From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: VNS: Wed 16-Dec-1992
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:20:13 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


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        VNS UK SPORTS REPORT ..............................   18   "

VNS MAIN NEWS:                                    [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]
==============                                    [Reading, England           ]

    Here is the News at 07:00 GMT on Wednesday 16-December-1992
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    UK News
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    The Ford motor company are said to be about to announce cuts of over
    3000 jobs in the UK and another 1,500 in Germany.

    Toyota are to open a big new car plant near Derby. It is the biggest
    single investment in Britain by a foreign company.

    The Government are expected to announce a series of measures to make it
    easier for people to be tested for the Aids virus.

    European News
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    The British Prime Minister is in Strasbourg today to give a report on
    the 6 month presidency of the EC.

    World News
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    US and French troups have moved into an interior town in Somalia to
    safeguard relief supplies. They have not encountered any resistance so
    far. 

    3 local governments in India have been dismissed by the central
    government. All 3 are from the BJP party which has been encouraging the
    building of a hindu temple on the site of a muslim mosque in Northern
    India which has caused much violance over India in recent weeks.

    A warrent has been issued in the USA for the arrest of the former world
    chess champion, Bobby Fischer, for breaking UN sanctions when he held a
    chess match in Serbia in September.

    The Israeli soldier, kidnapped by a radical palistinian group at the
    weekend, has been found dead. 

    {News courtesy of the BBC}


    Local Weather
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    A cloudy morning with some rain around. Clearing this afternoon. High
    10C/50F. Widespread frost tonight. There has been very heavy snow in the
    highlands of Scotland.


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

Football
	The draw was made yesterday for the quarter finals of the UEFA cup.
  The ties, to be played on 3rd and 17th March are:

  AS Rome v Dorussia Dortmund
  Auxerre v Ajax Amsterdam
  Benfica Lisbon v Juventus Turin
  Real Madrid v Paris St Germain

Motor Sport
  The Japanese driver Ukyo Katayama has signed to drive for the Tyrell-Yamaha
  F1 team next season. 

Skiing
  World Cup Giant Slalom, Madonna di Capliglio
  1. Patrice Bianchi (France)   1'35"12
  2. Alberto Tomba (Italy)     +   0"11
  3. Thomas Sykora (Austria)   +   0"28


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| Gwyn Evans  | evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com |  Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK  |
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|  Views expressed and statements made are mine and not those of DEC   |
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