The New Paper, 10 September 1988

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  • 18 1 the new paper SHOWTIME SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10/SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 50 1 T m (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS 'I WAS NEARLY I MJi SBC actor Jin Jugong was to be hanged filming a scene from Strange Encounters II. And he nearly truly was. i < 3 to .4 CL O K|u|jg^|^^^^^gJL^|^^^pXj|liXj^^^S <t I wmmwmmm >- mr**\.!'lj{'T^ml!T«ffB 31 M«Mn «t Sfc—J PIG-NAPPED: 30
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    • 84 1 NO TO BATHING BEAUTIES? New boss of Miss America pageant wants to scrap swimsuit parade. But the girls disagree. Page 11 THEIR LOVE MEANS DEATH Bukit Batok blast family: Stupid or merciful? Page 9 TAXI CHARITY DRIVE Guess how much 7,000 taxis can raise. And win a prize. Contest details
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 285 2 Wire services. "l HEARD an explosion louder than lightning A ball of fire rolled for a kilometre." Those vivid words from villager Orn Chuayklintes described Thailand's second airline disaster in just over a year. The toll: 75 people killed, six badly hurt. Most died
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    • 150 2 MR J.B. Jeyaretnam this morning said that he would reply later to the offer of the two seats in Parliament made yesterday to the defeated Workers' Party candidates for Eunos. Jeyaretnam, Secretary-General of the party, has seven days to decide. Election losers who
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    • 120 2 CHICKENPOX is popping up all too often in Singapore. So far this year two people have died of it and 4,628 cases have been reported. That is 78.1 percent more than the same number of cases reported during this same period last year. The latest edition of
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    • 103 2 Wire services. WHEN superstitious police in the African state of Namibia drowned two women, they said it was to protect ordinary folk from the spell of witches. But the country's Supreme Court puts little store by talk of witches and spirits. It sentenced five policemen
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    • 57 2 Getting attention: A member of the AnimafPeace group leaps from a church tower in West Berlin to protest against the injection of hormones into livestock by producers. The practice has caused a major political stir in West Germany. The protester's fall was checked by a rubber
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    • 29 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over many areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Sunset today: 7.04 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.57 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 279 3  -  By! Leong Chan Teik IT'S for the birds. And it's for the bird watchers too. In fact, it is a bird watcher's paradise. West Coast Park is one of only two in Singapore which will give refuge for land birds. The other is the East Coast
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      296 4  -  By Ronald Wong THIRTY little piglets worth $1,500 in the market will not make it to market. They disappeared on Tuesday night, and no one heard a squeal. Their owner suspects some swine carted them away. "I do not know where the piglets have gone or who could have
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    • 131 4  -  By Abdul Hadhi TAN Lai Choo has a sweet tooth. It got her into serious trouble, and her husband couldn't get her out of it. Tan, 22, pleaded guilty in court yesterday to stealing sweets worth 90 cents last June. But this
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    • 219 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings'. Contrived: Something that is contrived is planned and does not happen naturally. Deja vu: Deja vu is the feeling that you have already experienced in the past which is
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    • 151 4 THE Keppel Road railway station owned by Malayan Railway will be given a new look soon. The six-month renovation will cost about $500,000. An official said they would repaint the building and change the flooring. He said they would not be doing more because "we are short
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    • 99 4 A DISTILLER of the potent and illegal liquor called samsu was fined $7,500 by a District Court judge yesterday after he pleaded guilty. The court also confiscated the pick-up truck that Tan Kay Huat, 44, was driving when customs officers swooped down upon him on June 5. Customs
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    • 348 4 STUDENTS of Peicai Secondary School went for the gold. They wanted to win the top prize in the Courtesy Cup contest. So they used colours to encourage everyone to be courteous. Courteous students were awarded coloured badges and gold was the highest prize. Youth Challenge,
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    • 315 5  -  By Chitra Rajaram SHE stepped out of the white Mercedes with the dignity and presence of Greta Garbo. She wore a Thai silk suit and dark glasses. Crowds stopped to stare at her. She waved and blew kisses at everyone. But this was no
