The New Paper, 9 February 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 255 1 WORLD CUP RIOT More than 1,000 Cypriot fans hurl bottles and stones after Cyprus lose 3-2 to the Scots in a soccer match. Eight policemen injured and four Cypriot fans arrested outside Tsirion Stadium in Limassol, Cyprus./ Page 13 SOCCER RESULTS World Cup qualifying round reports: Spain dents Irish hopes
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 192 2 Wire services. AN Australian probe of the murder of a Malaysian student has uncovered a vice ring involving Filipino women, police say. The student Arvind Chandran was murdered in a Melbourne suburb four years ago. Mr Arvind, 24, and Brendan Wilson, 29, an
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    • 193 2 S’porean bo y freed in JB after ransom Shin Min Daily News. K IDNAPPERS grabbed a 12-year-old Singaporean student on Lunar New Year Eve in Johor Baru. The boy was held for a day and night and was freed after his parents paid a $10,000 ransom. The boy's father is
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    • 137 2 Wire services. A 17-YEAR-OLD English girl who graduated from Oxford at age 13 has been flooded with job offers from America's Harvard University and other elite schools. Ms Ruth J Lawrence, who is about to receive her doctorate, is regarded as one of
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    • 244 2 Lianbe Wanbao. THE Lunar New Year season saw enthusiastic punters lay out a lot of money at Bukit Turf Club, creating a record betting turnover of around $7 million. Straight win and place bets totalled more than $5.9 million. Forecast bets, thrice
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    • 63 2 IN Tuesday's story headlined "Couple win car in Blockbuster draw" we said that Mr Ong Cheow Seng and Ms Alice Teo won the third prizes of $15,000 each in The New Paper/Shin Min Daily News 3 Plus 1 Blockbuster Draw. We were wrong. Only Mr Ong won the third
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    • 516 3  -  By Chitra Rajaram A SNAKE will swallow the moon in 11 days. That's what the geomancers say and they're alarmed! On Feb 20, from 10.30 pm until 2.40 the 'next morning, the moon won't shine on Singapore or not much. It will be blacked out
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    • 114 3 SCIENTISTS from the Singapore Science Centre say the moon is not exceptionally bright on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year. The Chinese Lunar calendar arranges months and years according to the revolution of both the sun and the moon. By this, the Chinese Lunar calendar
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 38 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: 32 degrees. Minimum: 23 degrees. Sunset: 7.21 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.17 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 532 4  -  Some who believe the present speed limits reduce vehicles to a crawl, and need to be raised Dangers abound for vehicles travelling too fast, say some motorists who want present speed limits to remain Stories/ i Angeline Song "HAVING expressways with speed limits of 80 kmh
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    • 213 4 THE 80 KMH CRUISE WHAT happens when you travel at a speed of 80 kmh on Singapore expressways? You get overtaken all the time, that's what. At about 5.30 pm yesterday, driver Amin, photographer Sam Yeo and I set out for the Ayer Rajah Expressway, the
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    • 256 4 WHAT THE POLICE SAY "SPEED Kills" is a familiar slogan in the United States. It has a double meaning. Speed is a slang name for a drug that is supposed to increase alertness and stamina. And, of course, "Speed Kills" applies to speed on the
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    • 369 5  -  By Loh Tuan Lee A GIANT sea shell will float right into the history books at the annual Chingay procession this Sunday. It will become the first foreign float to take part in the parade. That is if it makes it past Customs. No, it's
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    • 338 6 STPB gets ready G ET ready for a Korean invasion. That's what the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) is doing by setting up an office in South Korea this year. The last barrier to South Koreans going abroad as tourists was lifted in January this year. So
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    • 294 6 SEVEN years in prison plus 24 strokes of the cane were dealt to Kanesan s/o Ratnam for using a penknife as a weapon in a robbery. The prosecution said he sneaked up behind a couple sitting on a bench in Sembawang Park
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    • 217 6 LOOK who's making one of its rare public appearances! In six years in Singapore, Pyth-Choo the rare white rock python has not been shown publicly more than 10 times. But the Year of the Snake can be counted as a special event, so
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    • 195 6 A JUDGE sentenced Ng Kwee Leong, 25, to six years in prison for killing his lover because she decided to leave him. Ms Ho Chay Eng, 31, was stabbed 12 times with a knife when she met Ng in Farrer Park at Northumberland Road on June
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    • 48 6 MORE than 30 women have responded to the Assisted Pregnancy Programme and used their Medisave accounts to pay for medical fees in getting pregnant. Under the programme, couples can withdraw a maximum of $2,000 from their Medisave accounts to pay half the administrative costs.
