The New Paper, 27 April 1990

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  • 18 1 the new paper FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS fea- the I new I paper
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    • 207 1 LITHUANIA CRISIS: Food rationing starts from May 1 |~i Suspend, declaration, say France and 27 West Germany Man burns himself in Moscow > I Masked intruder surprises Filipino maid (right). He ties her up in bedroom, then ransacks flat. He returns to the maid, takes out her shorts and panties.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 180 2 Reuter. A STRONG earthquake toppled buildings and caused a landslide in north-west China on Thursday but there were no immediate reports of casualties, the New China News Agency said. The agency, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation, said the epicentre of the quake, measuring 6.9
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    • 296 2 THE boy who had his right hand caught in a meat mincer while helping his mother at the family's pork stall had three other fingers saved after an emergency operation at the National University Hospital. Lim Qing Hai has lost part of the
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    • 528 3 THE mood was festive yesterday as Muslims in Singapore celebrated Hari Raya by visiting friends and relatives. ANGELINE SONG paid a visit to a Muslim home to share the joy with a family for whom this year's festive season is extra special T HIS year's Hari
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    • 185 3 ENVIRONMENT Minister Dr Ahmad Mattar spoke of the challenges facing the Malay community in the 1990s in his Hari Raya Aidil Fitri message on Wednesday. He said education and economics remained key priorities. Topmost in most minds is the tertiary fee proposal. First Deputy
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    • 55 3 Who is the ultimate I passive smoker? The foetus is the ultimate passive smoker. A pregnant mother who smokes affects her unborn child. Although the foetus does not breathe in the womb, it practises breathing by moving its chest muscles. If has been shown that these movements slow down after
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 580 4  -  By Yaw Yan Chong A MASKED man forced his way into a Tiong Bahru flat and used a knife to sexually assault a Filipino maid. He took a fruit-knife and pushed it into her vagina four times, the maid said. The incident happened at
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    • 310 4 THE residents' committee of Housing Board flats at Kim Tian Place has sent out a circular to persuade residents to engage security guards. This follows the brutal attack on a Filipino maid last month. Employing security guards will cost about $2,400 a month. This means
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 328 6  -  By Lim Phay-ling IN the 1990s and beyond, women will be able to choose from a wider range of jobs that pay better and are more satisfying. But with this new economic power will come new dilemmas. Single women will wonder if they should marry
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    • 48 6 Venue: Lee Kong Chian auditorium at the Singapore Council of Social Service Building in Penang Lane. Time: 1.30 to 5.30 pm tomorrow. It is open to the public. The $5 registration fee includes refreshments. Registration for the seminar will be at the SCWO office. Tel: 336-6641.
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    • 274 7  -  Stories Angeline Song A JINGLE. A rap. That's all it takes. Just tell em why tobacco's had for goodness' sake. That's no smoke. That's no joke. We challenged three to do it and they went for broke. When told that the Ministry of Health's
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    • 81 7 WAKK up in the morning And you light a fag, Try to pick yourself up, Maybe lies a drag But lighting up Is a sure way to find The dark dead alley At the end of the line, So smokin', Don't do it, There is more to life,
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    • 121 7 TELLING young people that smoking is a bad habit can be profitable. There are $10,000 worth of prizes up for grabs in the Growing up without tobacco competitions organised by the Ministry of Health. Another $6,000 worth of prizes can be won by stu- dents of up to
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    • 170 7 WANT to enter the rap or jingle competition? Brian Colaco gives some tips. He has composed and performed more than 30 songs. Concentrate on the topic. Writing a rap or jingle with a serious message is very different from composing a song for yourself. With
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    • 131 7 TWO rules of The New Paper and National Panasonic Singapore Fashions 2000 design contest have been modified. One, designs which do not state what fabrics have to be used will now be accepted. Previously, the rules stipulated that participants must state the types of fabrics with
