The New Paper, 21 January 1989

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  • 18 1 the new paper causal SATURDAY, JANUARY 21/SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1989 MD (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 102 1 HR MISSING BT dadv BABY M FOUND Police have found Baby Nur. She was with the woman who raised her since she was about a week old. Her natural mother says: "I want her back." But the six-month-old baby will snuggle with neither woman for a while. She has been
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    • 9 1 .r-******* 4 t*; *l\^\Ex Jacinta: I may do it.
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  • 36 1 There's a new man behind the big desk in the US White House. President Bush says: "We have work to do." /Page 9 Bush: From today, he is boss. Picture/ REUTER
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 601 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching L I ITTLE Nurdiana binti Abu Hassan is in a welfare home today while two women quarrel over who shall be her mother. Her natural mother, Ms Hayati binti Edris, 25, unemployed and unmarried, gave the baby away
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    • 203 2 THE Hungarian film Mephisto has been withdrawn from the Singapore Film Festival. The producers have objected to a cut in the film. It was replaced by an American film, Raising Arizona, at Prince 1 last night. Raising Arizona will be screened again as scheduled tonight.
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    • 332 3  -  By Harinder Gill f OR every season, there's a light up. Those Christmas lights may at last be coming down but those for the Lunar New Year are just going up. The lights-down operation in the Orchard area began on Thursday. It
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    • 280 3 WELCOME the Lunar New Year with a pot of gold kumquats. With just about two weeks to go before the big festival, thousands of pots of the bright orange fruit plants are making their appearance in Chinatown. "Take your pick. We imported
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 29 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24. Sunset: 7.18 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.15 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 140 4 Is late marriage a problem? Why do people marry late or not at all? These were just two of the questions raised at a forum last night organised by the National University of Singapore Society and Association of Women for Action and Research. Sharing their personal experiences
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    • 250 4 Ms ftngie Chew, a computer consultant in her 20s CHOOSING a spouse is like buying a car, except that it is easier to get a marriage licence than a driving licence, said Ms Chew. She believes late marriage is not a problem
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    • 256 4 Dr Ajith Damodaran, 34, a family doctor MARRIED in May last year, Dr Ajith recalled how social pressure forced him to tie the knot after nearly putting him off marriage altogether. In the middle of 1987, he began feeling lonely and purposeless. One
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    • 185 4 'Not yet got my studies and personal problems' Dr Ang Peng Chye, 34, a psychiatrist DR Ang gave three reasons he considered himself "unmarriable" at the moment. Pressure to do well academically. Pushed to do well in school, he neglected his social life. Concentrate on doing well in exams and
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    • 261 4 SOME heavy hitters in the computer world have been invited to speak at a giant computer exposition that opens in Singapore on June 29. They include the head of Apple Computers, Mr John Sculley; the chairman of the software company Microsoft, Mr
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    • 81 4 SMALL businesses that want to keep up with the times but do not have the money to do so, take heart. The Association of Small and Medium Enterprises will set up a resource pool under its new Enterprise Development Scheme which brings together innovators, researchers, venture
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 381 6  -  By Chitha Rajaram H EADACHE, flu, whatever what most people do is pop some pills to relieve the discomfort. Many of them are medicines that can be bought over the counter and are common household names. Are these pills safe? "Yes," said a doctor
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    • 153 6 LAST week, two drug fatality cases were brought before the coroners court. CASE 1: Madam Lim Siang Eng apparently died of an allergic reaction to a drug on Jan 31,1987. Madam Lim consumed the same drug five years earlier but did not report any side effects then.
