The New Paper, 4 January 1991

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    15 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1991 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS the new paper
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    31 1 Lucky Heights residents live in fear after 20 break-ins, a near-rape of 11-year-old girl whose mother offered herself and a family's loss of $200,000/ Page 2 Picture/ Dominic Woon
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      3 held in connection with rape
      164 2 THREE men have been arrested in connection with a report that a maid was gang raped. A police statement said the three were picked up from their homes in Jalan Bukit Merah and Tampines early yesterday morning. The statement said the men a proprietor
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      Lock icon Sennett Rd under siege after spate of crimes
      478 2  -  Stories/ Yaw Yan Chong BESIEGED. That is how residents in Sennett Road feel after a spate of robberies in the area. Some of the cases involved violence. About 20 homes have been broken into in the last six months, estimates the Lucky
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      TAKE ME INSTEAD OF MY LITTLE GIRL
      296 2 ONE Sennett Road robbery victim offered herself to a man who wanted to rape her daughter aged 11. The woman, a housewife, recalled: "We were all tied up and forced to lie down inside my bedroom. I was on the bed with my
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      GREATER POLICE PRESENCE: RESIDENTS FEEL SAFER
      133 2 POLICE are stepping up patrols in the Sennett Road residential area and are taking a serious view of the situation there. Police spokesman ASP Ang Sin Pin said: "We are closely monitoring the situation and will spare no effort to rectify the situation there.
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      Lock icon HOMEWARD BOUND
      607 3  -  FACTSHEET Pandas are an endangered species. There are only about 1,100 pandas in the wild in China and 17 in zoos outside China. An An and XinXing are young. Pandas can live till about 30. They reach adulthood at six or seven years. Each day. they eat 10
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      25 2 Hotlineplus TO share a point of view, call Hotline Plus, 734-7711, or write to The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Rd, S'pore 0923.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      The grand Debutante Ball
      162 5  -  By Jackie Pau ALL prim and proper and primed to play the princess, 33 young girls will trace the age-old tradition of a debutante ball. At 7:30 this evening, they will be presented to President Wee Kim Wee and the cream of Singapore society at the
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      DEBUTANTES AND THEIR BEAUS
      201 5 THE names of the parents and relatives of the debutantes and their beaus read like a Who's Who list of Singapore society. The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Ong Teng Cheong, has two sons participating. So is President Wee Kim Wee's grandson, Colin Wee. Many of the
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      WHAT THEY SAY
      390 5 Miss Tan Cheng Cheng, 17 Pre-U 2 student, Nanyang Junior College, daughter of Mr Tan Tai Kim, managing director of Classic Antique House and Mrs Lau Boh Ngor, managing director of Unique Antique House "It is quite a nice experience for me. Like a fairy tale. "My
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      Routine check, say police
      187 6 IT'S a routine request. This is what police say of a circular to banks asking for information relating to any accounts held by a former senior state counsel who was found hanged recently. Police confirmed yesterday that it had asked banks for the information, but said
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      BACKGROUND
      80 6 MR Loke Yoon Kee was found hanged at his bedroom balcony early last month. His wife found him suspended by a piece of cloth at 4 am on Dec 8 at their semi-de-tached home in Mountbatten Road. No suicide note was found and the police said no foul play
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      It's your move
      195 6  -  NEW BEAT ESTHER TAN IN Singapore, chess has an upmarket image. Rut you don't have to be rich to play chess. One of the largest chess clubs is based at the Queenstown Community Centre. The Chess Club was formed in 1979 with 30 members. Now it has
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      GLOSSARY
      114 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. ballyhoo: Noisy publicity or advertising, uproar. body politic: The state as an organised group of citizens. cavort: To jump about noisily. coax: To persuade someone to do something by