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    • 163 5 THE rapid growth of Thailand's economy has impressed Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Mr Lee said one reason for the growth was the sound policies of the Thai leaders. The people are skilled and talented too, he said. Also, Thai leaders had done well by
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    • 205 5 BROTHERLY love vs duty. Duty won. A man fought with his conscience and then decided he had to call the police to turn in his brother who stole from a lorry. The court heard yesterday that Hashim Salim, 26, watched while his elder brother stole
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    • 352 6  -  Stories/ Loh Tuan Lee A DITCH. A drain. Or just a big hole in the ground. These were the kinds of shelters Singaporeans dashed into almost 45 years ago. That was when bombs rained down on Singapore during the Japanese Occupation. Today's air raid shelters are like
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    • 146 6 WHAT is life like in a modern air-raid shelter? What would take the most getting used to, perhaps, is the toilet. It's not a flush system. In fact, it's dry. Every time you have to go, you'll get a plastic bag to place over the
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    • 210 6  -  By Trudy Lim WALK-IN interviews are fast and convenient for most people, but some find it a chore. This was the opinion of some applicants at a walk-in interview for nurses yesterday. The Singapore General Hospital Pte Ltd advertised for nurses. Interested people streamed in
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    • 118 6 SEVEN CAR PARKS are being included in the area of free parking from 7 am to 10.30 pm on Sundays and public holidays. They are in the Tiong Bahru Group Representation Constituency and in Tanjong Pagar. The change becomes effective on Sunday. The Tiong Bahru carparks:
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    • 219 6  -  By Lawrence Low AT $20 per kilogramme, it was vital that the big 75-kg yellow-fin tuna not turn bad. One of the cooling units was not working properly at the Seafood Asia '88 exhibition now on at the World Trade Centre. Workmen at the
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    • 93 6 BUSINESSES now spend $400 million a year on advertising but the annual total is expected to reach $600 million by 1992, a rise of 50 percent. Mr Denis Tay made this forecast in a talk at the Singapore Advertisers Association luncheon yesterday. He
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    • 173 6 TANTRUMS certainly did not help Ramamurthi s/o Kandasamy in his dealings with the police. You might think he would control himself after appearing in the subordinates court on a charge of assaulting a policeman. But no. Right after court adjourned, he fell
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    • 456 7  -  Story/ Ng Wan Ching WHEN the small boat hit the rapids, the cold water was like a slap jolting us from a stupor. The River Kiso looked calm, but there were hidden dangers such as rapids and falling trees., In the old days when
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    • 470 8  -  THEBUKIT BATOKBLAST Stories/ Stories/ Chua Chin Chye, Thusitha de Silva, Lois Ng, Michelle Oh and Ng Wan Ching THE first thing Mrs Kalaimani Govindasamy saw in the rubble of the blown-out apartment was heart-break-ing. "I could see the little baby under some rubble screaming. She was
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    • 300 8 A TANK of goldfish shattered. A door blew open. Jagged glass from broken windows flew through the air like deadly shrapnel. The Bukit Batok explosion devastated parts of Blk 245, Bukit Batok East Ave 5 on Thursday. Yesterday the faint but acrid smell of smoke lingered
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    • 224 8 IT IS still not known who will foot the bill for the repair work needed because of the gas explosion on Wednesday. The police are looking into the cause of the accident. The question of who is responsible will come up later,
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    • 360 9 THE Bukit Batok blast has raised this big question among Singaporeans: Why do parents kill their children when they take their own lives? A psychiatrist has this answer: Such parents feel they cannot leave their children behind alone in a cruel world. But
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    • 106 9 Latest on victims: Mr Elangumar Alagursamy, wife Madam Parimala and surviving daughters Indrani, 5, and Amutha, 3, are conscious. They are still in critical condition \ftith deep burns. Odds on their recovery: 50-50. Father undergoes surgery: Mr Elangumar Ala!;ursamy was operated on ast night. It's murder, say police:
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    • 215 9 THE gas explosion at Bukit Batok on Thursday brings to mind the case of the Scully family in 1981. The bodies of Henry Victor Scully, his pregnant wife Jillian and their two sons were found in their home on July 31 that year. They
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 516 10 Wire services. W I ITH BURMA today near anarchy, an opposition leader was moving to form a new government to shoulder aside a regime that remains in the grip of Gen Ne Win. Diplomats braced for a new wave of violence between backers of the present regime
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    • 229 10 Wire services. IT'S stop again in the stop-and-go talks over the fate of the US bases in the Philippines. The latest wrinkle: Uncle Sam won't give Manila the $2.4 billion in annual aid that the government of Corazon Aquino wants for
