The New Paper, 4 February 1998

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 587 2 Low-flying US military plane shears through cable car line in Italy Cable car plunges 80 m 30 storeys—to the ground, killing all 20 on board Weight of cable car's hook crashes cabin on impact Source: Wire services. THE pilot felt a "big
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    • 155 2 YOU might call him lucky. An Italian cable car operator was in a cable car near the one that fell. His car was affected by the jolt, but it did not fall. Instead, it was left dangling in mid air for about an hour after the
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 132 3 HOT STORIES IN the second quarter, the Government will review plans to release land for 3,000 executive condominium units this year. Market-watchers, who expect a cut in supply, have welcomed the move. The review will be done together with the review of this year's government land sales programme
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    • 136 3 KL STOCKS THE Malaysian stock market staged a stunning rebound yesterday. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index shot up 131.80 points or 23 per cent to close at 701.31, a level not seen since early November. Trading was hectic with 1.12 billion shares worth M 53.2 billion
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    • 21 3 The Straits Times Industrials Index slipped 15.1 points to close at 1,417.90. Trading was hectic with turnover hitting $1.1 billion.
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    • 27 3 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 52.57 points, to close at 8,160.35 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 691 million shares.
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    • 83 3 The Straits Timet: Jakarta imports: PM proposes guarantee plan The Business Times: Malaysian stocks surge a stunning 23% Uanhe Zaobao: Singapore to provide guarantees for letters of credit issued by Indonesian banks to help Indonesia settle debt crisis Berlta Harlan: Support for IMF part of Clinton's budget RCS news:
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    • 82 3 I do not see what all the fascination is with the Titanic... every movie-goer who saw the film was well aware of the final outcome, when passengers and ship would be swallowed up by the sea. It is a horror thai I have no desire to see. Why
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 85 3 THE maid who was allegedly abused by her employers yesterday denied lying to get compensation. Mr Peter Fernando, the lawyer for the employers, said Miss Hartati Ali Sodikun, 15, had embellished the truth and was trying to squeeze the family for maximum compensation. The lawyer was cross-examining
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      • 106 3 IT was their way of saying "thank you" to the man who tried to help their boss. About 80 Standard Chartered Bank employees raised more than $20,000 for the family of cabby Ng Yew Soon, who died after playing Good Samaritan at a crash scene. He tried
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      • 100 3 THE Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau is reported to be investigating the way the Tanglin Club's 1996 search for a new general manager was handled. Club president John Rasmussen reported a former club official to the bureau over concerns that he might have rim afoul of anti-graft laws here,
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      • 104 3 SINGAPORE is offering gourmet temptations to win more Japanese tourists. Typical Singapore dishes such as authentic Hainanese chicken rice with all the trimmings are being savoured in a first national promotion of Singapore cuisine. The Royal Host chain of family restaurants offers a Singapore food fair at all
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    • 43 4 IT HAS MORE BREAKTHROUGHS THAN A HANDPHONE TWICE ITS SIZh. I NOKIA I I NOKIA I I i Di'lnns \tl.t liUlfi N(aiull>> time of fiOhrs and Jhrs lalktiim*. •Vj' o(• .-"i ti i wflt oicur depending on Sit-f Cord v.ot.vork »ett > and u\»or
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 478 5 Parents, that's a warning sign Parents, do your children complain they have nothing to do, that life is boring? Then watch out. CRISPIN A ROBERT speaks to a teenager whose Parents thought they had given him everything. But still, he got into trouble HE had everything a boy
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    • 181 5 WITH his long-sleeved shirt and handphone, David looks every inch the successful businessman today. His father gave him the capital to set up a small shop to sell handphones and a crash course on how to do business. Two years ago, things looked bleak
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    • 58 5 THE PAP Women's Wing recently suggested ways to tackle juvenile crime. In their study, they highlighted the problem of rich teens who commit crimes for thrills. Here are some of their recommendations: Central agency to tackle juvenile delinquency Boost students' self-esteem Review streaming system Wider
