The New Paper, 1 April 1989

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  • 19 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY, APRIL 1/SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 77 1 gj Hj jm Private-eyes are checking on boyfriends and H girlfriends. They are H hired by men and women to make sure their lovers stay faithful. "It also 11 MJ H avoids unpleasantness later. To get a divorce involves a lot of money and sometimes may disgrace or embarrass the
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  • 91 1 Screen sensations: Actress Natalya Negoda (top) is first Soviet to bare for Playboy. But she's kept it secret from her people at home although she says in New York: "I don't think it is going to cause any trouble. We have glasnost now." In Singapore, SBC's
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 175 2 BALL WITH A CAUSE: THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS A WEEK ago, City Developments bid $100,000 for The Ball With A Cause. Today we declare: GOING TWICE! If no higher bid is received by 9 am on Saturday April 8, the ball will go to City Developments, the property
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    • 418 2  -  Private-eyes do it for boyfriends and parents, too By Harinder Gill GIRLFRIENDS are turning to private detectives to check on their boyfriends. So are the boyfriends. And parents are doing the same with their daughters. Five detective agencies contacted by The New Paper said they
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    • 228 2 IT was a pack of condoms in her boyfriend's bag that made her suspicious. He never used a condom when making love. She paid Kukusai Investigators to take on the case. This was two weeks ago. Private detective JJ, who did not
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    • 133 2 THE roadside pay telephone is an endangered species. Singapore Telecom will get rid of them in speeding up its $26 million project to convert 13,000 public telephones to cardphones by mid-1990. Roadside telephones will be relocated at carparks and petrol stations. Mr Khoo Chek Ngee,
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    • 53 2 MALAYSIAN Premier Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad will resume duties on Tuesday. He told the New Straits Times in London yesterday that he would leave for Malaysia tomorrow and start work the day after his return. Dr Mahathir, who is vacationing abroad, underwent open
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    • 74 2 THE Government has announced next year's public holidays in the latest Government Gazette as follows: New Year's Day Monday, Jan 1 Chinese New Year Saturday, Jan 27 Sunday, Jan 28 Good Friday Friday, April 13 Hari Raya Puasa Thursday, April 26 Labour Day Tuesday, May 1 Vesak
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    • 41 2 YESTERDAY'S report on the Anglo-Chi-nese School Endowment Fund fashion show referred to a celebrity model Marianne Teo. We meant Ms Marion Teo, Miss Singapore/Universe 1987, now a university student. We also misspelt SBC newscaster Linette Tye's name. She's not Lynette.
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    • 423 3 NINE old women need not have to play hide-and-seek anymore. They can now sell their wares without fear of being booked for illegal hawking. They have been given space in the market to sell their vegetables and sundry items. Three have taken up the offer so
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    • 149 3 THE Environment Ministry is using new tactics to wipe out illegal hawkers. The ministry now conducts its raids on them in unmarked white vans instead of blue ones with the ministry logo on the side. These tactics have been in force since early 1988,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 27 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over many areas in the afternoon. Max temp: 31 deg. Min: 24 deg. Sunset: 7.12 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.04 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 429 4  -  Byl Thusitha De Silva IN the back lanes of Little India, off Serangoon Road, a rent-a-bed business is thriving. Beds are rented for between $6 and $15 each a day. Air-conditioned rooms with a bed go for around $20 each a day. They are
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    • 315 4 TWO shophouses in the Tanjong Pagar conservation area will be all dressed up for tourists by 1990. World Express, a travel company, announced its renovation plan yesterday. A spokesman said it is hoped travel agents will route sight-seeing tours through Tanjong Pagar
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    • 376 4 THE Megatop is a Very Important Plane. With this brand new Space Age breed of 7475, Singapore stays in the front as a Very Important Place with the most modern aircraft fleet in the world. As befits its status, the Singapore Airlines Megatop
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    • 319 5 AH MENG has a new boyfriend! He is from Perth in Western Australia. And he is a virgin bachelor. The new boyfriend is Pusung, an 11-year-old Sumatran Pongo Pygmaeus abelli just like Ah Meng. Ah Meng is 23. But never mind the age difference. She
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    • 211 5 TEN jewellery lovers were lucky last night at Monet's Big Bash in Scotts Shopping Centre atrium. Each of them won a $350 Monet voucher. They were chosen from those who filled in special coupons from The New Paper. One such winner was civil servant Mr Thong
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    • 411 6 H "OOH! Hah! Want to be a part-time cop? If you sign up, the police could make vou tough enough to kick this "brick. The police always want able-bodied people, the abler the better. So they are putting up a karate show to attract
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    • 627 6 FROM today, you can get a device that lets you say, "Shut up," to people on the goggle box and they stop talking. Invented by a previously unheard-of Singaporean whiz-kid, the device lets you silence or correct TV talkers in
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    • 324 7 YESTERDAY was officially the last day for Change Alley. Its remaining stallholders had been told to quit by the end of the month. Yet 32 stallholders were still there yesterday, trying to carry on with business as normal. Maybe not quite as normal some
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    • 131 7 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. by word off mouth: A way of passing information by telling each other rather than using the written form. coherent: Describes something in which the parts fit together sensibly.
