The New Paper, 20 September 1988

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  • 16 1 the new paper TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1988 MICI (P) 1 79/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 132 1 I YOU'LL FLIP r>nc\/ 3 OVER THIS LAJ^r ft- Colour graphic shows what to look for when cvi gymnasts tumble. Now you can be the judge. THE MONEY TRAPS Your pocket. Your car boot. Your briefcase. Money kept there is bait for thieves. Why so many Singaporeans are victims of
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  • 36 1 Strong arms: Australian Duncan Armstrong raises victory fist after Olympic upset. Coming from behind, he beats favourites Michael Gross and Matt Biondi for gold mednl in 200 m freestyle. Picture/ REUTER
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 376 2 HOW far a dangling steel cable "drooped" under a flying jet fighter was a major issue in the case of a motorcyclist who died on a road. A Coroner's Court hearing into the unusual death of Mr Sevalinggam Kumarasamy, 42, a construction site supervisor,
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    • 66 2 Fury: Haitians continue to hurl stones at a suspected secret policeman, crumpled in death on the steps at left. Their stones large pieces of concrete killed him as punishment for service to the regime just toppled by the military. He was said to belong to the Tonton
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    • 181 2 Wire services. AT LEAST 25 people were wounded by gunfire when racial rivals fought it out in a disputed ethnic region of the Soviet Union, officials say. Tass said it was one of the most violent clashes ever in a dispute over
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    • 103 2 THE Government means to boost Singapore's oil trading industry with two new tax perks. Trade and Industry Minister, Brig-Gen (Res) Lee Hsien Loong, yesterday said starting on the first day of next year the tax on income from oil trading will drop from 33 per
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    • 461 3  -  By Thusita Silva A SECTION of River Valley Road got very slippery yesterday. A tanker dropped its load of coconut oil in an accident near the Fraser and Neave building at about 10.25 am. It happened when the tanker had to slow down suddenly and was
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    • 29 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 7.01 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.54 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 573 4 THEY keep it in their pockets, bags, envelopes, the car b00t... Many Singaporeans still keep thousands of dollars in these places. And often, they end up losing the lot. The latest victim is businessman Lai Nai Khiong, 45, who reported that he lost his briefcase containing
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    • TWO CASE STUDIES OF TOO MUCH MONEY IN HAND
      • 84 4 CAR dealer Koh Kim Huat, 62, said he was robbed of his $4,000 Rolex watch and $2,000 in cash this month. He had just parked his car in the car park at Block 539, Bedok North Street 3, where he lives, when he said he noticed a white
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      • 87 4 BUSINESSMAN Ang Tek Chan, hid $10,000 in his Malaysian passport and left it on the front seat of his car. The money, in $1,000 notes, had been given to him by his wife and was to be taken to Johor. Mr Ang parked his car in a car
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    • 55 4 Wherever possible, try to make use of cashless transactions. Carry crossed cheques which cannot be cashed when stolen. Avoid leaving valuables In the car. If you have to, keep them in the boot or the glove compartment. Move in a group when
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    • 280 4  -  By Ambrose Poh SOME containers have been unloaded to reduce the 45-degree tilt of the ship Markham Bay at a Singapore wharf. The ship came to rest on the wharf in that position at about 11 am on Sunday while loading near Warehouse 18K, Keppel Harbour.
