The New Paper, 18 January 1989

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  • 11 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1989 P) m/*/m SO CENTS
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    • 114 1 I DIVR|ON(Saj I I NUDE ART or BT^M SINGAPORE BfcM Q Paintings of nudes have repeatedly J| |H sparked controversy in traditional LJ Eastern society. Are they art or H obscenity? Five artists in tJ Singapore give their views. y /Page |^BXKf|^^H pj Baby in carrier (1964) By Liu Kang
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    • 26 1 SINGAPORE BACKS IAAF CHIEF ACCUSED OF FRAUD /Page 31 WORLD 10-13 STOCKS 12 SHOWTIME 14,20-22 TV GUIDE 15 RADIO 26 FASTADS/JOBS 27 SPORTS 27-31 MONEYWORDS 31
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  • Article, Illustration
    32 1 The hole in the fence believed used by intruder at Yishun JC. It's still not closed two weeks after an alleged rape Fear hangs over the girls. Page 3 Picture/AUNDRY GaN
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 118 2 MALAYSIA'S Port Klang is putting on a new face by constructing a terminal for cruise ship passengers. Mr Hasnir Abdullah, general manager of the Klang Port Authority, said it will be ready for operation by June. There will be a passenger waiting lounge, duty-free
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    • 363 2 Wire services. A GUNMAN dressed like Rambo opened fire on a school playground in the US this morning, killing five children and wounding 35 others. Most of the victims were Asians, police said. The attack occurred in Stockton, California. A police spokesman said
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    • 46 2 PRESIDENT Wee Kim Wee remains in intensive care at a hospital, but the Ministry of Health said his condition was stable and he had a comfortable first night. The President underwent surgery on Monday to remove a cancerous growth in the rectum.
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    • 86 2 THE year-end bonuses in 1988 were bigger than the previous year's for the bulk of Singapore workers, a survey reports. The survey was conducted by the Secretariat for Industrial Relations of the National Trades Union Congress. About 59 per cent of the workforce 80,000 workers in 225 companies
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    • 44 2 Fatal crossing: Witnesses say a school bus driver attempted to beat a train at a crossing in Sri Lanka. The resulting crash was fatal to at least 41 students. Many others were badly hurt (Story on page 13). Picture/ Reuter
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    • 73 2 IN THE Parliament addenda graphic in The New Paper of Jan 16, the section on Facilities and Services from the Ministry of Community Development was inadvertently repeated under the Health Ministry. This covered up a section on Medical Specialities which said: "Specialities: Speciality centres to treat children's diseases and
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    • 26 2 The weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over most areas. Maximum temperature: 28 degrees. Minimum: 24. Sunset: 7.17 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.14 am
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 331 3  -  Easy way in for students, residents By Yusman Ahmad THIS hole in the fence is said to have been used by an intruder at Yishun Junior College when making his getaway, say police sources. The hole had still not been repaired when The New Paper visited
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    • 315 3 FEAR hangs over the girls at Yishun Junior College. Almost all are now going about in groups, said many of the girls interviewed yesterday. "Especially to the toilet," said a second-year arts student. That was where a student of the college was alleged to have
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    • 331 4  -  Stories/ Chitra Rajaram p I RIVATE hospitals are beginning to wash their dirty linen in public. And this means profits for private launderers. Mount Elizabeth Hospital and Gleneagles Hospital have started contracting out all their laundering work. The potential profits are so great that Initial Services
