The New Paper, 5 February 1997

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  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1997 MITA (P) 061/4/96 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 329 2 Wants US education system to be the world's best Wire services. IMPROVING education in the United States is President Bill Clinton's top concern over the next four years. He sets out his goals in his State of the Union speech scheduled to be televised live this morning before
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    • 100 2 More access to Internet. MR Clinton wants to increase student access to the Internet. He said this would help them succeed in the "knowledge economy" of the 21st century. To do this, he wants more computers in schools and to train more teachers to teach students on
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    • 108 2 Wire services. PAKISTAN'S ousted prime minister Benazir Bhutto offered peace to her victorious rival yesterday. Ms Bhutto refused to accept her crushing election defeat. But she said she would cooperate with Mr Nawaz Sharif for political stability. Mr Sharifs Pakistan Muslim League (PML) swept Monday's
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      290 3  -  BY Khor Su Min TIS the season to make merry and chill out. Festive seasons such as the coming Lunar New Year/Hari Raya holidays see a 15 per cent increase in demand for ice, says an ice company spokesman. To make sure that the supply doesn't run
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    • 153 3 AT Tuck Lee Ice Works: Water from the tap is filtered and specially treated, then stored in a large tank. The water is then passed through 5-m--long tubes, about 3 cm in diameter. These tubes are surrounded by ice water. As the water is repeatedly
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    • 80 2 l>.»v 27 Muslims break fast time 7.21 pm Leisure Showtime: Pages 35,36, 37 38 TV: Page 34 Comics: Pages 39 40 Experience the epitome of Romance with Equatorial's m& jp cr Cupid's Candlelight Dinner. Express your love with an J jPF enticing selection of Continental dishes in the cosy and
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    • 12 2 S-LEAGUE'S FOREIGN SIGNINGS Are we getting sucker stars? In Weekender this Saturday
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 224 4 HOT STORY THEIR PROBLEMS SWITZERLAND our role model in many ways. We built our armed forces around citizen soldiers like theirs. We aspired to reach their standard of living in 1984 and have succeeded. But now, there seems to be a reversal of fortune. Ten years
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    • 22 4 The Straits Times Industrials Index fell 1.11 points to 2191.11 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close of 2192.22.
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    • 23 4 The Business Times Singapore Regional Index fell 2.41 points to 1100.04 points at 9.15 this morning from yesterday's close of 1102.45
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones industrial average was up 27.32 points at 6,833.48 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 495 million shares.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 74 4 CAR sales have turned bullish, ushering in the Year of the Ox and Hari ttaya Puasa. Eight brands sold better last month compared to January 1996, and three saw best January sales since 1994. January sales are usually higher than other months because, as one trader says,
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      • 54 4 WASHINGTON is looking at technology to cut its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Cutbacks are possible if North and South Korea reconcile, the top US commander for the region, Admiral Joseph Prueher, has said. The US currently keeps 100,000 military personnel in the region, mostly in
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      • 59 4 TAIWAN'S ruling Kuomintang (KMT) has relocated its Hongkong holding company in Singapore, according to Taiwan reports. The KMT is one of the world's richest parties with assets of over NT$B5 billion ($4.4 billion). The move is to stop its vast Hongkong interests from becoming subject to China's
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      • 58 4 SINGAPORE Cricket Club's plans for underground expansion have been approved. The new sports facilities, due to be finished in three years, will be built on two levels about 10 m or four HDB storeys underground. They are part of the club's $58-million renovations. Facilities will include squash courts,
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      • 62 4 ABOUT 5,000 Indian, Pakistani and other non-Chinese ethnic minorities in Hongkong can now apply for British passports. Beijing does not intend to grant them citizenship. Hongkong goes back to China in four months' time. The move by British Home Secretary Michael Howard is seen as a climbdown
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      • 62 4 MASS public gatherings will be banned in Indonesia one week before the April 27-May 23 election campaign and up to one week after the May 29 election. The government said the ban was to prevent social unrest during the election. Recent racial tension in Indonesia has led to
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    • 69 4 The Straits Timet: US force structure in region under review The Business Times: Parkway making big push into India, Nepal Llanhe Zaobao: 8 to 16% increase in starting pay for non-graduate civil servants Berfta Harlan: Higher starting pay for civil service RCS morning news: Mid air collision between 2
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 537 5 The Down Syndrome Association is The New Paper's adopted charity for 1997. The special children it serves may look different from you and me but as YVONNE LlMfinds out, they are more a part of than apart from all of us WHEN Jaspreet Kaur
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    • 44 5 The Down Syndrome Association began life in October '95 as a support group for parents. The Association was registered last September. Its aim: To help Down's Syndrome people meet their potential and lead a normal life, support their families, and educate the public.
