Input: Gorst's office said later the MP would not feel himself obliged to vote with the government.

Gorst


Input: He said at one point during a press conference: " I have seen my whip (party manager) for next week which, of course, doesn't mean very much to me now. "


Input: Before Gorst's statement, Major had a one-seat majority in the 651-seat House of Commons lower house of parliament.

Gorst

Major

House of Commons

lower house of parliament


Input: In his formal statement, Gorst said: " I am today withdrawing my cooperation from the government and shall not treat the " whip' as either a summons to attend the House of Commons or as placing me under any obligation to vote as advised. "

Gorst

House of Commons


Input: Gorst resigned over a hospital closure in his constituency.

Gorst


Input: Electronic Data bags flight data contract.

Electronic Data


Input: LONDON 1996-12-06

LONDON


Input: Information technology firm Electronic Data Systems said on Friday it had bagged a contract for the first air traffic control project being funded under the Private Finance Initiative.

Electronic Data Systems

Private Finance Initiative


Input: In a statement, EDS said the contract would be in the region of 50 million stg.

EDS


Input: The contract involved upgrading the flight data processing system at the Oceanic Control Centre in Prestwick in south west Scotland for National Air Traffic Services Ltd (NATS), subsidiary of the Civil Aviation Authority.

Oceanic Control Centre

Prestwick

Scotland

National Air Traffic Services Ltd

NATS

Civil Aviation Authority


Input: The system is responsible for the control of aircraft flying transatlantic routes from Europe and North America.

Europe

North America


Input: The system, which would use satellite technology, is scheduled to enter service in 2000.


Input: -- London Newsroom +44-171-542 7717

London Newsroom


Input: RTRS-Cricket-Play restarts in Australia-West Indies match.

RTRS

Australia-West Indies


Input: MELBOURNE 1996-12-06

MELBOURNE


Input: Play restarted in the first World Series limited overs match between West Indies and Australia after a rain delay of 50 minutes on Friday.

World Series

West Indies

Australia


Input: West Indies resumed their innings on 53 for two with opener Sherwin Campbell on 25 and Shivnarine Chanderpaul 10.

West Indies

Sherwin Campbell

Shivnarine Chanderpaul


Input: Rain earlier delayed the start of play by 30 minutes.


Input: -- Sydney Newsroom 61-2 9373-1800

Sydney Newsroom


Input: Cricket-Pakistan beat New Zealand by 46 runs.

Pakistan

New Zealand


Input: SIALKOT, Pakistan 1996-12-06

SIALKOT

Pakistan


Input: Pakistan beat New Zealand by 46 runs on Friday to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match one-day series.

Pakistan

New Zealand


Input: Scores: Pakistan 277-9, New Zealand 231

Pakistan

New Zealand


Input: Manitoba Pork forward contract PM prices-Dec 6.

Manitoba Pork


Input: WINNIPEG 1996-12-06

WINNIPEG


Input: Manitoba Pork closing forward contract prices in Canadian dollars per hundred lbs (Cwt) for Dec 6 including minimum guaranteed price --

Manitoba Pork

Canadian


Input: CONTRACT PREVIOUS CLOSE PM CLOSE PM CLOSING RANGE


Input: DATE PM CLOSE FIXED MINIMUM AT 1230 CST


Input: Feb 97 79.94 79.67 75.55 77.01-81.80


Input: Mar 97 76.37 76.12 72.02 73.47-78.24


Input: Apr 97 74.13 74.69 70.59 72.04-76.81


Input: May 97 76.51 77.07 72.97 74.42-79.19


Input: Jun 97 77.53 77.24 73.17 74.62-79.35


Input: Jul 97 74.45 74.01 69.95 71.39-76.12


Input: Aug 97 72.41 72.07 68.01 69.45-74.18


Input: Sep 97 69.18 69.24 65.17 66.61-71.34


Input: Oct 97 68.00 68.05 63.98 65.43-70.16


Input: Nov 97 68.00 68.05 63.98 65.43-70.16


Input: Note: Manitoba Government Price Index (C$ per cwt)-

Manitoba Government Price Index

C$


Input: Dec 4 87.16


Input: Manitoba's Hog Price Range: 84.00-86.00 per cwt

Manitoba


Input: CAN/U.S. DOLLAR EXCHANGE RATE: 1.3570

CAN

U.S.


Input: Source: Manitoba Pork.

Manitoba Pork


Input: ((Winnipeg bureau 204-947-3548))

Winnipeg


Input: Canadian West Coast Vessel Loadings-CWB.

Canadian

CWB


Input: WINNIPEG 1996-12-06

WINNIPEG


Input: The Canadian Wheat Board reported six ships loading, 10 waiting and four due at the Canadian West Coast, as of Friday.

Canadian Wheat Board

Canadian


Input: The longest wait to load on the West Coast was 13 days.

West Coast


Input: Two ship loaded in Thunder Bay, one waited and seven were due.

Thunder Bay


Input: Two ships loaded on the East Coast, three waited to load, six were due.


Input: Port Loading Waiting


Input: Vancouver 5 7

Vancouver


Input: Prince Rupert 1 3

Prince Rupert


Input: ((Gilbert Le Gras 204 947 3548))

Gilbert Le Gras


Input: New York timecharter fixtures-Dec 6.

New York


Input: NEW YORK 1996-12-06

NEW YORK


Input: No new fixtures reported from New York.

New York


Input: -- New York Commodities Desk +1 212 859 1640

New York Commodities Desk


Input: New York coal/ore/scrap fixtures-Dec 6.

New York


Input: NEW YORK 1996-12-06

NEW YORK


Input: ORE-Maritime Queen 70,000 tonnes Dampier/Kaohsiung 20-30/12 $5.25 fio 35,000/30,000 China Steel.

Maritime Queen

Dampier

Kaohsiung

China Steel


Input: -- New York Commodities Desk +1 212 859 1640

New York Commodities Desk


Input: Clean tankers fixtures and enquiries-2321 GMT.

GMT


Input: NEW YORK 1996-12-06

NEW YORK


Input: FIXTURES-


Input: WESTERN HEMISPHERE-


Input: Danila 28.5 16/12 Caribs/up W224 Mobil.

Danila

Caribs

Mobil


Input: -- New York Commodities Desk, 212-859-1640

New York Commodities Desk


Input: Dirty tanker fixtures and enquiries-2317 GMT.

GMT


Input: NEW YORK 1996-12-06

NEW YORK


Input: MIDEAST/RED SEA-

MIDEAST

RED SEA


Input: Thai Resource 264 31/12 Ras Tanura/Red Sea W46.50 Mobil.

Thai Resource

Ras Tanura

Red Sea

Mobil


Input: MEDITERRANEAN-

MEDITERRANEAN


Input: Lula I 85 25/12 Sidi Kreir/Augusta W100 Exxon.

Lula I

Sidi Kreir

Augusta

Exxon


Input: Spetses 139 17/12 Sidi Kreir/Augusta W97.50 Exxon.

Spetses

Sidi Kreir

Augusta

Exxon


Input: Mesipia 77.5 17/12 Bajaia/Fos W105 Exxon.

Mesipia

Bajaia

Fos

Exxon


Input: -- New York Commodities Desk +1 212 859 1640

New York Commodities Desk


Input: NYC Jan refunding has its 1st Euro floating rate.

NYC

Euro


Input: NEW YORK 1996-12-06

NEW YORK


Input: New York City on Friday said that it planned a $775 million refunding for January that will include its first floating rate issue of taxable debt for European investors.

New York City

European


Input: A city official, who declined to be named, explained that Goldman, Sachs, which this summer was demoted to the second tier of the syndicate, proposed the floating rate issue and as a result was promoted to book runner for this offering.

Goldman, Sachs


Input: By selling the floating rate debt, the city hopes to establish a benchmark, the city official said, adding that it needed a large deal to accomplish this objective.


Input: The city in late June sold its first issue of Euronotes, a strategy that it says saved it $500,000 in interest costs, and it has been trying to build on this strategy of expanding the pool of potential investors since then.

Euronotes


Input: In November, New York City said it became the first U.S. municipality to offer bonds for sale in European markets by competitive bidding as it listed taxable bonds on the London Stock Exchange.

New York City

U.S.

European

London Stock Exchange


Input: The refunding planned for January also includes a $475 million tax-exempt offering.


Input: No specific date in January has been selected for the debt sale, the official added.


Input: -- Joan Gralla, 212-859-1654

Joan Gralla


Input: USDA gross cutout hide and offal value.

USDA


Input: DES MOINES 1996-12-06

DES MOINES


Input: The hide and offal value from a typical slaughter steer for Friday was estimated at $9.54 per cwt live, dn 0.05 when compared to Thursday's value.


Input: -USDA

USDA


Input: Wall St speculates about Santa Fe savior.

Wall St

Santa Fe


Input: Brendan Intindola

Brendan Intindola


Input: NEW YORK 1996-12-06

NEW YORK


Input: Homestake Mining Co tops Wall Street's list as the most likely white knight buyer for Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp if Santa Fe rejects unsolicited suitor Newmont Mining Corp.

Homestake Mining Co

Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp

Santa Fe

Newmont Mining Corp

Wall Street


Input: Santa Fe is so far mum on the more than $2 billion stock swap takeover proposal from Newmont, announced Thursday.

Santa Fe

Newmont


Input: Wall Street, since the bid, has speculated that any deal between Newmont and Santa Fe would be a " bear hug, " or a reluctantly negotiated agreement where the buyer is not necessarily a friendly suitor.

Wall Street

Newmont

Santa Fe


Input: Newmont said the companies have had previous contact, though declined to detail the encounters.

Newmont


Input: Analysts predict Santa Fe will go to the highest bidder, and that if a rival buyer is found, Newmont may not be able to match its offer.

Santa Fe

Newmont


Input: They said the Santa Fe deal, which includes desirable Nevada mining territory, would only payoff for Newmont longer term.

Santa Fe

Newmont

Nevada


Input: Newmont, in fact, will not benefit from the Santa Fe acquisition on an earnings basis for at least two years, which also limits its capacity to raise its offer.

Newmont

Santa Fe


Input: Any deal, friendly or hostile, would almost assuredly be a stock swap, which is necessary to preserve the tax-free, pooling-of-interest accounting, they said.


Input: Analysts and arbitrageurs immediately ruled out Barrick Gold Corp and Bre-X Minerals Ltd as Santa Fe saviors because they are locked in negotiations over their splitting Indonesia's Busang vast gold deposit.

Barrick Gold Corp

Bre-X Minerals Ltd

Santa Fe

Indonesia

Busang


Input: Placer Dome Inc too was considered unlikley because it is focusing on geographic expansion in areas that do match Santa Fe's Nevada, South America and Central Asia presence, they said.

Placer Dome Inc

Santa Fe

Nevada

South America

Central Asia


Input: A Homestake spokesman was not immediately available to comment on speculation that it tops the list.

Homestake


Input: Homestake, based in San Francisco, operates gold mines in the United States, Australia, Chile and Canada.

Homestake

San Francisco

United States

Australia

Chile

Canada


Input: Earnings in 1995 were $0.22 per share, or $30.3 million, on revenues of $746.3 million.


Input: Santa Fe is headquartered Albuquerque, N.M. and reported 1995 earnings of $0.30 per share, or $40 million, on revenues of $350 million.

Santa Fe

Albuquerque

N.M.


Input: Santa Fe has mining and exploration operations in Nevada, California, Montana, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Chile, Kazakstan, Mexico and Ghana.

Santa Fe

Nevada

California

Montana

Canada

Brazil

Australia

Chile

Kazakstan

Mexico

Ghana


Input: PaineWebber analyst Marc Cohen said he lowered his rating on Newmont to neutral from attractive today because if Newmont merged with Santa Fe, investors would have to wait until the second half of 1998 to realize earnings accretion.

