The New Paper, 3 August 1996

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1 58 The New Paper
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    13 1 the new paper SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1996 MTA(P) 061/4*6 60 CENTS Weekend edition
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    Lock icon See what we've to do for our children
    35 1 Primary One merry-go-round: i One parent moves from terrace house to five-room flat. (Another buys maisonette two blocks away from school (left). YET... Page 5 I I
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Twinkle toes fight it out
      125 2 KEEN to watch world class dancing live? Then go down to Tanglin Mall tomorrow evening. That's when 20 couples from Europe, Asia and Australia will be taking part in the shopping centre's International Open Invitational Dancesport Championship. You can look forward to 90 minutes of
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      Lock icon We're doing okay
      372 2 KL MINISTER ON GLOOM IN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY: Source: AFP. THE falling demand for personal computers, semiconductors and other electronic goods around the world has not affected Malaysia much, said a minister. This is because several areas in the electronics sector still show encouraging performance, said International Trade
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      Lock icon Her husbands are brothers
      158 2 Source: Reuter. THIS mother of seven (with baby in picture) has two husbands and it's all legal. Madam Yumphati Negi, 35, practises a unique system of polyandry where a woman is married to more than one husband, always brothers from the same family. The practice of
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      How can I say no?
      258 3 Yesterday, in front of the 10-member Select Committee on health subsidies, SDP chairman Ling How Doong conceded that there are below cost subsidies on healthcare, basedon the Government's calculations. But, once he stepped out of the Parliament room, he appeared to present another side. IRENE
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      I'm not sure
      228 3 OUTSIDE I AM NOT sure if the Government's way of calculating health costs is correct, Mr Ling told reporters on the porch of Parliament House yesterday. Mr Ling said the Government has included factors such as the doctors' salaries or opportunity costs based on the rates of
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      THE COMMITTEE
      102 3 THE Select Committee was set up to verify the extent of subsidies in Government polyclinics and hospitals. This followed SDFs allegations that "health care costs were hardly sulMulised at all". Among charges: It costs $226 a day for a C-Class bed at a Government hospital. Yesterday, officials showed
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      TYPO ERROR IN CHART
      242 3 THE journal, which the SDP said it got its figures from, is not called Asian Research, as the party hqd earlier thought, but Asian Survey. Also, there is a typing error on its chart on Government's health expenditure, said SDP Secretary-General Dr Chee Soon Juan in
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      92 2 SATURDAY SPECIAL Readers stand to win a Sony Trinitron G series 14" Colour TV, Gloria Estefan LD, Video. CD collection exclusive multi-function stopwatch, worth $5,000. /Pace 22 I rwit Weekender Pages 23-35 TV: Pages 39 40 Comics: Pages 41 &42 UOB CARD CENTRE presents JUarm Your Last Chance To Izzy
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Costs of growing old in S'pore
      167 4 HOT k i SINGAPORE has Asia's fastest-ageing population. The number of people aged 65 and older will double to 14 per cent of the population between 1997 and 2018, says a study presented at a forum yesterday. This could cause health-care spending to more
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      CUTTING COSTS
      65 4 SPEAKERS at the forum stressed that prevention is better, and cheaper, than cure. Rising hospital admission rates also add more to health spending than longer hospital stays. So: People should not be warded unless seriously ill. They should be taught the importance of a healthy lifestyle, so they
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      DOW JONES
      22 4 The Dow Jones industrials index gained 85.08 points (1.5 percent) to close at 5,679.83, its highest level since July 3.
