The New Paper, 11 March 1989

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  • 20 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY, MARCH 11/ SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1989 Ma (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 211 1 ATHLETES AtL J SSSNHH! Bat here's a tip! Get your hands on our 16-page Racing Special. It has something for* everyone. For the racing a special on the Singapore Derby. For the animal- fl |L lover, a special appreciation of the thoroughbred. For sports fan, a special on a new
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  • 105 1 Two human resources officers from Kentucky Fried Chicken spend hours trying to talk the man who lives on a beach in Changi into taking a iob. They will pay him $400 a month plus free meals and lodging if he'll work as a
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 377 2  -  By Ronald Wong FRIDAY night at the Newton hawker centre was different last night. There were fewer expatriate children about. Those who were there seemed a much older crowd than the 14- to 18-year-olds seen a week ago. Also, they were less boisterous. Gone were
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    • 204 2 IN early copies of The New Paper yesterday, we repeated a quote from Subramaniam Kannapan, 19, in the story "The As talk about nation, home and self'. We attributed the quote to Musafir Lara bin Selamat, 21, Science, Queenstown Tech (pre-U centre). Here's what Musafir, who did not get
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    • 364 2 SITTING in the first aid room of a Tuas shipyard is Straits Times photographer Alphonso Chan. Alfonso, 21, was beaten up when he went to take pictures of an incident at the North Shipyard there, in which a Malaysian worker was killed. This is his story: Last Wednesday
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    • 227 2 THE Editor-in-Chief of The Straits Times Press, Mr Cheong Yip Seng, is concerned about assaults on journalists. He said this at last Thursday's meeting of the group's Newspaper Committee. The committee, consisting mainly of senior editors, meet every month to discuss matters concerning STP newspapers
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    • 695 3  -  By Nicklaus D'cruz THE list of toy dogs you can keep in your HDB flat has raised surprises and questions in the Singapore Kennel Club (SKC). Surprises: The HDB list has 48 types of toy dog on it. The SKC's has 21. Some of the
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    • 24 2 The Weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.17 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.11 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 572 4  -  By Karen Goh p OLICG are investigating a business school for allegedly conducting classes without government approval. The school run by SBT Business Consultants (SBTC) could have collected as much as half a million dollars every term from its students. The probe was launched after police received
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    • 307 4  -  By Lim Swee Hong ONE of the NTI students caught trying to hack into the main computer system of NUS had also tried to use a lecturer's computer account, a spokeswoman for Nanyang Technological Institute said yesterday. The student also tried to purge the "electronic communication
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    • 135 4 MORE than half the members of the Singapore Youth Choir will miss school and university for a week while they tour six European cities in June and July. But the experience overseas "will compensate" for the work missed at home, said conductor David Lim.
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    • 297 5 IT'S big, it's black, it's spiky. Very spiky. It's got thousands of spikes. It's a Starball that has broken free from the Singapore Science Centre. It came to rest yesterday in Parkway Parade shopping complex where it will linger until March 24. And those 10,164 spikes? They
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    • 438 6  -  By Geneieve Kwek PHARMACIST Felicia Ling wanted to make sure her customers got more than just the right dose of medicine. She wanted to be sure they would not be overcharged by a cashier's mistake. So Mrs Ling, 32, invested in a computer
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    • 143 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following will help you check their meanings. archaic form: Describing a form of language that was once standard and used regularly, but is now found only in old literature. bristles: Reacts angrily to something. dare-devilry: Daring and dangerous acts. earthy: Primitive.