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    • 107 5 GET a copy of The New Paper on Feb 8 at any McDonald's Restaurant and you'll be doing your bit for Down's Syndrome children. All proceeds from these copies will go to the Down Syndrome Association. The cover price, as usual, is 60 cents. But
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    • 131 5 INTERNATIONAL banking corporation Citibank NA will partner The New Paper in its charity programme for 1997. Since 1994, TNP has been adopting a charity each year. But this is the first time a corporate body has joined in for the entire year. In the past, a corporation
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    • 50 5 We wish to thank all 41 charities which wrote in for consideration to be adopted by TNP for 1997. Six were shortlisted. The New Paper staff voted for the top two, which were interviewed before the final pick was made. We wish aH 41 charities all the best
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 172 6 IT'S not just the Jumabhoys who are fixtures at Court 22. The same army of lawyers also turns up. I counted 17 of them yesterday, including the juniors. There's a lot of paper shuffling. There are more than 35 bundles of documents each running into about 200
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    • 509 6  -  JUMABHOY VS iUMABHOY By Rahul Pathak HE forgets his bad back. He forgets the cold eyes of the lawyer jabbing his finger at him. A huge grin has split Mr Iqbal Jumabhoy's face as he discusses the sexploits of Annabel Chong. Nearby, his uncle, Mustafa,
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    • 59 6 MrAsad Jumabhoy, 37, the youngest brother of battling siblings Rafiq and Iqbal, appeared as a witness yesterday. He said he had been eased out of Scotts Holdings by Mr Rafiq. He then took over some subsidiary companies. He admitted he had entered into some deals which the group
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    • 346 8  -  Suspicious guard searches and finds stashed loot BY Riana Zakir IT was his day off but Kelvin Loh turned up for "work" early. The newly-employed Polo Ralph Lauren promoter went to the boutique at Isetan Wisma Atria on Nov 21 at 9am 30 minutes
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    • 14 8 Kelvin Loh could be jailed up to three years and fined for stealing.
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  • 423 10  -  SINGAPORETODAY BY Teo Yun Yun LAST July, when human resource manager Jaime Teong needed to fill three clerical vacancies in her department, she received 72 applications. Twenty-two applicants were shortlisted but only five turned up for the interview. In the end, only one was
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      468 12 Date with Dr Death HIS FIRST Dr Phillip Nitschke Australia's Dr Death has helped three terminally-ill people die in the last six months. Bob Dent was the first. Dr Nitschke will help at least another two over the next month. SEPTEMBER 22, 1996, was a Sunday, and Dr Phillip
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    • 467 13 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE HER husband would have blown his head off if the law had not been put in place. And she would have bought him the gun, said Mrs Judy Dent. "As it happened, it was fortunate that Bob was able
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    • 153 13 SINGAPORE has no euthanasia law which sanctions assisted suicides. What we have is the advance medical directive (AMD) or living will which allows doctors to stop life-sustaining treatment on patients if they are terminally-ill with no hope of recovery. Under the AMD, mentally sound Singaporeans
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  • 444 15 He lets his ears do the investigating SINGAPORETODAY The mystery of the missing animals from a primary school mini-zoo has taken a happy turn. CHAN SEETFUN reports A TEACHER from a nearby school played detective and solved the mystery of the missing rabbit. Mr Hishamudin Chik,
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  • 214 17  -  singaporetodAy By Yvonne Lim SO would you rather be steaming up the Seine in Paris, hula-ing with a heart-throb in Hawaii, or chasing that old Devil love in Tasmania? According to 10 travel agents polled by The New Paper, these romantic destinations are what Singaporeans are