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    • 367 7  -  By Chua Chin Chye MR and Mrs Eep have hardly been at home these few days. And it is not because they are out on Lunar New Year visits. They are searching for their 12-year-old son. The distraught couple has travelled from their
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    • 126 7 BT LOOKING good after a $22 million face lift, Empress Place gets back into business on April 7 just in time to play convention host. The historic building at the mouth of the Singapore River will host the annual conference of the Pacific
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    • 137 7 A PEEPING Tom lurking in a girls' toilet at Anglican High School had his own reflection give him away. Loh Chin Oi, 21, slipped into the toilet of the school at Upper Changi Road on Jan 13. He used a black marker to scrawl obscene
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    • 303 8 LIANHE WANBAO A SURVEY shows that the salaries paid to Singapore executives is among the highest in Asia A 1988-89 report by a Hongkong information management company said Taiwan pays best, Singapore is second, followed by Hongkong and Malaysia. Other countries that were
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    • Article, Illustration
      226 8  -  By Irene Ng SO you think Mercedes Benz is just a car. How inhuman. Mercedes Benz from Switzerland is every bit a woman. Her husband, Mr Charles Benz, attests to that. And when he speaks, you listen. Because robust Mr Benz, an executive chef, is very good with
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    • 225 8 TWO sticks of Moon Traveller fireworks were never launched. But they did land a 12-year-old schoolboy in trouble with the police. He will be charged on Saturday with illegal possession of fireworks, police said yesterday. This was the only arrest among 298 fireworks complaints
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    • 211 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help you check their meanings. beacon: A light on a hill or tower that acts as a signal. break new ground: Start something new. ft convention: Practice or custom thought of as normal and right by most people
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 358 10 Wire services. A BOEING airliner carrying 137 Italian tourists and an American crew of seven has crashed into a mountain in the mid-Atlantic Azores Islands. The US-chartered plane hit a fogcovered mountain yesterday and buret into flames. Some 50 bodies have been recovered and
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    • 348 10 Wire services. SINHALESE rebels are suspected of pulling off a $2 million bank robbery in Sri Lanka the largest heist in the island's history. Eight men, armed with automatic rifles, shotguns and knives, assaulted the bank yesterday in Colombo. Inspector Chula de Silva told
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    • 204 10 Wire services. TWO women in the US claim a doctor made them pregnant and then performed unwanted abortions. Ms Carmen Brutchen Hertzinger and Ms Kathy Collins have filed suits against Dr Pravin D Thakkar in Anderson, Indiana. Ms Hertzinger claims she became a
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    • 262 10 Wire services. A US security expert says four airlines paid Palestinian guerrillas to avoid attacks on their aircraft or passengers. "There was one American and three West European airlines involved," Mr Neil Livingstone told an international seminar on aviation security yesterday. "It's difficult to get
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    • 49 10 Fishy rain: A woman and her kitten pose with sardines that fell out of the sky after a violent storm near Brisbane, Australia on Sunday. Scientists said updrafts probably took the fish from shallow water into the atmosphere. And when it rained they fell. Picture/Reuter
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    • 144 11 Wire services. AMERICA I* reviewing whether to lift controls on the sale of high-technology items to Moscow. These were imposed after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. A US Government official said on Tuesday that Secretary of State James Baker does not favour simply lifting the tsnrtirrp*
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    • 355 11 Wire services. REBEL commanders are competing for the right to be the first to enter Kabul after the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan is finished. Many rebels say they suspect there will be little real fighting for control of the city once the Soviets are gone next
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    • 212 11 Wire services. A PANEL of scientists has urged that condoms and syringes be issued on demand in the United States to prevent the spread of Aids. The National Research Council said local health authorities should make condoms readily available to all sexually
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    • 89 11 Wire services. PRESIDENT George Bush's nominee to be the US ambassador to New Zealand didn't know the name of the country's prime minister. What's more, Mrs Delia Newman says she has no real interest in foreign affairs. She made both comments yesterday when contacted by the
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    • 78 11 Wire services. A YOUNG woman held up traffic in the western Indian tourist resort of Goa after her boyfriend refused to marry her. Police intervened after the woman jumped before a van driven by her boyfriend on Tuesday in Goa's Ponda district She said she
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    • 390 12 Wire services. THE US has threatened to drop its prosecution of Ferdinand Marcos on fraud and corruption charges. It has told Manila it will abandon the case if the Philippines plea-bargains in an attempt to secure the $20 billion that he is accused of stealing
