The New Paper, 7 July 1989

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  • 15 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 68 1 INDIAN GIRLS GET LEFT ON THE SHELF 4 tteBOND k And a pleasant one for Singapore movie-goers. We rill see more of the latest James Bond movie, Licence to Kill, than movie-goers in Britain. One of at least four scenes which the British censors have cut: A head exploding in
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    • 38 1 PEOPLE WATCH: FAR EAST PLAZA A girl who lifts her dress, a group of guys who try to get two Singapore girls into their picture and other eye-popping sights./ Page 3 WATER CUT HITS NEW TOWN /Page 2
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  • 72 1 Dott't bt fooled by her expression. Love ia blooming between SBC stars Shen Jinxing and Chen Xiuhuan in a Piper Navajo aircraft over Johor. But it's only for the cameras. They're filming the latest serial, Turn of the Tide. The serial starts in September. What's
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 186 2 THE Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday struck off three of the four defences Hied by Malaysian newspaper The Sunday Star, which is being sued for libel by Mr Lee Kuan Yew. The Singapore Prime Minister is suing the newspaper over two reports published in 1987
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    • 377 2 THE Government is looking into three options regarding the future of the teaching of Religious Knowledge in schools. Yesterday, a fourth option was added for the government's consideration. The three options are: Replace RK with Civics Replace RK with a more general subject on
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    • 152 2  -  By Trudy Lim RESIDENTS in more than 20 blocks in Yishun had either no water or very little of it this morning. In flats where water flow was reduced to a trickle, it was found to be rusty. Mr Zulkarnin bin Mahamood, a resident of Block
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    • 625 3 Today's people-watching in Singapore finds PAUL ZACH and his roving eyes at Far East Plaza in Scotts Road, If you have a favourite spot to sit and watch, caU Hotline Plus and tell us about it SHE was blonde. She was pretty.
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    • 29 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from Max temp: 31 deg C. Min: noon: Showers over several 24 deg C. Sunset* 7ilspm. areas in the early afternoon Sunrise tomorrow: 7.04 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 414 4  -  Once a member of Changi Beach Club, always a member. Unless you resign from the club. That's the final verdict. Attempts to change that policy have failed By Chitra Rajaram ATTEMPTS by the Changi Beach Club (the former Changi Swimming Club) to make membership transferable
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    • 206 4 TAXI-DRIVER Mr Lee Lai Chian, 61, is angry, and very, very sore. Sore because he was badly beaten up by two robbers in his house in Balestier Road on Monday. And angry because no one helped. He shouted to people to stop
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    • 261 4 NEWBEAT BEING hearing-impaired does not mean it's impossible to enjoy outdoor life. This is what 61 youngsters found out at "Camp 2000" held last month at the PA East Coast Campsite. The overnight camp was organised by the Serangoon Gardens Youth Group
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 301 5  -  By Lawrence Low ART used to be hung on walls, not worn on the wrist Not any more. Art student Nelson Wee may see his work on a watch. Nelson won first prize in a graphic art competition organised as part of the launch of
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    • 94 5 THESE Omega Art watches were launched in Singapore yesterday. This is the first appearance of the watches in the Far East. Launched in Switzerland last year, they are an attempt to capture the younger market. "We are trying to move away from the image
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    • 148 5 F y < H^MyyK';, jEKPter i ]>dhlp^S' >r |MH f jfiPp I Now with St Michael's Classics Embossed Eyeshadow I Collection of cosmetics, beauty I kohl pencil I double-ended applicator need not carry a high price. Colours: blue, brown, pink $6.50 B Available in attractive, lasting Lipstick B colours, the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 583 6 Singapore's Indian dilemma the unmarried Indian girl, who gets left behind because of double standards practised at home. As a result, more and more Indian men date and marry women from other races. CHITRA RAJ ARAM talks to a counsellor who says the solution
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    • Article, Illustration
      209 6 CASE 1: HE was a young bachelor from Malaysia. She was a teacher in Singapore. Both are Indians. She was too scared to tell her parents she had fallen in love. When she went to Malaysia to see him, her parents thought she was on holiday with her
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    • 422 7  -  By Michelle Oh R AFFLES City is clamping down on motorists who do not park properly in its carpark literally. The shopping and hotel complex is now using a wheel clamp to immobilise cars parked in unauthorised areas. This measure came in on July 1.
