Input: Although the plan was designed under terms proposed by Sao Paulo state governor Mario Covas, he has showed no interest in taking part in the plan because Sao Paulo's debt with Banespa has increased sharply, O Globo said.

Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo

Mario Covas

Banespa

O Globo


Input: Sao Paulo state's debt is now estimated at 19 billion reais.

Sao Paulo


Input: O Globo also said another delicate case to be solved involves private bank Bamerindus.

O Globo

Bamerindus


Input: The newspaper said Bamerindus has sent to the Central Bank a proposal for restructuring combined with a request for a 90-day credit line, paying four percent a year plus the Basic Interest Rate of the Central Bank (TBC).

Bamerindus

Central Bank

Central Bank

TBC


Input: O Globo also said the loan would give Bamerindus time to sell assets.

O Globo

Bamerindus


Input: Bamerindus, Brazil's fourth-largest private bank, has been facing liquidity troubles.

Bamerindus

Brazil


Input: Bamerindus declined to comment on negotiations being held with the Central Bank.

Bamerindus

Central Bank


Input: -- Fatima Cristina, Sao Paulo newsroom, 55-11-2324411

Fatima Cristina

Sao Paulo


Input: Czech Republic's Havel to tour Brazil in September.

Czech Republic

Brazil

Havel


Input: BRASILIA 1996-08-27

BRASILIA


Input: Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel is scheduled to make an official visit to Brazil Sept.

Czech Republic

Brazil

Vaclav Havel


Input: 15-21, Brazil's Foreign Relations Ministry said on Tuesday.

Brazil


Input: Havel is due to meet with his Brazilian counterpart Fernando Henrique Cardoso in the capital Brasilia and will visit the cities of Manaus, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Havel

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Brazilian

Brasilia

Sao Paulo

Rio de Janeiro


Input: Also due to visit Brazil in September are South Korean President Kim Young Sam and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Brazil

South Korean

German

Kim Young Sam

Helmut Kohl


Input: Former Argentine benevolent dictator Alejandro Lanusse dies.

Argentine

Alejandro Lanusse


Input: BUENOS AIRES 1996-08-26

BUENOS AIRES


Input: Alejandro Lanusse, the former dictator who ruled Argentina for two years, died at age 78 on Monday.

Alejandro Lanusse

Argentina


Input: Lanusse died after being brought to a hospital a week ago following a fall at home that resulted in a blood clot in the brain.

Lanusse


Input: He was operated on earlier in the week but failed to recover from surgery.


Input: The former dictator, who ruled from 1971 to 1973, was best known for allowing Juan Domingo Peron, Argentina's famed populist leader, to return to Argentina after 17 years of forced exile.

Juan Domingo Peron

Argentina

Argentina


Input: Lanusse took over the leadership of the country after five years of dictatorship.

Lanusse


Input: But unlike his two predecessors, Juan Carlos Ongania and Marcelo Levingston, who ruled Argentina with an iron hand, Lanusse steered the country toward democracy.

Juan Carlos

Marcelo Levingston

Lanusse

Argentina


Input: That resulted in general elections in March 1973 when the Peronists led by Hector Campora and Vicente Solano Lima returned to power.

Peronists

Hector Campora

Vicente Solano Lima


Input: Lanusse was a candidate in the election but failed to defeat his old adversories and never returned to public office.

Lanusse


Input: He was imprisoned for four years in 1951 for taking part in a coup attempt to overthrow Peron led by General Benjamin Menendez.

Peron

Benjamin Menendez


Input: Lanusse's rule saw the gradual rise of left-wing activism which culminated in another period of brutal Argentine dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, during which the military launched its " dirty war " that resulted in 10,000 missing people.

Lanusse

Argentine


Input: In his autobiography published in 1990, Lanusse described himself as a military man with " democratic ideas. "

Lanusse


Input: He was born in Buenos Aires in 1918 and married Ileana Bell with whom he had nine children.

Buenos Aires

Ileana Bell


Input: He entered the Military College in 1935.

Military College


Input: Ten missing in north China ship collision.

China


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-27

BEIJING


Input: Ten people were missing after a fishing boat collided with a passenger liner and sank off China's northeastern province of Liaoning, state radio said on Tuesday.

China

Liaoning


Input: The fishing boat sank and its entire crew was missing after a collision with the " Tiantan " liner off the port of Dalian early on Monday, the report said.

Tiantan

Dalian


Input: It said the liner was heading to Dalian from the northern port of Tianjin, it said.

Dalian

Tianjin


Input: Dalian port officials, contacted by telephone, confirmed the collision but gave no further details.

Dalian


Input: Matahari revises down 1996 net target.

Matahari


Input: JAKARTA 1996-08-27

JAKARTA


Input: Indonesian department store operator PT Matahari Putra Prima said on Tuesday that it had revised down its 1996 net profit target.

Indonesian

PT Matahari Putra Prima


Input: Matahari's finance director, Hanifah Komala, said they revised down net profit for 1996 to 46 billion from its original target of 50 billion rupiah.

Matahari

Hanifah Komala


Input: " We have to revised down our target due to weak sales performance in the third quarter, " said Komala.

Komala


Input: He also said the company expect to record a 83 billion rupiah of net profit in 1997.


Input: -- Jakarta newsroom +6221 384-6364

Jakarta


Input: S. Korea asked to stop China-bound missionaries.

S. Korea

China-bound


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-27

BEIJING


Input: Beijing has called on Seoul to stop South Korean missionaries from travelling to China, a South Korean embassy spokesman said on Tuesday.

Beijing

Seoul

China

South Korean

South Korean


Input: The appeal was made on Sunday during talks between South Korean deputy Foreign Minister Lee Ki-choo and his Chinese counterpart Tang Jiaxuan, the spokesman said.

South Korean

Chinese

Lee Ki-choo

Tang Jiaxuan


Input: It is not known why China raised the issue.

China


Input: Atheist China officially bans missionary activities but often turns a blind eye to religious activities of people nominally employed as foreign language teachers, particularly in remote areas that are unable to attract other candidates.

China


Input: Hong Kong nabs blind 10-year-old illegal immigrant.

Hong Kong


Input: HONG KONG 1996-08-27

HONG KONG


Input: A blind 10-year-old boy from China sneaked over the border into Hong Kong and was arrested as an illegal immigrant, Hong Kong police said on Tuesday.

China

Hong Kong

Hong Kong


Input: He was caught by police trying to force his way into a home in the rural New Territories, a police spokesman said.

New Territories


Input: " The boy came from China's eastern province of Jiangsu.

China

Jiangsu


Input: He was spotted by a passerby trying to climb into an apartment in the early hours of Monday morning, " the spokesman said.


Input: No decision has yet been made on how to deal with the boy.


Input: Hong Kong police regularly catch hundreds of illegal immigrants and people who have overstayed their visas from mainland China and send them back.

Hong Kong

China


Input: Hong Kong, a British colony, reverts to Chinese control next year but will remain sealed off from the mainland except to a tiny trickle of legal immigrants and people with special visit permits.

Hong Kong

British

Chinese


Input: Bosnian premier in Turkey for one day visit.

Bosnian

Turkey


Input: ANKARA 1996-08-27

ANKARA


Input: Bosnian Prime Minister Hasan Muratovic arrived in Ankara on Tuesday for an official visit where he is due to discuss Turkey's aid to the former Yugoslav republic.

Bosnian

Yugoslav

Hasan Muratovic

Ankara

Turkey


Input: The premier, who is due to meet his Turkish counterpart Necmettin Erbakan on Tuesday, will also be discussing the postponed Bosnian elections, a foreign ministry official said.

Turkish

Bosnian

Necmettin Erbakan


Input: A small number of Bosnians had also begun to vote in Turkey.

Bosnians

Turkey


Input: Muratovic is also due to meet with President Suleyman Demirel, Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller and Turkish businessman, the ministry official said.

Muratovic

Suleyman Demirel

Tansu Ciller

Turkish


Input: He will leave on Thursday.


Input: A U.S. diplomat in charge of elections in Bosnia announced earlier that municipal polls due on September 14 with other Bosnian elections would be put off because of irregularities by the Serbs in registering voters.

U.S.

Bosnia

Bosnian

Serbs


Input: He said no new date had been set yet.


Input: " Turkish people are watching closely the developments in Bosnia.

Turkish

Bosnia


Input: We have seen elections as a step in the normalisation process, " the foreign ministry official said.


Input: New U.N. relief coordinator arrives in Iraq.

U.N.

Iraq


Input: Leon Barkho

Leon Barkho


Input: BAGHDAD 1996-08-27

BAGHDAD


Input: A new U.N. relief coordinator has arrived in Baghdad to take up the task of organising humanitarian goods distribution and to face Iraq's continuing opposition over the number of international monitors to be involved.

U.N.

Baghdad

Iraq


Input: U.N. and diplomatic sources said on Tuesday that Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had appointed Italian Gualtiero Fulcheri and sent him to Iraq last week to replace Moroccan Mohamed Zejjari.

U.N.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Gualtiero Fulcheri

Mohamed Zejjari

Italian

Moroccan

Iraq


Input: One diplomat said Iraq and U.N. were still in disagreement on how many international observers would be required to ascertain the equitable distribution of humanitarian supplies that will be procured under Baghdad's oil deal with U.N.

Iraq

Baghdad

U.N.


Input: " The United Nations would like to employ hundreds of foreign monitors.

United Nations


Input: Baghdad says it can only accept a few dozens, " said the diplomat.

Baghdad


Input: Baghdad holds that the Iraq-U.N. memorandum of understanding on partial oil sales signed last June does not specify how many foreign observers should be stationed in Iraq.

Baghdad

Iraq

Iraq-U.N.


Input: " Observation of food supplies and their distribution are still a major issue and seems the two sides have not yet filled the gap separating them, " said another diplomat.


Input: Iraq's partial oil sales pact with U.N., allowing crude exports worth $2 billion every six months, gives U.N. the right to supervise the purchase and distribution of food supplies in the country.

Iraq

U.N.

U.N.


Input: The deal is a humanitarian exception to the U.N. sanctions imposed on Iraq for invading Kuwait in 1990 which include a ban on its oil exports.

U.N.

Iraq

Kuwait


Input: Fulcheri declined comment on the differences between the U.N. and Iraq, saying only: " There are several different things which still need to be done. "

Fulcheri

U.N.

Iraq


Input: Fulcheri started his U.N. career in 1960 and has long experience in U.N. emergency relief in Congo, Angola, Sudan and Somalia.

Fulcheri

U.N.

U.N.

Congo

Angola

Sudan

Somalia


Input: Kansas feedlot cattle market quiet, no sales-USDA.

Kansas

USDA


Input: DODGE CITY 1996-08-27

DODGE CITY


Input: Trade was quiet, with no sales slaughter steers or heifers confirmed.


Input: Inquiry and demand very light.


