The New Paper, 15 June 1989

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS
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  • Article, Illustration
    36 1 On the singles' firing line: Safra and the matchmaking unit of the People's Association have started a shooting course for singles. "It is an indoor exercise," says one./ Page 4 Picture/ David Tan
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 354 2  -  Stories/ Chitra Rajaram A BOLD, no-holds-barred campaign against Aids will be launched here in September. The focus of the campaign will be condoms. The theme of the campaign is "Aids and Safer Sex." The slogan: "Condoms Your Aid against Aids." Very little will
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    • 341 2 THE AFA Society decided to launch a massive campaign because they felt that Aids had entered the mainstream of society in recent years and should be a cause of concern for everyone. "In Singapore, we are getting more home-grown cases. It is more
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    • 26 2 Two rows of graphics were wrongly positioned on Tuesday's "18-Movement Qigong" page. The third row should be the fourth and the fourth row the third.
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    • 351 2 comment YESTERDAY we reported that Vietnam is against the mandatory repatriation of its refugees. Its Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach told a United Nations conference in Geneva: "We strongly reject any form of coercion; this is a violation of human rights
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    • 609 3  -  By Ng Wan Ching STRANGE creatures called Lipstick Tigers, new underwater life support systems and a "stone" that gives off oxygen in water are some exhibits that will go on show from today at the World Trade Centre. Visitors to Singapore's first International Aquarium
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    • 225 3 THE Aquarium Fish Export Centre can remain at its Jalan Kayu site for another 10 years. The Aquarium Fish Export Centre was set up in 1981 to help fish exporters improve the quality of their fish. Its lease was due to
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    • 75 2 REVIVAL RALLIES Theme: «fT!AIf AFLAME 16 18 June 1989 Keith Hounslow is the director of "Power I Evangelism" in Australia and has ministries w I in Indonesia and Malaysia. I I SPECIAL SINGING ITEMS by soloist and 1 I I singing group \tTJO I I Tl We have regular services
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 30 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over many areas in the.late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 33 deg. Minimum: 25 deg. Sunset: 7.11 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.59 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 427 4  -  Story/] Ng Wan Ching GUNS, not mates, were on the minds of the 10 men and women who turned up yesterday for a shooting course organised specially for singles. The Safra Air Weapon Shooting Course for Singles is open to members of Singapore Armed
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    • 515 4  -  By Harinder Gill BUSINESSMAN Leong Loon Chew felt like a salesman for two hours last night even though he was not selling anything. A civil defence reservist, his mission was to knock on the 96 doors of Block 109, Spottiswoode Park to explain what residents
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    • 397 5  -  By Augustine Low THE hunt was for the Small Businessman of the Year. But it was a woman who won the award. And Miss Rachel Swee was the only woman in a list of 10 shortlisted candidates. Did her sex have anything to do with winning
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    • 230 5 "NEVER take no for an answer." That's Miss Rachel Swee's motto. "A person may not be in the mood to say yes, but keep trying and he might agree the next time." Her company has only 11 employees and every one is a
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    • 609 6 On Day Six of Family Week, we look at parental love. Why are Asian parents so reserved with their children? Why don't they say "I love you" more often? Why do they treat their older children as if they were still babies? IRENE
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    • 327 6 PARENTS should try to view the world as their teens would, said two social workers. "The teens are at a confusing and frustrating stage in life. They are not children and not yet adults," said social worker Chua Wan Poh. They are curious about their
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    • 166 6 DON'T say you haven't been warned. For the past month, the MRTC has been reminding travellers not to smoke, eat, drink or litter in its stations or on its trains. Anyone caught doing so has so far been let off with a warning. But from today,
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    • 146 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. burrito: Unleavened cornmeal or wheat flour bread, rolled or folded around a filling of meat, beans or cheese and baked. flan: Round flat pie made of pastry or cake,
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    • 591 7  -  Story/ Ng Wan Ching A DOZEN models from China are here, showing a face of the country different from the one the world has been reading about lately. The 12 will model Chinamade silk garments four times a day at the World Trade Centre from June
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    • 385 8  -  By Lim Phay-ling HOW would you like to be "summoned" to a wedding with a parchment scroll tied with gold ribbon? Or told to watch the bride and groom "eat their words"? For Juliana Lee, she didn't want a "sentimental, frothy card" since her husband is an
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    • 167 8 THREE printers told The New Paper that couples had been designing their own wedding invitation cards for the past few years. Mr C M Wong, 86, found-er-member of the China Society, told The New Paper "There are really no rides for young people to
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 121 9 Wire services POLICE in Frankfurt are searching for suspected Palestinian terrorists who may be planning attacks in West Germany. Security has been tightened at Frankfurt international airport because of the threat. Frankfurt police spokesman Kurt Kraus said the authorities were searching for sus*
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    • 332 9 Sm also pages 16 and 17 Wire services A UNITED Nations conference has endorsed a set of measures designed to ease the rising tide of t boat people from Vietnam, but remained non-committal on how to deal with those fleeing to improve their economic status.