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    • 291 6 THE Government's proposal to end appeals by errant lawyers to the Privy Council in London against being struck off the rolls will be discussed by the Law Society of Singapore at an extraordinary general meeting today. This follows the first reading in
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    • 179 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. alienate: To make a person unfriendly and unsympathetic to oneself. bumpkin: Describes a person who comes from a country area and thought of as stupid or ignorant. corporal punishment:
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    • 194 6 COCA-COLA will change its image tomorrow. The coming marketing blitz that will tell people "You can't beat the feeling". The blitz, part of a worldwide effort, will cost $250,000. The new line replaces "Coke is it!", which dates back to a 1981 dealers and
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    • 121 6 THE price of Coke is likely to go up. And other softdrink manufacturers, especially Pepsi, are expected to follow. Coca-Cola is likely to raise the prices of its canned drinks this year due to higher material and labour costs, Coca-Cola Far East Ltd
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    • 662 7  -  By Lois Ng FIRST, the good part: Nearly 3,000 elderly people received hong bao from the Shaw Foundation, at Capitol cinema yesterday morning. Then, the bad bit: On going home, they found it almost impossible to cross the road to the nearby bus stop because
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    • 398 7 THERE was plenty of interest when the novel idea of turning the 19th-century Alkaff House into a tourist hot spot was first brought up. But only one firm responded to the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board's call for tenders in September. The lone
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 379 8 FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday spelled out what MPs should do and what they ghould not do. Mr Goh was making his first speech to the new Parliament. He made it clear that he has taken day-to-day charge of the Government as he stated
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    • 102 8 SHARED Values. That is what the Government may call the statement of core values instead of National Ideology. First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told Parliament yesterday that whatever it's name, "a document crystallising the consensus" is necessary. A discussion paper, called a
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    • 120 8 MAIDS LABOUR Minister Lee Yock Suan said most Singapore households get along without maids proving there are other ways women can work and still raise families. Mr Lee said there were 40,000 foreign maids in Singapore and 207,000 working wives. "Clearly, the vast majority
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    • 75 8 RESOLVING CONFLICTS DR ALINE Wong (Tampines GRC) said the Government must not confuse people by: Asking Chinese Singaporeans to use the mother tongue to promote social and cultural values yet at the same time not to be chauvinistic. Promoting Confucian concepts of family yet calling on
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    • 316 8 RELIGIOUS groups must not pressure government leaders and MPs to get publicly involved in their ceremonies and functions, Dr Tay Eng Soon said. By the same token, those in Government must always be mindful that Singapore is a secular state, the Senior Minister of State (Education) and
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    • 134 8 ON NON-CONSTITUENCY MPS PROPOSALS by two MPs that the opposition be immediately increased with more Non-Con-stituency MPs brought a protest from the opposition. Mr Chiam See Tong (Potong Pasir, Singapore Democratic Party) argued that NCMPs do not make Parliament more democrat- ic because
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 431 9 Wire services. THE United States has a new President today and Mr Ronald Reagan is back in California to settle in as a wealthy retiree among his Hollywood film colony friends. Vice-President George Bush stepped up in rank, being sworn in as the 41st President
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    • 87 9 Wire services. FORMER First Lady Nancy Reagan's favourite astrologer had some free advice for new President George Bush: Beware the Sun in Gemini, and never leave home without the Secret Service. Ms Joan Quigley, a San Francisco astrologer, gave a detailed reading of the new
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    • 193 9 Wire services. WHEN he stepped out of office today, Mr Ronald Reagan broke the so-called zero-year curse that has haunted the presidency for nearly 150 years. Ever since William Henry Harrison won the White House in 1840, every American president elected in a year ending in zero died
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    • 44 10 Bottoms Up: It's freezing cold in London now, but model Jasmine Huzhes gives a preview of warmer days as sne displays a "Black Widow", a one-piece swimsuit at a fashion show by Ujena. The swimsuit will cost $158. Picture/ Ap
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    • 52 10 Wire services. BUDDHIST nuns in Taipei are protesting against the performance of an opera which shows a young nun longing for sexual love with a man. An official of the Taiwan Buddhists Association charged yesterday that the opera Su Fan, or Longing for Worldly Pleasures, insults Buddhists.
