The New Paper, 5 December 1988

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  • 12 1 the new paper MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 106 1 BWVLER 'STOKES' NATIONAL TEAM Mil Wee, winner of Jatico Tournament of Champions, says there's no point in national selection. He cites lack of government support "Despite people saying 'Excellence in Sports' there's been no such thing so far." Page 29 $5,000 Ail engineer and a broker share $500 prize. Page
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    • 43 1 1 WON'T GIVE UP MY MAID' /Page 3 BT GIVES STOCK NEWS VIA PHONE Page S SOVIETS: 'WE CAN KILL COLD WAR' /Page 11 WORLD 10-12 STOCKS 12 SHOWTIME 13-14,22-23 TV GUIDE 15 FOOD 20 RADIO 24 SPORTS 27-31 FASTADS/JOBS 2S MONEYWORDS 31
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  • 60 1 Strength or style: Two sides of female beauty have their admirers here. The sweaty muscles of Rosemarie Zoller (left) get the prize at World Junior bodybuilding championships see Page 30. At Miss India/Singapore contest won by Jaswinder Gill above centre) it's costumes, smiles and poise
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  • TAENEWSTODAY
    • 470 2  -  Stories/ Irene Hoe D OES having a part-time job help turn some students into full-time school dropouts? A committee studying students and early school leavers suspects this is already happening to some secondary school pupils especially girls who try to work while they study. If
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    • 238 2 TURN the National Youth Coordinating Committee (NYCC) into a council to look after youth affairs. That's what the Committee on Students and Early School Leavers wants. This committee, one of three formed under the Advisory Council on Youth, has ambitious plans for the proposed council. Now,
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    • 494 2 FOR every problem that it saw, the Committee on Students and Early School Leavers tried to find a cure. This is what it decided: Problem: Vocational and Industrial Training Board students feel 'branded* as failures because of streaming. They have problems with English lessons (too
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    • 134 2 Wire Services. A STORY published by a leading US newspaper suggests that America and Israel signed a secret pact to jointly combat terrorism with force in the Middle East. The source for the story in yesterday's edition of the Washington Post was identified as
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    • 80 2 Wire services. AILING Japanese Emperor Hirohito today was reported to have worsened in health. Government sources told news agencies that the chief of the Imperial Household informed the Prime Minister early this morning that the Emperor was losing ground. That word came after the chief physician was
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    • 780 3 People who hire foreign maids will pay a higher levy from next year. It will go up from $120 to $160 from next month and to $200 from July. The Government hopes the $80 increase will reduce the number of foreign maids, which stands at around 40,000.
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    • 175 3 A LIFT lobby that really gives you a lift. This unusual sight was inspired by the skyline of New York and can be found in three new blocks of flats at Pasir Ris Neighbourhood 4. Standing on sea blue floor tiles, the "skyscrapers" are
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 33 2 the weather THE weather outlook from noon till midnight: Showers over many areas in the afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 6.57 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.54 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 484 4 THE Government should take the lead in hiring former drug addicts, a youth committee said today. Reformed drug users should be given a boost to a new and better life, said a report by the Advisory Council on Youth's Committee on Students and Early
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    • 175 4 THE study to define a set of core values for everyone in Singapore's mixed society will include hearings by a special parliamentary committee. First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said the committee will probably be formfed in March. Mr Goh said the effort to
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    • 295 4 SHE started off slowly by buying a handbag. Within a month she had used her father's credit card to run up a $3,000 bill. Celine, 18, said: "I just kept spending." She is a shopping addict, a so-called "binge shopper" with a weakness for
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    • 44 4 THE Methodist Church of Singapore has decided to withdraw from the Christian Conference of Asia. The CCA is the regional Protestant group expelled from Singapore last year because of its involvement in politics, in the wake of the Marxist conspiracy.
