From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans @ IME)
Subject: VNS: Tue 28-Jul-1992
Organization: Digital Equipment Service Industries Solutions Company Ltd
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:52:51 GMT


 Sorry about the lack of news over the last couple of days but I've been
having some problems with my machine.

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        VNS MAIN NEWS .....................................   58 Lines
        VNS UK SPORTS REPORT ..............................  300   "


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

     Here is the News at 07:00 BST on Tuesday 28-July-1992
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     UK News
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     FT-SE = 2348.0
     Exchange Rate 1 UK pound = $ 1.9155 = Dm 2.8395

     The government is facing renewed criticism over the deal reached last
     night in Brussels which fixed a minimum VAT rate of 15% throughout the
     EC. This is legally binding for 4 years after which it can be reviewed.
     The current UK rate is 17.5%. Opponents of greater European unity say
     that this is a further erosion of sovereignty.

     Police are gradually clearing an illegal campsite in Powys which had some
     8000 travellors at the weekend. Some 2000 are left. Some are said to be
     wanting to stay until Thursday when they can collect their dole cheques
     so that they can then refuel their vehicles in order to move on.

     The governments plans for a new education system are to be revealed today
     in a white paper. The plans will set the pattern for education over the
     next 25 years. It is expected that it will be made easier for schools to
     opt-out of local authority control. Secondary schools will be encouraged
     to specialise in particular areas.

     The singer Michael Jackson is to sue the Daily Mirror over an article
     that alleged he had been left "horribly disfigured" after plastic
     surgery. He is said to be so upset that he is prepared to appear in court
     to show a jury his appearance. The Mirror is to defend its article. If
     Jackson wins, he will probably give the money to charity, a common step
     in such cases nowadays.

     European News
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     EC-sponsored talks to bring peace in Bosnia continue in London today.
     However, there are few signs of agreement being likely.

     EC Ministers meet tomorrow to discuss the refugee crisis caused by the
     fighting in the former Yugoslavian states. There are now more refugees
     than at any time since the 2nd World War.

     International News
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     A new team of UN weapons inspectors are to arrive in Baghdad today where
     they will inspect the Ministry of Agriculture.

     The US military presence in the Middle East is being re-inforced to keep
     up the pressure on Iraq to comply with the UN resolutions that were part
     of the Gulf War cease-fire.

     {News courtesy of the BBC}

     Local Weather
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     Dry and sunny. High 24C/75F.


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

|||CRICKET
   England beat Pakistan by 6 wickets to square the series 1-1. 

|||FOOTBALL

   Transfer News...
   Trevor Steven is to re-join Glasgow Rangers for a fee of around 2 million
   from Marseille. The player was linked with Leeds United, however following 
   the breakdown in transfer neotiations between clubs, Leeds signed David 
   Rocastle from Arsenal.

   Ray Houghton, the Republic of Ireland midfielder, has joined Aston Villa
from
   Liverpool.

   In France, Paris St Germain have paid 3.5 million pounds for Liberian
   international George Weah from Monaco. The Cote D'Azur club promptly spent 3
   million of the fee for German international Jurgen Klinsman from Inter
   Milan. Newly promoted Strasbourg have signed Northern Ireland international 
   Michael Hughes from Manchester City.
   

   Paris Tournament in aid of Furiani Stadium victims:
   Liverpool ...... 1  Monaco .......... 2
   Paris St Germain 3  Borussia Dortmund 1

   Paris St Germain 1  Monaco .......... 0
   Liverpool ...... 2  Borussia Dortmund 3


|||MOTOR SPORT
   Ferrari will officially announce tomorrow the return of John Barnard to the
   team. 

|||OLYMPICS

   Paul Ahlgren reports ...

	Yesterday was Children's day in the olympics. Not that the children
	of Barcelona were allowed to visit the olympic village, but in the
	competition. Mingia Fu from China is 14 years old and won the
	platform diving for women, as is the German swimmer Franziska
	van Almsick that took a silver yesterday. The gymnastics has also
	started, and as most of you know, you're "over the hill" in this
	sport when you reach the age of 20.

	... and what can you say about a guy like swimmer Tamas Darnyi. He
	has totally dominated the medleys since 1985. He has won every 
	gold in every championship since then and he did it again here
	in Barcelona.
	
	The sailor's didn't sail yesterday because of the simple reason
	that there were no wind.

	Dennis Mitchell of the american 4*100 meters relay teams says 
	that he is convinced that Carl Lewis will be a part of the team,
	since they have been using him on the third and fourth relay
	during the training.

	USA's win over Japan in the volleyball tournament has been
	overturned after a protest. The result has been changed to 3-1
	to Japan. The protest was caused of the fact that USA should
	have had a penalty point and ejection of a player in the end
	of the fourth set, but the referee neglected this fact.