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    • 129 7 MR Richard Tan, senior operations manager of Wilson Parking, said the company had considered wheel clamps but decided against them. "We get hold of them (the motorists) before they park," said Mr Tan. Mr Wong Pak Yiap, a director of Development, Planning and Management which manages Parkway
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    • 315 8  -  By Griselda Loo A JAPANESE company has awarded eight scholarships to Singaporeans to study its country's language, lifestyle and culture. But only females were permitted to apply. That's because the only housing available is the company's female dormitory, said Mr Yoshikazu Doi, general manager of Korakuen
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    • 251 8 THESE four young women jumped at the chance to go to Japan though they have to quit steady jobs to do so. They want to improve their Japanese and experience working there. But they'll probably have to work as cashiers at Korakuen's fast
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    • 152 9 I fV m oe Y JOINTLY ANNOUNCES ROCKY'S PIZZA PASTA 2 nd BIRTHDAY From Tuesday (4.7.89) Thru Friday (7.7:89) BUY 1 -GET 1 FREE ANYTHING ON THE MENU Wine Beer) 2SB& 'Pit For Eat-In/Takeaway or Delivery Watch for ROCKY'S advertisement in The New Paper on Saturday July 8,1989 for The
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    • 51 10 J*-' Going Out fHHI W thAB 9 j^W J(f/ c LUCKY PLAZA (J CLOSING DOWN If X SALE FROM 1 JULY-6 AUGUST 1989 j We are blasting our prices to smithereens. With up to 60% discount storewide, it's your V chance to have an incredible shopping spree at Klasse Lucky
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 437 11 AT the end of the first session of the post-ministerial conference in Bandar Seri Begawan yesterday, Asean and its six dialogue partners reached a consensus on China and Cambodia. But the same level of agreement was not reached on the Asia-Pa-cific forum. Asean's six partners are
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    • 188 11 Wire services CHINA has published a report condemning prominent intellectuals who spoke out on political and economic issues, widening the scope of the five-week-old crackdown on dissent. The report also stepped up criticism of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang. It accused his aides
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    • 149 11 Wire services. PRESIDENT George Bush has awarded the United States' highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Gen James H Doolittle, public servants C Douglas Dillon and George Kennan, former senator Margaret Chase Smith and comedian Lucille Ball. Mr Bush called Miss Ball, of
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    • 369 12 Wire services. BURMA'S military rulers say there are ample rice supplies for the people, but rice prices have risen on the open market. Foreign diplomats in Rangoon put the current rice price there at about $4 a "pyi," the traditional Burmese measure
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    • 187 12 Wire services. THE US army yesterday destroyed America'! last Pershing 1A missile, marking the first time an entire class of nuclear weapons has been wiped out Technicians at the Longhorn army ammunition plant fired the two sections of the unarmed, 2,495-kg ballistic missile
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    • 131 12 Wire services. A WOMAN killed her newborn son by slashing his throat with a razor blade in the bathroom of a drug store, police said yesterday. "She was apparently overwhelmed by the enormity of the pregnancy," said Nassau county police lieutenant, John Nolan. "She just decided
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    • 228 12 Palestinian steers bus into ravine in the name of God Wire services. A PALESTINIAN shouting "God is great!" grabbed the steering wheel of an Israeli bus yesterday, plunging the vehicle into a 60-me-tre ravine where it exploded in flames, police said. Fourteen people were killed and 27 injured. Helicopters brought
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    • 57 12 On th« way to the gallows: Pakistani drug smuggler Anwar Hussein Kasr Hussein, 27, being prepared for his death by hanging by executioners in Cairo yesterday. Hussein, who was caught smuggling heroin, is the first drug smuggler to be put to death in Egypt Nineteen
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    • 140 12 Wire sersives. LONG queues of taxis lined up at filling stations as a shortage of liquefied petroleum gas hit Bangkok yesterday. A number of Bangkok streets were blocked by hundreds of stranded cabs and three-wheeled taxis, known as tuk-tuks, which had run out of
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    • 23 13 Leaving the pack behind: Inventor Mr MerlynMaddock beats the London rush hour on his new creation the propellor-driven scooter. Picture/ Ap
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    • 242 13 Wire services. A SRI Lankan Tamil militant group has declared an "independent state" in the island nation. The Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front (ENDLF) said in a statement signed by two group leaders that it had set up a Tamil state, the Press Trust
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    • 156 13 Wire services. A STUDENT from Lebanon has been arrested after West German police raided his apartment in Darmstadt. They found evidence that he was plotting bomb attacks on United States and Israeli targets in West Germany. The 21-year-old student was said to have
