The New Paper, 15 February 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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    • 128 1 Irushdie MAY GO r INTO HIDING Ayatollah Khomeini has I" VlTz made a death threat N against writer Salman V Jf Rushdie. The author of Satanic Verses admits A he is scared. He may A cancel his US tour. $100,000 Such people are preying on Singapore. This breed is able-bodied.
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    • 75 1 StarA o"^BPPHF r SEARCH FOR CLASSIEST OF 1989 Call HoMlnePtus at 734-7711./Page 28 SOCCER FAN CHARGED FOR HITTING REF /Page 30 HUNT FOR SHUnLE SUCCESS Newly-appointed national badminton coach Wee Choon Seng reveals his game-plan in exclusive interview. It's to launch Singapore on a shuttle to success./ Page 29 WORLD
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 390 2  -  By Irene Hoe AN American precision instruments company, Rosemount, is investing another $5 million in a new plant in Ang Mo Kio. The 4,600 sq m building will also house its regional headquarters for the South Asia and Pacific area. From Singapore, Rosemount will
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    • 41 2 Routine*: Three-month-old Shamu looks on as his parents exchange an affectionate Valentine's Day kiss at Sea World in Orlando, Florida. The sleek black and white are killer whales. Despite their sinister name, they are generally harmless. Picture/Reuter
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    • 355 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching A POLICEMAN was shot in the head with his own service revolver by a man he tried to detain early this morning. Later, a suspect was shot in a gunfight with police. PC Mizra Abdul Halim was shot when trying
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    • 62 2 SALES at NTUC Fair Price stores during the Lunar New Year were about 10 per cent better than last year's, Chairman G Pillai reports. He said a three-month boycott organised against NTUC Fair Price by the Singapore Democratic Party had "not made
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    • 111 2 U///s/y/fs/sf/ yZr///fr//// ////ps f ir Singapore's onl\ true Italian restaurant where authentic lust the right spot to unwind with a drink or two and renaissance cuisine is served at its best rela\ to the soothing tunes ot our Filipino resident 7/ JJICX Fxperience the best <>t Italy -at The (llass
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 28 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. Minimum: 23 degrees.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 341 3  -  By Arnold Tay T HE charm and antiquity of 1 Little India will be preserved for yet another generation. Some of the pre-World War I buildings behind the former Teck Kah (now known as Zhujiao) wet market have been given a new lease of life. These
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    • 196 3 SINGAPORE'S dormant movie business will make a symbolic fresh start next Tuesday at a site along Yuan Ching Road just across the road from Yaohan Jurong. The spot has been chosen for the ground-breaking for the Tang Dynasty Village, a $50 million movie town and theme
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    • 955 4  -  By Ng Wan Ching A VICIOUS attack by a man she describes as her ex-lover has left Miss Khor Poh Hwa with a broken jaw and deep cuts all over her body. Miss Khor, 22, who works as a hostess
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 350 5  -  It was shock, disbelief and despair when police discovered nine teenagers living under the PIE last month. Yesterday, the New Paper discovered another similar hide-away By Ronald Wong AN ABANDONED hideout apparently used by teenagers has been discovered under the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) in
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    • 258 5 CALLERS to The New Paper's Hotline Plus on Monday and Tuesday ranged from indignant readers giving their view of the married man worried about his ex-lover sending him a mischievous Valentine message to a man who was nearly hit on a "zebra" crossing. Ex-stewardess Mdm Ow
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 454 6  -  Bv Ronald Wong THE north-bound MRT train from Bishan to Yishun was delayed by about 30 minutes on Monday night. The result: Some passengers missed the last feeder bus at Yishun and had to take an expensive after-mid-night taxi ride home. Things also
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    • 140 6 THE MRT is ahead of schedule. The Mass Rapid Transit Corporation says it will complete its eastern line as far as Pasir Ris by the end of the year. The revised construction schedule has the first segment from City Hall to Tanah Merah
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    • 161 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. absconds: Runs away from a place, such as a home or detention centre. accosted: Approached by someone, especially a stranger, in a rude or unpleasant way. catharsis: Getting rid
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    • 241 6 Business Times. SINGAPORE'S smallest golf club plans a $9 million expansion if it can acquire 16,855 square metres of adjacent state-owned land. The Changi Golf Club president, Mr Ong Ah Keng, said the club submitted a proposal to the Land Office late in 1988 and