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    • 74 17 YOU could win a romantic rendezvous to your dream Capital of Watch for the coupon in The New Paper tomorrow and make your pick. We've narrowed the choices down to the 13 most likely destinations, based on what travel agents and Actor Hossan lx»ong talks about moonlighting in the piano
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  • 170 19 SINGAPORETODAY Here are three things to look forward to in our special Lunar New Year edition on Saturday CANT get a flight out of Singapore? Stuck here during the Lunar New Year/Hari Raya holidays? What do you do once the visiting is over, especially when half of
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  • 387 20 WORLDTODAY Wire services. AT 59, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is getting a family history lesson. Her protective parents had not told her about her Jewish background. Neither did they tell her that some of
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 224 23 Reuter. POP star Michael Jackson was there to answer allegations of plagiarism in a lawsuit brought by an Italian singer A 1 Bano. The American performer was cross-examined for about 75 minutes in court in the city's huge justice complex.
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    • 37 23 In 1992, Italian singer Al Bono accused Jackson of plagiarising his 1987 song I Cigni di Balaka (The Swans of Balaka). Bano says he wrote his song to honour the late Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.
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    • 37 23 have never taken or stolen anything in my life. These accusations...are totally false. Jackson. He also testified that he had never met Bono and had never heard of his song until faced with the lawsuit.
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  • 354 25 WORLDTODAY ISRAEL GRIEVES ISRAEL was plunged into sadness yesterday when two helicopter troop carriers flying to south Lebanon collided in heavy fog over the north of the country. The mid-air crash of the two US-made Sikorsky-CHS3 helicopters has claimed 73 lives, reports said. President Ezer Weizman,
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      391 26 »RVE MINUTES WITH KAREN MOK Hongkong actress-singer Karen Mok couldn'/ find time to sit down for a proper interview when she was in Singapore recently. So YONG SIEW FERN sent her a tape and a list of questions, hoping that she would respond. Three days later, the
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    • 114 26 HONGKONG singer-actress Karen Mok (left) was in town as a guest star for the Leslie Cheung concert over the weekend. The gutsy star is known for her daring exploits she once shaved her head bald and recently posed nude on her album cover. Afer rejecting a chorus role
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  • 376 27 MATCH FIXING IN BRITAIN WORLDTODAY Reuter. A MALAYSIAN businessman yesterday said he paid Dutch goalkeeper Hans Segers £35,000 pounds ($80,000) to help him predict games. Lim Heng Suan is accused of helping to fix soccer matches for a Far Eastern betting syndicate. He denies paying
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 313 29 Did these words get Saddam's wife into trouble? Wire services IRAQI President Saddam Hussein may have put his wife Sajida under house arrest over what she told their injured son Uday. Iraqi sources said Madam Sajida told Uday Saddam when
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    • 109 29 Reuter. OLYMPIC skating champion Oksana Baiul (left) will join an alcohol education programme instead of being prosecuted for drink-driving. Baiul, 19, was also fined the maximum $90 yesterday on a separate charge of driving too fast for conditions in Connecticut, the US. Under Connecticut law, the
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  • DEARAGGIE
    • 418 32 Call Dear Aggie Hotline on 1900-*****07 to leave your solutions to the letter at right. Selected responses will be featured either in The New Paper or on the hotline the following week. Your experience and advice could prove invaluable. This week's
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    • 262 32 I AM 25 and have known my girlfriend, who is 23, for about four years. We have been going steady for the last eight months. We used to understand and support each other well. But lately we're beginning to argue even over
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    • 201 32 I AM 20 and have just finished my tertiary education at a local polytechnic. I consider myself of good character but I do have lots of problems looking for a relationship. As I am serving my national service, I am only available on
