From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans @ IME)
Subject: VNS: Fri 31-Jul-1992
Organization: Digital Equipment Service Industries Solutions Company Ltd
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:35:03 GMT


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        VNS VOGONBALLS ....................................   58   "
        VNS UK SPORTS REPORT ..............................  248   "


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

     Here is the News at 08:00 BST on Friday 31-July-1992
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     UK News
     -------
     FT-SE = 2411.6
     Exchange Rate 1 UK pound = $ 1.9230 = Dm 2.8440

     Two fire bombs have exploded in Milton Keanes during the night. 5 others
     have been found. One caused considerable damage to a shop. No one has
     admitted responsibility but the IRA are suspect.

     A British sprinter has been sent home from the olympic games for drug
     use. His family say they believe he is innocent. The tests were made some
     3 weeks ago. 2 british weightlifters were also banned for drug use. There
     is some controversy, especially from the weightlifters, since they were
     also tested after the games began and nothing was found. The two
     weightlifters admit they had taken tablets to treat symptoms of asthma.

     European News
     -------------

     Fighting has continued in Sarajevo, some of it the heaviest for some
     time. Some 200 foreign nationals are to be airlifted out today.

     The Lib Dem leader, Paddy Ashdown, has called for safe havens to be setup
     in Bosnia, protected by UN troops. He is to set out today for a 3 day
     tour of the area.

     International News
     ------------------

     Nearly 300 people escaped from an airliner, a TWA Tristar, which crashed
     on take-off at New York airport.

     A senior Russian military officer has revealed that previously secret KGB
     files show that there may be US servicemen, captured during the Cold War,
     still living in the former USSR. The investigation continues.

     The head of the UN inspection team has said that nothing significant has
     been found in the Iraqi Agriculture Ministry.

     The head of a another UN team has appealed for an end to the harrasment
     of the mainly Shia population of southern Iraq.

     {News courtesy of the BBC}

     Local Weather
     -------------

     A sunny day with high cloud this morning, quite warm and mainly dry. High
     24-27C/75-81F. Some 10C cooler in Glasgow.


VNS VOGONBALLS:                                [Dick Binder, VNS Humour Editor]
===============                                [Nashua, NH, USA               ]

    "If I knew anything about politics, I'd be President and running
    for re-election."

				- Former MA governer & Pres. candidate
				  Mike Dukakis
				- from Rich Connelly (Northboro, MA, USA)

    "When I refer to Central America, of course, I mean the center of
    this country, not the Panama and Puerto Rico region..."

				- Tom Brokaw, NBC News Anchor
				- from Dan Harrington (Littleton, MA, USA)

    "All the equipment we own belongs to us."

				- Overheard at a DEC meeting
				- from Paul Tinkham (Maynard, MA, USA)

    "Good food to take out or sit in."

				- Sign at Mexican Restaurant in Abington, MA
				- from Paul Tinkham (Maynard, MA, USA)

    "It is impossible to know what to expect in these operations, but
    this one went much better than expected."

				- Inidentified doctor re: Pope's surgery
				- from Tim Greenwood (Nashua, NH, USA)

    "I think he's putting the horse before the cart."

		 		- Opposition spokesman re: govt policy
				- Tony Boyle (Melbourne, Australia)

    "Tennessee Senator Albert Gore from Tennessee..."

				- Nanette Hansen, WMUR-TV, Manchester, NH
				- from Nina eppes (Nashua, NH, USA)

    "The program will take place at the WRO facility located
    approximately 2 miles from the WRO facility."

				- Enrollment confirmation for a class
				- from Gary Stebbins (Seattle, WA, USA)

    "The recent partnership ... to do research on new battery
    technology for the development of electric cars is considered by
    many to be a big, although small, step in the right direction."

				- Associated Press, via Rocky Mountain News
				- from Mike Rawlins (Dallas, TX, USA)

    "Temporal Spare"

				- From tire information sticker
				- from Jon Reeves (Hudson, NH, USA)


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

||| RUGBY UNION
    The Gloucester and England forward Mike Teague has joined Moseley.

||| OLYMPICS
    Paul Ahlgren reports...

