The New Paper, 8 February 1989

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1 30 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1989 MCI <F) 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 70 1 Bi# «fcgM :VpW«*w #^F*J^^M KABULNEARS v .•??•>• 1 The Afghan capital has begun to look like Saigon did people out. The ruling party is vowing to fight to the when the US made its hasty exit from Vietnam. death. And rebels are massing on the hills. Kandahar, Diplomats are fleeing.
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  • 37 1 Femar tanals star Bjorn Borg leaves a Milan hospital hand in hand with fiancee Loredana Berte (in the back of hit car but not visible). Borg had too sleeping pills on Picture/ App
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  • 48 1 On her 100th birthday, Madam Wong Sing Kiow grins at her great-great granddaughter, three-month-old Jasmine Tan. Madam Wong reached her centennial on the second day of the Lunar New Year. And the clan she brought up gathered to celebrate. Page 3 Picture/AUNDRY GaN
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 530 2  - Some brands of battery water impure Sisir By Yusman Ahmad T I i HAT water you pour into your car battery to keep it alive might shorten its life instead. Tests conducted by the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) show some brands of battery water are not
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    • 252 2 Wire services. THE state of New York has ordered a doctor to stop treating Cher's ex-husband and other celebrity patients with cocaine. Dr Milton Reder has refused the order. He says he will continue to dispense cocaine prescriptions for Sonny Bono, Cher's one-time spouse, and
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    • 152 2 Wire services. A BOEING jetliner carrying 273 passengers made an emergency landing in the US this morning after losing parts of a landing gear door and an engine covering. A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said the Pan Am Boeing 747 had
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    • 98 2 Wire services. THROAT surgery has left actor Sean Connery, star of seven James Bond films, without his voice for a few weeks. Connery has had a node removed from his vocal chord, his wife, Mrs Micheline Connery, said in a statement issued through a
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    • 709 3  -  By Geneieve Kwek YOU would probably turn up your nose at delicacies like chicken backsides or rotten duck eggs. But Madam Wong Sing Kiow doesn't. She has lived to be 100 years old on a diet that includes these foods. Madam Wong reached her centennial
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    • 56 3 Street lights were fuelled by gas. We had telephones. Service was about to be extended to Johor. Raffles' statue was unveiled. The first post cards were issued by the postal department Electric lights were installed at the turn of the century. One dollar currency notes were
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 32 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Fair except for showers over a few areas in the late afternoon. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Sunset: 7.21 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.17 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 223 4  -  By Chua Chin Chye HE is only three years old but Anand Dorasingam is already having money problems. It is not a major amount. It is only a problem of 20 cents. But it has given Anand what you might call a serious cashflow problem.
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    • 344 4 THE Prime Minister talked about religion again yesterday the second time in the last two months that he has brought up the subject in public. Mr Lee Kuan Yew spoke in English and Mandarin to a Lunar New Year gathering at his Tanjong Pagar
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    • 197 4 A SILVERY coat had Mr Leong Kum all aglow when he took to the stage yesterday. "I tailored this coat last year. It cost $160," he said in Hokkien. "I wore shiny coats when I sang in Talentime competitions in the past,"
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    • 178 4 Business Times. THE future for the disk drive industry is beginning to look good again. Disc drive makers forecast that demand will be up again and that by the second half of this year, recovery will be on its way. This is good news for
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    • 144 4 TRAVEL company King's Star Holidays is trying to refund payments to the 300 Singaporeans whose holidays it has cancelled, says Lianhe Wanbao newspaper. The New Paper reported yesterday how over 20 people were stranded this weekend at Changi Airport when the King's Star tour leader failed to
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    • 365 5 WALK into ghoet town in Chinatown. That's what the normally-crowded Pagoda Street, Smith Street and Trengganu Street looked like yesterday afternoon. Only some stray cats and a couple of dogs were in sight, feasting on leftovers of the festive bazaar just 48 hours earlier. Then, it