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    • 100 4 DO NOT leave your valuables unattended in public places. That familiar police message cannot, it seems, be said often enough. Take Mr Yeo Yong Pheng, 26, for instance. He left his $10,000 gold Rolex watch in an unlocked drawer near a snooker table at the Superous
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    • 155 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. augment: To augment something is to make it larger or increase it by adding something to it. brickbats: Criticisms. dictum: A statement of opinion made with full knowledge. fervour:
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    • 520 6  -  By Irene Ng A RAPE case that made legal history in Britain also paves the way for rape victims here to sue attackers. "If it can happen in England, it can happen here," a lawyer told The New Paper. "Our legal system
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    • 258 6 I BELIEVE your story. With these words, the judge at Chelmsford Crown Court ended Lorraine Miles' three year battle for justice. Justice Caulfield said in his two-hour judgment: "Under the greatest stress in the witness box, she impressed me as basically truthful". For
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    • 185 6 THE Bedok town council will have an annual budget of some $16 million for the day-to-day running of its HDB estates and its various projects. This was disclosed yesterday by Professor S Jayakumar, Minister for Law and Home Affairs and an MP
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    • 265 6 Need for openness with neighbours Chok Tong IF WE lay a firm foundation of openness and trust with our neighbours, said Mr Goh Chok Tong, "occasional misunderstandings will not lead to physical blows". Addressing the 6th Reservist Officers' Staff Course graduation ceremony and dinner at the Istana last night, Mr
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    • 472 8  -  By Ng Wan Ching E ARLY Sunday morning. Most sensible people are catching up on their sleep. But what's all this in a Kallang carpark? Some 100 early birds in 43 cars were there; waiting impatiently for a signal. What could have
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    • 226 8 FACED with a predicted fall-off in growth, textile and garment manufacturers here are hustling for new ways to build up business. One ambitious project ufcder discussion would convert part of the Orchard Poii'it shopping complex into a fashion retail centre by 1991. Orchard
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    • 272 8 A NEW phone service providing stock market information is being launched by Business Times today. The number is 730-5155 and the information is pre-recorded. When dialled, a pre-recorded voice provides several options. These include the noon, closing and overnight indices;
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    • 156 8 THE "typical Aids carrier" is a young male who has been sexually active since age 16 and who has caught the killer disease by his early 20s. This description was given by Dr Thirumoorthy, of the National Skin Centre, at
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    • 256 9 BIGGER bonuses are predicted in the private sector but it seems not many firms will match the IV2 months extra government workers are to get. One executive said the government bonus was reasonable, but emphasised that private companies must stick to bonuses they can
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    • 152 9 A WOMAN, aged 21, took off her shoe during an attack and drove one man into the bushes at Marina Square with his head bleeding and tattooed with heel marks. Then she went after the other culprit who was attacking her boyfriend. Although both of them
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    • 190 9 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) i 9 putting bright, new makeup on the face of a proud, old lady historic Singapore. A row of shophouses in Hill Street and Eu Court at the corner of Stamford Road and the Shaw building in front of the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 338 10 Wire services. THE Argentine government claimed today to have negotiated an end to a spreading army rebellion. The army said the rebels, estimated to number about 500, agreed to lay down their weapons. The mutineers took control of a base near the capital late last week.
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    • 193 10 Wire services. SWISS voters have rebuffed a move to cut sharply the number of foreigners admitted to live in the country. The proposal, offered by right-wing politicians, was on the ballot in a nationwide poll yesterday. Only 30 per cent of those voting backed the
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    • 251 10 Wire services. PRIME Minister Benazir Bhutto's first cabinet appointments seem aimed at making up for the lack of experience in her own Pakistan People's Party. She has brought in three seasoned outsiders with no past political ties to her. They include former Central Bank President
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    • 84 10 SINGAPORE Foreign Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng is in the Philippines today as part of a tour of Asean countries. A spokesman said his two-day visit would end tomorrow after talks with President Corazon Aquino and Philippines Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus. Mr Wong, who is also
