From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans)
Subject: VNS: Tue 26-Jan-1993
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:52:28 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 Tuesday 26-January-1993
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     UK News
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     FT-SE = 2771.9
     Exchange Rate 1 UK pound = $ 1.5583 = Dm 2.4590

     Some Conservatives MP's are very angry after the leaking of a draft
     report recommending saving 20 of the 32 pits threatened with closure and
     subsidising the coal industry. The report was not due for release until
     the end of the week.

     British scientists say they have developed a new vaccine to help the
     fight against cancer. The first tests on patients will begin later this
     year. The vaccine was developed by the Cancer Reasearch Council by
     scientists in Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham.

     A report by the Bar Council urges procedural to simplify complex criminal
     cases so that juries can understand them.

     The government in being asked to provide assistance to help families
     visit their children in Hospital when long distance is involved.

     European News
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     The UN have strongly condemned the Croatian initiative which has led to
     increased fighting between Croats and Serbs in the former Yugoslavia. The
     Croats have taken ground lost to the Serbs some 18 months ago following a
     cease-fire which began a year ago.

     International News
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     A report recommends that the UN press Israel to take back the Palestinans
     expelled some weeks ago and currently living in no-mans-land between
     Israel and the Lebanon.

     President Clinton has put his wife Hilary in charge of reforming the US
     health care industry. She was until recently a corporate lawyer. It is
     the first time that a US president has put his wife in such an important
     role. In the assignment of space at the White House, Mrs Clinton has
     secured an office in the West Wing, were all the important decisions are
     made, as well as an office in the East Wing where the social arrangements
     are handled.

     {News courtesy of the BBC}

     Local Weather
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     Dry morning with showers this afternoon. High 9C/48F.

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