PaineWebber

Newmont

Newmont

Santa Fe

Marc Cohen


Input: " I think Homestake could come in as a white knight, but how much is someone willing to come in above the Newmont number.

Homestake

Newmont


Input: One would have to outbid by at least 15 percent, but there is going to be a (Santa Fe) deal with someone, " he said.

Santa Fe


Input: " Longer term, two to three years out, (a Newmont-Santa Fe deal) is positive, it does all the right things.

Newmont-Santa Fe


Input: But in the near-term it is, at worst, neutral, " the analyst added.


Input: Newmont proposed to Santa Fe a stock-swap merger at a ratio of 0.33 Newmont shares for each Santa Fe shares.

Newmont

Santa Fe

Newmont

Santa Fe


Input: In Friday New York Stock Exchange trade, Newmonth was off 1/2 to 46-5/8 while Santa Fe added 1/4 to 15-1/8.

New York Stock Exchange

Newmonth

Santa Fe


Input: " Newmont said it wants to discuss a friendly deal with Santa Fe, which is almost always a euphemism for' We have more money in our pocket,' " said an arb, referring to a possible sweetened bid from Newmont.

Newmont

Santa Fe

Newmont


Input: Two other arbs called Newmont's move a " a 32 cent bid " because there is no formal tender offer, only the proposal letter " mailed " to Santa Fe's board.

Newmont

Santa Fe


Input: -- Wall Street Desk, 212-859-1734.

Wall Street Desk


Input: Russ Berrie president to retire in July.

Russ Berrie


Input: OAKLAND, N.J. 1996-12-06

OAKLAND

N.J.


Input: Russ Berrie and Co Inc said on Friday that A. Curts Cooke will retire as president and chief operating officer effective July 1, 1997.

Russ Berrie and Co Inc

A. Curts Cooke


Input: Cooke will provide consulting services to the company through July 1, 1998, and will continue to serve as a director, the toy and gift maker said.

Cooke


Input: Zimbabwe executes convicted murderer.

Zimbabwe


Input: HARARE 1996-12-06

HARARE


Input: Zimbabwe hanged a convicted murderer on Friday, bringing to eight the number of executions carried out in the past year.

Zimbabwe


Input: A statement said Piniel Sindiso Ncube was hanged at dawn.

Piniel Sindiso Ncube


Input: President Robert Mugabe's government has resisted pressure from local and international human rights groups to abolish the death sentence.

Robert Mugabe


Input: Multinational commander going back to east Zaire.

Zaire


Input: Jonathan Wright

Jonathan Wright


Input: NAIROBI 1996-12-06

NAIROBI


Input: The Canadian general in charge of a multinational force for eastern Zaire said on Friday he was going back to Zaire for more information about the plight of about 165,000 Rwandan refugees adrift in the countryside.

Canadian

Rwandan

Zaire

Zaire


Input: Lieutenant-General Maurice Baril told a news conference in Nairobi his main concern was for a large group of about 150,000 refugees living off the land in a valley about 65 km (40 miles) west of the eastern city of Goma.

Maurice Baril

Nairobi

Goma


Input: If he decided it was necessary and safe for the aircrew, he would not hesitate to order airdrops of food for the refugees, even against the wishes of the government in Kinshasa and the Zairean rebels who control much of eastern Zaire, he said.

Kinshasa

Zaire

Zairean


Input: " Tomorrow I'm going into Rwanda and my intention is to go across into eastern Zaire and try to find out for the second time what the situation is on the ground, " he said.

Rwanda

Zaire


Input: General Baril saw rebel leader Laurent Kabila in Goma last week but the rebels told him the crisis was over because most of the Rwandan refugees have already gone home.

Baril

Laurent Kabila

Goma

Rwandan


Input: The rebels do not want the multinational force to deploy on the ground, for fear it might help the Zairean army regain control of the area.

Zairean


Input: Kinshasa opposes airdrops, apparently because the food could fall into the hands of the rebels and their local supporters.

Kinshasa


Input: Canadian Defence Minister Doug Young said on Thursday that the multinational force would probably not have to make food airdrops or intervene militarily in any major way.

Canadian

Doug Young


Input: " It doesn't look as though they (airdrops) are going to be required in any significant way because the NGOs (non-governmental organisations) are in that area on the border between Zaire and Rwanda, " Young told reporters.

Zaire

Rwanda

Young


Input: But General Baril said it would be premature to rule out any course of action until he had more information.

Baril


Input: " We hope that if the front moves forward or stabilises then we will have access (to the large group of refugees) with reconnaissance or humanitarian agencies.


Input: " If they can't move because they are too weak, then we will probably consider very seriously using air delivery means (airdrops) ...It's complex, it's dangerous for the air crew that fly in there and it will have to be absolutely necessary.


Input: If it is necessary, I won't hesitate to use it, " he said.


Input: Asked if he would disregard the objections of the Zairean government, he said: " It would have to be in the last resort.

Zairean


Input: It would have to mean that tens of thousands of lives are in danger.


Input: Do you think that I would have a conscience problem doing it or not at that time?


Input: And my mandate is also under Chapter Seven to operate in eastern Zaire. "

Chapter Seven

Zaire


Input: Under Chapter Seven of the U.N. charter, the Security Council has wide powers to preserve peace and security.

Chapter Seven

U.N.

Security Council


Input: " I know their (the Zairean government's) position and I know it's very delicate and we are very sensitive to their position also, " the general added.

Zairean


Input: He denied that his contacts, criticised by Kinshasa, with the Zairean rebels amounted to negotiations.

Kinshasa

Zairean


Input: " I don't negotiate, " he said. "


Input: I coordinate with those who are holding ground and that's a wise thing to do.


Input: When we don't know where the front is, we don't know what the risk is. "


Input: Baril said that apart from the group of 150,000, U.S. and British reconnaissance plans had tracked two much smaller groups of refugees -- one of up to 1,000 north of the town of Masisi and one of up to 8,000 on the road from Bukavu west to Kindu.

Baril

U.S.

Masisi

Bukavu

Kindu

British


Input: The Kisangani office of the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres said on Friday that more than 100,000 refugees were trekking northwest from the Goma-Bukavu area and many of them were now in the town of Walikale.

Kisangani

Goma-Bukavu

Walikale

Medecins sans Frontieres


Input: The general did not mention these refugees, who are on the outer limit of the strip the planes have been checking.


Input: Mauritius put on cyclone alert.

Mauritius


Input: PORT LOUIS 1996-12-06

PORT LOUIS


Input: Mauritian authorities put the Indian Ocean island on cyclone alert on Friday.

Mauritian

Indian Ocean


Input: The weather services office said the centre of the intense tropical cyclone Daniella was 570 km (310 miles) north by northwest of the island on Friday afternoon and was moving south by southwest at eight km an hour (four knots).

Daniella


Input: Although not threatening Mauritius directly, it is coming closer to the island and could change direction, it added.

Mauritius


Input: Winds up to 75 km an hour (40 knots) could blow over Mauritius during the night of Friday to Saturday, it said.

Mauritius


Input: The weather in the capital Port Louis was heavily cloudy on Friday afternoon with occasional showers.

Port Louis


Input: The northeastern coast of the nearby island of Madagascar has also gone on alert.

Madagascar


Input: U.N. evacuates staff from Central African Republic.

U.N.

Central African Republic


Input: ABIDJAN 1996-12-06

ABIDJAN


Input: The United Nations evacuated its staff in the Central African Republic on Friday because of mounting violence in a two-week-old army mutiny in the capital, a U.N. official said.

United Nations

U.N.

Central African Republic


Input: The official from the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said a chartered plane had picked up the staff from Bangui and was heading for Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

U.N.

UNHCR

Bangui

Abidjan

Ivory Coast


Input: Senegal proposes foreign minister for U.N. post.

Senegal

U.N.


Input: DAKAR 1996-12-06

DAKAR


Input: Senegal's President Abdou Diouf said on Friday he was proposing his foreign minister Moustapha Niasse for the post of United Nations secretary-general.

Senegal

Abdou Diouf

Moustapha Niasse

United Nations


Input: Diouf announced his intention to reporters when he returned from the Franco-African summit in Burkina Faso where an African successor to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was discussed.

Diouf

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Franco-African

African

Burkina Faso


Input: The United States has vetoed a second term for the Egyptian but left the door open for another African candidate.

United States

Egyptian

African


Input: " If Africa does not wish to lose its turn we have to act fast, " Diouf said. "

Africa

Diouf


Input: Some of my brother heads of state asked me if I wouldn't nominate Moustapha Niasse.

Moustapha Niasse


Input: I see in him the profile of a secretray-general of the United Nations and I have given my endorsement. "

United Nations


Input: Ex-minister, son killed in Central Africa unrest.

Central Africa


Input: Raphael Kopessoua

Raphael Kopessoua


Input: BANGUI 1996-12-06

BANGUI


Input: A former cabinet minister in Central African Republic and his son were abducted from their home and murdered in growing ethnic violence in the capital Bangui, a government minister said on Friday.

Central African Republic

Bangui


Input: With violence spiralling out of control, France voiced backing for the elected Bangui government but said its troops based in the former colony under defence pacts would not help it combat army mutineers.

France

Bangui


Input: " France cannot be involved in the domestic political debate, " President Jacques Chirac told a news conference at the end of a Franco-African summit in Burkina Faso.

France

Burkina Faso

Jacques Chirac

Franco-African


Input: " French troops may only take part in maintaining order to avoid major abuses and protect foreign communities, " he said.

French


Input: Public Service Minister David Dofara, who is the head of the national Red Cross, told Reuters he had seen the bodies of former interior minister Christophe Grelombe and his son, who was not named.

David Dofara

Christophe Grelombe

Red Cross

Reuters


Input: Witnesses said they had been seized by troops loyal to President Ange-Felix Patasse at dawn on Thursday when they clashed with soldiers staging a mutiny since November 16.

Ange-Felix Patasse


Input: Grelombe is from the Yakoma tribe to which most of the rebel soldiers belong.

Grelombe

Yakoma


Input: The uprising began over pay demands but has turned into a campaign to topple Patasse, sparking ethnic violence and dividing the capital.

Patasse


Input: The former minister and his son had been taken from their home close to the presidential palace, which is guarded by loyalist soldiers backed by French troops based in Bangui.

French

Bangui


Input: The bodies were found on Thursday in an open field about two km (one mile) further away, said Dofora and other witnesses.

Dofora


Input: The men were seized as loyalist forces and French troops fought gunbattles with mutineers who fired rockets into the city centre.

French


Input: A French-owned hotel was slightly damaged.

French-owned


Input: Yakomas are hounded in stronghold districts of Patasse's Baya people while other tribes have fled areas in rebel hands.

Yakomas

Baya

Patasse


Input: Roadblocks have been erected in city districts while central Bangui, which is patrolled by French troops with tanks, is deserted.

Bangui

French


Input: Shops and businesses have remained shut this week.


Input: The Franco-African summit decided to send a mission Bangui to seek ways of containing the mutiny and a threat of civil war.

Franco-African

Bangui


Input: Chirac said Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore would visit Bangui " in the coming hours " with the heads of state of Gabon, Mali and Chad to try and establish dialogue between authorities and rebels.

Chirac

Blaise Compaore

Burkina Faso

Bangui

Gabon

Mali

Chad


Input: The mutiny forced Patasse to miss the summit.

Patasse


Input: His spokesman had predicted the meeting to send an assessment mission.


Input: Patasse, who won Central Africa's first multi-party elections, refuses to resign.

Patasse

Central Africa


Input: Church-led meadiation attempts hit deadlock over rebel demands for his departure.


Input: Soldiers staged mutinies in April and May, with French troops stepping in with tanks and helicopters to quell the more serious second uprising.

French


Input: Patasse offered concessions and amnesty to rebels before the May rebellion ended after rebels looted the city centre.

Patasse


Input: Rebels accuse Patasse of tribalism and of arming his civilian supporters and hired guns from Sudan and Chad.