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    • 316 8  -  NEWBEAT Esther Tan MR Sum Kwai Tat, 36, operates a hawker stall in Ang Mo Kio during the day. But his evenings are devoted to community service, particularly for the handicapped. Mr Sum is keenly aware of the need for the handicapped to be
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    • 264 9  -  By Irene Ng PETROL dealers are seeking the Government's help to ease their friction with the oil companies. The Federation of Singapore Petroleum Dealers Association (FSPDA), which represents about 180 dealers, sent a detailed report listing its grievances to the Ministry of Trade and Industry
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    • 198 9 SOMK of the issues the association brings up in its report.: Adequate and fair compensation for dealers whose contracts were terminated. The rise in rental or operating fees by oil companies, in some cases by 500 per cent. Some dealers are now paying between $5,000 and
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    • 51 9 WHKN contacted, the petrol dealers' federation spokesman said that with the report, they hope to "work out a long-term master plan, an understanding between oil companies and the dealers with the government as the party in between. "We want to have an open and fair discussion," said the
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    • 299 10  -  I By Suresh Nair ONE of the biggest promotion exercises for junior officers is now being carried out by the Singapore Police Force. At least 1,500 officers between the ranks of constables and corporals have been interviewed recently for the exercise, The New Paper
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    • 148 10 PROMOTIONS and performance reviews of officers will now be carried out yearly. In the past, the exercises were held once every two or three years. Two new ranks staff sergeant and senior staff sergeant have also been created to provide more promotional opportunities for
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 350 12 HONGKONG movie and television star Lau Kar Ling was abducted from a carpark in Hongkong but later released after being robbed. Lau was reported to have been held by her abductors for 10 minutes. She also suffered a slightly sprained neck during a struggle, reports
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    • 170 12 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. balancing act: If you do a balancing act, you try to please two or more people or groups who are in opposition to each other. chiffon: A very thin
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 227 14 Reuter. FRANCE and West Germany yesterday urged Lithuania to "suspend for a while" its unilateral declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. French President Francois Mitterrand and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl appealed to the Lithuanian leadership to begin talks on the crisis with Soviet
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    • 337 14 Wire services. L ITHUANIA will begin rationing food on Tuesday. Its lawmakers .decided this yesterday, as the effects of the Kremlin's economic blockade mounted. The Baltic republic also widened efforts yesterday to circumvent sanctions imposed last week by Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev,
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    • 202 14 Reuter. A LITHUANIAN man died after setting himself on fire outside the Bolshoi Theatre in central Moscow yesterday in an apparent protest against the Kremlin's tough line on the rebel Baltic republic. "He flared like a torch. His skin was peeling off his hands like
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 120 18 AP. A WOMAN in Malta gave birth to eight babies on Wednesday. But all died, the last baby yesterday. Four of the babies were stillborn Each of the eight weighed less than 500 g. Three others died one after the other within
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    • Article, Illustration
      512 18 China and the Soviet Union have agreed to reduce their troops on the 7,000 km border separating the two communist giants. That's yet another step in the long route to reducing tension between the big powers. But the situation at some other borders is not so encouraging. Here we
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    • 267 19 Reuter. COCAINE barons have drawn up a "dead pool". They draw lots to decide whom to kill. Colombian Radio reported they killed a leftist presidential candidate on a plane yesterday. Mr Carlos Pizarro, 39, was the third candidate in the May 27 Colombian presidential elections to
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    • 148 19 NYT. LIGHTS, camera, open wide! Tiny video cameras are coming into the dentist's office and right into the patient's mouth. No bigger than the dentist's mirror, the intra-oral video camera sends a high-resolu-tion image to a colour monitor screen. There, it can be viewed
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    • 93 19 Reuter. A JUDGE in Philadelphia yesterday granted a 51-year-old woman's wish to die after an emotional bedside hearing. Ms Thelma Stussy, kept alive on a respirator, has been fighting Lou Gehrig's disease, a fatal nerve disorder, for two years. Ms Stussy and her family went
