The New Paper, 28 February 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 61 1 SWORDFIGHTING ACTRESS jMB UNDRESSES Tomboy Wai Ying Hung shows what of in a Hongkong Page 21 $2,000 HERE $4,000 THERE SWEETS SENT FOR TESTS /p»k« 3 Prices in stores in Japan can be as much as double those in Singapore. Horse-hair handbag costs $2,240 here and $4,241 there./ Page 13
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  • 34 1 THE NEWS TODAY Three masked men armed with big hammers rob goldsmith shop in Joo Chiat. They get away with about $350,000 worth of jewellery. Page 2 Picture/ LlANHE ZAOBAO
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  • 29 1 Lychees the Sennett Estate garden of Mrs Low Chiow Lin and even passers-by planting because the bears says a Page 5 Picture/ NlCKLAUS D'CRUZ
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 400 2  -  By Chua Chin Chye THE Glass Hotel and Crown Prince Hotel have admitted they had problems with their guest lists being leaked to vice rings. However, five others denied any such problems, saying strict security measures prevented such lists from leaking out. The
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    • 143 2 Wire services. THE on again, off again trial of Oliver North is off again. The judge in the trial of the ex-White House aide suspended the trial in Washington yesterday after a dispute between opposing lawyers over top-secret material. It was not clear when
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    • 213 2  -  By Chua Chin Chye THREE hammer-wielding robbers wearing light brown masks robbed a goldsmith's shop at Joo Chiat Road of about $350,000 yesterday. During the robbery, one of them attacked a shop assistant on her upper right arm with a hammer. The robbers entered Chin Kum Fatt
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    • 194 2 SINGAPORE'S economy was more competitive last year than those of the other Asian "little dragons" Hongkong, Taiwan and South Korea. The government's 1988 economic survey shows that unit labour costs here went up by only 11 per cent compared with a 16 per cent average in
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    • 529 3  -  By Loh Tuan Lee c ANDY sold here that looks like ball-bearings has been sent for testing because of reports that similar sweets in England may cause metal poisoning. A candy called Rollercola balls has been tested in England and found to be
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    • 120 3 A QUARTER pound of the Rollercola balls, about 25 sweets, contains five times the recommended daily aluminium intake. Ms Carol Boynes, principal analyst at Southwark Council in South East London, said: "We would strongly recommend that no one eats these sweets. One a day could
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    • 260 3 A PARADE and grand celebration at Marina Square on Sunday raises the curtain on this year's Young People's Theatre festival. A record number of 22 schools will be treading the boards during the month-long festival along with 11 local groups (nine amateur and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 34 2 the weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.19 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.14 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 397 4  -  By Trudy Lim o NE of Singapore's smaller fast-food chains is getting bigger. In fact, it hopes to be Texassized in one year. Church's Texas Fried Chicken plans to open tour new restaurants this year, all in housing estates. In May, Church's will join
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    • 304 4 A LOVELY combination of flowers and women is always in Mr Fumihiko Muramatsu's mind when he is on the job. Mr Muramatsu is a floral designer, one of Japan's best. And he gave a demonstration of his skills at the Hilton Ballroom yesterday. In
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    • 289 4 GO to Marina Square and have a Sarawak Adventure. From March 10-18, there will be a busy exhibition, featuring such items as an 18.3 m longhouse, the typical Sarawak ethnic dwelling, and a 16.8 m-long recreation of the famous Mulu Cave. This miniature cave will
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    • 61 4 A MAN was yesterday fined $1,000 by a district court for having 24 sticks of firecrackers. The court heard that a police constable spotted Jamaruddin bin Mahmad, 26, behaving suspiciously in the void deck of Block 40, Bedok South Road on March 20, 1987 and on
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    • 278 5 E I VERYONE shares in the 1 fruits of the Low family's labour. f Friends, neighbours, relatives, passers-by and the birds all feast from a lychee tree planted 18 years ago by Mrs Low Chiow Lin. Mrs Low, 59, was given the tree as a
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    • 159 5 TWO BIRDS, both marbok jambol, went missing on Saturday. The owner of one of them found it again. The other was not so lucky. Cobbler Mr Hee Yeow Pak, 51, spotted his pet bird in a different cage belonging to a schoolboy the next day.
