The New Paper, 3 March 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, MARCH 3. 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 178 1 IBn 1,300 FREE I MOVIE TICKETS I Want te watch Andy Lau in News H Attack? Just bring the coupon on H Page 21 to our front office. Cathay H W is screening a free morning show for H 1,300 of our readers. You may also H be among the
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  • 28 1 away a videogame from a .Turning oanetruction site. It was used cramKlinor on animated races, say police. /Pilpt Picture/ ClIOO CHWEE HUA
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  • 44 1 A national search is on for faces to go on a poster to promote religious and racial harmony. We do our own talent-spotting at Brickworks Kindergarten. We find Sim Kheng Ling, 5. Plus others equally delightful. Page 3 Picture/ SAM YeO
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 268 2 Wire services. BRITAIN appears to be making an effort to quiet the furore over The Satanic Verses. A senior British official says the controversial novel offends not only Muslims but also some Britons. But Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said yesterday that
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    • 470 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching THE Pang family left their flat in Geylang Square for a quiet late night family supper together early this week. They had to fight off a brutal attack by a gang of thugs instead. Pang Sui Huat, 16, was the
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    • 191 2 THE URA has not been inactive in land sales for the past six years, as reported by The New Paper. A report in the Business Times picked up by The New Paper yesterday said seven sites in the Orchard area for new hotels and one in Raffles Place for
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    • 131 2 Wire services. AMERICA has staged the first test of its new "stealth" military defences. The programme is aimed at making American planes, missiles and other weapons almost impossible for enemy radar to detect. In a test conducted yesterday, a B-52 bomber flew over
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 32 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas from midafternoon till early evening. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.19 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.14 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 355 3 The New Paper is Ministry of Community Development's search for poster children to promote radii and religious harmony. We will be highlighting children from various kindergartens who represent the future of Singapore THE Young Singaporeans Search is on. We did some searching too. Not that you
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    • 45 3 Sri MafMwari: Shows off her gaping teeth. Sim Kbmg Ling: A born Miss Universe. Nurmarlyna Binte AM Razak: Enjoys class. Mai Zuowei: Likes to watch police shows. Mazendran: A diplomatic approach. Hui Yuen Heng: Likes to aleep.
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    • 290 4  -  By Yusman Ahmad s I EX officers at Standard Chartered Bank suf--1 fered an up-and-down experience recently. First, they were told that they had been promoted and given pay rises. Then they were told it was all a mistake. Worse, they were asked to return the
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    • 195 4 EMERITUS PROFESSOR Ernest Steven Monteiro died yesterday. He was 85. His wife, Madam Ling Mie Hean, said this morning: "He had high fever and was not very well for the last few weeks. My son, Edmund, is still very busy arranging for the funeral services
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    • 289 4  -  By Angeline Song SOME residents of Soo Chow Walk, near Thomson Plaza, are angry over how two sec-ond-hand car dealers park their cars. The dealers occupy two lots at the end of Soo Chow Walk, but they park their cars along the sides of the narrow
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    • 342 5  -  By Trudy Lim ONE company went public, and called for applications for its shares, but it was another company that received queries. And all because the companies have similar names. Mechanical Handling Engineering (S) Pte Ltd (logo on the left in headline)
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    • 128 5 MORE than 200 civil servants will attend a training course on Indian culture today. The course, Understanding the Indian Community in Singapore, is the second in a series of three organised by the Ministry of Community Development to promote racial harmony. The first, in March last
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    • 125 5 FOR the sake of beating a traffic light, a former SBS driver partly wrecked a shophouse, suffered serious injuries, lost his left arm and was fined by a court for dangerous driving. Low Ah Sai, alias Kuah Yong Heng, 34, was fined $700
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    • 150 6 T I HE GAME is up for whoever owns a video-game machine seized by police yesterday. Jurong police confiscated the machine from a construction site canteen at Chia Peng Road. The machine allows players to bet on animated horseraces, said a senior police officer. "They just