Input: Sales confirmed week to date on 4,200 head, mostly previously contracted or formulated cattle.


Input: Confirmed-none.


Input: -- Chicago newsdesk 312 408 8720--

Chicago


Input: Anti-abortion speaker praises Democrat tolerance.

Democrat


Input: Alan Elsner

Alan Elsner


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-27

CHICAGO


Input: An anti-abortion politician addressed the Democratic convention on Tuesday, but praised the overwhelmingly pro-abortion rights party for its tolerance of his minority views.

Democratic


Input: Rep.

Rep


Input: Tony Hall of Ohio said he and other Democrats who opposed abortion had always felt left out in their own party.

Tony Hall

Ohio

Democrats


Input: " But this year is different.


Input: For the first time, the Democratic Party has included in our platform a conscience clause, " he said.

Democratic Party


Input: The clause recognizes and welcomes Democrats with divergent views on abortion and states they have a full part to play at all levels of the party.

Democrats


Input: " The Democratic Party is indeed the party of true inclusiveness, " Hall said.

Democratic Party

Hall


Input: At its convention four years ago, organizers prevented then Pennsylvania Gov.

Pennsylvania


Input: Robert Casey, a vehement opponent of abortion, from speaking.

Robert Casey


Input: Republicans have used their decision as an example of Democrat intolerance ever since.

Republicans

Democrat


Input: Casey told a news conference in Chicago on Tuesday he had asked to speak again this year but was turned down.

Casey

Chicago


Input: Democratic leaders said there was not room on the program for every retired governor to speak.

Democratic


Input: " I believe the Democratic party ought to be pro-woman, pro-child and pro-life, " Casey said.

Democratic

Casey


Input: " I asked for the opportunity to deliver this message from the podium of the Democrat National Convention.

Democrat National Convention


Input: For the second time in four years, my request fell on deaf ears, " he said.


Input: The Republican Party, whose platform calls for making all abortions illegal, faced a similar dilemma this year when Massachusetts Gov.

Republican Party

Massachusetts


Input: William Weld asked to deliver a speech defending abortion rights and was turned down.

William Weld


Input: Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee, tried and failed to insert a tolerance clause in his party's platform recognizing the validity of those within the party who supported abortion rights.

Bob Dole

Republican


Input: Democrats also heard Tuesday two passionate speeches defending abortion rights.

Democrats


Input: Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion Rights Action League, described how she had an abortion at a time when the procedure was illegal after her husband abandoned her with three young children.

Kate Michelman

National Abortion Rights Action League


Input: " I'm here to speak up for choice and to speak for truth.


Input: The message from the Republican Party is one of disdain.

Republican Party


Input: Their answer to choice is control and punishment.


Input: Our answer is trust, compassion and respect, " she said.


Input: Georgia Rep.

Georgia

Rep


Input: Cynthia McKinney said: " You make your moral decisions.

Cynthia McKinney


Input: I'll make mine and let's leave (Republican House Speaker) Newt Gingrich out of it. "

Republican House

Newt Gingrich


Input: U.S. Spring/White Wheat-Bids mostly steady.

U.S.


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-27

CHICAGO


Input: Dark northern spring and white wheat bids were mostly steady on Tuesday but a few locations quoted weaker values as newly harvested spring wheat flooded the market, several cash grain dealers said.


Input: " There's too much nearby wheat coming into the market so we're backing off the basis to slow it down, " a Montana dealer said.

Montana


Input: Bids there dropped 10 cents per bushel.


Input: Harvest was also progressing well in parts of North Dakota, but one dealer there said new crop movement remained limited to a steady trickle. "

North Dakota


Input: We're seeing some new crop coming in now but it's slow going, " the dealer said.


Input: Elsewhere, basis values were mostly steady in quiet conditions with little noteworty domestic or export business, dealers said.


Input: Durum bids were steady after jumping 50 cents per bushel in some areas on Monday.


Input: Price per bushel for 14-pct protein dark northern spring, durum and white wheats, in dollars per bushel:


Input: Spring Chg Durum (m) Chg White Chg


Input: MINNESOTA

MINNESOTA


Input: Minneapolis 5.06 up .02 5.75 unc -- --

Minneapolis


Input: Duluth 5.06 up .02 --- --- -- --

Duluth


Input: NORTH DAKOTA

NORTH DAKOTA


Input: Hunter

Hunter


Input: (Red River) 4.46 dn .02 5.00 unc -- --

Red River


Input: Spring Chg HRW 12pct Chg White Chg

Spring


Input: Billings MT 4.62 up .01 4.50 dn .01 --- ---

Billings

MT


Input: Havre MT 4.54 dn .10 --- --- --- ---

Havre

MT


Input: Rudyard MT 4.54 dn .10 --- --- --- ---

Rudyard

MT


Input: Wolf Point MT 4.41 dn .10 --- --- --- ---

Wolf Point

MT


Input: Portland OR 5.60 up .02 5.1700 dn .01

Portland

OR


Input: Pendleton OR --- --- --- --- 4.7300 up .01

Pendleton

OR


Input: Coolee City WA 5.13 up .02 --- --- 4.7000 unc

Coolee City

WA


Input: Waterville WA 5.05 up .02 --- --- 4.6200 unc

Waterville

WA


Input: Wenatchee WA 5.15 up .02 --- --- 4.7200 unc

Wenatchee

WA


Input: note: nc=acomparison, na=not available


Input: (Chicago bureau 312-408-8720)

Chicago


Input: Birmingham Public Park, Ala.

Birmingham Public Park

Ala


Input: , Aa3/VMIG-1-Moody's.

Moody's


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-27

NEW YORK


Input: Moody's Investors Service-

Moody's Investors Service


Input: Rating Announcement As of 08/23/96.


Input: Issuer: Birmingham Public Park & Rec.

Birmingham Public Park & Rec


Input: Bd.


Input: Revenue


Input: ref.


Input: (YMCA Proj.

YMCA


Input: ) ser.'


Input: State: AL

AL


Input: Rating: Aa3/VMIG 1


Input: Sale Amount: 3,390,000


Input: Expected Sale Date: 08/28/96


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

U.S. Municipal Desk


Input: U.S. lauds Russian-Chechen deal.

U.S.

Russian-Chechen


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-27

WASHINGTON


Input: The United States on Tuesday welcomed a deal aimed at resuming a troop withdrawal from the embattled Chechen capital, Grozny.

United States

Grozny

Chechen


Input: " That is a welcome development.


Input: We urge both sides to continue their dialogue aimed at reaching a political settlement " of the 20-month conflict between Russian troops and Chechen rebels, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said.

Russian

Chechen

State Department

Glyn Davies


Input: The commander of Russian troops in Chechnya, Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, and Chechen rebel chief-of-staff Aslan Mashadov signed the deal under which the troop withdrawal is to resume on Wednesday.

Russian

Chechen

Chechnya

Vyacheslav Tikhomirov

Aslan Mashadov


Input: Akron, Ohio, $6 mln bonds rated single-A-Moody's.

Akron

Ohio

Moody's


Input: NEW YORK, Aug 27-Moody's Investors Service-Rating

NEW YORK

Moody's Investors Service


Input: Announcement As of 08/26/96.


Input: Issuer: Akron

Akron


Input: State: OH

OH


Input: Rating: A


Input: Sale Amount: 6,310,000


Input: Expected Sale Date: 08/28/96


Input: Stallone, fiancee have baby girl.

Stallone


Input: MIAMI 1996-08-27

MIAMI


Input: Actor Sylvester Stallone and his fiancee, model Jennifer Flavin, had a baby girl on Tuesday, Stallone's publicist said.

Sylvester Stallone

Jennifer Flavin

Stallone


Input: The 7-pound, 4-ounce (3.3 kg) girl, named Sophia Rose, was born shortly after midnight at South Miami Hospital, publicist Paul Bloch said.

Sophia Rose

Paul Bloch

South Miami Hospital


Input: " Both mother and baby are doing fine and are in wonderful health, " he said, adding that it was the couple's first child.


Input: He said Stallone, best known for the " Rocky " and " Rambo " movies, left the set of " Copland, " which is filming in New York and New Jersey, to be with Flavin for the birth.

Stallone

Flavin

Rocky

Rambo

Copland

New York

New Jersey


Input: Poll shows Clinton lead over Dole jumps to 15 pts.

Clinton

Dole


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-27

CHICAGO


Input: An ABC News poll released on Tuesday showed President Bill Clinton's lead over Republican challenger Bob Dole stretching to 15 points in advance of the Nov. 5 election.

ABC News

Bill Clinton

Bob Dole

Republican


Input: The poll, taken on Sunday and Monday as the president engaged in a whistle-stop train trip to the Democratic Convention in Chicago, put Clinton at 51 percent, Dole at 36 percent and Ross Perot of the Reform Party at 8 percent.

Democratic Convention

Chicago

Clinton

Dole

Ross Perot

Reform Party


Input: A similar poll conducted on Saturday and Sunday had showed a nine point lead for Clinton, ahead by 47-38 percent.

Clinton


Input: Dole, down by around 20 points in early August in ABC polls, had closed to within four percentage points immediately after the Republican convention in San Diego earlier in August.

Dole

ABC

Republican

San Diego


Input: Other polls also showed a strong Dole bounce after San Diego but Clinton then rebuilding his lead.

Dole

Clinton

San Diego


Input: Tuesday's poll involved 1,002 registered voters and had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.


Input: ABC said a parallel poll of 824 likely voters showed the president ahead by 11 points, with Clinton at 50 percent, Dole at 39 percent and Perot at 6 percent.

ABC

Clinton

Dole

Perot


Input: The poll of registered voters showed a shift in favor of the Democrats in the elections for House of Representatives, with 51 percent saying that if the vote were today they would go for a Democrat and 41 percent opting for a Republican.

Democrats

Democrat

Republican

House of Representatives


Input: That compared with the previous poll's 48-43 lead for the Democrats.

Democrats


Input: The poll gave Clinton a 53 percent to 39 percent lead over Dole if Perot were not in the race.

Clinton

Dole

Perot


Input: The poll indicated a fall in the number of people who believed Dole would be able to fulfil his promise to cut the federal budget deficit and cut income taxes by 15 percent at the same time.

Dole


Input: It showed 23 percent believed it possible compared to 70 who believed it wasn't.


Input: That compared to 26-57 in the previous poll.


Input: U.S. bulk millfeeds-Immediate supply tight.

U.S.


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-27

CHICAGO


Input: Millfeed supplies for prompt shipment remained tight and prices continued to move higher, millfeed dealers said.


Input: High-priced corn and increased demand for livestock feed continued to support millfeed prices in nearly all sectors.


Input: Flour mills sold much of their production through September leaving little available for prompt shipment.


Input: Portland sources said feed mixer demand was keeping pace with millfeed production and driving prices higher.