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    • 273 5 SO far, only four of 970 single mm and woman who work at National University Hospital have applied for special leave to look for a mate. Clearly, these singles are cool to the special bonus offer of up to five days* paid leave to attend social gatherings organised
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    • 382 6 A I HAPPY family holiday outing ended in tragedy at the Sentosa swimming lagoon. Now the family wonders how a good swimmer like Mr Daud bin Wahid, 28, could have drowned in a lagoon packed with holiday-makers. His body was found at the
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    • 187 6 LOCALLY-BRED baidu fish has hit a record price of $200 per kilo, according to Shin Min Daily News. Baidu, meaning "white abdomen", is widely regarded as the Lunar New Year fish. Baidu- imported from Indonesia is also hitting record prices. One such fish weighing
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    • 358 6 We say thanks and sorry if you could not get a copy WE at The New Paper would have smiled from ear to ear, as the saying goes. Except that some of our readers had difficulty getting a copy of The New Paper yesterday. "It was hot/' said reporter Trudy
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    • Article, Illustration
      555 7  - By Irene Hoe c I OME and visit The Singapore House. Its doors stand open in the pages of a new book by retired architect Lee Kip Lin. Pictures, vintage and current, show the colonial house in different states from 1819 to 1942. But the book's unexpected treasures are its
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 569 8 Wire services. In scenes that recall America's exit from Vietnam, the Afghan capital of Kabul is bracing for a rebel assault that is expected to be both bloody and decisive. Most Western embassies by today had hurriedly withdrawn all diplomats. News people on the scene reported
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    • 249 8 Wire services. THE US State Department says Israel has repeatedly violated human rights in its handling of the West Bank and Gaza Strip uprising. A report sent to Congress yesterday criticised Israeli troops for practices that resulted in "many avoidable deaths and injuries" during the 14-month-old
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    • 165 8 Wire services. PLANS are afoot for a worldwide television broadcast from atop Mount Everest and from the bottom of the South Pacific. The broadcast, set for April 22 next year, is aimed at dramatising dangers to the environment on the 20th anniversary
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    • 222 8 Wire services. IN A display of smart politics, American lawmakers have refused to take a pay rise. Congress rejected the pay hike by lopsided votes yesterday. It voted after thousands of angry letters arrived at the Capitol telling lawmakers that the public
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    • 222 8 Wire services. BRAZILIAN protesters want ousted Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner to go home. Hundreds appeared at his home-in-exile yesterday, shouting that he must leave the country. About 35 soldiers in three army trucks set up camp in the garden of the Mediterranean-style guest house in Itumbiara, a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 395 10 Wire services. TENNIS star Bjorn Borg was discharged from hospital in Italy today after treatment for an overdose of drugs. Friends say the Swedish tennis ace had not attempted to kill himself but took the pills because he was ill and trying to sleep. Police in
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    • 142 10 Wire services. PRESIDENT George Bush is expected to propose a freeze on US defence spending. Sources say he wants to hold spending at present levels in order to spend more money on social programmes. He will outline his spending plans in an address to Congress
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    • 136 10 Wire services. BRITAIN is planning a tough new campaign against drunk drivers. Transport Secretary Paul Channon said yesterday that Britain would overhaul road traffic laws and mete out jail terms of up to five years for motorists who caused death by drunken driving. It will also
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    • Article, Illustration
      51 10 Dip: A Hindu holy man, his body smeared with ash, makes his way on a horse to the river Ganges in the north Indian city of Allahabad. He is among millions of Hindus taking part in the Kumbh Mela, a festival celebrated once every 12 years. Picture/
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    • 157 10 Wire services. A FORMER prosecutor in the US has admitted rigging evidence in a drug case in an attempt to ruin Governor Michael Dukakis's bid to become president. Kevin Ross, 33, a former prosecutor in Massachusetts, pleaded guilty yesterday to forging entries in an address
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    • 114 10 Wire services. THE violence that ripped Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan last year killed at least 91 people and injured 1,650. Those figures the highest toll yet acknowledged were released yesterday by the Kremlin. The Soviet news agency Tass said the rioting so terrified the Armenians