Patasse

Sudan

Chad


Input: Mutineers have vowed to disarm all civilians and to chase out the foreign forces knwon as Codos.

Codos


Input: Hospital sources and witnesses said about 10 people were known to have been killed in the more than two weeks of fighting, including two rebels killed in Thursday's clashes.


Input: An undetermined number of people are reported to have been abducted and killed outside the town by tribal vigilante groups.


Input: In Thursday's fighting, French troops fired back as mutineers trying to break out of their strongholds rained mortar shells on the city centre.

French


Input: Five die as SAfrican crop plane hits pickup.

SAfrican


Input: JOHANNESBURG 1996-12-06

JOHANNESBURG


Input: Five people were killed when a crop-spraying plane preparing for takeoff crashed into a light delivery vehicle in South Africa's North West region, state radio reported on Friday.

South Africa

North West


Input: The freak accident occurred in Mafikeng on Thursday.

Mafikeng


Input: The pilot survived the crash, but the driver and passengers of the van were killed.


Input: WEATHER-Conditions at CIS airports-Dec 6.

CIS


Input: MOSCOW 1996-12-06

MOSCOW


Input: No weather-related closures of CIS airports are expected on December 7 and 8, the Russian Weather Service said on Friday.

CIS

Russian Weather Service


Input: -- Moscow Newsroom +7095 941 8520

Moscow Newsroom


Input: Skinheads attack Bratislava Rabbi-police.

Bratislava


Input: BRATISLAVA 1996-12-06

BRATISLAVA


Input: Four skinheads attacked and insulted the rabbi of Bratislava, Baruch Meyers, in the city centre on Friday, but he escaped unharmed, a police spokesman told Reuters.

Bratislava

Baruch Meyers

Reuters


Input: " A group of four skinheads attacked the rabbi, one kicked him in the hand but caused no injury, " the spokesman said.


Input: " All four attackers were apprehended and two have been detained, " the spokesman added


Input: He was unable to give more details.


Input: " The further procedure is now in the hands of the local police investigator, " the spokesman said.


Input: It was the second attack by skinheads in two years on Meyers, an American.

Meyers

American


Input: Meyers was not available for comment.

Meyers


Input: Albanian jailed for threat of bomb suicide.

Albanian


Input: TIRANA 1996-12-06

TIRANA


Input: An Albanian court on Friday sentenced a man who threatened to blow himself up outside President Sali Berisha's office to 13 years in jail for guerrilla action and illegal possession of arms.

Albanian

Sali Berisha


Input: Buza last April said he would blow himself up outside the presidential palace unless he was allowed to speak to Berisha, who was at the time meeting Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.

Buza

Berisha

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

Italian


Input: Buza was overpowered by riot police less than one hour after he began his action.

Buza


Input: " Evaluating all the conditions of the case the court thinks the sentence should be lower than the minimum (15 years), " Tirana judge Qazim Gjonaj added.

Tirana

Qazim Gjonaj


Input: The defendant denied the charges, saying his action was intended to urge the authorities to give him a $20,000 loan.


Input: Medical experts had concluded Buza was mentally unstable but fully responsible for the act he had committed, Gjonaj said.

Buza

Gjonaj


Input: Polish ex-communist president to visit Pope.

Polish


Input: WARSAW 1996-12-06

WARSAW


Input: Poland's ex-communist President Aleksander Kwasniewski is likely to visit Polish-born Pope John Paul in early 1997 despite uneasy relations between the Vatican and Warsaw, the foreign minister said on Friday.

Poland

Vatican

Warsaw

Aleksander Kwasniewski

John Paul

Polish-born


Input: " President Kwasniewski plans to visit Italy on a invitation from President Oscar Scalfaro.

Kwasniewski

Oscar Scalfaro

Italy


Input: A meeting with the Pope is also planned, " Dariusz Rosati told a news conference.

Dariusz Rosati


Input: Rosati said that the atmosphere of the meeting, if it takes place, would largely depend on the progress in talks on ratification of a treaty between Warsaw and the Vatican.

Rosati

Warsaw

Vatican


Input: The ratification of the treaty, which was signed in 1993 by the then right-centrist government, is being delayed by an ex-communist party, which won parliamentary elections in the same year and now dominates parliament.


Input: The party, the Democratic Left Alliance, says the agreement would give the Catholic Church too much influence over life in Poland and could infringe on rights of other religious groups and non-believers.

Democratic Left Alliance

Catholic Church

Poland


Input: The relations with the Vatican have also been soured by a recent relaxation of Poland's anti-abortion rules, which Kwasniewski signed into law last month.

Vatican

Poland

Kwasniewski


Input: Russia warns Norilsk, not expected to liquidate it.

Russia

Norilsk


Input: Lynnley Browning

Lynnley Browning


Input: MOSCOW 1996-12-06

MOSCOW


Input: Russian Finance Minister Alexander Livshits warned financially-troubled Norilsk Nickel on Friday that it must pay overdue taxes, but analysts said the firm would not be liquidated or that its would assets would be frozen.

Russian

Alexander Livshits

Norilsk Nickel


Input: " Norilsk really is a big debtor, both to the federal and regional budgets, " said Konstantin Chernyshev, equities analyst at Moscow brokerage Rinaco Plus and a Norilsk watcher. "

Norilsk

Rinaco Plus

Norilsk

Konstantin Chernyshev

Moscow


Input: Livshits's words are an attempt to put pressure on the company. "

Livshits


Input: The official Itar-Tass news agency quoted Livshits as telling parliamentary deputies that RAO Norilsky Nikel 0#NKEL.RUO had to pay its tax arrears and that bankruptcy procedures applied to the metals group.

Itar-Tass

RAO Norilsky Nikel

Livshits


Input: " If it was an unsolicited statement and a bolt out of the blue, then it obviously means something, " said Christopher Granville, chief economist at United City Bank in Moscow.

Christopher Granville

United City Bank

Moscow


Input: " But if it was a response to a deputy's question that was essentially loaded, then it was the only answer he could have given. "


Input: Russian tax and cabinet authorities, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund to boost tax revenues as a condition for receiving payments of a $10 billion, three-year loan to Moscow, have been striking fear into the hearts of some of Russia's most prominent industrial firms by saying they must pay up or face liquidation.

Russian

International Monetary Fund

Moscow

Russia


Input: " They could freeze metal, but it's not a long-term solution to the problem and wouldn't put money in the budget, " Chernyshev said. "

Chernyshev


Input: I don't think they would do that. "


Input: Entire social infrastructures in the icy Far North where Norilsk is based depend on the company, and Moscow has said it has no finances to resettle hundreds of thousands of people -- an expenditure which could far outstrip Norilsk's debts.

Far North

Moscow

Norilsk

Norilsk


Input: Norilsk officials declined to comment.

Norilsk


Input: Analysts said the government, while anxious about Norilsk's debts, is highly unlikely to bring the nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum and platinum group metals producer to its knees or take measures that could significantly affect output.

Norilsk


Input: But it also wants Norilsk, the world's second-largest nickel producer, to clean up its act.

Norilsk


Input: " The procedure of bankruptcy will be applied, " Tass quoted Livshits as telling Duma deputies about Norilsk.

Tass

Duma

Norilsk

Livshits


Input: It indirectly quoted him as saying Norilsk should first pay salary arrears, which in the past have led to worker strikes.

Norilsk


Input: " It is unlikely that Norilsk will pay these debts in the near-term -- the company will remain a debtor in the near future, " Chernyshev said.

Norilsk

Chernyshev


Input: He estimated the company's regional debts at least one trillion roubles and said 30 percent of the giant Krasnoyarsk regional budget was fuelled by Norilsk money.

Krasnoyarsk

Norilsk


Input: Norilsk's new majority shareholder, Russian commerical bank Uneximbank, has said it is reorganising metal exports through Interrosimpex in order to boost revenues.

Norilsk

Uneximbank

Interrosimpex

Russian


Input: But the changes have yet to improve significantly Norilsk's situation.

Norilsk


Input: " Uneximbank has inherited a mountain and whether or not they climb out and over it remains to be seen, " said one metals source.

Uneximbank


Input: Norilsk said in September that it total debts, including unpaid salaries to workers, were 13 trillion roubles.

Norilsk


Input: The company said last month that it had worked out a tax payment schedule with authorities, after regional tax officials threatened to seize some nickel and copper assets.


Input: -- Moscow Newsroom, +7095 941 8520

Moscow Newsroom


Input: Estonian Tallinna Pank 11-mo net 46.6 mln kroons.

Estonian

Tallinna Pank


Input: TALLINN 1996-12-06

TALLINN


Input: Tallinna Pank, one of the largest banks in Estonia, made a 11-month 1996 net profit of 46.6 million kroons, the bank said on Friday.

Tallinna Pank

Estonia


Input: It said in a statement that it made profits of 4.5 million kroons in November.


Input: The bank made a profit of 20.1 million kroons in the first half of the year.


Input: Tallinna Pank said its assets rose 17.8 million kroons to 1.84 billion kroons.

Tallinna Pank


Input: Demand deposits rose to 855.8 million kroons from 834.6 million kroons and time deposits increased to 295.1 million kroons from 285.3 million kroons.


Input: -- Riga Newsroom, +371 721 5240

Riga Newsroom


Input: Russia ready for constructive work with Albright.

Russia

Albright


Input: MOSCOW 1996-12-06

MOSCOW


Input: Russia said on Friday it expected a constructive relationship with Madeleine Albright, nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton to be Secretary of State.

Russia

U.S.

Madeleine Albright

Bill Clinton


Input: Interfax news agency quoted First Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov as saying Moscow was ready for " most active and constructive " work with Albright.

Interfax

Igor Ivanov

Albright

Moscow


Input: But he noted that policy would be shaped by Clinton and President Boris Yeltsin.

Clinton

Boris Yeltsin


Input: Clinton and Yeltsin are due to meet next March for their first summit since both were re-elected.

Clinton

Yeltsin


Input: " Our countries' leaders have agreed to meet in March, 1997.


Input: The Russian foreign ministry believes the new directions in the development of Russian-U.S. relations will be worked out there, " Ivanov told Interfax.

Russian

Russian-U.S.

Ivanov

Interfax


Input: Interfax, outlining Albright's biography, pointed out that she had defended Washington's interests fiercely as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and that this had included actively supporting NATO's plans to expand eastwards.

Interfax

United Nations

NATO

Albright

Washington

U.S.


Input: Russia opposes NATO's plans to take in countries of eastern and central Europe which used to be part of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, saying such moves would threaten its security.

Russia

Europe

NATO

Soviet-led

Warsaw Pact


Input: Yeltsin plans return to Kremlin for Dec 25-speaker.

Yeltsin

Kremlin


Input: MOSCOW 1996-12-06

MOSCOW


Input: Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who had heart bypass surgery a month ago, plans to return to work on December 25, the head of the upper chamber of parliament told Interfax news agency on Friday.

Russian

Boris Yeltsin

Interfax


Input: " Today he is a mobile, energetic man with lots of colour in his cheeks, " said Yegor Stroyev who met Yeltsin, 65, on Friday at a country residence. "

Yegor Stroyev

Yeltsin


Input: He told me that he had lost 20 kg (44 lbs) which is natural after such an operation. "


Input: December 25, a normal working day in Russia, is the fifth anniversary of Yeltsin's arrival in the Kremlin.

Russia

Kremlin

Yeltsin


Input: He took over there, and took control of the red button controlling nuclear arms, in December 1991 when Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, marking the end of the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet Union


Input: Yeltsin has been shown a few times on television since his quintuple bypass on November 5 but has yet to deliver any major television or radio address to the nation.

Yeltsin


Input: Surgeon Renat Akchurin who led the operation, told Itar-Tass news agency Yeltsin was working up to four hours a day at his residence.

Renat Akchurin

Yeltsin

Itar-Tass


Input: Bomb explodes outside home of expelled Slovak MP.

