Today, 11 July 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 12 1 TODAY MITMPH3R.il '2000 We d n c s d ay j»»y 2001.
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 376 1 Reuters Parliament suspended, referendum in Aug COLOMBO Sri Lanka's President today suspended Parliament for two months in an apparent bid to save her minority government from defeat in a no-confidence vote, leaving the war-torn country in political limbo. President Chandrika Kumaratunga, whose People's Alliance coalition lost its
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      63 1 AFP photo HAVANA Cuban President Fidel Castro speaking to Elian Gonzalez at a communist youth meeting yesterday. Since the ship-wrecked boy's return following an unsuccessful court attempt by his relatives to have him remain in the United States, the Cuban government has stressed that it has respected his
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    • 219 1 Agencies NEW YORK US stocks sank to threemonth lows but bonds surged yesterday as corporations continued to report poor results that drove investors to US Treasuries for safety. Wall Street also fretted over a report showing that US retail sales fell
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • HOT NWES
    • 338 2  -  Ng Boon Yian Is this the end to Sintercom's lively web discussions? by.. boonyian@newstoday.com.sg AFTER years of being free from Internet regulation, Sintercom known for its lively forum on current affairs may finally have to be registered. Dr Tan Chong Kee, its web editor, said he had recently
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    • 199 2 It's suicide when ON Day Seven of the Silk Air trial, Justice Tan Lee Meng said that if Captain Tsu Way Ming had known that by deliberately nose-diving the plane, he would kill himself, then, by definition of law, it would be considered a suicide attempt. The plaintiffs' lawyer Michael
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    • 78 2 -AFP A SILVERPOINT study of a horse and rider by Leonardo da Vinci equalled the world record price for an Old Master drawing when it fetched US$ll.4B million ($2l million) at an auction in London. The sale shared the world record with Michelangelo's The Study For The
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    • 93 2 Channel News Asia A one-week-old baby girl has been found abandoned at Mimosa Road off Yio Chu Kang Road. The third abandoned baby this year, the girl is now coping well at the XX Women's and Children's Hospital. The baby, swaddled in a pink cloth, was
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    • 106 2 THE economic slowdown is no reason to stop investing in manpower. In fact, the National Healthcare Group (NHG) will pump in some $10 million over the next two years on staff development. Under the NHG Manpower Development Fund, $6 million will be spent on
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    • 258 2  - Owe time, do time 30 extra months Elaine Quek by.. elaine@newstoday.com.sg THE infamous Chua Tiong Tiong, better known as "Ah Long San", was finally brought before Chief Justice Yong Pung How yesterday, after evading the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) for almost two weeks. Chua's lawyer, Mr Edmond Pereira, had
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    • 153 3 'Spy' to be tried finally Reuters BELJING China will put Chinese-American academic Li Shaomin on trial for spying for Taiwan on Saturday, and it will allow a US diplomat to observe the proceedings, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The trial, which is not open to the public, will open
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    • 270 3 -AFP Forget about it, says Malaysian Legal Affairs Minister KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian students were warned against staging Indonesianstyle protests after two of their compatriots were detained last week under the Internal Security Act (ISA). "If students are going to follow the Jakarta style of eliminating problems through student
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    • 183 3 Bernama ALOR STAR A Universiti Utara Malaysia student leader yesterday denied making a seditious statement that was carried by Internet newspaper malaysiakini, and lodged a police report saying the statement had tarnished his image and that of the student council. Mr Husnul Hadi
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      387 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Singapore team sets up ER service for Surabaya town by.. zackaria@newstoday.com.sg AS many as six out of 10 trauma patients seen at the emergency room of Rumah Sakit Saiful Anwar used to die within the first four hours of treatment. And, since almost half
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    • 157 4 MANY agencies, one government that is the way to great service and the next big thing for the public sector to achieve. Charting this vision for Singapore's PS 21 movement. Head of the Civil Service Lim Siong Guan believes progress can be achieved by
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    • 150 4 Lee U-Wen THE Singapore Police Force (SPF) has raised $300,000 to help disadvantaged youths here. The funds were raised from the sale of commemorative Transit Link farecards and surplus from the Police Week Carnival sponsorship, and will be distributed to five voluntary welfare organisations which take
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    • 169 4 ft UliaLlAlkW U ILU Lee U-Wen SINGAPORE'S intrepid mountaineer Mr Khoo Swee Chiow, 36, is Asia's sole representative in an international team of 12 mountaineers attempting to conquer the 5,165 m Mount Ararat later this month. The team will tackle the North side of the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 93 4 READ 0N... 1 -cent trouble The coin is not well-liked and is usually given away/6 Enemies may save Gus Dur President reshuffles Cabinet yet again/12 On collision course in XL Opposition parties at odds over Islamic state/14 Love Diet Heavyweight HK stars tackle plump roles /18 The wittiest wins 'Judge'
