The New Paper, 2 February 1989

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1 30 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1989 MO <F) 179/4/80 SO CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 38 1 SECRET SEARCH OF SHUTTLECOCK Singapore Badminton Association is looking for a new coach. SBA hunt is kept mum. But grapevine whispers that name at top of list is Wee Choon Seng. Shhh! Page 31 CHINATOWN SHORPINC GUIDE M
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    • 94 1 RECORD BID: MARRIED I $2.13m FOR WOMAN HELD MINI-MARKET IN MURDER OF El Mr Ong Hoo Kin bids $2.13 m WOMAN WHO B3 but has to pay only $1.8 m for H space in Serangoon Town WflBk PANTS H Centre. Still, it's highest lump r nniV H sum ever paid
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    • 57 1 HONG BAO BURGLAR PLAYS MEAN TRICK Somebody with a wicked sense of humour steals $100,000 from gift shop in Lucky Plaza. Left in the petty cash box are a couple of hong bao empty. Page 8 WORLD 10-13 FASHION 23 STOCKS 12 RADIO 26 FOOD 13 FASTADS/JOBS 27 SHOWTIME 14,20-22
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  • Article, Illustration
    63 1 Innocent girls are reported being doped at parties and raped. To see how it could happen, reporter Chitra Rajaram takes a pill under controlled conditions. She wakes up to find her blouse missing. "I panicked. I clutched the bedsheets and wondered: What happened to me? P3£6 2
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 655 2  -  A letter in The Straits Times on Tuesday started it all. The letter writer signing off as a "Concerned Family Doctor" wrote about innocent girls being doped at parties and then being molested or raped. Yesterday, The Straits Times quoted six doctors as saying that pills
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    • 317 2  -  By Chitra Rajaram FRIGHTENED and shocked, that was how I first felt when I got up and found myself in bed without my blouse. I felt my shoulder and it was bare. I looked for my watch and it was not on my
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    • 103 2 A CONCERNED family doctor has detailed ways for young people to avoid being drugged at parties. The following are his points of advice. Ask the host if he knows and trusts all the guests. Have careful, watchful adults present at parties for teenagers. Avoid alcohol and
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    • 40 2 The New Paper report on Ms Viva Hussain, published on Jan 23, said she is a managing partner of Milk and Aster Marketing. That was a mistake. She is a managing partner of Viva Hussain Marketing, located in Hougang.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 34 2 the weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 23 degrees. Sunset: 7.20 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.15 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 437 3  -  By Irene Hoe STREET stalls are back with a vengeance in Chinatown, if only for the Lunar New Year shopping season. There are twice as many as last year's. Most trade from mid-morning until midnight or later. So the place looks more like the Chinatown of
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    • 357 4  -  By! Irene Hoe M "ATSUSHITA Electronics Corporation (MEC) plans to develop its Singapore m operations into a business centre for the region, its president said yesterday. It is part of the Matsushita Electric Industrial group, the world's largest manufacturer of consumer electronics. The company
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    • 190 4  -  By Chua Chin Chye POLICE have arrested a 29-year-old married woman in connection with the murder of the woman who wore men's clothing. A senior CID officer said the woman picked up by police at her Jurong flat yesterday morning was a friend of
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    • 45 4 A COFFEESHOP caretaker was found dead in a coffeeshop at Yishun this morning. Police believe the man, about 60 years old, was murdered. A colleague found the body in the shop at Block 780, Yishun Ring Road, at about 6 am.