Slovak


Input: BRATISLAVA 1996-12-06

BRATISLAVA


Input: A bomb exploded on Friday outside the home of a Slovak politician expelled from parliament after he quit the ruling party, complaining of a lack of democracy in the country.

Slovak


Input: The official TASR news agency said the explosion blew out all ground floor windows of Frantisek Gaulieder's family home in Galanta, western Slovakia, and damaged the main entrance, but no-one was injured.

TASR

Frantisek Gaulieder

Galanta

Slovakia


Input: Gaulieder, formerly a member of Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar's ruling Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, was stripped of his parliamentary mandate on Wednesday after leaving the party last month in protest over what he said was a lack of democracy in the country.

Gaulieder

Vladimir Meciar

Movement for a Democratic Slovakia


Input: He said he had been receiving anonymous death threats since making the move.


Input: " This was an act of terrorism and now I fear not only for my own life, but also of that of my wife and children, " he told TASR.

TASR


Input: Gaulieder's family was sleeping in a bedroom at the back of the house and were unharmed by the blast.

Gaulieder


Input: It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast.


Input: Bomb explodes at mosque in central Bulgaria.

Bulgaria


Input: SOFIA 1996-12-06

SOFIA


Input: A bomb exploded on Friday at a mosque in the central Bulgarian town of Kazanluk, causing damage but no injuries, state radio said.

Bulgarian

Kazanluk


Input: Violent crime has soared since the collapse of communism in 1989 as Bulgaria moves to a market economy.

Bulgaria


Input: Bombings are often carried out by criminals to settle scores but the motive in this case was not immediately clear.


Input: Some residents of the Kazanluk area are Moslems who converted to Islam during Ottoman Turkish rule.

Kazanluk

Moslems

Islam

Ottoman Turkish


Input: The majority in Bulgaria are Christians.

Bulgaria

Christians


Input: The radio quoted police as saying the blast broke windows and shattered the door of the mosque.


Input: Hungary o/n rates end up before Dec 10 tax payment.

Hungary


Input: BUDAPEST 1996-12-06

BUDAPEST


Input: Hungarian overnight interest rates closed higher on Friday as market liquidity tightened before the December 10 social security contribution payment deadline, dealers said.

Hungarian


Input: " The banks are already preparing for the December 10 tax payment, " said Budapest Bank's Sandor Tolonics. "

Budapest Bank

Sandor Tolonics


Input: They expect a larger-than-average payment. "


Input: The overnight market opened at 22.00/22.75 percent, then substantial money was taken up at 22.5 percent.


Input: But later, rates dropped and closed at 22.00/22.25 as a large bank finished borrowing money.


Input: On Thursday, overnight rates moved between 21.625 and 22.125.


Input: Dealers said liquidity could tighten further early next week as the social security contribution payments date approaches.


Input: -- Sandor Peto, Budapest newsroom (36 1) 327 4040

Sandor Peto

Budapest


Input: Mexico stocks off lows but still hit by Greenspan.

Mexico

Greenspan


Input: MEXICO CITY

MEXICO CITY


Input: Mexican stocks closed sharply lower Friday, but had made a tentative recovery as initial panic and volatility abated.

Mexican


Input: " It was Greenspan at first.

Greenspan


Input: Then once we saw the Dow (Jones industrial average) was not about to crash, some buyers stepped in, " said a trader, referring to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose comments that assets were " irrationally exhuberant " upset financial markets worldwide.

Dow (Jones industrial average)

Federal Reserve

Alan Greenspan


Input: The blue-chip IPC index ended down 1.29 points, or 43.56 percent, at 3,333.05.

IPC


Input: Volume was regular at 74.7 million shares traded.


Input: Mexican stocks were also hurt by U.S. long bond rates which had begun to rise before Greenspan's comments and were inflated by employment data released before trade began in Mexico.

Mexican

U.S.

Mexico

Greenspan


Input: Yields on U.S. 30-year Treasury bonds were 6.51 percent when stock trading closed in Mexico, unchanged from Thursday.

U.S.

Mexico

Treasury


Input: On the broad market, 107 stocks changed hands, of which losers well outnumbered winners by 75 to 13.


Input: Traders noted the lack of blue chips or stocks traded at significant volume among the gainers.


Input: Simec, the steelmaking arm of the debt-ridden Sidek group headed the losers, off 7 centavos (1 cent) at 1.40 pesos (18 cents).

Simec

Sidek


Input: Sidek fell 4 centavos (1 cent) to 95 centavos (12 cents).

Sidek


Input: Traders also remarked that Mexican ADRs suffered in New York.

Mexican

ADRs

New York


Input: Heavyweights Telmex and Televisa ended off 25 cents and 75 cents, respectively, at $31.125 and $25.875.

Telmex

Televisa


Input: " Falling share prices in New York don't hurt Mexico as long as it happens gradually, as earlier this week.

New York

Mexico


Input: It's a sudden plunge that takes its toll, " said Carlos Ponce, research director at Santander.

Carlos Ponce

Santander


Input: Traders and analysts differed as to how firm the relative recovery on Friday was.


Input: " Some buyers stepped in, but the market was not very convinced.


Input: Volume was lackluster, " said one trader.


Input: " The market's very healthy, we're buying, " said another trader.


Input: Ponce said shares were certainly attractively priced in Mexico, but would not appreciate until foreign buyers stepped in, which they had yet to do.'

Ponce

Mexico


Input: Plastic surgery gets boost in Brazil.

Brazil


Input: Simona de Logu

Simona de Logu


Input: RIO DE JANEIRO 1996-12-06

RIO DE JANEIRO


Input: Plastic surgery is booming, especially among men, as Brazilians spend much of their new-found wealth on the latest beauty treatments, said the organisers of a four-day international plastic surgery conference that opened on Friday.

Brazilians


Input: The number of plastic surgeries in Brazil has jumped 30 percent to an estimated 150,000 this year since an anti-inflation plan was introduced in July 1994, Farid Hakme, the president of the Brazilian Plastic Surgery Society (SBCP), said.

Brazil

Farid Hakme

Brazilian Plastic Surgery Society

SBCP


Input: The number of operations on men increased even more -- by 80 percent, from 8,000 in 1994 to 15,000 in 1995, he said.


Input: " Brazil ranks right at the top for plastic surgery with respect to the number of surgeons, the number of patients, number of operations, number of conferences.

Brazil


Input: Our statistics are the highest for everything, " Hakme said.

Hakme


Input: " We believe the increase in plastic surgeries for men results from the difficulties in the job market.


Input: People need to have a more youthful look to compete in the job market, given the profound changes in Latin America's economy. "

Latin America


Input: A controlled exchange rate, trade liberalisation and tight monetary policies have also dramatically curbed inflation, making more money available for cosmetic surgery.


Input: Brazil has been at the forefront in plastic surgery for decades and is home to one of the most famous surgeons, Ivo Pitangy.

Brazil

Ivo Pitangy


Input: There are 6,000 plastic surgeons there, of which 4,500 have qualified to be members of the SBCP.

SBCP


Input: Every year, 500 new plastic surgeons graduate in Brazil and medical students from all over the world come to study there.

Brazil


Input: Hakme attributes Brazil's fascination with plastic surgery not to excessive vanity but to the country's mix and match of different races, which can create physical disharmonies. "

Hakme

Brazil


Input: What happens is the nose sometimes doesn't match the mouth or the buttocks don't match with the legs, " he said.


Input: Brazil's most sought-after beauty treatment is liposuction in which fat is sucked away from areas of the body, with about 30,000 operations a year at a cost of $3,000 to $4,000 each.

Brazil


Input: Stomach tucks and breast operations are also popular since the tropical climate calls for flesh-baring fashions, but unlike women elsewhere Brazilians tend to have breast reductions and buttock implants.

Brazilians


Input: " The women who want to reduce their breasts here would probably want to increase them in the United States, " SBCP Vice-President Oswaldo Saldanha said. "

United States

SBCP

Oswaldo Saldanha


Input: Beauty ideals and cultures are different in every country. "


Input: Plastic surgery scares like the case in which Brazilian model Claudia Liz fell into a coma after being anaesthetised for a liposuction in October are not much of a deterrent.

Brazilian

Claudia Liz


Input: Saldanha said operations fell 30 percent immediately after that case but the rate was back to normal now.

Saldanha


Input: Daily Argentine grain fixings-Camaras Arbitrales.

Argentine

Camaras Arbitrales


Input: BUENOS AIRES 1996-12-06

BUENOS AIRES


Input: Avg December 5 price fix:


Input: Buenos Aires Quequen Rosario Bahia Blanca

Buenos Aires

Quequen

Rosario

Bahia Blanca


Input: Oats unq unq unq unq


Input: Wheat 121 130 121.3 121


Input: Maize (Flint) 113 114 113.7 112


Input: Maize (Dent) 113 114 113.7 112


Input: Sorghum unq unq unq unq


Input: Millet unq unq 90 unq


Input: Soybeans 283 unq 283 unq


Input: Sunseeds 219 216 220 216


Input: -- Buenos Aires Newsroom +541 318-0655

Buenos Aires Newsroom


Input: Mexican daily port, shipping update for Dec 6.

Mexican


Input: MEXICO CITY 1996-12-06

MEXICO CITY


Input: All major ports were open as of 1000 local/1600 GMT, the Communications and Transportation Ministry said in a daily update.

GMT

Communications and Transportation Ministry


Input: Tampico port authorities said fishing restrictions were in place in an area adjacent to the port because of a geophysical study being carried out in deep waters of the region from the ship Kenda.

Tampico

Kenda


Input: The ministry updated port conditions and shipping warnings for the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Pacific Coast.

Gulf of Mexico

Caribbean

Pacific Coast


Input: -Pacific Coast:

Pacific Coast


Input: Light rains along the coast of southern Baja California and Sinaloa, with the rest of the coast seeing clear skies.

Baja California

Sinaloa


Input: Winds from the northeast of 10 to 15 knots (19 to 28 kilometers/11 to 17 miles per hour).


Input: A new front is seen emerging during the course of Friday, affecting the north of the Baja California peninsula and Sonora state, bringing lower temperatures, light rains and waves up to six feet.

Baja California

Sonora


Input: -Gulf of Mexico:

Gulf of Mexico


Input: Cold front bringing light rains to the coast of Tamaulipas, but with the rest of the Gulf in clear skies.

Tamaulipas

Gulf


Input: Winds from the northeast at 10 to 15 knots (19 to 28 kilometers/11 to 17 miles per hour).


Input: -Caribbean:

Caribbean


Input: Tropical air carrying sporadic light rains over the coast of Quintana Roo state.

Quintana Roo


Input: Winds from the northeast at 10 to 15 knots with waves three to five feet high.


Input: -- Chris Aspin, Mexico City newsroom +525 728-7903

Chris Aspin

Mexico City


Input: Brazil exam cheats caught using " pager " watches.

Brazil


Input: RIO DE JANEIRO 1996-12-06

RIO DE JANEIRO


Input: Brazilian students have been caught cheating in university entrance exams by using digital watches which gave the correct answers to test questions, a newspaper said on Friday.

Brazilian


Input: Rio de Janeiro state university officials discovered students were paying 15,000 reais ($14,563) for the special watches, which operated like a telephone pager to receive correct answers, O Globo said.

Rio de Janeiro

O Globo


Input: Seventy-seven students were found with the watches and disqualified, O Globo said.

O Globo


Input: Chile, Mexico to seek to broaden trade deal.

Chile

Mexico


Input: SANTIAGO 1996-12-05

SANTIAGO


Input: Chile and Mexico will start negotiations next year to broaden their free trade agreement to include services and investments, Finance Minister Eduardo Aninat said.

Chile

Mexico

Eduardo Aninat


Input: Chile hopes to broaden the treaty signed in 1994 beyond reduction of tariffs on imports and exports and add provisions covering services and investment codes, said Aninat.

