The New Paper, 14 October 1988

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1988 MO (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 167 1 KALLANG ROAR NEEDS YOU Ifs showdown tonight between Singapore and Kedah likely one of the best matches in years. Jeffrey Low gives his lowdowm Your support can push team to victory. Passion counts. Page 39 'BARBERS'OF BAD REPUTE They don't cut hair. They don't give perms. These women work behind
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  • 12 1 /Page 20 Picture/ David Tan
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  • 70 1 You'll never wear one of these stones on your engagement ring. But they really are diamonds made from sewer gas. In the picture they are magnified thousands of times. It's a startling breakthrough by a U S navy scientist. The tiny crystals have great military
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 171 2 WIN $5,000 every week. Take part in Moneywords, a word puzzle which starts on Monday in The New Paper. Moneywords coupons will appear every day from Monday to Saturday and readers who fill in all the missing letters correctly can win $5,000. If there
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    • 215 2  -  By Thusitha de Silva A WOMAN found she had the "wrong number" recently when she let a man into her flat to use the phone. He turned out to be a thief. Madam Chan Mooi, 35, said the man had stood
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    • 379 2 FORMER LAW Minister E W Barker says he is finished forever with politics. But as he prepares to vacate his ministerial office at the Raffles City Tower, he says he would like to see Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew remain in the job
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    • 252 2 THE Middle Road Hospital put on The Middle Road Show at the Victoria Theatre last night. But the minds of many staff members who came were on something else. The one-and-a-half-hour show raised $9,000 for the Community Chest of Singapore. Hospital staff lent
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    • 259 2 AN ACNE drug available in Singapore under restricted use is as dangerous a cause of birth defects as thalidomide. The drug is Accutane. It causes 40 per cent of pregnant women who use it to miscarry and 25 per cent to have children with severe
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    • 22 3 To b% dwollihid: The Oxley Rise flyover, with Haw Par Glass Tower directly behind it Picture/Choo Chwee Hua
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    • 302 3  -  By Ambrose Poh DEMOLITION work on the Oxley Rise flyover begins on Monday. Experts say it will take more than half a year to topple this Goliath. The flyover rises six metres above Clemenceau Avenue at its highest point. It must be pulled down because
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 23 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon to midnight: Cloudy. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 6.52 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.48 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 507 4  -  SEAT BELTS-Help or hindrance? By Angeline Song TAXI drivers don't want to have to tangle with seat belts. In the hands of a robber, they say, the belt can be used to pin the driver to his seat, or to strangle him.
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    • 181 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. affiliated: If a shop is affiliated with a tourist board it has links with it and people trust it commercial: Commercial jazz is something that would appeal to the
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    • 340 4  -  By Michelle Oh SHOPS have heeded police warnings on fake $50 notes in circulation and are making it harder for people to dump these forgeries on them. Galeries Lafayette uses an ultra-violet scanning device to check $50 notes "because of the recent forgery reports," said
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    • 98 4 FORGED Malaysian $50 notes have also been circulating, mainly in Penang, where more than 70 cases have been reported this year. According to a report in the national daily The Star, 23 of the reports on forged Msso notes were made last month. Counterfeit notes are glossy and
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    • 427 6  -  By Ng Wan Ching MORE than 20 young women some seeking "glamour and excitement" showed up yesterday for a walk-in interview with Tradewinds Airlines. This subsidiary of Singapore Airlines begins flights to various Asean countries some time next year, and needs stewardesses. Ms Roselinah Plemping
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    • 151 6 BOTTOMS up! For one moment, it looked as though eccentrics had decided to play 'Wheelbarrow' with their vehicles. Pick-up driver Mr Toh Kia Ek, 59, had stopped his vehicle at the junction of Yishun Ave 2 and Yishun Ring Road when the lights turned red. Apparently,
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    • 301 6 "YOU'VE got the wrong person! You've got the wrong person!" Those were the frantic words of Business Times journalist Walton Morais as a group of three youths closed in on him early on Monday morning on Killiney Road. The incident happened at about