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  • PARLIAMENT
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      Elected President: Once more with feeling
      358 8  -  By Irene Hoe ONCE more with feeling was the mood in Parliament yesterday as several MPs made a final effort to amend the Elected President Bill. They knew they had little chance of doing so. But they must have felt they had to try
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      Tougher parking laws
      139 8 CHANGES to the law give parking fines a bigger sting and parking officials more bite. Under new amendments to the Parking Places Act, the Superintendent of Car Parks gets more teeth to help him deal more effectively with parking offenders. Inflation has taken away the sting of
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      WHAT THEY MEAN TO YOU
      140 8 IF you should get hit with the maximum composition fine for a parking offence, it will cost you $400 now, not $200 to settle it. IF you "obstruct or hinder" the director-general, the superintendent or any authorised officer from carrying out his duties, you can
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      PM responds to 2 big issues
      343 8 PRIME Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong responded to two important questions raised on the EP Bill. Should presidential candidates have links with political parties? Some had argued against this. Mr Goh said he did not think an EP would not be able to carry
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      HISTORY OF ELECTED PRESIDENCY
      130 8 AUGUST 1984: Mr Lee Kuan Yew, then Prime Minister, moots the proposal for an Elected President at the National Day Rally. July 1988: First White Paper on the EP is published and debated. August 1990: A second White Paper, titled Safeguarding Financial Assets and the Integrity
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      MORE RADIATION CONTROLS
      103 8 COMPANIES which import microwave ovens, lasers, ultra-sound machines and ultraviolet lamps will now need licences. Organisations like hospitals which use certain high-tech medical equipment which gives off non-ionising radiation, such as ultrasound and ultra-violet machines will also need licences. The new Radiation Protection Act will also require
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      SOLDIERS' LAW
      107 8 SIX months once meant the difference between getting punished and going scot-free for soldiers who did wrong. Not anymore. Now the authorities can have up to three years to detect and investigate offences. But this depends on special circumstances and also on the Armed Forces Council. The highest
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      206 9 Clinique's Great Skin Basics. For Starters. Yours for only $29.00. From now to 31 January 1991. Start getting your skin looking better than ever with special sizes of Clinique's famous 3-Step, 3-Minute Skincare System for your skin type. After only a week's use, you'll begin to see results: smoother, fresher,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Amy Yip coming in Feb
      1007 10  -  By Alfonso Chan HONGKONG'S most celebrated bosom will make its appearance in Singapore during the Lunar New Year. To watch Amy Yip sing and dance and talk, however, you will have to pay $100, $75 or $50. The Hongkong entertainer has been confirmed for a
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      Books on predictions selling well
      421 11  -  By Sandra Davie WHO would have guessed it? Books on prophecies are being swept off the shelves by people eager for a peek into the future. A check with eight bookshops of three major chains and several distributors showed sales of books predicting future events
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      What kids worry about
      317 11  -  By Michelle Lee ADULTS do not have a monopoly on worrying, not even when it comes to the Gulf crisis. Kids worry, too. Talking to 15 young people from eight to 15 years old, The New Paper found that among their big worries are the possibility
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Prostrate before the Pope
      47 12 Sixty priests lie prostrate before Pope John Paul II during a large ordination ceremony in St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, yesterday. The newly-ordained priests belong to the Missionary Order of the Legionaires of Christ. They will work mostly in Latin America. Picture/ Reuter
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      Lock icon Where blood gets you money
