The New Paper, 20 June 1989

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    • 196 1 H I Rlx fill 20 J o^ ,r BOOKS HIT TOWN X |||W jMS t i *4 t V i f 1 »K II f" '-Jd t <f,p «#•< a .*1* 1 BLOODY COFFIN RUSHDIE: MUSLIMS WIN IN UK COURT /ftp 13 Magazines that show slaughter in Tiananmen Square have
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 186 2 Wire services. ARMED youths went on the rampage in the Soviet Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan over the weekend, causing an unspecified number of deaths, Tass news agency reported. Tass said the youths tried to seize a police station, public transport and key points in
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    • 447 2 DURIAN skins are being dropped. No, they are not being used as killer litter. It's just durian stallholders going modern. The stall man will now open the fruit for you and pack the seeds and flesh in styrofoam takeaway packages, at no extra charge.
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    • 111 2 Wire services. THE socialist government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has resigned. Mr Papandreou handed his resignation to President Christos Sartzetakis yesterday, a day after his Pan-Hel-lenic Socialist Union was defeated by conservatives in general elections in Greece. The President asked Mr Papandreou to stay on as
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    • 761 3  -  The Tiananmen Square massacre provides gory material for publishers, with at least five Chinese language magazine-compilations distributed here. They are being snapped up By Chow Wai Fong AT least five Chinese language magazine-compilations, one a glossy, tabloid-size publication, have been made of the events at Tiananmen
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 42 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 deg C. Minimum temperature: 25 deg C. The sunset this evening will be at 7.12 pm. The sunrise tomorrow morning will be at 7.00 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 250 4 PERSEVERANCE has finally paid off for nurse Ms Lo Chee Yong. After seven near misses, she has finally won the $5,000 jackpot in The New Paper Moneywords contest 23/89. Ms Lo, 43, of Bukit Merah View, was surprised when The New Paper called her yesterday
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    • 289 4  -  By Lim Phay-ling STATUES must have a tough life. Take the one of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. Sir Stamford's statue seems to be leaning on one good leg as he looks over the Singapore River from his pedestal at Boat
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    • 177 4 THE group chairman of Overseas Union Bank, Mr Lien Ying Chow, is in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. When The New Paper visited the hospital yesterday, he was being wheeled out in a wheel-chair from Ward 56 a "medical" ward, for a test. His wife Margaret was
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 467 6 A SCHOOL is planning a beauty contest that is not a show of flesh. St Theresa's Convent hopes that by having a contest based on brains, moral values and grace, its students will keep away from other types of beauty contests. School principal Mrs
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    • 130 6 WHEN was the last time you sat with a friend from another race or religion? This is being asked by Mr Zainul Abidin Rasheed, editor of the Berita Harian newspaper, in a speech scheduled for delivery this morning to Pre-University students. Everyone must be willing to
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    • 243 6 STUDENTS squeezed every second out of the 30 minutes they were given to question Brig-Gen (Res) George Yeo after his speech at the seminar yesterday. BG Yeo, the Minister of State (Finance and Foreign Affairs), revealed that the Government hopes to draw up a Green Paper, or discussion
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      614 8  -  By Karen Goh THE dead can now rest in cold comfort, thanks to the efforts of a Malaysian coffin maker. He's found a way to turn a coffin into a freezer. A special air-condi-tioning unit linked to the coffin by pipes keeps the temperature at 1 to 5
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    • 183 8 GETTING Mr Lim Chin Aik to talk about his "air-conditioned" coffins was easy. But finding him wasn't. We read about the coffins in Sin Chew Jit Poh (Malaysia), a Chinese Malaysian newspaper, last Saturday and in yesterday's paper. A translation of the story gave the firm's
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    • 322 8 EMBALMING is a means of preserving a corpse so that it does not decay immediately. It can stop the decay for a year, but the usual length of time is about a month. Embalming is an art principally associated with ancient Egypt and generally involves
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    • 174 8 CONSTRUCTION plant operators will now compete in an obstacle race. The Construction Industry Development Board and the Wealco Equipment and JCB Sales (Singapore) will hold the event on Saturday at CIDB's training centre at Bishan. Overcoming an obstacle may mean pretending to pull a
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    • 100 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. apparel: Clothes. avowed: Declared. caustic: Unpleasant, sarcastic or bitter. critical: Important. drag queen: A male who dresses as a woman. humidity: Moisture or dampness. intonation: The way a person's