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  • 51 7 muiftnui* Dave Chua, the author of local novel Gone Case, was asked for his comments on Singaporeans' fascination with ghost stories. Me repied: In a society as sane and ordered as Singapore, having ghost stories serves as a counterpoint, that there is something unclassifiable about this
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  • 428 7 NOON:SON WONDERS Why is dad's tummy not rising? NIGHT: FAMILY SHOCK Only seven-year-old Blaise Anson Singh knew that his father, lying in the living room of his grandmother's flat, was dead. But still, the reality was too much for the boy who was in a daze
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  • 373 8 SILKAIR CRASH Two magazines reported developments in the MI 185 crash. One hinted at turbulence in the area. The other said that the recorders on board the plane stopped working moments before the crash. THE team investigating the Silk Air crash are puzzled about the plane's last
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  • 119 8 TURBULENT weather could have led to the Silk Air crash. According to the latest issue of Flight International, a well-regarded industry magazine, at least four planes asked for a diversion around the bad weather. One of them was Qantas flight QF4I, a Boeing 7475P jet flying five minutes behind
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 537 9 They are too young to remember the 1985 recession. They have always taken jobs for granted. Is the current regional money crisis changing their outlook? CRISPINA ROBERT asks two young people There are 18 million jobless people in
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    • 400 10  -  FOUND UNCONSCIOUS AT BANK'S SAFE DEPOSIT AREA WITH MYSTERY MARKS ON HIS NECK By Hazel Tan HE could hardly have been in a safer place. Yet, it was in the safe deposit area of a bank that Mr Tay Hock Seng was found unconscious, with
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    • 100 10 A SPOKESMAN for the hospital said Mr Tay has not been certified brain dead. "But he shows signs of it," she said. Mr Tay*s family has not given up hope, though. *We are praying every day. The doctors told us he's brain dead but we cannot
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 590 11  -  Homeless Penniless Fatherless Friendless By Yvonne Lim HER mother smelt of engines. That's what little Tan Le noticed most, as she hugged her mum every night when she returned bone-tired from the car factory. "She would cook for us and then run off again for
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    • 378 11 HER own tough start is what drives Miss Tan Le with a passion to help others facing the same fate. For five years, die 20-year-old undergraduate has been helping new Vietnamese migrants settle in, reunite with families and find jobs. Two groups are closest to
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    • Article, Illustration
      180 11 WE are the new face of Australia, says Miss Le. Referring to Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman (right), who won the Australian of the Year award, and herself, Miss Le said: "That we two were selected really shows Australia is not made up of just Anglo-Saxons but of every
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 517 12 COACH GUILTY OF ABUSING GIRL SWIMMERS There was no light in the room, and they remember the dark. They remember being told to hold on to a metal shelf while Derry O'Rourke felt their breasts, under their swimsuits, telling them he wanted to see how their muscles
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    • 150 12 Reuters. CHECKS should be made into the past of all sports coaches in the country. The call came from the Irish Amateur Swimming Association after a top Irish swimming coach, Derry OHourke, was jailed for sexually abusing 11 girls in his charge. Parents of the victims
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    • 261 12 Source: News wires. SHE is a former schoolteacher who was convicted of child rape for having sex with a 13-year-old boy and bearing his child. Early yesterday in Seattle, Washington state, in the US, Mary Kay LeTourneau was arrested again after police saw
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    • 453 13 hours before execution this morning AFP WITH her bright smile and soft-spoken voice, Karla Faye Tucker hardly seemed like a pick-axe killer who was only hours away from death. Trying to put a troubled past behind her, the petite, 38-year-old woman said she was at peace as
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    • 172 13 AFP. AMERICAN actor Daniel Baldwin went berserk in a New York hotel room because of a binge of crack-smoking. He was found "naked and bleeding" in a room of the Plaza Hotel before being sent to hospital, reports The New York Post. During
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    • 119 13 BEFORE Karla Faye Tucker's execution this morning, Velma Barfield was the last woman to be executed in the United States. Convicted of killing her fiance, she was executed by lethal injection on Nov 2,1984, in North Carolina. Like Tucker, Barfield said she had a religious conversion in prison.
