The New Paper, 15 March 1989

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  • 18 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new^ paper the new paper
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    • 196 1 PHImm I SBC STARS I SWEETS SENT I I PRAY P«gaW FOR SAFETY The New Paper Feb 28. /Pace 25 1 SILVER CANDY i MARATHON FOR E3 Those silver candy balls have KJ EnJ been found safe to eat. But Ea FILM Rllrr^ ■3 the shop that sold them has
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    • 47 1 Mahathir the political doctor i JBK, Malaysia's Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has rebounded from heart surgery. A medical doctor himself, he appears to be curing the ailments of New Umno. Our centrespread takes a look at what he prescribed and how it has worked. /Page 19
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  • 45 1 Carved: Terrorists seized this 20-year-old student and left their calling card carved on her cheek. Police say Irantxu Mugeta was the victim of the GAL group in Spain. It seeks to stamp out the rebellion of the separatist Basques. Picture/ REUTER
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 401 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching A HOUSEWIFE left her flat for 10 minutes yesterday to buy rice at a nearby grocery store. When she came home, her 4 V 2 -year-old son was missing. Madam Teng Lye Cheng, 40, called out for her son, but there was
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    • 273 2 A YEAR-OLD Singapore movie company will be making a film in India starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. Mel Gibson was also approached, and the firm is waiting for his answer. The producer of the movie will be an American. Said
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    • 237 2 Wire services. A DRUG widely used by Aids victims in the US has a worrying side effect it creates new forms of the virus. First results of a study of the drug AZT also showed that the new strains of the Aids
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    • 160 2 Wire services. BRITAIN'S champion jockey, Willie Carson, says he may quit horse racing if royal trainer Dick Hern cannot find new stables. Mr Hern has been told to vacate the West Ilsley stables owned by Queen Elizabeth. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said that
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    • 529 3  -  By< Chow Wai Fong I WENT for a walk in the jungle with 500 boys yesterday. And we only had a compass, a protractor, a map and a parang to help us. My group got lost but emerged three hours later feeling tired
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 36 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over a few areas in the late afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. The sun sets today at 7.16 pm. The sun rises tomorrow at 7.10 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 373 4  -  By Irene Ng THE 1984 BASH IT was because of the 1984 Silver Jubilee that we got to sing Stand up for Singapore. It was specially commissioned to mark Singapore's 25 years of nation-builainff. And on that note, the celebration whirled on from June
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      41 4 Remember the big, big bash we had five years ago? That was a celebration of Singapore's 25 years of nation-building. Next year, we celebrate another milestone. It's Singapore's 25th year of independence. The organisers say: Watch out for it.
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    • 196 4 SINGAPORE'S pawnshops are alive and well. The 55 licensed pawnshops last year chalked up one of their best performances, increasing their business volume by 11 per cent over that of 1987. The pawnshops do not appear to be threatened by the coming of
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    • 43 5 V More Time to Express Yourself. I The Citizen collection has captured your imagination... I This exclusive collection of fashion watches with their state-of-the-art HUZ water-resist feature in super-slim cases So, we're adding even more exciting choices to this range of perfect I
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 274 6 T i HOSE silver candy balls suspected of being are safe to eat. However, fans of these sweets will not be able to buy them here any more. Candy House, the shop that used to sell them, has taken the sweets off its shelves. "We
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    • 220 6 STUDENTS who will be hard hit by rising tuition fees at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological Institute can get help at DBS Bank. Tuition at both will rise in July. In a statement yesterday, DBS said there is a range of Student Assist
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    • 225 6 ONE in five of the complaints received by the Singapore Bus Service (SBS) centres on bus drivers who skip past bus stops. It leaves would-be passengers staring after the disappearing bus in angry frustration. And the loss of fares reduces company income. So
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    • 235 7 T I HREE shops at Parklane Shopping Centre have had bricks fly through their glass windows in the past six months. On Saturday at about midnight a man threw a brick through the window of Grandeur Productions, a gift shop and interior design firm. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      225 7 THE issue of whether to lock taxi doors turned out to be no open-and-shut case, after all. Yes you should, no you shouldn't, Hotline Plus callers variously ventured. Seven people called. Their views: Mr Sylvester Nicholas Shamy, 14, student: "Cabbies should lock their doors for safety. Lately, cabbies
