The New Paper, 8 December 1988

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 58 1 SECOND GOLD FIELD FOUND IN TRENGGANU /Pat* 10 KuataLumpur «j£*\ SINGAPOfe v.^T DOES S'PORE NEED AN OPTION TO JAIL? /Pagat GORBACHEV: TRUCE IN AFGHAN WAR ON JAN 1 /Pag* 11 UEFA CUP RESULTS Bayern Munich stuns Internazionale with three goals in six minutes to earn surprise quarter-final place. /Page 28
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    • 220 1 FMDONWALKER I/" /I kd£L r\J. i* I IS HERE I Even before it opens in America, Michael Jackson's V first full-length movie can be jf\ B seen in Singapore. r Jm Mt B Moonwalker opens today at ■S^^B^K^B^^^^^EfBlL: B Capitol, Savoy 2, Woodlands B^ M and President cinemas. It's a
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 373 2  -  Stories/ Karen Goh and Ng Wan Ching s TUDENTS greeted the solution to the literature examination paper mess with relief. "I think it's the best solution there can be because ev- eryone will be marked equally," said Mr H C Wong of Ang Mo Kio Pre-U
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    • 228 2 THE examiners will have three marking schemes. And they will take into account the distress and difficulties felt by candidates. The marking system will apply to answers to essay questions in Section B of the Shakespeare paper but consideration will be given to some candidates' performance
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    • 190 2 CONTROVERSIAL Muslim preacher Habib Segaff Mahdi has asked the Registry of Muslim Marriages here to list Waheedah as his wife. They were married secretly in Surabaya, Indonesia, after a love affair that resulted in his Islamic school losing most of its Singapore students.
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    • 94 2 A CAMPAIGN to raise money and manpower to help Malay Muslims break away from drug addiction is in the planning stage. Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, MP for Siglap, is chairman of the task force. "Our immediate target is to increase the number of Ma-lay-Muslim voluntary
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    • 47 2 Bird talk: Ms Rohaini Tsunbi tries to coax her pet mynah, Mamat, to speak during Malaysia's first bird-talking contest in Lumut. Mynahs speaking Malay, the National Language, got extra points during the contest. Birds who swore were banned from the contest Picture/ Reuter
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    • 94 2 NEARLY six million construction workers in China could lose their jobs by next spring due to a slowdown ordered by the government. The Ministry of Construction announced the cutback in a 10-year-old programme of economic reforms in Beijing yesterday. Mr Zhang Qinglin, director of
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    • 512 3  -  By Ng Wan Ching IT'S on the cards. Santa is clawing his way through Singapore, and sales of locally designed Christmas greeting cards have never looked so good. And the "Ho, Ho, Hos" are coming from the buyers and not that fat guy in red. Santa's
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 34 2 The Weather THE weather outlook from noon till midnight: Showers over many areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 6.58 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.56 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 474 4  -  By Irene Hoe ONE of the world's largest makers of electronic components is investing $88 million in a new factory in Yishun Industrial Park. It will create 200 new jobs in Singapore. On Saturday, Murata Electronics Singapore (MES) breaks ground on a 17,000 sq
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    • 176 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. antiquated: Very old-fashioned. baroque: Complicated, rich and elaborate. cornerstone: The part on which the success of something depends. feasibility study: A study made to see if something is worth
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    • 248 4 TOGETHER these four reports weigh almost as much as your telephone directory all three volumes of it. The reports contain hundreds of pages squeezed from many hours of briefing, dialogue, discussion, argument and counterargument. Talk. Not to mention a heap of written opinions sent in
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    • 390 4 ENGLISH-LANGUAGE plays, written and staged locally, will be on SBC television in two days time for the first time. "Starting from Dec 10, the many fans of English drama will be able to enjoy the local plays on yet another
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    • 332 6 MORE smaller companies can now buy computers with some help from the Government. There are about 70,000 small and medium-sized enterprises. These will be able to go hi-tech with a new scheme. The Small Enterprise Computerisation Programme (SECP), launched last year, has three new
