The New Paper, 29 August 1989

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  • 18 1 the new paper TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS the r J new V paper
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    • 200 1 www This pair of legs belongs to Anita Akhbar, 18. She won the Best Legs Award at the Supermodel of the World contest in Los Angeles this month. Hers aren't the only great legs in Singapore, say experts. Others are just as good, if not better./ Page 14 OUR LAST
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    • 38 1 HEAD FOR DESIGN A desk-top personal computer, watches, light switches, furniture, chopsticks, scissors and this comb are among 418 entries received for the Young Designers' Awards. Entries this year much better and more professional, says official./ Page 3
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 322 2  -  By Ken Jalleh Jr FOR Singapore swimming ace Ang Peng Siong and his family, the 15th South-east Asia Games in Kuala Lumpur turned into a nightmare early yesterday morning. His parents and fiancee were held at knifepoint, gagged and tied up for about two
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    • 221 2 THERE is a difference between vocal criticisms in Malaysia of some Singapore policies and the stand taken by the Malaysian government. Singaporeans must take note of this distinction. This was stated by Umno vice-president and former Defence Minister Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He was
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    • 117 2 AMONG the other issues discussed by Umno vice-president and former Defence Minister Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday were: Religious extremism: Umno strongly opposed it. Datuk Abdullah said Umno was committed to religious moderation. It believed in peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia. Racism: Malaysia
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    • 153 2 TWO youths, both employed by Penang businesswoman Miss Khoo Chiew Gim, have been charged in court with killing her. Miss Khoo, 30, managing director of her family business, the KEA group of companies, was found dead on bed in her home in Penang on
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    • 145 2 MEMBERS of a private club have voted to keep their memberships transferable. At an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Saturday, 300 members of the Changi Beach Club (CBC) voted for two resolutions in favour of the move. Only three members voted against the resolutions,
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    • 424 3  -  By Brenton Wong r aw talent found its well-de-served limelight at this year's Young Designers' Awards. So impressive was the display of creativity in a variety of designs that the director of the Trade Development Board was prompted to suggest that regular design courses be introduced
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    • 86 3 THE Young Designers' Awards will be an annual event from now on. The contest was to have been once every two years and coincide with the biennial international design forum. Popular requests prompted the TDBto bring forward the contest scheduled for next year. The requests were from
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    • 28 2 For advice on the growing-up years of children under 3 years old, call 730-5549. A service for readers from The New Paper and Dutch Lady Growing Up Milk.
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  • SINGGAPORETODAY
    • 443 4  -  This story was the result of a Hotline Plus call. By Loh Tuan Lee OTHER schools keep only turtles and fish, but St Nicholas Girls' School keeps crocodiles too. Six baby crocodiles in the school in Ang Mo Kio Street 13 have been fascinating
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    • 307 4 GOOD looks are not enough. Speaking to one of the semi-final-ists at this year's Mr Union contest, you find out that it takes hard work. Mr William Tan, 25, entered the fourth heats two Saturdays ago and was one of eight who
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    • 439 5  -  By Brenton Wong "I DESIGN for myself, not the competition," fashion designer Tan Woon Chor told The New Paper last night. Tan, 22, has an individual style. Yet his clothes have international appeal. He shares that originality and commercial appeal with Melvin Wang, 16.