	It's dangerous to show to much buttocks. Two Chinese girl
	gymnastics were penalized with 0.1 points decrease in the team
	points since their clothes didn't cover enough...

	Spain caught their first gold medal of these olympics by 
	Jose Manuel Moreno winning the Velodrome Individual pursuit. 
	He started last of all contestants and was able to win with 
	almost a second which is great margin in this sport where
	thousands of seconds is counted.

	Spain needed the gold since maybe their best shot at a gold
	medal lost yesterday, when the Handball team surprisingly lost
	their first game against France with 16-18.

	Afghanistan will not compete in these olympics. "It's not a 
	boycott, but the simple fact that our athletes haven't had a
	chance to practice due to war" said the Afghanian OC leader.

	Not a day without any new people caught with doping. On Monday
	Natalja Artjmova (1500 meters T&F) of the CIS was banned for 
	using illegal substances and was caught during the Oslo GP three	
	weeks ago. Also no less than 5(!) nigerians were caught, since
	IAAF for the first time tested the African athletes during their
	national championship. They were, Charity Opara, Clement Chukwe,
	Chioma Ajunwa, Tina Iheagwam and Innocent(!) Asonze. That brings 
	the count up to a total of eight so far.

	In trivia section of today we can tell you that during the almost
	100 years of the olympics there has been only 8 IOC presidents.
	The first was actually not Coubertin, but a greek called Dimitros
	Vikelas from Greece. It was Coubertin that wanted a Greek as the
	the president, but after the first olympics Coubertin became
	president until 1915 when he became an officer in the French army.
	During the war Godefroy de Blonay from Switzerland was an acting
	neutral president until Coubertin became president for his second
	period which lasted between 1919 to 1925. Blonay is the only 
	president who hasn't organized an olympic tournament. The next in
	line was Henri de Baillet-Latour, a tough diplomat who even stood
	up against Hitler and forced in to remove the signs that said 
	"Dogs and Jews not allowed".

	During WWII a Swede Johannes Sigfrid Edstrvm became president, he
	tried to move some events like wrestling and boxing to the winter
	olympics, but failed. Now 50 years later it seems likes his ideas
	will become true, since there are talk of moving the "winter"
	sports of the summer olympics to the winter olympics for a more
	balanced olympics.

	The next president is IOC's most controversial president, american
	billionaire Avery Brundage. Deeply conservative, and rigid in his
	view against professionalism within sports. After 25 years he was
	succeeded by Lord Kilanin who was able to get China to return to
	the games.

	In 1980 he was replaced ny Juan Antonio Samaranch, who has brought
	welth to the olympic movement. He rules the IOC with a hard fist
	but is also known to have maybe the greatest collection of sport
	stamps in the world. A former sport minister in Spain during the
	Franco era, and also Spanish ambassadeur in Mongolia(!).

	Soccer:

	USA - Kuwait 3-1, Colombia-Quatar 1-1 , Spain - Egypt 2-0

	Swimming:

	100 meters Butterfly Men:
	1, Pablo Morales, USA, 53.32
	2, Rafael Szukala, Poland
	3, Anthony Nesty, Surinam

	400 meters Medley Men:
	1. Tamas Darnyi, Hungary
	2. Eric Namesnik, USA
	3. Luka Sacchi, Italy.

	4*200 meters Freestyle Men:
	1. CIS 2. Sweden 3. USA

	200 meters Freestyle Women:
	1. Nicole Haislett, USA
	2. Franziska van Almsick, Germany
	3. Kerstin Kielgass, Germany

	200 meters Breaststroke Women:
	1. Kyoko Iwasaki, Japan
	2. Lin Li, China
	3. Anita Nall, USA

	Shooting:
	
	(Correction from yesterday, this was not Skeet)
	50 meters, Free Pistol Men:
	1. Konstantin Loukatsjik, CIS 2. Yifu Wang, China 3. Ragnar
	Skaneker, Sweden.

	Air Rifle Men:

	1. Jouri Fedkine, CIS
	2. Franck Badiou, France
	3. Johann Riederer, Germany

	Women Pistol:

	1. Marina Logvinenko, CIS
	2. Li Duihong, China
	3. Dorzhsuren Munkbayar, Mongolia

	Weightlifting:

	1. Chun Byung-Kwan, South Korea
	2. Liu Shoubin, China
	3. Luo Jianming, China

 	Baseball:
        Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic 7-5, Japan-Spain 12-1
        United States-Chinese Taipei 10-9, Cuba-Italy 18-1

	Basketball:
        Men's Pool A: Spain-Brazil 101-100,Germany-Angola 64-63
        	      United States-Croatia 103-70

 	Men's Pool B: Puerto Rico-China 100-68,Lithuania-Venezuela 87-79
        	      Unified Team-Australia 85-63

	Boxing:
	
	There is still so many results that I'll wait until the second round
	results starts to come in.

