The New Paper, 10 February 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 202 1 THREE SOCCER TEENS IN BRIBERY PROBE CPIB will get report on allegations of bribe offers to three under-16 players. Report from Football Association of Singapore./ Page 31 CRACKS FOUND IN CONCORDE Ceneorde supersonic jetliner has tiny cracks in roof. Checks ordered on six more. How safe are older jetliners? What
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  • 43 1 TV actress Chen Hui Hui is taking swim lessons from NUS instructor Horng Kee Cherng. It's for a coming SBC serial. Hui Hui will play a swimming champ. There's just one little problem. Guess what ?/Page 14 Picture/ Nicklaus D'CRUZ
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 140 2 Wire services. BRITISH Airways has spotted cracks in one of its supersonic Concorde jets. An official said in London that "precautionary checks" were being made on its six other jets. The action comes amid mounting concern over the dangers of flying ageing airliners.
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    • 278 2 THE Ministry of Health's Aids advertisements are now directed at specific individuals and groups. It has launched three bold and striking advertisements in four fashion and lifestyle magazines Go, Female, Adonis and Man at a cost of $20,000. "These are the more popular magazines read
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 191 2 SHB JWIAY BU WORTH A TRY. BUT IS SW WORTH THI RISK? Ahmm o*Ht pov g«t yov'«e got If;mv'4 Ww to fcww more. or K if'• Mijr *9 Irfl tfcot ■nwnw c«« b« tor U* **nfc yew Ho«e bM« ntimd wMfc AtDScwnan H«4*ntMv»i«nfNNMnAlOS *0 AIDS wnw ufciud;. p>ww*p» o court
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 34 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.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 403 3  -  Stories/ Trudy Lim T HE spate of airline crashes and mishaps around the world in recent months is focusing attention on the safety of ageing aircraft. In the US, airlines routinely fly planes for 15 years. Then they are often sold to Third World countries that
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    • Article, Illustration
      154 3 AGEING planes are more likely to have problems mid-air, according to USA Today. So how safe are Singapore Airlines' planes? SlA's planes are generally very new. Our national airline has a "rolling over" policy. This means that it buys new aircraft every few years An SIA spokesman said yesterday that
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 469 4  -  By Karen Goh l OVE is not all that's in the air on Valentine's Day. Old fashioned morality seems to f have gone up in smoke too. Couples don't just go for a cosy candlelight dinner, they can spend the night together, too, something made
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    • 239 4 A MORALIST SPEAKS UP OBJECTIONS to the easy way unmarried couples can check into hotels are raised by Dr (Rev) Robert Balhetchet, 49. He is a moral education lecturer at the Institute of Education and rector of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in
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    • 256 4 A BRIEF INTERLUDE REPORTER Y S Tay, now 20, tells of his "romantic" interlude in a hotel. I WAS in my late teens and unsure about whether the hotel would let me have a room on Valentine's Day. But the reservations were
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    • 253 4 SINGAPORE'S first Festival of Opera Arias and Symphony Music has hit a sour note. More than 30 leading opera singers from seven countries were scheduled to perform at the Victoria Concert Hall from Feb 21 to 23. But the charity show will have to
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    • 62 4 CHANGES may be afoot at IBM in Singapore. International Business Machines chairman and chief executive officer Mr J S Akers is in Singapore for a short business visit. This is his first visit to Singapore. An IBM spokeswoman said he would review IBM's Singapore
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    • 465 5  -  Is there a safe place in Singapore for loving couples? Tell us. Call HotlinePlus. stone*/ Chua Chin Chye COUPLES who seek out lonely spots are courting danger. For one woman, a 21-year-old law undergraduate, it's now either hotel or home. No more messing around in
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    • 184 5 PEEPING Toms, strangely enough, are otherwise usually quite normal people, says a Woodbridge Hospital psychiatrist. "Most people get a kick out of watching others," he said. For example: A flat dweller who spies with binoculars, someone who collects pornography and the night-club goer who ogles
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    • 57 5 Avoid deserted places. Choose places where there are other couples around. Use window blinds. Wind up car window to keep hands from reaching in. Lock doors. Bring a police whistle. When a Peeping Tom pops up: Do a quick cover-up. Shout, scream, or blow that whistle. Press
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    • 65 6 After a 16-week coma a man finally dies. A schoolboy goes into a coma when a lorry knocks him down on the first day of the Lunar New Year. What is a coma? How do families cope with the trauma of coma? How can doctors tell
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    • 408 6 COPING WITH THE TRAUMA I T was their eighth wedding anniversary two years ago. Her husband was 35 years old when he fell into a coma. For three weeks she agonised with him. Then, while she was out looking for work, he died. Mrs
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    • 265 6 SURVIVING A COMA H r ER husband was in a coma for two weeks. Doctors gave up hope. But he came out of it and lived for five more years. Last year, he died. His wife Mrs Vaili, 56, talks about it: "It was a miracle,
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    • 204 6 A STATE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS c OMA. Even the word inspires fear. To many, it's a sleep without waking. It is a state of complete unconsciousness from which the victim cannot be awakened. "The heart and the brains are functioning, but the person is unconscious," said a
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    • 158 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. MHz: A big effort to get something done. cardboard characters: People in a film who seem unreal or boring. diaMt talk: Refers to talk that can deceive people or
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    • 105 6 ACADEMIC requirements for getting into college are tougher this year and fewer students are enrolling. A check on eight colleges yesterday showed that new student enrolment was down in all of them. At Jurong Junior College, intake dropped from 851 in 1988 to 706 this year.
