The New Paper, 2 September 1988

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1 40 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 66 1 KING DEEJAY Chris Ho is named outstanding radio personality in AsiaPacific. Page 16 wK JL ML ARTISTIC ARTISTES SBC stars find hidden talent doodling, sketching, water colouring. /Page 17 WORLD 12,13,14,15 STOCKS 14 SHOWTIME 16,17,24,25,26 TV GUIDE 19 COMICS 27,28 SHOPTALK 29 RADIO 31 FASTADS/JOBS 32,33 TRAVEL 34 RACING 35
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    • 106 1 RETOAflONS ABOUT PAP Mr Goh Chok Tong admits that BG Lee is "a potential challenge to me". PM Lee reveals he wants his candidates to have opposition "spurs stuck on their backsides". Page 10 WHEN BLOOD WON'T TELL Court hears blood tests are not enough to determine if 64-year-old man
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    • 21 1 BECKER BLISTERED, RAM POUNDED Tennis unknowns upset footsore Boris Becker and 'penniless' Pam Shriver early in US Open./ Page 35 LIS
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  • 42 1 Singaporean survivor of Hongkong plane crash finds the smooth flight home terrifying. Madam Chan Bok Luan says air hostess tried to calm her panic: "Auntie, you cannot be like this."/Page 2 Picture/ Aundry Gan
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 328 2  -  By Ronald Wong MADAM Chan Bok Luan lived through that airliner crash in Hongkong but it gave her a new fear of flying. Getting on another plane to fly home to Singapore yesterday required an act of supreme will power. "When the plane was landing
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    • Article, Illustration
      100 2 MR LEE Kuan Yew said yesterday that the opposition get carried away when they talk about People Power. He contrasted the mood of youths in Singapore and in the Philippines and Burma. 1EU5CTIONS88 In Singapore: 250,000 people went to that giant Orchard Road disco. One-tenth of the population
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    • 283 2  -  BY THUSITHA de SILVA A KILLER stabbed Mr Lim Peck Chuan in the neck with a knife and left his corpse slumped over the squat toilet at King Crabs restaurant with the stall door locked. The owner of the restaurant in Bukit Merah found
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    • 82 2 Wire services. A DOCTOR in the US has admitted selling stolen body parts to researchers. Martin Spector, 72, of Philadelphia, was accused of buying heads, arms and ears from hospital workers and selling them for profit. He could get up to 17 years' jail.
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    • 244 3  -  By Irene Hoe PHILOMENA Devi will start her day tomorrow by voting in the General Election for the first time. She'll end it with a birthday dinner given by colleagues from the Republic of Singapore Air Force. Her 23rd birthday actually is today but
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    • 247 3 OVER the past three days alone, we've received nearly 50 calls about the general election. They are usually about issues, rallies an<|_ candidates, but also deal with media coverage. Some people said media coverage should be more balanced, not tilted in favour of
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 29 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over many areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 7.08 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.00 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 209 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. Avant-garde: Very modern. Something that is avant-garde has methods or ideas which have not been tried before or are more modern than those which people are used to. Caricature:
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    • 230 4  -  By Abdul Hadhi BLOOD tests alone are not enough to prove whether someone is the father of a certain child. According to one lawyer, the tests must be supported by other evidence. The supporting evidence will eventually be the facts that matter in such a case,
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    • 77 4 ALTHOUGH blood tests cannot prove paternity, they can provide strong evidence that a man is not the father of a particular child. Because blood groups are passed down from parents to children, the children cannot have a blood group that is not present in one or both
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    • 229 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram SPORTSMEN will not be the only people making their mark at the Seoul Olympics this month. Ms Norenshah Sahari, 26, and Mr Kelly Teo, 20, will be dancing away at the Olympics while the battle for gold, silver and bronze go on. They