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    • 369 6  -  By Harinder Gill BOYCOTT goods that contain chemicals which could destroy the ozone layer, says The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). The ozone layer of the atmosphere blocks much of the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation. Called UV-B, this kind of radiation can cause
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    • 143 6 THE aim of yesterday's gathering at the Hyatt Fitness Centre was as clear as the sugar-free ice-cream on the tables. "We came to see who lost the most weight," said a gleeful Mr Willi Martin, 33, the hotel's manager. The 19 executives who took
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    • 172 6 THE World Heavyweight Boxing Championship fight on television proved a little too hot for some people in Toa Payoh. Police said Mr Tan Kok Hoe, 30, and his father were in their flat in Block 241, Kim Keat Link, watching the match between
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    • 93 6 IT took a property company two years to complete the sale of the mezzanine floor in a Kim Keat flatted factory to a printing firm. Mun Hean Realty Pte Ltd was ordered yesterday to pay about $184,600 in damages to the printing firm, Fu
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    • 207 6 ANNUAL ECONOMIC SURVEY THE Singapore economy posted its highest annual growth in 15 years last year. It grew 11 per cent, up from 8.8 per cent in 1987. The growth was broad-based and Singapore maintained its cost-competitiveness, according to the latest Annual Economic Survey issued
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    • 255 6 Manufacturing This sector grew by 18 per cent, compared with 17 per cent in 1987. Electronics was the fastest-growing because of strong demand for computer products, office machinery, integrated circuits and other electronic goods. The booming electronics sector led to a boom in supporting industries as
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    • 86 6 The recovery will continue this year, but the economy will grow at a slower rate of between 6 and 7 per cent. But a tight labour market means higher wages, and a greater emphasis on worker productivity. This is especially important because of the continued shortage of workers
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    • 444 7  -  By Arnold Tay F I 1 |IFTEEN hearing-impaired students from Mt Vernon Secondary School wanted to learn how to use the computer, but it was the teachers who had to take lessons first —in sign language. For two months, teachers from Microskills Training Centre studied
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    • 252 7 THE Japanese managing director of a freight forwarding company died in hospital on Monday, two days after he fell off a moving bus in Sentosa. Police said Mr Yoshihisa Nozaki, 42, a Singapore resident, was standing behind the driver of an
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    • 500 8  -  By Angeline Song w OMEN are no longer confined to lying down while giving birth not at Kandang Kerbau Hospital anyway. Mothers-to-be can now take advantage of a special $12,438 "birthing bed". This bed, in use since last November, allows the
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    • 137 8 A WORKER died in hospital after he was struck on the head by a piece of falling metal in the Jurong Shipyard, at Tanjong Kling Road, last Sunday. Mr Leong Weng Kee, 35, a contract worker, was carrying out repair work alone on the upper deck
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    • 62 8 CAIRNHILL Hotel will soon get 150 more rooms, exclusively for business travellers. It will also have several new food and beverage outlets. A hotel statement announced yesterday that building work, costing $25 million, would begin in June. It is scheduled to be completed by the end
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    • 183 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. anti-imperial: Opposed to anything that belongs or relates to an emperor or empress. at her disposal: Available to that person to use whenever she wants and for whatever purpose
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    • 236 8 SINGAPORE and Osaka will be able to see each other face to face for six days starting tomorrow. The private Japanese telecommunications company Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd (KDD) and Singapore Telecom are setting up a free visual telephone system link between the two cities for a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 289 9 Wire services. S I RI Lanka's Tamil rebels have butchered 14 people in a Sinhalese village, police report. Five others were badly injured and may not live. The attack was staged in Welikanda village bordering the Tamil-populated Batticaloa district on Sunday night as
