The New Paper, 2 December 1988

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1 36 The New Paper
  • 13 1 the new paper FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1988 ma <p) 179/4/ at 50 CENTS
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    • 145 1 Fliplt are full of bright notions about what to do on Orchard Road when it's doaed to motor traffic on Christmas and New Year eves. Imagine night markets, hawkers, fashion shows, SBC singers, dancing, even reindeer prancing in the middle of the road. Page 3 PSYCHO KILLING ARREST Former Singapore
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    • 30 1 TRENGGANU GOLD FIELD DEATHS Page 13 STOCKS 10 WORLD 12-13,15 SHOWTIME 16, 22-24 TV GUIDE 17 COMICS 25-26 RADIO 28 FOOD 29 TRAVEL 30 SPORTS 31-35 FASTADS/JOBS 31 MONEYWORDS 35
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  • 57 1 Conquering fear: Ms Selvi Varathappan runs across an assault bridge even though she cannot swim. The exercise is part of National Cadet Corps training for school teachers at Seletar Camp. The course for those who teach students in the NCC includes weapons training, foot drill and
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 251 2 A MAN suspected of being the "Jack Ripper" killer has been arrested in Klang, Malaysia, after a five-day search and a brief chase on foot. The suspect is a 36-year-old former executive of a Singapore trading firm, police told the Malay Mail newspaper yesterday. He
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    • 470 2  -  Stories Irene Hoe THE human touch. Do people in Singapore's tourism industry have it? If they don't, then hundreds of millions of dollars invested in improving tourist attractions and creating new ones will be wasted. Since last year, the private sector has invested or promised to invest
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    • 239 2 TANGS has won the Store of the Year award again. It also won it in 1986, the first year the award was presented. Sheraton Towers also won a second time. It first won the Excellence in Service (Hotels) Award in 1986. Taxi-driver Abu bin Draman,
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    • 103 2 MORE residents are burning joss paper in the right places, according to Our Home, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) magazine. During the recent Chinese Seventh Month festival, three out of five residents used either their own bins or those provided by the HDB, the
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    • 444 3 PEOPLE want food, entertainment and bustle on Orchard Road when it is closed to motor traffic on Christmas and New Year's eves. KAREN GOH talked to people about how they think the place could be used on those nights N IGHT markets in the middle
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    • 175 3 LONDON: OXFORD Street is London's Orchard Road. But it would never be closed down totally on a shopping day. The police don't want that; it would cause traffic problems elsewhere. Shops don't want it; it would kill them. Oxford Street is pedestri-ans-only on Sundays, sure. But on
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 25 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon till midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 6.56 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.53 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 658 4 The number of credit cardholders in Singapore has been put at 407,000 by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Will such a huge number of people with easy access to credit lead to "higher or imprudent spending", as the MAS fears? Or will it help people
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    • 326 4 THINK tank, moral leader, entrepreneur, idealist. A Singapore civil servant must be all these to succeed, according to soldier-turn-ed-politician Brigadier-General George Yeo Yong-Boon. But the Minister of State (Finance and Foreign Affairs) said that in all these functions, a civil servant
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    • 172 4 HIGHER salaries and faster promotions may be necessary to keep civil servants from switching to jobs in private business. A Finance Ministry spokesman said it was studying ways to stop the rise in resignations of division one and division two civil servants. The Chinese
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    • 611 6  -  By Geneieve Kwek i I 1 'T WAS a baptism of fire, 00p5... water yesterday for Ms Lee Siok Keng. Seven years ago, she nearly drowned when she went swimming with her classmates in pre-university. Since then, the 24-year-old teacher has been afraid of water. Yesterday,
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    • 413 8  -  By Harinder Gill M I 'ANY bright Singapore children are being labelled "stupid" today because they have a seeing disorder that parents 1 and teachers don't recognise. Now, the Singapore Contact Lens Society wants to work with the Ministry of Health and the
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    • 76 8 DYSLEXIA means extreme difficulty with reading and writing. It is sometimes called word blindness. It affects one in ten children in the United States. It's more common in boys. Its cause is thought to be brain-related. Dyslexia takes many forms. Sometimes it only affects reading. Often, writing
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    • 58 8 CONFUSION of letters similar in shape d and b, u and n. Confusion of letters similar in sound v, f and th. Reversals was and saw. Difficulty in keeping place reading a line of text. Difficulty in moving from end of one line to the start
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    • 78 8 DO: Praise the child whenever possible. Dyslexic children tend to feel ashamed of their difficulty and lose their confidence. Concentrate on what the child is good at. This will help build confidence. Teach the child to pronounce words correctly. DON'T: Ridicule the child about lack of
