The New Paper, 27 June 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 SO CENTS
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    • 137 1 WOMEN AND THEIR*, DOCTORS WHY IS SOME WORRY "He ver y touchy-touchy," says one patient^ i;;v».tuf» V \V.* I •0- WORLD BANK HOLDS UP LOANS The World Bank has postponed indefinitely $1.5 billion in new loans to China. This is in response to an international outcry over the violent crackdown
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  • 49 1 f Singapore's own Teo Ser Lee was named Miss Friendship by the other 32 contestants in the 1989 Miss Globe pageant in Turkey. The bubbly beauty scored a double triumph by making it to the Top 12 in the contest./ Page 20 Picture/ Sam Yeo
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 449 2 X HE government is expected to announce 'two changes to its proposed development charge system for properties, the Business Times reported today. The implementation of the proposed system will be pushed back by two months, from July 1 to Sept 1. Appeals will not be restricted
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    • 286 2 Wire services. A Soviet submarine with a damaged nuclear reactor, off the Norwegian coast, may pose a danger if the weather turns bad. The aging submarine loaded with atomic weapons was limping back to base today, after a burst pipe crippled one of its
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    • 82 2 Wire services. THE new Soviet Parliament resumed work in Moscow yesterday, but without the live television and radio coverage. The live media broadcasts had captivated the country during its first three weeks of stormy debate. "The work of Parliament has entered a long, routine
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    • 117 2 Wire services. CHINESE troops have shot dead seven Tibetans trying to cross from Tibet into the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The seven were killed on Tibet's western border with India on Sunday night. Their bodies were found yesterday by Tibetan shepherds 150 km
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    • 70 2 Wire services. HEAVYWEIGHT boxing champion Mike Tyson doesn't throw punches at girls. Or so he says. "If I'm into hurting girls, then how come I have so many? Why would women come near me?" asked Tyson, 22. In his book Fire and Fear, former lightheavyweight
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    • 494 3  -  By Griselda Loo a i TOUCH of the colonial now graces Marina South. The architecture of the clubhouse at the new Marina Bay Golf and Country Club harks back to the elegant houses of early Singapore. It has a sprawling white and blue-roof. There's even
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 221 4 THERE'S the chance next week to meet a real princess, to watch ethnic artists at work and to soak up the culture of the Native Americans. They are usually and wrongly known as the Red Indians of North America. An American Indian princess, described by
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    • 421 4 Last week, gynaecologist Dr Alex Ooi Koon Hean, 39, was found guilty of taking advantage of a female patient by having sex with her. It will cost him his licence to practise medicine. Are unethical affairs happening in Singapore hospitals and
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    • 150 4 DOCTOR and patient relationships developing into clandestine affairs are said to not happen often here. "These cases are very rare," said a Singapore Medical Association (SMA) spokesman yesterday. He was commenting on the case of Dr Alex Ooi Koon Hean, 39. The Singapore Medical Council (SMC)
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    • 335 4 WHAT DOCTORS SAY FIVE male doctors interviewed said they avoid getting involved with female patients no matter how attractive or helpless they may be. One even admitted having a buzzer to alert the nurse if a female patient
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    • 390 5 YOU take a deep breath and start at the beginning. Eventually, you'll reach the end about 40 minutes later. The National University of Singapore Students' Union (NUSSU) sets up a long and winding maze every year to welcome new undergraduates. This year's giant maze, set
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    • 175 5 FIRST stop face to face with union members waving Matric Packs ($7 each) a paper bag of sponsored gift items, bookmarks, a file and a university year planner. Campus Hotline. New advice service for undergraduates. From 3pm to 9 pm, Mondays to Fridays, and 9 am
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    • 280 5 SCHOOLS are learning about the "fax" of life. The convenience and speed of the fax facsimile machines have persuaded the school to pay the $2,000 to $7,000 that these machines cost so that their offices can quickly send and receive reports,
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    • 222 6 MENSA, the association for super-smart people, has opened a branch here. The club was approved by the Registry of Societies on May 26. To be a member, a person's intelligence quotient (IQ) must be 148 or above. (An IQ score of 100 is considered
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    • 240 6 A mystery barbecue happened in broad daylight on the mall outside Tokyu department store in Marina Square on Sunday. Two men and a woman in a blue lorry set up charcoal pits on the pavement and grilled more than two dozen suckling pigs late in
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    • 524 7 THE sophisticated gadgets in your car designed for safety and comfort can be the tools that help kill you in a car accident. Child locks and power windows can become hazards in an emergency, said Mr Goh Peng Khoon of the Singapore Life Saving Society.