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      HEADLINERS
      83 4 The Straits Times: Ling concedes 'cost subsidy' exists. The Business Times: Camerlin to sell Brierley stake in surprise move Uanlie Zaobao: Ling How Doong concedes that health care gets sizeable cost subsidy Berita Harlan: MOH provides proof on health subsidies RCS morning news: The chairman of the Singapore Democratic
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        Teens and sex
        87 4 NEARLY one in five teenagers have sex at least once by the time they are 19. In the 1994 survey of 3,000 school-going boys and 2,000 girls aged between 12 and 19, 4.4 per cent of the girls and 8.3 per cent of the boys reported having
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        Dutch 'No' to drugs
        84 4 THE Dutch are fed up with the use of drugs by their youngsters. They want the government to stop allowing sale of marijuana and hashish in so-called "coffee shops" all over the country. A Reader's Digest survey of Dutch aged 15 and above showed that two-thirds
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        Soccer talk
        69 4 Our commentators rattled off lists of statistics, paying scant attention to the struggle on the field... I appreciate the time and effort put into researching thefacts and figures, but please, let us watch the match in peace Let us have world-class soccer with world-class soccer commentary. Reader Wong
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        Somali leader dies
        58 4 GENERAL Mohamed Farah Aideed (left), 59, the self-declared president of Somalia, died from bullet wounds on Thursday afternoon, aides said yesterday. But there were other reports that said he died of a heart attack at his home in southern Mogadishu. He was a warlord whose rag-tag fighters
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        No to English OK?
        89 4 THE White House is threatening to veto a bill the House of Representatives passed to make English the official US language. The hotly debated bill is with the Senate. It would require most government documents to be printed only in English and for all federal business
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        Megawati waits
        67 4 INDONESIAN opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri is waiting calmly for the police to call. Newspapers reports say President Suharto has granted the police approval to question Ms Megawati and six other leaders of Partai Demokrasi Indonesia. She has said she would co-operate. The President has to approve the questioning
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon So near and yet so far
      267 5 Parents are trying to live as close as possible to schools of their choice. All in the hope that their children can get into those schools. One even moved out of a terrace house and into a five-room flat. SANDRA DAVIE reports SURE can
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      'I am just next door but...'
      211 5 SALES and marketing manager Lim Poh Lye, 44, lives just next door to Maha Bodhi in Übi Avenue 1. In fact, he can look down on the school from the balcony of his flat. He tried to get his daughter a place there, but
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      'We had to downgrade, but...
      209 5 THE Tohs did not want their pictures taken or their full names revealed. They are embarrassed that they had to downgrade to get their child into a primary school. Mr Toh, his wife and two children lived in a terrace house with a garden in
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Ministry: No need for change
      264 6  -  BY Sandra Davie THE Education ministry sees no need to change the Primary 1 registration system. A spokesman for the ministry said: "While popular schools have to conduct balloting, there are other schools in the same neighbourhood which have vacancies. 'There are sufficient places for
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      MORE BUYING HOMES NEAR POPULAR SCHOOLS
      140 6 A check with eight housing agents and 12 schools by The New Paper confirms the trend that more Singaporeans are buying homes near popular primary schools Last year, we only had a handful of them (with housing documents). Some parents feel that they don't
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      30 6 Tamil Murasu, the national Tamil newspaper is now sold in all NTUC Fairprice outlets. Tamil Murasu, not just anv Tamil newspaper, hut I ami! newspaper. Singapore WM; Press 9JKW Holdings
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      Lock icon Passport to better future
      358 8  -  By. Julie Leong HE once thought the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) was a place for losers. Now he knows it's his passport to a better future. Mr Lee Chin Woei, 22, is one of the three winners of the Tay Eng Soon Scholarship for ITE
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      AWARDS
