The New Paper, 4 January 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1989 MCI <P) IT9/4/M SO CENTS
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    • 63 1 CHINA’S BLACK TROUBLE I l a m BL- ,1|k an g%>'. iBf y I a i* mA» 1 Jf :«fciA., C0ND0 BUILDERS FLEE FIRE Hard hat y clothes and other belongings lie strewn as construction workers scramble to safety this morning at River Valley. Two explosions heard at Rivershire condo.
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    • 84 1 WHAT HAS A i DOG GOT I TO DO WITH I GYMNASTICS? B /Page 28 '^■gSp'^pHlM I LIVERPOOL BEATS B ASTON VILLA g /P«<« 29 I Racial tensions worsen between Chinese and African students in China. Alarmed African diplomats urge a stop. Libya says African students are "oppressed", offers scholarships
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    • 66 1 NUDES THAT SHOCKED CHINA fi f^ v Brhfab v. Hkji v J^p^i "Dream" by artist Hu Jiancheng in 1986. The reality of such paintings going on display and on postcards stunned many in China. Two models and their husbands got some of the paintings replaced. More on Page 9 WORLD
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 436 2 Wire services. THE Organisation of African Unity today appealed to Beijing to make peace between African and Chinese students. OAU Secretary-General Ide Oumarou made the appeal this morning in a meeting in Addis Ababa with China's ambassador to Ethiopia. Mr Oumarou was reacting to
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    • 184 2 Reuter HOMOSEXUALS in the Netherlands now have their own football team, not to watch but to play soccer. Mr Gerard Van Reijsen, 37, is a soccer fan who recently set up the amateur Dutch team called FC Gays. He said he hopes it will
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    • 284 2 A PRE-DAWN fire gutted a wooden block housing the site office, canteen and store of a construction site today as two explosions shattered the morning stillness at the junction of River Valley Road and Leonie Road. No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is unknown.
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    • 102 2 IN OUR story "CPF cash at age 55" on Saturday we said that people born in 1934 may withdraw their Central Provident Fund savings from Tuesday, 1989's first working day, or anytime during the year. What it should be is that people whose identity cards give only the year
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    • 132 2 THE trial of lawyer Francis Seow on tax evasion charges is being postponed one more day, not because he won't be present but because Parliament is scheduled to sit at the same time. "The prosecution does not want it to be said that Francis Seow will
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    • 353 3  -  By Harinder Gill A NYONE who goes for fancy dress parties would have a ball at Huamin Primary School. Its students are wearing 130 different uniforms. That is because the school, which opened in its new building at Yishun yesterday, has attracted students from 130 different
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 32 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Passing showers over a few areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.11 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.08 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 495 4 DRIVERS who park where they are not supposed to in carparks are drawing attention and not just from other motorists they have inconvenienced. The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has checked seven carparks picked at random. It showed some have a problem with thoughtless
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    • 300 4  -  By Lois Ng IT WAS New Year joy that quickly turned to sorrow. Mdm Toh Siew Hong, 22, gave birth to three girls last Sunday. The next day one was dead. The other two girls are still under intensive care, at
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    • 116 4 CORN from Johor is being tested randomly after 26 people suffered from food poisoning after eating the vegetable, a spokesman from the Ministry of the Environment said. It will take about two days to know if the corn is fit to eat, he
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    • 228 4 ONE pass. That's all most students and full-time national servicemen will have to carry from this month for concessionary travel on buses and the MRT. The common pass is seen as a step towards the integration of the public transport system. The pass
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 490 6  -  By Yusman Ahmad DRUGS with a total street value of $46 million were seized by agents of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in 1988 with a little help from their friends. The CNB smashed nine drug trafficking rings. Twothirds of the big drug busts took place
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    • 281 6 NOV 3: The Customs Department and the CNB in a joint effort seized 23kg of heroin with a street value of $30 million the second biggest drug bust in Singapore's history. Six Thai sailors and a Singaporean were arrested. An international drug syndicate is believed
