The New Paper, 14 June 1989

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS
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    • 70 1 SINGAPORE TODAY ■mam.4k*;iwam the 1 Sflgl 1 4v 1 M em 'W& rs» •V C fi i ...AND MEN ARE INVITED TO WATCH! —r' t tasuK*i MMMHHMM BURIAL FOR A BOAT This patched-up boat is being towed to its final resting place. There, at the graveyard for boats, it will
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  • Article, Illustration
    97 1 Almost in tears, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson yesterday admitted that he took steroids one month before the Seoul Olympics. "I lied because I was ashamed for my family, friends, kids who look up to me. I was just in a mess." Asked what advice he now has
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 362 2 A SINGAPORE-Japan Economic Advisory Committee comprising top businessmen was due to be launched in Tokyo this morning by First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The group will explore economic opportunities for Singapore and Japanese companies in and outside the Republic. Since 1986, Japan has
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    • 79 2 A RESCUE helicopter searching a remote Hawaiian valley has spotted the wreckage of a sightseeing plane that vanished last Sunday with 11 people aboard. There were no signs of survivors. Pieces of the twin-engine Beechcraft were strewn over the face of a cliff on
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    • 517 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching WHEN the big container ship hit the wooden bumboat last Monday night, Mr Ng Bee Wah jumped from the boat into the water and dogpaddled for dear life. He didn't really know how to swim but somehow he stayed afloat in the
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    • 432 3  -  Picturesand story/ Nicklaus D’cruz THE last thing this boat felt was someone shivering its timbers or to be exact, punching a hole in its hull. It was a calculated hit, to sink the crippled vessel. Mr Abdullah bin Sani, a worker with the salvage company
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    • 357 3 THE New Zealand armed forces in Singapore have begun their last exercise before they return home. This takes them into the jungles of Malaysia. Called Taiaha-Tombak XI, the exercise is an annual one staged with Malaysia. This year, British, Australian and Gurkha troops
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 29 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over a several areas in the late afternoon. Maximum temperature: 33 deg. Minimum: 26 deg. Sunset: 7.11 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.59 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 566 4  -  Yea cam attend Um fashion tlNi by paying a registration fee of $25 mALL U WrICH I redeemable far DIM item. Registration coupons and details can be found in the latest issae of Her World magazine. By Lim Phay-ling HOSIERY is getting hot here. To
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    • 89 4 DESPITE sizzling temperatures of 33 deg Celsius yesterday, a quick New Paper survey at mid-afternoon found that at least two out of every five women along Orchard Road wore nylons. Most of them preferred hosiery in sheer, natural skin-tone or almost black colours although there
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    • 52 5 Jf More Time to Express Yourself. The Citizen collection has captured your imagination... This exclusive collection of fashion watches with their state-of-the-art HUZ water-resist feature in super-slim cases has proved to be very popular. So, we're adding even more exciting choices to this range of perfect time pieces. Look out
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 400 6  -  By Irene Hoe THINK Australia, Singapore businessmen will be urged this morning at an investment seminar. Singapore is already Australia's fifth largest investor with more than $13 billion invested in 1987 or 6 per cent of total foreign investment This means more than $3 billion
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    • 122 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. ilinmd: To feel fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen. discord: Disagreement between people. dismembered Mitt: Bodies with arms and legs pulled or cut off. indulged:
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    • 500 7  -  By Karen Goh THE Empress Place, which reopened in April after $25 million worth of renovation, is home to more than the priceless treasures now being shown in the Qing exhibition. The two-storey building the former passport office also houses a Chinese restaurant, shops, halls for
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    • 92 7 THE floor of the shopping gallery is a copy of the original geometric pattern of the old building. The Australian company which supplied the new tiles removed some of the original ones and sent them to Taiwan to be copied. Marble was used for the foyer floor to
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    • 530 8  -  Today is Day Five of Family Week and we look at that hot potato pocket mQney. Many teenagers think $100 a month is just about enough. Many parents think that is too much and want to know what their children spend the money
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    • 202 8 PARENTS and teenagers should talk about pocket money and agree on how much it should be, said an experienced social worker. "They should talk openly about how much is needed for school, clothes, and other things. If the teenager feels that the sum is too little,
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    • 213 8 NTUC Income Co-operative Insurance will next month open two branch offices in different parts of town all within just 45 minutes. To make sure its distinguished guests are able to attend both events, NTUC Income will issue them with return MRT tickets. About 100 guests are
