From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans @ IME)
Subject: VNS: Wed 12-Aug-1992
Keywords: VNS,news,sports
Organization: Digital Equipment Service Industries Solutions Company Ltd
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:29:56 GMT


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VNS MAIN NEWS:                                    [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]
==============                                    [Reading, England           ]

     Here is the News at 06:30 BST on Wednesday 12-August-1992
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     UK News
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     FT-SE = 2309.6
     Exchange Rate 1 UK pound = $ 1.9210 = Dm 2.8290

     Armed police have been taking part in an anti-terrorist operation in
     Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, overnight. There are no official details yet.
     However, un-official reports are that they raided a flat which is the
     home of an Irish couple and their 3 children who were away at the time. A
     number of items were taken away.

     A seige is continuing at Shotts prison in Lanarkshire where a prison
     officer has been taken hostage by inmates.

     There is discussion that the government plans a wholescale revision of
     the social security system.

     The man arrested in connection with the murder of a woman on Wimbledon
     Common has been released without charge.

     European News
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     A convoy carrying some 300 children and their mothers is due to leave
     Sarajevo today for the coast.

     The Serb leaders in Northern Bosnia have given the UN a list of some
     28,000 muslims who they want to expell from the area as part of their
     programme of "ethnic cleansing". UN officials are to travel to the area
     today.

     The UN Security Council will vote tomorrow on a resolution to allow the
     use of force to safeguard relief supplies in Bosnia.

     International News
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     Iraq has been given a new warning by the UN about human rights violations
     against the Kurds in the north of Iraq and against the Shiites in the
     south.

     {News courtesy of the BBC}

     Local Weather
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     A damp start after overnight rain. Staying dry with some sun this
     morning but rain moving in by the evening. High 20C/68F.


VNS UK SPORTS REPORT:                            [Ken Merrick, VNS Sports Desk]
=====================                            [Valbonne, France            ]

||| CYCLING
    Tour of Great Britain
    The Italian Maximilian Sciandri (Motorola) leads the field after the 214km
    stage from Edinburgh to Gateshead. Sciandri won a sprint finish from Adri
    Van der Poel and Heinz Imboden. 

||| FOOTBALL
    Chelsea hope tocomplete the signing of former Luton Town forward Mick
    Harford.


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