The New Paper, 3 November 1988

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    12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, IMS MO m in/«/M SO CENTS
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      140 1 USSR MYSTERY: KIDS GO BALD Mystery disease makes children's hair fall out in Chernobyl region. Two or three are warded every day for hair loss and disturbed nervous systems. Total now is 82. Doctors deny sickness caused by the nuclear accident in 1986 that sent radioactive fallout over much of
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      63 1 LOCAL QMB SOCCER WESrm DEAD? flISHdl NO. say fans answering our Question of the Week. YES, says the FAS. Dead or alive, fans L Xt t want Fandi (foreground) and Jf 4w other fixes Page 34 M WORLD 9-11,13 STOCKS 13 SHOWTIME 14,15, 22,23, 25 CENTRESPREAD 16 TV GUIDE 17
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    Lock icon HOTCHA!
    26 1 Singapore's own Edmond Wong and May Chan (left) sweeping to title in novice Latin category at last night's international ballroom dancing championships. Page 14 pSure/JOH^AN
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon USSR mystery: Kids going bald
      262 2 m vui ij do Wire services. A MYSTERY disease is making children's hair fall out in the Ukrainian town of Chernovtsi. Doctors deny it is an aftereffect of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, 450 km away. That explosion and fire, the
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      Lock icon Write way to safe sex
      50 2 Novel: In these days of the Aids scare, ideas to promote safe sex never seem to run dry. The latest a ball point pen with condoms inside. Creator Remo Way of Switzerland aisplays his brainchild during the ideas-inventions-novelties exhibition in Nuremberg, West Germany. Picture/ AFP
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      Man fined on two charges of misconduct
      133 2 POLICE thought it was bad enough that Mr Lin Chunnan was beating his wife. When he also began urinating in the car park before their very eyes that was too much. He wound up in court on two charges of misconduct. The Chinese-lan-guage
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      Lock icon Fishy tale from the past
      52 2 Ancient This 85-kg fish, at 1.84 m "taller" than most men, has a very long, long past It's a member of the Coelacanth family, a species that has been around since dinosaurs roamed the earth. The fish was captured off Comoro Island in the Indian
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      A US language problem
      137 2 THE US election campaign is creating a language problem. Like, what do you call the man that all the polls agree will be the winner even though the American people don't vote until next week? As humourist Russell Baker writes in the New York Times: "We
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      Sorry
      61 2 ON TUESDAY we reported that previously home buyera were allowed to take out only 80 per cent of the cost of their homes from the CPF. This is wrong. Previously, home buyers could use their CPF savings to pay for 80 per cent of the property's valuation. On Nov
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      Lock icon Wave of executions in Iran discovered
      141 2 NYT A UN report said today that serious human rights violations that include a wave of executions of political prisoners are continuing in Iran. It said the killings began after after Teheran accepted a cease-fire in the war with Iraq. This was mainly against
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      Lock icon Seeing red — and green
      544 3  - Seeing red and green Stories/ Geneieve Kwek T 1 1 HE large number of traffic lights on Singapore roads are making some motorists see red. But pedestrians are not complaining. There are too many traffic lights for a smooth drive these days, said many of the 20 motorists interviewed by
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      Eight sets of lights at this stretch
      215 3 BEDOK North Road is a motorist's frustration and a pedestrian's delight. There are eight sets of traffic lights along this 3-km stretch of road. The road starts at the junction of New Upper Changi Road and ends at the Pan Island Expressway. "It's
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      30 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 6.50 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.46 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Restaurants warned on fake shark's fin
      295 4 NO point in restaurants passing off phoney shark's fin as the real stuff any more. Government vets now have fast and simple ways of telling the difference. And if restaurants think they can get away with their sneaky tricks, they'll land in big trouble.
