The New Paper, 22 February 1996

Microfilm: NL20531
Total Pages: 40
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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 1996 MITA (P) 024/04/95 60 CENTS
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      79 1 She can act, Mbut can she sing? ygaffK >*v «Sr L.r l s !^^p r Bjork boo boo Pop star attacks journalist after she wefcooios her to TliaNand /Page 2 H jj^K 8 -V v m~:<. vfIHHMH HL <jHflt M I U -J Bj They settle out of court to
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      102 1 "BH ft I IBMR| H|^H ■ran V/^Lifliß 1 IW\{ m J m O Bus knocks into signpost and lands I in is H II in Sts D |Bus then hits car JK by Madam Lin. mM[ Car left lane, then stops. W A Nissan lands r on 'i' trapped 1
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Bjork floors TV reporter in Bangkok
      337 2 ICELANDIC pop singer Bjork has apologised for attacking a TV reporter at Bangkok airport on Monday. Bjork, 31, attacked journalist Julie Kaufman when she approached the star and said "Welcome to Bangkok", reports the Bangkok Post. Ms Kaufman, 24, works for IBC's Fast Forward
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      Lock icon It's a threeway race
      458 2 BUCHANAN LEADS US REPUBLICAN RACE FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Wire services. WHAT THEY SAY MR PAT BUCHANAN Not only is it true that money can't buy you love but money is no substitute for ideas, ideals, passion and conviction. MR 808 DOLE This election is very serious
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      Lock icon Indy's thinking cap
      66 2 Snakes alive!: In his role of roving archaeologist Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford has fallen into a box of snakes and even had one tickling his belly-button. But the actor preferred a more docile version of the slithering creatures when choosing his head gear on Sunday. He was
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      Not all bully shops blacklisted
      383 3 Some shops have made life difficult for tourists by bullying and overcharging them. RIANA ZAKIR visits one such shop with a tourist and reports on why some bullies get away with it EVERY day, on an average, about one tourist tells the Singapore Tourist Promotion
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      'My worst shopping experience'
      53 3 TIIKKK have been many complaints against an electronics shop on Orchard Road but il has not been blacklisted. An Knglish tourist, who wanted in be known only as lan. agreed i<» put the shop to 1 he test lor us. Mis verdict: "That was my worst
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      40 2 Leisure Showtime: Pages 25 28 TV: Page 29 Comics: Pages 30 31 Entertainment News I Get hooked on what's hot! Be the first to know sizzling tales of celebrities and what's on the chart. Cost: 30 cents a minute I
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      The great NMP debate
      190 4 HOT STORY NMPs are appointed to parliament They are not elected. Our Constitution should be changed to increase the number of Nominated Members of Parliament, said The Straits Times reader Shriniwas Rai in a letter to the Forum Page on Feb 8. Today, two readers respond
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      MR RAI'S PROPOSALS
      74 4 The NMP should stay in parliament for more than the current two years. It takes some time for new NMPs to learn parliamentary procedure. The number of NMPs should be increased to 10 per cent of the number of elected MPs. In this way one could elect
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      HEADLINERS
      53 4 The Straifs Times: Firms set to meet training target Business Times: Good sales in last quarter of 1995 Lianhe Zaobao: US to to establish high-level talks with China Berfta Harian: Dole loses RCS morning news: The US announces two-pronged strategy towards China and France BBC morning news: Soviet experts
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      DOW JONES
      14 4 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 57.44 points to 5, 515.98 yesterday.
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      STI INDEX
      22 4 The Straits Times Industrials Index rose 0.31 points to 2454.19 points at 9.15 this morning from Friday's close of 2453.88.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        Upgrade for Senai
        77 4 THE Johor state government is to make the airport at Senai the top airport in southern Peninsular Malaysia and promote it worldwide, Mentri Besar Haji Abdul Ghani Othman said yesterday. The expansion of the Sultan Ismail International Airport includes building a Msl2o million ($67 million) 15,817-sq m
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        Test-match for jobs
        82 4 THE Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) will be running personality and skills tests on the Internet later this year to help match fresh graduates' career interests with the right jobs. The SNEF hopes this will help stop job-hopping by new graduates. Many change jobs within six months
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        Saddam's family back
        85 4 IRAQI President Saddam Hussein's two sons-in-law who fled to Jordan last August returned home on Tuesday afternoon. President Saddam gave full pardons to Lieutenant-General Hussein Kamel Hassan, his brother Colonel Saddam Kamel and their families after they asked to come home. Washington was said to be "stunned".