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    • 287 10 Wire services. A PILOT was able to safely land a Boeing 737 jetliner in the US this morning after one of the plane's two engines suddenly fell off. Officials said the plane had been aloft only seconds before the accident occurred. The jet was
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    • 212 10 Wire services. BURMA may not have an election until 1990 a year later than promised. The military government said yesterday that lawlessness and the growth of political parties were causing the delay. "We need peace and tranquility in the country. If there is no law
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    • 154 10 Wire services. EXILED Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, who left his home in Saudi Arabia two weeks ago, has dropped out of sight and may be in hiding in Zaire. Arab diplomatic sources said yesterday that reports that Mr Amin left the Zairean capital
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    • 485 10  -  By Ravindra Kumar NOSTALGIA has stepped out of the shadows. Vaudeville occupies centre stage. Tamil Nadu state, in South India, goes to the polls today. To be decided: A successor to the mantle or, in this case, the fur cap of the
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    • 311 11 Wire services. COMMUN I S T South-east Asian nations want China and the Soviet Union to sit in on talks with warring Cambodian factions. Malaysian Brunei for talks. Foreign Minister Abu Hassan Omar said yesterday that Asean would also push for a supervisory body to verify
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    • 151 11 Wire services SCORES of Soviet military transport planes and civilian airliners are airlifting food and fuel daily to beseiged Afghan capital. A rebel blockade has caused acute shortages in Kabul, the Soviet news agency Tass said yesterday. Tass also reported rocket and ground attacks by
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    • 103 11 Wire services. AT LEAST 20 people are feared dead in a wall of mud that plunged down a mountain in western Sumatra after days of heavy rain. A police spokesman said yesterday that the victims were trying to clear a highway blocked
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      265 11 Wire services. SHARE prices rose in late trading on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, overcoming early profit-taking that threatened to curtail the market's recent solid advances. The Financial Times 30share index closed 7.1 points up at 1563.3. Volume soared to 901.5 million shares, up from 801.6 million shares on
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      8 11 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 11 FT Industrials Fri 1,563.30 (1,566.20) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,235.36 (2,239.11) ST Industrial Fri 1,095.31 (1,099.24) NST Industrial Fri 1,892.05 (1,899.70) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 2,897.91 (2,909.66) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,517.30 (1.511.60) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 31,170.38 (31,311.40) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      252 11 Wire services. THERE were no cheers for new US President Bush on Wall Street yesterday as stocks eased on inauguration day, pressured by weak bond prices and options-related selling. Traders said Mr Bush's inaugural speech did little to allay investor concerns about how his administration plans to tackle
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  • Showtime
    • 455 12  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang s EXY Playboy pin-up girl Jacinta Lee may strip again. But only if asked by top directors such as Steven SpielIberg or Bernardo Bertolucci. "I'll consider stripping for the cameras only if the part is right and the nude scenes tastefully
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    • 290 12 KUALA Lumpur's skyscrapers and minarets could be the backdrop for two proposed American films later this year. One with the working title, Malaysia, may begin location shooting in the Malaysian capital next month. The main role in this action movie should be played
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • UPDATE
    • 2260 14 SATURDAY Out&About rrz RONGGENG NITE. Step 11V out to Sentosa's new ferry terminal where you can ronggeng to your heart's content between 8 pm and 10 pm. Free, except for the usual charges to Sentosa $3.50 adults, $2 children. CHINATOWN LIGHT-UP. Bnght lights line
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    • 100 14 SHAKESPEARE'S tragi-comedy about sibling treachery. Duke Prospero, rightful heir, is cast away with his infant daughter to die at sea by his younger brother Antonio. Prospero lands on an island and is saved. Later, Antonio and his treacherous friends are shipwrecked on Prospero's island. Cheek By
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    • Article, Illustration
      158 14 TODAY IT/TFUJI FESTIVAL A movie from India about a man who wants I to set right a world gone wrong. 1.30 pm. Prince 1. [T/jrCENTRESTAGE: Director Oig Keng Sen's interpretation of |K| August Strindberg's 100-year-old classic, Miss Julie. Drama Centre. 8 pm. AND ABOUT: Ronggeng the night away
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      137 14 SUNDAY DRESSED to kill and ready to fight, the opera troupe Chinese Theatre Circle puts excerpts from "Warriors of Yang Family" onstage. This Cantonese opera centers on the patriotic women of the Sung Dynasty (960- 1279). Wearing ancient battle gear, they rode out to fight invaders of China.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1924 15 Television SCREEN M C en^res^a 8 e How Many Miles |gU|B|p|gH| Saturday Night Movie Storm Malgudi Days A Hero V, GEMS M T° Babylon? (10.35 pn, SBC 5) (9.00pm, SBC 12) InHHp v V (10.20 pm, SBC 12) TWO students on a camping trip A SCREEN adaptation of ALEXANDER Moore
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 2038 16 t iSfyi® lelevision SCREEN M Movie Parade Silk Stockings Celebrity Challenge 89 (live) Screen 5— We are the Children GEMS VVHEN three Soviet agents fail in (3.25 pm, SBC 12) ALLY Sheedy and Ted Danaon star Mf their efforts to persuade the famed J* in this deeply moving story about
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  • UPDATE
    • 2255 17 SATURDAY Out About Vr~Z RONGGENG NITE Step If" I out to Sentosa's new ferry terminal where you can ronggeng to your heart's content between 8 pm and 10 pm. Free, except for the usual charges to Sentosa $3.50 adults, $2 children. CHINATOWN LIGHT-UP. Bnght
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    • 100 17 SHAKESPEARE'S tragi-comedy about sibling treachery. Duke Prospero, rightful heir, is cast away with his infant daughter to die at sea by his younger brother Antonio. Prospero lands on an island and is saved. Later, Antonio and his treacherous friends are shipwrecked on Prospero's island. Cheek By
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    • Article, Illustration
      161 17 TODAY fT/triLII FESTIVAL A movie from India about a man who wants U_J to set right a world gone wrong. 1.30 pm. Prince 1. rr>rCENTRESTAGE: Director Oig Keng Sen's interpretation of IZJ August Strindberg's 100-year-old classic. Miss Julie. Drama Centre. 8 pm. rr>T0UT AND ABOUT: Ronggerig the night
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    • Article, Illustration
      137 17 SUNDAY DRESSED to kill and ready to fight, the opera troupe Chinese Theatre Circle puts excerpts from "Warriors of Yang Family" onstage. This Cantonese opera centers on the patriotic women of the Sung Dynasty (960- 1279). Wearing ancient battle gear, they rode out to fight invaders of China.
