The New Paper, 8 October 1988

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  • 22 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8/SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS tjl<6 new* paper the new paper
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    • 113 1 MOUNTIES: ]&:%.=?*%/{-"_+--<+''@',(|!"?*| SPORT DRUG RING Canadian Mounted Police reveal probe of a secret syndicate that supplies steroids to athletes. Vast network sells 31 kinds of doping products including drug traced in Ben Johnson. Page 39 FATAL MISTAKE A couple feeds their infant then puts her to bed. She chokes to
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  • 21 1 Mystery van pulls up to jKte3 u K?—^ Who did it? Nobody knows. /Page 7 Picture/AUNDRY GaN
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    43 1 Police seize starter gun from Ben Johnson after motorist says sprinter pointed pistol at him. Ben, under pressure since Olympic drug disgrace, denies charge. Page 39 I Disgraced: Ben Johnson about to leave Seoul on Sept 27. Picture/ AFP
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 296 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching A couple in Bedok made a fatal mistake after bathing and bottle-feeding their two-month-old daughter this week. They put her to bed on her back. A few hours later the little girl choked to death on her own vomit. The baby had
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    • 182 2 AT THE age of 110 death came for Ms Wang Shue, believed to have been the oldest woman in Singapore. She left behind one daughter and three generations of over 50 grandchildren. Ms Wang bore two sons and three daughters. She outlived her oldest daughter and
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    • 57 2 Wire services. NINE prisoners in an American jail have been charged with growing marijuana instead of trees on a prison work detail. The prisoners were caught when they tried to smuggle 14 kg of their crop into the jail. They had been sent to work on a
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    • 80 2 Wire services. South Korea is moving to open limited trading with communist North Korea. Seoul announced yesterday that it would authorise indirect trade and allow North Korean vessels to call at South Korean ports on commercial missions. Such trade contact is now prohibited by
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    • 260 2 ARE you a criminal if you commited a traffic offence? Seven readers called up our Hotline Plus and said they did not think so. The New Paper reported yesterday that even a parking ticket offence made a person a criminal, techni- cally. The
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    • 44 2 Thousands: South Korean riot police attempt to dodge the thousands of petrol bombs being hurled by nearly 4,000 radical students from the Seoul area during an antigovernment demonstration at Seoul National University yesterday. See Page 12 Picture/ Reuter
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    • 194 3  -  By Ambrose Poh T 1 HIS breathtaking surprise sits on the top of Telok Blangah Green. Fun-seekers walking half a kilometre up the shady road will find the healthy secondary jungle suddenly cleared. Pleasant landscaping takes over. You are tempted by a flight of stairs.
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    • 247 3 THE HDB is doing its best to make Pasir Ris a beautiful place to live or lounge. Work has begun on a pedestrian boulevard stretching along the banks of the Sungei Tampines for one-and-a-half kilometres. The landscaping will include swaying palms,
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    • 23 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 33 degrees. Sunset today: 6.54 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.49 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 562 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram VIOLENT reaction by parents to their children's poor grades is the major cause of the milder cases of child abuse in Singapore. That's the finding by social workers and teachers who say many parents think they can force their children
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    • 160 4 CHILDREN in foster homes are another abused lot. Although they are not seriously ill-treated, they suffer somewhat at the hands of parents. Most such children are left at foster homes and see their parents only on weekends. They find it difficult to adjust to their
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    • 242 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. chip on her shoulder: If a person has a chip on her shoulder, she is quarrelsome, rude and has a bad temper because she feels inferior or feels that
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    • 318 4  -  By Karen Goh JAPANESE-SPEAKING tour guides in Singapore have their hands full. And Kore-an-speaking tour guides here may find themselves equally sought after soon. There is a shortage of Japa-nese-speaking guides, and it is expected there will be a shortage of Korean-speaking ones within the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 337 6  -  By Geneieve Kwek IT will be a tough race at this year's Second Singapore Micromouse Contest. Thirty-eight of the best robotic mice produced by students from various institutes will run an unknown maze on Oct 20. The finals will be two days
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    • 320 6 POLICE them and punish those who won't obey. That's the Consumers Association of Singapore's prescription for pharmacists and doctors who don't label medicines properly. A law on labelling medicine passed three years ago. But Case said many doctors and pharmacists still don't do it right.