	The olympics starts today. At least many people consider that
	the olympic games doesn't start until the track and field 
	starts. These olympics are no exception, but this time there
	aren't as many sure winners as usual. Most of the running
	distances are wide open, there is a certain lack of stars
	since many of the given favourites like Carl Lewis and Dan
	O'Brien didn't qualify at all. Now it seems like the long
	jump will be the highlight of these olympics, and maybe the
	fact that Marlene Ottey will probably finally win her well
	deserved gold medal, after finishing after people has has
	at least been suspected of doping during the last three-four
	championships.

	Three British Athletes has been sent home caught with the use
	of illegal substances. This brings the count of banned people
	to eleven. The three are; Jason Livingstone, sprinter, Andrew
	Saxton and Andrew Davies weightlifters.

	FIFA is considering to remove the soccer from the olympic 
	program. They say that the tournament has been badly managed
	and that the numbers of spectators has been very dissapointing.
	(Why don't they allow the best players to participate and 
	people may be more interested, but maybe they're afraid that
	it will compete with the World Championships)

	IOC is considering to remove modern penthathlon, Weight lifting,
	Wrestling and rowing from the olympic program since they're not
	modern, and other sports should have qualification rounds so 
	they will become more "elite". (Isn't IOC missing two important
	points; 1. I thought that the idea was that every country should
	be allowed to start with at least one participant in every sport
	they choose, regardless of quality? and 2. Isn't it the great
	variety of sports that is the "thing" with the olympics? I think
	that IOC should read what Pierre de Coubertin wanted with the
	olympics, they are pretty far away from that these days...)

	If the 100 meters track race is about who is the "fastest man
	alive" then Alexander Popov is the "fastest man alive in the
	water". Yesterday he won the 50 meters freestyle adding another
	gold to the one he took on 100 meters.

	The U.S. women's basketball team gave its impression of the men's
	Dream Team at the Olympic Games Thursday, crushing Czechoslovakia, 111-
	55, in the opening game of the eight-team tournament. Maybe
	we should call them the "Dream girls"...

	Did you know that in the first olympics in Athens 1896 311 athletes
	from 13 countries took part.

	The Egyptian parliament is to hold a special meeting of
	its sports committee to discuss what its chairman called the 
	"embarassing and pathetic" results scored by Egyptian athletes and
	national teams in the Barcelona Games. Some people DO take this
	seriously...

	Swimming:
	
	500 meters Freestyle Men:
	1. Alexander Popov, CIS
	2. Matt Biondi, USA
	3. Tom Jaeger, USA

	200 meters Butterfly Men:
	1. Melvin Stewart, USA
	2. Danyon Loader, New Zealand
	3. Franck Esposito, France

	100 meters Backstroke men:
	1. Mark Tewksbury, Canada
	2. Jeff Rouse, USA
	3. David Berkoff, USA

	200 meters Medley Women:
	1. Li Lin, China 2,11.65(WR)
	2. Summer Sanders, USA
	3. Daniela Hunger, Germany

	800 meters Freestyle Women:
	1. Janet Evans ,USA
	2. Hayley Lewis, Australia
	3.Jana Henke, Germany

	4*100 meters Medley Relay Women:
	1. USA 4,02.54 (WR)
	2. Germany
	3. CIS.

	Wrestling:

	Greco-Roman:

	48 kg:
	1. Oleg Kutsjerenko, CIS
	2. Vincento Maenza, Italy
	3. Wilber Sanchez Cuba

	57 kg:
	1. Han-Bong An, South Korea
	2. Rifat Yildiz, Germany
	3. Zetian Sheng, China

	74 kg:
	1. Mnatsakan Iskandrairan, CIS
	2. Josef Tracz, Poland
	3. Torbjvrn Kornbakk, Sweden

	Modern Penthathlon:

	1. Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek, Poland 5559 points
	2. Attila Mizser, Hungary, 5446
	3. Edouard Zenovka, CIS 5361

	Team:
	1. Poland, 16018 points
	2. CIS, 15924
	3. Italy 15760

	Equestrian, Three Day Event:
        Team Standings after Endurance Test 
	1, New Zealand (Andrew Nicholson, Victoria Latta, Robert Tait, 
	   Mark Todd), 240.80 points.
	2, Britain, 248.40. 
	3, Australia, 273.60. 

