The New Paper, 10 April 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1989 MO <P) 179/4/86 50 CENTS
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  • 76 1 With a revolver on her hip, a white Namibian mother is ready to protect her children on a remote farm. Whites, worried about guerilla attacks on their homesteads, are arming themselves. More than 200 soldiers and rebels have been killed in combat since April 1. The fighting
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  • 37 1 The Marina Square shopping complex becomes a giant catwalk every weekend or public holiday. For teenagers like 16-year-old Susan Chin (above). "We stand around, chat and look at people. Page 3 Picture/ SlMON KER
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 316 2 THERE is always a risk of chemical accidents happening, even in Singapore." So clear guidelines and emergency plans are necessary, Environment Minister Dr Ahmad Mattar said in a speech he is to deliver this morning. Human error is often the cause of accidents, and so the
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    • 107 2 Wire services. BRITISH Transport Secretary Paul Channon yesterday ordered a new investigation into reports of sub-standard security on Pan Am airliners in Britain. This action was announced as The Sun newspaper prepared to release a report that a reporter was allowed to wander unsupervised
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    • 51 2 Reviving 1 memory: Elvis lives again or, at least, his band does. Swiss Steve Payntor (left) has achieved such note as an Elvis impersonator that two of The King's original musicians have joined him in concert Among them are James Burton (centre) and Jerry Wilkinson. Picture/
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    • 161 2 A STUDENT caught misusing and using the NTI and NUS computer systems without authority has been suspended and fined. The boy is a second-year civil and structural engineering student at the Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI). His punishment is that he be suspended from
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    • 269 2  -  By' Yusman Ahmad THE two Filipino maids found with slashed wrists in a Lucky Plaza toilet yesterday had been "close friends for the last six months". "They're always together on their days off," said one of their friends, also a maid here. Another said
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    • 715 3  -  By Loh Tuan Lee f OR hordes of teenaged fashion plates, the Marina Square Look is it And the best place to see it is, of course, Marina Square. On Saturdays and holidays, the shopping complex becomes a teenagers' catwalk. That's when, clad in their
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 29 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers expected over several areas in the late afternoon. Max temp: 32 deg. Min: 24 deg. Sunset: 7.09 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.01 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 440 4  -  By Augustine Low SOME private school principals are upset over the Singapore Bus Service policy of not giving their students bus concession passes. At least two of them claim that SBS has not stated on what grounds it will issue concession passes despite being asked many
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    • 377 4 MANY came to get a-whiff of China's ancient history. Some looked for the royal robes. Others came to see what $24 million had done for old Empress Place. Whatever the reason, from 9 am to 9 pm yesterday, people streamed through
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    • 55 4 THIEVES broke into an office and stole more than $16,000 in cash and a $5,000 Rolex watch. Mr Ler Hock Cheuk, 41, of Hai Huat Suppliers in Depot Lane told police he found the premises broken into on Saturday morning. He had secured his office at
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 176 5 A centre of the future needs your name today. Singapore Telecom is currently developing of life in the Singapore of tomorrow. the mezzanine floor of Comcentre for the public And because this centre is for the public, to have hands-on experience on state-of-the-art you are invited to give it a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 311 6  -  By Geneieve Kwek H 'ERE'S something to chew on during lunch: People are more careful about what they eat nowadays but not careful enough. A nutritionist said this after checking out what four Singaporeans ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner in a day. The
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      129 6 Housewife Mrs Ellen Lee, 44. Breakfast: Glass of warm water, cup of coffee with fresh milk but no sugar, glass of orange juice. Piece of sponge chocolate cake with chocolate. Lunch: One plate of steamed rice, chicken chops deep fried with bread crumbs. Claypot fried tau foo with
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    • 119 6 Engineering student Nicholas Tan, 20. Breakfast: Two teaspoons of Nescafe followed by two tablespoons of Nestum milk powder. Two hard boiled eggs with soya sauce and pepper. Lunch: Glass of bandung, a drink of milk and rose syrup. Roast chicken rice. Dinner: Glass of water. Steam tau
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      112 6 Secretary Ms Joyce Fernandez, 30s. Breakfast: Coffee with one-and-a-half teaspoons of white sugar. Two slices of white bread with polyunsaturated margarine. Lunch: One plate of roast chicken rice with cucumber and lettuce. Fish ball soup with tanghoon. Dinner: One glass of Diet Pepsi. Three slices of three-inch wide
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    • 131 6 Sales manager John Ong, 30s. Breakfast: Packet of lemon barley magnolia. A bowl of noodles fish balls with lots of chilli sauce, fish cake and bean sprouts. Lunch: A glass of warm water. A sixinch ribeye steak. A green salad of let- tuce, tomato, onions and cucumber with
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    • 315 6 SINGAPORE'S first art auction yesterday drew a cool response. Only four out of 12 art works were sold. Eight of the art works did not fetch any bid at all. Some art collectors felt that it was because Singaporeans were not enamoured
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    • 151 6 THE transport industry is shooting for a financial hole in one in its first golf tournament for charity it plans to raise $500,000. Almost 600 players from transport, manufacturing and business circles signed on to compete in the Transport Industry Charity Golf Tournament.