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    • 572 6  -  By Ronald Wong MEN with the disgusting habit of pissing in lifts have more to fear than a judge and a heavy fine. Their neighbours are angry and they are not going to take it any more. If it were not illegal, some neighbours
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    • 237 7 THE rare cuscus will be on display at the Singapore zoo from today. The marsupial, about the size of a cat, is so rare that the zoo is looking for a mate for it. It has been in quarantine since it was found
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    • 470 7  -  By Abdul Hadhi a BIG mynah bird mystery took place in the dark of night at a roosting tree on Ang Mo Kio Street 31. They perished in an episode of chemical warfare conducted in front of Block 302. Some people were delighted. They look
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 367 9 THE Methodist Church in Singapore has quit the Christian Conference of Asia. The Church's latest newsletter said it wanted out because the CCA got involved in politics. The CCA is a regional Protestant organisation that was expelled from Singapore last year. The Church is the
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    • 551 9  -  By Irene Hoe FROM zero to 28 in the space of 10 years may not seem like tremendous acceleration. But in Singapore's fast food lanes, no one's been able to overtake McDonald's. Next year, the chain plans to open five more
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    • 174 9 THE 24-year-old man who snatched a woman's handbag was fast on his feet but that didn't help him when he ran into a 62-year-old security guard. Guard Mohamed Sharif bin Shafii heard the woman scream for help, then saw the man running from the
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    • 85 9 Lianhe Zaobao. MR ZHEN Jinbao, a chicken rice hawker at Whitley food centre, found life unbearable. First he got into a fight with two fellow hawkers on Sept 19. All three were taken to a hospital. Mr Zhen was discharged on Sept 20 and
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    • 376 10  -  By Michelle Oh H ERS, his and theirs. She's mother to them all. Now Mrs Geraldine Tay, 48, is also Working Mother of the Year. Her ability to be a good parent to all these children certainly helped her win that title last night. Mrs
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    • 283 10  -  By Harjinder Kaur CONSTRUCTION workers are building a solid image for themselves. The winners of the National Construction Skills Competition 88 showed that. The New Paper talked to some of them yesterday. Mr Yam Wing Tuck, 21, managed the third prize in formwork although he
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    • 242 10  -  By Irene Ng A HOUSEWIFE used her 15-month-old son to help her take something from a shop, a court heard yesterday. She denied this, saying it was all a muddle. But she was found guilty. Prosecuting Inspector Zainal Abidin said that Madam Hong J K, 30,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 350 11 Wire services. THE Soviet Union and China may be about to roll back the calendar to a time of communist solidarity between the two big powers. The Kremlin announced yesterday that Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev will meet with Chinese leaders early next year the
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    • 51 11 Hurt: A demonstrator lies unconscious in the streets of Santiago, Chile, after being struck by a club-wielding soldier. The troops had been sent to break up street celebrations that followed the rejection of Gen Augusto Pinochet in elections. Two people were killed, scores hurt. Picture/
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    • 586 11  -  By Rosnah Ahmad THE lost paradise of Sri Lanka can find no peace. A year-old plan to end ethnic strife has created fresh problems without resolving old ones. Tamil rebels have rejected the In-dia-backed peace plan and fight on in the north and east.