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    • 112 6 A MAN who looked too closely at a gun held by a robber in his shop yesterday was hit on the head for his pains. "1 wanted to find out whether the gun was real or not/' said Mr William Ang Teck Hing, 42, a partner in
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    • 442 6 THE swoop that netted 73 suspected illegal workers at the Choa Chu Kang site on Wednesday morning was no straightforward operation. Jurong police had to watch construction workers watching out for them. The Choa Chu Kang lookouts were perched on top of an uncompleted
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    • 236 6  -  BY Abdul Hadhi TWENTY snowmen from Japan will blow into town next Friday evening briefly. They will be on a mission to melt the hearts of Singapore before they themsslvss melt away. The Japanese Embassy arranged the mission as a goodwill
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 946 8 Today is Budget Day. Here is a summary of the pre-Budget reports of the main newspapers. The Budget statement for 1989 will be presented by the Finance Minister, Dr Richard Hu, in Parliament at 3.40 pm today. It will be broadcast live over SBC
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    • 344 8 SOME say the Japanese way is not so different from the Singaporean way when it comes to managing small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Yet a number of local businessmen who went to the National Productivity Board for a seminar headed by Japanese
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    • 130 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. anguished: Tormented or showing great mental pain. bowler hats: Round, hard black hats with a narrow curved brim, usually worn by British businessmen. browbeating: Bullying someone and forcing him
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 340 9 Wire services. W I 'EST Germany has cracked a major spy ring involving computer "hackers", officials say. Police say the hackers sold sensitive military data to an unidentified Eastern European country for cash and drugs. Other sources say it was the KGB, the Soviet spy
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    • 46 9 Nabbed: Two West German policemen drag off a Japanese monk during an anti-nuclei protest in Stuttgart. The monk and two others joined members of the West German anti-nuclear movement in demonstrations marking the 35th anniversary of the US nuclear test "Bravo". Picture/ Reuter
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    • 173 9 Wire services. The US Defence Department has declined to comment on the latest spy case revelations until it completes its own probe. The department is still smarting from an incident last November when a man-made electronic "virus" disrupted operations of an estimated
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    • 145 9 Wire services. BUDGET woes may force the shutdown of a US satellite system that tracks the global environment. All services provided by the Landsat Earth-sensing satellite system will end on March 15, said EOSAT, the company which operates the satellite system. The services
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    • 120 9 Wire services. TWO rats were able to ground a Japan Air Lines 747. A spokesman said yesterday that 25 rats imported for laboratory use escaped from their cage after the jet arrived in Tokyo from New York early yesterday. All but
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    • 202 9 Wire services. CASH and offers of help have been received by the family of four South Korean sisters who poisoned themselves in hopes of easing their parents' poverty. Police said yesterday that the four girls, aged six to 13, swallowed rat poison. The youngest child
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    • 388 10 Wire services. T i ,HE US Congress is said to favour arming Cambodia's non-communist factions rather than see the Khmer Rouge gain power. Two-thirds of the lawmakers would vote for such a move, US Representative Jim Leach said in Washington yesterday. He is the ranking
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    • 48 10 Jailed: This big barometer outside a church in Cape Town measures South Africa's political climate. It keeps track of those held for offences against the government At present, it shows 900 political detainees still in jail, against 160 freed in recent months. Picture/ AFP
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    • 249 11 Wire services. T .HE European Economic Community is acting to cut damage to the world's ozone layer. Ministers of the 12 EEC countries agreed in Brussels yesterday to seek a total ban on production and use of chlorfluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end
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    • 105 11 Wire services. MORE than 500 dead dolphins have washed ashore on France's Atlantic coast over the past few weeks. Experts blame sharp increases in pollution for weakening the dolphins, who may have been unable to survive several severe storms. The deaths raise concern about the survival of
