The New Paper, 6 December 1988

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  • 13 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 V 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 59 1 TERRORISM UP IN ASIA Survey counts 155 terrorist attacks in Asia so far this year. That's 25 more than same period last year./Page 2 CHANGI QUITS PREMIER LEAGUE Page 31 FOOTBALLER'S COMA BLAMED ON DOCTOR /Page 29 WORLD S-12 STOCKS 12 SHOWTIME 13-14,20.22 TV GUIDE 15 RADIO 26 FASTADS/JOBS 27
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    • 49 1 fopi mat wm right! The sky i* falling! It's 30 I yean since man sent the first machine into space M and now there are over H 40,000 pieces of debris S^H H over our heads. Sooner or fSyjrtellt all falls El What happens /Pay Hill I" 1 q
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  • 67 1 A saga of suffering at sea is told by a yacht's cook just released from hospital here. First his captain dies of food poisoning. Then he falls unconscious. US paratroopers drop into the storm-tossed sea to save him. Then they have to send distress calls. Page 4
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  • 70 1 Stop and go: S N Rajan's job i8 to see that people live to shop another day. The Christmas rush is so big that Mr Rajan has been put to work directing traffic on the side road between Scotts and Dynasty Hotel. Many
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 368 2 Wire services. TERRORISM is up for the year in Asia and down in Western Europe. Asia reports 155 attacks so far this year, an increase of 25 over the first 11 months of last year. South Korea accounted for a large part of the
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    • 167 2 A COMMITTEE studying students and early school leavers has suggested that a number of changes be made to the education system. It thinks that there should not be so much emphasis on examinations, that the school curriculum should be widened and that schools should add full-time
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    • 293 2  -  Picture and story/ Dominic Woon MR S N Raj an likes to use his hands on the job. And he puts them to good use directing traffic on the side road between Scotts shopping centre and Dynasty Hotel. In the Christmas rush, many pedestrians are
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    • 48 2 TWO fire engines rushed to Upper East Coast Road this morning when a call was received that a shop was on fire. Sources say the fire broke out in Keow Hong Trading Enterprise, a car tyre and battery shop, just before 6 am-
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    • 51 2 OUR report yesterday said $1 million worth of gold jewellery was stolen from a shop in Serangoon Road on Sunday. The figure was given to police by the goldsmiths when they made their report. When the goldsmiths checked their merchandise again, they realised only $500,000 worth of jewellery was
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    • 621 3 Bukit Merah Central, Kolam Ayer Industrial Estate and other HDB areas with electronics factories often get the blues and pinks at lunchtime. They take over the hawker centres and nearby shops. NO, it's not another Housing Board campaign to make the environment more colourful. And it
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 31 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon till midnight: Showers over a few areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 30 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 6.57 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.55 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 556 4  -  Yacht captain dies at sea of food poisoning By Chua Chin Chye A YOUNG German stranded on a small yacht on the storm-swept Indian Ocean was snatched from certain death in a daring rescue by American paratroopers recently. Mr Jorg Muller, 25, had
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    • 143 4 THREE snack bars at Katong Shopping Centre must close down for two weeks. Their licences have been suspended because food was prepared and cooked outside the bars and water was thrown out into drains. The operators of the three Katong snack bars have chalked up
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    • 178 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. aloft: Up in the air or in a higher place. boon: That which makes life easier or better. casserole: A large deep container with a lid, in which food
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 497 6 A FORMER drug addict echoes the views a youth committee stated yesterday that the Government should take the lead in hiring former drug addicts. '1 think these leaders should take action and try to employ drug addicts, and through their example the private sector might
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    • 197 6 GIVE a former drug addict a second chance and you won't regret it, say two bosses of private companies who have hired some. "These former drug addicts are quite obedient and are as hard working as the other workers who have never taken drugs/'
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    • 84 6 AN ODD-JOB labourer thought no one was watching when he smashed an air-con-ditioning shaft at Raffles Place MKT station. Someone was. A schoolboy Sardhanad Rai, 15 and his brother Parmanad, 14. When labourer Chua Choo Hong, 35, saw the boys, he threw away his stick
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    • 185 6 A LARGE number of food poisoning victims have gone to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) since Saturday, suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting. The cause of the poisoning is not known, but most of them said that they had eaten greens. Some specifically named broccoli, or kai lan.
