The New Paper, 23 November 1988

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1 33 The New Paper
  • 11 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1988 MO <* 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 221 1 MjjjjjjjjH A little boy and the friend H on his shoulder co-star in H fantasy escape movie made Q to attract tourists to KH Singapore. They are the tgt focus of today's Tourism C3 Quiz. See story on Page 7 rj and entry coupon on Page □I 25 and you
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  • 56 1 Stinky samsu: Customs officers uncover the biggest cache this year of samsu moonshine. Big drums holding 200 litres are hidden in bushes and buried in dirt. It's the strong smell of the illegal liquor that leads agents to hidden distillery in Yio
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 460 2  -  Stories Stories/Irene Ng MORE hotels are being plagued by pimps. These people operate barely undercover and turn hotel rooms into brothels. "It's like a disease," said the chief security guard of one hotel. First they hit the two and three-star hotels. But they
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    • 177 2 THEY check jn as guests but are in fact pimps who are out to use hotel rooms as brothels". "We cannot iust accuse a guest who behaves suspiciously of being a pimp," said a chief security officer at a three-star hotel. "We would get into trouble
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    • 77 2 Wire services. OCCIDENTAL Petroleum will pay $360 million to survivors and families of victims in the Piper Alpha oil-rig disaster. A total of 167 workers were killed when fire swept through the rig in the North Sea on July 6. Sixty-two people survived. A source said
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    • 48 2 Wire services. IMPORTERS and domestic car producers in France have agreed to avoid highlighting a car's speed in advertisements, industry sources said yesterday. The move is part of an official drive to reduce the number of road deaths, expected to top 10,000 this yeai. Wire services.
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    • 72 2 THE Trade Development Board plans to send another big trade mission to India next year. It will follow up on work done by the recent mission headed by Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry. The Chinese language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao
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    • 222 2 A NEW computerised Power System Control Centre has been set up to keep Singapore well supplied with electricity up till the year 2000. The Public Utilities Board has spent $60m on the new nerve centre, said Mr Eugene Yap Giau Cheng, Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Trade and
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    • 199 2 THE British Government is selling two of its prime properties in Singapore. The sale, by tender, is expected to fetch a toted of about $6.5 million for both the residential properties, say market sources. One of the properties is at 16 Queen
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    • 376 3  -  By Thusitha de Silva T WO MEN escaped when Customs officers raided an illegal samsu distillery in Yio Chu Kang yesterday afternoon. It was the smell that led four officers to the 800-litre samsu still, in a shanty overgrown by tall plants. Customs
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    • 189 3 SAMSU is a colourless liquid that packs a big punch. A senior customs officer said that the samsu found yesterday had an alcohol content of 81 per cent The alcohol content of beer is around four per cent Mr Tan Gek Huat, Officer in Charge
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 23 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook for today from noon till midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset: 6.53 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.50 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 362 4  -  Other activities Besides karaoke events, the SDS also organises these activities for members: Tea dances Camps Telematch Workshops Dinner and dances Hiking trips Disco functions Cruises 2■ Trips to Malaysia By Michelle Oh THE Social Development Section, the match-making unit of the People's Association, thinks
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    • 235 4 LONG-BURIED grievances from old folk came alive at the Road Safety Park yesterday. Their common headaches are the twin monsters of urban societies the roads and the motorists. For the 150 people, their talk centred on one thing: How to keep alive on
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    • 191 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. aligning: If a person is aligning himself with a particular group in a quarrel, he is supporting it. edgy: A person who feels edgy is nervous, anxious and likely
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 791 6  -  Stories/ Angeline Song HOTLINES are buzzing. More people are seeking help through the phone and there are more hotline services than ever before.' There are hotlines for teenagers, for parents, for the very young, the ill, tiie suicidal. Ministry and media hotlines have also been set up