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    • 622 9  -  By Irene Hoe THE First Deputy Prime Minister's proposal to hand over to Mendaki II the money the Government now spends on free tertiary education for Malays has become a hot talking point in the Malay community. This morning, Berita Harian, the Malay-language daily,
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    • 226 9 THE Chinese newspapers will reduce the number of publishing holidays from five to three next year. And an MP hopes that this change will be implemented smoothly. Braddell Heights MP Goh Choon Kang said the News Distributors Association will hold
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 445 10 SINGAPOREAN disc jockey John Ng will not forget how his working stint in China ended. What started off as a sixmonth deejay job in a Beijing hotel in Beijing ended abruptly after about a month with the bloodbath in Tiananmen Square. One scene
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    • 100 10 Wire services. PRIME Minister Margaret Thatcher reacted angrily to a claim that her policy towards Hongkong after the Beijing massacre was "dishonourable". Opposition MP Paddy Ashdown, who made the charge in the House of Commons yesterday, later withdrew it. Mr Ashdown visited Hongkong recently. He asked
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 357 11 Wire services THE Chinese government broadcast its list of "most wanted" counter-revolution-aries on national television last night. The pictures of 21 student pro-democracy activists were shown. They are wanted for leading a "counter-revolutionary rebellion," the television said. "Every province, region, city, police department, railway
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    • 182 11 Wire services. FORMER US President Ronald Reagan paid tribute yesterday to the Chinese students who gave their lives for democracy. And he warned officials in Beijing that the dream of freedom cannot be killed by military force. "The Chinese government hasn't learned something very
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    • 26 11 Show of strength: Tanks and other heavy arms were still parked in front of the Revolutionary History Museum in Tiananmen Square yesterday.
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    • 168 11 Wire services THE United States has signalled it will be compassionate and flexible in granting visas to Chinese trying to escape the crackdown on prodemocracy demonstrators. The gesture, which appears open-ended, is likely to worsen US-China ties. These are already frayed
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 51 12 Hijack gets movie treatment: Hollywood stars Burt Reynolds and Eva Marie Saint in a scene from the film, Achille Lauro. The Him, being shot in Italy, tells how the Italian liner Achille Lauro was hijacked off the Egyptian coast by four Palestinians in October 1985. Picture/
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    • 230 12 Wire services. PRESIDENT Najib has said it was time for the backers of the Muslim guerillas the United States and Pakistan to prove their sincerity and make specific proposals for ending the war in Afghanistan. "We ask the United States to consider the
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    • 154 12 Wire services. THE Malaysian Immigration Department has found a sure way to stop Indonesian illegal immigrants from returning as soon as they are deported. Their heads will be shaved before they are sent back to Indonesia. A department spokesman said in Kuala Lumpur
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      288 12 Wire services. ANOTHER sharp drop in sterling on foreign exchange markets had shares in retreat on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30share index ended 14.4 points lower at 1,756. Volume picked up to a moderate 463.8 million shares from Monday's 381.1 million. Sterling and share prices
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    • 78 12 Reuter. INDEX-linked buying by investment trust funds helped share prices firm in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The key 225-share Nikkei index gained 83.30 points, or 0.25 per cent, to 33,296.85 in 10 minutes. It dropped 184.46 yesterday. The winners were led by non-life insurance, gas,
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Tue 1,756.00 (1,770.40) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,503.54 (2,518.84) ST Industrial Tue 1,283.84 (1,276.48) NST Industrial Tue 2,217.92 (2,208.71) Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 2,355.19 (2,440.21) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,540.20 (Closed) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 33,213.55 (33,398.01) Figure* in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      260 12 Wire services. WALL Street share prices fell yesterday in relatively active trading. The Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials fell 15.3 points to close at 2,503.54. Declining issues outnumbered advances by about two to one on the New York Stock Exchange, with 1,023 down, 490 up and
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 94 13 Wire services. VIETNAM'S Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach has ruled out forced repatriation of his country's refugees. "We strongly reject any form of coercion, this is a violation of human rights and could lead to unforeseen consequences," he said at a conference on refugees in Geneva
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    • 209 13 SINGAPORE Foreign Minister Wong Kan Seng said in Geneva that he had noted signs of "compassion fatigue" among countries which had resettled Vietnamese refugees. "Confronted by an unending flow of refugees, the receiving countries have attempted desperate measures to alleviate intolerable burdens," he said.