Chile

Aninat


Input: Both areas tend to more laden with friction in free trade negotiations than tariff reduction.


Input: '' In January or February, we'll have some very close contacts with Mexico to add the issue of services and advance on the issue of investments,'' Aninat told reporters after signing a free trade deal with Canada.

Mexico

Canada

Aninat


Input: '' We want to give the treaty between Mexico and Chile greater depth and coverage than it has now.

Mexico

Chile


Input: It's very good now, but it practically only covers trade in goods,'' he said.


Input: Aninat also said he was confident the Chilean Congress would ratify the treaty with Congress quickly.

Aninat

Chilean Congress

Congress


Input: '' The reactions from business and unions which I have seen have been almost unanimously positive, so I don't see any problem,'' he said.


Input: -- Roger Atwood, Santiago newsroom +56-2-699-5595 x211

Roger Atwood

Santiago


Input: Indonesia's Belo leaves for Nobel award ceremony.

Indonesia

Belo

Nobel


Input: DILI, East Timor 1996-12-06

DILI

East Timor


Input: East Timorese Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Belo left Dili on Friday on his way to Norway for the awards ceremony as co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize.

East Timorese

Roman Catholic

Nobel Peace Prize

Carlos Belo

Dili

Norway


Input: Witnesses said Belo left the territory for the Indonesian capital Jakarta accompanied by five other people.

Belo

Indonesian

Jakarta


Input: It was not immediately known when he would arrive in Oslo.

Oslo


Input: The bishop will jointly receive the Nobel award next Tuesday with East Timorese-born activist Jose Ramos Horta, who lives in self-exile in Australia.

Nobel

East Timorese-born

Jose Ramos Horta

Australia


Input: The Indonesian government has condemned the inclusion of Ramos Horta in the award, and Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said on Friday that Indonesia would not be represented officially at the ceremony in the Norwegian capital.

Indonesian

Norwegian

Ramos Horta

Ali Alatas

Indonesia


Input: " I sincerely believe that this unfortunate choice in giving the honour to such a controversial figure as Ramos Horta ...

Ramos Horta


Input: will exacerbate the problem in finding a solution (to East Timor), " Alatas said on Friday.

East Timor

Alatas


Input: He was responding to questions at a news conference called to discuss next week's ministerial meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Jakarta.

Organisation of the Islamic Conference

OIC

Jakarta


Input: Ramos Horta has been a vocal leader of the opposition to Jakarta's rule in the territory.

Ramos Horta

Jakarta


Input: Belo and Ramos Horta were awared the prize for their efforts to secure a peaceful solution to the issue of East Timor, a former Portuguese colony which Indonesia invaded in 1975 and annexed the following year.

Belo

Ramos Horta

East Timor

Indonesia

Portuguese


Input: The United Nations has never recognised Jakarta's move.

United Nations

Jakarta


Input: Alatas said the government's position on the Nobel Peace Prize would have been different if it had been awarded solely to Belo.

Alatas

Belo

Nobel Peace Prize


Input: Asked if the Indonesian ambassador to Norway would have attended the ceremony if only Belo had been involved, Alatas replied: " Probably, yes, but that is a hypothetical question. "

Indonesian

Norway

Belo

Alatas


Input: Alatas said on Tuesday that on his way back from Oslo, Belo would visit the Vatican to see the Pope, and would also meet German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Bonn.

Alatas

Belo

Helmut Kohl

Oslo

Vatican

Bonn

German


Input: Kohl had wanted to meet Belo during the chancellor's official visit to Indonesia last month, but the bishop was too busy in East Timor to come to Jakarta.

Kohl

Belo

Indonesia

East Timor

Jakarta


Input: China to open port in Hainan to foreign ships.

China

Hainan


Input: BEIJING 1996-12-06

BEIJING


Input: China's State Council, or cabinet, has given a port in the southern province of Hainan permission to open to foreign vessels, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

China

Hainan

State Council

Xinhua


Input: Xinhua did not say when Qinglan port in Wenchang city would be opened to foreign vessels.

Xinhua

Qinglan

Wenchang


Input: Wenchang has built a berth for 5,000 deadweight-tonne container ships at the port and invested 34 million yuan ($4.1 million) to dredge the harbour, Xinhua said.

Wenchang

Xinhua


Input: It gave no further details.


Input: ($1 = 8.3 yuan)


Input: Government disperses protest with water cannons.


Input: RANGOON 1996-12-07

RANGOON


Input: Burmese troops and riot police moved in to disperse a student street protest at a suburban road junction near the Ranyon (Rangoon) University early on Saturday, witnesses said.

Burmese

Ranyon (Rangoon) University


Input: They said police and troops used water cannons from fire engines to subdue about 120 university students sitting in at the centre of the junction at about 3 a.m. before they moved in to round them up.


Input: The students, who had staged an 11-hour protest at the junction in northern Rangoon, were taken away in three vehicles.

Rangoon


Input: The witnesses said some of the students were hit with batons while they were herded onto the vehicles and it was believed they were taken to the Insein prison in suburban Rangoon.

Insein

Rangoon


Input: The protesting students, mostly from Rangoon University, were demanding the right to organise independent unions on campuses and the release of about 80 student leaders currently in jail.

Rangoon University


Input: They were among 500 students who started demonstrating at the intersection on late Friday afternoon.


Input: The protest was the second major one in five days in the capital.


Input: Burmese students march briefly out of campus.

Burmese


Input: Vithoon Amorn

Vithoon Amorn


Input: RANGOON 1996-12-06

RANGOON


Input: About 200 Burmese students marched briefly from troubled Yangon Institute of Technology in northern Rangoon on Friday towards the University of Yangon six km (four miles) away, and returned to their campus, witnesses said.

Burmese

Yangon Institute of Technology

University of Yangon

Rangoon


Input: Seven truckloads of armed riot police and three fire engines were on standby at one of the junctions near the institute.


Input: There were no clashes.


Input: " They are now back in the YIT campus, " an institute official who declined to be identified told Reuters by telephone.

YIT

Reuters


Input: One of two roads leading to the University of Yangon from the institute had been closed by authorities.

University of Yangon


Input: But about 300 university students were still gathered outside the gates of their campus, witnesses said.


Input: They were singing peacefully.


Input: On Monday and Tuesday, students from the institute and the university launched protests against what they said was unfair handling by police of a brawl between some of their colleagues and restaurant owners in October.


Input: On Tuesday and Wednesday, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was restricted to her home by the military government to prevent her from being drawn into the protests.

Aung San Suu Kyi


Input: She was allowed to move freely on Thursday.


Input: The protest culminated at dawn on Tuesday with several hundred students being detained briefly by police in central Rangoon.

Rangoon


Input: The street protests were the biggest seen in the capital since the student-led pro-democracry demonstrations of September 1988 when the junta crushed the uprising.


Input: Thousands were killed or imprisoned.


Input: Earlier on Friday some of the students, who were held briefly by police during the protests earlier this week, said they were still dissatisfied with the military government.


Input: They told Reuters they were unhappy that the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) had not heeded their calls for the right to organise independent unions on campus.

Reuters

State Law and Order Restoration Council

SLORC


Input: " We still want government answers to our demands.


Input: We want police punishment to be published in newspapers, " one student said.


Input: But the students stressed their protests were non-political and they had no contact with Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD).

Suu Kyi

National League for Democracy

NLD


Input: Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and daughter of independence hero Aung San, and key NLD officials have also denied any link with the students.

Suu Kyi

Aung San

Nobel

NLD


Input: But they have said both parties had a " moral link " in that they were against police brutality and injustice.


Input: The students also demanded the government announce punishments meted out to policemen who they said had manhandled students involved in a brawl with some restaurant owners near the Yangon institute in October.

Yangon


Input: The students appealed to the government not to close the institute because of their latest demonstration.


Input: The institute was shut for nearly two years after the 1988 uprising.


Input: On Friday, the road leading to Suu Kyi's lakeside residence in central Rangoon remained closed by police.

Suu Kyi

Rangoon


Input: Union leaders outraged by WTO snub to ILO head.

Union

WTO

ILO


Input: SINGAPORE 1996-12-06

SINGAPORE


Input: International trade union leaders on Friday expressed outrage that the head of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) had been barred from speaking at next week's WTO meeting in Singapore.

International trade union

International Labour Organisation

ILO

WTO

Singapore


Input: Bill Jordan, general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), told a news conference the withdrawal of a WTO invitation to ILO director general Michel Hansenne was " outrageous behaviour on the part of an organisation that wants to command respect in the world ".

Bill Jordan

Michel Hansenne

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

ICFTU

WTO

ILO


Input: Jordan said a small group of developing nations that oppose linking trade talks and labour conditions had pressured World Trade Organisation (WTO) officials to prevent Hansenne from taking the platform to urge such links.

Jordan

Hansenne

World Trade Organisation

WTO


Input: " It is to their shame that those who are responsible for encouraging this meeting responded (to the pressure) in silencing him, " Jordan said after the opening of an ICFTU conference on international labour standards and trade.

Jordan

ICFTU


Input: The three-day trade union conference in Singapore hopes to push labour issues onto the WTO agenda.

Singapore

WTO


Input: Jordan said the WTO's credibility was at stake over the issue of trade and labour.

Jordan

WTO


Input: The ICFTU said it wanted the WTO conference beginning on Monday to outlaw forced and child labour, end discrimination in hiring, and guarantee the right to join a union.

ICFTU

WTO


Input: Bill Brett, chairman of the ILO Workers Group, told Reuters before the news conference he was " not too surprised, but very disappointed " that the speaking invitation had been withdrawn.

Bill Brett

ILO Workers Group

Reuters


Input: " Some governments are very determined to stop the issue (of trade and labour rights) being discussed, " he said, adding that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) seemed particularly hostile to the ILO agenda.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASEAN

ILO


Input: ASEAN groups Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

ASEAN

Brunei

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam


Input: The ILO wants a trade and labour rights " social clause " included in the final ministerial statement issued by WTO leaders at the end of the meeting, the organization's first ministerial-level gathering.

ILO

WTO


Input: Speaking to ICFTU delegates, Richard Eglin, director of the WTO secretariat, said the WTO was capable of making a significant contribution to governmental efforts to solve social problems.

ICFTU

WTO

WTO

Richard Eglin


Input: But he said the WTO's organisational structure made it difficult to impose on its members a social clause such as that called for by the ILO.

WTO

ILO


Input: Indian rubber demand seen outstripping production.

Indian


Input: SINGAPORE 1996-12-06

SINGAPORE


Input: Indian rubber demand is seen outpacing local production in the 1996/97 April/March season and the trend will persist way into the next century, the chairman of the Rubber Board of India said on Friday.

Indian

Rubber Board of India


Input: K.J. Matthew said at the Asia Rubber Markets meeting here Indian production of natural rubber in 1996/97 will reach 547,000 tonnes against projected demand of 578,000 tonnes, a gap of 31,000 tonnes.

K.J. Matthew

Asia Rubber Markets

Indian


Input: For synthetic rubber, production reached 68,200 tonnes in 1995/96 while consumption in the same season hit 134,085 tonnes, Matthew added.

Matthew


Input: " Though schemes designed to realise further increases in the production of natural rubber are being operated successfully, the demand-supply gap is expected to widen, " he said.


Input: Indian synthetic rubber output is not expected to rise significantly in the next season but demand will rise to 145,000 tonnes.

Indian


Input: Matthew estimates that by the 2000/01 season, the gap between natural rubber output and consumption will rise to 51,000 tonnes and 319,000 tonnes in 2010/11.

Matthew


Input: Natural rubber production will go up to 695,000 tonnes in 2000/01 against consumption of 746,000 tonnes.


Input: In 2010/11, domestic demand should rise further to 1.233 million tonnes while production will only reach about 914,000 tonnes.


Input: One way to bridge the widening gap is to put more land under cultivation which the Rubber Board official estimates will reach 220,000 hectares between now and the year 2003 although Matthew said this may not be possible at this time in India.