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    • 185 6 THE New Paper's Food Celebration is providing delicious news for the organisers. More than 35,000 entries were received in its first weekly draw from March 1 till the 7. The winners were picked by Mr Allan Ong, circulation/marketing senior manager of Singapore Newspaper Services, and
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    • 330 6 A ROBBER was not shy about bursting into a ladies' toilet but still he didn't want to show his face. He surprised Miss Chua Chiew Yong in the female toilet and removed her spectacles so she could not identify him. Miss Chua, 18, said
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    • 249 6 A CHEAT'S "green and white" face gave him away when he tried to con a canteen owner into giving $100 to a society for the blind. The pallor appeared on Ng Kok Heng's face when Mr Seet Chee Wee, the canteen owner, asked to
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    • 437 7  -  By Chua Chin Chye T HE long-haired hermit of Changi who sleeps under the stars and eats other people's table scraps received two job offers yesterday. He said no. Mr Cheng, who gives no other name, had only two 10-cent Malaysian coins in
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    • 240 7  -  Story and picture/ Nicklaus D'cruz SARAWAK is tired of being the little-known land of adventure ju9t an hour's flight from Singapore. Now it yearns for more free-spending tourists. Those who make the flight can get into some of the world's largest caves, climb towering mountains,
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    • 730 8 Women managers do they cost more? No, say some Singaporean career women. They were responding to an American report by Ms Felice Schwartz who asserts that there are two kinds of women, the career-minded and the family-orientated. Here some Singaporean women speak their
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    • 229 8 THE Immigration Department's Field Division Headquarters (IFD HQ) has moved into a newly-renovat-ed home in East Coast Road. After a half-million-dollar facelift, which started in September last year and took four months, about 150 staff members of the division moved into the
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    • 150 8 TWO hooks first published hv Shin Min Daily News are among those listed by the Ministry of Education for supplementary reading in 1989. Roots Series and Cradle on the Equator have been recommended for Secondary 3 and 4 students. Cradle on the Equator, in two
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    • 232 8 Wire services. THE British Foreign Office said yesterday that the exclusion of a British human-rights lawyer from practising in Singapore would "cause widespread dismay going beyond the United Kingdom". The Singapore Government says that Queen's Counsel Anthony Lester has engaged in Singapore's domestic politics. Mr
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 275 9 Wire Services. A CANADIAN airliner with 69 people on board has crashed in a thickly wooded area laden with snow. Forty-five survivors of the crash yesterday were dug out by rescuers using snowmobiles and sleds, a radio station in Dryden, Ontario reported. There was
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    • 334 9 Wire services. THE wife of the commander of a US warship that shot down an Iranian jetliner by mistake last year was injured in an apparent bomb blast in the van she was driving. Ms Sharon Rogers, wife of Captain Will Rogers of the
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    • 149 9 Wire services. A FILIPINO woman and three Yemeni men have been beheaded in public in Saudi Arabia. The executions took place yesterday after Friday prayers. The Saudi Press Agency said the woman, whose name it gave in Arabic as Rina Linda Nida,
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    • 38 9 Shot from the heart: Titled Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, the photograph above is one of the most famous works of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (left), who died on Thursday of Aids-related complications. Pictures/ Afp
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    • 292 10 Wire services. JAPAN'S Education Minister says the nation first gained international stature by winning two wars one against China, the other against Russia. Education minister Takeo Nishioka used this argument to justify his latest revision of the school study programme, which will take effect in
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    • 92 10 Shin Min Daily News. WHEN Mr Abdul Sulaiman's wife became fed up with their marriage she ended it by pouring_boiling oil on him as he slept. The 32-year-old victim, a restaurant waiter, died of the burns after 24 hours in a hospital. His live-in concubine,