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    • 49 9 Deadly: Houses on the Lingurian coast in Genoa, Italy, take a battering from heavy waves unleased by stormy weather. The high winds which swept across vast areas of Europe at the weekend have killed at least 20 people and left scores injured. Picture/ AFP
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    • 154 9 Wire services. ROY Eldridge, one of the century's greatest trumpeters, is dead at age 78. The American was admitted to Franklin County Hospital in Valley Stream, New York, on Feb 18, two weeks after the death of his wife, Iola. "It looks like he took (his wife's death)
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    • 118 9 Wire services. TAIWANESE who have visited the mainland favour a more cautious policy towards Beijing than those who have not. That conclusion has been drawn by Taiwanese officials from interviews with 1,084 visitors to China. Only 19.2 per cent would like to see
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    • 302 9 Wire services. KING Arthur's round table has been located in Scotland. But it is not really a table at all. It is a 2,000-year-old rotunda or circular room built of stone, Britain's foremost authority on aristocracy said yesterday. Arthur was a fourth century Celtic king who
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    • 327 10 Wire services. INDIAN Premier Rajiv Gandhi has touched off a fresh political row with charges that his opposition backs Sikh separatists. Leaders of the country's main opposition parties said yesterday they would boycott the Lower House of Parliament until Mr Gandhi withdrew his remarks and
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    • 44 10 Fund-raiser Pop singer Madonna helps kick off an Aids charity drive by joining thousands in a five-hour Dance-a-thon in Los Angeles. The money raised will be used to provide housing, food and health counselling for needy Aids victims. Picture/Reuter
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    • 146 10 Wire services. FRANCE has warned its large Muslim community that anyone publicly threatening the life of British author Mr Salman Rushdie would be prosecuted. President Francois Mitterrand said yesterday that Iranian death threats against Mr Rushdie had created a totally irrational situation. He made his comment after
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    • 146 10 Wire services. THE US Supreme Court has let the conviction of "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz stand. He was convicted of illegal gun possession in his 1984 shooting of four black youths in New York, but was cleared of attempted murder, assault and reckless endangerment. Goetz said
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    • 229 10 Wire services. IRANIAN Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashemi has been quoted as saying all dissidents jailed in Iran have been executed. "To settle this matter once and for all, all those who have been arrested and those who joined them have been executed. They... announced
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    • 30 11 In the dumps: With piles of rubbish growing steadily larger, Athens streets have become an eyesore. The garbage collectors are on strike for better pay. Picture/Reuter
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    • 230 11 Wire services. YUGOSLAVIA is using military muscle to quiet unrest in its troubled south-eastern Kosovo province. Belgrade Radio said the government sent tanks and troops to the area yesterday to quell ethnic Albanian protests as a local general strike spread. Yugoslav Air Force jets
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    • 142 11 Malay Mail. THE train ride from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore is being cut by up to 45 minutes. Rail officials say the Ekspres Rakyat train from now on will leave the Malaysian capital at 2 pm half an hour earlier than usual
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      288 11 Wire services. SHARE prices fell sharply on the London Stock Exchange yesterday because of fears of higher interest rates and a further decline in the value of sterling. Nervousness on the eve of the release of the trade report for last month kept many institutional investors on the sidelines,
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    • 64 11 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, brokers said. The Nikkei index firmed 27.04 points to 32,312.81 in the first 10 minutes of trade. The main gainers in early trade were communications, mining, securities house, rubber, food, electrical, gas, glass/cement, oil and trucking shares. Non-life
