The New Paper, 26 October 1988

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1 34 The New Paper
  • 16 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988 Met (P) 179/4/ at SO CENTS the new* paper
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 146 1 lOOpc FEE HIKE FOR HORSE OWNERS /P«e31 COLOURFUL I CHICKS FOR $4 They come in red, orange, shades of blue and green. Queenstown shopkeeper buys them from Thailand. Page 5 3rd tank afire 4ra#U FIT fSM^. a*d— I Picture/ DAVID TAN New worry* Close-up of yesterday's fire at Pulau Merlimau
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    • 33 1 WORLD It, 11, 12 TVGUIOE 17 STOCKS 112 COMICS H,Z7 D€AR AGGIE 13 FASTADS/JOBS 2s, 29 SHOWTIME 14-15 RADIO GUIDE M SHOWTIME 22-24 SPORTS 31M CENTRESPREAD If RACING 31 CENTREFOLD It MONEYWORDS I
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 459 2 LOWDOWN sales practices are on the rise in Singapore. The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) said it was getting more complaints from shoppers each month. It received 51 complaints in the six months up to last month, or an average of eight-and-a-half a month.
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    • 156 2 THE HEAD of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Mr Lim Hock San, has been elected president of the International Civil Airports Association (ICAA). He is the first person from the Asia-Pacific region to head the 650-airport organisation. Mr Lim was elected last week at
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    • 201 2 Wire services. TOP US and Soviet officials have scheduled a Paris meeting to seek a settlement of the conflict in Cambodia. Spokesmen for both sides said they would also discuss other matters that concern East Asia and the Pacific. Assistant Secretary of State Gaston Sigur will
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    • 217 2 Wire services. AUSTRALIAN writer Peter Carey has won Britain's top literary prize. With the Booker Prize, he will collect $52,500. The prize was awarded for a love story set in 19th century England and Australia about a priest and a young heiress
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    • 126 2 Wire services. TWO Norwegian doctors say they have discovered the cause of sudden infant cribdeath. Their tests show a lack of oxygen whose cause remains unknown is to blame. The findings were reported in Oslo yesterday by Drs Torleiv Rognum and Ola Saugstad, widely respected researchers. "It
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    • 92 2 THE SMELL that bothered many residents in the western parts of Singapore yesterday could be connected to a raging fire which broke out at a refinery on Pulau Merlimau in the afternoon. An Environment Ministry preliminary investigation identified the source of
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    • 530 3  -  By Ambrose Poh and Thusitha De Silva THE blaze at a refinery in an offshore island spread to a third tank containing naphtha this morning. And Singapore Petroleum Refinery officials are worried. Next to the three naphtha tanks is a tank of mogas. It is used
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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. 6.50 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.46 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 441 4 THE building of the St Michael's Primary School at Thomson Road, one of Singapore's top primary schools, will soon be torn down so a new one can go up. For the one to two years that this will take, the pupils will study at
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    • 289 4 WRITTEN Mandarin is needed as well as spoken Mandarin, an MP said on TV last night. Dr Ow Chin Hock, MP for Leng Kee, said this on an SBC forum on raising the standard of Chinese language here. He said a knowledge
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    • 203 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. child prodigy: A child prodigy is an unusually clever child, with natural ability in subjects such as music and mathematics. compere: To compere a radio or television show is
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    • 309 4 THE Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) will boycott NTUC FairPrice supermarkets from Sunday, party secretary-general Chiam See Tong said yesterday. The boycott will last six months, Mr Chiam, the MP for Potong Pasir, said. It is to protest against the NTUC's policy of
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    • 102 4 A DUTCH foundation will provide the cash to set up an early childhood resource centre for Asia here. The Regional Training and Resource Centre in Early Childhood Care and Education for Asia will be provided with $1.5 million by the Bernard Van
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    • 301 5 FOR cheep thrills, Mr Joe Ong, 29, went to Thailand to get chicks in designer colours red, orange, shades of blue, and green. Last Wednesday he put 700 of them on sale at J T Bird Shop at Commonwealth Avenue, which he runs with
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    • 165 5  -  By Angeline Song SHE was bleeding from her forehead and nose, but she could only think of her son. "Page for my son. He's a policeman. I want my son to come," Madam Liew Tai Thye, 55, kept saying in
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    • 578 6 If the Global Strategies Conference had been a contest, it's likely that industrialist Reinosuke Hara would have been voted Most Delightful Speaker yesterday. The audience might also have named banker Wong Nang Jang the Best Non-singer and Ambassador Kemal Siddique, Best Unintentional Impersonator. Ambassador Tommy Koh would
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    • 20 6 Cybernetics: THE science in which control systems in electronic and mechanical devices are studied and compared to biological systems.