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    • 265 6 RESPONSE to the newest hotline service has been good. In the two days since it was set up on Monday, the Senior Citizens Hotline Service had received more than 70 calls. The organisers are hopeful there will be even more as more people get
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    • 97 6 A JAPANESE electronics firm celebrates its 10th birthday in Singapore today. It will do so in its new premises. The new Hokuriku Singapore) Pte Ltd factory in Jurong will be officially opened today. The firm, which deals in electronic parts such as sensors and resistors, was
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    • 389 6 LAWYER and former MP J B Jeyaretnam yesterday gave the Government two weeks to right what he described as wrongs done to him. But another opposition party member, Mr Wong Hong Toy, wants to leave things alone. "Let things rest," he told The
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    • 279 7  -  The scene at right is from a film you may never see. Top billing is shared by schoolboy Anson Khoo and Susie, who leads him on a monkey chase By Irene Hoe ANSON KHOO is the star of a film most Singaporeans may never
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 124 7 LIFE WITHOUT SCANDALS WOULD BE INFINITELY BORING. m 'Y&Vvi VVc go through life wearing masks. Hut step into Scandals I^7/ ami you'll be loser to the real you. Where the musk is /ifcnl/r) ft) (4) "X physical. the drinks potent and the crowd is at trigger-point. T 'I "here's a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 307 8 Wire services. IRAN is said to have executed 18 backers of a key Muslim religious figure who clashed with the rising political leadership. Sources say those put to death were supporters of Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri. He has been expected to follow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
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    • 248 8 Wire services. CANADIAN Prime Minister Brian Mulroney says his Conservative election victory paves the way for approval of a free-trade pact with the United States. Voters returned Mr Mulroney to office yesterday with 169 seats in the 295-seat House of Commons. He said he would
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    • 111 8 Wire services. SRI Lankans have been banned from entering the Maldives because of a Nov 3 coup attempt involving Tamils. The Maldivian High Commission said in Colombo yesterday there will be no exception to the rule except for diplomats and other official visitors.
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    • 279 8 Wire services. JAPAN'S main opposition parties are seeking the ouster of Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. They say he has lied about his role in a stock scandal. "We will never be convinced unless Finance Minister Miyazwa resigns," Mr Shun Oide, chairman of a key Japan
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    • 139 8 Wire services. GENERATIONS of shifty-eyed conmen have tried to sell New York's famous Brooklyn Bridge to unwary visitors. Now they're trying to sell it off as scrap metal. Police earlier this week accused two men of prying off pieces of the historic Brooklyn Bridge
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 176 10 Wire services. HE HAD no way of knowing it, but a young British flier's heroism more than half a century ago will benefit young cancer victims today. The Victoria Cross awarded Lt William Leefe Robinson in 1916 for shooting down the first German
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    • 53 10 Destroyed: Israel has launched a new series of raids on suspected terrorist strongholds in southern Lebanon. Here residents ofSidon survey the rubble left by an Israeli air assault Israel claims Arab commandos have used the village as a base to launch sneak attacks on targets in northern
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    • 282 10 Wire services. A WOMAN gang-raped in Italy has died just two days after her attackers were set free on appeal. The family of Ms Maria Carla Cammarata, 30, said she died of a lung condition in Rome. Her rape attracted attention throughout Europe as proof that the
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    • 129 10 Wire services. BRITAIN'S elegant Dorchester Hotel where visiting heads of state sometimes stay has cockroaches. The hotel yesterday paid a $23,400 fine after a London inspector spotted roaches under a kitchen freezer. Prosecutors told a London court that the 280-bedroom hotel admitted it had broken 17 food and
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    • 68 10 Wire services. THE US government has begun its new budget year by posting a whopping $54.8 billion dollar shortfall for the month of October alone. The debt is added to an overall US budget deficit that is now approaching three trillion dollars. The figure makes