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    • 51 11 FT Industrials Mon 1,644.20 (1,660.70) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,250.36 (2,289.46) ST Industrial Mon 1,120.22 (1,135.21) NST Industrial Mon 1,958.07 (1,971.93) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 3,064.18 (3,114.23) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,469.90 (1,485.50) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 32,285.77 (32,452.49) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      269 11 Wire services. WALL Street blue chips closed higher yesterday. Investors looked for bargains after Friday's steep losses caused by fears of higher interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 4.82 points at 2,250.36. In the broader market, declines led advances by about four to three on
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 384 12  -  ZfcoMf Gno Him Tho Guan 22-24, Tg Pagar Rd 222-5023, 222-0388 SO cants to $4 10 aai ta 8 poi By Lim Swee Hong T HE traditional Chinese health shop has arrived. Zhong Guo Hua Tuo Guan is believed to be the first such shop in South-east
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    • 128 12 YOU can now consult a Chinese physician, get the herbs for the prescription and have it prepared all at the same place. Zhong Guo Hua Tuo Guan is willing to prepare the brew free of charge to help those who don't know how. "Customers can
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    • 147 12  -  MICROWAVECOOK Br K Kakona A SNACK can be turned into deliciouatrest in quick time with these two recipes. It's impossible to fstl when you bake them hi jfr microwave^ I) Rrt hence your scones nth cinnamon .1 nu a *lSS^* JB r 3) Eat
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 527 13  -  By Karen Goh w I E'RE getting a real bargain here in Singapore compared with Japan. A Comtesse handbag made in West Germany is going at nearly half-price here compared with its price in Japan. A little sign perched on the shelf with these horse-hair handbags
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    • 458 13 EYETOEYE I TODAY, we discuss again the impact of the computer terminal on eyesight. One of the most important points to remember is not to place the monitor screen on the computer in front of you. It will be too high. Put it on
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  • Showtime
    • 404 14  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang A I RE you tired of Orchard Road discos? More to the point, are you tired of Orchard Road disco prices? Then go west, young man and woman. Or east! First try the NTUC Club on Yuan Ching Road, just across
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    • 184 14 THE NTUC Club was started in February 1987 to serve as a focal point for social activities among union members, their families and retired union members. NTUC CLUB, Yuan Chlng Road, Jurong: Prices: Members' first guest gets in free. Next one pays $3 on weekdays,
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 182 15 E9ESB3 WOW! WATCH IT WATCHABLE Listings compiled by LIM KUAN CHIANG I USE THIS TO PROGRAMME YOUR I National H75 Hi-Fi VCR gives you sound power with remarkable jj NATIONAL VCRs. realism. Ideal for stereo broadcast or simulcast TV programmes and tapes like mi imi in mill 111 111 Imi
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1986 15 lelevision drai Kate and Allie Jj You've Got the Choice (First Tuesday Premiere Love Child GEMS W THIS comedy series about (B.oopm, SBC 5) AMY Madigan stare as Terry Jean two divorced women facing SBC's new seven-part educational Moore, a young woman serving a I JWl\j problems raising their children
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  • commentary
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      1184 16 WAR WITHOUT END A Pan Am airliner is blasted from the sky. An IRA gunner slays a pro-British shop-owner. A car-bomb kills children. All are grisly evidence of terrorism the scourge that won't go away. ROSNAH AHMAD of the Foreign Desk reports on the problem and what the future
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    • 320 16 FACTSHEET Whatever the mission, terrorists seldom fail to capture headlines. A sampler: Air piracy June 1985. The hijacking of TWA 727 airliner on a flight from Athens to Rome led to a 17-day drama which ended with one death in Beirut. Crime does pay
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    • 228 16 Explosives used to set off bombs are becoming deadlier yet easier to hide and safer for the user. For example, Semtex a soft, odourless plastic explosive can escape detection even by the best-trained bomb sniffing dogs and X-ray machines. Semtex, like modelling clay, can be pressed into thin
