The New Paper, 2 May 1992

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1 51 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1992 MITA (P) 75/4/92 50 CENTS
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    • 132 1 BWIBWMBHMIS CompurnimrvM (Caily Copy; Kvacek The untold story 'V'- .-?y V v •isPT wr*»* > v'r s I lL_ v "Okay, this is the programme for today. Warm-up, shooting, cool-down. And bye-bye." Milous Kvacek, dubbed Singapore's Super coach, delivered this shocking line at Jalan Besar Stadium on Thursday. It was
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 616 2  -  THE UNTOLD STORY Get Interested, Mr Hsu Page 49 Get on with the show Page 50 By S Gulam SOCCER coach Milous Kvacek told The New Paper in an exclusive interview at his home last Tuesday: "I want an increase in salary. I've spoken to
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    • 84 2 Kvacek and his wife looked cheerful at home yesterday. "I'm happy. Because, at last the whole matter is settled. We're going home to take a one-month rest. Then, we will go to Barcelona for the Olympics, and then I'll look around (for) a job (in) July," said
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    • Article, Illustration
      449 3  -  By June Kong THAT cosmetics is a booming industry is pretty obvious. The proof is in the figures nearly $70 million worth of make-up (eye and lip applications, blusher and foundation) was imported in the first eight months of 1991. But when you hear Singaporean women talk about
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    • 185 3 How much does a make-up company sell? A spokesman from popular cosmetics line Revlon said that annual wholesale sell-in figures (items at wholesale prices) of their fragrances and make-up in Singapore were more than $78 million a year. What are the most popular items?
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    • 142 2 |j WHERE DO YOU GET I A.SHAH'S M M CARPET AUCTION AND LUCKY DRAW g§ m OF COURSE W ajo Why spend your money at other carpet auctions when you stand a chance to win more £§5 than $10,000 worth of carpets in a special and easy to win lucky
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    • 58 2 Heard or seen Horiim Him Ij J 734-7711 charge (or calls. Fax *****75 N w f 390 Kim Seng Rd, Singapore Leisure Index Weekender: Pages 21 to 32 Name Game: Page 20 TV: Pages 33 and 34 Radio, Comics: Pages 37 to 39 Pinup: Page 36 Saturday special TWO Hitachi
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      • 158 4 ga THE National Trades Union Congress must increase its membership, not only in absolute numbers but also in percentage terms. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister and NTUC secretary-general Ong Teng Cheong at the May Day Rally yesterday. The NTUC now has
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      • 141 4 PRICES: THE labour movement yesterday called on the Government to keep the cost of living within the means of the workers, particularly those in the lower-income group. CPF: It also asked the Government to restore, as soon as possible, the cuts made to the employers' CPF contribution
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    • 75 4 The Straits Times: Racial riots spread. Business Times: Ong Beng Seng's Sydney property deal in limbo. Lianhe Zaobao: Racial violence in US spreads to 11 St&t6S. Berita Harian: NTUC needs to be stronger, more influential. SBC: President Bush has sent 1,000 law officers and 4,000 federal troops to Los
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 45 4 CHINA yesterday expelled seven European trade unionists, including a British Member of Parliament, for staging a protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The protestors called for free labour unions China said the seven violated laws by acts incompatible with their status as tourists.
