The New Paper, 14 August 1989

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  • 15 1 the new paper MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1989 MO (P) 36/4/89 SO CENTS the new paper
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    • 177 1 Concluding our on Kennedy m^3 Onassis./Page '9BBp.: Ljflj m HI, MUM 9i2 CALL ME Nurse Shirley Gan, 43, will be on hand at The New Paper from 12 pm to 5 pm today until Friday to answer questions vou may have about your baby, aged one to three. Call Nurse
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  • Article, Illustration
    58 1 Parachutist Muhandes Mohamed, 47, plunged to his death after attempting a stunt with fellowparachutist Shaharuddin Mohamed Shariff. The qualified parachuting trainer is seen in a file picture taken by Malay Mail last year. At right, Mr Mohandes moments after the death plunge. Members of the public are seen
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 527 2 A FORMER Singapore doctor, now living in Australia, has been cleared of the death of his patient who named him a beneficiary in her will. For over a year, Malaccaborn Dr Peter Lim, 43, was suspected of murdering Mrs Aleida Cornelia Mohr, 78, through an
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    • 128 2 HDB residents may be able to use their CPF savings to pay their share of upgrading work in their flats. Details are being worked out and a government announcement will be made soon, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Cfiok Tong said yesterday. He
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    • 270 2 Wire services. A HOSTAGE drama has ended in Brazil with four heavily-armed kidnappers escaping in a plane which they received in exchange for three hostages. A police officer said yesterday the hostages two television reporters and a driver were unharmed. The kidnappers who are two married
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    • 100 2 SEND in a $209 cheque for a year's subscription to Business Times along with the subscription coupon and you could win a golfing holiday in Finland. There will be 10 such holiday prizes. The holidays are the main attraction of
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    • 309 3 I T WAS a dance contest for the communities of Singapore but it was the costumes rather than the dance steps that most caught the eye. The Malay groups wore updated baju melayu or wrapped glittery sarongs over their shiny dance leotards. The Chinese groups wore
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    • 419 3  -  By Lim Phay-ling NUMBER 147 Neil Road is the house where Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew spent a few years of his boyhood. So it could make it into the tourist guidebooks one day. If the tour buses could find it,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 243 4 QUICK reactions paid off for some readers of The New Paper on Saturday. The first 25 readers to present entry coupons found in that day's paper at the Swatch Movement promotion at Tangs store got Swatch Hardwear T-shirts. The first 100 people wearing Swatch watches
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    • 569 4  -  By Lim Phay-ling SWING Singapore is causing a headache for some Orchard Road hotels. The Hilton, Dynasty, Mandarin and Crown Prince hotels front the stretch of the road that will be closed to traffic for the grand street party this Saturday. That wifi make it
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    • 312 5 P LANS are underway for Chinese businessmen from all over the world to meet in Singapore. The gathering could take place during the Lunar New Year celebrations next February. That is when a three-day "Conference of the World Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry" will be
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    • 418 5 FIVE minutes before contestants at the third heat of Mr Union 1990 were to parade before the judges, the changing room was like a mini gymnasium. "We were all doing pushups and pumping like mad to get in better form," said Mr
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    • 75 5 THIRTEEN people won Samsung electronic products on Friday, ending the promotion of the OmniTheatre's movie, Beavers. It was held by the Singapore Science Centre and The New Paper. Top winners are: Ms Debrit Nicole (PP No. *****69) won a stereo music centre, Ms Leow Bee Eng
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    • 470 6 S INGAPOREANS may love to eat but do they complain if they're served bad food or if they see a stallholder preparing food unhygienically? The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) wants to discuss the rights, responsibilities and obligations of food consumers next month. It
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    • 243 6 THE "gaps" in the map numbers in the Singapore Street Directory do not mean that bits of Singapore are missing. They are due to the way Singapore is mapped into grids by the Survey Department of the Ministry of Law. "There are really no
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    • 312 6  -  Story and Pictures/ Kenneth Koh TO get a smile from a beauty contestant, the photographer has to smile too. That was what fellow-New Paper photographers Jonathan Choo, Nicklaus D'Cruz, Simon Ker and I found out. We had to show the way for 17-year-old Anne Lim
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    • 377 7 SOME coffeeshops have turned bright and shiny. They now sport new wall and floor tiles and are brightly lit by fluorescent bulbs. And for colour, they have added plastic tables and chairs in various hues. The facelift is to keep up with the times, Lianhe
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    • MAILBOX