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    • 622 8  -  By Lim Phay-ling i T'S not the hawkers who are keeping customers away from the Golden Landmark shopping complex, shopkeepers there say. They say shoppers avoid the place because of some "hairdressing" salons. After a recent raid, a senior police officer said the women
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    • 143 8 T I i HE trains have come to Yishun. And this boy on the overhead bridge outside Khatib station could be wondering if it is time to give up his bicycle and take to the MRT. But such thoughts are premature. The trains
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    • 244 8  -  By Ronald Wong MADAM Ong Ai Choo is a caring mother. She usually meets her son Beng Keat where the school bus drops him off. Yesterday she couldn't make it because she was ill and disaster struck. Eight-year-old Beng Keat, a
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    • 583 10  -  By Ambrose Poh T HE radio receiver of the Republic of Sin--1 gapore Air Force (RSAF) C-130 transport plane crackled and sharp, short beeps were heard about 100 nautical miles from Miri at 7.50 pm, the night of Oct 3. To the six men who
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    • 418 10  -  By Vivien Chiong THE thermometer read 12 degrees C when they got off the plane in Kagoshima, Japan. A chilly wind made it seem even colder. But that didn't seem to bother anyone. The 40 winners of The New Paper-Jets-tream contest got a warm
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    • 325 11  -  By Irene Hoe TWENTY international racers will compete on Nov 12 and 13 in the third Singapore powerboat grand prix in Marina Bay. The race is the ninth and final leg of the Budweiser World Grand Prix Series. Apart from deciding who wins the international
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    • 150 11 A MAN stole a gold anklet worth $140 from a 22-month-old baby girl on Wednesday while she was being carried by her grandmother. The theft happened at the Commonwealth Crescent market at about 9 am. Madam Foo Meng Eng, 54, was carrying her granddaughter,
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    • 192 11 SINGAPOREAN visitors spent a whopping $198 million in Hongkong last year. Shopping took up 44 per cent of their total expenses; hotel bills 30 per cent and meals outside the hotels 11 per cent. Sightseeing took up only 7 per cent. The Hongkong
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 315 12 Wire services. THE US State Department proposes a doubling of US aid to non-communist rebels in Cambodia. The new aid, say officials, would be $21.3 million. More importantly, the increase marks an apparent turnaround in US policy. Until now, the US has offered only
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    • 43 12 Probe: US airmen use metal probes in a search for clues that might explain the crash of an Air Force cargo jet in Michigan. The shattered plane smoulders in the background. Six were killed in the accident. Picture/ Ap
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    • 232 12 Wire services. PAKISTANI opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has pledged to seek no revenge against her foes if she wins next month's elections. She made the promise yesterday as she released her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) manifesto in Karachi. She paid an emotional tribute to those who
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    • 192 12 Wire services. BOWING to public pressure, Yugoslavia's government has offered a programme of sweeping economic reform. It said salaries across the country would be freed from controls, public outlays trimmed and industry given new freedoms. The moves, announced yesterday, follow nationwide protests and strikes against
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    • 107 12 Wire services. MORE than 200 Polish tourists defected to West Germany when their ferry docked in the port of Travemunde. The Poles arrived yesterday aboard the ferry Silesia, which stopped at Travemunde during a cruise. This brings to 2,284 the number of Polish tourists
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    • 510 13  -  By William L Chaze FOREIGN EDITOR A NEW Indian opposition group aims to manage what has eluded most others. It hopes to subdue personal vanity among leaders long enough to mount a united challenge to the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty. The odds against Janata Dal the
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    • 46 13 Saved: A 24-hour general strike called by Peru's communist-led labour union was only partly effective. But it turned Lima into a tense city. Here, a bomb squad explodes a bomb in the middle of a Lima street. No one was injured. Picture/Reuter
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    • 179 13 Wire services. MOST Israelis favour a land-for-peace deal with neighbouring Arab countries. This is the main finding of a survey sponsored by the US-based Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and released in Jerusalem yesterday. Sixty-five per cent of those polled were willing to give
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    • 120 13 Wire services. MORE THAN 100 prominent Soviet writers seek Kremlin permission to form a new political group. The group, calling itself the Moscow Tribune, has urged the government to release all political prisoners and roll back recent orders restricting demonstrations. Its members include
