The New Paper, 25 February 1989

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  • 20 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25/ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 65 1 9 SUCKED OUT OF JEIUNER Suddenly there is a hole big enough for an ambulance to drive through! The jumbo-jet with 354 people on board has just taken off from Honolulu. Nine people fall 6,000 m into the Pacific Ocean. The cause? Either an explosion or structural failure. "There was
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    • 60 1 TURNS UP Madam Esther Tay say8 Madepower is no longer in maid recruiting business. She blames another woman for "the mess"./ Page 2. MORE INDIAN E GOING OUT TO WORK /PageS WEATHER SATELLITE REPORT DELAYED Our special report on a new satellite system for more accurate weather forecasts has been
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  • 48 1 Thumb out: Reporter Irene Ng spends an hour hitching lifts. She's finding out whether Singaporeans think it's safe to pick up hitchhikers. Fifteen men stop for her. Women don't, for some reason. She figures out why./ Page 3 Picture/ Kenneth Koh
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 758 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching T IHE sole proprietor of a company that allegedly vanished with a woman's deposit for a maid, surfaced yesterday and gave her side of the story. She is Madam Esther Tay, 30, who came to The New Paper office
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    • 259 2 Wire services. MORE than 2,000 Muslims gathered at a field in Kuala Trengganu to vent their anger against Salman Rushdie and his novel The Satanic Verses. The demonstrators burnt British, US, Soviet and Israeli flags yesterday in the belief that these countries supported the writing of
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    • 155 2 THE Moscow Narodny Bank is planning to retrench about 25 of its 76 staff here. It is linked to a retrenchment exercise at its London office. A "substantial number" there had been asked to goThe move is part of the banking group's plans to restructure
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    • 110 2 Wire services. PRESIDENT Suharto of Indonesia and the National Family Planning Programme of the African republic of Togo will share this year's UN Population Award. The United Nations made the announcement yesterday. Officials praised Mr Suharto's leadership in family planning. Mr Suharto actively promoted
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    • 22 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over many areas from mid-af-ternoon till early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 533 3  -  By Irene Ng IS IT safe for motorists to pick up a hitchhiker? Yes, because Singapore is a safe place, said 10 motorists. It depends on the hitchhiker's looks, sex and age, said another five motorists. No, no, no way, said Mr Kwok Kam Hon,
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    • 88 3 Mr Stephen Quelc At lonely North Buona Vista Road, Mr Quek stops for our photographer, Kenneth Koh, because Kenneth looks "decent" and may need help. Businessman George Tan: "I will stop for old women and young girls. I would have second thoughts about
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    • 364 3 REPORTER Irene Ng spends almost an hour thumbing lifts at both the busy East Coast Expressway and the lonely North Buona Vista Road. She says: Our drivers generally don't like to see you on the side of the road waving your
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    • 335 4  -  By Trudy Lim N EW tenders are being called for the proposed re-develop-ment of Telok Ayer Market, a building earmarked for preservation. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board called for retenders in an advertisement in The Straits Times yesterday. But one of the companies
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    • 151 4 SOME students working part-time at Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to support themselves have been given extra aid. The fast food firm has started a financial assistance scheme for them. KFC awarded this morning more than $7,000 to 11 students chosen for their work performance and
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    • 187 4 TOWN councillors for Bedok, Potong Pasir and Bukit Batok became the first to be listed in a government gazette last night. They include private citizens and elected government officials. For the Bedok town council (Bedok GRC and two single-member wards): Chairman Dr Hong Hai (Bedok GRC); vice-chairman Mr
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    • 276 4 WHEN Mrs Shanta Singam opens her front door, she does not come face-to-face with her caller. There is a metal grille gate enclosing the few square metres of space before her. "This metal gate is very good for security reasons. It offers me extra
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    • Article, Illustration
      75 5 Roof wrecker: A heavy pile-driving machine toppled over and crashed onto the roof of a soy sauce factory (far side of road), ripping a big hole in the roof. No one was in the factory at the time. It happened Thursday at a construction site in Paya
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    • 243 5 A SURVEY of working women shows this significant change a lot more Indian women are working. The new trend showed up in the Labour Force Survey of Singapore 1988. The survey says 51.7 per cent of Indian women age 15 or above are earning money.
