The New Paper, 29 June 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS
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    • 134 1 TTH^E I INTIMATE I J\y things :ents An ex-geisha in her late 60s disapproves of a MKfev 40-year-old former kiss-and-tell Tv m revelations. The m shock disclosures have put a Prime Minister political 1 trouble. The most sSlf things should not be told in the lady She talks geishas then
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  • 62 1 "I know many of you friends are very concerned about us, about me. It has been nearly half a month since the massacre. Fortunately, I am safe, under extreme difficulty and (have) remote chance of survival. We are still alive," says Chinese student leader Wuer Kaixi,
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 192 2 Wire services. THE United States is hoping an international agreement reached with Vietnam this month will increase the number of Vietnamese allowed to emigrate. State Department official Robert Funseth told a congressional committee hearing yesterday that Vietnam had agreed to speed up processing procedures for
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    • 37 2 Top of the line: Two Dutch railway workers disengage an overhead electrical line from a derailed passenger train that collided with a freight truck near Alphen yesterday. Five people were taken to hospital.
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    • 196 2 USA TODAY. WOMEN in the United States quit their jobs more often than men because they feel they are on a dead-end career track. That is the conclusion of a survey by the Opinion Research Corp (ORC) of Princeton, New Jersey, of 26,500
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    • 98 2 THE Chinese red pandas at the Singapore Zoological Gardens are drawing a non-stop flow of visitors. Visitors crowd the area, especially at feeding time when the pandas, Yin Yin and Yang Yang are most active. And because of this, the zoo authority has increased the four
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    • 326 2 Wire services. TEHERAN has overtaken Tokyo and Osaka to become the world's most expensive city, a private consultant agency said yesterday. Quito, capital of Ecuador, is the world's cheapest city. The Iranian capital, third last year, leapt to first place because of high inflation and a
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    • 69 2 Wire services. THE US Food and Drug Administration has decided to ban the fire retardant methylene chloride in hair sprays. Agency spokesman Bill Grigg said in Washington yesterday that new studies had found the chemical to cause cancer in laboratory animals. The chemical is
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 33 2 i THE WEATHER I WEATHER outlook from I noon: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Maxi- mum temperature: 32 deg C. Minimum temperature: 25 deg C. Sunset: 7.14 pm. Sunrise: 7.02 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      447 3  -  By Michelle Oh N NEWSPAPERS are worth their weight in gold, at least the very old ones. Mr Seah Ah Koo, 42, has been keeping the papers day after day, year after year for about 15 years now. And he is planning to turn them into money-makers. Mr
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    • 361 4 A $10-million national effort to train workers in the service industry is scheduled to be launched today. Forty workers in the retail service will be the first to benefit from the scheme. It will be extended to workers in the tourism and health care industries. Dr
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    • 368 4 RUDE, indifferent and ignorant salesgirls may soon become a thing of the past. A major new training and certification scheme will teach them how to be polite, hardworking and knowledgeable. The programme is scheduled to be announced today by the Senior Minister of State (Education),
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    • 275 4 Business Times. IF you want foodstuffs at discount rates, go to Pandan Loop every Sunday. A wholesale foodmart will open this Sunday on the premises of Singapore Food Industries in Pandan Loop. It is developed from the US-based WalMart discount house concept. The SFI has decided
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 524 6  -  By Irene Hoe SUDDENLY, the 1920s is the future. Raffles Hotel, now being restored, is aiming for a mid-1920s look. And this is the same vintage that will be recreated in the makeover of Alkaff Mansion. Hotel Properties, which owns the Singapore Hilton among other choice
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    • 103 6 Alkaff Mansion was well known among the Singapore elite in its heyday. The Alkaff Family called it Mount Washington and they used to own practically the whole area. They threw some grand and famous parties in those days. The house was built by Syed Shaikh Alkaff, a trader
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    • 266 6 LOCAL passengers who want a seat on the Singapore/Kuala Lumpur air shuttle service just before the flight takes off may find themselves grounded. Although 30 per cent of the seats available are set aside for them, more than half of the daily 18