      237 12 Reuter. MANY Bulgarians are earning blood money. Literally. They are selling their blood and bone marrow abroad to get hard currency to buy Western luxury goods, the daily newspaper Svoboden Narod reported yesterday. "A terrible price has been paid for many of the very old
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      Lock icon Lone black quits elite force
      422 13 <1 have had to face racist taunts and abuse all my life. But nothing prepared me for what I had to endure in the Guards.* Ex-Guardsman Stokes THE elite British Guards who protect Buckingham Palace are pure white again: The only black in the 7,000-strong
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      CONDUCT AND CHARACTER 'VERY GOOD'
      128 13 GUARDSMAN Richard Stokes received many commendations in service. His military conduct and character were classified "very good" in his Certificate of Service Last year, when he took part in I Trooping the Colour for the first time, he was moved up from the last row
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      446 13 i 9/ f M ANNIVERSARY @QtefrtAUo*t4' 2? < 1 SELECTED LIST OF COINS DESCRIPTION PRICE DESCRIPTION PRICE DESCRIPTION PRICE SINGAPORE SILVER CHINA 3. France Liberty IOOF 1986 I $10 Ship 1977 line 23 I. WWF Panda Silver S Yuan Gold Proof J 868 2. $10 Asean 1977 Proof 65 1986
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      263 14 *****.1 oinHHMjBHVft, JH^HI mit tii* t Sitelhle hm/ito! Pmpoitls Hi i jWjJBg. M£fr~ 2: |K <* Atj^jHlH mttill j>^l I'^^B «m tjdii ItiHtt Hi nilt dtltciioi) ot tntai prima it Iht tn ltd it tin tn -f After countless years behind a school private sector, a career in the Nary
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Fighting fit newsmen only
      259 15 ASTROLOGER USES COLUMN TO WOO WOMAN /Page 24 Wire services. SHAPE up or ship out that is the order given by US military commanders to journalists covering the Gulf crisis. The Defence Department this week imposed a physical fitness test on journalists who wish to be
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      THE TEST
      55 15 A man in his late 30s would need to do 33 sit-ups in two minutes, 32 push-ups in two minutes and run 3.2 km in 15 minutes 30 seconds. A woman in the same age group would need to do 30 sit-ups, 13 push-ups and complete the run
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      CRISIS UPDATE
      71 15 leaders of Syria, Egypt, Libya and Sudan end hours of talks in Libya. But no progress towards a peaceful solution to crisis. s Thailand to send medical teams and aircraft technicians to the Gulf. Britain expels eight Iraqi Embassy staff and deports 67 other Iraqis, citing threats by
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      Lock icon US Senate 'no' to use of force likely
      247 15 Reuter. THE United States Senate is unlikely to approve the use of military force to solve the Gulf crisis. Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell said this in Washington after a meeting between President George Bush and congressional leaders on the crisis. Yesterday's
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      Lock icon King Henry VIII's sex life was no big deal
      293 15 Reuter. THE myth about King Henry VIII's robust sex life has been exploded. Documents made public in London yesterday show that the founder of the Church of England and father of Queen Elizabeth I became virtually impotent after his third marriage.
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  • Showtime
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      Lock icon Velvet Lin
      698 16 Getting an interview with Golden Horse best actress Lin Ching-hsia, 36, is no easy task. VIVIEN CHIONG found this out in Taipei while covering the awards ceremony recently THESE days, you can get an interview with Lin Ching-hsia in only two ways. You are either a long-time reporter
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      Lock icon Film critics and the Oscars
      336 17 UPI. T I I he suspense over nominations for this year's Oscars would be over, if American film critics had their say. New York and Los Angeles critics and the National Board of Review have cast their ballots for the best movie, best acting performances
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      BEST ACTRESS
      36 17 Joanne Woodward: For Mr and Mrs Bridge, by New York critics. Anjelica Huston: For The Witches and The Grifters, by Los Angeles critics. Mia Farrow: For Alice, by the US National Board of Review.
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      BEST ACTOR
      41 17 Robert de Niro: For Awakenings and Good Fellas, by New York critics and US National Board of Review. Jeremy Irons: For Reversal of Fortune, by Los Angeles critics. Robin Williams: For Awakenings, by the US National Board of Review.