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    • 170 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. Accustomed: If a person is accustomed to something, he is used to it or knows it well. Bad press: If something is getting a bad press, it is being
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    • 449 5  -  You read yesterday about the mechanic who keeps old taxis going on Pulau Übin. Today we take you on a ride in one of the many water taxis that ply between the island and Changi Point. By Joe Nathan MEET the cabbies of the waterways
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    • 168 6  -  By Abdul Hadhi ILLEGAL moneylenders seem to be good with words. They use them to shame people who owe them. But words backfired for two of the moneylenders when they were taken to court yesterday. One of the you-better-pay-back notes written in Chinese was
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    • 279 6  - Disabled but they ran own club By Angeline Song IT'S a club for the disabled by the disabled. The Integration Club of Geylang West Community Centre is run by the disabled, although there are able-bod-ied volunteers to lend a hand. The vice-chairman of the club is Mr Sum Kwai Tat,
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    • 196 7  -  By Ronald Wong A MAN fell to his death early yesterday. The police want to know his identity. A passerby found the man's body on the footpath next to Block 140, Serangoon North Avenue 2, at about 7.35 am. He was* lying face up
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    • 228 7 SEAL your letters with some love. Those with a heart for the less fortunate can now buy Christmas and Lunar New Year seals to help more than 30 charities. The Rotary Club of Singapore and the Community Chest have produced about six million Christmas seals
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    • 380 7  -  By Karen Goh DAINTY feet wedged themselves firmly in the door of a mens-only club yesterday. The door is open just a crack, though. Women are only allowed as far as the dining room, and only as guests. Ten women lunched there yesterday, amid the
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    • 81 7 REGISTRATION for national service is now open for Singapore citizens and permanent residents. Those born on or between Dec 15, 1970 and March 15, 1971 may register at the Central Manpower Base, Dempsey Road. Registration will be on until Nov 23. Those intending to register should
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    • 53 7 IF YOU hear and see fighter planes zooming above, don't be alarmed. They are Republic of Singapore Air Force planes taking part in an air exercise. It begins at midnight and will end at 3 am tomorrow. A Defence Ministry statement yesterday said intensive air activities
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    • 448 8  -  By Chow Wai Fong WHEN parents meet teachers at Peicai Secondary School in Serangoon North, it is not always because of a child's poor results. More often than not, it's to enjoy a plate of fried chicken wings together. The school frequently holds get-together parties. And
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    • 264 8  -  By Chua Chin Chye AN ELDERLY woman told police she had been attacked by a neighbour, a woman 50 years younger than she. It was the result of a quarrel last Sunday afternoon, said Madam Yap Seow Moi, 77. The neighbour's two-year-old
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    • 289 8  -  By Cheng Shoong Tat in KUNMING. CHINA PRIME Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew is to cruise across China's sixth-largest fresh water lake today. The area around the cres-cent-shaped 300 sq km Dianchi Lake, better known as Kunming Lake, is one of the birthplaces of ancient Yunnan
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 198 9 Wire services. VIETNAMESE head-of-state Mr Vo Chi Cong says Hanoi is now prepared for talks with Beijing to improve rocky relations between the two countries. His comment at a Kremlin banquet followed by three days a plea from Mr Mikhail Gorbachev for direct Vietnam-China talks on
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    • 155 9 Wire services. EMPEROR Hirohito's condition has worsened. Doctors and family were summoned to the Imperial Palace last night to tend to the ailing 87-year-old monarch. Emperor Hirohito, Japan's symbolic leader for 63 years, has run a high fever for four days and vomited blood yesterday, said
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    • Article, Illustration
      50 9 Adult S play: More than a gentle French breeze is needed to loft this giant manta-ray kite. Its builder is New Zealander Peter Lynn, modestly known as the "Pope of Kites". He's among 200 who have entered kites in an international competition at Dieppe, France. Picture/ Afp
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    • 179 9 Wire services. SUPERPOWER tempers are flaring as the United Nations opens its 43rd session in a quest for world peace. The issue: An American demand that South Korea be permitted to address the General Assembly. The proposal drew immediate fire from China and a
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    • 188 9 Wire services. SRI LANKA has offered amnesty to Tamil rebels in an attempt to bring peace to the country before elections in the north and east. There has been no indication, however, that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is interested. Even so, the government
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    • 85 9 Wire services. MALAYSIAN navy ships have intruded into Philippine territorial waters at least 69 times in the past five years, armed forces chief Gen Renato De Villa says. He made the claim at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The panel is looking into a
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    • 145 9 Wire services. IRAQ may alter the course of the disputed Shatt al-Arab, the waterway that now threatens to block a permanent peace with Iran. The official Iraqi news agency INA said President Saddam Hussein raised the issue at a meeting of field commanders and suggested
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    • 166 10 Wire services. ABOUT 150,000 people have been arrested in a single day of West Bengal protests against a defamation bill and other policies of the Prime Minister, Mr Rajiv Gandhi. The Press Trust of India (PTI) said yesterday's protest was called by the All India Forward Bloc,
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    • 33 10 Alert: While East-West tensions have ebbed, the superpowers are taking no chances. These US Marines are going through joint manoeuvres with allied forces in Norway. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 211 10 Wire Services. THIRTEEN members of the Malaysian Parliament who seek to unseat the Prime Minister have formed an opposition group. Former Foreign Minister Datuk Rais Yatim said the group would be led by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, an arch-rival of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir
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    • 42 10 Wire services. FLICKERING hopes for peace in Lebanon are rapidly dying. The latest blow came early today when Christians vetoed an agreement between the US and Syria on a new president for Lebanon. Officials see no compromise candidate. Wire services.