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      $3,000-plus without even going to school
      291 4 OF the high'income group of more than 55,000 people who earned more than $3,000 a month last year, about 560 never even went to school. Another 1,041 did not even pass the primary school leaving examination, according to the Labour Force Survey of Singapore
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      Caresses cost man $530
      119 4 A 52-YEAR-OLD cook was walking down Kim Pong Road in Tiong Bahru when a plump woman approached him. Mr Chan Pak Chin was led by the woman to a stairway in Blk 30 Kim Pong Road. There the woman told Mr Chan she was a prostitute
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      PM arrives in Christchurch
      75 4 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore arrived in Christchurcn yesterday for a six-day visit to New Zealand. After a holiday at the resort town of Queenstown, he flies on to Wellington for talks with New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange on Monday. Mr Lange said
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      Just amazing; callers ask: 'What's up?'
      408 4  -  By Lo Tien Yin THE Amazing FM Zoo did an amazing thing yesterday. It disappeared from the radio waves for about 30 minutes. And that brought an amazing reaction from Singapore fans. Dozens began calling the Batam Island-based station to find out who pulled
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      GLOSSARY
      202 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. badgered: If a person badgered someone, he repeatedly asked that person questions to find out something. civil rights: Civil rights refer to the rights that citizens of a country
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      Lock icon Move over sweetie, here comes a cookie
      342 5  -  By Lim Swee Hong M OVE over zangri. Here comes a cookie. Biscuits are getting just as popular at this time of the year as the traditional zangri and jelabi orange flour coils filled with syrup. Why biscuits? "I buy these for my
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      Tie up with foreigners for big jobs, builders told
      216 5 SINGAPORE builders must tie up with big foreign contractors if they hope to get a bite of major overseas projects. Most will have to be content being just subcontractors, Mr Chow Kok Fong, general manager of the Construction Industry Development Board,
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      Conference on risk management
      104 5 RUNNING a business is a risky business. But there are ways of protecting your interests against financial losses of all kinds. It's called risk management And it is the subject of a two-day conference opened this morning by the Insurance Commissioner, Mr Law Song Keng. The
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      S'pore keeps strict checks on flu virus
      275 6  -  By Chitra Rajaram s AMPLES of the Singapore influenza virus are regularly sent to the US and Britain. 1 The samples are sent to the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta in the US and similar centres in Britain. "This is to check
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      Singapore-born scientist pioneers test
      213 6 A SINGAPORE-BORN scientist has helped discover a test for the beffTing non-A or non-B hepatitis virus croup. The test was pioneered by Mr Qui Lim Choo, who was born in Singapore, and Mr Michael Houghton at Chiron Corporation hi California. It took them two years of
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      Record car sales driving dealers glum
      123 6 NEW car sales reached record heights last month, but Singapore's car dealers are far from happy. They feel it's "panic-buy-ing", brought on by fears of higher car taxes. And they soon expect a slump, especially if the Government acts to curb the number of
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      Pride in work 'should be part of national ideology'
      289 6 PRIDE in our country and our work and a "no-compromise" attitude to quality should be part of Singapore's national ideology. That's what Mr Tan Chin Nam said yesterday. He is the general manager of the Economic Development Board. u He was
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      Man stabs wife twice, then jumps
      192 6 "NO ONE really talked to my grandfather. All my aunts and uncles did not get along with him. "Even my father, who was the only one who could talk to him, argued with him recently." Kumar s/o Thurairaj, a 15-year-old secondary school student, was
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      Lock icon 'Zinc barrier' for slipway
      329 7  -  By Trudy Lim T I I HE two ends of the Central Expressway, currently under construction, will finally meet. Wnrlr has rpsiimpH nn thp Tv urn atis resumed on uie section from Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 across Yio Chu Kang Road. It had been delayed
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      Sharp rise in visitors