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    • 250 8 APPLE Computer has cut by more than 20 per cent the prices of its two popular Macintosh computers. This appears to be a move to secure a larger share of the Asian personal computer (PC) market. This brings down the prices to about
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    • 482 8  -  By Ronald Wong DONT be shocked if you resign one day and your company announces it to the world the next. It may just mean you were someone in authority. Almost daily the newspapers carry announcements that so-and-so has left a certain company,
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    • 139 8 YOU do not have to fear bogus notices in your name appearing in the newspapers. "We check all the wordings and refrain from accepting notices which contain words that may be embarrassing to the parties concerned," said Mr Terry Chang, The Straits Times' sales manager, appointments
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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. afflicting: Causing problems to. aloofness: The quality of being unfriendly and not wanting to be involved with people and their activities. conciliatory: Describes a person who shows that he
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    • 72 8 THE response to Singapore's latest police recruitment drive has been good, officials say. More than 800 people have signed up to join the force in the five-day exercise. Police are now interviewing them to select the best. Deputy Chief Commander Mr Lin Reyin says 554
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 537 10 DAY One of the debate on the 1989/90 Budget focused on its impact on home and family. Day Two yesterday saw the emphasis shift to the Budget's effect on the business environment, the economy and world trade MR Bernard Chen (Pasir Panjang GRC) led off the
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    • 323 10 THE FINANCE MINISTER REPLIES FINANCE Minister Dr Richard Hu responded to the many issues raised during the two days of debate. He said the Government has done its duty by meeting all the basic needs of the people. It has given them affordable food,
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    • 140 10 MR GOH Choon Kang's call on Monday for more Chinese babies came under fire from opposition MP Mr Chiam See Tong yesterday. Speaking in Mandarin, Mr Goh (Braddell Heights) called on the Chinese to produce more children to maintain balanced population growth among the races. Mr Chiam
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    • 154 10 NON-CONSTITUENCY MP Dr Lee Siew Choh said the Government's priorities were wrong. He called on it to "soak" the rich so it could help the poor. The 1989-90 Budget seemed to promise something for everyone. But a close look showed that those who ought to benefit in
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    • 76 10 A BILL that has been introduced will pave the way for a low-cost insurance scheme for Central Provident Fund members. The plan is to allow CPF savings to be used to buy insurance coverage against premature death or permanent incapacity before members reach age 55. They could
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 298 11 Wire services. CELLS from aborted foetuses have been transplanted to an unborn baby to treat a congenital im-mune-system deficiency. French doctors who did the operation said it was the first of its kind in the world. The transplant, in which 16 million cells were
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    • 57 11 Together again: Australian Michelle Tamia Hamilton (right) has much to smile about she was rescued from near death by fishermen after drifting for more than three days in shark-infested seas off Philippines. Mum Rachelle, haa given her daughter up for dead and even held
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    • 209 11 Wire services. NINETY-NINE Vietnamese refugees searching for a new homeland landed in Malaysia 80 minutes late. Their boat touched shore an hour and 20 minutes after a new policy took effect denying refugees automatic resettlement. It could mean that they will be sent back. The
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    • 162 11 Wire services. FOOTBALL star Diego Maradona sent shockwaves throughout Italy by attending a banquet hosted by a Mafia family. He was one of 200 guests at a reception to celebrate the wedding of Luigi Giuliano, a leader of the Camorra clan that runs the
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    • 125 11 Wire services. A POLICE sniper, with his rifle sighted on a target, can now let senior officers see the same thing he sees by using a super-modern scope that transmits a video image. The Sniper-C3 (command, control and communication) system was developed by the
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    • 489 12 [roop CRT KRRATTOIVT I MARCH ITO MAY 30 1989 I J Every $20 you spend entitles you to one entry form. K The more you spend, the more your chances of winning! PLUS! Weekly Draws over the first 12 weeks with 6 prizes to be won each week 3 Samsung
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 194 15 Wire services. A T LEAST 17 people were killed when three powerful bombs exploded at the same time in a north-eastern Indian town. Yesterday's blasts were believed to be the work of militants from the Bodo tribe. About 50 people were injured. The militants