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    • 346 6  -  By Irene Hoe IF law and diplomacy hadn't been Professor Tommy Koh's calling, he might well have made a career as toastmaster or conference chairman. Droll, dry and achingly funny, Singapore's Ambassador to the United States has almost stolen the show from the speakers at the
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    • 49 6 Judge for youself: Mr Kemal "Tony" Siddique, who while serving as Ambassador in Moscow, in Prof Koh's words, "gradually acquired an uncanny resemblance to Lenin" (left). "The citizens of Russia were naturally very impressed and... he was given the red carpet treatment wherever he went."
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    • 359 6  -  By Trudy Lim YES, Singapore is recognised as a good place to do business in. The workers are well-educated, financial services are easily available, and technology is up-to-date. But there are problems too. Bosses of multinational companies attending the Global Strategies Conference yesterday spoke
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    • 425 7  -  High heels and tight skirts are no deterrent for female executives among a group of employers who visit a reservist training camp, try out the firearms, clamber on board military lorries and watch a mock attack by reservist troops under a scorching sun. By Geneieve
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    • 463 8  -  By Loh Tuan Lee BEE tai mak rice noodle was never a hot favourite with adults, but after it was thought to be a possible link to the deaths of 12 children in Perak recently, it has seen a further dip in popularity.
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    • 127 8 EVERY Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane will have an electronic eye-in-the-sky by 1994 for greater safety. The computerised, US-made Traffic Alert and Anti-Collision System works on a video monitor screen in the cockpit control panel. A synthesised voice in the other plane warns the pilot when the
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    • 67 8 THE NATIONAL Trades Union Congress (NTUC) plans to set up recreation centres at several HDB estates to overcome crowded conditions at its two clubs. The Chinese-language daily newspaper Lianhe Zaobao reported this morning that the newly-elected management committee of its recreational clubs will decide where to
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • STOCKS
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      258 8 Wire services. AFTER a poor start, the indices fluctuated narrowly upwards yesterday on the London Stock Exchange. The Financial Times 30-share index closed at 1,500.9, up 1.5 points. The market had opened lower following news that Minorco's 2.9 billion pound bid for Consolidated Gold Fields had been referred to
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    • 72 8 Reuter. SHARE prices were higher in opening trade due to positive sentiment carried over from yesterday, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 91.07 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 27,512.56 after 10 minutes. Advances were led by railway/bus, auto, warehouse, oil, communications, real estate, precision instrument, shipbuilding, gas and
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    • 51 8 FT Industrials Tue 1,500.90 (1,499.40) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,173.36 (2,170.34) ST Industrial Tue 1,036.60 (1,044.47) NST Industrial Tue 1,724.47 (1,725.23) Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 2,584.53 (2,562.46) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,579.90 (1,587.20) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 27,421.49 (27,281.54) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      255 8 AFP. SHARE prices see-sawed yesterday within a narrow range on the New York Stock Exchange with the Dow Jones industrial average edging up. Overall, though, decliners narrowly outnumbered gainers. The Dow closed at 2,173.36 points, a gain of 3.02 points against Monday's close. With some 156 million shares
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 263 10 Wire services. TWENTY UN staff members have been fired and scores more are under investigation in an income tax scam. Officials said an unspecified number of senior staff members were among those being asked to explain discrepancies in returns submitted to the US Internal Revenue
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    • 45 10 Crackdown: A curfew violater in Sri Lanka faces tough questioning by a soldier in Colombo. Authorities have warned that those who ignore the curfew aimedat breaking a planned strike by anti-government Sinhalese militants risk being shot on sight. Picture/ Afp
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    • 155 10 Wire services. PERAK State Public Utilities Chairman Datuk Dr Song Yong Pheow says a rash of poisoning deaths in the Malaysian state cannot be blamed on the water supply. He said unscrupulous people were spreading "rumours and lies" that the water supplied by the Water
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    • 188 10 Wire services. THE United States has said it would oppose any Soviet move to use a shipyard next to America's Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines. A Pentagon spokesman said he was unable to confirm a report that Moscow was seeking
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    • 143 10 Wire services. FIRST LADY Nancy Reagan says the US should show less mercy to Wall Street investment bankers who buy and use cocaine. "It is often easier to make strong speeches about foreign drug lords or drug smugglers than to arrest a pair of