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    • 230 5 NEW Zealand to Singapore is a long way, especially when you are just 12 weeks old. But anything goes for the sake of publicity, so Bud the lamb has found herself in a new home temporarily. In quarantine for the last four days at the Singapore
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    • 86 5 A NEW agreement gives Singapore Airlines the right to fly in and out of any city in Belgium. The "very liberal" revised air services agreement was announced yesterday by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). Sabena Belgian World Airlines and SIA may
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    • 380 6  -  By Chua Chin Chye P OLICE and errant motorists played cat-and-mouse yester- day on Cecil Street. But it wasn't a game. The Traffic Police, Urban Redevelopment Authority and Registry of Vehicles have been chasing errant motorists as part of a blitz against illegal parking
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    • 76 6 TRAFFIC police are joining hands with the Housing Board to put an end to illegal parking in HDB estates. The operation will start next month, reports the Chinese daily newspaper, Lianhe Zaobao. The problem is worst on public holidays and Sundays when many estates
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    • 95 6 SHAW Towers has told all shops and eating houses to get out when their leases expire at the end of March. Renovation work makes this necessary, tenants were told. The work will be "extensive and comprehensive", Shaw Towers Realty Pte Ltd
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    • 375 7  -  By Geneieve Kwek t I HEY usually teach electronics and civil and building studies. Yesterday they played jazz. The 10 members of the Sin- gapore Polytechnic Combo band put aside their notes and lecterns for a good purpose. It was to show and tell visiting school-leavers
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    • 242 8 T HERE was a hit-and-run of a different kind here yesterday. A man pinched a motorcycle, took it for a ride, crashed it, and then ran away. He is believed to have taken the machine from a service station where its owner had left
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    • 173 8 THE Social Development Section (SDS) is thinking big. Come September, it will hold a mass wedding for at least 40 couples. All the men and women were brought together by the unit. This is the first time the SDS is holding
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    • 460 8 NURSE Ms Wang Lee Lian, 30, was to have come home this April to prepare for a nursing examination in Hongkong. She will never sit for that exam. She died in a road accident in Oman, in the Middle East, last weekend. The car she
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    • 102 8 A group of teenagers assaulted another 14-year-old girl after accusing her of calling them non-virgins. Rosmawarti binti Mohammed Yusop, 16, pleaded guilty in court yesterday to being part of an unlawful assembly. She and six friends hit Siti Rahayu binti Mohd, 14, in an HDB block at
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    • 164 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. accentuated: Emphasised or made more noticeable. amicably: In a friendly and pleasant way. antidote: Something that helps to change a difficult or unpleasant situation. diametrically opposed: Totally different. enigmatic:
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 387 9 Wire services. AN airline passenger's nightmare is to be suddenly sucked out of the plane to fall thousands of metres to death. It happened to nine passengers aboard a United Airlines jumbo jet yesterday shortly after it took off from Honolulu. Something ripped a
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    • 154 9 Wire services. FIRST reports on the United Airlines disaster referred to an explosion aboard the Boeing 747. Later word is that structural failure might be responsible. The pilot and some passengers said they heard an explosion. Others described a hissing sound and a "tearing away of the
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    • 149 9 Wire services. THE United States says it is not yet ready to recognize the government-in-exile formed by the Afghan resistance groups. US State Department spokesman Charles Redman said in Washington yesterday that the rebel council formed on Thursday has not met all the
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    • 156 9 Wire services. IT DOES not look like Mr John Tower, President Bush's choice for the No 2 spot in his cabinet, is going to get the job. Mr Tower has been rejected as defence secretary by a Senate committee worried about his alleged drinking
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    • 238 9 Wire services. ONE passenger compared it to the sound of a paper bag blown full of air and then popped. To another it was a ripping noise. Ms Rochelle Perel, 48, of Beverly Hills, California, heard the ripping. She was sitting next to seats that blew away,
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    • 296 10 Wire services. A WITNESS at the Iran-contra trial Bays Oliver North tried to get Nicaraguan rebels to make a suicide raid against Sovi-et-made heli- copters at a Managua airport. The prosecution says the one-time lieutenant-colonel in the Marines made the effort while he was a White
