The New Paper, 8 April 1989

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  • Title Section
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    19 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY, APRIL 8/SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper
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      111 1 I Faadi Ahaad and Malek Awab don't want to play for Singapore in Pre-World Cup matches. They prefer going with their Kuala Lumpur team-mates to Europe. "It s important for us to be with the team.' Page 32 'FIRE SINKS 6 SOVIET N-SUB The Soviet Union's most modern nuclear submarine
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Welcome to the imperial dining table
    46 1 A feast for the eyes, too: These women in Qing dynasty costumes give a colourful start to an imperial banquet. Then 40 people get down to serious eating for almost six hours. Would you do it?/Page 3 Picture/ Aundry Gan
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Going... going... GONE! To CityDev
      186 2 THE BALL WITH A CAUSE THE electronic watch beeped. Nine o'clock already this morning in The New Pa- per newsroom. No higher bid came over the fax for The Ball With A Cause. So it goes to City Developments for $100,000! That could well earn
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      China, then US now Europe
      356 2 THE renewed splendour of Empress Place was just a gleam in Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's eye back in 1985 when he visited China. He proposed then that China stock a Singapore museum with exhibits. Both nations would benefit, he said, because it would help
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    • Article
      SORRY
      44 2 IN Thursday's report "Insurance cancer cover for women", we should have said that the American International Assurance (AIA) Company's Lifestyle Savings Plan for women is as follows: For $20,000 coverage over 24 years, a 20-year-old pays $1,126.60 a year, a 40-year-old pays $1,237.80.
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      Lock icon They're full with words — and food
      636 3  - They're full with words and food Stories/ Angeline Song WHAT do you talk about when you gather together for a $500-per-person dinner? Why food, of course. It was the main topic of conversation among the 40 people who turned up at the Furama Hotel last night for a 20-course Imperial
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      PM's visit: Final healing of wounds?
      425 3  -  By Augustine Low PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday made a two-hour visit to the USS Ranger, a United States aircraft carrier. It arrived here on a three-day port visit. The question on the minds of journalists covering the visit was: Why did the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Survey shows why people stay single
      428 4  -  By Harinder Gill w I HY do people not marry, or try to delay tying the knot? A survey conducted by the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) and the Association of Women for Action and Re- search (Aware) has thrown up some unusual
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      Chance for Nissan buyers to become millionaire
      198 4 TAN Chong motor-vehicle dealers are giving you a 1 in a 4,000 chance to be a millionaire. Of course, you first have to buy a Nissan car or commerical vehicle to take part in the charity lucky draw. At the same time, you
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      Magazine told to clean up its act
      264 5 A SAUCY magazine which started publication last month will have to clean up before it can publish any more. The Ministry of Communications and Information has called for all copies of the first issue of the monthly magazine, Artistic, to be withdrawn. However,
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      Lock icon School meals in a tent
      146 5 STUDENTS of Mei Chin Primary School have their recess in a tent. Their school canteen is undergoing renovations and has been cordoned off. The principal would not elaborate. "I think we have to use the tent for about a month/' said Alvin Chan, 11. "It
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      Parents get ill with exam fever too
      406 6  -  Fever, nausea, blackouts: Examinations can be traumatic for parents of students as well. The solution lies in positive thinking and reaching out to share your fears and frustrations By Irene Ng MANY students are allergic to examinations even minor ones such as class
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      SOME TIPS FOR STUDENTS
      84 6 ■Do not frighten yourself by imagining failure. Fear, frustration and guilt interfere with your concentration. Stay positive even after a bad paper. Do not brood and dwell on mistakes. Gather your resources and do your best in forthcoming papers. Do not frighten yourself by imagining failure.
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      THE OVER ANXIOUS STUDENT
      177 6 ■An Arts A Social Science graduate, 24, now a teacher: I CONSISTENTLY got very high fever during most of my exams. Sometimes also flu. I couldn't eat. Nor sleep. Even when I did, I would wake up in the middle of the night in a cold
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      THE OVER-ANXIOUS PARENT
      231 6 A businesswoman, 36: HE is my only son. I know I should not be kanchiong (Cantonese for anxious) but I can't help it. I tend to be very anxious. When my Primary 6 son sat for the PSLE, I lost my appetite. So I got gastric pains.