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    • 431 11  -  By The Foreign Desk Staff WITH Rangoon's ancient streets again splashed with the blood of protesters, Burma's new military leader has promised that his regime will quickly hold free elections. A Radio Rangoon broadcast, monitored in Bangkok early today, said the junta formed a new Election
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    • 103 11 Wire services. BORDER tensions are rising between Cambodia and neighbouring Thailand. The latest sign: The Vietnamese-in-stalled Cambodian regime in Phnom Penh is claiming Thai violations of its territory. The Cambodian news agency SPK says that Thailand's F-11l aircraft made two intrusions into Cambodian airspace from two
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    • 43 11 Greetings: There's no rest for a panda. Gong Gong, a visitor from China, meets Canadian Premier Brian Mulroney and his three children. Gong Gong and her mates from the Great Circus of China are performing in Ottawa. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 261 11 Wire services. DISTRESSED by the country's nose-diving economy, the Polish Parliament has accepted the abrupt resignation of Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner's government. It is the first time since the communists took over in World War II that a Polish government has been forced to step aside
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    • 163 11 Wire services. SWEDEN has discovered the location of a secret Saudi Arabian missile base with the help of a satellite. The satellite pictures were released yesterday in Stockholm. They pinpoint the site as near the As Sulayyil oasis, some 475 km south-west of Riyadh. Chinese-made ballistic
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  • WORLDTODAY/ STOCKS
    • 151 12 Wire services. INDIA will soon have its own Pepsi generation. The maker of Pepsi Cola says New Delhi has given it permission to bottle and sell the soft drink in India. The deal is a victory for Pepsi Cola which, like its rival Coca Cola, has been
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    • 291 12 Wire Services. A NEW survey counts more than a half-billion disabled people in the world today 80 per cent of whom survive in poor Third World countries by begging on the street. Every year, 15 million more people swell the ranks of the disabled because of
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    • 84 12 Wire Services. ISRAEL has joined the world's exclusive rocket club by putting its first satellite into orbit. Israel said the experimental rocket lifted off at 5.30 pm yesterday. The launching came amid reports that Israel was developing a satellite to spy on neighbouring Arab states.
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    • 284 12 Wire services. TOKYO is among the world's most expensive places to live in, but the Japanese are not among the best-paid, says a Swiss study. The bank Union de Banques Suisses (ÜBS) in Geneva puts Tokyo ahead of Stockholm, Copenhagen, Geneva and Zurich, as among the
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      262 12 Wire services. SHARE prices closed lower on the London Stock Exchange yesterday after an irregular session. The Financial Times 30share index fell 3.9 points to close at 1,418.6. Trading was thin on the eve of the publication of British money supply and bank lending figures. Wall Street's sharp opening
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    • 73 12 Reuter. SHARE prices fell at the opening on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, on some profit-taking after recent gains and a lower Wall Street overnight, brokers said. But they added that the downturn could reverse itself later in the day. The Nikkei lost 134.01 points, or 0.48 per cent,
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    • 52 12 FT Industrials Mon 1,418.60 (1,422.50) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,081.08 (2,098.15) ST Industrial Mon 1,062.52 (1,064.93) NST Industrial Mon 1,742.30 (1,744.28) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 2,447.58 (2,458.82) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,539.60 (1,559.50) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 27,901.00 (27,866.38) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous
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      278 12 Reuter. WALL STREET stocks were pushed lower yesterday by a weak bond market and leftover-selling from last week's "triple witching" expiration of stocks futures and options, leaving the Dow Jones industrial average nursing a loss of 17 points. Analysts said the market was ripe for some selling and
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  • 466 13 THE NEW RARER SPECIAL imiwrm Reuter. WITH little to lose except some pride, Singapore's Ang Peng Siong had a fling at the 100 m butterfly and came in with a poor time of 57.41 sec in the heats this morning. His effort was well outside
