The New Paper, 4 March 1989

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  • 19 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY, MARCH 4/SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 SO CEHTS the new paper
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 108 1 Hope army WILL HELP ME WIN GOLDS' Swimmer David Lim hopes for a na- i tional service posting that will give him time to train. He says he can bag five golds at SEA Games if he can regain Olympic form./ Page 32. COUPLE BATTLE FOR CUSTODY OF FERTILISED EGGS
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  • Article, Illustration
    101 1 Singapore fashion will get a fillip in China from these beauty queens, garbed here in some of the designs they will show off. They will model more than 150 outfits by eight Singapore designers./ Page 3 Fran toft Lancy Soh (Miss Singapore/Hawaiian Tropic 88), Elaine Kwa (Miss
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 510 2  -  Vivien Chiong Vivien Chiong THE New Paper readers snapped up some 1,000 free movie tickets in just one afternoon yesterday. They are for Andy Lau's latest movie News Attack tomorrow. Private tutor Shirley Boey, 18, was the first to arrive at the Times House reception
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    • 133 2 Wire services. THE United States will join its European allies in a drive to ban ozone-depleting chemicals by the end of the century. President George Bush has asked the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency to present the US position at an international
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    • 97 2 Wire services. THE Philippines' second highest-ranking soldier faces a military probe over allegations of corruption. Lawmakers want to know how Vice-Chief of Staff LtGeneral Antonio Sotelo could afford to build a multi-mil-lion-peso mansion in an exclusive residential area of Manila. Armed Forces Chief of Staff
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 199 2 DEFINITELY VALUE FOR ■HI IVI HYunom IVl\#| Cars that make sense. ft cc ARF list Road Regn Number Compr. Total on PARF list Did. price tax* fee (S) plate ins.*(s) the road price ARF/PARF 1 Daihatsu Charade CX 993 37.600 696 1,000 25 986 40,307 27,400 12,907 Suzuki Swift 1
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 24 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset: 7.19 pm.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 340 3 T HE temperature in wintry Beijing is going to rise on International Women's Day, March 8, when 10 Singapore beauties parade in a fashion show at Beijing's Workers Stadium. They will model more than 150 outfits by eight local designers in the first-ever Singapore fashion
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    • 362 3  -  Ronald Wong Ronald Wong ROBBERS allowed a sixmonth pregnant woman to sit on a chair during a robbery, but her two male bosses and another man were made to lie on the floor. Madam Mary Ang, 25, said she had pleaded with
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    • 195 4 SIX Neighbourhood Police Posts will be officially opened over the weekend. There are 71 NPPs in operation today, but some of them have not been through the official openings. So in the next two days, MPs of various constituencies will do the honours. Dr Koh Lip
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    • 46 4 AT least five motorcycles and a scooter at the car parks of Blocks 41 to 44 have been damaged in two days in a wave of vehicle fires in the Chai Chee Street area. Early yesterday morning, three motorcycles were burnt near Block 43.
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    • 518 4  -  Harinder Gill Harinder Gill SINGAPORE doctor Susan Lim said last night she was surprised by the death of baby Tasneem, the young liver transplant patient, in London on Thursday. Tasneem, who was 14 months old, had appeared to be recovering well, and had been scheduled to
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    • 304 4  -  Geneieve Kwek Geneieve Kwek IMAGINE this. A group of four wants to eat out. They opt for Chinese food. One wants a restaurant not too far away. Another wants one that won't charge more than $10 a dish. Yet another wants
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 370 5 Free from Technics. 100 doHarsss to ssspend in the \fear of the Sssnake. To celebrate the \ear of the Snake, Technics are giving away either an Then there's the convenience of features like full remote control opera#Bo or #100 Tangs shopping voucher with every midi hifi system* aon and a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 490 6  -  Chua Chua Chin Chye M ■ARTIAL arts may be getting the chop from the YMCA. Some members think they are "anti-Christian". In the past year, three martial arts groups have been axed from the programme list at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
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    • 391 6 THREE parents last night said they were glad they had sent their children for martial arts training. Another three parents said they were not keen. In the second group is a pastor who said he preferred his children to learn more aesthetic things, such as
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    • 150 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following will help you check their meanings. acclaimed: Highly praised. augmented: Supplemented. ferrets out: Discovers after careful and thorough search. flawed relationships: Failed relationships or those with problems. imagery: Pictures or ideas created in a person's mind by poetic language. macabre:
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    • 353 7  -  By Abdul Hadhi D I ESPITE the rise in rates last year, bank safe deposit boxes are in high demand. The Development Bank of Singapore in Shenton Way does not have any boxes available. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation has only smallsized boxes available at its many branches.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 95 7 /0\ L J Organised by The Ministry of Community Development Come Join Us at the Opening Celebration of the Admission is Free. All are Welcome. on Sun 5 Mar '89 5.00 pm Southern Plaza Marina Square Highlights of the programme include Act 3 Programme Coordinator Tears of Joy Theatre from
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 239 8 Are you married? Do you have children? If you do, this year's Budget is designed for you. It is filled with perks, especially for those who answer the Government's call for more babies. There are also bigger tax breaks to help families better care for their elderly
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    • 345 8 THE Budget has come at the right time for Mr Lionel Alexander, 31. He is thinking of buying private property and moving out of his rented fiat. So the cut in property tax (to 4 per cent of annual value) means he
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    • 143 8 TELECOM artisan Razali bin Senan is his family's sole bread-winner. He is married, has two children, and earns about $14,000 a year. The New Paper's rough calculations reveal that the increase in child and wife reliefs cuts his taxes by $120, almost 40 per cent. Mr Razali can
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    • 673 8 HOW the Budget may affect you: Personal tax reliefs. Beginning with the 1990 assessment year (that is, on income earned this year), families with handicapped dependants, who themselves do not earn more than $1,500 each in the year, can have tax relief of $2,500 compared
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 39 9 Sitting pretty: Elephant trainer Betsy Moor gets a leg up from a heavyweight friend at a circus in Montreal. Circus elephants usually come from Asia, as Asian elephants are much easier to train. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 252 9 Wire services. FERTILISED human eggs that could become children are the focus of a custody fight in an American divorce proceeding. Eggs removed from Ms Mary Sue Davis, 28, were fertilised with her husband's sperm and stored in deep freeze a few years ago. Now
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    • 127 9 Wire services. A FORMER senior official of the Reagan administration has been give n a suspended sentence for his role in the IranContra affair. A Washing- ton court yesterday ordered Robert McFarlane, former national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan, to serve two years of probation and
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    • 199 9 Wire services. THAILAND has stopped pushing boatloads of Vietnamese refugees back out to sea. The change in policy was outlined by Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetasila during a meeting in Bangkok yesterday with the head of the United Nations High Com- mission for
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    • 54 9 Hacker-buster: Harvard University astrophysicist Clifford Stoll seems a bit overwhelmed by all the media attention he is getting. Mr Stoll, .'{B, hel[>ed Wesf German authorities crack a spy ring that allegedly sold the Soviet Union information on how to break into American
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    • 137 9 Wire services THOUSANDS of Guatemalans believe that men from Mars have landed in their central American country. They flock to the mountains each night hoping for a close encounter of the weird kind. Hundreds of night sightings reported by doctors, lawyers, students, and
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    • 366 10  -  By Ravindra Kumar I T seems just a little slip between cup and lip but the latest legal twist could sink India's Bhopal settlement. By dissociating himself from the controversial order awarding $902.4 million to victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak, an Indian Supreme
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    • 264 10 Wire services. AFGHAN President Najibullah would step down if it was the only way to restore peace to the country, his Vice-President has said. Vice-President Abdul Rahim Hatef said: "I am sure if his stepping down is the only prescript for the solution of Afghan affairs and
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    • 240 10 Wire services. SALMAN Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, is worried about support from the British government. His fears have arisen because of statements by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe distancing themselves from his book. Mr Rushdie phoned the leader of a
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    • 534 10 Wire services. THE critics love it. But politicians have condemned the movie Scandal, which retells the story of how a call-girl almost brought down the British government in the early 60s. Ms Christine Keeler, who rocked Mr Harold Macmillan's government 26 years ago in