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    • 97 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. aspiring: Would-be. cliched: Describes something that is common and not original. contaminants: That which makes water impure. cost-effective: Describes something that saves a lot of money compared with the
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    • 473 7 HAD the Sentosa Baby of the Year Contest been a fancy-dress competition, little See Khia How could have won hands down. The 16-month-old boy was dressed in an arresting red Taiwanese aborigine-style (the "Alishan") outfit, bought in Taiwan, of course. In mummy's
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    • 111 7 YOU can glimpse other parts of the world and sample international food without leaving Singapore if you visit Travel World 89 It opens on April 19 with the theme: Changi Airport presents the Airlines and their Worlds. Highlights of the show at Changi International
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    • 162 8 s I INCE their work is so similar in many aspects, two uniformed .groups engaged in rescue work I have decided to merge. The Singapore Civil Defence Force and the Singapore Fire Service began to mesh together last November. Three integrated departments were set up to
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    • 93 8 This plan is to be outlined today by the Minister for Home Affairs, Professor S Jayakumar, in the 1989 SCDF/SFS workplan seminar in the Environment Building theatrette. The integrated headquarters will be responsible for all work involved in the planning, training and administration of the two forces. Professor Jayakumar said
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    • 334 8 MAILBOX Dear Editor, I WRITE in defence of the Yellow Pages ban on visiting massage parlours. I disagree with the views raised by "Katherine" (TNP, March 13). (Katherine, sole proprietor of a visiting agency, said in her letter she was confused about the ban. Her
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    • 241 8 I AM a regular participant of your Moneywords contest. Though I have never come close to winning, I still enjoy the challenge it poses. However, I sometimes find the answers difficult to accept The answer for one question in the March 7 issue is a
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    • 115 8 PLEASE refer to the letter from "Curious" which appeared in your newspaper on 20 March, 89. The Singapore Passport is a travel document which is recognised by the Immigration Authorities of other countries. It contains the name, identity card number (used as passport number), date and
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    • 86 8 WE refer to the letter "PC at Serangoon Garden should be signalised" (TNP, Feb 5). Traffic studies show that the Chomp Chomp hawker centre (in Serangoon Garden) zebra crossing meets pedestrians' needs. Signalised crossings are not popular for narrow roads (one lane each way) with low traffic
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    • 255 9 T HE first Japanese kindergarten to open in Singapore will have a $150,000 toy train. The one-hectare school along West Coast Road also has 10 classrooms, a dining room, a kitchen, a double-storey function hall, an outdoor playground and a swimming pool. And one of
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    • 205 9 NIGHT travellers beware. Do not think that you are likely to meet robbers only in Malaysia. They may follow you across the Causeway. In the early hours of Saturday, a businessman was tailed by two cars from the Causeway to his Tampines apartment. He was
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 401 10 Wire services. S OUTH Africa has agreed to allow black nationalist guerillas a safe passage from northern Namibia back to Angola. The move is aimed at preserving plans for the territory's independence. The proposal could bring to an end the fierce fighting that began on
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    • 308 10 Wire services. M ORE than 100,000 bannerwaving protesters, led by Hollywood stars and Con- gressmen, have marched on the US Capitol to support the right to abortion. Among the stars were actresses Glenn Close and Morgan Fairchild. Wearing white, like the turn-of-the-century women who fought
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    • 220 10 Wire services. THE son of the late Pakistani President Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq has charged that one of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's aides threatened to kill him. He said the threat was made to keep him from entering politics. Mr Ijaz ul-Haq,
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    • 34 11 Eye-pleaser: Huge pictures of pretty ballerinas pasted on these lockers brighten a railway station in Tokyo. The decorated lockers are part of a clean-up project by Japanese Railway Co. Picture/ Afp