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1519 18 RADIOGUIDE EEEHI EMXBI IiJMiItM EI3BHM 6aa Newt la Brief (Programmes in English) 12.05 CaH Ma: A selection of pop vo- t°i 700 W^Wn"^ 6.05 0a Rlr Wake up to lovely melo- §Mm News Briaf call and inatrumentala with a l!S dies in this early morning pro- 603 Hiakllchts af the
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 401 19  -  By Lo Tien Yin p UT your money where your stomach is. That's what some Singaporeans are doing, and, it seems, with a lot of success in China. If you are thinking of cashing in on the food business, and others too, watch Doing Business with
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    • Article, Illustration
      271 19 SIGN OF THE TIMES (Lido) IF you care only for concerts this year, this Prince movie is the one. It features his hit single Sign 0' the Times, plus other songs like Play in the Sunshine, Little Red Corvette, Slow Love and Hot Thing. Prince not only starred in
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    • 362 19  -  SATURDAYSOUNDS By Lim Sek THE year 1989 will be a big one for groups. Well, at least the first half of the year will. A peep into the release schedules of the major recording companies from now to May shows the return of many groups
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    • 379 20  -  FIRST NIGHT REVIEW/ By Adeline Woon Adeline Woon Miss Julia Drama Centre Jan 20 to 28, 8 pm Matinee on Jan 20 and 28 f 2.30 pm STRINDBERG'S play Miss Julie was written exactly a hundred years ago. It's as full of seduction,
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    • 209 20 PART of the action onstage in Miss Julie has explicit scenes. The characters caress themselves and each other. Some of the audience at Thursday night's preview were embarrased about these scenes, so at last night's premiere director Ong Keng Sen put up a notice to
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    • 158 20  -  E'seenlastnight By Lo Tien Yin WATCHING When Hearts Touched over SBC 8 last night, I was reminded of those old black and white Cantonese movies we were treated to in the 60s, on TV. In those days, a kiss was not a kiss
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    • 260 21  -  Rafting Arizona Prince 1 Today, 9 pnt Tickets: $5 PREVIEW/ By Kevin Lim Kevin Lim RAISING Arizona may have gone on commercial US release in 1987, but it could be quirky enough to qualify for a Him festival. Depending on whether you are a
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    • 343 21  -  By Wong Sing Yeong Liu Yaxi (Yan Xiaopin) the heroine of Sun and Rain, is intelligent and desirable. As her rival tells her: "I understand why so many love you. You're the type of woman whom men, and even women, find easy to love.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 560 24  -  A LOVE nest might be tempting but not many teenagers will go for it. A majority of teenagers feel that running away from home does not solve any problems By Loh Tuan Lee MANY youngsters were fascinated by the story of a teenage love
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    • 306 24 A SOCIAL worker and two teachers with five years in the profession agree that communication is the solution to the problem of runaways. All three are against punishment. They think it aggravates the situation instead of allowing runaways and family to become reconciled. Mr Vincent Lam,
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    • 344 24 Leonard Teow, 18. Bartley Secondary School "If the runaways were my friends I would have advised them to go home. They couldn't have stayed there forever. It was not practical. "And sex? No, not so freely. They are too young, and not married. They should not
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  • SPORT/RACING
    • 507 26 T HE last race today a Class 4 1,200 m sprint is a selector's nightmare with no less than eight last-start winners in a field of 13. In fact it could very well be billed the battle of the broth-ers-in-law, namely Singa-pore-based Dr Yeoh Kheng Chye and Penang-based
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    • 312 26 FOLLOW Kiwi rider Gary Grylls and Japanese Mitsuhiko Michikawa on Sunday and you cannot be far off target. Both riders have good mounts and one at least, must make hay while the sun shines on Bukit Timah tomorrow. Grylls' best rides are Loud Echo
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    • 157 26 JOCKEY Leong Swee Ying, who rode Laser Ray II and trailed the field of 10 throughout in Race 6 on the second day of the January Ipoh meeting, says there was nothing amiss with his riding in that race. Said Leong yesterday: "I don't
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  • SPORTS