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    • 190 11 Wire services. FIRE extinguisher systems in the cargo compartments of 19 Japanese airliners made by Boeing Co were reported to be improperly wired. A TV network reported in Tokyo last night that a wiring check discovered the problem in 19 of 93 Boeing
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    • 279 11 Wire services A TANKER has been driven aground by stormy seas about 24 km from Hawaii's most popular beach, spilling about 443,000 litres of fuel oil and crude. Some of the foul mess washed ashore at Barbers Point on the island of
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    • 125 11 Wire services. THE Japanese government has approved a cut of up to 10 per cent in round-trip air fares from Japan to South-east Asia and certain other areas. Kyodo News Service reported in Tokyo that round-trip fares for flights from Tokyo to Hongkong
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      275 11 Wire services. SHARE prices rose on the back of good domestic and foreign buying interest on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30share index closed 17.8 points up at 1,697.5. Volume rose to 632.7 million shares from 483.9 million traded on Thursday. Gilts were ahead by as
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    • 8 11 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 11 FT Industrials Fri 1,697.50 (1,679.70) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,274.29 (2,265.71) ST Industrial Fri 1,118.42 (1,105.47) NST Industrial Fri 1,953.49 (1,939.88) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 3.056.58 (3,010.48) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,507.90 (1,494.50) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 32,000.10 (32,073.73) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      268 11 Wire services WALL Street stocks rose after opening on the downside yesterday. The Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials closed 8.58 points up, at 2,274.29 points. Gainers outnumbered decliners by about three to two on the New York Stock Exchange, with 850 up, 578 down and 501
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  • Article, Illustration
    396 12  -  Showtime By) Lim Kuan Chiang '.JTVi m PAULINE Chong can snarl traffic by simply strolling along a sidewalk but she never expected to be Miss Singapore-Universe. While awaiting the finals last night she described the contest as a learning experience. She predicted she would not make it to the
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1276 13 RADIOGUIDE E32EDH EMUS mawmißirtfll E3BBB? NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON New> jn Brj#f and w#jth#r Rt MOON On Track: Ross Tucker plays NO ON Newsdesk 12.05 Real Fun: Join Roger Kool for NOON E y Llstaninf: A selection of port the new ones, and offers some 2
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  • UPDATE
    • 2516 14 ►Out&About V—ps IT EXHIBITION. IT is \w\ Information Technology. 1 1 This permanent exhibition traces ITs historical development, the latest developments and their implications. At the Singapore Science Centre's Omni-Theatre building. 10 am to 6 pm. Normal charges to the centre apply: Adults $2, children 50 cents. MAKE-A-MOVIE
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    • 105 14 SEE 100 prints done by amateur and professional photographers. They took part in the On the Road in Singapore contest held in September and October last year. They captured some scenes of Singapore that may soon disappear forever such as a street-side barber cutting the hair of a
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    • Article, Illustration
      134 14 YOUR WEEKEND GUIDE TO THE ACTION TODAY i. [7~/f OUT AND ABOUT: A permanent exhibition on information W I technology. 10 am to 6 pm. Singapore Science Centre. r~pr GALLERY: See 200 works by 20 Singapore artists. WI National Museum Art Gallery. 9 am to 5.30 pm. V7/T
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      72 14 SINGAPORE Science Centre celebrates Family Day by releasing 100 balloons at 10 am. A Family Membership Scheme is being launched to encourage meaningful family outings. Sign up and get one year's free admission to the Singapore Science Centre and the Omni-theatre for a family of five. Today's activities
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1235 15 Television KH M Bookvisions Oliver Twist Chinese Cinema Wild Panther Saturday Night Movie Meat- jl SCREEN m (Bpm, SBC 12) (10pm, SBC 8) balls 4 JD GEMS OLIVER meets the Artful Dodger, WHILE trying to recover a (10.30pm, SBC 5) J|{iJ a who takes him to Fagin, an old criminal
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 113 16 USE THIS TO PROGRAMME YOUR Compact design VHS-C format movie camera, NATIONAL VCRs. with M features for 'serious 9 shooting. gj« A v v) 8 111] Enjoy the ease of auto focus, insert and synchro J f far pnyrjmmt's cwvctt .it time of printing editing. High Speed Shutter. 6x power
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1527 16 M Screen 8 The Golden Buddha The Great Wall Movie Parade After the SCREEN Mj (3.00pm, SBC 8) !UHK£9I (525pm SBC8) Promise GEMS M AN insurance inspector is 1 i THIS introductory episode to the (3.00pm, SBC 5) dragged into a treasure hunt in flg yd 37-part half-hour series gives
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  • UPDATE
