The New Paper, 6 February 1992

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  • 16 1 the new paper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1992 MITA (P) 13/4/91 50 CENTS the J new" paper
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    • 127 1 jPVr W M t JHBL -jSMpffiMk PL j F vHHI *J-5P M r wBHL&'' Kdmca <, They kiss five times a night Actor Ken Low and Rina Ong have to kiss five times a night. But it's all for a play, Prelude to a Kiss, coming next month. Says Ken:
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 336 2 AP. A SURVEY has shown that American school children lag behind students in at least a dozen other countries in mathematics and science skills. Thirteen-year-olds from the US scored lower in science than students in South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, the former Soviet Union,
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    • 321 2 AP. SAMPLE questions answered by 13-year-olds.from several countries in the Second International Assessment of Educational Progress. MATHEMATICS: Q: The total weight of three suitcases is 28 pounds. The weight of Terri's suitcase is as much as the weight of the other two suitcases together. What is the weight,
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    • 187 2 AFP. FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson showed up on schedule for his rape trial in Indianapolis, US, yesterday but did not stay long. The reason: A predawn fire which killed three people at the hotel where the 15-member jury was held in
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    • 310 3  -  WHAT: The Great Moscow Circus. WHEN: June. Dates and times to be announced. WHERE: Indoor Stadium. TICKETS: Adults: $15, $29, $39. Children under 12: $10, $20, $25. On sale from April 7. For credit card bookings. call 348-5555, or fax 440-6784. By Shahiran Sahari FOUR
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 136 4 JAPAN has demonstrated its mighty economic clout. It has been promised access to peace-related meetings on Cambodia after it threatened to cut off financial support for United Nations programmes in that country. Tokyo was "disappointed" that its representative on the Supreme National Council, which groups all
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    • 110 4 NATIONS which make major financial contributions to the United Nations should be consulted before peacekeeping troops are deployed around the world, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa proposed recently. Tokyo must have a say or future funding from his nation would not be assured, Japanese Foreign Ministry
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    • 64 4 The Straits Times: .Japanese opposition boycotts Parliament Business Times: Tender system for Tenaga issue Lianhe Zaobao: Yeo Cheow Tong: Birth incentives produce results Berita Harian: Finances of Malay groups to be monitored SBC morning news: Russian leader Boris Yeltsin is in France for an official visit BBC morning news:
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    • 135 4 HOT STORIES JAPANESE Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (left) is in trouble. Opposition parties boycotted Parliament yesterday demanding his aides testify on two pay-off scandals. They want to question his ex-political secretary on Mr Miyazawa's role in the 1988-1989 Recruit share scandal, which forced him
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 64 4 MORE well-educated women are having babies. In 1988, 28 per cent of women with secondary education gave birth to a third child. I,ast year, the figure went up to 42 per cent, the Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao reports this morning quoting Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong. Mr
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      • 46 4 MUIS and Mendaki will be looking into ways to help meet the financial needs of all Malay-Muslim organisations in the next five years. Letters will be sent out to the groups asking them for information about their financial status, Berita Harian reports today.
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      • 40 4 DISSIDENT workers in China are trying to organise a free union to challenge the government. They were inspired by Solidarity, the union which brought about the downfall of communism in Poland, the China Free Union Preparatory Committee said.
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      • 56 4 If we allow this, then the schools will be selling places to the highest bidders. Mr Lew Syn Pau, chairman of the GPC for Education and MP for Tanglin, on Straits Times columnist Tan Sai Siong's suggestion that top schools be allowed to exchange
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 366 6 A three-year-old patient was taken out of Tan Tock Seng Hospital by his parents without the doctor's permission last Christmas Eve. AUGUSTINE PANG finds out how hospitals deal with such cases A PATIENT who leaves a hospital without a doctor's permission could be arrested. Police
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    • 187 6 THE mother who took her three-year-old son from a hospital without permission was knew she had to sign an indemnity form before taking him away. But Madam Lim, 38, said no-one stopped her from leaving Tan Tock Seng Hospital with her son on
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    • 376 8 NEW members of NTUC Fair Price are now limited to buying up to '20 shares each of the labour co-operative, which operates a chain of supermarkets. This is to protect the interests of existing shareholders, some of whom have been members for more than 20 years,
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    • 43 8 Fair Price membership: In November last year, there were 221,000 members compared with 51,000 in 1983. Membership breakdown: Union members 121,000, non-union members 100,000. Share capital: Union members $34 million, non-union members $23 million. Many non-union members joined through NTUC Income.
