The New Paper, 7 April 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 SO CENTS
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    • 83 1 III11] mil 111— r_--" ROBBERY SUSPECT IS FAST BUT POLICE ARE FASTER /Paga 4 i BIG FIGHT AT RUMOURS DISCO /Pago 6 MARCOS MAY ESCAPE TRIAL US prosecutors tell judge in New York that Ferdinand Marcos is too sick to be tried with wife Imelda. The pair is accused of
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    • 68 1 ROCK AT RACE COURSE A promoter is angling to use the Bukit Turf Club as the site for outdoor rock concerts. The sound of music would replace the sound of hoofbeats, but only on weekdays. Pago 14 EATING FIBRE AND LIKING IT Our food writer finds that a meal with
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  • 37 1 Doctors Centre day, and they put on dancing shoes to tune up for ball. Here Dr Lee See Chung, 28, I cuts a rug with a colleague. /Pago 3 Picture/ David Tan
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 158 2 NST A CHILD paralysed from birth died when he was thrown from the sixth storey of a hospital block in Klang, Malaysia, on Wednesday. His mother, 40, has been detained for questioning. The police have sent her for psychiatric observation. Four-year-old Leong Heng Shoon had
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    • 483 2 Wire services. OUSTED Filipino leader Ferdinand Marcos won a key victory this morning in his bid to avoid trial on criminal charges in New York. Federal prosecutors told a judge that they now agree with his claim that he is too ill to
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    • Article, Illustration
      630 3  -  They bop. They hop. And waltz away their lunch hour. Doctors, nurses and other hospital staff meet three times a week to swing By Chitra Rajaram I T makes the doctors feel good. It also brings smiles to the faces of nurses, clerks, and A A maintenance officers
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 28 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over several areas in the early afternoon. Max temp: 31 deg. Min: 24 deg. Sunset: 7.10 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.02 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 417 4  -  By Yusman Ahmad THREE policemen practically ran an obstacle race on Wednesday night to catch a suspected robber. They sprinted up one slope and down another, climbed two road barriers, balanced on a narrow path over a two-me-tre drain and dashed across a busy
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    • 203 4 FOUR shops learnt a hard lesson this week. Never rely on shutters and weak locks. And never keep cash loose in drawers. The shops were broken into on the same night at the Singapore Shopping Centre this week. Nearly $9,000 in cash and
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    • 389 4 A WOMAN boss of a food shop let her employee stay a few days at her home when he was evicted by his landlord. He repaid her by stealing more than $10,000 in cash and valuables. The woman, Ms Su Meiling,
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    • 397 5 SCUBA-DIVERS are gearing up for their biggest catch in Singapore. Their national organisation, the Singapore Underwater Federation (SUF), is confident their passion will not stay a submerged sport for much longer. This follows Government recognition of scuba-diving as one of those sports that would encourage
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    • 59 5 STOCKBROKER Khoo Soo Seng has been re-elected president of the Singapore Underwater Federation. This is his fourth term as president. Mr Johnny Han is vice-president, Mr Peter Teo is serving his sixth term as secretary, and Mr Eric Cheong is treasurer. Dato Brian Chang is patron of
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    • 339 6  -  By Chua Chin Chye A BLOODY brawl broke out at a packed discotheque early Sunday morning. It sent three teenagers and a Scottish tourist bystander to hospital. A stunned Mr Steve Piewell, 34, and wife Karen cut short their visit here and went home to
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    • 233 6  -  By Yusman Ahmad MUSLIMS in Singapore start their fast today, the first day in the month of Ramadan. For this month, Muslims deny themselves food, liquids, cigarettes and sex throughout the daylight hours. Fasting is one of five pillars of Islam, along with
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    • 447 6  -  NEWBEAT This column tells you about the various activities of the People's Association. It is written by the PA's assistant director (programmes). Newßeat will appear every Friday. By! Esther Tan FOR those of you who like traditional Chinese music but'have problems identifying the various
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 398 8  -  Poly students display innovative projects such as a cinema ticket dispenser and a motorcycle running on solar energy Stories/ Geneieve Kwek MOVIE buff Nicholas Tan and his friends got tired of queuing for cinema tickets. So they came up with a computer system which,
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    • 357 8 Solar-powered motorcycle THERE'LL be one less vehicle revwing up fumes on the road. This motorcycle depends on the sun for its energy. Four panels with about 150 solar cells take in energy from the sun and store it in the battery pack. At night, this
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    • 140 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. acoustics: The quality of sound. arbitrarily: Describes the act of doing something that does not take into account the wishes of the people affected, and which cannot be stopped