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      • 88 4 THE MRT, immigration clearance and courteous Singaporeans are tops with tourists who visit the Republic. This was revealed in a survey on overseas tourists by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. The 1990 survey of 13 tourist facilities and services sampled also showed that, overall, visitors appeared to have
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      • 76 4 NORTH Korea could start a war with scant warning, possibly in as little as 24 hours, US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney said yesterday. North Korean forces "are deployed in such a way that conflict could begin at very short notice, with little warning time", Mr Cheney said on
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    • 105 4 iSS... SnmnT KiuS TEST ASSESSMENT SERIES AH eighteen pockages ore now available at oil MPH Bookstores, limes The Bookshops, Popular Book Company, Kinokuniyo Bookstores, Podfic Book Centre and leading computer retailers. SMART KIDS is a computer based training (CBT) package that will certainly give your child an edge over others.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 537 5  -  By Ng Wan Ching THEY were right on cue. The quartet on stage broke out all together into the familar song, Your Cheating Heart, their leader strumming away on his red and white electric guitar. But it was no ordinary country and western band and
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    • 440 6  -  By Norenshah Sahari I MP International is winding up the modelling agency part of its company. The company will now concentrate on personal grooming. Its director and owner, Ms Ida Ong, will also freelance as a fashion coordinator. Imp is one of the oldest
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  • 410 8  -  SINGAPORETODAY By T Jeyathesan THIS month, 20 students of The Chinese High School will sit for an O-level examination subject that will not count towards admission to junior college. It is an exam in computer science conducted by the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 400 10  -  By Shahiran Sahari A 14-YEAR-OLD girl fell to her death on Monday two days after she was forced to take 10 pills, her mother said. Madam Junainah Harun, 38, also said that her daughter had been drugged by a group of men. The girl, Miss
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    • 358 11 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE TWO men who were with Miss Shadiyah at Changi Point that night said the girl took the pills before she went out with them. They described the outing as "normal" and said that they had spent the night only chatting at the
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    • 127 11 SHADIYAH S friends were mostly men in their 20s. She would often come home late or the next day and never told her parents where she had been. She had tattoos. Her name was tattooed on her left wrist. The other had the word, Man, tattooed on.
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    • 112 11 MADAM Junainah said her daughter had told her she had been in a trance the night she was with her "group" at Changi Beach. She said: "My daughter once told me that she enjoyed doing the *kuda kepang' (a traditional Javanese ritualistic hobby horse dance) with her
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    • 469 12  -  By Yaw Yan Chong AN SBC actor has been arrested in connection with the fire murder of a Singapore jeweller in a Johor Baru hotel. The actor, 43, was arrested by Johor police on Wednesday night in a seafood restaurant in Skudai Baru, 25
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    • 268 11 PLAZA HOTEL AND THE PUZZLE SHOP JOINTLY PRESENT THE 2ND SINGAPORE JIGSAW PUZZLE\s j COMPETITION '92 £J\\e great battle of quick-mindedness is on again. Join us every Sunday as the excitement builds to a feverish pitch. Besides, our equally exciting >—' prizes of up to $1,000 cash, free membership at
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    • 41 12 UNCLE TOBYS. Goodness You Can Taste. Official Nutricious Snack Food for The New Paper Big Walk '92 mA BIG WALK *92 SUNDAY MAY 24«7:30 AM DISTANCE: 10km STOWI S'WJV WES T ETWCf CLOSING D* T E C OP EN-PIES M«» 9
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 285 15 Reuter. THE US fears Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran will return home and take up opi-um-farming to make quick money. "We're afraid refugees will think about growing poppy as a quick way of making money," said Mr Melvyn Levitsky, assistant secretary of state
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    • 209 16 UPI. A LEADING Spanish bullfighter, Mr Manolo Montoliu, was gored to death on Friday night during a major fight in Seville, site of the Expo 92 world fair. Millions of TV viewers saw the goring live on television. Mr Montoliu, 45, had just placed a pair