Portland


Input: Portland sources said with corn priced there at $200 per ton and barley at $140, the millfeeds at $125 represent a good value.

Portland


Input: In the southeast U.S., dealers said feed mixers continued to be steady buyers with demand increasing for October to March positions.

U.S.


Input: The closely-watched Kansas City rail market was steady at $115 per ton bid and $118 offered.

Kansas City


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

Chicago


Input: Puerto Rico girl has surgery for hairy face.

Puerto Rico


Input: PHILADELPHIA 1996-08-27

PHILADELPHIA


Input: A two-year old Puerto Rican girl began surgical treatment on Tuesday for a rare condition that has left half of her face covered with a hairy, dark-brown patch of skin.

Puerto Rican


Input: The girl, Abyss DeJesus, suffers from a " hairy nevus " on the right side of her face, a condition that has only been reported a few times in medical journals, the St. Christopher Children's Hospital said.

Abyss DeJesus

St. Christopher Children's Hospital


Input: In addition to social ostracism, the condition also carries a high risk of cancer.


Input: It will be corrected by gradually expanding healthy skin with a surgical balloon, then transplanting that skin to the afflicted side of her face.


Input: " She is doing well, " hospital spokeswoman Carol Norris said. "

Carol Norris


Input: The surgery is under way. "


Input: Norris said Tuesday's surgery involved placing five balloons in DeJesus's forehead, shoulders and the back of her neck and partially filling them with a saline solution.

Norris

DeJesus


Input: More saline solution will be inserted in 16 weekly treatments.


Input: The girl, who was accompanied to Philadelphia by her parents, will need more surgery later to correct the condition on her chest, back and legs, the hospital said.

Philadelphia


Input: Eau Claire, Wisc.

Eau Claire

Wisc.


Input: revs won by Robert W. Baird.

Robert W. Baird


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-27

NEW YORK


Input: Robert W. Baird & Co.

Robert W. Baird & Co.


Input: , Inc., said it won $1 million of Eau Claire, Wisc.

, Inc.

Eau Claire

Wisc.


Input: , waterworks system mortgage revenue bonds, Series 1996, with a true interest cost of 5.2893 percent.


Input: Massachusetts home sales dip in July-report.

Massachusetts


Input: BOSTON 1996-08-27

BOSTON


Input: Home sales across Massachusetts were down 2.3 percent in July, compared to a month earlier, but up 21 percent for the year, according to the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Association of Realtors


Input: The association said a total of 4,464 single-family homes were sold in July, compared to 4,570 in June.


Input: The average selling price, $206,464, was up 10.6 percent over July 1995.


Input: Condominium sales edged up 6.0 percent for July and 24.8 percent for the year, the group said, while prices for condos nudged up less than 1.0 percent to an average of $123,394.


Input: In July, the average rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage was 8.25 percent, below June's 8.32 percent but still higher than February's 7.03 percent, the report noted.


Input: -- Boston bureau, 617-367-4106

Boston


Input: Amtrak train derails, three injured-officials.

Amtrak


Input: MONTPELIER, Vt.

MONTPELIER

Vt


Input: At least three people were injured when an Amtrak passenger train slammed into an empty logging truck and derailed Tuesday, officials said.

Amtrak


Input: The Vermonter, which runs between St. Albans, Vermont, near the Canadian border and Washington, D.C., collided with the truck at 7:51 a.m. EDT near the rural town of Roxbury some 15 miles southeast of the state capital Montpelier, Amtrak spokeswoman Maureen Garrity said.

The Vermonter

Canadian

St. Albans

Vermont

Washington, D.C.

Roxbury

Montpelier

Amtrak

Maureen Garrity


Input: Vermont Central Hospital spokesman Dan Pudvah said two of the injured were treated there -- the truck driver, who was suffering from multiple trauma injuries, and a passenger.

Vermont Central Hospital

Dan Pudvah


Input: Pudvah said he understood other people with minor injuries were being treated at the scene.

Pudvah


Input: Garrity said a train conductor was also injured.

Garrity


Input: The train's engine and its six cars derailed but were still standing, state police said.


Input: The exact number of passangers on the train was not known. "


Input: We had 70 reservations for the train, but that doesn't mean there were 70 passengers aboard, " Garrity said.

Garrity


Input: Uninjured passengers were to be taken by bus to Springfield, Massachusetts, where they will be put aboard another train to continue their journey to New York City and Washington, Garrity said.

Springfield

Massachusetts

New York City

Washington

Garrity


Input: She said the train was travelling at 54 mph when it crashed into the truck, which was crossing the tracks onto a dirt road in the rural area bordering the Northfield Mountains.

Northfield Mountains


Input: Paralympics an example for gloomy France-Juppe.

Paralympics

France-Juppe


Input: PARIS 1996-08-27

PARIS


Input: Prime Minister Alain Juppe on Tuesday hailed handicapped athletes who took part in Atlanta's Paralympic Games as an example for gloom-stricken France.

Alain Juppe

Atlanta

France

Paralympic Games


Input: " What we hear every morning is gloom, resignation and scepticism ...


Input: You are the opposite, " Juppe told a successful French team at Paris airport as he welcomed them back from the games which followed the July-August Olympics.

Juppe

French

Olympics

Paris


Input: " If you had been struck ...


Input: by the disease of scepticism, gloom and resignation, you would not be here.


Input: You are a true example for the nation, " he said.


Input: The French team won 95 medals in Atlanta, 35 of them gold.

French

Atlanta


Input: Opinion polls consistently show French voters pessimistic and fed up as the economy stagnates and unemployement lingers at near-record levels.

French


Input: French shares end fractionally weaker.

French


Input: PARIS 1996-08-27

PARIS


Input: French shares ended fractionally weaker as unease about union unrest slated for the autumn and a weaker franc got the better of a slight rise on Wall Street.

French

Wall Street


Input: The blue-chip CAC-40 index ended 2.43 points or 0.12 percent lower at 2,017.99 points after a brief foray into positive territory when the New York stock market opened higher.

New York


Input: The broader SBF-120 index closed 1.19 points or 0.08 percent lower at 1,421.90 points.


Input: Market turnover was 3.8 billion francs, about average for the quiet August period, including 2.6 billion on the most actively traded CAC-40 shares.


Input: The Socialist CFDT union warned of " tension and conflict " when France returns to work after the summer break and called for a drive to create up to 500,000 jobs in nine months.

CFDT

France


Input: A teachers' union, the Federation Syndicale Unitaire (FSU), called for members to protest against job cuts expected in the government's austerity budget due to be unveiled in September.

Federation Syndicale Unitaire

FSU


Input: Anxieties over the budget niggled the currency markets where the franc lost around half a centime from Monday's late European levels to 3.4211 per mark.

European


Input: Index heavyweights Elf and Rhone Poulenc both ended slightly weaker while active Eurotunnel was unchanged on nearly a million shares traded.

Elf

Rhone Poulenc

Eurotunnel


Input: " People are morose and it's not the post-holiday period or the budget or company results that are going to lift anyone's spirits, " a broker said.


Input: * UIC, part of insurer GAN, slid 12.19 percent to 55.1 francs after reporting a net attributable first-half loss of 758 million francs after the close on Monday.

UIC

GAN


Input: Markets were disappointed by a recapitalisation of 800 million francs which commentators said was larger than expected.


Input: * Supermarkets group Carrefour gained 2.19 percent to 2,616 francs after brokers Cheuvreux de Virieu confirmed the stock on their buy list, a fund manager said.

Carrefour

Cheuvreux de Virieu


Input: * Reinsurance group Scor gained 2.1 percent to 202 francs on news that British insurer Prudential had sold its Mercantile & General reinsurance business to Swiss Re.

Scor

Prudential

Mercantile & General

Re

British

Swiss


Input: * Conglomerate Bollore lost 2.4 percent to 521 francs after a morning trading suspension during which it said it had approved plans to buy out its 73.83 percent owned transport unit Scac Delmas Vileujeux (SDV) and invited shareholders to tender their shares.

Bollore

Scac Delmas Vileujeux

SDV


Input: * Alcatel Alsthom fell 1.7 percent to 395.0.

Alcatel Alsthom


Input: * Opthalmic products manufacturer Essilor gained 2.6 percent to 1,328 francs after Oakley Inc of the United States said it had been granted an option to buy the non-prescription lens production unit of Gentext Optics Inc, an Essilor International subsidiary.

Opthalmic

Essilor

Oakley Inc

Gentext Optics Inc

Essilor International

United States


Input: -- Paris newsroom +331 4221 5452

Paris


Input: PRESS DIGEST-Sri Lankan Newspapers-August 27.

Sri Lankan


Input: Following are some of the main stories in Tuesday's Sri Lankan newspapers:

Sri Lankan


Input: VEERAKESARI

VEERAKESARI


Input: Bomb blast in TELO office in Trincomalee kills one, wounds six.

TELO

Trincomalee


Input: One officer and a soldier killed in accidental clash between two groups of soldiers near Chavakachcheri in Jaffna.

Chavakachcheri

Jaffna


Input: Army sentries thought a group of soldiers approaching them were Tamil rebels and opened fire.

Tamil


Input: THINAKARAN

THINAKARAN


Input: TULF leader M. Sivasiththamparam says it is meaningless to talk to UNP about peace package and that the government should submit peace plan to parliament very soon.

M. Sivasiththamparam

UNP


Input: DAILY NEWS

DAILY NEWS


Input: Bread and flour prices have been raised with immediate effect but government will provide relief to underpriviledged sections of society.


Input: THE ISLAND

THE ISLAND


Input: Excise Commissioner W.N.F. Chandraratne denies allegations that new guidelines in issue of liquor licences are aimed at forcing large number of liquor licence holders out of business for political reasons.

W.N.F. Chandraratne


Input: LANKADEEPA

LANKADEEPA


Input: Tamil Tiger rebels have sent 12 female suicide bombers to stage simultaneous attacks on President Chandrika Kumaratunga's motorcade in Colombo.

Tamil Tiger

Chandrika Kumaratunga

Colombo


Input: DIVAINA

DIVAINA


Input: Cultural Ministry planning to spend large sum of money to buy silver crown believed to have been worn by ancient king and now in Australia.

Australia


Input: DINAMINA

DINAMINA


Input: Government closes Ruhunu University indefinitely after big clash between two groups of students in which eight were wounded and hospitalised.

Ruhunu University


Input: -- Colombo newsroom tel 941-434319

Colombo


Input: Mother Teresa turns 86 but still in danger.

Mother Teresa


Input: Rupam Banerjee

Rupam Banerjee


Input: CALCUTTA 1996-08-27

CALCUTTA


Input: Mother Teresa spent her 86th birthday in a Calcutta hospital bed on Tuesday as tributes to the legendary missionary poured in from around the world.

Mother Teresa

Calcutta


Input: Doctors said that later in the day they would try to wean the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from the respirator that has aided her breathing for the past six days.