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    • 76 4 A BRICK wall tumbled down and crushed an unidentified Thai construction worker at Changi Airport He died in hospital He and other workers were taking down a 2.5 m brick structure at the uncompleted passenger terminal when the bricks suddenly gave way on
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    • 191 4 RESIDENTS of the Jurong West area think somebody is throwing lighted matches into flats to try to start fires. Three fires flared up Tuesday including one that reduced to ashes a fish dealer's cash savings of (5,000 plus 4,000 in Malaysian ringgit Up in smoke along with
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    • 152 4 THE official harmony between Malaysia and Singapore includes efforts to improve the Causeway connection between the two countries. Malaysian Foreign Affairs Minister Abu Hassan Omar said Malaysia agreed that Singapore can acquire 6.7 hectares to extend its Woodlands immigration complex. Datuk Abu Hassan, here on
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    • 450 5  -  By Lois Ng M R Ho Yoke Choy handles fire and heavy metal on his job as a welder. Mr Tan King Seng is a hairstylist. Both bring the touch of artists to the delicate craft of lantern-making. Mr Ho, 35, won first prize in the
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    • 257 6  -  By Loh Tuan Lee A: RECORD bid of $2.13 million came in when the Housing and Development Board put its first mini-market up for public tender. Yet the mini-market at Blk 253, Serangoon Town Centre, was sold for $1.85 million. To the same man who'd
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    • 234 6 SIX new Neighbourhood Police Posts (NPP) began full operation at 8 am this morning, bringing the total number of NPP's in Singapore to 71. A police spokesman said yesterday the six are: Kallang NPP in Block 105, Towner Road, tel: 250-6999. Cairnhill NPP
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    • 471 6 DISCO, no. Swing Chinatown will not be. It's been scrapped. Tradition wins the day at the last minute. Good riddance seemed to be the reaction of most of the 15 people interviewed by The New Paper yesterday. Although some were disappointed, many were indifferent
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 457 8  -  By Karen Goh WHOEVER stole more than $100,000 in cash and jewellery from the Benjamin Gift Shop in Lucky Plaza had a sense of humour. Left in the emptied petty cash box were a couple of hongbao. They didn't have any money in them. But then,
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    • 195 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. calligraphy: Art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or special pen. decollete: Describes a dress or blouse with very low neckline and not covering the shoulders. foppish: Describes
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    • 392 8 MR JOHNSON Lock thinks his roast ducks are so tasty his competitors may buy them from him during the coming festive season, and sell them at a profit. To prevent that happening he has decided that each customer will be allowed to buy only five
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    • 338 9 BUSINESSMEN got a $70,000 lesson at a seminar yesterday. And it didn't cost them a cent. The lesson was about a costly mistake made by Mr Jeremy Chia, managing director of Utopia-Aire Pte Ltd when computerising his company. During the talk, he warned others
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    • 120 9 Does computer jargon leave you confused? Here is a small glossary of some basic terms. video display unit: The computer terminal or screen. disk drive: It is like a record player. Put a computer disk in, and you can play or run the program on your computer.
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    • 341 9  -  Stories/ Trudy Lim RESPONSE time, CPUs and terminals. These are the everyday terms used by computer people. But such talk makes the average businessman feel he has just met an alien from another planet. This was one of the main concerns voiced by businessmen from small and
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 306 10 Wire services. US President George Bush has laryngitis and can barely talk but said he would meet Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita today as scheduled. Mr Bush came down with the minor throat problem yesterday. He had to cancel a speech. "The President has
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    • 51 10 Story time: America's First Lady uses her story-telling skills to spread some cheer to a group of homeless children. Mrs Barbara Bush was visiting Martha's Table in Washington. Martha£ Table is a non-profit body that feeds the homeless and provides the young with some educational actitivies.
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    • 274 10 Wire services. A US FEDERAL judge is considering whether to punish ABC News for a report on the Iran-Contra trial of Oliver North. District Judge Gerhard Gesell said ABC may have committed the offence of contempt of court by using some of North's previous testimony
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    • 269 10 Wire services. SOUTH Korea put more police on alert in Seoul as student radicals vowed to start a new wave of antigovernment and anti-US protests. Orders for additional security followed a government warning that it would not tolerate any further violence