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    • 48 9 i Futuristic: A model of the American X3O hypersonic plane of the future stands proud at the International Air Show in Le Bourget, France. The real plane will be able to fly from New York to Sydney in about three hours. Picture/ Afp
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    • 104 9 Wire services. PRIME Minister Rajiv Gandhi has ruled out the withdrawal of 45,000 Indian troops from Sri Lanka until the two countries agree on a mutually acceptable schedule for the pullout. Mr Gandhi, responding for the first time to Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa's demand
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    • 149 9 Wire services A JOINT session of Parliament has passed, on its first reading, a constitutional amendment to make the lower house Speaker its president in what is seen as a move towards full democracy in Thailand. The vote was 392-1 in the joint session of the
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    • 181 9 Wire services UZBEKS who rampaged against Turks are threatening to spread the pogroms to Jews, Armenians and Crimean Tartars living in the area gutted by three weeks of riots, a top security official said in Moscow. Another top police official also said Uzbek Sunni Muslim
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    • 374 10 Premier alto says 'open door' policy stays Wire services. c HINESE Premier Li Peng has insisted that correct measures were used to put down 'the recent "counter-revolu-tionary rebellion". At the same time, he said China remains committed to its "open door" policy of reform
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    • 193 10 Wire services. TIANANMEN Square was unguarded by tanks yesterday for the first time since they supported troops sweeping pro-democracy demonstrators out of sight and out of power. Dozens of tanks and armoured personnel carriers entered the square in the early morning of June 4
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    • 114 10 Wire services. CHINA must strengthen guarantees that people in Hongkong will retain their rights, freedoms and lifestyles after coming under Chinese rule in 1997, the British colony's top trade official has said. Suppression of the main- land's democracy movement has raised fears whether China will
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    • 147 10 Wire services. CHINESE student leader Cai Ling has been nominated for the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize as a symbol of the democratic movement in China. Her nomination came yesterday from Mr Kjellbjoerg Lunde and Mr Tora Houg, two members of the Socialist Left Party in
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    • 35 10 The accused: Giant caricatures of Chinese leaders Deng Xiaoping and Premier Li Peng dwarf a young demonstrator during a redly organised by the Chinese-Filipino business federation in Manila. Picture/ Afp
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      39 11 Born a different colour: Amused restaurant owner Diane Weston holds up a lobster that was born blue. The rare crustacean was caught off George's Bank and will find its new home at Mystic Marinelife Aquarium. Picture/ Ap
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    • 211 11  -  By Chitra Rajaram I NTERNATIONAL Business Machines, a leading American Information Technology Company, joined the Local Industry Upgrading Programme (LIUP) today. And it promptly issued an open invitation to local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to explore the possibilities of supplying parts and components which
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    • 119 11 Wire services. THE Hungarian government has hailed executed Prime Minister Imre Nagy as a prominent statesman and rejected what it called "sinful" decisions of the past. The official declaration was issued just two days before the reburial of Mr Nagy and four as- sociates on
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      283 11 Wire services. SHARE prices on the London Stock Exchange rallied late yesterday to end higher, as a steady pound postponed worries about a rise in British interest rates. The Financial Times 30share index gained 6.9 points to close at 1,762.9. Volume was light at 467.6 million shares, little changed
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    • 60 11 AFP. SHARE prices prices edged down in early trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The market was dampened by an overnight fall on Wall Street and the US dollar's renewed surge against the yen. The 225-share Nikkei stock average was 9.08 points down at 33,393.91 in the first
