The New Paper, 10 June 1998

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  • 22 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1998 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://web3.asiai.com.sg/tnp Ano,her quali,y P ub,ication of mS Singapore Press Holdings
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 627 2 Indon analyst speaks of the Chinese trauma INDONESIA AFTER THE RIOTS His daughter is still afraid to go home, says Mr Christianto Wibisono, an Indonesian-Chinese analyst in Jakarta. In a report published in The Jakarta Post, Mr Wibisono looks at the impact last month's riots
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    • 448 3  -  BY Rahul Pathak SOPHIE Anderton is resting her bum on a stone-slab, trying to look wicked and wide-eyed at the same time, as she flirts before the camera. Behind her, something funny is going on. Passers-by watching the photo-shoot at Tras Street widen their mouths
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    • 212 2 Price riddle A CAN of Coke has doubled in price for Jakarta residents. But Singapore visitors are paying less than half of what they used to pay. The same is true for even big items such as a Toyota car. How else is the Indonesian crisis hurting residents? See our
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 199 4 But you can't teach kids at home HOT STORY PUPILS may be able to pick up Chinese faster and more easily if a pilot scheme involving Primary 1 pupils in eight schools proves successful. These pupils will be taught to write Chinese in Hanyu pinyin before learning
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    • 27 4 The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 19.68 points to close at 9,049.92 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 564 million shares.
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    • 63 4 The Straits Timet: Habibie defends timetable for polls The Business Times: Yen weakness hurting China: PBOC chief Lianhe Zaobao: Depreciation of yen hurts China's economy Berita Harlan: Syariah court jails Poly lecturer RCS morning news: S'pore calls on international labour organisation to help create a positive environment for economic
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 71 4 CERTIFICATE of entitlement (COE) prices for cars have not dropped despite the regional economic crisis. They have gone up by about $1,200 on average. Analysts said this is a result of a backlog of bookings, a weaker yen and strong market for some Japanese cars. Automobile Association
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      • 60 4 SIX in 10 of the 7,131 people retrenched in the last three months were women. The Manpower Ministry said women were worst hit when it came to losing jobs. The reasons: Many worked part-time Industries affected the most by a weaker economy often had more women workers. An
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      • 67 4 AN intestinal virus linked to the deaths of 32 children in Taiwan has not infected Singaporeans, the Health any Environment ministries here said yesterday. Enterovirus 71 has hit up to 200,000 Taiwan children. Most patients show either no symptoms or mild ones such as fever and rash.
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      • 67 4 ROLL it... Action... Cut. And that was the end of the trip for the driver of a Johor van when Singapore Customs officers found 4,172 video CDs under the floorboards, many with sexy covers and titles. The driver, a 35-year-old jobless Malaysian tried to drive across late on
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      • 63 4 THE 15cm-high limited-edition Hello Kitty doll (above) is being roped in to attract Japanese tourists to Singapore. Dressed in a Singapore Airlines cabin-crew uniform, the Kitty-Chan toy has proved irresistible to Japanese women and some men looking to visit here. Japan's largest travel agency, JTB, said
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      • 64 4 THAILAND'S Health Ministry has given the green light for the sale of the anti-impotence pill Viagra in the country. Thailand is the first Asian country to permit sales of Viagra, say ministry officials. But the sale of the drug will be subject to restrictions. It won't be
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 442 5 Yesterday, a Pakistani was jailed for 30 days for not bringing his daughter to court in a custody battle. But his estranged Japanese wife tells RIANAZAKIR her pain is far from over MS Aya Sasaki cannot take her eyes off every little girl
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    • 181 5 THEIR two-year romance blossomed at the National University of Singapore. He was 31 and a post-graduate business administration student. She was 19 and studying Mandarin here for a year. Faheem U1 Islam and Ms Sasaki married in 1993 after she became a Muslim. She
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    • 566 6  -  She treats me like a sex toy He treats i me like a slave GOH Cheng Hwa was fined $3,000 on May 20 for hurting Madam Chew Ann Kheng on two occasions. Goh, who has a previous conviction for causing hurt in 1983, could
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    • 226 7 HE writes love letters that can make any woman's heart flutter. He sends roses bought from the wet market and wrapped in newspapers. He leaves "I love you" and "Miss you" in her pager. This is the Goh who managed to win Madam Chew's