      172 7 THERE has been a hefty increase in the number of Japanese and European tourists visiting Singapore this year. In the first nine months, the number of visitors from Europe grew by a third and from Japan by a quarter. Many British visitors also stopped over here
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      Booked to the last resort
      221 8  -  By Loh Tuan Lee 'F SCHOOL holiday time is mating you think only now of a Singapore holiday resort, t you're already too late. Most chalets and holiday camps have been booked solid since October, except for the campsite at the East Coast. To make
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      'Hot' cash lands two in trouble
      225 8 TWO relatives of a former office attendant who pulled off a $1.2 million computer fraud have been fined. They tried keeping $300,000 of the ill-gotten cash. Tay Chuan Tin, 53, was fined $5,000 for keeping $100,000. Lee Jin Ghee, 33, was fined $10,000 for
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      5,000 to get pay rise
      83 8 PAY rises averaging 8 to 10 per cent have been negotiated for about 5,000 workers in 100 service-sector companies. Mr John De Payva said yesterday the increases were spelt out in new agreements between the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers Union and the companies. He
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      Picked up for stealing pick-up ride
      167 8 A YOUNG man who did not have enough money to take a cab home used a pick-up instead. But it didn't belong to him. Lim Cheng Yong Lim, 21, pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing the $3,000 vehicle. It belongs to Mr Lee Chee Yong,
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      Lock icon Disabled sit for spoken English exam
      321 8 A HOME for the disabled has fielded candidates for an English speech exam for the first time. Five persons from the Singapore Cheshire Home sat for the Spoken English for Speakers of Other Languages exam yesterday. The exam is conducted by the Trinity College
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      191 7 |T|N|T| Skypak International Express yf BONUS CARD OCTOBER WINNERS Results of TNT Skypak Bonus Card Lucky Draw held on 31 October 1988 IST PRIZE SECURITY PACIFIC ASIAN BANK LTD Philips 14" colour TV Abdul Karim Bin Ahmad 2ND PRIZE SUMITOMO BAKELITE SINGAPORE PTE LTD Racing Bicycle Alice Wong 3RD PRIZE
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon A cage he calls home...
      65 9 Small WOrld: A 2m-by-l m bunk surrounded by wire mesh that is home for Mr Choi Ka-ming. His quarters mirror Hongkong's housing problem. Mr Choi, 64, is one of some 700 "caged men" who live on the crowded Kowloon peninsula. Most are old, penniless and
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      Lock icon Palestinians serve warning
      320 9 Wire services. PALESTINIANS say the strong showing by right-wing parties in Israel's elections could fuel a fiercer rebellion in the occupied territories. The warning came as Israel's two major political parties stepped up their rival efforts to form the country's 23rd government by wooing the smaller religious
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      Lock icon USSR to lift ban on Hebrew
      184 9 Wire services. THE teaching of Hebrew, once treated as a crime, will soon be allowed in the Soviet Union. An official of the World Jewish Congress told reporters of the change in Soviet policy after talks with high-level officials in Moscow. The group's president,
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      Lock icon A mountain of rubbish at Everest
      175 9 Wire services. THE base camp at Mount Everest, site of many historic triumphs, looks more like a garbage dump these days. Tin cans, paper and plastic packaging, glass bottles and drug syringes lie alongside blood-stained tissues and cotton wool on the ground. And the
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      Lock icon UK may recruit more women for soldiers
      106 9 Wire aorvicug. WOMEN and Gurkha warriors may be the answer to an expected shortage of soldiers for Britain in the 90s. The British army faces a sharp reduction in the pool of new recruits due to a falling birth rate. "One option would
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      Lock icon Dolphins die, trained to kill
      282 10 Wire services. DOLPHINS are being trained by the US Navy to kill. But animal rights activists say the training is killing the dolphins, instead. They want it all stopped. The story of alleged abuse broke in a Seattle, Washington, newspaper. It quoted former trainers in
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      Lock icon Journey to the other world
      41 10 Sombre: Mexicans in skull masks parade the streets of Mixquic to symbolise the journey of souls to their final resting place. Yesterday was the Day of the Dead an important celebration in the country. Picture/ REUTER
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      Lock icon Prisoners released as Algeria go to polls
