The New Paper, 14 February 1989

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 138 1 Br". mWBBM bombshell? iWml laya Prada thinks she's "destined to be S pi number one." Indian filmdom's No. 2 11 J quite notorious. She set tongues 9 Erl already-married film director and when X J M she tried to commit suicide. Page 14 1 PSYCHO TEST FOR GOVT JOBS In
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  • 43 1 Trim those hips and waist. This the thing Miss Nigeria told at her grooming lessons here. She bows to the advice but "I'm very slim compared with most Nigerian women. Normally they are quite heavy big-boned." Page Picture/JONATHAN CHOO
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 156 2 A N Australian with a peanut oil allergy collapsed and died in Kuala Lumpur last Friday after, it is believed, a meal. The official cause of his death is still not known. Mr Andrew Noblet, 42, is thought to have collapsed in a KL shopping centre.
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    • 46 2 In our report yesterday, we said that ren ri, the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, was celebrated yesterday. It was actually celebrated on Sunday. The report was headlined, "It's ren ri today, cook greens for good luck".
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    • 251 2 Assignment from the Editor: Read The Straits Times' Valentine's Lovelines and pick a selection for busy readers. WHO says Singaporean men are tongue-tied when ft comes to the language of love? Who says Valentine's loveline messages are only for secret loves, not spouses? Three
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    • 29 2 Flyover to tak6 oven The traffic light at the junction of Fort Road and the ECP which will stop functioning once the flyover is complete in 1990.
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    • 101 2 WORK on this $18 million flyover to take cross traffic over the ECP junction with Fort Road should be completed on schedule by early next year. Then, the last traffic lights on the ECP will be permanently removed. The Public Works Department expects the new
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    • 192 2 THE newly-elected head of ownerbuilders wants their association to become even more contemporary. He also wants real estate developers and government agencies to take a longer view. Mr Kwek Leng Joo, president of the Real Estate Developers Association of Singapore (Redas), spoke to more than 100 guests
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    • 420 3  -  Roses may charm many a girl today. But it is florists who love every rose and there are too many of them that is sold By Harinder Gill ROSES may set many a girl's pulse aflutter today. But the real heartbeat of Valentine's belongs to florists. Orders
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    • 325 3 PACKAGE tours will be more competitive with air travel next month when a 10 per cent rise in airplane tickets takes place. Airfares will go up to between $555 and $605 for an excursion ticket to Bangkok. But a package tour to Bangkok for
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 24 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.21 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.17 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 473 4  -  By Ronald Wong YOU'VE heard of high-rise farming; now it's high-rise demolition. The demolition was taking place on top of a 12-storey block of Housing Board flats. An interested reader called The New Paper last Saturday when he saw this curious sight of two demolition
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    • 176 4 MORE girls leaving school after Primary 8 are opting for a vocational course that will help prepare them for the working world. The Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB) said 1,010 of these girls have enrolled in its Basic Vocational Training (BVT).
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    • 60 4 THERE will be food and games stalls galore at Deyi Secondary School in Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 on Sunday. It is the school's first food and fun fair. The school hopes to raise $120,000 for development projects. The guest of honour will be Mr Lee Yock
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    • 82 4 A FITTER was yesterday charged with threatening to throw his 10-year-old son over the 11th storey balcony of a block of flats in Upper Boon Keng Road on Sunday. Chan Hing Mun, 30, also faced a second charge of hurting the boy, Chan
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    • 340 5 THE reigning Miss Nigeria will become more beautiful if she gets less bountiful. Miss Bianca Odinaka Onoh learnt this at the first of her six grooming classes here yesterday afternoon. She was told to lose weight at her waist and hips. "The first thing
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    • 454 6  -  By Angeline Song L UCKY Plaza's mysterious underpass to nowhere has the centre's management wondering: Why not make it lead to somewhere? Now that the pedestrian crossing between Lucky Plaza and Wisma Atria has been closed, the underpass "would make a good alternative", said the centre's manager,
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    • 227 6 THE Merry Trail may turn out to be the start of the marry trail for 500 men and women. At least the Social Development Section (SDS) is hoping it will. SDS has joined forces with Safra (Singapore Armed Forces Reservist Association) to organise
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    • 141 6 A MOTHER of three was sentenced to a year in jail for driving a friend's car to Penang. The car was later abandoned in Johor Baru. The court also sentenced the former hawker's assistant, Tay Lee Lee, 32, to a driving ban of three