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    • 420 7 S TUDENTS of Anglo-Chinese School put their year-long l twice-weekly lessons on pasI toral care into practice yesterday. Managing time and stress, caring for the old, personal grooming and etiquette these were some of the themes of exhibits by more than 50 secondary
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    • 477 8 AUSTRALIANS in the travel industry will soon return to the old-world grace of Tanamera. The Goodwood Group of hotels is throwing a party for delegates of the Australian Federation of Travel Agents (Afta) conference from July 20 to 24. The theme of the
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    • 410 8 YES, go flexi-wage. But in the process don't forget to look into the problems that will confront companies that pay according to seniority. This is the advice of Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan to bosses. His fear is that if nothing is done
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    • 280 9 DISEASE of the gums is now the chief cause of losing teeth among adults aged 30 and above in Singapore. Government periodontist Dr Chung Kong Mun says cavities used to be the biggest problem before the flouridation of water. Now it's gum disease, which becomes
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    • 189 9 THE home loan war has gone a step further, with a new booklet teaching you how to buy a home in several easy steps. The booklet is part of the Hongkongßank's effort to strengthen its home loan business and was produced in
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    • 109 9 BURGLARS went through the stock at a computer store in Kitchener Complex on French Road and escaped with $105,000 worth of the best equipment. It is believed to be the second burglary of a computer shop this month at the complex at Block 809, near the Jalan
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    • 169 9 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check* their meanings. broadminded: Describes someone who is willing to respect the opinions and actions of others even if they are different from his. cultured: Describes a person who is refined, well
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 236 10 Wire services. K EY US Congressmen agreed yesterday to a package of measures to toughen US sanctions against China. The measures are to be put before the House of Representatives, probably today, as an amendment to a pending foreign aid authorisation bill. Two Foreign
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    • 201 10 Wire services. CHINA'S new Communist Party chief said yesterday that those who created the turmoil that led to the military crackdown in Beijing this month do not deserve any forgiveness. "The work of quelling the counter-revolutionary rebellion and putting an end to the
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    • 110 10 Wire services A MAN mails a letter somewhere in China and is secretly videotaped. Then he shows up on TV, accused of being a spy for Taiwan. When an army truck was attacked during the weekend of the Beijing massacre, many of the people
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    • 295 10 A HONGKONG activist handed a handwritten letter to the Associated Press office on Monday. The activist is a member of the so-called "Underground Train that reportedly helped Chinese student leader Wuer Kaixi and more than 12 others to escape from China. All
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    • 311 11 Wire services. T HE United States has decided it no longer needs the continuous presence of an aircraft-carrier in the Indian Ocean. Defence Department officials in Washington said the US had no intention of withdrawing its naval forces from the Indian Ocean or
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    • 169 11 Wire services TESTIMONY in the case of a Cuban military hero, who confessed to smuggling drugs, ivory and diamonds, hinted at involvement by Fidel Castro's communist government in a secret operation in Venezuela. Several witnesses told a military tribunal that Ma-jor-General Arnaldo Ochoa had
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    • 45 11 First strike: Children in a quiet Dhaka street attack a resting rickshaw puller following a call by opposition parties for a general strike. Yesterday's strike was to protest against heavy taxes recently introduced by the Bangladesh government. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 125 11 Wire services. GRENADA'S assistant police chief went on a shooting rampage at police headquarters yesterday, killing a diplomat and the police chief and wounding two other high-ranking police officers. The shooting took place in the island's capital, St George's. Assistant police chief Grafton
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    • 152 11 Wire services. A CRUCIAL scene from the Oscar-winning film Rain Man has been cut from the version shown by at least 15 major airlines because the scene about aviation safety was considered unfit for passengers. In the four-minute sequence, actor Dustin Hoffman's
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    • 41 12 Deserted: i 4 lone commuter reads a newspaper in Paddington Station, London, yesterday as railwaymen struck work for the second successive Wednesday. The railwaymen's union stud it would repeat the walkout every week until it wins its pay claim.