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    • 51 11 FT Industrials Tue 1,762.90 (1,756.00) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,503.36 (2,503.54) ST Industrial Tue 1,298.47 (1,283.84) NST Industrial Tue 2,234.83 (2,217.92) Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 2,380.48 (2,355.19) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,533.30 (1,540.20) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 33,402.99 (33,213.55) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      290 11 Wire services. WALL Street stocks stood nearly still yesterday. Blue chips ended a fraction lower and the broader market a trace higher, as investors hugged the sidelines ahead of several economic reports. The Dow Jones industrial average edged 0.18 point lower to 2,503.36. In the broader market, advancing
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 692 12 Wire services. A I LACK of information about ingredients is often a major obstacle to healthful eating, t and this is particularly true 'with ethnic restaurants, because many people are unfamiliar with particular dishes. You may, for example, be avoiding Mexican food because
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    • 458 12 LIFELINES THIS is a weekly column. It will answer your questions on eating healthily. The answers are given by the Health Ministry. Send your questions to Lifelines, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923 or call Hotline Plus 734-7711. I'M
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 554 13  -  By Lim Phay-ling T HE hairdresser has just cut, shampooed and blown-dry your crowning glory. But have you got your money's worth? Three top hairstylists tell how to check for a good cut in three classic styles. Gina Lau of The Hairshop says the most
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    • 245 13  -  SHOPMNGBUG Woven Look Greeting Cards. By Geneieve Kwek YOU can have your greeting card and keep it. The cards, designed by computer, are attractive enough for people to want to frame them, a representative of the importer Beacon Marketing Management said.
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  • Showtime
    • 451 14  -  Mixed Signals Theatre Works WTC Auditorium From Juno 14 to 17 and Juno 20 to 24 Ttckots sold out REVIEW/ Wong Sing Yeong A FUNNY thing happened to me after watching Michael Chiang's Mixed Signals last night. Five minutes after sitting through the two-hour
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    • 218 14 THE New Paper made a dramatic debut last night in Theatre Works' Mixed Signals, playing a minor role. Two short scenes featured a New Paper reporter and a photographer played by Karen Tan and Alec Tok. They were investigating the true purpose of an Indian film
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1527 15 television=Urm M Expressions Kodo: Heartbeat Applause A Session with Chet fe SCREEN Drummers of Japan IZT-r I Atkins and A Blues Session: B B i i Uf KODO is the Japanese word —j (10.30 pm, SBC 12) 1 u Chet Atkina, top guitarist ami record i(V I_ _>— -.V' producer,
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  • spotlight
    • 535 16 Vietnam: A survivor’s story There are between 14 and 30 million homeless people throughout the world currently seeking shelter and a new life away from their native land. Many have had to endure great hardship and possible death in order to make their escape. And even
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    • 326 16 TRAPPED on an isolated ribbon of land, the 600,000 Palestinians of the Gaza Strip are bitter and frustrated after more than four decades of rootless existence. In the past two years, many have died in clashes with Israeli troops who have occupied the strip
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    • 266 16 AMONG the three million Afghan refugees in Pakistan hoping to go home some day is a generation of children who have never even seen Afghanisatan. Others have traumatic memories of being driven out by war which may never be erased from their minds. Mohammad Azim,
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 402 20  -  By Vivien Chiong H E'S the kind of guy girls love to hate. On screen, SBC actor Lawrence Zhang Shuifa swaggers around women. He has played such roles so often it is hard to believe he is not a Romeo. "Perhaps I
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    • 158 20  -  SEENLASTMGHT By Lim Kuan Chiang CARTOON films now are technically good. But when it comes to characterisation, the new shows seem flat. A new series, Snoggies, that made its debut last evening on SBC 5, is an example. This French-Canadian production is beautifully drawn and
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    • 297 20  -  By Lo Tien Yin SBC actresses Liu Qiulian and Yang Yanqing will go "crazy", playing zany roles like those of Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin, in a new serial, My Sweet Rival. The serial is on the age-old battle of the sexes. It starts on
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    • 102 20 MY Sweet Rival highlights the problem of finding the right marriage partner. If you want to find your perfect match, take part in the SBC promotional show for this serial tomorrow at 7.30 pm in SBC's Studio One. There is one condition: You