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    • 507 7 "IT is a habit." Writing captions, that is. So said the joint winner of the caption of the year award, Ms Miranda Tay, an assistant editor of GO magazine. But winning the same award for the third time also makes it quite a custom for this 28-year-old
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    • 160 7 LENIENCY, begged the multiple offender. No, said the magistrate. Abdul Latiff bin Suratman's past convictions caught up with him yesterday when the magistrate sentenced him on his latest three charges. He admitted the theft and drug offences. Magistrate Eric Low said: "It is obvious that the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 357 8 Wire services. THE Afghan government is preparing to mount an offensive against the rebels massing near Kabul. It has ordered all residents to leave villages just north of Kabul, apparently in anticipation of heavy fighting. The rebels have threatened to attack the capital once the
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    • 115 8 Wire services. SRI Lanka has deployed troops across the island to halt pre-election violence. More than 800 lives have been lost in the poll-related killings since the beginning of this year, military officials said. That included at least 24 people reported killed in the past 24
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    • 102 8 Wire services. THREE Hindus who became Christians have each been sentenced to a year in prison by a Nepal court. Nepal, the world's only Hindu kingdom, bans conversion from Hinduism to any other religion. The sentence was announced on Wednesday by the district court at Bhadrapur,
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    • 106 8 Wire services. A MAN carrying a concealed gun was arrested as he tried to enter the Pakistani parliament building. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was attending a parliamentary session when the man sought entry yesterday. The official Pakistani news agency APP reported that the man was a
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    • 135 8 Wire services. INDIAN courts have declared Warren Anderson, former chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation, a fugitive from justice. The Bhopal criminal court's decision yesterday permits India's Central Bureau of Investigation to start extradition proceedings with the US government against Anderson. He
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    • 419 8 Wire services. FAME and wealth have proved a mixed blessing to a Chinese inventor whose herbal lotion for baldness has swept Asia. Mr Zhao Zhangguang is driven to his Beijing factory in a black Mercedes and feted as a hero by the hairless of Japan and Southeast
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    • 365 9 Wire services. IRAQ'S President Saddam Hussein has foiled a plot by military officers to overthrow him, diplomats in Baghdad report. There may have been more than one plot. Nobody really knows. But diplomats say the President remains in firm control. The most dramatic report was that
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    • 49 9 r iciure/ m\c.lie. Exiled: This Lebanese mother's face reflects the sadness of villagers forced by Israel to leave their homes in southern Lebanon. She and others protested in Beirut yesterday against Israel's ouster of villagers who defy Israeli rule in the so-called "security zone". Picture/ Reuter
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    • 113 9 Wire services. IRAQI Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz says he will try to end the deadlock in peace talks with Iran. He said face-to-face negotiations with the foreign minister of Iran will resume, though where they will meet was not settled. "That's what we agreed to have;
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    • 135 9 Wire services. OLIVER North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington is snagged on a new legal wrangle over whether national security secrets are at risk. Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell said he had to "close up shop" until Monday to await a court decision on a
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    • 155 9 Wire services. AN Irish government minister says he is romantically involved with a woman who was jailed for taking part in an Irish Republican Army bomb plot. Mr Pat Gallagher, 40, a junior minister, confirmed in Belfast yesterday that he had been dating 38-year-old Ms Ann
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    • 49 10 Gas: A striking warden at a prison in suburban Paris boots a cannister of tear gas at riot police. France's prison wardens are protesting against proposed reforms that they say worsen working conditions for them. The government has sent police to clear the gates. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 353 10 Wire services. JAPANESE Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita may call early elections to defuse the crisis over the Recruit share scandal. Political analysts say he may be forced to do so if he fails to push his budget through parliament. Mr Takeshita returned from Washington on Tuesday,
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    • 157 10 Wire services. UP to 100 Muslim extremists may have been killed in clashes that followed the slaying of an army captain in south Sumatra, sources say. The fighting erupted after Indonesian military officers appeared at the radicals' headquarters, civilian sources said
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    • 247 11 Wire services. A LEADING Soviet economist says key parts of Marxist theory were wrong. He believes the Soviet Union will soon act on that belief by selling some publicly owned property to private owners. Speaking at a Foreign ministry press conference in Moscow, Mr
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    • 312 11 Wire services CAMBODIA says its defence forces must be ready to fight alone without Vietnamese help this year. An official commentary broadcast by the state radio said Phnom Penh was pushing for final victory amid intense diplomacy for an end to the decade-old guerrilla conflict.