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    • 116 10 Wire services. AMERICA is moving towards the export of US-made satellites to China. The Reagan administration said yesterday that it was ready to grant licences. The matter now goes to Congress and America's Western allies for approval, which is by no means
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    • 204 10 Wire services. THE honeymoon between the United States and Iraq the result of US support for Iraq in its war with Iran has ended abruptly over Baghdad's use of poison gas against the Kurds. The latest expression of the growing concern was a Senate vote yesterday
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    • 44 11 Olympic flam 6: University students in Seoul vow to keep nti-government riots through the Olympics. They say Ewant to draw attention to abuse of power by President Tae-woo, being burned here in effigy by an angry student Picture/ Reuter
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    • 214 11 Wire services. A HONGKONG man who became rich after immigrating to Canada is the new lieutenant-governor of the province of British Columbia. David Lam, 63, was sworn in yesterday in a ceremony at Government House in Victoria, capital of the West Coast province. Lam was
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    • 160 11 Wire Services WESTERN Europe's Ariane space rocket made a perfect blast off and launched two US communications satellites into orbit around the earth. But it will be about a month before satellite operators will know if their sophisticated technology withstood the shocks and vibration of
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    • 190 11 Wire services. SOUTH Korea's government appears to have failed in attempts to keep dog stew, snake soup and blood worms off the menu during the Olympic Games. The government banned sales of these and other exotic delicacies for fear of offending foreigners during the Olympics that begin on
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    • 66 11 Mine: They don't make gold rushes like they used to. A worker at a new mine near Canada's Kirkland Lake inspects chemically-treated ore sticks to find the gold. The high-tech mine from which the ore was taken is the first to produce in the region
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    • 240 11 THERE'S dirty work afoot in the US: The new boss of the Miss America pageant wants to scrap the swimsuit parade as part of the contest. And as the Miss America pageant goes, so go others around the world. This blow falls at
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    • 204 12 Wire services. SOVIET human-rights activist Andrei Sakharov has publicly accused the Kremlin's second-highest official of undermining Mikhail Gorbachev's economic and political reforms. Sakharov told a Moscow news conference yesterday that Yegor Ligachev was "a reactionary force". "I have the feeling that since May of this
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    • 149 12 Wire services. THE Soviet Union lost radio contact with a space probe bound for Mars less than two months after its launch, reports the Tass news agency. Phobos-1, launched on July 7, is packed with instruments from 13 countries participating in one of the
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    • 104 12 Wire services. A MAN in his 30s set himself on fire across from the United Nations, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was taken alive to New York Hospital-Cor-nell Medical Centre. His condition was described as "very critical". A hospital
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  • WORLDTODAY/STOCKS
    • 181 13 Wire services. ONE of China's top economists has warned that the country must slow rapid industrial growth and curb excessive bank loans to stem inflation. Yang Peixin, whose public criticism of official policy is rare for China, told the New China News Agency that price reforms
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    • 35 13 Security: A South Korean security worker inspects the seal of a manhole cover. All manholes near the Olympic Games have been welded shut to guard against their use by terrorists. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 182 13 Wire services. A PROPOSED law aimed at stemming Asian exports to America has been approved by the US Senate. The Bill would freeze current textile and clothing imports at 1987 levels and limit growth to one percent a year. Both kinds of goods are
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    • 173 13 Wire services. UN Secretary Gen Javier Perez de Cuellar today began meeting with high-level economic experts to find a way of easing the debt crisis of developing nations in Asia, Africa and elsewhere. The meeting comes amid rising concern over the debt
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      258 13 Wire services. SHARE prices on the London Stock Exchange finished slightly lower yesterday after a choppy day of trading. Shares plummeted more than 22 points after trading began, mounted a midday rally, and then fell back again late in the afternoon. The Financial Times 30share index fell 3.9 points
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    • 13 13 Figures for the Tokyo Stock Exchange were not available at press time.