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    • 442 9  -  By Irene Hoe ANG Mo Kio West town council has just voted itself a $60,000 windfall. All its councillors and the chairman, Mr Lim Boon Heng, have decided they don't want to be paid for the work they do for the
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    • 245 9 A MILLION dollars to keep off the sun and the rain. Ang Mo Kio West town council hopes to spend nearly this much on the first phase of a project to provide sheltered walkways from apartment blocks to bus shelters. The council estimates that providing covered
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 428 10 Wire services. LOVERS and hawkers are back on Beijing's broad Jianguomenwai Avenue. Just two weeks ago, tanks ploughed through burning wrecks of buses on the road and soldiers drilled holes in houses with gunfire. On a warm summer evening, hundreds of Beijing residents sit in
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    • 252 11 Wire services. c HINA seems to be trying to deflect the international criticism that has threatened its foreign economic relations after the recent violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations in Beijing. Remarks by Mr Qiao Shi, the Chinese Communist Party Politburo member in charge of state security,
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    • 170 11 Wire services. AMERICAN tourist Joseph F Kahn has been expelled from China for violating martial law. The official New China News Agency (NCNA) said yesterday he did not act as a tourist. He was ordered to leave within 72 hours, the agency, monitored in Hongkong, said.
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    • 175 11 Wire services. SOVIET Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov yesterday urged world leaders to press for an end to death sentences on prodemocracy leaders in China. He said: "What has happened in China does not concern China alone. The whole world is affected. What
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    • 221 11 Wire services. THE Bush administration said yesterday that US businesses and travellers should continue to avoid China. At the same time, administration officials rejected a suggestion by House of Representative Speaker Thomas Foley that President George Bush condemn more severely the Beijing government
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    • 357 12 Wire services. T l I HE new European Parliament is likely to be finely balanced between left and right. Major gains by socialists and Greens are partly offset by gains on the extreme right, according to final results yesterday. Socialists won a further 16
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    • 122 12 Wire services THE executioner's sword was raised over the murderer's head when Mohammed Yehia al-Fa-qihi, whose family was wiped out in the quadru-ple-killing, screamed from the crowd. "I forgive you for the sake of God," he shouted. The executioner froze, the blindfold was lifted
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    • 277 12 Wire services. SOLIDARITY triumphed again in Sunday's runoff elections in Poland. Only a Communist-backed millionaire won a seat in the Senate, preliminary results showed yesterday. He says that former US President Ronald Reagan made him rich enough to finance his election campaign.
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    • 36 12 Explosive: Policemen clash with miners protesting the closure of Belgium's last two coal mines. Police said that 30 policemen and 10 miners were iniured in yesterday's battle in Brussels. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 149 12 Wire services. AIRLINES may have to triple the number of flights in Europe by the year 2000 to meet the expected increase in passengers, the International Air Transport Association (lATA) said yesterday. Such an increase in capacity will only be
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    • 112 12 Wire services. THE Afghan government has announced the end of the four-month-long siege of Jalalabad by mujahideen forces. It claimed that the Soviet-backed government of President Najibullah was victorious. "Day by day, the attacks are decreasing, and even the number
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 53 13 Chic, madam, not apparatchik: French fashion designer Pierre Cardin puts the final touches to a dress before presenting his fashion collection for the first time before a Soviet audience in Moscow yesterday. Thanks to glasnost, party officials apparatchiks, as they are called can look chic,
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    • 260 13 Wire services. A BRITISH Muslim group has won a victory in its court battle to bring author Salman Rushdie and his publishers to trial for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses. An earlier ruling said that Mr Rushdie could not
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    • 138 13 Wire services. IRAN said a fight between the co-pilot and chief guard caused the crash of an Afghan airliner that killed six people. Deputy Prime Minister Ali Reza Moayeri categorically denied in Teheran that the plane, which crash-landed in Iran on Sunday,
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      280 13 Wire services. THE London stock market posted gains on the first day of the new account as the pound steadied, shrugging off the influence of a number of dividend payments and an unexpectedly weak opening on Wall Street. The Financial Times 30share index closed 8.9 points higher at 1,780.7.