      238 10 Wire services. THE voting on sweeping reforms has begun in Algeria and the government is releasing hundreds of riot prisoners for the occasion. Nearly 700 prisoners arrested during last month's riots were set free yesterday. The government has promised to let go 800
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      Lock icon Japan wants conjugal day holiday
      98 10 Wire services. JAPANESE men should take their wives out for a treat more often, the Tokyo government views. To encourage this, it proposes a Conjugal Day holiday. "Japanese middle-aged men find it hard to take their wives out they're embarrassed," said Mr Osamu Nai- to,
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      Lock icon 'Thalidomide warning' doctor a 'fraud'
      138 10 Wire services. THE doctor who alerted the world to the dangers of the drug thalidomide has been found guilty of scientific fraud. An independent inquiry in Sydney said Dr William Mcßride deliberately falsified the results of a 1980 experiment on rabbits. Dr Mcßride, 61, immedi-
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      Lock icon Threat places Seoul on alert
      257 11 Wire services POLICE in South Korea are on full alert today due to a student threat to raid former President Chun Doohwan's house. About 4,000 policemen ring Mr Chun's house in a fashionable residential district in Seoul. The students claimed to have organised "save-the-nation suicide
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      Lock icon Moral reaction to Aids fear
      155 11 Wire services. BRITONS worried about the spread of Aids increasingly tend to condemn homosexuality and favour stricter morals, a report says. The report said the shift in attitudes probably is a reaction to the rise of the deadly disease. These findings were part of a
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      Lock icon Poster protest
      41 11 JilHmum riot Thirteen prisoners wen killed during s two-day riot by inmates at the Frei Caneca jail in Brazil Above, those who survived the violence sit cramped in protest to back their demands that prison conditions be improved. Picture/AFP
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      Lock icon Millionaire posts bail for Imelda
      326 11 Wire services. A TOBACCO heiress in the United States put up $10 million to bail former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos out of the clutches of the law. But Mrs Marcos is still not happy. She thought just being in court should have been enough.
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      Lock icon Jakarta to give equal status to East Timor
      183 11 Wire service*. INDONESIA plans to grant the annexed former Portuguese colony of East Timor the same status as its other provinces. Official sources in Jakarta had earlier confirmed that eight of East Timor's 13 districts, situated west of the capital of Dili
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      59 9 THE NEW PAPER FUJI I QfflS? I CONTEST Week 4 Results The answer is 0 A 100 Fuji Quicksnaps and 20 "The New Paper" T-shirts have been won! Paulina Selamat ICNo: STOHM/B I is the lucky winner of our 5 day/4 night double return Phuket Holiday grand prize. Congratulations to
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Disagreement on bases lease
      329 13 Wire services. PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino and US officials are arguing about military bases again. This time it centres on the date American military forces will have to leave if the recently renegotiated lease on bases is not extended past 1991. Mrs Aquino says a clause
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      Lock icon All eyes on Lech Walesa
      214 13 Wire services. ALL eyes have turned to the Solidarity leader, Mr Lech Walesa, as Poland gets ravaged by a sinking economy and faces a 10,000-job shipyard closure. Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F Rakowski instructed his Interior Minister General Czeslaw Kiszczak to look to Mr Walesa for
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      Lock icon Democracy for China's trade unions
      161 13 Wire services. TRADE unions in China are reported to have adopted the Westernstyle election system to try to get away from official control. It could be a key move in a political chess game between conservatives and advocates of reform. The official Xinhua News Agency
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    • STOCKS
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        Lock icon LONDON
        252 13 Wire services. SHARES recovered slightly but still closed sharply lower on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30-share index ended 12.1 points down at 1,495.6. The London market reacted fairly slowly to the autumn budget statement presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson on Tuesday. Mr
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        Tokyo
        15 13 THE Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today to mark Culture Day, a national holiday.