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    • 146 7 GOH punched Madam Chew on the right side of her face on March 8,1996, at his New Upper Changi Road flat. She suffered a fracture in her eye socket. Goh, who initially claimed trial, had claimed in court that she had hurt herself when she fell off
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    • 325 8  -  S'POREAN, WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND IN CAR IN KUANTfIN BY Fong Foong Mei HE was reluctant to leave his family to go and oversee a factory in Malacca. But a call from his long-time friend and business partner left Mr Choi with no
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    • 271 9 NO more evening walks with Daddy. Three-year-old Xue Ting's father, engineer Keith Choi Kat Man, 33, was murdered in Malacca last week. But the toddler doesn't know. Nobody's told the cute little girl about her father's death. She's too young to understand what happened, said
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    • 405 10  -  On surviving the economic crunch, NTUC deputy chief says: BY Yvonne Lim A FROG sits in a pot of water. The water is slowly heating up on a lighted stove. You probably know the rest of this familiar story: The water heats up so slowly,
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    • 113 10 IT will help private sector employees moderate their wage expectations. If workers' expectations are too high, above what companies can pay, it could hurt morale, said Mr Lim Swee Say. How much private sector workers will get this year will depend on how
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    • 75 10 Civil servants will not get any NWC pay rise this year. Their annual variable payment in July will be cut to half, instead of three-quarters, of their monthly pay. Those with fixed annual increments in their pay scales will still get them. But overall, the average wage rise
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    • 352 9 GTT E C c ?IN ASSOCIATION WITH UIP Jj |J presents ANNIVERSARY TRAVOLTA is still the word RETURNING TO CINEMAS JUNE 11 Pit£han£toUAtii^^ Yours with purchases of $100 and above at all GUESS? Stores, corners and outlets (except Millenia Walk). Come on down to the Grease "Prom Nite" Party at
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  • INDONESIATODAY
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      279 12 WHAT THE MAY 14 QIOJiS did m Jakarta r' -V— U .<— u. CSjSfpower Rioters burn and loot property. Thousands of I students form rally.| jmisxl JHfIMSMi Chinatown: Looters trash and steal from malls. Some women raped. V I 15,000 TROOPS SENT TOCONTAIN THE RIOTS AND
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    • 50 12 THE Indonesian Armed Forces (Abri) plays both military and socio-economic roles. It is the people's army. Its 475,000 officers see it as the soul of the nation, having fought for independence. Soldiers are allowed to play political roles. They can serve in Parliament or be governors and ambassadors.
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    • 53 12 JAKARTA'S university students wanted political reform, lower prices and Mr Suharto out. They had protested since February. On May 12, 3,000 Trisakti University students gathered. After a five-hour standoff with security forces, they charged forward. Six students were shot dead. Over the next two days, Indonesians rampaged
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    • 195 12 WERE the riots, especially the ones which rocked Jakarta in mid-May, carefully organised chaos? Theories abound. Catholic priest and human-rights activist Sandyawan Sumardi said there was a common pattern in the rioting. Witnesses and victims claimed they saw gangs arriving in trucks and buses. They yelled
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    • 425 13 Riots in S'pore Prices of items in Indonesia started rising in July last year, with the onset of the regional economic crisis. MICHELLE ANG checks out prices then and now and finds that Indonesians often pay more than double the prices they were paying a year ago, even
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  • SINGAPOREJODAY
    • 73 15 mil I'm ui* The Straits Timet reader Lew Sin Hoe, In a letter to its Feram Page about a mother's shock In finding out that her two children, aged 12 and 15 y had accounts with Sing Tel: She has either given her children too much
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    • 194 15 KEEN for a free mug of beer or a Nike gym bag just for watching tonight's World Cup match? Then head down to either the Hilton International in Orchard Road or the Geylang United FC Clubhouse at Bedok. Both are showing the opening match Brazil
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    • 422 16  -  Madam Song said she pants and loses her voice whenever she gets upset or excited. A doctor said that in some people, a shock can trigger a mechanism which blocks off certain functions of the mind, like speech or memory. By Danny
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    • 131 17 IN our Family Week contest last week, we asked you to rate the best family interactive activity among the following: Bedtime chat, sharing a meal, going out together, watching TV in the same room and getting to know each others' friends. Sharing a meal was the most
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    • 31 16 The suspect is a slim, short-haired Chinese. He was dressed in a white long-sleeved shirt, grey pants and a tie. Anyone with information can call the Qeylang Police Station at 743-000.