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    • 343 4 IT must be one of the most unpleasant jobs around but for Mr K Gunesekaran, it's part of the job. He works with infected bedsheets, bloodstained blankets and fouled, smelly linen. For the 26-year-old assistant at the International Services laundering plant, these items are
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    • 314 4  -  By Geneieve Kwek THE Soviets have thrown a challenge into Singapore a computer game called Tetris. The brainchild of a researcher from Moscow University and programmed by an 18-year-old student, it is a test of speed and skill. You need to fit four square pieces tumbling
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    • 135 4 AS part of its efforts to focus on its core business of semiconductors, National Semiconductor will retrench 48 employees in Singapore. The move will affect staff from its regional sales office and two manufacturing plants at Lower Delta Road and Toa Payoh over
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    • 69 4 THE Singapore soldier's duties are many. He has to run, climb and shoot. And now on top of all that he may also have to act. The Armed Forces (SAF) is making video- tape shows with its soldiers as its actors. These videotapes will be made available at
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    • 320 5  -  By Trudy Lim WHEN members of the Peranakan Association and their guests gathered for lunch yesterday, the hot topic was not the laksa or gadogado, but sex. Sexual perversion, to be precise. The speaker at the Apollo Hotel lunch was a doctor whose
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    • 209 5  -  By Abdul Hadhi ENTERING Johor Baru will soon be as easy as flashing a card. The Johor immigration authorities are planning to issue special entry cards for visitors. With the aid of computers, these will do away with the need for visitors to fill
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    • 62 5 TWO Singapore Airlines stewards have been charged with carrying gold to Kathmandu for payments totalling $22,400. Yeo Chong Yeow, 36, allegedly carried 9 kg of gold on Feb 7, and another 9 kg on April 17. His bail was set at $20,000. Koh Yeoh Yin, 33,
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    • 617 6 Paintings of the human body have been looked upon as the form of painting most capable of portraying life forms, romantic charm and beauty. Such paintings have had an important place in art in the West since the Renaissance. The question of whether nude paintings could appear
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    • 282 7 T l HE growing number of young teachers has swelled the membership of the Singapore Teachers' Union (STU), making it the fifth largest in the country. It has 10,884 members. The union's general secretary, Mr Ying Cheok Ping, said the teachers who joined over the last
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    • 250 7  -  By David Brazil IT looks like a building site. It is a building site. But come April, The Empress Place one of Singapore's historic buildings and 125 years old will be fully restored to serve as a museum-cum-exhibition centre. It will
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    • 145 7 THERE WILL be 2,000 more airline seats a week to the United States this year. In June, Northwest Airlines will begin three flights a week to Seattle via Tokyo. And United Airlines plans to increase its weekly flights from nine to 11 in April. Northwest
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    • 144 7 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. accommodate: Get used to or adjust to. bearing the brunt: Suffering the main part of something unpleasant. bedevil: Cause constant problems or difficulties. boosted: Increased and improved greatly. detested:
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    • 108 5 LIFE WITHOUT SCANDALS WOULD BE INFINITELY BORING. We go through life wearing masks. But step into Scandals and you'll be closer to the real you. I And there's a new Scandals every month. IS From the 18th to 21 st Jan '89, we'll he celebrating /Wir?l/ei\ fj)(& Nights In Hollywood.
