The New Paper, 30 December 1988

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, IMS MCI (T) 179/4/M 50 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 123 1 ■KARA OKAY! I Karaoke is more than I okay. This singing I without a band has I spread from lounges" t®*® Iat least two 1 d' 1 community centres.. j E i But will it t -jj as fast as it is catching*"* W on? /Page 16 WANT TO DANCE
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    • 45 1 _ir—■ Bf GIRL IN FRIDGE 4dT* WAS RAPED SAY MALACCA POLICE /Page 2 BOMB CHECKS AT 103 AIRPORTS /Page 2 WORLD 9-11 STOCKS 10 SHOPTALK 12 FOOD 13 SHOWTIME 14, 20-22 TV GUIDE 15 C'SPREAD 16 COMICS 24, 25 FASTADS/JOBS 27 SPORTS 27-31 MONEYWORDS 31
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 408 2  -  ORCHARD ROAD By Chua Chin Chye IT'S official! You can boogie away your New Year's Eve at Orchard Road but only if you are not rowdy, behave orderly and do not block the movement of the festive crowd. Police said this
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    • 170 2 Wire services. JAPAN'S new Justice Minister resigned today after admitting that he took political donations from a company at the centre of a stock scandal. Mr Hasegawa was appointed Justice Minister on Tuesday. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita replaced 15 of 20 Cabinet members
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    • 199 2 THE bodies of a six-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy were found in a disused refrigerator at an abandoned stall in Malacca last night. The girl had been raped, a police officer said. Malaysian newspapers reported this morning that the bodies
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    • 48 2 OUR report on Wednesday, Rival accepts Dr M's offer, said that Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad had accepted an offer to sit on New Umno's Supreme Council. This is not correct. He only welcomed the offer. Our error occurred during a rewrite of a Bernama news agency report.
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    • 80 2 I have not thought about this question. I have a duty to do and I want to do it well to ensure my people's survival, welfare and, if possible, their prosperity as well. I will be very satisfied if I could achieve that.
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    • 234 2 Wire services. THE US Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday that it will impose new airport security measures within the next 48 hours which "far exceed existing international standards". This will affect US air carriers at 103 airports in the Middle East and Western Europe, and
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    • 338 3  -  By Thusitha de Silva NEW Year's Day could see the start of a new tradition on the Singapore River, a raft race through the "canyons" created by rows of high-rise office towers. Students and staff from five tertiary institutions in Singapore will race rafts built out
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    • 282 3 FINE for adults, but not for children. That was the common reaction to Telecom's plans to replace 14,000 coin-operated public phones with card-operated ones. Mr Phua Puey Joy, 36, manager of a department store, said he will not allow his daughter,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 35 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.09 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.07 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 499 4 Ease up. Let your kids rough it out! That was the message by Mr S Dhanabalan yesterday to over-protective parents. The Minister for National Development was speaking at the Towner Primary School's PSLE Convocation cum Speech Day. The New Paper asked PE teachers and parents
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    • 328 4  -  By Ng Wan Ching THEY braved slippery, rocky, pot-holed roads. They were not stopped by floods, breakdowns and the threat of armed gangsters The team of stalwart Singaporean motorcyclists made the trip to the Golden Triangle and back in just three, hard weeks. Mr Richard
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    • 606 5 "^t^SreaiiH^M j* —V 21 October 1988 28 February 1989 mbbSS Hitachi lets you pick the prize you want. Simply purchase any item (or more) in this impressive line-up of some of Hitacni's latest products refrigerator, colour TV, washing machine, video cassette recorder or video movie camera you stand to win
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 227 6 HOUSE calls are just not made by doctors and specialists working for the National University Hospital. The hospital issued a warning yesterday to the public against being taken in by a bogus doctor who claims to work for the NUH. The warning
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    • 446 6  -  By Loh Tuan Lee MR KOH Pu Lin has the names. All you have to do is provide the baby. Mr Koh, 41, is a geomancer by trade. But since 1980, for a fee, he has specialised in giving children names taking note of what
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    • 185 6 ZHUANG Man Yun, just 24 days old, can boast that she has a designer name. It was tailored for her own unique needs and carried a designer price tag of $80. She was born on Dec 6 at 6pm. Her father is Mr Chng Tiong