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  • 212 18 Bank swindle MALAYSIATODAY INTERPOL are chasing a cashier said to have siphoned offMsl2.s million ($5.38 million) from a bank in Johor Bam. Police have recovered M 57.5 million from the account. The man has disappeared overseas with Mss million. He allegedly took money from
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    • 87 19 I. -><Nf^x., ttj iSKff I There's a safer way to win I during the World Cup j 1 "5?? -«ae4 I 1 I _fc I r c7?<y?a.' camera, Bfe* vEB I A l WORTH v_A r World Cup ▼r 10 Champions to win a Fujifilm DX-5 digital camera IJM j
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  • 403 20 He speaks again after 19 years I WORLD'S FIRST SUCCESSFUL VOICE TRANSPLANT WORLDTODAY MR Timothy Heidler would probably love to tell you this story himself instead of have you read it. And very much in his own voice, please. You see, for 19 years, Mr Heidler, now 40, was hardly
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  • 274 22 Three white men charged TEXAS HITCHHIKER MURDER WORLDTODAY They wear white hoods and cloaks, and carry burning crosses. The Ku KHixKlan believe that whites are the supreme race. In their most powerful days of the '50s and '60s, especially In the Texas and south of
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    • 347 22 CONCORDE HOTEL Presents... WORLD CUP SERIES '98 CONTEST Join us at the LOBBY LOUNGE for the live telecasts and recorded matches of the exciting World Cup Series '98 and you could be a winner too! Order a bottle of BALLANTINE'S GOLD SEAL at M J $118*++ or COURVOISIER VSOP at
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 466 24  -  by Yvonne Lim A REAL (I swear) comment from one talent scout at the World Cup. "If they've got this sense of sensuality, they know how to seduce, the way they smile...then you can really understand what they are able to do." Er. We're not
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    • 354 25 Will it lower value of yuan? Reuters. THE weak Japanese currency is hurting Beijing's foreign trade. But the governor of China's central bank has not said outright that Beijing will lower the yuan's value in response to the falling yen. However, neither did Mr Dai
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    • 243 26 To date, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received 16 reports of men who died after taking best-selling impotence drug Viagra. The oldest was 80, the youngest, 48. Seven of them died just after having sex. But there is no evidence Viagra caused any of
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    • 47 26 There is no way to determine that these drugs caused the reported reactions. Furthermore, a given reaction may actually have been due to an underlying disease process or to another coincidental factor. The FDA in a statement posted on its Internet web page at www.fda.gov
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    • 50 26 It appears that these cases were attributed to either cardiovascular events associated with sexual activity in older men or a combination of Viagra and nitrates... Pfizer, maker of Viagra, in a statement late May, saying that the first six recorded deaths were not directly tied to the drug
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    • 38 26 mui*mui< tJ g-v No dotal Is too somI In Hongfcoog's drive to attract tourists. Says Mr Stoplieolp, Secretary of Economic Sorvlcos: Toilets, coach parking facilities, signage these are problems close to our heart®.
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  • 326 28  -  WORLDTODAY By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY HE thought aliens had put a microchip in his brain to control him. When he was scolded by Edwina Powell, 20, who demanded a discount for the late delivery of
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  • Showtime
    • 602 29 REMOVE those headphones and microphones, and Joe Augustin and the Flying Dutchman look just like friends chatting. Except that the place is Class 95's recording studio. And that the duo are presenting their popular programme, Morning Express, on air. It looks simple enough. Answering calls, meddling
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    • 221 29 THEIR chemistry sizzles even off air, but Joe and Mark do not spend a minute more with each other after work. Says Mark: "We have always said it: four hours a day is more than what the average man spends with his wife, anyway." Joe
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    • 379 30  -  By Chan Seet Fun Their songs top the charts and they have legions of fans screaming at their concerts. Despite their success, the members of Boyzone still seem to have their feet firmly on the ground. Indeed, some of their aspirations seem almost, well, Singaporean.