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    • 399 7 A TEAM from The New Paper identified five potentially dangerous streets on a drive to the Singapore River. Ellenborough Street, Canning Lane and Clarke Street, Angus Street and South Canal Road are the danger streets. All are narrow and some are one-way. They
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    • 497 8 A COLLECTION of local tales of mystery and horror has been published. The ghosts mentioned in this slim comic book, Souls, are the home-grown stuff such as pontianaks (Malay female spirits). Author K Ramesh, 23, said he himself was afraid of ghosts and
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    • 188 8 SINGAPORE Airlines' earnings may pass the bil-lion-dollar mark next year after taxes. SIA chairman Mr J Y Pillay predicted that milestone in the company's annual report. The report said after-tax profits surged to $985 million during the 1988-1989 financial year. This was
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    • 198 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. bloodbath: An event in which a lot of people are killed violently. content: Happy and satisfied. curator: Someone who is in charge of the objects or works of art
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    • 208 8 This story resulted from a Hotline Plus call. AN exhaust duct in Citiport Centre's basement carpark fell on a parked car yesterday. The five-year-old building opposite the World Trade Centre has had no trouble of the sort before. The huge orange-coloured ducts are for
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 344 9 Wire services. JAPAN'S ruling Liberal Democratic Party seemed to be preparing to dump Prime Minister Sosuke Uno after a double shock over the weekend. A severe by-election defeat and the public appearance of an exgeisha who claims Mr Uno paid her to be his mistress
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    • 59 9 Publicity stance: A group of seven Indian opposition parties alliance National Front demonstrators courting arrest outside the Indian Television in New Delhi yesterday. About 2,000 demonstrators took part to dramatise their claim that the ruling Congress Party of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is
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    • 141 9 Wire services. ANTHONY Perkins, star of Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror film Psycho, was fined $600 in Cardiff, Wales, yesterday for smuggling a small amount of home-grown cannabis into Britain. Perkins, 57, had mailed 1.32 g of cannabis with a street value of about $13.50 from his
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    • 186 9 Wire services. THE United States Supreme Court has issued two important rulings that reaffirmed the reach of capital punishment laws. It ruled on Monday that mentally retarded and juvenile killers can be executed. The court's conservative majority said executions of murderers who were
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    • 95 9 Wire services. OFFICIALS from the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation failed to hold a scheduled meeting in Islamabad yesterday to prepare for Saturday's foreign ministers meeting because of a Sri Lanka boycott. The officials of the sevennation organisation instead held informal discussions. Pakistan and other
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    • 307 10 THE WORLD BANK ACTS Wire services. T HE World Bank yesterday postponed indefinitely $1.5 billion in new loans to China. This was in response to an international outcry over the violent crackdown on pro-de-mocracy demonstrations in Beijing. The United States, the largest World Bank shareholder,
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    • 181 10 THE EC ACTS Wire services. EUROPEAN Community Foreign ministers agreed yesterday on a series of measures to protest against what they called brutal repression in China. Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez said they expressed outrage at continuing executions. He proposed banning arms sales, suspending
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    • 197 10 Wire services. TOP officials of China's National People's Congress (Parliament) will meet on Thursday in a session postponed by the country's political crisis. The Xinhua News Agency said yesterday that the NPC standing committee "would be guided by the principles adopted at (Saturday's) plenary
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    • 267 10 Wire services. PRO-DEMOCRACY protesters in Beijing "got what they deserved", a senior military officer said yesterday. Colonel Li Zhiyun, one of the commanders of the military assault that ended almost seven weeks of pro-democracy demonstrations, said he had "no regrets" about what Chinese and foreign witnesses
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    • 60 10 Look out: A government informant in Beijing yesterday keeps an eye on a street corner in front of American fast food outlet Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Chinese government uses everv means at its disposal to enforce martial law. even to the extent of using lower