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    • 177 14 British schoolboys' rape trial AFP. TWO 10-year-old British boys have been cleared of raping a nine-year-old girl at their London primary school. But they, together with another 11-year-old, still continue to stand trial on a charge of indecent assault. A fourth boy, also aged 10, was acquitted
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    • 456 14 PHILIPPINES PLANE CRASH AFP. THEY can see it but they can't reach it. Search teams have spotted the wreckage of Cebu Pacific Air Flight 387 just below the peak of Mount Sumagayabut but are unable to go near it. The teams have been hacking
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    • 83 15 in 111*111 ii i* .1 J m m mm mm I a niQiiiQ D© vO|)iii#udXvQ uiicrwi JIHQ impn^wn. I don't mean the privacy to choose an abdlftion or the discretion to fight in foxholes. Tm not talking about the sophistication of a new hairdo, or
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    • 269 15 AFP. FOR someone who appeared to have had no business being at the White House at the time, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, 24, sure was there a whole lot. She visited the White House no fewer than 37 times after leaving her
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  • DEARAGGIE
    • 358 16 CALL US Call **********7 and leave your questions for our counsellors. You can listen to their earlier advice, too. This week's Imlck Ik cheats on mo but I love Mm Dad is driving me mad My wife won't sloop wttfa me I Fed up
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    • 272 16 SHE was my girlfriend for almost a year. But I decided to break it off because of studies. That decision came a few weeks after her parents agreed to our relationship. For the next six months, I kept thinking about her. After I realised
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    • 157 16 MY husband of more than 15 years now behaves like a tenant. He wakes up and goes straight to work. When he comes home from work, he goes straight to his room, bathes, watches TV, reads the papers and then goes to sleep.
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    • 153 16 MY teenage son has come under bad influence. His schoolmate has taught him to skip school. His teachers did warn me that he was mixing with bad company. Despite my efforts, nothing worked. I have a job, so how can I get my son to be obedient?
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    • 30 16 MS WONG SING CHEE, i counsellor, Singapore Polytechnic If you need advice, write to: Dear Aggie, The New Paper Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road. Singapore *****5 Or fax: 737-5375
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  • Showtime
    • Article, Illustration
      543 17  -  JUST JOE By Chan Seet Fun RADIO rooster Joe Augustin doesn't dare brag about his body. After all, he's certainly no beefcake. In fact, he describes his body as "extremely shadowy" on a "well-lit da/'. "I'm a little on the plump side," he elaborated. Then placing both hands
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    • 387 18 Box-office sales for the Titanic have exceeded US$53O million ($913 million) and the movie looks set to overtake Jurassic Park's record of US$9l4 million in takings NYT THE unsinkable Titanic now joins the ranks of Jaws, ET, Star Wars and The Godfather. Of late, it has become
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    • 425 19 ACTOR VALENTINE'S Day is a-coming time for one of those Hollywood love stories. How to find one with not too much mush? When Kevin Bacon makes up half of it, that's how. It helps, too, that like his movie roles, his
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      360 20  -  By, Avis Wong JERRY CHANG feels like he is in prison. Actually, he is in Taiwan doing his national service. "I feel like I'm in jail. I'm cut off from the world in camp. That's the toughest thing for me as I'm used to being independent. Freedom is
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 761 21 tvpage Q wi;ian;i 5 m Ifee of the TaW Master (Channel 8,10.30 pm) The exciting adventures of Zhang Sanfeng, a young guy who grows up at the Shaolin Temple and later becomes the leader of the famous Wudang Sect. Stars Eddie Kwan Lai-Kit (left). l 130 Stoppon Today (News) uncle