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    • 103 11 Wire services. AN American cartoon called The Transformers will remain on Beijing TV despite objections of Chinese lawmakers. The legislators claim the import is too violent and commercial. They see it as pro-war. But the People's Daily said the station decided to keep
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    • 105 11 Wire services. SRI Lanka will arm villagers to protect them against rebel attacks. The action, announced yesterday, follows the massacre of 37 Sinhalese peasants by Tamil rebels this week. Deputy Defence Minister Ranjan Wijeratne said in Colombo that troops would also set up defence camps in
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    • 67 11 Wire services. INDIA will set up a special agency to push arms exports. Defence Production Minister Chintamani Panigrahi said yesterday the move would pay for military modernisation. "The latest budget cuts on defence spending leave us with no alternative. We have to sell enough arms
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      264 10 Wire service. WEST Germany's decision not to increase bank base rates cheered a nervous London stock market yesterday. After a morning in the doldrums on persistent fears of an increase in interest rates, shares moved ahead in afternoon trading. The Financial Times 30share index closed 15.6 points higher at
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    • 81 10 Reuter. SHARE prices rose strongly in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The West German Bundesbank's decision not to raise official interest rates boosted sentiment, brokers said. The Nikkei index surged 198.91 points, or 0.62 per cent, to 32,272.64 in 10 minutes of trade. Rises were led
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      260 10 Wire services. WALL Street stocks made a faltering start yesterday, but a late rally pushed the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials above the 2,250-point mark. After see-sawing for much of the day, the Dow closed at 2,265.71 points, a gain of 22.67 points. Gainers outnumbered decliners
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 391 12 Catch a glimpse of some of the 'exclusive' bridal gowns from Singapore's newest name in Orchard Road fashion. But there is a catch the gowns are only for rent, writes KAREN GOH BRIDES can now go American on their wedding day without leaving Singapore. A new bridal
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    • 136 12 SOME neckties really catch the eye. A few notable examples glow in the dark. Several US models come with a concealed battery and flashing lights. But Singapore tends to be more on the conservative, banker-broker-CEO style. Of course, unobtrusive need not be dull. A company that sells ties
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  • 241 13 FOODNOTES USA Today. YOU do not benefit from taking vitamin and mineral supplements. Instead, you might be harmed when taken in excess. The American National Research Council made that conclusion in a report on Wednesday. The report, Diet and Health: Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk, suggests
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  • 593 14  -  Showtime By Wong Sing Yeong WHEN Petula Clark's Downtown made the British Top 40 last month, it came as no surprise. The only one surprised seemed to be 56-year-old Petula herself, who had obviously not been following the charts. For Downtown is just one of
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1387 15 Television s wWJ Mut k 11 Friday at the Movies Blood Tea-6reak Special—The Mj SCREENCor^rcth^ THF 1 oavnap mmintain k t%L THIS 1984 suspense thriller stars A HILARIOUS show. Cheech and gjjjjpjy called K2, second 'jfi j Frances McDormand, Chong are musicians in They to tff s billed. instead. The
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  • sports
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      940 16 STRIVING TO BE KIDS will be kids. Give them time and the freedom to play, and they'll get tough, naturally. That's why the Advisory Council's report on Sports and Recreation released last week encouraged rugged sports such as rugby, rock-climbing, skateboarding. But how do the kids themselves feel?
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    • 394 16 AS parents generally go, they wouldn't mind their children playing rough-and-tumble games. It is only their confidence that needs to be built up either by the kids themselves, or by the sports teachers. Once they get over the worry of children coming home with broken
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 289 17  -  By Wong Sing Yeong YOU expected to see a foxy Dawn Gan swaggering in for a WEA press lunch on Wednesday. After all, the 25-year-old Xinyao singer was supposed to have a new, sensuous image. The cover of her new album released last month shows her