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    • 210 10 Wire services. THE President of Afghanistan has sounded an international warning that Pakistan's aid to Afghan guerillas could spread the war. President Najibullah sent urgent cables yesterday to the United Nations, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the leaders of the United States
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    • 208 10 Wire services. AIDS hero Mike Richards was hauled off to a Hawaiian jail after a teller in Texas identified him as the bandit who robbed the bank. He did not stay behind bars long. A lawyer got him transferred to a hospital. Then he was
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    • 40 10 Anti-sexploitation: Police arrest one of a group of feminists protesting outside a hotel in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic against the Miss Dominican Republic beauty pageant The pageant coincided with International Women's Day. Picture/ Ap
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    • 244 10 A BRITISH soldier murdered by the Irish Republican Army left a legacy of love for his parents and girlfriend in the form of a heartrending poem. Stephen Cummins, 24, had written to his parents telling them to open another envelope inside his letter only if something
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    • 209 11 Wire services. CHINA'S leaders have been asked to halt an alarming rise in the selling of women as labourers or wives. The China News Service said yesterday that nine prominent political and social groups made the appeal, saying the age-old practice is
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    • 209 11 Wire services. US President George Bush has nominated Republican Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming to be secretary of defence. Mr Bush's first choice, Mr John Tower, was rejected by the Senate on Thursday. The President presented his new nominee, a former White House chief
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    • 159 11 Wire services. A US high school principal famed for his no-nonsense discipline has been suspended for arranging a strip show for his students. Principal Joe Clark of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, arranged a school assembly at which four strippers performed. School
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      266 11 Wire services. SHARES remained confident in good trading volume yesterday, the last day of the account before next week's budget, although Wall Street's lower opening reduced early gains. The Financial Times 30share index closed 10.8 points up at 1,724.9. Volume totalled 655 million shares, its best level for the
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    • 8 11 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 11 Indices/Closing FT Industrials Fri 1,724.9 (1,714.1) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,282.14 (2,291.43) ST Industrial Fri 1,154.86 (1,150.76) NST Industrial Fri 1,982.36 (1,973.20) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 3,046.81 (3,062.79) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,488.40 (1,486.10) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 31,701.78 (31,656.45) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      200 11 Wire services. WALL Street closed down yesterday after the publication of lower-than-expected unemployment figures, with the Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials off 9.29 points at 2,282.14, reducing its gain for the week to 7.85 points. Declining issues outnumbered advances by about seven to five on the
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  • Showtime
    • 540 12  -  Stories/ Pauline Loh BOON Teo has come home from years of wandering abroad. She has come to share lessons learned from top teachers in London and New York, and she's ready to pass on her knowledge of contemporary dance. She is one of the very
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    • 314 12 JUST how different is contemporary dance from the more traditional discipline of ballet? "Ballet originated from Europe. As such, it is a more Western art form, more suited to Western expression," veteran dancer and dance school principal Goh Lay Kuan explains. She herself made
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 82 13 r From Our SSO Ar- That's-Win-A-Car II chives Satellite Show (8.15pm, Radio 5) (12noon, Rediffusion) FEATURING Mozart's A RECORDING of the JSrN/v Symphony No 35 in D Major Rediffusion satellite show held P| K385; Richard Strauss' Four at Parkway Parade last v i AJXXN Songs with Taru Valjakka, Saturday. Hosted