Nobel Peace Prize


Input: " Her condition seems to be better, but the danger remains as long as she is on respirator, " an official at Woodlands Nursing Home said. "

Woodlands Nursing Home


Input: She is conscious but her breathing is irregular. "


Input: The revered Roman Catholic nun was admitted to the Calcutta hospital a week ago with high fever and severe vomiting.

Roman Catholic

Calcutta hospital


Input: She later suffered heart failure and was diagnosed with malaria.


Input: Her fever has since abated and the heart failure has been brought under control, but her heart continues to beat irregularly, doctors said.


Input: " Unless she breathes on her own, I would advise you to keep your fingers crossed, " said a doctor who was familiar with her case but not part of the six-member team treating Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa


Input: The nun's birthday prompted greetings, bouquets and prayers from around the world.


Input: Pope John Paul II and Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy sent her get-well messages, the Press Trust of India said.

Pope John Paul

David Levy

Israeli

Press Trust of India


Input: " Ask for a miracle.


Input: Happy Birthday to our Dearest Mother, " read a placard at the Shishu Bhavan children's home in central Calcutta run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity.

Shishu Bhavan

Missionaries of Charity

Calcutta

Mother Teresa


Input: On Monday, both houses of India's parliament wished the nation's adopted sister a happy birthday and speedy recovery from her illness.

India


Input: Prayers continued in Calcutta, one of the world's poorest cities, where Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity runs several homes for the poor and destitute.

Calcutta

Mother Teresa

Missionaries of Charity


Input: Street children, some of them born to prostitutes, held prayers on the street. "


Input: All of us know about her.


Input: She is like a goddess, " said Raju, 8, who has a mother but no father.


Input: The Statesman newspaper quoted 40-year-old Mangala Das, paralysed from her waist down and a resident of the Prem Dan (Gift of Love) home for the destitute, as saying she and her friends had been praying incessantly for Mother Teresa's recovery.

The Statesman

Prem Dan

Gift of Love

Mangala Das

Mother Teresa


Input: Tarak Das, 70, was picked up from a Calcutta footpath a week ago by passers-by who took pity on him and brought him to Nirmal Hriday (Immaculate Home).

Tarak Das

Calcutta

Nirmal Hriday


Input: " I do not know who she is.


Input: I have never seen her, but I can only bless her for what she has done for people like me, " Das told The Statesman.

Das

The Statesman


Input: Mother Teresa's condition improved on Sunday as her fever abated, and on Monday she was able to scribble notes to doctors and nuns.

Mother Teresa


Input: Thousands in Calcutta, where she founded her Missionaries of Charity religious order in 1949, prayed for her recovery.

Calcutta

Missionaries of Charity


Input: Ministers of the communist government of West Bengal state and people of different religions joined Catholics to pray for Mother Teresa's recovery at Mother House.

West Bengal

Mother House

Catholics

Mother Teresa


Input: " We joined the prayer to express our solidarity with her work for the cause of the poor and downtrodden, " said Nanda Gopal Bhattacharya, a communist minister in West Bengal.

Nanda Gopal Bhattacharya

West Bengal


Input: Islamists can meet in London, minister.

Islamists

London


Input: ISLAMABAD 1996-08-27

ISLAMABAD


Input: British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said on Tuesday that his government would only take action against a planned conference of Islamist groups in London if British law was broken.

British

Islamist

British

Malcolm Rifkind

London


Input: " People who wish to hold conferences of course don't need to seek permission from the government in Britain, " Rifkind, in Pakistan for a visit, told Reuters. "

Britain

Pakistan

Rifkind

Reuters


Input: As long as they obey our laws then that is not something the government would normally interfere with. "


Input: The Islamist conference, due to be held in London on September 8, has caused concern in countries such as Algeria and Egypt, which are fighting armed Islamic militants.

Islamist

Islamic

London

Algeria

Egypt


Input: British Jewish groups have also protested because they say members of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas are on the guest list.

British

Jewish

Palestinian

Islamic

Algeria

Islamic Salvation Front

FIS

Hamas


Input: Rifkind said it was for the home secretary (interior minister) to act by denying visas to participants if he felt there was reason to believe that they might break the law.

Rifkind


Input: " Our policy has to be fundamentally based on respect for the rule of law and insistence that it be observed, " he said.


Input: Rifkind was in Pakistan at the start of an Asian tour that will also take him to India, Sri Lanka, Japan and Mongolia.

Rifkind

Pakistan

India

Sri Lanka

Japan

Mongolia

Asian


Input: Afghan leader tells U.S. Congressman of peace plan.

Afghan

U.S.


Input: Sayed Salahuddin

Sayed Salahuddin


Input: KABUL 1996-08-27

KABUL


Input: Afghan government military chief Ahmad Shah Masood briefed visiting U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Tuesday on a peace plan for his wartorn country.

Afghan

Ahmad Shah Masood

Dana Rohrabacher

U.S.


Input: A spokesman for Masood said he had told the California Republican at a meeting in northern Kabul that President Burhanuddin Rabbani's government favoured talks with all Afghan factions to set up an interim government.

Masood

Burhanuddin Rabbani

California

Kabul

Republican

Afghan


Input: The factions should agree to appoint a transitional leader, draft a new constitution, collect heavy weapons, create a national army and hold free elections in which the transitional leader would be barred from standing, he added.


Input: Rohrabacher flew into Bagram military airbase north of Kabul in a Red Cross plane on Tuesday after meeting northern opposition militia leader General Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Rohrabacher

Abdul Rashid Dostum

Bagram

Kabul

Red Cross


Input: Masood's spokesman Amrollah (one name) said Rohrabacher had recently visited Italy, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as part of a mission to promote peace in Afghanistan.

Masood

Amrollah

Rohrabacher

Italy

Saudi Arabia

Pakistan

Afghanistan


Input: " We are certainly serious more than before to find a solution to the Afghan problem and support every U.N. plan, " Amrollah quoted Rohrabacher as saying.

Afghan

U.N.

Amrollah

Rohrabacher


Input: However, a spokesman for Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a long-time rival of Masood, expressed concern at signs of renewed U.S. interest in Afghanistan.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Masood

U.S.

Afghanistan


Input: " America wants to block the establishment of a strong Islamic government in Afghanistan and the U.S. intends to neutralise the Afghan peace process initiated by the Afghans themselves, " said the spokesman, Hamid Ibrahimi.

America

Afghanistan

U.S.

Islamic

Afghan

Afghans

Hamid Ibrahimi


Input: " A great game has been started in Afghanistan as America feels that Tehran and Moscow have got stronger in the Afghan picture -- something Washington wants to change, " he said.

Afghanistan

America

Tehran

Moscow

Washington

Afghan


Input: Rohrabacher was expected to visit neutral faction leaders in the eastern city of Jalalabad and meet leaders of the rebel Islamic Taleban militia in the southern city of Kandahar.

Rohrabacher

Jalalabad

Kandahar

Islamic Taleban


Input: Afghan guerrilla factions have been locked in a bloody power struggle since the fall of the communist government in April 1992.

Afghan


Input: Hekmatyar, once Rabbani's main rival, made a peace pact with him and rejoined the government as prime minister in June.

Hekmatyar

Rabbani


Input: Pakistan state bank sells 1.38 bln rupees of bonds.

Pakistan


Input: KARACHI, Pakistan 1996-08-27

KARACHI

Pakistan


Input: The State (central) Bank of Pakistan auctioned three-, five- and 10-year federal investment bonds worth 1.38 billion rupees on Tuesday.

State (central) Bank

Pakistan


Input: The bank said it had accepted bids of 250 million rupees at par for three-year bonds, 3.5 million rupees at par for five-year bonds and 1.126 billion at par for 10-year bonds.


Input: The auction is set for settlement on Thursday.


Input: In the previous auction on July 11, it accepted bids worth 300 million rupees at par for three-year bonds, 44.5 million rupees at par for five-year bonds and 782.6 million rupees at par for 10-year bonds.


Input: -- Karachi newsroom 9221-5685192

Karachi


Input: Nepal offers to talk to Maoist insurgents.

Nepal

Maoist


Input: Gopal Sharma

Gopal Sharma


Input: KATHMANDU 1996-08-27

KATHMANDU


Input: Nepal's centre-right coalition government has offered to meet the country's hardline Maoist communists for talks in a bid to end an insurgency in Nepal's western districts, officials said on Tuesday.

Nepal

Nepal

Maoist


Input: The Maoists oppose multi-party democracy and want to establish a communist state.

Maoists


Input: But the Nepali government said the insurgents must give up violence before it negotiates with them.

Nepali


Input: " They (the insurgents) should first give up their violent activities, " Home (Interior) Minister Khum Bahadur Khadga said.

Khum Bahadur Khadga


Input: About 54 people have died in Maoist insurgent activity and in police action against them since February, officials said.

Maoist


Input: Nepali opposition parties have accused the police of having killed more people than the insurgents.

Nepali


Input: Some human rights groups have criticised the government's handling of the situation.


Input: In a speech in parliament on Tuesday, Khadga challenged the Maoist communists to " win the people's confidence " and win election to parliament.

Khadga

Maoist


Input: On Monday, he had offered to talk to leaders of the United People's Front Nepal (Bhattarai), the Maoist faction which leads the insurgency.

United People's Front Nepal

Bhattarai

Maoist


Input: " The government is ready to guarantee security of the Maoist representatives who want to take part in peaceful dialogue, " Khadga said.

Maoist

Khadga


Input: A multi-party democracy was set up in Nepal six years ago, after a popular movement by the centrist Nepali Congress party jointly with the Communist United Marxist-Leninist (UML) party.

Nepal

Nepali Congress

Communist United Marxist-Leninist

UML


Input: The Nepali Congress leads the three-party coalition government while the UML is the main opposition party.

Nepali Congress

UML


Input: Indian soy prices end steady ahead of holiday.

Indian


Input: INDORE, India 1996-08-27

INDORE

India


Input: Indian soybean prices on Tuesday remained steady at 12,900-13,100 rupees per tonne in plant delivery condition, dealers said

Indian


Input: They said arrivals were poor due to the festival season.


Input: Markets in central India would be closed for a local religious holiday on Wednesday.

India


Input: Soyoil prices fell on increased selling against poor demand.


Input: Soyoil solvent was down by 400 rupees per tonne and soyoil refined was down by 400 rupees.


Input: Soyoil refined fell by 200 rupees on weak undertone.


Input: Soymeal yellow was $276-277 and soymeal black was $246-248 per tonne in export.


Input: Rapeseed extraction was $115 per tonne in export.


Input: Export demand was good but availability was limited.


Input: Rapeseed extraction was 3,850 rupees FOR Bedibunder and was 3,800-3,825 rupees FOR Bhavnagar.