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    • 241 6 Business Times. JARDINE Pacific's 362 7-Eleven stores in Hongkong, Malaysia and Singapore are being sold to Hongkong-listed Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd. Price: HK$45O million. That's about $110.33 million in Singapore dollars. About $12.2 million would be in cash, the rest in new Dairy Farm
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    • 139 7 r^#T BVV v Citizen takes your times Hi as seriously as you do. hh( Some times matter more than others. Because for some o sports, time control becomes a key element. Since what it finally means depends on how long it takes you to do it. M That's why the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 202 8  -  By Angeline Song c ONDOMS through the letter box. That's the offer of a local company, Liang and Choon Trading. It says this mail-order service is being offered to those living in Jurong. The firm started distributing pamphlets to advertise its service last year. Mr
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    • 236 8 THE old man eats his dinner at a hawker centre in Bendemeer Road as though he would not care if the sky fell on him. A light above his head is dangling. Mr Oh Kim Koon, 83, is not flustered. "It doesn't
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    • 341 8 NOT many Lunar New Year cards survive beyond Chap Goh Mei (the 15th or last festive day of the season) eclipse or not. Jem Boehnert's certainly will. He is a hyper-active 10-year-old who often performs with his puppets for charities. Thankful
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    • 110 8 THE National Blood Centre now operates its system with a new $1.2 million computer. It will speed up registration of blood donors and improve the blood inventory system. By entering the donor's identity card number, relevant data can be obtained immediately. The computer also helps schedule
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 293 9 Wire services. MALAYSIA will send 1,000 soldiers to serve with the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in the African nation of Namibia. Defence Minister Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen made the announcement yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. "Malaysia has a political commitment to the UN and we are ever
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    • 48 9 Hunger A boy brings home his family's daily bread in Kabul. He waited in line four hours for the bread, which has been in short supply because of a guerilla blockade of the capital. The UN has begun to distribute emergency food rations. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 141 9 Wire services. THE Prince of Wales made a St Valentine's Day blunder. He failed to recognise his true love: the Princess of Wales. Prince Charles was on an official visit to the Yorkshire town of Todmorden yesterday when he was presented with the sculpture of
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    • 214 9 Wire services TIBET'S spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will not risk re-entering Tibet to attend the funeral of the Panchen Lama. A quick rejection of any possible invitation from China, which now claims Tibet, was issued yesterday by a spokesman for the Dalai Lama in
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    • 141 9 Wire services AN American woman who forcefed a fatal dose of salt to her four-year-old adopted daughter as punishment for stealing sugar has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Beth Michelle Riggs, 36, wept as the judge in Salem, Virginia, imposed the sentence.
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    • 373 10 Wire services. AUTHOR Salman Rushdie's US tour was in doubt today following a death threat by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The Iranian demanded that the Indian-born writer be executed for insulting Prophet Mohammed in his book The Satanic Verses. Mr Rushdie, a Muslim who
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    • 186 10 Wire services. THE Kremlin has just made it official crime is rising in the Soviet Union, just like it is almost everywhere else in the world. For years the Soviet Union described crime as a symptom of Western decadence. But
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    • 37 10 Emperor A file of husky imperial policemen practises for the funeral of Japanese Emperor Hirohito on Feb 24. The robed policemen all of them masters of martial arts are carrying a portable shrine. Picture/Reuter
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    • 254 10 Wire services. ANOTHER 24 people were killed on the eve of Sri Lanka's first general election for 12 years. The balloting was scheduled to begin late this morning. Police said 19 supporters of various political parties were gunned down during the past
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    • 295 10 Wire services. A GERMAN who helped develop the rocket that took men to the moon says he was "dumb" to give up US citizenship rather than fight charges that he was a war criminal. Mr Arthur Rudolph, 82, now seeks a temporary visa so
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    • 350 11 Wire services. T AIWAN has launched a campaign to discredit one of its air force pilots who deserted and flew his plane to China. Military officials say he was a physical and emotional wreck who beat his wife and was soon to be
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    • 206 11 Wire services. US President George Bush has rewarded his financial backers and friends by naming them ambassadors. The job of ambassador to France, for instance, will go to Mr Walter J P Curley Jr, a family friend and major New York fund-rais-er for the Bush