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 629 18 SIX Singaporeans will receive the Cultural Medallion Award tonight for being stars in their fields. The six areas are dance, photography, music, visual art, drama and literature. Seven companies will also receive awards for being generous "Patrons of the Arts". An eighth Patron award will
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    • 191 18 FORMED by Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield in Los Angeles in 1981, Metallica was born in direct response to what the band saw as the stultifying presence of a local scene dominated by a host of more determinedly chart-oriented 'soft-rock* acts. Their debut Metallica
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    • 359 19 OLIVIA Cheng has dared to go bare. So has Teresa Carpio. Even beauties from across the Causeway have done it. First, 18-year-old singer Lui Shing Jun took off her clothes. Then, Jacinta Lee, the 1979 Miss Malaysia and Miss World first runner-up, shed hers. All have
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    • Article, Illustration
      295 19  -  By' Vivien Chiong LESLIE CHEUNG: LESLIE (Cinepoly) LESLIE'S career has been going from strength to strength. He was named 1988's Most Popular Male Artiste recently and this album should stand him in good stead for this year's running. Leslie is not only the executive producer of the album, he
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    • 387 20  -  By Lo Tien Yin s I BC producer Lim Siauw Chong might have gone on forever thinking that honey is less fattening than sugar. Then he got involved in putting on a nutrition quiz show where only facts are allowed. The honey-sugar notion is
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    • 215 20 THE winner of the Emmy award for the best comedy series for 1988 has been airing quietly every Tuesday on RTMI. The Wonder Years is a nostalgic show much along the lines of the Rob Reiner film. Stand By Me. It is
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    • 272 20  -  OSEENLASTNK3HT By Wong Sing Yeong SEX and violence reign, even in a pop magazine programme like Entertainment This Week. Last night, the programme opened with a topic that should interest most viewers pornography actresses. But alas, not a single clip of a
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    • Article, Illustration
      237 20 A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay, Marina 1) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese are thrown together in a sparkling, witty comedy. Times: Cathay 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pm. Marina 1— 1 pm, 3.30, 7, 9 pm. RED SCORPION (Capitol) MUSCLEMAN Dolph Lundgren stars as a
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    • 137 20 LINDA Gray will quit from the Dallas set. The 45-year-old actress, who has been playing the long-suffering wife of J R Ewing on the television soap opera will leave at the end of this season. A Dallas spokesman said on Wednesday:
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1451 21 RADtOGUIDE Emi E2M3S E23EBH nffirnsiETOi NOON News la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News In Brief and Weather Re- NOON Coed Mask, Company and Me: NOON Newsdesk 12.05 LmcMate: Some entertaining NOON Easy Listening: Light instru- part Tune in for some great sounds 12 JO The Learning World music and
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 591 25 NYT. AS the undisputed, undefeated and unmerciful heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson reigns as ruggedly as only a few in boxing history have. With his fifth-round destruction of Frank Bruno on Sunday, Tyson now has a 36-0 record with 32 knockouts. But the champion's dominance should be
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    • 361 25 Foreign Editor Bill Chaze, holidaying in Rawa Island over the weekend, discovers that Malaysians take their fighting seriously. Down Mersing way, they want a champion to be more than just tough FORGET Las Vegas. The real fight fans were in a Mersing cof-fee-shop, near the
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    • 311 26 HEALTH &//^p If you indulge in sports, chances are you've had to tackle trouble in your ankle. What to do about ankle injuries? Today's feature examines the problem THE ankle joint, a joint between the two bones of the leg (tibia and fibula) and a large
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    • 158 26 THE type and extent of ligament damage will be determined by the direction and force of the injury. The most common type is an inversion sprain, where the foot is forcibly turned inwards with the athlete's weight going "over" the ankle, thereby stretching and tearing the ligament
