The New Paper, 21 March 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1989 MQ (R) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 144 1 IftEE: NEW TASTE ICE-CREAM AT EAST COAST Meadow Gold's new Soft Spot ice-cream moves from Raffles City to Parkway Parade. Get a free taste on March 23, from noon to 2 pm. Just bring coupon in The New Paper today, Pago 13. Coupon will also appear in tomorrow's and Thursday's
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  • 76 1 W «r rwr Toddlers running on tracks of Hougang Stadium are posing problems for joggers. One sprained an ankle from stopping suddenly to avoid a child. "If the fast sprinter knocks against them, the impact... can be fataL" But parents want family to have
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 633 2  -  Stories Lois Ng SINGAPORE boys and young men have posed for an overseas magazine that features their naked bodies for the gay market. One of the magazine's targets are people with money problems, a source said. At least 10 of them have fallen
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    • 482 2 He’s young, good-looking and broke FOR X, it was not a hasty decision. He took six months to decide to pose nude for the overseas magazine OG (Oriental Guys). The lure of a big sum of money was irresistible. "It was enough to get me over a bad patch," the
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    • 52 2 IN OUR March 14 story, "Moe becomes party wizard in new biz", deejay Mario Perera was said to have entered into a business venture with entertainer Moe Alkaff. Mr Alkaff has clarified that Mr Perera is not a partner in Moezik Enterprise Pte Ltd, but a partner in a
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    • 150 2 Wire services. BRITAIN warned airlines and airports yesterday of a new threat to air traffic from cassette-recorder bombs similar to the one that blew up a Pan Am plane over Scotland in December. The government's Transport Department, facing criticism over its handling of bomb threats
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    • 34 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over many areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 30 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. The sun sets today at 7.15 pm. The sun rises tomorrow at 7.08 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 353 3 EGGS with tiny flowers and eggs decorated with country scenes are giving Jurong Bird Park an Easter atmosphere. More than 120 entries were Reived for the park's Easter g Design Contest. There is a new section on egg sculpture. Contestants sculpted eggs from wood, soap,
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    • 460 4  -  This story resulted from a Hotline Plus call. By Chow Wai Fong THE Road Map of Surprising Singapore certainly lives up to its name. Those who try to use it sure are in for a surprise. At least seven surprises. That's the number of inaccuracies a sharp-eyed
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    • 411 4  -  By Geneieve Kwek THE Goalkeeper, the Fly-catch-er and the Reporter will be in Singapore for the first time at Defence Asia '89, starting tomorrow. All three are Dutch radar search and tracking systems developed by Hollandse Signaalapparaten BV. They will be on show at the
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    • 138 4 A NEW Paper report on the damage to tombstones at the Bidadari Christian Cemetery last Friday has prompted police to carry out investigations. In a press statement released yesterday, the police said they "will spare no effort in bringing the culprit or culprits to book". The
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    • 539 5  -  This story resulted from a Hotline Plus call. By Irene Ng THE National University of Singapore says yes, you can. Police say no, you can't. Yes no, yes no. The result? A merry-go-round for students who need their photostated documents certified so they can apply for
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    • 492 6  -  By Augustine Low T I 1 HE quest for profits has driven some electronic and electrical goods dealers to throw fairness to the winds. They systematically condemn certain brands and aggressively push others which provide them with higher profit margins. We spoke to five
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    • 127 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. caviar Salted eggs of a fish called sturgeon, often eaten at the beginning of a meal. downbeat: The gloomy side. ethnic diversity: Racial differences. ethnocentrism: Belief that one's own
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    • 44 6 THE Regional Language Centre (RELC) will hold a seminar next month on the methods of teaching language, called Language Teaching Methodology for the Nineties. The seminar will be at the RELC at Orange Grove Road from April 10 to 14.