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    • 282 6 HIS love for Moneywords gent hi™ scouring through his collection of tattered old newspaper word-game clippings. His efforts made him joint winner of The New Paper Moneywords contest 47/88. Mr Ho Chew Choon, 32, wins $260. His entry was one of the two nearest
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    • 213 7  -  By Ng Wan Ching IGNATIUS Leong was 12 years old when he started playing chess. It was the beginning of a life-long obsession. Last month Mr Leong, 32, was elected to the World Chess Federation's (Fide) qualification commission. Another Singaporean who had been on the commission
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    • 388 7 TRADERS will be able to process their exports and imports faster and easier by computer from the beginning of next year. The launch of the Trade Net system was among the strides highlighted by the Trade Development Board Chairman, Mr Alan Yeo, in the board's
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    • 358 8 ]\/IoRE than 99 per cent of the students who took the N-level exam this year passed. But only 76.2 per cent scored high enough for a place in Secondary 5 and a chance to take the O-levels next year. HARINDER GILL asked students from
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    • 153 8 THIS year, 13,798 students took the N-lev-el examination. Of these, 99.8 per cent obtained a Grade 5 or better in at least one subject Their results qualified them foranK-level certificate but not necessarily a place in Secondary 5, which would have .given them a chance
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    • 170 8 EXAMS are over. Most results are out. Now, it's time to think of your next move. This isn't always easy. The International Education and Career Development Week '88, a four-day exhibition with more than 100 exhibitors, should help you decide what
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    • 147 8 DON'T be surprised if you soon get a taxi driver who can tell you where the spiciest food is, or what the Zoo's polar bears get up to. For today is graduation day for 68 NTUC Comfort taxi drivers after their Introduction to Tourism course.
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    • 180 8 LAWYER Francis Seow has till Saturday to prove he is too ill to travel from New York to Singapore to stand trial for tax evasion. Seow's lawyers said he had been advised by his doctors not to travel before seeing a heart specialist. But
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 330 9 Wire services. A SENIOR Afghan official claims his government bought US Stinger missiles from Muslim resistance fighters for $20,000 apiece. Mr Najmulddin Kawyani, a member of the ruling party's Politburo, said Washington had given 2,000 of the advanced Stinger ground-to-air missiles to Afghan rebels, in
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    • 222 9 Wire services. SINGAPORE Foreign Minister WongKan Seng says Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev should undertake concrete measures to back his call for a superpower military pullout from South-east Asia. Mr Wong told journalists in Manila that he believed President Gorbachev "wants to concentrate
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    • 245 9 Wire services. A FRENCH court has handed the sister-in-law of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto a prison sentence in the mysterious death of her husband. Rehana Bhutto was sentenced in Grasse to serve two years. Whether she will ever serve the time is doubtful. She now lives
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    • 46 9 Ritual: An Israeli policeman puts his usual duties aside to light Hanukkah torches in in Jerusalem. Jews began their eight-day celebration of Hanukkah —Festival of Lights, on Saturday. It marks the purification of a Jewish temple following an ancient Israelite victory. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 228 9 Wire services. AMERICAN television evangelist Jim Bakker, forced to give up his ministry amid a sex scandal, has been charged with criminal fraud. The US Justice Department said a federal grand jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, charged Bakker and an associate with 24 counts of
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    • 323 10 Wire services. AN ADVOCATE for the homeless has invited Mr Mikhail Gorbachev on a guided tour of New York soup kitchens and shelters, saying he ought to see both sides of life in the United States. "If he is going to see one end of
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    • 43 10 Death site: Twenty 20 people were killed and eight wounded in a gas explosion at a date processing factory in Tolga, Algeria. The blast also badly damaged the plant, which produces Deglet-Nour dates, often called the world's best Picture/ Afp
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    • 323 10 Wire services. SOUTH Korean President Roh Tae-Woo has fulfilled his vow to rid his rule of holdovers from the Chun era. He moved yesterday to replace his Prime Minister and 19 of the other 22 members of the cabinet as well as his intelligence chief. He also
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    • 214 10 Wire services. SINHALESE rebels say they will end their terror campaign in Sri Lanka if the government meets seven conditions. The Marxist People's Liberation Front set its truce terms in a statement sent to newspapers in Colombo yesterday. There was no immediate reaction from the
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    • 191 10 Wire services. AT LEAST 60 students jumped or were trampled to death during a panic stampede at a school in the African state of Cameroon. The children became panicky after they heard rumours that their school in the city, Yaounde, was about to
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    • 142 10 Wire services. IRAN has made official what was once an informal law of the land: Drug smugglers will be executed. The penalty will be automatic for anyone caught with 30 g of heroin or 5 kg of opium. Teheran Radio reported yesterday that
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    • 292 11 Wire services. AUSTRALIA plans to hold a nationwide inquiry into increased racist violence across the country. Plans for the probe were announced yesterday by the government-backed Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Sydney. The inquiry will be conducted by Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner Irene Moss.