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        50 13 FT Industrials Wed 1,495.60 (1,507.70) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,156.83 (2,150.96) ST Industrial Wed 1,030.12 (1,032.67) NST Industrial Wed 1,724.27 (1,721.22) Hongkong Hang Song Wed 2,607.82 (2^1543) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,579.30 (1,584.70) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 27.985.26 (28.013.67) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading day
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        Lock icon New York
        272 13 Wire services. WALL Street stocks closed slightly higher yesterday, shaking off an afternoon sell-off triggered by a drop in the dollar and a rise in precious metals prices, traders said. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 5.87 points at 2,156.83. Declining issues outpaced gains by a seven-to-five
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  • Showtime
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      Lock icon Last night's champions: From left, Latin Open — Jason Gilkinaon and Peta Roby (Australia), Modern Open — Andrew Sinkinson and Lorraine Barry (U K), Modern Closed — Melvyn Low and Nancy Lee.
      31 14 Last night's champions: From left, Latin Open Jason Gilkinaon and Peta Roby (Australia), Modern Open Andrew Sinkinson and Lorraine Barry (U K), Modern Closed Melvyn Low and Nancy Lee. Pictures/John Tan
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      The Brothers Low do their father proud
      270 14  -  By Ting Mei See "ALL the credit should go to dad. He'8 the one who scolds us for our mistakes." So said Melvyn Low, 22, son of Singapore dance school owner Sunny Low, after winning the Amateur Modern (Closed) category of the Singapore
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      RESULTS
      130 14 Amateur Modern (Open to the world) 1st: Andrew Sinkinson/Lorraine Barry (UK) 2nd: Jason Gilkinson/Peta Roby (Australia) 3rd: Hein Espen Hattestad/Marie-Anne Zachrisson (Norway) Amateur Modern (Closed: South-East Asia only) 1st: Melvyn Low/Nancy Lee (Singapore) 2nd: Tan Why Pong/Michelle Tan (Singapore) 3rd: Alvyn Low/Lucy Wang (Singapore) Pre-Amateur Modern .let: Henry Tan
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      Danny Plain Joe
      472 15 D I ANNY de Vito's stature can't (be measured just in centimetres. He may be just 1.5 m tall standing in his socks, but his standing as one of Hollywood's top comedy superstars makes him a very big man. He has appeared in a string of box-office
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      QUICKTAKES
      202 15 COMING TO AMERICA (Shaw cinemas) EDDIE Murphy and Arsenio Hall play to perfection. But the movie provides a poor showcase for Murphy's talent. About a prince who goes to Queens in America in search of a bride. KING OF STANLEY MARKET (Cathay cinemas) JAMIE Luk's romantic comedy stars Richard
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      Carol Cheng takes on jailbird look
      342 15  -  By Vivien Chiong TALK about a change of image! Some of Hongkong's most glamorous actresses are looking their very worst in a new film called Women Prison. Not only are Carol Cheng, Fung Bo 80, Pat Ha and Elsie Chan running around with no
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  • foodnotes
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      A TALE TWO TEAHOUSES
      1049 16 One is tiMtion-bouixl, the other has a spanking new decor. One still employs an M man who can hardly see. The other hires and fires at wiH They are both teahouses in Singapore, UMSWEEHONG discovers. FAME is a heady brew. But it's not our cup of
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      TEAHOUSES: STILL MEN-ONLY SOCIAL CLUBS
      295 16 IT IS not known exactly when the first teahouses appeared in China, but they probably started in the provinces of Hangzhou and Yangzhou. Records of the virtues of tea-drinking appeared as far back as 1,200 years ago. The business flourished during peace time when people
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      DIANXIN: THE TEAHOUSE STAPLE
      193 16 FOOD served at Tai Tong Hoi Kee is considered hearty affairs when compared to dianxin in restaurants. The aiew mai is renowned for being "fistsized*', a far cry from the bite-sized ones served at dianxin restaurants. The selection is also smaller and there is no menu