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    • 221 13 Wire services. IN YET another retreat from West-ern-style reforms, China plans to freeze or set ceilings on prices of many goods. The aim is to stem inflation. The latest move, reported by the official Xinhua news agency yesterday, was the first official sign that Beijing
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  • WORLDTODAY/STOCKS
    • 239 14 Wire services. A TOP aide to President Corazon Aquino has described the Philippine officer corps as mostly a gang of criminals. Writing in a Manila newspaper, the President's chief speechwriter, Mr Teodoro Locsin, said that only the Marines have avoided corruption. "By and large, officership
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    • Article, Illustration
      252 14 AFP. SHARES rose on the London stock market yesterday. The Financial Times 30share index closed 16 points up at 1,487.9. The London market showed good direction despite announcement of an increase in salary rises and a worsening of the US trade deficit. A firm opening on Wall Street coupled
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    • 162 14 Wire services. AMERICAN hunger for foreign goods has pushed its monthly trade gap to a record $24.8 billion. The figures for August, the latest available, reversed a dramatic fall just one month earlier the lowest levels of imports in four years. The bad news
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    • 171 14 Wire services. MERRILL Lynch, one of the world's major brokerage and investment houses, reports a 66.4 per cent plunge in net earnings for the third quarter. The company put third-quarter net earnings at $131.2 million, against $290.2 million for the
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    • 105 14 Wire services. OVER-SEXED salmon are creating havoc in the placid rivers of western Ireland. Specially bred specimens have turned into amorous tail-waggers, escaping from sea cages to mate with wild cousins. This threatens salmon genetics that took thousands of years to evolve.
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    • 88 14 Reuter. SHARE prices were higher in opening trade in the Tokyo Stock Exchange after Wall Street rose overnight. The rise occured despite news of a larger-than-expec-ted U.S. August trade shortfall overnight, brokers said. "It's not a good number, but the fact that New York didn't collapse is good for
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    • 51 14 FT Industrials Thu 1,487.9 (1,471.90 Dow Jones Average Thu 2,133.36 (2,126.24 ST Industrial Thu 997.21 (1,004.18 NST Industrial Thu 1,676.76 (1,684.15 Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 2,561.76 (2,551.86 Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,540.80 (1,543.80 Nikkei Stock Average Thu 27,273.30 (27,409.37) Figure* in bracket* refer to thoee of the previous trading
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      256 14 Wire services. WALL Street stocks advanced on Thursday despite a trade report showing a 29 per cent increase in the August deficit. But the dollar's weakness knocked share prices from their highs. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 7.12 points at 2,133.36. It had been up more
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 518 15  -  By Lim Phay-ling YOU don't have to taxi out to the wilds of the industrial estates in Hunghom, Kowloon, to find the best factory outlet buys in Hongkong. Some of the best bargains in designer clothes meant for export to the United States and Italy
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    • 95 15 DO remember to compare prices first before buying. DO try on clothes and always check them thoroughly before you pay. Factory outlet clothes have been marked down in the first place because they are either seconds or damaged. DO shop at stores which carry the HKTA's familiar red
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    • 288 15 WEEKENDBROWSER Retailers, If you have a promotion, sale or weekend special you'd like readers to know about, tell The Weekend Browser. This column will appear in The New Paper every Friday together with the latest shopping news. Write to The Weekend Browser, The New Paper,
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  • Showtime
    • 540 16  -  By Terry Tan OUR LONDON REPORTER THE Village People burst onto the pop scene in 1977 like a summer storm. They poured out hit after hit In the Navy, Macho Man, You Can't Stop the Music. In fact, the liberating YMCA became a cult song of 1979
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    • 251 16 IN popland these days it seems old stars don't fade away. They just return to the limelight. Take Tina Turner. She found some success with abusive husband Ike in the 60s. Then they split. She was reduced to playing small lounges. But in 1984 she released
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    • 423 17  -  By Karen Goh IF you like fusion jazz, you're going to enjoy Faces Places. Jeramzee's new album will appeal to those who have always found jazz hard going and inexplicable. Faces Places is commercial jazz a mix of rhythms and jazz of the
