From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans @ IME)
Subject: VNS: Tue 18-Aug-1992
Keywords: VNS,news
Organization: Digital Equipment Service Industries Solutions Company Ltd
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:52:36 GMT


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 Edition : 2643              Tuesday 18-Aug-1992            Circulation :  7822

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VNS MAIN NEWS:                                    [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]
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     {Editor's message: Both VNS main news editors are taking their holidays
     at the same time this year. Hence, there will be no main news until
     Tuesday 1st Sept when Andy Payne returns. I shall be back on 7th Sept.
     Regards, Tom Povey. }

     Here is the News at 07:00 BST on Tuesday 18-August-1992
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     UK News
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     FT-SE = 2376.1
     Exchange Rate 1 UK pound = $ 1.9260 = Dm 2.8175

     The Prime Minister, after interrupting his summer holiday, is to chair an
     emergency cabinet meeting today to consider the use of force against
     Iraq. The cabinet will also discuss the situation in Bosnia.

     Anti-terrorist police are still questioning suspects arrested last week.
     They have until today to decide whether to press charges.

     A vaccine will be available in the autumn to protect babies against a
     strain of meningitis

     The Foreign Office say that a British man who disappeared in Kuwait City
     last June is about to be put on trial in Baghdad. They don't know what
     for or how he got from Kuwait to Baghdad. He was working as a catering
     assistant in Kuwait.

     Arsenal Football Club commissioned a mural of some 2000 supporters.
     However, they have had to ask the artists to change the mural since it
     shows only white supporters. The club wants it to show a more
     cross-section of their fans.

     Tommy Nutter, who rose to fame by designing flared trousers and jackets
     with wide lapels in the 60's and 70's, has died in a London Hospital aged
     49. He had AIDS. His clients included the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson
     and the Beatles who wore his designs on the cover of Abbey Road.

     European News
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     Serbs in Bosnia have denied responsibility for the attack on a hotel in
     Sarajevo in which 5 refugees were killed. The hotel was hit by mortor
     shells and then snipers opened fire on refugees as they fled the burning
     hotel.

     A second convoy of some 1000 women and children are set to leave Sarajevo
     today.

     International News
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     Pres Bush has opened the Republican convention by promising to make a
     comeback in the presidential election.

     In a TV interview, Pres Bush has warned Iraq to stop harrassing the
     Shiites in southern Iraq or the US will take military action.

     The UN Security Council have approved a resolution for more observers to
     be sent to townships in South Africa.

     {News courtesy of the BBC}

     Local Weather
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     A cloudy day with a risk of showers. High 22C/72F.

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