lock icon Plucky Selangor, lucky Singapore
      367 32 H OW lucky can Singapore be. Somehow, it's one of those ironies in soccer that keeps on happening at the most unexpected time. The thrill, the celebration. It was uncontrollable. For al most three minutes, all of Singapore players, substitutes, officials, coach and doctor piled on
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      494 33  -  After five draws, Singapore earned some reassurance last Friday from its 1-0 win over Pahang. But yesterday's victory over arch-rival Selangor must have dispelled all doubts about its capabilities in the Malaysia Cup. BY Jeffrey Low from Kuala Lumpur EVER seen talkative Seak Poh
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      520 34 CHILDREN'S GALLERY. A cultural and educational experience for the k*ds. Let them smell different scents and spices and hear the sounds of a gameian gong. Free. National Museum. 2 pm 4 pm. Call 330-9561 to check if the room has been booked by schools. NonUGHTS STUDIO
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      19 34 OUT AND ABOUT: Rare fish on show FOOD: Continental a la carte COMING UP: Trimming with swimming
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      DRAMA ON FAMILY TIES
      104 34 A double bill for the price of one. Two nlays will be put up by tne Necessary Stage. Round And Round The Dining Table revolves around a family at meal times. A father is bemused with his two daughters, both with very different personalities. The second
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