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    • 40 12 Militant voicts: Supporters of 14 people facing treason charges in Cape Town, South Africa, shout slogans to back the African National Congress. Those being tried include black, mixed race and white South Africans. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 142 12 Wire services. THE Federal Bureau of Investigation has found nothing to bar the appointment of Mr John Tower as US Defence Secretary, the White House says. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater yesterday called the former senator "an outstanding candidate" and said he expected his
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    • 168 12 Wire services. JAPAN remains divided over the late Emperor Hirohito's wartime role. Twenty-five per cent of those polled say he was responsible for the country entering World War 11. Thirty-one per cent say he was not. Out of 2,335 responses from eligible voters to a
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    • 41 12 Tired out: A partied-out musician takes his ease in a Rio de Janeiro park. The four rowdy days of samba dancing and melody that made up Carnival ended yesterday, leaving the city by the sea exhausted. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 187 12 Wire services ISRAELI troops and allied militia have ringed a south Lebanon village and deprived its Muslim inhabitants of food. A UN source said Israel moved yesterday against the village of Shibaa after its people refused to recognise an Israeli-installed administration. The village is
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    • 140 13 Wire services. JAPAN'S Sony Corp says it is almost ready to market new, sharper-image video products. It announced in Tokyo yesterday that the products use high-density video tapes to bring improved picture sharpness and detail to the 8-millimetre video system. Sony said
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    • 87 13 Wire services. THE furnishings of Mr Gulzari Lai Nanda, who twice served as India's caretaker prime minister, have been pitched into the street in a rent dispute. Landlord Tilak Raj Kaisal said Mr Nanda owed $3,600 in back rent for the four-room apartment Mr Nanda spent about
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    • 333 13 Wire services. MORE than 1,000 rioting Cypriot fans hurled bottles and stones this morning after the Scots edged Cyprus 3-2 in a World Cup qualifying soccer match. Police said the east German referee was slightly injured. He was punched by a mental patient on
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    • 122 13 Wire services. A JURY in the US has been told that actor Rock Hudson was "immoral" in not telling his homosexual lover that he had Aids. The charge was made yesterday by an attorney in a $22 million lawsuit against Hudson's
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
    • Article, Illustration
      288 13 Wire services. MARKET-makers desperate for stocks to cover their short positions before the account ends on Friday took share prices higher on the London stock exchange on Wednesday. A strong opening on Wall Street later helped prices along. The Financial Times 30share index was up 19.8 points to 1,714.7.
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    • 77 13 SHARE prices rose to open at new traded highs on continued bullish sentiment, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 119.25 points, or 0.37 pet, to a new record traded high of 32,184.37 in 10 minutes of trade, surpassing Wednesday's high of 32,066.09. The biggest gainers were securities house, non-life
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Wed 1,714.70 (1,694.90) Dow Jones Average Wed 2343.21 (2,347.14) ST Industrial Wed 1,151.21 (closed) NST Industrial Wed 1,993.30 (closed) Hongkong Hang Song Wed closed (closed) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,601.10 (1,491.60) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 32,066.12 (31,880.65) Figuree in bracket* refer to thoee of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      280 13 WALL STREET ran out of breath late Wednesday after an early rally which took the Dow Jones industrial average to new post-crash peaks. At one stage the Dow index of blue chips was up more than 12 points. But the rally proved short-lived and the index ended the
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  • Showtime
    • 535 14  -  By Shirish Nadkarni REPORTING FROM BOMBAY B OMBAY, home of one of the world's largest film industries, MUST have a No. 1 male star. At all times. Such a man acts as a beacon, setting the trends in an industry where millions of dollars
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 2177 15 Television ***** M Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Nature of Things The Thursday Feature SCREEN M (9.30pm, SBC 5) Familiar Face of Love Sfywi^i— Daisy Miller w GEMS A I IN Full Disclosure, William Howe, a LJ (8.00 pm, SBC 12) jq p m SBC 5) 1 A forme' war correspondent
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  • spotlight
    • 846 16 Is it art or eyesore? Whatever the reaction, one thing is clear: Houseproud Singaporeans are not afraid to break new ground in architecture HARINDER GILL and LOHTUANLEE report on some bold personal statements that are radically changing the street-scapes of residential areas here. ARCHITECTURE
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    • 429 16 HE'S the man behind the church that used to be a cinema. And the red, blue, green and yellow Tampines Community Centre. Mr William Lim, 56, from William Lim Associates is the maestro of innovative architecture. And he certainly has the arguments for it.
