The New Paper, 3 February 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1989 MQ (F) 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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    • 203 1 I MARATHON SHOCK I SAAA won't pay local winners of December Singapore Marathon their prize money in one lump. It will be doled out in monthly instalments. Explains SAAA chief Loh Lin Kok: I don't believe in encouraging materialism." Replies champ Ricky Khoo: "The association is saying we don t
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  • 37 1 Stalls in Chinatown sell kuah chee melon J A. seeds to bring good fortune at Lunar New Year. But are they all they're cracked up to be? Page 6 Picture/ AUNDRY GaN
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 285 2 Wire services. A SENATE committee has delayed a vote on Mr John Tower's nomination as US defence secretary to check new information about him. President George Bush, meantime, repeated his confidence in the controversial former senator. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sam
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    • 42 2 Explode: Sweden's newest prototype fighter the JAS 39 seems unlikely to win awards for reliability. The high-technology jet is shown crash-landing on its sixth test flight The pilot survived. The picture was made from Swedish television footage. Picture/ Afp
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    • 182 2 A DRUG addict crazed by the throes of withdrawal leaped upon a startled stranger with an attack that caused fatal injury. Foo Chee Lock pleaded guilty in District Court yesterday to a charge of causing serious hurt. He was originally charged with murder, but the charge
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    • 73 2 Wire services. Former President Ronald Reagan may resume his acting career. The one-time Hollywood actor has been asked to play himself in a Him about Mr James Brady, the White House press secretary who was shot by a gunman attempting to kill the president in 1981.
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    • 25 2 IN our report Singapore Sweep yesterday, we said one of the five jackpot winning numbers was *****58. The correct winning number should be *****18.
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    • 374 2 PRICES are being worked out and a new agreement for Malaysia to sell Singapore natural gas and water should be signed this year. That's the word from Malaysian Foreign Affairs Minister Abu Hassan Omar, who wound up a two-day
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    • 28 2 The Weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Fair except for showers over a few areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 330 3 T HE proverbial pin drop would probably sound like a nuclear blast to a Martian. Big ears are a scientist's idea of what a creature from Mars might look like, given the stark conditions on Earth's closest neighbour planet. The Martian Waterseeker is one of
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    • 260 3 WESTIN Stamford's reign as the world's undisputed tallest hotel may soon be over. It looks like only seven more months in the record book for the 73-sto-rey giant in Raffles City. That is, if North Korean builders keep up their current rattling pace. After
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    • 393 4 WE asked you to tell us whether you had ever been doped. Or if it had happened to a friend or a relative. We asked for your help in warning potential victims of "spiked drinks." You did respond. Two teenage girls told us what happened to
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    • 345 4 READERS rushed to respond yesterday to our story about how easy it is to dope a woman and how easy it would be to take advantage of her. They had a lot to say. Some were angry, some were thankful
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    • 352 4 CASE 2: MS B, A 15-YEAR-OLD THEN Ms B, now 17 and still at school, says she was molested at Benjamin Sheares Bridge. It was two years ago, when she was 15 and in Secondary Two. When she came out of her
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 275 6 A RE knah chee (melon seeds) ail they are cracked up to be? They are supposed to bring good luck at .the Lunar New Year. But when Mr Michael Tan, 31, a marketing executive, bought them, he bought it Attracted by the bright
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    • 337 6 BUSINESS is hot down by the river. Last night they were selling otak-otak almost as fast as they could grill them. Around Hong Lim Green, merchants were smiling too. The Singapore River Hong Bao Special 89 has really brought them a special hong
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    • 126 6 FOR FIVE weeks the 26-year-old oddjob labourer was a fugitive suspect in a murder in which a man's head was nearly cut off, possibly with a bloody chopper found at the scene. His flight from the law ended with his arrest two days ago at his
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    • 132 6 NTUC Income reports it is moving up fast in the Held of general insurance and now stands in the top five among Singapore's 65 insurance companies. Income has been better known for life insurance. But general insurance premiums totaled $45.5 million in 1988,
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    • 93 6 THE NEW broadcasting headquarters of Rediffusion in Jalan Selanting off Upper Bukit Timah Road will allow faster programme production, general manager Wong Ban Kuan says. Called Rediffusion House, the headquarters building has six studios for entertainment broadcasting, two commercial studios and a suite
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    • 98 6 A MALAYSIAN was jailed for a year yesterday for trying to sneak four Thai workers who had overstayed, past the Woodlands Checkpoint. They were in his car boot. The court heard that Tan Seng Kok, 22, who has previous convictions
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    • 449 8  -  By( Chitra Rajaram T i HE Ministry of Health may hire private caterers to serve meals at all government hospitals— if a pilot project at Kandang Kerbau Hospital proves successful. Singapore Food Industries took over the task of preparing and serving meals to patients in
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    • 200 8 A transvestite had a nippy way with his sex partners. He'd nip into their pockets or their homes while they enjoyed a sated sleep and steal their cash and belongings. This dodgy caper ended in court yesterday for the transvestite, Maswan bin Mohamed,
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    • 202 8 TALK about shutter speed and timing. Photographer Mr Omar Abdullah has set up a mobile studio outside the Malaysian High Commission to reel in some business. He is just in time for the sudden surge in applications for the Causeway Card, which does
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    • 522 9 T i HE Housing and Development Board's biggest shake-up since it was formed takes effect on March 1. In place of 45 area offices, there will be 23. Each will take charge of a constituency or group of constituencies which forms a town council.