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    • 521 21 USA Today. THE biggest rock draw in America this summer has one Top 10 hit to its credit from 1967. It has a nice beat but you can't really dance to it. Yet fans young and old, from hip hoppers to hippies, are
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    • 232 21 OLIVER COMPANY (Orchard) THIS is a hand-drawn animated movie which is a modern-day retelling of Charles Dickens' classic story. It is set in New York City and follows the adventures of an unwanted kitten and a pack of pickpocket dogs. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm THE
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    • 113 21 PICTURE a young Hispanic girl growing up with a dream to sing and she turns that dream into a phenomenal success. It might all sound like a fantasy but it's the real life story of singing star Lisa Lisa. It was Mike Hughes, who first
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    • Article, Illustration
      404 21 USA TODAY SONJA TAN. USA TODAY. SHIRISH NADKARNI. Go West Grammy THE Grammy Awards, which moved from New York to Los Angeles this year, will stay at LA's Shrine Auditorium in 1990, rather than rotating back to New York. This means that the Grammy Gypsies— the nomadic people who
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    • 302 22  -  By Lo Tien Yin WHAT'S for entertainment tonight? Watch a movie, on a wide screen, in your home. Some people with cash to spare are finding this a refreshing change from watching shows on the small television screen. According to GE Projection Display Products, some
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    • 87 22 STILL keeping those clothes from the 60s or 70s? Here is your chance to show them off. Just hop over to the Warehouse tomorrow at 4 pm and see the first fashion show of that period in SBC's It's Your Move show. There
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    • 384 22 THE best of local English pop can be heard on Friday and Saturday nights, June 30 and July 1, in the Victoria Theatre. Pop Sparks 11, a pop concert which is part of the Music Festival programme, will feature
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • CHAMPIONS TROPHY HOCKEY
      • Article, Illustration
        247 26 AFP. PAKISTAN 1 INDIA 0 PAKISTAN, 3-0 winner over India in the In- dira Gandhi Memorial Tournament in January, beat its old rival again in Berlin yesterday. But it made hard work of its 1-0 success. Wayward finishing meant that Pakistan had to rely on a 24th-minute goal
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      • 104 26 Reuter. GERMANY 1 HOLLAND 2 HOLLAND virtually ended West Germany's hopes of winning the Trophy for a fourth successive year. But the West Germans, even without the injured Stefan Blocher, should never have lost. They led after Carsten Fischer netted with a powerful flick from a 21st-minute penalty
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      • 99 26 Reuter. AUSTRALIA 2 BRITAIN 1 AUSTRALIA joined Holland at the top of the table with its third win. Debutant Nick Thompson scored a spectacular goal after six minutes to give the Olympic champion a 1-0 interval lead. But the Australians equalised through left-winger Neil Hawgood in
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    • 302 26 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA RACING Joy who has been knocking on the door, may finally get his chance at Penang this week. In his winding up gallop this morning, the Nordic Prince grey did a winning gallop when he sprinted smartly over 600 m in 36.9
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    • 318 27 WORLD YOUTH SOCCER SCOTLAND 1 BAHRAIN 1 GHANA 2 CUBA 2 BRAZIL 2 E GERMANY 1 AUSTRALIA 2 US 2 ARGENTINA 4 CANADA 1 NIGERIA 3 CHINA 0 GUINEA 1 PORTUGAL 1 SAUDI 1 COLOMBIA 0 AP. GOALS by Marcio and Frederico gave Brazil a
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    • WORLD CUP SOCCER QUALIFIERS
      • 231 27 Reuter. NORWAY 1 Y'LAVIA 2 GOALS in each half from Dragan Stojkovic and Zlatko Vujovic in Oslo yesterday enabled Yugoslavia to cruise towards next year's World Cup finals. In a largely one-sided European qualifying Group Five tie, Norway was unable to make any impression until the closing minutes
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      • 197 27 Reuter. ICELAND 0 AUSTRIA 0 ICELAND squandered a string of good chances and had to settle for a goalless draw against Austria in Reykjavik. The result did little to resolve the question of which team in a weak qualifying Group Three will join probable winner the
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      • 295 27 Reuter. SPARKLING Denmark continued its improved form yesterday when it hammered Sweden 6-0 in the opening match of a triangular tournament in Copenhagen to celebrate the Danish Football Union's Centenary year. Goals by Flemming Povlsen, Lars Elstrup (2), Henrik Andersen, Jan Bartram and Michael Laudrup