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    • 361 31  -  By, Avis Wong Taiwanese Denise Ruan wanted to be a pianist like Japan's Yukie Nishimura. It had been her ambition since childhood. But she injured her wrists about 10 years ago. So she became a singer. "When I was in
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 158 32 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Watterson HOW MUCH MOHEN DO t>J MIXtGOTV 1 MEUA? ID UKEIOKNQM |ONE"R) SIX IWNDREP \m., M0B8ES? MMBE WE. "WKTLHO, T GREW. IVt GOT WCM WVJCM GOOD PMfc Mi APCP/rß4siSur CAN DW) A HEVI PMR TUKH-FNt POUR OOLWS. OF B\NOC\)IARS COSTS. fIKS OF BtHOCUURS BEBDRE CENTS. 7
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    • 301 37 The Great Adelaide Escape is a holiday concept with a difference: a holiday where you choose your own I package. You buy a basic package, then add on the extras you want. History, beautiful country tours, restaurants, free easy time... Adelaide has it all, and you can choose exactly what
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  • Article, Illustration
    348 38  -  TRAVEL WITH A TWIST BY Lela Jalil THESE sea lions may appear to be nuzzling each other, but it's nothing romantic. They are, in fact, young males of the Australian sea lion species, or "bulls", learning to fight with each other, practising the skills they need as adults.
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    • 120 38 WHERE: Adelaide. South Australia. MOW TO GET THERE: Qantas flies direct to Adelaide four times a week. The flight takes about six hours. WHAT TO DO: Visit McLaren Vale, home to about 45 wineries. You can go on tours to see how wine is made, taste the wines or just
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 805 52 H PELE (BRAZIL): Probably the greatest footballer in the world. Agile, yet strong enough to resist the strongest challenge, a superb ball artist and a powerful leaper to a high cross. He possessed an insight that allowed him to lay off pinpoint passes to seemingly
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    • 58 53 Married with one child Pirom has a degree in physical education and teaches the subject at his alma mater, 50km from Bangkok. He is rated as Thailand's fittest referee. He has clocked 25 years as a referee and was made a Fifa referee, the highest achievement, in
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    • 317 53 IN 1974 SINGAPOREAN GEORGE SUPPIAH BLOWS WHISTLE AT WORLD CUP: NOW COMES A THAI Thailand's Pirom Unprasert is one of only two hand-picked to referee on the opening day of the World Cup Finals which start today. Two hours after the Brazil-Scotland match ends, Pirom will handle
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    • 369 54  -  S GULAM MEETS CHILE COACH NELSON ACOSTA ITALY V CHILE GROUPB live on Premiere 12,11.30pm, TOMORROW I REPORTS S GULAM Reuters. IT was not the most polite question. But the significance of the question was not lost on the Chilean coach. "Well, Mr Acosta," said the
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    • 408 54 GULAM'S TRAVELLER'S TALES "WELCOME. Welcome to Bordeaux," the hotel receptionist said, adding in the same breath "welcome to the most famous place in France." Wow! So nice, so good, I thought. And she speaks fluent English too! Fve never felt so welcomed in France. Then
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    • 79 54 THE hotel I'm staying here has 10 commandments for its guests. Five each for the football-maniacs and football-phobics. Some of the catchy ones for the football-maniacs: I shall respect the peace and quiet of people who aren't football fans. I shall not turn my bedroom into a stadium
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    • 84 54 IN the same pamphlet is a set of questions which tests one's knowledge about the favourite drinks of the France '98 teams. A fan had correctly matched the eight questions with the eight answers given, which were: Argentina Mate tea Denmark Aquavit Scotland Scotch Spain Sherry France Champagne
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    • 262 55 EMSSMimH morocco v norway AFP. NORWEGIAN midfielder Erik Mykland used to have to sell shoes and wash cars to supplement his meagre footballing income. In his days as a young player with first Risor and then Bryne, Mykland had no inkling he would one day be regarded as
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    • 348 55 GROUP A Live on Premiere 12, 3am TOMORROW Reuters. NORWAY has learnt the World Cup lesson of 1994. And the squad has been taking it easy before tomorrow's big game against Morocco. Coach Egil Olsen, whose direct 4-5-1 tactical system requires strenuous work, allowed his
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 785 57  -  JEFF LOW WATCHES BRAZIL'S FINAL TRAINING SESSION AND SAYS I 1 I ll II I I III BRAZILvSCOTLAND FZi,^us*. |l I II I ll'IIIlMBRAZILvSCOTLAND TZLr^u.,,^ At last, the 16th World Cup Finals are now upon us, a festival of football like no other, a celebration of