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    • 74 9 POLICE believe that Thai seaman Mr Phan Jansri, 23, whose body was found floating in the sea here last week, was pushed overboard. The ClD's Special Investigation Section is questioning 11 Thai fishermen. Police found the body of the seaman floating near his fishing vessel, near the Jurong
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    • 132 9 Lianhe Wanbao. THAI prostitutes are using fake Singaporean and Malaysian passports to get into Japan to get down to "work". They use Jakarta as a staging point. Singaporean and Malaysian embassy officials are now contacting their Indonesian counterparts to discuss ways of stopping this illegal activity.
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    • 447 10  -  I By Ronald Wong A UNIQUE Peranakan midnight mass in Baba patois will be celebrated at the Church of the Holy Family in East Coast Road on the eve of the Lunar New Year. At 11 pm on Sunday, over a thousand Straits-born
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    • 277 10 SINGAPORE'S Governmentlinked companies do better than private ones, so why privatise? This was one question raised by two university economists at a seminar yesterday. They based their study on Singapore's top 500 companies in terms of sales, as listed in the Singapore 500, 1987 and 1988,
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    • 138 10 CRASHED down to earth. That's what has happened to the kite duel between Mr James Teh and Mr Allan Lim. The New Paper reported on Jan 31, that Mr Teh was still waiting for Mr Lim's reply to a challenge he had issued. At
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    • 50 10 WANTED volunteers to man the afternoon shifts at the Samaritans of Singapore. Training will start next month and will be held on Thursday afternoons from 3 pm to 6 pm. If you are interested and above 25 years old, call SOS at 221-4444 for an application form.
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    • 125 10 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. baubles: Trinkets. browse: Take a leisurely look at the things in a shop in the hope of finding something of interest. exclusively: Entirely. holds court: Someone who holds court
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 260 9 WHATS WHERE HDB will be streamlining the estate management functions in all HDB estates and New Towns, starting March 1. Services available at: 1. Resale of flats 2. Issue of renovation contractors' licences 3. Application for hawker stalls 4. Payment of carpark fines 5. (a) Essential maintenance (b) Lift rescue
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 249 11 Wire services. A FORMER American sol-dier-turned-spy may have caused untold harm to Nato's defence strategies. This became evident yesterday after federal judges in West Germany served Clyde Lee Conrad with a new detention warrant to include "treason in an extremely grave manner". Conrad, suspected
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    • 145 11 Wire services. THE Soviet Union has decided against establishing diplomatic ties with South Korea. "Each country has the right to establish relations with whichever country it wishes," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Moscow yesterday. "The Soviet Union does not envisage establishing relations
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    • 61 11 Ready An Alpine climber descends from the top of Paris' famous Arc de Triomphe in ceremonies marking its $12 million renovation. Shrouded for nine months while workers chipped and cleaned, the monument is again ready for viewing. The 154-year-old monument was ordered built by Napoleon Bonaparte
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    • 156 11 Wire services. A 140-kg man has been jailed in the US on charges of smothering his 14-year-old son by trapping him beneath his body as the two slept. Franklin H. Strause, 23, was arraigned yesterday in Pennsylvania on six charges including criminal homicide. Strause
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    • 219 11 Wire services. SIXTY-FIVE United Nations workers in Nairobi have been stripped of diplomatic immunity amid an embezzlement scandal. They have been linked to the theft of more than $600,000 in UN funds. A UN spokesman said a staffer with the Nairobibased UN Development
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    • 251 12 Wire services. THE first 16 hours of a three-day visit to New York provided a study in contrasts for Diana, Princess of Wales. She charmed America's fashion elite at a glittering reception yesterday. Then she chatted with poor and formerly homeless women at a community
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    • 56 12 Cricket: A game of cricket may never be the same again in the year 2000 if designer Fiona Waddell's creation is accepted as standard wear for cricketers. The design, displayed at a fashion show in Melbourne, has a built-in laser which destroys the ball before
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    • 316 12 Wire services. A FULL-PAGE ad in the New York Times shouted: "To the American People The facts about palm oil." The advertisement, which appeared yesterday, was the latest tactic in the fight against what a Malaysian trade group calls lies and
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    • 236 12 Wire services. THE world was at war when Hiroshima was destroyed by an American atomic bomb in 1945. Now the City of Hiroshima wants the world to help pay for a memorial that promotes world peace. The memorial is the wrecked dome of
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    • 171 12 Wire services. THE World War II spy code-named "Intrepid" Sir William Stephenson has died in Bermuda. He was 93. Secretive to the last moment, he asked that his death not be reported to the public until after a quiet funeral service.
