The New Paper, 13 December 1988

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  • 12 1 the new paper Tuesday, December 13, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 76 1 WANTED: YOUNG SPORTS BOSS Singapore's sport boss WfA retire. "Get someone younger. More robust, "Tr with more ideas to put Ha'- perspective." He also feels we should go for RISE IN TEEN PREGNANCIES Call for support group to help teenagers who have had abortions. Page 9 $300,000s° EL TV GUIDE
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    • 88 1 |»yy Sportsman off the Year David Lim (right). Paget 2 and 29 I BIKINI BOTTOM ■HI And Runner's Rump. Two of the problems H^Hk. for those who exercise vigorously. Page H RUNNING MAD H Relive the drama and courage of Sunday's Vj M marathon. In colour. Page 16 H mtL
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 358 2 Business Times. SALARY increases for executives and professionals rose 9 per cent this year, about double the pay hike for the average worker. That was one of the results of a survey by Peat Marwick Management Consultants. Private sector workers got increases between 4
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    • 368 2  -  By Ken Jalleh Jr DAVID LIM, sporting celebrity last night and soldier this morning, is thinking of quitting. He was crowned Singapore's Sportsman of the Year last night. This morning, he traded his swimming trunks for Temasek greens. And the army's gain could mean a
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    • 160 2 PROMOTION to secondary school will no longer be automatic for Malaysian pupils from 1990. From that year, weak primary school students will have to undergo an additional year of remedial classes. The changes were announced by the Education Minister, Mr Anwar Ibrahim, during an
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    • 34 2 THE metal taken from the third "gold" strike in Bukit Pintu Gerbang, Malaysia turned out to be fool's gold, or pyrite. This was confirmed by the Geological Survey Department. See next page.
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    • 38 2 TWO photographs with yesterday's report, Boom Time (in Johor Baru), were wrongly captioned. "Mr Lim" is Mr Lau Soon Heng, operations officer of Nilai Baby Land. "Mr Lau" is Mr Jason Loh, owner of a clothing store.
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    • 433 3 The Trengganu gold rush has triggered another rush, this one in Singapore for special equipment which is said to be able to detect the precious metal. YUSMAN AHMAD checks out this electronic device. T I I I 1 < i < i i i i
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 34 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon till midnight: Windy with passing showers over a few areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 30 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.01 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.58 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 490 4  -  By Harinder Gill ANGELINE Lim would like a bicycle for Christmas. But she knows better than to wish for one. This year, like the past four years, Angeline knows what she will get. A set of used school books. At
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    • 117 4 THE closing date for donating old school textbooks to NTUC FairPrice outlets is now Friday. The deadline has been extended by one day to allow last-minute donors to come forward, said Ms Rosslyn Mak, NTUC Fair Price's public relations manager. Last year, 67,000 books were
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 263 6 THINK twice before you go for a computer professional course. So says Dr Angela Goh, assistant director (Academic) of Ngee Ann Polytechnic. "There is no golden passport to a career path even with these papers," she said. In the past 10 years, there has been
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    • 219 6 THE problem of so many different computer qualifications and their accreditation should soon be sorted out by a Standards Committee. This committee will be part of the Singapore Computer Society, a body with 1.700 members. This could be the answer for students like the
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    • 170 6 Lianhe Zaobao. A GROUP of Malaysian farmers will meet with officials of Singapore's Environment Ministry tomorrow to discuss a crisis brought about by the sale of poisoned Chinese broccoli. Meanwhile, officials in Johor are charging a Kempas vegetable dealer with selling insecticide-poisoned gailan. The Singapore Environment
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    • 362 6  -  By Ng Wan Ching MOST Singapore hotels are now in full festive season dress. Not so Sheraton Towers in Scotts Road. On the outside it's still as sober as a judge. "We cater to a select clientele of businessmen who would not like to
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    • 295 7 KEROPOK, that's what a row of shops along Clive Street have been dealing in for the last 30 years. The raw "keropok" (the Malay word for fritters or crackers) come in different sizes and colours. They are made from fish, prawns, tapioca or other vegetables, or
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    • 476 8 A SINGAPOREAN died in a fire in his friend's house in Seremban last Saturday after saving the family's lives. His body was found face down in a bathroom of the house after firemen put out the blaze. A New Sunday Times report said
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    • 216 8 DISTRICT Judge Sarjit Singh has reserved his decision and will announce on Thursday what he will do about lawyer Francis Seow who failed to appear in court yesterday to face trial on tax evasion charges. The judge said he could do one of three
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    • 223 8 TWO extra airplanes to Perth in Western Australian are being chartered to cater for the "dramatic" increase in Singaporean students going there to further their studies. It used to be east Australian cities like Sydney and Melbourne that were more popular with