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    • 73 13 Reuter. SHARE prices opened broadly firm on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today after yesterday's lifeless trade. The 225-share Nikkei index firmed 131.34 points, or 0.40 per cent, to 33,144.52 in 10 minutes. It eased 41.99 points yesterday. The winners were led by electrical, precision instrument, communications, nonlife insurance, railway/bus,
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Mon 1,780.70 (1,771.80) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,479.89 (2,486.38) ST Industrial Mon 1,304.40 (1,296.52) NST Industrial Mon 2,259.96 (2,238.07) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon (closed) (2,342.41) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,526.30 (1,528.20) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 33,013.18 (33,055.17) Pigurea in bracketa refer to those of tbe previous trading
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      275 13 Wire services. WALL Street started the week nervously, with both blue chips and secondary stocks dipping in quiet trading. The Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials fell 6.49 points to close at 2,479.89 points. Declining issues slightly outnumbered advances on the New York Stock Exchange, with 668
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  • Showtime
    • 548 14 John Lone shot to fame on the Broadway stage. But he has no interest in one of that fabled district's most talked about Asian roles in the Tony-award winning M Butterfly. Hongkong correspondent PAULINE LOH talked with John Lone about his stage
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    • 151 14 THE plot of John Lone's new Him is both topical and timely. He plays Henry Wong, a radical student leader who flees China when the political climate turns against him. He continues his revolutionary activities in Hongkong. It is sheer coincidence that the prophetic plot of
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1502 15 Television gn m Horizon Purple Warrior (Part Cultural Moments Tuesday Premiere A Father's SCREEN M Two): Limited War X (9.30pm, SBC 12) Homecoming GEMS (B.oopm, SBC 12) ~jr Dancemakers spotlights Danny M THE Task Force on the wl Grossman and his dance company. (70.35 pm, SBC 5) IWi A W
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  • spotlight
    • 1060 16 Orchard Road is not the ideal shopper's street, say some architects. It is like a pedestrian's obstacle course: There's a lot of "stepping up and down" because of the frequent changes of levels, and pedestrian flow is frequently interrupted by service roads. Also, the design
      GRAPHICS by footsore PETER SULLIVAN, who walked and sketched the length of Orchard Road.  -  1,060 words
    • 313 16 SOME malls are too cramped. Others, like the one near Centrepoint, lead to nowhere. You have to battle with vehicles almost every step of the way. No shiok you cannot windowshop as you walk. These are some of the comments The New Paper
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 313 18  -  By Vivien Chiong L I EAVING Rediffusion for SBC as a TV compere was more than a change of scene for Andy Zhu Yongqing. At Rediffusion, Andy, 26, was just a voice as a radio presenter. But since joining the television station two months
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    • 228 18  -  By Sonja Tan INDIANA Jones' brown fedora and leather jacket have found a new home. The hat and the jacket will now be in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Their move into a museum confirms what the movie publicity
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    • 130 18 AFTER nearly three years, Animotion has returned to the pop music scene as a strikingly different band. The change revolves around new lead singers Cynthia Rhodes and Paul Engemann, two performers with sensational track records. They have teamed up with original members Greg Smith and Don
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    • 279 18 MR CANTON AND LADY ROSE (Mandarin Kallang Bahru) JACKIE plays a country boy from Canton who is cheated of all his money on his first day in Hongkong. Anita Mui plays his singer-girlfriend. By accident, he finds himself made the boss of an underworld clan. Then he gets into
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    • 334 19 RADIO presenter and producer Ms Jeanette Joseph had never walked so much before. Her colleague, Philip Chew, had never played Billy Ocean so many times before. And a group of students had never seen so many push-buttons in their lives. All this happened during
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    • 246 19 SBC'S newest deejay, Ms Sharon Gomes, in her early 20s, was a surprise addition to SBC's first deejay workshop. It was her first day at work, and she was supposed to be just an observer. But since one of the participants did not show up,