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    • 263 6 C OLOURFUL watches with eye-catching designs are popular with fashion-conscious young Singaporeans. "They like watches with bright colours," said Mr Richard Chan, executive director of Timestar Marketing, which markets Swatch watches here. But in Europe, after five years and worldwide sales of 50 million "fun" watches,
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    • 225 6 WEAR a bathing beauty, Batman or pop art on your wrist all in bright, bold colours. That is what some young Singaporeans would like their watches to look like. These watch designs were displayed last Friday at a contest jointly organised by The New Paper
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    • 287 6 A JAPANESE printing giant is engaged in a tussle with a local company for control of Tien Wah Press. The fight is between Japan's Dai Nippon Printing and Times Publishing Ltd (TPL) of Singapore. Business Times quoted sources as saying TPL
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    • 321 7 It is Convocation Day at the National University of Singapore. A day to remember for graduands. A day to mark contributions to society from eminent persons. Also a day to take stock. TRUDY LIM reports THE National University of Singapore is abuzz with postgraduate
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    • 333 7 "IT was with a measure of sadness and resignation that the people of Thailand accepted his decision to step down as Prime Minster in 1988. At an emotional farewell function to mark his retirement, Gen Prem, who is also affectionately called 'Pa Prem' by his people, was
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    • 212 7 PREM'S SPEECH AT NUS ASEAN has grown stronger through troubled times. And each Asean country has contributed to the development of the region. This is the view of Thailand's former Prime Minister, General Prem Tinsulanonda. He says this in a speech prepared to be given this
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    • 463 8 Model son and student, self-achiever and goal-setter. That's President's Scholar Ng Chee Peng. GRISELDA LOO meets this 19-year-old in the fifth of our series on the scholars THE secret of his achievements is self-motivation, said President's Scholar Ng Chee Peng. When he sets
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    • 103 8 Schools: Raffles Institution, Hwa Chong Junior College. Passion: Parachuting. "I've done it a few times before... Once the chute is open, there's just total silence. It's a magical feeling." Favourite reading: Non-fiction, books on politics and philosophy. Favourite philosopher is David Hume, an 18th century Scottish philosopher, historian and
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    • 183 8 A TOUR agency, that organises short trips to night spots in Johor Baru, has shut down because it is unable to pay its debts. Modern Travel Services closed on Aug 18 because it was unable to pay the banks $700,000, according to a report yesterday
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    • 109 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following will help you check their meanings. confronting: Facing, especially a difficult situation that cannot be avoided. discrepancy: A difference between two things that ought to be the same. fledgling: New or inexperienced. frenzy: State of wild uncontrolled feeling, expressed suddenly.
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    • 125 9 WKHBEAUIY WLLITBe? *4, VIKI TAKE OH HOME Mffl YOU rSiSiifmiwlMl The new Paper Fastads Food Test 89 invites you to a great meal and ■||Hfg£||H s a chance to win one of these two beautiful compacts and other prizes in our |?2T2lfill annua food promotion. t=====^==== U^SiSb2i[ From August 26
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 476 10  -  Sale of CBD licences at Kim Seng Road By Ronald Wong D RIVERS queueing yesterday i morning at Kim Seng Road I to buy area licences to get into the Central Business District faced a dilemma. They would have broken the law if they had entered
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    • 454 10  -  By Thusitha De Silva SOME residents at Pasir Ris Beach Park want to convert the 99-year leases on their houses into 999-year ones. They are prepared to pay the difference in the leases if the government allows it. The new
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    • 177 10 A LOCAL contact lens company is gearing up to triple its capacity by next year. A venture capital firm, Transtech Venture Mangement, will provide about $1.4 million to finance Oculus Contact Lens's expansion, says Business Times. It is Singapore's sole contact lens maker. Transtech manages