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    • 158 32 MY Mum doesn't give me much freedom. When I go out, I must be back by 6 pm. When my brother goes camping, I have to stay home alone as my parents are on night shift. My Mum doesn't trust me at all,
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    • 423 34  -  BY Ambiga Raju HE has big things in common with popular comedian Moses Lim his size and the ability to make people laugh. But PV S S Vadivalagan, or Vadi as he is popularly known in the local Tamil entertainment scene, said he doesn't want
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    • 100 34 VADI's heart and soul rests with the theatre group Ravindran Drama Group. The group gives him a chance to act in serious roles and explore his potential. But TV and his funnyman image have stuck to him. Vadi explained why he clowned around without saying a word
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    • 362 35  -  spins another hit By 1 Yong Siew Fern FIRST, she hit us with the Mandarin cover of the catchy Lemon Tree song. Now Taiwanese singer Tarcy Su is climbing the pop charts here again with another upbeat new single, Duck. The song is taken off her latest Mandarin
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    • 84 35 TARCY Su said she is not getting enough love in real life. "So I can only get it in the movies," said Tarcy, who has been rumoured to be romantically involved with Hongkong singer Alex To and Hongkong stuntman Lu Huiguang. In an upcoming romantic comedy,
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    • 401 36 GET set to be dazzled by film director Steven Spielberg's next big production. No, not his sequel to Jurassic Park, scheduled for release in the US in May. But Vertical Reality, a 9.1-m-high, four-player interactive ride. It's the signature piece of Game Works, a
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      104 37 ACTOR Wesley Snipes (left) said he would do everything if he has one month to spend in Singapore. "I'll do everything, like eat, sleep, drink, party," said the action star, who was in town for the Planet Hollywood launch recently. But the 35-year-old star of such movies as
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    • 177 37 FRIENDS star Matt Leßlanc (right) has three bodyguards with him when he goes out at night. But no, they are not there to protect him from crazed fans or jealous people. They're there to protect him from himself. The 29-year-old TV and movie actor is such a
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    • 167 37 ACTOR Mel Gibson (left) said a fanatic female fan once stole past security guards...and insisted on giving him a massage. The incident happened in a hotel in Florida when he was shooting his 1987 hit, Lethal Weapon. Gibson told Premiere magazine recently: "We had security guards on the
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  • 489 38  -  eT CETERA WITH J RAJENDRAN I'M no fan of Saddam Hussein, but I've got to admit, the man's a survivor. The Iraqi leader has lived through missile attacks, assassination attempts and plots to overthrow him. He has emerged seemingly unscathed. Already he has outlasted one US president
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    • 466 45  -  By Calvin Low A SURPRISE bonus was in ;store for Singapore national hockey captain Edwin Tan and top striker Gavin van Rooyen. Last night they received scholarships worth a total of $49,000 from Singapore Recreation Club (SRC) and F&N Coca-Cola Pte Ltd to pursue undergraduate
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    • 441 46 WORLD CUP QUALIFIER: ENGLAND v ITALY; WEMBLEY STADIUM (Feb 12) AFP. PARMA striker Enrico Chiesa has been recalled to the Italian squad for next Wednesday's crunch World Cup qualifier against England. But there is still no place for Chelsea striker Gianluca Vialli. Chiesa, signed from Sampdoria
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    • 76 46 Goalkeepers: Angelo Peruzzi (Juventus), Francesco Toldo (Fiorentina) Defender*: Ciro Ferrara (Juve), Alessandro Costacurta (AC Milan), Alessandro Nesta (Lazio), Fabio Cannavaro (Napoli), Paolo Maldini (AC Milan), Salvatore Fresi (Inter-Milan), Antonio Bennarivo (Parma), Christian Panucci (Real Madrid) MidfiekJ: Angelo Di Livio (Juv), Roberto Di Matteo (Chelsea), Demetrio Albertini (AC Milan),