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    • 102 10 Wire services. CHINESE authorities have charged 12 US citizens with distributing religious literature and ordered them not to leave the southern city of Kunming in Yunnan province, the US State Department said yesterday. US officials were working on the case and were hopeful the group
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 830 12 PAINTINGS from China have been enjoying high sales in Singapore for the past two years, with major exhibition sales being held almost every week. Art gallery owners and local artists interviewed estimate that up to 6,000 paintings were sold last year, valued at
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    • 206 12 EYETOEYE SOFT contact lenses fit so closely that no debris can damage your cornea even if you swim with them. But swimming with lenses is not advisable because the toxins (chemicals, bacteria, virus and fungus) in the water may penetrate the pores in
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 724 13  -  La Maison pastry shop 833 Bukit Timah Road #01-06 Royalville Opens 10 am to 8 pm, Mondays to Saturdays 10 am to 6 pm, Sundays and public holidays By Ronald Wong L I A Maison pastry shop nestles among a row of pink
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    • 216 13  -  MICROWAVE COOK By K Karuna Once you've overcome the fear or guilt of killing crabs for eating, half the battle is won. If you can't bring yourself to pierce a chopstick through their hearts, then dip them in a bowl of boiling water
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  • Showtime
    • 358 14  -  By Vivien Chiong F I .OUR friends contributed $360 between them to book two rooms at the Holiday Inn Parkview just to get closer to Hongkong celebrity Andy Lau. Fansmania has gone to the point where fans aren't content with just collecting photos of
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    • 240 14 BESIDES waiting at the hotel, the way fans try to reach their idols can sometimes be quite ingenious. There have been cases of fans sneaking into press conferences, posing as reporters. There have also been occasions when fans call up the press, claiming to be an
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1235 15 Television sHi SCREEN Jj 100 S Child Pr6miere ena The Lecture Return Journey Egypt Jewish Refugee Centre in operating theatre, her put-downs frequented when he was young and Poland to search for missing and are legendary. She his father's timber company, where l b^ ne h d y h sl
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  • spotlight
    • Article, Illustration
      362 16 Singapore artists are winning prizes for their creations. Corporations are setting up art competitions, awarding prize money and paying commissions for art for their headquarters. But what happens to these paintings once they leave the artists' hands? Do they end up displayed in places of honour? SONJA
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    • 77 16 COLLECTING dust in the store room, unseen by anyone. That's the miserable fate of an oil painting by Mr Prabhakara Jimmy Quek, simply titled Impression. It won first prize. IBM bought it and then donated it to the National Museum. But with the National Museum under renovations, and
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    • 161 16 MRTC, one of the co-organisers who now owns N 2 Somerset, the winning oil painting, couldn't decide where to hang it. Initially, the painting was waiting for their new headquarters to be built. But that will not be ready till 1991! When The New Paper asked for permission
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    • 143 16 ONE'S Habitat is one piece of art which occupies a prominent place in a public area. Described by the judges as having "a strong impact and unity in terms of colour, texture and the degree of artistic, involvement" it hangs on the ground floor banking
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    • 128 16 SHELL organises an exhibition, not a competition. The exhibits are sold to the public at prices determined by the artists themselves. An example of one of the works is a marble sculpture titled Embrace by Chan May Chun, which was bought by Shell. It now sits on a
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    • 98 16 SANDY Wong Shin is the only woman to have won first prize in an art competition in Singapore. She won the 1986 UOB Painting Of The Year Competition with a controversial oil work titled Exhibit *86. The painting of the back of a framed picture hanging on
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    • 294 16 RAFFLES City displays local art in many places even in the toilets! More conventionally, local works can also be found at such places as the Guest Services Desk, in the Tea Room, Palm Grill, the VIP Lounge, Canton Garden, L'Express, Kopi Tiam and in their various