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    • 45 15 Unhappy: South Korean village women stage a sit-down protest outside a US army bombing range in Maehyang. The villagers want the range to be closed. They claim the noise from bombing practices has seriously disrupted their lives. Picture/ Afp
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    • 200 15 Wire services. MASKED gunmen on motorcycles defied curfew and sprayed bullets that killed two men in Karachi's latest ethnic violence. The motorcycle raiders pushed yesterday's death toll from five days of rioting in Pakistan's biggest city to 12. In addition, six were wounded when the killers
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    • 226 15 Wire services. Melbourne is struggling to deal with an unusual problem children who love to start fires. They caused some 2,000 fires and eight deaths last year. Six-year-old Timothy Sexton is one of the "juvenile pathological firestarters" who find flames a fatal attraction. A joint research programme
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    • 195 15 Wire services. COMMUNIST China plans to draw more non-communist talent into the higher ranks of government. "The specific ratio is still under discussion," a government spokesman told a press conference in Beijing yesterday. Appointments would be made through the Chinese parliament, the
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    • 53 16 Victim: Rescuers carry the badly-charred body of a Lebanese civilian to a shelter camp. The man was burnt alive in his car during heavy shelling by rival militias in Beirut yesterday. At least 31 were killed and about 120 injured in some of the deadliest fighting in
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    • 211 16 Wire services. TAIWAN is considering allowing news reporting and film shooting in China by Taiwan nationals. It would be done indirectly. The current practice of carrying out such projects under the guise of visiting mainland relatives would be made legal. A government official in
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    • 171 16 Wire services. THE Soviet Union' economy will not be able to catch up with the West by the year 2,000 even if glasnost reforms succeed, a NATO report says. Based on data compiled by the US Central Intelligence Agency, the report said Soviet
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      269 16 Wire services. THE London stock market gave a thumbs-up to Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson's Budget speech yesterday, sending prices sharply higher on perceptions that the government is determined to combat inflation. The Financial Times 30share index closed 21.7 points at 1,761.1. Volume totalled 587.1 million shares, up
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    • 83 16 Reuter. SHARE prices opened sharply higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The gains came after the US dollar fell overnight on an unexpected drop in February retail sales in America, easing fears of higher inflation. The Nikkei index surged 206.88 points, or 0.65 per cent, to 31,931.23 in
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    • 51 16 FT Industrials Tue 1,761.10 (1,739.40) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,306.25 (2,306.25) ST Industrial Tue 1,166.97 (1,160.38) NST Industrial Tue 1,996.47 (1,983.00) Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 3,034.79 (3,029.89) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,493.80 (1,490.90) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 31,724.35 (31,552.96) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      276 16 Wire services. TRADING was quiet on Wall Street yesterday and, in a statistical rarity, the Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials ended the day unchanged at 2,306.25. About 141 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, with decliners outnumbering gainers 723 to 670 and
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1780 17 rp Jgyjgj |MK M The Van Dyke Show The Benefit Wild South Islands of the Great English Writers The «F d SCREEN g (9.30pm, SBC 5) I ■guana World of Charles Dickens GEMS DICK and Matt decide to (9.30pm, SBC 12) (10.20pm, SBC 12) hold a benefit show to raise
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  • opinion
    • 1266 18 Malaysia's PM a physician and a politician has rebounded from heart surgery and is expected to be back at work soon. succession struggle. Dr WHEN Malaysia's Prime Minister disclosed health problems earlier this year, his ailment seemed symbolic of the ills afflicting his party as welL
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    • 188 18 A FAVOURITE recollection of the Malaysian premier's wife is how she wept under his tutorship during their days as medical students. "We would start out very nicely. Then he would become impatient at my slowness. I always ended up in tears," says Datin Seri Dr
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  • 986 19  -  Showtime By ToH Hal Leong and Pauline Loh QUANTITY and quality are the keywords for the 13th Hongkong International Film Festival which opens next Thursday. Nearly 140 films and video shorts will be screened over 16 days. This averages about eight to nine per day
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 450 22  -  By Lo Tien Yin THE Practice Theatre Ensemble is out to prove that repeats are not boring. They can have something new each time. PTE is presenting two recycled old plays in a production called Alamak. It comes to Victoria Concert Hall in April.