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    • 162 4  -  By Ambrose Poh FISHNAPPERS broke into the Aw family's flat on Wednesday. The burglars stole quite a lot of gold. They also kidnapped a member of the family their pet Golden Arowana fish. Mr Aw Eng Seng, 33, a pork seller who lives in Tampines
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    • 76 4 THE head of Geylang Police Station, Mr Abu Bakar bin Moosa, tops this year's list of promotions in the force. He becomes a superintendent of police, together with Mr Woon Sian Hai, of Bedok police station. A total of 69 officers were promoted: eight to the rank of
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    • 195 4 <g <ftl MPH 80th Anniversary Lucky Draw Results 1 St prize: Single return air ticket to London on Air Canada JOEL TEH WEN YANG Bedok North Ave 4 2nd prize: Amiga 500 personal computer LIM SWEE CHEANG Yong An Park, River Valley Road 3rd prizes: Sheaffer Porcelain desk sets WILFRED
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    • 121 4 On board the EQUATOR DREAM «H From 2200 to 0200 hours f t W|fcv Tickets available at JL Ifi tllr Clifford Pier IkMJI (Mon -Thu.&Hol JQk Includes First Drink) Ss2o/ I|L (Fri.Sat.&Hol.Eve -JLIncludes First Drink) Ss3o fLuncheon fsoiMet Cruise Cruise Cruise Rom 1200 to 1430 Departure. 1500 Departure. 1830 Adult:
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 225 6 POLICE were already in his Marine Crescent home. So a suspected drug offender jumped out of his kitchen window and fell three storeys. On the ground he found himself in a tougher spot. He couldn't move. The 23-year-old suspect broke his left
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    • 219 6 THIS year's Teachers' Day party at Telok Kurau Secondary School should not have been cancelled. That was what Hotline Plus callers, including a teacher, thought of the principal's decision to cancel it because at last year's party the pupils got carried away and
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    • 65 6 DO not be surprised if interviewers from the Ministry of Labour knock on your door this month. They are collecting information such as sex, age, education, citizenship and employment status. They will wear identification cards. The information collected from 6,000 households will be used to
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    • 281 6  -  By Angeline Song GOOD grades are easy to come by—if you have a sibling to egg you on. This is certainly true for brothers, Lian Tian Tse, 27, and Tiang Siong, 25, and twin sisters Tan Juat Fwee and Juat Swee, 26. The four will
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    • 198 6 ONE hundred and fifty piglets will be on board when a Singapore Airlines' jumbo returns to Singapore at 6.05 pm on Monday. The load of livestock will be a first for SlA's all-cargo jumbo plane, the 8747-200. The piglets are being flown in from
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    • 363 7  -  Stories/ Geneieve Kwek IF you can't be a pilot, getting a bird's-eye view from the Air Force Museum is the next best thing. Yesterday was Air Force Day. The museum was opened to show almost 20 years of history in pictures, medals, decorations, uniforms,
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    • 290 7 SHE taught him how to fly. Six years later they met again. But this time it was with both feet on the ground to co-write a book on the air force. Capt Koh Chai Hong and Capt Jek Kian Yee are part of
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    • 364 8  -  By By Chow Wai Fong and Loh Than Lee SCOUT Ding Jin Hong would rather wash the toilet than get a handout. "I will earn more if I do jobs than if I'm given donations," he said. Jin Hong, 16, from
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    • 139 8 A COURT order forbidding Foo Toon Jiou, 24, to drive in Singapore for 10 years came much too late for the woman killed by his pickup truck last April 7. A few months earlier, Foo had paid an $800 fine for dangerous driving. Senior District Judge
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    • 131 8 CLEARLY Abu Talib bin Haron has little talent as a thief. He is much too noisy. Abu was jailed for two and a half years by a District Court judge Wednesday. He admitted stealing 60 drain covers. He also admitted to a burglary. Both crimes
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    • 256 8  -  By ChuaChinChye WHO wouldn't want an all-expenses paid tour of Japan? The New Paper discovered two such reluctant winners yesterday. At stake was a seven-day tour of Japan worth more than $4,000. It was the prize of the fifth week's The New Paper Jetstream