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    • 311 7 DID you remember today is All Fools' Day? Two of Singapore's morning newspapers certainly did. Traditionally, every April 1, English-language newspapers print a ridiculous news story they hope will fool you enough to give you a laugh. The Straits Times and Business Times chose the
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  • WORLDTOdDAY
    • 246 8 Wire services A I MAN and a woman were shot dead during an attempted payroll robbery at a Kuala Lumpur factory. A police spokesman said the two were shot by a fleeing gunman when he and two accom- plices were briefly cornered
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    • 55 8 Ordeal ends: A woman held hostage with her child since Sunday in the Pavon prison, Guatemala, bursts into tears on coming out of activity on Thursday. She was among hundreds of women and children trapped inside the prison during an inmates' revolt that led
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    • 182 8 Wire services. A CHIMPANZEE ripped off a 2-year-old boy's forearm when he stuck his hand through the cage bars at a British zoo. Surgeons were unable to reattach Matthew McDaid's arm, a spokesman for Queen Victoria Hospital said. He was listed in satisfactory condition. Matthew
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    • 240 8 Wire services. IRAQ already stands accused of using "the poor man's atomic bomb" poison gas and chemicals. Now it is said to be secretly engaged in a crash programme to build a real atomic bomb. The Washington Post reported yesterday that Baghdad was building a
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    • 178 8 Wire services. A PARADE to mark Malta's "Freedom Day" came to a sudden end when protesters threw the island's army chief into the sea. Witnesses said Brigadier John Spiteri was taking the salute at the military parade on the waterfront at Vittoriosa when
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    • 267 9 Wire services. N I AMIBIA began its transition to independence today with the help of United Nations peacekeeping troops. Thousands of black Nami- bians cheered UN Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari on his arrival at Windhoek yesterday. He is to oversee Namibia's seventh-month transition to independence
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    • 64 9 Saucer's tale: Parts of London were in a state of high anxiety after this glowing unidentified flying object was seen hovering over towns early yesterday. But the Martians were not about to land. The UFO was actually a hot air ballon manned by a space-suited crew
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    • 280 9 Wire services. FORMER US president Ronald Reagan will not be forced to testify in the IranContra trial of Oliver North. Trial Judge Gerhard Gesell rejected defence claims that Mr Reagan's testimony was essential to guarantee a fair trial for the former White House aide.
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    • 205 9 NST. A MALAYSIAN deputy minister and a businessman are locked in a court battle to determine which of them owns a lottery ticket worth $87,500. Businessman D William Daniel told the High Court in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday that he found the ticket.