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  • LETTERS
    • 269 6  -  Tom Ong The coin is not well-liked and is usually given away IN the past, a one-cent coin can fetch us an item or two. But today, with Singapore's cost of living as the world's ninth highest, the one-cent coin seems so insignificant to the public that there
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    • 579 6  -  Mrs Chan Jee Kun I REFER to the letter "Does it work? Current education system has many weak points" (Today, June 27) by Mr Jonathan Ooi. The present education system has been built up gradually through reinforcing the strengths and refining other aspects of
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    • 164 6  -  Alex Au I AM a part-time collector in a recycling company. My daily job is to collect all the green recycling bags outside HDB flats regularly in the morning at Tanjong Pagar and West Coast GRC. Most of the recycled items, including old
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    • 252 6  -  Phua Jason I REFER to the article "Don't laugh if I say this (TODAY, July 6). I have to agree with the writer that the Government is definitely showing signs of loosening its control over the media, and that the media is taking a more
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 380 8  -  Ivay Tan Gloomy economists predict fiscal measures by.. ivay@newstoday.com.sg ALL eyes will be on Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu when Parliament sits this afternoon. As Singapore heads towards an economic recession, pressures are mounting for the Government to announce an offBudget package to heal the
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    • 284 8  -  Lee Yew Meng by.. yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg PRIVATE property prices, which fell 4.7 per cent in the first half of this year, are likely to head lower in the next six months. Dr Steven Choo, Jones Lang LaSalle's National Director and Head of Research and
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    • $ Market Watch
      • 99 8 SINGTEL and Nippon Telegraph Telephone are both seeking to buy a 30 per cent stake in Korea Electric Power's cable network, Powercomm. This is according to Korea Electric Power (Kepco), which wants to sell off its Powercomm stake amounting to US$l.l billion ($2.02 billion),
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      • 97 8 LISTED defence technology group ST Engineering has achieved 26 per cent higher interim net profits at $167 million. Turnover was up a lower 17 per cent to $1.3 billion. Its main revenue earner, Aerospace, saw 11 per cent higher turnover at $513 million but the
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      • 62 8 OVERSEAS Union Insurance has given an irrevocable undertaking to pledge its 1.4 per cent stake in Overseas Union Bank (OUB) to United Overseas Bank (UOB). UOB said that a copy of the OUI undertaking will be made available for inspection once its formal takeover documents are despatched to
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      • 102 8 POPULAR Holdings has posted a 12 per cent increase in full-year pre-tax profit to $16.5 million on the back of a 28 per cent rise in sales to $275.6 million. It said the group saw a growing acceptance of textbook and supplementary publications introduced in
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    • 430 10 Small stock focus It is now operating in China, Australia and UK SINGAPORE Food Industries (SFI), which aims to become a world-class integrated food company, was first set up in 1973 to supply food to the Singapore Armed Forces. It now has subsidiaries in China, Australia and
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    • 90 10 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said yesterday it was still negotiating how to compensate Thailand for delaying reductions on car import tariffs. Under an Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) agreement, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore committed to slashing tariffs on cars and car
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    • 181 10 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE tops the total value of merger and acquisition deals in Australia for the first half of this year. According to international financial data group Thomson Financial, Singapore has invested some As2o billion ($18.72 billion) in three deals there so far. Thomson Financial
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    • Market News
      • 283 10 SINGAPORE shares broke a six-day losing streak to end up in light trading volume. Traders shrugged off grim economic statistics released yesterday that confirmed that a global manufacturing recession was well underway and sought revived merger plays to buoy up technology and banking stocks. The ST index rose 25.76
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      • 150 10 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian stock market eased off slightly yesterday as investors took a breather after the recent run-up. Market traders blamed it on investors having to settle their trades under the T+3 settlement period for purchases made on July 5, where volume rose to more than 300,000 lots.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 309 12 President reshuffles Cabinet yet again JAKARTA The very people who are out to topple the Indonesian President may end up saving him if they cannot agree on how to share the spoils of a post-Abdurrahman Wahid presidency. Mr Abdurrahman yesterday reshuffled his senior ministers in
