From: rich@tosh.wcc.govt.nz (Richard Naylor )
Newsgroups: nz.comp
Subject: Vogon News - Thursday 3 Sept
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 10:10:33 GMT
Organization: City Net -  Wellington City Council's Community Computer Network

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        VNS COMPUTER NEWS .................................   58   "
        VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH ..............................   18   "
        VNS UK SPORTS REPORT ..............................   29   "

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VNS MAIN NEWS:                                    [Andy Payne, VNS UK News Desk]
==============                                    [Fareham, England            ]

    Here is the News at 09:00 BST on Thursday 3rd September 1992
    ------------------------------------------------------------

    UK News
    -------

    Britain is to protest 'in the strongest possible terms' today over a
    10-year sentence given to Mr Michael Wainwright, a tourist from Sowerby
    Bridge, West Yorks, for entering Iraq illegally during a cycling trip.

    The Government has indicated that it would be the end of the Maastrict
    Treaty on European political and economic union if the French vote 'No'
    in their referendum on Sept 20th. Mr Major is ready to abandon the
    controversial legislation to ratify the treaty if the French follow the
    Danes in rejecting the Maastrict treaty.

    The Health and Safety Executive report into the Cannon Street rail
    crash in January 1991 has blamed the driver for the accident. Traces of
    cannabis were found in his blood when he was tested three days after
    the accident. British Rail is to introduce drug spot-checks on its
    130,00 staff following the report.


    World News
    ----------

    Tidal waves caused by an undersea earthquake killed at least 34 people
    along Nicaragua's Pacific coast, officials stated in Managua yesterday.
    Another 298 people were injured and 700 were missing.

    The American grandmaster Bobby Fischer won the first chess game in his
    2.5 million pound re-match against Boris Spassky at Sveti Stefan
    yesterday. The winner will be the first to take 10 games.

    Poitr Jaroszewicz, Polish Prime Minister for 10 years until 1980, and
    his wife were found murdered in their Warsaw home yesterday.

    {News courtesy of the Daily Telegraph}


VNS COMPUTER NEWS:                            [Tracy Talcott, VNS Computer Desk]
==================                            [Nashua, NH, USA                 ]

    Tuesday's Market                               Digital Fair Market Value
      Quote     Change                              2-Dec-1991   $60.6875
 IBM	87 5/8	+1				   29-May-1992   $42.4375
                                                   85% of lower  $36.250
    Wednesday's Market	   Dow Jones    Change      1-Jun-1992   $40.750
 DEC	37 1/4	+  3/4	   3290.31	+24.05

 Wang - Creditors select Price Waterhouse as its accounting firm
	{The Boston Globe, 2-Sep-92, p. 56}
   Members also heard from Richard W. Miller, Wang's CEO. In his 50-minute
 presentation, Miller stressed that "he has been working very hard to cut
 costs, and get the business back on track," said C. Hall Swaim, the Hale and
 Dorr attorney who represents the committee. The group's next official meeting
 is scheduled for Sept. 9.

 LaserData - Wins Israeli grant  for a joint software joint venture in Israel
	{The Boston Globe, 2-Sep-92, p. 56}
   LaserData, founded in 1982 as a spinoff from the media laboratory at
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will form a joint venture with
 TeleImage Systems Ltd. of Ramat Gan, Israel, to develop a software system to
 electronically scan and process standard business forms. The product is
 intended for insurance claims-processing, health-care services and government.
 Terms of the grant from the Bi-National Research and Development Foundation
 were not disclosed, nor was the potential market for the new scanning product
 officially estimated. The quasigovernmental foundation, established by the
 United States and Israel 15 years ago, makes grants of up to 50% of the cost
 of US-Israel private product development projects. LaserData manufactures and
 markets the LaserView line of document image-processing systems.

 Digital - National Merit Scholarship test dates scheduled
	{Livewire, U.S. News, 2-Sep-92}
   The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has set two test dates for the 
 PSAT/NMSQT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship 
 Qualifying Test).  This test must be taken by high school Juniors in order to
 be considered for a National Merit Scholarship.
   The test will be given on either Saturday, October 17 or Thursday, October
 22 at secondary schools that choose to offer it. Juniors should contact their
 high school counselors immediately after the beginning of the school year to
 make arrangements to take the test.
   NMSC reviews all PSAT/NMSQT's taken by high school Juniors, and, based on 
 those results, selects the semifinalists.  These students will receive an 
 application package, through their high school, in the fall of their Senior 
 year. In order to be considered for a scholarship, every semifinalist must 
 fulfill additional requirements specified by NMSC to advance to finalist 
 standing.
   Digital dependents are identified by National Merit from information
 requested in the application package - no other entry form is needed. Digital
 scholarship recipients must be dependents of permanent, regular (full-time)
 Digital employees working for the company at the time of acceptance.  
   Winners are selected by National Merit on a competitive basis without regard
 to family financial circumstances. The stipend for each Digital Merit
 Scholarship is determined individually by NMSC and can range from the minimum
 of $500 to the maximum of $2,000 per year for up to four years of
 undergraduate study. All phases of the competition, including the selection of
 winners and payment of Merit Scholarship stipends are handled for Digital by
 National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
   For more information on the Digital/National Merit Scholarship Program,
 contact Joanne Urgotis @MSO, DTN 223-6083.


VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH:                           [Mike Taylor, VNS Correspondent]
=====================                           [Littleton, MA, USA            ]

                     Electric Current Disinfects Blood

    Dr. Steven Kaali, a gynecologist at Albert Einstein college of Medicine
    in the Bronx, has patented what he believes is a way to kill viral
    infections by exposing blood to weak electric currents. The basic
    principle is simple: electric current as strong as that used by a
    cardiac pacemaker will immobilize a virus but appears weak enough to
    leave the much larger blood cells unharmed. Thus far, the hospital has
    conducted laboratory tests in conjunction with Baxter International Inc.
    on blood infected with the AIDS virus. The blood was pumped to a
    location between two platinum electrodes, and Dr. Kaali said that about
    95% of the viruses had lost their infectious ability after a six minute
    exposure to a current of about 100 millionths of an amp.

    Dr. Kaali and Peter M. Schwolsky, a lawyer, received patent 5,139,684.
    Patents are available by number for $3 from the Patent and Trademark
    Office, Washington D.C. 20231
    {The New York Times, August 22, 1992}


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

||| FOOTBALL
    Aston Villa have made a 2.3 million pound bid for Dean Saunders, the
    Liverpool and Wales striker.

    FA Premier League
    tuesday night -
    Liverpool ....  1  Southampton ... 1
    Middlesbrough . 2  Ipswich Town .. 2
    Oldham Ath .... 2  Leeds United .. 2
    Wimbledon...... 0  Man City ...... 1

    wednesday night
    Aston Villa ..  1  Chelsea ....... 3
    Man Utd ......  1  Crystal Palace  0
    Q.P.R. .......  0  Arsenal ....... 0
    Sheff Wed ....  1  Coventry City . 2
    Spurs ........  2  Sheff Utd ..... 0

    Barclays League Division 1
    Barnsley .....  0  Wolves ........ 1
    Birmingham City 1  Southend ...... 0
    Brentford ..... 4  Portsmouth .... 1

    Scottish Premier League
    Aberdeen ...... 0  Airdrie ....... 0
    Celtic ........ 3  St Johnstone .. 1
    Dundee ........ 1  Hearts ........ 3
    Hibernians .... 2  Dundee Utd .... 1
    Motherwell .... 1  Rangers ....... 4 


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