      • 445 7 Dear Sir THE July 17, 1989 edition of The New Paper carried two reports by your reporter Mr Alfonso Chan on the i preparation of our boardsailors for the forthcoming SEA Games. It included certain statements purported to have been made
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      • 186 7 MANY HAWKERS have done away with disposable polystyrene crockery as the Environment Ministry realises that chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs used in their production damage the ozone layer protecting the earth. However, many dental surgeons are still using polystyrene mouthwash cups for their patients. They are doing
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    • 348 8 Wire services. MALAYSIA is against the idea of having American soldiers stationed in Singapore, says Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad in an interview with The Washington Post. "We would not like to see squadrons of American planes being based in Singapore, or the American
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    • 356 8 To celebrate the first birthday of The New Paper last month, we held a photo session for a dozen special guests —12 babies born on July 26, 1988. The 12 young delights ap- peared in our anniversary edition. Readers were asked to
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    • 47 7 Febs gives effective relief for colds Febs helps relieve your cold discomfort effectively. That's because Febs is specially formulated to relieve pain,fever and nasal congestion. It also contains Vitamin C to build up resistance. So at the first signs of a cold, take Febs. from MHP *****6
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  • SINGAPOREMALAYSIA
    • 313 9 Wire services. THE parachuting event in the 15th SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur will go on as planned but with some changes following a fatal mishap yesterday. Mr Muhandes Mohamed, 47, plunged to his death after attempting a stunt with fel-low-parachutist Shaharuddin Mohamed Shariff during a
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    • 146 9 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. archetype: A perfect example of a particular kind of person because she has all the important qualities. clambake: A picnic party popular in the US in which the people
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    • 142 9 Three share $5,000 THE jackpot for Moneywords 31/89 has been won. But $5,000 will be shared by three readers. There were actually five all-correct entries, but one of the winners, Mr Chew Yoke (I/C No. *****72 B) of Lengkok Bahru,sent in three all-correct entries. The others are Mr Ho Boon
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 216 10 Wire services. CHINA has sentenced to death the peasant leader of a secret organisation called the Great East Asia Buddhist Society. An official report reaching Beijing yesterday said he would be put to death for "counter-revolutionary activities". It gave few details of the
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    • 359 10 Wire services. CHRISTIAN leader General Michel Aoun has claimed victory in his fight against a tankled attack by 2,000 Syrian troops and their Muslim allies on a strategic mountain stronghold. The claim was made as savage shelling continued in Beirut, battering the divided Lebanese capital
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    • 46 10 Itvure/ Air tragedy: Wreckage of a basket of a hot-air balloon which crashed, killing 13 people, in the desert near Alice Springs, central Australia, yesterday. The balloon collided with another and plunged 600 m to the ground. Picture/ Afp
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    • 220 10 Wire services. A FIRE at an oil depot in China's east-coast city of Qingdao which killed five people and injured 64 has been brought under control. But 16 people were still missing, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. It quoted local officials
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    • 195 10 Wire services. US actor Clint Eastwood has won a huge sum in libel damages from the British weekly newspaper News of the World. Eastwood, one of Hollywood's best paid stars, said he would donate the money to charity. The amount of damages awarded to
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    • 341 11 Wire services. JAPAN has warned ships to watch out for pirates in the South China Sea. The warning comes in the wake of attacks against Liberian and Panamanian vessels this month, the Maritime Safety Agency said yesterday. Japan's Kyodo News Service said pirates took about
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    • 248 11 Wire services. AT least 2,000 troops are needed by the United Nations to verify the Vietnamese troop withdrawal from Cambodia next month, says the Khmer Rouge. The Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge is the strongest militarily of all the Cambodian resistance factions. The UN's International
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    • 300 11 THE WALL: 28 YEARS LATER Wire services. NEARLY 30 years after the Berlin Wall was built, East Germany faces a major crisis with thousands applying to leave and others simply skirting the Wall by crossing Hungary's open border to Austria. On Aug 13, 1961 at
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    • 287 11 NORTHERN IRELAND: 20 YEARS LATER Wire services. A 1969 prophesy by the British minister who sent troops to Northern Ireland to separate warring Protestants and Catholics still rings true today. "There will be no trouble getting them in but it is going to
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 37 12 Demand: A boy in Hongkong, which is currently home to more than 53,000 boat people, demands an end to the government's policy of treating the colony as "port of first asylum" for Vietnamese refugees.