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    • 173 12 -AFP photo SANTIAGO Violent protests erupted on the streets after an appeals court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was too ill to stand trial for atrocities committed when he was in power. Around 1,000 people, calling for justice, marched in the central
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    • 154 12 -AFP ISLAMABAD A Pakistani singer has sparked protests from her audience for daring to sing an Indian pop song as the leaders of the rival states prepared for Sunday's landmark summit. Zille Huma (picture), daughter of legendary Pakistani singer Noor Jehan, discovered the limits of the
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    • 205 12 Agencies MANILA Jailed former Philippine president Joseph Estrada yesterday reacted angrily when a charge sheet read out in the anti-graft court referred to him as a gangster. The 64-year-old former movie star was referrec to as Jose Velarde and Asiong Salonga, a notorious
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    • 172 12 AFP MOSCOW The crash of the Russian Tu-154 airliner last week that killed 145 people was caused by human error, the investigating committee said yesterday. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said co-pilot Sergei Didenko "unintentionally" jerked the controls, sending the aircraft into
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    • 254 13 MELBOURNE A team of Australian doctors said they have found a way to fertilise an egg with cells from any parts of the body, rather than sperm. The study offers hope to infertile men. Researcher Dr Orly Lacham-Kaplan, of Monash University,
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    • 90 13 AFP WASHINGTON Famed boyband, The Backstreet Boys, has postponed a series of concerts in the US and Canada to allow a member to undergo urgent treatment for alcohol abuse and depression. A J McLean (picture) will seek immediate help at an unspecified rehabilitation centre for
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    • 113 13 Reuters JERUSALEM Israelis in the Tel Aviv area were advised yesterday to boil tap water before drinking. This came after reports of ammonia contamination, which led to an overnight rush on bottled water. The Health Ministry announced on Monday that an unexplained cloudiness in the water
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    • 362 13 ROB DIANNE PARSONS (Care for the Family, UK) with Dianne Parsons Date Saturday, 28 July 200 1 Time 9.00am to I 1.30am with Rob Parsons Venue Singapore Polytechnic Auditorium Date Saturday, 28 July 2001 500 Dover Rd (enter by Gate 3 Dover Rd) Time 1.30pm to 4.00pm Cost $20 per
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1003 14  -  V Gayathry Opposition parties at odds over Islamic state by.. in Kuala Lumpur AT first, it sounded like political rhetoric. Politicians always make all kinds of claims and insinuations. But within days, the situation deteriorated into a war of statements by all and sundry. When
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    • 275 14 As they were saying I think the Bush adminis- M tration wants j to rebuild ties with Indonesia, in particular the Indonesian military, because it sees the military as crucial to the maintenance of the political stability in the archipelago. It sees the military not so much as a force
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    • 753 15 THE industrial city of Bradford has been the scene of Britain's worst race riots for two decades, with Asian and white youths fighting running battles with each other and police for a third night. It is the fourth northern English town to
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    • 40 15 B MAJOR KILLERS IN SINGAPORE 111 111 What are the symptoms, complications and various treatment of heart disease? Let "THE MEDICAL ALPHABET" spell it out for you in a 2-episode series on heart disease. TONIGHT, 7.30PM 18 JUL, WEDNESDAY, 7.30PM
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  • RELAX
    • 329 16  - Winners take all? Not this time Sophia Ang 10 Star Search finalists have been offered a chance to become stars by! sophia@newstoday.com.sg This year's Star Search winners may have been crowned, but it's not the end of the story for some lucky finalists. Ten finalists were offered contracts with MediaCorp
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    • 215 16  -  Hazel Tan by.. hazel@newstoday.com.sg YOU have to hand it to Andy Lav when it conies to publicity gimmicks. He has worn a bra, donned a skirt, and engaged in passionate dances with female dancers at his concerts. What can his fans
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    • 211 16 IN director Goh Boon Teck's latest production, The Seventh Drawer, inanimate things like drawers in an old chest are given character, voice and emotion. Animated by a stellar cast of Singapore actors Neo Swee Lin, Glen Goei, Gani Abdul Karim, Mark Richmond, Tan Kheng
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1480 17 •The Medical Alphabet Once Upon a Time in Shanghai I D^^H channel NEWSAS.A Channel News Asia, 7.32pm channe or3opm0 r 3 o pm Dong's secret identity as a hitman is ..^■■hmhi^^^^ exposed- Qiqiao implores Zhenhai to let i^^fil Headlines him off. On the other hand, Marshall 6am, lpra, 6pm, Bpm,
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  • INCINEMAS
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      264 18  -  Jenny Kong Heavyweight HK stars tackle plump roles by.. jenny@newstoday.com.sg Love on a Diet is a simple "therapeutic" story that revolves around the relationship between two "heavyweights" played by Andy Lav and Sammi Cheng. Weight, however, is not so much the issue, which has been over-publicised. Recognising beauty