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    • 239 8 THE first three town councils were formed last month, and another three were formed this month. They will need managers. Enter the big banks. The Big Four banks may sell their services as management agents for town councils. About a dozen senior
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    • 488 9  -  By Irene Ng THE rising number of teen pregnancies and abortions in Singapore is causing concern and prompting official action. A new report by the Committee on Students and Early School Leavers proposes that a support group be set up especially for teenagers
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    • 126 9 PEACE and quiet to do some academic work. That's what Dr Augustine Tan, the former chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) on Finance and Trade and Industry, wants. He said yesterday that he had declined a reappointment to the post of GPC
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    • 144 9 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. embossed: A card embossed with gold is one that has a raised pattern or words in gold. enthusiastic: Showing eagerness and excitement. etched: If something is etched in people's
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    • 90 9 All in one course you're set to celebrate SOME community centres are rolling several courses into one for Singaporeans who have little time to spare but still want to learn how to better celebrate the festive season. A course called Getting Ready for Christmas, for instance, combines cake and cookie
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 140 7 Uncover The Mystery Of No Cover Charge. This is one mystery that has a happy ending. We're celebrating our 4th Anniversary and to toast I the occasion all drinks are at bar prices and there's AuvrffSv No Cover Charge! chs<;othk>u£ lIVU 4 MOT 11 N|W OTANI It's all happening from
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 389 10 Wire services. A LONDON train accident that killed at least 36 people was probably caused by a technical fault rather than human error. That is the tentative finding of the British Railways Board, which launched an immediate probe of the crash. The accident occurred yesterday
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    • 190 10 Wire services. PASSENGER Chris Reeves was in the buffet car of one of the trains when "the roof split open like a ripe tomato" "There was furniture and enormous lumps of metal flying everywhere," he said. "You see pictures of things like this, but when you're in the middle
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    • 237 10 Wire services. ACTING Pakistan President Ghulam Ishaq Khan has been elected to a full fiveyear term. He will be sworn in this afternoon. Federal Election Commissioner S A Nusrat said yesterday that of the 446 valid electoral votes cast, Mr Ishaq Khan polled 348
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    • 127 10 Wire services. IRAN has been accused of carrying out the biggest wave of secret political executions since the early 80s. Amnesty International, a London-based human rights group, says it has solid evidence of mass killings across the country. It said thousands have been
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    • 231 10 Wire services. PRESSURE is building in the Soviet Union for builders in quake-stricken Armenia to be criminally prosecuted for shoddy construction. Officials say many victims would have lived had buildings been more solidly constructed. Most of the victims were killed when walls and roofs suddenly
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    • 260 11 Wire services. A SENIOR rebel leader has dashed hope of a Christmas truce in the Philippines. "How can there be a ceasefire when they (the military) are conducting large-scale attacks?" Rafael Baylosis told reporters yesterday during a court appearance in Manila. The suspected communist leader
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    • 37 11 Cry mtrcy: A fearful Palestinian girl weeps after her arrest by a young Israeli trooper in Arab East Jerusalem. She was arrested during a students' protest against the closure of their school. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 156 11 Wire services. FORTY-SIX years later, 16 Filipino soldiers have been recognised for heroism during the infamous Bataan Death March of World War 11. The Filipinos, who served in the American Army, were given the Bronze Star and other decorations for bravery at a ceremony
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    • 259 11 Wire services. LEBANESE terrorists say they will execute a kidnapped US marine officer. They say he is a spy for Israel. "We have issued the irrevocable sentence to execute this American spy," said a typewritten Arabic statement signed by the Organisation of the Oppressed
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    • 277 11 Wire services. INDONESIA faces no major external threat in the next five years, says a senior army officer. But Jakarta is wary of a possible threat from "the north", said Air Marshal Teddy Rusdy in Jakarta yesterday. He named no country, but observers
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    • 49 12 Cover-lip: Courtesy comes first for this Japanese stockbroker even as he signals at the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It's a common custom among Japanese to cover their faces with masks when they have a bad cold both for self-protection and out of consideration for others. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 271 12 Wire services. A NEW baby boom in China is straining social services and causing officials to look towards stricter birth control measures. The official New China News Agency quoted the minister of the State Family Planning Commission, Ms Pen Peiyun, as saying: "It is urgent for
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    • 177 12 Wire services. FAR from asking Indian soldiers to go home, President Junius Jayewardene may ask other foreign troops to join them in Sri Lanka. Both the Sinhalese militants and Tamil rebels want him to order out the 50,000 Indian troops in the country. But the