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      3 Muslim groups offer bursaries
      81 6 STUDENTS in junior colleges and pre-university centres can apply for bursaries from three Muslim organisations from Monday. The bursaries, for children of Singapore citizens only, are awarded by the Muslim Religious Council (Muis), Prophet Muhammad Birthday Memorial Scholarship Fund Board (LBKM) and MSE Angullia Muslim
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      GLOSSARY
      145 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. allegory: A play in which the characters and events represent good and bad qualities. conscience-stricken: Describes a person who feels guilty about something he has done. corsets: Women's undergarments
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      HALF TANK: Petrol bill passed after some name-calling
      522 8 PARLIAMENT Parliament sat for six hours with only a 15-minute break yesterday. It was the longest sitting so far this year. There were 15 questions for oral answer. Six bills were passed. Another was sent to a Select Committee. Parliament has adjourned
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      TWO-THIRDS: PUB to give up electricity, gas
      204 8 TWO of the three operations of the Public Utilities Board will be turned over to a new private utility company within five years. The private company will be more flexible in managing its affairs and serving consumers. Water operations will remain with the
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      PARTIAL CURBS: On Privy Council appeals
      281 8 PARLIAMENT has put more restrictions on the use of London's Privy Council as a court of final appeal for Singapore cases. It passed the Judicial Committee (Amendment) Bill. The bill restricts appeals in criminal trials to cases involving the death penalty or life imprisonment
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      BILLS PASSED
      85 8 The Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill. Prohibits tampering with a fuel gauge or driving a vehicle with a faulty one. Central Provident Fund (Amendment) Bill 1989. Allows use of CPF savings for low-cost insurance for CPF account holders. Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) (Amendment) Bill. Helps local
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      QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
      199 8 AMONG QUESTIONS ANSWERED: Opposition MP Mr Chiam See Tong (Potong Pasir) wondered how 10,000 Thai workers could slip into Singapore unnoticed. Home Affairs Minister S Jayakumar said almost 80 per cent had entered as visitors with valid documents. They later overstayed. Prof Jayakumar denied claims by some
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      84 5 THE NEW PAPER WIPE OUT PROMOTION FREE WIPEOUT (worth §7.751 WITH IS GUARANTFLO TO WORK OH YOUR MONE > tW K COUPON mnffsm KILLS WITHOUT A TRACE KmamSul for three months r. A r..;.rr r H One box comprises 6 stations I I For the first 200 persons today. j
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      120 6 WEEKLY DRAW 5 (MARCH 29 TO APRIL 4) WINNERS OF 3 SAMSUNG PORTABLE STEREO SETS (ST-A35) by courtesy of Prospere Pte Ltd ANG POH POH *****30 B JEFFREY LUA *****41-B LIMWUIMIN *****12-K WINNERS OF 3 DINNER VOUCHERS ($3O) by courtesy of Sanur Indonesian Restaurant PETER KOH *****57-1 ZAIDAH B. ZAINAL
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      349 7 fr Bring your J WORLD^ fun and enjoy our fascinat- I I l|m/l ll I with colour*™ materiaU arc JLyy 'Jexclusi^ sure y° ure P resent to w n lovely of f f \u I Bi microtwin, a vacuum cleaner and desk J ST^ lujl j^B| an s- Prizes kindly
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Canadian bus hijacker gives up
      363 9 Wire services. AN armed man hijacked a Canadian bus early this morning, holding it outside Canada's Parliament with hostages on board until police forced his surrender. The eight-hour drama ended when a half-dozen hostages left the bus and officers arrested at least one man. Passengers
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      Lock icon Afghan missile goes astray
      316 9 Wire services. PAKISTANI authorities say a Soviet-made Scud missile fired by Afghan government forces has exploded in Pakistani territory. No casualties were reported. Pakistan did not immediately react to yesterday's blast. No further details were available. There was no confirmation from Afghanistan. The missile blast came
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      Lock icon Soviet nuclear sub said to have sunk
      321 10 Wire services. A SOVIET nuclear submarine is believed to have caught fire and sunk north of Norway, US and Norwegian officials said today. US defence sources said at least 12 submariners may have perished. Other Soviet sailors were plucked from rubber lifeboats by
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      Lock icon Submarine fire is eighth such mishap
      247 10 Wire services. THE fire on board a Soviet submarine west of Norway was the eighth accident of its kind in the past 26 years. In October 1986, three crewmen were killed in an explosion and fire on board a missile-carrying Soviet nuclear sub off
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      Lock icon Violence rocks Jerusalem
      288 10 Wire services. THOUSANDS of Palestinians rioted after Muslim prayers at one of Islam's holiest sites, throwing stones at police who fired tear gas and rubber bullets. The violence at A 1 Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem came on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, a