    • 543 27 Tan Eng Liang and Loh Lin Kok are at each other's throats again. Nothing new about that. What's new is that there may be cause for celebration from their conflict... o THER than a magnificent creature masquerading as my dog, this sports fan's
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    • 252 27  -  Stories/. Alfonso Chan THE Singapore Amateur Athletic Association will sever its ties with the Singapore Sports Council over officiating courses. It will hold its second and last joint SSC-SAAA Athletics Officiating Course with the Singapore Sports Council on Feb 27. This is the
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    • 209 27 THE resurfacing works to replace the National Stadium track now on has nothing to do with Mr Loh Lin Kok's criticism of the Stadium. So says Dr Tan Eng Liang, chairman of the Singapore Sports Council, who runs the Stadium. "We've been aware of the
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    • 241 27 SRU K/0 FINAL PREVIEW: By SHAHIRON SAHARI TODAY'S final of the Cathay PacificSingapore Rugby Union knock-out tournament at the Padang has the ingredients of a classic: The forward power of Singapore Cricket Club against the speed and invention of Police's backs. Said SCC captain Nick Wood:
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    • 411 28 SINGAPORE does not need foreigners in its Malaysia Cup team. Develop our own players, because even if Singapore wins the Cup with the foreigners, it would be a very hollow victory indeed. So say the readers who responded to the New Paper's Question of the Week, which
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    • 257 28  -  TODAY: BALESTIER v POLICE; T BAHRU V TYRWHITT TOMORROW: GEYLANG v JURONG Stories/ Shahiron Sahari GEYLANG International hopes to attract more fans to its Premier League match against Jurong Town with a half-time lucky draw at the National Stadium tomorrow. Prizes include a carry music compo, radio-controlled
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    • 299 28 BALESTIER United coach Majid Ariff believes he has hit on a winning combination. "We will use all three Yugoslavs in the forward-line because they love to attack," said Majid, an Asian AllStars player in the 1960s. Balestier's Premier League match against Police Sports Association, at Toa
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    • 135 28  -  By Abdul Shukor TIONG Bahru's outspoken manager, Richard Woon, has given his strikers an ultimatum: Score or be replaced by a foreign player. Tiong Bahru plays its fifth game of the season against Tyrwhitt Soccerites at Hougang Stadium this afternoon at 4.45 pm. Said Woon: "I've given the
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    • 201 29 Reuter. LIBYA conceded a World Cup qualifying-round soccer match to Algeria yesterday, saying the two teams were really one and should not compete. A statement by the Libyan Football Federation, broadcast on Libyan Radio, said it took the decision in the framework of the unionist
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    • 148 29 Reuter. DUTCH soccer international Ronald Koeman will sign a four-year contract with Barcelona. The Spanish club has agreed to pay PSV Eindhoven $11.4 million for the deal. Barcelona vice-president Joan Gaspart said Koeman's adviser, Ger Lagendijk, confirmed yesterday morning that the Dutch star wanted to join the club. He
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    • 230 29 DAVE Smith, 54, resigned yesterday as manager of Scottish Premier Division club Dundee. He became the third manager to resign in less than three years. LUTON bought utility player David Beaumont from Scottish Premier Division side Dundee United yesterday for $525,000. NEWCASTLE has joined the race for Crystal
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    • 337 29 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Japan Open Singles q-finals: Men: Liu Jun (C) bt Steve Baddeley (Brit) 15-8, 5-15, 15-8; Foo Kok Keong (Mai) bt Richard Mainaky (Indo) 15-9, 15-8; Alan Budi Kuauma (Indo) bt Jens Peter Nierhoff (Den) 15-17, 15-12, 17-14; Yang Yang (C) bt
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  • 105 30 CHANGI Constituency SC, whose football team was banned for two years on Monday, has pledged to sell 5,000 tickets for the FAS Donation Draw. The Draw, to be launched this morning by 1DPM Goh Chok Tong, hopes to raise $500,000 for the FAS Soccer Development
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  • 404 30  -  By Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE'S athletics .calendar and preparations for South East Asia Games be strangled by bureauikr&fx- if there's no end to between two of .Me most progressive leaders fc>f Singapore sport today. The Singapore Sports Council, continuing its feud with Singapore
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