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    • 123 26 IMMEDIATE rest, ice, compression and elevation for 48 hours. In cases of partial ligament rupture with considerable swelling, strapping may be recommended for anything up to three weeks. But in most cases of ankle sprain, mobility exercises and gentle weight-bearing should be started early. Anti-inflammatory drugs may be prescribed
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    • 128 26 QIGONG 4th MOVEMENT AFTER breathing out, with right leg and right arm forward, shift pivot to left leg. Raise left hand vertically, and keep right hand parallel in the same manner. At the same time, retrieve right leg and both hands. Breathe in while
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    • 227 27 AFP. ASTON Villa manager Graham Taylor is considering quitting the English First Division soccer club. "If after 17 years I produce a team which performs so badly, I must question whether there's something wrong with me," said Taylor after the 2-1 home defeat by Charlton
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    • 329 27 EUROPEAN CUPS: TOMORROWS ACTION AFP. REAL Madrid embarks on a major revenge mission against European Cup titleholder PSV Eindhoven in the quarter-final clash of titans in Eindhoven tomorrow. Bitter memories of last year's semi-final defeat by the Dutch still haunt the Real players. PSV went through on
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    • 198 27 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS GREAT Regiment and Racing Joy sprinted over the 600 m on grass in sub-35 seconds at Bukit Timah this morning, fuelling rumours that trainer Garnet Bougoure may spring a couple of surprises this weekend. Great Regiment (Rahmat) registered 34.8 and Racing Joy 34.5 over
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    • 165 27 AP. OLYMPIC sprinter Diane Williams, breaking four years of silence, admitted she took anabolic steroids before the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Williams, 28, said in an interview she tested positive for the drugs during the trials, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. Williams said she was
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    • 171 27 Reuter. DEFENDER Gary Gillespie won a recall to the Scotland soccer squad yesterday. Gillespie, 28, who has just recovered from a serious knee injury, was included in the 20-man squad for next Wednesday's World Cup European Group Five qualifier against France at Hampden Park. Roxburgh has
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    • 196 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: NY Knicks 122 Boston 110, Denver 122 Philadelphia 115, Indiana 128 Utah 89, Detroit 110 Los Angeles Clippers 98, Portland 124 Miami 102, Los Angeles Lakers 134 Phoenix 122. SNOOKER British Open 4th rd: Doug Mountjoy (Wales) bt Murdo
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    • 239 28  -  KONICA CUP REVIEW By Alfonso Chan CHINA isn't about to surrender its supremacy in badminton yet, as the results of the Konica Cup show. With Han Aiping in the women's, Zhao Jianhua in the men's and Lin Ying and Guan Weizhen in the women's doubles, China practically
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    • 122 28  -  BODYBUILDING NATIONALS Victoria Theatre (Today, 6pm) By Abdul Shukor. THE Singapore Amateur Bodybuilders', Federation (SABBF) has decided to shortlist 20 bodybuilders from tonight's National Championships for the South-east Asia Games. This is bound to give an added edge to the competition. Former national bodybuilders Azman
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    • 173 28  -  BY R Jegathesan THE Singapore Recreation Club has appealed for the lilting of the nve-year ban on former hockey international Farleigh Clarke. The Singapore Hockey Association Clarke after a free-for-all during a friendly against Oman in September 1985. In a letter to the
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    • Article, Illustration
      466 29  -  Coach Jita Singh, who named his squad yesterday, outlines what he hopes to get out of his players. And the players say what they'll do Stories/ Shahiron Sahari NATIONAL coach Jita Singh underlined the size of his new squad's task at May's Pre-World Cup tournament in South Korea with
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    • 179 29 SALIM Moin is back in the national squad four months after being dropped by former national coach Seak Poh Leong. Said Salim after being named Jita Singh's 26-man squad yesterday: "I promise to put up a good show for Singapore this year." Salim,
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    • 193 29  -  By Abdul Shukor NEW faces Mohamed Jefri Rahamad and Hussein Ahmad Sattar were thrilled at being invited to join the national squad. I'm very happy as it's my dream to play for Singapore," Jefri said. "Jita Singh rang me up last Saturday and asked me
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