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    • 109 11 THE dead woman whose charred body was found in a field at Kuala Lumpur has been identified as Ms Kek Kim Hoy, 35. Police believe her killer tried to make it look like suicide. The corpse was found last Tuesday near a primary school in a KL
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    • 129 11 Wire services. POLICE in Tanzania have arrested two game wardens for trying to sell the tusks of elephants they were paid to protect. Officers say the pair had 89 elephant tusks secreted away when they were arrested earlier this week, along with two other men. The tusks,
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    • 94 11 Wire services. THE Israeli Air Force has taken delivery of its first Phantom 2000 an upgraded version of the US F-4 jet. Israel Aircraft Industries (LAI), which refurbished the plane, hopes to sell the jet to foreign air forces that use the F-4. Israel first
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    • 210 11 Wire services. THE world's most complicated watch nine years in the making has fetched $5.48 million at an auction. That price, reached yesterday in Geneva, made it the world's most expensive watch as well. It is the first in the world that gives
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    • 399 11 Wire services. A a CURFEW has been declared in the capital of Soviet Georgia following clashes which left 16 people dead and some 200 injured. Trouble began before dawn yesterday when soldiers and some 10,000 protesters battled with clubs, shovels, sticks and stones
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    • 194 11 Wire services. LEGISLATORS have approved strict new laws aimed at quelling ethnic unrest and growing calls for change in the Soviet system. They include prison terms and fines for anyone who publicly insults a government body. The official Tass news agency said the
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    • 45 12 Cooling: Getting soaked to the skin is part of BUI Walton's job as he adjusts water valves in the fountain at Los Angeles Music Centre. But he's not complaining not when the city's weather is blistering with triple-digit temperatures. Picture/ Ap
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    • 69 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, brokers said. The Nikkei index firmed 17.17 points to 33,202.22 in 10 minutes of trade. The key 225-share index gained 189.27 points on Friday. Gains were led by bank, electrical, warehouse, credit/lease, gas, shipping, glass/cement and some
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    • 171 12 Wire services. EGYPTIAN authorities have jailed a leading Muslim fundamentalist theologian and nine of his partisans following clashes between police and Islamic militants. The clashes left five people injured, the Middle East News Agency (Mena) reported in Cairo yesterday. The agency said Sheikh Omar
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    • 422 12 Wire services. IHE Soviet Union has confirmed the deaths of 42 sailors in the sinking of a nuclear- T powered submarine in the Norwegian Sea. It also disclosed that two torpedoes on board were armed with nuclear warheads. Norwegian reconnaissance flights showed that
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    • 239 12 Wire services. SAND in sesame, slag in aluminium these are the strange things that have been turning up in Chinese goods sold overseas. And China is getting worried. It will introduce a law in August to prevent the exporting of substandard goods following complaints from abroad,
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    • 104 12 Wire services. THREE robbers who held up a hotel shop in Hongkong escaped with jewellery worth $3.56 million, police say. Police reported that the bandits, two of them armed with pistols, burst into the shop at the Hyatt Hotel yesterday. They forced
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 348 13  -  By Lim Swee Hong W HAT will you give to be assured that the water you drink is completely pure? If you think $1 for 500 ml ($2 for 1.5 litres) is not too much to pay, then Watson's Pure Distilled Water from
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    • 430 13 AP. THRILL-SEEKERS in the US need no longer try skydiving or hang-gliding to get their kicks. Death-defying dining has arrived via fugu, a seafood delicacy which is the last supper for 100 doomed Japanese each year. The raw fish arrived in New York city last
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    • 106 13 IF you have been sacrificing dessert for health's sake, you do not have to anymore. The dessert offerings at some of the food outlets participating in Nutrition Week are rich in goodness and low in fat, salt, sugar with moderate cholesterol and high fibre. The more interesting