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    • 434 6  -  By Geneieve Kwek I T will take more than a deft set of fingers to try and open this safe. It takes the correct fingerprint For this safe needs no locks or key. And it's safe enough for use in high security places such
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    • 212 6 SINGAPORE'S image as a budding culturally vibrant society should be boosted by an art competition that's being launched today. This should also create new opportunities for local artists to achieve recognition. The grand prize is $5,000. The six top winners will walk away with a total
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    • 207 6 THE Ministry of the Environment (ENV) is more than 150 people short. It hopes to find them at the International Education and Career Development Week '88. Mrs Kuan Kwee Jee, the ministry's deputy director, said yesterday: "This year, because of the economy upturn, recruitment
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    • 362 8  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE has no need for alternatives to jail, says the Home Affairs Ministry. Why not, ask lawyers and social workers. Community service as a substitute for a jail sentence is being considered seriously in the United States and Britain. But not in
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    • 217 8 THESE are some of the alternatives to a jail sentence found in other countries: The most recent well-known case involved drug smuggler Harvey Prager, 40, in the United States. He was sentenced to five years work with Aids patients. Said his supervisor, Dr
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    • 100 8 A GOVERNMENT spokesman says the greens being sold in markets now have passed tough tests and are safe to eat. Yesterday's announcement by the Ministry of the Environment came after a round of inspections ordered when people began falling ill after eating greens,
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    • 380 8 MORE stress is being faced by young people here, say the Samaritans of Singapore. They say that in this respect they are closing in on the youth of Japan, where teenage suicide is a serious problem. Ms Maureen Fung, a director of the Samaritans of
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    • 360 9  -  Stories/^ Chow Wai Fong G RADUATION proms which were once exclusively for A-level students have now caught ■on with Sec 4 students Junior proms are now very in. And though they have fewer frills than their senior counterparts, they are just as much fun. The
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    • 361 9 THE A-level exams are over. And prom fever has begun. At least three junior colleges had their graduation proms yesterday. Temasek Junior College, Tampines Junior College and Hwa Chong Junior College held their senior proms last night. They were held in the Mandarin, Westin
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    • 361 7 lj&: Were the first to admit that emergency loan schemes? All National National VCRs are not exactly the cheapest VCRs offer excellent after sales back-up, brand on the market. including home service, priority service for Or so it first appears. guaranteed sets, and even an emergency set Which is why
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      55 10 Repentant The former Punjab Chief Minister cleans shoes at a temple in Chandigarh as punishment for defying orders by Sikh high priests. On Monday, Mr Surjit Singh Barnala, 63, began 21 days of atonement for his "mistakes by getting tied to a pillar at the Golden Temple, we
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    • 272 10 NST. THE glitter of the Trengganu gold rush has taken on an added shine. A second gold field has been found in the Malaysian state. For the past week, gold hunters have swarmed the new site at Kampung Kubang Ikan, about 12 km from Kuala Trengganu. Nearby
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    • 228 10 Wire services. TALKS aimed at removing world trade barriers are bogged down in a dispute over farmer demands for protection against imports of cheaper food and fibre. In Montreal, Canada, a spokesman for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) said yesterday efforts
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    • 296 11 Wire services. SOVIET President Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday announced a massive cut in Soviet troops and weapons. The Soviet leader, making his maiden speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, cast himself as a champion of peace. He also called for a ceasefire in
