The New Paper, 29 January 1991

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    12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1991 MCI (P) 75/4/90 SO CENTS
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      111 1 Vr1l, *l'*WSPM^9Wl^g|pPl Oil terror: Pictures tell the story of pollution. Spoils of War ee 0 nly knows (when the war will end). Iraq will win the admiration of the world with |H their fighting prowess. Lots of blood will be shed, blood on every side American, French, and Iraqi. Saddam
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Arnett meets Saddam
      170 2 IRAQI President Saddam Hussein has given his first interview to a Western journalist since the Gulf War broke out on Jan 17. In a wide-ranging interview yesterday with Mr Peter Arnett of CNN, the only Western newsman allowed to remain in Iraq, Mr Saddam warned that Iraqi
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      NON-CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
      107 2 CNN correspondent Peter Arnett said he got the impression that Mr Saddam might use weapons of mass destruction if Iraqi losses became too great. The missiles Iraq has fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia have nuclear, chemical and biological capability, said Mr Saddam. "We have maintained our balance
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      HUMAN SHIELDS
      108 2 MR Saddam attacked "hypocritical Western politicians" who he said convinced him last fall that if he let the hostages go, they would keep the peace. Shortly after the Gulf crisis began, thousands of Westerners in Iraq and occupied Kuwait were prevented from leaving. Hundreds were sent to strategic
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      MESSAGE TO AMERICA
      58 2 I wish the Americans well and pray none of their sons will die and that all the people of Iraq are grateful to noble souls in America demonstrating against the war, in France, in Germany, in Spain and all others demonstrating against the war. Mr Saddam Hussain
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      HOW LONG WILL THE WAR LAST
      40 2 Only God knows. Iraq will win the admiration of the world with their fighting prowess. Lots of blood will be shed, blood on every side American, French, Saudi blood and Iraqi. Mr Saddam Hussein
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      IRAQI PLANES IN IRAN
      131 2 MR Saddam acknowledged that Iraqi aircraft were flying to neighbouring Iran. "Iraq and Iran are neighbouring Muslim countries and regardless of the circumstances of the past they both see the current confrontation here a battle between the faith and the infidels. "It's only natural that if
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      IRAQ WILL WIN
      94 2 The Iraqi President expressed confidence that his military could beat the USled coalition arrayed against Iraq. There is "not even a one in a million" chance that Iraq can be defeated, Mr Arnett quoted Mr Saddam as saying. Any chance of negotiations was up to US President
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      Why Saddam won’t surrender
      76 2 It would be totally dishonourable of him (Mr Saddam) as the leader of the Iraqi people in the middle of all this to say, 'Look, I have led my country over this past crucial five months, talks have broken down, 1 have been attacked by the
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      Lock icon Israel, Saudi Arabia hit again
      218 2 Reuter. ISRAEL and Saudi Arabia were attacked by Iraqi Scud missiles again yesterday. No one was reportedly injured in the attacks. The debris from a Scud attack smashed into a cucumber and tomato farm outside Riyadh last night. Reporters who went to the scene said
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      Peeping at Saddam
      469 3  -  By Ivan PJ Lim THE US-led Allied forces have assembled an awesome electronic armada to watch Iraq round-the-clock. They include: Signals intelligence: The gathering of intelligence by monitoring all radio wavelengths used by the enemy and then decoding these signals. Sometimes important information can be obtained without
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      Lock icon BATTLE DEBRIEF: DAY 12
      200 3 President George Bush. SORTIES More than 25,000 allied air missions flown since war began, including more than 2,500 yesterday. 53 Iraqi Scud missiles fired, 27 at Saudi Arabia and 26 at Israel. A Scud was intercepted yesterday over Riyadh, another fell short of Tel Aviv. No
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      97 2 BENEFICIAL FULLYGUARANTEED WEIGHT LOSS INCH LOSS PROGRAMMES Sarimah was 93 kg Jflfc in July. She took WB on our 3-day V®? cleansing and 'J N 5 kg Amazing, you M Hf may say. But she Ofe H| went on to lose 25 kg in three months and seven |K appointments.
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      27 2 Hotlineplus TO share a point of view, j call Hotline Plus, i 734-7711, or write to The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Rd, S'pore 0923.