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1175 13 RADIOGUIDE EH E33EHBI E2MHEH iHawMimnfll NOON News 111 Brief NOON Easy Listening: A selection of NOON News in Brief end Weather Be- NOON On Track: That's Win-A-Car BOON Newsdesk 12.05 Beel Fun: Join Roger Kool for instrumental for your listening port Satellite Show: See Air Raves. 12.30 Mere's Humph!: It's
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  • UPDATE ATE
    • 2415 14 SATURDAY ►OuT&ABQirr —T' EASTER EGG \V\ CONTE8T. Paint an egg in 1 1 gay colours or designs, or sculpt an egg from materials such as plaster of Paris, cement and soap and then decorate it. Entries must be sent to
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    • Article, Illustration
      80 14 THE human figure fascinates German artist and sculptor Thomas Lehnerer and it often finds its way into his works in two and three-dimensional forms. The human being is the central figure in our world, he says, and it is the most important thing to him. More than 30
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    • 145 14 TODAY [7/T OUT AND ABOUT: Decorate IZU from materials like piaster Jurong BirdPark's easter egg cor March 20. CENTRESTAGE: A Malay p l?_J book who comes to life to Theatre. 8 pm. [7/T NIOHTLIGNTS: An evening IZU dinner and dancing pa Has The Rubber, Century Park S
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    • Article, Illustration
      56 17 DIRT-BIKE racing is not common in Singapore but if you want to catch a glimpse of the wheelies, about 40 of them will be trying the hilly tracks at Loyang, near Changi Village. The rough terrain on the circuit will challenge the skill and endurance of the riders
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1442 15 Television SM Trilogy** N ght M Vie RU aWay W th th€ R Ch a d Fa Chinese Cinema Osmanthus W B Elevator Concerns a love B| E THIS show features the number TRAGIC story of the life of Gao -"f ArT I w j triangle resulting in a murder.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1521 16 television WmM SCREEN M v e Arabian Nights Screen 8 The Genghis Khan Screen 5 Into the Homeland GEMS A SHGRAZADE, the famous and (3.00pm, SBC 8) I A TOUGH ex-cop infiltrates a political glamorous dancing girl, stirs up a T v .t. organization in search of his daughter, a
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1565 18 RADkjGUIDE Mil M 1,1.1,II.I.M|rrWTFM l;IJ.lldJIUM?l inmH 6 an New* la Brief (Programmes in English) 12.05 Call Ma: A selection of pop vo- 6 am Breakfast Clab: Great musical ®Hewihour •.OS On Air: Wake up to lovely melo- BrU# cals and instrumental with a entertainment to greet you on a 7.00
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 427 19  -  Young Peoples' Theatre David and Lisa Joint production by Raffles Institution and Raffles Girls' Secondary School Today (3 pm and 8 pm) and tomorrow (8 pm), Singapore Conference Hall first night/by Adeline Woon DAVID and Lisa is a disturbing play about disturbed adolescents. The play,
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    • 228 19 USA Today. TIFFANY, 17, insists she doesn't suffer from sophomore jinx. "There was real resistance when my second album (Hold an Old Friend's Hand) came out," she said. "Everyone except my fans, record company and family thought I was a one-hit wonder. But
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    • 416 19  -  Great English Writers Series Wednesdays 10.20pm, SBC 12 PREVIEW/ By Geraldine Goh THE life of Shakespeare will be the focus of one of the episodes in the Great English Writers Series beginning on Wednesday over SBC 5 at 10.20 pm. Three 15-minute documentaries
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    • 377 20  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang THE Vox Box is born. The SBC Feedback programme has launched its latest tool to gather the views of Singaporeans. The Vox Box is a $6,500 red-and-blue metal box looking like a giant telephone. It's more a
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    • Article, Illustration
      184 20 RAIN MAN (Lido, Prince 1, Changil) A HEARTWARMING tale. Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise put in superb performances. It should bring home some Oscars. Time: Midnight. MISSISSIPPI BURNING (Lido) FICTIONALISED story based on the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Brilliant performance by Gene Hackman
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    • 293 20 IF you are young and full of life, can you identify with the problems of the aged? If not, tune in to SBC 5 or 8 at 9.30 pm tomorrow. Who'll Care for Them? is the third in a series looking at the govern-ment-appointed
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    • 223 21  -  SATURDAY SOUNDS By Lim Sek EARTH MATTHEW SWEET (A&M Records) ALTERNATIVE music is supposed to be the direct opposite of commercial pop. But Sweet believes in making commercial alternative music. That doubles your pleasure or pain. Hailed as one of the best talents in America two