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      280 19 Wire services. SHARKS retreated on the London stock market yesterday, weakened by the announcement on Wednesday of a serious aggravation in Britain's trade deficit for March. The Financial Times 30share index was down 7.4 points at 1,676.1 at the close. Continued pressure on sterling on the foreign exchange markets
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    • 68 19 Reuter. TOKYO stocks climbed gradually in opening trade today. Brokers expected minimal turnover with investors unlikely to take new positions ahead of next week's holidays. The key 225-share Nikkei index rose 90.03 points or 0.31 per cent to 29,514.61 in 10 minutes after dipping 139.78 on Thursday. With the
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    • 46 19 FT Industrials Thur 1,676.10 (1,683.50) Dow iones Average Thur 2,676.58 (2,666.44) ST Industrial Thur (1,467.84) NST Industrial Thur (2,776.19) Hongkong Hang Seng Thur (3,018.58) Australian All Ordinaries Thur (Closed) Nikkei Stock Average Thur (29,564.36) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading day
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      293 19 Wire services. BLUE chips outperformed the broader market on Wall Street yesterday in a see-saw session which saw the Dow Jones industrial average oscillate between the plus and minus columns. At the closing bell, the Dow stood at 2,676.57 points, an advance of 10.13 points. The day started
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1060 20 8, 9.30 pm) Ye Pei (Zoe Tay, right) asks Dejian (Li Nanxing) for a '^|p divorce but Dejian refuses. She spends the night at the fishery where she keeps Chongguang (Edmund Chen) company. j While they are having breakfast the following day, Miaoran (Aileen Tan) sees them together. She leaves
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  • 221 21  -  I SEENLASTNIGHT By Adeline Woon IT'S been said often and enough and J not just by Zsa Zsa Gabor and Elizabeth Taylor that diamonds are a girl's best friend. I suppose that's true if you use it to your advantage. Just look
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    • 212 21 COLLECT BONUS COUPONS AND r EXCHANGE FOR THESE GIFTS! Collect Ken-Air Holiday Bonus Coupons when you go Choose from a wide range of FREE GIFTS featured in our shopping, stick them in a Passport and exchange your HOLIDAYS AND GIFTS colour catalogue. Call 348 4188 completed Passports for FREE GIFTS.
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 156 21 MURDER SHE TW° °F us Yida (Cheng Shucheng, right with Jazreel Jr Low) expresses his affection for Shaoling j. (Hong Huifang) who declares that she will o^-% not consider falling in love till she has established her career. She tells him not to waste his to for her. I APPOINTMENT
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  • 778 22  -  fashion In February, the Second Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Ong Teng Cheong, said there was no need to feel awkward any longer when the dress code calls for a national dress. Simply reach for the Singapore orchid shirt, said Mr Ong, who is also the NTUC's Secretary-General.
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 362 23  -  By Angeline Song T HE design was created more than 200 years ago. But in January this year, Royal Copenhagen's Blue Fluted porcelain received an international award its first. It won in the Classic Dinnerware Porcelain/China category of the Third International Tabletop Awards held in the United
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    • 58 23 THE porcelain is available at Georg JenI sen shops at the Mandarin Shopping Arcade and at Hilton International. It is also available at the Royal Copenha- I gen shops in Wisma Atria, Singapore Dai- maru and Isetan Orchard. Prices range from $.'*B for a plain butter
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    • 442 23 EYETOEYE I AM 14 years old. My eyesight is 200 degrees. I wear glasses only when watching television or reading the blackboard. I know the power has increased now because I can't read the blackboard clearly. How can I improve my eyesight?
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  • Showtime
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      295 24  -  By Lo Tien Yin sr iy" J HERE'S a ready pool of talent here who specialise only in cameo appearances. Not for them the glare of constant limelight. Who wants to be in the spotlight all the time anyway when you can be both a star as well
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    • 302 25 CAMEO ARTISTS GERALDINE Ng, who is in her 20s, is a producer with a private film company. Before quitting SBC in 1987, she was a deejay, known for spinning country and western favourites. She also hosted the 1984 Talentime series. She is still occasionally
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    • 553 25  -  By Adeline Woon THE man Playgirl magazine named one of the 10 sexiest men in rock 'n' roll last year is here. But that's something that Richard Marx would rather not talk about. Instead, he laughed about it. "I don't find men sexy.