        Cycling:

        Men's Individual Time Trial (1000 meters)
	1, Jose Manuel Moreno, Spain, 1 minute 03. 342 seconds. 
	2, Shane Kelly, Australia, 1:04. 288.
	3, Erin Hartwell, USA, 1:04.753. 

	Diving:
        Women's Platform Final -- 
	1, Fu Mingxia, China, 461.430 points.
	2, Elena Mirochina, Unified Team, 411.630. 
	3, Mary Ellen Clark, USA, 401.910. 
	4, Zhu Jinhong, China, 400.560. 
	5, Inga Afonina, Unified Team, 398.430. 

	Field Hockey
        Women's Pool A: Spain-Germany 2-2, Australia-Canada 2-0
        Women's Pool B: Netherlands-Britain 2-1,South Korea-New Zealand 5-0  

	Gymnastics:
        Men's Mandatory Exercises:
        Team Competition
	1, Unified Team (Vitali Chtcherbo, Valeri Belenki, 
	   Igor Korobtchinski, Grigori Misioutine, Aleksei Voropaev,
           Roustam Charipov), 292.650 points. 
	2, China, 290.025. 
	3, Japan, 289.375. 
	4. Germany, 287.925. 

        Overall
	1, Vitali Chtcherbo, Unified Team, 59.000. 
	2, Valeri Belenki, Unified Team, 58.775. 
	3, Igor Korobtchinski, Unified Team,58.525. 
	4, Grigori Misioutine, Unified Team, 58.500.

        Floor:         1, Vitali Chtcherbo, Unified Team, 9.900.
        Side Horse:    1, Vitali Chtcherbo, Unified Team, 9.775. 
        Rings:         1, (tie) Li Xiaosahuang, China; Vitali Chtcherbo,
		          Unified Team; Andreas Wecker, Germany, 9.900.
        Vault:         1, Vitali Chtcherbo, Unified Team, 9.825. 
        Parallel Bars: 1, Vitali Chtcherbo, Unified Team, 9.900.
        Horizontal Bar:1, (tie) Li Jing, China; Valeri Belenki,
			  Unified Team, 9.825. 

        Team Handball:
        Men's Pool A: Sweden-Czechoslovakia 20-14, Iceland-Brazil 19-18
        	      South Korea-Hungary 22-18
        Men's Pool B: Romania-Egypt 22-21, Unified Team-Germany 25-15
		      France-Spain 18-16  

	Judo:
        Women's 72 Kg and over:
	1. Zhuang Xiaoyan, China 
	2. Estela Rodriguez Villanueva, Cuba
	3. Yoko Sakaue, Japan and Natalia Lupino, France

        Men's 95 Kg and over:
	1. David Khakhaleichvili, Unified Team
	2. Naoya Ogawa, Japan
	3. David Douillet, France and Imre Csosz, Hungary

	Modern Penthathlon:
        Individual Shooting:
	1, Edouard Zenovka, Unified Team, 198 points, 1240. 
	2, Tomas Narkus, Lithuania, 196, 1210. 
	3, Dariusz Gozdziak,Poland, 195, 1195. 
	4, Mohamed Abouelsouad, Egypt, 193, 1165. 

        Team Shooting:
	1, Poland, 3420 points. 
	2, Unified Team, 3345.
	3, Italy, 3330. 

        Swimming (300 meter freestyle):
	1, Gintaras Staskevicius, Lithuania, 3:10.47, 1352 points. 
	2, J.M. Gostigian, USA, 3:13.94, 1324. 
	3, Christophe Ruer, France, 3:14.07, 1320. 

        Swimming Team:
	1, United States , 3812 points. 
	2, Lithuania, 3780. 
	3, Korea, 3764. 
	4, Unified Team, 3760.

	Medal standings:	     Gold Silver Bronze Tot.
	Unified Team (CIS)            6    1       0      7
	China                         3    6       1     10
	United States                 3    2       5     10
	Hungary                       2    1       1      4
	South Korea                   2    0       0      2
	Germany                       1    1       3      5
	Australia                     1    1       1      3
	Japan                         1    1       1      3
	Bulgaria                      1    1       0      2
	Spain                         1    0       0      1
	France                        0    2       3      5
	Sweden                        0    2       1      3
	Italy                         0    1       1      2
	Poland                        0    1       0      1
	Cuba                          0    1       0      1
	Yugoslavia                    0    0       1      1
	Finland                       0    0       1      1
	Holland                       0    0       1      1
	Romania                       0    0       1      1
	Mongolia                      0    0       1      1
	Surinam                       0    0       1      1


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