Bedibunder

Bhavnagar


Input: (Prices in rupees per tonne)


Input: Market Arrivals Auction Traders Plant


Input: (in tonnes)


Input: Dewas 45 Yellow 12,700-12,950 12,900-13,150 12,900-13,100

Dewas


Input: Black 11,900-12,100

Black


Input: Mandsaur 10 Yellow 12,600-12,750 12,700-12,850

Mandsaur


Input: Neemuch n.a Yellow--

Neemuch


Input: Mhow 2 Yellow 12,700-12,800 12,750-12,850

Mhow


Input: Ratlam 10 Yellow 12,600-12,750 12,700-12,800

Ratlam


Input: Ashta 10 Yellow 12,700-12,900 12,800-13,000

Ashta


Input: Indore 25 Yellow 12,750-12,950 12,900-13,100

Indore


Input: Dhar 5 Yellow 12,700-12,800 12,750-12,900

Dhar


Input: Ujjain 8 Yellow 12,750-12,900 12,850-13,050

Ujjain


Input: Jaora n.a Yellow--

Jaora


Input: Barnagar n.a Yellow--

Barnagar


Input: Khandwa n.a Yellow--

Khandwa


Input: Ashoknagar n.a Yellow--

Ashoknagar


Input: Nalkhera n.a Yellow--

Nalkhera


Input: Soyoil (in rupees per tonne)


Input: Soyoil solvent plant delivery 30,300-30,400


Input: Soyoil solvent market delivery 30,700-30,800


Input: Soyoil refined plant delivery 32,700-32,800


Input: Soyoil refined market delivery 32,900-33,000


Input: Soymeal (in rupees per tonne, free on rail-FOR)


Input: Yellow Black

Yellow Black


Input: FOR Bombay 9,800 8,800

Bombay


Input: FOR Bedi Bunder 9,800 8,800

Bedi Bunder


Input: ($1=35.73 rupees)


Input: Bangladesh Speaker says he received death threats.

Bangladesh


Input: DHAKA 1996-08-27

DHAKA


Input: The Speaker of Bangladesh's parliament, Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, said he had received death threats from anonymous callers after opposition parties threatened to boycott proceedings chaired by him.

Bangladesh

Humayun Rasheed Choudhury


Input: He told the Bengali newspaper Banglabazar Patrika on Tuesday that such threats were possibly coming from " those who want to push the country into chaos and unrest. "

Bengali

Banglabazar Patrika


Input: The callers said his life could be cut short, the newspaper said.


Input: The speaker was not immediately available for comment.


Input: Choudhury, a former foreign minister and veteran diplomat, was appointed speaker of the 330-member parliament on July 13, a month after general elections returned the Awami League of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to power after 21 years.

Choudhury

Hasina

Awami League


Input: Choudhury also was president of the 41st session of the U.N. General Assembly in 1986-87.

Choudhury

U.N. General Assembly


Input: Former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, now the opposition leader in parliament and head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), said her followers might boycott assemby sessions chaired by the " partisan " speaker.

Begum Khaleda Zia

Bangladesh Nationalist Party

BNP


Input: " The ruling Awami league is making parliament ineffective and the speaker is contributing to that by not allowing the opposition MPs enough time to speak, " she told a rally in northern district of Bogra on Monday.

Bogra


Input: Hasina, speaking to a group of engineers in Dhaka on Monday, accused the BNP of resorting to " terrorism " as part of its plan to create instability and chaos in the country.

Hasina

Dhaka

BNP


Input: " This is not desireable ...


Input: and we will deal with such designs sternly, " the prime minister said.


Input: Bangladesh June M2 up 3.8 pct m/m, up 8.2 pct y/y.

Bangladesh


Input: DHAKA 1996-08-27

DHAKA


Input: Bangladesh's M2 money supply rose 3.8 percent in June to 456.8 billion taka after a 0.27 percent rise to 439.9 billion in May, central bank officials said.

Bangladesh


Input: The year-on-year rise was 8.2 percent to June, 1996.


Input: BANGLADESH'S MONEY SUPPLY

BANGLADESH


Input: JUNE MAY JUNE 1995


Input: M2 money supply (bln taka) 456.8 439.9 422.1


Input: M1 money supply (bln taka) 144.5 139.3 131.7


Input: HELIBOR INTEREST RATES LARGELY UNCHANGED.

HELIBOR


Input: HELSINKI 1996-08-27

HELSINKI


Input: Helibor market interest rates

Helibor


Input: were largely unchanged at the Bank of Finland's daily fixing on

Bank of Finland


Input: Tuesday.


Input: The key three-month rate was steady at 3.40 percent.


Input: August 27 fix August 26 fix


Input: 1-mth Helibor 3.27 pct 3.29 pct

Helibor


Input: 2-mth Helibor 3.34 pct 3.34 pct

Helibor


Input: 3-mth Helibor 3.40 pct 3.40 pct

Helibor


Input: 6-mth Helibor 3.56 pct 3.55 pct

Helibor


Input: 9-mth Helibor 3.73 pct 3.70 pct

Helibor


Input: 12-mth Helibor 3.89 pct 3.87 pct

Helibor


Input: -- Helsinki newsroom +358-0-680 50 248

Helsinki


Input: Barrick gets 93 pct of Arequipa.

Barrick

Arequipa


Input: TORONTO 1996-08-27

TORONTO


Input: Barrick Gold Corp said on Tuesday its takeover offer for Arequipa Resources Ltd was successful, with 93 percent of the 36.3 million shares not already owned tendered under the bid, which expired overnight.

Barrick Gold Corp

Arequipa Resources Ltd


Input: " We are pleased that Arequipa shareholders ahave chosen so overwhelmingly to accept this offer.

Arequipa


Input: We now have the opportunity to realize the potential of Arequipa's excellent assets, " Barrick chairman and chief executive Peter Munk said in a statement.

Arequipa

Barrick

Peter Munk


Input: The C$ 30-a-share deal means Barrick will own Arequipa's attractive Pierina gold deposit in Peru.

C$

Barrick

Arequipa

Pierina

Peru


Input: Barrick said details involving the allocation between Barrick shares and cash will be available shortly.

Barrick

Barrick


Input: Barrick's offer of C$ 30 a share or part cash, part share offer was Barrick's second attempt to swallow the small Vancouver-based gold prospector.

Barrick

Barrick

C$

Vancouver-based


Input: Toronto-based Barrick, the world's third largest gold producer, sweetened its July 11 bid to C$ 30 a share from C$ 27 on August 16 after a fresh batch of drill results from the Pierina deposit.

Toronto-based

C$

C$

Barrick

Pierina


Input: Experts have speculated the deposit has potential reserves of up to 12 million ounces.


Input: More drilling results are expected soon.


Input: The Barrick bid took observers by surprise, since Arequipa's exploration was still in its early stages.

Barrick

Arequipa


Input: Arequipa shareholders had the option to choose C$ 30 cash or 0.79 Barrick shares plus 50 cents for each Arequipa share.

Arequipa

Barrick

Arequipa

C$


Input: Shares were to be pro-rated if more than 14.4 million were requested.


Input: -- Reuters Toronto Bureau 416 941-8100

Reuters Toronto Bureau


Input: Penn Treaty terminates acquisition pact.

Penn Treaty


Input: ALLENTOWN, Pa.

ALLENTOWN

Pa


Input: Penn Treaty American Corp said Tuesday it terminated a previously announced non-binding letter of intent to purchase Merrion Insurance Company Inc, a New York licensed company.

Penn Treaty American Corp

Merrion Insurance Company Inc

New York


Input: In announcing its decision, Penn Treaty said it " will continue to actively pursue entering into the New York long-term care market through licensing or by acquisition. "

Penn Treaty

New York


Input: It explained the " addition of a New York license will enable Penn Treaty American Corp to conduct business in all 50 states, following the company's acquisition of Health Insurance of Vermont, a Vermont domiciled insurer, scheduled to close on August 30, 1996. "

New York

Vermont

Penn Treaty American Corp

Health Insurance of Vermont


Input: -- New York Newsdesk 212-859-1610.

New York Newsdesk


Input: VNU details first-half operating profits.

VNU


Input: HAARLEM, Netherlands 1996-08-27

HAARLEM

Netherlands


Input: Publisher VNU gave the following breakdown of its first-half results:

VNU


Input: H1 1996 H1 1995


Input: Sales Op profit Sales Op profit


Input: Consumer magazines 618 90 568 80


Input: Newspapers 363 49 295 46


Input: Commercial TV 127 6 loss 174 33 profit


Input: Business info Europe 231 24 178 18

Europe


Input: Business info USA 382 61 362 41

USA


Input: Education 42 6 36 3


Input: Miscellaneous charges --- 16 --- 30


Input: NOTES-Sales and operating profit are given in millions of guilders.


Input: Commercial TV includes pro rata share of sales and operating profits in Dutch group HMG and Belgium's VTM.

Dutch

HMG

VTM

Belgium


Input: -- Amsterdam newsroom +31 20 504 5000, Fax +31 20 504 5040

Amsterdam


Input: AOL Europe forms online advertising agency.

AOL Europe


Input: HANOVER, Germany 1996-08-27

HANOVER

Germany


Input: The joint venture between America Online (AOL) and Bertelsmann AG has formed a new company to sell advertising space on AOL in Europe, a Bertelsmann official said on Tuesday.

America Online

AOL

Bertelsmann AG

AOL

Bertelsmann

Europe


Input: The new company is called AdOn GmbH and is located in Hamburg, Bernd Schiphorst, president and chief operating officer of Bertelsmann's New Media business division said on the sidelines of an AOL news conference at the CeBIT Home consumer electronics fair in Hanover.

AdOn GmbH

Bertelsmann

New Media

AOL

Hamburg

Bernd Schiphorst

CeBIT


Input: Jan Buettner, managing director of AOL Germany, said AdOn was in the formation phase and would " get off the ground next year, bringing in advertising from around Europe. "

Jan Buettner

AOL Germany

AdOn

Europe


Input: He would give no forecasts on advertising revenue.


Input: AOL is the leading global commercial online service with some six million subscribers worldwide.

AOL


Input: It has around 200,000 subscribers in Europe, with two thirds of that number in Germany alone.

Europe

Germany


Input: In Europe, the service is available in Germany, France and Britain.

Europe

Germany

France

Britain


Input: It will be available in Austria and Switzerland later this year and in Scandanavia and the Benelux countries next year.

Austria

Switzerland

Benelux


Input: -- William Boston, CeBIT newsroom, 0172 6736510

William Boston

CeBIT


Input: All passengers freed from Sudanese hijack plane.

Sudanese


Input: STANSTED, England 1996-08-27

STANSTED

England


Input: All passengers held hostage aboard a hijacked Sudanese Airways plane diverted to London's Stansted airport carrying 199 passengers and crew have been freed, an airport spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Sudanese

London

Stansted


Input: Eyewitnesses said six crew members had also been allowed to leave the aircraft.