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      266 13 Wire services. SHARE prices edged lower on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30share index closed 0.5 point down at 1,797.5. Volume totalled 565.3 million shares against 347.4 million on Wednesday. But the increase was partly due to a large morning trade of gamma stocks, or narrowly
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    • 66 13 Reuter. SHARE prices opened firmer on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The key 225-share Nikkei index rose 116.10 points, or 0.35 per cent, to 33,539.58 in 10 minutes. It gained 113.77 points yesterday. Early winners were led by railway/bus, brokerage, nonlife insurance, communications, pulp/paper, real estate, credit/lease, oil, glass/cement
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    • 52 13 FT Industrials Thu 1,797.50 (1,798.80) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,462.44 (2,456.75) ST Industrial Thu 1,318.56 (1,305.01) NST Industrial Thu 2,297.65 (2,289.19) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 2,369.53 (2,350.67) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,519.30 (1,512.70) Nikkei Stock Average Thu 33,423.48 (33,309.71) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous
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    • Article, Illustration
      273 13 Wire services. WALL Street share prices posted some modest gains yesterday as traders awaited a report on US employment scheduled to be published today. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials closed 5.88 points up at 2,462.44. Advancing issues outnumbered declines by about nine to five, with
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  • 587 14  -  Showtime By Lo Tien Yin s TARRING...Piper Navajo, Shen Jinxing and Chen Xiuhuan. Piper who? Piper is the guest star in SBC's latest serial to be shown in September The Turn of the Tide which is set against the backdrop of fish market
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1648 15 nn is? i Igevi sion=iJgg Wft if 11,6 f«-• ita frj!- 1 a'^^wSrof^heTLdlta^ur 1 Internal Affairs: A web of danger and deceit Eighttimes champion Martina Jfc V northern Costa Rica into a tropical dry r c lr mrtAl W Navratdoya facesthe unseeded JW&lklK forest and transform it into a national
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  • spotlight
    • 573 16 The immortal latter-day swashbuckler agent 007 James Bond reigns supreme on the golden screen for the 16th time. Timothy Dalton, who replaced Roger Moore, plays Bond to the letter. Yes the fast women and the fast cars are all there with one big
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    • 84 16 NAME: Bond, James. HEIGHT: 1.8 m. WEIGHT: 76 kg. CHARACTERISTICS: Scar on right shoulder, signs of plastic surgery on back of right hand, expert pistol shot, boxer, knife thrower, does not use disguises. LANGUAGES: French, German. And, of course, English. VICES: Drinks, but not to excess,
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    • 561 16 THE world's ultimate spy hero is back for the 16th time in a style reminiscent of the earliest and best James Bond movie sensations. This style gave us a cocktail of non-stop action and tongue-in-cheek humour. They pulsed with innocence and sophistication, with wit
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 386 17  -  CASINO RAIDERS (Shaw cinemas) REVIEW/ BY Vivien Chiong YOU would have thought Chinese films about gambling ended with the Hongkong TV serial Shell Game and the movies it inspired seven years ago. But here comes Casino Raiders to show us how gambling has now entered
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    • 166 17  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Wong Sing Yeong NEWSCASTER Nicolette Rappa sported a new permed hairdo that made her look more mature and serious. Perhaps the producers had found her beauty too distracting for male viewers. It didn't make any difference to Nicolette's presentation though. She read the news in
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    • 146 17  -  By Shirish Nadkarni THERE seems to be a change for the better in the angry middle-aged hero Amitabh Bachchan. According to industry reports, the Indian actor has refunded the whopping fees he charged for transport and the cervices of his make-up man to the producers of
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    • 389 18  -  By Ting Mei See u P TO three months ago the empty space behind Marine Parade library served as a rehearsal theatre for members of The Necessary Stage. They had nowhere else to go. Now, they can rehearse in the air-conditioned comfort of the
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    • 326 18  -  Film Focus The Dog It Was That Died 10.30 pm, July 12 SBC 12 PREVIEW/ By Lo Tien Yin THE Dog It Was That Died, based on Tom Stoppard's play, is sadly funny. Don't be put off by th». gloomy start
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    • 325 19  -  By Vivien Chiong i I F James Bond is dubbed the man with the golden gun, then local musician Ho Chong Wing should be known as the man with the silver harmonica. Ho will release his seventh album of har- monica music, titled Serenade, next
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    • 152 19 CASINO RAIDERS (Shaw cinemas) ALAN Tam and Andy Lau play a pair of gamblers. As in movies about the underworld, it stresses on the brotherhood bond and revenge. SEVEN WARRIORS (Cathay cinemas) A CHINESE version of The Magnificent Seven. Adam Cheng and his men defend the peasants of a