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    • 111 16 AP. NOW you can call him Ambassador Michael Jackson. The singer was recognised by the White House yesterday as "a Points of Light ambassador" for acts such as inviting disadvantaged young people and children with disabilities to his California ranch. Jackson had lunch with President
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    • 164 16 EASIER ACCESS TO 'training fSm PUBLIC EXAMS FOR 'BEST'i 'WISE' PROGRAMMES Are you conversant in the English Language and competent in Mathematics but have no certificates to prove it? Why not just sign up for the BEST Module 4 and WfSE Modules 1. 2 or 3 Public Examinations? For more
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    • 146 16 f WHY RELIGION? WHY BUDDHISM? In a world of opulence, fast changing trend*, computers and credit card* ia religion (till important? And is it true, aa some people claim, that only religion can help us problems? Buddhism is one of the fastest crowing religions in the West today. Why? why
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  • 386 18 WORLDTODAY Reuter. MOTORIST Rodney King, the black man at the centre of the videotaped beating by four white policemen, appealed this morning for an end to the racial violence that has swept Los Angeles, California, for the past three days. Thirty-seven people have died,
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  • 355 20 WORLDTODAY FROM PAGE 18 Wire services. THE US Justice Department has opened a grand jury investigation in Los Angeles to determine if four policemen, who beat Mr Rodney King, could be charged with violation of federal civil rights laws. On Wednesday, the four men were
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 83 21 I 1 I The human face of ADOPTION It takes years to adopt a baby in Singapore. So couples are searching elsewhere. But adoption is still a lengthy legal process here. Now, despite the obstacles, even singles both men and women want to adopt babies. Some women, not willing to
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  • weekender
    • COVERSTORY
      • 299 22 A HOUSE just doesn't seem like a home until there are child to romp in it. That is the feeling of many Singaporeans who want to, but can't, have children. Who knows how the young couple you sometimes see at a carpark feel? So
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      • 774 22 STILL WAITING: Adoption can be long-drawn. After finding the baby, you file an adoption petition in court and wait for your case to be heard. It takes three to six months. In some cases, there are complications. ANGELINE SONG talks to a woman who adopted
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    • 1305 23 SINGLE PARENTS: In the past three years, 105 single women applied to adopt a child. The Ministry of Community Development does not have exact figures on how many such applications were successful. New Paper reporter ANGELINE SONG was adopted by a single woman 26 years
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    • 407 24  -  By Angeline Song IT is not just single Singapore women who apply to adopt babies. Eleven single male Singaporeans have also applied in the last three years, said the Ministry of Community Development (MCD). But it is not known how many were successful. The Attorny-General's
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    • 421 24 IT all began with a Straits Times report in early March that some women in Singapore were choosing to become mothers without getting married. "They do this either by having sex with a partner, by artificial insemination using sperm donated by a male
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    • 327 25 MORE Singaporeans are going overseas to adopt babies. But be forewarned that the adoption process will be more complicated than if you adopt a local baby. You may have to make many trips to a foreign country, spend a large sum of money, and deal with
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    • 290 25 ADOPTION is a complex process in Singapore. There are few babies available, so finding a suitable child could take a long time. After you find a child, the legal procedure begins. Applications to the court and the At-torney-General's Chambers may take three to six months.
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    • 290 25 THE NEW PAPER SATURDAY SPECIAL (TV km y«i i GWVKA V ma 91 HHHRaufl HITACHI CR-3005 HANDHELD CELLULAR PHONE. TOP 2 PRIZES Features include: Memory capacity of 198 names/ jj. 1 fs-Q ory-vc numbers for speed dialling One-touch dialling (Jne Mltacni CROUD!) Usl number redial Can use two separate phone
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  • 897 26 CRIME CITY: There have been 51 goldsmith robberies in Hongkong so far this year. Walking on the streets is like treading on a minefield. You never know when a hand grenade may explode in yovr f ace. How do those living there take it SPOTLIGHT "THIS afternoon,
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  • weekinder