Rubber Board

Matthew

India


Input: " The development objective for the rubber plantation industry will be to increase production to the best extent possibly with a view to minimising imports of natural rubber, " he said.


Input: -- Singapore Newsroom (65-8703305)

Singapore Newsroom


Input: Japan's authorities seen seeking to rein in dollar.

Japan


Input: George Nishiyama

George Nishiyama


Input: TOKYO 1996-12-06

TOKYO


Input: Comments by Japan's tight-lipped central bank chief and an influential top bureaucrat are further signs that the nation's authorities want to keep the dollar at current levels, market sources said on Friday.

Japan


Input: In a rare expression of a view on currencies by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor, Yasuo Matsushita was quoted in Japan's leading economic daily on Friday as saying that he sees no further, immediate fall in the yen.

Bank of Japan

BOJ

Yasuo Matsushita

Japan


Input: This followed a widely watched television appearance late on Thursday by Eisuke Sakakibara, a high-ranking Finance Ministry official, who denied he had said he wants to guide the dollar lower to between 108 and 110 yen.

Eisuke Sakakibara

Finance Ministry


Input: But many in the market thought Sakakibara's real intentions lay elsewhere, and took more notice of his comments about the U.S. government's stance on the dollar, dealers said.

Sakakibara

U.S.


Input: " I think his views on (U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert) Rubin's comments were indeed what he himself thinks about the dollar, " said Hank Note, chief dealer at Sumitomo Bank.

U.S. Treasury

Sumitomo Bank

Robert

Rubin

Hank Note


Input: Asked about Rubin's comment that a strong dollar was in U.S. interests, Sakakibara said the remark does not necessarily mean the United States supports a stronger dollar.

Rubin

Sakakibara

U.S.

United States


Input: " It's a strong dollar, not stronger.


Input: In that sense, the comments are not pointing to a certain direction, " he said.


Input: " It shows that Sakakibara is not for a stronger dollar either, " said Sumitomo's Note.

Sakakibara

Sumitomo


Input: Takao Sakoh, first vice president at Union Bank of Switzerland in Tokyo, said: " Maybe a dollar at 104.50 yen is not acceptable (to Sakakibara), but it may be okay at the current level, at the lower end of 112 yen. "

Takao Sakoh

Sakakibara

Union Bank of Switzerland

Tokyo


Input: Market participants have kept a close eye on Sakakibara, chief of the ministry's International Finance Bureau, as a comment he made in November after the dollar hit this year's high of 114.92 yen pushed the currency down sharply.

Sakakibara

International Finance Bureau


Input: He had said then that the market's view on Japan's economy was too pessimistic and that he believed it was stronger than the market thought.

Japan


Input: Dealers have come to refer to 115 yen as the " Sakakibara ceiling " for the dollar following the remark.

Sakakibara


Input: Adding to the comments by " Mr Yen ", as Sakakibara is known for his prominence in the currency market, was BOJ governor Matsushita's remark.

Mr Yen

Sakakibara

Matsushita

BOJ


Input: " The recent level of the yen exchange rate has been stable, and it does not appear to be moving towards a further depreciation of the yen immediately, so import prices are likely to stabilise at current levels, " Matsushita said in an interview with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

Matsushita

Nihon Keizai Shimbun


Input: " The fact that he touched on the issue of inflation triggered by import prices shows that the BOJ does not want a further depreciation of the yen, past 115 yen, " said Yasuhito Kawashima, chief forex manager at Toyo Trust & Banking Co.

BOJ

Toyo Trust & Banking Co.

Yasuhito Kawashima


Input: Some said the central bank may have been concerned a weaker yen would lead to unfounded pessimism about Japan's economy.

Japan


Input: " There was concern that foreign investors may sell Japanese stocks if the dollar goes above 115 yen.

Japanese


Input: The BOJ does not want the yen's weakness to lead to pessimism over the economy, " said Taisuke Tanaka, market strategist with Credit Suisse in Tokyo.

BOJ

Credit Suisse

Taisuke Tanaka

Tokyo


Input: Senior BOJ officials have separately said financial markets' views on the economy have been too negative.

BOJ


Input: " I realise there are negative views in the markets about the impact of the consumption tax hike and drop in public spending, but the markets appear to be exaggerating the magnitude of the negative impact, " a senior BOJ official told Reuters on Friday.

BOJ

Reuters


Input: The consumption tax is due to raised in April from three to five percent.


Input: Lebanon sentences pro-Israeli warlord to death.

Lebanon

pro-Israeli


Input: Haitham Haddadin

Haitham Haddadin


Input: BEIRUT 1996-12-06

BEIRUT


Input: A Lebanese military court on Friday sentenced to death in absentia the commander of Israel's surrogate militia in south Lebanon on treason charges.

Lebanese

Israel

Lebanon


Input: The court convicted General Antoine Lahd, head of the South Lebanon Army (SLA), of collaborating with Israel with which Lebanon is officially at war.

Antoine Lahd

South Lebanon Army

SLA

Israel

Lebanon


Input: Lahd, a 69-year-old former Lebanese army major-general, heads the 3,000-strong SLA militia which helps Israel hold a border zone in south Lebanon to ward off cross-frontier guerrilla raids on northern Israel.

Lahd

Lebanese

SLA

Israel

Lebanon

Israel


Input: Lahd said a few days after the trial began on February 16 that Lebanese authorities must drop the charges or risk blocking any peace deal with the Jewish state.

Lahd

Lebanese

Jewish


Input: He said Israel was capable of pressuring Lebanon's Syrian-backed government to stop the legal pursuit.

Israel

Lebanon

Syrian-backed


Input: The charges against Lahd were: forming a hostile army, carrying weapons on Israel's side, helping Israel strip off a part of Lebanese territory by violence, forming an armed gang, killing or trying to kill Lebanese civilians by artillery shelling and kidnapping Lebanese citizens for long periods.

Lahd

Israel

Israel

Lebanese

Lebanese

Lebanese


Input: Shortly before Lahd's trial began, a Beirut military prosecutor charged another 89 former Lebanese army soldiers with collaborating with Israel.

Lahd

Beirut

Israel

Lebanese


Input: No date has been set for the trial of the men, all members of the SLA living in the Israeli-held zone in south Lebanon.

SLA

Israeli-held

Lebanon


Input: Israel and Lahd have repeatedly demanded safety guarantees for the SLA -- a mixed Christian-Shi'ite Moslem force -- which the Jewish states regards as loyal allies.

Israel

Lahd

SLA

Christian-Shi'ite

Moslem

Jewish


Input: Israel has said the Lebanese army must incorporate the SLA fighters into its ranks as an army brigade as a condition for peace.

Israel

Lebanese

SLA


Input: But Lebanese political analysts have said that would be out of the question and Lebanese authorities pre-empted the issue by taking legal action against Lahd.

Lebanese

Lebanese

Lahd


Input: Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, calling Lahd " a great Lebanese patriot ", said earlier this year Lebanon had insulted the SLA commander by ordering his arrest on the treason charges.

Israeli

Lebanese

Shimon Peres

Lahd

Lebanon

SLA


Input: Peres, who was ousted in May by rightwing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, said there could not be real negotiations with Lebanon " unless it will stop the maltreatment of the SLA and its commanders. "

Peres

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli

Lebanon

SLA


Input: The Beirut military court also sentenced to life in jail in absentia Etian Saqr, former head of the pro-Israeli Guardians of the Cedars, a small rightwing Christian civil war militia.

Beirut

Etian Saqr

pro-Israeli

Christian

Guardians of the Cedars


Input: Saqr, whose trial was concurrent with Lahd's, was convicted of " contacting the Israeli enemy, passing information to Israel and undertaking hostile acts against Lebanon ".

Saqr

Lahd

Israeli

Israel

Lebanon


Input: Texas/w Okla fed cattle market thin at $67-USDA.

Texas

Okla

USDA


Input: AMARILLO 1996-12-06

AMARILLO


Input: Trade was slow in the Panhandle area Friday, USDA said.

Panhandle

USDA


Input: Slaughter steers and heifers were $1.00 per cwt lower.


Input: Feedlots reporting moderate inquiry.


Input: Sales reported on 8,200 head slaughter steers and 1,000 heifers; following weekly movement of 71,200 head.


Input: Note-all cattle prices based on net weights FOB the feedlot after a 4 percent shrink.


Input: Slaughter Steers-Select and Choice 2-3 1150-1200 lbs 67.00.


Input: Slaughter Heifers-Select and Choice 2-3 1050-1100 lbs 67.00.


Input: Confirmed-9,300 Week Ago-None Year Ago-None


Input: ((Chicago newsdesk 312 408 8720))

Chicago


Input: USDA daily cattle and hog slaughter-Dec 6.

USDA


Input: Est daily livestock slaughter under Fed inspection-USDA

Fed

USDA


Input: CATTLE CALVES HOGS


Input: Friday 12/06/96 (est) 132,000 7,000 359,000


Input: Week ago (est) 130,000 6,000 346,000


Input: Year ago (act) 132,000 6,000 336,000


Input: Saturday 12/07/96 (est) 38,000 0 18,000


Input: Week to date (est) 688,000 31,000 1,810,000


Input: Same Period Last Week (est) 601,000 26,000 1,547,000


Input: Same Period Last Year* (act) 685,000 31,000 1,914,000


Input: 1996 Year to date 33,549,000 1,589,000 84,894,000


Input: 1995 Year to date* 32,970,000 1,305,000 88,800,000


Input: Percent change 1.8% 21.8%-4.4%


Input: *1995 totals adjusted to reflect NASS revisions 1996 Totals are subject to revision Yearly totals may not add due to rounding.

NASS


Input: Previous day estimated Steer and Heifer Cow and Bull


Input: Thursday 100,000 33,000


Input: BALANCE-Hartford, Conn.

Hartford

Conn


Input: , $11 mln.


Input: CITY OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

HARTFORD

CONNECTICUT


Input: RE: $25,000,000


Input: GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS


Input: MOODY'S: Aaa/A1 S&P: AAA/AA-

MOODY'S

S&P


Input: Delivery Date: 12/16/1996


Input: FSA INSURED

FSA


Input: Maturity Balance Coupon List


Input: 12/15/2000 1,250M 6.25 4.10


Input: 12/15/2001 575M 4.60 4.20


Input: 12/15/2003 265M 4.40 4.40


Input: 12/15/2004 625M 4.50 4.50


Input: 12/15/2005 55M 4.60 4.60


Input: 12/15/2006 145M 4.70 4.70


Input: 12/15/2007 850M 4.85 4.85


Input: 12/15/2008 1,200M 4.95 4.95


Input: 12/15/2009 1,240M 5.05 5.05


Input: 12/15/2010 1,250M 5.15 5.15


Input: 12/15/2011 1,240M 5.25 5.25


Input: 12/15/2012 1,200M 5.25 5.30


Input: 12/15/2013 1,135M 5.30 5.35


Input: 12/15/2014 850M 5.30 5.35


Input: Total: 11,880M


Input: State Street Bank and Trust Company

State Street Bank and Trust Company


Input: Prudential Securities Incorporated

Prudential Securities Incorporated


Input: PaineWebber Incorporated

PaineWebber Incorporated


Input: First Union Capital Markets Corp.-NJ

First Union Capital Markets Corp.

NJ


Input: -- U.S. Municipal Desk, 212-859-1650

U.S. Municipal Desk


Input: 14 years later, Florida man dies for killing.

Florida


Input: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. 1996-12-06

TALLAHASSEE

Fla.


Input: Fourteen years after he bludgeoned and shot a man whose trailer home he robbed in 1982, John Mills Jr.

John Mills Jr


Input: , 41, was put to death in Florida's electric chair Friday.

Florida


Input: As Glenn Lawhon, a rural Florida minister who is the victim's father, looked on, Mills was pronounced dead at 7:13 a.m. EST (1213 GMT) for the murder of Lester Lawhon.