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    • 128 13 NST MALAYSIA has appealed to the world to seek a fresh approach and a quick solution to the Indochinese refugee problem. Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Abu Hassan Omar said in Geneva that a comprehensive and workable solution must be found immediately. It should not
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    • 208 13 Wire services. BRITAIN has called for the mandatory repatriation by October of all Vietnamese boat people failing to classify as genuine refugees. The United States, however, opposed forcing Vietnamese asylum-seekers to go back and said people would stop fleeing if Hanoi reformed its political
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  • Showtime
    • 398 14  -  By Kevin Mathews and Paul Zach THE Year of the Bat already has the comics world in a flutter. But it officially begins next week in Hollyi wood. That's when the movie that you can't have avoided reading or hearing about, as USA Today has subtitled
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    • 102 14 COMICS buffs here are eagerly awaiting the Batman movie. Mr Philip Teoh, 30, said his Comics World shop in Paradiz Centre had already taken many orders for the movie's comic book adaptation. "I think the Batman film will be even bigger than the Superman
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1585 15 rn i a'W lelcvlsion =s MYI% Showtime at the Apollo! Where Eagles Fly Jake and the Fatman Wish You SCREEN M (ii.2opm, SBC 5) (9.30pm, SBC 12) Were Here GEMS J I THIS week at the Apollo are A STUDY of the Golden Eagle, (9.30 pm, SBC 5) JMBL M
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  • 945 16 Spotlight estimated^M than 14 million W refugees in the world today —■1 at least five times population. Some unofficial 1 but respected estimates put the 1 figure nearer 30 million. Thisi would mean nearly six peopleM in every thousand of the world's population have beerM forced
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 449 20  -  By Lo Tien Yin PART-TIME actor George Neo comes from a school of hard knocks: Inflicted mainly on his head with the butt of a I rifle. But the knocks have helped George, 60, in his acting. They made it easier for him to
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    • 292 20  -  Friday at the Movies The Ambassador June 16 10.30 pm, SBC 5 PREVIEW/ By Geraldi Geraldine Goh IN The Ambassador, a Friday at the Movies offering, Ellen Burstyn plays the bored wife of an American diplomat. She seeks the attention and physical
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    • 154 20  -  SEENKASTNIGHT By Lo Tien Yin DID you panic last night around 7 pm? You didn't adjust those buttons on your television set thinking that the colour had gone when Sergeant Bilko came on the screen, did you? Last night, we had a black-and-white
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    • 262 21  -  Dead Calm Showing in Capitol, Republic 3 REVIEW/ By Sonja Tan D I EAD Calm is a thriller without gimmicks, shot off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It is a three-character movie based on the Charles Williams novel of the same name. Sam Neill (who
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    • 170 21 OLIVER COMPANY (Orchard) THIS is a hand-drawn animated movie which is a modern-day retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel. The movie is set in New York City. It follows the adventures of an adorable but unwanted kitten and a pack of pickpocket dogs. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30,
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    • 119 21 Pinup/Page 19 FENNIE Yuen would rather get bruised than have a few laughs. The 19-year-old Hongkong actress is tired of playing comedies where "you laugh without knowing why". "There's no acting to be done in comedies. I prefer movies such as School on Fire although
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    • 388 22  -  Singapore Dance Theatre First anniversary celebration Tonight, tomorrow, Victoria Theatre REVIEW/ By Lo Tie Lo Tien Yin IT was fitting that the longest applause should go to one of the most difficult pas de deux in ballet The Black Swan. At the opening of the