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    • 213 8 ONE-TIME cook Lim Keng Huat enjoyed having plenty of money, even if he got it by cheating others. But it will cost him three years of his life. His prison sentence came after he stood in District Court on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to a
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    • 322 9  -  By Karen Goh YOUR personal line to Government. That's what Teleview can be. A line of communication from your home to Government and back so you can find out more about policies and issues and give your views on them. This is part of Teleview's
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    • 138 9  -  By Chitra Rajaram THINGS are looking brighter for Tasneem, the eight-month-old baby who needs a liver transplant. A total of $18,308 was raised yesterday the first day of an art exhibition, organ- ised by Hilton International Hotel in aid of Tasneem. The operation for
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    • 234 9  -  By Lawrence Low SPENDING more than $3,000 to see a top-rate show may sound a bit much, but this is not stopping two people from Singapore. Two people, one male and the other female, have already signed up for the $1,688 Phantom of the Opera
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    • ELECTION88
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        514 10  -  A day of riveting revelations 1 MORE DAY TO POLLING DAY By H. L. Lim Stories/ Augustine Low, Harinder Gill and Harjinder Kaur IT WAS a day of revelations at the hustings. Most of the crowd at the Fullerton Square rally yesterday probably heard for the first time
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        219 10 DON'T READ: Mr Chiam See Tong last night said the People's Action Party would resort to threats to get votes. "The last thin; for you to do on Saturday is to read your morning papers. Straightaway, at 8 am, you go and vote," the Singapore Democratic Party secretary-general
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      • 70 10 PAP 7 to 10 pm: Vacant land opposite blocks 449 and 222. Tampines Street 24. WP 7 to 10 pm: Car park between blocks 116 and 117, Buklt Merah View. SDP 11.30 am to 2.30 pm: Fullerton Square URA car park; 7 to 10 pm: Open space
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      • Article, Illustration
        249 10 AT FIRST they went out quietly. First one, then two, then three. They are People's Action Party pamphlets on Workers' Party candidate Mr Francis Seow. Speakers at PAP rallies in the Eunos GRC referred to the facts documented. They are smears, WP speakers countered. Then Seow should sue,
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 99 7 k I I av 1 k 'vWA 1 fl L H| I I I LHkl MM A I I Featuring Glen R. Tierney and Deborah A. Humphrey the current Australian South Pacific and Australasian Professional Ballroom Champion, for the very first time in Singapore here at the Hearthrob. Performances: 10.30
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    • 54 8 ■eg ETTTaI3I-1 il i f.V, I iil aT«H u'h nVW gggjgg »o>o gmjf i w *i(* rtfcf r ■■D^jSa Columbia Pictures: My The Star of "3 Men A Baby" gets into Demon Lover, The 3 Amigos, "A fine MESS." Back to School, Something ted danson howie mandel Wild, Fright Night.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 123 9 If you really want to see' the music, look at the new Technics Senes X9BOD Hi-Fi Stereo The technically-minded may wish to know that its 750W New Class A' amplifier has a bullt-in D/A converter and an opncal digital see blue suede shoes with your own ears input terminal which
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  • WORLDTOCAY
    • 383 12 THE Karin B is shunned like a leper as it cruises the high seas bearing a cargo of one of the deadly blights of the industrial age hazardous waste. At last report she was anchored 21 kilometers off the French port of Le Havre, waiting
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    • 160 12 Wire services. CHINA'S traditional reverence for secrets has come under study by Chinese legislators who feel the country has carried official secrecy too far. But these same officials are about to recommend the death penalty for anyone who violates a new official-secrets act. The secrecy measure
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    • 113 12 AFP. THE Palestine Liberation Organization wants the United Nations to take control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip area now occupied by Israel. The PLO request was made at a UN conference in Geneva, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reports. Nabil Ramlawi, the