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    • 52 10 Nabbed: Two men, believed to be members of a leftist group that had vowed to disrupt the funeral of Emperor Hirohito make a dash for the funeral motorcade (top right) but are speedily nabbed by the police (above), and completely subdued soon afterwards (right). Pictures/ Afp
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    • 262 10 Wire services. SECURITY demands made by the US Secret Service bewilder and dismay the pastor of the church that President Bush will visit in Beijing tomorrow. After Emperor Hirohito's funeral in Tokyo, President Bush flies to Beijing today. First, agents wanted to examine several
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    • 132 10 A MOTHER in China strangled her baby daughter so she could divorce the man who raped her, then bought her as a wife. The story was told by the Farmers Daily yesterday. It began when 21-year-old Li Xia's father decided to sell her. But she didn't
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    • 69 10 Wire services SOUTH African police will no longer arrest blacks who break apartheid laws by using public facilities for "whites only". A government spokesman said yesterday that people would still be formally liable to prosecution, but that police would merely make identity checks. "Petty apartheid"
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    • 287 10 Wire services. POLITICAL powers of the left and right who helped Mrs Corozon Aquino become president of the Philippines said they boycotted today's celebration of her third year in office. They said they were disappointed by what they consider a lack of direction in her rule. The
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    • 250 11 Japan Economic Journal A GROWING number of Japanese think Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita may have to call an election to test voters' trust in his government. He could be forced to this drastic step by the scandal that just won't go away the Recruit
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    • 164 11 Japan Economic Journal IF Japan's Prime Minister Takefhiia is pulled down by the Recruit scandal who would be in line to succeed him? There is no easy answer. A noted political critic, Mr Keiichiro Nakamura, says most other high-level politicians also are tarred with the
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    • 79 11 Wire services. THE thirsty thief who stole 30 compasses from fishing boats moored at Hirtshals, Denmark, got a lot more than he wanted. He stole the compasses so he could drink an alcoholic liquid that keeps them from freezing. "Compasses have been found lying in the street
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    • 130 11 Wire services. BRITAIN'S royal family has asked a World War II veteran of the Burma campaign to call off his hunger strike. Mr Andrew Burgess started his starvation diet eight days ago to protest against sending the Duke of Edinburgh to Emperor Hirohito's
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      273 11 Wire services. SHARE prices on the London Stock Exchange held on to small gains yesterday despite a sharp drop from their peaks. They fell from their day's highs because of steep declines in early trade on Wall Street following an increase in the US discount rate. The Financial Times
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    • 8 11 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 11 FT Industrials Fri 1,663.40 (1,660.70) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,245.54 (2,289.46) ST Industrial Fri 1,135.21 (1,134.52) NST Industrial Fri 1,971.93 (1,968.75) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 3,114.23 (3,125.20) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,485.50 (1,477.70) Nikkei Stock Average Fri Closed (32,452.49) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      289 11 Wire services. SHARE prices tumbled on Wall Street yesterday following announcements by major commercial banks and the Federal Reserve that they were increasing interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 43.92 points to close at 2,245.54 points. That extended its loss for the week to 79.28 points.
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  • Showtime
    • 473 12 USA Today. w 'AITING for Tracy. That was the night's singular obsession backstage at the 31st Grammy Awards presentation on Wednesday. Gloating winners toting their awards and performers eager for more attention swarmed through the Shrine Auditorium's off-camera press rooms. But even though the enigmatic
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    • 341 12 USA Today. THE Grammys accentuated the positive on Wednesday in Los Angeles but didn't ignore the negative. The messages in Bobby McFerrin's bubbly, acrobatic vocalising and Tracy Chapman's sombre parables of social turmoil couldn't be more diametrically opposed. Yet McFerrin's besting of Chapman in key
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1525 13 RADIOGUIDE EEEHB EBBi lifVlliM EH3HHI NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News in Brief and Weather Be- "OON On Track: Ross Tucker plays NOON Newsdesk 12.05 Beal Fun: Join Roger Kool for NOON Easy listening: A selection of Port the new ones, and offers some 12.30 Here's Humph!:
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  • UPDATE
    • 2419 14 SATURDAY Gallery CHANGI: WAR PRISON. A coiection of 40 phototfaphs taken secretly by George AspinaH while he was a prisoner of the Japanese in 1942 at the Seiarang Barracks In Changi. They show how he and thousands of Britons and Australians were held there.