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    • 163 11 Wire services. YUGOSLAVIA is expelling three Australian diplomats from the Belgrade embassy. Belgrade television made clear yesterday that the action was in response to the closure of the Yugoslav consulate in Sydney. A report carried by state-run TV said the diplomats must leave the country
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    • 38 11 European countriee get a feel of Tim-made denim jackets at a market in Vientiane. The L+otian government w lteen to attract more touriata to the country aa a means of earning mucb-needed foreign exchange. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 178 11 Wire services. THE US economy will slide into a recession before the end of 1990, says a study by a respected business group. The survey reflects the opinions of 66 leading economists, polled by the National Association of Business Economists (Nabe). Forty per
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    • 52 12 Getting freth: The wary expression of this Pekinese seems to cast doubt on the future of the latest doggy deodorant "La Pooch" perfume. Male and female canines can choose from a variety of scents to suit their dog lifestyle The cost? About $80 for a 48-gm botth.
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    • 314 12 Wire services. SINGAPORE is giving qualified support to new trading arrangements adopted both by Europe and North America. "So long (as) these regional efforts enhance trade and do not shut out other countries, they will be useful demonstrations of the feasibility and benefits of freer trade,"
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    • 212 12 Wire services. CHINA'S economic woes have left children without school books and newspapers without newsprint, says the People's Daily. The Beuing newspaper said it and two other big newspapers were forced both to trim production and turn elsewhere for supplies when they were unable
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      281 12 Wire services. SHARES clawed back nearly all their losses towards the end of the session yesterday on the London Stock Exchange, encouraged by a sharp opening rise on Wall Street The Financial Times 30share index closed 0.7 point down at 1,439. Worries over the effect of the sterling's strength
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    • 91 12 Reuter. SHARE prices rote to a new high in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, buoyed by a strong gain in Wall Street prices overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index was up 109.69 points, or 0.37 per cent, at a traded high of 29,724.37 after 10 minutes'
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Mon 1,439.00 (1,439.70) Dow Imm Avaraga Mon 2,123.76 (2,092.28) ST Industrial Mon 993.16 999.37) NST Industrial Mon 1,736.50 (1,738.10) Hongkong Hang Sang Mon 2,671.26 (2,667.26) Australian All Ordlnarias Mon 1,446.20 (1,461.70) Nlkkai Stock Avaraga Mon 29,614.68 (29,665.50) Figure® in bracket* refer to thoee of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      285 12 Wire services. WALL Street, which recorded a net decline by the end of last week, regained momentum yesterday. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials rose 31.48 points to close at 2,123.76. Volume totalled 144.66 million shares. Advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of about seven-to-four.