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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      1391 17 T levision SCREEN M High Mountain Rangers One Plus One (C) Thursday Feature Lli. B GEMS W (Pilot) (Part 1) i jr r —j Law and Order Special Siikwood J (SBC 5,8.00pm) (SBC 8,6.45pm) (SBC 5,10.35pm) ROBERT Conrad and his STARTING today is the new serial MERYL Streep, Cher and
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  • foodnotes
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      Lock icon A TALE TWO TEAHOUSES
      1052 21 One is traditioihbound, the other has a spanking new decor. One still employs an old man who can hardly see. The other hires and fires at wifl. They are both teahouses in Singapore, UMSWEEHONG discovers. FAME is a heady brew. But it's not our cup of
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      TEAHOUSES: STILL MEN-ONLY SOCIAL CLUBS
      296 21 IT IS not known exactly when the first teahouses appeared in China, but they probably started in the provinces of Hangzhou and Yangzhou. Records of the virtues of tea-drinking appeared as far back as 1,200 years ago. The business flourished during peace time when people
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      DIANXIN: THE TEAHOUSE STAPLE
      193 21 FOOD served at Tai Tong Hoi Kee is considered hearty affairs when compared to dianxin in restaurants. The aiew mai is renowned for being "fistsized", a far cry from the bite-sized ones served at dianxin restaurants. The selection is also smaller and there is no menu
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  • SHOWTIME
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      Music while you drive or dine
      394 22 Q UESTION: What does the Singapore SymI phony Orchestra have in common with an up-market car? "Classical elegance," said an official of a car firm, comparing the symphony orchestra to the latest model of its Toyota Cressida. Mr Lee Chui San, public relations manager
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      Love and dance on TV
      365 23 Television has always been quick to cash in on the success of its big screen brothers. This season, two notable box-office hits are making the transition from big to small screen. Dirty Dancing continues to sizzle while Baby Boom hits American viewers D >IRTY Dancing,
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      Kate Jackson back on the tube
      399 23 IT was easy to track down Kate Jackson on the set of Baby Boom, the new NBC series that began on American TV last night. A path of wet footprints connected the shooting site the indoor swimming pool of a YMCA to her trailer
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      Annie: I don't want to be idolised...
      326 25  -  By Vivien Chiong T I TAIWANESE pop star Annie Wu doesn't want her fans to idolise here like a goddess. The 19-year-old singer makes that clear in the columns she writes regularly for two magazines back home. "In my columns, I never write
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      The Indonesian melting pot
      261 25  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang TO the rhythmic beat of Javanese drums, a young Muslim couple is married in an elaborate ceremony open to the public. The traditional Hindu-influ-enced Javanese wedding ceremony best reflects the country renowned as the Spice Islands of old. This highlight is from
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      TOPSPINS
      378 25  -  By Danny Tan CHIMES OF FREEDOM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (Special 4-track 12" single) (CBS) Far between sundown's finish And midnite's broken toll We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing As majestic bells of bolts Struck shadows in the sounds Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing Chimes of Freedom.
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      66 22 Ffl in someone d overseas about Singapore. V It's the weekly newspaper, printed on V^VVA'tP light weight paper in convenient mwM It carries business, economic, political -*\v\ and general news on Singapore as well as tP investment news and sports round-ups. The more important regional and Asean news, and executive
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      1545 28 RADIOGUIDE ul|llp HDB EMiBH ■iWim'fll'M NOON Have hi Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Oeed Mask, CMMiy aad M«: NOON Nwiiik N7 yy JyJVV 12.05 Laachdate: Entertaining pop NOON Easy Ustaaiag: Light pieces for Enjoy, your lunch break with a 12.30 Sedety Teday: A weekly look at (I \I songs for
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  • FASHIONTOCAY
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      So where's the fizz?
