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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.election,clari.news.europe,clari.news.politics.people,clari.sports.misc,biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: British Olympic champion wins political race
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, election, politics,
	political personalities, track & field, men's amateur
Date: 10 Apr 92 07:31:13 GMT
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Location: great britain
ACategory: international
Slugword: britain-election-athlete
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	LONDON (UPI) -- Former Olympic gold medalist Sebastian Coe, 35 won
possibly the most important race of his life Friday, when he became a
member of parliament in Britain's general election.
	The only runner to have held simultaneously four world records, Coe
was voted in to represent the Conservative Party in the electoral area
of Falmouth and Camborne in Cornwall in the west of England.
	The election returned the ruling Conservatives to power for a
historic fourth term.
	Coe gave up athletics after the 1990 Commonwealth Games to take up a
political career. 
	He held simultaneous world records in the 800 meters, 1,000 meters,
1,500 meters and the mile.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.election,clari.news.europe,clari.news.politics.people,biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: Hung British Parliament creates variety of possibilities
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, election, politics,
	political personalities
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:29:50 GMT
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Location: great britain
ACategory: international
Slugword: britain-election-primer
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	LONDON (UPI) -- The British House of Commons has 651 seats. In order
to gain clear control of the government, a political party must hold at
least 326 of those seats. When no party has a clear majority, a hung
Parliament occurs.
	Since there is no written British constitution laying out clear rules
in such a case, a variety of scenarios may result.
	A defeated prime minister is expected to resign from office. However,
the prime minister can try to negotiate with other parties to form a
minority government. Or he can ask the queen to dissolve the new
Parliament, forcing another election in hopes of winning on the second
attempt.
	An attempt to negotiate a minority government is the likely course,
if the party of the prime minister wins more seats than the opposition
but fails to win a clear majority.
	Such negotiations often involve the offer of ministerial positions to
the minor party in exchange for its support.
	It is possible for a prime minister to attempt to form such a
coalition even if his party fails to win as many seats as the
opposition. In 1974, the ruling Conservatives ended up with four seats
fewer than Labour, but Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath held on for
several days before resigning, after unsuccessfully trying to negotiate
a deal with the minority Liberal Party.
	There is no precedent this century of a prime minister staying on to
meet Parliament as the leader of the second largest party, but there is
no rule barring that possibility.
	Constitutional experts say the queen, who must remain impartial, is
unlikely to grant a request to dissolve the new Parliament to force
another election.
	If the party in power is unable to put together a government or if
the opposition party wins more votes in the general election, then the
opposition party has a chance to form a government with the support of
minor parties.
	Britain had its last minority government, a coalition of Labour and
Liberals, from March 1977 to March 1979 when the Tories regained control
behind Margaret Thatcher.
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Subject: Controversial alderman loses re-election
Keywords: politics
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 21:25:14 PDT
ACategory: usa
Slugword: politics-mcgee
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	MILWAUKEE (UPI) -- City Alderman Michael McGee, who threatened to have
snipers shoot drivers on the highways if he was not re-elected, lost his
bid for re-election to a Milwaukee police sergeant.
	Sgt. George Butler defeated McGee by 52 percent to 48 percent in the
largely black 10th District race.
	McGee, a black, claimed he was cheated out of victory because the
10th District was redrawn, putting more middle income black families
into the traditionally lower income area.
	The 42-year-old McGee promised to hold a news conference on Good
Friday to announce his plans.
	McGee previously told a news conference he would position snipers on
highways to attack passing motorists if he was not re-elected. He later
backed away from his threat and promised to work to prevent violence in
the city.
	Last month McGee disbanded his Black Panther Militia, a volunteer
organization he founded in 1990 to fight inner-city problems. He once
said he would use his malitia to lead an uprising against the city if
problems of poverty and racism were not solved.
	Butler cited McGee's poor attendance record at City Council meetings
and charged his method of representing the district was nothing more
than ``collecting a paycheck.''
	``The people of Milwaukee have held Michael McGee accountable for
what he has been doing and what he hasn't been doing,'' Butler said.
	Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, who had an antagonistic relationship