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    • 216 10 Wire services. FORMER Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, 71, was listed in critical condition after undergoing an operation to help him breathe. "Mr Marcos has had increased respiratory problems and his doctors decided on the surgery to alleviate the situation," said a spokesman
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    • 349 11 Wire services. JAZZMAN Billy Tipton was really a jazzwoman. Not even three adopted sons suspected until they were told the truth by a funeral home operator after the musician died of a bleeding ulcer a fortnight ago at age 74. Mr
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    • 363 11 Wire services ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has made a new offer in the dickering over a temporary solution to the Arab-Jewish conflict. He said yesterday that Israeli troops could be withdrawn from some cities in the occupied zone if Palestinians accepted limited self-government. It
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    • 262 11 Wire services. THE man US President George Bush wants for defence secretary denied that he is a womaniser and a heavy drinker. Mr John Tower's denial came yesterday at a closed session of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington. Conservative activist Paul Weyrich said on
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    • 47 11 IlltO ttw swine Rio's famous carnival doesnt start until Saturday but Brazil is already gripped by party fever. These two women were so anxious to get the party going that they took to the streets dancing before dawn yesterday. Picture/Reuter
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    • 158 11 Wire services. A 13-YEAR-OLD Indian elephant is likely to have the honour of carrying Buddha's "sacred tooth" in one of Asia's most colourful pageants. Indiraja was chosen because she has the proper posture, tail and trunk touching the ground. She was given to Sri
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    • 204 12 Wire services. TAIWAN'S Premier Yu Kuo-hwa says the government will reassess its new flexible policy towards China because Beijing does not respond to peaceful overtures. "Over the past year our mainland policy has moved ahead steadily, but we have not seen any reaction
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    • 266 12 Wire services. THE US-Soviet Union public relations war has caused the Americans to cut back the annual giant military exercise in West Germany. The manoeuvers, called Reforger, are designed to show the Soviets and the world just how fast North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) forces can be
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    • 225 12 Wire services. MORE American children are falling into the crack of drug abuse. "Crack" is a deadly form of cocaine. An 11-year-old drug courier and a 10-year-old crack dealer have caused officials to wonder if they're losing the drug fight. "Crack and
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    • 147 13 Wire services. AN UNUSUALLY warm winter has sabotaged South Korea's stocks of kimchi, the spicy cabbage dish that goes with every meal. The balmiest December in 85 years caused hundreds of tons of winter kimchi to ferment too early. It was made in the
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    • 290 13 Wire services. A JAPANESE soap opera that was a hit in Singapore seems so real to viewers in Iran that they sent rice rationing coupons to the TV station when the heroine could not find enough food to feed herself. It moved Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, too
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    • 173 13 Wire services A NEWSPAPER owned by the Pakistan government accuses the country's secret service of acting like an "invisible government". In what appears to be the official view, the Islamabad newspaper said yesterday that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) should be reor- ganised.
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      284 12 Wire services. SHARES were marked lower on the London Stock Exchange yesterday as profit-taking took the steam out of the new year rally. Many players stepped back amid uncertainty over whether the market had reached its peak. Prices have gained 13.8 per cent since the beginning of the year.
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    • 81 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened with a small gain on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today on bargain-hunting after Tuesday's sharp drop. The Nikkei index firmed 25.56 points to 31,386.24 in 10 minutes of trade after falling more than 220 points on Wednesday. Advances were led by credit/lease, construction, rolling stock,
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Wed 1,665.40 (1,674.40) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,338.21 (2,342.32) ST Industrial Wed 1,137.01 (1,133.32) NST Industrial Wed Closed (1,944.33) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 3,060.91 (3,072.86) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,530.40 (1,551.80) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 31,360.68 (31,581.30) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      265 12 Wire services. TRADING was mixed on Wall Street yesterday as selective demand contained profit-taking. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 4.11 to close at 2,338.21. Advancing issues slightly outnumbered declines on the Exchange, with 731 up, 703 down and 525 unchanged. Volume totaled 215.64 million shares,