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    • 155 10 Wire services. ISRAEL'S rightist Likud political bloc appears set to form a new government. Its hand was strengthened yesterday when Likud picked up the backing of the ultraorthodox Agudat Israel Party. Mr Yitzhak Shamir, Likud's head, now commands enough Knesset seats to give his
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    • 278 11 Wire services. SOVIET President Mikhail Gorbachev is determined to turn his New York visit into more than a social call, says a senior Soviet official. "I think we can kill the Cold War," says Mr Nikolai Shishlin, a member of the Kremlin's Central Committee. The
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    • 53 11 The future: Try this one in Singapore's traffic. Instead of wheels, this car of the future glides along on four spinning bowls. By changing the spin of the bowls, the driver can turn on a dime. It is among half-a-dozen experimental cars displayed in
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    • 317 11 Business Times. THE lustful male boss isn't the only one chasing a co-worker around the desk these days, a new US survey suggests. Men accounted for a surprising one-third of the complaints covered by a survey taken by Working Women magazine. "Sexual harassment can
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    • 48 11 Baby: Alberta may be a gorilla but she's a mother, too. She gives her infant a loving bug at the San Deigo Wild Animal Parkin California. The yet-to-be named baby is the first of a third generation of gorillas born at the park. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 170 11 Wire services. FEMALE students in Turkish universities may again wear head scarves symbolising Islamic fundamentalism. The change has resulted from a row between President Kenan Evren and Parliament. The lawmakers, reflecting popular sentiment, sought to end a 1986 ban on the wearing of the
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    • 140 11 Wire services. THOSE who knew film star Sophia Loren in her early years remember a skinny little girl not much different from thousands more in post-war Naples, Italy. Her nickname, in fact, was The Stick. But that was then and this is now, and Naples over
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    • 51 12 Tricky: An Indian soldier not only rides his camel in a straight line but balances water jugs on his head while he does it He is among those taking part in the Camel Tattoo in New Delhi to celebrate India's crack camel-riding Border Security Force. Picture/
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    • 387 12 Wire services. CHINESE Foreign Minister Qian Qichen said today his visit to Moscow improved relations between the two powers after 30 years of hostility. "We both believe a summit is possible but we still have to talk about a specific date," he told reporters
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    • 104 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today on worries over a sudden worsening of Emperor Hirohito's health early this morning following a massive loss of blood, brokers said. The Nikkei index was down 64.30 points, or 0.22 per cent, to 29,601.20 after 10 minutes of
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    • 150 12 Wire services. BRITISH Health Minister Edwina Currie is being accused of scrambling her facts about eggs. The disputed facts concern a form of food-poisoning caused by salmonella. She told television viewers over the weekend that most of Britain's eggs were infected with salmonella. Health Department
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    • 249 12 Wire services. THE final death toll from the Bangladesh cyclone could top 10,000 double earlier estimates. "What we have so far are figures from the accessible areas," an official said in Dhaka. "Those from the inaccessible ones are still awaited. "The final figure should be
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    • 158 12 Bernama WHILE the flooded Malaysian states of Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang are drying out, waters are still rising in several areas in Perlis. Kangar, capital of the small west coast state of Perlis on the Thai border, has been hit by new flooding. A
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  • Showtime
    • 314 13  -  Stories/ Vivien Chiong t IAIWANESE singer Chyi Chi-yi) could well have been named "Chi Ji" Mandarin for miracle. After all, how many Chinese recording artistes can release three English albums in a year and sell more than 100,000 copies of each? Even the singer was taken
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    • 177 13 EMIL Chao is one artiste who believes Asian singers can give their Western counterparts a run for their money. "The prejudice against Asian singers is very unfair," said the 29-year-old. Emil was here last week to promote his debut English album, Sad Without You. He
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    • 400 13 LI NANXING and Zeng Huifen have confirmed their status as Singapore television's king and queen. A Top 10 popularity poll conducted by the Chinese daily, Lianhe Zaobao, and the Chinese Radio and TV Times sees the two coming in tops in their
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    • 449 14  -  By Adeline Woon E ACH finalist in the Miss India/Singapore 88/89 beauty contest was on display in a swimsuit for 15 seconds but not quite. What the audience saw was a succession of colour slides projected onto a screen. Each beauty was pictured thrice close-up, long
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    • 204 14 ROGER Rabbit mania is all over town right now. The latest to catch it is GO magazine with the rabbit on the cover for this month's issue. The cover is a flip-open "gatefold" (2-page length) cover. Roger Rabbit is on the front, wrapped in the