    • 2511 17 ►Out&About IT EXHIBITION. IT is \%r\ Information Technology. 1 This permanent exhibition traces ITs historical development, the latest developments and their implications. At the Singapore Science Centre's Omni-Theatre building. 10 am to 6 pm. Normal charges to the centre apply: Adults $2, children 50 cents. MAKE-A-MOVIE COMPETITION. Use
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    • 105 17 SEE 100 prints done by amateur and professional photographers. They took part in the On the Road in Singapore contest held in September and October last year. They captured some scenes of Singapore that may soon disappear forever such as a street-side barber cutting the hair of a
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    • Article, Illustration
      137 17 YOUR WEEKEND GUIDE TO THE ACTION TODAY \~pr OUT AND ABOUT: A permanent xhibition on information I li_l technology. 10 am to 6 pm. Singapore Science Centre. rrpr GALLERY: See 200 works by 20 Singapore artists. I* I National Museum Art Gallery. 9 am to 5.30 pm. |T>f
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    • Article, Illustration
      72 17 SINGAPORE Science Centre celebrates Family Day by releasing 100 balloons at 10 am. A Family Membership Scheme is being launched to encourage meaningful family outings. Sign up and get one year's free admission to the Singapore Science Centre and the Omni-theatre for a family of five. Today's activities
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1460 18 RADKX3UIDE Mil liM.il.HiM rHTnTJIETTiTI i!H—6am Newt in Brief 6an Mandann) 12.05 Call Ma: A selection of pop vo- 6am Breakfast Club: Great musical 6am Newshour 6.05 On Air Wake up to lovely melo- 6 03 Highlights ef the day', pre- to greet you on a 7.00 World News dies on
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 381 19  -  By Vivien Chiong H AVE you $ver wondered what the life of a reporter is like? Fifty lucky readers of The New Paper will find out and experience it too next Saturday. The 50 will be picked from the 1,300 who are holding coupons
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    • 281 19  -  By Adeline Woon HAVE a bite at EW Express in Marina Square and stay on for a bit of music. For alongside the DJ's disc spinning in the evenings, the restaurant disco has made room centrestage for a live band Bits and
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    • 560 20 IF recent films are an indication, Gene Hackman is entering an entirely new phase of his already remarkable career as a late-blooming romantic leading man. The two sides of Hackman's screen persona come together in his acclaimed performance in Mississippi Burning. It is showing
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    • Article, Illustration
      258 20 MISSISSIPPI BURNING (Prince 1) FICTIONALISED story based on the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Brilliant performance by Gene Hackman as FBI agent Anderson. Time: Midnight A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay, Marina 1) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese are together in a
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    • 315 20  -  By' Ting Mei See BY the end of the month the century-old Raffles Hotel will close for a two-and-a-half-year facelift. But Japanese will still get to "see" this historic hotel. And they will not even have to step out of their country! A
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    • 461 21  -  By Geraldine Goh PICTURE this a magnificent sunset viewed from a Sentosa beach, followed by a scene of the waves lapping against the shore. Then, a cut to an inland scene as the camera sweeps across some of the island's famous tourist spots. Or, imagine
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    • 309 21  -  SATURDAYSOUNDS By Lim Sek SEVERAL good releases have quietly found their way into the stores. Here are two such gems. TAKE (Reunion Records) Take 6 is an a capella group whose voices blend to sound as lush as a 20-piece orchestra. They have been nominated for three
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 200 21 m > m B ib A t the end of the night, one was T he pianist Jeremy Monteiro of M reacquainted with the classic jazz in I Singapore put together a fantasic finding Monteiro, Young Holt and David Richards, the ace recording team of some of the best components
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 105 22 *j vk <~ v>ny JK r'tftiin'fri SIMPLY FABULOUS. BUDGIT BRIGADI Women who see Singapore on the cheap PIN-UP BOYS OP iLwW LOCAL POP Meet singing heart-throbs |H Thomas Teo and Mflf| Lee Ee Wurn THI BIST A WORST AhH W JOBS FOR WOMKN #TwT J^W Ideal occupations for —_f meeting
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 88 22 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/oik Browne YGS, AcTilAlLY\fl^*2e^F\~^ r YoU fare IT M&l people I AllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill I IIPPI §>n I?PG£ George the Robot/stephen Stanley v<• ~-<r inv tK > J A V fto&cm. y -f 1 Sv,a es __wZ Dllffy/Bruce Hammon lf&r IMPRK3IVE, THAT, O IWXOWAVE W WJRWWSH
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 224 24 ANYBODY who wants to work with Singapore Airlines as a flight stewardess or clerk can walk right in for an interview at next week's Career 89. SIA will be one of the few, if not the only employer conducting walk-in interviews during the
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    • 412 24  -  Stories/ Karen Goh IF YOU have just finished your schooling and don't know what to do next, head for Career '89 at the World Trade Centre. If you can't decide whether to study or get a job and if so, where or what kind