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    • 64 12 Deep waters: These Malaysian children have a splashing good time when their street suddenly turns into a canal. Life in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur has been disrupted since mid-week by severe flash-flooding caused.bv heavy downpours. The weatherman is offering still more good news for children,
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    • 107 12 Wire services. THE Soviet Union has promised to dismantle a disputed radar complex in Siberia if the US will extend a missile ban by at least nine years. The radar at issue is near the town of Krasnoyarsk. The treaty the Soviets want extended is
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    • 122 12 UPI THE CHAIRMAN of a royal tribunal investigating charges of "gross misbehaviour" against Malaysia's five suspended Supreme Court jurists has resigned. In Kuala Lumpur, Attorney General Abu Talib Othman said King Mahmood Iskandar replaced Judge Hashim Yeop Sani with High Court Judge Edgar Joseph. Lawyers
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    • 53 13 Students: A policeman in Santiago points a pistol at a teacher as officers break up new protests at the University of Chile. Demonstrators are demsmding the resignation of Gen Augusto Pinochet, the strongman ruler who announced earlier this week that he seeks to remain in the
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    • 253 13 Wire services. FORMER Burmese Defence Minister Gen Tin U says "time is running out" for Burma's government. Tin U spoke as people flooded onto the streets and business was brought to a standstill by mass protests for an immediate interim government and free elections. The demonstrators
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    • 231 13 AP. RAVAGED by 13 centuries of hard weather, the Turkish tomb of King Midas the monarch with the golden touch has begun to show signs of severe wear and tear. Experts have been put to work sprucing up the tomb, located about 100 km southwest
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    • 47 13 Protest: Police guarding Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi turn away members of Parliament who demanded better treatment for the state of Andhra Pradesh. The shoving began when the lawmakers sought entrance to Gandhi's home to present a petition bearing the names of dissidents. Picture/ REUTER
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  • WORLDTOCAY/STOCKS
    • 180 14 Wire services. AN INDIAN offensive in Sri Lanka's northern jungles has broken the back of the main Tamil rebel group, says an Indian general. A well-placed source in Sri Lanka's government says news of the victory was sent by Lt Gen A.S. Kalkat, commander of the
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    • 106 14 Wire services. CLOSE to 6,400 large Chinese government companies or 17 per cent of the total number face bankruptcy by next year. The People's Daily reports that the companies' losses rose to $2 billion during the first seven months of this year. State enterprises are mainly large
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    • 73 14 State welcome: An Egyptian guard-of-honour high-steps Jordanian King Hussein, wearing dark suit, along a red carpet at Cairo's airport To the king's right is President Hosni Mubarak, with whom Hussein will discuss Arab solidarity during three days of talks. Mubarak is among those who
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    • 113 14 Reuter. THE Philippines' Coast Guard was searching today for a boat and 10 passengers seized by well-armed men off the coast of Albay Province. The Coast Guard said the hijack occurred last Sunday and was reported yesterday. The MB Santo Nino, with 10 passengers and three
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    • Article, Illustration
      258 14 Wire ser- vices SHARE values ended sharply lower yesterday on the London Stock Exchange, and the Financial Times 30stock index closed at 1391.6, down 17.8 points. Shares had attempted a rally in early afternoon trading but then resumed their downward movement.Prices were depressed by Wall Street's sharp opening fall
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    • 121 14 Reuter. SHARE prices were mixed in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. Brokers said a sharply lower Wall Street overnight and sharp local losses yesterday made them cautious of overselling today. The Nikkei Index firmed 17.88 points, or 0.07 per cent, to 26,952.14 after 10 minutes of