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    • 160 6 BEATING up a woman with a wooden pole got a man 12 strokes of the rotan cane and six years of corrective training yesterday in court. There were other charges against him, too. The court heard that Henry Tan Don Ming, 39, attacked Madam Ng
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    • 85 6 A MAN caught exporting a dozen endangered tropical parrots was fined $300 for each bird yesterday. The birds, macaws, are protected by the Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species of plants and animals. Loh Peck Soon, 37, the owner of a bird-trading
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    • 471 7  -  Geneieve Kwek IT WAS a hot time in the old town last night for some 15 firemen from the Singapore Fire Service. Most were told to stand by for duty at Orchard Link. That is where the Sharity Sleigh rides are. When they got
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    • 91 7 A 77-YEAR-OLD woman was killed in an accident involving a motorcycle last evening, police said. Madam Low Lian Huay, of Jurong East Street 21, was crossing Boon Lay Way on her way home at about 7.35 pm when she was hit. The motorcyclist was not injured,
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    • 640 8  -  From the old class photographs: By Irene Hoe c ONFESSIONS, accusations and revelations came thick and fast when the Raffles Institution's Class of 1958 convened last night. It was their first formal reunion. Did you know that the First Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh Chok Tong, wrote
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      144 8 I DOWN MEMORY LANE ME, A BAD boy? "No, lah. If I was a bully, why would they come and shake my hand?" said Mr Chen Chung Ti, 48, teacher since 1966. The boy who, according to Mr Goh Chok Tong, had "a reputation for fighting or threatening
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      133 8 THEY call Dr Lee Keow Siong "Wala". He and Mr Goh Chok Thong became best friends in school. Dr Lee practises in Sydney, Australia, but is still a Singaporean. The former head prefect, Scout leader and rugby captain used to go fishing with Mr Goh. "I didn't expect
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      68 8 "I'M THE quiet one. I'm not interesting. I'm always in the background. Don't interview me," said Associate Professor of Engineering Victor Choa. But it was Prof Choa, 47, who was responsible for starting the group by inviting every one to his home in Katong. He took the trouble
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    • 152 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. blithely: In a carefree manner and cheerfully. bops: Dances. foothold: A strong or favourable position from which further progress may be made. given the axe: Stopped or dropped usually
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 412 9 Wire services. PRIME Ministers Rajiv Gandhi of India and Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan are speaking words of peace. At yesterday's opening session of a three-day summit of seven South Asian leaders in Pakistan, Mr Gandhi paid tribute to Pakistan's November elections which brought Ms Bhutto
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    • 164 9 Malay Mail. MALAYAN Railway intends to increase the level of passenger safety and cut down the number of derailment incidents by replacing old tracks and wagons. The deputy general manager for infrastructure and technical matters, Mr Loh John Kee, said he is
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    • 83 9 Wire services. INDONESIAN President Suharto has ordered ministers to cut down on spending. Information Minister Harmoko said the President told a year-end Cabinet meeting in Jakarta that ministers should spend less on foreign travel and conferences. They "should also avoid luxurious lifestyles," President Suharto told
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    • Article, Illustration
      52 10 Victims of sinking: Anxious relatives looking, and hoping not to see, the bodies of their loved ones among these few recovered from the Dhaleswari River in Bangladesh. The victims were among 200 passengers on board a ferry that sank on Tuesday. More than 100 people are still missing.
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    • 334 10 Wire services. ISRAEL hopes to make Egypt the broker in talks with Arab states and Palestinians with superpower blessings. This new peace initiative may be launched in two months, said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in an interview yesterday. Mr Shamir said he would consider allowing Palestinians
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    • 170 10 Wire services. AT least 10 people died and 26 were injured when an illegal firecracker factory exploded in a crowded village north of Manila. Philippines police said today that the blast in an apartment where firecrackers were being produced illegally shook Bunlo village. "There was
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    • 370 11 Wire services. THE mother of the two French girls recently released after being held captive in Lebanon for 13 months is expecting another child. Ms Jacqueline Valente, who is separated from the girls' father, Mr Pascal Betille, said this in a recent videotape.