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    • 145 12 Wire services. A STARVING, 70 kg boa constrictor devoured its brother at the Teheran Zoo. Animals there are dying daily for lack of food, the Iranian news agency Irna said. "They had a happy life together for years. But there was not much else to eat,"
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      270 12 Wire services. SHARE prices on the London Stock Exchange closed lower but well above their session lows yesterday, helped by the release of encouraging retail sales figures. The Financial Times 30share index closed seven points down at 1,422.4. Volume was a moderate 460.7 million shares. Investors were anxiously waiting
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    • 68 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, brokers said. The Nikkei index slipped 22.79 points, or 0.08 per cent, to 29,649.5 in 10 minutes of trade. Declines were led by securities house, warehouse, bank, non-life insurance, railway/bus, real estate, pharmaceutical, retail and oil shares. Advances
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    • 54 12 FT Industrials Mon 1,422.40 (1,429.40) c Dow Jones Average Mon 2,139.58 (2,143.49) ST Industrial Mon 1,001.40 (1,002.26) c NST Industrial Mon 1,758.80 (1,763.07) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 2,665.94 (2,671.36) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,469.40 (1,471.00) o Nikkei Stock Average Mon 29,672.29 (29,793.42) Figures in bracket* refer to those of
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    • Article, Illustration
      267 12 Wire services. WALL Street closed lower yesterday, after a decline late in the day chipped off earlier gains. After putting on more than 14 points, the Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials fell 3.91 points to close at 2,139.58 points. In moderately active trading, some 124 million
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 550 13  -  Btach Garden Seafood Pte Ltd 15 t Marina South, #01-01, Marina Grove Tel: 221-3716 11 ant to 12.30 pm By Lim Swee Hong BEACH Garden offers seafood with a difference. You don't have to fight for a parking space, wait for a table or sweat over
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    • 400 13 Cooking turkey with trimmings a breeze COOKING a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings can be a breeze with the microwave. Today, K Karuna gives a recipe for roast turkey and stuffing, plus tips on defrosting and cooking the bird. Next Tuesday, she will give hints on vegetables and
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • Shomtime
    • 537 14  -  By Vivien Chiong p I AULINE Yeung and Shailin Tse have two things in common: They are both former Miss Hongkongs, and now, TV actresses. But there the similarity ends. Witty Pauline Yeung, 21, is recognised as one of the most successful Miss Hongkongs in recent
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    • 216 14 TAKE heart, those of you who didn't have enough of The Wynners at the Polycram 20th Annivesary Show in October. The five-member band will be back for three concerts on Jan 6, 7 and 8 at World Trade Centre Hall Four. The
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1559 15 Televisions ISMB v\ p SCREE IM Nova A Man, A Plan, Tuesday Premiere If. V In ElirOpa i THE Panama Canal was completed in A FANTASY drama about a 3ft (SBC 12, 9.30pm) [f y 1 1914 after undergoing a 30-year young girl, Sarah (Jennifer Ym ,'*< txt tu Bu
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  • spotlight
    • 1112 16 The marathon is a gruelling 42.195 km run the same as running non-stop from the World Trade Centre to the Causeway. But more and more people, from women lawyers to teenagers, are subjecting themselves to a punishing personal regime just to be able to complete
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    • 100 16 Details of last Sunday's Singapore International Marathon: Number of runners: Slightly over 3,000. Men: 2,600. Women: 300. Veterans: 150. Wheelchair participants: 20. Those who completed: 1,480 in the men's category, 102 in the women's and 103 in the veterans'. The route was exactly 42.195 km as in international standards
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 247 18  -  By Vivien Chiong IF YOU enjoyed watching Chow Yun Fatt and Ti Lung in A Better Tomorrow on SBC 8 last Saturday, don't miss the new movie City War. This time though, you'll have to get out to a Cathay cinema to watch it
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    • 167 18 STELLA isn't new to the beauty contest scene. She has been in two contests before and won the Miss Personality title for Miss Singapore/International 1984, and was the first run- ner-up for Miss four years ago. She first heard of the Mrs Singapore contest through an
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    • 44 18 WE promised you a picture of each Mrs Singapore finalist with her husband. Yesterday, we missed out the picture of contestant Mdm Wone Seh Fah ana her husband, Mr Choong Wee Cheong. Here's the picture of the couple. Co-ordinaor/ Pauline Tan
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    • 306 18  -  REVIEW/ By Ting Mei See THE social setting for Moliere's The School For Wives is 17th century Paris. Where men in impeccably-powdered hairdos are made cuckolds once too often by their cunning wives. It was precisely this period mood and atmosphere that last night's debut performance
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    • 276 18 IF YOU can make, the sound of a Pepsi can opening or cry like a bird, then SBC Radio is looking for you. It's launching a quest for what it calls "unusual and odd talent". This first-ever Talent Quest is for
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    • 401 19  -  By Lo Tien Yin s i TRANGE Encounters II has more "scary" TV characters than any other serial. Each time there is a new SBC serial, notes and sketches of the characters for make-up artists' reference usually fill a file of one cm thick. But
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    • 211 19 USA Today. ROY Orbison's last album now his epitaph recaptures the haunting, naked desperation of an unforgettable voice. Each of the 10 songs on Mystery Girl to be released in Singapore early next year was written by Orbison or his musical colleagues.