        Three Day Event:
	Final Individual Standings: 
	1, Matthew Ryan, Kibah Tic Toc, Australia, 70.00 points. 
	2, Herbert Blocker, Feine Dame,Germany, 81.30. 
	3, Robert Tait, Messiah, New Zealand, 87.60. 

	Team Final Standings:
	1, Australia (David Green, Gillian Rolton, Andrew Hoy, 
	   Matthew Ryan), 288.60 points. 
	2, New Zealand, 290.80. 
	3, Germany, 300.30. 

        Individual Standings after Endurance Test 
	1, Matthew Ryan,Kibah Tic Toc, Australia, 65.00 points. 
	2, Andrew Nicholson, Spinning Rhombus, New Zealand, 70.40. 
	3, Herbert Blocker, Feine Dame, Germany,79.80. 
	4, Mary Thomson, King William, Britain, 80.40. 

	Basketball:
	Women's Pool A:
        Brazil 85, Italy 70
        Cuba 91, Unified Team 89

	Women's Pool B:
        China 66, Spain 63
        United States 111, Czechoslovakia 55

	Field Hockey
        Men's Pool A:
        Britain 3, India 1
        Argentina 1, Egypt 0

        Men's Pool B:
        Pakistan 6, Unified Team 2
        Netherlands 4, New Zealand 3

        Gymnastics:
        Women's All-Round Competition Final: 
	1, Tatiana Goutsou, Unified Team, 39.737 points. 
	2, Shannon Miller, USA, 39.725. 
	3, Lavinia Corina Milosovici, Romania, 39.687. 
	4, Cristina Bontas, Romania, 39.674. 

	Team Handball:
        Women's Pool A:
        Unified Team 23, United States 16
        Germany 32, Nigeria 17

	Women's Pool B:
        South Korea 27, Norway 16 
	Austria 20, Spain 16

        Judo
	61 kg Women:
	1. Catherine Fleury, France
	2. Yael Arad, Israel
	3. Zhang Di, China and Elena Petrova, Unified Team

        Men's 78 Kg 
	1. Hidehiko Yoshida, Japan
	2. Jason Morris, USA
	3. Kim Byung-Joo, South Korea and  Bertrand Damaisin, France

	Shooting:
        Women's Standard Rifle 3 Position Final
	1, Launi Meili, USA, 684.3 points. 
	2, Nonka Detcheva Matova, Bulgaria, 682.7. 
	3, Malgorzata Ksiazkiewicz, Poland, 681.5. 

	Men's Rapid Fire Pistol Final
	1, Ralf Schumann, Germany, 885.0. 
	2, Afanasijs Kuzmins, Latvia,882.0. (First Latvian medal since 1936)
	3, Vladimir Vokhmianine, Unified Team, 882.0. 

	Soccer
        Pool C:
        Sweden 1, South Korea 1
        Paraguay 3, Morocco 1

        Pool D:
        Mexico 1, Ghana 1
	Australia 3, Denmark 0  



   	                           Gold Silver Bronze Tot.
	Unified Team                 18    8      10     36
	United States                11   11      10     32
	China                         7   10       4     21
	Hungary                       6    4       1     11
	South Korea                   5    0       2      7
	Germany                       4    5       9     18
	Australia                     3    3       3      9
	Poland                        3    3       1      7
	Japan                         2    2       3      7
	Cuba                          2    2       2      6
	Turkey                        2    1       0      3
	Spain                         2    0       0      2
	Bulgaria                      1    4       0      5
	France                        1    3       8     12
	Britain                       1    1       2      4
	Norway                        1    1       0      2
	Canada                        1    0       1      2
	Italy                         1    3       4      8
	Sweden                        0    3       3      6
	New Zealand                   0    2       2      4
	Romania                       0    1       4      5
	Israel                        0    1       0      1
	Latvia                        0    1       0      1
	Peru                          0    1       0      1
	Brazil                        0    1       0      1
	Holland                       0    0       3      3
	Yugoslavia                    0    0       2      2
	Belgium                       0    0       1      1
	Finland                       0    0       1      1
	Mongolia                      0    0       1      1
	North Korea                   0    0       1      1
	Surinam                       0    0       1      1


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| Gwyn Evans  | evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com |  Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK  |
| DESISCo - Digital Equipment Service Industries Solutions Company Ltd |
|  Views expressed and statements made are mine and not those of DEC   |
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