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    • 220 27 Wire services. ITALIAN League soccer champion AC Milan beat domestic Cup holder Sampdoria 3-1 in the new Italian Supercup yesterday. Frank Rijkaard (18th), Graziano Mannari (72nd) Marco Van Baaton (92nd, penalty) scored for AC, while Gianluca Vialli (13th) replied for Sampdoria. The Supercup is a new competition between the
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 510 28 THE SINGAPORE FURNITURE Designers' Competition '8 9 0 The scorch is on for local designers who have the potential to design furniture that could be the start of a Singapore Style At the same time the quality should be on par with the best of international designs. An award that
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  • SPORTS
    • 459 29 Ben Johnson's confession yesterday that he took drugs before his world record run evoked strong reactions. While Canadians generally felt sympathy for their runner, the IAAF has recommended that records set by runners using performance-enhancing drugs should be annulled. If it is adopted by the lAAF
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    • 183 29 LEWIS REACTS Reuter, AFP. OLYMPIC champion Carl Lewis says the IAAF's stand on Ben Johnson's 100-metres world record will test the sincerity of the governing body's drug policy. 'If the IAAF is 100 per cent for fighting drugs, they'll take it away," Lewis said in
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    • 165 29 CANADA REACTS Wire services. BEN Johnson's tearful apology yesterday for taking steroids and lying about it touched some favourable nerves in Canadian public opinion. And that could help his bid to compete again. "Ben wants second chance," the Toronto Sun headlined. "Sprinter longs to run for Canada."
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    • 300 30  -  Stories/ S Gulam IF last night's friendly against Negri Sembilan was meant to be a test for the Singapore Reserves, it was a big failure. The reserves laboured for a 1-0 win in a lacklusture performance that disappointed the 2,000-odd fans at Jalan Besar Stadium. The biggest
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    • 152 30 RAJAGOP A L Suriamurthi is confident of guiding Negri Sembilan into the Semi-Pro League of the Malay- sia Cup next year. The former Singapore international says the Malaysian state now has the base to return to the top flight within a year. Negri was relegated to
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    • 127 30 Bernama. KUALA Lumpur qualified for the second round of the Asian Inter-Club football championship after defeating Pelita Jaya of Indonesia 2-1 at Cheras Stadium yesterday. Both KL's goals were netted by Fandi Ahmad, in the eighth and 32nd minutes. The Indonesian team disputed both goals. It
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    • 223 30  -  By Abdul Shukor SINGAPORE'S athletes are shaping up well for this August's South-east Asia Games. They bagged four golds at the Selangor AAA Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur last weekend. "The team did very well...the athletes' performances were quite unexpected," said Mr Ghanasegaran, the team's
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    • 663 30 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Kelantan Open Championships Men's singles 2nd rd: Foo Kok Keong (M) bt R Maniaran (M) 15-7, 15-6; Benson Wong (S) bt Fung Seng (M) 6-15, 18-13, 15-4; Ong Ewe Chye (M) bt Abdul Malek (M) 15-7, 15-10; Pang Chen (M) bt
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    • 146 31 Reuter. FRENCH Open champion Michael Chang was outplayed by fellow-American Johan Kriek yesterday when he made his first competitive appearance since his triumph over Stefan Edberg in Paris. Chang was defeated 1-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 by Kriek in the round-robin Continental grasscourt championship at Rosmalen, Holland.
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    • 257 31 AFP. MATS Wilander, on the latest of his increasingly frequent off days this year, had to battle for all of two hours and six minutes to beat the world's 109 th ranked player yesterday. The third-seeded Swede finally got rid of the American David Wheaton 7-6 (10-8),
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    • 142 31 AP. BILLIE Jean King and Martina Navratilova teamed up in doubles yesterday for the first time in nine years, with mixed results. The pair, with 89 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles between them, won a postponed first-round match over Maria Lindstrom of Sweden and Heather Ludloff
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    67 32 Mixed Signals is a comedy about the Friendship Development Unit which tries to create the perfect Singapore Woman. Matinees on Saturday and June 24. 2.30 ¥m. Night performances at 8 pm until June 24. World Trade Centre Auditorium, ickets at $15/20/25 for night performances and tickets at $10/15/20
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