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    • 220 13 Wire services. THE US Israel's main ally is considering another big weapons sale to Arab states. President George Bush has informed Congress he may authorise sale of 315 high-tech Abrams tanks to Saudi Arabia and 200 to Kuwait. A third Arab country, the United
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    • 210 13 Wire services. THE eldest son of the late President Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan may enter politics. "I am thinking of starting from scratch and forming my own party to contest the next elections," said Mr Ijaz Zia-ul-Haq, 36, a vice-president at Bank of America based
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    • 113 13 Wire services. UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar plans to visit several Asian countries after attending Emperor Hirohito's funeral. He has not said which countries he will visit beyond India. He is to travel to New Delhi to accept an award. Other sources
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    • 152 13 Wire services. MARSHAL Viktor Kulikov has resigned as commander-in-chief of Warsaw Pact forces. Marshal Kulikov, 67, will be replaced by General Pyotr Lushev, 65, a First Deputy Defence Minister and a former commander of Soviet troops in East Germany, the official news agency Tass
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      278 13 Wire services. SHARE prices steadied on the London Stock Exchange yesterday following the British government's clearance of Minorco's £2.9-billion bid for Consolidated Goldfields. But an unsteady opening on Wall Street kept the lid on gains, and the Financial Times-30 share index closed just 2.4 points up at 1,667.8. Volume
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    • 81 13 Reuter. SHARE prices opened higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. Some investors were encouraged by the US dollar's holding below 130 yen overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 116.05 points, or 0.37 per cent, to 31,614.35 in the first 10 minutes of trade. It closed 137.62 points
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Thu 1,667.80 (1,665.40) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,333.75 (2,338.21) ST Industrial Thu 1,128.34 (1,137.01) NST Industrial Thu 1,941.54 (1,944.33) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 3,059.54 (3,060.91) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,509.60 (1,530.40) Nikkei Stock Average Thu 31,498.30 (31,360.68) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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      262 13 Wire services. WALL Street showed no clear trend yesterday in a bouncing session as traders awaited tomorrow's monthly report on employment. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 4.46 to close at 2,333.75. Advancing issues outnumbered declines by about 7 to 6 on the New York Stock
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  • Showtime
    • 362 14  -  By Lo Tien Yin THE Year of the Snake is no fun for the dragon. Yesterday at the Hong Bao Riverside Special 89 Show, the dragon nearly spent itself, dancing a full 15 minutes. There it was, almost tying itself into knots on the small stage at
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    • 122 14 BEST Items in the Hong Bao Special 89 Show at Hong Lim Green yesterday were: Cresstalk by Maji Zhae Van. This comic pair from China had the audience roaring with laughter. Especially entertaining was a bit In which they tried to trick each other into saying the numeral
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 71 15 The National H75 Hi-Fi VCR gives you sound power with remarkable realism. Ideal for stereo broadcast or simulcast TV programmes and tapes like being in the cinema or concert hall. Hi-fi sound system offers: extremely wide dynamic range, extremely low wow M and flutter, and gready extended frequency response. Plus