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    • 250 22 La Compagnie Temps Present Victoria Theatre June 16 and 17 LA Compagnie Temps Present (The Present Time Dance Company) of France promises to offer a blend of classical French ballet and the vitality of contemporary modern dance. At a press preview yesterday, the
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    • 338 22  -  Hi! Theatre's The Curious Circus, Singapore Labour Foundation Auditorium Today, 3 pm and 8 pm REVIEW/ By Gerali Geraldine Goh THE Curious Circus was a visual treat for the children who made up the majority of the 70-odd audience at Hi! Theatre's
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • 1210 23 DEAR AGGIE HORIZONS Dear Aggie, My husband and I have been married for a few months. We are both receiving treatment for a skin disease called genital herpes. Will 1 be able to conceive and have a normal baby? What is the safest way
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    • 108 23 I WE mm l UNBELIEVABLE PRICESI Sun Thur: $10 nett (ind. 2 standard drinks) a Fri, Sat Eve of Public Holiday: $15 nett (ind. 2 standard drinks) t Ladies' Night (Mon Tue): $5 nett for Ladies (ind. 1 standard drink) R Tea-Dance (Fri, Sat, Sun &P. Holiday: Ipm 6pm): $6nett
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    • 189 24 LEARN TRADITIONAL SILK EMBROIDERY Vincent Tan Kim Lye, a Baba entrepreneur M V* who learnt embroidery skills from his mother VL from the age of seven V will be conducting this exquisite needlework How to sew knotlcss sewing Peking knots. *Mmi V b) How to match the colour and the
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1345 26 RAHOGUIDE ~"I ~'I IMOMM 1-Ti1.11.1.M g-TETBHiM I:JJ.IUg*T—NOON News ia Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News ia Brief and Waatkar "00N Good Matte, Compaay aad Mo: NOON Newsdesk 12.05 Laackdate: A musical selection M<MM| entertain- 12 30 Buslno.s Matters: A weekly is offered here for your listen- NOON Beautiful Music. Light
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  • SPORTS
    • 206 27 CHAMPIONS TROPHY HOCKEY Australia 3 India 2 Holland 3 Pakistan 2 AFP. AUSTRALIA had to struggle before edging out India 3-2. Two goals from Mark Hager and one by Graham Reid settled the match. Hager netted his first goal and fourth of the competition i after
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    • 251 27 AFP. PAKISTAN'S hopes of regaining the Trophy was foiled by Dutch sweeper Floris Jan Bovelander. His hat-trick gave Holland a 3-2 win. Pakistan had most of the play in an entertaining match, but was denied victory by the brilliance of Dutch goalkeeper Frank Leistra. Pakistan took command
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    • 166 27 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA TREND Defy, winner of the Singapore Gold Cup last year, is among the 34 entries received for the $400,000 race next month. Bukit Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting, catering for horses in Classes One and Three, has attracted a total of
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    • 224 28 Reuter. SUGAR Ray Leonard, who held onto his World Boxing Council super middleweight title after a 12-round draw with Thomas Hearns on Monday night, said the videotapes would help him decide whether to continue fighting. "Whether this was a bad performance for me or whether
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    • 208 28 Reuter. EUROPEAN Cup winner AC Milan said yesterday it had persuaded Dutch soccer striker Marco van Basten to stay with the club until 1993. The club said it had agreed a $6.75 million contract with van Basten, after its president Silvio Berlusconi talked him out of
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    • 127 28 Reuter. REAL Madrid midfielder Michel Gonzalez, says he is sick of the pressure and wants to leave the club. Michel, 26, stormed off the pitch in the middle of his team's League title-clinching triumph against Gspanol last Sunday. "I don't want to spend every day under
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    • 199 28 Reuter. BARCELONA has rejected an offer by English soccer club Tottenham for Gary Lineker. "We are not going to accept the offer for Lineker," coach Johan Cruyff said yesterday. A Barcelona spokesman said the club was not satisfied with Tottenham's bid for the striker, worth a reported
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    • Article, Illustration