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    • 157 9 Wire services. A TURKISH deputy has been charged with killing another Member of Parliament a crime punishable by death. MP Idris Arikan, a member of Prime Minister Turgut Ozal's Motherland Party, was taken before an Ankara court amid strict security yesterday. Mr Abdurrezak Ceylan, a
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    • 211 10 Wire services. NhARLY one million children dropped out of school in China's most populous province last year. Many of these youngsters in Sichuan province in southwest China turned to hawking goods or picking pockets, the People's Daily said in Beijing yesterday. The paper
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    • 172 10 Wire services. THE first Soviet starlet to appear in the US magazine Playboy is also an award-winning actress. Film star Natalya Negoda appears in a series of revealing poses in Playboy's May edition. The issue also carried a picture of the curly-haired actress on the
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    • 37 10 Birthday bash: Actors in period costumes arriving at the Eiffel Tower in Paris yesterday to take part in a television spectacular. The show marked the 100 th anniversary of the tower. Picture/ Reuter
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      265 10 Wire services. SHARE prices closed sharply higher yesterday, recouping Thursday's losses, amid relief that the expiration of the March futures contract did not bring an expected sell-off in the underlying stocks. Retail trading activity continued its recent dull tone, however, as players awaited further evidence on the course of
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    • 8 10 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 10 FT Industrials Fri 1,707.90 (1,686.70) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,293.62 (2,281.34) ST Industrial Fri 1,189.78 (1,190.80) NST Industrial Fri 2,078.15 (2,080.07) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 3,004.98 (2,980.76) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,458.20 (1,467.30) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 32,838.68 (32,826.13) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      257 10 Wire services. AIRLINE issues were the standout gainers on Wall Street yesterday as the stock market staged a moderate advance. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials closed 12.28 points up at 2,293.62. The stock of NWA, the parent holding company of Northwest Airlines, shot up after
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  • YOUTHNOW
    • 407 11 Anglo-Chinese: Strong spirit The top JC, the fun JC and the generally misunderstood JC. First-year college students tell KAREN GOH how they view their schools. Second in our series on JCs Opened in 1977 1988 A level results: 83.6 per cent THE most obvious, and
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    • 270 11 Opened in 1977 1988 A level results: 84.1 per cent IT was the first junior college to open on the East Coast, so most of its students are from schools in the area. It's among the top five JCs, with Victoria, Raffles, Hwa Chong and National
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    • 404 11 Opened in 1984 1988 A level results: 96.2 per cent VICTORIA is the "youngest" of the top five JCs in Singapore but it's already top of the academic heap. It had the highest score in last year's A level examinations. It is also the only
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  • 713 12  -  Showtime By 1 Vivien Chiong l IN Guiye is SBC's regular bad girl. You may remember her as a dance hostess, Donna, in the serial Fortune Hunters, where she cheated her boyfriend (Wang Changli) of his money and eloped with another guy. In the current
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1188 13 RADIOGUIDE [SB E33EHH irIJiIIJJiMMJI EH9HI "ssffi.®" 5 sical entertainment II u Marhat Bennrt 12.05 TMIWUyi (CNtiMNd) for your pleasure. time featuring popular num--100 New* and Weather Reoort 200 Hits of the World: A showcase 12.30 Top of the Pop*: Discover this bers on the UK jazz chart. 110 Interim!# (Programmes
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  • UPDATE
    • 2491 14 ►Centrest^E fT/T THE MAGIC TABLE. \w I Frieburg'sClassical Children's Theatre from West Germany presents a Grimm's I fairy tale about a tailor who drives out his sons and their return with magical items. At the Drama Centre. At 8 pm today. 3 pm and
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    • 65 14 Singapore's own Tiong Tian Tong is equally at home with water colours, oils or pen and wash, local artist in his landscapes. His works have been exhibited from Manila to Japan. Tian Tong paints full time and is a life member of the Singapore Art Society and
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    • Article, Illustration
      204 14 [7/f CENTRESTAQE: German UlJ group brings to life one of Grimm's fairy tales. At the > Drama Centre. 8 pm. (Tp? OUT AND ABOUT: Telok V I Blangah Zone C RC celebrates its 10th anniversary. At the car park in front of Blk 51. 7.30 pm. A Carnival
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    • Article, Illustration
      100 14 BAREO Gallery Boutique is holding an exhibition featuring a wide range of Primitive Art from the Pacific. It's in conjunction with the International Shopping Week. Exotic items include Dance Masks from New Britiain, Yam Cult Sculpture and War shields from Papua New Guinea. Gallery consultant Phil Reid buys