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    • 49 11 Total mess: Fog caused more than 60 can to crash into one another on a stretch of road in SeJt Lake City, Utah. Here, tow trucks work overtime to clear the wrecked vehicles. No one was seriously hurt in the accident on Tuesday. Picture/ Ap
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    • 182 11 Wire services. AT LEAST seven African students face punishment for their part in a Christmas Eve brawl that set off days of an-ti-black protests in Nanjing. Chinese officials said yesterday that no Chinese students would be punished for participating in the clash, or for sacking the
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    • 110 11 Wire services. NORTH Korea has a massive stockpile of chemical weapons and has begun production of biological weapons, the South Korean Defence Ministry says. In its first White Paper on Defence, the Ministry said yesterday that North Korea has germ warfare weapons that
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      260 10 Wire services. SHARES saw their gains consolidated on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30share index closed 16 points up at 1463.1. Volume was a relatively healthy 377.3 million shares. The strength of the dollar continued to stimulate the market, particularly major exporters. Wall Street's firm opening
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    • 8 10 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 10 FT Industrials Thu 1463.10 (1,447.10 Dow Jones Average Thu 2,1-82.68 (2,166.43) ST Industrial Thu 1,044.20 (1,046.93) NST Industrial Thu 1,815.62 (1,813.90) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 2,692.40 (2,696.44) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,485.80 (1,486.80). Nikkei Stock Average Thu Closed (30,159.00) Figure* in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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      276 10 Wire services. WALL "Street blue chips rallied yesterday but failed to close above their post-crash high after flirting with the mark throughout the day. The Dow Jones industrial average ended 16.25 points higher at 2,182.68 less than a point lower than its post-crash closing high of 2,183.50, set
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 402 12 EYETOEYE STARTING this week, the Singapore Contact Lens Society a society of qualified optometrists will write s weekly column on eye care. It will appear in The New Paper every Friday. The column will explain common eye problems and how to detect, prevent and treat
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    • 444 12 WEEKEND BROWSER RETAILERS, If you have a promotion, sale or weekend special you'd like readers to know about, tell The Weekend Browser. This column will appear every Friday together with the latest shopping news. Write to The Weekend Browser, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road,
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    • 171 12 A COUPLE of round-the-world tickets, first-class on Singapore Airlines that's what Singaporean Ms Tan Mei Lin won for shopping at the duty-free shops in Changi Airport. Ms Tan won the third prize in the celebration contest held by Singapore Airport Duty-Free Emporium and Duty Free
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 336 13 Almost anybody can fall victim to heartburn. More people suffer from it during the festive seasons as it is a result of too much rich food and drink. Here is a checklist of how to stay away from it THIS it the Mason that putt
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    • 241 13 Food that causes heartburn are those that stimulate acid secretion. These include deep-fried and other greasy or fatty foods. What to avoid Chocolate Coffee Alcohol Milk Citrus fruits and juices Tomato products Various spices and flavourings including hot peppers, chili powder, cumin, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon,
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  • Showtime
    • 282 14  -  By Wong Sing Yeong c i HINESE drama dubbed in English, local English plays and the Star Search contest made their debut on television this year. But 1988 would be remembered as the year when quiz shows returned to television. The local quiz shows, Brainstorm
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    • 241 14 AS WE lowered the curtain on 1988, we couldn't resist handing out some verdicts: The that got away: The Year of Living Dangerously. Was to be shown in December until someone found out the film is banned. The face we Mitt: Newsreader Wee Soon Hui, of the
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 2027 15 Television H§S SCREENM Friday at the Movies I 1~ Ageless Ageing W^SportSpedal >r^j( f .1 through a diet of frrah vegetable mSbrt^?i^ C^dlmd B about two men who try to out- ,V /y> L j and whole grain food. Listen to his Kevin Curren in the Canadian Open smart a
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  • spotlight