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      CIVIL WAR?
      119 4 HOT STORIES A CIVIL war appears to be inevitable in the Soviet Union and the army could rebel. This was the view of Colonel Viktor Alksnis, a senior parliamentary deputy. He accused President Mikhail Gorbachev of betraying political allies by breaking off an army-led Baltic campaign that resulted
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      GULF WAR
      91 4 WAR damage: Malaysia will ask the UN Security Council to discuss the damage the Allied bombing is causing Iraq. It said it was not happy with the implementation of Security Council Resolution 678. Growth: The Gulf war has cooled the hot pace of Malaysia's current business cycle upswing,
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      HEADLINERS
      68 4 The Straits Times: It's not a religious war: Bush. Business Times: Saudis plan to invest in Asia-Pacific. Lianhe Zaobao: Allied bombing to stop oil slick. Berita Harian: Bush: US has no wish to destroy Iraq. SBC: Iraq has again launched Scud missile attacks on Israel and the Saudi capital,
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      POTLUCK Cel Gulapa
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      S’pore-Pahang trade
      87 4 CATCH OF THE DAY SINGAPORE wants to increase its trade with all states in Malaysia, said Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong yesterday at a dinner for a Pahang investment team led by its Chief Minister Tan Sri Haji Mohd Khalil Yaakob. Manufacturing investments are one area of
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      30 4 The Straits Times Classified Where i buyers x sellers mcel r»'v\ii>;• M nnd f,,<> f g ht i *-Ll J -s, sot of whrcls *7i M n C.A.T.S. |717-»»6«| I
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon HELMART
      336 5  -  Bv Eliza Teoh YOl are driving peacefully along when, suddenly, a psychedelic flash whizzes past your very eyes. Is it a a bird? Is it a plane? Nope. It's a crash helmet. Not just any motorcycle crash helmet, mind you. But one that has been handpainted by Mr Yusoff
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      TRAFFIC RULES
      40 5 EXISTING traffic rules do not make painted crash I helmets illegal, said a senior traffic police officer I last night. He said police have not I taken any action on those j wearing painted crash hel- i mets.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Reshuffle of crime busters
      196 6  -  Stories/ Suresh Nair PROMINENT crime busters are among the people involved in a major police force reshuffle of 56 senior officers. The Criminal Investigation Department was the main focus of the move. The department's investigation and information gathering sections will be strengthened with a newly-appointed deputy
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    • MEN ON THE MOVE
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        Back to home ground
        82 6 IT may sound like a step back. But Deputy Assistant Commissioner Teo Hong Guan, 47, looks forward to his return to irregular hours and plainclothes duties. His comeback to CI I) headquarters is viewed as a return to home ground, where his experience in investigative work
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        Undercover man
        77 6 THK speciality of DSP Ang Chiang Teck, 45, is undercover field operations. He has spent most of his two decades in the force doing plainclothes investigations. DSP Ang was involved in the Clementi hostage case in 1984 when a gunman held his 19-month-old nephew hostage for over eight
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        Public affairs man
        60 6 SUPT Foo Kia Juah, 40, takes over as director of public affairs. For two years as director of the Police Academy, he was closely involved in training junior and senior officers at Thomson Road. Supt Foo's job is to further improve the image of the police as
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Mace bearer a witness to history
      228 8  -  By Trudy Lim SITTINGS in the Singapore Parliament will not be quite the same in the future. Mr Sidik bin Alang, 64, a man who witnessed almost two decades of political change there, died on Jan 17. He was the Sergeant-at-Arms more commonly known
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      Policeman of Parliament
      103 8 THE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS MK Sidik was responsible for handling the Mace, which symbolises the authority of Parliament. He was the impressive figure who would enter the chambers carrying the Mace, a silver-gilt ornamented club, on his shoulders. He then placed the Mace on two rests at the table
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      Lock icon Promoted but earning less
      324 9 Will the real executive please step forward? Last Friday, NTUC secretary-general, Mr Ong Teng Cheong said problems in defining what makes a manager or executive has affected union membership. HELEN CHANG gives one executive's story M R Chia wishes he never got that last promotion. He
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      WHO GETS TO JOIN THE UNION AND WHO DOESN’T?