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    • 44 11 Seeker: A Padaung villager, one of Burma's legendary long-necked women, plays a traditional instrument at a refugee camp in Thailand. Fighting between government forces and Karen guerillas has driven many of the Padaungs to seek protection across the border. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 147 11 Wire services. CHINESE can now disco their hearts out wherever they wish. The official China News Service reported yesterday that Chinese are now permitted entry to foreign-run discotheques in Beijing once reserved only for foreigners. "In the past, mixing between Chinese and foreigners was forbidden,"
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    • Article, Illustration
      43 12 Flee: Tamil and Iranian refugee children hide their faces at a Kronberg, West Germany, foster home. They fear reprisals against their families if they are identified. Parents have shipped the children to Europe to await better times back home. Picture/Reuter
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    • 221 12 Wire services. A LEADER of the Muslim group that clashed with Indonesian troops last week has been arrested. He is being questioned by the military, the South Sumatran armed forces commander MajorGeneral Sunardi said yesterday. The official Antara news agency cited Maj-Gen Sunardi as
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    • 187 12 Wire services. A TWO-and-a-half-year-old Scottish girl has won the right to be named Princess after a lengthy battle. Princess Dulcima Rosetta Man-waring-Spencer claims no royal connections. But her parents liked the name. Audrey and Hugh ManwaringSpencer finally emerged triumphant last week when
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    • 96 11 STEAKHSH 1.2.1989 dinner on 5-COURSE SET MENU FOR LUNCH OR DINNER Australian Mushroom Soup Main Course IXL Jam Roll Coffee or Tea Australian Fruit Juice MAIN COURSE OF STEAK MAIN COURSE OF COMBI NORMAL CUT Sirloin Ribeye $11.50++ Sirloin $10.90+ Fillet Sirloin $12.90++ R»beye $11.90+. Fillet Ribeye $13.50++ Fillet $15.50+
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      273 12 Wire services. SHARE prices closed higher but below their session peaks on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30share index closed up 16.9 points at 1,675. The rise was due to heavy futures-related buying and a strong early trend on Wall Street. The trend in New York
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    • 75 12 Reuter. SHARE prices rose in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today on a higher yen overnight and bargain-hunting, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 86.80 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 32,069.69 in 10 minutes. Gainers were led by pulp/paper, non-life insurance, real estate, auto, oil, shipbuilding,
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Tues 1,675.00 (1,658.10) Dow Jones Average Tues 2,281.25 (2,282.50) ST Industrial Tues 1,120.17 (1,139.70 NST Industrial Tues 1,963.67 (1,975.49) Hongkong Hang Seng Tues 3,099.97 (3,153.73) Australian All Ordinaries Tues 1,485.80 (1,478.70) Nikkei Stock Average Tues 31.982.89 (31,985.32) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      279 12 Wire services. WALL Street blue chips closed slightly lower yesterday after profit-taking checked a roaring morning rally. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 1.25 points to 2,281.25. The broader market fared better, as advances led declines 772 to 663 on a moderate New York Stock Exchange volume of
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  • HORIZONS
    • 907 13 DEAR AGGIE AGGIE will give advice every Wednesday in this paper. Questions Aggie can't answer will be put to other experts such as doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists. You can write to: Dear Aggie, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. You must give
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    • 271 13 HETEROSEXUAL infidelity can be a serious threat to a marriage. A homosexual affair, in most cases, destroys it. The British magazine Best reports on the case of a woman who was devastated on discovering that her husband had been having an affair
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  • 780 14  -  Showtime BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR The Accidental Tourist TomHanks Big o- Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man Dangerous Liaisons an Mississippi Burning ~5? ne Hactanan, Rain Man M««a».ppi Burning Edward James Olmos, Stand and Deliver BEST ACTRESS Forest Whitaker. Bird Glenn Close, Dangerous BEST DIRECTOR Liaisons
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1774 15 w a A hp lelevision= Mtil Tales From The Hollywood Videofashion News American Style Insight 60 Minutes The SCREEN M Hills A Table at Ciros's (7.20pm, SBC 12) Reagans and Two A Week GEMS m (9.30pm, SBC 5) THIS episode takes a look at what (8 pm, SBC 12) f|
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  • spotlight
    • 821 16 Beggars with fat bank accounts. Beggars who are able-bodied and have family members. Beggars who beg not because they need to but because it's easy money. These are professional beggars who are now the target of a move by the of Community Development The Ministry maintains