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 380 9 Free from Technics. 100 dollarsss to ssspend in the Ifear of the Sssnake. To celebrate the Year of the Snake, Technics are giving away either an Then there's the convenience of features like full remote control opera#Bo or #100 Tangs shopping voucher with every midi hifi system tion and a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 270 10 Wire services. MOSCOW is said to have unofficially pledged to allow Soviet citizens to file human rights complaints with international investigators. Two UN human rights experts reported the agreement yesterday at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Soviet acceptance would be an extension of President Mikhail
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    • 73 10 Wire services. AIDS is gaining popularity among Danish teachers in Copenhagen. However, this Aids is the name of a board game, not of the dread disease. Teachers use it in discussions of student attitudes towards the disease. Teachers say the game also enables them to
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    • 60 10 Refugees: These Vietnamese tried to swim to shore when low tide kept their boat From getting close to a jetty at Kuala Trengganu. They were stopped by Malaysian security forces. The boat, carrying some 150 Vietnamese illegal immigrants, Uuided near the jetty on Wednesday. The boat
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    • 252 10 Wire services. FOR the first time, Singapore is joining in a United Nations peacekeeping mission. It will send 21 policemen to help stop the fighting in war-torn Namibia. A government announcement yesterday said the action was taken at the urgent request of the UN. A
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    • 340 11 Wire services. T I i HE Soviet Union worries that the US could be swinging away from co-operation towards old-style superpower confrontation. Uneasiness about the Bush administration was sounded by President Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday after talks with British Premier Margaret Thatcher. President Gorbachev is in London
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    • 157 11 Wire services. THE US has appointed a special envoy as an ambassador to the rebel forces in Afghanistan. However, the move does not amount to formal recognition of the government-in-exile, a US official said in Washington yesterday. The official said President George
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    • 199 11 Wire services. THE $2 million bond imposed on the captain of the supertanker involved in America's worst oil spill has been slashed to $50,000. Judge Thomas Stark said yesterday that the huge bond was "not commensurate with the seriousness of the crime" charged against Capt Joseph Hazelwood.
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    • 132 11 Wire services. AIJ UNEMPLOYED Filipino has been charged with the horrific "human torch" murders in London's Chinatown. Police said yesterday that Victor Castigador, 34, of East London, would be brought up in court on murder charges today. Castigador allegedly took part in a raid
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    • 233 11 Wire services. CHINA has allowed five development experts into Lhasa the first foreigners admitted since martial law was imposed in Tibet last month. They were sent by the West German government to set up a leather factory. Lhasa has been isolated from foreign contact
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    • Article, Illustration
      44 12 Short break: An elderly Lebanese makes use of the uneasy calm in west Beirut to look for odds and ends in a pile of garbage. Fierce fighting between rival forces in recent weeks has claimed more than 159 lives. Picture/ AfP
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    • 216 12 Wire services. A CASH pinch threatens China's industry and has triggered protests among workers angry at not being paid. The official People's Daily said yesterday that the credit squeeze is part of a policy of economic austerity. It has left many factories unable to pay their
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    • 223 12 Wire services. TAMIL militants blew up a truck carry ins Indian troops in northern Sri Lanka killing at least 18 of them. Military officials in Colombo said sis more were killed later in a gun battle witl the fleeing guerillas yesterday. The truck was
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    • 301 13 Wire services. u i S PRESIDENT George Bush has given qualified backing to an Israeli proposal to hold elections in the occupied territories. The plan for elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip was outlined yesterday by Israeli Premier Yitzhak Shamir. He was on a
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    • 105 13 Wire services. WALT Disney Co has dropped its lawsuit over the use of a Snow White look-alike in the Oscars Awards TV show. The announcement in Los Angeles yesterday came after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologised for its blooper. "The academy
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    • 173 13 Wire services. A BIG coming out party was held in New Delhi for a new book, The Holy Verses written as a literary antidote to The Satanic Verses. The publication ceremony yesterday was attended by Indian ministers, diplomats from Islamic countries and New Delhi-based
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 312 10 To Stop all Imitations Presenting the New-Look 1018 Hair Liniment in Ultra-Modern Packaging Launched Exclusively By Liang Zheng Enterprises When you have a good product, everyone i rT -i wants to cash in. Now, to end the problem of imitations, Liang Zheng Enterprises, with the support of the 101 series