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    70 14 SEOULPIC TWO kinds of joy were registered in successive events in the Olympic pool yesterday one expected, the other unexpected. Australian Duncan Armstrong (left) wildly celebrates his stunning upset of America's Matt Biondi in the 200 m freestyle final yesterday. But East German Kristin Otto seems cool
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  • 210 15 AP Florence Griffith Joyner's sensational world record of 10.49 seconds in the women's 100 meters in the U.S. Olympic trials in July has been ratified by the International Amateur Athletics Federation. Florence's time was adjudged "fully satisfactory" after the lAAF president Primo Nebiolo
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  • 285 15 Reuter CANADIAN Ben Johnson's dash for gold looks set for a good start with a decision by athletics' governing body ruling in his favour. The International Amateur Athletic Federation (lAAF) said his 100 metres world record at last year's Rome world championships was "fair". The lAAF's
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    • 16 15 arena T r Official swimwear licensee of the Games of the XXIVth Olympaid in Seoul 1988
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  • 349 16  -  By Ken Jalleh Jr THANK you Duncan Armstrong for proving once again that sport is predictably unpredictable. Thank you, too, NBC and the world's media for all the hoopla over Matt Biondi and Michael Gross. Wish you were here sports fan, to watch almost
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  • 632 16 Here is the story of an East German girl who has several world and European titles to her credit, but not an Olympic gold. Yesterday, she realised her 13-year dream. THIS is written with a clear conscience, without prejudice and as a favour to Kristin
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  • 297 17 UPI. GRETE Waits knew exactly who to ask for advice after having knee surgery Just six weeks ahead of the Seoul Olympic Marathon. It was American Joan Benoit, who won the gold medal ahead of Waits at the Los Angeles Games four years a
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  • 495 17 UPI. MARATHON men not only run far; they also run deep. Look into the eyes of Kenyan Ibrahim Hussein and you can almost see films of past Olympic marathons that have been playing over and over again in his mind for the last few months. "The Olympic
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  • THE NEW PAPER SPECIAL SEOUL BEAT
    • 515 18  -  By Shirley Tan THE Soviet Union is leading in the Olympic gymnastics women's team competition but their coach Andrey Radionenko is not satisfied. "I can't say I'm happy with the results. I always want it better," Radionenko said after yesterday's four compulsory events. The Soviet
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    • 60 18 Gymnastics was first introduced in the earty 1800s, when German schoolteacher Fridrich Jahn designed special equipment for indoor exercises. Women became fullfledged Olympic gymnastics competitors in 1952. The women's event is broken into four segments: the vault, uneven parallel bars, balance beam and floor exercises. WOMEN'S
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    • 57 18 The Gymnastics competition at the first modern Olympiad (Athens. 1896) involved 75 men from only five countries. Since then, gymnastics has grown to be one of the Olympics most popular events Men's Gymnastics events are divided into six segments, consisting of floor exercises, pommel horse, rings,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1448 19 i l=_ lelevision s ills* aF^ EN^^hMe^ y FmmYp«t«.rHav All Under Heav«K Gymnastics Men's Team y Life In A Chinese Village Optional VIETNAM veteran thk. transformation from Weston (Wayne Rogers), who S» ■> «l coUectivisation to a system of individual THE Soviets have been leading in in Nam finds the
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    • 341 19 B S3 10.30 pm Tuesday Premiere The Lady From Yesterday: See Screen Gems. 12.15 Close 2 O 10.30 pm A Star In Time L_2J (C) Lan Hong suffers from a miscarriage. Her father Lan Jin Tang holds Hai Pi responsible and metes out a punishment to him. 11.30 Late News
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  • Article, Illustration
    130 20 Swim champ: Matt is gunning for Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics. He starts as favourite for the three free-style events despite such formidable opponents as Michael Gross, Tom Jaeger and Singapore's Ang Peng Siong. Nam*: Matt Biondi, swimmer WlttMlHty American An:
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    • 38 20 With Kodacolor Gold Film The official film of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. And 1 official sponsor of flying colors. the Singapore National Olympic Team. For colors so true-to-life, you can feel every moment. Kodak is Olympic color.