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    • 117 16 LAST year's winning entry, an oil painting by Daniel Wong titled Raw Hide, would normally hang in the public area of the Australian High Commission. But due to renovations, this painting is in storage. Thin art competition is a biennial event, organised by the Singapore
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 277 18  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang s INGAPORE beauty Teo Ser Lee was placed in the Top 12 at the 1989 Miss Globe beauty pageant in Turkey on Saturday. This was her fourth attempt at an international beauty title since she won the Miss Singapore
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    • 536 18  -  By Vivien Chiong HIS ballads may not surprise music fans but the voice behind the songs will. You'll expect top-selling Taiwanese singer Chiang Yu Hern to be as low-keyed as those soothing love songs he sings. But despite his scholarly glasses and business suit, the
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    • 188 18  -  8EENLASTMGHT By Ting Mei See SOME people try their best to stay out of danger and yet die from common accidents such as swallowing a fish bone. Others try their best to live dangerously and are still alive. In last night's Just
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    • 93 18 MICHAEL Chang is tennis* latest sensation after being the youngest winner of the French Open early this month. Chang does not look a powerhouse of an athlete but the dimpled 17-year-old Chinese-American looks likely to grow both in physique and prowess. Weighing 81 kg, and
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    • 560 19  -  By Vivien Chiong THE atmosphere in Hongkong is so grim that film-maker Philip Chan had to come to Singapore to write his new script. The director/scriptwriter/actor, 44, left for Hongkong today after spending five days here. At an interview, he said: "I'm writing a comedy
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    • 287 19 MR CANTON AND LADY ROSE (Eng Wah cinemas) JACKIE plays a country boy from Canton who is cheated of all his money on his first day in Hongkong. Anita Mui plays his singergirlfriend. By accident, he becomes the boss of an underworld clan. THE ACCUSED (Lido, Changi 3, Republic
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    • Article, Illustration
      432 19 USA Today UPI. Shirish Nadkarni LIKE A BUSTIER MADONNA'S lace bustier, worn in the once aired Pepsi commercial, goes up for auction with other rock mementos this Saturday at Sotheby's in New York. Proceeds from the bustier, expected to fetch $3,500, will benefit the TJ Martell Foundation, which handles
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    • 317 20 BILLIE Holiday, Gil Evans, Wes Montgomery and other late greats are still selling thousands of albums, as record labels dig into their vaults. These re-issues are the hottest thing in jazz since the CD player. In fact, most come only in digitally remastered CD
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    • 313 20  -  TOPSPINS By Vivien Chiong MARK CHENG (WEA) MARK'S debut album is obviously recorded to cash in on his popularity as an actor. His bassy voice sounds rather like Jacky Cheung but he lacks the smooth polish of the latter. Still, he has a soothing emotional
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    • 372 20  -  By Ng Sook Fun Step into the Lobby Bar at the Equatorial Hotel, and the first thing you'll hear is Sound Waves. This is the lounge's resident Filipino band and, for the last three weeks, this trio has been entertaining guests from the
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 361 24 Reuter. AN ex-Olympic champion and a former top sports official from East Germany yesterday accused all of the country's international athletes of taking drugs. "Every athlete that competes internationally for East Germany is doped, every one," Hans-Juergen Noczenski, former head of the East German Judo
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    • 161 24 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA RACEGOERS are full of praise for Bukit Turf Club for its bold move in showing races in different angles on the television screen. They were pleasantly surprised in the opening race on Saturday when they were able to watch the running
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    • 152 24 SMOKEY Shadow II worked like a winner on a good track in Singapore this morning. With stablemate Drygalski for company, the Lee Seng Hap-trained pair cantered once round and then sprinted over the final 600m in 38.4sec with little between them at the finish. On that workout, Smokey
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    • Article, Illustration
      279 25 HEALTH &F?tness Daoyin is an ancient form of simple breathing exercises, one of the forerunners of qigong. It stresses on the development of the joints, especially the shoulders and knees DAOYIN is an ancient method of health building that combines regulated breathing with body movements. It was first
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    • Article, Illustration