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        More sales, less profit
        85 4 THIRTY per cent of 120 companies surveyed by the Business Times and NUS' Business Research and Development Centre said sales were up by 25 per cent in the October-December quarter. But more than one-third of companies said profits had fallen by 10 per cent with just
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        KL's wall project
        83 4 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday his government was willing to use diplomatic channels to resolve problems with Thailand over the building of a 27-km wall along their boundary. Malaysia, which has begun building the wall on its side of the border, has
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      59 4 I i nc ociiu uiir way 10 \aj mtni ui«i> WHAT'S HTTP being an MP will really be meaningful. Kong-Kong, j "7^I What makes the insect ft i'... s\ 1 you say that? rC\ i^OI fepetlarrt A y /\i r I A J doesnt work i I C V on
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Home is where the history is
      481 5 Who says museutjts need showcases? Unknown to many Singaporeans, a tiny Chinatown museum recreates a Singapore home of the past and .draws foreign students and history enthusiasts. YVONNE LIM passes its obscure, hand-painted signboard several times before finding it IT'S a museum where dusty
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      Untitled
      171 5 Lotus shoes: The Hokkiens called the bound feet of women "three-inch golden lotus", said Mr Tan. "They found that when you bound feet, the thighs got big and the bottoms heavy very sexy!" Foot-binding hindered walking, though, and the women suffered lifelong pain from the process. Pillow snacks: The Chinese
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Crash ...'In bid to avoid skater'
      290 6  -  By Goh Teng Teng A BUS cut across six lanes, hit two cars and knocked into a sign post before ending up in a drain on the opposite side of the road. The accident involving the empty single-decker SBS Service 30 happened two days
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      'My kids kept screaming'
      256 6 WHAT CAR DRIVER SAYS MADAM Lin and her three children were on their way home to Tampines when the bus ploughed across the divider and knocked into their red car. It was the second day of the Lunar New Year, and Madam Lin had just visited
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      SAFETY PANEL
      116 6 SBS has formed a high-level committee to reassess how safe its buses are. SBS has also invited engineers from Volvo and Mercedes Benz to examine its 2,700 buses, which include vehicles from both car makers. SBS has about 5,000 bus drivers. The panel was set up after three
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    Thank goodness the break's over
    295 8 The five-day Lunar New Year and Hari Raya Pua^rkm iday was a welcome break for many. But some just couldn't ifini for it to end. ALETHEA LIM reports SINGAPORETODAY RESTAURANT STAFF CHINESE restaurants that stayed open during the festivities did booming business. But the crowds
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  • SPEAKUP
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      Right to use pic
      127 10 fflEAKfr v-CUffCHIM Write to The New Paper 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore *****5 or tax to 737 5375 1900-*****04 cab cost 30 cents a minute Eric Haw, Scotland IT was right of The New Paper to show the photo of convicted molester Teo Keng Pong (TNP,
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      Molester makes other S'poreans look bad
      214 10 Winston Goh, Singapore I support your decision to publish the photograph of the molester, Teo Keng Pong (TNP, Feb 15). I have never written to the press but your report made me concerned for young and innocent students. One would assume that molesters are
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Taiwan club honours disabled S'porean
      476 13 At 18, Ms Tan Chwee Suan lost her right leg to cancer. At 29, she lost her parents. And at 30, she had a heart transplant. But she never lost the will to make the best of her life. ALETHEA LIM reports SHE works as
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      APPEAL TO COMPANIES
      83 13 HELP the disabled to be economically independent, said the SAP. Executive director Lim Puay Tiak, 38, said: "We hope that companies can go into partnership with us to find work for the disabled." The SAP has found work for 80 disabled people, who go to the society's
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Self-made 'iron' woman