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    • 108 14 THE Guangdong Choazhou opera troupe from China performs Empress Hanwen. The story is about Dou Ji, a former concubine in the Imperial Palace and daughter of a commoner. She gets the title of Empress when Crown Prince Liu Heng regains power. He has been banished for
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    • Article, Illustration
      152 14 TODAY A CENTRESTAGE: Indian song and dance items feature in l*_J a variety show organised by the Pasir Panjang CC youth group. At the CC. 7.30 pm. Free. [T/T OUT AND ABOUT: A display of the latest equipment in IZU telecommunications by more than 100 exhibitors from all
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    • Article, Illustration
      126 14 TWO Chinese artists He Kung-De and Yong Ker-Shen will exhibit 80 of their oils. Both men learned the Chinese tradition of painting before carving their niche in Western styles. He Kung-De was born in Sichuan in 1925. He achieved a name in Chinese painting and only took up
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    • 1664 15 Television EPH f Chinese Cinema Lonely Fifteen Tiger Beer Pacific Rim Tennis Saturday Night Movie Coast to SCREEN m (10.00pm, SBC 8) I Championships (Live) Coast GEMS W A SOCIAL drama set in (1.55pm, SBC 12) (10.30pm, SBC 5) SBC brings all the action live from MADDIE (Dyan Cannon) escapes
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    • 1307 16 HP 1 QKMI televisions Pip^l crei.Lv M Movie par ad e —On the Edge Screen 8 Rape of the Sword Moment in Peking (Debut) ML ~;jr!tV V v rFM<! (3.00 pm, SBC 5) (3.00 pm, SBC 8) (10.00 pm, SBC 8) W& ST# 4 ki. T CjLMb M WEg Homan
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  • UPDATE
    • 2417 17 SATURDAY Gallery CHANGI: WAR PRISON. A collection of 40 photoffaphs taken secretly by George AsptaaK while he was a prisoner of the Japanese in 1942 at the Selarang Barracks In Changi. They show how he and thousands of Britons and Australians were held there.
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    • 108 17 THE Guangdong Choazhou opera troupe from China performs Empress Hanwen. The story is about Dou Ji, a former concubine in the Imperial Palace and daughter of a commoner. She gets the title of Empress when Crown Prince Liu Heng regains power. He has been banished for
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    • Article, Illustration
      154 17 TODAY [7/T CENTRESTAGE: Indian song and dance items feature in U—J a variety show organised by the Pasir Panjang CC youth group. At the CC. 7.30 pm. Free. V77C OUT AND ABOUT: A display of the latest equipment in l?_l telecommunications by more than 100 exhibitors from all
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      126 17 TWO Chinese artists He Kung-De and Yong Ker-Shen will exhibit 80 of their oils. Both men learned the Chinese tradition of painting before carving their niche in Western styles. He Kung-De was born in Sichuan in 1925. He achieved a name in Chinese painting and only took up
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1609 18 RACHOGUDE J.I 111— 1:1 j.llJ dIMMJI E39HI 6an News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) 12.05 Call Me: A selection of pop vo- 6an Breakfast Club: Great musical Nowsbour 0.05 On Air Wake up to lovely melo- an News la Brief c&ls and instrumental* with a entertainment to greet you on
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 612 19  -  The TV surveys say SBC 8 is tops. But who makes sure that the knob stays firmly there most of the time? Or at RTM 1, the next popular channel, some of the time? Who rules the TV tube at home? TING MEI SEE
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    • 194 19 THE language of prime-time television is firmly Chinese, with Singapore viewers remaining staunchly loyal to SBC 8. During the week surveyed from Jan 21 to 28 by the market research firm, Survey Research Singapore, 69 per cent of the viewers were switched on to SBC 8,
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    • 54 19 15 )< Friday Movie Enter The )=aJL Ninja Arena Pop hgif Strange Encounter II Hm/1 Studio 1 Presents Perfect Match Chinese film, The Seven-Year Itch (n Malay dramas Layar Mutiara -m/ and Citranika Senada Seirama, entertainment programme Japanese serial Rin Hane Roma. Strange Encounter II: One
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    • 149 19  -  OSEENYESTERDAY By Lo Tien Yin SO you thought nobody is awake at Tea Break Special at 3 pm every Friday. The newspaper listings announced that comedians Rodney Dangerfield and Val Avery would be starring in Easy Money on SBC 5. Well, Easy Money
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    • 478 20 Syndication Link. YAZZ is pretty hard to dislike, mostly because she's such a nice, normal girl. The kind of girl who says "Thanks a lot, babe," when a secretary hands her a cup of tea, who knows she shouldn't smoke but can't kick it and
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    • 410 20 AT 28, Simply Red's Mick Hucknall has plenty of reasons to be cheerful. A third album is primed to emulate its two three-million selling predecessors and a world tour is about to start in Britain, says a British newspaper, The Observer. And, if his songwriting
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    • 490 20  -  SATURDAY SOUNDS By Lim Sek BEACHES (WEA) is the soundtrack of Bette Midler's new movie. It's also this warm singer-comedienne's first studio album in six years. Despite the long lapse, Midler has not lost her impeccable touch. In fact the film puts her in