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    • 176 17 THE bustline remains the same but the hair's different now. Hongkong sex symbol Nina Li Chi has snipped off those curly tresses for a fluffy, Marilyn Monroe-type hairdo. This 50s hairstyle shows a lot of neck. That is because Nina considers her neck
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    • 377 17  -  By Vivien Chiong ANDY Lau's photographs sell. And the news vendors in Hongkong are cashing in on the star's popularity with the latest photo essay by local lensman Shui Wo Tin. The little volume has few words, and the fans are buying it to
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    • 343 18  -  Tlm Big Bad Mouse By The Stage Club 8 pm, Drama Centre Today and tomorrow FIRST NIGHT REVIEW/ By Adeline Woon NOTHING exciting ever happens at the Orders Department of Chunkibix Biscuits. The staff come in each day, put down their umbrellas, and hang up their bowler
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    • 316 18 AP. BOBBY McFerrin, fresh from winning a fistful of Grammy awards, topped off his week with a Bammy, San Francisco's answer to the national music awards. McFerrin was honoured last Saturday for best jazz album of the year at the 12th annual Bay Area
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    • 311 18 YOU and your mum make a great looking team. So why don't both of you enter a beauty contest? The Mother-Daughter International Pageant is here again. The organisers, Derrol Stepenny Promotions, are looking for applicants for the 1989 contest. This year's winners will represent Singapore at the
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    • 303 19  -  Working Girl Next change at Orchard REVIEW/ By Sonja Tan. T I i HE film Working Girl centres around Melanie Griffith (secretary Tess McGill). She's a young woman from the wrong side of town who dreams of wheeling and dealing with the big boys. Ambitious
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    • Article, Illustration
      220 19 A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay, Marina 1) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese are together in a witty comedy. Times: Cathay 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pm. Marina 1 1 pm, 3.30, 7, 9 pm. THEY CAME TO ROB HONGKONG (Cathay cinemas) A STAR-STUDDED comedy that
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    • 178 19 HERE'S news for you. This Sunday, 1,300 of you can watch the movie News Attack for free. There's more. Fifty readers also get to rub shoulders with the stars of the movie such as Andy Lau, Miu Kiu Wai, Wilson Lam, Eric
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    • 59 19 j" |j THE NEW PAPER CATHAY ORGANISATION JOINTLY ORGANISE AN EXCLUSIVE MORNING SHOW J OF THE MOVIE "NEWS ATTACK" J Please fill in personal details below. This portion when endorsed by I The New Paper will serve as an admission ticket Name: Age: Address: I Tel: 1 J Occupation: I
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    • 60 20 Mussor^s <y MODEST Mussorgsky, composer of such masterpieces > c^ures rom Exhibition, Night on the Bare Mountain and the opera Boris Godunov, was one of the most radical, most innovative and most strikingly individual figures of 19th-century Russian music. March 21 is the 150 th anniversary of his birth. This
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    • 36 20 Budget statement |jjjjjjjjj|HHj^^^ FOR the first time, SBC is I airing the Budget statement presented by the Finance Minister, Dr Richard Hu, live Vl from Parliament. s 1 x J\ J m-M DR RICHARD HU I
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 992 20 RADIOGUIDE HH EHUESH HOI Manmißuifll NOON Newt la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) gQQg ta BrM aad Weather to- NOON Beed Mask, Co«M«y aad M«: 12.05 Laachdate: A election of music NOON E Ustanlaa: A selection of A musical treat to keep you and songs will keep you enter- m^c entertain-
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    • 220 20 EEEfIHi NOON Nwntoh 12.30 Shert Stery. 12 45 Felk la Britaia. 100 W erW News .M u I°* Newg #um 1-40 weros ef raita 1.45 The Werid Teday: This magarine examines news from^he international see e. 2.00 Nawtdatk 2SSfL» u Tweaty-lear Heart: News sumB 330 Wkat 00 Christians Believe? 4.00
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 376 21  -  A Taste of Thailand The Recepton Hall, Mandarin Hotel (sth floor, South Wing) Lunch: Noon to 2.30 pm, Showtime: 1.30 pm, $25+ Dinner: 7 pm to 10.30 pm, Showtime: 8.30 pm, $30+ Until March 8 By Lim Swee Hong THERE is Thai food with
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 234 21  -  Story and picture/ Nicklaus D'cruz IT'S almost impossible to tire of Malaysia's offerings. Hidden in every nook and cranny is yet another unspoilt haven for the tired and harried soul. Such as Kampung Air Papan, some 14 km from Mersing on the east coast. Its
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    • 212 21  -  By David Brazil BACK IN THE USSR WANT to see for yourself what this glasnoflt staff is all about? Try the new 10D Russian Express package from Nansei Tour Ceatre at $2,988. This is a seri-ous-minded package that takes in Moscow, Kiev, Minsk and Leningrad. Contact Nansei at 338-6477.