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 471 18  -  By Lo Tien Yin GOH Zensen, 17, is dubbed by people who know him as the Mozart of Singapore. And he doesn't read one note of music. But he does play the complete works of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven by ear. Zensen started composing his first
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    • 427 18 YOU'VE heard of Xinyao, now keep your ear out for "national music". Such music is being played by music group Tiao Dung Lu (the Locomotion). They are four Goh brothers Zennon, Zenton, Zensen and Zening and three friends, Lim Eng Lock, Chua Ee Guin, Kwong Yoke
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    • 174 18 XI ANGYUN might have been de-throned in last year's popularity poll held by the Chinese daily, Lianhe Zaobao. But so what? The leading actress is the topgrosser among SBC drama artists. Last year, she reportedly earned $25,000 from outside engagements. One of her recent TV commercials is
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    • 399 19  -  By Geraldine Goh TRADITIONAL Malay songs known as Melayu Asli will again be featured in SBC's Malay talentime, Bintang 89, after a 12-year lapse. In this talentime competition, Melayu Asli numbers will make up one of the three sections: vocal solo (traditional), vocal solo (popular/contemporary) and
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    • Article, Illustration
      224 19  - TOPSPINS By Vivien Chiong GEORGE LAM: LAM'S CLASSICS (WEA) AN instrumental album sung and produced by Lam. He popularised many of these songs himself but he wrote a few for other singers, including Sally Yeh. A good production overall, with easy soft music to help one relax after a hard
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    • 195 20 NST. A N American movie producer is planning to film at least three movies in Malaysia in the next two years. Jack Abramoff, producer of the last Dolph Lundgren thriller, Red Scorpion, said this in Kuala Lumpur recently when he attended the movie's Malaysian premiere.
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    • 288 20 USA Today. IT'S difficult getting Kevin Kline to come out and admit that he's as off-beat as the roles he plays. Anyone who can project the sheer insanity of the deranged Otto in A Fish Called Wanda and the eccentric, espresso-swilling fireman, Nick Starkey, in
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    • 152 20  -  sEENLASTNKSHT By Sonja Tan BEAUTIFUL models wearing see-through clothes. There they were almost in the flesh on SBC 12's Videofashion News at 7.25 last night. It seems see-through outfits were the fresh Paris look for the young last Spring. Also unexpected was a
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    • Article, Illustration
      246 20 RED SCORPION (Shaw cinemas) MUSCLE-MAN Dolph Lundgren stars as a Soviet assassin who is sent to kill an African rebel leader. Along the way he is transformed from a killing machine to a thinking human. SHORT CIRCUIT 2 (Cathay and Marina 1) AS usual, a sequel that is not
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 450 21  -  Stories/ Lim Swee Hong c ALL me a wet blanket if you will, but there's a lesson to be learnt from a former Canton- ese chef who confesses that he will never eat raw fish. "It may be traditional, but I don't think raw
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    • 275 21 AP. PORK rinds? They are an American snack loaded with cholesterol, salt and fat. They crunch pleasingly and dissolve in a light, bacon-flavored residue. And US President George Bush loves them. He was introduced to the crispy tan strips during his
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    • 253 21 A REPORTER'S AGONY SOMETIME in the distant future I am sure I will look back on two agonising days and laugh. But right now, with my digestive tract still sore from all that suffering, I can see nothing funny about a food writer getting food
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    • 180 21 THE tradition of eating yu sheng or raw fish is said to have started in Canton, China. The early migrants brought the dish to Singapore and Malaysia, or the nanyang, as this region was called. But the act of tossing up the ingredients, known as
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1589 24 RADIOGUIDE III! ItJJ.INJIMMJI EH9HI NOON News la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News la Brief and Weather da- NOON Goad Music, Cenpaay aad Ma: NOON Newsdesk 12.05 Luackdate: Listen to«selection HOOH Ea#v Usteaiac Lieht inBtru SiftOT tKli 12 30 A n T" kly lo k at of great music ta
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  • SPORTS
    • 215 25  -  By R Jegathesan THERE IS an added attraction for teams taking part in the six-a-side hockey tournament at the Padang on Sunday for the first time there will be prize-money. In the Senior Division, the winner earns $750, the run-ner-up $500 and the thirdplaced team $300. The Junior