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    • 171 17 AP VETERANS and remakes dominate the British record charts this week. Bobby McFerrin is the big surprise hit with his Don't Worry Be Happy shooting up to top the British pop singles chart. His catchy a cappella number has been boosted no doubt by
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  • spotlight
    • 437 18 Heartstrings '88 expects to raise more than $3.8 million in one night's show of compassion and charity. This is the first outdoor show and probably the biggest, with about 100,000 expected to turn up at Marina Square. GENEIEVE KWEK gives you the lowdown, while BRENTON
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    • 237 18 THEIR own heartstrings pulled them towards the Community Chest. Two volunteers became full-time staff with the Chest for at least a week to help Heartstrings '88. Mrs Elaine Lim and Mr Lau Cher Kee are among 1,500 volunteers working hard for
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    • 239 18 PARTING with hardearned money is hard for companies and organisations. That's what the co-chair-man of the fund-raising committee, Mr Mah Bow Tan, found out in his efforts to help the Community Chest. "It's hard to convince people that there is a need for funds
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    • 231 18 THIS family cares. Mr Shane Lau and his family have little time together, but they share it with the less fortunate. They spend weekends helping the Community Chest sort out forms, brochures, booklets and folders for Heartstrings '88. For Mr Lau, 41, charity is a habit
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      150 18 10.30 am Heartstrings Car nival/Pasar malam: 20 games stalls, four kiddie rides, at least 60 pasar malam stalls. Snarity Corner: Donations corner and souvenir section selling charity seals, t-shirts and cards. "Vanishing food" Fair: 25 stalls selling items such as kueh tutu, ting ting candy. 5.30 pm Flag-off of
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    • 330 18 WALKING for long periods under the sun is no joke. If you are a beginner, check with your doctor to see if you are medically fit for the walk. Dress defensively to prevent getting heat-stroke, dehydration or sore feet. FOOTWEAR Wear proper-fitting
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    • 441 21 Heartstrings '88 expects to raise more than $3.8 million in one night's show of compassion and charity. This is the first outdoor show and probably the biggest, with about 100,000 expected to turn up at Marina Square. GENEIEVE KWEK gives you the lowdown, while
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    • MINDS BEHIND THE MATTER
      • 233 21 THEIR own heartstrings pulled them towards the Community Chest. Two volunteers became full-time staff with the Chest for at least a week to help Heartstrings '88. Mrs Elaine Lim and Mr Lau Cher Kee are among 1,500 volunteers working hard for others. Mrs Elaine Lim
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      • 239 21 PARTING with hardearned money is hard for companies and organisations. That's what the co-chair-man of the fund-raising committee, Mr Mah Bow Tan, found out in his efforts to help the Community Chest. "It's hard to convince people that there is a need for funds
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      • 231 21 THIS family cares. Mr Shane Lau and his family have little time together, but they share it with the less fortunate. They spend weekends helping the Community Chest sort out forms, brochures, booklets and folders for Heartstrings '88. For Mr Lau, 41, charity is a habit
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    • Article, Illustration
      149 21 10.30 am Heartstrings Carnival/Pasar malam: 20 games stalls, four kiddie rides, at least 60 pasar malam stalls. Sharity Corner: Donations corner and souvenir section selling charity seals, t-shirts and cards. "Vanishing food" Fair: 25 stalls selling items such as kueh tutu, ting ting candy. 5.30 pm Flag-off of walkathon
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    • 330 21 WALKING for long periods under the sun is no joke. If you are a beginner, check with your doctor to see if you are medically fit for the walk. Dress defensively to prevent getting heat-stroke, dehydration or sore feet. FOOTWEAR Wear proper-fitting
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1915 19 SCREEN M Growing I I WorM of Survival Friday at the Movies GEMS W Broadway Bound M Paradise Ploughed Highlander A W (8.30 (10.35 pm, SBC 5) David Bellamy examines the AN action-packed fantasy j >j Cameron) this week. impact of new pine forests on the adventure. The myth begins
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 334 22  -  Stories/ Lim Swee Hong G OT money also cannot buy." This is what some suppliers are saying about hairy crabs this year. Mr Richard Low, the owner of Hong Food Supplier, importers of hairy crabs, says many of the crustaceans have already been snatched up by the
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    • 482 22 HAIRY crabs are eaten steamed and washed down with ginger tea. WHERE TO BUY THEM: Kreta Ayer Market: Crabs ($7 each) at Wang Kun Ji (Te1:222 7017). Available only on Saturday. Cold Storage Centrepoint: Crabs of at least 170g each are sold for $11.50 each.