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    • 219 12 Wire services. T is to ban its workers from going overseas because of an expected domestic labour shortage in 1991 when the government is due to implement several development projects. Deputy Interior Minister Vattana Asavahame was quoted as saying in Bangkok yesterday that later this
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    • 153 12 TWO Thai lawyers left Bangkok for Singapore yesterday to help illegal worker Somkid Kamjan file an appeal against his sentence of caning. Somkid, 41, was sentenced by a Singapore district court last Saturday to three months' jail and three strokes of the
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
    • Article, Illustration
      294 12 Wire services. SHARE prices ended mixed on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, after tumbling sharply from strong early gains. The market got off to a brisk start as enthusiasm spilled over from the previous day's news of a narrow-er-than-expected British trade deficit last month. But trading activity dried up
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    • 76 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today after yesterday's sharp losses because of political uncertainty following rumours that Prime Minister Sosuke Uno may resign. The key 225-share Nikkei index eased 40.65 points to 33,204.95 in 10 minutes after dropping 223.61 yesterday. The main losers today
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Wed 1,832.40 (1,829.70) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,504.74 (2,526.37) ST Industrial Wed 1,308.44 (1,291.62) NST Industrial Wed 2,253.74 (2,252.50) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 2,245.05 (2,232.65) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,519.00 (1,508.50) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 33,245.60 (33,469.21) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      269 12 Wire services. WALL Street share prices declined yesterday, faced with a rise in interest rates and economic uncertainties. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 21.63 to close at 2,504.74. Declining issues outnumbered advances by about two to one on the New York Stock Exchange, with 482
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 578 13 the Singapore Furniture Designers' Competition '8 9 The search 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 comes
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  • Showtime
    • 578 14  -  By Vivien Chiong I T was no ordinary lunch-time at the Philips factory in Toa Payoh Lorong One on Tuesday afternoon. Many of the nearly 1,000 factory workers skipped lunch and reserved themselves front seats for a close encounter with several special lunch guests instead
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    • Article, Illustration
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1690 15 rp JgyjgjQjj crDPrv Unusual Lives 1 Thursday Feature Special— Expressions Our Last GEMS fP^I Back To School Days...ln Moscow (8 pm, SBC 12) I J THORNTON Melon (Rodney Kw-yen from NURSK Ruth Heathcock ft, j Dangerfield) finds that his son Jason Taiwan and Pierre from Canada rj 1 treats Australian
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  • spotlight
    • 586 16 "She was brave to tell all...but she wasn't a true geisha." In these words former geisha Fumlko Suzuki, 67, dismisses the kiss-and-tell revelations of Ms Mitsuko Nakanlshi. Ms Nakanishi is the woman who shocked Japan with her allegations on national television that Prime Minister Sosuke Uno had
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    • 720 16 T I HERE was no easy route to becoming an accomplished geisha. It was years of hard work morning, noon and night, recalls Ms Fumiko Suzuki. But the girls who call themselves geishas today have little of that training and little reverence for the old
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 498 18 Madonna singing Sondheim may sound like a contradiction. That is exactly what will happen in Warren Beatty's upcoming film about comic strip detective Dick Tracy. And Stephen Sondheim could be regarded as the most important composer-lyricist of his generation International Herald Tribune. s I 1 i
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    • 233 18 WITH nearly 700 performances under its belt, Into the Woods is within hailing distance of Sondheim's lon-gest-running musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Sondheim doesn't like to judge popularity by a specific Broadway run. "A work is popular over