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    • 205 8 FRONT-LINE supervisors should he the first target of union organisers, says the National Trades Union Congress. NTUC Deputy Secretary-General Mr Goh Chee Wee says these supervisors meet the Labour Ministry's guidelines for allowing junior executives to join rank-and-file unions, reports the Feb 1 issue of NTUC
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    • 216 8 AN ORIGINAL I VALENTINES GIFT FROM A COPY This Valentine's Day, create an original gift from a copy ot your Valentine's picture. With Canon's Color Laser Copier. Only Canon has the superb colour copying aH technology to copy any colour photo onto a T-shirt. So give a picture-perfect T-shirt* this
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    • 219 10 HERE'S A FEW VALENTINE'S DAY Why just send them a card when you can send something much more practical to your loved one whatever personality type they may be. Original Valentine's greetings came about in ancient Roman Times. During times of feasting, maidens deposited messages The Sex Symbol. These creatures
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    • 353 10 IDEAS YOU'LL FAIL IN 10VE WITH. of love in a large urn. These messages were then drawn out by the men of the city who courted the girls whose message they had drawn. Whoever you're interested in courting, read on and watch out for the last instalment in this series
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 358 11  -  By Dominic Nathan THE feared tank-killer of the Gulf War, the Apache assault helicopter, is heading for Singapore. It will he the main attraction at the Asian Aerospace '92 show later this month. The Apache helicopter is packed with laser-guided missiles and cannons. Its devastating
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    • 74 11 ASIAN Aerospace '92 will be held here from Feb 25 to March 1. It will feature about 20 aircraft in the daily hour-long aerial display. They include the FIG, FlB, Hawk 100 and even a Learjet towing a target drone. The show will be open to the public
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    • 463 12 The Registry of Vehicles recently reported that taxi drivers in Singapore were being cheated of their fares almost every day. HELEN CHANG talks to one driver who gave a desperate woman a free ride home out of kindness HIS friends call him Awang. They should also
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    • 161 12 i ARE Singaporeans carJ ing"' i For one desperate woman. one man was out of the 1 four people she asked for help. Miss Asmidah Binte Ahi mad, a graphics technician, 1 was stranded without her wallet at Toa Pavoh interchange 1 1
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    • 66 12 NEARLY every day, a passenger cheats a taxi driver of his fare. The Registry of Vehicles said 313 cases were reported last year. About 200 of the offenders were found and made to pay the fare, either voluntarily or through court action. The actual number of cases could
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    • 362 13  -  By Shahiran Sahari A 3.3 m long crocodile was recently spotted at the Tengeh Reservoir within the grounds of the Raffles Country Club at Tuas. Club employees watched the reptile, believed to be fully grown, for more than five hours off the 13th fairway of
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    • 130 11 THE RIGHT TIME FOR LOVE There's no like Valentine's Day for 10ve... and your Valentine. ladies' and gent's Pierre Cardin watches, valued at Si 150 each can be yours when you place a love note in The Straits Times Classified or The New Paper Fastads on 14 February. Six pairs
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    • 16 11 "Send Italian kisses" on Valentine'yj^y Unique opportunity tomorrow in The New Paper. Dbn't Miss it! I
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    • 75 13 >_ mmmm M Frida > Weekly HI flB l/r I Singapore's first and only fX£a I Chinese-language paper lor students [)J I^l r lB Special Report After the tissue ban H Students at Yishun Secondary School tell of hilarious situations as they try to cope with the recent ban on
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 330 14 AP A COOL, well dressed and courteous team of robbers robbed the posh Regency Hotel on Park Avenue in New York yesterday. The gang which got away with loot from 36 safe deposit boxes even got chairs for all the women held up during the heist.