      370 30  -  Soda Show FASHION REVIEW By Brenton Wong ARE Singapore's clothes designers supposed to innovate? Or are they just clever copycats? This is the harsh question urgently needing an answer after last Monday night's Soda Show. The only clear point to emerge that evening was the influence
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      Her World wins award for hand in fashion
      137 30 HER World magazine has been awarded the annual Soda/Swarovski Award for its contributions to the local fashion industry. The $20,000 crystal trophy was accepted by Ms Betty Khoo, editor of Her World, and Ms Florence Oh, business manager of Her World, during
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      161 31 AP. FLORENCE Griffith Joy. ner has a new passion. The world's fastest woman made her acting debut on Tuesday on the NBC television comedy series "227" and more is to follow. Griffith Joyner, 28, said in a television interview that she may turn her new experience into a career
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      Topweight duel in Cup
      245 31 RACING with DENNIS CHIA TOPWEIGHTED Elcarim and Grand Illusion look set for a showdown in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup on Sunday. The two likely favourites underlined their chances when they worked with gusto in separate workouts on a good track at Bukit Timah this morning.
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      SCRATCHINGS
      83 31 Race 1: Class 3 Div A 1,400 m (2.30pm): Corinthian Call, Iron Man, Green Lantern, New Territory, Our Antidote. Race 2: Class 3 Div B 1,400 m (3.05pm): Havoc, Worldly Wise, Pricey Parcel, Play It Cool 11. Race 3: Class 1 Div 1 1,400 m (3.40pm): Handsome IV, Cash
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      Lock icon End of road for United
      265 31 AFP. TERRY Gibson death Manchester United the knockout blow at Plough Lane. The English First Division soccer high-flier was beaten 2-1 by Wimbledon in the third round of the LittlewoocU Cup. Former United player Gibson, returning after missing five games through injury, scored his first
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      Lock icon Leader PSV loses
      115 31 Reuter. EUROPEAN champion PSV Eindhoven lost its second league game of the season in the Dutch First Division when it was surprisingly beaten 2-0 by Haarlem yesterday. Carlo van Tour gave the home side the lead midway through the second half. Marcel Peeper sealed the leader's fate
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      407 31 Win MTvicat. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BOXING European bantamweight ti-tle-fight in Italy: Vincenzo Belcastro (Ita) bt Billy Hardy (Brit) on pts. WBA super-featherweight ti-tle-fight in London: Brian Mitchell (SA) bt Jim McDonnell (Brit) on P ICE HOCKEY International match in Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia 4 Soviet Union 1. RUGBY UNION
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Rough-house tactics
      270 32 Ftauter. Bulgarian defender Trifon Ivanov was sent off and four other players cautioned as Denmark and Bulgaria fought out a tough 1-1 draw in its World Cup qualifying soccer clash in Copenhagen yesterday. Ivanov, shown the yellow card for an earlier offence, was dismissed six minutes from time
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      WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS
      19 32 DENMARK 1 BULGARIA 1 RUMANIA 3 GREECE 0 AUSTRIA 3 TURKEY 2 CYPRUS 0 NORWAY 3
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      Lock icon Rumania too good for Greece
      180 32 Reuter. RUMANIA crushed Greece 3-0 in Bucharest yesterday to establish itself as clear leader of European Group One after two matches. Greece was struggling from the start. Rumania opened the scoring in the 26th minute when striker Marius Lacatus broke on the right and crossed
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      Lock icon Turk revival of no avail
      201 32 Rcutar. CONFIDENT Austria survived a surprise second-half fightback by Turkey in Vienna to win its European Group Three qualifying clash 3-2. Austria stormed into a 3-0 lead after only 54 minutes. Toni Polster opened the scoring after 38 minutes when he drove home from eight
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      Lock icon Norway's late, late show
      192 32 Rautor. NORWAY overwhelmed Cyprus in the second half, scoring three times, to win its World Cup European Group Five qualifying tie in LimjusoL After surviving a testing first half in which goalkeeper Eric Thorstveat pulled off several excellent saves, Norway struck with chilling efficiency on the