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 470 8  -  By Geneieve Kwek I 'F YOU don't give out your coinafon number, nobody can charge you for long-distance calls. That's what Singapore Telecom 'said in reply to a subscriber who said he got stuck with a phone bill of $750 when someone
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    • 194 8 THE courts are closing in on lawyer Francis Seow. An officer from the Subordinate Courts has marked office equipment and furniture at Straits Trading Building in Battery Road to be sold at 1 an auction unless $19,000 in tax evasion fines is paid. Mr
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    • 248 8  -  By Arnold Tay A MISUNDERSTANDING over dates caused tempers to flare outside the HDB Woodlands area office yesterday morning. Bukit Panjang residents who wanted a season parking ticket turned up in full force at the area office. A caller rang Hotline Plus to alert The
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    • 249 8 THE quiet man just walked away two weeks ago, his family said. Yesterday, that family was shocked to learn that his badly decomposed body was found under a Central Expressway (CTG) flyover only 100 metres away. The body of Mr Mithra Ragupathi, 27, was
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    • 85 8 TWO tailors had a bad start to Valentine's Day today. Their tailor shop, Handsome Tailor in Tiong Bahru, was burgled overnight. The tailors, David and Phillip Tam, had gone shopping yesterday. Because they were on their way to a dinner party, they left their goods overnight
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    • 327 9 M S Ong Kwee Choo will be happy even if she does not receive any Valentine's Day cards today. She will be receiving $5,000 instead. Ms Ong, 29, was the sole jackpot winner of last week's Moneywords, The New Paper's word puzzle competition. She is the third
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    • 185 9 THE biggest yu-sheng (raw fish) toss of the Lunar New Year will be held this week with more than 200 people at the Tampines Clubhouse of the Singapore Armed Forces Reservists' Association (Safra). According to Lianhe Zaobao Chinese newspaper, the plate being used for the yu-sheng is
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    • 223 9 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. charge d'affaires: An official, below the rank of minister, who represents his government in the absence of an ambassador. contemptuous: Showing lack of respect or admiration. demented: Describes someone
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 357 10 Wire services. A FINAL Soviet column rumbled towards the Afghan border today, marking the end of a nine-year war against resistance forces. As the Soviets departed, the UN began to pass out food to hungry families in the capital, political disputes continued to divide
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    • 41 10 Siege mentality: Thousands of women gather outside a school in Kabul yesterday to receive emergency food supplies distributed by Unicef. Kabul residents are suffering food and fuel shortages caused by a severe winter and rebel roadblocks. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 283 10 Wire services. THE people of Terni, Italy, have launched a crusade to make the world remember that St Valentine was one of their own. They say it is not right that the world overlooks the fact that the saint was from Terni and that Valentine's Day
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    • 132 10 Wire services. BRITAIN'S Court of Appeal has rebuffed a World War II veteran's campaign to prevent Prince Philip from attending the funeral of Emperor Hirohito. Mr George Calvert argued that Britain never officially ended the war with Japan. He maintains that Queen Elizabeth ll's
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    • 302 10 Wire services. A FORMER American beauty queen has convinced China to let her run the length of the Great Wall. Ms Sally Miller Perdue, 50, hopes the 2,500-km run, never done before, will inspire Chinese and American women of every age. "I
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    • 39 11 WIMTt'S UM ■Mk«y7: Actor Joe Lara, Television's latest Tartan harm from a fire escape ladder during production of the film Tartan in Manhattan in the asphalt jungle of Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York. Picture/ Ap
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    • 271 11 Wire services. SRI Lankan political parties are bracing for the worst in tomorrow's parliamentary elections. They expect both more killings and low voter turnout. Officials say people are afraid to vote because they have been warned by radicals not to take part in the polls.
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    • 253 11 Wire services. PRIME Minister Benazir Bhutto says bloody protests against US publication of the novel Satanic Verses is part of an attempt to undermine her rule. "Not even a single page of (Satanic Verses) has been published in Urdu," said Ms
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    • 204 11 Wire services. SIX more Buddhist monks and two other men have been arrested in Thailand on charges of forging royal decorations. Police say the arrests were made yesterday during a continuing probe of 428 Buddhist temples suspected of counterfeiting. Officers said the temples produce bogus versions
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    • 91 11 Wire services. EGYPTIAN police have slain a Muslim extremist sought since 1981 in the assassination of President Sadat. Maged Mohammed Ahmed Oteifi, 40, exchanged fire with police yesterday in the densely-populated district of Boulaq in central Cairo, police sources said.