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 620 11 NYT. RACISM is on the rise among teenagers in the United States. A black teenager was killed by white youths in Brooklyn last week. US sociologists and civil-rights groups say the incident is an example of rising racial intolerance among teenagers and young adults. "This
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    • 75 11 A black teenager was killed by white youths in Brooklyn last week. Renewed bias has been reported across all income levels and classes in recent years. School-related racial incidents rose almost 50 per cent. Last year, the number of college campuses that the US Justice Department
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    • 255 11 Wire services. COLOMBIAN President Virgilio Barco says his country's survival as a democracy is at risk. He has blamed cocaine users worldwide for helping to create the criminal drug cartel in Medellin, Colombia's second largest city. "Those of you who depend on cocaine have created the
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    • 219 11 Wire services. A RETIRED Israeli officer who allegedly trained death squads for Colombian drug lords has said he regretted his actions. He, however, claimed he did no more than other former Israeli officers working in the region. He was questioned by police yesterday. Retired Lt-Col
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    • 43 11 Fired up for a cause: Fireworks illuminate the sky while more than 1,000 choir members from all over the world perform. The show, at Cergy-Pontoise, France, was to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration. Picture/ Ap
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    • 387 12 Wire services. AS the Cambodian peace talks in Paris enter the final days with no solution in sight, delegates are afraid that the country's warring factions will return to the battlefield. French Foreign Minister Mr Roland Dumas, co-chair-man of the 19-nation conference,
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    • 200 12 ASEAN wants the Paris peace talks on Cambodia to be called off indefinitely. The reason is: Vietnam and the Phnom Penh re- gime are not ready to accept a comprehensive solution. Singapore's position was put across clearly by Foreign Minister Wong Kan Seng at the start
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    • 184 12 Wire services. A GROUP of women who performed as many as 13,000 illegal abortions in the four years preceding the US Supreme Court's legalisation of the procedure, is considering reviving its- organisation. In the wake of the court's recent decision allowing states to restrict
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    • 133 12 Wire services. A PANAMANIAN pro-gov-ernment party said more than 400 US-trained guerillas were preparing to launch attacks in Panama City. They included former Nicaraguan Contra rebels, the party said. Mr Luis Suarez, president of the small Revolutionary Panamanist Party, said the guerillas' task
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    • 106 12 Wire services. CREDIT cards that respond only to their owner's voice have been invented by scientists at Bell Communications Research in New York. The card holder would put it in a bank teller machine equipped with a microphone. He would then speak out a password instead
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    • 41 12 Cocaine cash: Over a period of seven yean, a New York couple laundered between $90 and $100 million for the largest cocaine cartel operating in Colombia. Police detectives display some of the seized money. Picture/ Ap
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  • THE NEWS TODAY/STOCKS
    • 227 13 Wire services. AN underground faction of suspected Muslim extremists has threatened to kill the Pope if he visits Lebanon. And French and Soviet envoys held talks aimed at arranging a ceasefire. Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Cooperation Council called for a permanent ceasefire
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    • 175 13 Wire services. KERMIT, Miss Piggy and many of the other Muppets will now join ranks with Mickey Mouse and his friends. This follows an agreement announced yesterday between Walt Disney World and Muppets' creator, Mr Jim Henson. Mr Henson and Mr Michael D
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    • 87 13 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange this morning and brokers expect very light trading. Banks will be the topic of the day after press reports that Mitsui Bank and Taiyou Kobe Bank have agreed to merge. An Exchange offical said trading has been suspended in