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    • 339 6 KING Kong and Marilyn Monroe will help develop an automation culture in Singapore in a robotics exhibition to be held here in June. The Singapore Robotics Festival '89 will present the "Stunts of King Kong and the Fantastic Robots '89" with more than
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    • 428 7 JOGGERS complain that children on the tracks at Hougang Stadium are hurdles they can't take in their stride. It is very frustrating because they have to watch out for toddlers all the time, five joggers told The New Paper. A child stumbling into their path slows them
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    • 131 7 THE owner of a goldsmith's workshop and three of the five men he hired to rob a jewellery store have been jailed. Malaysian Haw Ping Ling, 29, was sentenced yesterday to 12 years' jail and 24 strokes of the roHe gave two guns and
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    • 170 8 Parliament received an education yesterday literally. Education Minister Dr Tony Tan spent a lot of time on his feet during the sitting, explaining several new policies. Afterwards the ministry's budget was approved. The debate turns to the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of
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    • 355 8 VERY careful consideration went into the decision to scrap the popular pre-primary programme, said Education Minister Dr Tony Tan. The pre-primary classes were started in 1970. But, Dr Tan said, ministry studies showed that they were hardly different from classes run by kindergartens.
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    • 81 8 MAJOR Abbas Abu Amin (Pasir Panjang GRC) suggested that qualified coaches and experts from the various sports associations be used to relieve the shortage of qualified physical education teachers. Senior Minister of State (Education) Dr Tay Eng Soon said his ministry would
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    • 315 8 PLANTING THE SEEDS THE 10 "seed" schools: St Nicholas' Girls Catholic High Maris Stella High Nanyang Primary Ai Tong Pei Chun Public Red Swastikfl Maha Bodhi Nan Hua Primary Tao Nan TEN primary schools will help boost the inculcation of core values
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    • 154 8 DR OW Chin Hock (Leng Kee) finally got an answer of sorts to a question he posed last Friday. He had asked if the policy of providing free university education for Malays would be scrapped. Non-Malay students were grumbling about it, he said. Time ran
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 239 9 Wire services. S OME 800 Burmans marched through the city of Rangoon yesterday to demand the release of detained students. Eyewitnesses said the incident was the first major protest in the Burmese capital since the army launched a bloody crackdown against an-ti-government forces last September. Up
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    • 51 9 War-weary: Amid the deafening sounds of mortar and machine-guns, Afghan civilians bundle into a bus that will take them to a refugee shelter near the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Fierce fighting between Islamic guerillas and government forces is raging at the strategic city of Jalalabad. Picture/
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    • 180 9 Wire services. THE Soviet Union has warned Japan that its refusal to hold talks on economic matters could hold up plans for a Tokyo visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Japanese Vice-Foreign Minister Takakazu Kuriyama told his Soviet counterpart, Mr Igor Rogachev, yesterday that the "political foundations"
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    • 348 9 Wire services. THE mother of a former Miss India linked to a British sex scandal once beat her daughter with a chain. She said this was to stop her "wayward and errant behaviour". Ms Shakuntala Chaudhury told the Press Trust of India (PTI) in
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    • 194 9 Wire services. THE Indian government may be planning to charge four more people in the assassination of Premier Indira Gandhi. The Press Trust of India said yesterday that charges against the four were likely to be filed within a month. It added that
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    • 225 10 Wire services. FOUR blacks who had been fasting to protest against their detention without trial escaped from a Johannesburg hospital yesterday. They sought refuge at the West German Embassy in Pretoria, officials said. They escaped from Hillbrow Hospital in Johannesburg, where they had
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    • 236 10 Wire services. THREE European Economic Community (EEC) nations will send their ambassadors back to Iran. They had recalled them a month ago to protest against death threats against British author Salman Rushdie. Diplomats in Brussels said the ambassadors from Greece, Ireland and Italy will