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    • 53 11 Home: Scores of demonstrators showed up outside the US embassy in Manila yesterday to demand that Ferdinand Marcos be allowed to return home. They say the US is meddling in Filipino affairs by opposing any deal that would permit his return without a guilty plea to racketeering
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    • 98 11 Wire services. A MAJOR fire has swept through Bombay's Sahar international airport. Yesterday's blaze disrupted international and domestic flights for over six hours. No casualties were reported in the blaze. It began in du-ty-free shops in the airport. Eight aircraft parked near the terminal building
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    • 208 11 Wire services. PHILIPPINES President Corazon Aquino's supporters believe that she may be forced to seek re-elec-tion in 1992. House Speaker Ra- mon Mitra said in Manila yesterday: "If she succeeds, then the clamour for her to be the candidate will be so strong she will probably
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    • 121 11 Wire services. A MAN who made earrings from human foetuses has been convicted in London of outraging public decency. The curator of a gallery where the earrings were displayed was convicted of the same charge. Both the creator, Rick Gibson, 37, and the curator, Peter
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 41 8 Romance with us at NIGHT OF"!" HEARTS MING COURT HOTEL FEBRUARY 18,1989 HIGHLIGHTS VALENTINE QUEEN *89 BEST DRESSED GUEST LUCKY DRAWS DINNER DANCE Lots of Prizes awaits You... Meet the ZOO GANG in person... from the Amazing 101.6 I Call: *****22
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      281 10 Wire services. SHARES were decidedly jittery on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, recovering from a depression at midday only to head downwards again at the close. Wall Street weakness ahead of US budget proposals later in the day was behind both downturns, dealers said. The Financial Times 30share index
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    • 77 10 SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today on general uncertainty and profit-taking after six straight winning sessions, brokers said. The Nikkei index slipped 13.90 points, or 0.04 per cent, to 32,064.53 in 10 minutes of trade. Declines were led by securities house, bank, auto, warehouse, airline,
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    • 51 10 FT Industrials Thu 1,702.90 (1,714.70) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,323.04 (2,343.21) ST Industrial Thu 1,156.39 (1,151.21) NST Industrial Thu 1,988.34 (1,993.30) Hongkong Hang Song Thu 3,209.96 (closed) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,512.50 (1,501.10) Nikkei Stock Average Thu 32,078.43 (32,065.12) Flfuree in bracket* refer to thoee of the prerioue trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      274 10 Wire services. STOCK prices posted a broad loss yesterday as interest rates rose in the credit markets. Prices of long-term US government bonds, which move in the opposite direction from interest rates, fell more than US $10 for each US $1,000 in face value. The Treasury auctioned US
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 107 11 |p —1 VALENTINE'S DAY PACKAGE Romantic candlelight dinner at Terrace Garden Coffee House PLUS 1 night stay (twin sharing) in our superior room with American buffet breakfast PLUS FREE first drink in our disco PLUS a stalk of rose for your lovely lady, at only $62 per person. OR Candlelight
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 469 12 EXPERTS predict fewer babies will be born during the Year of the Snake than during the just ended Dragon Year. But that does not worry the owners of maternity boutiques and stores. Several owners interviewed are optimistic. Some are even expanding their services for mothers-to-be. The
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    • 160 12 '.■X l HERE is a list of do's and don'ts when choosing maternity clothes. Po» Co-ordinated tops and bottoms make for a nice change from dresses. Blouses should drape nicely on the stomach. Skirts and troussrs should have adjustable elastidsed waistbands for maTmwiin comfort
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 539 13 Impromptu parties, they say, are the best. So why not have one tonight? Pick up the phone, call a few friends, ask them to bring a bottle of wine and have a party, says C SHANTHENI H 'OSTING a party does not have to mean
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    • 151 13 Wire services. RAY Pleva has invented a new way to use an old fruit the cherry. And he's hoping the Japanese will like it. But a cherry sausage?! The first look Pleva gets from those who see his cherry sausages is one of distaste, but
