The New Paper, 12 October 1988

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1 36 The New Paper
  • 13 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 t 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/80 50 CENTS
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    • 196 1 llHSIEfeTHAN I FAST BIKE p^^HK^^uni v ''fl |P^ Now The New Paper can send news pages across Singapore in a minute. New electronic system starts to replace despatch riders who rush filmed pages from Times House to our printing plant This means later deadlines, fresher news for you. Page 5
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  • 52 1 Muslims pray on a square and road in Algiers where week of rioting left 200 dead. Angry over high prices and shortages, mobs have set fires and looted stores. Western diplomats predict violence will flare anew during funerals of those killed by the military./ Page 13
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 519 2 More people in Singapore are earning more money. More jobs are available. Fewer are taking to the streets looking for work. Nobody went on strike. This is the happy picture of the labour scene last year with the recovery of the Singapore economy. The
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    • 296 2  -  By Chua Chin Chye FIVE OF his friends are missing and he's in hospital yet Mr Misda bin Vasdi considers himself lucky. He got to have breakfast in bed this morning while he described how he and other survivors hung on to the
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    • 480 2  -  In an industry where job-hopping is rampant, 10 per cent of the 2,000 workers at Texas Instruments have served the company for 20 years. At a dinner to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary last night, The New Paper spoke to three of them. By
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    • 39 2 Wire services. THE World Health Organisation predicts that three million people could have Aids by 1996. It gave the estimate at a health conference in San Marino, Italy. There are now 300,000 victims. Wire services.
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    • 447 3  -  In Singapore, we have our MRT. From next month, West Berliners can ride in trains of their new M-Bahn Magnetic Transit System. You can see a model of the West Berlin train at the World Trade Centre in Singapore. On display in Hall 5, for a three-day
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    • 235 3 TGI is the new buzzword for Singapore traders. It stands for trade generating investment. And what it means is this: take a stake in the country to which you export. That's the advice to traders from Mr Alan Yeo, Chairman of the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 23 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Sunset today: 6.53 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.48 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 276 4  -  By Irene Ng p OLICE should keep better records of what they find when they carry out body searches. That way, claims of r l _i x i_ foul play against them can be "confronted and disproved". This advice came yesterday from a
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    • 253 4 MIDDLE Road Hospital will move to new premises on Dec 8, one year behind schedule. The delay was because structural changes had to be made to its new home, a $17-million complex to be called the Skin Disease Centre. The centre, three times the
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    • 164 4 A CASHIER in a Raffles City bookstore was counting cash when a fast-fingered thief snatched away a $500 bill yesterday. The Chinese-language daily newspaper Lianhe Zaobao reported that Ms Lee Suyan said she was counting the money in a Japanese bookshop when a male
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    • 191 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. adaptation: An adaptation is a change made to suit new needs such as an adaptation of a book for a play. affable: A person who has an affable nature
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    • 696 5  -  A new phase begins for The New Paper with facsimile transmission of pages. We can now get later news into the paper to serve you better. By Michelle Oh AT 10.15 in the morning, six days a week, a motorcycle has roared out of Times House to
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    • 180 6  -  By Michelle Oh SINGAPORE and Brunei Darussalam reached agreement today to further liberalise the Singapore-Brunei Darussalam Bilateral Air Services Agreement. Airlines of both countries are now free to mount any number of charter flights with any aircraft type between the countries. The agreement