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    • 62 10 Wire services. A CONCORDE jet will take off on April Fool's Day for the first all-su-personic flight around the world. British Airways said yesterday that the three-week trip could set more than a dozen world speed records. About 100 passengers are expected to
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    • 161 10 Wire services. AMERICAN scientists have developed a new form of vitamin A that can treat acne and wrinkles without producing harmful side-effects. Researchers from lowa State University said the new compound is easily absorbed by the body and is safer than other approved forms of
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    • 350 11 Wire services. THE boss of a gang battling Japan's top underworld syndicate since 1985 visited a police office near his home to announce that the gang will disband. The announcement marked the end of the bloodiest gangster vendetta in postwar Japanese history, police said in
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    • 263 11 Wire services. ISRAELI Labour Party chief and Finance Minister Shimon Peres said in Jerusalem yesterday that his party may soon withdraw from the government coalition with the Likud bloc if common ground cannot be found. "In the next months we'll have to decide: If we
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    • 177 11 THE nephew of Malaysian "hamburger king" Vincent Tan was kidnapped on Thursday. The boy, aged five, was freed on Saturday only after his family paid a ransom of M 550,000 (about $33,000). An hour later, police nabbed two of the kidnappers, recovering the money. The
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    • 61 11 Double: Actress Joan Collins, known for her role as Alexis in the televison soap Dynasty, sizes up her lookalike at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London. The life-size model, clad in a golden gown, will be displayed from Easter in a new section of Hollywood Superstars. It
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    • 163 11 Wire services. THE Salvadorean governing party candidate admitted yesterday that he had lost to rightist candidate Alfredo Cristiani in the presidential election, which was marred by violence and boycotts. "As a democratic party, we recognise the victory of Alfredo Cristiani with more than 50 per cent
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      271 10 Wire services. SHARE prices declined on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30-share index closed 14.6 points down at 1,690.9. Volume was a moderate 384.6 million shares, down from 535.2 million shares on Friday. Continued worries about further rises in US interest rates offset the favourable effect
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    • 13 10 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today to mark Spring Equinox Day.
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    • 51 10 FT Industrials Mon 1,690.90 (1,705.50) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,262.50 (2,292.14) ST Industrial Mon 1,169.07 (1,187.53) NST Industrial Mon 2,013.26 (2,032.50) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 3,046.73 (3,136.94) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,483.90 (1,495.90) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 31,654.80 (32,021.01) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      265 10 WALL Street share prices maintained their downward momentum yesterday in the wake of Friday's news that US wholesale prices had gone up by 1 per cent last month. The Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials, which dropped 48.57 points on Friday, fell a further 29.64 points yesterday
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 505 12  -  By Karen Goh OZONE-SAFE products have hit the market. Many products such as hair spray, furniture polish, antiperspirants and spray starch now come in cans and containers that proudly declare they do not contain ingredients that damage the earth's ozone layer. They can be found
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    • 284 12 EYETOEYE THE Singapore Contact Lens Society a society of qualified optometrists will write a weekly column on eye care. Address your queries to: Eye to Eye, c/o Shoptalk, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. SWITCHING from wearing spectacles to contact lens is
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  • 592 13 FOODNOTES NYT. B LACK tie has long been the epitome of elegance. Black food had no such status. Excepting caviar and truffles, "black food was usually sent back to the kitchen. No more. Now black is used to symbolise luxury or the avant-garde in fashion,
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    • 325 13 MICROWAVECOOK K Karuna Perfect roast lamb in half the time A DISH you can cook for your Easter 1 tbsp cornflour Sunday lunch is roast lamb and it can be cooked to perfection in the microwave oven. For Marinade With the microwave, it actually takes half t k\ an A
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    • 58 13 I <s s. free£\ \ICE.*/\ CREAM I DATE: Thursday, March 23, 1989 J TIME: 12 Noon To 2pm 1 PLACE: PARKWAY PARADE (Covered Plaza Outside DBS Bank) I Present this coupon at the 1 I Meadow Gold Booth and redeem a I delicious Soft Spot ice cream. I 1 It's