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    • WEEKENDBITES
      • 50 22 LOW-CALORIE gourmet dinners need not be fattening. Not when you dine at La Brasserie Georges, Le Meridien Singapour. Most of the food will be grilled or steamed and little or no oil will be used. Available from Oct 17 to Dec 31 at a la carte prices.
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      • 90 22 THE chefs of the three food outlets at Marina Mandarin Singapore have cooked up nine original dishes for an in-house competition. Diners can taste them at the House of Blossoms, Brasserie Tatler and Ristorante Bologna and vote what they think is the best dish. Their votes carry 30
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      • 69 22 FROM tomorrow, you and a partner can dine on Teochew muay (broth) at Tivoli Coffeehouse at Amara Hotel, while paying for one only. The offer is made for a buffet spread that includes kangkong with dried shrimps, steamed salted fish with chilli and garlic and salted
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      • 40 22 LUNCH in a hotel without paying service and cess charges. Brannigan's at Hyatt Regency offers fish and chips and hotdog lunches at $5.50 nett. Chicken and chips are at $6.50 nett. Lunch time is from 11am to 2.30pm.
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      • 53 22 QUICKIE Lunch Cherry Garden at The Oriental Singapore serves up quick lunches for people in a hurry. There is a choice of two set menus at $36++ for a minimum of two diners. Menus are changed once every two weeks. A mix of Sichuan and Hunan
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      • 68 22 REGULARS of the good-value steak dinners at Hubertus Grill can look forward to the black pepper steak this month. The steak prime US sirloin comes with buttered rice, grilled tomato and a salad. Portions are generous, enough for a hearty diner. Considering that you will dine in posh
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 338 23  -  By Ronald Wong Singaporeans looking for bargains in Bangkok should rush straight from the airport to the Chatuchak weekend market. They'll find 5,000 stalls there, selling pretty much everything that's grown, made or bred under the sun in these parts. And when shopping gets
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    • 19 23  -  By! David Brazil Compass Points is a new weekly column to inform you of holiday happenings and news.
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      47 23 BATAM appeals to more and more Singaporeans. So, now there's a glossy new booklet just published on the island's attractions, plus those of the other Riau Islands. It's free from the Indonesian Tourist Promotion Office, 10 Collyer Quay, #12-03 Ocean Building, S'pore 0104, Tel: 534-2837.
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    • 43 23 FESTIVALS coming up that may interest the Singapore traveller include the Danau Toba Festival in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Based at Parapat, on the northern shores of Lake Toba. This is a water-sports-based series of events running from Oct 25 to 29.
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    • 45 23 A NEW part of China will soon be opening up for tourism. Hainan Island is now planning a major tourist development to come on stream by 1992. It will centre on the southern end of the province, the new Sanya economic zone.
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    • 64 23 THERE'S a new Sarawak package holiday on the market, based on two Holiday Inns, one on the banks of the river Sarawak and the other on Damai Beach, by the sea. The package includes a safari to an I ban longhouse. It is on sale through Singapore agents
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 342 26  -  SBC to screen first of a 28-part serial on Oct 30 By Griselda Loo THIS has been a right royal year for reel emperors. First, there was Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor. This film was on the life of China's last monarch, Pu Yi
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    • 253 26  -  PREVIEW By Pauline Tan c HRISTOPHER Lambert's mesmerising eyes will charm rmore fans tonight in Highlander, this week's blockbuster movie from SBC. The adventure begins at 10.35 pm over Channel 5. He plays the immortal warrior, MacLeod, who is tracked by his arch-enemy Kurgan (Clancy
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    • 275 27  -  REVIEW/bv Sonja Tan BRUCE WiUiB reportedly got a cool $10 million to play John McClane, a New York Police Department detective in Die Hard. The film, to be shown at midnight at Cathay and Kreta Ayer People's Theatre, is based on Roderick Thorpe's novel,
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    • 315 27  -  REVIEW/ By Toh Hai Leong FILMS such as Red Sorghum, Horse Thief and others from China's Xi'an Film Studio have earned critical acclaim at major film festivals in Tokyo, New York, Hongkong and Cannes. These films were made by the new generation of graduates
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      286 27 SHE'S HAVING A BABY (Prince 1) SHE'S Having a Baby looks at Jake's (Kevin Bacon) frustrations and fears in the first years of his marriage to 'mate-for-life' Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern). Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.45, 9.15 pm. SURRENDER (Orchard) MICHAEL CAINE is a successful writer who has
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    • 123 27 UPI. IF all those wild theories were true and Elvis Presley really were alive, he would become a grandfather in the spring. Lisa Marie Presley, 20, who was married just last week to musician Danny Keough, 23, at a Church of Scientology ceremony, is expecting a baby
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    • 83 28 Sin-depth reports on sensitive issues, common fears, and the latest outrage. COME DARK Revealing write-ups on famous (and infamous) personalities. Also, shopping tips. Travel views. Fashion news. Gossip. Updates on music, movies and television. All things the working girl likes, and likes to know more of. A wealth of knowledge.