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1716 15 rpi television *wM Spenser for Hire #n Turn Him Away Friday at the Movies H GEMS a GUNSHOT wounds Eddie, a HANDSOME Jia Ming has been (10.35 pm, SBC 5) white ZhlXlaJU>TlngandYanZhong his Jason Kristofer. Spenser for hipe I S ?ls DON'T turm hih aua* friend, Cambodian interpreter Dith o
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  • 1428 16 Whether you are looking for a traditional brass ornament to dress your dining table, or getting the latest ballgown, Kampong Glam has much to offer. CHOW WAIFONG hunts out some of the more interesting buys in the region shoptalk IF you look carefully, you may be able
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 361 18  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang HE changes costumes on stage faster than Anita Mui can bat her mascaraed eye-lashes. Quick-change Japanese artist Ryotaro Sugi will be back in Singapore for a charity concert on March 8. This was announced at a press conference on Wednesday by
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    • 326 18 THERE will be a slight change in the programming of the Rediffusion broadcasting staff Lunar New Year dinner. This year their regular Kentucky Fried Chicken feed will not be eaten at the 30-year-old Rediffusion centre at Clemenceau Avenue but at the more spacious head
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    • 292 18 ACT 3 is Ruby LimYang, R Chandran and Jasmin Samat Simon. They're a fun and lively professional theatre group who put up plays specially for children fun fairytales like their wacky version of Three Little Pigs. This hardworking group puts up about
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    • 446 19 USA Today. LA TOYA Jackson, 32, holds court in the Wal-dorf-Astoria. She first moved there a year ago when she "fled" her parents' home. Now she's making no apologies for posing for Playboy. "It was done in good taste with a lot of class
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    • 182 19  -  JSEENLASTNIGHT By Lim Kuan Chiang IT was The Killing Fields revisited in last night's documentary The Killing Zone. The documentary at 8.00 pm over SBC 12 bellowed to viewers that the grim, war-torn world of the 1984 Oscar-winning film still exists along the
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    • 310 20  -  Cocktail Orchard Theatre Now Showing review/By Sonja Tan LIGHTWEIGHT entertainment held together by the slightly offcentre but nevertheless heartmelting smile of the highly bankable Tom Cruise. It is Cruise who will pull in the crowds. Cocktail opened yesterday at Orchard cinema. One must of
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    • 332 20 USA Today. NOW we have Tom Cruise as an amiable bartender who becomes the maestro of tasty slings and one-night flings. In short, the new movie Cocktail turns on the sexy jets full blast for the hero of the 1986 monster fighter pilot hit,
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    • Article, Illustration
      258 20 SHORT CIRCUIT 2 (Cathay and Marina 1) AS usual, a sequel that is not as good as the original and with not as many laughs. Warms the heart at the end though when Johnny Five almost dies. RED SCORPION (Shaw cinemas) MUSCLE-MAN Dolph Lundgren stars as a Soviet assassin
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 326 21  -  Stories/ David Brazil LONDON these days has its quota of McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Chinese and Indian takeaways, greasy Greek kebab shops, even sushi bars. But it still has its fish and chips shops. Trouble is, finding one that's not horrible. The London Tourist Board
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      368 21 TAKING WING SINGAPORE'S new airline takes to the skies on Tuesday, Feb 21. It's Tradewinds, the charter wing of Singapore Airlines but with its own planes, its own schedules, its own style. First flight is to Pattaya, Thailand with prices starting at $740 for 5D/4N. Book early for the
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    • 43 21 HONG BAD BLOCKBUSTER GRAND DRAW THIS BIT! I fna a Shin Min Daily News 1 i The Blockbuster Grand Draw will be held tomorrow, 1 pm, at the Centrestage of Marina Square. Come and join the fun. You may win a surprise gift!