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    • Article, Illustration
      234 22 A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay, Marina 1) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese star in a gem of a comedy not to be missed. Times: Cathay: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pm. Marina 1: 1, 3.30, 7, 9 pm. MISSISSIPPI BURNING (Lido) FICTIONALISED story based on
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    • 119 22 BEFORE George Benson became famous as a singer with his 1976 hit, This Masquerade, he had already established himself as a jazz guitarist of singular ability. He began his musical career in Pittsburgh, where he won an amateur singing contest at the age of four.
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    • 337 22  -  By Lo Tien Yin THEY are shaping up a 50-episode serial at SBC that will include a bit of Hongkong, a pinch of Taiwan and a whole lot of Singapore. First, the Hongkong part. Popular Paula Tsui from Hongkong will sing the theme song
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    • 498 23  -  By Wong Sing Yeong SOME call it superstition. Others say it is merely tradition. Most SBC actors and actresses do it all the same, just in case. We are referring to the custom of offering prayers before the start of shooting for a
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    • 210 23  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang MRS Singapore Valarie Carver did Singapore proud in Las Vegas on Monday night when she was placed fifth in the 1989 Mrs of the World pageant. Mr Errol Pang of Derrol Stepenny Promotions, the Mrs Singapore organisers, called The New Paper
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    • 137 23  -  OSEENLASTNIGHT By l Vivien Chiong THE Shell Game II is a show of veterans. Last night saw Patrick Tse, Lisa Wang and Chow Yun Fatt pitting their acting skills against each other. Although this serial was shot more than five years ago, it's still
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    • 212 23  -  Murphy Brown Sundays beginning March 26 8.20 pm, SBC 5 preview/by Geraldine Goh MURPHY Brown is tough as nails and she thinks tact is something the cat brought home. This tough anchorwoman of a news magazine will take you straight into the adrena-lin-fuelled world of rough,
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 160 25 COMICFELIEF Orchard Road/conn Goh Single Slices/Peter Kohisaat r-t• f n tHCNt. /cut.vohehE'S s 1 Nice to meety«>M. \I\V (L ))<§'v-l VkJ WUR Phone J ,c, I Cathy/Cathy Guisewite l y««» I -j.-J, r "THE SHOCK Of REAUZMr 1 WHAT OID VOU THINK? THATI I CAN'T 7 MOW CAN MEM 1
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1696 26 radkjguide EMMIftlM.—lEailEBIM Md.llddlUI.M nam NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Newt in Brief and Weather NOON Coed Music Company aid Me: Newsdesh 12.05 Leochdate: A musical selection MOON Easy Listening: Light and easy Report Noon-time musical entertain- 12.30 Bnslness Matters: A weekly for your listening pleasure. music is
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  • 1233 27 DEAR AGGIE HORIZONS Dear Aggie, I am a young divorcee with a kid. At present, I'm having a close relationship with a wonderful guy. He thinks I need a break and wants to give me money to go for an overseas holiday. Should
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 612 28 EMPLOYMENTS US Multi-national food company in Jurong urgently requires: QUALITY CONTROL ASSISTANTS GCE '0' or 'A' Level. Science stream. 1-2 years' experience in food or beverage processing plants or its related field will be advantageous. Training will be provided for those without working experience. Shift work is required. Successful candidates
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    • 320 28 EMPLOYMENTS IjJID.-1.-ln.!—B A U.i Multinational Corporation (Fortune 900), a loading supplier of chomlcal addHtves for lubricating oils. Invites suitable candidates to apply for the following now vacanctes duo to rapid expansion In business: 1. PRODUCTION TECHNICIANS Minimum GCE O' level credits In Maths and a Science subject Operate pumps, heat
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  • SPORTS
    • 409 29 Reuter, AFP. JOHN Aldridge scored his second hat-trick of the season as English soccer champion Liverpool moved closer to First Division leader Arsenal with a 5-0 thrashing of Luton at home yesterday. Two weeks ago, Liverpool trailed Arsenal by 19 points. But it has now narrowed the gap
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    • 297 29 Reuter. SPRINTER Ben Johnson knowingly used anabolic steroids and should not try to blame his coach or doctor for his Olympic disgrace, an emotional Angella Issajenko said yesterday. "What upset me was that I knew Johnson knew he had been taking anabolics for years," Issajenko said.