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Fri 1398.50 (1,402.40) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,068.81 (2,063.12) ST Industrial Fri 1,063.53 (1,066.61) NST Industrial Fri 1,751.47 (1,756.57) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 2,496.56 (2,508.53) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,546.10 (1,555.00) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 27,647.10 (27,740.11) Figures in bracket* refer to thoae of the previous trading
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      283 13 Wire services. WALL Street stocks made a modest advance yesterday in a volatile session marked by uncertainty about the prospects for inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished ahead 5.69 points at 2,068.81 after zigzagging between a 20-point loss and a 20-point gain. The index rose 14.22 points
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  • Showtime
    • 510 14  -  By Wong Sing Yeong A FTER running for more than two years, the series Neighbours bade farewell yesterday on the final day of filming in SBC's Studio 4. There was no farewell party, no emotional Auld Lang Syne. Episode 506 was like any other filming session. Episode
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    • 83 14 i Everybody identifies with Er Gu (Cai Pinkai) because she's just like us I always laugh when I read what she says in the subtitles.* 35, FMpiaa um! <Coffeeshop boy Ah Cai (Duan Weiming) makes us sympathise with him. But sometimes he does stupid
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    • 334 15 s i TRANGE things do happen in Strange Encounters 11, the kSBC serial on tales of the 'occult currently being filmed. In the show, SBC actor Jin Jugong was to play dead as soldiers hung him for public display. But this 29-year-old actor actually faced
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    • 411 15 A THIRD Oscar seems likely for actress Meryl Streep for Evil Angels, the Australian newspaper Daily Telegraph reports. She plays Lindy Chamberlain, convicted of murdering her 9-week-old daughter by cutting her throat, then hiding the body in the family car. All
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    • 187 15 IT'S a cheery hello to Belgium from 11 members of Hi! Theatre. The theatre of the deaf will be going there for two weeks. They leave on Oct 14. They are scheduled for four performances in Belgium. Three will be in schools in the towns
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    • 174 16  -  By Vivien Chiong IF CHERIE Chung is moon, Maggie Cheung star and Carol Cheng sun in Moon Star Sun, who is Zheng Yi? Zheng Yi is the voice singing all the songs in the movie about three dance hostesses. The theme song is Wild Fire while
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      222 16  -  By Sonja Tan and Toh Hai Leong THE PRESIDIO (Prince 1 Changi) AN ac-tion-thriller with bits of romance. It's the latest plot about mismatched lawmen busting the baddies. The car-chase and foot- chase scenes and the final shoot-out provide the thrills. Stars Sean Connery and Mark Harmon. Time: Midnight.
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    • 260 16 The business magazine people aire talking aboet THOSE GOLDEN BEACHES Three Singapore property developers are bask- i°g in the glow of Phuket's phenomenal suc- 111 cess as a vacation paradise. UIC, Wah Chang International and Lum Chang Holdings have already opened four hotels on the "Hawaii of ■PjPPjIIJBIW the East"
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1600 17 RADIOGUIDE (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON That's-Wln-A-Car Satellite NOON Newsdesk Shaw: A recording of the show i in u..__ki NOON Easy Listening: Featuring the held last week at the Parkway music of Pete Tex's The Gold- Parade with cp-hosts Brian 12-45 Reflections en Saxophone Top Hits and Richmond and Joey Kurian.
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  • Update YOUR WEEKEND GUIDE TO THE ACTION
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      932 18 ►Centrestace MUSICAL MOMENTS. Pianist Martina Maixnerova plays music by Mendelssohn, Chopin and Roussel with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Choo Hoey conducts. Victoria Concert Hall. 8.15 pm. Tickets: $4, $7, $10 and $15 from the Victona Concert Hall box office. Students: $2. senior citizens: $3. WAYANG AT THE OLD VIC.