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 134 22 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne I W6LL, WMAT PO YOU KWOW Tbi&(2s I AllgUStS/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill Christmas! /oh IVHat are you dtfmg «ght V George the Robot/stephen Stanley Cojlo > rbu f Ctots/ r Fc<2 7^ W*ie A V**Bo 1 I TtUU' Hg.'S I A £o£cST, J tSjgjW Dllffy/Bruce
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 398 26  -  Stories/ Shahiron Sahari IF the Raffles Junior College girls wins the Schools National A Divaion hockey title again this year, it could well be a psychological victory. For coaching the RJC team is Kiran Kumar, who majored in sports psychology during his physical education course. Kiran, who
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    • 282 26 CAPTAINING the RJC team is Aslinda Ahmad, who played left-half for Singapore in last year's Junior World Cup qualifying tournament in New Delhi. Singapore came back from that competition soundly beaten in its five matches, conceding 34 goals without scoring even one, but
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    • 329 27 Reuter, AP. BEN Johnson's coach testified yesterday the sprinter used steroids to prepare for the 1987 World Championships where he set the 100-metre world record which still stands. Charlie Francis said Johnson began a sophisticated programme that included injections of banned anabolic steroids aimed at
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    • 102 27 Reuter. CANADIAN sprinter Desai Williams will compete in the three-day World Indoor Athletics Championships starting in Budapest today despite allegations that he had taken illegal muscle-building steroids. Canadian team chief Bruce Savage said although he was aware the allegations were made, the national federation had already decided
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    • 140 27 AP. NO further action will be taken against Ben Johnson despite testimony showing he was taking drugs long before his Olympic disqualification last year, the lAAF has ruled. "Legally, it is not possible to go back in time," said lAAF general secretary John Holt. "It
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    • Article, Illustration
      375 27 Wire services. FRENCH captain Jean Tigana has lost his battle for fitness and will miss the World Cup qualifier against Scotland in Glasgow on Wednesday. The influential Bordeaux midfielder has not played since pulling a muscle in his right thigh in a club match against Toulouse three weeks ago.
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    • 245 27 Reuter. FIFA president Joao Havelange yesterday ruled out the use of X-ray tests to determine players' ages. He said this following a row about over-aged players at the World Youth Championship now going on in Riyadh. The world soccer body's president is in the
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    • 126 27 LIVE ON SBC 8 AT 11 PM Reuter. NIGERIA aims to improve on its third-placing in 1985 when it takes on Portugal in the World Youth Championship final in Riyadh today. Said Nigerian coach Olatunde Disu: "We are fully confident. We have beaten Portugal before, we can do
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    • 245 28 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS FORMER Singapore Turf Club members who have joined the Bukit Turf Club, plus new members, are expected to be told that no guests would be allowed into the club. Previously, STC members could sign in guests for a $5 fee each and very
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    • 108 28 RACE i: Class 1 Div 4 1,200 m (2pm): Toshin, Plus, Skybolt 11. RACE 2: Class 1 Div 3 1,200 m (2.30pm): Eastern Collection, Very Vain, Time Tunnel, Danny 11, Special. RACE 3: Class 1 Div 2 1,200 m (3pm): Oriental Treasure. RACE 4: Class 1 Div 1
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    • 139 28 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL > NBA L«tg«« Boston IIH Adnata 90. Detroit 96 Utah fTi iiftiw ton 120 New Jersey 106, frflaMltii 121 NY Knicks 111, Los Angara Laker* 142 Golden State 121,nriU-, ■Lot Anfele* 7 Toronto 5-3, Dean Reynolds (Brit) bt Joe Johnson (Brit)
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    • 142 28 AP. UNITED States Olympic Committee president, Robert Helmick, said yesterday his organisation needed to raise more money for its athletes if they were to boost their medals haul in future games. "It is very clear that we are underfunded and more money is needed for
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    • 275 29  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan PETER Hill has moved up one spot in the world professional rankings since playing in the first round of the Austrian Open and the quarter-finals of the Danish Open last week. He has now risen from 35 to 34, in the opening
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    • 299 29 MALAYSIA has served a warning to Singapore in releasing its team list for the Dunlop International annual clash at the West Coast Recreation Centre tomorrow. The Malaysians are ringing the bell on youth in an attempt to win the Salver which Singapore has
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    • 181 29 EX-NATIONAL skipper Au-Yeong Pak Kuan, after missing two games due to illness, will make his longawaited return to soccer tomorrow, when he plays for Jurong Town against Tyrwhitt Soccerites in the Premier League at Hougang Stadium. Au-Yeong joined Jurong last week but wasn't in the side
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