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    • 162 8 MRS A is the mother of four children. The second, a seven-year-old, is dyslexic. "My son will reverse letters like b and d, and p and q. He also finds it difficult to look at the blackboard and find a particular sentence. And then to look at
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    • 249 8 THE Government says that Mr J B Jeyaretnam's right to practise as a lawyer has been restored. But it says that four criminal convictions against him still stand. A Law Ministry statement yesterday said that the Attorney-General believes the Privy Council's comments that
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    • 607 9  -  By Lim Swee Hong MEMORIES are made of soya sauce. And an "Old Boss" who cared enough to be matchmaker. These are what Mr Ang Hup Boon treasures most about his 47 years at Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd. At 60, he is the longest serving
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    • 424 10 EARN $1,800 a month with no more than a Primary 6 education. If that sounds unbelievable, ask the Port of Singapore Authority for a job as tugboat master. That's what the job can pay once a master is trained. But he must meet certain targets.
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    • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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        263 10 Wire services. SHARES remained very weak yesterday on the London Stock Exchange, although they managed to reduce losses towards the end of the session. The Financial Times 30share index ended 7.8 points down at 1450.2. Trading was thin. Investors remained sidelined on concern that the November US employment figures,
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      • 77 10 Reuter. SHARE prices eased a bit in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today following Wall Street's decline overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index shed 6.69 points, or 0.02 per cent, to 29,534.77 after 10 minutes of trade. Declines were led by bank, oil, non-life insurance, securities house,
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      • 51 10 Ft Industrials Thu 1,450.20 (1,458.00) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,101.88 (2,114.51) ST Industrial Thu 1,003.47 (1,005.49) NST Industrial Thu 1,741.79 (1,739.05) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 2,668.03 (2,659.30) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,456.30 (1,470.30) Nikkei Stock Average Thu 29,541.46 (29,578.90) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      • Article, Illustration
        256 10 Wire services. PROFIT-TAKING pulled Wall Street stocks lower in light trading yesterday as investors warily awaited the November jobs data, due out today. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 12.63 points to 2,101.88. Declining issues exceeded advances by a margin of about seven-to-five, with about 130 million shares
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    • 494 11 I^^ Hitachi lets you pick the prize you want. purchase any (or impressive line-up of Hitacni's latest products refrigerator, colour TV, washing machine video cassette recorder or video movie you stand not one but several IL_ Every one of the above-mentioned items comes with several entry r I coupons so
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  • WORLDIODAY
    • 214 12 Wire services. PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan today ruled out a pre-trial pardon for IranContra defendant Oliver L North. The President said a pardon, which would make it impossible to try North, would leave his former White House aide "under a shadow of guilt". A
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    • 45 12 American: New bride Nurlisa Idria Abdullah sits beside her husband Tengku Idris Shah, Selangor's Crown Prince, during their wedding reception in Shah Alam. American-born Ms Nurlisa, 28, who embraced Islam on Monday, met her husband, 43, in Hawaii three years ago. Picture/AFP
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    • 300 12 Wire services. A KILLER cyclone in the Bay of Bengal is reported to have taken the lives of 11 crewmen aboard the Singa-pore-based container vessel MV Pumori. The Press Trust of India reported today that eight others survived when the vessel overturned and was abandoned.
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    • 255 12 Wire services. US AND Italian lawmen have begun arresting 200 accused Mafia leaders in the largest crackdown on the crime family in years. The FBI said in Washington that 75 persons were nabbed across the US and Italy yesterday and the rest would be jailed within
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    • 566 12  -  By William L Chaze THE Chun era is dying a painful death in South Korea. President Roh Tae-Woo intends to avoid falling or being shoved into the grave alongside its relics. That explains, say analysts, both former President Chun Doo Hwan's public humiliation on
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    • 187 13 Wire services. INDIA'S Supreme Court has stayed the execution of two Sikhs sentenced to hang today for the slaying of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The court, which acted late yesterday, said lawyers for the condemned had until next Tuesday to Hie further appeals. If
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    • 284 13 Wire services. PAKISTAN has struck back at India's expulsion of two Pakistani diplomats by booting out two Indian envoys. Each country accuses the other of spying. Islamabad's action came late yesterday after the Indian government claimed to have caught a top Pakistani military attache spying.