with McGee, endorsed Butler in the race.
	On April 1, McGee announced he was endorsing Norquist's re-election,
only to reveal two days later it was an April Fool's Day prank.
	Milwaukee attorney Terrance Pitts, a McGee opponent, called Butler's
win ``a resounding victory for the city of Milwaukee and the state of
Wisconsin.''
	He congratulated voters ``for having the determination and courage to
stand up against threats of violence and intimidation.''
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.politics,biz.clarinet.sample
Subject: Clinton returns home
Keywords: politics
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:15:06 GMT
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Slugword: politics-clinton
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	LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) Bill Clinton returned home Tuesday to review
troubling state budget numbers and eulogize Sam Walton before returnin g
to New York City to await key primary results.
	Clinton met with his budget director and other administration
officials for several hours before flying to Bentonville for the funeral
of Sam Walton, the founder of the Wal-Mart chain, who died Sunday of
bone cancer.
	His campaign office said Clinton would return to New York Tuesday
night to await results of primaries being held in New York, Wisconsin,
Kansas and Minnesota.
	Clinton refused to predict an outcome in New York, the biggest of
four Democratic primaries being held Tuesday, saying whatever the
results he will be in Pennsylvania later this week to campaign for that
state's April 28 primary.
	``I'll keep with the same message I started with,'' Clinton said on
arrival at the Arkansas state capitol. ``There may be some changes in
tactics depending on what happens.''
	He called on former California Gov. Edmund ``Jerry'' Brown, his
Democratic rival, to apologize for a last-minute flyer blitz in black
New York neighborhoods comparing Arkansas with South Africa.
	``It was one of the more gutless things I've ever seen a politician
do,'' Clinton said. ``I think that's something he'll have to answer for
not only to me but to the people of this state as we go along.''
	Brown's flyer referred to a round of golf Clinton played last month
at the Little Rock Country Club, which has no black members. Clinton
apologized for playing at the club and promised to golf elsewhere until
blacks are admitted.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com
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Subject: Brown had ties to big nuclear waste producer
Keywords: election, politics, political personalities, radioactive waste,
	environment
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 0:45:56 PDT
ACategory: usa
Slugword: politics-brown-nuclear
Priority: regular
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	LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Former Gov. Edmund ``Jerry'' Brown, a champion of
environmental concerns, earned as much as $20,000 annually serving on
the board of one of the state's largest producers of low-level
radioactive waste, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
	Brown served on the board of directors of Costa Mesa-based ICN
Biomedicals Inc. from 1987 to December of last year, just prior to his
launching a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, the
newspaper said.
	ICN Biomedicals is on line to be one of the biggest contributors to
an as-yet constructed but already controversial low-level nuclear waste
dump planned in the Mojave Desert near Needles, Los Angeles Times said.
	Currently, the company disposes its waste in the state of Washington,
according to the report, which said ICN Biomedicals uses radioactive
materials to develop products employed by medical researchers searching
for a cure to a number of deadly diseases including AIDS and cancer.
	The selected site has been opposed by environmentalists, celebrities
and a myriad of politicians including Lt. Gov. Leo T McCarthy, who fear
the possibility that a leak of waste would contaminate ground water.
	For his part, Brown said he was never told ICN Biomedicals planned to
use California's Ward Valley.
	``Nobody ever complained to me, nobody has ever brought it up. Nobody
has ever complained that there was a problem, Brown told the Times. ''I
don't know anything about Ward Valley.``
	A second board member has said that he too was never informed of the
company's intentions to dump in the Mojave Desert.
	``I don't remember at all that this was ever discussed in my
presence, and I attended every meeting,'' said Dr. Roger Guillemin, a
neuroendocrinologist associated with the Whittier Institute in La Jolla.
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From: clarinews@clarinet.com (United Press International)
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Subject: Clinton leads Virginia caucuses
Keywords: politics
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 15:08:51 PDT
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	Democratic front-runner Bill Clinton took a strong lead over Jerry
Brown in the first round of Virginia's presidential caucuses, while
President Bush played golf Sunday as the race for the White House
dawdled along.
	The first round of Virginia's Democratic caucuses was Saturday and
the next round is Monday. The next primary in the country won't be until
April 28 in Pennsylvania.
	Bush, fending off a weak challenge by conservative commentator Pat
Buchanan, spent Sunday on the links in suburban Washington.
	A Time magazine and Cable News Network poll, released Saturday, shows