Input: Airport spokeswoman Rona Young confirmed that all the passengers had left the aircraft.

Rona Young


Input: Police said a number of crew members had left the aircraft and said details would be given at a news conference expected to be held in the next few minutes by the local police chief.


Input: The passengers were released in batches during the course of the morning after the Airbus A310 landed at Stansted, having been diverted from Cyprus.

Airbus A310

Stansted

Cyprus


Input: The aircraft was hijacked on a flight from Khartoum to Amman by six or seven men, who police say may be Iraqis.

Khartoum

Amman

Iraqis


Input: -- London Newsroom + 00--44-171-542-7947

London Newsroom


Input: Swiss Bank Corp sets warrants on DTB-Bund-Future.

Swiss Bank Corp

DTB-Bund-Future


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: Swiss Bank Corp says it has issued 60 million American-style call and put warrants, in six equal tranches, on the DTB-Bund-Future March 1997.

Swiss Bank Corp

American-style

DTB-Bund-Future


Input: EXERCISE PERIOD 02.SEP.96-06.MAR.97 PAYDATE 30.AUG.96


Input: LISTING FFT DDF MIN EXER LOT 100


Input: SPOT REFERENCE 95.35 PCT


Input: WARRANTS STRIKE ISS PRICE PREMIUM GEARING


Input: CALL A 96.00 PCT 1.16 DEM 1.90 PCT 82.20 X

DEM


Input: CALL B 97.00 PCT 0.75 DEM 2.50 PCT 127.10 X

DEM


Input: CALL C 98.00 PCT 0.47 DEM 3.30 PCT 202.90 X

DEM


Input: PUT D 94.00 PCT 0.94 DEM 2.40 PCT 101.40 X

DEM


Input: PUT E 95.0 PCT 1.33 DEM 1.80 PCT 71.70 X

DEM


Input: PUT F 96.0 PCT 1.84 DEM 1.20 PCT 51.80 X

DEM


Input: -- Reuter London Newsroom +44 171 542 7658

Reuter London Newsroom


Input: DBRS confirms Power Corp, Power Financial ratings.

DBRS

Power Corp

Power


Input: TORONTO 1996-08-27

TORONTO


Input: Dominion Bond Rating Service said on Tuesday it confirmed the ratings on Power Corp of Canada's senior debt and preferred shares at A (high) and Pfd-2, respectively, with stable trends.

Dominion Bond Rating Service

Power Corp of Canada


Input: DBRS said it also confirmed Power Financial Corp's senior debentures, cumulative preferred shares and non-cumulative first preferred shares, series B, at AA (low), Pfd-1 and Pfd-1 (low), all with stable trends.

DBRS

Power Financial Corp


Input: Turkey's Kurd rebels kill two, take three hostage.

Turkey

Kurd


Input: ANKARA 1996-08-27

ANKARA


Input: Kurdish guerrillas killed two people and took three hostage after stopping two intercity buses at a roadblock in eastern Turkey, security officials said on Tuesday.

Kurdish

Turkey


Input: They told reporters a group of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas stopped the buses at a roadblock on the road linking the eastern provinces of Erzincan and Sivas on Monday night and forced the passengers to get out.

Kurdistan Workers Party

PKK

Erzincan

Sivas


Input: The rebels killed one of the drivers and a passenger after checking the identities of the passengers, they said.


Input: The officials said the rebels set ablaze two buses and released all but three passengers.


Input: More than 20,000 people have been killed in the 12-year-old conflict between Turkish troops and PKK guerrillas fighting for autonomy or independence from Turkey.

Turkish

PKK

Turkey


Input: Egypt confiscates paper for " mad rulers " article.

Egypt


Input: CAIRO 1996-08-27

CAIRO


Input: Egypt has banned and confiscated 10,000 copies of the Cyprus-based Arabic monthly newspaper al-Tadamun because of an editorial suggesting mental health tests for Arab leaders, the editor-in-chief said on Tuesday.

Egypt

Cyprus-based

Arabic

Arab

al-Tadamun


Input: Mohamed Abu Liwaya, said Information Ministry censors had told him to send all the copies of the August edition back to Cyprus at his own expense.

Mohamed Abu Liwaya

Information Ministry

Cyprus


Input: He told Reuters the reason was his own front-page editorial, entitled " A Chronic Mental Illness " in which he attacks compliant Arab leaders for serving U.S. and Israeli interests.

Reuters

Arab

Israeli

U.S.


Input: " The Arabs demand that our Arab leaders undergo a compulsory examination by a team of psychiatrists to see how sound their mental capacities are, " the editorial said.

Arabs

Arab


Input: " Because our leaders have started to behave with extreme hostility towards the interests of their peoples to court the goodwill of the Americans and the Zionists, " he added.

Americans

Zionists


Input: The censorship office denied they had confiscated the newspapers but declined to say when they could go on sale.


Input: IPO FILING-Transkaryotic Therapies Inc.

IPO

Transkaryotic Therapies Inc


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-27

WASHINGTON


Input: Company Name Transkaryotic Therapies Inc

Transkaryotic Therapies Inc


Input: Nasdaq Stock symbol TKTX

Nasdaq


Input: Estimated price range $13-$15/shr


Input: Total shares to be offered 2.5 million


Input: Shrs offered by company 2.5 million


Input: Shrs outstanding after ipo 16,668,560


Input: Lead Underwriter Morgan Stanley and Co Inc

Morgan Stanley and Co Inc


Input: Underwriters over-allotment 375,000 shrs Shares to be purchased by Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc 357,143 Business: developed two proprietary technology platforms, gene activation and gene therapy.

Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc


Input: Use of Proceeds: Research, preclinical and clinical product development, and general corporate purposes.


Input: Financial Data in 000s: 1995 1994


Input: -Revenue $15,400 $10,000


Input: -Net Income (loss) $2,074 ($3,422)


Input: AMTRAK train hits truck, derails in Vermont.

AMTRAK

Vermont


Input: MONTPELIER, Vt.

MONTPELIER

Vt


Input: An Amtrak train struck a logging truck early on Tuesday and derailed, Vermont state police said.

Amtrak

Vermont


Input: A state police spokeswoman said there were reports of minor injuries as a result of the derailment near Roxbury, a small town on the edge of the Northfield Mountains some 15 miles southwest of Montpelier, the state capital.

Roxbury

Northfield Mountains

Montpelier


Input: Further details were not immediately available.


Input: Wife of gun victim Brady praises Clinton.

Brady

Clinton


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-26

CHICAGO


Input: Sarah Brady, whose Republican husband was severely disabled in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, took centre stage at the Democratic National convention on Monday night to praise President Bill Clinton's gun control efforts.

Sarah Brady

Ronald Reagan

Bill Clinton

Republican

Democratic National convention


Input: With her husband James sitting in a wheelchair to the side of the podium, Mrs. Brady called the handgun control bill that a Democratic Congress passed and Clinton signed in 1994 a major step in controlling firearm violence in the United States.

James

Brady

Clinton

Democratic

Congress

United States


Input: But she said more had to be done.


Input: The Bradys walked on to the stage, he on her arm and with the aid of a cane, to a rousing reception from the convention.

Bradys


Input: Their teenaged son sat in a VIP box with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and watched as his father returned to his wheelchair.

Hillary Rodham Clinton


Input: " Jim, we must have made a wrong turn.

Jim


Input: This isn't San Diego (site of the Republican convention), " Mrs. Brady joked to her husband, who was serving as Reagan's press secretary when he was shot.

San Diego

Republican

Brady

Reagan


Input: " Sarah, I told you this is the Democratic convention, " he responded to his wife, who before the shooting had worked for two Republican congressmen and the Republican national party.

Sarah

Democratic

Republican

Republican


Input: " Since the Brady Law went into effect on February 28, 1994 (it) has stopped more than 100,000 convicted felons and other prohibited purchasers from buying a handgun.

Brady Law


Input: Today, and every day, the Brady Law is stopping an estimated 85 felons from buying a handgun, " Mrs. Brady said.

Brady Law

Brady


Input: She added, " But we need to do more.


Input: We should, as President Clinton proposed today, stop people convicted of domestic violence from buying a handgun.

Clinton


Input: Jim and I join with you tonight in saluting the great job that President Clinton has done in fighting crime and gun violence. "

Jim

Clinton


Input: " He's a hunter and a sportsman, but he understands the difference between a Remington rifle and an AK47.

Remington


Input: And he knows that you don't go hunting with an Uzi.

Uzi


Input: Mr. President you deserve our thanks. "


Input: Jim Brady then gave a big thumbs to the audience.

Jim Brady


Input: Brady

Brady


Input: was shot in the head in 1981 by gunman John Hinckley, who tried to kill Reagan in a deranged bid to impress Jodie Foster, an actress he never met but with whom he was obsessed.

John Hinckley

Reagan

Jodie Foster


Input: The Brady bill, calling for a waiting period before someone could buy a gun so a background check could be made, was first introduced in Congress in 1987 but it took seven years to pass because of opposition from the National Rifle Association gun lobby.

Brady

Congress

National Rifle Association


Input: Latest opinion polls on German political parties.

German


Input: BONN 1996-08-27

BONN


Input: Here are the latest opinion polls tracking national support for Germany's main political parties:

Germany


Input: AUGUST 1996 CDU/CSU SPD FDP Greens PDS

CDU/CSU

SPD

FDP

Greens

PDS


Input: Emnid Aug 25 41.0 34.0 7.0 10.0 6.0

Emnid


Input: Elect Res Aug 23 41.0 35.0 5.0 11.0 4.0

Elect Res


Input: Allensbach Aug 21 37.2 32.8 8.0 13.0 5.6

Allensbach


Input: Emnid Aug 18 41.0 34.0 6.0 10.0 5.0

Emnid


Input: JULY 1996 CDU/CSU SPD FDP Greens PDS

CDU/CSU

SPD

FDP

Greens

PDS


Input: Emnid July 7 39.0 32.0 7.0 11.0 5.0

Emnid


Input: Elect Res July 40.0 33.0 6.0 12.0 4.0

Elect Res


Input: JUNE 1996 CDU/CSU SPD FDP Greens PDS

CDU/CSU

SPD

FDP

Greens

PDS


Input: Emnid June 30 39.0 33.0 6.0 12.0 5.0

Emnid


Input: Elect Res June 21 42.0 33.0 6.0 12.0 4.0

Elect Res


Input: Allensbach June 12 37.4 32.8 7.3 12.3 5.4

Allensbach


Input: Forsa June 6 39.0 36.0 6.0 12.0 5.0

Forsa


Input: MAY 1996 CDU/CSU SPD FDP Greens PDS

CDU/CSU

SPD

FDP

Greens

PDS


Input: Emnid May 26 40.0 31.0 6.0 13.0 6.0

Emnid


Input: Elect Res May 25 43.0 32.0 6.0 12.0 4.0

Elect Res


Input: Forsa May 23 38.0 37.0 7.0 11.0 5.0

Forsa


Input: Allensbach May 15 38.5 32.5 8.1 12.0 4.4

Allensbach


Input: APRIL 1996 CDU/CSU SPD FDP Greens PDS

CDU/CSU

SPD

FDP

Greens

PDS


Input: Emnid April 28 40.0 32.0 5.0 11.0 5.0

Emnid


Input: Elect Res April 20 43.0 32.0 6.0 12.0 4.0

Elect Res


Input: Allensbach April 17 38.1 32.3 6.5 12.9 6.3

Allensbach


Input: OFFICIAL RESULTS OF THE OCTOBER 16, 1994 GENERAL ELECTION:


Input: CDU/CSU SPD FDP Greens PDS

CDU/CSU

SPD

FDP

Greens

PDS


Input: 41.5 36.4 6.9 7.3 4.4


Input: NOTE: Elect Res = Electoral Research Group (Forschungsgruppe Wahlen)

Elect Res

Electoral Research Group

Forschungsgruppe Wahlen


Input: -- Bonn newsroom, +49 228 2609760

Bonn


Input: Most hostages freed from hijacked Sudanese plane.