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    • 48 11 Mistaken Identity: New Yorkers could be forgiven for thinking they were seeing Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev walking outside the Soviet UN mission without bodyguards on Tuesday. The Gorbachev look-alike was American actor Ronald Knapp, who said he was looking for a job. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 141 11 Wire services. US PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan has said the Soviet commitment to reduce its strength in conventional weapons is "a great forward step". "That was not a proposal that was a decision. I heartily approve," he said. He spoke to reporters just before he met
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    • 241 12 Wire services. THE worst earthquake in 80 years ripped through northern Armenia in the Soviet Union yesterday. Thousands were left homeless. In neighbouring eastern Turkey, three villages in Kara Province were shaken. First reports told of five deaths and 45 buildings destroyed. While the
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    • 205 12 Wire services. HER boss said he had three ways of getting an unwanted medical doctor out of his clinic. One way was harassment. Then came the snails and millipedes attack. The screws of her chair were loosened and chemical poured
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    • 129 12 Wire services. THE mayor of Nagasaki said ailing Emperor Hirohito could have prevented the World War II atom-bomb attack on the city. Speaking on the 47th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour yesterday, Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima said the Emperor failed to use his
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  • FOREIGN STOCkS
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      262 10 Wire services. SHARES closed higher on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The' Financial Times 30-share index closed 6.2 points up at 1451. Volume totalled 490.1 million shares. Many sectors were marked higher: notably, pharmaceuticals and industrials. The share prices of oil industry engineering specialists Davy Corporation climbed 5 pence
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    • 100 10 Reuter. SHARE prices fell sharply on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in opening trade on profit-taking after breaking through the 30,000-point resistance level for the first time yesterday, brokers said. The Nikkei index lost 160.31 points, or 0.53 per cent, to 29,890.51 in the first 10 minutes of trade. It
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    • 51 10 FT Industrials Wed 1451.00 (1,444.80) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,153.63 (2,149.36) ST Industrial Wed 998.99 996.14) NST Industrial Wed 1,745.23 (1,740.84) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 2,690.28 (2,676.59) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,471.60 (1,459.20) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 30,050.82 (29,669.38) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      261 10 THE New York stock market closed with a small gain yesterday after moderately active trading. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrial shares closed up 4.27 points at 2,153.63. NYSE volume totaled 148.36 million shares, against 158.34 million in the previous session. Gainers outnumbered losers at 818
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  • Showtime
    • 452 13  -  By Sonja Tan M OVIE-GOERS will be able to see Moonwalker, Michael Jackson's first full-length feature film even before audiences in America. This is because Moonwalker opens in Singapore today at Capitol, Savoy 2, Woodlands and President cinemas. It is only scheduled to be released in America
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    • 449 14  -  By Lo Tien Yin ONE of the most popular current movies in Hongkong (to be screened here tomorrow midnight) is a China documentary. A Glimpse of China, however, will not offer glimpses of touristy scenes such as picturesque Hangzhou city, the strange rock formations
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    • 201 14 AMY Grant started writing songs when she was 15. A year later, while she was working in a Nashville recording studio sweeping floors and de-magnetising tape heads, record producer Brown Bannister heard a tape of her material. He is a producer with Word,
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    • 191 14  -  By Adeline Woon HEAR your favourite negro spirituals, folk songs as well as exotic religious musical chants, sung by the Glee Club of Cornell University. This 50-man chorus which was formed 120 years ago, is one of the most well-known American singing groups.