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      100 18 You too can be Indiana Jones. This is a different kind of treasure hunt. The treasures are old buildings, places, trees, events and even people. And you have a whole month for it. Everyone can join in. Contestants are to identify their discoveries and learn what they can
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    • 989 18 Heritage Week Hill Street Building. Free. —-js COCONUT PLAITS. Mr Haji Sukaimi Ibrahim, a 1 master of this art, will demonstrate how young coconut leaves are made into mats, containers and ornaments. 2 pm 6 pm. DONDANG SAYANG. This is a form of Malay poetry with music which was
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    • 86 18 The Devil helps a gambler turn a new leaf because he had given refuge to a man destined to be emperor. Pilgrims are faced with a problem in their quest for the Buddhist sutra. An honest court official is framed by his fellow officials. These are
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      76 18 rrpr NIGHTUGHTS: Get high with the Hiyas from the [f_j Philippines. The eight-member band plays top 40 hits and new wave. Also catch their impersonations of Elvis and Boy George. Tonight at Celebrities, Orchard Towers. rrx OUT AND ABOUT: Enjoy he lush outdoors. Take an I I afternoon stroll
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      84 18 FOOD: It's Filipino fiesta at the Mandarin Hotel. Tuck I into mouth-watering Filipino cuisine while models show off stylish Filipino wear. Also watch craftsmen do embroidery and woodshaving. (T/f HERITAGE WEEK: Time rediscover your roots. Watch I 1 a demonstration of how coconut leaves are cleverly weaved into mats
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1465 19 j detective-cum-secret agent Yoyo attempts a ,Hj| f culminating in his death. Alan Howard survivor the alien massacre. John to recover the formula with his good friend 1 stars. rPUTPFCTAr* Hurt, Tom Skernt, Yaphet Kotto, yim .^.c Inspector Robin and a beautiful lady spy. 8 22:00 23:50 SEP 10 12
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    • 208 19 83 83 10.30 pm Saturday Night Movie Alien (r): See Screen Gems. 12.30 Harem (r): Another chance to catch this spectacular series about an American woman who is kidnapped in Damascus in 1906 and gets involved in a revolution. Stars Nancy Travis. Omar Shariff and Ava Gardner. Harem returns: SBC
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    • 46 20 rarara WOW! E3G3 WATCH it S3 WATCHABLE TV Listings compiled by LIM KUAN CHIANG —J ■WE GO TO GREAT LENGTHS FOR COMPLETE TV COVERAGE lIMImJH The ins and outs, the who's about... we promise you the choicest bits on local and foreign soaps, sitcoms and serials.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1780 20 TelevisionSecret Admirer (SBC 5,7.50 pm) Kazantzakis/Marc Chagall: efforts by geologists to save the HEARTTHROB C Thomas 1 j rainforests and wildlife of the Amazon GREEK writer Nikos Kazantzakis, Ch3gdll S creation: The artist Howell stars in this mindless but I I from extinction. Also looks at the highly who wrote
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    • 312 20 I I 0 11.25 pm Superstar* Of :5 Wrestling 12.10 Close up 10.15 pm Golden Phoenix I <C): Long Teng and the Siahou sisters are shocked when they discover that the two Song emperors, whom they have rescued from the Jin Army, are bogus. 11.05 Late News On 8 (C)
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1695 24 RADIOGUIDE [Trimmi I \WIIyVJ vy yy KAArf >f II M jTVVV A«i Colour City Beat /r. v (Radio 1, 10.30 am) VW mKLm <* 8 AI A£ TOn f CO-HOSTS Roger Kool and I.ynette lx»n will brmg colour to your world with a host of songs for your listening pleasure.
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    • 461 24 •.00 World News 0.00 From Our Correspondent: News reports from BBC correspondents worldwide. 0.25 Nature Notebook 0.40 Reflections: A moment of religious reflection. 0.45 Sports Roundup 7.00 World News 7.00 Words 7.15 The Tony Myatt Request Show 0.00 World News 0.00 News About Britain 0.15 Radio Newsreel 0.30 Puccini: Julian
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 344 25  -  REVIEW/ By Sonja Tan Sonja Tan p kETER Hyam's The Presidio is for those who ■have already forgotten the story-line of Lethal Weapon and Best Seller. It's the latest odd-chum police story with a tired difference on the recognisable theme of mismatched lawmen busting the
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    • 311 25  - Jaz 'just the girl next door By Wong Sing Yeong TEN years from now, Jazreel Low hopes to be a mother of four, run a small fashion business and "put on some weight". For a top model just starting an acting career, that seems a bit strange. Not for Jaz.