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    • 593 21 USA Today. ON Moonlighting last season, Maddie Hayes ran home to Mom for less than Cybill Shepherd went through last week in real life. First, she filed for divorce from Bruce Oppenheim, father of their 16-month-old twins, Ariel and Zachariah. Then, tabloids revealed her
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    • Article, Illustration
      225 21 M A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay, Marina 1) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese are thrown together in a sparkling, witty comedy. Wellworth catching. Times: Cathay 11am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30pm Marina 1 Ipm, 3.30, 7, 9pm MR COCONUT (Cathay cinemas) A COMEDY about a country bumpkin
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 309 24  -  By Karen Goh IF you have a picture of your favourite pop star, actor, whatever, you can turn it into a poster in a minute or so. Fuji Photo Film has a new printer that does it all. Feed in A 4 or B4
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    • 273 24  -  By Geneieve Kwek STUDENTS can find out more about the Information Technology industry through a booklet specially written for them. What's in IT? is a 43-page publication by the students committee of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS). This first booklet of the
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    • 473 24  -  AMATTEROFOPINION By Karen Goh Eddie Chen, 16. waiting for 0 level results ana wearing skateboarding gear. "I think people who judge others like that are jerks. There is nothing wrong with looking the way I do. So why should they look at
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  • SPORTS
    • 279 25  -  By Abdul Shukor FINALLY, after failing to stage a world fight in Singapore last year, boxing promoter Victor Dunoo has made his dream a reality. Tonight at the National Stadium, Indonesian world champion Ellyas Pical and American Mike Phelps will fight for the International Boxing Federation
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    • 154 25 AFP. MIKE Tyson's trials and tribulations of the past year are a thing of the past, if the scales are anything to go by. The world heavyweight boxing champion, who went on a wild bout of party going after a messy separation from his wife, is
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  • SPORT/RACING
    • 520 26 BESTBET :RACE 7 T I WO promising newcomers saddle up -in today's opening race and all the indications are that they will attract heavy betting. Samsuri's Speedy Wing is by a Golden Slipper winner and showed electrifying speed in a trial at Bukit Timah last month. Golden
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    • 362 26 THE Tote Board Feature Stakes is the main race of the weekend, but racegoers will be more interested in Penang's Race 7 tomorrow. This pits no less than six last-start winners against each other in a field of nine. In fact we don't see
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    • 271 26 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Atlanta 100 Indiana 97, New Jersey 111 Los Angeles Clippers 100, NY Knicks 139 Charlotte 114. ICE HOCKEY National Hockey League: Detroit 6 Pittsburgh 6, Hartford 4 Quebec 2, Vancouver 2 Toronto 1. SNOOKER British Open 4th rd: Cliff
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  • SPORTS
    • 267 27 IT looks like the same old story would be told in today's women's singles final between Wang Shi Ting and second seeded Park Mai Sin. In the Asian Open in Manila last year, Shi Ting won in straight sets. From her performance here so
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    • 305 27  -  Stories/ T R Ramakrishnan THE bubble had to burst. Almost all matches in the Tiger Beer Pacific Rim tennis tournament have been marred by bad line calls. But the players have been tolerant, expressing their disgust momentarily, then putting it behind them. As one of them put
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    • 205 27 IT was quite certain that Kim Bong Soo and Yoo Jin Sun would fight for the US$6,OOO (S$12,000) first prize after top-seeded Steve Guy was knocked out in the first round. So the two Koreans took their appointed places yesterday, but in contrasting styles. Second seeded
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    • 392 27  -  By Shahiron Sahari BAD news for Police: Its abandoned Premier League match against Jurong Town last Sunday will have to be replayed in full, said the Premier League Committee last night. The match, which was called, off by referee T Rajamanickam after 66 minutes
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    • 104 28  -  Stories Alfonso Chan THE Asian Badminton Confederation has moved the Asian team championship out of Shanghai, China, to Bangkok due to lack of interest from sponsors. The meet will be held as scheduled from April 11-16. ABC business manager Punch Gunalan said they couldn't find a
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    • 165 28 LEAPING Lius Ponggoh, of Indonesia, lay low yesterday and tricked China's boy wonder Wan Zhengwen into whacking it out to keep his hopes alive for the Konica Cup badminton semi-finals. Lius, 27, slowed down the pace in the rubber to beat Wan 15-8, 13-18,
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