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    • 252 6  -  By' Trudy Lim TAKE a train from Yio Chu Kang to Lakeside in Jurong and it will cost you $1.40. That is the maximum fare you will pay when the present Yio Chu Kang to Cle-' menti line is extended from Nov 5. And
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    • 158 6 THIS picture was taken off a closed circuit television screen with the camera trained on people outside Lucky Plaza. More than 30 cameras, installed last month at the shopping centre in Orchard Road, have been "keeping an eye" on the activities of the
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    • 109 6 A DISPUTE over space to sell food at a bus interchange led one hawker to stab another at a hawker centre last night, police said. Mr Nadarajan Perumal, 51, was having a bottle of beer at the hawker centre near Block 209, Ang Mo Kio Central,
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    • 320 7 T HE Christmas light-up won't be just a pretty face this year. It will be a pretty bright idea too. This time around it will apart from being a delight to tourists help raise $1.2 million for the Community Chest of Singapore. That is how far the
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    • 350 8 A MIXED bag of people go every Monday night to the Raffles Institution to make beautiful music together. There are 60 of them doctors, teachers, businessmen, students in the group called the Raffles Symphony Orchestra. Their ages vary from 16 to 55. What unites them is
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    • 371 8  -  By Trudy Lim THE Futsing (Fuqing) Association in Singapore was afraid it would die out. So it put an advertisement in the papers recently asking for people from the dialect group to join it. Interest was clearly alive. That one advertisement brought 300 replies in 10
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    • 220 8 CARS are now coming ready fitted with compact disc (CD) systems to help boost their sales. This is the latest extra offered by two Japanese cars instead of the usual cassette decks. Toyota Coronas have come equipped with Sony CD systems since April 7. Honda
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 116 4 Sun, 23 Oct 88 2pm 7pm Sentosa Fountain Gardens Entry Forms with details are available at Sentosa Information Office, World Trade Centre Closing Date: 15/10/88 r-Other coming activities: a Squaretance New Ferry Terminal Rockery Rock 5/ Concert Musical Fountain**" ChineM Wayang New Ferry Terminal \'j j Topper Junior Soccer. 7-A
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 38 10 Warfare The threat of chemical weapons hat led Israel to give troops special training. Soldiers in Tel Aviv are shown how a victim is treated. The first step is a shower, then the hospital Picture/ ReUTER
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    • 242 10 Wire services. THREE American preachers have pleaded guilty to running a sex ring of boys they lured with gifts and money and then molested. The three said they used the Tony Leyva Evangelistic Association of Columbus, Georgia, to recruit boys for homosexual prostitution. Dozens of boys told
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    • 119 10 Wire services. THE Indian army sought to restore calm today after Hindu-Muslim clashes killed 13 people in north India's Uttar Pradesh state. United News of India said about 70 people were injured yesterday in fighting in the towns of Muzaffarnagar and
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    • 214 10 Wire services. WASHINGTON today expressed optimism that talks with Manila would shortly produce an agreement to keep US bases in the Philippines. But a spokesman said final details of a pact had not yet been agreed upon. Official sources in Manila said yesterday
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    • 52 10 Bernama. SAFETY checks have cleared for flight two of the 35 grounded Skyhawks of the Royal Malaysian Air Force. The jets were grounded after two crashed in separate incidents over the South China Sea. Officials said inspection of the remaining 33 Skyhawks would be finished
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    • 480 10 Wire services. A WORKER in Mr George Bush's California campaign rang his Washington bosses a few days ago with an urgent plea: Keep Mr Dan Quayle out of the state. At about the same time, Mr Michael S Dukakis's California manager did what he could
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  • WORLDTODAY/STOCKS
    • 199 12 Wire services. HUNDREDS of angry investors battled riot police as they tried to force entry into Taiwan's Parliament to protest a new tax. The fighting erupted yesterday when almost 1,000 investors sought to get past police ringing the building in central Taipei. Police held