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    • 86 12 Reuter. ON the Tokyo Stock Exchange share prices opened mixed after the dollar got a boost from US Price data on Friday. Brokers see a sluggish day because many players are taking summer holidays this week. The key 225-share Nikkei eased 35.38 points to 34,677.58 in 10 minutes
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    • 415 12 AN anti-terrorist barrier is to be installed in Downing Street, says London's Sunday Times. Described by government officials as a "blocker", the automatic steel barrier is designed to spring up and halt any vehicle bursting through existing gates at the entrance to Downing Street, says
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    • 218 12 Wire services. A TOP White House official has strongly urged the Federal Reserve Board, the US central bank, to let interest rates fall. He also said that any business recession would be the fault of the "Fed", which is an independent policy-making organisation. Mr Richard
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    • 217 12 Wire services. THE world's biggest arts festival has begun in Scotland with strong hopes that it will finally be able to stand on its own feet financially. The Edinburgh International Festival was kicked off in its 43rd year yesterday with an endowment plan.
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    • 169 12 Wire services. THE author of a book on Pakistan's nuclear programme was jailed yesterday after a court in Islamabad refused to let investigators continue interrogating him. Zahid Malik, 52, was arrested on Aug 6 for including "material prejudicial to the national interest"
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 655 13 Top flight designers in Britain and the United States are using the model and child in various fetching combinations to promote their products. LIM PHAY-LING reports on the new trend FASHION sells if it cares. And babies are in fashion these days. At least this is
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    • 178 13 SHOPPINGBUG HAIR PRODUCTS FROM L'OREAL NOW that more people are perming and colouring their hair, L'Oreal has introduced two additions to its range of professional products. Permanence Revitalising Shampoo and Energizing Milk Conditioner are for damaged hair. The Iridiance Mild Cleansing Shampoo and Silk Creme
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  • Showtime
    • 547 14  -  By Lo Tien Yin IF adults have their way, there will be more of Bugs Bunny or Beep Beep, the Road Runner on the telly. Nostalgia is a sure winner. Cartoons that remind us of our childhood are popular on TV. The cartoon series,
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    • 223 14 SHOWING now on SBC 5 every Thursday at 4.40 pm is The Shoe People, a new cartoon series based on a popular children's books series of the same title by James Driscoll. It started screening on Aug 10. Two episodes Can You Keep a
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 75 15 Between August and September, a weekly advertising feature in The New Paper Fastads will focus on different topics ranging from hair care, leisure activities to pets, jewellery, etc. Look out for these features on the following dates in August: AUGUST 18 Leisure Pursuits AUGUST 25 Pet Ideas And if you
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1640 15 rp television AH SCREEN Horizon The Riddle The Cannes Rock Festival Twilight Zone GEMS fof the Joints (10.30pm, SBC 5) Extra Innings/The Trunk A m (9.30 pm, SBC 12) THIS episode features the concert (11.25 pm, SBC 5) recorded on Jan 24 this year. Prefab TM c Jfc. RHEUMATOID arthritis
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  • 1594 16 Three images of Jackie 0 spotlight It may come as a shock to those who put famous people on a higher plane to realise that Jackie Kennedy Onassis is now 61 years old. She still has remarkable looks, still has her slender figure, still is seen
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 325 18  -  In My Father's House By UP Playwrights Theatre Company Victoria Theatre August 20 22 PREVIEWS/ Ting Mei See l I IKE many people at the start of World War 11, the Santamarias were confident that the war or the Japanese will never reach their shores.