      407 14 From law assistant to real-estate boss A Singaporean businesswoman became the first person to sue a Malaysian ruler. Who is she? IVY ONG meets her and finds out SINGAPOREAN Faridah Begum Abdullah's career path was determined by Tamil militants in Sri Lanka. Madam Faridah, who is in
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      THE CASE
      159 14 MADAM Faridah Begum Abdullah sued the Sultan of Pahang over a piece of land on Dec 30, 1994. Madam Faridah claimed she had rights to a piece of land in Kuantan, Pahang, which was bought by the Sultan. She said the original landowners had agreed orally to set
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      316 15 rani: frv-erv A. Liy vv-e-eA. -^fjjl tvjU look *kI (a< co/vmkq <v«k(s. RB^ot t 11 i mas iS®: /< 5 <<(( OK s<MasA. :PWM lyA Special Musical Fountain Shows fl H Sunday, 18 February Sunday, 25 February, Bpm 8.30pm. enthralled by the fascinating laser display at the Special Lunar New
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon US stalls on action against China
      342 17 ALLEGED N-DEAL WITH PAKISTAN DEAL REPORTS The Incident flared up in the US last week after the media gave details of a CIA report on the ChinesePakistani nuclear deal late last year. It was reported that the White House was thinking about punishing Pakistan
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      Lock icon Ferry captain, crew charged
      248 18 Source: Reuter. THE captain and nine crew members of a ferry which sank in the Philippines on Sunday have been slapped with criminal charges. More than 50 passengers died when the ferry Gretchen-1 sank in the central Philippines. The charges against captain Norberto Nepangui, 42, and
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      Lock icon West backs Yeltsin
      198 18 Source: Reuter. RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin's friends in the West have indicated that they are willing to help him get reelected in June. They fear that without him at the helm, Russia will turn red again. The communists, under Mr Gennady Zyuganov, are expected to challenge Mr
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      Lock icon 'Hospitals not hotels'
      522 19 REAL MYANMARISJN THE... DONT judge Myanmar by the number of hotels that have come up in recent years, says pro-democracy leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi. For a true measure of the country's growth, check out the hospitals, she added. "You should try to look at the
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Imran gets Diana's help
      346 22 PRINCESS But is visit to help Imran's cancer hospital or his political agenda? AFP. PRINCESS Diana left her designer suits in London and surprised journalists at Lahore airport when she stepped out in an elegant shalwar kameez, the traditional Pakistani dress. The Princess of Wales, dressed
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      Lock icon Clinton listens to battered wife
      211 22 Reuter. WITH tears welling, US President Bill Clinton yesterday listened to a battered woman's story of how she survived a hellish marriage. It happened at a White House ceremony, when he opened a national telephone hotline for victims of domestic violence. He said the hotline
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      31 22 Foot Reflexology Gymnasium Swedish Shiatsu Massage Well- Furnished Rooms Video Coffee Lounge Steam Sauna Monthly Membership Available TROPICAL HEALTH CENTRE PTE LTD 08-01 PACIFIC PLAZA 9.SCOTTS ROAD SINGAPORE 0922 «V V
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
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      Baby's first and last holiday trip
      311 23 As three million people in 1.6 million cars criss-crossed Malaysia along the North-South Expressway and the East-West Highway during the Lunar New Year and Hari Ray a Aidil Fitri, accidents and fatalities rose sharply. At least 87 people died in 1,975 road accidents including
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      Lock icon IRA: Bomb killed our man
      168 23 Reuter THE IRA has said that a 21-year-old Irishman who was killed by a bomb on a London bus last Sunday was one of its guerillas. It named him as Edward O'Brien. He had been "on active service". The claim lends strength to British investigators'
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      133 24 •ifwa jiiri >: i Before you plunge straight into a career, consider the potential and growth opportunities of your various that is really promising. One with a definite growth potential that extends even to the region. not just for now in the next 25 years or It should be an