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    • 368 6 A MAGAZINE has been started that, to rework a phrase from Abraham Lincoln, is "of teenagers, by teenagers, for teenagers". And judging by the reception of the first issue, that formula works. That issue, which came out in August last year, was circulated among 59
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 285 8 TECHNICAL workers who want to move up at small companies may soon learn how to do so in an appropriate place a classroom on wheels. The Electronic Industries Training Centre wants to make it easier and more convenient for workers to upgrade themselves. So
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    • 286 8  -  By Ambrose Poh THE worst people usually expect when they wash their car is that it will ra MrP B Tan, 40, washed his car early yesterday. Someone jumped on his back and stabbed him twice. While grateful that he is still alive, he is
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    • 226 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. accords: Formal agreements or settlements between two or more groups of people. alignment: Support for a particular group or side in a quarrel or struggle, especially in politics. anti-social:
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    • 112 8 THE Labour Ministry says unsecured banker's guarantees with insurance coverage as bonds for foreign maids would defeat the ministry's intention to cut demand and reduce use of "maids" for non-domestic duties. The guarantees are not accepted as of Jan 1. Only a banker's secured
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    • 246 8 THE Government Parliamentary Committees (GPCs) could become a lobbying group in Parliament on key issues. Mr S Chandra Das, new co-ordinating chairman of the GPCs, would like to see the committee chairmen adopting common stands on issues of importance and of public interest. He
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 368 9 Shin Min Daily News. TWO female models refused to just grin and bare it at China's first public exhibition of nude paintings. Stripping for the painter was OK. But they refused to go public for the thousands who visited the exhibition.
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    • 64 9 Wire services. THE World Health Organisation reports that there are more than 350,000 Aids cases worldwide. The US has the most people suffering from the killer sex disease 80,538. Uganda is second with 5,508, and France third with 4,874. The WHO estimates that at least
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    • 95 9 Wire services. BRITAIN says it is capable of developing its own small version of a Star Wars defence shield but has no plans to do so. Defence Secretary George Younger confirmed a report in the Times newspaper that an official study had showed Britain able
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    • 211 9 Bernama AN AIDE to Malaysia's Labour Minister has been named as the ruling party's candidate for the coming by-election in Selangor. Mr Ong Tee Kiat, the political secretary to the Labour Minister, Mr Lee Kim Sai, will represent the National Front in the Jan 28
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    • 249 10 Wire services. SECRETARY of State George P Shultz and two dozen other State Department and CIA officials were ordered today to testify in Oliver North's trial in the US. North is a former White House aide ac- cused of illegally financing rebel actions in Nicaragua with
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    • 44 10 Kissing game: It's in his genes that's why Mr Joseph Korittnig from Nimes, France, can kiss 18-year-old Samson without batting an eyelid. Mr Korittnig comes from a long Une of wild animal tamers dating back to the 1800s. Picture/Reuter
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    • 196 10 Wire services. ITALIAN media and politicians today claimed that the US is preparing for a military strike on Libya. Their claims are based on the movement of 13 US warships to the Mediterranean. The move places two US carrier battle groups within striking distance of
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    • 127 10 Wire services. THE Irish Republican Army has warned Britain's royal family to watch out in 1989. It made the threat in its New Year message, issued in Dublin, Ireland, yesterday. The IRA is a mostly Catholic terrorist group that seeks to end British rule in Northern
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    • 633 10  -  By Christopher Hanson Reuter. INTEREST in an obscure round of diplomatic talks has been rekindled by US charges that Libya is building a poison gas plant. The talks, which are being held in Geneva, seek a global ban on chemical weapons. While
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    • 322 11 Wire services. SOME 30,000 resistance fighters are massing near Kabul as the Soviet Army gets ready to withdraw the last of its troops from Afghanistan. The withdrawal is scheduled to be completed by early February under terms of a Geneva peace accord. A