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  • 435 14  -  Showtime By Geraldine Goh T HE area near the Musical Fountains at Sentosa echoed to a different tune on Saturday night. It was rock music that blasted out to the 5,000-odd people who turned up to watch Singapore's popular Malay rock band, Lovehunters. The ear-splitting
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1326 15 Television 081 M Cultural Moments Kodaly, Reaching for the Skies Tuesday Premiere j'-— 9 Rivals over the Atlantic Evil in Clear River H Mr (9.30 pm, SBC 12) THE rivalry between aircraft THE popularity of high school composer and manufacturers^ is intense. Money, Peter teacher's position nearly rim out of
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  • sportlight
    • Article, Illustration
      1185 16 Inter-racial marriages are increasing in Singapore, although at a very low rate. Social scientists are surprised because they had expected a bigger rise given the ethnic situation in Singapore, where people of different races live and work doseiy together. Sociologists have long considered inter-ethnic marriage to be the
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    • 462 16 "MY FAMILY is not traditional but still, they objected to my marriage because he is from another race. They don't think two people from so different cultures can come together. They don't think that the marriage will work,"says Ms Lilian Sim,
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 480 20 USA Today. TAMMY Wynette has built a money-making image as spokesperson for Wronged Women. Her hit records pretty much cover the downbeat of life with the mean male. They range from strength under adversity (Stand by Your Man) to painful defeat (D-I-V-O-R-C-E). At 46,
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    • 135 20 RAIN MAN (Lido, Changi 1) A HEART-warming tale about fraternal love. Times: Lido: 10.45 am, 1.30, 4, 6.45, 9.15 pm. Changi 1: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.45, 9.15 pm. A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay, Marina 1) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese star in this gem of
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    • 131 20 ASK Hongkong actor Wilson Lam about News Attack and he'll probably tell you about the close shaves he has had. About the last scenes in the film, when he was chased by gangsters, he said he was injured "from head to toe". His career has been on
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    • 375 21  -  By Lo Tien Yin i with the Wind's famous last words "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" raised eyebrows in the 50s, one wonders how "to hell with you, damn it!" will go down with today's audience. SBC thinks it is all right.
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    • Article, Illustration
      309 21  -  By Debbie Henson CHARLIE SEXTON: CHARLIE SEXTON (MCA) CHARLIE Sexton's self-ti-tled LP fully defines the scope of his musical vision. There's greater emphasis on his guitar work with a selection of powerful songs delivered with raw emotional impact. Don't Look Back, the album's lead track, is a bluesrocker, co-written
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    • 155 21  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Geraldine Goh YOU would be forgiven if you thought that the weekend wasn't over yet when you tuned to Incredible Sunday on RTM 1 last night. It was incredible, all right, to watch a Sunday show on a Monday. Nevertheless, Incredible Sunday turned
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    • 525 22  -  By Vivien Chiong T I HEY are the official television matchmakers. But for Qiu Shengyang, 31, and Huang Yuling, 25, hosting Perfect Match is just another job. The popular show, screened every Sunday at 8.30 pm over SBC 8, runs into its eighth series this Sunday.
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    • 335 22 YOU'VE heard his voice. Now you will see his face. Andy Chu, 25, deejay and host on Rediffusion shows, will soon join SBC as a full-time compere. His first project will be hosting the Studio One Presents variety show with Ling Lizhu on Thursdays.
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    • 188 22  -  By Lo Tien Yin FROM April 3, your daily Chinese variety show will go outdoors. Studio One Presents, besides its usual variety offerings, will also include location shooting. The Monday show will have snippets of comperes, singers and guest artists performing a sketch, usually a
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1422 26 RADIOGUIDE EHSDB E2MXH ESEIM BISHiIBEBI EE9MH NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News in Brief and Weather NOON Good Music, Company and Me: NOON Newsdesk 12.05 Lunchdate: Some entertaining NOON Easy Listening: Light instru- Report Tune in for some great sounds 12.30 The Learning World music and songs
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  • SPORTS
    • 276 27 Reuter. KENYA'S John Ngugi plans to use his record fourth world cross-country title as a springboard to track success this season. Ngugi is hoping a successful assault on the 10,000 m world record this year possibly at July's Bislett Games in Oslo will transform him from