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  • Showtime
    • 727 13  -  So the Talentime is over. We asked you for your views on the show, the talent and the judges' decisions. Here's what you said: By Lo Tien Yin K UDOS and brickbats for Talentime 88. But judging from those who responded to our Hotline, there were
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    • 468 14  -  By Ting Mei See ONLY last month, ballroom dancing enthusiasts stayed up until 2 am to see 97 couples from around the world glide their way on the dance floor of the Raffles Ballroom at Westin Plaza hotel Dec 15 will be another
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    • 297 14 IN THE 1940s and 50s, there was one ballroom dancing competition every three months. Despite the frequency these contests alwayß drew in the crowds. "Sometimes there may be about 40 contestants. At others more than 100. It depended on the venue," said Mr
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    • 183 14 THEIR music is soulpowered dance music, complete with great moves and slick dressing. And lead singer Martin Fry is best described as a cross between Bryan Ferry and Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet It was in 1981 when they first took the music world
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1644 15 Television Wjffl SCREEN M Hunter I Yan Yin i (Debut) Tuesday Premiere GEMS M The Bogota Million (SBCB,lo.4opm) Uncommon Valour A m (SBC 5, 9.30 prn) I I*JT '''HIS is a series about a famous (SBC 5, 10.40 pm) r Huang Mei opera singer from China. a HUNTER and Didi
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  • Article, Illustration
    786 16 Here's something new for you to worry about tonnes of junk whirling through the heavens with no promise they will stay there.- So far, most of the junk has stayed put. But experts are beginning to wonder if Chicken Little may yet turn out to be right. ROSNAH
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 513 18 AP B EING a rich, 20-year-old pop princess a star on three continents is not all it is cracked up to be. Just ask Kylie Minogue, whose single, The Loco-Mo-tion, shot into the top five of the Billboard pop chart. Another single, I Should Be So Lucky,
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    • Article, Illustration
      416 18  -  By Danny Tan WILD WILD WEST THE ESCAPE CLUB (WEA) IF YOU still haven't got a copy of this, you are missing out on a lot of good music. The Escape Club succeeds where Dan Reed Network fails in trying to fuse funk, swamp rock and rap into a
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    • 266 18  -  By Lo Tien Yin HANG on to a good formula. That's why SBC is now coming up with a sequel to Strange Encounters, the successful series aired last year. The secret, it seems, is to strike a compromise between two favourites comedy and
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 85 19 ARE YOU ODDS COME OF < wj *v" V t r T"^L Uj i 1 I v, -Jm UMgWv 'V ,s^% BRING YOUR LOVED \C n ONES FOR THE 1 HEALING TOUCH! Lw-yJ Speaker: Evangelist Jim Angle all things Date 7th to 9th Dec. 1988 l are po««ibu. Venue DBS
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 457 20  -  Stories/ David Brazil I HAVE a vision of Basil Fawlty as front desk manager at die Shangri-La Hotel. Working at what's often voted the Best Hotel in the World would be just dandy with Basil. Trouble is, Shangri-La would soon Btop
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    • 182 20 JOHN Cleese is a comic genius. Fact. No argument about it. He has paid heavily for his genius, with mental breakdowns and marriage failure. He's on top again now, well on top. He has finally cracked the elusive American market with his unique style of
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    • Article, Illustration
      278 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. DEAD HEAT (Jade 1) FIRST there
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    • 294 20 THE Singapore Youth Choir turns 25 next year. And it is desperately calling all former members to take part in a grand concert to celebrate its silver anniversary. "I think there are about 200 ex-members out there and we need to contact them urgently
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 299 21  -  By Brenton Wong p LUSH toy animals and feathered fans are not usually associated with Le Classique's touristy chain of stores. Yet that's what you'll find at its outlets in the Singapore Zoo and Jurong Bird Park. The zoo outlet is called Animal Kingdom.
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    • 327 21 SHOPPINGBUG Extra padding for baby boys WELL, bowl me over with a baby's breath! Proctor Gamble, the American pioneer in disposable diapers, has decided that boy and girl babies ARE different! After four years of study, the company has come up with separate disposable
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 151 22 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 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1703 24 RAHOGUiDE mm IBn HB NOON Newt ia Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Beod Music, Company and Me: NOON Newadeih 12.05 Lunchdate: Reena Mathewa NOON Easy Lietenlac Liaht instru- 12J0 Uarrtaf Wartd: John Tur\iy spins aome entertaining muai- mental dWoIaCS for vo!Ir noon-Ume entertainment tie leada an mternational aurcal fare in
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 327 25 IT'S green. Most times, it's clean. It looks edible. It isn't. What is it? It's the banana leaf. RAVTNDRA KUMAR tells you how to eat off the thing INDIANS, particularly South Indians, eat their meals off the banana leaf. Not everyday, these days that would
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    • 268 25 MICROWAVECOOK CHICKEN has been cooked in a variety of ways but this Chinese recipe utilises salt to encase, then tenderise the chicken. The news-paper-wrapped chicken can be bundled into a parcel with sticking tape or raffia twine. This receipe, which serves eight, is from the Asian