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      284 14 Wire services. WALL STREET stocks fell sharply in a broad sell-off yesterday but managed to stem their decline at the 2,000 mark of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow closed down 29 at 2002, the steepest drop since a 33-point one-day loss two weeks ago. Decliners outpaced
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 300 15 Wire ser vices. TENS of thousands of Iraqi Kurds have fled to Turkey to escape what they claim are Iraqi chemical and artillery attacks. Another 900 families are reported to have arrived in Iran. The official Iranian news agency Irna charged yesterday that Iraq had "increased its
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    • 54 15 Disaster: The awful moment of impact as Italian fighter jets collided earlier this week at Ramstein Air Force Base in West Germany. Three jets crashed, one of them into a parking lot where thousands of people were gathered. The toll: 49 dead, more than 400
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    • 99 15 AFP. THE Soviet newspaper Pravda has urged the government to shut down special food sources for the privileged. The Communist Party daily made the call yesterday as it revealed the full extent of food shortages affecting the Soviet people. Pravda said rationing was now found in
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    • 51 15 Hearing: Fortuna Marcos Barba, right, sister of deposed Ferdinand Marcos, is greeted by well-wishers as she leaves a court hearing in Manila. The issue is whether Marcos should be permitted to return to the Philippines to face charges of theft and other wrongdoing in office. Picture/
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    • 140 15 NYT. IRAN has so heavily worked on the minds of prisoners of war that they would likely stage pro-Khomeini riots if forced to return to Iraq, says a UN report. The findings were based on visits to prison camps in Iran and Iraq by
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Showtime
    • 338 16  -  By Vivien Chiong YOU could call deejay Chris Ho by many names. He is a singer, a songwriter, a writer and now the Most Outstanding Radio Personality I in Asia-Pacific. The last is a Paters award, the broadcasting equivalent of the Grammies. And it is a
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    • 226 16 Reuter. FANS yearning to rock around the clock with "The King" have been doing just that since a radio station in Cincinnati began playing nothing but Elvis Presley tunes 24 hours a day. The radio station WCVG made the switch from countrywestern music to pure Elvis
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    • 333 17 By Wong Sing Yeong YOU know them better as actors. But when they were in school, their teachers urged them I to become artists. Zheng W a n 1 i n g, Chen Zhicai and Hu Shufen, now working at SBC, have no regrets
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    • 697 18 T'S 10 in the evening. In London's vast HippoI drome, the crowd is jamming the dance-floor. In New York's Tunnel, people are in a frenzy. In Sydney, Hannibals' is packed with the city's beautiful people. In Hongkong, they're revving it up at the posh Volvo Club.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1533 19 Tele\jsion= SCREENj Sportsview —Tennis: CurioufpMple 86 AChorus Line^' 65 12, 10.20 pm) p this programme that examines the movie version of the record-breaking HIGHLIGHTS of the perS c,ua^'t es motivations Broadway hit. It depicts the rigorous shown. The matches are taweTn" Sfefefcadig inside the human Sxiy and a "j* winner
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    • 222 19 lEEHS^H H H 10.10 pm Friday At The Movies A Chorus Line: See Screen Gems. Demanding Douglas: sbc 5, *10.10 pm. *12.15 Close 0 *10.00 pm Mystery (C): While plonking on an old 1 piano in a deserted house, Ziqi is suddenly transported back in time to Shanghai of the
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
  • 75 20 Wendi Koh is perhaps the most entertaining performer on the local scene. A bundle of energy, she gives her all both on and off stage. This talented performer is lead singer of the group, Heaven Knows. Nmm: Wendi Koh BirtMay: July 28 AfK22 Fiwuiriti ptrforners: Ann Wilson, Michael
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    • 698 23 IT'S 10 in the evening. In London's vast HippoI drome, the crowd is jamming the dance-floor. In New York's Tunnel, people are in a frenzy. In Sydney, Hannibals' is packed with the city's beautiful people. In Hongkong, they're revving it up at the posh Volvo Club.