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  • 500 22 spotlight It's a human zoo. It's cruel. It's inhuman. Such calls are made to the Tourism Authority of Thailand to ban the exhibition of long-necked Karens to promote the Amazing Thailand tourist campaigns 0f1998-99. AUGUSTINE PANG visits one long-necked Karen village in Chiangmai to find
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  • 501 23  -  eT cETERA WITH BRIAN MILLER MY friend told me his wife calls him a tiger. I said he should be flattered. Few men can boast of being called that. My friend said he's not impressed. He said: "I don't need to hear her purr things
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 147 23 COMICREUEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson ITS GREW TO SEE ICO, |l WWY IWNK \T UK) BEEN SO KID, VWKT DOIOO SM? ISM W> BEHtt WKM tQUKI (T SEEMS UKE AfIES SINCE SO U*fc,WnL I SNM v STO> tajSE NE «JC MWt. ICWVE BSHHEKE. CMttH. TU\S WAS lT*% MMVEKHNG TIGER _s
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  • SPORTS
    • 646 38  - Singapore Open minus locals HONDA By Gerard Wong IT is the only international professional tennis tournament in Singapore that is solely owned and organised by the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association. Yet, this year's US$6O,OOO ($85,000) Honda-Kah Singapore Men's Tennis Open will not feature a single Singaporean in the main draw
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    • 296 38 Reuters. WORLD 100 metres champion Maurice Greene set an indoor world record of 6.39 seconds for the 60m yesterday. But it could be just the first of three steps into new territory in the coming weeks. He improved on the 6.4lsec set by
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    • 376 39  -  PRADEEP PAUL will be in New York for the All-Star Weekend. Look out for his reports from Friday 4 By Pradeep Paul DONT know about you, but I'm happy to see a basketball court even if it has just one person on it.
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    • 185 39 EASTERN CONFERENCE ALL-STARS Head coach: Larry Bird (Indiana) •Anfernee Hardaway (Orlando) Tim Hardaway (Miami) 'Grant Hill (Detroit) 'Michael Jordan (Chicago) 'Shawn Kemp (Cleveland) Reggie Miller (Indiana) 'DikembeMutombo (Atlanta) Glen Rice (Charlotte) Steve Smith (Atlanta) Rik Smits (Indiana) Antoine Walker (Boston) Jayson Williams (New Jersey) denotes starter) WESTERN CONFERENCE
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    • 66 39 EASTERN CONFERENCE Tracy McGrady (Totonto) Chauncey Billups (Boston) Cedric Henderson (Cleveland) Zyndrunas llgaukas (Cleveland) Brevin Knight (Cleveland) Ron Mercer (Boston) Tim Thomas (Philadelphia) Keith Van Horn (New Jersey) Head Coach: Willis Reed WESTERN CONFERENCE Kelvin Cato (Portland) Antonio Daniels (Vancouver) Danny Fortson (Denver) Bobby Jackson (Denver) Rodrick
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    • 298 40 m yum THAT ym USA Today. PHOENIX SUNS: Won three of four games on the first leg of a grueling seven-game road trip, beating Miami 74-71 Friday and Orlando 96-94 Saturday. Clifford Robinson scored 23 points in each game, and Rex Chapman scored eight points in
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    • 444 40 USA Today. AS a kid growing up on New York's Lower East Side, Jay son Williams invited neighbourhood kids to watch the All-Star Game on his family's colour TV. It was the only one on the whole block. He loved the slam-dunk contest and fantasised about playing
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    • 70 40 CHICAGO AT UTAH: The teams that played in last season's NBA Finals face each other for the second and final time of the regular season today. The Jazz upset the Bulls 101-94 on Jan 25 in Chicago, only the Bulls' second home loss. Karl Malone had
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    • 96 40 DIKEMBE MUTOMBO v ALONZO MOURNING: The former Georgetown University centres, having up-and-down seasons, will try to intimidate each other today when Atlanta visits Miami. ANTONE WALKER v GLEN RICE: Two of the league's top scorers with completely different styles fire away today at Charlotte. Boston's Walker is a
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  • WORLD CUP UPDATE
    • Charge of the Singapore Brigade