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    • 205 12 Wire services. EIGHTY-FIVE people and the world's seventh largest bank have been accused of handling money for Latin American drug barons. Charges in the case, largest of its kind in US history, were filed yesterday in Tampa, Florida. The operation extended to several US cities and
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    • Article, Illustration
      254 12 Wire services. THE Financial Times 30share index dropped 3.1 points to close at 1,487.2 yesterday. Revived bid speculation helped lift the building materials sector with Blue Circle and Pilkington gaining. Electronics group Ferranti was again active with over 13 million shares changing hands. Dealers pointed out that Abbey Life
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    • 76 12 Reuter SHARE prices were mixed in opening trade today, on profit-taking after Tuesday's sharp gains and a lower Wall Street overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index slipped 24.25 points, or 0.09 per cent, to 27,445.35 after 10 minutes of trade. Falls were led by securities house, pulp/paper, bank, shipbuilding,
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Tue 1,487.20 (1,490.30 Dow Jones Average Tue 2,156.47 (2,158.96 ST Industrial Tue 1,018.54 (1,015.90 NST Industrial Tue 1,697.71 (1,692.17 Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 2,571.61 (2,566.42 Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,543.20 (1,534.70 Nikkei Stock Average Tue 27,469.60 Closed Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      280 12 Wire services. WALL STREET stocks slipped yesterday as a weaker bond market encouraged investors to take profits after a two-day rally had sent prices to a post-crash high. The Dow Jones industrial average edged 2.49 points lower to 2,156.47. On Monday it hit the highest closing level since
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 232 13 Wire services. SAFETY and security concerns have forced the US nu-clear-weapons industry to close two key plants. One expert says the result is the same as if the US had begun to disarm itself. The US Energy Department announced yesterday it had ordered the sole
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    • 51 13 Game: Shoes off for greater balance, the Princess of Wales bowls a wood to inaugurate the Luton Indoors Bowl Centre in England. Her wood was right on target when it struck the jack, a small white ball. "Just a bit of luck," commented modest Di. Picture/
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    • 46 13 Demand: The Reverend lan Paisley, a hard-lining Northern Ireland Protestant leader, makes his point at a meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Mr Paisley, who disrupted a speech by Pope John Paul 11, was removed by security forces. Picture/ AFP
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    • 101 13 Wire services. PAKISTAN says it has sealed its southern border to keep armed saboteurs out of southern Sind province. Although Pakistan and India have had more than 40 years of troubled relations, this is the first time that Islamabad has closed its border. The
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    • 183 13 Wire services. ALGERIAN President Chadli Bendjedid today lifted the state of siege in the capital of Algiers after a week of rioting that killed 200. Shortly afterwards, people rejoiced in the streets, waving Algerian flags and cheering. For the first time in a week,
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    • 85 13 Wire services. TWO street musicians in the English tourist city of Bath are boosting their income by accepting credit cards as well as loose change. Jazz guitarists Jon Green and Mike Britton obtained traders' licences and plastered their open guitar cases with American Express, Mastercard and Visa
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 257 13 frowi HERE At The British Council, we won't lead you 'round the houses', we will show you the most direct way of applying for a place to study at over 100 UK Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges. The British Council's Education Counselling Service provides impartial, comprehensive and professional advice on: HMj
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  • Showtime
    • 259 14  -  PREVIEW/ By Adeline V Adeline Woon THE Victorians are back. The Stage Club's next production is an old-fashioned Victorian melodrama, The Face on the Barroom Floor. It's hardly stuffy Victoriana, though. The action takes place in Colorado, on a set that looks like an Old
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    • 198 14 AN old-style melodrama is romantic and sensational. It is life exaggerated. So if the action seems stupid sometimes, it's because it is supposed to be. There is no suspension of disbelief at any time in this sort of melodrama. Usually, the audience is