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      Lock icon Setback to Namibian freedom plan
      292 10 Wire services. SOUTH Africa has declared that the UN timetable for Namibia's independence has been suspended. Pretoria said the schedule could not be followed in light of a week of fierce border clashes between guerillas and security forces that killed more than 280 people. It
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      Lock icon I lied to Congress but it's not unlawful: North
      275 10 Wire services. FORMER White House aide Oliver North has admitted that he lied to Congress about secret US support for Nicaraguan Contra rebels. North made the admission during a second day of testimony yesterday in his federal court trial. He is
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      Lock icon Rats! The service was bad
      145 11 Wire services. THE owner of a slum hotel in Los Angeles has been sentenced to live in his own rat-infested building for 100 days. Amiya K Goswami, 54, was ordered yesterday to stay inside the four-storey hotel near Mac Arthur Park 24 hours a day
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      Lock icon Quake shakes LA
      255 11 Wire services. AN earthquake shook Los Angeles skyscrapers and nearby coastal towns early today, cracking walls, bursting water mains and sending goods crashing off shop shelves. Police said first reports indicated only two injuries, a man who was hit by a falling picture and another who fell
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      Lock icon Nurses held for 'mercy killing'
      90 11 Wire services. TWO Austrian nurses are suspected of killing 10 patients at a Vienna hospital by giving them overdoses of insulin. Vienna police chief Guenther Boegl said yesterday the nurses were arrested after confessing to "administering medicines, partly out of misconceived notions of mercy-killing". Mr
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      Lock icon UN chief hails Hanoi's pullout pledge
      231 11 Wire services. UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar has hailed Vietnam's pledge to withdraw all its troops from Cambodia by the end of September. A spokesman said Mr Perez de Cuellar was notified of the decision on Thursday by Vietnam's UN envoy and the
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      Lock icon LONDON
      281 11 Wire services. THE threat of a British dock strike and its likely effect on the British trade balance, along with two depressing forecasts for the British economy, had shares marked lower on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times-30 share index closed down at 1,683. Volume fell to
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      Tokyo
      8 11 The Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today.
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      Indices/Closing
      51 11 FT Industrials Fri 1,683.00 (1,684.40) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,304.80 (2,291.97) ST Industrial Fri 1,186.66 (1,192.54) NST Industrial Fri 2,084.68 (2,091.99) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 3,024.09 (3,015.51) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,412.90 (1,424.00) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 33,185.05 (32,995.78) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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      Lock icon New YORK
      274 11 Wire services. THE New York stock market posted a moderate gain yesterday following what analysts described as an ambiguous report on US employment. The Dow Jones index of 30 blue chips closed at 2,304.80, up 12.83 points in moderately active trading. Volume totalled 156.95 million shares, against 146.53
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    Work and play in three JCs
    1036 12 Art, fun, sports and, well, studies too. KAREN GOH talks to first-year students at Nanyang, Catholic and St Andrew's about their junior colleges. Third in our series on JCs. YOUTHNOW NANYANG Opened in 1978 1988 A-level results: 67 per cent. NANYANG is the only
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      1256 13 RADIOGUIDE ESDI E33EHH lifVll'H'B mamaaiKinfll EnSHI NOON Mm la Brief NOON OeautifNl Music: A selection of NOON Nmm In Brief aad Weather N Track: Robs Tucker plays NOON NawidMk 12.09 Baal Faa: Join Roger Kool for instrumental* for your listening Napert the new cuts on album releases 12.30 Graad Natiaaal
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  • UPDATE
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      YOUR WEEKEND GUDE TO THE ACTION
      2445 14 SnOI'l'IN(;l EST X SHOPPING SUNG The \w\ Singapore Sling is world famous. But what to do to quench your thirst during shopping month? Down a Shopping Sling, of course. It's one of two special cocktaMs concocted Just for shopping month. Try the Shopping Sling
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      DON'T MISS:
      115 14 r I h■ r 1 I \rx SHOPPING FESlJ» so] I 1ZJ drink to remember the I shopping festival by. The Hilton I wiil pour you a Shopping I Memory or a Shopping Sling. I [7/f GAllEtY: Works by the I tea. TowtjT tov Victoria Concert TOMORROW Sentosa
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      EMPERORS' TREASURES AT EMPRESS PLACE
      112 14 You may remember The Empress Place as the old Immigration Office. Now it's been dusted off and beautifully-restored as a museum and its first exhibition has a royal bearing. Imperial Life in the Qing Dynasty features $80 million worth of priceless artefacts from the Shenyang
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      OWN AN ORIGINAL RENOIR.