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    • 52 13 FT Industrials Mon Closed (1,981.00) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,743.36 (2,732.36) ST Industrial Mon 1,345.96 (1,355.18) NST Industrial Mon 2,404.09 (2,407.49) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon Closed (2,516.78) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,770.90 (1,764.30) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 34,607.41 (34,739.93) Figures in brackeU refer to those of the previous
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    • Article, Illustration
      270 13 Wire services. ON Wall Street a late buying wave buoyed stock prices yesterday and carried the Dow Jones industrial average to another record closing level. The market meandered mostly at lower levels during much of a session marked by several rounds of futures-re-lated buying programs. The Dow Jones
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    • 118 13 Wire services. THE world economy will achieve real economic growth for the eighth straight year in 1990, says Bank of America. But the pace of expansion will be much slower than it has been for the past two years, it adds. World growth
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    • 56 13 Protest: About 5,000 Serbian farmers in Yugoslavia gathered in the capital Belgrade yesterday to demonstrate against the government's price control over their produce. Farmers from elsewhere in the country refused to join because the demonstration was thought to go against Prime Minister Ante Markovic's new farm policy to
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  • Showtime
    • Article, Illustration
      539 14  -  Storiet/1 Lim Kuan Chiang ANITA "Super Legs" Akhbar always knew her best assets were her long, slim legs. She was proven right at the 1989 Supermodel of the World competition held in Los Angeles on Aug 4. i Her shapely limbs (left) brought her the Best Legs Award
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    • 326 14 ANITA Akhbar had the best legs in the Supermodel of the World contest. But are they the best in Singapore? The experts beauty contest organisers and heads of modelling agencies generally agree that the 18-year-old model has good legs. But they also point out
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 77 15 Our weekly advertising feature in The New Paper Fastads will focus on a variety of topics ranging from jewellery, eye care to art and confectionery items. Look out for them on these dates: SEPTEMBER 1 Jewellery Mart SEPTEMBER 15 Art Gallery SEPTEMBER 8 For Your Eyes Only SEPTEMBER 22 Sweet
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1547 15 Prem ere Cultural Moments: Telemusic The Celts The Man with 'WHILE going on location FILMED on location in Vienna and WHO are the Celts? Host Frank shooting in India, director Steyr, this documentary focuses on the Delaney attempts to trace the origins of Oliver (Peter Chesolm) and music of Franz
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  • Article, Illustration
    116 16 15th SEA GAMES KUALA LUMPUR Sports is all about motion and there has been plenty of it in the current SEA Games. There is nothing quite so exciting as seeing man defying gravity and simply taking off Off tht Mock: Singapore swimmer Desmond Koh takes off in a
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 100 17  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Geraldine Goh LOOKING at the title of the documentary, World of Survival (SBC 8 last night), one would have thought that the half-hour programme would deal with humans. Surprisingly, The Most Intelligent Creature on Earth episode featured whales, believed by scientists to be the most intelligent
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    • 59 17 COME join the party when It's Your Move checks into Dreams Disco at Amara Hotel this Friday. There will fun and music with Wendi Koh, Back To Back, Sadiah Saad, Sheila De Niro, Bani Farook and Sharm. For tickets write to: The Producer, The Party 11, It's
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    • 284 17 USA Today. THE Beatles used to cause a frenzy. Now their mementoes are doing it. In Paul McCartney's video, My Brave Face, Japanese buyers grab Beatles artifacts. Today, the band's former chauffeur is to sell five tapes the quartet made on a portable tape recorder;
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    • 166 17 MORTUARY ACADEMY BROTHERS Sam (Christopher Atkins) and Max (Perry Lang) Grimms inherit the Grimm Mortuary I and Academy from their uncle. But they have to graduate from their own mortuary academy. Cathay: 11am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9 j pm. Marina 1:1, 3.30, 7, 9.30pm. BRENDA STARR BROOKE Shields is
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 203 17 the Singapore Furniture Designers' Competition *$9 If you have the potential to design furniture that could be the start of a Singapore Style with quality on par with top international design. This prestigious award recognises the most creative minds. PRIZES M) Ist Prize $$15,000 cash from 7 Consolation Prizes Sssoo