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 85 27 WEA is giving away a special Robert Plant package today to the first eight readers who bring a clipping of the Robert Plant article (right) to its office at: 10, Anson Road International Plaza #15-07/08 Singapore 0207. The package comprises a picture compact disc, a red satin
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    • 272 27 IT was 1968. Rock band Led Zeppelin recorded its debut album in just 36 hours and instantly became a new force in rock music. The rest, as they say, is hysteria. "Success breeds many, many things in a person," said Robert Plant, the Led Zeppelin
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    • 349 27  -  By Wong Sing Yeong THERE he was, a familiar-looking guy with a huge mop of hair that almost blocked out the karaoke screen. He was raving like a chorus master, egging everyone to sing along. Often, in his excitement, he became Charlie, his alter-ego. His name:
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  • 5th Tour de SINGAPOORE-RALLYE..... THE RAILLY AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE COMPETITION
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      78 29 Rally Director Dr Winston Lee Clerk of the Course Bill Cook Assistant Cleric of the Course Dick Tien Secretary of the Meeting Undo Ang Assistant Secretary of the Meeting Milly Chia Chief Scrutineer Seah Cheong Hock Publicity and Press Liaison Officer Inez Wei Chief Timekeeper Richard Wong Chief
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    • 494 29 The Tour de Singapour is more than a motor rally. It is more than a test of endurance. It is a test of skill. And discipline. ABDUL SHUKOR talks to the organisers and tells you more about an event that has won a unique place in the
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    • 282 29 IT TAKES at least 50 people to stage an event such as the Mobil/Yokohama Tour de Singapour Rallye, not to mention help from various other organisations. For a start, the event needs a rally director and a clerk of the course. Since its inception Dr
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    • 293 30 L i ESLIE Chang is 27, a father of two and looks like an ordinary man. But unlike most people, Leslie finds pleasure in a deathdefying hobby. He races in seemingly ordinary street cars which are bestowed with engines that can turn them into speed machines.
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    • 218 32 TWENTY years set apart last year's winning combination of Leslie Chang and Douglas Chua. Leslie is 27 and Douglas 47. But when the two get together, as they did so efficiently in the 1989 rally, it's like Tango and Cash taking a ride on the
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    • 251 32 MOBIL OIL will continue to support Singapore's domestic sports, cultural and educational programmes for as long as these activities are essential in nation-building. Mobil is 1990's Tour de Singapour Rallye's major sponsor. It not only sponsors motor sports but also various other sporting activities
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    • 212 33 TYRES are as essential as high performance cars in the Tour de Singapore Rallye. Racing compound tyres are normally used in a race where the tyre grip and handling on road surface are crucial to a car's performance. It is hardly surprising then that the
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    • 279 33 CARS that are eligible to win overall awards in the Rallye are vehicles which fall into the Federation Internationale de L'Automobile's (FIA) Group N or Group A. There are four classes in which the cars, all 57 of them, fall into. Class One is for cars
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 487 34 FRIDAY RADIO niiM.'MmiW NOON News in Brief NOON News In Brief 12.05 Lunchdate 12.03 Popular Classics 1.00 News and Weather Report 1.00 News and Weather Forecast 1.15 Lunchdate (cont'd) 1.10 Current Exchange Rates 2.00 News in Brief 1.15 Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.05 Words and Music (cont'd): A 1.45 Midday Market
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    • 1604 39 ►Centresiage I —yf SSO CONCERT. Guest \Ar\ conductor Bryden Thomson is featured in this concert. He is the principal conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra. He is on a tour of the Far East. The items include pieces by Berlioz, Dvorak and Bax. 8.15 pm.