      313 25 Wire services. DUTCH champion PSV Eindhoven is lining up a $5.85 million deal to land Danish international striker Flemming Poulsen from FC Cologne. Reports that Poulsen had already been snapped up by Italy's Juventus to replace Michael Laudrup, who has signed for Barcelona, have not dashed PSV's hopes. Poulsen,
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    • 122 25 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: CRICKET Fourth day's play of second Test between England and Australia at Lord's England: 286 and 322 for 9 (David Gower 106, Robin Smith 96, Terry Alderman six for 111). Australia: 528. English County Championship At Leicester: Leicestershire bt Nottinghamshire by an
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    • 382 26 THERE were no major shocks on the first day at Wimbledon. The seeds live up to form. But top seed Ivan Lendl has to struggle to overcome Venezuelan Nicolas Pereira. Could it be the sign of things to come as the action hots up? AP. FOCUS: LENDL
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    • 282 26 FOCUS: CHANGv SCANLON AP. MICHAEL Chang had to brush off a spirited and gutsy challenge by fellow American Bill Scanlon to win his first-round match 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. TTie 17-year-old looked to be well on the way to a straight-set victory until Scanlon, 32,
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    • 333 26 Wire services. Men's singles: Ivan Lendl (Cze) bt Nicolas Pereira (Ven) 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1; Stefan Edberg (Swe) bt Chris Pridham (Can) 6-3, 6-4, 6-1; Mats Wilander (Swe) bt Magnus Gustafsson (Swe) 6-2, 6-2, 6-2; Boris Becker (WG) bt Bryan Shelton (US) 6-1, 6-4,
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    • 230 27 AP. Weather: Mostly sunny, breezy and cool. Attendance: 34,164, a record for the day. The old mark was 32,288 recorded in 1984. Last year's firstday crowd was 29,078. Recap: Top men's seed Ivan Lendl struggled to defeat Venezuelan teenager Nicolas Pereira in a five-set match,
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    • 260 27 FOCUS: SELES v SCHULTZ AFP. TEENAGE sensation Monica Seles fought her way back from the jaws of defeat to beat Brenda Schultz, of Holland, in a two-hour battle. Seles eventually snatched a 7-6 (7-3), 1-6, 6-4 victory over the reigning Wimbledon junior champion. But at one stage Seles
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    • 446 27 Wire services. MATS Wilander, who enjoyed a brief tenure of the world No 1 spot in 1988 but has found little incentive this year, says he is ready to win the only Grand Slam title to have eluded him. The No 4 seed, who has won three Australian
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    • 200 27 Reuter. STEFFI Graf has won 45 of her 47 singles matches in 1989 but may still feel she is trying to revive her career when she begins the defence of her women's title today. The second of her two defeats this year was in her last match,
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    • 315 28  -  By S Gulam S TRIKER D Devaraj is certainly a star in the i making. The 22-year-old player made a strong claim I for a berth in the first XI with two delightful goals as a Singapore selection beat the Nippon Telephone and Telegraph of Japan 3-1 last
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    • 135 28 NST. PAHANG may have lost the services of its two Thai players for the Malaysia Cup Semi-Pro League, starting this weekend. Two of Pahang's Thai imports, Piyapong Pue-On and Vitoon Kijmongkolsak, were last week allowed to play for their former clubs in the Thailand Toyota Cup soccer tournament
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    • 344 28  -  By Jeffrey Low GOOD news sometimes comes with the bad. And so it is for Kedah, in the wake of V Sundramoorthy's flight to the north. Now it's goalkeeper Azmi Mahmud, who will be out of action for about a fortnight. His
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    • 277 29  -  By Abdul Shukor THE rift between the Singapore Amateur Cycling Association (Saca) and its national cyclists reached new heights on Sunday when 12 riders unanimously stopped during the 160 km Road Race at Changi Coast Road. The incident, which appeared to be a symbolic display
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    • 286 29  -  By Alfonso Chan SQUASH players and fans can now look forward to a Grand Prix circuit next year, which will culminate in a $4.56 million final. The World Squash Promoters Federation, an international body set up in London last year to promote squash events
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    • 112 29 TVSPORTS *b TOE Sirm 705pm: USA Cup Volleyball. OrTTTI 10.30pm: Sports Centre: 40th E l '1 8 World Table Tennis CO m) Championship. JJgii 1| 10.30pm: International WresP 2 tling Championship. CD. FRI O 140l 40 10.30pm: Sportsview: Tennis (S Davis Cup 1989. WED jjjjj 7.00pm: International Sports. jJ' T
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