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    • 254 14 AFP. IRAN is carrying out research at five secret sites to enable it to produce nuclear arms. The research is being conducted with help from countries such as France and Belgium, an Iranian mujahedeen opposition spokesman said yesterday. The Government has set up a secret
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    • 211 15 THE row between Russia and the Ukraine over the Black Sea fleet has flared up again. The commander of the Commonwealth naval forces yesterday dismissed a Ukrainian demand to sack the head of the Black Sea fleet. He said negotiations over its future had
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    • 269 15 Reuter. MOST of Pakistan came to a standstill yesterday, the result of a government-backed general strike to support Muslim militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on a surprise visit to Kashmir, predicted an early victory for the militants. Protesters, accusing New Delhi of
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    • 146 16 MONEY CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING. S? hankfully, some things in life still defy a price-tag. Such as your love for your Romeo. Which is why we're offering this fitting Valentine's Day gift. Xeryus. A sophisticated range of men's fragrance and toiletries by Givenchy. For another, you can t buy this fabulous
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  • 906 17 Four wheels good, two wheels bad. That, evidently, is the Orwellian belief of some car and bus drivers who tried to run Mozart and Darwin and their cyclist, IRENE NG into the ground as she rode the length and breadth of Singapore for this series. This is
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  • 106 17 BY the time you read this, I should be cycling somewhere between Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh. This is Pedal Aid, where six cyclists (pictured above) ride to Penang for the Spastic Children's Association of Singapore. With me are businessman Manjit Singh, sales manager Baram Dew, fitness instructor Michael
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    • 901 18 thursdaytv A HfIMRD Or iIMOTS cOmoert Ip 3"! ™c gR*) A TREAT Cart land WIU. feature the world premiere W _W \&> hX^kot'a 0 tans. This ,defeature is based on i in fiw movements \jM 1 pllSman on a storv set in I9th-centurv ik V ",f ridme 11 7° vemenih
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 419 19 Wire services. THE US doctor who designed a so-called suicide machine and caused an uproar by helping two women to die has been arrested. Dr Jack Kevorkian will be charged with murder, the authorities said. A spokesman at the Oakland County prosecutor's office said
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    • 213 19 AP. THE courts have cleared the animals of guilt now they must decide whether two game wardens killed, chopped up and burned a young British woman in a Kenya game park. The government initially maintained Ms Julie Anne Ward, 28, had either committed suicide or
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    • 199 19 Reuter. ORGANISERS of the Winter Olympics say they are suing American Express for trying to "ambush" the games with an advertising campaign. Mr Dick Pound, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's marketing commission, accused American Express of running ads that leave the impression it is an
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    • 356 20 Germany's opposition leader Hans-Ulrich Klose and Britain's Liberal Democratic Party leader Paddy Ashdown are both in the news for love affairs. But Mr Ashdown insists it is a private matter while Mr Klose couldn't care less Wire services. SEVERAL opposition Members of Parliament, including at
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    • 255 20 Reuter. US and British politicians may sweat over real or rumoured sexcapades, but a leading German politician laughed when a newspaper yesterday taggged him a "lovebird in politics". Mr Hans-Ulrich Klose, parliamentary leader of the opposition Social Democrats, dismissed sex scandals in En-glish-speaking countries as
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    • 93 19 THE NEW PAPER SATURDAY SPECIAL JANUARY 25,1992 DDCJ II TC 1 KCjUII J 1 Congratulations to the 8 winners of one Hoover Aquamaster (model S-4470) vacuum cleaner each. NAME l/C Y M Poon 0874CM08 Ong Che Keng *****97 C Victoria Urn *****388 Sharon Foong Yoke Chun *****59 C Michelle Oh
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  • Showtime
    • Article, Illustration
      500 21 The play, Prelude to a Kiss, is filled with kisses and twists. LOIS NG speaks to the hero and leaves the twists for you to uncover KEN Low and Rina Ong had to kiss 10 times to get it right. They were posing for a promotional picture for
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    • 178 22  -  STAR TRACK BY LO TIEN YIN .JUST as well that Hongkong's anto-pop queen Anita Mui cancelled her concert on .lan 25. She needed all the energy for her last concert two days later. Fans stood and cheered and a tearful Anita had to return to the
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    • 79 22 THEY did say that for everything, there has to be an opposing force. Recently on the sets of Batman 11, this happened again. The temperature was kept at almost 0 deg C so that the Penguin's breath would be visible. The studio next door, where another new film,
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    • 95 22 THE untold story of Dracula: The Untold Story is that Winona Ryder (Edward Scissorhands) is seeing Keanu Reeves (Point Break) just after she announced that she was still engaged to Johnny Depp. They met on the Dracula sets where both were seen holding hands. Winona had also
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    • 44 22 JACK Nicholson, who was the Joker in Batman I, is now $20 million richer though he is not in the sequel. His contract stated that if his role made the movie a success, and if there was a sequel, he would benefit.