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 73 11 I 1 I* SALERO BAGINDO I Authentic Nasi Padang Restaurant From Indonesia J Enjoy our J $9.90+ BUDGET MEAL FOR TWO I (only serve between 2.00pm 7.00pm) I I Cut out this advertisement today in I exchange for a Rojak Serut I mnntr. J U6, Raffles Boulevard 103-230, Marina Square
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      259 12 Wire services. SHARE prices on the London Stock Exchange closed sharply lower yesterday. Dealers said the market failed to gain any support from the large financial institutions. The Financial Times 30 share index closed 21.2 points lower at 1684.2. Volume was a healthy 758.3 million shares, compared with 440.7
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    • 92 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on some bargain-hunt-ing after yesterday's sharp drop. Investors will be mostly sidelined ahead of the weekend and U.S. March employment figures due out, brokers said. The Nikkei index firmed 46.10 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 33,041.88 in 10 minutes of trade. It fell
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Thu 1,684.20 (1,705.40) Dm Jones Avmgi Thu 2,291.97 (2,304.80) ST Industrial Thu 1,192.54 (1,191.26) NST Industrial Thu 2,091.99 (2,087.12) Hssgfcosg Hang Sang Thu 3,015.51 2,991.96 Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,424.00 (1,425.70) Nikkei Stock Averaga Thu 32,995.78 (33,360.79) Figure* in bracket* refer to thoee of the previous trading
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      264 12 Wire services. THE stock market declined in sluggish trading on Wall Stree yesterday as investors cautiously awaited monthly statistics on U.S. employment. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 12.83 points to close at 2,291.97. Declining issues outnumbered advances by about 3 to 2 on the New
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  • 484 14  -  Showtime By Vivien Chiong I NSTEAD of rocking to the thunder of hooves, the Bukit Turf Club could switch now and then to the blare of pop music. Like Hongkong's Shatin racecourse, which is used to hold giant variety shows, Bukit's grandstands are looked
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 29 14 Wefcotries AMO BfIND Jr. from CManila back to ourcfub and introducing Singapore s I J"' > recording rock artistes Rcser\ations: LOVE HUNTER Celebrities: 1, Claymore Drive, Orchard Towers (Rear Block)
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1250 15 Television iSS! SCREEN Tomorrow's World Feature Special The Two Mrs Horizon The Magma Chamber GEMS (10.30pm, SBC 5) A BIG volcanic eruption anywhere Dwy| THIS episode takes a look at BILLY and Ann Grenville have world can cause^problems robotic j Bi^ me programme examines evidence from Lwas never legally divorced
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  • spotlight
    • 860 16 IT'S almost two decades since the killing fields of Cambodia have been this close to peace. First, the Vietnam War spilled over the border as the US bombed and then invaded in search of North Vietnamese supply routes and battlefield headquarters. Then, in 1975, the proWestern Government
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    • 103 16 ■Collaborated with Khmer Rouge to help it topple the pro-Western Lon Nol Government in Phnom Penh. ■Fell oat with Khmer Rouge after it embarked on murderous reconstruction policy. ■Invaded Cambodia in December 1978 and toppled Khmer Rouge after short war. ■Virtually ran Cambodia through puppet regime in Phnom Penh,
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    • 70 16 ■United in opposing Vietnam's dream to be dominant nolitical/military power in Southeast Ada. ■Insist that Hun Sen Government must be replaced by a coalition prior to an election. ■Has not been able to resolve problem of whether non-communist resistance forces pro-Sihanouk factions and KPNLF are strong enough to restrain
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    • 261 16 VIETNAM has problems. Over four decades of almost non-stop war have bled it dry. It needs to cut military spending to revive a virtually bankrupt economy. Hanoi has been trying to tempt Asean businessmen by hinting of fortunes to be made if they can pressure their governments
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 471 17 Write a caption and win yourself a Polaroid Impulse camera or free tickets to the newly opened film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Coupons for the caption contest are in today's (see advertisement below) and tomorrow's paper, so you'll have two chances to enter. Main prizes are 10
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    • 320 17 NYT. "PEOPLE think Steve, doing wild comedy, is out of control," says Frank Oz about Steve Martin, who co-stars with Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. "He's never out of control," continues the director whose new film is being praised for its combination of gut
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    • Article, Illustration
      153 17 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. RAIN MAN (Prince 1, Changi 1) A HEART-WARMING tale of fraternal love. Stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Times: Prince 1 11
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    • 728 18  -  By Wong Sing Yeong IT is the season for new television shows. We've seen in the last few weeks a number of American series making debuts on SBC Roseanne, Max Headroom, Murphy Brown, Dirty Dozen, The Man Who Lived at the Ritz, to name a