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 476 13  -  By Lim Swee Hong S OME market stalls may be closed for up to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. And many of your regular food stalls will close for their annual long vacation. So be wise and stock up on some
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    • 111 13 MOST of the major supermarkets will close early on Lunar New Year's Eve, on Sunday. All will resume business on Wednesday, except Kimisawa which opens on Thursday. Smart Sunday 9.30 am to 10 pm Usual opening hours 9.30 am to midnight NTUC FalrPrice Sunday: 9 am to
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  • Showtime
    • 541 14  -  StoriW Lo Tien Yin P I IROUETTE, pirouette, pirouette... stretch... The parquet floor at the Singapore Academy of Ballet shook as dancers twirled and leapt In the air was a kind of excitement which only dancers can emit, the same excitement which led ballet mistress Niloufer
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    • 257 14 AN actor's work is never done. After lifting the 43-kg. actress Xiangyun for the Community Chest Heartstrings concert in the Butterfly Lovers dance, SBC actor Huang Wenyong has taken on a new challenge opera. He has just finished filming an excerpt from the Peking opera,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1527 15 M The Killing Zone Chinese Opera: Su Xiaome Thursday Feature Special SCREEN m(8 pm, SBC 12) Jfl (9.30 pm, SBC 12) Tightrope GEMS in 1987, director and THIS Beijing Opera is performed (10.35 pm, SBC 5) EwHmß producer Robert D Clark and by the Beijing Opera Academy of WHFN Kfj»ntifnl
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  • forecast
    • 427 16 We are about to enter another Lunar New Year. Fengshui masters and fortune-tellers have come up with prolific predictions in print. For this is the time of year when many people are gripped by an irresistible urge to know the future. To aid the superstitious, the
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    • 461 16 Those born in 1929 or this year: SNAKES age 60 are re-born this year, having just completed the 60-year cycle of the 12 signs of the Chinese horoscope. You have the advantage of age to help you fight the petty mischief-makers this year, and your wisdom should tide
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 423 18  -  By Wong Sing Yeong V ICTORIA who? Hardly anyone knew the beautiful English blonde who arrived with Tess Harper at the recently-concluded Singapore Film Festival. Not many realised Victoria Tennant is a star in her own right. She has starred in several movies including All
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    • Article, Illustration
      182 18 COCKTAIL (Orchard) LIGHTWEIGHT entertainment about a young barman (Tom Cruise) who gets caught up in the not-so-pretty world of easy money and sex. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm. SHORT CIRCUIT 2 (Cathay and Marina 1) AS usual, a sequel that is not as good as the
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    • 413 18 UPI. THE mood is romantic, the setting historical. Costumes are gorgeous. And the heroine clings to her virtue until the happy ending. That's the recipe for another Barbara Cartland confection. The confection we focus upon here is the Lady and the Highwayman, a TV production based
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    • 149 18 FANS of Batman might well feel as if a terrible thud has landed upon learning the no-longer-secret identity of the actor who has been chosen to play the Gotham detective in a new movie. Michael Keaton is the one. On second thoughts, some fans
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    • Article, Illustration
      403 19  -  By Debbie Henson KARYN WHITE: KARYN WHITE (WEA) THIS lady is a blast! Her debut album is a 10-song collection. She wrote the lyrics for three of them. The spotlight is on her distinctive style. It goes from soulful to up-tempo jazz. On the whole, Karyn White is someone
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    • 396 19  -  By Lo Tien Yin B EHIND every beauty queen, there is a "pushy" friend. When the Miss Union contest was launched earlier this month by the Women's Programme Secretariat of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), beauties were slow in signing up. Up to
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    • 345 19 THE cola wars between Pepsi and Coca-Cola are making singers such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner and Madonna even richer. Last year Pepsi paid Michael Jackson $23 million to endorse its drink. Now, Diet Coke has rock star George Michael singing its
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    • 416 20  -  Matthew and tha New My^arjm Tht PncNk Bar, Shangri-La Hatal 9 pm till 1.4S pm nightly aicapt Sundays FIRST NIGHT REVIEW/ By Adeline Woon Adeline Woon T I Singapore Cowboy has ridden back into town. Back after six doggone months away in Tokyo,
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    • 163 20  -  OSEENLASTNK3HT By Lim Kuan Chiang TUESDAY night TV fare on RTM 2 can always be relied upon to beat the midweek blues. For Tuesday night is comedy night, with three sit-coms for a straight one-and-a-half hours from 7.30 pm. The laughs start with Valerie
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    • 295 20  -  By! Lim Kuan Chiang SHE'S been gone from the recording scene for three years and now Angeline Kong no longer sings like a sweet little teenager. She doesn't look like one, either, on the cover of her new English album. Music fans will remember