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  • UPDATE
    • 1480 18 ►Centoesme 0 FRENCH COMEDY. La Belle Amehcaine. A couple comes across a beautiful American car at a giveaway price. This sparks a series of crazy happenings. Today at 7.15 pm. Tomorrow at 9 pm. Alliance Francaise. 4 Draycott Park. Free. SKIRMISHES. A dark comedy about
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    • 17 18 NIGHTLIGHTS: Rock N' Roll FOOD: Empress Dessert CENTRESTAGE: French Comedy COMING UP: Anything But Elephants
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    • 73 18 A play about identity crises and how a young couple, an old couple and a shopkeeper hide their true selves behind masks. This Thai play will be staged in English and Mandarin. The cast is from Arts and Acts. 8 pm. Today. The Mandarin version will be
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 835 19 TUESDAYRADIO COMICRELIEF BO! Curry-Pllff/Raymond Lee NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) w t f 12.05 Lunchdate: A musical selection NOON Beautiful Music: Light instru- 1 I t*="=2»( V P* is offered for your lunchtime mentals for your listening plea- Jy* 1 1 listening pleasure. sure. W I j*—Wr^My 1.00
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 830 20 COMICRELIEF TUESDAYRADIO Orchard Road/coim Goh WJF mr ~TT *ii£EL. ~T] OONI*I I NOON Good Music, Company and Me: I# KillslKfl m*wwts„ "fttmmt STINKS |16G1.n'5 K £C/\uC, i Noon-time musical entertain- 12.30 Off the Shelf KffffPM NWfIA fPNTftP I ONII Bftb m tWDy ment for you. 12.45 New Ideas: A radio
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 504 21  -  By Ronald Wong T I l HE moon affects me strangely at this time of the year. Whenever I look up at that shiny round ball in the night sky, my mouth waters. No, I am not turning into a werewolf. It is just that the
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    • 117 21 NOT all hotels are introducing new flavours. Five contacted said they prefer to offer only traditional mooncakes. Traditional fillings are lotus seed paste, red bean paste, salted egg yolk, melon seeds, mixed preserved fruits, meat and nuts. "People use them for prayers or as gifts to
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    • 243 21 UFEUNES This column will alternate with Microwave Cook every week. It will answer your questions on eating healthily and nutrition. The answers are given by the Health Ministry. Send your questions to Lifelines, The New Paper, 39() Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923 or
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 98 23 11 ii.iftMPpgaPy^llr it TTH i Salary offered will be based on qualification and experience We offer very attractive fringe benefits skills training courses. good advancement prospects and company transport eg. Jurong. Tiong Bahru. Ang Mo Kio Bukit Pan|ang etc. Walk-In Interview (Monday to Friday) or Write in with contact number
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    • 587 23 •31 Employment Ml imptoywwt f mothercare *——i I Singapore's leading store for Mums I I Babies invites applications for: I I I Age below 50 I l| Able to speak and write simple I I 6-day working week I I Walk-in interview I I MOTHERCARE (S) PTE LTD I I
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  • SPORTS
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      154 24 Reuter. DLESBROUGH central defender Gary Pallister joined Manchester United yesterday i J for a British club record fee of £2.3 million ($6.99m). Middlesbrough, relegated to the Second Division last season, originally turned down a £1.8m ($5.47m) bid for Pallister, who has won two full England caps. But talks
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    • 191 24 Reuter. DIEGO Maradona, absent without leave in Argentina, says he will return to Italy by the end of this week but that it will be at least a month before he is fit to play. In a preview of an Italian television interview, the Argentine
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    • 205 24 AP A BUNCH of bananas and brownies couldn't help ailing Brad Gilbert keep his winning streak alive. Gilbert, a menace on the tennis courts the past month with three straight titles, and a dark horse to win here, once again picked the wrong time to get sick.
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    • 549 24 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: ATHLETICS World University Games in West Germany Men's 200 m: 1 Robson Da Silva (Bra) 20.33 2 Felix Stevens (Cuba) 20.58 3 Kevin Braunskill (US) 20.62.400 m: 1 Roberto Hernandez (Cuba) 45.42 2 Sergio Menezes (Bra) 45.66 3 Oliver Bridges (US) 45.78.