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    • 455 24  -  By Sonja Tan FOR 15 days in January next year, you might be excused if you thought you had stumbled into a major film set. These big names are expected to be in town: Bernardo Bertolucci, Joan Chen, John Lone, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Le Louche, Wim
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    • Article, Illustration
      139 24  -  By SoNJA Tan and Toh Hai Leong POLTERGEIST 111 (Cathay/Orchard) AS with all sequels the ride in Poltergeist 111 is less bumpy than the first two. The plot is rather thin, the only saving grace being the special effects. Times: Cathay: 11.45 pm, Orchard: Midnight. ASTERIX vs CAESAR (Cathay)
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    • 292 24  -  FIRST NIGHT/ TING MEI SEE SEXY. Vibrant. Power-packed. These words just about describe Vicki Dove who claims she's been "singing all my life". From her opening performance at Club 392 last night, you'll tend to agree with her. Vicki, who hails from
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    • 172 24  -  FIRST NIGHT/ LO TIEN YIN THE Traditional Theatre Festival opened to a load of laughs last night at the Victoria Theatre. The unexpected helped. The seven-year-old amateur opera troupe of the Singapore Kheng Chew Junior Association presented two Hainanese operas, The Dog And The Golden
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    • 258 25  -  By Danny Tan THE story seemed too simple to be true, but it actually happened. Fairuz Hussein, the first artiste in both Malaysia and Singapore to record on compact disc, got the offer to do so together with her first recording contract. Till now, singers
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    • Article, Illustration
      283 25  -  By Danny Tan PEOPLE HOTHOUSE FLOWERS (LONDON) THIS record should be re-titled The Musical Adventures Of Liam 0' Maonlai and Friends. It is a set of many musical influences pieced into a single work. Cuts Above The Rest: I'm Sorry, Don't Go, Love Don't Work This Way. THE RIGHT
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    • 327 25  -  By Danny Tan THE next time your teenage child tells you he likes to listen to 10,000 Maniacs, don't panic! He just likes listening to music. It's just the name of a famous pop group. Since the dawn of pop music about 30 years ago, bands
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    • 353 26 UPI. BABY Boom could turn out to be an entertaining show if it doesn't develop a terminal case of the cutes. This half-hour sitcom steal from the movie of the same name, will be the premiere new series in the 1988/89 television season. NBC will air
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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    • 547 29 Singaporeans have given MRT shops the cold shoulder. But Isetan, undeterred, will open two stores, at Dhoby Ghaut and Orchard, by Christmas. Each store is about the size of two floors of the present Isetan store at Wisma Atria The New Paper looks at four cities to give
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    • 449 29  -  WEEKENDBROWSER By Lim Phay-ling METRO STORES: The big sale starts today at the six Metro stores, with storewide discounts of 20 to 50 per cent. Special buys (new goods priced low) include imported ladies shoes at $19, men's leather shoes at $39 and
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    • 188 31 vvwwsJ Lunchdate (Radio 1, 12.05 pm) Wr> JBrVK j Hu HOST Anita Hari Chandra spins you the latest hits, including The Right Stuff (Vanessa Williams), Heaven In My Hands (Level 42), Hole In My Heart (Kenny Loggins), Happily Ever After (Julia Fordham) and What Can I Say To Make You
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    • 399 31 CEMlEBH NOON News In Brief 12.05 Lunchdate: See Air Raves. 12.30 What's Ahead: Tune in for both music and tips on haircare in this programme hosted by Anita Hari Chandra. Professional hairstylist Sam Koh gives advice on how to choose a hairstyle that suits you, in today's programme. There will
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    • 444 31 RADIOGUIDE ELmEEHH (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Easy Listening: Featuring Mantovani His Orchestra with Gems Forever, and the London Symphony Orchestra with Fantasy Movie Themes. 12.50 Market Report (Programmes in English) 1.00 Newt and Weather Forecast followed by Highlights 1.15 Lunchbreak: Shirley Bassey, The Sandpipers, Paul Mauriat Orchestra, Kenny Rogers and