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 431 8 OPPOSITION MP Mr Chiam See Tong yesterday challenged two of the Government's basic premises: That staying Asian is preferable to getting more Westernised; and that national cohesion is not found in a melting pot of cultures. Mr Chiam (Potong Pasir, Singapore Democratic Party) also
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    • 359 8 DEBATE ON THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS: DAY 2 AN MP yesterday painted a vivid word portrait that showed many married women in Singapore have no choice but to work just to help their husbands make ends meet. So Mrs
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    • 174 8 TWO MPs had pointed words for the Government yesterday. Dr Arthur Beng (Fengshan) said the Government should have sought feedback from the public before raising road and diesel taxes and levies on foreign maids and foreign workers last year. He said the decision-mak-ing process that
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    • 146 8 BILLS TWO bills put before Parliament would rule out appeals to Britain's Privy Council in certain cases. The Internal Security (Amendment) Bill would bar such appeals for cases involving persons detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA). It would restrict judicial review
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    • 37 8 Gfititstfflkitt sex n w I V vl Nlnl 1%9 AIDS and the safe-sex issue are causing a PIIAIAA ASba collective headache for Hollywood's teams. An intriguing look at how I® 11 handles today's Subscribe now, On [mSBH^K
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    • 139 9 111 y» ]Id *****1111 i i Citizen takes your times jSi as seriously as you do. Some times matter more than others. Because for some sports, time control becomes a key element. Since what it finally means depends on how long it takes you to do it. t That's why
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 310 10 A GROWING trend towards protecting one's home market threatens world trade, says Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Mr Lee gave his views on protectionism and other world trade issues in the latest of a series of articles published in the Manila Chronicle yesterday. The trend
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    • 62 10 Wire services. CHINA faces a growing alcoholism problem as production of alcoholic beverages soars, the People's Daily reports. The Beijing paper says production hit 50 billion litres in 1988, putting China among the world's top producers. The paper said 81 per cent of those
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    • 125 10 Wire services. A SURVEY has found that seven out of every 100 Soviets has a deep affection for Americans. Only 0.2 per cent showed an openly hostile attitude to the United States. The survey of 800 people across a broad spectrum of Soviet
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    • 348 10 Wire services. THE man nominated to become America's next Secretary of State says Washington will continue to seek a new arms pact with Moscow. Mr James Baker told Congress yesterday that the arms proposals pursued by the Reagan Administration would be
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    • 292 10 Wire services. POLICE in riot gear continue to patrol a black neighbourhood in Miami, Florida, after an outbreak of racial violence. The rioting began early yesterday after a black motorcyclist was shot in the head by a white policeman as he fled during
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    • 286 11 Wire services. BRITAIN'S Duchess of York is being attacked by newspapers in her homeland as "the laziest of the royals". The papers say she goes on too many holidays. They feel that she should spend more time doing royal good deeds and tending to
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    • 183 11 Wire services. AN AMERICAN lawmaker says prospects of a nuclear arms race on the Indian subcontinent have been reduced. Representative Stephen Solarz, chairman of a congressional sub-committee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, told a New Delhi news conference that relations between India and Pakistan are
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    • 158 11 THE independent MP for Johor Baru, Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad said he would not accept an offer of a seat on the New Umno Supreme Council. His rejection was reported by the Malay-language daily Utusan Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The paper
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    • 171 11 Wire services REAL life bloody violence is not uncommon in Sri Lanka but the government has decided it wants no more movies depicting violence on TV. Also to be dropped from the stateowned television monopoly: Western soap operas like Dynasty
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    • 96 11 Wire services. EATING garlic and onions may help prevent stomach cancer. That finding by a group of American and Chinese researchers was published yesterday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in Washington. A survey of 1,700 people in China's Shandong province showed
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    • 118 12 Wire services. THE chief rabbi of Israel has issued a decree that he thinks will protect the nation's women soldiers from amorous officers. He says women soldiers must be accompanied by a chaperone when they deal with male officers. A woman who used to command the
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    • 104 12 Wire services. THREE Malaysians convicted of drug trafficking have been hanged at a prison in Perak. A prison spokesman said Go Chin Pheng, 34, Ng Ah Kiat, 54 and Lee Wee Huat, 36 were hanged at Taiping prison near Ipoh yesterday morning. The convicts
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    • 348 12 ISRAEL has launched a new crackdown on Palestinian rock-throwers, destroying homes and ordering troops to use more plastic bullets. Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced the new measures yesterday, saying: "Violence will be met by force within the limits of our law." He said troops would act
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      46 13 Last act His yawn says it all. US Secretary of State George Shultz shows either fatigue or boredom or both as he awaits the opening of a European security meeting in Vienna. He leaves office on Friday, along with President Reagan. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 260 13 Wire services. AT LEAST 41 people were killed and 72 injured when a school bus collided with a train in southern Sri Lanka. Doctors said the death toll would probably top 50 because many of those hurt were not expected to survive the day.