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    • 379 20  -  By Adeline Woon CLARINETIST Giora Feidman proclaims that he doea not play the clarinet "I am a singer, I sing through the clarinet." "The soul is an instrument. The clarinet is just another secondary instrument. I put them together." Mr Feidman has been proclaimed the "undisputed King of
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • UPDATE
    • 1471 24 ►Qnires^e 0 SHELL LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME. "Take a word for a walk" is the title of this lunchtime diversion. Miss Lin Hsin Hsin is an artist as well as a poet. She will read a selection of her own poems to accompaniment by SSO flautist Goh
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    • 19 24 CENTRESTAGE: Poetry for lunch TALK: Cholesterol and health OUT AND ABOUT: Cocktail mix-off COMING UP: Young composers
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    • 92 24 This profile of an American Indian in his traditional regalia is done by Enoch Kelly Haney. It is one in a series of paintings that depict the lifestyles and symbols of the original Americans the Indians. See regalbirds in flight and medicine bulls. The three artists featured
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    • 1189 25 RADIOGUIDE tmnm mi imnnnf uhuimihuki rrr— NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News In Brief and Weather NOON Good Music, Company and Me: NOON Newsdesk 12.0S Lunchdate f Report A musical treat to keep you 12.30 Shed Steryt- Kill The Buffalo: 1.00 Newt and Weather Report Z!? 1
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  • SPORTS
    • 241 26 All work and no play has dulled Jack Wong's game and could cost him a ticket to the SEA Games. He has decided to quit work to play full-time, reports ALFONSO CHAN Bowler Jack Wong has quit his six-month-old job to concentrate on qualifying for next
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    • 152 26 Wire services. DEFENDING champion Xiong Guobao of China was taken to three sets but moved into the quarter-inals of the Malaysian Open badminton championships in Kuala Lumpur last night. The Chinese shuttler, seeded second here, staved off a late challenge to win 15-13, 10-15, 15-9 against Bambang Suprianto of
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    • Article, Illustration
      310 27 see stars Fandi Ahmad and V Sundramoorthy, Singapore's star strikers for the SEA Games, have both been sitting out Malaysia Cup matches due to injury. Can they recover in time? S GULAM reports T HE two soccer stars who are supposed to boost Singapore's chances in the Southeast
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    • 186 27 STRIKERS Fandi Ahmad and V Sundramoorthy were chosen for the South-east Asia Games over seven other Malaysian-based Singapore players to strengthen the strikeforce and to avoid disrupting the current team. K Kannan, Malek Awab, R Suriamurthi, Ahmad Paijan, Norhalis Shafik, Ahmad Ibrahim and
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    • 138 27 RACING... ...by DENNIS CHIA I Sunday's scratchings: Race 1: Class 2 Div B 1,600 m (2.00pm): Noblero, Tong Lam, Score, Something Superb, Caledonia, Capricorn Run. Race 2: Class 4 Div A 1,400 m (2.30pm): Pipes of Pan, Ace Jet 11, White Horizons, Darknight. Race 3: Class 4 Div
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    • 401 28 AP. NO TEARS. No speeches. No embraces. Just a short and bittersweet goodbye to a place Chris Evert has graced with class and glory for 18 years. Three times in her career, Evert had walked off Centre Court as the Wimbledon ladies' singles champion. Yesterday, she left
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    • 100 28 AFP. CANADA remained unbeaten by thumping the United States 6-2, while tournament favourite India won their opener 4-1 over France in New Jersey yesterday in the Intercontinental Cup men's hockey championship. India got off to a quick start against the flat-footed French as left-winger Thoiba
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    • 191 28 WOMEN'S SINGLES semi-final: Martina Navrafilova(US) bt Catarina Lindqvist(SWE) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 AP. FOR almost IV% sets, Catarina Lindqvist looked ready to stop Martina Navratilova in her tracks and destroy the American's quest for Wimbledon history. Then it all fell apart and Lindqvist, the first unseeded
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    • 347 29 MEN'S SINGLES SEMI-FINALS PREVIEW Will the oldies deliver the goodies? The experience of McEnroe and Lendl squares up against the youthful exuberance of Edberg and Becker in the men's semi-final today. Who will fate favour? One thing is certain: the results will be intriguing Reuter. Title-holder
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    • 138 29 AP. JOHN MCENROE tore a muscle in his serving shoulder while playing doubles on Wednesday and his trainer said the American will be hampered in his singles semi-final against defending champion Stefan Edberg today. Ivan Lendl plays Boris Becker in the other men's semifinal. McEnroe could use
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    • 207 29 RESULTS of yesterday's international sports* BADMINTON Malaysian Open Men's singles 3rd rd: Eddy Kumiawan (Indo) bt Nick Yates (Brit) 15-7, 15-3; Zhang Qingwu (C) bt Misbun Sidek (M) 15-11,15-5; Zhao Jianhua (C) bt Wong Tat Meng (M) 15-4, 15-11; Sompol Kukasemkij (Thai) bt Kwan Yoke Meng (M) 15-7, 15-4;
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