From: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: VNS, Fri 02-Oct-92
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:19:35 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading, England


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VNS MAIN NEWS:                                     [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]
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    Here is the News at 07:00 BST on Friday 2-October-1992
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    UK News
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    The EC vice-president Sir Leon Briton, has put forward changes to the
    ERM to make it more flexible so as to allow Britain to re-enter.
    However, Mr Major has said that he does not expect Britain to re-enter
    the mechanism soon.

    A 23-year old man was shot in front of his young children in Belfast
    last night. 

    A Home Office working party is said to be nearing agreement on a policy
    whereby lazy or incompetent police officers, up to the rank of chief
    superintendant, can be sacked.

    European News
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    The German Bundersbank is holding a meeting today but there are doubts
    as to whether another change in interest rates is likely.

    In Bosnia, some 1,500 people have been moved from a Serb-held camp to
    Croatia. This is said to be the first stage in the removal of all the
    camps. The US has said that, weather permitting, it will restart relief
    flights to Sarajevo this weekend.

    World News
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    Early this morning, a US aircraft carrier fired on a Turkish warship
    during a Nato exercise in the Aegean Sea. 9 crewmen are believed to have
    been killed with many others injured.

    In Napal, searchers have found the flight data recorder from the PIA
    airliner crash. The Napalese president has said that he would like the
    airport to be upgraded by installing radar to help landings in bad
    weather. Currently, there is only a radio beam to help pilots. There is
    also discussion of building a second airport away from the valley in
    which Kathmandu is built, for use in bad weather.

    Ross Perot has announced his re-entry into the US presidential campaign.
    In July, he withdrew, saying he could not win. The democratic candidate,
    Bill Clinton, has said that he will not change his campaign. He is still
    well ahead in the opinion polls.

    {News courtesy of the BBC}


    Local Weather
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    A misty start, clearing later, then cloudy with rain getting heavy by
    the evening. High 15C/59F. Windy and wet over the weekend.

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