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    • Article, Illustration
      228 19 MOONWALKER (Capitol and Savoy 2) MOONWALKER is a multi-million dollar personal fantasy adventure for Michael Jackson. Dance sequences and special effects are well done. More for teenagers, though, and Jackson fans. Times for Capitol: 11 am, 1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 pm. Times for Savoy 2: 11 am, 1.30,
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    • 362 20  -  By Brian Miller RIDLEY'S may have the rubber, but Century Park Sheraton has Ridley's Has the Rubber. So thank the hotel for giving Singapore another place to party and not just another discotheque. Ridley's Has the Rubber is Singapore's first "bistrotheque". It opens its doors tomorrow.
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    • 412 20  -  By Danny Tan NEITHER member of the San Francisco pop group, Times Two, reads or writes music. But that hasn't stopped them from playing keyboards. "We just play it all by ear, like we've always done," said 23-year-old Shanti Jones. This reporter spoke to
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    • Article, Illustration
      213 20 GEORGE QUIPS AWAY GEORGE Michael is said to be on an enforced diet but was cheerful last week. "I'm always on a diet," quips George. "At the moment, I'm on a seafood diet. When I see food, I eat it." Ha ha! SHOOTING STAR JAN-MICHAEL Vincent will shoot his
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 368 21  -  By Brenton Wong LIKE Imelda Marcos, Maud Frizon's passion is shoes. She doesn't only hoard them, she keeps them in a private collection in France. "I have a private museum at home in the Loire valley. This contains over 2,000 pairs of shoes," said the
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    • 129 21 USA Today. RETIN-A appears to be as good as promised for smoothing wrinkles and is showing great potential for preventing skin cancer. In the United States, a 22month study of 21 patients the longest so far shows Retin-A: Has long-lasting benefits. Reduces deep skin lines. Can
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    • 217 21  -  SHOPPINGBUG By Josephine Ng THIS time, it's a "bubble" air freshener. Glade Stick-on-Fresh has a double bubble pouch device. Liquid perfume is contained in the inner pouch. When it bursts open, a fragrance > should exude through the outer poucn. Cost $2.60 for a single
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 47 21 Febs gives effective relief for colds Febs helps relieve your cold discomfort effectively. That's because Febs is specially formulated to relieve pain,fever and nasal congestion. It also contains Vitamin C to build up resistance. So at the first signs of a cold, Febs product from MHP *****6
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 154 22 Do you find the thought of being interviewed somewhat daunting? Do you have sleepless nights before the interview? rv tSjr 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
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 82 22 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne AlIgUSt3/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill fi6awMUiteN&v")! K\e>rr Tt \'tZT ficxe) George the Robot/stephen Stanley JV«: &a*rJ UFT«O CoMMtfitfTXftf y A "Tw/srr was sAAfRbY-iW »OortT is4e*c>- J V Ar4 KFVaRX. y*Aa Qto I "to/at SutPoseo -lb ou^g*u^s^/ Dllffy/Bruce Hammon ALICE? TMIS IS PAR. VEAH! LOOK, I C*>NT^V)/^MOO'P
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 176 23 COMICREUEF Orchard Road/conn Goh Single Slices/peter Kohisaat Cathy/Cathy Guisewite "You're looking for a boyfriend? Well, "OH, QAKLIN&," HE'LL SAY, 'I'LL THE WO/*AN NEXT TO Hi/H ON Anh/>U f f J WHY WH *T SOffIEwWERE BETWEEN THE I'm your man....Women usually find boyfriends cakrv it always ano think The plane uhll
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1412 24 RADKX3UIDE ffiHllrf EMiHB EHH^H NOON News in Brief (Programme# in Mandarin) NOON Good Music, Company aid Ma: NOON Nwnink A/S 12 05 Liiachdata* Listen to some en MOON Ell Llstaaiag: Light instru- Tune in for tome great sounds 12.30 The Learning Wertd: John Tur- tert2ns« ?n J" 111 1 p,ece
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  • SPORTS
    • 194 25 Singapore's Zarinah Abdullah faces Aussie Rhonda Cator in her" first badminton match of the Malaysian Open, beginning tomorrow in Kuala Lumpur. But Dane Kirsten Larsen could be a stumbling block. ALFONSO CHAN reports WHEN Singapore's Zarinah Abdullah begins her campaign in the $285,000 Malaysian Open, the
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    • 65 25 FUNG Permadi, who shot to fame last week by defeating Icuk Sugiarto, is a second-generation Indonesian Chinese. Permadi, 21, is one to watch, says Indonesian coach Tang Xianhu, who spotted him two years ago. Weighing 69kg and I.Bom tall, Permadi impresses with his high-jump smashes.