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    • 148 10 Wire services. SOUTH Africa has approved a US-brokered peace plan for Angola and Namibia. It is seen as a breakthrough to solving decades of conflict in south-western Africa. Foreign Minister Pik Botha yesterday announced Pretoria's approval of the plan. It includes a withdrawal of 50,000 Cuban
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    • 94 10 Wire services. POLICE in Belfast, Northern Ireland, found a bomb today under a police car about 3.2 km from where Princess Anne was visiting a school. The device was defused without anyone being hurt. One officer said her motorcade would have passed within
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    • 38 11 Furiosi: Some 1,000 French miners battle riot police on a Parisian street to protest closure of more coal mines. Twenty-three policemen were hurt when they were struck by cobblestones burled by miners. Picture/ Afp
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    • 160 11 Wire services. BRITAIN is losing some of its best and brightest to American universities. More than 200 British professors, lured by high pay and ample funds for research, have moved to the US over the past five years, reports the New York Times. Many of
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    • 275 11 Wire services. BRITAIN'S Parliament may soon be able to lift the veil of secrecy protecting one of its fabled spy services from official scrutiny. New laws proposed by the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would permit Parliament to probe activities and finances of the
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    • 49 12 Money woes: Yet another relative of ex-President Chun Doo Hwan faces charges of corruption. Here, Chun Ki Hwan, 60, elder brother of the former South Korean leader, is led away in handcuffs to the prosecutor's office in Seoul. A younger brother has already been convicted. Picture/ Afp
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    • 270 12 Wire services. FORMER President Chun Doo Hwan told fellow South Koreans today that he was sorry for years of misdeeds. Appearing on nationwide television, the former head of state said he would go into self-exile in the countryside. As he addressed the nation, 5,000 riot policemen stood
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    • 180 12 Wire services. MOSCOW'S new "glasnost" policy of openness is no more than a public relations stunt, says a former US defence chief. In an interview published in London yesterday, ex-Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger said the Soviet Union still seeks "world domination". He was quoted by
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
    • Article, Illustration
      268 12 Wire services. SHARE prices firmed throughout yesterday's session on the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times 30-share index rose 7.2 points to close at 1,487.3. Volume was 486.4 million shares, with much of the turnover concentrated in selected stocks. It compared with 368 million shares on Monday. But
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    • 14 12 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today because of the labour thanksgiving holiday.
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    • 52 12 FT Industrials Tue 1,487.30 (1,480.10) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,077.70 (2,065.97) ST Industrial Tue 999.52 (992.77) NST Industrial Tue 1,711.34 (1,711.47) Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 2,598.79 (2,581.87) o Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,478.80 (1,482.10) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 29,430.12 (24,284.26) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous
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    • Article, Illustration
      276 12 Wire services. WALL Street's blue-chip index closed higher on Tuesday after a big jump in oil prices was cut back, lessening inflation worries. The Dow Jones industrial average, which rose 3.56 points on Monday, closed up 11.73 points at 2,077.7 New York Stock Exchange volume was estimated at
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • Showtime
    • 375 14  -  By Vivien Chiong s TAR-GAZERS can see their heart-throbs and, at the same time, do their part for charity in a series of nine charity concerts. Called the Sharity Disco Show, the first concert started last Saturday and the series will run right up to Jan 1,
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    • 314 15 WE'RE talking money by the truckload here. For starters, consider The Cosby Show. This popular sit-com made $1 billion for its syndicators in America. Wheel of Fortune, another top-rated syndicated show, rakes in $200 million a year. Syndication may be big business in the US,
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    • Article, Illustration
      252 15 MAC AND ME (Lido) THE storyline is a copy of E.T. The Extra-Terrestri-al. Little Mac and his family come to earth, he is separated from them and befriends a wheelchair-bound boy, Eric (played by Jade Calegory who's disabled in real life). Definitely a movie made for kids.Time: 9.15 pm