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    • 233 18 The Two Gentlemen of Verona By Guildhall School of Music and Drama Drama Centre Aug 16-18 THE Two Gentlemen of Verona is about the only play in this year's festival that theatre-goers here may be familiar with. But it won't be your regular Shakespeare
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    • 322 18  -  A Pinter Cocktail By The Stage Club Drama Centre August 12 REVIEW/ Ting Mei See WATCHING the Stage Club's production of several Harold Pinter playlets was like taking a sip of an unfamiliar cocktail. The first few sips took a little getting used to. After that,
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    • 567 19  -  By Vivien Chiong HE is a scream on screen, with his unkempt hair, John Lennonglasses and bumbling movements. You laugh at his clumsiness and his Teochew-accented Cantonese. But in person, Hongkong film producer/comedian John Sham, is a far cry from the nitwit image such as
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    • 258 19 VAMPIRE VS VAMPIRE THE film is set in China's early Republican era. Taoist priest Yimei (Lam Cheng Ying) and his disciples are pitted against a female banana spirit, a female ghost and a vampire. Lido: 11am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm; Oriental: 1, 3.30, 7, 9 pm; Jade 1:
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    • 170 19  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Geraldine Goh I HAVE always enjoyed watching Contact-Y (SBC 5), especially the Straight Talk segment. But 20 minutes is insufficient for any topic under discussion, especially when the excitement is just beginning to build up. The topic, How We Can Enhance National Spirit Among
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    • 97 19 BRIGITTE Nielsen. Perhaps the most talked-about actress in Hollywood last year, she has not been heard of much since her stormy divorce from Rambo star Syvester Stallone. But she is still a hot topic in Hollywood's social circle. Pin-up Page 19 Personal
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 362 19 The 16 Finalists of The Miss Singapore World Beauty Pageant will be featured in our pin-up page on alternate weekdays from July 10 to August 14. A full line-up will appear on August 16. All you need to do is to pick the contestant whom you think will be crowned
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 913 20 COMICRELIEF MONDAYRADIO Curry-Puff/Raymond Lee BI333IIBZH! EHEQUi NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) 12.05 Luachdata: Some entertaining NOON Beautiful Musk: Light instruf-. music and songs are played for mental muaic in this proyour listening pleasure. gramme. 100 H W ,Bd W#atW i#p t 12.50 Market Report qL jf- LuncHdata (eoatlnuod)
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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  • UPDATE
    • 1480 22 ►Centoeswge \—y DRAMA FEST. Family by \tr\ the Singapore l-Lien Drama *—I Society. Set before 1925, the play revolves around a four-tier family in the midst of the collapse of the old social order in China. Victoria Theatre. Tomorrow and Wednesday. Tickets at $5 and
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    • 18 22 CENTRESTAGE: Play about China SALES: Indonesian Handicrafts OUT ABOUT: Trishaw Rides COMING UP: David Hockney Exhibition
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    • 41 22 six varieties of cheese cake to bring a smile to the face of cheeselovers. Egg nog, pina colada, banana, kiwi, Grand Mariner and Swiss chocolate flavours. $40 for a 1.5 kg cake. Till Aug 21. Hilton International.