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    • 302 12 Wire services. WITH the Olympic Games over, it's 'back to the barricades for Seoul's student radicals. More than 3,000 of them, demanding the arrest of former President Chun Doo Hwan, fought pitched street battles with riot police yesterday in the biggest antigovernment protest for months. The
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    • 40 12 Hard knocks: Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' security chief, in light shirt, knocks down a political rival's supporter during the official's tour of Ramie, Israel. The incident occurred as Mr Peres campaigned in an open-air market. Picture/ Ap
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    • 196 12 Wire services. SOUTH Africa claims Cuba is trying to wreck attempts to bring peace to troubled Angola. The government in Pretoria pointed out that South Africa, Angola and Cuba are all part of United Nations negotiations to end the long and savage war in
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    • 122 12 Wire services. ABUSE of inhalant drugs has spread in the Asia-Pacific region, says a report by regional drug-enforcement agents. It says abuse of inhalants such as glue and paint thinners has become particularly widespread among youths. The agents say the thriving drug culture of Asian
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    • 39 12 Sculpture: Swedish sculptor Carl Frederik Reutersward sits in front of his bronze-cast peace sculpture in Dusseldorf, West Germany. The knotted revolver barrel conveys anti-violence sentiments through a symbol now known around the world. Picture/ Afp
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    • 152 12 Wire services. CHINA has adopted tough new measures to slow a construction boom blamed as the cause of high inflation. After Dec 1, authorities will withhold bank loans, energy and building supplies and construction licences from specific projects. The aim is to
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  • WORLDTODAY/ STOCKS
    • 220 13 Wire services. THE worsening condition of Japan's Emperor Hirohito is affecting the country's economy. Both retail and service sectors blame a sharp trade slowdown on the emperor's health. Businessmen complain that the Emperor's illness has depressed many Japanese, causing them to remain at home in their free time
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    • 102 13 Wire services. A MAJOR improvement in the US trade balance is expected by the end of this year, suggesting more American sales abroad. Chief US Trade Envoy Clayton Yeutter told a Texas audience yesterday this was because the dollar's fall has "created excellent opportunities for American
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    • 145 13 Wire services. THE value of Indonesia's oil exports fell by 5.2 per cent during the first half of this year from the same period last year. Oil is the single biggest producer of foreign currency for Indonesia and is one of the country's largest employers. The
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    • 56 13 Blood: The Philippines is among those Asian countries that have adopted aggressive new programmes to fight the spread of Aids. It has begun to screen paid donors, who account for 70 per cent of the country's blood supply. These donors are among the first tested by
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      245 13 Wire services. SHARES closed higher yesterday on the London Stock Exchange with the Financial Times 30-share index up 8.9 points to close at 1,490.4 The London market lost its enthusiasm at the end of the session, despite the|strengthening of the pound against the dollar after announcement that fewer jobs
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    • 8 13 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 13 Indices/Closing FT Industrials Fri 1,490.40 (1,481.50) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,150.07 (2,107.57) ST Industrial Fri 1,003.27 997.74) NST Industrial Fri 1,681.02 (1,664.72) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 2,478.87 (2,427.04) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,525.00 (1,515.70) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 27,258.27 (27,172.34) Figure* in bracket* refer to thoee of the prevkKM trading
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      263 13 Wire services. THE Dow Jones average of 30 industrials climbed 42.32 points to close at 2,150.07, falling just short of its 1988 closing high of 2,158.61 reached on July 5. For the week, the average rose 37.34 points. Advancing issues outnumbered declines by nearly 3 to 1 on
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  • Showtime
    • 394 14 C By Lo Tien Yin OLOURED light bulbs flash. Electric guitars scream. And husky voices belt out songs in Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien. But when the performers look out from the stage, they see only their own reflection in a huge wall mirror. This is
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    • 466 15  -  SATURDAYSQUNDS sn Lim Sek I NTROSPECTIVE. This album by the Pet Shop Boys comes out on Mon- day riding a long drum roll of publicity. It is heralded as one of the major musical happenings in months. Why? Media hype is one big reason. But none
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    • 200 15  -  By Hope Barrett OUR HONGKONG REPORTER LAST year it was the Wynners. This year Anita Mui leads off the big names in the open-air event, City in Concert and Games. It will be held at Hongkong Stadium on Dec 4. Jointly-organised by Radio Television