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 180 12 Wire services. JAPAN is moving from its position as the fifth most powerful member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to second. This reflects Tokyo's growing economic strength vis-a-vis the, United States, the rhflfrrnan of the IMF interim committee said yesterday. Mr H
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    • 360 12 Wire services. A FORMER Philippine Cabinet minister claims he collected more than $9 million in kickbacks from Japanese firms for ex-President Ferdinand Marcos. In court documents obtained yesterday, Mr Baltazar Aquino no relation to President Corazon Aquino says he was told to put the money in a
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    • 130 12 Wire services. A DUTCH court has released a couple accused of ritually killing their six-week-old baby. It took that step on the grounds that they were not responsible for their actions. The Arnhem district court said on yesterday that there was evi- dence the
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    • 50 13 Towering: An American weekly paper called Defense News dug up this picture of Mr John Tower, whose nomination as US Defence Secretary is threatened by reports that he is an alcoholic and a womaniser. The picture was taken at a 1979 party in Texas. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 154 13 Wire services. SOVIET police are being killed by criminals who want their handguns. The Soviet news agency Tass said yesterday that such guns are issued only to police and security officers. The news agency said murders of police officers for their guns doubled last
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    • 164 13 Wire services. AN evangelist who admitted molesting at least 100 boys has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. Mario Leyva was sentenced yesterday in Salem, Virginia, by a judge who said: "I suppose the thing that troubles me most is somebody of
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    • 236 13 Wire services. SOLIDARITY leader Lech Walesa no longer insists that free elections be held in Poland before any agreement is negotiated to make his union legal again. His aide said in Warsaw yesterday that the union wanted open parliamentary elections eventually. But he
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      276 12 Wire services. SHARE prices on the London stock exchange surged in late trading to cloee sharply higher yesterday, moving up in line with strong early gains on Wall Street. At the close, the Financial Times 30-share index was up 26.7 points at 1,694.9. Volume was moderate, as 577.1 million
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    • 84 12 Reuter. ON the Tokyo stock exchange share prices rose in opening trade, with sentiment boosted by Wall Street's close at new postcrash highs yesterday and the dollar's stability against the yen, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 79.79 points, or 0.25 per cent, to 31,960.44 in 10 minutes of
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Tue 1,694.90 (1,668.20) Dew Jones Average Tue 2,347.14 (2,321.07. ST Industrial Tue closed (1,143.43) NST Industrial Tue closed (1,967.74) Hongkong Hang Song Tue closed (3,105.96) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,491.60 (1,500.90) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 31,880.65 (31,828.75) Figures in brackets refer to thoee of the previous trading
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      270 12 Wire services. PRICES advanced broadly on Wall Street yesterday amid a flurry of positive developments, including General Motors' announcement that it was raising its dividend. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks rose 26.07 to 2,347.14, its highest close since the stock market crash in October 1987.
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  • 616 14  -  Showtime By Vivien Chiong I AM sure it must have happened to you before. I mean, someone comes up and insists you were seen at such a place at such a time last week. You swear blind, you weren't in the vicinity. The person is insistent and
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1804 15 Teledsion SCREEN sbc 12) Tales from the Hollywood names and sell them together with their cargo. P (9.30 pm, SBC 5) y BBC South Africa correspondent John Simpson's on _J^.^ TI CA Jackson account changes in the country since the 70s; Pfeiffer) is a successful Hollywood Priddy the Hedgehog °l
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  • Sportlight
    • 1189 16 Yaeeer Arafat's name ha» figured In the tumwfl of the BBSS Eat for more than 20 yeara. once proucay osctareo nimsoii a wamor lor me Palestinian cms and waved a Distoi beneath the noee of the United Nattone. He now to hailed by eome a» a peacemaker who
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    • 371 16 THE historic origins of the Arab-Is-raeli conflict date back thousands of years. The roots of the modern conflict are much shorter. The following time-line sketches the founding of Israel and the parallel rise of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. 1897: Zionism aimed at establishing an