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    • 314 23 •JOHN Singleton's film, j Boyz N the Hood, was last year's most talked about dij rectorial debut. I The film, featuring rap I singer Ice Cube, tells of the frustrations of black teenag--1 ers growing up amid poverty and drugs in a gang-dominat-ed area
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    • 137 23 TERMINATOR 2 may have been the most popular film last year. But laughing all the way to the bank are not the people who made Terminator 2, but those who made Boyz N the Hood. Budgeted at $12 million, Boyz earned over $100 million. This means
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    • 308 24  -  ZU MOUNTAIN WARRIORS STARRING: Pauline Yeung. Kwan Lai Kit and Aaron Kwok WHEN: Sundays at 9.45 pm. SBC 8. Starts this Sunday. BY Lo Tien Yin ENTER Aaron as superman. In Zu Mountain Warriors, starting on Sunday on SBC, he can fly. Fans of this
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    • 210 24 KISSING on stage is not easy. It has to look real and natural. Said Rina, 23: "You have to be fairly courageous about kissing on stage. "There is an initial awkwardness but you practise until you become skilled and are used to it that the kiss
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    • 549 25 *"i? v W*' iM* x *'Jr* A H^flUH^BHaNMUK***-I»—~»Sib \*(r m \f ji**** l »%Tsii Valentine's Day 14 February. A lovely Jay for a love note to your Valentine, in Valentine's Lt we lines in The Straits Times Classified/The New Paf\'r Fastads. For ever on record. UndenuihU' evidence of your love
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  • 169 26 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. appendage: Is something which is joined to something larger or more important. breadth: Yhe breadth of something or its measurement in breadth is the distance between its two sides.
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    • 489 26 COMICRELIEF ALSO CAN Showcase For Singapore Cartoonists Hongbao Tales /Szeto Kok Leong V L» JIV /I lT w DiVAONMNT-y //ypSj&\ \,T\ U( feJKSu CONSCIOUS MAN WHO ~r J T CYC1 MTHF -y Tok Guru /Sofiyan Vahya 4=^\ -=3^ O 8 o v O —o JD O v > v you
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    • 363 27 THURSDAYRADIO 12.30 PM Sentimental Journey FM 88.9 12.45 Ari« Gold Suffusion's Daily HOON Ncsdesk 1.00 iew/ 12 30 1.10 Stop Sebentar! with Bibih Gwee J[" d j K rshaws World of Mus 'c ft Ah Lian 100 World News 1.40 Spice of Life 109 Twenty-Four Hours 2.00 Chinese Opera 130
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    • 159 27 COMICRELIEF Cathy /Cathy Guisewite h COLD? THAT'S Vl HAD THEI HAD Tf I HAD THE ?UJ 1 1 THE WINTER OLWICS NOTHING f I FLU FOR THE FLU AND PNEUWOIOIA r-= Of PHYSICAL DECAV. HAD BRONCHITIS fll TWO WEEKS! FOR THREE AND I'M STILL ON i<W7 1 v > f
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    • 433 29 Valentine's Day 14 February. A bvely day for a love note to your Valentine, in Valentine's Lovelines in The Straits Times Classified/The New Paper Fas tads. For ever on record. Undeniable evidence of your love and regard. And for the sake of love, here arc some love aids for you
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  • SPORTS
    • 263 30 AP. MICHAEL Jordan, a two-time Most Valuable Player of the league, was suspended by the National Basketball Association yesterday and fined US$5,OOO ($8,100) for bumping referee Tommie Wood in a game on Monday. Jordan, who bumped Wood while arguing a call on the last play
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    • 268 30 AFP. ARNE Thorns, a lowly qualifier, stunned top-seeded Ivan Lendl in the first round of the Milan indoor tennis tournament yesterday. The 21-year-old German prevailed in a three-set struggle, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9-7). "I played the match of my life," said Thorns, ranked 152