      92 8 In 1994, Mr Lee was given the Tay Eng Soon Gold Medal awarded to the top three students at ITE. He also got an ITE medal given to the top three students for each department and a Certificate of Merit which goes to the top 5 per cent of
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      He got worse
      358 9 Four teenagers received sentences ranging from probation to jail in the High Court yesterday for causing the death of a 14-year-old boy. One teenager was allowed probation, but his friend was sentenced to five years' detention. IVY ONG reports YAP is only 16. But already he has
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      TRIAD MEMBERS
      80 9 YAP, Gan and five others beat up Ng Ban Sen, 14, on July 30 last year. He died of a fractured skull five days later. The youth belonged to the Ang Soon Tong Triad Society. They had mistaken Ban Sen for a rival triad member. Two attackers sentenced
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      He got better
      157 9 GAN seems to have learnt his lesson. His school teacher testified in court yesterday that the 15-year-old's grades had improved and he appeared to be "a changed man". Justice Sinnathuray praised Gan's parents for his improved behaviour, saying they showed "a real concern" for their son. Among
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      HOW PARENTS CAN HELP TEENS
      58 9 MRS Lim-Chua Wan Poh of Fei Yue Family Counselling Centre said parents can help in four ways: Ensure discipline. Good communication. Introduce a few house rules like calling home if the teen is going to miss dinner. Have family conferences which the teenager can chair
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      Shoe thief dragged back barefooted
      356 10  -  By Riana Zakir THE shoplifter sprinted off in the shoes he had stolen. But Han Foo Sheng, 45, was caught and led back barefooted. The panting security guard who caught him was more concerned with getting the shoes back than bringing in the culprit. There
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      206 8 At SOBE, this has been a year of many exciting Firsts! The First to launch Fresh Soya Milk In a Pack In Singaporel The First to Introduce an easy-to-open, Innovative Screw Cap on the packl And now, the First Fresh Soya Milk brand to give away the Grand Prize of
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      377 10 31st National Day Special Celebrations For every 4 diners who dine at our Restaurant during dinner from 5/8/96 till 9/8/96 will receive ONE complimentary Mongolian meal voucher valid for the next visit. Also, all diners will be receive a Lucky Draw coupon. SINGAPORE FOOD FEST '96 CONTEST FROM 6/6/96 TILL
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon 'Riots — my days of worry'
      469 12  - 'Riots my days of worry' This is the second in ourthree part series on significant moments in Singapore's history. By Gerard Wong THE date July 21, 1964, will forever be etched in the mind of Madam Norkiah Ahmad. It was the day racial riots broke out in Singapore and curfew
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      23 DEAD, 450 INJURED
      100 12 MUSLIMS celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday were marching in procession past Lorong Soopoo, near the Kallang gasworks, when trouble began. A member of the Federal Reserve Unit asked a group who were moving slowly to rejoin the main procession. That sparked violence. By night, the riots
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      102 12 AUSTRALIA'S VACATION DRIVES jJOa. PHRTH/DARWIN BEYOND S PERTH INCLUDES: Return economy airfare by SQ; 3 nights accommodation; c/oys Hertz car rental. Cj^ft DARWIN INCLUDES: Return economy airfare by SQ; 3 days Hertz car rental. Continue with our day tours V Western Australia H ,> j Northern Territory 1 Day Metro
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    Lucky crystal wins housewife a car
    303 14 The month-long Great Singapore Sale ended on Sunday. KHOR SU MIN speaks to the winner of the sale's grand lucky draw SINGAPORETODAY SHE is the proud owner of a Peugeot 306 Cabriolet convertible the top prize in this year's Great Singapore Sale Grand Draw.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Caught for illegal money lending
      350 16 A man won $100,000 in a lottery soon after his prison release. But that led him to be jailed for three weeks and fined $10,000 yesterday. RIANA ZAKIR finds out why BARELY months after his prison release, a man won a first prize of $100,000
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      $42m a year asthma bill
      201 17 One in 25 people in Singapore suffers from asthma. And the disease costs the community a tidy sum. NG WAN CHING reports on the findings of a National University of Singapore study Asthma costs the community about $42 million a year. Or, on an average,
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      MORE CHILDREN INFECTED