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    • 277 29 Reuter. DANE Morten Frost yesterday served a warning to his rivals. He dismissed a recent report he was ready to quit playing singles. Frost, 33-year-old four-time winner of the All-England singles title, said: "I know I am the oldest singles player on the circuit but
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    • 195 29 RACING with MALCOLM BASTIANS ELEGANT JIM, who looked raor sharp this morning, should be able to score a back-to-back win this Sunday at Ipoh. The Our Jimmy New Zealand gelding was untaxed covering the 600 m on grass in 39.1 sec with David Ow Yang astride this
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    • 417 30 Here's a story about guts. About Yosafat Sihombing's quest for tennis stardom, despite a handicapped left arm. ALFONSO CHAN has the story TENNIS players come in all shapes and sizes, and most of them have fine physiques. Not Yosafat Sihombing, who is slightly handicapped. Yosafat was 10
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    • 348 30  -  TIGER BEER TENNIS PREVIEW By Alfonso Chan TOP seed Steven Botfield is a good bet for the Tiger Beer tennis championship which starts today at the Kallang Tennis Centre. He has been the most consistent player so far in this International Tennis Federation South-east Asian
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    • 284 30 LAZARUS could have been Chris McGarey's middle-name. McGarey felt like dying when he got food-poisoning after arriving last Saturday, but rose three days later to play in the Tiger Beer tennis championship qualifying round. The 25-year-old was hospitalised after dining on shrimps and fish. His coach,
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    • 330 31 BAYERN 2 HEARTS 0 Reuter. A CRUCIAL second-half header by Norwegian -Q newboy Grland Johnsen steered Bayern Munich into the semi-finals of the Uefa Cup yesterday. The tall 21-year-old defender has played just a handful of games since he joined Bayern at the start of the season.
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    • 146 31 Reuter. KARL-HEINZ Rummenigge, the former West German soccer captain, scored for his Swiss club Servette Geneva in a 3-1 win over Millwall in a rain-soaked friendly in London yesterday. Rummenigge, who recently announced he would retire at the end of the season, received a silver
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    • Article, Illustration
      394 31 Wire services. AN injury to England centrehalf Dave Watson is the latest worry to plague Everton's buildup to Sunday's English FA Cup quarter-final against Wimbledon at Goodison Park. Watson has a hamstring strain and has joined striker Graeme Sharp and fullback lan Snodin on the casualty list. MANCHESTER United
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    • 283 31 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Boston 114 New Jersey 91, Phoenix 112 Miami 104, Washington 106 Seattle 101, Chicago 122 Indiana 90, Milwaukee 111 Dallas 95, Los Angeles Clippers 115 San Antonio 103, Utah 98 Cleveland 83, Los Angeles Lakers 97 Houston 96 CRICKET
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    • 197 32  -  By R. Jegathesan T ODAY is deadline day for the errant clubs in last month's Singapore Hockey Association six-a-side tournament. Five clubs have been sent letters by the SHA asking to explain why they gave walkovers during the sixes on Feb 12. The five are Law Society, Punggol
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    • 170 32  -  By Dennis Chia SINGAPORE'S champion cyclist Kenneth Tan has won the yellow jacket after the second leg of the Tour of Malaysia Race. He took the Malacca-Kuala Lumpur route in a time of 58 minutes 03.33 seconds, 10 seconds off his nearest rival Sarbani
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    • 222 32 LASER sails will mingle with windsurfers on the East Coast horizon from Sunday. And you can be part of the action, thanks to the East Coast Sailing Centre, who aim to introduce the sport to the masses. The ECSC Laser Sailing School, to be launched
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    • 309 33 Premier League table-topper Geylang International is out of the Pools Cup. Tyrwhitt Soccerites meanwhile faces relegation. Yet both are confident: Geylang of winning the League, and Tyrwhitt of survival. ABDUL SHUKOR reports GEYLANG International, despite having been knocked out of the Pools Cup by Jurong Town,
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