The New Paper, 3 December 1988

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 355 2 Wire services. IN A sharp slap at the US, the UN General Assembly voted today to hold a session in Switzerland to hear PLO chief Yasser Arafat The vote a historic rebuke to the host was 154-2. AP reported from New York that
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    • 184 2 A CULTURAL square will be up front in the $400-million office and shopping complex to be built in Orchard Road. The 4,000 sq m square will host trade fairs, art exhibitions, concerts, song-and-dance shows, or cultural performances. The complex, Orchard Square, will be
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    • 65 2 Wire services. FORMER Senator John Tower, a hardliner on defence, is said to be in line to become America's next Pentagon boss. Sources in Washington today said President-elect George Bush will soon announce Mr Tower's selection as Secretary of Defence. The expected appointment of Mr
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    • 61 2 IWfdMl. The unknown craftsman who carved this water buffalo could not have known it would survive 3,oooyean and sell for a record price one day. The $6.76 million 0.3-metre-high water veeeel fetched ia the highest turn paid for any Chinese art object The sale was
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    • 200 2 STEALING gold from a child looked like an easy way for Yeo Soy Soy, 47, to raise money and the fact that she tends to get caught when she steals didn't stop her. So she was up in court again yesterday, pleading guilty to theft this
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    • 190 2 THE head of Hwa Chong Junior College plans to include Chinese as a first language in the school's Humanities Scholarship scheme next year. Principal Fong Fook Chak said students who have effectively mastered both English and Chinese are needed in politics, law,
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    • 371 3  -  By Ng Wan Ching I S Your House a Walkover for the Burglar? That is what people will be asked to think about in the police's latest crime-prevention poster. It is aimed at owners of HDB flats in new estates where there still are empty units.
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    • 215 3  -  Story and picture/ Kenneth Koh THE Wau Bulan or Kelantan kites are fluttering in Trengganu Street in the heart of Chinatown. Walk into Chan Hong Kee Handicraft and feast your eyes on the dazzling display of Malaysia's most popular symbol. Even MAS the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 31 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon till midnight: Showers over many areas in the late afternoon. Maximum temperatre: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 6.56 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.54 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 405 4 T HURSDAY saw the last of the GCE O-level examination. Students left the examination halls with a new uncertainty this year. On Monday they will apply for entry to junior colleges and pre-university centres. Because of a change in entry requirements, the students are
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    • 241 4 THE vice-principal of a junior college said: "I think it will be a bit difficult to go into ihe JCs as compared to previous years. It will change the calibre of students we get because the requirements are
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    • 177 4 THIS set of traffic lights at the junction of Clemenceau Avenue and Orchard Road, in front of the Is tana's main gate, is unique. A number of motorists told The New Paper this is the first time they have seen such an arrangement. It has
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    • 156 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. forte: If playing a certain kind of music is a group's forte, this means that is its strong point. fusion: A fusion style is a new style that is
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    • 230 4 LAWYER Francis Seow's tax evasion case will be heard in a district court and not the High Court. Mr Justice Lai Kew Chai turned down his application for a change of venue yesterday. The trial will start on Monday. Having the case heard
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    • 413 6 The days of the jaga seem numbered. Schools, JCs find grilles and police patrols good enough for security. CHITRA RAJARAM reports FARE WEILL, jagas hello, police patrol squads. That's the way it is these days in many schools and junior colleges. "We had four
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    • 248 6 MR J B Jeyaretnam says he has asked his lawyers in London to examine the question of seeking redress for him. He has not written to the Government to seek a pardon. He said he was stili leaving it to the Government "to do
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    • 334 6  -  By Lim Swee Hong QUESTIONS big and small. The 184 participants at yesterday's food law seminar asked them all. Question: Where can I get a copy of the guidelines on proper sanitation for foodhandlers? Answer? Ministry of Environment. Not all the questions were so
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    • 187 6 NO SINGAPOREANS were among the crew on board the Singapore-based ship that was sunk by the killer cyclone in the Bay of Bengal last Tuesday. Only one crew member has been confirmed dead but nine others are still missing, said a spokesman for
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    • 397 8  -  By Geneieve Kwek YOU could say Ms Tan Lay Ched has seen the light Not long aao this Ngee Ann polytechnic business and accountancy student couldn't even change a bulb. That was before she took an elective course at the polytechnic. It was called Repair