      84 17 THE study also found a four- to five-fold increase in the prevalence of asthma in children over the last 30 years. From 1990 to 1993, asthma was the fourth highest leading cause of hospitalisation among children. The disease was between the 9th and 12th leading cause of
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Goodbye: To hunger
      65 18 Source: Reuter. BANANAS have never tasted better for these North Korean children at a kindergarten in Pyongyang. The bananas were courtesy of a Japanese aid group which brought food supplies to the children. Thousands of North Koreans are believed to be suffering from hunger due to food
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      Lock icon Welcome: N Korea to airlines
      272 18 Source: Reuter. SECRETIVE North Korea has finally agreed to open its skies to the world's airlines. The agreement would save airlines in the region more than US$l25 million (about $175 million) a year in fuel costs by slashing flying time, said the International Air Transport
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      WHAT IT MEANS
      73 18 THE new open skies policy will bring Pyongyang much-needed foreign currency, said diplomats. It fits a pattern of cautious opening by the isolated communist state to the outside world. Under the late president Kim II Sung, North Korea followed a pohcy of self-reliance and kept minimum contact
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      248 18 Fair Price Variety FalrPrice Variety Night is And it promises more fun and excitement this year. You can look^^RSji^K^ forward to 8 exciting episodes WrErS -x Sunday at Bpm from 1/9/96 to \L 20/10/96. Plus, you stand a chance V to win attractive prizes. SvtfEp Each week 2 teams with
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      Lock icon Incest on British TV
      290 21 MORE WORLD NEWS FROM PAGE 36 Reuter. A STEAMY scene between a brother and sister shown on British television last night shattered a taboo against incest on local soap operas. The scene was in Brookside, a serial about life on a housing estate in the city
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      Lock icon Birthday hic hic hooray
      149 21 Reuter. A RETIRED archaeologist beat Britain's drink-driving laws by riding from bar to bar on horseback to celebrate his 50th birthday in style. Fortifying himself with beer and whisky, Mr Ben Bennett spent four hours touring six pubs in the south England city of Southampton on
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      31 23 MBI Th^uSrebursts Why did the small man put money in Amcol?B When could he have pulled out? What hope is there for him to recover his money? Pages 24 to 27
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    • COVERSTORY
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        Lock icon Good buy or goodbye
        333 24 Why small investors bought in AMCOL Holdings became a favourite with punters and small investors over the years as it showed good price movements, and its earnings were decent and growing over the years. By the time it was suspended on July 19, more than 11,000
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        Late,yet they stayed in
        246 24 AFTER trading was suspended a second time, it was found that 11,240 CPF members still had $157 million invested in AmcoL Tbis worked out to nearly $14,000 each, at an average price of $3.74. The stock, which reached $4.48 at the height of the tussle for
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        Lock icon Woe, woe, woe
        323 25 AUDIT FIRM UNCOVERS THE Stock Exchange of Singapore learnt in June about multi-million dollar irregularities in Amcol subsidiaries and associates. The exchange installed a five-man caretaker board, which appointed Price Waterhouse to conduct an audit. Price Waterhouse found that millions had been paid for dubious purposes in
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        COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS DEPT STEPS IN
        177 25 THE Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) reportedly seized the passports of several past directors of Amcol Holdings and a leading share trader. The CAD is investigating irregularities at the electronics distribution and property group. It is not unusual for the CAD to retain the passports of
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      Lock icon Rescue hopes
      406 27 COVER STORY SMALL investors holding now-suspended shares in Am col Holding will have to sit it out until a white knight is willing to pump in money to turn the group around. The two largest shareholders, Mr Henry Pribadi (right) and Mr Sukamto Sia (left), 3 had paid
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      A festival of armpits
      731 28  -  KEN JALLEH JR at arge THE Olympics, it can now be revealed, are not about achieving the words which end in "er". Nope, the truth is that the Olympics are about armpits, which in turn raises the question burning on every decent, hygienic mind: Do these