      122 9 CAN you tell an insurance executive assistant from a claims adjuster? Hint: One can join the union the claims adjuster. An executive assistant: Handles insurance claims Helps clients decide which policies to buy Checks policies in a coverage before settling claims
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      GLOSSARY
      131 9 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. barred: If you bar someone from doing something, you officially prevent them from doing it. knack: a knack is a particularly clever or skilful way of doing something successfully,
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      Prepare for the dream job
      170 9 HOW glorious to have a job that pays well, yet makes us leap out of bed in the morning, raring to go. That dream job is much closer to reality than you think, according to (letting That Dream Job, a guide to career happiness in
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      Lock icon Iraq ‘saving its airforce’
      415 10 One out of seven Iraqi warplanes is now believed to be in neutral Iran. The two governments have yet to give an official explanation for the mass flight. Allied commanders can only speculate Wire services. THE "mass transfer" of some of Iraq's best warplanes to Iran
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      Lock icon ‘100 Iraqi planes in Iran’
      99 10 Reuter. ABOUT KM) Iraqi combat and transport aircraft have landed in neutral Iran over the past three days, military sources said in Lon don yesterday. They said the aircraft flown to Iran included the cream of the Iraqi Air Force Soviet built Mi(l-29s and Su-24s,
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      Lock icon IRAN’WILL DETAIN AIRCRAFT TILL WAR ENDS'
      128 10 Reuter. IRAN'S envoy to the United Nations said his government would detain all Iraqi aircraft and pilots who land in Iran until the C.ulf war ends. Asked why the pilots had landed in Iran, Mr Kamal Kharrazi told reporters: "It seems that some of
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      200 9 Menus to suit any occasion, any size Set Menu 1 Set Menu 2 $60.00+ (for 4 $120.00+ (for 6 8 persons) persons) Fish Maw with Crabmeal Shark's Fin Soup with Prawns in Green Curry Sauce Crabmeal Roe Live Red Tilapia in Bean Sauce Fried Chicken in Pandan lieaf Fried Kai
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      251 11 < 5 > I GRAND PRIZE Call IDD. It costs so little, but you could win so much. Pick up your IDD line and you might also pick up bill entitles you to one lucky draw number And with an And since the contest runs for 3 months (from Jan
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Goodbye, Iraq
      51 12 From Iraq to Vietnam: a Vietnamese worker, who fled Iraq with 579 others, picking up his suitcase at the departure gate of Cairo airport yesterday. They had travelled by bus from the Egyptian port city of Nuweiha and will be taken home by two Japan Airlines planes. Picture/
      Picture/ Reuter  -  51 words
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      Lock icon Life in Kuwait ‘unbearable’
      335 12 Reuter. LIFE in Kuwait has become "unbearable", say refugees who crossed into Jordan yesterday. "Everyone in Kuwait now lives underground." said Mr Abdul-Aziz Faris, who squeezed 11 people into a van and left five days after the war began. Mr Faris, a history teacher, said it
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      Raids ‘hurt Allied pilots’
      256 12 IRAQ said yesterday that captured I Allied pilots have been wounded in I Allied air raids. The Iraqi authorities said last week j that captured airmen were being kept at possible targets to deter Allied attack. Western governments said the use of prisoners as "human shields"
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      Lock icon PLO threatens to shell Israel
      248 13 AFP. THE Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon has threatened to shell Israeli communities across the border if the US-led coalition continued to attack Iraq. PLO military forces are "ready to launch attacks and to shell deep inside Israel if the pounding of civilians and institutions
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      Troops keep rats, scorpions as pets
      181 14 LIZARDS, scorpions, beetles, dogs and desert rats have become popular with American and British soldiers in the Gulf. Though keeping a scorpion is against regulations, some US soldiers are keeping them in boxes because of their "fighting abilities". US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Mel
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      Gulf war game a hit with kids
      107 14 A GULF war game has become a hit with Jordanian school children Allies versus Iraqis. At Amman's Zahrat alMadayen primary school, the mimicked crash of bombs and crackle of antiaircraft fire echoed around the playground as two teams of 11 in blue school
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      Lock icon Opera director gets death threat