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    • 206 25 DESPITE the absence of Yang Yang and the injured Morten Frost, the Malaysian Open is not robbed of its glitter simply because the other personalities are all present. Asian champion Xiong Guobao and All-England champion Zhao Jianhua lead the singles seedings, followed by Icuk Sugiarto
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    • 433 26 1 1 HEALTH&F^jj AP. B ROKEN bones and strained muscles may worry athletes, but the more com--1 mon sports injuries are skin problems such as black heel, bikini bottom and runner's rump, a specialist in sports medicine has said. According to Dr Rodney S.W. Basler, an assistant
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    • 279 26  -  SIMPLY SLEEPER NEXT WEEK: The screw shot. B PETTER WATSUN THE way to score more points, apart from more consistent potting, is through positional play. You have to learn to control where the cueball is going after the shot, to make your next shot easier.
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    • 338 26 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international •ports: AMERICAN FOOTBALL National Football League: New York 28 Kansas 12, Buffalo 37 Los Angeles 21, Chicsgo 13 Detroit 12, Green Bay 18 Minnesota 6, Houston 41 Cincinnati 6, New England 10 Tampa 7, Dallas 24 Washington 17, Los Angeles Rami 22 Atlanta
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    • 472 27  -  1987 SPORTS WINNERS Best Sportsman: David Lim (swimming) Best Sportswoman: Khatijah Suratee (shooting) Best Team: Sam Goh and Patrick Wee (bowling) Best eoach: Ramachandra (bodybuilding) lOC Best Journalist: Tan Tfee Eng Meritorious winners: Haron Mudir (athletics), Fatholomein Ali (bodybuilding), Ho Yen Chye (judo). Jasmin Hussein
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    • 294 27  -  By David Lim BEHIND the prizes, there was pain. Think about the sacrifices first before you talk about being a star. And the rewards don't always come. Nor the recogntion. You cannot take success for granted. That's why I'm so honoured in
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    • 893 28 TheUnder-14 soccer team's triumph in the FAM/Milo tournament is a welcome boost to Singapore soccer. But victory did not come~ easy, it was "one hell of a struggle". S. GULAMTaIks to the coaches, SHAHIKON SAHARI profiles the players THE OFFICIALS: Vincent Subramaniam (coarh), Samad Din (assistant
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    • Article, Illustration
      400 29 Singapore needs to beat Austria's Swarovski Tyrol tonight to qualify for the semi-finals of the Merdeka tournament. Its performance against HSV Hamburg has raised hopes. Can it live up to them? S GULAM in Kuala Lumpur assesses its chances A WIN has never been so important for
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    • 189 29 I ASIAN CUP SOCCER SAUDI Arabia upset China 1-0 yesterday and earned a semi-final spot against Iran. Both teams had already qualified for the semi-fi-nals from Group B and the only issue in doubt was which side would have to play the on-form South Koreans, who
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    • 109 29 Australian striker Dave Mitchell has returned to Dutch club Feyenoord after his $700,000 transfer to Chelsea broke down on health grounds. A routine medical examination carried out by the London club apparently revealed that Mitchell has a slight deformation of the back, and Chelsea promptly pulled out of the
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
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  • UPDATE
    • 842 30 TUESDAY, Out About I —yr PAT FORUM- Listen to lectures on Cholesterol as a 1 1 Coronary Risk Factor by Dr JK Yeoh, Diagnosis and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol by Dr Baldev Singh and Diet and Cholesterol by Ms Evelyn Fong. Then ask questions. Dr
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    • 166 30 Listen to Hermann Prey (pronounced prior), one of the best lieder singers in the world. A lied is an art song with piano accompaniment. Mr Prey will do the Winterreise (Winter Journey) song cycle by German composer Franz Schubert The lyrics are about a wandering
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    • 14 30 COMING UP: Star chat FOOD: Halal seafood OUT AND ABOUT: Fat forum
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