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 1783 29 RADIOGUIDE w§gi|f' I'M i— emihhliU'imwi /feAZ NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Good Music, Company and Mo: NOON Newsdesk Ny fy\S\Z 12.05 Liinchdato: Join Anita Hari A lunchtime musical treat to 12.30 Country Stylo: David Allan fl N*X Chandra for an entertaining af- NOON Easy Listening: The 101
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    • 196 30 large I nP HRI group of I RV«Jr 437,000 potential I who said they would I read' The New Paper. I (Prelaunch Survey, November 1987). I Recruit effectively withTast Ads Our Appointments Classified Section The New Paper, Singapore's newest IHBSIBfI FYTnFF*Vi^FT??! English weekday noon tabloid, delivering informative and easy-reading news
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  • SPORTS/RACING
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      151 32 AFP, Reuter. THE Spanish football federation yesterday banned Real Madrid's West German international Bernd Schuster for two matches for violence. Schuster was sent off last Sunday while playing against Real Zaragoza after he fought with two opponents. Referee Juan Brito, at 25 the youngest in the Spanish league, said
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    • 144 32 Reuter. THE World Cup soccer qualifier between England and Sweden at Wembley on Wednesday has decimat--1 A Ed tomorrow's League programme. Only three of the 10 fixtures remain but two of the top three clubs, Millwall and Coventry, play each other. Second-placed Millwall is certain to
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    • 163 32 Reuter. TELE Santana, twice in charge of Brazil's World Cup soccer squad, is to sign as head coach of Flamengo on Monday for a record-breaking salary. Club officials said yesterday they hoped the highlv-reepected Santana would revive Flamengo's ailing fortunes in this season's League Championship. He
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    • 177 32 AFP. LITTLEWOODS Cup favourite Liverpool is to meet in-form Arsenal in the outstanding tie of the third round. It is a repeat of the 1987 final when Arsenal beat the Merseysiders 2-1. Arsenal also reached the final last year, when it lost a thrilling match
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    • 288 32  -  ##RACING... ...by DENNIS CHIA MUCH More, winner of the Batu Gantong Stakes over 1700 metres in Penang in May, is regaining his winning form and will make his presence felt in the Class 2 Div A race on Sunday. After doing pacework for the first
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    • 109 32 Race 1: Restricted Terms Horses Div B 1200 m (2.15pm): Constancy, Mennel, Story Teller ll.Tabilay, Mikamillion 11. Race 2: Class 2 Div A 1700 m (2.50pm): Rock N Roll, Joyful Jake, Tong Lam, On Schedule, Dallas Cowboy IV. Race 3: Restricted Terms Horses Div D 1200 m (3.20
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    • 505 32 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON English Open Men's singles 2nd rd: Eddy Kurniawan (Indo) bt Steve Butler (Brit) 17-16, 13-18, 1511; Jens-Peter Nierhoff (Den) beat Permadi (Indo) 15-3, 11-15, 18-17; Lius Pongoh (Indo) beat Ulf Jonsson (Swe) 15-6, 15-4; Richard Mainaky (Indo) bt Pelupessy (Hoi) 15-6,
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  • SPORTS
    • 175 33 RAIN, rain go away, Carlsberg Singapore Open wants to play. The heavens have been opening regularly on Singapore's most famous tennis championship over the years. In 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985 the finalists were declared joint champions after rain prevented play on the last day.