Sudanese


Input: STANSTED, England 1996-08-27

STANSTED

England


Input: Armed hijackers believed to be Iraqis released 140 people on Tuesday from a Sudan Airways plane carrying 199 passengers and crew that landed in London after being diverted on a flight from Khartoum to Amman, police said.

Iraqis

Sudan Airways

London

Khartoum

Amman


Input: Police spokesman Roger Grimwade said the six or seven hijackers remained on board the aircraft, which arrived from Cyprus at 4.30 a.m. (0330 GMT).

Roger Grimwade

Cyprus

GMT


Input: He said they had made various requests to police negotiators but stepped back from earlier suggestions that the hijackers had asked to speak to a British-based Iraqi police named as Mr Sadiki.

British-based

Iraqi

Sadiki


Input: The hijackers, who have said they want to seek asylum in Britain, are believed to be armed with grenades and possibly other explosives, according to police.

Britain


Input: They earlier threatened to blow up the aircraft.


Input: The Airbus A310 was diverted first to Cyprus, then to Britain.

Airbus A310

Cyprus

Britain


Input: British Data in merger talks with Mentmore.

British Data

Mentmore


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: Mentmore Abbey said on Tuesday that merger discussions were taking place with the board of British Data Management, an information resource management and archive storage company.

Mentmore Abbey

British Data Management


Input: But it noted in a brief statement: " However, it is too early to say at this stage whether or not terms can be agreed. "


Input: Mentmore Abbey, the UK stationery and housewares business formerly known as Platignum, said it was making the statement in response to recent newspaper articles linking the two groups.

Mentmore Abbey

Platignum

UK


Input: Shares in Mentmore Abbey edged two pence higher to 81.5 pence, valuing the group at just under 30 million stg.

Mentmore Abbey


Input: British Data Management's shares slipped 0.5 pence to 179.5p, valuing that company at around 45 million stg.

British Data Management


Input: -- London Newsroom +44 171 542 4017

London Newsroom


Input: Hijacked Sudan plane lands at a London airport.

Sudan

London


Input: STANSTED, England 1996-08-27

STANSTED

England


Input: A hijacked Sudan Airways plane carrying 199 passengers and crew landed at Stansted airport just outside London early on Tuesday morning after flying from Cyprus, eyewitnesses said.

Sudan Airways

Stansted

London

Cyprus


Input: The Airbus 310 Flight 150, which was hijacked on Monday evening on its way from Khartoum to the Jordanian capital Amman, landed at 4.30 a.m. (0330 GMT) after a flight of more than four hours.

Airbus 310

Flight 150

Jordanian

GMT

Khartoum

Amman


Input: At least one of the unidentified hijackers was apparently armed with grenades and TNT and threatened to blow the plane up in Cyprus unless it was refuelled so they could fly to Britain to claim political asylum.

Cyprus

Britain


Input: " They will surrender the passengers there and surrender themselves, " police spokesman Glafcos Xenos told reporters at Cyprus's Larnaca airport.

Glafcos Xenos

Cyprus

Larnaca


Input: Security was tight at Stansted airport, which is about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of the capital.

Stansted


Input: Stansted has been designated as the preferred option for handling hijackings in southern England because it is more remote than Heathrow and Gatwick, London's two major airports, and handles less air traffic.

Stansted

England

Heathrow

Gatwick

London


Input: Hijacked Sudan plane expected at London's Stansted.

Sudan

London

Stansted


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: A hijacked Sudan Airways plane with 199 passengers and crew on board was expected to land at London's Stansted airport later on Tuesday morning, a police spokeswoman said.

Sudan Airways

London

Stansted


Input: " That is the plan at the moment.


Input: That is where the plane is being directed to, " Ruth Collin of Essex police, the force responsible for Stansted, said.

Ruth Collin

Essex

Stansted


Input: Stansted, London's third-busiest airport after Heathrow and Gatwick, is located about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of the capital.

Stansted

London

Heathrow

Gatwick


Input: British officials said they would much prefer to deal with a hijacking at Stansted because of its relatively remote location and because air traffic would be less badly disrupted there than at Heathrow or Gatwick.

British

Stansted

Heathrow

Gatwick


Input: They said police and the emergency services were implementing a well-rehearsed contingency plan to handle the hijacking.


Input: The armed hijackers of the Airbus 310 Flight 150, which is expected to arrive about 4 a.m. (0300 GMT), have said they intend to surrender and seek political asylum in Britain.

Airbus 310

Flight 150

GMT

Britain


Input: The plane was hijacked on its way from Khartoum to the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday evening and landed at Larnaca airport in Cyprus to refuel.

Khartoum

Amman

Larnaca

Cyprus

Jordanian


Input: The identity and number of the hijackers was not known.


Input: One of them negotiated through the pilot in English.

English


Input: The pilot said several hijackers appeared to be placed around the plane.


Input: Painted parrot scam lands Australian in jail.

Australian


Input: PERTH, Australia 1996-08-27

PERTH

Australia


Input: A conman who painted common Australian parrots with dye to make them look like rare birds worth thousands of dollars was jailed for fraud on Tuesday.

Australian


Input: Denham Peiris painted six green parrots, worth about A$ 100 (US$ 79) a pair, with a cinnamon hair dye and traded them as Indian Ringneck Parrots, valued at A$ 14,000 a pair.

Denham Peiris

A$

US$

Indian Ringneck Parrots

A$


Input: Peiris, 32, of Perth, was sentenced in the Western Australian District Court to two years in jail for fraud after trading three pairs of impostor birds for 21 parrots worth a total of A$ 28,000.

Peiris

Perth

Western Australian

A$


Input: " Everyone was fooled, " said pet shop owner Shane Drew, who unknowingly traded the disguised birds.

Shane Drew


Input: " I'd already had three local breeders have a look at them and sent photos and videos of the birds to the eastern states for authentication -- they said they're nice birds, " Drew told reporters outside court.

Drew


Input: " After I was told they were dyed, I checked them over again.


Input: It was a perfect paint job except for one feather under a wing of one bird that was only half dyed, " Drew said.

Drew


Input: Drew said Peiris, a bird enthusiast, would have succeeded with the fraud if he had not tried to trade a fourth pair of bogus birds after an associate had told police of the scam.

Drew

Peiris


Input: If not for the informant, the painted parrots' true colours would not have been known for six months, he said.


Input: " They moult in the summer, so five or six months down the track, I would have looked like the guilty party, " Drew said.

Drew


Input: NZ motorist's arrest brings free flight to Tonga.

NZ

Tonga


Input: WELLINGTON 1996-08-27

WELLINGTON


Input: A New Zealand motorist got an unexpected free flight to Tonga on Tuesday after being caught drinking and driving.

New Zealand

Tonga


Input: The man drew attention to himself in the North Island town of Tauranga while trying to reverse his car out of a pothole on Saturday night.

North Island

Tauranga


Input: He spun the wheels so much that the tyres caught alight and smoke began pouring from under the bonnet, the New Zealand Press Association reported.

New Zealand Press Association


Input: Police arrested the man and charged him with drink-driving, but then iscovered he was wanted by the Immigration Service as an overstayer.

Immigration Service


Input: The man was due to catch a flight to Nuku'alofa in Tonga later on Tuesday.

Nuku'alofa

Tonga


Input: Indonesia's SBPUs auction results.

Indonesia


Input: JAKARTA 1996-08-27

JAKARTA


Input: The following is the result of central bank securities (SBPUs) auction on Tuesday at 0800 GMT:

GMT


Input: SBPUs seven-day 14-day


Input: Cut-off-rate (percent) 15.75 16.00


Input: Total (in billion rupiah) 38.43 218.50


Input: -- Jakarta newsroom +6221 384-6364

Jakarta


Input: Seoul embassies warned of terrorist attacks.

Seoul


Input: SEOUL 1996-08-27

SEOUL


Input: South Korea has told its overseas missions to step up security since its embassy in the former Yugoslavia received a threat over Seoul's crackdown on radical students, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

South Korea

Yugoslavia

Seoul


Input: A letter to the Belgrade embassy on Monday under the name of the Macedonian Communist Party demanded South Korea release detained student leaders, a ministry spokesman said.

Belgrade

South Korea

Macedonian Communist Party


Input: " The letter said the party would assault the embassy, other South Korean-related facilities and Korean nationals unless our authorities released arrested students, " he said.

South Korean-related

Korean


Input: Nearly 400 members of an outlawed student group were arrested after violent protests demanding reunification with communist North Korea were crushed by riot police at a Seoul university this month.

North Korea

Seoul


Input: Authorities branded the violence, in which a police officer was killed, as an act of terror.


Input: " The ministry has ordered the embassy to take urgent security measures against possible terrorist attacks, " the official said, asking not to be named.


Input: It had called for similar precautions at other overseas missions, including those in Canada and Bangladesh where leftist groups have staged protests over the crackdown.

Canada

Bangladesh


Input: Nuclear pact will be a step to disarmament-China.

disarmament-China


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-27

BEIJING


Input: China on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for a global nuclear test ban treaty blocked by India last week, saying the pact would be an important step in achieving total nuclear disarmament.

China

India


Input: " Although the final draft of the treaty probably didn't totally satisfy any country, it was in general balanced, " the official People's Daily newspaper said in a commentary.

People's Daily


Input: India blocked the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, saying the pact did not contain a clause committing the five declared nuclear powers to a timetable for nuclear disarmament.

India

Geneva

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

CTBT

Conference on Disarmament


Input: New Delhi's stance, which was seen as effectively thwarting 2-1/2 years of negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament, drew widespread but generally muted foreign criticism.