      111 14 Wire services. AN Italian opera director has been threatened with murder for portraying Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on stage as Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, a theatre spokeswoman said in Germany yesterday. The Karlsruhe Staatstheater spokeswoman said a group calling itself the Alliance of Iraqi Patriots had
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      Lock icon Concert rocked by deaths, alleged rape
      345 14 Wire services. A MARATHON rock festival in Brazil, which included stars such as New Kids on the Block, was marred by two deaths, an alleged rape of a patron by policemen and muggings by security guards. The Rock in Rio II festival also suffered
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      Lock icon Bush, Gorbachev postpone summit
      181 14 AP. PRESIDENTS George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev have postponed next month's scheduled summit in Moscow. US Secretary of State James Baker said yesterday that in view of the Gulf war, it is "inappropriate for President Bush" to be out of the country. He also said the
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      131 12 EDUCA TIONAI FRONTIER i CONTESTS QUIZZES /v VWT UPDATES ON COMPUTERS J At INTERESTING EVENTS MOUND SINGAPORE f J subscribeandwinT j I Subscnptions must reach us before 30th April 1991 to quality for the LUCKY DRAW. Hurry' Don't miss this chance' The first 1 000 I subscnbers will receive a
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      97 12 Iraq charges that the United States and its allies have killed more than 320 people and wounded nearly 400 in the first wRMaWwMB six days of bombing. President George Bush says the Gulf war has nothing to do with religion. TO I India has been allowing US Air Force transport
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      379 13 The little that modern medicine can do lor kidney registered their objections will be affected. failure patients is often a frustrating and sad reminder Persons under 21 years and those over 60 years of that something more should be done to make available age are exempted. So are those who
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      Lock icon LONDON
      181 15 AP. SHARES rose in light trading yesterday, boosted by some bargain hunting. The Financial Times 30share index ended 15 points up, at 1,660.1. The Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100share index closed at 2,118.0, also 15 points up. AP. Yetterday Prev Yesterday Prtv Allied I, vons 168.00 162.00 (imml Mrl «,.i|
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      Lock icon New York
      38 15 AP. STOCKS finished mixed yesterday, levelling off after last week's rally. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, which had climbed 56.19 points over the three previous sessions, slipped back 4.95 to close at 2,654.45. AP.
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      106 15 Reuter. STOCKS opened mildly firmer on the lack of negative news from the Gulf war, a stronger yen and domestic bond market. The key 225-share Nikkei index was up 39.06 points or 0.17 per cent in the first 10 minutes of trade, after falling 3.81 points yesterday. Brokers said
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      Indices/Closing
      55 15 FT Industrials Mon 1,660.10 (1,645.00) Dow iones Average Mon 2,654.45 (2,653.96) n ST Industrial Mon 1,260.84 (1,238.75) a NST Industrial Mon 2,784.59 (2,776.07) n Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 3,198.29 (3,206.36) 11 Australian All Ordinaries Mon -closed- (1,295.60) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 23,569.44 (23,573.25) Figures in bracket* reter to those
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      76 15 A solution to power needs Power Bank: A multi-purpose power supplier. HERE is a gadget that may do you a power of good. Power Bank is a 12-volt I)C multi-purpose power supplier. It promises to be an "on-the-spot-solution" if: Your car fails to start on a remote country road and
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      527 15 BUYINGGUIDE Suitable for players aged "eight to 88", it is sold at CK Tang's and Tang's Studio. Price: $18.90. Keep time with Neptune i ft Neptune: A new series of sports watches from Carven. QUALITY is promised in the Neptune time zone. This new series of sports watches from the
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    Lock icon SPOILS OF WAR
    443 16 Oil spilled into the Gulf from Kuwaiti oil installations may cause an environmental catastrophe, killing up to two million birds, scientists say. Though the flow of oil has now following allied bombing, it may take years to repair the damage T I HE worst nightmares of environmentalists