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    • 286 15  -  By Vivien Chiong JACINTHA Abisheganaden has been chosen as Singapore's representative at the Pax Musica in Singapore a cultural entertainment show. The other four singing ambassadors are Hongkong's Danny Chan, Japan's Shinji Tanimura, Korea's Cho Yong-pil and Philippines' Marlene. The show will be held
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    • 299 15 AP. ACTRESS turned novelist Joan Collins has revealed her ambition to appear on the London stage. "I have every intention of going back into the theatre in England and there are a number of theatrical producers who know of my interest
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  • spotlight
    • 714 16 It's only about the width of a sliirt button and the length of a broomstick, but it can split flesh and make even the most hardened criminal faint with the pain. The cane is probably the most dreaded form of punishment in the Penal
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    • 487 16 IN SINGAPORE, caning is meted out for murder attempts, robbery, rape, drug trafficking and vandalism. In these cases, caning is obligatory under the Penal CodeBut caning is optional for offences like rioting, manslaughter, kidnap, extortion and theft and housebreaking. A 1986 survey showed
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1860 17 Television™ u w.+m* SCREEN The World of Survival Magnum, P.I. Mad Dogs Insight —60 Minutes f' GEMS W —Tobe a Butterfly (7.55 pm, SBC 5) (8.00 pm, SBC 12) MORE trouble in paradise as NIEN Cheng, author of Life and tkv Ap T™P® 18 mu< m re to 8 ry
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    • 711 21 It's only about the width of a shirt button and the length of a broomstick, but it can split flesh and make even the most hardened criminal faint with the pain. The cane is probably the most dreaded form of punishment in the Penal
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    • 489 21 IN SINGAPORE, caning is meted out for murder attempts, robbery, rape, drug trafficking and vandalism. In these cases, caning is obligatory under the Penal Code. But caning is optional for offences like rioting, manslaughter, kidnap, extortion and theft and housebreaking. A 1986 survey
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 384 22  -  KEITH RICHARDS/ TALK IS CHEAP (Virgin) UPI. T l HIS could well be the album of the year. Keith Richards, the guitarist backbone of the Rolling Stones and brilliant musical director of Chuck Berry's historic comeback album, Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll, has made the statement
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    • 454 22  -  By Wong Sing Yeong HE was the Ail-American boy who dreamt of becoming an All-American footballer. Instead, he became a Hollywood actor before rising to the highest office in the United States. Even critics admit Mr Ronald Reagan is a charismatic leader who stirs up
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    • 437 23  -  By Lo Tien Yin FINGERS are crossed as the contestants of SBC Talentime get ready for the semi-finals starting on Oct 18. Twenty-four soloists, 16 vocal bands or groups and eight dance groups made the grade. For Judy Gomes, 30, a receptionist, this will be
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    • 287 24 M I OVE over, men. Let the ladies do the judging. The tables have been overturned for Manhunt '89. Who better to judge a male modelling contest than nine women? This was exactly what Metromedia Marketing the organisers of Manhunt '89 thought. The first
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    • 297 24  -  FIRST NIGHT/ By Adeline Woon Adeline Woon SOMETHING funny's going on at the Hyatt Hotel. He is Reg Varney, a British comedian with a Cockney London accent so thick you could cut it with a knife. His show winds
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    • Article, Illustration
      250 24 BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (Prince 2) MICHAEL J Fox stars as Jamie Conway, who hasn't come to terms with his wife 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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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 96 23 I HEARD IT THRU'THE GRAPEVINE. BACK TO THE 60s AT THE MUSIC ROOM, 9PM-11.30PM The era of the '60s, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 9.00pm to 11.30pm. The mood, the music and even the prices for the drinks are back to the '60s, from $4.50 only. With no cover
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  • HORIZONS
    • 1124 26 DEAR [AGGIE Dear Aggie, I HAVE not been well for the past two years. I do not know what is wrong with me, but I often feel depressed and nervous. Lately, my fears have become more intense. I find it hard to concentrate on my work.