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    • Article, Illustration
      49 12 Beached: People gather around 15 m cachalot whale after it was found beached on the Belgian coast south of Ostende. The 25-tonne animal was apparently tick and about 45 years old. It is the first one to be found on the Belgian coast since 1963. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 287 12 c IVIL Service job seekers in Malaysia may be required to sit for a written psychological test before being interviewed. The test is being tried out on applicants for jobs with, the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) at present Candidates are given 40 minutes to
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    • 152 12 Wire services. A JAPANESE computer expert plans to take off today on what he hopes will be the first successful solo balloon flight across the Pacific. Mr Fumio Niwa, 38, a veteran balloonist, expects the trip to take four days. He hopes to touch
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    • 189 12 Wire services. A MALAYSIAN cut off his penis with a knife, then went to a hospital and told the staff he did it because "I don't want the organ anymore". The man, said to be mentally unstable, severed the penis in his house in Kuching
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    • 102 12 Wire services. A 60-year-old crew member has been reCorted missing after a cargo boat capsized in ig waves in the South China Sea off the coast of Malaysia. Five other crewmen were saved, marine police said yesterday. A marine police spokesman told the Malaysian news agency
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    • 80 12 Wire services. TWO big lions briefly escaped from cages in an Indian zoo, causing panic among the staff. But it turned out that Mithun and his mate, Minu, stars of the zoo in Poona, wanted nothing more than a dip in
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    • 25 12 Tradition: Musicians dressed in traditional masks and clothes march in the famous Basle Carnival parade in the streets yesterday. Picture/ Afp
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    • 48 13 A ivviu^/ Holding a memory: The fighting is over, but the grieving continues. An Iranian mother holds a picture of her son, who was killed in the war with Iraq, at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Iranian revolution last week. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 188 13 Wire services. CHINA could be heading towards ecological disaster unless pollution is halted, a leading scientist has warned. "There could be a deadly threat to the survival of the Chinese nation if immediate action is not taken to halt environmental pollution," Mr Zhou Guangzhao said yesterday.
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    • 76 13 Wire services. There will be no Franco-British "cheese war" at least for the time being. British Agriculture Minister John MacGregor said yesterday that the government had decided against banning imported Camembert and Brie from France. His ministry earlier had warned that some types of the cheeses might
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    • 133 13 Wire services. THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has answered US criticism by saying it was not "resorting to terrorism but resistance". The PLO responded yesterday to remarks by US Secretary of State James Baker. He warned that attacks by Palestinian guerillas against Israelis could threaten the
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      255 13 Reuter. SHARE prices fell sharply on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times-30 share index closed 22.8 points lower at 1,658.10. Share turnover amounted to a modest 304.7 million shares by midday. Stocks eased amid worries over higher inflation. Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson said inflation last
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    • 67 13 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The Nikkei index firmed 3.99 points to 31,989.31 in 10 minutes of trade. It fell 146.67 points on Monday. Gains were led by non-life insurance, warehouse, real estate, railway/bus, credit/lease, non-ferd=Us metal, service, airline and fishery shares. Securities
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Fri 1,658.10 (1,680.90) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,282.50 (2,286.07) ST Industrial Fri 1,139.70 (1,156.04) NST Industrial Fri 1,975.49 (1,985.03) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 3,153.73 (3,184.16) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,478.70 (1,509.70) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 31,985.32 (32,131.99) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      286 13 Wire services. SHARE prices slipped further in light trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average ended 3.57 points lower at 2,282.50 after recovering from a low of 2,272. It dropped 37 points on Friday and has closed higher only once this month.