Clinton trailing Bush 43 percent to 33 percent, indicating an erosion in
support for the Arkansas governor. A similar survey in mid-March had the
governor and the president running neck and neck at 43 percent.
	To date, Clinton is leading the contest for the Democratic
nomination.
	Clinton, whose doctors advised him to rest his taxed vocal cords,
scuttled campaign stops in Virginia last week, yet still managed to take
a lead in the first round of the state's local caucuses Saturday. The
second round is Monday.
	Democratic Party spokesman Harry Carver explained how the caucuses
work.
	Some 3,500 delegates were to be elected Saturday and Monday to go to
congressional district conventions next month and the state Democratic
convention in Roanoke June 5-6. At the district and state conventions,
78 delegates will be elected to be sent to the Democratic National
Convention in New York City in July -- all pledged to one candidate.
	Returns Saturday night showed Clinton marching into Monday night's
second and final round with 53 percent, Brown with 15 percent. The
remaining 32 percent were uncommitted.
	The big bloc of uncommitted Democrats seem to reflect lingering
restiveness over the Arkansas governor, who has continually confronted
character questions. But some activists said they expect many of these
Democrats to embrace Clinton as the likelihood of his nomination grows.
	Clinton aide Craig Sutherland said of the returns: ``I feel very
good.''
	And Virginia Democratic Chairman Paul Goldman said: ``Looking at
these numbers, Clinton obviously is going to get a majority of them.
Brown -- if these things hold -- will get some delegates.''
	Goldman said he wouldn't be able to determine the precise number of
delegates for Clinton and Brown, the former California governor, until
after Monday's round.
	Clinton looked to a triumph in the Old Dominion as further evidence
of his power in Dixie, a general-election battlefield. However, Virginia
has not supported a Democrat for president in 28 years.
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Subject: Brown drums up some home-grown support
Keywords: politics
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 16:21:39 PDT
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	SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- Touching on issues ranging from AIDS research
funding to the relocation of American factories in Mexico, Democratic
presidential candidate Jerry Brown made a series of rapid-fire campaign
appearances in his hometown Monday, whipping up support heading into the
June 2 California primary.
	Brown, who lives in San Francisco's posh Pacific Heights
neighborhood, began his day with a coffee and donuts meeting with local
labor leaders. He told the leaders he was against the trilateral trade
pact with Canada and Mexico -- currently under discussion -- because it
would cost Californians jobs.
	``I was envisioning a situation where Congress itself could be moved
to Tijuana,'' Brown said. ``Instead of being paid $130,000 a year and
getting their expense accounts and bouncing checks and getting cheap
haircuts and health care, they'd be paid $13,000 and get no benefits. Do
you think they'd be enthusiastic about the fast track (to trade)?''
	Brown also seemed undaunted by an announcement made earlier in the
morning in Washington by AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, who
recommended to the union council that it support Democratic candidate
Bill Clinton. Local union leaders said they would brush aside the
recommendation of their national leaders and back Brown.
	The former California governor followed with a tour of an AIDS ward
at San Francisco General Hospital, taking time to criticize the federal
red tape that has tied up funding for research.
	``I want to be with you,'' Brown told AIDS patients. ``I want to be
your voice. It's not about you, it's not about me. It's about what we
can do together.''
	Brown then blitzed the media, meeting with the powerful editorial
boards of the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle and
making stops at several radio and television stations. He also restated
his plans to support Clinton if the Arkansas governor wins the
Democratic nomination, but only if Clinton agrees to limit donations to
this campaign to a $100 maximum and if he backs the repeal of right-to-
work laws.
	At a noon rally, Brown addressed a crowd estimated at 6,000,
hammering home his David versus Goliath campaign theme.
	``Let's take this country back,'' he said. ``We can win this
nomination. Let's take this country back for the future, for the
children, for the world.''
From: amr!stivo@uunet.UU.NET
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: urogue
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:35:04 GMT
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  I know this is not a "technical" question, but it has been driving
me buggy for years.  
  DOes anybody out there know how to access the "wizard" options on
this game?  I rooted through the "urogue.save" file and it looks
like you can create objects and monsters, leap to different levels and
create new characters.  I dug out the password, but I dont know when
or how to use it. 
		HELP!
			Stiv the urogue addict.
{THere is no documentation with the game. I only just figured out how
to save and recover a game. Thanks for your help!}
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From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: Mnttab workarounds
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 21:11:40 GMT
Keywords: mnttab 3.2.v2 3.2.v4 ODT 2.0