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      73 39 All these months teenyboppers have been right here waiting for Richard Marx. Well, now the man who sang Right Here Waiting will make their dreams come true. He will be performing tonight at the National Stadium. Other Marx hits include Hold on to the Nights, Endless Summer Nights,
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      159 40 AFP. L I IVERPOOL winger John Barnes was chosen by the English Football Writers' Association as its Footballer of the Year while Scotland captain Alex McLeish collected his second Player of the Year prize in less than a week. Having won the Scottish Football Writers' vote on
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    • 238 40 Reuter. JORGE Valdano, hoping for a World Cup comeback with Argentina after being out of the game for nearly three years, said he had agreed to return only as an "act of duty and love" for his country. The 34-year-old forward arrived in Italy yesterday with
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    • 206 40 WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIPS Reuter. .JIMMY White overturned a 5-2 overnight deficit to lead defending champion and fellow Englishman Steve Davis 13-9 at the end of the third session of the semi-finals. In the other semi-final, Scot Stephen Hendry to take a 9-6 lead over England's »John Parrott.
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    • 144 40 TENNIS Reuter. TOP seed Stefan Edberg was beaten in straight sets by Spanish baseliner Juan Aguilera in the third round of the Monte Carlo Open yesterday. Aguilera, ranked No 7 in the world in 1984, fell to 255 two years later. But he is back to
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    • 233 41 Wire services. FIORENTINA will have to play the return leg of the J Uefa Cup final against Juventus on May 16 at least 300 kms away from home. Uefa announced yesterday it was punishment for Fiorentina supporters' misbehaviour in the semi-final tie against Werder Bremen on April 17. THE
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      • 213 41 ENGLISH LEAGUE EUROPE KICKOFF Reuter. LIVERPOOL looks set to be crowned champion tomorrow for an unprecedented 18th time. If the Merseysiders win their home match against mid-table Queens Park Rangers and rival Aston Villa fails to overcome Norwich at Villa Park the title will return to
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      • 175 41 ITALIAN LEAGUE Reuter, AP. NEAPOLITANS are preparing a mock funeral procession for AC Milan on Sunday. That's when Diego Maradona leads Napoli into the last match of the season a home game against Lazio which its needs only to draw to win the title. The Argentine
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      • 219 41 DUTCH, FRENCH LEAGUES Reuter. AJAX Amsterdam is poised to clinch the League title on Sunday. It has to beat Koda JC at home and hope that nearest challenger PSV Eindhoven loses to Feyenoord Rotterdam. Ajax, which last won the title five seasons ago, is
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      501 42  -  Yesteryear's sporting heroes have slowly disappeared into the mouldy past. We must do something to remind today's youths about them; to inspire them to great deeds. Why not a Hall of Fame, asks ALFONSO CHAN Alfonso Chan WHEN we were kids, my cousins and I used to play
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    • 213 42 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: SOCCER Div Three England: Notts County 3 Bristol Rovers 1. SQUASH European Open in W Germany Ist rd: Del Harris (Eng) bt Gamal El Amir (Egy) 15-10, 15-3, 15-10; Ross Norman (NZ) bt Hiddy Jahan (Eng) 15-7, 15-8, 15-6; Tristan Nancarrow (Aust)
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    364 43 AP. B RAZIL'S national coach Sebastiao Lazaroni has warned that Sweden could be a surprise power in the World Cup. He was full of praise for Sweden following its 4-2 trouncing of Wales in a World Cup warm-up game in Stockholm on Wednesday. Brazil and Sweden meet in
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  • 170 43 AP. THE war of words rocking the Dutch soccer team has ended. The man in the middle of the storm, AC Milan star Marco van Basten, publicly apologised for his comments, Dutch Television reported yesterday. Van Basten admitted he had been inaccurate in accusing former Dutch
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  • 182 43 AFP. STEVE Bull, two-goal hero of England's 4-2 drubbing of Czechoslovakia, is in danger of having his World Cup dreams wrecked. His club, Wolverhampton, is charging towards the Second Division playoffs and the dates clash with England's build-up. England's next game is against Denmark at Wembley
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