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    • 151 13 Wire services. THE kidnappers of former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants claim to be members of a self-styled "Robin Hood" group. They are asking for a $1.6 million ransom, to be shared by charities and the workers' revolution. The group has identified itself as
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    • 165 13 Wire services. A PAINTING by Buddhist monks 700 years ago on a cave wall in northwest China has been cut into pieces and stolen. The theft was reported yesterday by the People's Daily in Beijing. The cave from which the painting
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      277 12 Wire services. TRADING was dull on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Investors played a waiting game, unwilling to take new positions before the release of US trade figures today, traders said. The Financial Times 30share index was down 3.8 points at 1,521.3. Volume fell to 424.2 million shares from
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    • 77 12 Reuter. SHARE prices chalked up minor gains in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today on bargainhunting after Tuesday's declines, brokers said. The Nikkei index firmed 41.89 points, or 0.13 per cent, to 31,269.41 in 10 minutes. Advances were led by pulp/paper, warehouse, railway/bus, non-life insurance, trucking, communications,
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Tue 1,521.30 (1,525.10) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,214.64 (2,224.64) ST Industrial Tue 1,104.82 (1,107.91) NST Industrial Tue 1,907.98 (1,909.76) Hongkong Hang Song Tue 2,896.65 (2,856.67) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,501.90 (1,512.40) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 31,227.52 (closed) Figures in bracket* refer to thoae of the previous trading
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      274 12 Wire services. WALL Street's blue chips closed lower yesterday as sellers took profits on the market's recent advance and buyers held back ahead of today's trade report The Dow Jones industrial average fell exactly 10 points to 2,214.64. Declining issues exceeded advances 806 to 617 in moderate trading
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  • Showtime
    • 403 14  - ‘Recha rge d’ culture trip to US Stories/ Lo Tien Yin RECENTLY back from a four-month Fulbright Professional Exchange Programme in the United States, dramatist and playwright Kuo Pao Kun, 49, says he it "recharged". He was recommended for the American programme (for students, teachers, research scholars and specialists) by
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    • 304 14 DANCE instructress and choreographer Goh Lay Kuan, 49, says her job is to help children escape from little boxes. She says the vehicle for giving that freedom is the Practice Performing Arts School The Children's Performing Arts Workshop is the school's first
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    • 184 14 WHAT once used to be the Stamford Primary School is now an arts centre. Its new tenants are settling down, and it will soon be buzzing with activities. Ten cultural groups five Chinese art groups and five Indian groups moved in last year. They
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1854 15 Iclevision s KH GEMS v4 (9.30pm, SBC 12) RUBY Turner, the soul queen of 9H 1/ 3K ffl m West 57 th DAT, we CTPV LEGAL protection public awareness Birmingham, is one of Britain's top Hwi pS9! is'making waves in therecord J and environmental concemhave musical" 3Bl mV Wa n
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  • 1566 16 spotlight President Ronald Reagan departs the White House on Friday after eight eventful years in office. The United States today is richer and more powerful than when the former Hollywood actor took over. But there is another side to the story. ROSNAH AHMAD of the Foreign Desk
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 446 20  -  By Vivien Chiong TWO male trainees stood out on the first day of drama lessons for SBC's ninth batch of drama trainees. No, they didn't impress with any acting. They were the centre of attraction because the two are brothers of SBC drama artists Hong
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    • Article, Illustration
      218 20 USA Today. SPOT FOR DIET COKE GEORGE Michael, making his first commercial endorsement, films a spot for Diet Coke at New York's Madison Square Garden. No word on what else his contract involves, or the moola. No air date specified, either although it could be during the Super Bowl