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      1145 16 Bathroom singing may soon become a thing of the past here If karaoke succeeds in wooing the crooner, the mimic and the budding singer to its many plush, inviting lounges. TING MEI SEE played the part of lounge lizard for almost a week and discovers that it
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    • 113 16 THE karaoke fad began quite by accident in Japan, around 1974. "Empty orchestra" records were cus-tom-pressed for professional singers to use in rehearsals. The owner of a bar in Kobe somehow got hold of these albums and, realising that it was cheaper to let patrons entertain
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    • 152 16 The Park Avenue Karaoke Theatre Lounge at Parkway Parade: 4 lively mix of English and Chinese songs. Past hits such as Country Roads and Feelings are popular. Here a crowd watches a video show while one of the regulars, Linda Tan, 22, (far riqht)
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 552 20  -  By Geraldine Goh SBC it making ture we start the New Year in a cheerful mood. Over the three-day New Year weekend, you will get to •ee the antics of Charles Schultz'a Charlie Brown, Dennis the Menace and Laurel and Hardy. Beginning on New
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    • 231 20 Saturday, Doc 31 ■Pippi Longstocklng (12.35pm, SBC 5) Animated Classics Collection Treasure Island (3.00pm, SBC 8) Holiday Matinee Dennis the Menace (3.35pm, SBC 5) The Wild Puffalumpt (5.10pm, SBC 5) Laurel and Hardy Special Block-Heads (6.05pm, SBC 5) Chinese Cinema At
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    • 255 20 WILLOW (Cathay] A FANTASY adventure, Willow unfortunately hai too much of the same for anyone whoee seen all the George Lucaa films. Otherwise, it's well produced and designed. Willow Ufgood, a dwarf, undertakes the task of getting baby Elora Danan out of evil Queen Bavmorda's grasp. Times: 10.30 am,
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    • 123 20 VALARIE Carver's quest for the Mrs of the World/Singapore title began at her hairdresser's. It was there that five other women who were also getting their hair done encouraged her to take part. "When they saw my five-year-old son, Andrew, and found out that I
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    • 354 21  -  By Azman Sirat ALL you fans of rock group Sweet Charity, it's up to you. If you respond well to the reunion performance of the rock group next month, Sweet Charity may put aside their retirement plans. The concert is on Jan 27 and 28 at
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    • 148 21 ARTISTES appearing at the Friends for Life concert will not only sing but play football for charity. They will play for the Fandi Ahmad Challenge Trophy donated by the footballer himself. The match will be played at the Sentosa Football Field from 4 pm
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    • 601 22  -  By Wong Sing Yeong A NEW boy from out of town is taking the shine away from the city slickers. Changi, the $2.5 million triplex cinema in Bedok New Town, is the new pride of Shaw Organisation's chain of cinemas. "It's our
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    • 161 22  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Adeline Woon WHEN TV characters get killed as their prime-time series are cancelled, they sometimes come back to life as cartoon characters. At 5.55 pm on SBC 8 yesterday, Sherlock Holmes came back to life as a Man-darin-speaking dog. The Incredible
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    • 159 22 BUBBLES, the former Atlantis disco at Grange Road, opens its doors again tomorrow in time for the New Year. It was to have opened last night but renovations were still not finished. Bubbles is managed by Jasper Productions, the entertainment promotions people. Said managing director Jim-
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 630 23  -  By Harinder Gill IN a corner of India not too far away from bustling Bombay lies a sleepy state called Goa. During the flower power era, it was the end of the rainbow for many a hippy. Today, there are more tourists who go
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    • 399 23  -  By David Brazil FREE BANGKOK MAP AVAILABLE a new and unusual walking map of Bangkok for tourists, showing the four shopping zones of this bustling city and highlighting its shopping and sightseeing attractions. Issued by the Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT), it's in full colour. It's free, but stocks
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1307 26 RADIOGUDE '&WS& UiiMlBi EMD^BI MOON Mews la Briaf (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Bead Music, Caapaay aid Ma: NOON Nawidask VnJ/VWsJ 12.05 Laacbdate: A selection of music M0 An afternoon of A musical treat to kaap you 12J0 Peean By Paat Michael Roaen V)' \2x jMVV and songs to keep you
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  • SPORTS
    • 288 27  -  RACING... By Malcolm Bastians ELCARIM has begun training for the Hongkong Invitation Cup race on Jan 29 with a secret diet and clockwise running. Now that the connections of the Whiskey Road six-year-old gelding have engaged Sydney's most celebrated jockey, Malcolm Johnston, 32, Elcarim's training has started