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    • 37 13 200 g zucchini 100 g red carrot 90 g flour 125 g brown sugar 8 egg whites 15 g baking powder 15 g lemon zest 75 g lemon juice 20 g margarine 40 g almond puree
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    • 96 13 1) Cut zucchini and carrot into fine strips. 2) Marinate zucchini in lemon juice for 2 3 hours. 3) Oil baking mould with margarine. 4) Sprinkle some flour on mould. 5) Mix baking powder, brown sugar, flour, almond puree together. Mix well. 6) Add zucchini and carrot
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    • 818 16 spotlight The Megatop, Singapore Airlines' new Boeing 747-400 is, to date, one of the most advanced 747_ commercial carriers in the world. And SIA became the first airline in Asia to fly it yesterday. The new plane comes with a bonus of welcome features It is W
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 2028 15 Television TSbM JWired The Assisi Underground Cine Showcase rruc (10.30pm, SBC 5) ■jflHHfi (9.30pm, SBC 5) The Men GEMS W STEVE Win wood, who made PADRE Rufino (Ben Cross) succeeds (8.30 pm, SBC 12) M m m im P act on ne printing false identity aiids for MARLON Brando makes
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 345 18  -  preview/by Wong Sing Yeong H ERE's one from SBC specially dedicated to the young ones. Song of Youth, starting on SBC 8 at 6.45 pm tonight, has all the ingredients to fulfil a teenybopper's bubblegum dream. There are the dashing Li Nanxing and bubbly Chen
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    • 191 18 A SINGER GETS TO ACT THE producers are impressed. Viewers probably will be impressed too. Xinyao singer Dawn Gan has just made a creditable debut as an actress in Song of Youth playing herself. The strange thing is she's not a singer in this
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    • 133 18 Sheena Eastern’s new image sexy SHEENA Easton has changed her image to a sexy one. She has opened an exciting new chapter in her career with The Lover in Me, her latest album. "The new album is an extension of my career and a natural progression/' says Easton, a two-time
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    • 342 18  -  The Assisi Underground Tonight 9:3opm on SBC 5 REVIEW/ By Wong Sing Yeong YOU admire his guts. You salute his ingenuity. You laugh at his witty remarks. And you just love the way he takes on those Nazi butchers. It's not General Patton we're referring
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    • 347 19  -  By Ting Mei See I 'N the background, six art students worked swiftly to turn several blank canvases into spontaneous works of art. In the foreground, 12 long-haired dancers performed dance movements or posed for the artists to the beat of pulsing music. This was
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    • 485 19 JOHN Woo is nothing like the men in the movies he makes. The 42-year-old director made his name with the 1986 box-office hit A Better Tomorrow and brought movies about underworld heroes to an all-time high. "But I know nothing about the
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    • 568 20 Melanie Griffith is on a roll. Although she didn't win the Oscar for Best Actress, she's found new happiness with ex-husband Don Johnson. Her director Mike Nichols is crazy about her and now she's tipped to star with Paul Newman in Blaze, the true
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    • 178 20 AFTER the Wynnere' three-night concert in January, Chinese music fans have been yearning for more. On a modest scale, Taiwanese singer Annie Wu will stage two solo concerts in the Singapore Labour Foundation Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday, April 15 and
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      245 20 DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (Lido. Republic 1) Comedy. Steve Martin and Michael Caine play conmen out to cheat an innocent American girl of her money and virtue. Times: Lido 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.45, 9.15 pm. Republic 1 1.30 pm, 3.30, 7, 9 pm. THE DEAD POOL (Capitol, Republic 2)
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  • 343 21  -  FASHIONTODAY By Brenton Wong i F YOU want to make an entrance, wear a Versace. Take it from the well-groomed and wellheeled. They swear that when it comes to taking the guesswork out of top-dog dressing, Gianni Versace always rises to the occasion. But why does
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1496 24 RADtOGUIDE "I EMXBi EZMXHI CSHISISESII HOON News la trial (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News is Brief aad Weather NOON 6eW Mask, *«l Me: NOON Newsdeak 12.0S Laechdete: Listen to some en- NOON BeaatHal Mask: A selection of Noon-time entertainment t<s 12JI Daagereet ia Leva: Dangertertaining music played for you light