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1621 17 Televisions A sr»FFN Falcon Crest The Good Life— Videofashion News Mpt^t GEMS Lovers And Friends |BRmb Plough Your Furrow (r) Colour Of Fashion v\ 4VI IN tonight's drama-filled episode, J ANOTHER chance to catch this (SBC 12, 7.25 pm) B W( Liz continues to be menaced by a JLm <1
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  • spotlight
    • 1318 18 We've heard the ease for the new moves, the bosses' reaetion and the unions' view. Hut what have the foreign workers to say about the latest Government steps to stem the tide of our unskilled foreigners? THUSITHA DE SILVA and HARINDER CALL eompile this report after
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    • 267 18 FOREIGN WORKERS: FACTSHEET Too many are coming into Singapore. There are already 150,000 here. Now 2,000 to 3,000 new foreign workers come m every month. If this goes on, they will make up one quarter of the total work force. Everytime there is an economic
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    • 133 18 BThe levy will I be raised to $220 a month for each foreign worker at the beginning of next year and J again to $250 on July 1. It's now $170 for those working in manufacturing, shipyards and hotels and $200 for those in construction. There
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    • 242 18 Singapore International Chamber of Commerce: Fears measures will make it too expensive to do business in Singapore and make it hard to compete for new business with other countries. Chamber members say they do not hire foreign workers because they cost less but because it's
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    • 73 18 The National Trades Union Congress: Welcomes the new measures. Says the hike in the levy will force employers to upgrade and automate their operations by using more skilled Singaporeans. Employers will have to increase the skills of our workers enabling them to go on to
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 536 20  -  By Lo Tien Yin CHILDREN, it seems, enjoy acting as much as watching TV. Last Monday, when SBC opened its doors for a walk-in audition for children eight to 12 years old, more than 1,000 parents and their children responded. It included
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    • 231 20 ABOUT 20 children will get a chance to be on TV after SBC has gone through the records of those who came for interview last Monday. The children will play students in a fishing village school run by a spinster played by
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    • 537 21  -  By Vivien Chiong STARDOM called but only 1,823 people responded. SBC is launching its drama recruitment drive again for budding actors to join the ninth training batch. But the number of entries this year is a far cry from the eighth batch two years
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    • 284 21 USA TODAY. AS WINTER coat season begins, celebrities are spreading the word that furs give them the chills. From flirtatious Golden Girl Rue McClanahan to freaky horror hostess Elvira, stars are aligning themselves with animal rights groups. "Cruelty is never Chic. Don't wear Fur"
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    • 227 21 I F YOU are between 13 and 19 and have always wanted to appear on stage or be involved in a stage production, here is your chance. The amateur theatre group, Stars, will be holding auditions to enroll 40 drama enthusiasts into Youth Theatre
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    • Article, Illustration
      166 22 SCHWARZENEGGER GETS COMEDY HELP ARNOLD Schwarzenegger, it turns out, hasn't come to where he is today without some help, reports a top US newspaper. For the past seven years, tne muscle man has been going to a comedy tutor who has even read his newest script Twins. And
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    • 229 22  -  REVIEW/ By Pauline Tan THE first full-length McDonald's movie Btars Mac, a hamburger version of ET. Six years after ET went home, another lovable space creature returns to entertain children during school vacation. Mac is the latest alien to hit town and he is here
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • HORIZONS
    • 1075 23 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 pyschiatrists. You can write to: Dear Aggie, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. You must give your name
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    • 318 23 PRE-MENSTRUAL tension (PMT) is a regular occurrence for some women. A small number of them suffer so severely they are unable to cope with everyday life. Most find themselves simply becoming tense and irritable. The symptoms can take its toll on
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 175 24 COMICRBJEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Single Slices/peter Kowsaat y SOTMIS 13 SW6APoRE,EH? cmon, lou 6016! I'LL '"do* OMImOTER'• lou ARE FOB FfllLlNG. TO fl flQflß I HOPE IDO firftlllE IOUR 6lVt 100 A RIDE H0... J HEIfrBI iWimONO) 61 W *1 DrSPI/W A PARKING P |D^|| New PohttATiorJ POLICY WHAT THE