    • SCENE&HEARD
      • 707 27 DOWNS AND UPS: SBC's early batch of heart-throbs are "ageing" Wang Yuqing, Chen Tianwen and the man voted by viewers the most popular male actor last year, Li Nanxing. Younger idols are coming up. LO TIEN YIN profiles two rising SBC actors LI Nanxing is 27
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      • 425 27  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By Vivien Chiong REAL life is becoming too much like reel life in Hongkong. It is not uncommon to see gunmen battling policemen openly in the streets in gangster films. It seemed incredulous in some films when the robbers have a never-ending
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    • 556 28  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By Lo Tien Yin DEEPLY tanned from a recent trip to Tioman island, Chen Hanwei, 22, said he has no hopes of becoming this year's most popular TV actor. You sense that this talent event finalist (SBC Star Search 89) is not just being
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  • 253 29 LAST week a friend of mine almost got picked up hut not by a member of the opposite sex. It didn't happen at Gay Beach. And, instead of carrying a bottle of mineral water, the "picker" sipped Ferrier. It happened in one of the
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  • 151 29 WHAT'S in a name? If you ask me, I'd say, plenty. When a band calls itself "Shiok", I expect something deliciously exciting. Something well, shiok. Starting today at Heartthrob disco in Melia at Scotts is the band, Shiok. If they are anywhere as good as when
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
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    • 98 29 THE MANDARIN SINGAPORE NORTHWEST AIRLINES present MICHAEL FRANKS YELLOWJACKETS Jl Singapore V Rare is the all round performer. Rarer still one who spins audial poetry in a musical landscape that teems with romantic ballads tempered by soulful latin rhythm. For one night only, witness the multi faceted talents singer/song writer
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  • Article, Illustration
    52 31 mmm ilAfil/ S"*\ c ,vlu,c urn SAIL AWAY: Crockery on a boat? A hawker in Bangkok has hit upon a crafty selling display. The stationary boat in a busy street catches the eye of shoppers, and keeps sales moving. Bargain ahoy! All things must go in this sale! Picture/
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 800 32 saturdaytv BATTLING FOR BABY INFATUATION A WINDOW TO CREATION (Channel 5, 10.30 pm) (Channel 8, 10.15 pm) (Channel 12, 8.00 pm) MARIE Peters (Suzanne TANG Taizhong, a video A LOOK at how scientists hope Pleshette), a concert pianist, and cameraman, is commissioned to to find out more about the origins
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 788 33 sundaytv S« JAWS CHAKA KHAN AND ZEBRA (SBC 5, 5 pm) (SBC 5 11.25 pm) SPINE-TINGLING 1975 blockbuster about a great white shark terrorising an American beach community. With great special efffects. I Stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw (left) and Richard Dreyfuss. -InK W)LsW CHAKA KHAN (above), the black US
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  • Article, Illustration
    107 35 CHENG Pak Lam is only six years old, but he gets superstar treatment. The child star only acts on weekends, and filming must not go beyond 11 pm. His fees aren't cheap either, for the few hours he puts in. Little Pak Lam is paid $80,000 per
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  • 164 36 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. aback: If you are taken aback, you are so surprised or shocked that you have to pause for a moment and cannot think or do anything. brandish: If you
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 142 36 COMICRELIEF Comics Dianxin /Simply Bo Chap m IiJSSS Showcase fAawi WDMAAy, I To SEE I Tok Guru /Sofiyan Yahya LIFE NAIE CONSUME OUR OWN WAV HOW r.AM HE LIKE THE OP TIME RECITE POEMS mui'lTS' B/ENTUALLV TO BECOME- yP®W WHEN I'M gSm wa* a DYING 7>l r N w >
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    • 219 36 SATURDAYRADIO 12.05 PM Tourism Beat NOON Newt in Brief 1.10 Traffic Report 12.03 PM Popular Classic* 1.15 Interlude 1.00 News and Share Market Review 1.30 Saturday Special 1-30 On Wings of Song 2.05 On Stage 2.00 Afternoon Concert 3.05 Shopping Bag with Victor Khoo 5.00 News in Brief 3.30 Top
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    • 330 37 SATURDAY RADIO NOON Random Rhythms 1.00 PMNlews 1.10 Random Rhythms (cont'd) 2.00 Casey's Top 40 6.00 Raco Commentaries and 4-0 Results 7.00 News 7.10 Random Rhythms (cont'd) 7.30 On Track 8.00 Saturday Night Livo 10.00 News 10.10 Saturday Night Livo (cont'd) 11.00 Nows in Briof 11.05 Saturday Night Livo (cont'd)
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    • 616 38 SUNDAYRADIO 6 00 AM Newsbrief 500 AM Newsbrief, Summary 6.00 AM Newsbrief, Weather 6.00 AM Singapore Good Morning 1.10 American Country Countdown 6.05 Rise Shine gQS Breakfast Classics 6.05 Contemporary Hits 7.00 News 5.00 Powerline 7.00 News. Weather 7.00 News, Weather NOON Newsbrief, Weather 7.30 Safety Alert 5.30 Goodtime Gold