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    • 391 25  -  By Vivien Chiong JAZREEL LOW was "discovered" not only by SBC Star Search, but also by singer Eric Moo. The 25-year-old saw Jazreel, 22, on TV during the talent quest and was captivated. But he didn't get a chance to meet her till last month.
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    • 441 26  -  By' Ting Mei See COME Thursday night Steven Tan, 24, will be rushing back and forth between the Parawave Disco at Paramount Hotel and the Warehouse Discotheque at the River View. That's because he will be competing as a finalist in the fifth Freestyle Solo Dance
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    • 29 27 Single Slices/peter Kohlsaat "My first husband had no bad habits. He was impossible." Ziggy/Tom Wilson ifOOBNAMe i&BU-L? V aJbuitty •fW* L*| "I can't see it. Look in your pockets."
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      336 29  -  Olivia's come-back album sounds better THE RUMOUR OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN MERCURY By Lim Sek I USED to be devoted, quite hopelessly, to Olivia Newton-John and her brand of easy listening pop. Then came Soul Kiss, the 1985 release. That made it clear she needed a long break. And a long
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    • 327 29  -  By Danny Tan FEW musical breaks are as colourful as Michelle Shocked's, one of the four top women of pop. The three others are Tracy Chapman, Toni Childs and Sinead O'Connor. She recorded her first hit album on a simple Sony Walkman in the Texan fields.
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    • 273 29  - Lady sings the jazz and blues REVIEW/ By Wong Siong Yeong Wong Sing Yeong m I ■UST as well admit it. I'm not big on jazz. But I know a good thing when I hear one. The good thing is Lady Rebecca, a jazz singer from Baltimore. With such a
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 474 31  -  A MATTER OF OPINION By Harinder Gill Gurdip Singh, 17. Ayer Rajah Vocational Institute. "Not really. I like the PAP and I know that they will stay in power for the next 10 or 15 years. So I don't feel
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    • 341 31  -  By Geneieve Kwek T I HEY are called The Splashers, but these five boys can definitely do more than that. They are qualified lifesavers and they will represent Singapore at the Asia Pacific Life Saving Championship to be held in Christchurch, New
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    • 124 31 B WHAT YOU MUST KNOW |"aW^ at though younger people have been accepted. WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE: ~7~ Life-saving 1,2,3: At this stage, you must be able to do a simple rescue and recognise the different kinds of victims the non-swimmer, weak swimmer, the injured and drowned
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    • 180 32 read' The New Paper. I I 1 il™ (Prelaunch Survey, November 1987). I Recruit effectively with Fast Ads' Our Appointments Classified Section The New Paper, Singapore's newest English weekday noon taoloid, delivering informative and easy-reading yyySsiujiH news in a colourful and comfortable Q a n extra format, offers you: HHHHBHIi
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  • SPORTS
    • 630 34  -  RACING TODAY'S BEST BET: Fulmar in Race 7 By' The Three Musketeers o UTSIDERS were in the fore last week but followers will have at least got out of trouble by following our selections for the last races on both days. For today, we will make
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    • 352 34 L'MACHO and Uncompromising both scored scorching wins over the metric mile and proved their liking for the soft ground. On breeding, both should get tomorrow's 2,000 m trip in Race Four and backers will be looking for Uncompromising to complete a hattrick. Our last week's selection
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    • 411 34 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sport: ATHLETICS Pre-Olympic meet in East Berlin: Men: 400 m: 1 Jens Carlowitz 45.13 2 Mathias Schersing 45.20 3 Thomas Schoenlebe 45.93; 800 m: 1 Hauke Fuhlbruesse 1:46.62; 3,000 m: 1 Andreas Rettig 8:03.12; Hammer: 1 Ralf Haber 82.54 2 Gunther Rodehau; javelin:
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    • 783 35 Gabriela Sabatini overcame a tough challenge yesterday to reach the final but top seed Steffi Graf had it easy. Sabatini came up with winners when she needed them to beat Zina Garrison 6-4, 7-5. Graf received a walkover when Chris Evert was forced to withdraw from
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      • 147 35 AFP. ERIC Cantona, France's most expensive footballer, has been banned. He was suspended yesterday from international sides until the end of the season following his outburst against national manager Henri Michel. The striker was also given a five-match suspended club ban by the French Football Federation. Cantona,
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      • 167 35 UPI. SPANISH League champion Real Madrid, with a bit of pride salvaged after its European Cup win, goes to Gijon this weekend for League action. Real's win last Wednesday showed that coach Leo Beenhakker had sewn up the holes in the side's defence, which conceded
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  • 178 36 Ih J W m HHHHf. Ifl=lil if MVifl ifli m d SEOULBEAT DESMOND KOH Meet Desmond Koh, the baby of the team to Seoul. Incidentally, he idolises OLYMPIC FACTSHEET FULL NAME: Desmond Koh BIRTHPLACE/DATE: S pore, 19/5/73 HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 1.75m, 59.0kgs HOME: Sennett Avenue OCCUPATION: Student YEARS AS AN
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  • 503 37  -  SPORTS SQUASH By Alfonso Chan JANSHER Khan squashed all doubts that he is still the king of squash The confidence with which Jansher took apart Chris Dittmar in the fourth and fifth games of their Anchor Beer Singapore Open semi-fi-nal was worthy of a final itself.
