From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans)
Subject: VNS: Thu 21-Jan-1993
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:13:55 GMT


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VNS MAIN NEWS:                                    [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]
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     Here is the News at 07:00 GMT on Thursday 21-January-1993
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     UK News
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     FT-SE = 2748.7
     Exchange Rate 1 UK pound = $ 1.5402 = Dm 2.4743

     The transport sectrtary has said that there are too many un-safe tankers
     on the high seas.

     The IRA carried out a morter attack on a heavily fortified police station
     in Norhtern Ireland last night. Some policemen and residents at a nearby
     old peoples home were slightly injured.

     A report has said that many residential centres treating alcoholics and
     drug addicts face closure due to changes in funding from central to local
     government.

     European News
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     Lord Owen has given a guarded welcome to the decision by Bosbian Serb
     leaders to accept the peace plan worked out in Geneva. The talks are to
     resume on Sunday.

     International News
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     UN weapons inspectors are on their way to Iraq following Iraqi acceptance
     of their arrival and work. It is unclear how long the 50 strong team will
     stay and how effective they will be.

     President Clinton will have his first full day in office today following
     the inauguration yesterday.

     The US coast guard says its operation to stop immigrants from Haiti is
     fully underway.

     A supertanker is drifting abandoned and on fire off Sumatra. The blaze
     followed a collision with another tanker.

     Audre Hepburn has died aged 63 at her home in Switzerland. She had been
     suffering from cancer. An international film star, she turned her back on
     Hollywood in 1988 to work for UNICEF as a goodwill ambassador.

     The head of the WHO (The World Health Organisation) has been
     re-appointed. He is a Japanese and his re-appointment had been resisted
     by some countries saying that he could not speak English and French well
     enough.

     {in yesterday's VNS, I should have reported that the Israeli government
     has REMOVED the ban on contact with the PLO. tfp}.

     {News courtesy of the BBC}

     Local Weather
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     A dry start and mainly dry day. High 11C/52F. Wet and windy weather
     returning this evening and tonight.

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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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