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    • 214 43 WORLD SNOOKER Reuter. STEPHEN Hendry, the 1990 champion, yesterday won his way through to his second World Snooker Championship final with a day to spare. The 23-year-old Scotsman hammered Terry Griffiths 16-4 with one of the finest performances seen in the championship. Two centuries, 11
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    • 271 43 AFP. TOTTENHAM manager Peter Shreeves insisted yesterday that Paul Walsh will not join the player exodus from the London club, athough he is dropped from the squad to face Manchester United later today. "He will be offered a new contract when this one runs out and there is
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    • 205 43  -  FAM CHARITY SHIELD JOHOR vs PAHANG (Larkin Stadium 8 pm tonight) By Abdul Shukor DOUBLE champion Johor will have the upperhand when it plays Pahang in the Football Association of Malaysia Charity Shield at the Larkin Stadium tonight. The match is the curtain raiser
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      • 126 43 AFP. THREE of the World's best players had swift victories in the quarter-finals of U*****,000 (*****,000) ATP Women's Tennis Tournament in Hamburg. Top-seeded Steffi Graf of Germany overpowered unseeded Leila Meshki of Georgia 6-2, 6-2. Graf will play sixth-seeded compatriot Anke Huber in the
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      • 78 43 AFP. AMERICAN Mark O'Meara sounded a warning to Europe's in-form golfers with a second-round 65 in the Italian Open in Monticello yesterday. O'Meara's seven under par 137 after an opening 72 set a target no one could surpass, although Scots Sandy Lyle and Colin Montgomerie both
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    • 714 45  -  $250,000 PERAK DERBY 45 The Three Musketeers I 'N A wide open Derby field in Race Five at Ipoh on Sunday, Princeton Town gets our vote. Although the son of Caerleon has yet to attempt the gruelling Derby distance, we believe that he has enough ability
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    • 467 45 Wire Services Results of yesterday's international sports: GOLF Italian Open in Monticello, Italy 2nd rd scores: 137 Anders Forsbrand (Swe) 68-69, Mark O'Meara (US) 72-65, Jose Maria Olazabal (Spa) 65-72, Colin Montgomerie (Scotland) 67-70, Sandy Lyle (Scot) 66-71 138 Paul Way (Eng) 69-69 139 Richard Boxall (Eng) 69-70, Glen
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  • 513 46 At four tomorrow afternoon, local racegoer? will theirftvourites in this year's By earlier, the racing SPORTS The Kentucky Derby Is tIM most prestigious of all denMos including England's Epsom Derby. It is run on the first Saturday of May. It is the first leg of the
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    • 542 48  -  Stories, S Gulam MONEY, it seems, is not the only problem between Milous Kvacek and the Football Association of Singapore. Interest and support are also important factors, said Kvacek. Interest? "Yes, the football interest of the president," said the 59-year-old Czech. "I'm shocked by the FAS
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    • 197 48 IN his parting message, Milous Kvacek urged the FAS to get its priorities right. Semi-Pro League or the Premier League? "What does FAS want? I asked this question long ago. I still have not got an answer," Kvacek said yesterday. "It's important that they decide what they
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    • 710 49  -  Comment, S Gulam SOMEWHERE out there, one man must be downing a beer and Hashing an I-told-you-so smile. It was the same smile I saw the day the Football Association of Singapore announced the appointment of \lr Milous Kvacek as Singapore's Super Coach. The smile
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    • 279 49 V SUNDRAMOORTHY is wanted by new Singapore coach P N Sivaji, whose magic word for the team now is: Continuity. "I'll speak to Sundram. If he is available, it will be a tremendous boost to our hopes," said Sivaji, who takes over from Milous Kvacek
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  • 337 50 Will Geylang beat Balestier and so win its fifth Premier League title tonight? ABDUL SHUKOR says the writing's on the wall THERE is a roll-of-honour board in the Football Association of Singapore office at Jalan Besar that lists the successful clubs in local soccer. Since
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  • 152 50 THE hunt for the 1992 Premier League title could be over even before Balestier United plays Geylang International tonight. This will happen if Gilbraltar beats Tiong Bahru at Jalan Besar this evening. The match will be played at 5 pm three hours before Geylang's
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