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      167 33  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan WATCH out for Shane Barr at the Carlsberg Singapore Open from Oct 24-30. The 18-year-old Queenslander has been top-seeded and is drawn to meet defending champion Steve Guy, of New Zealand, in the final of the 32-man main singles draw. Guy, 198 th in
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    • 335 33  -  By Alfonso Chan LOCAL golfing stars Lim Swee Wah, M. Murugiah, and Bill Fung are expected to snatch the glory from a foreign field of 21 pros coming for the Singapore Professional Golfers' Association championship at Jurong Country Club from Oct 19-22. The
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    • 58 33 Peter Teravenien (US), Robert Michaels (US), Kyi Hla Han (Burma), Chan Han (Burma), Alan Murray (Australia), Kel Llewellyn (Australia), K Hoshino, Chiba Akira, Nobusoke Aida (all from Japan), S. Kamphon, A. Chintara, D. Ruangkit, S. Senaphrom, S. Wiratchant, T. Wiratchant, S. Meesawat, S. Banjubdee, S. Noparat, Somsak
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    • 103 33 FANCY a sporting kind of holiday? Take part in Pangkor Island's round-the-island half marathon on Nov 25-27 and you could come away fit and, maybe, rich. TTiere are three sections, the women's, veteran men and the men's open, to be held on Nov 25, 26,
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  • MALAYSIACUP
    • 459 34 It'll be red and yellow at the Merdeka Stadium tonight. Klang Valley has been gripped by soccer fever and at least 45,000 of them are expected to cheer Selangor to victory over Kelantan, S. GULAM captures the mood before the big kickoff KLANG Valley is under the
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    • 298 34 DOLLAH Salleh is still as good as ever. He was sidelined through suspension and had to suffer the mental agony of having to go through court proceedings to earn the right to play. But if Kelantan thinks the long ban has dented his array of
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    • 188 34 FOR sheer confidence, there's probably no one in the Malaysia Cup to match Mazlan Harun, the no-holds-barred Selangor team manager. Everyone had written off the 25-time champion side as a has-been. It was widely believed Selangor would fail to make
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    • 576 35 Penang soccer fans, their minds still fresh with the memory of July's ferry terminal tragedy, are hoping that the return of the triumphant times of 1974 will at least help toheal their wounds. SHAHIRON SAHARI reports. LIKE the bunch of professionals they almost are, the players of defending
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    • 351 35 STILL very much in the Penang public consciousness is the Butterworth ferry terminal tragedy of July 31 in which more than 30 people died and about 800 were injured. As local bus-driver Ong Wee Chai said: "Although not
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    • 287 35  -  By Abdul Shukor NINETY minutes across the South China Sea, the time it takes to complete a football match, lies Sarawak, Land of the Kenyalang (Hornbills), often associated with the Dayaks but never with football. Not until now anyway. Since
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    • 426 37  -  Jeffrey Low HOME ground versus flying spirits, composure versus frenzy. Which is stronger, nobody knows. Which will triumph in the end, even the experts can't tell. That is the essence of true football, the essence of sport. If there's a football game played by two teams who dearly
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    • 206 37  -  By Abdul Shukor YOU'RE in the back seat of the car. Singapore coach Seak Poh Leong is the driver behind the steering wheel. And he speaks the way he drives controlled, precise and tactful. But what goes on in his mind? Your guess
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  • UPDATE
    • 832 38 ►Clntrest&e 0 AUSTRALIAN PIANIST. Roger Woodward plays Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra will perform a symphony by the Russian composer Shostakovich Choo Hoey conducts. Victoria Concert Hall. 8.15 pm. Tickets at $4, $7. SIO and $15 from Victoria Concert
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    • 15 38 CENTRESTAGE: Australian pianist OUT AND ABOUT: Indian fashion show COMING UP: Choir audition
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    • 109 38 Animal crackers! It's a do g*s life. And a donkey's, a cat's and a rooster's as they travel to Bremen to become musicians. Watch The Four Musicians of Bremen today, put on by Lille Kartofler Figure Theatre. This German group will use soft toys to tell
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