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  • Showtime
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      Lock icon Singing Bunny
      396 25  -  By Edwin Yeo MICHELLE Goh, the Bunny from Mee Pok Man, may soon become Michelle Goh, the singing sensation. That is, if her debut singing venture becomes a hit. The 22-year-old ex-air stewardess is recording songs for an album of local music from record company Pony Canyon. She
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      Super-heroine with a song
      322 26  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By Edwin Yeo MICHELLE Goh may make her singing career as Michellerella, a comic book super-heroine. The character is a tongue-in-cheek take off of Barbarella a French comic strip about a sexy 41st-century space adventuress. The strip inspired the 1968 FrenchItalian film, Barbarella,
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      Funny flashback of America
      421 27  -  By T RANGANAYAKI PICTURE this: The Complete History of America in 100 minutes. Impossible? Not to the three young men, Reed Martin, Adam Long and Austin Tichenor, from the Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC). The US drama troupe, which specialises in making a long story short, will
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      Lock icon Bjork's not quite so quiet
      366 28 Icelandic pop star Bjork sang, "It's oh so quiet". But, in reality, she's quite outspoken AFP. ICELANDIC pop star Bjork has been obsessed with Asia since she was little and especially since she began reading Chinese philosophy and music. The 31-year-old singer-songwriter adopted a traditional
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      54 26 THE BEST FISH THE BEST RICE AT THE BEST PRICE RIVER GARDEN'S FISH RICE Set comprises freshly-steamed whole pomfret, stirfried vegetables with black mushrooms, fish ball soup and fragrant fish-flavoured rice. At an appetising price of only $10+++ per set. MMLt WVED-GACCfII COFFEE HOUSE 382 Havelock Road Singapore *****9 Tel:
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      191 28 «lecti° a t0 4 W today; *SO>+. Meal at Just Additional y Yes, we're not kidding Just for the month of February (except 14th Dinner 19th 21st) you can have a Set Meal with your favourite main course selected from the wide range available in the normal Ala Carte Menu,
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      129 29 The words "Geylang Serai" is synonymous with the Moloy words "Kilong Serai" or Lemon Grass Factory. Lemon grass has played a vital role not ■-3HPr only in the flavoursome cusisine of the predominantly Malay population that live here, but also in the development and progress of the cultures, jfcVi trades
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
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      902 29 tvpqge Lfßm HHHHi Ip'J^HHIH W!M!l!Mri■■■■■ IJJJAIN:!! NOON News 5 Today NOON Entertainment Beat (Variety/r) NOON Home Sh °PP' n B 1.00 PM The Winners (Business 12.10 PM What's Cooking 1.00 PM Mid-Day News 300 PMCDIS(ETV) features) Chinese Tribal Sports 400 Our Home (Lifestyle): How to 1.30 Money, Money, Money (Business
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    Red packets everywhere
    539 30  -  Etcetera WITH JEFFREY LOW EVERY year the pile gets bigger and bigger, and in more shapes, sizes and designs than ever. It seems like almost everyone who is anyone is sending you hongbao these days from companies and restaurants, to hotels and supermarkets, banks, coffee-shops and hawkers,
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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      55 34 Football, hockey or cricket?: Soccer is the international favourite and hockey has always had a sub-continental favour. Now, with India Pakistan and Sri Lanka jointly hosting cricket's World Cup, which is tops? English player Graeme Hick and a young fan in Peshawar, Pakistan, seem to have
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      272 34 WORLD CUP CRICKET SCORES West Indies: 173 (Richie Richardson 47, Sherwin Campbell 38, Roger Harper 23; Javagal Srinath 2-22, Manoj Prabhakar 3-39, Anil Kumble 3-35) India: 174*5 Sachin Tendulkar 70, Mohd Azharuddin 32, Vinod Kambli 33 not out, Nayan Mongia 24 not out; Curtly Ambrose 2-41, Roger Harper
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      245 35 SPORTING CONTROVERSIES DRUGS IN SWIMMING: WO BAN FOR AUSTRALIAN JUAN Anotonio Samaranch, the president of the International Olympic Committee, personally intervened to save Samantha Riley's swimming career. This was reported by the Sydney newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, today. Riley, the world breaststroke champion, had tested positive for