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 180 13 /ffi fm^^ u IJOVE IS A MANY IK SPLENDOURED THING." I {J! Let this be a memorable affair at Plaza Hotel. Romantic s* r Enjoy a tHorrK Candlelight Dinner romantic Dance $50 per STREETS Cf jQ[]ojffl evening with person. Or just a quiet Lover's Valentine s Dinner, $30 per person.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1714 15 Hp i lelevision Theatre 12 Hannay: Friday at the Movies The National Geographic Special— m f/lHi SCREEN M The Fellowship of the Oracle Mysteries of Mankind ft. GEMS J Black Stone (10.30pm,SBCS) (9.30pm,58C 12) I. iWP (10.25 pm, SBC 12) JENNIFER (Caroline Capers THIS documentary features an -Jj a BASED
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  • 1092 16 America's food marketers are reeling from advertisements that accuse tin»m «f naing "poisonous" tropical oils, especially palm oil. The companies that produce Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Betty Crocker < biscuits and desserts and a host of other foods enjoyed the world over have switched to
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 315 20 Syndication Link. M ADONNA has made a deal with Columbia Pictures to develop, produce and star in film projects for the studio. The music, film and stage star will develop and co-pro-duce pictures under her Siren Films banner, along with her partner Carol Lees. Columbia
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    • 40 20 HOLLYWOOD actress Shirley MacLaine (above left), who arrived in Israel on Tuesday, met Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir on Wednesday. She was in the country for the screening of her new film, Madame Sousatzka. Picture/ Afp
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    • 60 20 SBC actor Huang Yiliang, currently starring in Fortune Hunter, said he was nearly frozen stiff while making the TV series. In the show, he was locked in a freezer by robbers. Yiliang spent three days shooting this scene but for only about 10 minutes each time.
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    • 65 20 USA Today. MICHAEL J Fox has signed a multi-year production deal with Paramount Pictures to develop, produce and star in motion pictures and TV programmes. Fox will also create and produce projects in which he won't be featured. Fox's production company, Snowback Production, will be housed on the
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    • 46 20 USA Today. SEAN Penn, embroiled in a split from his very high-profile wife, Madonna, keeps calling in sick and missing performances of Hurlyburly at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles. The character Penn plays is also suffering through a marital breakup. USA Today.
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    • 68 20 FOR 14 years now, blond actor Tom Alter has been playing the "firangi" in commercial Hindi movies, complete with Anglicised accent and pidgin Hindi. TTie truth is that Alter speaks fluent Hindi and writes short stories and sports features. Alter also covered the recent Seoul Olympics, writing
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    • 212 20  -  By Lo Tien Yin SEVENTY-FIVE women now want to be the first union beauty queen. Of these, 16 will be selected to go into the Grand Final on April 30, at the Neptune Theatre Restaurant. Those still hesitating to join the Miss Union Beauty
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    • 375 21  -  By Vivien Chiong TWO top Japanese stars made the day for four tourists from their homeland on Wednesday night. The tourists, all women in their 20s, squealed with delight when they bumped into Japanese film stars Yuko Asano and Masato Eve at the Newton
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    • Article, Illustration
      206 21 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. RED SCORPION (Shaw cinemas) MUSCLE-MAN Dolph Lundgren stars as a Soviet assassin who is sent to kill an
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    • 163 21 Wire services. GLENN Close, star of the movie Fatal Attraction, says she had to change her appearance because of the recognition she received after her performance as Alex, the enraged jilted lover, "I was surprised the picture became the phenomenon it did," Close said of the
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    • 160 21 MINI-SKIRTED Linda Elizabeth is the band leader. She's also the only female in the group and sees herself as "the mama of the family". After the original Tokyo Square, with Max Surin, Tony Fonseca and Peter Han, disbanded about two years ago, Linda set
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    • 424 22  -  By Vivien Chiong DAVID Copperfield, the modern-day Houdini, will be back in Singapore next year. The visit will be part of a South-east Asian tour that he plans to embark on. Last July, Copperfield performed at the World Trade Centre and his show wooed 38,000 fans over
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    • 307 22  -  By Adeline Woon CHEERS The Music Pub at the Novotel Orchid Inn opened yesterday with, what else, a song and dance. Yes, it is a place to make a song and dance about. Serving staff sing at the drop of a hat. Not, hopefully, of
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    • 159 22  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Sonja Tan TELEVISION last night prompted big questions. "Is death really the end?" "Is death only the beginning?" Not that Secrets and Mysteries Life After Death (RTM 1, 7.05 pm) did ask these things. Yet the programme did come up with some