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    • 151 18 MASQUERADE (Orchard) LOVE and deceit are the two central themes. Rob Lowe plays Tim Whalan, a handsome yachtsman who is after the millions of Olivia Lawrence, a lonely and very naive heiress played by Meg Tilly. 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm THE SICILIAN (Cathay) MAFIA movie about
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    • 514 18 Wire services. BRITISH actress Jenny Seagrove was born in Kuala Lumpur. Her businessman father hired a nanny to help raise her. Now Seagrove will play the title role in The Guardian, a film about a nanny. The English nanny is as much a part of
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    • 538 19 ROB Lowe has been transformed from brat-pack matinee idol to reluctant king of adult videos. Bootleg copies of video-tapes allegedly depicting the actor in X-rated hotel-room romps make sizzling viewing. Comedians reel off jokes like "Rob Lowe... can go out on a date and baby-sit
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    • 162 19 SHAWN and Gladys, the winners of the Ballroom dance and Latin American dance section in the Malaysian International Ballroom dancing championship 1989. is the first couple from South-east Asia to have won in both sections. They started to take part in competitions as a pair in 1982
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    • 222 19  -  Masquerade Now showing at Orchard REVIEW/ By Sonja Tan LOVE and deceit: The two central themes of Masquerade make for more, much more, of the same old storyline. In fact, Masquerade is suspiciously similar to Hitchock's Suspicion. Rob Lowe is Tim Whalan,
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    • 343 20  -  The Siberian Cossacks Last Night World Trade Centre Auditorium review/By Ting Mei See T i l HE name Siberia comes from 'two Tartar words that mean sleeping land. But the Siberian Cossack Dancers, who hail from Krasnoyarsk, are certainly no sleeping dancers. In fact, their dances
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    • 413 20  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang BARRY Manilow once sang "I write the songs". Mr Jeffrey Chung comes up with them too even in the 100. Mr Chung's song, Just Turn from the Hurt, is one of two Mandarin songs selected for the grand final of this
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    • 200 20  -  SEENLASTMQHr By Wong Sing Yeong YOU may have made strange discoveries if you had watched Fashion Television last night. You may have learned that designer Arnold Scaasi, who taught movie stars and models how to walk and dress stylishly, could not walk properly hinself. He
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 307 21 Wire services. IT takes really big doses of fish oil to do as well as drugs in reducing high blood pressure, a new study shows. How big? In the study, a high dose of fish oil amounted to swallowing 50 capsules of fish
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    • 359 21 Daily Mail ELIZABETH Taylor is unhappy today. She would feel ashamed, pictured as she was yesterday in the most unflattering of poses, covering the famous curves in a polyester shroud. Her problem: the disgrace of ballooning back to 79.2 kg after an extremely
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    • 408 21 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
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1151 24 RADIOGUDE EHEHI|E33EHI EUBfll NOON News in Brief NOON Beautiful Music: Instrumental NOON News in Brief and WaatlMr N oo 6##d Cwnpaay and Ma: "O®* Hewsdesk 12.05 Laacbdate: A musical selection 12.50 Market Report Noon-time musical entertain- 12.30 Society Taday for your listening pleasure. ,p 12.05 Yesterdays: Listen to songs ment
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  • SPORTS
    • 245 25 SPOTLIGHT: ARANTXA SANCHEZ Wire services. FRENCH Open champion Arantxa Sanchez-Vica-rio, sporting a new name, reached the second round at Wimbledon for the first time in three tries with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Czechoslovak Jana Pospisilova. The rain-delayed clash was played under a wintry sky
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    • 377 25 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA NEWCOMER Crown Ridge underlined his chances to win Saturday's Courvoisier Cup race for Class One horses with an eye catching gallop in 41 on a good track. He was taken out by Oo who returns after a 10-day suspension. Courvoisier Cognac, which