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    • 205 11 Wire services. ERROL Flynn took a string of beautiful women there and lived in a bungalow on the grounds. Robert Kennedy was killed there. Joan Crawford entered dance contests there and Charlie Chaplin went swimming there. "There" is Hollywood's famed Ambassador Hotel and its Cocoanut
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    • 133 11 Bernama. INDONESIA'S Foreign Minister plans to meet in Paris with Prince Norodom Sihanouk to discuss a settlement of the conflict in Cambodia. No date was set for the Paris meeting, which for Prince Sihanouk will take the place of talks scheduled for Jakarta
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    • 198 12 Wire services. ISRAEL'S Parliament says it backs talks with Palestinians who recognise Israel and renounce terrorism. In a resolution passed in Jerusalem yesterday, the Knesset still ruled out talks with the Palestine Liberation Organisation. "Israel rejects the establishment of an additional and
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    • 234 12 Wire services. A WAR is sizzling over US exports of beef to Europe. The future course of the war will be decided tomorrow when ambassadors of the 12 member states of the European Economic Community meet in Brussels. At issue: The use of hormones to boost
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    • 115 12 Wire services. THE Soviet standard of living continues to fall despite slightly better management of the economy, says a leading Russian economist. In an interview with a Soviet paper, Mr Nikolai Shmelyov said "everyday problems have got worse" because of past mistakes and more recent
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    • 67 12 Wire services. DEFEATED US presidential candidate, Gov Michael Dukakis, won't seek another term in 1990 as Massachusetts governor. "This will be my last term," he said in Boston yesterday. The three-term Democrat lost to Republican George Bush in the 1988 presidential race.
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      259 12 Wire services. ON THE London Stock Exchange share prices closed near their intra-day lows yesterday as a drop on Wall Street and a weaker dollar cast a shadow over the market's first trading session of 1989. The Financial Times 30share index closed 7.5 points lower at 1447.8. Volume was
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    • 83 12 Reuters. OPTIMISM about the new year pushed share prices higher on the first day of trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, but gains are expected to be fairly modest, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 72.12 points to 30,231.12 in the first 10 minutes of trade. Gainers included
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Tues 1,447.80 (1,455.30) Dow Jones Average Tues 2,144.64 (2,168.57) ST Industrial Tues 1,034.23 (1,038.62) NST Industrial Tues 1,811.22 (1,814.27 Hongkong Hang Song Tues 2,706.69 (2,687.44) Australian All Ordinaries Tues 1,481.10 (1,487.40) Nikkei Stock Average Tues 30,159.00 (closed) Figurea in brackets refer to thoee of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      277 12 Wire services. STOCK prices fell in modest trading on Wall Street yesterday as higher interest rates and a weaker dollar combined to get the new year off to a bad start. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 23.93 to close at 2,144.64. Advancing issues outnumbered declines
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  • 840 13 DEAR AGGIE HORIZONS AGGIE will give advice every Wednesday in this paper. Questions Aggie can't answer will be put to other experts such as doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists. You can write to: Dear Aggie, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. You must
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  • Showtime
    • 436 14  - Back on Friday Friday Background By Lo Tien Yin FRIDAY Background, off the screen since Nov 25, will be back on SBC 5 this Friday. This is a quality programme and Singaporeans are not the only ones who think so. Selected episodes are telecast in Japan and Australia. Nippon Hoso
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    • 297 14 EVERYDAY, our traffic cops recite a Traffic Police Pledge before they start work and it takes just two minutes to do so. But yesterday, it took over one hour for about 10 traffic policmen and their Corporal, Alex Ng Ping Khuen, 26. No,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 2110 15 nr\ t m,iaii Tclcvlsion ees SCREEN Ties IK P r ®sent Preserved: The The SecreUjeopard GEMS W (9.30 pm, SBC 5) Loo Aoeldoom SET against the backdrop of Africa's THE mthless world of the enr io) great plains, this documentary follows Mafia and its network of organised (10.20pm, o£>C 12)
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  • commentary
    • 888 16 Two leaders meet. Sometimes it is public relations, sometimes diplomacy. The Reagan-Gorbachev summits last year have done much to restore lustre to a forum that offers potential for both good and ill in an era of deep suspicion and high hopes. I Meanwhile, China and the