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    • 259 10 Wire services. INDONESIA'S ruling Golkar party has ended a five-day congress in Jakarta with the naming of a new executive board and a retired general as chairman. Former East Java Governor Wahono, known to be loyal to President Suharto, was named to head the party
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    • 230 11 Wire services. AMERICA'S radar-evading B-2 Stealth bomber will make its public debut on Nov 22 in the US. A Pentagon spokesman said the flying wing estimated to cost about $1 billion each would be rolled out of a hangar at the Northrop Corp plant
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    • 464 11 Wire services. HUNDREDS of people are feared dead in the sinking of a storm-battered ferry in the Philippines the sister ship of a vessel that sank last year with the loss of 2,000 lives. Coast Guard officials confirmed yesterday that the 2,845-tonne passenger liner, Dona Marilyn, sank
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    • 177 11 Wire services. ARCHAEOLOGISTS digging on the southern slope of Mt Zion believe they have unearthed the gate Jesus used to leave Jerusalem after the Last Supper. A volunteer team of researchers and students discovered the remains of the more than 2,000-year-old gate while
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    • 229 11 Wire services. THE Kremlin has decided it is now all right to like Leon Trotsky, long regarded as the arch-villain of Soviet history. His writings are to be issued in Moscow next year to mark the centenary of his birth, a government official said in
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    • 236 12 Wire services. IN TOKYO'S West Gotanda district, Japan's latest economic revolution is going full blast. Bright yellow signs proclaim the new NICs Shop. When the Japanese yen was cheap, Japanese consumers shunned brands from so-called newly industrialised countries such as South Korea, Hongkong, Taiwan and
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    • 67 12 Wire services. A DEFENCE lawyer says Australian police have shown racism in their case against seven Asians allegedly involved in a $74 million heroin conspiracy. Mr Chris Murphy, who is defending two of the men, failed to get a court order in Sydney to stop publication
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    • 227 12 Wire services. IRAN and Iraq will try to turn their shaky truce into a full-pledged peace when they meet in Geneva for a second time next Monday. United Nations' Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar told a news conference yesterday that he
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  • HORIZONS
    • 983 13 DEAR AGGIE AGGIE will give advice every Wednesday in this paper. Questions Aggie can't answer will be put to other experts such as doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists. Call our Hotline Plus on 734-7711, open every day from 7 am to 7 pm.
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    • 297 13 WHEN a spouse dies, it's a time of great sadness and loneliness, and an overwhelming sense of loss. When the death is unexpected, the shock can be so severe that many never really recover from it. Maria, 50, was looking forward to spending more time with
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  • Showtime
    • 618 14 The New Paper was invited to Malacca for a star-watching session last weekend. TV and Arts Editor PAULINE LOH and photographer CHOP CHWEE HUA bring you the exclusive stories and pictures on this and the opposite page. M IDNIGHT on a Monday in Malacca. Despite
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    • 341 15 Actress Xiang Qin has a constant companion her father SHE brings him travelling wherever she goes, but he prefers to stay in the background. In a rare interview, The New Paper managed to talk to the man who accompanies Hongkong actress Li Xiang Qin on her frequent trips
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    • 205 15 YAP Chin Fong has been an amateur actor for 23 years. His full-time job as public relations manager for a large corporation in Kuala Lumpur keeps him busy enough when he's not before the camera. "I have to use up my annual
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • spotlight
    • 1231 16 How do you fool a torpedo aimed at your ship in a war zone? How do you discourage planes from dropping bombs on you in the dark? The answers to these worries are in a 60-page book of tips on staying alive, issued on Sept 22 by the
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    • 49 16 Assault angles: An aircraft, approaching a target just before firing, must fly in a certain manner to deliver its weapons. The figure above shows some of the attacking flight patterns. In any night operation, the major obstacle faced by the pilot is locating and identifying ships.
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    • ATTACK AND AVOIDANCE
      • 35 16 Command-guidance missile? The position of the target and missile are continuously seen either visually or by radar, and steering orders are sent to the missile by radio or a wire.
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      • 46 16 Noiscmaker from drum: A noisemaker may be made from a dustbin and pieces of iron piping. It is towed behind the ship. The noise it creates may attract an advancing torpedo, perhaps detonating it on impact, well away from the ship.