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    • 232 21 THE crucifixion of Christ will be re-enacted by the International Festival Chorus (IFC) at the Victoria Concert Hall on March 22. Under the baton of conductor Nick Richardson, who has sung all Bach's major choral works with the London Bach Society,
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 998 24 AMATTER OFOPINION WHAT a gulf there is between "normal" people and the underprivileged. Community service is one way to bridge that gulf. To know more of such services, 185 secondary school students will attend community service workshops on Monday and Tuesday. The workshops, organised by the
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    • 383 24 TEENAGERS could die because they believe old wives' tales about cancer, experts in Britain have warned. Dangerous myths picked up in the school playground and from parents may stop them going for vital early treatment when they become adults. Half the youngsters in a
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 252 25 EMPLOYMENTS JACK'S PLACE 1 MANAGEMENT SERVICES PTE LTD invites female applicants below 26 years old for the following posts: (1) ACCOUNTS EXECUTIVE 'A' level or Ngee Ann Graduate At least 2 years working knowledge of lUS accounting Able to keep toll set of accounts Able to work Independently Starting salary
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    • 468 25 y An opportunity for you in Y FREIGHT MANAGEMENT SINGAPORE I A major Company involved in the international I seafreight cargo consolidation in containers and I project cargo shipping services with offices in I Philippines, Malaysia and associates worldwide. I MANAGER I (Finance ft Computer) I Reporting to the MD,
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    • 264 25 EXTENDING THE LEAD ....AND GOING j ON STRONG. A Fortune 300 computer MNC requires you as: COST CLERK The incumbent will be responsible for providing clerical assistance in cost accounting and perform regular inventory audit relating to production. Candidates should possess a GCE 'O' level with 1 2 years' relevant
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 498 26 CO UJ O < cr hLLI CO h cr) LLt CD E I k VEN with a poorish Derby field this is still Derby weekend and there are plenty of fgood races to make up for what will probably be pretty awful weather. It rained heavily
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    • 435 26 OUR review of the Derby field and selections for the quartet are to be found in the accompanying racing supplement. As the likely result is not clear cut we look to the last race of the meeting for our best bet of the weekend. It may
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    • 155 26  -  By Alfonso Chan IN a shock last-minute decision, the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress has postponed its annual meeting scheduled for today at the Singapore Sports Council offices. The AGM would have brought to a close president Phillip Wong's tenure after four years at
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  • SPORTS
    • 296 27  -  By Shahiron Sahari JUST eight months ago, Yazid Shawal was the toast of the Bedok North Secondary School soccer team his brilliant hat-trick against St Patrick's helped it win the C Division title. But yesterday, Yazid, now playing in the B Division, felt the
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    • 237 27 Wire services. UMPIRES at this year's Wimbledon tennis Championships are to be paid for the first time. The Ail England Club, organiser of the tournament, and the British Tennis Umpires' Association have agreed to compensate the 320 officials for their 13-day stint by up to $3,4000 plus expenses. Previously,
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    • Article, Illustration
      278 27 Reuter. THIRD seed Jens-Peter Nierhoff, of Denmark, ended a fine run by 20-year-old Pontus Jantti. But he needed three games to oust the unseeded Finn in the last eight of the Swedish Open badminton tournament yesterday. Jantti, who had beaten sixth-seeded Wu Wenkai, of China, in the third
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    • 228 27 Reuter. BEN Johnson's coach said yesterday he was concerned by a medical report indicating the Canadian sprinter has an enlarged breast, a mild side effect of prolonged anabolic steroid use. Testifying for an eighth and final day, Charlie Francis was asked by Justice Charles Dubin, who
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    • 316 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Swedish Open q-finals Men's doublet: Li Yongbo Tian Bingyi (C) bt Icuk Sugiato Bague Setiado (Indo) 11-15, 15-3, 15-5; Zhen Yumin Han Zhanzong (C) bt Joensson Antonsson (Swe) 17-15, 15-9; Park Joo Bong Lee Sang Bok (SK) bt Jesper Knudsen Steen