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    • 149 25  -  RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS D-DAY for champion jockey Terry Lucas may be Feb 17, when the Malayan Racing Association will decide whether or not to extend his riding licence, but he will definitely be riding at the Penang meeting from Feb 18-26. Lucas has been granted
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    • 160 25 MORNING TRACKWORK PEACEFULLY is ready to end his frustration after being on board in eight of his 10 outings this Saturday at Kuala Lumpur in a Class 3 1,200 m sprint. He did two rounds of slow work at Kuala Lumpur today but cannot be discounted
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    • 85 25 RACE 1: Class 3 Div D 1,200 m: Westella, Monthey, Vetri Veeran. RACE 2: Class 1 Div 2 2,000 m: Drygalski. RACE 3: Class 1 Div 1 1,200 m: Money Mart, High Standards, Smokey Shadow 11, Alcove 11. RACE 4: Totalisator Board Feature Stakes Class 3 Div A 1,800
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    • 347 26 N IRELAND 0 SPAIN 2 SPAIN made virtually certain of qualifying for the 1990 World Cup soccer finals in Belfast last night when it beat Northern Ireland 2-0 in a Group Six match. The section's leader ended Billy Bingham's dream of steering the Irish to their
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    • 292 26 Reuter, Afp. CYPRUS 2 SCOTLAND 3 DEFENDER Richard Gough grabbed a winner six minutes into injury time to give Scotland a dramatic 3-2 win over Cyprus in Limassol yesterday. East German referee Siegfried Kirschen had added on the extra minutes to compensate for blatant time-wasting by
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    • 196 26 Reuter. GREECE 1 ENGLAND 2 A TYPICALLY opportunist goal from captain Bryan Robson 11 minutes from time earned England a 2-1 win over Greece in a friendly soccer international in Athens yesterday. But there was still cause for concern. England enjoyed plenty of possession and
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    • 142 26 Reuter. MECHELEN confined European Cup-holder PSV Eindhoven to a 1-0 second-leg victory in Eindhoven to clinch the Super Cup. Mechelen won the first leg 3-0. PSV kept the pressure on the Cup-Winners' Cup-holder for most of the game and the potential turning point came 12 minutes into
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    • 151 26 Wire services. MILLWALL has received a double boost in its First Division campaign. Centre-backs Alan McLeary and Steve Wood have followed striker Tony Cascarino and midfielder Terry Hurlock in agreeing to stay for a further three-and-a-half years. STRIKERS Jan Ceulemans and Marc Degryse have returned to the Belgian
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    • 421 27  -  CEYLANC 0 WRONG 0 By Shahiron Sahari G EYLANG International and Jurong Town must have heaved a sigh of relief last night after playing out a dreary scoreless draw in a Premier League match at the Toa Payoh stadium last night. It seemed as though
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    • 388 27  -  ROVERS 1 BALESTIER 3 By Alfonso Chan WINNING in a canter over Tampines Rovers in the President's Cup second round match last night left made Balestier United manager S Thavaneson in an expansive mood. After the match, Thavaneson said: "I think we have a good chance of
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    • Article, Illustration
      346 28 At the halfway mark, it is time to review the first semi-professional Premier League. Has it been a hit? No, reports SHAHIRON SAHARI GEYLANG International and Jurong Town's tepid scoreless draw brought the Premier League to its halfway stage last night. It has been, on the whole, a
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    • 145 28 MOST entertaining team: Jurong Town Most disappointing team: Geylang International Best local players: D Tokijan (Jurong), T Pathmanathan (Balestier) Best foreign players: Boris Lucic (Balestier), Reijo Linna (Jurong) Best goalkeeper: David (Jurong) Best defence: Tiong Bahru's Jamaludin Suleiman, Borhan Abu Samah, Saaid Sukor and Abdullah Derus whenever they
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    • 424 28 HALF-WAY through the Premier League, and none of the national team's forwards have made an impression on the goal-scoring charts. Based on Seak Poh Leong's Malaysia Cup squad of last season, with K Kannan and Salim Moin being dropped, Singapore's attack could now look
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    • 226 28 REFEREEING a football match is a tough job, and it's one few people have the desire or guts to do. No referee wants to perform badly, just as no player wants to play badly. But still the standard of refereeing, like the standard of play in
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