      118 14 This simple black and white etching is the work of celebrated 19th century French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Now it can be yours for the right price. The dry-point etching is a form of print-making in which ane artist draws on a metal plate. Renoir's signature appears
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      1506 15 Television 4Eg| M Saturday Night Movie 1.1 J. *11 Centrestage Day after Roseanne Lovers Lane M 4. SCREEN M Absence of Malice ,$1 the Fair (Bpm, SBC 5) iff^ ijjl (10.25 pin, SBC 12) spending an evening out with the flfftl >» MICHAEL Gallagher picks DAY after the Fair is
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      42 16 The search is over. Digital Intro Scan, Index Search and Time Search help pin-point desired scenes without fast-forwarding through the whole tape. Also enjoy the digital fun of Multi-Strobe with 3-screen memory, picture picture, V* frame 68National w77i rnrluw«lictwci |HH|HNn|nn||P||l||||HnH|H|HHM f//m f»gg'"'»»
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      1648 16 Television PBMj M Film Focus —La Marseillaise Wild Refuge The Rocky Screen 5 Revolution s^j|v MH SCREEN m (French, with English subtitles) Mountain Adventures (Debut) (9.30 pm, SBC 5) m In GEMS W (s.ls p m t SBC 12) (6.30pm, SBCS) ™IS 1985.dramastars A 1 Pacino M W/L 4 IST*
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  • UPDATE
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      YOUR WEEKEND GUDE TO THE ACTION
      2455 19 Sikmm'IN; I'Est r—y SHOPPING 8LING. The \w\ Singapore Sling is world famous. But what to do to quench your thirst during shopping month? Down a Shopping Sling, of course. It's one of two special cocktails concocted just for shopping month. Try the Shopping Sling
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      DON'T MISS:
      173 19 TODAY V77C SHOPPING FEST: IHI drink to remember the shopping festival by. The Hilton will pour you a Shopping Memory or a Shopping Sling. (T/T GALLERY: Works by the I r J man who made the Mona Lisa. See prints of masterpieces by the master Leonardo Da Vinci.
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      EMPERORS' TREASURES AT EMPRESS PLACE
      112 19 You may remember The Empress Place as the old Immigration Office. Now it's been dusted off and beautifully-restored as a museum and its first exhibition has a royal bearing. Imperial Life in the Qing Dynasty features $80 million worth of priceless artefacts from the Shenyang
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      OWN AN ORIGINAL RENOIR.
      118 19 This simple black and white etching is the work of celebrated 19th century French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Now it can be yours for the right price. The dry-point etching is a form of print-making in which ane artist draws on a metal plate. Renoir's signature appears
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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      1526 20 RADKX3UIDE tmsm E2M!IS EMMSM nmnniHtifli innsHi 000 am News la Brief (Programmes in English) iOOaaNm in Brief aid Weather 1.00aai Breakfast Club: Great OemNewsheer MB Oa Air Wake up to lovely melo- i -OOaei News ie Brief Report musical entertainment to greet 7.00 World News dies in this early morning
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  • Showtime
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      Andy tipped to beat Chow
      533 21 Hongkong's best will vie for the country's top film awards tomorrow. VIVIEN CHIONG reports on the hot favourites B I ARELY two weeks after the Oscars comes Hongkong's own film awards tomorrow. And this year, Chow Yun Fatt is tipped to win, not an acting
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      Lock icon Pfeiffie: My looks no asset
      753 22 BM Features. B "I EING blonde and beautiful isn't necessarily a plus if you're an actress. I At least, that's what Michelle Pfeiffer says 'and she ought to know. She has been out there trucking with her blue dazzlers and drop-dead beauty for 13 years.