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      OTHER VOTES
      70 17 Best supporting actress: Winona Ryder for Mermaids, by New York critics; Lorraine Bracco for Good Fellas, by Los Angeles critics; and Jennifer Jason Leigh for Last Exit to Brooklyn and Miami Blues, by the US National Board of Review. Best supporting actor: Bruce Davison for Longtime Companion, by
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      Ogy gets awards
      93 17 TODAY'S PINUP POPULAR Malaysian actress and singer Fauziah Ahmad Daud, affectionately known as Ogy, has cut four albums. Ogy, 28, has acted in more than 15 films and has received several awards. They include: Most Promising Talent Award First Malaysian Film Festival (1980). Most Creditable Actress 27th
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      Beauty that's more than skin deep
      300 17 FROM PAGE 17 ACTRESS Lin Ching-hsia may have matured quietly like a chrysalis in its case. Some changes, however, are more immediately noticeable. The biggest change the public has witnessed is no doubt her daring dress sense. One of her recent bra-like outfits a
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      KaySiu steps aside
      424 18  -  By Lo Tien Yin ACTOR Lim Kay Siu will not play Adrian Lim. Instead, an Australian with "oriental features" will probably get the part in Medium Rare Singapore's first English movie. The film is based on the infamous saga of Adrian Lim, a medium who was executed
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      WHAT KAY SIU SAYS
      108 18 SINGAPORE actor Lim Kay Siu said he had not actually committed himself to Medium Rare, and had just expressed interest in taking up the role. "I have read the first draft, and I was not that keen on it. "But I didn't back out of the
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  • SHOPTALK
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      PIECES OF ART
      316 19 A FABULOUS collection of hands and faces that ever told time will be in Singapore in March. An exhibition of 200 antique and modern clocks, watches and timepieces made by Swiss watchmaker Breguet will be here in the course of a world tour. The exhibition will include
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      AUCTION IN GENEVA
      86 19 THE auction in Geneva on April will be conducted by one of the world's leading watch specialists, Habsburg. The Geneva-based firm also has offices in Paris, New York and Hongkong. Specialists in watch and clock auctions, it holds the record for selling the world's most expensive pocketwatch
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      How to use multifocal lens
      272 19 EYETOEYE MOST older adults wear reading glasses, bifocals, trifocals or invisible bifocals because they need different prescriptions to see clearly at different seeing distances. Bifocals are a combination of distance and near prescriptions. Trifocals combine three different lens prescriptions, and provide clear vision at dis-tance-near
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    Nature's cures
    689 20 spotlight A new book, An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicinal Herbs, spills the beans on herbs found at the neighbourhood Chinese medical hall. Many are actually common plants and flowers that you see in the park or even on your kitchen shelf. Apart from detailed descriptions, the book also
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      127 21 See MORE of the world for the National J I. IP In addition to the playback of PAL video tapes, the new National J1 video cassette recorder M lets you watch a whole world of NTSC tapes on your PAL television* without needing a separate The National J1 is also
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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      935 21 fridaytv THE WORKING CLASS SPORTSVIEW TENNIS: (Channel pm) FEDERATION CUP 1990 DURING the final volleyball ft -4JHjjjHL (Channel 12, 10.20 pm) match, coach Zhihui is rushed to |BV THIS programme features hospital. Though Ding Hui (Chen highlights of the following matches in Liping, right with Chen Xiuhuan) is [I Tb
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    IT only happens in the movies
    231 22  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Alfonso Chan SOME guys really have all the luck. Perhaps it has something to do with the macho look, or the moustache, but Chuck Norris in Thursday Feature Special The Octagon (SBC 5, 10.30 pm) seemed to have IT. The IT I'm
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      326 22 fridaytv JKkj FRIDAY AT THE MOVIES: MY DEMON LOVER jß|ft mfc t MILD mannered Denny (Michelle Little, left with Scott Valentine as Kaz), who has difficulty associating with men, MTg meets up with an unlikely character, Kaz. I While their relationship seems palatable most of the time, L Kaz, nonetheless,
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Stargazer uses stars to woo
      375 23 A BRITISH astrologer used his local newspaper column to send romantic messages to lover and woo her from her husband. Mrs Hilary Wright, 28, was so fascinated with the messages that it did not take her long to leave her 60-year-old husband, Roger. Her affair
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      HIS JANUARY HOROSCOPE
      27 23 Unfamiliar experiences are winging their way into your life and coping with them may not be easy. Mr Peter MacKay in his newspaper column.