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    • 372 13 Wire services. MS BENAZIR Bhutto is scheduled to be sworn in as Pakistan's Prime Minister today, ushering in a rule that promises to be politically cautious and wary of the nation's military. Analysts expect no dramatic moves on the economic front for
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    • 139 13 Lianhe Zaobao. HUNDREDS of gold hunters have been stranded by two days of continuous rain in the gold rush area of Trengganu, Malaysia. The Chinese-language daily newspaper Lianhe Zaobao reported this morning that police used boats to move some of them out of the Machang
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    • 45 13 Uneasy: Soviet troops have succeeded in restoring order in Baku, capital of the troubled republic of Azerbaijan. Children at play have returned to the tense streets, backdropped by a reminder of Moscow's power to crack down again at any moment Picture/AFP
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    • 259 15 Wire services. FOREIGN Ministers of the Soviet Union and China agreed today to seek a settlement of the war in Cambodia. The official news agency Tass reported that the agreement came at a Moscow meeting the first such So-viet-Chinese talks at that level in 30 years. Cambodia
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    • 29 15 Family ties: Baby giraffe Dirk stretches for breakfast at the Safari Park in Hilvarenbeek, the Netherlands. His nine-year-old mother, called Willy, double-checks Dirk's manners. Picture/AFP
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    • 136 15 Wire services. POLICE in the US have accused Santa Claus of cheating a limousine driver. Santa, actually a Santasuited man named Vernon Frank Minow, 52, faces the charges in Nashville, Tennessee. He appeared in court yesterday carrying a sack filled with stuffed animals and other toys.
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    • 251 15 Wire services. THE US today turned down a UN appeal to reverse its decision and permit the PLO chief, Mr Yasser Arafat, to address the body. The US denied Mr Arafat a visitor's visa on grounds that he has a long history as
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  • Shomtime
    • 360 16  -  By Pauline Loh THEATRE-GOERS in Hongkong are snapping up tickets for the month-long 1989 Arts Festival scheduled to start on Jan 28. Postal booking has already sold nearly 50 per cent of seats. Counter sales for the cheaper tickets will start
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    • 157 16  -  Co-ordinator/ Vivien Chiong CHRIS Ho is recognised as a frontman of alternative rock music in Singapore. His musical tastes constantly change with the times and he has moved on from punk to New Wave to his current craze, speed metal. A popular deejay here with
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1752 17 SCREEN M Belize— 71 Sportscene Friday at the Movies lyf GEMS W The Turning Point Horse of the Year '88 Prizzi's Honour BELIZE is an independent HELD at London's Wembley Arena, THE late John Huston's black Jjj^a country situated in Central this equestrian event is the top show comedy is
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  • Sports
    • 1690 18 BY BBKNAKD PSXEIRA SINGAPORE created bad- -.:V. «aqa U e gpUBKID IkMUV B etaged the first team ihowin the rotst mote nedba'S Q. 1MI a i UQODWIf UMw QV unveiled the worid stais of tomorrow. Hie occasion- Tbe Asian indivkhial championships. But it could
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    • 63 18 SIW Susantfc A natural talent, she was rubbing shoulders with the seniors at 15. Lilik Sudanwath Rudy Hartono was her role modeL Alan Budi Kusuvna: Beat Morten Frost in last year's World Cup. Huang Hua, 19: From China, she started her international career this
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 327 22  -  By Sonja Tan w l r HO Framed Roger Rabbit set a record 5516,000 in ticket sales for Orchard cinema last Saturday and Sunday. The previous weekend re- cord taking was the movie Three Men and a Baby, starring Tom Selleck. Based on international
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    • 286 22  -  By Ting Mei See ONE of the seven short stories from SBC's drama serial Strange Encounters, will be screened af a Japanese film festival next week. The three-episode Reincarnation, shown here in November last year, will be Singapore's offering at the first Asean Film Week