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    • 346 16  -  By Ting Mei See I HAD four different portraits done of myself in the past week. I didn't think there were so many ways to get myself immortalised. Of course there is the good old familiar photograph. But it does not occur to most people
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    • 252 16 CHARCOAL SKETCHES PORTRAIT is sketched using a charcoal stick. Where: Little Gallery at Heeren Building, Orchard Road. Artist: Pang Boon Heng. How much: $50 a portrait. Duration: About 20 minutes. PASTEL PORTRAITS Chalk-like material called, soft pastel is used. Where: Little Gallery at
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1781 17 RADIOGUIDE ffi||§§i|' EQ3QOH EMUHi H9HI NOOM News In Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON That't-Wla-a-Car Satellite NOON Newsdesk Ny yy K/yS 12.05 Real Fun: Join Roger Kool for NOON r„ v F Btlirin .Be A recording of Rediffu- 12.30 Here's Humph! f| AAfc an afternoon of good music and lection of
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    • 1584 18 ■whhbhbhi cancer how they face up to their Tickets Theatre central booking office. Ends tomorrow. Lim Yau conducts Victoria Concert Han box office XjanFiim FfSTTVAI KIRAI. DRAMA. A teenage a donkey leprosy who alcoholic beverages. She SSSSis directed by Zhang Yimou. In Mandarin with
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    • 127 18 SINGAPORE'S first Taiwan film festival brings you their stars on screen and in person. Actresses like Tsai Chin and Yang Lin are here for this week-long event. It features 12 films. The festival opens today with a Mandarin offering titled Strawman. Set during the
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    • 147 18 A FISH and a cockerel shaped coin and even a rare Chinese "sycees". These are the strange and unusual kinds of money that were used in the past. About 2,000 of these specimens are now are on show. They include a 376 grams goldbar from a Dutch
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    • 1291 20 rp i H televisions SCREEN Arts Circle KAFKA' Th including the woman he loves (Janet was an enigma. He for Spanish lessons to Springfield's Love Somebody and published nothing in his lifetime and hits from British rockers Graham I .tcsnv mm 'sumxh. f > ssmmnimn ■iiiiihiiiiiii imiiiniiiiii If ue 8.55
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    • 1533 21 Theatre Ends Ding Lu Feng and Zhang Yan from FcenVA! u m^^m mm^mm for a donkey =5S=. directed by Zhang Yimou. In Mandarin with English subtitles Golden Theatre. Beach Road Tickets a, $3 ana ,4 from the „o, FAMILY COMEDY, in Two and a
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      34 21 TODAY I Usten to Indian love aonqs by ghazal I lit- stnfler PankaJ Udhas. World trade centre auditorium. I 11 ballads. TOMORROW spemte^wSn^i^i^fr^^Haza cinema. 5 6^wy° r^m 00 floor. ?4atlonal Museum Art
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    • 126 21 SINGAPORE'S first Taiwan film festival brings you their stars on screen and in person. Actresses like Tsai Chin and Yang Lin are here for this week-long event. It features 12 films. The festival opens today with a Mandarin offering titled Strawman. Set during the
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    • 147 21 A FISH and a cockerel shaped coin and even a rare Chinese "sycees". These are the strange and unusual kinds of money that were used in the past. About 2,000 of these specimens are now are on show. They include a 376 grams goldbar from a Dutch
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1937 22 RADIOGUIDE cnW IM.IM— IM9H /SSI 6.00 Near* ia Brief (Programmes in English) *-00 Breakfast Clab: Rediffusion's 6.66 Werid News <CI 0.05 On Air Wake up to the songs of 6 N#wt #rtof n^ ay 0.66 From Oar Correspondent a __l. I n <Lj afcarlt/ mnrnintr w»Uw "ww» IN BfVwV With
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 491 23  -  By Lim Phay-ling SINGAPOREANS have made shopping across the Causeway yet another favourite weekend activity. But oddly enough, they buy pretty much the same things they can get at home. The attraction seems to be in getting there. The Malayan Railway (KTM) railbus ride between Singapore
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    • 69 23 REMEMBER, Johor has two "weekends". Government offices are closed on Fridays and private businesses on Sundays. Thursdays and Saturdays are half-days. The shops stay open all week from 10 am to 9 pm. Call Malayan Railway at 222-5165 for the railbus schedule. The four-times-daily runs are
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 255 24  -  BYi Adeline Woon THERE'S no accounting for the tastes of today's youth. They scream along to the heavy beat of Bon Jovi. But when they themselves sing, out comes something entirely different. At least that's what happened at the National University of Singapore's fourth Talentime
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    • 483 25  -  By Vivien Chiong T I WO international acts will bypass Singapore for Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta. The American duo Daryl Hall and John Oates will sing in Kuala Lumpur on Nov 2. And Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger will do a concert in Jarkata on Oct
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    • 342 25  -  By Griselda Loo THE excitement mounted yesterday as the stars warmed up for next Saturday's big Hearstrings 88 event. Last week, the show seemed too far away. Many like singer Robert Fernando did not really feel the thrill. But now, the performers Jacintha,