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    • 1000 16 How good a judge of couples are you? See if you can pair our Mrs of the World contestants with the men in their lives below. LIM KUAN CHIANG and SONJA TAN help you along. SIXTEEN couples will walk down the aisle for the second time on
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    • 364 21 Wire services SINGER-songwriter Roy Orbison is dead of a heart attack at the relatively young age of 52 a weepy end for a weepy balladeer. Death came at a hospital near Nashville, Tennessee, late last night, chopping off a musical comeback. Kids of today
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    • Article, Illustration
      203 21 WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (Orchard) A MUST-SEE movie where cartoon characters share top billing with human actors. 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) FULL-LENGTH McDonald's movie starring Mac
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1763 15 lsion SCREEN M Hindi Cinema Thursday Feature Special lacocca GEMS Shahenshah (Part 1) Flamingo Kid An American Profile (SBC 5,10.55 pm) (SBC 12, 8.00 pm) AMITABH Bachehan fc> Vijay, DIRECTOR Garry Marshall's 1984 AN intimate portrait of America's also known as Shahenshah, a effort a ni m oU.t Q best-known
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 562 22  -  Bugis Street Chuen Chuen Chicken Rice and Cooked Food 2, Lorong Serine, off Chengi Roed lOem to 10pm From $2 per plete for chicken and cher siew rice, $3 for side dishes By Lim Swee Hong I HAVE a confession to make. I've kept this
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    • 145 22 FOOD WISE A BITE or two here, a little nip there we're all tempted. But first feast your eyes on the calories at large in a Christmas kitchen! Here's a chart to remind you how those nibbles will finally add up. M Each of these
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  • FASHIONTODAY
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      281 23  -  By Brenton Wong DESIGNERS have dipped into history for inspiration. And they have come up with a renaissance of the lavish and the baroque. In favour are the Middle Ages in Europe, when velvet, gilding, tapestry weaves and sumptuous sleeves were fashion trends at court. And, of course,
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    • 297 23 ifc D < r P xLU m i— A twfcewookly column to get you into n n m ail/l n m condition for tho IOtuVO tOOHMI 1 flVVvvQi THERE i* lots of handshaking to do at Christmas parties. Yet, with just two weeks
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 147 24 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 24 Miscellaneous
    • 205 24 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne OKIE PAY,MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL &E. 11l AMP TI-IEY CALL MB MORRI&LE HOMELESS... ANP MILLIONS OF OTHERS w WHO COO LP EASILV HELP WILL TUST f V TUgN AllgUSta/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill I AFWfT A HAVpyaj > mn 2*™* fib-j vCte 7 J /punt >5
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1758 26 RADIOGUIDE [oW rMT— fmtwmm lirwmim.i.'i MOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Good Music, Company and Mo: NOON Newsdeeh OOVvM />XN 1J OS Luachdate- An afternoon selec- y MU r ~L l En i°y y° ur lunch break with a 12.30 Sodoty Today: A weekly look at tion of
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  • SPORTS
    • 182 27 Reuter, AP. FIVE new events have been approved for the 1992 Winter and Summer Olympic Games by the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The lOC's Director of Information, Michele Verdier, said in Vienna yesterday women's biathlon, freestyle mogul skiing (over bumps) and
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    • 202 27 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA RESTRICTED Terms horse Primegold worked like a winner on a good track at Bukit Timah this morning. With visiting rider MacKay up, he reeled off 600 m in 35.8, finishing strongly. Farsightedness (Razmy) did a smart run in 36.2. Street Wise (Junaidi)
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    • 352 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Atlanta 123 Sacramento 113, Portland 97 New Jersey 93, New York 124 Denver 123, Chicago 105 Boston 100, Houston 106 Cleveland 105, Milwaukee 109 Detroit 84, Seattle 112 San Antonio 107, Phoenix 115 Washington 85, Golden State 114 Utah
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    • Italian teams stunned
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        254 28 Reuter. THREE goals in six minutes from Bayern Munich stunned Italian League leader Inter-Milan yesterday and earned it a surprise place in the Uefa Cup quarter-finals. Although Inter, enjoying a two-goal advantage from its third-round first-leg match two weeks ago, managed to pull one back to level the
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        138 28 Third-round, secondleg: AS Roma (Ita) 0 Dynamo Dresden 2 (EG) (Dynamo wins 4-0 on aggregate); Napoli (Ita) 0 Bordeaux 0 (Fra) (Napoli 1-0); FC Cologne (WG) 2 Real Sociedad 2 (Spa) (Real 3-2); Velez Mostar (Yug) 2 Hearts (Scot) 1 (Hearts 4-2); Inter-Milan (Ita) 1 Bayern Munich