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    • 375 26 p APAS suffer "post-baby blues" too. More men are sharing more of the joys of new fatherhood. But some, like Ken, still feel left out when mother and baby seem to have 1 i something special going on between them. Ken and Lin
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 152 28 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne I YOU NgVfcfZ J WoiJtPH'T $AY TMAT C\ *A\A£ CA2OS YOU I THINK OF AllgUStfl/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill issayi (WgArw-m a ~~~t^ann^Y Fi fh^A J'W^L George the Robot/stephen Stanley IN* A i josr nW Rafter etbp /vwsetp 1 Scur cf I A*t*W.. POSMtraq fcuTTbrJS J
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 213 31 SWIMMER Anthony Nesty was Surinam's celebrity yesterday. President Ramsewak Shankar awarded the 20-year-old swimmer the Order of the Yellow Star in a ceremony at the presidential palace and said the stadium in the Surinam capital would be renamed the Anthony Nesty Stadium. Nesty, who
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    • 244 31 AP. CANADIAN sprinter Ben Johnson, who was stripped of an Olympic gold medal after failing a drug test, has been charged with assault and dangerous use of a weapon, police said. Police said Johnson was charged yesterday, several days after a motorist claimed
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    • 326 31 Reuter. FOURTH Division Tranmere knocked out First Division soccer club Middlesbrough in the second round of the English Littlewoods Cup yesterday. Second-round, second-leg results: Bristol City 2 Oxford 0 (aggregate 6-2), Burnley 0 Luton 1 (agg 1-2), Bury 2 Everton 2 (agg 2-5), Cardiff 1 QPR 4 (agg
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    • 242 31 RACING... ...by DENNIS CHIfl LEADING trainer Teh Choon Beng has entered a strong team of 22 runners for the current Penang meeting and has a bright chance of increasing his lead in the trainers' premiership. His charges came out for work this morning and among
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  • SPORTS
    • 500 32 Loy Soo Han will hlaze a trail for Singapore sportsmen. He will take the silk road to success, via Fuzhou. He has given up his job to train full-time for the Sea Games gold next year. JUDY KHAW has the story. NATIONAL table tennis player
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    • 131 32 AFP. OLYMPIC sprint medallist Robson Caetano da Silva is threatening to quit Brazil for the United States. He will do so if his country does not build a new top-class athletics track. The 200-metre bronze-medallist in Seoul said on his return here: "I'll only stay
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    • 559 32 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL European Club men's Ist rd, Ist leg: Hageby (Swe) 100 Uudenkaupungin (Fin) 113, Cukurovaspor (Tur) 80 CSKA Sofia (Bui) 74. Men's Korac Cup: Birmingham Bullets (Brit) 84 Caja Canarias (Spa) 96. CYCLING Italian Road Race: 1 Rolf Golz (WG) shrs 7:o4min
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    • 363 33 Everybody wants to play. But only three top Asian tennis pros among a host of the continent's early applicants will be allowed in for the Singapore Open despite their late entries. ALFONSO CHAN reports. THREE out of the four wild cards kept by the organisers of
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    • 200 33  -  By Abdul Shukor THE Singapore Badminton Association will be sending three players to the World Junior Championships in Jakarta from Nov 19 to 27. The three Loh Mun Yew, 15, Tan Sian Peng, 14, and Adrian Tay, 15 recently returned from competing in the Perak
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    • 235 33 AFP, Reuter. KENYAN middle-distance runner Samson Obwocha arrived in Johannesburg on Tuesday to compete against South African athletes. Obwocha, who lives in the United States, joins 12 Americans who plan to defy the international sports boycott of South Africa. Obwocha, 5,000 m silver medallist at the 1984
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    • 310 33 Meet Suhaimi Ahmad, Singapore's new find who has impressed his team-mates and the Kiwis. Suhaimi believes in courage, fitness and agility, as SHAHIRON SAHARI discovers. SUHAIMI Ahmad, Singapore's new flanker, has a simple philosophy on how to play rugby. "You have to
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  • MALAYSIACUP
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      446 34 With just two days to go before the big first-leg quarter-final clash between Kedah and Singapore at the National Stadium, the Northern lights begin to flicker as Alor Star declares a key casualty midfielder Koet King Heyong. South of the border, the Republic is not without worries too,
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    • 454 34 WAKE up, Alor Star. It's already eight o' clock in the morning and your pavements are still not crowded. Your streets are still empty. And some lamps have not been switched off. You haven't changed, have you? You're still looking
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    • 253 35  -  By Jeffrey Low THERE will be a small scale Darulaman Drone at Kallang on Friday minus the firecrackers, the bugles, and the kompang drums. It's quite unlikely that the support for Kedah will match the decibels of the Kallang Roar. But the
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    • Article, Illustration
      321 35  -  By S. Gulam w ITH just two days to go before Kedah calls over at Kallang, the Singapore soccer team has been dealt a serious blow Hasnim Haron is ruled out with flu. Though the young midfielder turned up at the National Stadium last night, he did not
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    • 198 35 THEY are out to get him K. Kannan, that is. The Kedah players have been stung by the hotshot badly enough to cost them the Malaysia Cup and they are not about to let Kannan do it again. Last season, with both Kuala Lumpur and
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