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    • 562 28 Singaporean Paul Lim, ranked fifth in the world, represents the US as its No 1 darts player all because no one back home wanted to sponsor him. Today Harith Lim, former world junior champion, is in similar straits. ALFONSO CHAN reports It is a recurring
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    • 261 29  -  SUmW Abdul Shukor THE Singapore Sports Council it surprised at the power failure which caused the disruption of the Premier League match between Jurong Town and Balestier United at Jurong Stadium on Wednesday night. The teams were level at 2-2, with only two minutes of the
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    • 300 29 THE three top teams Jurong Town, Geylang International and Balestier United are still there, but attention in this weekend's Pools Cup semi-finals must surely fall on rank outsiders Safsa. For the soldiers go into their match against Balestier with a 1-0 first-leg lead,
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    463 30 REFEREES hate them. Football managers love them. But there's one thing in common: These are good players. Yet they are being marked down by the men in black as the dirtiest defenders in the country. S GULAM reports on the... T I c!M find urt? ingqj^^Right <>r ASome
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    • 136 30 A champ with no name Pi £L M m He's a champ, but no sponsors want him. Why? Because Harith Lim's (right) sport is darts. Yet he's on the brink of superstardom/ Page 30 29 I I 1111 I M— MH tmfyM/Qk SIMPLY FABULOUS. J PRIME-TIME NEWSMAKERS ZOE FAR, ZOE
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    • 28 30 QUESTIONOF THEWEEK Do you think these are the dirtiest defenders in Singapore? Some of you might bav< seen these 'Inferaous Five" deft) in action. iiSsSS"™ 1 maimers? MHHHI
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  • 199 32 Words: FREDERICK QUEK Pictures: JONATHAN CHOO THE PLACE: Turfer's paradise Spend a day at the races; Your host Bukit Turf Club EVERY face tells a story at the races. Agitated chatter fill the packed stands. The punters, armed with racebooks, have done their homework. They have
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    • 66 32 2© P \T r You and your Horse will love CCD) MM <0)11 ©SEMES For the best and most complete range of Horse Hiding, Racing Polo Equipment OFFICE: MAIN SHOP: BRANCH: 45 Kalians Pudding Road #03-19, Shaw Centre Singapore Polo Club Alpha Blag. #03-01/04 Scotts Road, 80 Thomson Road Singapore
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    • 192 33 YOU can get a birds' eye view of the races at Bukit Timah from virtually any sector of the stands. To some, the Main Grandstand in front of the winning post is the spot that matters that's where a race is won or lost. The
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      396 34  -  By Malcolm Bastians D OG lovers have met in it, joggers, emulating Grecian Olympians, ran over kilometres of its I grassland and up and down hillocks last June. Accountants in their droves staged a walkathon over its rolling hills and forested plains. If they had listened hard enough they
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    • 384 35 Stories/DENNIS CHIA and FREDERICK Qt'EK IVAN ALLAN'S is a household name on the horse-racing circuit that discourages superlatives. It is a name which has come to suggest excellence. He is a trainer extraordinaire and a good judge of horses. Ivan the Terrific is like a fire burning
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    • 56 35 FOR THE RECORD ALLAN'S SUCCESSES 1972 Jumbo Jet 1981—Grand Harvest (jockey: Johnny Wilson) (Toby Autridge) 1974 Dilettante IQQO Anriormat# (Martin Sng) 1 J 1 983 An dermatt 1976 Suspicion < Jim Bleasdale (Terry Lucas) 1985 Feu Vert (Ng j 1979 Saas Fee K im Chor) (Lester Piggott) 1980 Vaaron (Larry
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    • 183 35 THE SINGAPORE Derby boasts a long and colourful history dating back to 1880 the oldest classic in the Singapore-Malaysia circuit. In those days racing was amateurish and the first Derby, contested by China ponies, was worth $150. The winner, Moracia, was owned, trained and ridden
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    • 70 35 THE $250,000 SINGAPORE DERBY kicks off the first of the five big races held yearly at Bukit Timah racecourse. The others are: The $400,000 Singapore Gold Cup over 2,200 m on July 2; The $100,000 Pesta Sukan Cup over 1,600 m on Aug 27; The 175,000 Lion