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    • Article, Illustration
      241 22 WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (Orchard) MUST-SEE movie where cartoons share top billing with human actors. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Bob Hoskins is the human detective helping Roger Rabbit, who has been accused of murder. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm. OPERATION PINK SQUAD (Cathay cinemas) FOUR pretty
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    • 343 23  -  By Adeline Woon A T AGE two, a violin was tucked under Chan Yoong Han's chin and his baby fin- gers gripped a bow. That was nearly 12 years ago, and since then, there have been thousands of practice sessions. On Thursday, Yoong Han will give
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    • Article, Illustration
      193 23  -  By Danny Tan GREATEST HITS FLEETWOOD MAC (Warner Brothers) THIS band started its life in 1967 at the hands of guitarist Peter Green and played mainly blues. Twenty years later and with some personnel changes, they still make great music. Like Genesis, the main attraction in the band is
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    • 374 24  -  By Sonja Tan B ARRY McGuire is a people's singer. He sings to people, for people and with people. Now, he is here to sing with Singaporean children for oth- er children in need around the world. Barry found fame in the late 60s as
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    • 359 24  -  By Lo Tien Yin THE National University of Singapore debating team, which won the SBC Debate 88 just two months ago, has done it again. Against all odds, they emerged champions in the first Asean Varsities Debate heid last week at the University of
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    • 157 24 IT was a jukebox with a difference the singers were not heard from inside. Instead, they were outside asking for donations in return for spinning records. The singers, including Jacintha and Dick Lee, were helping to raise funds at the Celebrity Jukebox at Centrepoint.
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 154 25 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/oik Browne AllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill f sue wr it as mime 1 SUOULP 0£ I 1 It ISN'T L V "Wis waa 7 yo >, pen a' 4 f ./> >, V X FAULT I -7^5. George the Robot/stephen Stanley L*PS <fc> Xo KhJovvX^—..Atslo -To STOP
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 327 27 WEIDER'S: Exercise equipment from America and Canada at warehouse prices until Jan 6. Discounts between 25 and 30 per cent on a wide range from abdominal boards to multi-purpose gymnasium sets. Examples short abdominal boards at $80 (from $130), exercise bicycles $430 (from $620), and free-standing gymsets
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    • Article, Illustration
      188 27 THE chemist shop wars are truly off and running. Watson's, the Hongkong pharmacy chain, is opening its eighth outlet this month. The new store will be located at Nat West Building in Cecil Street. Since it first started at Marina Square and Bukit Timah Plaza in April, Watson's
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 1526 28 RADIOGUIDE mm EIHiBBH noon News in Rrief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Oeed Music, CosiM«y aad Me: *00N Newtdetk 12.05 Laeckdate: Afternoon of great MtUkM A musical treat to keep you 12JO Short Story OOJ VOOf COCvOJ music for your lunch time lis- HOON p Uttealag: An afternoon of entertained during
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 274 29  -  Mlao Yl Vegetarian Restaurant #03-01/02, Coronation Plaza, Bnkit Tlmah Road Tel: 467-1331,467-1511 From $6 per dish Stories/1 Lim Swee Hong IT'S true. Some of the best dishes at Chinese restaurants don't make it to the menu. So at Miao Yi, be
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      322 29 Jack's goes to Hougang ANOTHER Jack's Place steakhouse opens this afternoon. This one's at Blk 205, Hougang St 21 (next to the Oriental Emporium). The menu is standard Jack's fare, but the layout is more open-plan. The familiar arch and trellis partitions at other Jack's outlets are missing here.