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    • 280 16 September 1959: US President Dwight D Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev met at the presidential retreat in Maryland. The Cold War, a period of intense power rivalry, was underway. The summit produced little. September 1959: Mr Khruschev met Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing amid growing
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    • 163 16 AFTER decades of frosty relations, China and the Soviet Union have agreed to hold their first summit in 30 years. The meeting between Chinese senior leader Deng Xiaoping and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to take place in Beijing early this year. It will
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 160 18  -  More British comedies, please By Lim Kuan Chiang TUESDAY evening TV fare can be either hilarious or depressing. The bad news first. It's depressing if you tune in to the American sit-coms. The worst of the bad news is Mr Belvedere (RTM 2). It's so bad it's painful. Christopher
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    • 306 18  -  The Cornell University Glee Club Choral Concert Victoria Concert Hall Jan 3,8.15 pm FIRST NIGHT/ By Adeline Woon T Cornell University Glee Club took just two hours to carry its audience through more than five centuries of music last night Their repertoire ranged from
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    • 210 18 IT WAS rumoured that the British band, Genesis, would fold when Phil Collins took over from frontman Peter Gabriel. Instead, he brought success and acclaim. Collins, the lead vocalist and drummer of the band, was a child star. He learnt acting from a travelling show
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    • 423 19  -  The Great Leningrad Theatre of Modern Ballet Kallang Theatre Tonight, 8 pm Tickets: $30, $50, $60, $80 and $100 FIRST NIGHT/ By Adeline Woon RUSSIAN ballet doesn't necessarily mean leaping Cossacks or dying swans. -The Great Leningrad Theatre of Modern Ballet brought domestic comedy on stage
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    • 228 19 Wire services. AWARD-WINNING Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa has said in Tokyo that he intends to start work this month on a film about dreams, with help from American director Steven Spielberg and British-born producer George Lucas. He said no Japanese backers had found the
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    • 357 20 I N the fantasy Michael Jackson movie Moon walker, now showing at Jade 1, pint-sized "Michael Jackson" also known as Brandon Adams is every bit as BAD as the real thing. From the snarls and hisses right down to the black leather suit weighed
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    • Article, Illustration
      255 20 WILLOW (Cathay) A FANTASY adventure, Willow unfortunately has too much of the same for anyone whose seen all of George Lucas's 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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    • 292 20  -  All About Ah-Long Coming to Cathay cinemas REVIEW/ By Wong Sing Yeong CHOW Yun Fatt lays down his gun and Sylvia Chang takes off her comedienne mask to make this tear-jerk-er, All About "Ah-Long. The family drama is a variation of an old theme. Chow is truck
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 160 19 Here's to your health. The best New Year Resolution you could ever make is to resolve to eat heaitny. Begin with our Health Fitness Promotion in January. We have counted calories, checked fat, cholesterol, sodium and fibre content for each dish. But eating right at the Streets of London doesn't
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 104 22 STYLE WITH SUBSTANCE! h h l' Forecast Eighty-Nine i Upond<oming trends for the next 12 months What's In, What's Out A Working Girl's guide to what's hot and what's n| Midnight Run Everything you've always wanted to know about nightcrawlers were too sleepy to Up In The 80s A stylish
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1493 24 RADIOGUIDE iM'H'IM ■■•M.H.1.-M iJM.HM hld.lljdlUM'lliTT?— NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Newsbrief and Weather Report NOON Good Musk, Company and NOON Nowsdosk 12.05 Lunchdato: Enjoy the musical NOON Easy Listening: Light and easy 12.05 Top of the World: Hits of the Me: Noon-time musical enter- 12.30 Business Matters:
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  • SPORTS
    • 176 25  -  RACING By Malcolm Bastians CANADIAN jockey Kenneth Skinner hopes to have a long stint in the Malaysian Racing Circuit. Skinner, 29, who touched down in Singapore this morning with his wife, Dolores, and infant daughter, Talia, is on his first visit to Asia. "I have heard about
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    • 155 25 MORNING TRACKWORK HIDDEN Talent, who impressed when he won his debut over 1,600 m in Class 4 at Kuala Lumpur last November, showed his winning form in a relaxed 39.35 ec sprint over 600 m on sand in Ipoh this morning. The Godswalk four-year-old Australian gelding goes