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    • 414 31 NOON Good Music, Company And Me: An invitation to take your lunchbreak with Rediffusion as noon-time entertainment begins. 12.15 Time Warp: A look at the interesting events of today with snippets on entertainment, music, films and current affairs. 12.30 Keeping Track: A BBC programme featuring the stars, progress in medicine
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    • 375 31 NOON Newsdesk 12.30 Country Style: Presents some country music numbers for your listening pleasure. 12.45 Reflections: A time for religious reflection. 12.50 Financial News: News of commodity prices and significant moves in currency and stock market. 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary. 1.30 Three Wishes: Discover the three
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    • 202 32 111 large I 4 i n group of I 111 Vim 437,000 potential I E who said they would I Ift 1 §T"j read' The New Paper. I W/®J (Prelaunch Survey, November 1987). I Recruit effectively withTiast Ads Our Appointments Classified Section The New Paper, Singapore's newest f?Hf[TPSfiTi^Ffif9 English weekday
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  • 320 34 In Jakarta, the street pedlars make it possible for you to shop without leaving your car. You can buy a newspaper, sweets even a mask for a fancy dress party. You get entertained while riding the buses, too, as TRUDY LIM discovers NO, it's not
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  • 197 34 TWELVE-year-old Rohadi is a singer on the move. He climbs on a bus every day with two of his friends and a song on his lips. Rohadi is crippled and moves on crutches. But his voice is golden. He and his friends Mursit and
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    • 538 35 Reuter. AFP. Sore feet give West German the boot in second round BORIS Becker, troubled by painfully sore feet, was knocked out of the US Open yesterday in straight sets by unseeded Australian Darren Cahill. Becker, the twice-former Wimbledon champion, was a shadow of his usual self
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      278 35 Reuter. Second round Men's singles: Stefan Edberg (Swe) bt Guy Forget (Fra) 7-5, 6-1, 6-3; Henri Leconte (Fra) bt Barry Moir (SA) 6-0, 6-4, 6-4; Mikael Pernfors (Swe) bt Jim Courier (US) 6-3, 6-4, 6-4; Martin Laurendeau (Can) bt Menno Oosting (Hoi) 6-3, 6-3, 6-2; Johan Carlsson (Swe) bt
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    • 202 35  -  By Dennis Chia ZHOU Dynasty, out of board only once in all his six starts, is heading for the top class. He gave that indication with a winning gallop at Kuala Lumpur this morning. With a riding boy up, the High Top five-year-old was clearing away
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    • 114 35 RACE 1: Class 3 Div B 1,200 m (2.00pm) Green Lantern, Solidarity 111, Pepper Kid, Justin's Smile. RACE 2: Class 2 Div A 1,600 m (2.30pm) Rushmore Heights, Rock N Roll, Smart Slick, Aussie Spirit, Full Dose. RACE 3: Class 3 Div B 1,600 m (3.00pm) Slatts, So
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    • 98 35 GARY van Breukelen, who relinquished his trainer's licence two years ago, has made a comeback. has been allocated 20 stables at Bukit Timah, started training officially yesterday. Gary left Singapore soon after handing in his licence in 1986 and migrated to Melbourne with his wife
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    • 206 36  -  By Alfonso Chan ENGLISH soccer fans, your Sunday lunchtime show returns to the screen, but with a new name and with a new format. Replacing Big League Soccer from this Sunday is **English Soccer 88/89." Under the new, revised format, all English First Division matches will
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    • 466 36 Wire Services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: ATHLETICS African Championships in Annaba, Algeria Men: 3,000 m steeplechase: 1 Azzedrine Brahmi (Alg) 8:26.56 2 Chaine Hassane (Mor) 8:27.30 3 Kamel Benyeklef (Alg) 8:38.21. 400 m relay: 1 Nigeria 39.27 2 Ghana 39.44 3 Senegal 39.66. Women 400 m hurdles: 1
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      493 36 Reuter, UPI. TOTTENHAM'S expensive new soccer signing Paul Gascoigne faces a baptism by fire when he returns north to his former hunting ground. The 21-year-old midfielder, whom Spurs manager Terry Venables brought to London from Newcastle for $7.78 million, returns to the north-east club for Tottenham's belated kickoff to
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    • 179 36 EUROPEANKICKOFF Reuter. SOMETHING has to give when title-chas-ing Bordeaux visit the French Riviera for its First Division soccer match at the weekend. It will be no holiday for Bordeaux as it seeks to sustain its unbeaten sequence, at Nice, that has a 100 per cent home record.