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    • 232 57 THE art of gamesmanship began in earnest yesterday as Scotland and Brazil decided not to keep their promises to the media. Playing tit-for-tat, Scottish manager Craig Brown started it all by completely fooling the Press about his team's training time at the Stade de France. And Brazil
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    • 191 57  -  By. Jeff Low SCOTLAND coach Craig Brown is hoping for rain today in order to create the first big upset of France '98. After two successive days of afternoon showers here in Paris, the weather forecast indicated that the rain would come again today. Said Brown:
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    • 928 59 I PICK HOLLAND* Says BRIAN MILLER: Holland's going to win. I feel it in my bones. I felt it in my wallet in early March when I plonked £100 ($260) with Ladbrokes of London on the Dutch beating the world. I've no regrets making the
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    • 158 59 BRAZIL is a team of stars too many stars. Ronaldo, Denilson, Rivaldo. And, as you and I know, where there are too many stars, each will try to outshine the other. The result? Utter chaos. Germany? It doesn't figure in my reckoning. Or, to put it
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 392 61 Could anyone stop a team with these players? The side may lack a natural ball winner, but it could be argued that once they gained possession of the ball, no opposition would be able to get it off them again. IN defence, Franz Beckenbauer and Bobby
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    • 103 61 BRAZIL received the loudest cheer in our call for readers to name their favourite World Cup team. Out of 5,288 calls received, 1,334 pledged support for Brazil. The other teams that made it to the top five are: Holland (994 votes) Italy (916) England (701) Argentina
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    • 512 62 Just about anyone who follows the World Cup in the next 33 days will almost certainly wager a bet. JEFFREY LOW sizes up the betting game... BEER money, dinner treats, a cuppa of coffee, or even your life savings, car or apartment? In fact, anything goes in
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    • 48 62 1966 (England): £100,000 1970 (Mexico): £250,000 1974 (Germany): £500,000 1978 (Argentina): £1 million 1982 (Spain): £5 million 1986 (Mexico): £10 million 1990 (Italy): £25 million 1994 (USA): £60 million 1998 (France): £100 million (expected) At the Euro *96 championships in England, £80 million were bet
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    • 110 62 Reuters. BOOKMAKERS possibly suspecting an England failure at France '98 have already started offering odds on a successor to coach Glenn Hoddle. Middlesbrough manager Bryan Robson is a hot 2-1 on favourite. Blackburn's Roy Hodgson is quoted at 4-1 against ahead of Fulham's Kevin Keegan at 5-1 and
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    • 69 62 The qualifiers for second round: Brazil, Norway, Italy, Chile, France, Denmark, Spain, Nigeria, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Yugoslavia, England, Romania, Argentina, Croatia Jose Luis Chilavert, the Paraguay goalkeeper, will score a goal from a free-kick or penalty Brazil will beat Holland in the final here will be
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    • 79 62 RONALDO is 4-1 favourite to be top goal-scorer at France '98. But bookmaker William Hill has taken several small bets at 1,000-1 on Paraguay's goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert. (Chilavert takes the country's penalties and occasionally even some free-kicks.) The latest betting: 4-1: Ronaldo (Bra) 7-1: Gabriel Batistuta
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    • 119 62 AFP. MACAU casino tycoon Stanley Ho has launched Asia's first official football pools and France '98 is expected to generate nearly US$BOO million ($1.3 billion) in bets. The lottery is the first government-franchised company in Asia licensed to run football pools. Said Ho: "We hope to
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    • 508 63  -  By Brian Miller THE betting slips are on the table. The chips are down. The field has been analysed right down to the colour of their socks. The adventurous are scouring the newspapers and magazines for droplets of information that could
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    • 46 64 THE WORLD CUP FINALS '98 KICK OFF TODAY TODAY: Group A: BRAZIL v SCOTLAND (Tonight, 11.30pm) Group A: MOROCCO v NORWAY (3am, tomorrow morning) GROUP B: ITALY v CHILE (11.30pm, tomorrow) ALL MATCHES LIVE ON PREMIERE 12
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    • 220 64 It's Brazil all over... Sophisticated Paris is rather too preoccupied to get worked up about the World Cup Reuters. A woman in her 60s, Armani-clad and cradling a coiffured poodle, is strolling near the Invalides monument where Napoleon Bonaparte is buried. "The World Cup?
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