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1416 23 RADIOGUIDE 4 E33EOBI OU3EEHI l;lj>lldJlMMJl EniMP NOON Nears in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News In Brief and Weather Re- NOON Coed Music, Company and Me: NOON Newtdesk 12.0S Lanchdate: A selection of music NOON Easy Listening: A selection of P° rt A musical treat to keep you 12.30 W
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 255 25 COMICREUEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Single Slices/peter Kohisaat Lr r^7%A<sS I SORR7.IOUR HONOUR* j (rntftf Tal 1 irs the best wt J itV> 1 C3tHy/Cathy Guisewite »»*>">» "SWEET!! I hate that word! Women are always telling me how SWEET I am! Where does it get me? DELICIOUS WITH FEVER, SHE HEAO
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 302 26  -  stories/ Trudy Lim H 'ORSE means power, whether or not in a sleek engine. In busy Jakarta, for exam"ple, horse carts are kings of the road. They are a law unto themselves, often moving against the flow of traffic. But they do it with
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    • Article, Illustration
      409 26  -  By David Brazil VALINTWE JOLLIES VALENTINE'S Day is nearly upon us again. Some Singapore hotels will try to help you make it a really special day ana night The newish Golden Landmark hotel on Victoria Street has a Sweetheart Special at $188 nett per couple. This includes luxurious superior
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    • 194 26 SCRAPS of paper are for most people something to be crumpled up and thrown into the bin, but for Mr Kuat, 50, and his family, waste paper is their bread and butter. The family's makeshift office and home stands beside the mouth of a river
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
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      274 28 Reuter. NOTTINGHAM Forest soccer manager Brian Clough was yesterday fined $17,500 and banned from the touchline for the rest of the season for throwing punches at fans. Clough, 53, was found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute after lashing out at spectators who invaded the pitch at
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    • 243 28 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANSI YARD OF ALE stands ready to toast his prospective win in Class 3 1,200 m sprint on Sunday. The Shifnal gelding rounded off his preparation with a round of pacework before covering the 600 m on grass in even time with David
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    • 128 28 RACE 1: Class 3 Div A 1,200 m (2pm): Booster Gold, «Superbid, Magical Turn, Joondulup, Rigolletto 111, Dazzling Dancer. RACE 2: Class 2 (KL based) 1,200 m (2.30): Southern Galaxy 11, Sing Mister, Cosmic Dancer. RACE 3: Class 3 Div B I,Boom (3): Telepathic. RACE 4: Class 3 Div
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    • 205 28 Reuter. SWEEPER Patrick Battiston said yesterday he now relishes the prospect of helping France to qualify for the 1990 World Cup finals. Battiston, 31, made a successful comeback to the national team against Eire on Tuesday when he emerged as France's best player. That came
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    • 174 28  -  By Abdul Shukor AUSTRALIAN Graemme Looker wants to teach his Nigerian opponent Robert Azumah a thing or two about boxing when the two meet at the National Stadium on Feb 25. The fight will be part of a three-card bout to the main event, between Indonesian world
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    • 231 28 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Belgian Open Men'* singlet Ist rd: Jon Holst-Christensen (Den) bt Michael Adams (Brit) 17-16, 8-15, 15-3; Ulf Johansson (Swe) bt Nitin Panasar (Brit) 15-9, 15-10; Michael Kjeldaen (Den) bt Clarence Tim (Mai) 15-11, 15-6; Torben Carlsen (Den) bt Olaf Berntsen (Nor)
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    • Article, Illustration
      224 29 EUROPE KICKOFF: FRANCE, ENGLAND, ITALY, SPAIN THE spotlight in the French League this weekend falls on a former World Cup star. Jorge Burruchaga, who scored the goal which won the World Cup for Argentina in the 1986 final against West Germany, makes his long-awaited return to action.
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    • 211 29 Reuter. PACE-SETTER Inter-Milan could be without leading striker Aldo Serena on Sunday when it takes its unbeaten record to Fiorentina. Serena, whose two goals last weekend led Inter to a 2-0 victory over Torino, has been down with influenza and could miss his team's bid to reach the
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    • 198 29 Wire services. OXFORD United yesterday signed Liverpool's 23-year-old reserve striker John Durnin on a three-year contract for $875,000. The deal was completed in time for Durnin to make his League debut against Portsmouth at the Manor Ground tomorrow. BILLY Bingham is to continue as manager of Northern Ireland
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