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    • 456 21  -  PREVIEW/ By Lo Tien Yin A i < NEW play features cucumbers, teh-tarik, mee-rebus and... 13 humans in its cast. The food we don't know about, but the humans are mostly in their 20s, but some playing middle-aged men and women, some teenagers. This is the
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    • 173 21 IT'S their first wedding anniversary today. But as far as Kenny and Teresa Bee are concerned, "every day is a honeymoon". Their romance is like a modern-day fairytale. In 1986, Kenny Bee, then the most eligible celebrity bachelor around, met Teresa backstage at
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    • 282 21  -  By Wong Sing Yeong THE score reads: Rahsia (Malaysia), 47 tickets sold. Ujang (Malaysia), 37 tickets sold. Terang Bulan Di Tengah Hari (Indonesia), 35 tickets sold. Ibunda (Indonesia)* 42 tickets sold. This was as of yesterday. These films are among those with the lowest ticket
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    • 335 22  -  By Vivien Chiong S I INGING and sports go hand in hand, as far as pop singer Donna Chiu goes. The 23-year-old Taiwanese is a physical education graduate who majored in hand- ball. Donna is now in Singapore to promote her third solo album
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    • Article, Illustration
      288 22 WILLOW (Cathay) A FANTASY adventure, Willow has too much of the same for anyone who's seen all of George Lucas' films. Otherwise, it's well produced and designed. Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn dwarf, undertakes the task of getting baby Elora Danan out of evil Queen Bavmorda's grasp. Times: 10.30 am,
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    • 283 22  -  SUN AND RAIN Directed by Zhang Zemin Tonight, 6.30 pm Prince 1 REVIEW/ By Toh 1 Toh Hai Leong SUN and Rain, a gentle film about a couple's problematic love relationship, directed by celebrated Zhang Zemin (of Swan Song fame) was shown in last
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  • HORIZONS
    • 954 23 DEAR AGGIE Dear Aggie, I am 13 years old and in big trouble. When I was in primary school I joined a "gang" because I wanted to be popular. But after I became a member, I lost many old friends. They didn't like my
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    • 366 23 HILARY is a worried woman. She isn't sure if the happiness between her and her husband, Geoff, will continue. "It started when he was 44," she said. "After years of laughing at older men driving around like young dandies, he bought a sports
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 147 24 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/oik Browne LOOK, ArtZSLIKA J FUNNY. I GOT A J Jiff? c !p X AT THE AllgUSta/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill f I KNOW WWo"\| /mACHMG 2DRO Z UgNfg HCR A YOUAtff.'YtXJ 1 J I &MMAVC I V AR& TUB tau, V TgA LGAVGe J V J |l|
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1412 26 RADKX3UIDE I:M.!I,1W ffR.IM.-M HM.IIM IfIJ.IIJJIUMJI H—NOON Naws la Briaf (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News la Briaf and Waathar NOON Oaad Music, Company aad Ma: NOON Nawsdask 12.05 Laachdata: Enjoy the musical c "apart Noon-time musical entertain- 12.30 Basiaass Matters: A weekly selection offered for you in this HOOH and 12.0S
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  • SPORTS
    • 317 27 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS NEW ZEALAND jockey Gary Grylls packs his bags and leaves for home at the end of this month with Teawanutu on his mind. Teawanutu is a farm he owns in the North Island, 240 km from Auckland where his father, John, raises
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    • 270 27 LAST-START runaway winner Mama Toro showed she has plenty in hand at Bukit Timah this morning with a 42.6 sec gallop over sand. Ridden by Ismadi Ismail, Mama Toro, who was accompanied by Rocket Red (Maree Lyndon) this morning, gave her rivals
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    • 255 28  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE should win the Asian Women's Team Championship in Bahrain from Feb 1-10, says team manager Titus Mathews. Singapore won the Asian women's title in 1986, ahead of Japan, Hongkong and Malaysia. Said Titus: "Our women should be able to win the title again
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    • 137 28 THE competition was almost non-exis-tent for Sprite's national squash trainees. Both boys and girls steamrolled their way through in the Sprite Youth Tournament U-16 events at Kallang yesterday. Roy Lim, Ho Wing Leong and Kenneth Wong scored 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 wins over their third-round opponents,