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      Mates glad at Henry's return
      382 33 The Henry Lee episode took another turn when he returned to practice yesterday. But will he be part of the Singapore squad to the Asian Rugby Football Tournament? SHAHIRON SAHARI finds out SINGAPORE rugby star Henry Lee was back in training yesterday one day after
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      Taiwan is hot contender
      294 33  -  By Shahiron Sahari TAIWAN, who has never played in the final of the Asian Rugby Football Tournament, could finally make it this year. And unfortunate Singapore could be a victim of their rise to the top. Singapore will play the Taiwanese, who finished third in the
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      Lock icon No bonus for Steffi
      116 33 Rcuter. STEFFI Graf will forfeit $840,000 in bonus pool earnings and incentives because she has not competed in enough tennis tournaments in 1988. Graf, who will finish first in the point standings for the second straight year, also failed to play enough tournaments to be eligible
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      Lock icon Players to go it alone from'90
      150 33 UPI, AFP" MEN'S tennis was split apart yesterday when the world's top players declared war on the sport's governing body saying they would start* their own tour in 1990. Already 21 of the top players in the game have signed binding contracts to complete
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      Local soccer dead
      484 34  -  I No, if you go by 1 V/ the fans' reaction to our save Singapore soccer question two weeks ago. They are angry enough to react and that means soccer is alive and kicking LT Yes, say the FAS. Interest after Singapore's Malaysia Cup quarter-final exit has
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      No interest, so Merlion Cup cancelled
      222 34 FOOTBALL dead? In Singapore? Before you jump to any conclusions consider this: The Football Association of Singapore has decided to cancel the Merlion Cup tournament. Its reason? "The elimination of the national team in the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Cup has dampened interest in
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      Merlion Cup always a financial gamble
      172 34 WHEN the FAS decided to cancel this year's Merlion Cup tournament, it was not the first time. Last year, poor attendances were blamed for the cancellation of what was to be the sixth in the series. The Merlion Cup tournament first started in 1982,
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      Sane time, sane place
      657 35 AS the dust in Kuching settles, a storm is kicked up in Singapore soccer when strikers K Kannan and Salim Moin were axed on Tuesday, followed by the cancellation of the Merlion Cup yesterday. The New Paper comments: A THICK fog enveloped football's headquarters in Jalan
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      Kwai Lam's turn to talk big
      212 35 THE twist is ironic. Just a couple of weeks ago, Selangor started a war of words with Kuala Lumpur and won it Mazlan Harun made mincemeat of Chow Kwai Lam, who at one stage admitted: "I am not a politician, so I don't talk
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      809 36 Centoespce f—7f FAMILY MAYHEM. Six \T\ In Search of an 1 Author tea famfy drama I staged by Varsity Playhouse. Father, mother, a stepdaughter. two sons and another daughter ten their Mfe stones. The stepdaughter accuses father of mist reeling mother. Then stepdaughter has sex with
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      13 36 TALKS: German arts exchange CENTRESTAGE: Family feud COMING UP: Acting lessons
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      ASEAN TAKES TO THE CATWALK
      89 36 > PLUNGING necklines, bare shoulders, tootled skirts and slinky evening wear are just some of the eye-catchers at the Asean Designers' Show 88. Fifteen designers from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand show yon hht|yjtaff. They include S Choo and Steve deLeon. Sixty beautiful
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      83 36 Another Smashing Issue! The Singapore Woman, SBC Style A Woman's Life In 1936 re we a na on v xens an d victims? The modern woman's preoccupations in itMa s A Four-Letter Word? Singapore some 50 years ago z 1/1 Facin 9 U P to wrong career choice "The Best
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