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    • 289 25 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Phoenix 125 Washington 122 ICE HOCKEY National Hockey League: Washington 8 Pittsburgh 0, Boston 8 St Louis 7, New York 5 Hartford 4, Edmonton 3 Minnesota 2. World Junior championships in Anchorage, Alaska: US 12 Norway 4, Czechoslovakia 5
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    • 604 26  -  Watch for them in 1989. They are the fresh-faced stars who promise to make the year one to remember. Says who? Say their team-mates, rivals and coaches, that's who. From today, we will feature one star nominated by his or her peers from each of
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    • 198 27 Reuter. GLENN Hoddle is No 1. The Monaco and England midfielder has been voted Best Foreign Footballer of 1988 in France by the soccer magazine France Football. He is the first Briton to win the prize since it began 20 years ago. France Football, the
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    • 436 27 Reuter. LIVERPOOL captain Ronnie Whelan grabbed his first goal for over a year and gave his side a 1-0 home win against Aston Villa yesterday. His 66th-minute headed goal wa9 a scrambled affair typical of an untidy, mistakeprone match on an ice-cold windy night. It came after
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    • 176 27 Wire services. WALLY St. Pier, the man who "discovered" England's 1966 World Cup heroes Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst died yesterday at the age of 82. St. Pier played for West Ham in the early 1930s before injury ended his career. He then became a talent
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    • 190 27 AFP. SCOTTISH Premier League leader Rangers ruined Celtic's hopes of retaining the title when it crushed its Glasgow rived 4-1 at Ibrox yesterday. Rangers hit back in devastating fashion after going behind inside 85 seconds to a free-kick from Eire full-back Chris Morris. Inspired by a 16th-minute
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    • 251 28  -  By Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE is among three Asian countries which will be part of a worldwide Grand Prix squash circuit next year. The circuit, set up by the newly-formed World Squash Promoters Federation, will also include stops at Malaysia and Hongkong. The
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    • 371 28 GEYLANGVTIONG BAHR Defending champion Geylang International makes its Premier League debut tonight and all eyes are on its three Finnish recruits. Fans expect a feast of goals but Tiong Bahru has one of the hardest set of defenders in town and its manager Richard Woon
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    • 326 28  -  POLICE v SAFSA (Toa Payoh, 7.30pm) By Shahiron Sahari SAFSA will be out for revenge when it meets Police Sports Association in the Premier League tonight. But then, so are Police, says its coach Robin Chan. "We lost both games to them last season, so we
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    • Article, Illustration
      578 29 Badminton's biggest question today is: Who's the best of 'em all? The world Grand Prix finals in Hong Kong this week will give the answer. And our badminton writer BERNARD PEREIRA takes his pick after seeing some of the stars at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium. Mr X is
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    • 114 29  -  By Bernard Pereira CHINA will unveil nine of its 1992 Barcelona Olympic squad shuttlers in Singapore's Konica Cup Asian invitation championship from Feb 21-26. They are: Men Chen Rong, Wan Zheng Wen, Jing Feng, Zheng Shao Tai and Chen Yu. Women Lai Chai Qin,
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  • 853 30 Gallery HOTEL ART. Tay Bak Koi, Choy Moo Kheong and Thiang Kiang How will show 22 of their works. Tay's paintings adorn the rooms of the Hilton Hotel. Choy has been selected to represent Singapore in an art exhibition in Switzerland. And Thiang was Overseas Union Bank's Painter of
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  • 18 30 k- CENTRESTAGE: Russian ballet FOOD: Two a la carte buffets COMING UP: How to manage stress
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  • 128 30 SHE has a reputation for a high energy act. And Anita Sarawak •till burns op thousands of calories while she heats up the night. A Malaysian reviewer who saw her performance in Kuala Lumpur two weeks ago described her present act as "breathlessly outrageous". In
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    • 62 30 T A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF BUSINESS TRENDS 'n;UtS9 N«« fate for lathcape Bhd Optical company sets up An exclusive survey off ffar-sightod venture i I iki 'ts% Singapore's venture capital Five-star hospitality ffor f I iSin\ industry private patients In Wanted: Comic relief ffor Managers must be professionals comics Spotlight
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