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    • 180 16 MAJOR factions under the Palestine Liberation Organistion: Al Fatah Moderate by Palestinian terms. Led by Yasser Arafat Oldest and largest of the PLO groups. About 11,000 members. Dominates the Palestine National Council, which serves the PLO as a parliament Ptylar Front far the Liberation
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 451 18  -  Twins Coming to Shaw cinomas PREVIEW/ By Sonja Tan p I |INT-SIZED Danny DeVito and super hunk 'Arnold Schwarzenegger are twins!? Hard to believe, but then again when one of them is a spiritually, mentally and physically perfect human being carefully cultured from a sperm milkshake
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    • 185 18 ARNOLD Schwarzenegger has always wanted to be funny. "Even in the Conan days, I wanted to do something funny." he insists in an interview with Teresa Carpenter of Premiere magazine. Schwarzenegger can probably thank The Terminator (which catapulted him to stardom), as well as his
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    • Article, Illustration
      178 18 TWINS (Shaw cinemas) ARNOLD Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins! You can still have your fill of muscle-flexing even though it's supposed to be a comedy. Barely watchable! Time: Midnight. RED SCORPION (Shaw cinemas) MUSCLE-MAN Dolph Lundgren stars as a Soviet assassin who is sent to kill an African
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    • 175 18 HE'S a 29 year-old actor who holds a master's degree from Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology. A rarity indeed but then so is being two metres tall. His name is Dolph Lundgren, more popularly know as He-man of the universe and Ivan Drago in Rocky
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    • 643 19  -  By Pauline Loh H IS canvasses are violent, and very graphic. They give the impres- sion that the artist is an angry young man with many scores to settle. That is why meeting Wong Shih Yaw in person is a bit of a
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    • 319 19  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang SHE is the golden girl of Malay pop music. Her last three albums averaged phenomenal sales of 100,000 copies each in Malaysia and Singapore. Now, Francissca Peter, better known as Fran, wants to conquer the area's English music scene as
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    • 383 20  -  By Shirish Nadkarni OUR BOMBAY REPORTER SRIDEVI may be the top heroine of the Indian screen, but she still lacks the charisma that makes a politician or a political campaigner. This was conclusively proved during the recently-concluded Tamil Nadu assembly elections. Sridevi wasn't even a
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    • 402 20 USA Today. TOM Selleck's adrenalin won't stop pumping. Since Three Men and a Baby became a megahit and Magnum, P I retired to top ratings, he can hardly catch his breath. And to top it all, he's just become a father. "I guess I'm a
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    • 230 20 USA Today. TODD Bridges Willis on TV's Different Strokes from 1978 to 86 was held by Los Angeles police last week on attempted murder charges. He and companion Harvey Duckett were picked up after police found a man who had been shot five times
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    • 163 20  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Adeline Woon IT'S been a long weekend, with all the Lunar New Year feasting and drinking. But despite the haze of over-in-dulgence, I could have sworn that it was Tuesday yesterday. Apparently the haze hadn't cleared at a certain TV station. It aired a
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  • HORIZONS
    • 1193 21 DEAR AGGIE Dear Aggie, I've fallen for a gorgeous guy but feel insecure because I'm not beautiful enough to go after a guy like him. I keep asking myself: "Why should he fall for me when there are so many beautiful and more experienced girls
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    • 229 21 SIZZLING sex goes out of the window when lovers march down the aisle, according to most married couples. Eight in 10 complain their red hot romances cooled faster then you can say "I do." Boredom in the bedroom is the biggest problem, usually because
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1462 24 RADKX3UDE UnHEDH EBEH liiMllfl iNaiiuaiKini?! EHSHH NOON Nears la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Navs hi trial Mi Weather NOON Oeed Mask, aad Ma: NOON Nwiliifc 12 OS Laachdate: A musical selection Bapart Noon-time musical entertain- 12.30 Baslaess Matters: A weekly for your listening pleasure by MOON S"e offe nijr
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  • SPORTS
    • 269 25 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS LOCAL jockey Chew Siong Hua may not ride again. It it understood his riding licence expired at the end of last month but it is not clear if he intends to ride in future. He has not submitted an application for a
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    • 142 25 VISITING Australian jockey Rodney Sim, who was ranked second in Victoria State last year, made his presence felt at Kuala Lumpur over the weekend. Sim upset the odds in Race 2 on Saturday to bring Ernie's Brother home, one and three-quarter lengths clear of hot favourite