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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    • 379 25 •31 Emptoymont MAKE SALES YOUR CAREER We are an established marketing organisation with a peripheral network of operations and branches In S.E. Asia dealing In office business machines. In line with our expansion programmes, we are looking for young and mature men and women to Join our marketing team In
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  • SPORTS
    • 309 26 EUROPE KICKOFF: HOLLAND Reuter. FC DEN Haag had a difficult debut, but Ajax Amsterdam had a grand takeoff yesterday. Den Haag was thrashed 4-0 at home by last season's runner-up Ajax Amsterdam in the opening match of the Dutch First Division. Ajax's Aaron Winter and new Hungarian signing
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    • 135 26 AP. JOHN McEnroe captured his 75th career Grand Prix tennis title yesterday. He beat Jay Berger 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the final of the US Hardcourt tournament. Berger, playing McEnroe for the first time, appeared to take command when McEnroe double-faulted twice in the fifth game of
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    • 134 26 Reuter. SAID Aouita ran the fastest 1,500 metres of the year at the Adriaan Paulen Memorial Games in Hengelo (Holland) yesterday. The Moroccan, world record holder at the distance, clocked 3 min 30.63 sec, the seventh fastest ever, to improve the time set by Abdi Bile,
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    • 251 26 Wire services. MANCHESTER United is believed to have made a surprise swoop for Middlesbrough and England central defender Gary Pallister. United is understood to have bid £1 million ($3.12 m). But Middlesbro had rejected it. The north-east club wants £1.5 m ($4.68 m). On Saturday, Pallister, whom United has
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    • 247 26 RACING... ...by DENNIS CHIfl JOCKEY David Ow Yang has been ruled out of the saddle for the next six weeks following an accident on the track at Kuala Lumpur last week. The local jockey injured three of his toes on his right
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    • 343 27  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan QUICK thinking and a change of ball gave Malaysia's Stanley Tai the 25th Singapore Open masters' bowling title yesterday. Four splits in his two-game step-ladder final made Stanley realise that he had to do something fast if he was to edge out Jack Wong.
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    • 208 27 SINGAPORE OPEN TENNIS AN Asian player may well win the Honda Singapore Men's Open tennis championships, starting today at the Singapore Island Country Club (Bukit Course). South Korean Kim Bong Soo possesses a deceptive style of play that dazzles. He plays second seed Zeeshan Ali
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    • 368 27 SHE couldn't help herself. The tears were just streaming down her cheeks. Grace Young had finally won the best tournament of her bowling career the Singapore Open. She beat Thai Nipaval Bascham in the two-game step-ladder final 368-336. Said Grace: "It's a real relief, now
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    • 571 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: ATHLETICS Adriaan Paulen Memorial meet in Hengelo, Holland Men's 100 m: 1 Micheal Marsh (US) 10.37 seconds 2 Mark Witherspoon (US) 10.51 3 Courtney Hawkins (US) 10.69. 400 m: 1 Antonio Pettigrew (US) 45.235 ec 2 Mark Rowe (US) 45.41 3 Kevin
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  • 509 28  -  THE COUNTDOWN J Major Abbas, Singapore's chef-de-mission, outlines his objectives for the SEA Games. The goal is gold. And excellence. S GULAM reports S GULAM reports s ET your targets. Set them high. And go for it with with full determination, dedication and discipline. Don't slacken your
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  • 259 28 SINGAPORE OPEN ATHLETICS by ABDUL SHUKOR A HUSH descended on the Ngee Ann Polytechnic stadium when Haron Mundir took his marks in the men's 200 m final yesterday. It was the moment of truth for the sprinter. He had to win to justify his last-minute inclusion
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  • 252 28 QUALITY, rather than quantity, seemed to be China's policy. It sent only seven athletes to the Singapore Open and five of them struck gold. The Chinese team, from Hunan province, also set four of the seven marks created in the meet. The most
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  • SPORTS
    • 193 29 THE top two teams from this year's Island-wide League are likely to gain immediate berths in the National Football League. In the past, they had to wait one year after qualifying before actually playing in the NFL Division Two. The new proposal has been agreed
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    • 400 29  -  Stories/ S Gulam THE Singapore Reserves' bubble burst last night. The national soccer team second-stringers had been riding so high in recent training games that they were expected to romp to an easy win over Malaysia Cup Division Two team Trengganu. But they dished out
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
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  • 247 30 His team-mate lay dying next to him, but a Nigerian soccer player thought it wasn't serious, he thought it was just an injury AP. SAM Okwaraji, a top Nigerian soccer player, died after collapsing during a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Lagos on Saturday. He could
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  • Article, Illustration
    158 30 Reuter. PAYNE Stewart birdied four of the last five holes to ambush a stumbling Mike Reid and pull off a surprise victory in the PGA Championship yesterday. Stewart, who began the round six strokes behind Reid, rode his late surge to a five-under-par round of 67 that gave
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
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