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      144 35 Reuter. JENNIFER Capriati blasted her way back on to the world tennis stage yesterday. She demolished her seventh-seeded opponent Kristie Boogert of Holland 6-1, 6-2 in a first round match of a WTA tournament in Essen, Germany. Capriati showed no sign of teenage burnout or her troubled three-year
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      282 35 HOCKEY: MATCH-FIXING Bernama. A FRIEND of the Indian Hockey Federation secretary-general K Jothikumaran could hold the key to the match-fixing scandal in last month's Olympic qualifying hockey tournament. Canada lodged a protest with the international body after it failed to qualify. It claimed India and
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      423 36 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP WARM-UPS FRANCE 3 GREECE 1 FRANCE Bernard Lama Jocelyn Angioma (Frank Leboeuf, 45th) Lilian Thuram Marcel Desailly Emmanuel Petit (Cyril Pouget, 76th) Christian Karembeu Didier Deschamps Sabri Lamouchi (Pierre Laigle, 72nd) Youri Djorkaeff (Zinedine Zidane, 45th) Patrice Loko Reynald Pedros. QUICK FACTS France is in
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      358 36 Wire services. PORTUGAL 1 GERMANY 2 TWO goals by Borussia Dortmund's Andreas Moeller gave Germany a 2-1 victory over Portugal in a European Championship warm-up in Oporto. The Germans went 1-0 up in the 13th minute when Moeller's long left-foot shot found the corner of
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        603 37 WHAT'SHOT BRIAN Little's Aston Villa has already secured one Wembley date this season. A comprehensive victory over Ipswich last Saturday put the talented young side again within a couple of steps of the old stadium in the FA Cup, even if either Tottenham Hotspur or
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        201 37 Yassine Abdellaoui: If anyone thought that Frank Clark had been deterred from signing any more Dutchmen after his trials and tribulations with the enigmatic Bryan Roy they had better think again. The Forest manager has been running the rule over the £800,000 ($1.76
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        106 37  -  bL MARK DRAPER for Villa against Ipswich at Portman Road b FRASER DIGBY for For Swindon against Southampton at County Ground 10th min: Receiving a pass from Alan Wright, Draper fools Simon Milton and shoots from 25 metres. The ball swerves into the far
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      732 38 Man U closes the gap Man U 2 Everton 0 West Ham 2 Newcastle 0 OTHER RESULTS FA CUP sth round: b Grimsby 0 Chelsea 0 Leeds 0 Port Vale 0 League Cup semi-final 2nd k* Villa 0 Arsenal 0 (after extra time) (Aggregate 2-2, Villa wins
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      109 38 Reuter. IN fifth round FA Cup action, First Division Port Vale, which put out holder Everton in the last round, drew 0-0 at Premier League Leeds. Port Vale now has home advantage. But manager John Rudge makes the Premier League side favourite. Only slightly off-colour finishing
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      360 39  -  LiapeGv semi-fiaal 2ad I** Villa 0 Arsenal 0 (after extra time) (Aggregate 2-2, Villa wins on away goals rule) By Lan Brown REPORTING FROM ENGLAND ARSENAL'S League Cup hopes bit the dust on Ash Wednesday. Aston Villa squeezed through to Wembley after extra time on
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      64 39 Reuter ANGRY Arsenal fans soured Aston Villa's League Cup celebrations. TTiey were angry that their own season was in tatters. They poured over the Villa Park hoardings and tried to clash with jubilant home fans as manager Brian Little's men attempted a lap-of-honour. But stewards and police
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      174 39 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: SOCCER Scottish League Dlv Two: Kant Fife 7 Montrose 0. Div Three: Arbroath 1 Caledonian Thistle 2. European Championship warm-ups: France 3 Greece 1, Portugal 1 Germany 2. Spanish Cup semi-final Ist leg: Valencia 3 Atletico Madrid 5. Belgian Cup q-finals: Cercle
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      262 39 Wire services. Graham Taylor: Former England manager Graham Taylor was confirmed as Watford's general manager yesterday nine years after leaving the club. Watford, currently bottom of the First Division, finalised his move the day after dismissing Glenn Roeder. "Graham will have overall responsibility for running all aspects of the
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