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    • 92 27 MILL Trip underlined his chances in the Yang Di-Pertua Negeri Gold Cup with a rousing gallop at Penang this morning. After trotting once round with Leong up, he reeled off the final 600m in 41.6. The going was good. Alacaro was taken out by Lyndon to clock
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    • 103 27 RACE 1: Class 4 Div D 1,400 m (2.15pm): Town Planner, Atalaak, Lotus Begun, Oh So Nice. RACE 2: Class 4 Div B 1,400 m (2.50pm): Paso Fino 11, Miss Ocean. RACE 3: Class 1 Div 2 1,400 m (3.20pm): Alcove 11, Northern Conqueror. RACE 4: Class 1
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    • 748 28 AC Milan and Liverpool have been given the perfect New Year present the return of its star players. AC looks to Dutchman Ruud Gullit and Liverpool turns to Dane Jan Molby to provide the spark Reuter. AFP. EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL ITALIAN champion AC Milan,
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    • 243 28 Wire services. ARGENTINE star Diego Maradona donned a clown's costume and makeup yesterday to entertain 3,000 young spectators at a circus in Naples. In the audience was his delighted daughter Delma and her mother Claudia. Maradona decided against entering a lion's cage, but thrilled the crowd with a
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    • HOPMAN CUP AND OTHER TENNIS
      • 219 29 BWEDEN beat Yugoslavia 3-0 in a first-round tit of tha Hopman Cup tennis tournament in Perth yesterday. Mikael Pernfori gave Sweden a fine start when he over- came Yugoslavia's Slobodan Zivojinovic 6-4,6-8 in tha man's singles. Parnfors and Catarina Lindqvist than taamad
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      • 244 29 IVAN Lendl would like to forget 1988 and start all over again. This time last year, he came to Australia talkini of winning every Grand Slam tournament, starting with the Australian Open. But instead of a year of glory, 1988 turned out to
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    • 408 29  -  By Alfonso Chan A DUEL of Olympic proportions down the alley may materialise when Singapore's Jack Wong meets his nemesis in the Orchard Bowl Super Classic bowling championship from Jan 17-21. Korean Kwon Jong Yul won the gold medal when he beat Jack in the step-ladder
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    • ON THE MALAYSIAN FRONT
      • 121 29 NST. TRENGGANU will boast an astroturf hockey pitch next year. It will be the first of its kind in Malaysia's East Coast states. State Secretary Datuk Setia Wangsa Haji Abdul Rahamn Nasir said $840,000 had been set aside for the project. A modern sports complex will also
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      • 149 29 NST. KELANTAN is making major changes to its soccer set-up. Like an approved $840,000 budget just for the Slayers in next year's new emi-Pro League. Its full list of changes, specially designed to cope with the introduction of the Semi-Pro League, are: Approving an $840,000
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    • 145 29 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Cleveland 122 Charlotte 98, Detroit 106 Phoenix 100, New Jersey 118 Indiana 80. CRICKET 3rd test in Melbourne: Wsst Indies 280 snd 361-9 dec, Australia 242 and 114. CYCLING Cologne 0-day race 2nd day: 1 Andreas Kappee (WG)/ Roman
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    • 389 30 Telok Kurau bids again to make the Premier League as the NFL Division I kicks off on Jan 7. With Hasnim Haron spearheading its challenge there is no reason why it should fail. S GULAM reports rjp < i GLOK Kurau United is the odds-on favourite
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    • 271 30  -  By Shahiron Sahari BEWARE of Tiong Bahru it could be even better than Geylang International, Balestier United or Jurong Town. So says Police Sports Association team manager Syed Kadir Alsree, whose team meets Tiong Bahru in the opening Premier League match on
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    • Article, Illustration
      164 30 THE race for the National Football League Division II title is the most even in recent years. All seven teams are equally matched. Changi United, coached by Chiang Boon Seng, has a stable team. The players have been together for the last two years. It came close to
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    • 273 31  -  By Abdul Shukor TALENTED midfielder Ahmad Paijan will play for Premier League club Tiong Bahru CSC, despite an ankle injury. The 24-year-old Trengganu maestro is in Pakistan on a religious course but is expected back next week. Tiong Bahru's manager, Mr Richard Woon, confirmed
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    • 243 31  -  By S Gulam JITA Singh will hit the comeback trail in Singapore soccer on Monday with the revamp of the Singapore Soccer Coaches Association. The former national coach has been asked by Maj Abbas Abu Amin to make the association vibrant again. The Football Association of
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