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        259 41 COUPE DU MONDE JUNE 10-JULYI2 As World Cup fever begins to rise, the affluent among football-crazy Singaporeans are rushing for tickets. But can they get them? JEFFRREY LOW reports So what? AN all-time record of 233 tickets have been booked by Singapore soccer fans for the forthcoming World Cup
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      • 188 41 Says FAS'Tan Eng Yoon FAS general secretary Tan Eng Yoon yesterday proposed two alternatives for fans who are still yearning to catch the fever first-hand. Seek help from friends or contacts in France to buy tickets for you. Go to France, anyway and watch the games
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      • 244 41 ...And see the World Cup final IF you are willing to cough out $1,700 for a ticket, you will be guaranteed one for any match in any stadium. Ken Air Tours, the travel agent authorised to sell France '98 tickets in Singapore, yesterday allayed all fears that
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      • 132 41 AFP OVERWHELMED by requests for World Cup tickets, the German Football Federation (DFB) will be forced to stage a lottery to allocate entry passes. "We already have an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 ticket requests per game," said DFB general secretary Horst Schmidt. "We can only
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    • 241 42  -  'Mine is settled* By Jeffrey Low LAWYER N Ganesan, the former FAS chairman, is set to have "a wonderful time" at France '98. He's got his accommodation finalised, he's booked his air passage, and he's assured of a ticket to every match of his choice. Sitting
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    • 776 42 Dream finally comes true for David Kraal The writer is a veteran journalist. He is now a columnist with Lifel His column below appeared in today's Life! section of The Straits Times THE year may seem filled with gloom for most. But for me and a whole host of other
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    • Ronaldo fights back
      • 310 43 Ronaldo finally scored for his Italian club Inter-Milan in the 1-0 win over Brescia last Sunday. The goal came after a jwo-month barren spell during which he had to endure criticism from all quarters, including his own club president. After his return to goal-scoring form, Ronaldo went on
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      • 158 43 AFP. RONALDO'S girlfriend Susana Werner returned to Milan yesterday. On arrival, the Brazilian TV host and model said she was there to help the struggling striker. Ronaldo, currently with a sponsor on an advertising shoot in Tenerife, re-discovered his scoring touch against Brescia last Sunday
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    • 400 43 ENGLAND B SQUAD GOALKEEPERS: Shaka Hislop (Newcastle), Kevin Pressman (Sheff Wednesday) H DEFENDERS: Ricardo Scimeca (Aston Villa), Steve Watson (Newcastle), Rio Ferdinand (West Ham), Dominic Matteo (Liverpool) MIDFIELDERS: Kevin Dyer (Ipswich Town), Jason Wilcox (Blackburn), Ray Parlour (Arsenal), Nigel
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  • SPORTS
    • 273 44 BARNSLEYv SPURS FA CUP FOURTH ROUND (REPLAYS) YESTERDAY: Reading 1 Cardiff City 1 (Reading wins 4-3 on penalties) Sheffield United 1 Ipswich 0 Wolves 3 Charlton 0 TOOAY: Bamsley v Tottenham (winner away to Manchester United) Newcastle v Stevenage (winner home to Tranmere) CALL INFOUNE Call The New
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    • 231 44 NEWCASTLE v STEVENAGE FASTFACTS Stevenage is 12-1 underdog to beat Newcastle in today's replay Newcastle has played non-league opposition four times at St James' Park and has yet to win Reuters. NEWCASTLE has won the FA Cup six times. But if it wants to add to that
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    • 232 44 Reuters. EVERTON'S Welsh international midfielder Gary Speed refuses to explain why he wants to quit the club he has supported since he was a boy. "If I came out and said why I had handed in a transfer request it would tarnish the good name of
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    • 326 44 Wire services. ITALIAN internationals Gianfranco Zola and Roberto di Matteo have signed extensions to their contracts at Chelsea. It will keep them wearing the blue shirts of Chelsea until 2002, the club announced yesterday. Zola, 31, England's reigning Footballer of the Year, signed a two-year extension
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