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    • 227 37  -  By Shahiron Sahari MOHAMED Suleiman, Asia's fastest 1,500 m athlete, is in Singapore for next week's Asian junior track and field meet but his mind is on much bigger things. Suleiman, part of the 12-man Qatar team, has set his sights on Barcelona '92, when he intends
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    • 212 37  -  SINGAPORE OPEN SQUASH Stories/ Alfonso Chan EVEN before the Anchor Beer Singapore Squash Open starts, money is already rolling in for the Singapore Squash Rackets Association. For the past three days, 400-odd tickets have been sold for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, which will most
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    • 115 37 TOP locals Chia Chew Lan and Mah Li Lian stand to gain money because of a redraw forced by four Women's International Squash Professional Association members to get into the women's main programme. This is because Chia and Mah are seeded one and two. They stand to
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    • 140 37 ENGLAND'S Jamie Hickox beat Pakistan's Umar Hayat Khan by default 11-15, 11-15, 15-7, 15-7, 9-2 in the second round of the Hongkong Open last night. Umar, feeling the effects of a cold, walked off. "Umar is a dirty player. He is very physical. He sticks
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    • 277 38  -  Stories/ S. Gulam A THRILLING battle between the Kelantan defenders and Singapore striker K. Kannan is in store on Sunday. Kelantan has promised to go flat out to shut out Kannan. But Kannan has replied that he would try and deliver them a killer blow for the
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    • 406 38  -  By Abdul Shukor HE looks just like his elder brother. And when he made his debut in Kubu last Sunday, some people even thought that the "Crazy Horse" had made a return. Nasaruddin Jalil now cannot escape from comparisons made between him and his brother, Nasir,
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    • 119 38 SINGAPORE skipper T. Pathmanathan has been invited to play for Pahang in the second round of the Asian Clubs championship. The lanky sweeper, who parted with Pahang early this year after a six-year stint, confirmed yesterday that he had been approached by a Pahang official. Pahang represented
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    • 280 38 WHAT a turn of events. Just three weeks ago, Salim Moin was on the verge of becoming a forgotten hero. Today, he is the ace up coach Seak Poh Leong's sleeves for Sunday's cruncher against Kelantan. Judging from the last two training sessions, Salim could be
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    • 53 38 BOYS Town won the 'A' division Inter-VITB football final by beating archrivals Bedok VI 5-3 on penalties after a 1-1 deadlock at full-time at Toa Payoh Stadium yesterday. Bedok went ahead with a spectacular 30-metre goal by striker Sailan Treemoh, but Boys Town equalised through a header from
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  • WORLDCUPBADMINTON
    • 253 39  -  Stories/ Bernard Pereira THAILAND struck another raw nerve at the World Cup badminton championships in Bangkok last night. It used a wild card entry that almost turned out to be a joker Pramote Teerawiwatana, a lastminute substitute for flu-stricken Sompol Kukasemkij. Facing Denmark's All-England champion Ib
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    • 328 39 WILL the cigarette be snuffed out of world badminton in the near future? "We hope not," says Tom Bacher, the International Badminton Federation's chairman of Open Badminton committee, who is here in Bangkok for the World Cup. "If it is, it will be a
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    • 801 40 ►Centckime \~P( CLASSICAL CONCERT. Y Chinese pianist. Li Jian, plays pieces by Brahms, Nono and Ravel with the Cit igapore Symphony Orchestra. Choo Hoey conducts. Victoria Concert Hall. 8.15 pm. Tickets: $4. $7, $10 and $15 from Victoria Concert Hall box office. Tangs and Centrepoint.
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    • 18 40 CENTRESTAGE: Classy classical concert OUT AND ABOUT: Learn to read fast FOOD: Mangoes with a difference
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