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  • 167 21 FASHIONTODAY AFP. H ONGKONG'S biggest fashion festival erupted in a swirl of colour three weeks ago with a bevy of international models showing off the world's 1 hottest styles. The show featured 262 fashion companies from 10 countries including the United States, Japan,
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  • SPORTS
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      305 26 MECHELEN 3 PSV 0 Reuter. BELGIAN underdog Mechelen overwhelmed Dutch giant PSV Eindhoven 3-0 in the first leg of the European Super Cup in Belgium yesterday. Dutch international John Bosnian opened the scoring for the Cup-Winners' Cup-holder from close range in the 17th minute. PSV goalkeeper Patrick Lodewijks
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    • 287 26 FA CUP 4th ROUND REPLAY AFP. LEROY Rosenior was again West Ham's FA Cup hero. He finally punctured Swindon's resistance after 151 goalless minutes to earn a fifth-round trip to Charlton. The 24-year-old striker from Sierra Leone scored the winner at Arsenal in the third-round replay, and
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    • 339 26 Wire services. LIVERPOOL midfielder Nigel Spackman has agreed to join Queens Park Rangers for $1.75 million. Spackman, 28, has been unable to command a regular place this year and his last first-team appearance was in December. DAVID Seaman, England's third-choice goalkeeper, has lost the chance to sign the
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    • 447 27  -  Ken Jalleh Jr TIME to clear the cobwebs from my notebook as we approach the threshold of another loony new year: WANTED: Soccer coach. Qualifications: •«A 1 Seak Poh Leong's credentials, Jita Singh's charisma, and Robin Chan's commitment. Applicants must stomach criticism, suffer myopic officialdom, swallow defeat and,
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    • 158 27 I WINDSURFING with ABDUL SHUKOR I A TOTAL of $2,650 in cash is up for grabs at the five-day Singapore Open Windsurfing Championship at the East Coast Sailing Centre from Saturday. More than 75 surfers are expected to take part, among them 35 foreign entries. A
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    • 165 27 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS STYLISH Irish gelding, Georges Quay, who cost $350,000 as a yearling, is to be put down. Trainer Richard Ang says this is unavoidable because the six-year-old gelding's legs are lame with little chance of recovery. "He always had bad legs,"
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    • 141 27 TRACKWORK BIG Genghiz Khan 111 looks like he will make up for being relegated to second after winning in his last outing last month. With Australian jockey Rodney Sim in the saddle, the four-year-old Australian gelding was hard-held over the 600 m on grass in 40.8 at
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    • 92 27 RACE 1: Class 3 Div C 1,600 m (2.15pm): Telepathic, Egoistic, How Now, My Symphony. RACE h Class 1 Div 2 1,600 m (2.45pm): Immigrant. RACE 3: Class 1 Div 3 1,200 m (3.15pm): You Are Special, Eastern Collection, Stars Stripes. RACE 4: Class 1 Div 1 1,200
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    • 247 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: NY Knicks 120 Indiana 111, Cleveland 118 Philadelphia 103, Washington 110 Boston 103, Utah 99 Dallas 84, Milwaukee 117 Sacramento 104, San Antonio 117 Denver 111, Detroit 104 Chicago 98, Los Angeles Lakers 125 Houston 114, New Jersey 118
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    • 412 28  -  Balestier 2 Geylang 1 Stories Shahiron Sahari IF you want to fall asleep at a football match, watch defending champion Geylang International play. None of its previous four matches were entertaining, and its Premier League game last night against Balestier United was no exception. Still,
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    • 257 28 NO referee, it seems, wants to be the first to send a player off in this year's Premier League. Forty eight yellow cards have been flashed in 20 games so far but no player has been shown the dreaded red one yet Some surely have
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    • 407 28  -  Police 3 Tyrwhitt Soccer ites 2 By Abdul Shukor IT WAS not, as pre-match suggestions had billed it, a boring game. Tyrwhitt Soccerites and Police SA put up a performance worthy of the game of football. A pity that only 96 souls were at the Hougang
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    • 334 29  -  By Bernard Pereira THE Singapore Badminton Association is believed to be on the lookout for a new national coach. Whether the new coach will ultimately be one among a panel of coaches that will also include the present coach Wong Shoon Keat, no one
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    • 410 29  -  WORLD BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIPS By Alfonso Chan THE fight for the right to host the 1991 World FIQ bowling championships among three local bowling centres has become a storm in a teacup. Marina Superbowl, one of the three bidders, was not able to submit its bid
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  • 880 30 ►Gaubv p—y SCENES OF MALAYA. %r\ Watercolours and sketches 1 1 by two British military men, Sir Frank Swettenham and George Edward Giles, show what Malaya was like under the British colonial government. Sir Frank was Governor of the Straits Settlement for four years. Before that he acted as
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  • 17 30 GALLERY: Sketches of Malaya OUT AND ABOUT: Beer and bikinis COMING UP: Snake Year talk
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