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      HER JANUARY HOROSCOPE
      33 23 w, all need somebody in our lives and the planets are asking if you are ready to make a long-term agreement with someone. Mr MacKay's prediction for Mrs Hilary Wright.
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      Lock icon London
      234 23 AFP. PESSIMISM about the prospects for interest rate cuts saw share values slide on Thursday. But renewed hopes for peace in the Gulf acted to limit the losses. At the close of trading the Financial Times 30-share index was down 6.7 points at 1,649. Due to the continued absence
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      Lock icon Tokyo
      85 23 Reuter. STOCKS opened mixed on the first day of trading in 1991. Customary congratulatory buying by big brokers to mark the start of the New Year was offset by selling based on Gulf jitters and a sharp rise in oil prices and a big drop in Wall Street shares
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      Indices/Closing
      51 23 FT Industrials Thu 1,649.00 (1,655.70) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,573.52 (2,610.64) ST Industrial Thu 1,164.94 (1,153.48) NST Industrial Thu 2,856.39 (2,883.17) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 3,004.88 (3,031.34) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,273.00 (1,285.10) Nikkei Stock Average Thu Closed (Closed) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      Lock icon New York
      245 23 AFP. NEW Year blues again dominated trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. This was despite the prospects of a meeting in Switzerland between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz and a plunge in oil prices. The Dow Jones average of
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      423 25 FRIDAYRADIO NOON News in Brief NOON News in Brief 12.05 PM Lunchdate 12.03 PM Popular Classics 1.00 News and Weather Report 100 News and Weather Forecast 1.15 Lunchdate (cent*d) 110 Currency Exchango Rates 2.00 News in Brief 1.15 Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.05 FeainlM Flair 145 Midday Market Report 2.15 Chefs
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      221 25 I COMICRELEF Fox Trot/Bin Amend I MM, RMCjE 15 REALLY I NEVER REALIZED A SHE'S OPSTAIRS BoMMED OUT A&oOT NPT DUMB DANCE CoOU? MEAN CRY»N& RifcHT HMM. HAViNfc A DATE FbR THE So MOCH To SoMpoNE:. I Now. TiME FoR I WONDER... CHRISTMAS DANCE. MEAN, SHE >5 REALLY SoME t
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      412 26 COMICRELIEF FRIDAYRADIO Orchard Road/coiin g«i NOON Brian Richmond Presents NOON N wsd^k 12 JO PM Sentimental Journey tl»® Shelf fo.VDU *U)STfi£ If luP. AND BOOK ThAT W^T\T'£ A W.NOtotflZ 100 News 1245 Folk in Brftain A^* K OF H s«Kmno?J tt&b NEW W KJFECT, 110 Irian Richmond Presents 100 Wor,d
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      Panel to probe 'cold hell'
      469 35  -  By Suresh Nair HOCKEY'S newly-appoint-ed panel of inquiry will investigate allegations of ill-treatment of junior players in two separate incidents. It was learnt last night that the five-member panel will look into the allegations made by both the Under-17 players in Perth, Western Australia, in
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      202 36 Reuter. THE International Football Federation, or Fifa, is to set an age limit for World Cup referees. Older officials struggled to cope with the strain of last year's finals in Italy, Fifa secretary-general Sepp Blatter said yesterday. Many referees over 45 were too old
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      374 37  -  By Bernard Pereira THE team with the second worst record last year has today become the most feared side in the Premier League. We are talking about Tyrwhitt Soccerites and we are not alone. All the other team managers agree and it is all because of
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      244 37 THE World Team Squash Championship has been rescheduled to Nov 12-17 in Finland so as not to clash with this year's South-east Asia Games. The squash meet was originally scheduled for Nov 22-30. But because the dates clashed with the SEA Games in
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