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      1157 29 GROW WITH US^ Seraya Chemicals Singapore (Pte) Ltd, a joint venture between the Shell and Mitsubishi SEPAVA rwfm i r a i <; Groups of Companies, is a billion-dollar enterprise within Singapore's largest investment project to-date the second Petrochemical Complex of Singapore. If you are looking for something beyond the
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    Lock icon The OlymPICS you may not have seen
    243 30 OTHER MOMENTS: If you thought you were getting a complete picture of the Olympics, look here now. These are snapshots from Atlanta you may not have seen. These are moments of no great moment No records are tumbling in these split seconds. But
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    Lock icon Village with the 3 Cs
    482 31 "Sum Bf LOOK out, Holland Village. Watch it, Boat Quay. There's a new strip in town and, given time, it could become the latest hang-out for Singapore's wine and dine set. It's along the West Coast and, since early this year, it has blossomed into
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    461 47  -  JWira/RACiNG Preview By The Three Musketeers IT HAS been more than a year since Hey Jude has greeted the judge. But the mare seems to be coming back to her best form and she could upset the odds in Race Two this afternoon. Hey Jude,
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      460 48 Gulam: Why I chose this team So you thought you were better than Robert Alberts, J dial Talebi or Steve Wicks? Well, here s your chance to upstage them all. Welcome to the, world of the Pepsi Dream League. FANDI and Sundram would have been
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      302 49 UMBRO CUP Wire services. SPANISH red tape may prevent Dutch forward Jordi Cruyfif making his debut for English champion Manchester United against Ajax Amsterdam today. CruyfT completed a £1.2 million ($2.6 m) move from Barcelona last week and reported for training with United for the
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      122 49 Reuter. CHELSEA manager Ruud Gullit has replaced the "alternative training" used by Glen Hoddle with a more vigorous system as his new-look squad chases overdue success at Stamford Bridge. The former Dutch international plans to show in the four-team Umbro Cup tournament this weekend that he can
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      130 49 A TOTAL of 64 of the 624 callers to our guess-the-scoreline contest got it right. The 64 callers correctly predicted that Newcastle United would beat the S-League All-Stars 5-0 at the National Stadium on Thursday. The top 50 correct entries won an S-League Photo CD worth $19.90 each. The CD
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      99 50 Here are some of the highlights and the TV times for today and tomorrow at the Atlanta Olympics. All in Singapore times Atlanta is 12 hours behind. M«n Javelin final (6.55 am. torn) 4 x 100 m final (7.20a»n. torn) 1.500 m final (7.50 am, torn) 5.000 m final
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      302 50 EVERYONE looks worried when Jan Zelezny is around; rivals and spectators alike. Just imagine sitting in the front row of the stands at the opposite end of the stadium as the Czech javelin man winds up for his latest assault on the perfect throw. Ten years ago, the
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      351 50 Name: Jan Zelezny Event Javelin Jan Zelezny, threw the javelin 98.48 metres last May. nearly 3m further than the previous world record. If Zelezny wins the gold he will become the first javelin thrower to retain his Olympic title since 1924. Zelezny threw 24 of 1995"s 25 longest throws,
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      110 51 **0* *V J)an O'Brien crowned himself as the world's greatest athlete when he amassed B,B24points over 10 events to win the decathlon, a gruelling, two-day contest of speed, strength and endurance. The three-time world champion has been undefeated in his last 10 competitions. But his feat was well
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      567 52 ADOPTED BY WHITE PARENTS WORLD'S GREATEST This week Jim and Virginia O'Brien, and about 20 members of their extended family, gathered at the Olympic Stadium to support their "little Olympian."He repaid their faith with a gold medal in the decathlon. The O'Brien Gang will be easy to spot
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      383 53 THE GROWING YEARS ALL-ROUND ATHLETE UNTIL he set the world record in the decathlon, several weeks after his failure to make the 1992 Olympic team, Dan O'Brien battled with low self-esteem. O'Brien was recruited as a decathlete by the University of Idaho after he was state champion in
