From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans @ IME)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: VNS: Thu  3-Sep-1992
Keywords: VNS,news,sport
Date: 3 Sep 92 10:56:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Service Industries Solutions Company Ltd


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 Edition : 2654             Thursday  3-Sep-1992            Circulation :  7792

        VNS MAIN NEWS .....................................   38 Lines
        VNS UK SPORTS REPORT ..............................   29   "


VNS MAIN NEWS:                                   [Andy Payne, VNS UK News Desk]
==============                                   [Fareham, England            ]

    Here is the News at 09:00 BST on Thursday 3rd September 1992
    ------------------------------------------------------------

    UK News
    -------

    Britain is to protest 'in the strongest possible terms' today over a
    10-year sentence given to Mr Michael Wainwright, a tourist from Sowerby
    Bridge, West Yorks, for entering Iraq illegally during a cycling trip.

    The Government has indicated that it would be the end of the Maastrict
    Treaty on European political and economic union if the French vote 'No'
    in their referendum on Sept 20th. Mr Major is ready to abandon the
    controversial legislation to ratify the treaty if the French follow the
    Danes in rejecting the Maastrict treaty.

    The Health and Safety Executive report into the Cannon Street rail
    crash in January 1991 has blamed the driver for the accident. Traces of
    cannabis were found in his blood when he was tested three days after
    the accident. British Rail is to introduce drug spot-checks on its
    130,00 staff following the report.


    World News
    ----------

    Tidal waves caused by an undersea earthquake killed at least 34 people
    along Nicaragua's Pacific coast, officials stated in Managua yesterday.
    Another 298 people were injured and 700 were missing.

    The American grandmaster Bobby Fischer won the first chess game in his
    2.5 million pound re-match against Boris Spassky at Sveti Stefan
    yesterday. The winner will be the first to take 10 games.

    Poitr Jaroszewicz, Polish Prime Minister for 10 years until 1980, and
    his wife were found murdered in their Warsaw home yesterday.

    {News courtesy of the Daily Telegraph}

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

||| FOOTBALL
    Aston Villa have made a 2.3 million pound bid for Dean Saunders, the
    Liverpool and Wales striker.

    FA Premier League
    tuesday night -
    Liverpool ....  1  Southampton ... 1
    Middlesbrough . 2  Ipswich Town .. 2
    Oldham Ath .... 2  Leeds United .. 2
    Wimbledon...... 0  Man City ...... 1

    wednesday night
    Aston Villa ..  1  Chelsea ....... 3
    Man Utd ......  1  Crystal Palace  0
    Q.P.R. .......  0  Arsenal ....... 0
    Sheff Wed ....  1  Coventry City . 2
    Spurs ........  2  Sheff Utd ..... 0

    Barclays League Division 1
    Barnsley .....  0  Wolves ........ 1
    Birmingham City 1  Southend ...... 0
    Brentford ..... 4  Portsmouth .... 1

    Scottish Premier League
    Aberdeen ...... 0  Airdrie ....... 0
    Celtic ........ 3  St Johnstone .. 1
    Dundee ........ 1  Hearts ........ 3
    Hibernians .... 2  Dundee Utd .... 1
    Motherwell .... 1  Rangers ....... 4 


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