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    • 174 28 Reuter. THE British government unveiled a controversial soccer identity card scheme yesterday. The Football Spectators Bill is aimed at stamping out violence at or near grounds. It also gives courts power to stop convicted hooligans going to football matches in other countries. Sports Minister Colin Moynihan
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    • 157 28 Reuter. SPANISH League soccer champion Real Madrid prefers to give priority to renovating its stadium than signing Dutch libero Ronald Koeman from PSV Eindhoven. Real's president Ramon Mendoza was quoted in Spanish newspapers yesterday as saying the club had expensive plans for work on the
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    • 173 28 AFP. GOALKEEPER Erik Thorstvedt's unhappy introduction to English football with Tottenham continued at White Hart Lane yesterday when the London club was beaten 3-1 by Monaco in a friendly. He was beaten three times in the space of five minutes in the first half as Tottenham's
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    • 255 28 Wire services. H MANCHESTER United is giving a trial to Yugoslav international Ivica Barbaric, who plays for Velez Mostar. If the 23-year-old midfielder impresses during his week at Old Trafford, the clubs will discuss a fee. JUSTIN Fashanu's bid to return to English football with Second Division Manchester City
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    • 347 29  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan TWENTY-FOUR bowlers have asked for financial help from the Singapore Sports Council's Sports Aid Fund this year. The number is six more than last year. Expectations of getting the maximum of $7,000 from the Elite scheme could, perhaps, have fuelled the bowlers' hopes.
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    • 432 29 IT seems like only yesterday that he bathed in the spotlight of fame at Orchard Bowl. Oly Reformado not only bowled out the opposition in winning the Bth Asian FIQ singles gold at the same alley, he also bowled over fans, competitors
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    • 166 29 A SECOND bite of the cherry, Karen? Not this time around, thanks, said Karen Lian. The Malaysian woman bowler won't want to be in the limelight again. After all, the last time she did winning $50,000 and a BMW car for a perfect game at the Singapore International
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    • 337 30  -  By Shahiron Sahari AFTER three Premier League matches and a President's Cup match, Geylang International's Finnish striker Mika Vayrynen has yet to do what he was flown in to do score. It's not that he isn't a proven scorer. Mika scored 14 goals in 22 games for
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    • 270 30  -  TONIGHT: Jurong v Safsa (Jurong Stadium, 7.30pm) By Abdul Shukor FOR Safsa, it is a case of bodies willing but the goals...well, they are just not coming. Safsa has the envious reputation of being the fittest team in the Premier League but it has
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    • 224 30  -  By Abdul Shukor UNDERDOGS have a way of rising to the occasion. Sutton proved it against Coventry City in the English FA Cup recently. And yesterday at Hougang, Farrer Park United also did it, against Premier League side Tyrwhitt Soccerites. The Second
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    • 117 31 AFP. lAAF president Primo Nebiolo could face fraud charges arising out of an investigation into the affairs of the Italian Athletics Federation (Fidal). Judicial sources in Rome said yesterday that an examining magistrate called in to investigate the dealings between the federation and the promotions
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    • 432 31  -  By Shahiron Sahari STAND by your man is sung by a woman, but Singapore Amateur Athletic Association president Loh Lin Kok is singing the tune for besieged International Amateur Athletic Federation president Primo Nebiolo. Said Loh: "Singapore is a firm supporter of Nebiolo, and if
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    • 314 31 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: New York Knicks 116 San Antonio 106, Charlotte 127 Philadelphia 122, Atlanta 117 Washington 106, Cleveland 126 Phoenix 110, Denver 116 Sacramento 110, Los Angeles Lakers 124 Houston 113, Detroit 96 Boston 87, Golden State 146 Seattle 117. HOCKEY
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