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      • Article, Illustration
        276 28 AFP. ITALY'S bid for a European treble this season suffered its first casualty yesterday when unpredictable Roma crashed out of the Uefa Cup. It crumbled 2-0 at home to Dynamo Dresden in the third round, having already lost the first leg by the same margin in East Germany
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    • 216 28 Reuter. ALESSANDRO Altobelli secured Juventus's place in the last eight of the Uefa Cup with the winner in the 1-0 victory over FC Liege. Altobelli settled the battle in the 14th minute with a finely-timed run into the area to score from a ball deflected into his
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    • 205 28 AFP, AP. NEWCASTLE'S new manager Jim Smith went straight into the transfer market yesterday. He sold striker John Robertson back to Scottish Premier side Hearts for $2.69 million and bought midfielder Kevin Brock for $1.07 m from his former team, Queens Park Rangers. Said Smith: "Brock passes the ball
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    • 496 29 The 32nd Merdeka soccer tournament opens tonight at the Merdeka Stadium. Singapore, back in the fray after eight years, is expected to finish at the bottom of its group. So what's new? It could be visions of Sea Games gold, reports S GULAM from Kuala
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    • 329 29 SINGAPORE has never been short of good stoppers the hatchetmen. Some of the best in the region over the past decade have come from the Republic. From Syed Mutalib in the Seventies to Norhalis Shafik in the early Eighties. In between there was the
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    • 296 29 LIKE his team, Seak Poh Leong is dwarfed by the coaches of Singapore's rivals in Group B. But he has one consolation. All four of them come from the same school of thought German soccer. Oman is handled by West Germany's famous "Father of Coaching", Karl Heinz Hedergott.
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    • 646 30  -  Sunday's Singapore Marathon has drawn all sorts of runners, from all around the world, with all kinds of objectives By Shahiron Sahari Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell from The Charge of the Light Brigade, Lord Alfred Tennyson. THAT could well have
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    • 406 30  -  By Shahiron Sahari SUNDAY'S race will be defending champion Alain Lazare's second-last marathon in French colours provided he recovers from his flu. For Lazare who will know tomorrow if he can run on Sunday will say au revoir to running for his country
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    • Article, Illustration
      213 30  -  By Abdul Shukor IT'S probably not the ordinary couple's way of spending a Sunday but for Michael Halvorsen and Tove Schultz-Lorentzen, the husband-and-wife team from Denmark, are different. Running the marathon is just the tonic to start the day. Michael and Tove, both 28, belong to the Sparta
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    • 372 31 There's good news for Singapore's five representatives to the Malaysian Open Badminton tournament. They have all been given direct entry into the~ tournament proper, but two of them face tough first-round hurdles. ALFONSO CHAN reports SINGAPORE'S five representatives to the Malaysian Open will not have
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    • 264 31  -  By Shahiron Sahari SINGAPORE will play Thailand at its own game when the two countries meet in the inaugural Un-der-20 Youth Cup rugby match on Saturday. "We have no choice," said Singapore manager Lincoln Tan yesterday, "we can only play according to the type of
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  • 1051 32 t ►CENTKESTOCE THREE UTTLE PIGS GO PUNK Starring a crazed wolf and three little pigs who have formed a rock group called The Ham Gang Music Band. Local drama group Act 3 updates the old bedtime story. See it at the Drama Centre. 11 am and 3 pm. Tickets
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  • 13 32 for ut and about: siej g h des GALLERY: Teachers' palette
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  • 128 32 VlllllBiWB llWIta These fellows smoke, swallow fire and even sword-fight! One even has a skull that splits open to reveal a brain that glows! The 28-man Huge Puppet Troupe from China will stage Chinese legendary stories with characters like the Monkey God and old glowing brain the
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
    • 50 32 I GQP\ Terrific! This Issue's For Keeps V More Good 'Ears The Brit Pack Hop for the best. Roger Rabbit England's Old Guard invades hits town. our shores Kissing '88 Goodbye Exclusive! sSsms. Oh, what a year! Ouch. Adam interviews Santa Claus wm\ Out now. Go get it! GO DECEMBER
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