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  • Showtime
    • 533 14  -  By Shirish Nadkarni OUR BOMBAY CORRESPONDENT J AYA Prada has fought hard to get to the top of the Indian cinema heap and she is close. "I know I am destined to be number one," she said. At the moment, she stands second
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    • 159 14 HINDI film star Sridevi is currently the hottest property in Hindi films. Rekha is another star in the same industry. They both come from the state of Tamil Nadu. When the younger Sridevi first started in films, she knew little Hindi and had few friends. Her
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1354 15 Television Tuesday Premiere jPWit Moments u Readhmg for the Skies SCREEN M On Fire Fr S!? u z (Gennan Eng,,sh m GEMS m (10.30 pm, SBC 5) flL jw subtitles) ALLCOCK and Brown in 1919 1 ~~H JOHN Forsythe stars as Joe ®j| II (9.30 pm, SBC 12) and Lindburgb
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  • spotlight
    • 794 16 The last Soviet troops guarding Kabul airport have left. Afghanistan's future remains bleak. Rebel commanders are competing for power. Many people fear a bloodbath. "It's the heart of darkness out there... and it's coming closer;," said a Kabul resident. The rebel leaders say it qffillbnly be a
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      217 16 tit J 1973 ALMOST two centuries of monarchy come to an end when King Zahir Shah's cousin, Mohammad Daoud, overthrows him in a military coup. 1978-79 President Daoud is assassinated and Nur Mohammad Taraki elected president of the Revolutionary Council. A year later Taraki is killed and his prime minister
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      220 16 W FIFTEEN separate resistance groups are fighting to overthrow the Najibullah government. Only seven are given any real fighting chance: Jamiat-e-Islami (Islamic Society of Afghanistan): Founded by an Islamic scholar, its supporters are from northeastern Afghanistan. It seeks to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state. With 60,000 men under arms, it
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 518 20  -  Sunday is a day for speaking up... on TV, at least. Starting at 7.50 pm sharp, Singaporeans speak out on subjects as varied as the MRT ticketing system, faulty washing machines, drunken driving and the education system, The views come fast and furious
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    • 175 20 HER presence will be felt again in this year's 31st annual Grammy Awards. Anita Baker is among those nominated for the awards. She won two Grammys last year. The show will be telecast in Los Angeles on Feb 22. Her latest album, titled Giving You
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    • Article, Illustration
      462 20 USA Today. CYBIL'S TWIN FEELING MOTHERING twin nine-month-old babies is downright exhausting and Cybil Shepherd is feeling it all. "The most important thing that I've learned is that I just have to take one day at a time," Shepherd, 38, says of the life changes since the arrival of
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    • 400 21 T HE biggies in live music entertainment will be coming our way from next March. Last year fans saw Tina Turner, The Jets, Los Lobos and Laura Branigan among others, in action. Rock star Robert Palmer, whose hit Addicted To Love won him a
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    • Article, Illustration
      158 21  -  Bintang 89, a comeback that lacked lustre and vibrance By Ting Mei See LAST night, Malay talentime returned to the TV screen after a two-year break. But it was a lacklustre comeback. Bintang 89 (SBC 5, 7.50 pm) had eight pop vocal soloists and two vocal groups. Last night's
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    • 301 21  -  By Lo Tien Yin STUDENT Zhuang Huizhen, 13, had always wanted to act in one of those swordfighting sagas on television. Last Saturday at the Chinese Garden with his fhends, he had his chance. During SBC's Lunar New Year celebration at the park,
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    • 528 22 Miles Davis, the near-legendary American jazz trumpeter and composer, retired from showbiz in 1975 because of illness. Eight years ago, he made a comeback. Last month, Columbia released his "biography", a five-LP set of his recordings between 1955 and 1985. Davis himself has just finished
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    • 180 22 USA Today. THE current five-LP set, Miles Davit: The Columbia Years 1955-1985, attempts to capture some of the trumpeter's classics. While perfect as an introduction to his music, there's not enough new material to justify Davis's fans buying it. Some Davis must-owns: 'Round About
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    • 279 22 USA Today. THE life of Elvis Presley as he became the king of rock 'n' roll will be a weekly TV series on American TV this year. Priscilla Presley, the late legend's ex-wife, and Rick Husky, an Elvis friend who produces CBS'
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    • Article, Illustration
      175 22 TWINS (Lido, Changi 2) 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. SHORT CIRCUIT 2 (Cathay and Marina 1) NOT as good as the first one with not as many laughs.
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 407 23 Over-indulged at New Year? Well, it's time to shed those extra kilos and what better way than to head for the salad bar? Here are some tips on how to make this nutritious, low-calorie fare work for you OK, pudgie, belly up to the salad bar.