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    • 195 25 MORNING TRACKWORK TOPWEIGHT East Coast Road kept up his preparation for the Tunku Gold Cup 2,000 m race on Sunday with two rounds of slow work on sand with Gopal astride at Kuala Lumpur today. The erey six-year-old New Zealand gelding had put in a
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    • 472 26 Goals make the difference between winning and losing. And scoring goals has been England's and Scotland's problem. So both teams are turning to new strikers. Will they make the difference? AFP, Reuter. ALAN Smith will start an England game for the first time in the friendly soccer
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    • 114 26 AFP. TOOTHLESS England was hicky to escape with a 1-0 defeat by host Greece in a poor-quality Under-21 international yesterday. A T?iid ihwln penalty decided the issue although the local referee's dtntiim looked harsh, Greece might easily have scored three or four goals with steadier mustang. WL J
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    • 135 26 AFP WIMBLEDON hard man Vinny Jones is under fire from a& directions. The jiiiun is mounting on the FA to kick him out of the game tor good. Dm Woodhouse, the amateur elbowed by Jones in a pie-season friendly on the Isle of Wight, called for the
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    • 159 27 Reuter, AFP. WEST German Second Division soccer club FC Homburg yesterday won a court decision allowing a condom advertisement on its players' shirts. In a long-running dispute, FC Homburg was last year barred from wearing the shirts by the West German Football Association (DFB). The
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    • 368 27 AFP. FRANCE dampened Jack Charlton's third anniversary as the Republic of Ireland manager yesterday by holding the host to a goalless draw in a friendly international in Dublin. Only in the last 15 minutes did the Irish look like breaking France down, after Charlton had sent on
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    • 187 27 AFP. COLOMBIA'S 15 professional football clubs are to go on an indefinite strike in protest at allegations of involvement with drug-traffickers. The strike means that the new League season, due to start on Feb 26, is unlikely to begin on time. International matches will not be
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    • 168 27 Reuter. A RUI Aguas hat-trick helped Porto to a 5-0 home win over Viseu in the Portuguese First Division yesterday. But it remained four points behind leader Benfica which also won. Porto started the second half leading the bottomplaced club only 1-0 but three goals from Aguas
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    • 503 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Dallas 129 Los Angeles Clippers 111, Utah 104 Phoenix 87. BIATHLON World Championships in Austria First day: Men's 20 kilometres: 1 Eirik Kvalfoss (Nor) 2 Gisle Fenne (Nor) 3 Fritz Fischer (WG). Women's 15km: 1 Petra Schaaf (WG) 2
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    • 363 28 The Seoul Olympics gold medalist to polish our boardsailing gold medal hopes in this year's South-east Asia Games? That is what is being planned. ALFONSO CHAN reports T HE Boardsailing Association of k Singapore wants New Zealander Bruce Candle, the reigning Olympic champion, as the coach
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    • 230 28  -  PRESIDENT'S CUP: TAMPINES ROVERS v BALESTIER UNITED (Jalan Besar, 7.30 pm tonight) By Shahiron Sahari TAMPINES Rovers, bottom of last year's Premier League, is not overawed at the prospect of meeting this year's leader, Balestier United, in the President's Cup. "Our chances may not look
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    • 247 28  -  PREMIER LEAGUE: JURONG TOWN v GEYLANG INTERNATIONAL (Toa Payoh, 7.30 pm tonight) By Abdul Shukor HOPEFULLY, Geylang International and Jurong Town will provide a fitting end to the first round of the Premier League. The first stage of the season so far has
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    • 227 28 Reuter. SUPER CUP SECOND LEG DEPLETED PSV Eindhoven must throw caution to the wind in a bid to overturn a 3-0 deficit and snatch the European Super Cup from underdog Mechelen. The injury-hit European champion will be without goalkeeper Hans van Breukelen and three other
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    • 224 29  -  Stories/ Abdul Shukor TALENTED midfielder Salim Moin wants to have another go at the national team, but he is unsure when to go about it "I'm still uncertain," Salim said. "It will depend on what happens in the next few months. Of course, my aim is
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    • 216 29 SIXTEN BOSTROM will play for Geylang International again next year. The Finnish international, who had a glorious season with Geylang last year, wants to play in Singapore again. Badly. This was revealed by Geylang's co-manager Mr Thomas Zilliacus, who met Boßtrom in Helsinki last week.
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