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    • 316 16 DISGUISED BEGGING' THESE are two cases of "disguised begging" from the files of the Ministry of Community Development. The names of the beggars are withheld at the ministry's request but the background and facts of the cases are true. A blind 55-year-old man
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    • 399 16 BEGGAR-AID HOMES MR A LATH IFF, 52, has $1,800 tucked away in the bank. It's a far cry from four years ago when he was an alcoholic, penniless and picked up for begging and detained in a welfare home. Today, Mr Lathiff is still in Woody
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    • 334 16 THE DESTITUTE PERSONS BILL ABLE-BODIED people who are caught begging for a third time will face prosecution when a new Destitute Persons Bill becomes law. The Bill, passed by Parliament last month, is aimed at professional beggars only, said Mr Chew Sin Poon, the Community Development Ministry's
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 592 18 UPI. M I 'AKING the Hijacking of the Achille Lauro had all the secrecy of a military operation against terrorism. It all began three years ago when producer 'Tamara Asseyev wanted to make a two-hour drama of the 1985 hijacking of the luxury
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    • Article, Illustration
      223 18 SHORT CIRCUIT 2 (Cathay and Marina 1) NOT as enjoyable as the first one. A few heart-warming scenes at the end when Johnny Five almost dies. Times: Cathay 11am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm Marina 1 1.30, 4, 7, 9.15 pm ACES GO PLACES 5 The Terracotta Hit (Cathay
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    • 198 18 THE Eldee Young Quartet dishes out a heady mix of jazz favourites and current pop hits at Somerset's Bar nightly, all jazzed up their way. For Eldee and Redd, Singapore is like a second home. This is their fourth appearance
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 438 20 A stark but perfect team, Anita Sarawak and her boys. Their act is energetic, oozes with passion and tantalizes the senses. This East-West combination is back again for another electrifying stint at the Celebrities T I HEY'RE a perfect foil to Anita Sarawak. She's dark and sultry
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    • 217 20 WHEN you've hung up your gun and retired from being the world's favourite secret agent, the next step is to set your sights on West End. At least it holds true for Roger Moore, who steps out from the shoes of James Bond 007 and
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    • 228 20 YOU can now book tickets for an evening at a West End theatre right here in Singapore. Since last year, a travel agency called Travelplan has been offering a service where clients can book tickets for any London musical or play.
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    • 487 21  -  By Vivien Chiong a i CTING can mean being prepared to wind-surf, ride a horse, do a handstand, fight with swords and even ride a motor-cycle. That's what SBC drama artists have found. Hu Shuxian and Chen Tianwen, for instance, had to learn to
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    • 280 21 UPI THE Case of the Comeback Courtroom Series. Perry Mason returns to TV. It started on American channels last Sunday. But Singapore viewers got to see actor Raymond Burr return as the hero of the courtroom on Jan 29. Individual episodes will be telecast in the Thursday
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1342 24 I RADKX3UIDE I CHEDH i&WMf i;U>iijjiUM?l fin— NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News in Brief and Weather NOON Good Music, Company and Ma: MOON Newsdesk 19 AC a milß ir«l NOON atoning: Light and easy Report Noon-time musical entertain- 12.30 Business Matters: A weekly for vour listen?ng
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  • SPORTS
    • 293 25 Reuter. WORLD YOUTH CUP BRAZIL and the Soviet Union start joint-fa-vourites in the tussle for the silverware as the World Youth soccer championship begins in Saudi Arabia tomorrow. The stylish Brazilians, champions in 1983 and 1985 and unbeaten in their qualifying campaign this time, should not
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    • 157 25 AFP. FRANCE was given plenty to think about before its vital World Cup qualifier in Scotland next month when it was beaten 2-0 by English League leader Arsenal yesterday. Seeking experience of a British game before their Glasgow clash on March 8, Michel Platini's young side crashed
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    • 203 25 Wire services. GERRY Armstrong yesterday resigned from English Second Division club Brighton in response to being charged with assault. The 34-year-old former Northern Ireland striker, who appears in court today, is alleged to have head-butted a member of Southwick Soccer Club after being sent off while playing for Brighton
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 328 25 THE EMPLOYMENT GIASSIFIED SECTION 7Q7 4 rf J tot-1 100 V* -1 _J APPOINTMENTS SUMMIT COMPANY (S) PTC LTD We are a major international medical supplies company dealing in well-known brands of ethical, OTC pharmaceuticals and surgical products. Due to an expansion programme, we are looking for THREE MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVES
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS
    • 177 26 A DIV BADMINTON: THE RAFFLES JC REPORT CARD RAFFLES Junior College captain Sumardi Lee (left) is the only survivor from the team which beat ACJC 3-2 Hast year. Sumardi comes from the Indonesian island of Tanjong Pinang, where "almost everybody plays badminton". "Being a