In <3529@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> mtaht@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:

:I've been asked by numerous folks to summarize and post the
:answers to the mnttab portability problem I had a few weeks ago.

:Thanks for the concern, everyone!
:.....

:Now, the larger question of: "Is there a portable way to parse
:mnttab?" still remains a sticking point across unix versions. The
:method that seems to make the most sense, although it's ugly,
:is to let the /etc/mount command do the work. The fix I put into
:Interbase was to call popen("/etc/mount","r"), and parse the
:output with fscanf("%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s",...) ( 10 arguments)
:This works with all versions of SCO Unix I've tried to date. 

:However, I haven't got any assurances that this will work across
:iBCS2 compatable platforms (but again, don't panic, I'll test 
:this this weekend on Microport and Interactive and post again)

:Note that so far as I remember (all my machines are running Unix)
:SCO Xenix's /etc/mount has less output, and inverts the order of 
:the device and mount point listing, so it's incompatable slightly 
:with the above. Further, every other vendor (SUN, HP, DEC, SGI, etc) 
:mnttab (or mtab) differently and/or provides libraries with
:different syntax to parse it. 

I ran into this problem a while back and here's the perl code I
use to parse for the directory name of a mounted device:

#----start of fragment
$device = shift;
die("$device is not a block device") unless -b $device;

$xenix = ( -f '/xenix' );	# xenix and unix /etc/mount output is different

@mounted = grep(/$device/, `/etc/mount`);
if($_ = $mounted[0]) {		# find directory if device is already mounted
	m/(\S+)\s+\S+\s+(\S+)/;	# eval regular expression
		#xenix : /dev/root on / read/write on Wed Feb 12 07:59:02 1992
		#unix  : / on /dev/root read/write on Thu Feb 13 12:06:02 1992
	$mtd_dir = ( $xenix ? $2 : $1 );
}
#-----end of fragment

This isn't bulletproof since it's possible that the grep output
would have multiple lines and I would have to check for the exact
match, but it works in the situations I'm using.

Bill
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From: ard@ctcg.com (Andrew R. D'Uva)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows(tm) 3.1 write cache
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:39:24 GMT
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According to xenitec.on.ca News Administrator:
| 
| I saw this in comp.risks today and I think it is of interest to
| many readers of this group.
| 
| >  Microsoft's new version of Windows includes an "enhanced" version of the
| > SmartDrv disk cache utility.  The primary enhancement is the addition of a
| > write-behind write cache.  The RISKy part of this is that the default for the
| > program is to enable the write cache on all hard drives; this is what the Setup
| > utility suggests as the "preferred" configuration!  Now, maybe I'm paranoid,
| > but it seems to me that this is going to cause LOTS of problems for naive users.
| > I'm especially worried because I don't believe that most casual users are going
| > to bother reading through the documentation to find the little notice that
| > says (on page 540):
| >  
| >    CAUTION  Check that SMARTDrive has completed all write-caching before you
| >    turn off your computer.  To make sure this has happened, type SMARTDRV /C
| >    at the MS-DOS prompt.  After all disk activity has stopped, you can safely
| >    turn off your computer.
| > 
| > Personally, I think Microsoft has an incredible amount of confidence in the
| > stability of 3.1, and in the diligence of the casual users; the decision to 
| > make this the default mode of operation was, in my view, ill advised.
| > 
| > - Andrew E. Birner, Zenith Electronics Corporation -
| 
| Bill
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| 

Well,

I attended a Microsoft Technical Seminar and spoke to some people behind the design phase of the Windows 3.1 system.  I DO use Win 3.1 at work, and I have not yet been able to crash it!  (Can you believe it?)  The True-Type fonts work really fast, and they look pretty good on a HP Laserjet III.

On the write-behind cache:  The guys at the technical seminar said two things:

1.  The MAXIMUM time data is ever cached is 5 seconds, but typically it is only for 1-2 seconds.  A user would have to turn off their machine pretty fast for this to be a problem.

2.  Microsoft spent the last 2 weeks of the win 3.1 development cycle writing Windows so that it works with Stacker (a disk driver which auto-compresses/decompresses disk data).  Hmm..

3. BTW, why hasn't anybody written one of these for Unix?

Andrew D'Uva
ard@ctcg.com
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From: eng.norstan.com!sfrazier@watmath.UUCP (Steven E. Frazier)
Subject: Thanks for the Fix!
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Let me be the first to thank you for getting the mailing list fixed!

Thanks a million!

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