Glenn Lawhon

Mills

Lester Lawhon

Florida

GMT


Input: Speaking in Arabic, Mills made a final statement before an anonymous citizen flipped the switch that sent 2000 volts of electricity through his body, said Department of Corrections spokesman Eugene Morris, who was present at the execution.

Arabic

Mills

Eugene Morris

Department of Corrections


Input: " I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and I bear witness that the prophet Mohammed is the messenger of God, " he quoted Mills as saying.

God

Allah

Mohammed

God

Mills


Input: Prison officials said they had no record of Mills' official conversion, but they said that, on May 14, 1991, he had asked that a new name, Yuhanna Abdullah Muhammed, be added to his prison file, which is usually an indication of a conversion to Islam.

Mills

Yuhanna Abdullah Muhammed

Islam


Input: Mills is the 38th person to die in Florida's electric chair since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed itself in 1976 and legalised the death penalty.

Mills

Florida

U.S. Supreme Court


Input: Prison officials said Mills made no special request for a last meal and did not eat the steak, fried potatoes and orange juice offered him.

Mills


Input: He spent Thursday with family members and his spiritual adviser, Morris said.

Morris


Input: Mills was scheduled to die Wednesday but had his sentence temporarily postponed by the Florida Supreme Court.

Mills

Florida Supreme Court


Input: On Thursday, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta denied his appeal in federal court.

Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals

Atlanta


Input: In March 1982, Mills and accomplice Michael Frederick knocked on the door of Lester Lawhon's trailer in an attempt to rob it, police said.

Mills

Michael Frederick

Lester Lawhon


Input: Lester Lawhon was taken to a nearby airstrip where he was bludgeoned with a tire iron.

Lester Lawhon


Input: Mills then fired two shots that killed Lawhon as the victim tried to run away.

Mills

Lawhon


Input: Frederick is serving a 347-year sentence.

Frederick


Input: New York grain freight fixtures-Dec 5.

New York


Input: NEW YORK 1996-12-06

NEW YORK


Input: Mana 50,000 tonnes soybeans USG/China 10-15/12 $23.50 10,000/4,000 GeePee.

USG

GeePee

China


Input: -- New York Commodities Desk +1 212 859 1640

New York Commodities Desk


Input: Iowa-S Minn fed cattle market quiet, no sales-USDA.

Iowa-S

Minn

sales-USDA


Input: DES MOINES 1996-12-06

DES MOINES


Input: Slaughter steers and heifers not tested, compared with Thursday's close, USDA said.

USDA


Input: Trade slow.


Input: Demand and seller interest light.


Input: Offerings light.


Input: Steers-Select and Choice 2-4 no sales.


Input: Heifers-Select and Choice 2-4 no sales.


Input: Carcass Basis (weight only) Compared Thursdays Close-Slaughter steers and heifers not tested.


Input: Steers-Select and Choice 2-4 no sales.


Input: Holstein-(weight only) Select to mostly Choice 2-3 1250-1400 lbs no sales.


Input: Holsteins-(grade and weight) Choice 2-3 1250-1450 lbs no sales Select 2-3 1250-1450 lbs no sales.


Input: Heifers-Select and Choice 2-4 no sales.


Input: Confirmed-None Week Ago-800 Year Ago-900


Input: Wk to Date-None Week Ago-800 Year Ago-900


Input: ((Chicago newsdesk 312-408-8720))

Chicago


Input: Man stole pigs, tipped strippers, gets 10 years.


Input: APPLETON, Wis.

APPLETON

Wis


Input: A farmhand used the proceeds from stolen pigs to lavish tips on dancers at strip clubs and offered one $3,000 to pay for breast implant surgery, authorities said Friday.


Input: In sentencing Darrel Voeks, 38, to a 10-year prison term on Thursday, Outagmie County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Luebke said he was " a thief by habit. "

Darrel Voeks

Dennis Luebke

Outagmie County


Input: " You are self-indulgent.


Input: You are narcissitic, " Luebke said at the sentencing, adding Voeks should pay restitution of more than $100,000 to the farming family who had hired him.

Luebke

Voeks


Input: Voeks, who was already on probation for prior pig thefts, pleaded that he was trying to pay bills for his ex-wife and children.

Voeks


Input: But the court heard that receipts showed much of the money went to dancers at strip clubs where he was known as a big tipper.


Input: One stripper said Voeks offered to give her $3,000 for breast implant surgery.

Voeks


Input: Canadian grain statistics weekly.

Canadian


Input: CHICAGO, Dec 6 (Reuter) Statistics for the week ending December 1 in 000's tonnes.

CHICAGO

Reuter


Input: -Canadian Grain Commission

Canadian Grain Commission


Input: Visible Supplies Farmers Deliveries


Input: Curr Wk Yr Ago Curr Wk Yr to Date Yr Ago


Input: Wheat 4320.2 3909.3 288.5 6278.9 5580.0


Input: Durum 1168.9 1225.0 44.3 965.3 1069.6


Input: Oats 286.5 284.6 31.9 937.3 581.2


Input: Barley 1074.0 1104.8 178.0 2531.4 1897.1


Input: Rye 44.6 86.3 2.3 108.2 119.2


Input: Flax 165.2 181.9 14.9 231.4 332.9


Input: Canola 646.6 769.4 60.5 1902.0 2147.6


Input: Corn 79.6 163.5 9.4 95.7 252.0


Input: Total 7785.8 7724.8 629.8 13050.2 11979.6


Input: Exports Domestic Disappearance


Input: Curr Wk YTD Yr Ago Curr Wk YTD Yr Ago


Input: Wheat 387.4 4677.8 4553.6 55.2 1039.7 846.1


Input: Durum 129.0 1515.9 1220.6 4.6 75.8 73.3


Input: Oats 40.0 561.0 391.9 4.8 149.6 115.0


Input: Barley 110.8 1203.4 506.0 48.2 941.0 786.6


Input: Rye 4.1 60.7 57.9 3.0 10.7 18.9


Input: Flax 7.2 154.1 235.7 1.1 22.2 15.7


Input: Canola 47.1 988.1 1135.5 46.7 894.9 822.0


Input: Corn 4.4 15.1 87.0 0.6 22.1 11.1


Input: Total 730.0 9176.1 8188.2 164.2 3156.0 2686.7


Input: In addition, Statistics Canada indicated the following exports to the U.S. between August and September 1996, in tonnes:

Statistics Canada

U.S.


Input: Oats Rye Flaxseed Canola Corn


Input: Exports 29,200 17,200 7,700 100 59,400


Input: Year Ago 47,000 24,300 8,700 8,200 12,200


Input: (Chicago newsdesk 312 408 8720)

Chicago


Input: NYMEX natgas ends sharply lower on weather outlook.

NYMEX


Input: NEW YORK 1996-12-06

NEW YORK


Input: NYMEX Henry Hub natgas futures settled significantly lower Friday, pressured early by profit taking and driven even lower late by the National Weather Service's bearish six to 10 day forecast, sources said.

NYMEX

National Weather Service

Henry Hub


Input: January ended 29.7 cents lower at $3.487 per million British thermal units after dipping to a low of $3.46.

British


Input: Feb settled down 22 cents at $3.186.


Input: Most others also were down.


Input: " Weather forecasts have been sketchy.


Input: Now the National Weather Service is calling for above-normal temperatures in more than half of the U.S., " one futures trader said.

National Weather Service

U.S.


Input: In its forecast, the NWS said it expects above-normal temperatures " over the lower 48 states " from December 12 through December 16.

NWS


Input: With more room to the downside anticipated early next week, traders said support in January was at $3.47, then $3.35.


Input: The next backstops were seen at $3.11 and $3.04, the low set on November 21.


Input: Resistance was pegged at the new contract high of $3.80.


Input: In the cash market, Gulf Coast prices were around $3.60 shortly before nomination deadlines.

Gulf Coast


Input: Midcontinent prices were similarly lower in the $3.40s. New York city gate gas slipped into the $4.40s, down almost 15 cents.

Midcontinent

New York


Input: NYMEX said an estimated 35,662 Hub contracts traded, down from Thursday's revised tally of 43,955.

NYMEX


Input: NYMEX Alberta natgas remained untraded, with January settling at $1.65, off 10 cents from Thursday.

NYMEX

Alberta


Input: Physical prices for the weekend at the AECO storage hub were also down about 10 cents in the C$ 1.92-1.97 per gigajoule, or $1.52-1.56 per mmBtu range, pressured by unseasonably mild weather in western Canada.

AECO

C$

Canada


Input: NYMEX Permian natgas, also untraded, ended 10 cents lower at $2.90.

NYMEX

Permian


Input: In congruence with futures, Permian cash prices for the weekend fell more than 10 cents to the high-$3.40s.

Permian


Input: On the KCBT, January finished 26.5 cents lower at $3.35 after dipping to a low of $3.33 earlier in the session.

KCBT


Input: February was down 22 cents at the close, while other deferreds were 4.5 to nine cents lower.


Input: The East/West spread narrowed by 3.2 cents to 13.7 cents (NYMEX premium).

NYMEX


Input: Physical prices at Waha for the weekend lost more than 15 cents to the low-to-mid $3.50s as milder weather moved into the Southwest.

Waha


Input: -- H McCulloch, New York Power Desk +212-859-1628

H McCulloch

New York Power Desk


Input: U.S. barges lightly quoted on call session.

U.S.


Input: ST. LOUIS 1996-12-06

ST. LOUIS


Input: U.S. barge rates were lightly quoted Friday on the St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session.

U.S.

St. Louis Merchants Exchange


Input: No barges traded versus no trades Thursday.


Input: -Two barges next week Illinois bid at a steady 130 percent of tariff, offered at 135 percent.

Illinois


Input: -One barge, week of December 15, lower Ohio bid 2-1/2 points higher at 105 percent, no offer.

Ohio


Input: Two barges, week of January 5, Illinois, offered five points lower at 195 percent, bid at 150 percent.

Illinois


Input: -Five barges, 30-day open, mid-Mississippi (McGregor and south) bid at 160 percent, offered at 170 percent, no comparisons.

mid-Mississippi

McGregor


Input: -36 barges, two each week May-August, Illinois, offered at 130 percent of tariff, no bid or comparison.

Illinois


Input: -36 barges, two each week May-August, mid-Mississippi offered at a steady 135 percent, bid at 120 percent (basis one each week).

mid-Mississippi


Input: -- Chicago newsdesk 312-408 8720

Chicago


Input: CBOT grain/oilseed receipts and shipments.

CBOT


Input: CHICAGO 1996-12-06

CHICAGO


Input: Grain and soybean receipts and shipments, in bushels, at delivery locations for the previous trading day, according to the Chicago Board of Trade-

Chicago Board of Trade


Input: Receipts Shipments


Input: Wheat


Input: Chicago 0 0

Chicago


Input: St. Louis 21,346 0

St. Louis


Input: Toledo 61,514 0

Toledo


Input: Corn


Input: Chicago 78,056 0

Chicago


Input: St. Louis 217,092 75,810

St. Louis


Input: Toledo 285,505 561,287

Toledo


Input: Oats


Input: Chicago 0 0

Chicago


Input: Minneapolis 306,364 153,231

Minneapolis


Input: Soybeans


Input: Chicago 8,674 484,018

Chicago


Input: St. Louis 253,821 223,172

St. Louis


Input: Toledo 64,334 160,476

Toledo


Input: ((Chicago Newsdesk 312-408-8720))

Chicago Newsdesk


Input: Clinton to have more news conferences in 2nd term.

Clinton


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-12-06

WASHINGTON


Input: President Clinton aims to hold more news conferences in his second term and will have one Dec. 13, the White House said Friday.

Clinton

White House


Input: The president had only two formal, full-blown news conferences last year, one in January and one after he won re-election in November, although he had various other limited sessions with the press.


Input: White House spokesman Mike McCurry said Clinton " plans to have regular news conferences " during his second term.