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    • 558 24  -  AMATTEROFOPINION By Angeline Song Lai Yin Hoong, 17, Swiss Cottage Pre-U Centre "I am an instructor of my school's fitness club the Swiss Fitness Club. Every week, I spend at least four hours leading aerobics, weight-lifting and tennis classes. You could say I
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 726 25 FASTads TELEPHONE SERVICE: Monday to Friday: 9am to spm (3:3opm deadline for next day) Saturday: B:3oam to 2.*oopm (1030 am deadline for Monday) Public Holiday: 9am to Ipm (for publication day after next) RATE: $6.30 per column cm. (Minimum lcm x 2col) BOX SERVICE: $10.00 for replies collected by advertisers
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 569 26 BESTBET :RACE 4 T 0 maintain our record of getting punters off to a winning start in the first race of the weekend we put our trust in Never Retreat The Toy Pindarri gelding is bred for speed and after an uneasy start on the local circuit
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    • 517 26 THE main feature race of the first weekend is Sunday's Race 5, the Towkay Stakes. Towkay holds the 2,200 m record for the Bukit Timah course but today's race is over the metric mile. The son of Music Boy, Money Mart, will fit the distance
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  • SPORTS
    • 401 27  -  By Jegathesan NO wonder hockey is in the dumps. One of the world's top players was right in the heart of Singapore giving a clinic and only a handful of local players turned up. Mark Hager, Australia's superstar striker, was disappointed with the
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    • 235 27 AFP. PORTUGAL deservedly clinched a first world soccer title at any level by beating Nigeria 2-0 in the World Youth Cup final in Riyadh yesterday. In the spectacular setting of the $1.07 billion King Fahd Stadium, and with Pele among the 68,000 spectators as guest-of-honour, the tenacious Portuguese
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    • 162 27 AFP. CHRIS Waddle has refused to take a short-cut to Albania. The England striker may be forced to have his shoulderlength locks chopped before the World Cup qualifier be- cause anything but a short, back and sides is illegal in the Communist state. But he retorted:
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    • 201 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: ATHLETICS World Indoor Championships in Budapest (finals) Men: 60m hurdles: 1 Roger Kingdom (US) 7.43 2 Colin Jackson (GB) 7.45 3 Igor Kazanov (Sov) 7.59. 200 m: 1 John Regis (Brit) 20.54 2 Ade Mafe (Brit) 20.87 3 Kevin Little (US) 21.12.
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    • Article, Illustration
      321 28  -  DUNLOP INTERNATIONAL SQUASH: SINGAPORE V MALAYSIA WEST COAST RECREATION CLUB (Today. 2pm) By Alfonso Chan MORE than just the title is at stake when Singapore takes on Malaysia today in the annual squash contest. The results will confirm whether Singapore squash has slid down on its backside or
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    • 250 28  -  By Alfonso Chan THE possible return of Robert Tan as president of the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress has created a buzz in bowling circles. The STBC will elect a new chief at its Annual General Meeting on Mar 11 as the current president
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    • 373 29  -  By Abdul Shukor w •ITH less than a month to go before the Premier League ends, the race for the title is still wide open. Geylang International, Balestier United and Jurong Town are hot on each other's heels. But although the focus may be
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    • 252 29  -  TOMORROW: SAFSA v BALESTIER UNITED (ANG MO KIO, 4.45pm) By Shahiron Sahari SAFSA will play Balestier United tomorrow for the second time in a week, with another meeting still to come next Saturday. That, unfortunately, is the result of the Pools Cup draw, the two-leg semi-fi-nals of
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 557 29 *Spßs SATURDAY, MARCH 4,1989 9/89-6 Winss,ooocash jackpot this week. Cut out and attach with other coupons (Monday to Saturday) Name: Sex: Address: I/C No: Occupation: Age: TeL No: (0) (H) Laat coupon HV* 111 will be on: i t u t astr for cntrvc<; Noon. 7H C I MardiS,lM9 JL
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  • 420 30  -  By Shahiron Sahari AVID LIM, Singapore's i Seoul Olympics swimmer, is Looping for another golden Fjftrformance at the South--jfiajJfr-Asia Games in August e S hoping the army K has just fin■rohed mLiWii&ynilitary training, of his 12. wherqpOh said, "but Jhat is, I
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 51 30 Squash's day of reckoning IS Malaysia really catching up on Singapore in squash? The annual international between the two countries today will tell. All three levels of the game will be played men, juniors and women. A total of 13 matches. 11 The winner will be a true winner. EaJ
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    • 33 30 QUESTIONOF THEWEEK: What can the army do for stare? THIS is one (Jut 2£2l2?2K when they go feto ¥«tt*a§&,the > But when even tester Hrfiht were Advisory •cnewne oc rerouted. flvwM W sewJ^Miieek, j'
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