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      541 53 FOR Dan O Brien, 30, being engulfed by family seems only natural. Growing up on a 3.2-hectare farm on the outskirts of Klamath Falls, there was always somebody to play with. After adopting Dan, the O'Briens brought four more children of various ethnic backgrounds into their home:
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      533 54 M He broke the 200 m world record First to win both 200 and 400 m golds Owens mark A LETTER from the widow of Jesse Owens helped inspire Michael Johnson to his historic Olympic 200 metres run. It read "You run like Jesse," Johnson revealed after smashing
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      74 54 MICHAEL Johnson has donated his now-famous golden track shoes to the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Atlanta. He received a hero's welcome in downtown Atlanta on Thursday night (Atlanta time) after breaking the world record and taking the gold medal in the 200 metres. A beaming Johnson made his
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      124 54 Wires Services. THERE will be no encore performance for Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympic Games. Johnson said that a slight hamstring injury will prevent him from competing for the United States in the 4x400M relay if it advances to the finals on Saturday night (Sunday morning Singapore
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      569 55 FOR someone who sacks coaches for snatching the spotlight from her, Marie-Jose Perec was strangely serene. Fifteen minutes before a truck driver's son attempted a hit-and-run on history, Perec had done exactly the same thing. In exactly the same events. But for once, no one was
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      600 56  -  GOLD MEDAL CLASH: NIGERIA v ARGENTINA Live on Premiere 12, from 3.45 am tomorrow By Nigel Whitefield REPORTING FROM ATLANTA Nigeria: It will be relying on its battle-hardened nucleus of soccer exiles playing in the cut-throat leagues of Europe to shoot down Argentina in the final. The
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      158 56 NIGERIA Joseph Dosu Jersey So 1 MobiObaraku No 17 Tario West No 3 M Uche Okechukwe No 5 Celestine Babayaro No 2 Sunday Oliseh No 15 Emmanuel Ammunike No 6 Augustine Okocha No 10 Victor Ikpeba Noll Daniel Amokachl No 14 Nwankwo Kanu No
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      208 56 Argentine midfielder Matias llmrwli fUIIVCJUfIi It will be impossible to play at the normal pace in this weather. It's not right to play at this time. Argentine fullback lose Chamot: In that heat we will have to concentrate very hard and play with intelligence, keeping possession as much
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      367 57  -  BY Rahul Pathak REPORTING FROM ATLANTA AFTER another day of whispers and suspense, the last page of the biggest mystery of the Atlanta Olympics remains to be written. Will Carl Lewis get a shot at his 10th Olympic gold medal? Only tomorrow will tell. Lewis was not
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      141 57  -  BRAZIL S PORTUGAL 0 ft Nigel Whitefield REPORTING FROM ATLANTA BRAZIL flies home to Rio tomorrow wondering just how it managed to throw away the Olympic gold medal. It has to make do with the consolation bronze it clinched in the crushing 5-0 defeat of Portugal.
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      82 57 Timet, Mm afl Singapore. Atlanta Is 12 henrs behind. BASKETBALL Woman's turrits Brazil 81 Ukraine 60 HOCKEY Men's bronze Australia 3 Germany 2 RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS Group Spain Bulgaria Russia SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING US M Canada Japan TENNIS Women's singles final Lindsay Davenport (US) bt Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spa)
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      61 50 Kodak X OypcOnwi Olympic results on m MHiffi Nigeria caused an upset when it beat favourite Brazil in the soccer semi-final. Will it cause another surprise by beating popular Argentina tomorrow to win the gold medal? Call 1900-*****13 after 8 am tomorrow for the result. Calls cost 30 cents a
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      226 55 I Record Breakers The world records broken so far: ATHLETICS: Men's 200m: Michael Johnson 19.32sec Men's 100m: Donovan Bailey (Can) 9.84sec ARCHERY: Men'* team: South Korea 2,031 pts Women's teem: South Korea 1,984 pts. CYCLING: 4,000m individual pursuit Andrea Collinelli (Ita) 4min 19.153sec. SHOOTING: Free rifle prone: Christian Klees (Ger):
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      204 57 7ni I I By Brian Miller YOUR ATHLETICS: DAILY Robert Korzeniowski of Poland, disqualified qqqt four years ago when within sight of the Olympic >22; silver medal, made up for it when he grabbed the gold with a courageous performance in the 50km walk yesterday. The 28-year-old bided his time
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