White House

Mike McCurry

Clinton


Input: But when asked how frequent these would be, he was evasive, saying, " periodic, occasional. "


Input: " He enjoys the give and take " with reporters, the spokesman added.


Input: Action Performance to acquire firms.


Input: TEMPE, Ariz.

TEMPE

Ariz


Input: Action Performance Cos Inc said Friday it has agreed to acquire Motorsport Traditions Ltd and Creative Marketing & Promotions Inc for about $13 million in cash and stock.

Action Performance Cos Inc

Motorsport Traditions Ltd

Creative Marketing & Promotions Inc


Input: The two firms to be acquired have about $25 million in annual revenues from the design, manufacture and sale and distribution of licensed motorsports products.


Input: The deal is expected to close by the end of the year subject to due diligence and other customary closing conditions.


Input: Half of dog bites provoked, says American vet.

American


Input: CHICAGO 1996-12-06

CHICAGO


Input: As many as 1 million dog bites are recorded in the United States every year and half of them are provoked by humans, a veterinarian told fellow animal doctors on Friday.

United States


Input: The Humane Society of the United States estimates that between 500,000 and one million bites are delivered by dogs each year, more than half of which are suffered by children.

Humane Society of the United States


Input: " Most bites can be prevented by teaching children how to respect a dog, " Michael Cornwell of the Glencoe Animal Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told the annual meeting of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Michael Cornwell

Glencoe Animal Hospital

American Veterinary Medical Association

Columbus

Ohio


Input: " Let's not let our kids jump on them or crawl on them.


Input: Dogs and children don't have to have an interaction.


Input: Let's respect their territories, " he said.


Input: Cornwell said 50 percent of reported bites were provoked by a person and 60 percent were suffered by children.

Cornwell


Input: He also estimated that only 25 percent of bites were reported because medical attention was not needed.


Input: Don Rieck, president of the National Animal Control Association, said aggressiveness in dogs was related more to gender than breed and a male dog that had not been neutered was three times more likely to bite than an unspayed female.

Don Rieck

National Animal Control Association


Input: The five breeds credited with the most incidents were chow chows, Rottweilers, German shepherds, cocker spaniels and Dalmatians. "

chow chows

Rottweilers

German shepherds

cocker spaniels

Dalmatians


Input: The trends in dog bites by particular breeds have more to do with fad pets owned by individuals who need to have something unique.


Input: Speaking strictly of dogs, 15 years ago the macho fad pet was a Doberman.

Doberman


Input: Today, Rottweilers are on the way up, " Rieck said.

Rottweilers

Rieck


Input: If approached by a stray dog, children should be taught to stand still with fists folded underneath the neck, elbows in, and gaze forward until the dog goes away.


Input: Iowa-S Minn feedlot cattle market not tested- USDA.

Iowa-S

Minn

USDA


Input: DES MOINES 1996-12-06

DES MOINES


Input: Steers and heifers were not tested, compared with Thursday's close, USDA said.

USDA


Input: Reported sales for Fri- None.


Input: Week to Date-None.


Input: ((Chicago newsdesk 312-408-8720))

Chicago


Input: Nebraska fed cattle roundup-USDA.

Nebraska

USDA


Input: OMAHA 1996-12-06

OMAHA


Input: Slaughter steers and heifers were not established Thursday.


Input: Demand limited.


Input: Seller interest light.


Input: -USDA

USDA


Input: Thursday 200 Last Week Holiday Last Year N/A


Input: Week to Date 3,500 Sm Pd Lst Wk 800 Sm Pd Lst Yr N/A


Input: Dressed Basis Delivered not well tested.


Input: Dressed Basis Steers: Few Select and Choice 2-3, 1200-1300 lbs 112.00; load early 114.00.


Input: Dressed Basis Heifers: Few Select and Choice 2-3, 1100-1200 lbs 112.00.


Input: Four Africans said to vie for top U.N. post.

Africans

U.N.


Input: Evelyn Leopold

Evelyn Leopold


Input: UNITED NATIONS 1996-12-06

UNITED NATIONS


Input: Four African states are ready to nominate candidates for the post of U.N. secretary-general on Friday now that Boutros Boutros-Ghali has temporarily put aside his bid for re-election.

African

U.N.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali


Input: The nominees, according to diplomats, are: Kofi Annan of Ghana, the U.N. undersecretary-general for peacekeeping; Ahmedou Ould Abdallah of Mauritania, the former U.N. special envoy for Burundi; Amara Essy of the Ivory Coast, its foreign minister and the U.N. General Assembly president in 1994-95; and Hamid Algabid of Niger, the secretary-general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

Kofi Annan

Ahmedou Ould Abdallah

Amara Essy

Hamid Algabid

Ghana

Mauritania

Burundi

Ivory Coast

Niger

U.N.

U.N.

U.N. General Assembly

Organisation of the Islamic Conference


Input: Representatives of the U.N. missions of Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Niger have scheduled a meeting with Security Council president Paolo Fulci of Italy to hand in the nominations in writing, the envoys said.

U.N.

Security Council

Ghana

Ivory Coast

Mauritania

Niger

Italy

Paolo Fulci


Input: It was not known if other candidates would step forward.


Input: Diplomats said General Joseph Garba of Nigeria, a U.N. General Assembly president in 1989-90, was putting forth his own candidacy without being nominated by his country.

Joseph Garba

Nigeria

U.N. General Assembly


Input: Boutros-Ghali on Wednesday opened the door for other Africans to contest his job by saying he was suspending temporarily his candidacy but was not withdrawing completely from the race.

Boutros-Ghali

Africans


Input: His supporters said this meant he remained a candidate in case the race reached an impasse.


Input: The United States on Nov. 19 vetoed his bid for re-election while the other 14 Security Council members supported him.

United States

Security Council


Input: The move by the African states means that the council could begin voting on candidates next week, a procedure that could either result in a decision or turn into a bitter fight with vetoes against each nominee.

African


Input: The Security Council has to vote on a new secretary-general and then seek the endorsement of the 185-members General Assembly before December 31 when Boutros-Ghali's term expires.

Security Council

General Assembly

Boutros-Ghali


Input: Spain's police seize petrol bombs, arrest five.

Spain


Input: MADRID 1996-12-06

MADRID


Input: Spanish police said on Friday they had arrested five people and seized more than 90 petrol bombs during disturbances after a protest in the Basque country against Spain's constitution.

Spanish

Basque

Spain


Input: Hooded protesters threw burning bottles and other objects at police in Pamplona after the protest organised by Herri Batasuna, the political wing of Basque separatist group ETA.

Pamplona

Herri Batasuna

ETA

Basque


Input: Police also confiscated eight kg (18 lb) of screws, balaclavas and spray paint cans.


Input: The protest, which attracted several thousand supporters, coincided with the 18th anniversary of Spain's constitution.

Spain


Input: Mussolini's granddaughter rejoins far-right party.

Mussolini


Input: ROME 1996-12-06

ROME


Input: Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Italy's Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, said on Friday she had rejoined the far-right National Alliance (AN) party she quit over policy differences last month.

Alessandra Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Italy

National Alliance

AN


Input: " I've gone back, " she told a radio show shortly after AN leader Gianfranco Fini, who was being interviewed on the programme, said the row had been resolved.

AN

Gianfranco Fini


Input: " He didn't want to lose me and I didn't want to lose him. "


Input: Fini told state radio RAI he met Mussolini thanks to the good offices of Giuseppe Tatarella, AN's leader in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house), and had overcome their differences.

Fini

Mussolini

Giuseppe Tatarella

RAI

AN

Chamber of Deputies


Input: Mussolini, 33, resigned from the parliamentary party group for what she said were strictly political reasons.

Mussolini


Input: The fiery politician, who is also a niece of screen star Sophia Loren, had accused AN leaders of stifling internal party debate.

Sophia Loren

AN


Input: Mussolini, who sits in the Chamber, told La Stampa newspaper last month after quitting AN's parliamentary party that she was considering joining the neo-fascist Social Movement (MS-Fiamma) formed by some of the Duce's World War Two followers.

Mussolini

Chamber

La Stampa

AN

Social Movement

MS-Fiamma

World War Two


Input: German Santa in bank nearly gets arrested.

German

Santa


Input: HANOVER, Germany 1996-12-06

HANOVER

Germany


Input: A Santa Claus distributing presents to workers in a German bank on Friday nearly ended up behind bars when a passing police patrol thought he was a robber in disguise.

Santa Claus

German


Input: The man, doing his rounds in the northern city of Hanover on the day when German children traditionally receive small presents from Saint Nicholas, convinced police eventually that he was genuine.

Hanover

German

Saint Nicholas


Input: Italy commission concludes 1997 budget examination.

Italy


Input: ROME 1996-12-06

ROME


Input: The Italian upper house Senate budget commission has concluded its examination of Italy's 1997 budget, and it will approve the measure officially by Saturday.

Italian upper house Senate

Italy


Input: From Tuesday, the full assembly of the Senate will start its examination of the financial package.

Senate


Input: -- Milan newsroom +392 66129502

Milan


Input: EU, Poland agree on oil import tariffs.

EU

Poland


Input: BRUSSELS 1996-12-06

BRUSSELS


Input: The European Union and Poland have resolved disagreements over a new Polish oil import regime, the European Commission said on Friday.

European Union

European Commission

Poland

Polish


Input: The EU had objected to increases in Polish tariffs on imports of gasoline and gasoil products introduced on January 1, 1996, saying they contravened levels envisaged in the so-called Europe Agreement between the EU and Poland.

EU

EU

Polish

Europe Agreement

Poland


Input: The increases were aimed at protecting the Polish market while helping to modernise the local oil industry.

Polish


Input: " The EU and Poland have now reached a final settlement regarding issues related to the Polish import regime in the oils sector, " the Commission said in a statement.

EU

Commission

Poland

Polish


Input: Under the agreement, Poland will abolish all oil import tariffs by 2001, remove all oil price controls and end quantitative restrictions on imports by January 1, 1997.

Poland


Input: The agreement includes the early privatisation and modernisation of Polish oil refineries, which will be obliged to offer equal treatment to all buyers.

Polish


Input: The EU and Poland will monitor the settlement at six-monthly meetings.

EU

Poland


Input: Hindu party forces India parliament to adjourn.

Hindu

India


Input: NEW DELHI 1996-12-06

NEW DELHI


Input: Hindu nationalists forced adjournment of India's lower house of parliament on Friday, in protest against a proposal to observe a minute's silence over the destruction of a mosque by a Hindu mob in 1992.

Hindu

Hindu

India


Input: Members of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouted pro-Hindu slogans in the house after a communist deputy made the proposal in remembrance of the Babri mosque, which was razed on December 6, 1992.

Hindu

pro-Hindu

Babri

Bharatiya Janata Party

BJP


Input: The house was first adjourned for two hours.


Input: When it reconvened, BJP deputies resumed the slogan-shouting, and deputy speaker Suraj Bhan suspended work until Monday.

BJP

Suraj Bhan


Input: The destruction of the 16th-century mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya triggered nationwide Hindu-Moslem violence in which more than 3,000 people were killed.

Indian

Hindu-Moslem

Ayodhya


Input: Indian officials blame revenge-minded Moslem underworld gangs in Bombay for a string of bombings in the city three months later that killed 260 people.

Indian

Moslem

Bombay


Input: The BJP backs a hardline Hindu campaign to build a temple at the site of the mosque, which Hindus believe was the birthplace of the Lord Rama.

BJP

Hindu

Hindus

Rama


Input: The campaign catapulted BJP from the political fringe to become India's main opposition party in 1991.

BJP

India


Input: Indian Sept crude oil output falls to 2.6 mln T.

Indian


Input: NEW DELHI 1996-12-06

NEW DELHI


Input: India's crude petroleum output fell to 2.56 million tonnes in September from 2.83 million in the same month in 1995, the government said on Friday.

India