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      • 36 16 Limpet mines: During World War 11, underwater swimmers would sneak up on their target and place limpet mines on the hull. They normally approach the ship downwind or with the tide.
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1440 17 iter' television i§yf& SCREEN M Videofashion News Teahouse in Chinatown Magnum PI j GEMS W French Flair (SBC 8,9.30 pm) Photo Play ftgjEjSay]/ (SBC 12, 7.25 pm) LIAN accidentally finds out that Jiao (SBC 5, 7.55 pm) isSH MAGNUMS is hit by that A Japanese challenge, the French that Debiao
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • spotlight
    • 1232 19 How do you fool a torpedo aimed at your ship in a war zone? How do you discourage planes from dropping bombs on you in the dark? The answers to these worries are in a 60-page book of tips on staying alive, issued on Sept 22 by the
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    • 49 19 Assault angles: An aircraft, approaching a target just before firing, must fly in a certain manner to deliver its weapons. The figure above shows some of the attacking flight patterns. In any night operation, the major obstacle faced by the pilot is locating and identifying ships.
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    • ATTACK AND AVOIDANCE
      • 35 19 Command-guidance missile! The position of the target and missile are continuously seen either visually or by radar, and steering orders are sent to the missile by radio or a wire.
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      • 46 19 Noisemaker from drum: A noisemaker may be made from a dustbin and pieces of iron piping. It is towed behind the ship. The noise it creates may attract an advancing torpedo, perhaps detonating it on impact, well away from the ship.
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      • 36 19 Limpet mines: During World War 11, underwater swimmers would sneak up on their target and place limpet mines on the hull. They normally approach the ship downwind or with the tide.
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 374 20  -  By Danny Tan IT is not easy to act out the life of a legend. And so it was with Bird, the film about the rough and colourful life of alto-sax player Charlie Parker. Twenty-seven-year-old actor Forest Whitaker, the star of the film, was often
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    • 116 20 THOMAS Larcher, 25, Austrian classical pianist, arrived in Singapore last Saturday. Today, to celebrate Austria's National Day, he will be playing at the Pavilion Inter-Conti-nental hotel. On Friday, he will be playing at a charity performance at the Singapore Labour Foundation auditorium. It is billed
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    • 327 21  -  By Vivien Chiong F ANCY going to a drama class taught by local comedians Hua Liang and Tan Tiaw Gim? You may not have a ribtickling time but you could end up as one of the new breed of local video stars. So far,
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    • 179 21 TICKETS for the Polygram 20th Anniversary Concert are not selling as well as expected. After 10 days, only about half have been sold. There are four more days to the concert this Saturday at World Trade Centre Hall 6. Tickets are on sale at
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    • Article, Illustration
      281 21 DIE HARD (Cathay cinemas) BRUCE Willis plays John McClane, a New York cop who wages a one-man war against high-tech thieves who have taken' over a high-rise building. Barefooted, bloody, sweaty and in his Rambo-style hand-me-down togs, he slowly bumps off the bad guys in a gripping performance. SHE'S
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    • 439 22  -  By Lo Tien Yin I F you come to the Singapore Dance Theatre's Second Season in November, and are in a daze about which item is on, just look for the colour code. Each item will feature one colour theme. Brahms' Sentiments will be lime
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    • 295 22  -  FIRST NIGHT/ By Lo Tien Yin Lo Tien Yin IT was a grab bag of a concert, full of music, dance, even mysticism. Featuring Japanese flautist Hidefumi Iwahana and local musician Roy Liu, the Culture Society's first show also put together a
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 152 24 Do you find the thought of being interviewed somewhat daunting? Do you have sleepless nights before the interview? This book offers some useful hints to help you prepare for an interview. It explains some important do's and don'ts, and provides an insight into the way many interviewers work and think.