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  • SPORTS
    • 229 25  -  By Dennis Chia FORMER champion jockey Nigel Tiley, who left three years ago, is back on a busman's holiday and will be riding at the Perak Derby meeting this week. The champion jockey in 1984 and 1985 rode for the powerful Teh Choon Beng Stables and quickly
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    • 301 26 SOCCER ACTION: ITALY, SPAIN, HOLLAND, ENGLAND Reuter. ITALIAN LEAGUE INTER'S 2-1 win over Cesena moved the Milan side closer to the League title yesterday. Closest challenger Napoli fell further behind after a 0-0 away draw against AC Milan. Inter's win, courtesy of a goal in each
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    • 170 26 Reuter. SPANISH LEAGUE REAL Madrid crushed lowly Murcia 3-0 and stretched its lead to four points. Second-placed Barcelona slumped to another goalless draw, this time against a 10man Real Zaragoza side. Real was never seriously threatened by Murcia after going ahead through Michel Gonzalez after 30
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    • 191 26 Reuter. DUTCH LEAGUE DEFENDING champion PSV Eindhoven was left clinging to a one-point lead after a 1-1 away draw to FC Twente. Second-placed Ajax moved closer with a 2-0 home win over FC Utrecht. PSV, which lost to Sparta last week, clearly lacked the confidence of a
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    • 237 26 AFP. CUP NIGEL Clough's second-half penalty was the turning point as Nottingham Forest beat holder Luton 3-1 yesterday. Having beaten goalkeeper Les Sealey from the spot in a League match earlier this year, he never gave in to nerves. "I wasn't worried about taking the penalty.
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    • 233 27  -  By Alfonso Chan LADY luck seldom smiles on us when we are playing tennis. So it would seem after Davis Cup tie against Bangladesh, which we lost 1-4. Instead of luck, Liu Wai Yaw had diarrhoea. He could have made all the difference by
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    • 193 27 Reuter. BORIS Becker clinched a semi—final place for holder West Germany in the Davis Cup yesterday, winning the final singles to complete a 3-2 victory over Czechoslovakia. West Germany now meets the United States, 5-0 conqueror of France. Becker settled it with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
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    • 271 27  -  |DHL WOMEN'S OPEN (Kallang Tennis Centre, Today spm) By Alfonso Chan FOR those who enjoy watching women play grunts, groans and all the place to be in this week is the Kallang Tennis Centre, where $146,000 DHL Singapore Women's Open gets underway tonight (spm).
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    • 77 27 Wire services. RUMANIAN schoolgirl Livia Copariu chalked up a second world-best performance of the week at the short course swimming Championships yesterday when she clocked 24.815 ec for the 50m freestyle. The 16-year-old Copariu also set a new world best for 100 m on Thursday when she recorded 53.485ec.
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    • 509 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Miami 107 Houston 104, Seattle 114 Dallas 90, Indiana 128 San Antonio 126, Milwaukee 113 Philadelphia 103, Denver 110 Utah 106, Golden State 127 Los Angeles Lakers 116, Phoenix 115 Los Angeles Clippers 97. CRICKET Third day of the
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    • 206 28  -  Stories/ S Gulam Y •OUNGSTER A Saravanan's sterling run in the 800 m provided the only sparkle at the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's Second All-Comers Meet at the National University track yesterday. The 19-year-old schoolboy matched national champion S Pandian stride for stride before pulling away powerfully
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    • 315 28 LACK of opposition is hindering P Parameswaran's bid to break the national 110 m hurdles record. The 26-year-old national champion laments that there is no one in the local scene to push him. "I'm running a one-man battle to beat the record," said Parameswaran yesterday,
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    • Article, Illustration
      291 29 Scott Hoch was so close to winning the US Masters, but he blew it. He missed short putts on two occasions. The second a two-footer was perhaps one of the memorable misses in golf history AP. NICK Faldo won the Masters with a 25-foot birdie putt on the
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    • 186 29 Reuter. IT was second-time lucky for JanOve Waldner when he won the world table tennis title in Dortmund yesterday. Waldner, beaten in the 1987 final, defeated his friend and team-mate Jorgen Persson 21-17, 21-18, 20-22, 18-21, 21-10 in the first all-Europe-an final since 1975. Waldner became only
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