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  • THE NEW PAPER SPECIAL SEOUL BEAT
    • 515 23  -  By Shirley Tan THE Soviet Union is leading in the Olympic gymnastics women's team competition but their coach Andrey Radionenko is not satisfied. "I can't say I'm happy with the results. I always want it better," Radionenko said after yesterday's four compulsory events. The Soviet
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    • 60 23 Gymnastics was first introduced in the earty 1800s, when German schoolteacher Fridrich Jahn designed special equipment for indoor exercises. Women became fullfledged Olympic gymnastics competitors in 1952. The women's event is broken into four segments: the vault, uneven parallel bars, balance beam and floor exercises. WOMEN'S
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    • 57 23 The Gymnastics competition at the first modern Olympiad (Athens, 1896) involved 75 men from only five countries. Since then, gymnastics has grown to be one of the Olympics most popular events Men's Gymnastics events are divided into six segments, consisting of floor exercises, pommel horse, rings,
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • SEOULBEAT
    • 609 25  -  Picture/ 1 Reuter PARK Seh-Jik is a rusty-faced military man who speaks of peace. These Games, he says, "are a time of excitement and renewal, of progress and harmony and of peace and prosperity". Three days into this sweaty love-in of peace and harmony and
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    • 187 25 UPI. BRITAIN'S equestrian team captain and Princess Anne's husband, Mark Phillips, saw his hopes for an Olympic medal slip yesterday when a fierce rainstorm broke out during his first ride and hampered his performance. As soon as Phillips rode his mount, Cartier, into
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    • 496 26  -  By Shirley Tan FIREWORKS that burst into trails of coloured smoke in the sky is one item that can be considered for a daytime celebration should organisers decide to hold the National Day Parade in the afternoon. The spectacular fireworks display, which took place immediately after
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    • 115 26 Reuter. CARL Lewis is nowhere to be seen in the Olympic athletes' village but his haircut is everywhere. The quadruple US Olympic champion has found quarters away from the other athletes, but seen from behind in the Olympic village many black sportsmen could be mistaken for him. Sean Knight
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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      203 27  -  Stories/ S. GULAM THE national soccer team may have finally found the perfect play-maker Salim Moin. After his superb performance against Negri Sembilan, Salim is now likely to win the play-mak-er's role. Coach Seak Poh Leong and his deputy N. Sivaji were both pleased with the way Salim
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    • 227 27 KEEP your feet firmly on the ground and work towards a Cup-final berth. That was coach Seak Poh Leong's advice to his players the day after Singapore booked its quarter-final berth with a 5-0 win over Negri Sembilan. Said Poh Leong: "We
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    • 363 27 Wire Services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: AMERICAN FOOTBALL National League: Minnesota 31 Chicago 7, New Orleans 22 Detroit 14, Kansas City 20 Denver 13, Miami 24 Green Bay 17, Buffalo Bills 16 New England 14, New York 45 Houston 3, Cincinnati 17 Pittsburgh 12, Phoenix 30 Tampa Bay
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    • 321 27 The New Paoer-letstreamTbur Contest Japan is yours~. Every day, there are stories marked with a tick in The New Paper. But only one has a double border. Jt Look for the tick with this double border LIU and write down the headline of this story in the Space marked on
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    402 28 SEOULBEAT MARY Lou Retton, winner of the women's gymnastics all-round gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games, predicts the Soviet Union to take the team gold this year. Speaking to The New Paper in Seoul, she said that the silver and bronze medals will go to Rumania and
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 389 28 WSPORTS TUES IflOll 4p,n: Seou J Olympics '88: Diving 6.3o|>m: Gymnastics Women's Team 11 c i ni, aa u;„u Men's Springboard Final. Optional 11.30 am. Seoul Olympics 88: Highly 4.45pm: Seoul Olympics '88 Cy- 8.45pm: Seoul Olympics '88: Daily Swimm'tig. athletics cling (Men 4000 m IP). summary 2 nd basketball.
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
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    • 318 29 NOON Newsdesk 12.30 Sportsworld 12.45 Reflections: A moment for reflective thought on the role of religion in one's life. 12.SO Financial News 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary. 1.30 New Ideas 1.40 Book Choice: Recommends a good read for the week. 1.4S The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30
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    • 59 33 USA Today. COSBY star Phylicia Rashad and Cry Freedom star Denzel Washington, alumni of the Negro Ensemble Company, return to their theatrical training ground later this month. They will be there for McDonald's Literary Achievement Awards, which recognises writing on the US black experience. USA Today. Writing
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      65 33 USA Today. FORBIDDEN Broadway '88, the newest edition of the show that lampoons Broadway, made its debut last week at New York's Theatre East with a Madonna parody. Madonna, who starred in Speed-the-Plow, is instructed by directors singing: "I strain in vain to train Madonna's brain" to the
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    • 239 33 A LOCAL musical variety show will replace the one now on over SBC 8. Four SBC singers Wu Jiaming, Ye Yarning, Zhang Piao Fang and Grace Tsang will host their own 45minute TV music specials, starting on Saturday, Oct 8. They will
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    • 438 36 UPI. POP singer Michael Jackson, who will make about $198 million during 1987 and 1988, has replaced comedian Bill Cosby as the world's highest-paid entertainer, Forbes magazine reports in its Oct. 3 issue. I Jackson, who was ranked ninth last year on the Forbes list, should
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    • 309 36  -  By Pauline Tan WE'VE seen it happen before when groups like Zee Band, Baricada and The New Minstrels split up to form new bands. Former members of Barica.da and Zee Band have made good in groups like HeadLine, while Babes Conde seems to be
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  • 151 39  -  FOODWISE By Lawrence Low NATURE did a great job in packaging nuts. They are neatly wrapped and protected inside a hard or brittle shell. Since caveman days, nuts have been a source of food and oil for humans. They were
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