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    • 397 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: ICE HOCKEY World Championships in Sydney: Group C: China 3 Bulgaria 3, Holland 3 North Korea SOCCER World Cup qualifier: North Yemen 0 Saudi Arabia 1. English Div 4: Tranmere 2 Exeter 0. TABLE TENNIS Commonwealth Championship at Cardiff Men's first stage:
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    • 356 28  -  By Abdul Shukor THREE women will shoulder Singapore's hopes in the World Women's Bodybuilding Championship in Taipei from April 3-10. Debra McCormack, Agnes Berling and Jeannie Chia were all selected after the national competition at Victoria Theatre last month. McCormack is tipped as the one
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    • Article, Illustration
      217 29 AFP. BOTH Norwich and West Ham go into tomorrow's FA Cup quarter-final replay at Carrow Road troubled by injuries. West Ham hopes striker Leroy Rosenior, who has missed four matches with a knee injury, and captain Alvin Martin, who failed a test on a hamstring injury before the
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    • 252 29 AFP. LIVERPOOL and Nottingham Forest go back to Hillsborough for their FA Cup semi-final repeat on April 15. Sheffield Wednesday staged last year's confrontation between the First Division giants when Liverpool triumphed 2-1 and the FA has again backed the 54,281 capacity stadium. Old Trafford
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    • 292 29 AFP. PAUL Whetnall, the national team manager, has been given the job of steering English badminton to the top of the world. Whetnall, 42, will become the supremo of a programme designed to provide a sound base for England to challenge China and South Korea for honours
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    • Article, Illustration
      325 29 Wire services. DIEGO Maradona's imminent visit to Munich is creating a soccer fever. It drew 5,000 fans as Bayern Munich began selling tickets for its Uefa Cup semi-final against Napoli. Bayern expects a sell-out crowd of 72,000 at Munich's Olympic Stadium for the match on April 19, the return
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    • 257 30  -  By Shahiron Sahari JAVELIN-THROWER Xie Yuru is among six junior athletes who will receive training grants under the Mobil Award Scheme this year. Yuru, who last week turned down the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's offer to be the first recipient of "Adopt the Athlete"
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    • 243 30 RUGBY... with SHAHIRON SAHARI SINGAPORE will have two visitors from both sides of Asia, east and west, next month. First to visit the Republic will be Jeddah Rugby Football Club from Saudi Arabia, which will play two matches here on its way back from
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    • 199 31  -  By S Gulam THE Football Association of Singapore has dangled an additional carrot to spice up the thrilling three-horse race for the Premier League title. Besides the $30,000 cash prize-money for the winner, there is also the added bonus of representing Singapore in the Asean
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    • 359 31  -  PRESIDENT'S CUP SEMI FINAL: POLICE BALESTIER (lALAN BESAR, 8 pm> By Shahiron Sahari HAVING a barbecue may not be the best of pre-match preparations. But that is exactly what the Police Sports Association team had last night ahead of its date with destiny. The
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 110 31 p» WSPORTS W N't 1/ II 7.05pm: World Athletics. FRI i; 5.00pm: Rugby Union: EnK8 eland vs Scotland. aß I' m'l 10.30pm: Sportsview: Superstars of Wrestling. WED -jjj 7.00pm International Sports. rii. 7.30pm: Sportscene: Rugby il2 Special Five NaI tions Championship. 7ZJTTI 10.30pm: Midweek Sports: Highlights of the ■IZ J
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  • UPDATE
    • 1084 32 Films r— TRUFFAUT FESTIVAL. ASome of the better known I J films of the late director Francois Truffaut are featured. In The Woman Next Door, a man leads a contented family life until his ex-lover moves in next door. 6.30 pm. In the second movie,
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    • 84 32 Easier arrives on Sunday. But the Easter Bunny has arrived early at the Goodwood Gourmet Market and it brought bags full of goodies. To bring good eheer are chocolates in the shape of the well-loved eggs and animals, hot cross buns and Easter bread. All for
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    • 12 32 FILMS: Truffaut festival CENTRESTAGE: Teenage love COMING UP: T.S. Eliot
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    • 93 32 1 I E SIMPLY FABULOUS. PRIME-TIME NEWSMAKERS ZOE FAR, ZOE GOOD Power and polish of SBC's female newscasters SBC actress Zoe Tay's year of living BUDGET BRIGADE famously Women who see Singapore on the cheap PIN-UP BOYS OF LOCAL POP THE BEST WORST JOBS FOR Meet singing heart-throbs Thomas Teo
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