      319 28 Wire services. LEEDS completed a second big soccer transfer in 24 hours yesterday when winger John Hendrie signed a three-year contract. Scotsman Hendrie, 25, joined in a $2.05 million deal from Newcastle, which had been forced to sell because of its need for cash. Leeds has also made a
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    • 423 29 AFP. WIMBLEDON champion Stefan Edberg's tennis world was rocked by a teenage tearaway for the second time in three days yesterday. The second-seeded Swede was beaten 7-6, 7-6 by 18-year-old Venezuelan Nicolas Pereira, just two days after losing in the French Open final to 17-year-old American
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    • 577 29 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: CRICKET First Test between Australia and England at Headingley Australia: 601-7 dec and 230-3 dec (Border 60 n.0., Taylor 60) England: 430 and 191 (Graham Gooch 68, Kim Barnett 34, David Gower 34; Alderman 5-44, Hughes 3-36). Australia won by 210 runs.
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    • Article, Illustration
      144 29 AFP. MARTINA Navratilova has banned her family and friends from coming to watch her at Wimbledon later this month because they are too much of a distraction. The 32-year-old American, bidding for a record ninth All England women's singles crown, has told them: "Stay at home and watch
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    • 641 30 r The truth is out. Ben Johnson admitted yesterKC&J day during the Canadian rISM government inquiry that he took steroids a month before the Seoul Olympics. He also said he lied to the world when he said after being disqualified in Seoul that he had not
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    • 159 30 Reuter. Q Robert Armstrong (chief counsel): You made several statements insisting you never knowingly took steroids. Those statements were not true? Johnson: No, sir. Armstrong: After the steroids you took in June and July, did you take any steroids leading up to Rome? Johnson: No, sir.
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    • 272 31  -  By Alfonso Chan TOTAL prize money of $343,000 has been finalised for the prestigious Seiko Grand Prix Badminton Finals, to be held at the Kallang Indoor Stadium from Dec 6-10. Of this amount, $254,800 has been set aside as prize money proper for the
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    • 391 31 Singapore's hopes for a cycling medal in this August's Sea Games has received a major blow. A disillusioned Balvinder Singh will not make the trip to Kuala Lumpur. Worse, his Geylang Club team-mates may follow suit. ABDUL SHUKOR has the story CYCLING ace Balvinder Singh
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    • 575 31 I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14,1989 24/89-3 I Win $s,ooocash j jackpot this week, j Cut out and attach with other coupons (Monday to Saturday) Name: I/C No: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS 1 USING CLUES BELOW. IMS Last coupon I 0 OUR H will be on: June 17,1989 I C O
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  • 934 32 Gallery I DISCOVERY ART. Oils, Cwatar colours and mixed 1 1 media of six artists are featured in the Discovery Art Exhibition. All are for sale. Sponsored by the Shell companies In Singapore. 10 am to 5 pm. Ends on Friday. Empress Building, Empress Place. AUTOMATIC LIVING. Automate for
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  • 13 32 GALLERY: Discovery art CENTRESTAGE: Local comedy OUT AND ABOUT: Essay competition
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  • 63 32 Singapore's only professional ballet company is celebrating its first anniversary with three performances. Called Celebration, the highlights will include three world premieres: Souvenirs, The Ice Nymph and Rainbow River. Also see Beginnings by Goh Choo San. On today and tomorrow. 8 pm. Tickets at $20/15/10 available at
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
    • 187 32 B SAVVY, SLICK, SURPRISING! J"*? E UT Have we got fashion news for you! All things French and Fabulous are coming your way with HW and Tangs' celebration of France's bi centennial in their Take time to read about TABLE stores. So, FEELING FRENCH in their creative bones, the HW
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