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    • 152 19  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Sonja Tan A WHILE ago, China's open-door policy resulted in a revolution of washing machines, refrigerators and TVs. Many asked if China was moving too fast. For although on the surface the economic reforms were a success, with growth came problems such
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    • 323 19 THREE Chinese beauties from Hawaii created a stir at Changi Airport when they strode out of the arrival lounge in cheongsam, sash and tiara. And they weren't even supposed to be here. The three hold the titles of Queen Narcissus, First Princess, and Third Princess of the
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 195 20 The one-kilometre stretch of Changi Road from the junction of Still Road to the junction of Frankel Avenue has almost 20 restaurants serving Indian, Malay and Chinese food. Last week, RONALD WONG ate his wa down the road. In this first of a two-part article,
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    • 321 20 Dawood Restaurant 502 Changi Road Opens round the clock daily DAWOOD Restaurant has been at the corner of Changi Road and Frankel Avenue for almost 15 years. It is a favourite with taxidrivers on night shifts, people wanting a quick bite before rushing to the airport for their
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    • 229 20 Sate Inn 257 Changi Road Opens noon to 1 am daily except Hari Raya Puasa and Hari Raya Hajl THE Sate Inn is one of three restaurants which occupies the first level of the NYP Building at the junction of Jalan Eunos and Changi Road. The restaurant has
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    • 141 20 Dilhi Darbar Restaurant 359 Changi Road Opens 24 hours daily BESIDES the usual offerings of roti prata, biryani, sup kambing (mutton soup) and curry, Dilhi Darbar has halal (clean, by Muslim law) Chinese-style seafood from 4 pm to 10 pm daily. From 7 pm to 5 am,
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    • 216 20  -  MICROWAVE COOK By K Karuna RICE cooked in the microwave oven comes out perfectly always. It is excellent for reheating as the grains are soft and fluffy. Make sure the container is big enough to prevent water from boiling over. It can be cooked without a
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 485 21  -  By Angeline Song ONE of the most unusual plants in the world is finding its way into Singapore homes. Air plants, or Tillandsia, live off the air. There is no need to place them in soil. The leaves contain tiny hairs called trichomes
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    • 415 21 EYETOEYE I HAVE been wearing contact lenses since March last year. Recently, I switched to a new pair because the previous ones hurt my eyes terribly. I consulted my contact lens practitioner and he told me there was nothing wrong with them. After persistent trouble
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1295 24 RADKX3UIDE EU22EDH EB9 kmhimimhiJI EH9HII NOON Nm in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Nlews la Brief and Weather NOON Good Music, Company aid Ma: NOON Nowsdosk 12.05 Lunchdata: A musical selection NOON Beautiful Music: Light instru- Report Noon-time musical entertain- u.30 My Early Yaars: Nigel Hawis offered here for your
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  • SPORTS
    • 286 25 Reuter. AN outraged Diego Maradona yesterday renewed threats to leave Napoli. He is furious with Napoli fans who whistled him off the pitch in Sunday's goalless draw against bottom club Pisa. Maradona quit the game with a muscle injury in the 17th minute but thousands of fans,
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    • 75 25 AFP. WOLVERHAMPTON Wanderers striker Andy Mutch dealt English First Division soccer duo Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa a blow yesterday. He agreed to sign a new two-year contract with the Second Division club. Both the big clubs had been interested in the 26-year-old Mutch, one half
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    • 83 25 AFP. ENGLISH First Division soccer rivals Aston Villa and Everton are at loggerheads over the transfer fee for Martin Keown, who has moved to Goodison Park. Villa wants $3 million for the central defender, but Everton is expected to offer a token $600,000 when the case
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    • 159 25 RACING.. .with DENNIS CHIA COLONIAL Chief, a fast second to Bestplan in the Agong Gold Cup earlier this month, did a sparkling gallop at Singapore this morning. With stablemate Feu Vert for company, the Allantrained pair raced over 600 m in 39 with Colonial Chief
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    • 384 26 HEALTH &F?tness Singapore's and Asia's W bodybuilder has won fame I but not quite fortune. That could change soon, for Mr has ventured into running his gym—the biggest of its kind in he says. "Our aim is to boost bodybuilding and help bodybuilders reach international standards/'