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      SATURDAYSOUNDS
      228 22  -  Songs from Donna Summer predictable By Lim Sek FACT is stranger than fiction, especially in the entertainment business. Reigning dance floor queen Madonna is changing direction with her latest release, Like a Prayer, to gain some musical credibility. And ex-disco diva Donna Summer seems to be clutching at the
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      QUICKTAKES
      300 22 THE DEAD POOL (Capitol, Republic 2) THE fifth in a series of Dirty Harry movies. Clint Eastwood, as Inspector Callahan, is the hunted as much as the hunter. He's stalked by a crazy man playing a game called The Dead Pool. Times: Capitol: 11 am, 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15
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      Lock icon Good actors do join police force
      463 23  -  By Vivien Chiong BOTH play cops one, a go-getter; the other, a down-and-outer. But in real life, Danny Lee doesn't seem as energetic as the on-the-ball police inspector he usually plays. On the other hand, veteran actor Tsang Kong, who has had many a
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      Impressive line-up in film about killer with a heart
      412 23  -  The Killer Cathay cinemas Friday, Saturday midnight show Sunday morning show review/by Vivien Chiong THE credits in The Killer are impressive. The director, John Woo of A Better Tomorrow fame, was the one who brought the so-called underworld hero movies to
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      Alamak! 2 plays so Chinese!
      601 24  -  REVIEW/ By Wong Sing Yeong A LAMAK! What's this, man? Two Malay plays by Chinese actors done in Mandarin? Adoi gila, how can? It was with much scepticism that I strolled into the I Victoria Theatre to watch Practice Theatre Ensemble's Alamak! on the opening
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      Art and acting interact on stage
      365 24 IMAGINE a performance where the actors and backdrops are constantly moving and paint is splashed on the canvasses every now and then. And if all this is not activity enough, puppets will pop out of the balconies of the classrooms that overlook the basketball
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      Wrestling still the same
      165 24 OSEENLASTNKSHT I NEVER watch wrestling on TV. Not because I hate violence. There's no violence in TV wrestling just big hunks acting out childhood fantasies in the ring. Out of curiosity, I switched to Superstars of Wrestling last night. Just to see how the Great TV
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      198 23 THE NEW PAPER DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS CAPTION CONTEST Easy to enter Judging Write a fumy captor for either Winners wi be selected by a panel P OO j ctures from The New Paper. Eresindo Trading featured on this page. and Warner Brothers. The judges' Send yew entries to decision wi
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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      105 26 SPUNKY READING. SIH6UIN M. SINGAPORE Hjr... Options, opportunities a new optimism FEMINISM TODAY Will survive into the >BBBm 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 ft HEROINES We've come a
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      138 26 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne I I'LL NJEVEIZ FO(Z&bt WHAT I] u MAPPY WB KMBW MAeAfZ SAIP WMeN ME J« <£/V£ YoU HEARTS fZieMT 1 L pvoposev... evefiTfTMNG Youtz talk P\&*T ?n. \a LITTLB ÜBAfZT J >\T^ AllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill >t I.oo*\ \AH P THAT KNIIS UP TMfc A
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Nigel's the key player
      380 27 AFP, Reuter. LITTLEWOODS CUP STRIKER Nigel Clough holds the key to father Brian's chances of lifting the first leg of a unique treble in tomorrow's Littlewoods Cup soccer final against holder Luton. "If Clough plays well, Forest plays well," pointed out Luton manager Ray Harford. He
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      Lock icon SPORTSLINE
      229 27 Wire services. THE International Tennis Federation may start drug-testing although officials believe the game is drug-free. ENGLAND opener Chris Broad, whose controversial on-field behaviour and loss of form led to him being dropped, has been given the chance to re-establish his Test career. He has been named by England's
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