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 257 24 831 Employment FEMALE CLINIC NURSE required in Eunoe Creacent. To work afternoon night shifts. No experience required. Salary $630 per month. Tat: *****24 after 12 noon MAKE SALES YOUR CAREER!! Exclusive Leather Boutique in Orchard Road hu Immediate vacancies for: CHINEBE BALEQIRLS If you are around 18 to 25 yrs,
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  • 15th SEA GAMES KUALA LUMPUR
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      420 25  -  iThat night, I couldn't sleep thinking of the medal that should have been around my neck.s Jackie Choy on losing the bronze Stories/ By Alfonso Chan A 1 FIASCO deprived Singapore of a bronze medal in the gymnastics event. Jacqueline Choy Jackie for short had completed her second
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    • 302 25 SINGAPORE Amateur Gymnastic Association president Lee Seng Huat admitted that a bronze in last Friday's South-east Asia Games artistic vaulting event was lost through "a bad mistake". However, he contends that it was the fault of the two coaches Quek Sin Hwee and
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    • 303 25 Wire services. SPANISH side Real Sociedad is reported to be lining up a £2.5 million ($7.6 m) swoop on the English League for Liverpool's John Aldridge and Tottenham's Paul Walsh. The San Sebastian club, which only recently opened its doors to non-Basque players, is expected to finalise the signing
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      255 26 One less than he aimed for DAVID LIM, who became the most bemedalled Singaporean last night since Junie Sng retired with 10 golds in 1983, says to tell you he is "quite happy". Which is "quite" an understatement considering David won his sixth gold last night and is
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      409 26  -  Ken Jalleh Jr from KL EXALTING the athletes we pay peanuts to play for us over the ones our rivals pay to play for them requires a certain amount of illusion. It requires an ability to squint a little, and forget a lot. To gild over things, like
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      191 26 One more than what she wanted Bernama. SHE was down for her last individual event the 200m backstroke. It was the race for her seventh individual gold medal. The crowd had only one thought: Would the swimming queen could equal her feat of seven individual golds achieved in
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    • 190 26 Bernama. FAVOURITES Indonesia and Malaysia dominated the individual events, all their players winning quarter-final matches. Former world champion Icuk Sugiarto led the In- donesian challenge when he overpowered a stiff challenge from Thailand's Sompol Kukasemkij, winning 15-6, 10-15, 15-7. Icuk, who was upstaged by the Thai champion
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    • 729 27  -  SINGAPORE 1 INDONESIA 0 Jeffrey Low OH yes, what a wonderful world this could be...having luck here, luck there, luck everywhere. Indeed, Singapore has been tagged the luckiest soccer team in these Games. But who cares? That's the way the ball bounces in football,
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    • 67 27 SHOTS: Singapore 5, Indonesia 5. CORNERS: Sin 4, Indo 4. FREEKICKS: Sin 16, Indo 12. OFFSIDES: Sin 2, Indo 2. CROWD: 25,000. WEATHER: Fine. PITCH: Average. RED CARD: Herry Setiawan (35th minute). YELLOW CARDS: Bonggo Pribadi (20th min), A R J Mani (21st min), Hanafing (Ist-half
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    • 304 27  -  By Jeffrey Low FANDI Ahmad, Singapore's non-footballer last night, emerged the hero of the game by his own determination and guts, not by luck or by some occult powers. So said he, in between hair-raising screams and pleas as trainers gently peeled
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    • Article, Illustration
      400 28 JEFFREY LOW INTERVIEWS THE OFFICIALS IF the field television microphones had been closer, you could have heard Jita Singh laugh and laugh all the way to the dressing room. Yes, here is a coach whom contemporaries consider one of the luckiest in the region. And whether Jita
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    • 205 28 A LITTLE prayer said by Maj Abbas Abu Amin might have been answered when Singapore reached the final. By his own admission, the FAS president was a "bundle of nerves" in the last 15 minutes. "I didn't know what to do," he said. "It looked as if we
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    • 216 28  -  By Jeffrey Low LIKE Singapore, Malaysia too had to thank Lady Luck. Thailand, fancied to win the gold after some sizzling soccer in the first round, took the game to Malaysia and could have won but for goalkeeper Rashid Hassan. Rashid, 36, the last
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 27 25 (2) V„y 2.00 PM Sepak Takraw: Final (Group champ v runner-up.) RJNl 7.00PM Games Spotlight. RTM 8.40 PM Games Highlights. (2) SBC 9.30PM 9th Games report. |0
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    • 72 26 The New Paper Canon A Partnership The SEA Games .sPT LooK out* Jonathan Choo. The New Paper's sports photographer, covers the spills and thrills of the SEA Games, fully equipped by Canon. EOS Camera Bodies N> Motor Drive* fll Ik Fleheye lene EF 15mm t2.8 EF 24mm f2 .8 50mm
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