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 149 25 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 25 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 404 28 RACING.. .with DENNIS CHIA A FLURRY of meetings between the chairmen of the three Malaysian turf clubs and their trainers has headed off a boycott threat by trainers. The boycott, which first threatened to hit the Bukit Turf Club's December races, was called off after a series
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    • 161 28 MORNING TRACKWORK IN-FORM jockey Marzuki, who rode four winners on Saturday at Kuala Lumpur, can keep up his strike rate at Ipoh this weekend. He worked King Diamond on a yielding track at Ipoh this morning and the Silver Dream gelding went better than Opulent at the
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    • 332 28 MORE SOCCER ON PAGE 32 Reuter, AFP. SPANISH First Division soccer club Barcelona said yesterday there had been no moves to transfer England striker Gary Lineker. But, a spokesman for the club admitted it was always open to offers. "(Coach) Johan Cruyff has not asked us
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    • 358 28 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: AMERICAN FOOTBALL National Football League: San Francisco 37 Washington 21. BASKETBALL NBA League: Houston 117 Atlanta 113, Utah 117 Los Angeles 98. ICE HOCKEY US National Hockey League: Montreal 4 New York 2, Toronto 4 St Louis 0. RUGBY UNION Tour match
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    • 836 29 Reuter. BAYERN vs INTER WEST German soccer internationals Lothar Matthaeus and Andreas Brehme can expect a frosty reception today when they return to Bayern Munich with Inter-Milan for a Uefa Cup third-round tie. ~Bayern, firedT>y its achievements~o? the past, has marched to the top of the
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    • 166 29 Reuter. SPECTATORS threw missiles onto the pitch and started a fire behind one of the goals stopping play in a Uefa Cup soccer match in Groningen yesterday. The disruption came during the third-round, first-leg game in which West Germany's VFB Stuttgart beat Groningen 3-1. Spray cans,
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    • 145 29 AP. FANS of the Kidderminster Harriers soccer team will have the chance to win a bottle of bubbly when their team plays in the Welsh Cup on Saturday. All they have to do is pronounce the name of the opposition Llanfairpwyllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn drobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Kidderminster, which plays in
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    • Article, Illustration
      272 30  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan JACK Wong's thrust into the world of professional bowling has been severely blunted. He failed to get past the first cut-off point of the Brunswick Memorial World Open championships in Chicago last week. The first cut-off was to eliminate over half of the 100-odd competitors.
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    • 151 30 SINCE its opening more than a month ago, Superßowl has revolutionised the bowling scene in Singapore with its variety of leagues. Recently they kicked off with an unusual league The Diplomatic League which involves 26 teams from foreign embassies. By next year, they will have an
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    • 187 30  -  By Shahiron Sahari REVIVE our Rugby. That is the call of the Singapore Rugby Union after Singapore's poor showing at the recent Asian Rugby Football Tournament in Hongkong. The SRU is looking at ways to breathe life into the sport, especially with the New Zealand
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    • 531 31 Little Zarinah Abdullah is but a lady-in-waiting in the court of Dowagers at next month's grand Malaysian Open badminton championships. But she is still Singapore's best woman shuttler. BERNARD PEREIRA reports Z ARINAH Abdullah, Singapore's leading lady in badminton, is only 17. But already, she
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    • 346 31 Bernama. THE Malaysian Open badminton championships in Kuala Lumpur next month still promise to be an exciting affair despite the absence of some big names as China fields a strong squad. A Badminton Association of Malaysia list released yesterday shows that former
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    • 215 31  -  By Abdul Shukor SO the Football Association of Singapore is in the hunt for young, talented footballers to strengthen the national team? Perhaps, it would like to consider Zainal Yusoff, of Bedok Vocational Institute. Very good in the air and extremely reliable in defence,
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    • Article, Illustration
      303 32 Singapore's athletes have reacted positively to the SAAA naming its squad to next year's Sea Games nine monthsln advance, reports ABDUL SHUKOR SINGAPORE'S athletes have risen to the challenge. The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association named a 20-member squad for next year's South-east Asian Games last week as part
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