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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    • 1402 24 RADIOGUIDE EQUEm Qm I;U>IUJIHMJI B!!— NOON Newt hi Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News In Brief aad WmNmt Be- NOON Oaed Mask, Caapaay aid Ma: NOON Nwitofc 12.05 Laachdate: A election of music NOOH A tlon ftf P*t A musical Ueet to keep you 12J0 W B Yaata Headings Iresa
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  • SPORTS
    • 349 26 EUROPE KICKOFF: ENGLAND AFP, Reuter. LEADER Arsenal will be bidding for revenge when it plays host to London rivals West Ham on Saturday. It was the Hammers who knocked it out of the FA Cup in the third round replay at Highbury last month and left it to
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    • 239 26 f >- —j <r Ll. u_ O o LkJ O. o oc UJ A FRESH injury scare hit Dutch star Ruud Gullit yesterday in AC Milan's run-up to Sunday's League clash at Ascoli, though he thinks he will probably play. Gullit has played in only a
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    • 354 26 AFP, Reuter. QUEEN'S Park Rangers, the English First Division straggler seemingly thwarted at every turn last week in its bid to strengthen an injuryhit squad, has sealed its second signing in 24 hours. After recruiting Nigel Spademan from Liverpool for $1.75 million, it completed
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    • 390 26 UJ o z a; u. o HOC O a. o z —i —X X uJ Ll. o a: o a: Lbl QO as 3 LkJ Reuter. FRENCH soccer resumes after its sevenweek winter%reak on Saturday with Auxerre looking to steal the First
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    • 376 27  -  By Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE'S top three players were bundled out after the second round matches of the Asian Junior boys individual squash championship in Bahrain yesterday. This leaves only 16-year-old Roy Lim to carry Singapore's flag. Roy beat Yessar Soffan, of Jordan, 9-0, 9-3, 8-10,
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    • 268 27  -  By Alfonso Chan AUSTRALIA and New Zealand, two of the world's major squash playing countries, are so anxious to be part of Asia's squash fraternity that they have applied to join the Asian Squash Federation. Last year, Australian Squash Rackets Association president Bob Finch approached
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    • 366 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Boston 107 Charlotte 94, Philadelphia 114 Washington 110, Atlanta 94 Utah 93, Phoenix 114 Los Angeles Lakers 97, Portland 108 Los Angeles Clippers 107. ABC Junior championship finals in Manila Boys: China 82 Taiwan 61. Girls: China 82 South
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    • 176 27 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS] LOVER'S GIFT looks like another ace up Ipoh trainer K. Shanmugam's sleeves for the current meeting at Kuala Lumpur. The other is Ghenghiz Khan. Australian rider Rodney Sim took Lover's Gift over the 600 m on grass in 37.3 today at
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    • 107 27 RACE 1: Class 1 Div 4 1,200 m: Joyful Jake, Gasing, Raven, Baby Doc, Ground Swell. RACE 2: Class 1 Div 2 1,200 m: Oriental Treasure, Believe The Best. RACE 3: Class 3 Div B 1,600 m: No Qprflt/*hinrQ RACE 4: Class 1 Div 1 1,600 m: Handsome
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    • 259 28  -  By Shahiron Sahari JITA Singh, one of the candidates tor the position of national soccer coach, has asked for a week to consider the FA's offer. FAS chairman Major Abbas Abu Amin said yesterday that he met Jita on Tuesday to offer him the
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    • 207 28  -  By Abdul Shukor SARAWAK, the team which used its warcry "Ngap Sayot" to full effect in last season's Malaysia Cup, will play five friendly matches here. The 10-day tour, starting on Feb 9, is part of Sarawak's preparation for the semi-pro league which begins
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    • 353 28  -  South Ave 3 Gibraltar 1 By- Abdul Shukor WHY is it that clubs in the National Football League play more entertaining soccer than their counterparts in the more prestigious Premier League? Haven't a clue? Maybe fans should watch more Division One and Two games instead of queueing
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    • 352 29  -  Stories/! Shahiron Sahari T HE Singapore Amateur Athletic Association has decided to give local winners of last December's Singapore International Marathon their prize-money in monthly instalments because its president, Loh Lin Kok, doesn't want to spoil the athletes. The 25 winners the top 10 men, 10 women
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    • 190 29 RICKY Khoo, the local men's winner of the Singapore International Marathon, was "disappointed" when told of SAAA's instalment scheme. "In other words, the Association is saying that we don't know how to manage our money well," said Ricky last night. Ricky, who won $5,000,
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  • UPDATE
    • 965 30 FRIDAY Gallery 1—X SPRING ART. Exhibition fr of 29 paintings by eight 1 1 artists from China. Colourful and mixed-medium works will be on show. $180 each. Mid-point Gallery, #04-19 Bras Basah Complex. 10 am to 6 pm, Monday to Saturday. 11 am to 6 pm
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    • 13 30 »> GALLERY: Spring art OUT AND ABOUT: Chinatown light-up COMING UP: Birdwatching
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    • 100 30 Jurong Crocodile Paradise is home to 2£00 of these toothy reptiles. That makes it the biggest crocodile farm in Singapore. To keep them happy and not snappy the farm has been given a back-to-nature look that resembles the crocs' natural habitat One special feature
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