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    • 272 26  -  Stories/ Shahiron Sahari ANGLO— CHINESE School is the undisputed schools' badminton kingpin with a 13-year-old grasp on the B Division title. Yet it lost both the boys' and girls' junior college finals to Raffles Junior College last year. How come? "I don't know," said this year's
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    • 333 26  -  Comment/ Ken Jalleh Jr TWO-four-six-eight, who do we appreciate? The kids in School Sport, that's who. This time each year, they are a promise of fresh air on a national-level cauldron stifled by bribery allegations, backbiting officials and spoilt brats. School sport is virgin playground;
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    • 24 26 LOOK out for these faces—■» because We FRIDAY A DIVISION SOCCER: The Bedok VI Report Card <*si toiiMk V
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  • SPORTS
    • 708 27 Wee Choon Seng, back as national coach after 14 years, knows what ails Singapore badminton. He outlines the treatment he has in mind to The New Paper. ALFONSO CHAN reports L IKE a doctor examining a patient and diagnosing the ailment, newly-appointed national coach Wee Choon
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    • 124 27 THE Singapore Badminton Association will issue today a new schedule of play for the Konica Cup Invitation championships, to be held from Feb 21-26. This follows yesterday's withdrawal of two South Koreans, Lee Kwang Jin, from the singles, and Lee Sang Bok, from the doubles,
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    • 192 27 Wire services. JACKIE Stewart, three-time Formula One world champion, signalled his return to auto racing yesterday with the announcement of a new British Formula Three team. Stewart, who retired from competition in 1973, will provide back-up support for his 23-year-old son Paul in a bid to launch him into
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    • 280 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: 1 RUGBY British Rugby League Div 1: Warrington 4 Wigan 10. British Rugby Union Club: Leicester 34 Royal Air Force 12, Llanelli 52 Abertillery 14, Nottingham 29 Nuneaton 17. SOCCER English Div 1: Everton 1 Aston Villa 1. English Div 4: Halifax
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    • 199 27 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS SHARP Silver and stablemate Mana Tahu are due for a good showing at Penang this weekend judging from their trackwork there this morning. The duo Aziz was astride Sharp Silver matched strides over the 600 m sprint on grass in
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    • 257 28  -  Stork*/ Abdul Shukor A SPECTATOR at a football match haa been arretted for alleged criminal intimidation on referee Sureah Nair. The man charged onto the field during the Tiong Bahru-Jurong Town Premier League match at Queens town last Saturday and started hitting Mr Nair. The 34-year-old man has
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    • 181 28 THERE it no bitter feud between referee Suresh Nair and Tionc Bahru, or ita manager Richard Woon. A report that Mr Woon threatened to pull Tiong Bahru out of the Premier League waa a complete misquote that was amicably settled last night
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    • Article, Illustration
      342 28 BALESTIER UNITED manager S Thavaneson is a lucky man. Not only does he have three foreign footballers who can play football, he also has Omar Dawood. Omar who? Omar Dawood, Balestier's midfield hero in its 2-0 (agg 3-2) win over Tiong Bahru in the second leg of the
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    • 440 29  -  3tori«u Abdul Shukor A SPECTATOR at a football match hat been arrested for alleged criminal intimidation on referee Sureah Nair. The man charged onto the field during the Tiong Bahru-Jurong Town Premier League match at Queens town last Saturday and started hitting Mr Nair. The 34-year-old man has
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      343 29 BALESTIER UNITED manager S Thavaneson is a lucky man. Not only does he have three foreign footballers who can play football, he also has Omar Dawood. Omar who? Omar Dawood, Balestier's midfield hero in its 2-0 (agg 3-2) win over Tiong Bahru in the second leg of the
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    • 198 30  -  By Dennis Chia s i INGAPORE will send a representative to the World Cup Triathlon to be held at Australia on April 30. A selection trial on March 5 will decide the name. A few promising triathletes have been told of the trial. Mr Alec Kuok,
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    • 248 30  -  By Alfonso Chan NATIONAL squash player Simon Yang wants trials to be held for selecting the best Singapore squad for October's World Championship here even though he has been earmarked without a trial. Simon, selected by national selectors last Saturday for a two-and-a-half month com-petition-cum-training trip to
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    • 161 30  -  By Alfonso Chan THE plan to bring in some Pacific Rim players into the Tiger Beer Pacific Rim tennis championship has veered slightly off-course. Australia, one of the countries tournament director James Fu hoped very much could sent players, did not submit anyone when the draw
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