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    • 279 36 Unveiling the winner WITH half a dozen of the circuit's best stayers staying at home in the comfort of their stables it has to be admitted that this year's Derby field is below par. With the exception of Han Dynasty, Chinese Wall and Istanbul, the
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      302 37  - By ft Dennis Chia "GOGGLES on and get into the barriers," the strident voice of the man in grey rings loud and clear to the diminutive figures astride big strapping animals on the field. The man: Mr Albert Lopez. The place: Bukit Turf Club. Come rain or shine, he is
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    • 185 35 f Zoom-in on Peter Lai's Great Binoculars Offer! There's no better way to catch the excitement and action on the track. Check out the great binoculars line-up at Peter Lai/ 7 n *yC today. But you better hurry because these fantastic offers 113 1 won't last for long. j Standard
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    • 215 39 THERE is more to jockeys changing silks before and after each race than meets the eye. What goes on in the weighing room on a race afternoon is like that on a busy day in the stockmarket. Many people have the notion that all a jockey does
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    • 251 39 T LUCAS LAST year's champion jockey. Also captured title in 1982. Two Singapore Gold Cup triumphs are among his 11 classic wins. Cool rider. His best season was 1976, when he won four classics including the Singapore and Perak Derbys on Suspicion. Likes to take his
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    • 254 40 By Malcolm Bastians IT? > f WHAT'S in a colour? Plenty it seems, if you own a horse. There is no limit to the range of colours and colour patterns for a jockey's silks or vek, but an owner does faoe restrictions. An owner must register
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    • 182 40 apprentice: A jockey who has not yet ridden a prescribed number of winners and is therefore entitled to a weight allowance. boh beh chow: One-horse race. Forget about the rest. checked: Received interference/obstruction durihga race. A donkey (or dog): A horse that lacks class and pedigree.. A no-hoper.
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  • 308 41  -  The thoroughbred as an athlete By Ken Jalleh Jr i^1 HE buzzer rings, the gate gasps open and hundreds of pounds of controlled power leap into one of the most graceful events in sports the horse race. But at the moment the race begins, that graceful thoroughbred
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  • 150 41  -  By Frederick Quek WHAT are the chances of four norses belonging to one owner, under the charge of one trainer finishing 1-2-3-4 in a classic race? Near-impossible? Well, It happened in the Singapore Derby of 1970. Keep Going, Man Of Courage, Man Of Honour and Huang Ho,
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    • 304 42 If Sony had created this iust for the bedroomVCSi He needs all the vital information and keeps tab on the pulse of the business world. Hectic Pressurized, I Ifs the executives syndrome of being caught in the rat |HHB race of the 935. Thanks to TELETEXT, this 14-inch H wonder
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    • 285 43 .^Biai (mm. THE PACE: Everyman's guide to \the sport of kings. A day in the life of a jockey Meet Leslie Khoo, Singapore's top jockey m RRRRIiiing goes the alarm clock. It is exactly six in the morning. A small, lean figure trudges wearily
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    • 101 43 IF a jockey's worth is measured by his number of big race wins, then Leslie Khoo is way above the rest of the local riders. The vigorous Singaporebom jockey became the first local rider to emulate the feats of va aw i\/u v.nJ vi —i
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    • 67 43 Governor's Gold Cup: Super Level (1977). Queen Elizabeth II Cup: Sir Toby (1978), Towkay (1981). Pesta Sukan Cup: Sound Of Sensation (1979). Tunku Gold Cup: Super Level (1978), Valley Fame (1982), Valley Fame (1983), Beldale Prospect (1985). Sultan of Selangor Gold Cup: Thunderbird (1984), Grand Illusion (1988).
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    • 415 44 THE FACE; The hidden costs owning a horse The history of racing SO you want to be a part of the sport of kings. In other words, you want to be a horse owner. Fine. But bear in mind that the search for
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    • 282 44 A DEBATE rages on about the origin of horse racing, but everyone agrees that the first recorded race was the chariot race described in Homer's Iliad. Chariot races preceded horseback riding. In Asia Minor, Assyrian kings had stables with professional trainers around 1,500 BC.
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