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    • 271 18 Reuters photo LOS ANGELES Veteran actor Marlon Brando reportedly made life difficult for director Frank Oz on the set of his latest movie, the upcoming crime drama The Score. In behind-the-scenes accounts of the production appearing in media outlets this week, the relationship between the
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    • 509 19 'Judge' of Today's Swordfish contest David Ngiau shares with you some wacky entries We know what John Travolta's spy in Swordfish had in mind for the US$9.5 billion ($17.43 billion) he planned to hack from the US government. But what would YOU do with that kind of
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    • 167 19 AFP NEW DELHI A woman committed suicide in the northern Indian town of Nasik because her husband did not take her to see the Bollywood blockbuster Gadar Ek Prem Katha {Mutiny A Love Story), police said in a news report on Monday. Citing police
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 561 24 It's all about Reuters Beijing stands to reap billions from staging Olympics MOSCOWChina is in line for a billion-dol-lar payday if Beijing wins the right to stage the 2008 Summer Olympics. The city that wins Friday's International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote will be guaranteed at least US$l.2 billion ($2.1 billion)
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    • Article, Illustration
      551 25 Reuters MADRID European Player of the Year Luis Figo believes that Real Madrid's world record $66.05 million ($ll7 million) signing of Zinedine Zidane shows its determination to carry all before it in the club's centenary year in 2002. "Zidane is the best signing Real could make," Figo told
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    • 177 25 LONDON Steven Gerrard cast a shadow over England's World Cup qualifying hopes on Monday after suffering a freak ankle ligament injury that will sideline him for at least a month. The dynamic Liverpool midfielder, an integral part of Sven Goran Eriksson's England plans, is a major
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    • 166 25 Reuters MANCHESTER Manager Alex Ferguson has told new signing Ruud van Nistelrooy he will be Manchester United's number one striker next season. Despite missing most of last season with a cruciate injury, Ferguson has put his faith in the 24-year-old ahead of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      837 26 Ivanisevic has laid to r-resthis many ghostsll Wimbledon LONDON When it was finally over, when the most extraordinary story that tennis will probably ever know had run its wild and compelling course with a match that could only be described as titanic, Goran Ivanisevic slid onto his
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    • 302 26 Reuters MELBOURNE Australia's Pat Rafter may have lost the Wimbledon final for the second successive year, but he was still a national hero. Australia's World Cup-winning rugby union captain John Eales and Prime Minister John Howard were among those heaping praise on the two-time US Open
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    • 894 27  -  Rohit Brijnath by.. rohit@newstoday.com.sg THERE is an artist, I read about recently, who is doing an exhibition on athletes called "Fourth". It is, I presume, about the almost-heroes. Where .01 of a second (the distance between third and fourth in a race) has
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    • Carlsberg
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        875 28 As a player, Phil Thompson has won virtually everything in European football, including seven English titles and two European Cups. Now, he is building his managerial plaudits as assistant to Gerard Houllier. Today's Scott O'Donell gets up close with the Liverpool legend. TODAY: Phil, you played in the
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        981 29 On my screaming from the M touchline, it is ~W just my frustra- S tions coming out. When things are going wrong, that's when the players need help. We don't want them getting their heads down so you have to be there, shouting at them, encouraging them, urging
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    • 609 30  -  Scott O'Donell Swimming by.. scott@newstoday.com.sg HE WAS the first into the Changi Beach Club pool and the last to gel out of it. That dedication alone shows in a nutshell why lan Thorpe has risen to the very top of the swimming world. In
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    • 186 30  -  Kelvin Phang Alhletics by.. ke]vin@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S fastest junior, Mohamed Shameer Mohd Ayub, will compete in the lAAF-Westel World Youth Athletics Championships in Debrechen, Hungary, starting tomorrow. The 17-year-old, who is a member of the South-east Asia Games relay squad, will run in the 100 m
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    • 387 31  -  Jose Raymond by.. jose@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Tampines Rovers signed a 21-year-old unknown by the name of Mohammed Noor Ali in the S-League's inaugural year in 1996, little did it know that he would go on to become one of the nation's speediest wingers. He is now a
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 401 32 But Juve chief Moggi made sure he left sooner TURIN Juventus decided to sell Zinedine Zidane to Real Madrid, even though he had offered to stay for another season. General manager Luciano Moggi (right) revealed that Zidane had proposed a move for the summer
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      • 157 32 AFP MONROVIA Liberia's former world player of the year George Weah agreed to play for the national side again yesterday after being persuaded to change his mind by president Charles Taylor. Weah had said he would quit the team after being humiliated, insulted and
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