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    • 224 14 LIFE has been hectic for 24-year-old Ms Tan Lay Khim since her crowning as Miss Tourism 88 early last month. But this bubbly 1.65 m tall lady is enjoying every minute of it. She has been busy in her duties as Singapore's latest
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1665 15 ~<4» ,v/v SCREEN M Napoleon and Josephine 4HH Cine Showcase Asian Music Scene '88 'J&WXf. Jl m 1 GEMS m A Love Story j wH Mo Grande (r) (SBC 5,10.36pm) MwiSflM «M t J "^H M (SBC 5,9.30 pm) I HI (SBC 12, 10.10 pm) HELD Mthe Tlwatre jH about
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  • spotlight
    • Article, Illustration
      1512 16 MEET THE I It doesn't take very much to join the Voluntary Special Constabulary. They are made up of regilar people, from ex-students to technicians. But they all have one thing in common: They want to contribute to the community In their own special way. NG WAN CHING
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    • 75 16 CMMMrtta* J#M Stag "Wt donatio investigative work because our members work on a part-time basis." MMMartltag? "WtaUa matter of using one's time wisely. plan my time carefully." ■Ho/- I Mr Teea Chin dram, engineer with Varta Batteries: "Being a VSC at ntgkt is a contrast
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    • 237 16 To dpi up: You have to go to the Police Academy, SCHQ (Special Constabulary) office, off Thomson Road, to pick up application forms on either Monday or TTiureday from 6.30 pm to 10 pm. Applications: You can send in your application to the Police
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 448 18 Oh ghee! You long for a hot and spicy curry, but you are also weight-watching. Follow our guide to the tastiest low-calorie choices LOW CAL RECIPES AUBERGINE CURRY (For two people, 170 calories a serving) 1. Saute a chopped onion in 15ml (1 tbsp) of
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    • 183 18  -  TRYTHIS tNf Italian Pizza Taglio 81-U Mine Arcade 21, Cuscaden Road Tel: 736 0221 $1.20 to $1.50 for a pizza slice By Lim Swee Hong EVER feel the urge for a slice of pizza but not not quite the whole lot? Then try Italian Pizza Taglio.
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      335 19  - EASY CHIC By Josephine Ng SLINKY, siren outfits are real hot items right now. But if they're not your style, don't despair. You can still sashay into parties and hit 'em between the eyes and all without spending a cent. The trick is to look in your wardrobe. Chances are
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    • 326 19 THE festive season is just about the best excuse a woman can have to dress up her hair. But no amount of curling and crimping can help if your hair is in bad shape. Healthy, shining hair is the result of sustained hair care. But
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 332 20  -  By Wong Sing Yeong s IX SBC stars managed to upstage even the nautical scenery on a special luncheon cruise by the Equator Dream. It was a seagoing party for winners of a contest to mark the fact that Yeo Hiap Seng has
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    • 160 20 USA Today. THE ex-wife of Lorenzo Lamas says the actor is now ignoring his two children after winning a bitter court fight to get joint custody of them in 1985. Michelle Lamas, who was divorced from the Falcon Crest star after two years
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    • Article, Illustration
      252 20 WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (Orchard) MUST-SEE movie where cartoon characters 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. BEETLEJUICE (Capitol) A MOVIE that's as nutty
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    • 193 21 AP LEONARD Nimoy, who went from playing Mr Spock on television's Star Trek to directing hit movies, says it is good to be just an actor again and Mr Spock at that. "I was fantasising about this when I was making The Good Mother," Nimoy told The
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    • Article, Illustration
      182 21 USA Today. LIZA'S HONEY LIZA Minnelli says she's learning to be her own friend. "Once a day, you say to yourself: 'How are you, honey?' she tells Ladies' Home Journal. TOUGH ACT DURAN Duran is back with a veneeance. "After six years of Deing a 'toothpaste band' we want
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1686 22 RADIOGUIDE \mMi ira— NOON News la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Good Music, Company and Ma: NOON Niwidiih 12.05 Luachdate: Some entertaining Noon-time entertainment to 12JO Through the looking Glass: See \jy musical fare in this lunchtime NOON Easy Listening: A selection of brighten up your lunch-hour. Air Raves. fV-
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
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      190 25 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA THE three Malaysian turf clubs will re-introduce the Big Sweep draw in March. This was announced by Tan Sri V Jeyaratnam, chairman of Perak Turf Club on Saturday. The multi-million dollar sweepstakes draw is being organised in co-operation with Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd which
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    • 203 25 A NAIL prick which resulted in lameness almost cost trainer Ivan Allan's Libran Star from facing the starter in the Sultan Gold Vase in Ipoh yesterday. The grey went lame on Friday because of bad shoeing and was doubtful. But he improved gradually and the rest