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    • 577 30 Wire Services. Results of yesterday's international sports: ATHLETICS Stockholm International indoor meet in Sweden Men's 60m: 1 Mark Witherspoon (US) 6.73 sees 2 Floyd Heard (US) 6.77 3 Torbjoern Eriksson (Swe) 6.82. 60m hurdles; 1 David Nelson (GB) 7.79 2 Antti Haapakoski (Fin) 7.88 3 Cletus Clark (US) 7.91.
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    • 328 31 New Zealander John Walker was hoping to become the first 40 -year-old to run a sub four-minute mile. But an injury during training forces him to give up the attempt. It also brings to an end his distinguished career AFP. ONE of
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    • 336 31 GEARING UP FOR THE '92 BARCELONA OLYMPICS Reuter. JACKIE Joyner-Kersee is aiming for another pair of gold medals at the Barcelona Olympics this summer but the long jumper and heptathlete has a longer-range plan in mind. The athletics star wants
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    • 466 31 CARL Lewis, who will be 31 in July, is convinced he has his best results ahead of him. Said Lewis: "I think I can run faster in the 100 and 200 metres and jump longer than before. I have to improve because I think Leroy (Burrell)
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    • 533 32 REVISED DRAW FA Cup fifth round: Chelsea v Sheffield Utd, Portsmouth v Middlesbro, Swindon v Villa. Norwich v Notts C. Bolton v Southampton. Sunderland v West Ham, Forest v Bristol C, Ipswich v Bristol R or Liverpool Matches to be played Feb 15. 16 or 17 AFP.
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    • 218 32 AFP. HEARTS' John Robertson fired a hat-trick is his side's 3-0 win over St Mirren in the Scottish Cup last night. The Scottish international hit all three goals in a nineminute spell during the second half to secure a fourth round tie at Dunfermline. St Mirren had Kenny
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    • Article, Illustration
      276 32 Wire services. ZBIGNIEV Boniek has been named the "Best Polish Soccer Player In History", the polish newsagency PAP reported yesterday. Boniek, 35, who made 71 international appearances for Poland, won the competition in a poll conducted by the weekly "Gol". Six criteria, including personality and achievements in the national
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    • 296 33 GOODBYE Singapore. National team defender Borhan Abu Samah is to play for Pahang in the Semi-Pro League this season, reports Berita Harian. "I will be with Pahang this season," said Borhan, who had earlier hesitated to accept the offer. According to him, his intention in joining Pahang
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    • 309 33  -  By Bernard Pereira MORE than a dozen top teenage footballers in Singapore will be hard-pressed to play in both the Asian Schools' Under-18 and Asian Youth Under-19 competitions in April. The dates of the competitions clash. The Asian Schools' tournament in Bangkok is scheduled for April
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    • 255 33  -  By S Gulam MILOUS Kvacek is my choice as Super Coach, so says Mohamed Shahar. head of the five-man selection committee. "He is the right man. I've made known my recommendations to the Council. A decision will be made soon." said
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  • 512 34 Ageing tennis warrior Jimmy Connors has thrown down the gauntlet to women's world No 1 player Monica Seles. And he has a proposal that would make this "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match more interesting than any of its predecessors... BATTLE OF THE SEXES I May
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