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    • 544 26 pi Connors ■in beaten S# I second qo9~™ roun d yesterday, the first among the big names to crash out. It was operation successful but the patient died, he says... Reuter, AP. J I 1 IMMY Connors, twice champion and the most prolific winner in
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    • 274 26 SPOTLIGHT: JIMMY CONNORS AP, Reuter. DEFIANT Jimmy Connors refused to say that he had played his last Wimbledon after being bundled out by Dan Goldie yesterday. Connors, who will be 37 in September, said after his defeat: "Don't write that I'm retiring or I'm quitting
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    • 289 26 Wire services. JOHN McEnroe provided the Grand Slam tournament a touch of drama by overcoming a two-set deficit for the first time in his career on the way to a 4-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 8-6 defeat of Australian Darren Cahill. Then he played into the hands of Britain's
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    • 309 27 SPOTLIGHT: IVAN LENDL AFP. WORLD No 1 Ivan Lendl survived a typical grass-court crisis yesterday to stay on course for that elusive Wimbledon men's singles crown. Lendl, sorely tested by Venezuelan teenager Nicolas Pereira in the first round on Monday, was extended in the second round by
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    • 403 27 Wire services. Men's singles 2nd rd: Ivan Lendl (Cze) bt Ronnie Bathman (Swe) 6-7 (5-7). 6-3. 6-2. 6-2: Ken Flach (US) bt Goran Ivanisevic (Yug) 6-4. 6-3, 4-6. 6-3; Dan Goldie (US) bt Jimmy Connors (US) 7-6 (7-4). 5-7, 6-4. 6-2; Kevin Curren (US) bt Milan Srejber
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    • 287 27 AP. Weather Cold, windy and wet, with a rain delay of more than three-and-a-half hours in the early afternoon. The temperature high was 18 deg C. Attendance: 33,525, down 3,415 from the same day last year and 4,766 below the record in 1979. Part of
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    • 372 28 Sampdoria 4 Napoli 0 Reuter, AFP. ITALIAN CUP EUROPEAN Football Union (Uefa) Cup champion Napoli suffered its most humil- iating defeat of the season yesterday. It was trounced 4-0 by Sampdoria in the Italian Cup second leg final. Sampdoria, a goal down after the first leg of
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    • 238 28 Reuter. THE Spanish League's topscorer, Baltazar, has been called up by his country. Brazil has called on the striker as a replacement for the injured Careca in its squad for the South American Cup (Copa America). Brazilian Football Association spokesman Roberio Vieira said Careca,
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    • 240 28 AFP, Reuter. A 100,000 crowd turned out in Kiev yesterday to pay a final tribute to former Dynamov Kiev and Soviet international winger Oleg Blokhin. The 36-year-old veteran, who is now playing in Austria, swapped sides and scored a goal as a Soviet team and
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    • 381 28 Wire services. LEEDS may sell Eire soccer midfielder John Sheridan to Glasgow Rangers as part of the deal to sign England fullback Mel Sterland. Sterland is poised to quit Scotland after less than a season with Rangers in a $1.5 million deal. Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson, who sold the
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    • Article, Illustration
      131 29  -  Stories/ S Gulam MIDFIELDER A R J Mani's hopes of an early return to Malaysia Cup action after a year's absence were dashed last night. The 24-year-old Mani went down with a hamstring injury towards the end of a training game between Singapore's probables and possibles at Jalan
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    • 107 29 SALIM Moin will know this afternoon whether or not he will be fit to play for Singapore in its opening Malaysia Cup game against Pahang on Sunday. His injured ankle will be examined by a doctor at the Singapore Sports Council Medical Centre. "If the doctor
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    • 222 29 FOUR players Syed Faruk, Yahya Madon, D Tokijan and D Devaraj will be out to prove their worth tonight when Singapore plays Toshiba of Japan in a friendly at Jalan Besar Stadium. They could establish themselves in Singapore's first XI if they put
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    • 219 29  -  By Abdul Shukor SINGAPORE'S volleyball squad will leave for Japan on Monday to take part in the first Asia Pacific Cup International Volleyball Tournament in Fukuoka, from July 5-9. It is part of the Volleyball Association of Singapore's preparations for the South-east Asia Games in
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