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    • 399 47 WOW!!!! No other word describes Michael Jordan's latest performance better. In Seattle, against last year's NBA runner-up, guarded by last year's Defensive Player of the Year., .the man scores 45 points and leads the Chicago Bulls to a 91-84 win. Has he no limits? Has he
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    • 405 48 AFP. TIGER Woods has become golfs greatest attraction. But many of those drawn to the 21-year-old sensation have not yet mastered the etiquette of the game. Woods, who arrived in Bangkok yesterday to play in the US$3OO,OOO ($420,000) Asian Classic, has struggled to keep his
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    • 98 48 AFP TIGER Woods and actor Kevin Costner, who starred in the successful golfing comedy 'Tin Cup" last year, were the star attraction at last weekend's Pebble Beach Pro-Am. About 45,000 watched the pair playing together, most of them armed with high-powered cameras and zoom lenses. "Kevin was fun
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    • 175 48 TENPIN BOWLING AFP. US bowling officials have formally recognised perfection. They have approved a record performance by a college student whio bowled three consecutive perfect 300 games. Jeremy Sonnenfeld, a student at the University of Nebraska, becarrte the first bowler ever to officially roll a
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    • 123 49 1 Gayle, 63rd min MAN UNITED 0 Half-time: 0-0 Attendance: 25,601 THIRD-ROUND REPLAY Woking 1 (Steele 36th min) Coventry 2 (Whelan 11th, Foster 79th, own goal) Half-time: 1-1 Attendance: 6,000 FOURTH ROUND Arsenal 0 Leeds 1 (Wallace 12th) 0-1 38,115 Bolton 2 (Taylor 14th, Green 89th Chesterfield
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    • 285 49  -  By Lan Brown REPORTING FROM ENGLAND JOE Kinnear's lads yesterday took him to the Outer Limits of FA Cup drama. And it was the manager's tactics of going boldly where few dared against Man United which secured success. Kinnear gambled with three front men Efan Ekoku, Dean
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    • 250 49 AFP. Marcus Gayle was the Wimbledon hero, latching onto a Kenny Cunningham cross to head the unfancied South London club into a fifth-round tie at home to QPR. Wimbledon soaked up wave after wave of United pressure before pouncing after 63 minutes. Cunningham whipped over a
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    • 36 49 GAYLE’S GOAL WIMBLEDON AGAINST MAN UNITED (63rd) Cunningham's cross is measured to perfection. Johnsen and Holdsworth jump but the ball is too high for them. Gayle is waiting and his bullet header gives Schmeichel no chance.
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    • 133 49 Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear That was one of the best nights we've ever had here a truly wonderful occasion. The team has been a little tired recently but it didn't need any motivation for a match like this. It's a massive boost for us. The lads are
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    • 162 49 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: SOCCER England Div One: Birmingham 2 West Brom 3. Div Two: Notts County 0 Bournemouth 2. Div Three: Colchester 2 Leyton Orient 1, Hereford 1 Darlington 1, Lincoln 1 Wigan 3, Mansfield 0 Chester 2, Rochdale 3 Scarborough 3. Scotland Div One:
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    • 355 50 REST OF THE FA CUP ACTION Wire services. ARSENAL 0 LEEDS 1 TOP London club Arsenal saw its chances of a League and FA Cup Double evaporate with a 1-0 home defeat by Leeds in a fourth-round tie. The Gunners (Arsenal), with a cup pedigree almost
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    • 219 50 AFP. SPANISH giant Barcelona has refused to comment on a French football magazine's claims that it is on the verge of signing David Ginola from Newcastle. The respected publication "France Football" said on Monday that Ginola, who has lost his first team place since Kevin Keegan
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    • 397 50 Wire services and Carling Internet. FAWO: Middlesbrough has increased its quota of foreign players by signing Emerson's cousin on an 18-month contract. Brazilian Emerson, who signed from Porto in July, asked Boro boss Bryan Robson if his cousin could join the Premiership club in training when the skilful 24-year-old
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