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    • 188 8 THE Jurong Bird Park has attracted a total of 847,000 visitors so far this year. That's 13.5 per cent more than last year. Senior Minister of State for Education Dr Tay Eng Soon said this morning that 104,000 or 12.3 per cent of that
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    • 338 8 The New Paper reporter HARINDER GILL turns pizza delivery girl for the day to check out Pizza Hut's home delivery service. THE pizza-man doesn't only know your tastes. He knows exactly where you live. That's why he's usually on time. Pizza Hut completed the
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    • 336 9 BY APRIL Fool's Day next year, Change Alley will be no more. It will become part of Singapore's history. This erstwhile haunt of soldiers and sailors will make way for urban development. Nobody knows for sure what will happen to the narrow lane that has
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    • 216 9 CHANGE Alley, a narrow arcaded passageway, is well described as a "tunnel bazaar". It runs from Raffles Place to Collyer Quay along Singapore's waterfront In its good old days, there were hundreds of tiny shops. The alley seemed narrower with the many street vendors
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    • 102 9 EVERY second Singaporean adult faces a greater risk of a heart attack than he needs to. This is because he has a cholesterol level above the accepted "safe" level. Doctors say the average Singaporean cholesterol level is slightly higher than .that of. Americans .and much higher than that
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 310 10 Wire services. THE Soviet Union and Afghan rebels are ready to begin high-level peace talks. Both sides have sent envoys to Saudi Arabia for the firstever talks among senior officials. This marks a change in policy for both. The two sides, until lately, refused
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    • 56 10 Seize: Argentine Army mutineers take a moment of self-assured ease while holding part of the country's main military base outside of Buenos Aires, The rebels struck yesterday in a show of support for an anti-communist colonel who was denied a general's stars. Army loyalists were today preparing
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    • 181 10 Wire services. A SOVIET-Chinese summit will take place before mid--1989, says the Tass news agency. That comment followed talks in Moscow yesterday between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. It was the first such meeting between officials of the world's
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    • 257 10 Wire services. BANGLADESH, shattered by one of history's worst storms, today began to rebuild. Relief workers say villagers along the Bay of Bengal coast have begun returning to areas wrecked by a killer cyclone earlier in the week. "I have lost everying my homes, my crops,
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    • 135 10 Wire services. BRITISH publisher Robert Maxwell is ready to compete with the International Herald Tribune and its rivals. He unveiled a dummy edition of a paper he calls The European at a London news conference yesterday. Publication will begin in May. Mr Maxwell said that
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    • 88 10 Wire services. FRANCE'S President Francois Mitterrand wants to give political support and financial help to European companies competing with the Japanese in developing a new TV system. Europe and Japan have each proposed a different version of what is called high-definition television (HDTV), which
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    • 178 10 Wire services. SOURCES in Colombo say Sri Lanka is likely to elect a new Parliament early next year in an attempt to bring peace to the troubled island nation. Feb 15 is the most likely date, say insiders. This would be a little less than
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    • 341 11 NST. THE Malaysian Indian Congress, a partner in the ruling coalition, has been divided by the ouster of a popular vice president and 14 lesser officials. Party leaders did not have to wait long to gauge the impact of the action. A fist-swinging melee erupted
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    • 189 11 Wire services. THE US has ruled out testimony by two senior officials before a South Korean panel probing the 1980 Kwangju massacre. It said only written answers would be provided. A spokesman, Ms Phyllis Oakley said the State Department had decided it would
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    • 201 11 Wire services. FIVE Soviet robbers who traded a bus-load of captive school children for an escape plane have surrendered in Israel. They were given the plane in the southern Russian city of Ordzhonikidze after Kremlin leaders relaxed their policy of no mercy for hijackers and allowed them
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    • 132 11 Wire services. US EFFORTS to create a Star Wars defence actually increase the risk of "first strike" nuclear war, says a Washington think tank. Noting that the research costs $8 billion a year, the Rand Corporation said, "Despite (the) expenditure of
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    • 174 11 Wire services. THE US space shuttle Atlantis is now in space and ready to launch a powerful spy satellite into orbit The shuttle lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, into a bright but windy sky at the last possible minute yesterday. Not
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    • 46 12 Aids: Two French school children light candles in Paris for victims of the deadly disease Aids. The observance was part of the World Health Organisation's World Aids Day. Prayers were offered around the world for victims of the killer sex disease. Picture/ Afp.