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    • 268 18 THINK non-stop music and you think of Singapore's Radio 10 or Batam-based Zoo 101.6. But a little known radio station in Johor Baru has also been offering non-stop music since August last year. Known as Radio Malaysia Johor Bahru or RMJB, the station began
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    • 527 19 Reuter. WHEN Helen Reddy first heard the song I Am Woman in the 1970s, she could not get it out of her mind. Record producers and friends told her to forget it, the song was too radical for the time. "I was advised by
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    • Article, Illustration
      410 19  -  By Debbie Henson THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: LOVE JUNK (Pacific Music) IF two vans crashed one carrying the group AC/DC and the other Abba you would end up with Pursuit of Happiness. For that is how they sound. The infectious single, I'm an Adult Now, is a witty number
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    • 75 19 ROY Orbison is the first singer since Elvis Presley to have two albums in the top 5 posthumously, says Billboard columnist Paul Grein. Traveling Wilbury is No 4, and Mystery Girl just below it. In 1977, months after his death, Presley scored with Moody Blue
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 25 19 (Cockpit jMoiel TRADITIONAL SUNDAY TIFFIN CURRY at the Travellers' Palm Restaurant Terrace For reservation, please call: *****01(Direct), *****11 est 115/116 Oxley Rise/Penang Road, Singapore 0923
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 416 20  -  By Lim Swee Hong "HOW can any food with little fat, salt or sugar, moderate cholesterol and a lot of fibre taste great?" This is the candid reply of one hotel's public relations manager when I asked her how tasty the hotel's Nutrition Week offerings
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    • 722 20 AT least 30 food outlets have created nutritious dishes according to the demanding guidelines of the Health Ministry low fat, low sugar, low salt, moderate cholesterol and high fibre. So there is no excuse for not eating right, at least for the next seven
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 364 21  -  Stories/ Brenton Wong FOR Italian designer Luciano Soprani, clothes are worn to flatter the body. Flamboyant, outrageous designs are not for him. He favours feminine, tailored clothes. "I design for the modern woman," said the designer in Italian. He is in Singapore to personally present his latest
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    • 186 21 COMING fashion events for the Singapore International Shopping Festival: SILK ROUTE Fashion show organised by China Silk House, featuring models from China and designs from six designers. April 22 dinner show at i ?*<*•* at |80 nett can be obtained from Mandarin Hotel or China Silk
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 145 22 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne II Ml I WMY PONT Wg MAVg A QOV life AllgUStß/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill f fcAM-AAUI* Y*« IT! MY Ptt?Pg* ANP Ml?* tfWNCY GAVE MB A A AM&eMAWfc NAMP tfUW.W HYPHEN ft* MY WfcTUDAY J V y KNOW, Bin MY FWW&S- J ___LV Jlv-t.. Jt
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1267 24 RADKX3UDE CQHEmiIBBH i;ia>iiaaikiniJl IM9HH NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News ia Brief aad Weather NOON Good Musk, Company ad Me: NOON 12.05 Lunchdate y«,y R*P*rt A musical treat to keep you 12.30 Short Story: See Air Raves. 1.00 News and Weather Report 12.05 Yesterdays: Recapturing the fa-
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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    • 814 25 EMPLOYMENT I 1 H REDIFFUSION j InvttesappMcatlons lor: J Mm O level with credit in English Ability to speak fluent English Basic knowledge of music Please submit your application to: Manager of Programmes Redlffuslon (S) Pte Ltd 1 Jalan Selanting Singapore 2159 Or Ring *****18 for an appointment STRIKER'S BOWL
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  • SPORTS
    • 238 26 THE Macau Jockey Club has lured one of Singapore's top jockeys to ride there when it begins racing in September. Two-time local champion jockey Leslie Khoo has accepted an offer to ride for Hongkong trainer Jerry Ng Chi Lam. He submitted his letter to
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    • 376 26  -  Stories/ Dennis Chia FEAR of iosing their livelihood has united groups of trackwatchere who previously did not speak to each other at all K The New Paper reported yesterday that Singapore-based trainers have C posed to the Bukit Turf Club to observers at morning trackwork, except when
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    • 273 26 MANA Tabu 11, who showed a return to form when third to Story Teller II last week, has a bright chance of greeting the judge this week. In his winding up gallop at Kuala Lumpur this morning, he was eager to go but had to
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    • 303 26 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Atlanta 135 Philadelphia 93, Phoenix 114 Utah 104. SOCCER East German Div 1: Karl-Marx-Stadt 2 Stahl Brandenburg 2, Magdeburg 2 Dynamo Berlin 2, Rot-Weiss Erfurt 2 Lokomotive Leipzig 1, Union Berlin 1 Energie Cottbus 0, Wismut Aue 2 Carl
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    • 125 27 AFP. STRIKER Gary Lineker prefers to join Fiorentina rather than Tottenham, according to a report in The Daily Mirror. While Tottenham has offered $10.2 million for Lineker compared to Fiorentina's bid of $5.78 m, the London club would not be able to match the Italians' wage structure.