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      360 38  -  China still leads the medals tally with six golds and one silver, ahead of Japan (4-2-2), Taiwan (2-5-4), North Korea (1-2-1), South Korea, India (0-2-1), Indonesia (0-1-0), Bahrain (0-0-2) and Iran, Qatar, Singapore and Sri Lanka (0-0-1). TODAY'S THREAT KONOMI By Abdul Shukor KONOMI Nakamatsu is only 18
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    • 191 38 CHINA'S Li Jing, winner of the boys' discus yesterday, is merely following in the footsteps of China's senior Asian champion, Li Weinan. Jing, 19, won with a record 50.12-metre throw, which is a feat he now shares with Weinan, who is also
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    • 185 38  -  YESTERDAY'S FRET JAEHONG By Shahiron Sahari PARK Jae-Hong had a scare on his way to winning the boys' high jump yesterday. But his real problem has been his diet. Coach Yun Chang-Ki blamed Jae-Hong's below-par performance on the "conditions" and especially on the fact
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    • 109 38 A MOMENT'S stumble yesterday destroyed the chances of Singapore's best 5,000 m runner, Syed Ahmad Syed Taha, and he finished in his worst time in six months 16min 19.865ec. Syed, 19, had been preparing for the Asian Junior meet the whole year. He never had illusions
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  • MALAYSIACUP
    • 362 39  -  Stories/ S. Gulam HOT-SHOT Salim Moin believes his problems are almost over. If he can overcome just one more hurdle to regain his famed and feared long-range shots we may see the complete Salim again. "I've really enjoyed the past few games. But tonight was my
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    • 205 39 TWO of the three match officials came under fire from Brunei after last night's game. A usually cool Brunei team manager Ajimain Haji Abdullah was furious with referee S. Poovan and linesman K. Ponnusamy, from Selangor. He blamed them for his team's heavy defeat. Said Ajimain: "Singapore's
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    • 249 39 IPLAYPOINTS Date: 9 Sept. Venue: National Stadium (S'pore) Kick Off: Bpm EBHSEpnSSIHK David Lee 1 Ibrahim Abu Bakar 21 Sudiat Daii 2 Japari Samad 2 Borhan Abu Samah 3 Aji Hussin 3 RazaliSaad 4 LiewChuanFue 16 IshakSaad 16 YusliMohdYusof 17 Zulkifli Kartoyoho 10 Yaakob Abu Bakar 6 D.Tokijan 7 Zainuddin
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  • 385 40 A clutch of goals, it was. But the crowd's response was boos, boos and more boos. Why a Singapore triumph and a big one at that had to finish on such a sour note, only Seak Poh Leong has the answers. For Singapore played boring, non-constructive football and
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    • 49 40 QUESTIONOF THEWEEK: Should Salim Moin ptay upfront or in midfield? What would you do if you were coach? M^Seocomr^ hat been iioQuCSOHfir next. VfMlf v m jiwi week, front 7an to VMM* »V 7pm and you could toe your ■yiWUakAjl views puDnsnea next Saturday. HI 1 Efflß isiisi 734-7711
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