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1853 15 Television e SCREEN SSj J Chinese Cinema Escape from Saturday Night Movie THIS programme focuses on A GROUP of prisoners successfully JOHN Travolta and Debra Winger the life and work of Frank i break free from a maximum security star in this 1980 movie as a bickering Lloyd Wright, one
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1999 16 Television s I Alfred Hitchcock Presents Film Focus La Fiancee The Song of Thailand SCREEN M (9.30pm, SBC 5) r JBW Qui Venait Du Froid (3.00pm, SBC 8) WK GEMS M IN the first episode, Murder T BSSHI (10.30pm, SBC 12) I A HONGKONG musical drama in Mind, murder-mystery v
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  • UPDATE
    • 2515 19 ►CejTRESIAGE 4 A THE MAGIC TABLE. \w I Frieburg'sClassical Children's Theatre from West Germany presents a Grimm's fairy tale about a tailor who drives out his sons and their return with magical items. At the Drama Centre. At 8 pm today. 3 pm and
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    • 65 19 Singapore's own Tiong Tian Tong is equally at home with water colours, oils or pen and wash, local artist in his landscapes. His works have been exhibited from Manila to Japan. Tian Tong paints full time and is a life member of the Singapore Art Society and
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    • Article, Illustration
      199 19 CENTRESTAGE: German Z—J group brings to life one o1 irimm's fairy tales. At the )rama Centre. 8 pm. ~y( OUT AND ABOUT: Telok Y J Blangah Zone C RC :elebrates Its 10th anniversary. \t the car park in front of Blk >1. 7.30 pm. A Carnival Sale wll
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      100 19 BAREO Gallery Boutique is holding an exhibition featuring a wide range of Primitive Art from the Pacific. It's in conjunction with the International Shopping Week. Exotic items include Dance Masks from New Britiain, Yam Cult Sctupture and War shields from Papua New Guinea. Gallery consultant Phil Reid buys
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1548 20 RADKX3JDE Emm BHnEHHIEHiIQI l;lJ»lljjiMM?l ms aOS nTurJt?? 1 (Programmes in English) 6.00 am •am Breakfast Club: Great musical 6an Newshour 0.05 On Air Wake up to lovely melo- News la Brief entertainment to greet you on a 7.00 World News dies in thia early morning pro- Mews ia Brief aad
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  • 421 21  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang s I INGAPORE beauty queen Vivienne Chong was a big hit at the recent Miss Intercontinental 89 pageant in Nigeria. Pageant judges named the 19-year-old music student third runner-up from amongst 30 international beauties. And her demure Oriental looks made her popular
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  • 362 21  -  SATURDAYSOUNDS By Lim Sek MOST dance music these days could be described as disposable. Dance hits come and go at an alarming rate, and many albums try to make it on the strength of just one hit single. At the other extreme are albums
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  • 429 22 Oscar night when the most beautiful and glamourous gather to honour the best of their kind is not a night without hitches. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences faces a suit from Walt Disney for using a Snow White musical segment. And while
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  • 226 22 Wire services. "COUPLES, co-stars, compadres and companions" were presenters for the 61st Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. A nice touch but too clever by far for some. Hollywood reporters noted that the best Oscar shows have been emceed by
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  • 277 22 A Costly VETERAN actress Joanna Wong, in her 40s, will finally get to do her fire-eating act in Cairo. She especially wanted to show off her recent skill when her troupe, the Chinese Theatre Circle, was invited to perform at the Edinburgh Arts Festival
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  • 383 23  -  Four Loves Eng Wah cinemas Tonight REVIEW/ By Vivien Chiong A SEXPOT can't change her spots, it seems. Actress Nina Li Chi has been trying to show she is no bimbo. In Aces Go Places 5, screened here last month, she tried, rather unconvincingly, to
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  • 178 23 AP. KYLIE Minogue, chart-topping star of the television drama, Neighbours, was named Australian Recording Artist of the Year at the annual Variety Club awards on Thursday. Minogue, 22, had a string of hits in Australia and around the world last year, including I Should be
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  • 108 23  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Lo Tien Yin AFTER a TV supper of Academy Awards on Thursday, last night's fare seemed tasteless. For example, Curiocity (7 pm, SBC 5) started with an explanation on why people yawn. Two reasons either you're tired or you're bored. Yawning was contagious, the
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  • Article, Illustration
    230 23 A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese together in a witty comedy. Times: Cathay —11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pm. WORKING GIRL (Orchard and Marina 1) MELANIE Griffith plays a young woman from the wrong side of town who dreams of wheeling
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 96 24 SPUNKY READING. WW ■OVS& SINGAPORE Hr Options, opportunities a new optimism FEMINISM TODAY the modelling Working at the smaller agencies AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Rock-climbing comes to town OFF THE BATIK TRACK Ease down fashion's brand new route BIMBOS HEROINES We've come a long way, Hollywood or have we?