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    • 162 26 Wire services. MALCOLM Allison returned yesterday to English football after a five-year absence by taking over as manager of Non League club Fisher Athletic. It is the colourful 61-year-old's first job in England since he left Middlesbrough in March 1984. AUSTRALIA tuned up for Thursday's Second Test against England
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    • 274 27 Reuter. w ORLD No 1 Ivan Lendl yesterday was named top seed for the Wimbledon tennis championships, which begins next Monday. But Lendl's seeding was the one major concession to players' demands that seedings mirror world rankings. Defending champion Stefan Edberg was named second seed, despite his
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    • 151 27 AFP. CONSTANT rumours that Gabriela Sabatini has been taking anabolic steroids were firmly dismissed by the Argentine star's trainers Oscar Carminatti and Angel Gimenez yesterday. The rumours have been circulating following the 19-year-old's recent poor showing in the French Open and her changed physical appearance over recent
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    • WARMING UP FOR WIMBLEDON
      • 177 27 AP. TOP seed Martina Navratilova posted an easy victory in the first round of the Eastbourne Virginia Slims grasscourt tennis tournament yesterday. But several seeded players were upset. Navratilova, the No 1 seed, who overwhelmed Britain's Jo Durie 6-1, 6-1, said: "The strut is back and I'm
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      • 141 27 AP. AMERICAN Jim Pugh rallied from a one-set deficit to defeat Yugoslav Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) in the first round of the pre-Wim-bledon Wirral grasscourt tennis tournament in England yesterday. Pugh's victory set him up with a second-round match against John McEnroe. Pugh, 25,
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    • 637 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: CRICKET Tour match Australia 329 and 229-5 dec (M Taylor 69, D Jones 68 n.0.; Robinson 2-33, Davis 2-29); Northamptonshire 180 and 106 (W Noon 37, W Larkins 21, R Bailey 17; Alderman 3-10, Waugh 3-10, Campbell 1-31). Australia won by 272
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    • 264 28 Victor Tham Ken Ling, Singapore's leading bowling personality for the last three decades, died yesterday, after falling from his sixth storey flat in Marine Parade. He was only 42. ALFONSO CHAN pays tribute... VICTOR Tham's sudden death is a blow Singapore's bowling fraternity will never recover
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    • 100 28 1966 Instructor at Jackie's Bowl, Katong. 1972 Ball Driller and Assistant Manager, International Bowl. 1974 Manager, Anson Bowl. 1977 Appointed by Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress to sanction all lanes in Singapore. 1978 Assisted FIQ Asian Zone in the sanctioning of the Asian Championships as well as the Asian
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    • 323 28  -  By Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE'S diving team for the South-east Asia Games will not lose its keen edge despite its training stint in China being cancelled because of the unrest there. Tough, twice-a-day training sessions will be held for the team from July. For the past
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    • 190 28  -  By Abdul Shukor FORMER champion Michael Tan is expected to provide a strong challenge when he competes in the first Laser Trophy national championship, to be held at the East Coast Sailing Centre on June 24-25. Michael has had a long lay-off from competitive
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    • 540 29 THE Football Association of Malaysia plans to introduce a new style Malaysia Cup next season. The new format would mean a 10-month duration for the Cup. And that could deal a big blow to Singapore's domestic soccer programme. S GULAM reports THE Malaysia Cup soccer programme will
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    • 199 29  -  By Abdul Shukor THE Football Association of Singapore will not decide on V Sundramoorthy's plea to play for Kedah until it receives proper documents from the Swiss FA. Sundram has already signed a conditional contract with Kedah. Said the FAS president Maj (Retd) Abbas
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  • UPDATE
    • 934 30 TUESDAY Out About DRAGON BOAT. This carnival celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival features a merry-go-round, a fems wheel, kiddie cars and game stalls for all ages. A stage is also set up for Thai cultural shows. There will also be performances by local artists and those
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    • 13 30 FILMS: Sailor's tale FOOD: Claypot rice COMING UP: Talk for women
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    • 80 30 A giant King Kong with rolling eye® and twining arms greets the visitor as he enters the hall. A metallic dinosaur and a robot orchestra are some of the other highlights. Also catch the mysterious box displays. One of these is a babe in arms. Press
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