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    • 130 27 AFP. ENGLAND manager Bobby Robson has branded Kevin Keegan a traitor, following yet another unprovoked attack on him. Robson finally broke his silence on Keegan's continuing criticism of his management of the national side, which he says he can improve on. "It's diabolical," raged Robson.
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    • 181 27 EUROPE KICKOFF: ENGLAND AFP. ARSENAL'S stuttering bid for the English League soccer title has suffered another savage blow as it prepares for tomorrow's home match against Everton, a team with only two wins in its last 12 League games. With leading scorer Alan Smith ruled out earlier
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    • 278 27 EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY, SPAIN, W GERMANY. HOLLAND Reuter. AC MILAN and Napoli have little time to recover from fine midweek performances before a crucial League clash on Sunday. Milan is in buoyant mood after a disappointing, injuryhit start to the season and will be able to
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    • 99 27 Reuter. CHINA'S Olympic silver-medallist Li Huifen crashed out of the World Championships yesterday, beaten by little-known North Korean An Hui-suk. Li, who had been seeded to meet Olympic champion Chen Jing in the women's final, put up little resistance as An won 22-20, 21-13, 21-15 in the
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS
    • 547 28  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan s CHOOLS unknown for their cross-country prowess tore into the established fabric of this year's national championships at MaI cßitchie Reservoir yesterday. The days when Jurong Secondary School or Victoria Junior College dominated are over. A fine example was Whitley Secondary School, which
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    • 384 28  -  By Gulam RIVER Valley High School is in contention for three titles in the National Schools table tennis championship. It has qualified for the quarterfinals of the B Division Boys and Girls events as well as the C Division Girls. River Valley could have
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    • 244 28 HER ninth-place finish of a year ago was what motivated Feng Zijuan of Jurong Secondary School to victory thig year. "I had only started running just a little bit last year when I was in secondary one, although I first ran the cross-country in
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  • SPORTS
    • 114 29 EVERY star has his following. Malaysian international Kevin Nunis, who played for Singapore Recreation Club in its opening Premier League match, was the main attraction at the Padang yesterday. The big turnout was therefore no surprise but what was encouraging was the number of students
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    • 356 29  -  By Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE'S hopes in its Davis Cup tie against Bangladesh, beginning at Dhaka today, hinges on its doubles combination of Liu Wai Yaw and Melwin Pereira. They play Bangladesh's Shovon Jamaly and Faisal Rahman tomorrow, after today's singles' matches which, Singapore manager
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    • 202 29  -  By Alfonso Chan THE Singapore Squash Rackets Association has flown Ernest Tan to England to boost the Republic's team in its training-cum-competi-tion stint there. The 20-year-old Polytechnic student left here on Tuesday with national coach Zainal Abidin to join Anthony Chua, Peter Hill, Simon Yang
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
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  • UPDATE
    • 778 30 FRIDAY Shopping Fest I —JOHN LITTLE, at Specialist Shopping Centre. 1 Malaysian artist Salleh Hussein demonstrates batik painting. Store Is open from 10 am to 9 pm. GALERIES LAFAYETTE Your chance to catch art and craft demonstrations as well as to do some shopping. Store is
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    • 16 30 SHOPPING FEST: Promotions in shopping centres CENTRESTAGE: Peranakan impersonator COMING UP: A new cartoonist
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