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 290 26 HEALTH Fitness If you began your training for Sunday's Singapore International Marathon only recently, it is better you don't run, says an expert, SHAHIRON SAHARI reports Marathon running is like an exam you have to be consistent and thorough with your preparation, and not rely
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    • 216 26  -  By S. Gulam SINGAPORE'S top cyclist, Kenneth Tan, will gear up for next year's South-east Asia Games with a three-month training stint in Japan. The 22-year-old Tan will leave for Tokyo in March. Mr Mohd Taha Sanif, the Singapore Amateur Cycling Association secretary, said yesterday
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    • 250 26 SIMPLY SNOOKER by PETER WATSON TO understand the theory of potting, set up this situation on the table: The two reds are touching, and lined up with the pocket Now take the cueball and place it anywhere on the table (Fig 1). Stroke the cueball to make
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    • 137 27 AFP. AN anesthetist, who was trying to do two jobs at the same time, was blamed for causing former French international footballer Jean-Pierre Adam to go into an irreversible coma six years ago. A court in Lyons was told yesterday that an assistant was unable
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    • 78 27 AFP. LAN Handyßides, the Birmingham midfielder forced to retire from professional soccer after an operation to remove a brain tumour, has been hit by the tuiman, The English Second Division soccer club has been told that gate receipts of $122,500 from his benefit game against Manchester United last
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    • 327 27 ASIAN CUP SOCCER AFP, Reuter. QATAR 2 UAE 1 SAUDI 0 KUWAIT 0 QATAR'S victory restored its soccer pride and revived its title hopes. It also probably saved Qatar's Brazilian coach Procopio from having to pack his bags and return to Rio in disgrace. He has been
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    • 162 27 AFP, Reuter. PETER Shreeve has been named care-taker-manager of English First Division soccer side Queens Park Rangers. He took over from Jim Smith, who moved over to Newcastle. Shreeve immediately announced that he wanted the job on a permanent basis. But QPR chairman Richard Thompson, at
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    • 187 27 Wire services. THE Spanish Soccer Players' Association decided yesterday to join a general strike called for Dec 14 and not play League fixtures scheduled for the day. AFE president Gerardo Gonzalez said the decision, backed by all First and Second Division clubs, was taken in solidarity with workers. The
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    • 433 28 Bodybuilding is not just about muscles. It has a lot to do with the mind, too, as was evident at the recent World Juniors Championships, says ABDUL SHUKOR T I HIS is not another futile attempt to mea- sure beauty. Nor is it an A to Z guide
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    • 191 28 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA MARK Birch, jointly sponsored by trainers P K Leong and Bernard Ang, worked Burmese Ruby and Better Times on a good track at Bukit Timah this morning. Burmese Ruby kept pace with Simply Perfect over 600 m in 38.9. Better Times finished
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    • 69 28 Reuter. RUTH Guerster, a 50-year-old Australian housewife, set the pace on the opening day of the World Cup Tenpin Bowling Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico yesterday. She shot four 200-plus games to lead the women's competition with 1,237 pins after the six-game first round. Second was Puerto
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    • 224 28 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: AMERICAN FOOTBALL National Football League: Tampa Bay 10 Buffalo 5, Cleveland 24 Dallas 21. Detroit 30 Green Bay 14, New York 44 Phoenix 7, Cincinnati 27 San Diego 10, San Francisco 13 Atlanta 3, New England 13 Seattle 7, Washington 20 Philadelphia
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    • 334 29 Changi CSC has decided to pull out of the Premier League soccer tournament. It could not produce the $8,200 participation fee when entries closed on Nov 30. It was thought then that the club could not come up with the money. But, as ABDUL SHUKOR
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    • 290 29  -  By S. Gulam A LAST-MINUTE phone call by Maj Abbas Abu Amin has secured Singapore skipper T Pathmanathan's presence in the team for the Merdeka soccer tournament. The Football Association of Singapore chairman appealed directly to the Singapore Armed Forces headquarters yesterday afternoon. An earlier
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 156 27 PROTEIN 90 The superior protein formulation for the sportsmen Protein 90 is a high protein food supplement, formulated for growth and body for body athletes where required. Also recommended I in situations when protein intake may be reduced. Ideal for the whole family. Protein 90 comes in chocolate, strawberry and
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  • UPDATE
    • 913 30 Out About >< WALKMAN. Listen to the Arl sweet sounds of The r I——' StroMng Musicians, a three-man band who wNI entertain you with Christmas carols. Bring your sweetheart and they'll sing to her too. Free. Centrepoint atrium. 7 pm 8 pm. EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA.
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    • 14 30 COMING UP: The Philippines OUT AND ABOUT: Strolling musicians GALLERY: British landscapes
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    • 188 30 A erased wolf. A three-pig rock group called the Ham Gang Music Band. Local drama group Act 3 updates the famous bedtime story and makes it boogie. In this version the wolf tries to impress his father with meat thrown away from a grocery store.
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