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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      950 17 tuesdaytv THE WORKING HHHjHS THE BLUE REVOLUTION N /HAOYING j Taken following SRI mfny marine orpnisms f -Wt] M^X^'v^kSSTHe dav he <u*< Weiii and loin provide biologists and w if J is told that the killer is a eating breakfast while I! >*W«? physicians wah simple models foreign secret agent
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    Green cartoon cult sweeps TV
    253 18 THETVPAGE T f IHOSK Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may as well slink back into their sewers. A new cartoon cult that is clean and green is sweeping America and toppling them in the TV ratings, reports The Mail. Captain Planet and the Planeteers are pulling
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      437 19 TUESDAYRADIO 7 MOON Newt in Brief NOON News in Brief 12.05 PM Your Lunchdate 12.03 PM Popular Classics 1.00 News in Brief followed by 1.00 News and Weather Forecast Weather Report 1.10 Currency Exchange Rates 1.15 Lmtchdate with Peter King j Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.00 News in Brief j 45
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      210 19 COMTCRELIEF Fox Trot/Bin Amend itiwo— P™" YoO'Rt OP AWFULLY EARLY. u TtCHNiCMlY, I'M UP w, ;W >J. AWFULLY < \JJ < LfTE iSS'f "A DW61, ttweop' IMl' Augusta /Dominic Poelsma Angus McGill f&W4PMA KUWAIT A MINUre.ZUt) hvfc (&1<7<XWfc THAT fWTY I PRETTY wgutpf y v George the Robot/stephen Stanley DO
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  • Showtime
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      Funny Girl
      540 20  -  BY VIVIEN CHIONG ON screen, she is chubby, chirpy and a chumphead. In person she is cheeky, chatty and charming. Either way she is hilarious. Meet Toto Miu Siu Wai, the total comic. The budding Hongkong actress, 24, readily laughs at herself and is happv to play the
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      Toto grew up with boyfriend’s help
      470 21 LOVE helped Toto Mui grow up. And the man responsible is her boyfriend of four years ATV actor, Tsang Wai Kuen, 30. They plan to marry in two to three years' time. "We started going steady at the time when his career was at
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      Carrie on writing
      379 22 s TAR War's Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher, says she may i retire from act ing altogether 'and become a full-time writer. The 33-year-old actress has just finished Sibling Rivalry, which may very well be her last appearance. Her best-selling novel. Postcards from the Kdge, has been made
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      Lock icon Billy Joel storms Australia
      138 22 AP. BILLY Joel's Australian Storm Front tour is living up to its name. On the eve of his tour's opening night in Sydney, a freak storm swept through the city. New South Wales state Premier Nick Greiner said many northern suburbs looked like a "war zone".
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      141 21 wlur .man sp \i%/ give P «v v a/iT How Aids-safe is the Singapore man? Many chalk up sexual mileage before marriage, shun the condom, and are not averse to mixing business with pleasure. Should women worry that their partners may not be as squeaky clean as they seem? FEBRUARY'S
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      268 23 COMiCRELIEF F TUESDAYRADIO Orchard Road conn Goh it:ijji.rTTTTM -v ,B r >LV V I C~ 12.30 PM Sentimental Journey N !!f. W !i esh CAIVINKOH- ]DEBOT/INTES B I "bEffttSSlOlsJ 15 1.00 News 12.30 PM Off the Shelf REPORTER GHARYTVtffcB s,ft? I SURE!/ 60/WGTDA PROM V 1.10 Calling All Maids 12.45
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      337 24 832 Employment I An Australian/ U.S. joint venture company in S'pore invites the following applicants; 1) SALES EXECUTIVE fj» lip!!® W n (^'fect sales experience selling material handling/ pill Industrial items to industrial customers. j H 2) SALES ENGINEER iWliB Min 3 years experience either in sales or in an
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      23 24 832 Employment d Bookshop needs I SALESGIRL I Call personally at: I 81k.163, I Bukit Merah Central I #03-3573 or J Tal. 273-5843
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      Lock icon FOREST, FINALLY
      234 27 AFP. A BURST of three goals in 11 minutes finally took Nottingham Forest into the fourth round of the FA Cup at the expense of visitor Crystal Palace. Midfielder Garry Parker broke the deadlock after 50 minutes in the third-round second replay when he slotted home after good
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      172 27 AFP. LEEDS is ready for another war of attrition with Arsenal in its FA Cup fourth-round replay at Elland Road tomorrow. The two sides played to a dour 0-0 draw at Highbury on Sunday, but Leeds midfielder David Batty is not kidding himself that
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      244 27 AFP. BRYAN Robson, at 34, is still very much a part of the England set-up. The midfielder, whose international career looked to be over after his early return from the World Cup last year, has been included in the squad for the friendly against Cameroon