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 143 24 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible" Browne soyoiftzea y AMX |i| wey-rais prwwjoST VENTRILOQD&T, ANY f &VY f FA ff^^ C HUH? YOU goop TOiWIF J waxy? AllgUStS/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGIII POMANC6' IVHAT 90 J I PeM6X4&eRA YOUNG/WAN f UNTIL\/" TUt Y"' I THg YOUNG KNOW J A PO26N TM6 PAffKlfc I
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 1625 28 RADKXSUIDE MOON News In Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Good Music, Company And Me: "00* N*"»desk <-T N/jK/y 12.05 Lunchdate: Host Jenny Teo Rediffusion invites you to take 12.30 Katharine Mansfield Stories: Sy Vy KA/V spins pop songs to entertain NOON Easy Listening your lunch break with them as Tune
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 104 29 UPI. DISGRACED Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson was yesterday ordered to stand trial on April 24 on charges of possessing a dangerous weapon and threatening a motorist. Johnson, 26, would not com- ment outside the court but his attorney, Martin Kerbel, said the sprinter would plead
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    • 217 29  -  By Shahiron Sahari NATIONAL discus record-holder James Wong makes his international return at the Asean Track and Field Championships next month with a new event the javelin. James, who served a six-month ban earlier this year, last threw the spear in an All-Com-ers meet in 1985.
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    • 149 29 RACING ...with DENNIS CHIA TRAINER Charlie Read's worst fears for Spectacular Win have been confirmed the horse will never race again. Following two X-Ray pictures taken of the American gelding after his last run here earlier this month, it was revealed that Spectacular Win had fractured his
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    • 80 29 RACEHORSE owner-members have been hit with a 100 per cent increase in membership subscription fees by the Malayan Racing Association, it was learnt this morning. The MRA increased the annual fees from $250 to $500. Mr S.M. Low, president of the Racehorse Owners
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    • 147 29 MORNING TRACKWORK GREY Javelin, who is fighting for a place in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup lineup next week, worked with great gusto at Bukit Timah this morning. The five-year-old grey was drawing away from his Worldly Wise at the end of a 600 metre
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 85 29 SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL MARATHON '88 SUNDAY 11th DECEMBER 5.30 am REGISTER NOW at the National Stadium, West Entrance (Covered car park) Weekdays (12.30pm to 8.00pm) Saturdays (9.00 am to 5.00pm) CLOSING DATE: FRI. 11 NOVEMBER '88 Entry fee $10.00 per person (inclusive of a good quality running vest). Entries submitted after
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  • SPORTS
    • 401 30 H OLDER PSV Eindhoven can expect a baptism of fire when it belatedly plunges back into European Cup soccer action today. The Dutch side begins its defence of the coveted trophy with a tough assignment against Portugal's Porto, its predecessor as champion, having had little opportunity to
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    • 196 30 UEFA CUP Hearts (Scot) v Austria Vienna (Aus), Sporting Lisbon (Por) v Real Sociedad (Spa), Lokomotiv (EG) v Napoli (Ita), Dinamo Zagreb (Yug) v Stuttgart, Ujpest (Hun) v Bordeaux (Fra), Cologne (WG) v Rangers (Scot), Juventus (Ita) v Athletic Bilbao (Spa), Velez (Yug) v Belenenses (Por), Bayem
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    • 234 30 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: RUGBY UNION British County Championship: Durham 17 Cumbria 16, Lancashire 14 Cheshire 0, North Midlands 16 Staffordshire 9, Yorkshire 9 Northumberland 20, Warwickshire 24 Leicestershire 4. Tour match in Perpignan: Argentine Pumas 24 French Roussillon Selection 15. SOCCER English 2nd Div: Birmingham
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    • 143 30 Reuter. GLENN Cockerill scored two stunning second-half goals as Southampton beat Tottenham 2-1 in an English First Division soccer match at White Hart Lane yesterday. Cockerill produced a superb volley in the 69th minute to pull Southampton back on terms. Ray Wallace had conceded an own
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    • 323 31  -  Stories/- Alfonso Chan FOR all those who thought they knew the good from the bad, so sorry. For a start, forget about the seedings. They don't give a clue about the standards among the players at the Carlsberg Singapore Men's Open now on at the
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    • Article, Illustration
      455 31 The man who last week beat tennis' strongman Slobodan Zivojinovic is here to make the Padang his playground. ALFONSO CHAN talks to Paul Chamberlin and probes his psyche v MARK these words: "I will win this tournament." This is no idle boast. It comes from a man
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    • 249 31 PRETTY boy Felix Barrientos played the hero to Anand Amritraj's villain in a dramatic three-setter one hour after he stepped out of a flight from Hawaii yesterday. "I didn't have time to get to the hotel. Everything I have is in my bag here,"
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 22 31 forlsbeitv Probably th« best beer in the world. 'Live' telecast Carlsberg Singapore Men's Open Championships '88 Saturday 29th October, Channel 12, 1.15pm.
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