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    • 283 12 Wire services THE SUPREME Soviet Parliament almost made itself invisible when it adopted Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Details of the sweeping constitutional changes that will give President Gorbachev more power were made public in Moscow yesterday. "According to the constitutional amendments, a new supreme organ of state power
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    • 159 12 Wire services. CHINA, which lately has had only bad economic news to report, has found a bright spot in foreign investment. New figures released by Beijing show foreign investment in China is running 50 per cent higher than last year. A spokesman said more than
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
    • Article, Illustration
      277 12 Wire services. SHARES ended the week with a sharp fall on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, although they managed to claw back some losses in late trading. The Financial Times 30-share index closed 10.5 points down at 1439.7. The market remained depressed, and news that the British Steel offer
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    • 64 12 Reuter. SHARE prices were slightly higher in initial trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today with selective buying of lowpriced shares and steelmakers, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 30.55 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 29,562.80 after 15 minutes of trade. Some non-ferrous metals, shipping lines and other
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    • 52 12 FT Industrials Fri 1,439.70 (1,450.20) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,092.28 (2,101.88) ST Industrial Fri 9 99.37 (1,003.47) NST Industrial Fri 1,738.10 (1,741.79) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 2,667.26 (2,668.03) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,461.70 (1,456.30) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 29,532.25 (29,541.46) Figures in brackets refer to thoee of the previous
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 12 Wire services. NEWS that unemployment was holding steady in the United States sent Wall Street sliding yesterday amid renewed market fears that higher interest rates were inevitable. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials finished the week at 2,092.28, down 10.6 points on the day. Declining issues
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  • Showtime
    • 374 13  -  By Wong Sing Yeong i i N MANY way 9 filmdom's macho men dominate the movie studios of Hongkong. These macho men direct films, choreograph stunts and often play the lead. They have come a long way since the days of Master Yu Chan Yu,
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    • 259 13  -  By Ting Mei See DECEMBER seems to be a good month for Singaporeans to show off their talents. First, Ann Hussein and Zhang Piao Fang at the 3rd Asean Festival of Songs in Kuala Lumpur. Then, SBC actor Li Wenhai at the Asean Film Week
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    • 409 14  -  By Azman Siraj A NYONE can wish. But few get the breaks. Still, with some perseverance and luck, even dreams can come through. Ask the group, Lovehunters. After all, it happened to them. For five years, they pounded the beat "making bread" by playing hard-rock music
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    • 301 14  -  By Pauline Tan THERE is something for everyone at The Lounge of Crown Prince Hotel and it all comes from one package called The Heart Beat. This five-piece Filipino outfit only recently claimed the stage at this nightspot but already it has sent many
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • UPDATE
    • 2627 16 Centrestage I 7 TAIWANESE f/j SONG-BIRD. Chiyi is a 1 I sultry Taiwan singer and winner of her country's Golden Record Award. She's here to sing the hits from her latest album, The Paradise Bird. U Tsong-Sheng and Zhou Wa-Jian, two male Taiwanese singers, will
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1298 18 Televisions Jf (SBC 12, 7 pm) (SBC 5, '10 pm) THRKE-PART story based on contemporary writers at the 1986 (Michael Sarrazhi) investigating the schoo 1 Alice Munro, Margaret Drabble, J second is about how Sara (Mia Sara) P r Robertson Davies, Edna O'Brien and Vjj joins her dead sister's sorority
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 394 23 PHIL Collins was on the London stage as the Artful Dodger of the musical Oliver at 14. But his acting career was cut short when a director reduced Collins' major role to a minor one in a planned children's film. "I vowed never to
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    • 373 23  -  SATURDAYSOUNDS By Lim Sek BLACK music is about texture, attitude and style. At its best, it digs down to the roots of human feelings. That's why the feel of such music is so important. Even with the polish of modern music, this element must be
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    • Article, Illustration
      565 23 DON'S BREAKNECK ACTIVITIES ACCORDING to an American magazine, Miami Vice producers read Don Johnson the riot act and warned him they'd slap him with a heavy fine if he didn't stop dangerous activities such as racing boats at breakneck speed. Execs were furious when they learnt that Don had
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    • 204 24 USA Today. MUSICALS maestro Allan Carr producer of Saturday Night Fever and Grease will produce next year's Oscars ceremony. And he hasn't a clue who'll pick up the awards this time. "There's no one big picture at this point, like The Last Emperor last year. We don't
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    • 211 24 THERE is some spirit in High Spirits. Most of it is noise. It's supposed to be a comedy. There are very few laughs. But there's a lot of slapstick if you like that kind of thing. Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah and Steve Guttenberg are the
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    • Article, Illustration
      237 25 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. MAC AND ME (Lido) FIRST full-length McDonald's
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    • 297 25  -  By Vivien Chiong Headwind win blow into the the World Trade Centre for two concerts in February. This will be the popular Malaysian group's first concert in Singapore. It had previously played only in small clubs such as Celebrities and the now-closed Rainbow Theatre Lounge.