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    • 125 25 Reuter. IVAN Lendl beat Stefan Edberg in straight sets yesterday to reach the final of the Masters tennis tournament for the ninth straight year. Lendl, a five-time Masters champion, defeated the reigning Wimbledon champion from Sweden 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) to remain on course for a fourth
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    • 328 26 AFP, Reuter. A RSENAL squandered a second opportunity to go top of the English First Division when it was held 1-1 at home by champion Liverpool yesterday. Striker Alan Smith bravely scrambled his 100 th league goal to earn the Londoners a well-deserved draw after England winger
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    • 208 26 AFP. FORMER England captain Kevin Keegan says he wants to be his country's new manager. And as he staked his claim for the poet the 37-yiar-old, capped 63 times by his country, lashed current boss Bobby Robson. Keegan, currently living well out of the limelight
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    • 206 26 Reuter. ITALIAN LEAGUE WEST Germans Andreas Brehme and Lothar Matthaeus put Italian league leader Internazionale in good heart for its Uefa Cup clash with Bayern Munich next Wednesday by inspiring their side to a 2-0 win atPescara. A free kick from Brehme was deflected into the
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    • 190 26 Reuter. SPANISH LEAGUE THE seesaw battle between Real Madrid and Barcelona for the Spanish First Division leadership continued with Barcelona scrambling to a 2-1 home win over Logrones yesterday. The victory took it back on top less than 24 hours after Real had displaced it by
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    • 248 26 ASIAN CUP SOCCER Reuter, AFP. CHINA scored three goals within five minutes for a 3-0 win over Syria in Group B of the ninth Asian Football Cup tournament in Qatar. Gao Shang opened the account with a powerful header in the 14th minute from
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    • 507 27  -  The young one wants to represent Singapore, the jaded one doesn't. One is eager, the other shattered. But both were surprise winners yesterday in a dramatic end to the 1988 season. ALFONSO CHAN captures the winning feeling By Alfonso Chan WINNING the Grand Finale of the
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    • 291 27 THE earliest birthday present for Grand Finale women's champion Grace Young is also her best. Grace took top prize of $2,300 after demolishing favourite Jesmine Ho in the one-game roll-off and then beating leader Narissa Prateep in the step-ladder finals at Striker's Bowl yesterday. Her
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    • 766 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: GOLF Sun City tournament in South Africa Final scores: 278 Fulton Allem (SA) 72 71 66 69 279 Don Pooley (US) 67 72 74 66 280 Ken Green (US) 67 72 70 71. 283 lan Woosnam (Brit) 72 70 69 72 284
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    • 405 28 The Caribbean kings knew they would rule even before the competition started. Darrem Charles, of Trinidad, and Jefferson Phillips, of Barbados, lived up to their promise last night. Charles took the heavyweight title and Phillips the middleweight, ABDUL SHUKOR reports B OTH Darrein Charles and Jefferson Phillips
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    • 152 28 Bodybuilding in' 9 2 Olympic Games? THE International Federation of Bodybuilders (IFBB) wants the sport to be included in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. But before it can make a formal bid, the IFBB has first to gain admission into the International Olympic Committee. Said Paul Chua, the secretary-general
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    • 358 29 c HANGI Constituency Sports Club may become the first victim of the new semi- professional Premier League. The club's participation in next year's competition hangs in the balance. Until today, it has not paid the participation fee and has also not registered its players. The closing date
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    • 344 29 SINGAPORE'S Merdeka tournament-bound squad suffered a further blow when skipper T Pathmanathan was ruled out yesterday. The experienced defender was due to check in this morning for his five-day national service reservist training. The Football Association of Singapore has not received a reply to its appeal to
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 93 25 ■m tvsports m. MON |M U spm: Sporting Class |!(Z I Swimming strokes: l »o J The butterfly (the last episode). 10.05pm: English League soccer. TUES 10.05pm: Suntory match play. WED l??J| 10.40pm: Midweek Sport v—=J Volleyball Hongkong Olympic Team A v Olympic Team B. (12 10.05pm: NWA Main Event
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  • 99 30 China looks upon all his works as national treasures. In fact, Master Liu Chuan has been awarded the title Technological Artist. It is the highest honour awarded to craftsmen by China. See 20 of his masterpieces including sculptures of Zhong Kui the Ghost Catcher and The Mag-
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    • 52 30 GQ% Terrific! This Issued For Keeps V More Good 'Ears The Brit Pack j Hop for the best. Roger Rabbit England 7 s Old Guard invades hits. town. our shores Kissing 88 Goodbye Exclusive! Oh, what a year! Ouch. Adam interviews Santa Claus IWtHirAMk 7/ Out now. Go get it!
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