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    • 151 29 THEY are all vegetarians Mr Goh Kim Guan and hit 17 partners at Miao Yi Vegetarian Restaurant All are devotees of Kung Mern Saint Tao, followers of the teachings of Confucius and Mencius. "We don't argue about whether one should turn vegetarian or not We are vegetarians because
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 378 30  -  By Harinder Gill BOMBAY'S many contrasts are what hit you first. Smack in the centre of the Colaba tourist area is the majestic Taj Mahal Hotel. The rich and beautiful go there to be seen, and the hotel has more than its share of crowds, from prosperous-looking businessmen
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    • 230 30 IT WAS Merlion Week last year that inspired police shooting instructor Mr Arik Chan, 30, to clinch his first photography award. Then, he won $700 and a Konica camera for his photographs of the powerboat race and two other Merlion Week events. Now he has
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    • 403 30  -  By David Brazil GOOD news for tourists in Malaysia. The Tourist Police Unit is now in operation. These police officers wear special chequered bands on their caps. They are there to help with tourists complaints, accidents ana the like. Contact tnem in KL at (03) 241-5522/243-5522; Malacca
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  • SPORTS
    • 184 31 AP. NBC won the US television rights to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, with a record bid of 782 million. NBC, which televised the Seoul Olympics in September, had been considered a longshot to get the Barcelona rights. CBS was favoured because it
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    • 95 31 AP. FIFA, world soccer's governing body, decided yesterday to re-ad-mit Iran and Iraq as venues for international competition once each government provides comprehensive safety guarantees. Iraq, backed by several Gulf states, had petitioned Fifa for lifting the ban after Iran agreed to a cease-fire
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    • 354 31 RACING WITH DENNIS CHIA FORMER champion trainer Ivan Allan who made a comeback in June this year, has a great chance of adding another cup to his already over-filled cabinet. Already the most coveted trainer in terms of classic triumphs, Allan has a whip hand in
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    • 185 32 Reuter. WORLD champion Jah&ngir Khan yesterday overpowered his great rival Jansher Khan 9-0,10-8, 2-9, 9-1 to regain the A 1 Falaj World Grand Prix squash title which he lost last year to Jansher. Jahangir handed over the service only once in the first game but Jansher, despite an
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    • 142 32 AFP. THE International Football Federation (Fifa) has rejected a request from the International Olympic Committee to waive the age-limit on professionals taking part in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic soccer tournament. But Fifa's executive council decided yesterday that the age-limit of under 23, fixed
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    • 229 32 MORE SOCCER ON PAGE 33 AP. WORLD soccer chiefs and Italian organisers agreed yesterday on ticket prices for the 1990 World Cup final round. It ranges from a minimum $24 in preliminary-round games up to $311 for the final A total of of 2.7 million tickets
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    • 94 32 AFP. JAN Molby's future as a Liverpool soccer Slayer will s thrashed out at a top-level meeting at Anfield this morning after hie dawn release from Preston Prison. Danish international midfielder Molby, 25, was smuggled ost of the jail in the boot of a ear to avoid
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    • 109 32 Reuter, AFP. TWO goals by Spanish international soccer striker Julio Salinas helped Barcelona beat Celta 3-0 away yesterday. That enabled the Catalans to go top of the Spanish First Division ahead of Real Madrid on goal difference. Salines' two goals came in the 27th and 29th minutes.
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    • 94 32 AFP. TROUBLED England soccer manager Bobby Robson is looking for a George Best to lift his team out of the doldrums. "We need to find another George Best and hope this time that he's English and not Irish," said Robson. Robson believes his team has the
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    • 113 32 AFP. BENFICA won 1-0 at National Madeira in a Portuguese First Division soccer match yesterday to go three points clear of Porto and Sporting Lisbon. Antonio Pacheco scored the visitors' only goal in the 63rd minute when he latched on to a shot by Mats Magnusson and,
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    • 81 32 AFP. NEWCASTLE u reportedly preparing to tell ita Brazilian aoc c e r striker Mirandinha. He bat scored only two goals tiUi season. Club officials have alerted European rides that Mirsndinha, who wants to leave England, is available for transfer. Meanwhile, Southampton's Northern Ireland international striker Colin
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      510 33 [EUROPE KICKOFF: SPAIN. WEST GERMANY, ITALY, FRANCE Reuter. CHAMPION Real Madrid will be seeking revenge for a painful defeat last season when it faces city rival Atletico in Europe's outstanding club soccer fixture this weekend. Real, which was replaced at the top of the Spanish First Division yesterday
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    • 208 33 EUROPE KICKOFF: ENGLAND Reuter ENGLISH First Division leader Norwich will be bidding to extend a near-perfe:t sequence of away results this season and its lead over Arsenal when it visits inconsistent Aston Villa tomorrow. Norwich, three points ahead of Arsenal, plays with greater freedom
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