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      316 27 Wire services. SCOTLAND striker David Speedie was put up for sale at his own request by English First Division struggler Coventry yesterday. The news of the IHi-year-old's availability is sure to alert Evert on and Aston Villa, which were tracking him earlier in the season. "I expect a lot
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      Lock icon Marseille players go on strike
      353 28 Reuter. Marseille players said yesterday they were going on indefinite strike in protest at the one-year ban handed to club president Bernard Tapie for damaging sporting morale and insulting referees. Flayers' representatives Jean-Pierre Papin, the club captain, and Bernard Pardo told a Marseille radio station
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      Lock icon Parcells’ surprise packet — a towel
      301 28 Parcells’ surprise packet a towel SUPER BOWL XXV Reuter. OLD-FASHIONED power football and a magic towel won the Super Bowl for the Giants, euphoric New York coach Bill Parcells said yesterday. "Winning the second championship means so much more than the first one because you really don't appreciate what the
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      Juniors need more exposure
      390 28  -  ASIftN JUNIOR SQUftSH By Loh Tuan Lee SINGAPORE'S juniors returned yesterday from the Asian junior Squash Championships in Colombo poorer despite their experience. The girls ended a proud tradition of dominating the individual title for six years The boys couldn't even make the individual semi-finals The
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      Germany bound
      279 29  -  By Abdul Shukor SINGAPORE'S top cyclist Kenneth Tan will train in Germany for five months from April to prepare for November's South-east Asian Games in Manila. The 23-year-old Kenneth, a silver medallist in the last Sea Games in Kuala Lumpur, will be sponsored by his employers Shimano for
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        Lock icon Seles closes gap
        79 29 AFP. MONICA Seles' victory in the Australian Open has put her close on the heels of world No 1 Steffi Graf in the lastest WTA computer rankings. Graf, knocked out in the quarter-finals in Melbourne, leads Seles by just 39.15 points. The rankings: 1 Steffi Graf (Ger)
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        Lock icon Winning return
        61 29 AP. MARTINA Navratilova played her first competitive match in two months, beating Gabriela Sabatini 6-3, 6-4 in an exhibition in Hongkong yesterday. "It was much better than I expected," said the 34-year-old Navratilova, who had knee surgery late last year. "I thought I was feeling old, but my
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        Lock icon McLaren signs Andretti
        46 29 Reuter. BRITISH Formula One motor racing team McLaren announced it had signed American Michael Andretti, son of former world champion Mario, as a test driver for 1991. Andretti will make his first appearance in a McLaren at Estoril, Portugal, early in February. Reuter.
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      Lock icon Raffles’ team in trouble
      405 30 Raffles Institution's decision to register banned player Chin Sai Keong for the B Boys' Schools badminton competition could land it in trouble. It is against the rules, says SBA. BERNARD PEREIRA reports... RAFFLES Institution's B Division Boys' badminton team could be in trouble. It has registered
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      36 30 IBF Rule 19.2.1 entitled Players' Eligibility and Responsibilities of Member Associations states: All players must be in good standing with their member association to be eligible to enter and compete in tournaments.
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      WHAT THE SPORTS SEC. SAYS
      48 30 M r Chionh (Chai Guan) told me we could register his name but we could not field him until and unless the appeal against the ban is upheld. Raffles Institution sports secretary Edward Ng (left) referring to the schools badminton official's advice (left)
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      Lock icon Singles players worry Malaysia
      383 30 Bernama. SINGLES players Rashid Sidek, Wong Tat Meng and Kwan Yoke Meng are proving to be one big headache for the Badminton Association of Malaysia. Their recent poor form has prompted BAM secretary Punch Gunalan to state that the three may be rested from the international
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      Lock icon Kedah’s plan
      171 30 I MALAYSIA CUP NST. TO ensure a trouble-free run, Kedah is ready to splash out M 553,000 to engage Australian striker Zlatko Nastevski for two years. Kedah manager Datuk Ahmad Basri Akil said they are prepared to fork out the money to Australian Division One club Marconi for
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