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    • 319 25  -  By Lo Tien Yin SURPRISE, surprise... and just when you thought you knew how those life-sized puppets were operated! These puppet masters from China always have something up their sleeves, it seems. At their opening show, Ruby, on Thursday at the Palace Theatre, some
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 516 27  -  By Harinder Gill WHEN the rain goes away the beach boys and girls come out to play. All kinds of them. There was a chef, a birthday girl, trainee teachers out for a lark, windsurfers and card players. Not Orchard Road for
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    • 93 27 WATER lovers with a taste for adventure can join a windsurfing course at the People's Association East Coast Sea Sports Centre. Tt* 100 Plus BeaidaaUitt bcWv* open to physica^J and medically fit students who are between 14 and 24 years old. And who can swim at
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    • 503 27  -  AMATTEROFOPINION By Harinder Gill Mr Steven Goh, 25, sales executive "Yes. I think the working week should be reduced to just five days. Saturday is a half-dqy for me. And I can't do much during the other half of the day. I have
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • ASIAN CUP SOCCER
      • 167 31 Reuter, AFP. SAUDI 2 SYRIA 0 A REMARKABLE 25-metre goal by Saleh alMutlaq in the 20th minute set the Sau- dis on course for victory. The game then settled into a dull midfield struggle as the Saudis battled to keep the upper hand. The second goal
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      • 203 31 AFP. IRAN 2 QATAR 0 THE Qatari crowd could only sit in stunned silence as they watched their team chalk up a series of "firsts" first to concede a goal, first to have a player sent off and first to lose. It was a nightmare for
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    • Article, Illustration
      87 31 UP AND COMING UPI. ICELANDIC international sweeper Gudni Bergson has been offered a contract by English soccer club Tottenham. Bergson, capped 23 times for Iceland, said: "Terry Venables came to me after the practice session on Thursday and said he wanted me to sign a contract. "I am
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    • 95 31 DOWN AND OUT UPI. FORMER Tottenham striker Nico Claesen is on a low. Claesen, who moved to Belgian club Antwerp after a disastrous spell at Spurs, has been relegated to the reserves by his new coach Georg Kessler. Claesen, 26, who has played less than 10 times
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    • 284 31 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Atlanta 127 Washington 115, Charlotte 109 Philadelphia 107, Cleveland 99 Milwaukee 96, Denver 133 Sacramento 126. GOLF Bicentennial Classic in Melbourne 2nd rd: 133 Ben Crenshaw (US) 68 65. 135 Fred Couples (US) 66 69; Rodger Davis (Aust) 68
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 526 32 BESTBET: RACE 3 A L THOUGH unofficial champion sprinter He's Dawan has been pulled out of tomorrow's Sultan's Gold Vase, the $125,000 straight dash will be a real cracker of a race. There will be plenty of support for Libran Star. Ivan Allan's grey English gelding took
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    • 446 32 USAHA TEGAS Bhd sponsors the top sprint today at Ipoh. We reckon the spoils will fall to Jonathan Ho's eight-year-old gelding Amigo Loco. Drawn on the inside rail against Smile last week he made a remarkably good job of it, getting up to fourth position
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  • SPORTS
    • 588 33 The men's tennis world moved closer to a split when the ATP, the players' body, yesterday announced the format of the circuit it plans to hold from 1990 only a day after the Men's Tennis Council had come out with a compromise
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    • 256 33  -  By Alfonso Chan GET an early start, juniors, says the Singapore Squash Rackets Association. The SSRA has invited 24 boys and girls for early centralised training to prepare them for the 4th Asian Junior Squash championships in Bahrain from Feb MO. Seven women will also
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    • 286 33 MALAYSIAN OPEN BADMINTON by ALFONSO CHAN THE Marlboro Malaysian Open starts in Kuala Lumpur in nine days. And it will be a nine-day wonder if Benson Wong is fully fit for it. All because of a pain in the neck. Literally. Benson sprained his neck on
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    • 420 34 More than 100 bodybuilders worldwide take the catwalk today and tomorrow to vie for the World Junior and Masters Champion titles (men and women) at Kallang Theatre. After last night's weigh-in, ABDUL SHUKOR sizes them up MUSCLES ripple and sweat glisten as one after another the contestants
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    • 243 34 MOST teenage girls spend their time trying to attract the boys. Linda Janssen is no different in that respect except that she attracts them with her incredibly strong physique, combined with elegant feminine charm. The 20-year-old Dutch lady has always been fascinated with muscles. And
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    • 289 35 Four out, four doubtful that's the casualty score for Singapore, with just five days to the Merdeka tournament. The reasons: Work, reservist training, exams. S. GULAM reports F tOUR players are out of next week's Merdeka soccer tournament. What's more, skipper T. Pathmanathan is among another
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    • 221 35  -  By S. Gulam NEWLY-QUALIFIED Geylang West Constituency Sports Club has pulled out from next year's National Football League Division Two. And the reason? No money. Geylang West CSC chairman, Mr Lam Shaw Ing, described the participation fee as "too high". A Division Two
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    • 82 35 JAPAN Airlines has lined up several incentives to encourage Jurong Town Football Club to go for a "hat-trick" of titles next year. Mr Hiroshi Kono, the JAL vice-president and regional manager, did not disclose what the incentives were, but he said "they were good enough to
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