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    • 503 26  -  By Hope Barrett OUR HONGKONG REPORTER I T TOOK a month. And running back and forth between the set and Michael Jackson's hotel room. The video, directed by Martin Scorsese, was Bad. The choreographer: Jeffrey Daniel. His efforts had him nominated, alongside Michael Jackson,
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    • 121 26 Reuter. ENTERTAINER Whoopi Goldberg, who won an Oscar nomination for her role aa an oppressed black woman in The Colour Purple, has filed for divorce from her husband of two years, a spokesman said on Thursday. He said Goldberg cited differences with her
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    • Article, Illustration
      324 26 BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (Prince 2) MICHAEL J Fox stars as Jamie Conway, who hasn't come to terms with his wife's leaving him and his mother's death. He plunges into the fast night life of New York city as a way of coping. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.45,
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 203 27  -  Stories/ Loh Tuan Lee TWO heads are better than one, especially if they belong to lecturers. When 20 or so professors and masters in Ngee Ann Polytechnic put their heads together, they came up with a book of 23 pages to help students study
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    • 342 27 HERE are some extracts from the booklet: What are some ways of doing revision? Studying for tests, doing course assignments and attending tutorials are revision exercises in themselves. These help you to assess your level of performance in various subjects and the thoroughness of your
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    • 481 27  -  A MATTER OF OPINION By Loh Tuan Lee WONG Chien Seong, 21, waiting to enter university "It might not be understood when we are communicating with foreigners. But there's no point trying to get rid of it. I mean, how many expat teachers can
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  • SPORTS/RACKING
    • 582 33 By THE THREE MUSKETEERS T I ERE is no shortage of top-class sprinters on the local circuit. So even without He's Dawan, tomorrow's Lion City Cup race will be a grand sight. It's also the day's Quartet and there could be record betting for the occasion. Seven
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    • 467 33 BEST bet for today is an old favourite of ours, Twin Jet. Since featuring as our best bet some weeks ago, when he duly obliged, he has had nothing but bad luck. At Kuala Lumpur in the Wilayah Silver Bowl he suffered
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  • SPORTS
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      291 34 AFP. MIKE Tyson's actress wife Robin Givens wants a divorce from the world heavyweight boxing champion after only eight months of marriage. The request was revealed in Los Angeles by Marvin Mitchelson, a lawyer who specialises in celebrity divorces, yesterday. "I plan to file it within the next
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    • 88 34 AFP. THE English Football League has refused to register Lee Chapman with his new club Not- tingham Forest. There is still a problem with his move from Sheffield Wednesday to Niort. Niort claims it has paid the full transfer fee for Chapman but the Sheffield
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    • 243 34 AFP. ALEXANDER Zavarov, Juventus' million-dollar import from the Soviet Union, knows that defenders will be out to get him when the new Italian soccer season starts tomorrow. "In Italy the game is much more physical and the defences are particularly tough and hard to break down,"
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    • 93 34 UPI. EAST German sprinter Marl i e s Goehr is retiring. Today's 100-metre race in the Toshiba Meet in Tokyo will be her last. "I decided at the start of the season that this would be my last," she said, "and after 12 years in the sport,
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    • 372 34 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Amsterdam Open: Men's singles 3rd rd: Icuk Sugiarto (Indo) bt Steve Butler (Brit) 5-7, 15-11; Sze Yu (Aust) bt Hermawan (Indo) 15-9, 15-8; Michael Kieldsen (Den) bt Darren Hall (Brit) 15-1, 18-17; Nils Skeby (Den) bt Joergen Tuvesson (Swe) 15-3, 15-3;
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    • 424 37 AFP. THE Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has announced that it has been investigating a secret Toron-to-based network supplying anabolic steroids for the past year. The vast network has taken out advertisements in bodybuilding magazines offering 31 types of steroids, including stanozolol, via box numbers. The
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    • 300 37 AFP, UPI. TORONTO police said yesterday they seized a starter's pistol from Ben Johnson's Porsche after a motorist alleged the disgraced Olympic sprinter pointed a pistol at him while driving on a highway. The motorist said a black Porsche pulled up beside his car
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    • 91 37 AFP. PETER Elliott, Britain's Olympic 1,500-metre silver-medallist, can now hardly walk after his effort in Seoul. He is taking life easy, literally, in an attempt to avoid having surgery to his injured groin. Amateur athletics chiefs have even given the go-ahead for Elliott to be
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