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    • 296 23  -  MICROWAVECOOK By K Karuna EGGS are difficult to handle in a microwave oven. It is quick to curdle when cooked at too high a temperature or too long. So to get your dish done right, keep in mind these points: 1. Eggs must be at
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 166 24 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne nn PII2TYC>I(2K MBPB IlISP*" PH2TY PAMCIM<O j I AllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill f 111 I rCJI Tl^^T V 3 >fiL £AGU.fU*MI? J TIPIN6OF TU£ i V George the Robot/stephen Stanley (TA_ /"Ggofufc.- I've: tyAMeve-TWrr r*we **w i n>s ssST^ 2 J YoO' p] A flofecrr
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1626 26 RALHOGUIDE EHEBBIIiMiHi E233EZEB rmrntCTfifll inns^H NOON Naws la BrM (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Nam ia Brief aad WaatiMr Ra- NOON Gaad Mask, Ceaipaay aad Ma: NOON Nwiinh 12.0S Laachdate: Some entertaining NOON Easy Listeaiag: Light instru- P** J™* 1,1 for BO great sounds 12J0 The Laaraiag Warld music and songs
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  • SPORTS
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      452 27 The Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe exhibition tie has kicked up a row as it is scheduled to be played in the middle of the DHL Women's Open. Who is to blame? ALFONSO CHAN finds out TWO's company, three's a crowd. Imagine this Valentine's Day. An intruder suddenly nudging in
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    • 397 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BOXING President's Cup in Jakarta Light fly: Ismailov Kazim (Sov) bt on points D.D. Bhatta (Nep), Liu Hsin Hung (Tai) bt Yahya Md Shah (Mai) referee stopped contest (RSC) first round, Faisal (Indo) bt Yin Jian Qiang (Chi) RSC first round. Fly:
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    • HEALTH & Fitness
      • 501 28 INDOORS or out, if you pedal alowly and coast at every chance, you're not going to improve your fitness. A good ride should get a rise out of your heart "Cycling works like any workout," says Californian sports physician Scot Bradley. "You've got to
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      • 104 28 18 MOVEMENT TAIJI QIGONG 2nd MOVEMENT PLACE palms together, with fingers pointing down. Bend knees slightly. Move tightly-clasped hands upwards from position of the abdomen, turning fingers gradually upwards with the upward movement of the hands. Stop the upward movement between the eyebrows. All the time
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    • 289 29  -  By Suresh Nair IT'S any referee's nightmare when an unwelcome stranger charges into the field, intent on taking the law into his own hands. It was no different for me last Saturday. I had just shown Tiong Bahru substitute midfielder Sani Abdul Gani the yellow
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    • 430 29  -  Stories/ Shahiron Sahari WAS referee Suresh Nair competent in his handling of Tiong Bahru's 5-1 defeat to Jurong Town in a Premier League match last Saturday? No, says Tiong Bahru manager Richard Woon, who is prepared to back his assessment by boycotting the League if
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    • 359 29 THE case of the two Thais in the Geylang International-Tyrwhitt Soccerites Premier League wrangle has taken yet another turn Geylang may now appeal against Tyrwhitt's successful appeal. Geylang officials were surprised at the Football Association of Singapore's decision to recognise the original result of the two teams'
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    • 97 29 NOTTINGHAM Forest striker Lee Chapman will be aiming to continue his prolific cupscoring record when his side meets Bristol City in the Littlewoods Cup semi-final tomorrow. Chapman, an ever-pres- ent since he joined Brian Clough's side in October, has scored seven times in six FA and Littlewoods Cup
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    • 98 29 AFP. BELGlANsweeper Stephane Demol, who suffered a head injury in Bologna's 1-1 Italian League draw at AC Milan on Sunday, is doubtful for the World Cup qualifier in Portugal tomorrow. Belgium manager Guy Thys has added Jean-Fran-cois de Sart, of FC Liege, as a last minute replacement should Demol
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    • 457 30  -  Jita Singh, 41, was appointed national coach last night, back to the job he held from 1979 to 1983. Having coached Singapore to Malaysia Cup victory in 1980 and a SEA Games silver medal in 1983, Jita knows he needs good players to make
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    • 242 30  -  By Shahiron Sahari WHEN new national coach Jita Singh and Singapore skipper Thambiah Pathmanathan parted company in 1982, it wasn't under the best of circumstances. Pathmanathan, who was then also the national captain, left with R Suriamurthi to play for Pahang in the Malaysia Cup.
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    • 235 30  -  By S Gulam WIN? Maybe. But miracles take a little longer. So says Jita Singh. Read that as a brutal but realistic report card from the man whose job it is to kick some life back into Singapore soccer. Read that also as a sign
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    • 462 31  -  Jeffrey Low A T last, a decision, a new morning. It may have taken a painfully lone time, but the right man is now at the helm. Or so we think... Fans have clamoured for his return, the FAS have almost forced him into
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    • 318 31  -  By S Gulam TASK-MASTER or disciplinarian, Jita Singh's name still rings a bell. And a six-year absence from the local soccer scene has not blunted Jita's reputation as one who demands the best from his players. This may not have made him the most loved coach.
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