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 1224 26 FASTads 1 CDME I European distributor of low voltage electrical I products is looking for I 1) Senior Clerk I 2) Clerk/Typist I These personnel will assist the Sales Engineers I in their administrative work. I e Minimum G.C.E. "O" Level I e Knowledge of computing and word I processing
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  • SPOMTS/RACING
    • 427 27 BESTBET:RACE L AST year's champion trainer Teh Choon Beng has five runners in the Sultan's Gold 'Cup at KL on Sunday, and the game is to work out which of them will win. Though short of recent form it is known that Teh was keen to get
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    • 356 27 RACE 5 today looks a treat for racegoers. Even after the withdrawal of Batman, Pearls Bay and Hands Down there are still a few potential Class 1 gallopers left in the field and four of them are last start winners. Though he has
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  • SPORTS
    • 334 28 Singapore will not import a glass court from England for the World Squash Championships because of the cost. ALFONSO CHAN looks at the alternatives L ACK of a proper auditorium may devalue Singapore's efforts to make October's •World Squash Champion- ships one of the best ever. w
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    • 337 28 HONGKONG RUGBY SEVENS by SHAHIRON SAHARI SINGAPORE'S rugby team puts its supreme fitness to the test when it plays its two group matches in the 14th Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Invitation Sevens today. By the time you read this, coach Song Koon Poh's boys would have
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    • 141 28  -  By Alfonso Chan ZEES HAN Ali of India will have to play the qualifying rounds of the the Epson Singapore Super Tennis Grand Prix, to be held here from April 24-30. Zeeshan, who has risen to an ATP ranking of 140 this year, cannot make the main
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    • 225 28  -  BY Alfonso Chan IN a shock move, vice-president Leslie Shepherdson resigned from the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association an hour before its Annual General Meeting last night Shepherdson telephoned SAAA president Loh Lin Kok at spm and told him that he could not continue holding the position
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    • 266 28 MONEY outweighs talent. That is what a majority of the The New Paper readers feel. They were responding to last week's question "Which Comes First: Talent or Money?" "Money motivates," said Mr Mohd Gunos, a shipyard worker. "Even ministers need to be paid better so
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    • 326 29 AFP. NORMAN Whiteside's 12-month nightmare looks set to end tomorrow. He is poised for a return to the Manchester United side for its home game against English First Division leader Arsenal. The 23-year-old Northern Ireland international has been out of firstteam football since last April because of
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    • 134 29 Reuter. SWEDEN had Mikael Appelgren to thank for a magnificent victory over South Korea at the World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund yesterday. The marathon meeting lasted more than five hours. European champion Appelgren won all three of his matches, including the deciding ninth rubber against Kim Taek-soo,
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    • 182 29 Reuter. FORMER world champion Ross Norman was knocked out of the Monaco Open squash tournament quarterfinals yesterday. The Kiwi fourth seed lost 15-12, 15-12, 5-15, 15-13 to Zarak Jahan Khan, of Pakistan. Zarak started the match at a furious pace and his brilliant racket handling and speedy
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    • 287 29 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Golden State 113 Charlotte 104, Houston 109 New Jersey Nets 101, NY Knicks 99 Dallas 98, Denver 123 Seattle 116, Los Angeles Lakers 138 San Antonio 98, Sacramento 135 Phoenix 123. BOXING IBF featherweight: Jorge Paez (Mex) bt Calvin
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    • Article, Illustration
      262 29 Wire services. WORLD Cup soccer striker Julio Cesar Romero has signed for Barcelona. The size of the transfer fee paid to Brazilian club Fluminense for the Paraguayan was not disclosed. The move might signal the departure of English striker Gary Lineker who is being played out of position by
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  • PRESIDENT'SCUP
    • 402 30 Two contrasting teams battle for soccer's President's Cup tomorrow night. Defending champion Jurong has the stars and the money, underdog Police the guts and grit. Who will win? S GULAM examines the pros and cons WATCH out! The cops are ready to turn robbers tomorrow night.
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    • 268 31 JURONG Town FC has dismissed the Police threat as "nothing to fear". "They are like a vehicle without brakes," Jurong team manager K Suppiah described the policemen. "They play one-pace football on a one-way street. Everyone knows their style. "All their shots will
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 73 30 I WE WARMLY WELCOME A Mr Alberto Caberlotto 1 Vice President. 1 Lotto S.p.A. (Italy) and all delegates to the ISPO Asia '89. Visit us at ISPO Asia '89. April 2 to 5, 1989. Hall 5. Stand 5409. Talent Hi jj p winners in spori WINNERS IN LIFE. Newk Plus
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    • 579 31 I SATURDAY, APRIL 1,1989 13/89-6 I I Win $s,ooocadi j jackpot this week. J Cut out and attach with other coupons (Monday to Saturday) j Name: __JSex: j Address: I/C No: 11 Occupation: Age: j Tel. No: (0) (H) Lid coupon I" ——r—r—r——l April 1.1M9 N T 9« in I
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  • 44 32 DOMESTIC soccer's biggest day is tomorrow the President's Cup final. This year, it's between Jurong and Police. Our guide to the game features pen portraits of all 22 players and what their managers have to say. It could be anybody's game. HHHI
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  • 38 32 HIGH cost has prevented Singapore from importing a glass squash court from England for World Championships in October. But that's not going to stop the organisers from looking for alternatives, like borrowing one from next-door-neighbour Malaysia.
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