New Delhi

Conference on Disarmament


Input: India has also pledged to oppose any forwarding of the draft treaty to the United Nations General Assembly.

India

United Nations General Assembly


Input: China said many countries had compromised to complete the treaty and that the issue of a disarmament schedule could be discussed in future negotiations.

China


Input: " The completion of the test ban treaty would be an important and practical step in the gradual process of achieving total nuclear disarmament, " it said.


Input: China has pledged support for the pact since reaching a deal with the United States that made international inspections of nuclear sites more difficult than in earlier drafts of the accord.

China

United States


Input: The newspaper said China advocated the complete ban and destruction of nuclear weapons but that there was little hope other nuclear powers would soon adopt the same stance.

China


Input: " Some nuclear powers stubbornly uphold policies of nuclear deterrence based on first use of nuclear weapons, " it said.


Input: China held on July 29 what it said would be its last nuclear test before a self-imposed moratorium that took effect the following day.

China


Input: China was the last declared nuclear power to announce a halt to testing.

China


Input: Japan declares food poisoning threat receding.

Japan


Input: TOKYO 1996-08-27

TOKYO


Input: The government said on Tuesday that the threat from a mysterious killer germ, while still requiring vigilance, appears to be receding in the western Japan city of Sakai, where the epidemic hit the hardest.

Japan

Sakai


Input: The food poisoning epidemic caused by the O-157 colon bacillus in Sakai appears to be " settling down ", Health Minister Naoto Kan was quoted by a government spokesman as telling the cabinet.

Sakai

Naoto Kan


Input: The O-157 colon bacillus has been found responsible for a widespread food poisoning epidemic that has killed 11 people and made over 9,500 ill this year.


Input: Sakai, near the regional commercial centre of Osaka, has been hit hardest by the deadly bacteria, with nearly 6,500, mostly schoolchildren, affected by the disease.

Sakai

Osaka


Input: Two children in Sakai have died from complications associated with the bacteria.

Sakai


Input: Kan told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that no new victims have been reported since August 8, indicating that the peak has passed, at least for Sakai.

Kan

Sakai


Input: Sakai officials agreed with the assessment, but said it was too early to feel relieved.

Sakai


Input: " There are still patients hospitalised and problems which must be dealt with, " a city spokesman said, citing the issue of whether to allow children infected with the bacteria but not showing symptoms to attend school from September.


Input: Health authorities believe school lunches were the source of the food poisoning in Sakai, but researchers have been unable to pinpoint the exact source of the infection.

Sakai


Input: The outbreak has prompted authorities to tighten sanitary standards at slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants and sparked calls for an overhaul of the nation's school lunch programme.


Input: The ministers agreed at Tuesday's cabinet meeting to step up inspection measures for school lunches in September and October, when schools around the country resume.


Input: Japan's Agriculture Ministry also announced that it will compile hygiene guidelines based on U.S. government methods of checking the safety of farm produce to prevent another outbreak of the epidemic.

Japan

U.S.

Agriculture Ministry


Input: As of Monday, 31 children were still hospitalised in Sakai city, of whom six were in serious condition.

Sakai


Input: Japan aluminium shipments surge 8.9 pct in July.

Japan


Input: TOKYO 1996-08-27

TOKYO


Input: Japanese shipments of aluminium mill products in July surged 8.9 percent over the same month last year to 224,609 tonnes, while production rose 6.4 percent to 222,457 tonnes, according to preliminary data released on Tuesday by the Japan Aluminium Federation.

Japanese

Japan Aluminium Federation


Input: The surge reflected strong demand from the beverage can and housing construction sectors, federation officials said.


Input: Figures released two weeks ago from Japan's seven largest mills already showed that Japan's can sheet output reached its highest monthly level ever in July, reflecting above-average temperatures that sparked a jump in beer consumption.

Japan

Japan


Input: A federation official added that the half-year through September 1996 also appeared likely to set a new record for can production, despite cooler temperatures in August.


Input: July inventories stood at 75,632 tonnes, down 2.6 percent from the prior month.


Input: July foil output was off 0.2 percent year-on-year at 11,525 tonnes, while foil shipments fell 0.8 percent to 11,244 tonnes.


Input: June mill output data were revised slightly downward to 210,622 tonnes from the preliminary 210,683, while shipments were revised marginally upward to 213,989 tonnes from 213,845.


Input: Final figures for June pegged can stock shipments at 40,144 tonnes, up 2.4 percent year-on-year.


Input: Shipments to the auto sector fell 5.5 percent to 15,286 tonnes, while the construction sector rose 2.4 percent to 79,390 tonnes.


Input: Exports dipped 3.7 percent to 18,867 tonnes.


Input: -- Tokyo Commodities Desk (81-3 3432 6179)

Tokyo Commodities Desk


Input: China thanks Gabon for support on human rights.

China

Gabon


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-27

BEIJING


Input: China has publicly thanked Gabon for its strong support at the United Nations Human Rights Commission, where Beijing has come under attack from Western nations for its human rights record.

China

Gabon

Beijing

United Nations Human Rights Commission

Western


Input: China's President Jiang Zemin offered his gratitude in a meeting on Monday with visiting Gabon President Omar Bongo, the official Xinhua news agency said.

China

Gabon

Jiang Zemin

Omar Bongo

Xinhua


Input: Jiang also acknowledged the Central African nation's support for China's stance on Taiwan, which Beijing views as a renegade province, while Bongo was quoted as thanking China for economic and technological aid, the agency said late on Monday.

Jiang

Bongo

Central African

China

Taiwan

Beijing

China


Input: In April, China quashed a draft resolution by the U.N. Human Rights Commission expressing concern over continuing reports of Beijing's violations of fundamental freedoms.

China

Beijing

U.N. Human Rights Commission


Input: After the defeat of the resolution, drafted by the European Union and the United States, China's Foreign Ministry thanked 26 countries for backing its motion for " no action " on the document.

European Union

Foreign Ministry

United States

China


Input: It was the sixth year in a row that China avoided censure at the U.N.'s main human rights forum.

China

U.N.


Input: China has been accused of a wide range of human rights abuses, often in violation of its own legal code, in an effort to silence dissent.

China


Input: A Xinhua commentary earlier this year said a plot by the West to force its human rights standards and values on other countries was doomed to failure.

Xinhua

West


Input: Taiwan's Cooperative Bank cuts prime lending rate.

Taiwan

Cooperative Bank


Input: TAIPEI 1996-08-27

TAIPEI


Input: Cooperative Bank of Taiwan, one of the island's leading state-run banks, said it was cutting its prime lending rate by 0.05 percentage point, effective on Tuesday.

Cooperative Bank of Taiwan


Input: The bank said in a statement it was cutting its prime lending rate to 7.35 percent from 7.40 percent.


Input: It also would cut its three-month-to-three-year time deposit rates by between 0.05 and 0.10 percentage points.


Input: The moves made Cooperative the first major bank to cut rates in response to a call on Friday from central bank governor Sheu Yuan-dong.

Cooperative

Sheu Yuan-dong


Input: In the central bank's latest bid to jumpstart Taiwan's sluggish economy, Sheu ordered a reduction of up to a half-percentage point in banks' reserve requirements and called on commercial banks to pass on the savings in the form of interest rate reductions.

Taiwan

Sheu


Input: -- Taipei Newsroom (5080815)

Taipei Newsroom


Input: Palestinians to strike over Jerusalem demolition.

Palestinians

Jerusalem


Input: JERUSALEM 1996-08-27

JERUSALEM


Input: Palestinian leaders in Jerusalem called on Tuesday for a two-hour strike to protest what they called Israel's war on Arab East Jerusalem after police demolished a building there.

Palestinian

Jerusalem

Israel

Arab East Jerusalem


Input: Israeli police demolished a 10 metre (yard) by 20 metre structure in Jerusalem's Old City they said had been built with funding from the Palestinian self-rule Authority for use as a social club.

Israeli

Jerusalem

Old City

Palestinian self-rule Authority


Input: Police used a huge crane to lift a bulldozer over the Old City's walls to reach the building amidst narrow alleys, witnesses said.

Old City


Input: Bystanders at the scene said work had begun on the building in 1991 and it had yet to be completed when the Israeli police bulldozed it.

Israeli


Input: The Palestinian Authority was set up under the 1993 PLO-Israel interim peace deal.

Palestinian Authority

PLO-Israel


Input: " There has been a call for a general strike between one (1000 GMT) and three o'clock, " Palestinian lawmaker Ahmed Hashem Zighayer told Reuters.

GMT

Palestinian

Ahmed Hashem Zighayer

Reuters


Input: " This is a war that has been declared on us and we want our people to come and see the site where they declared the war. "


Input: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, which took office in June, has said it will not allow the Authority, set up under a 1993 interim peace deal to control parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, to operate in Jerusalem.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Authority

Gaza Strip

West Bank

Jerusalem


Input: Israel's previous government held the same position but in general turned a blind eye to Palestinian Authority activity in the city.

Israel

Palestinian Authority


Input: Tuesday's demolition came a day after PLO officials said they had bowed to Netanyahu's demand they close offices in Jerusalem.

PLO

Netanyahu

Jerusalem


Input: They said two of the three offices Israel wanted closed had been shut.

Israel


Input: Netanyahu has made closure of the three offices a condition for resuming peace negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

Netanyahu

Palestine Liberation Organisation

PLO


Input: Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it.

Israel

Arab East Jerusalem

Middle East


Input: It says it will never cede any part of the city.


Input: Palestinians want East Jerusalem as capital of a future state.

Palestinians

East Jerusalem


Input: The city is up for negotiation at final peace talks which have yet to resume under Netanyahu.

Netanyahu


Input: SEC adopts rules to improve investor access to best stock prices.

SEC


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-28

WASHINGTON


Input: The Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday approved rules designed to give stock market investors a better chance at getting the best price available for their orders.

Securities and Exchange Commission


Input: The so-called order handling rules, which were proposed last September, were approved in a 4-0 vote.


Input: The new rules will require specialists at stock exchanges and market makers on Nasdaq to allow customers to view price quotes from other electronic trading systems that may not be readily available to them.

Nasdaq


Input: The rules will also require that customer limit orders be displayed with prices better than those available in quotes publicly available at the time.


Input: Specialists and market makers are companies or individuals recognised as qualified to maintain an orderly market in a stock.


Input: In a limit order, investors specify the price at which they are willing to buy or sell, as opposed to a market order executed at prevailing prices.


Input: " These rules are intended to empower all investors, by allowing their orders to compete on a level playing field, and by providing the disclosure they need to make informed decisions, " said SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt.

SEC

Arthur Levitt


Input: The SEC's goal, he added, was to create " one system where one price could be available to everybody. "

SEC


Input: The director of the SEC's division of market regulation, Richard Lindsey, said Wall Street firms will probably need to spend about $7 million to carry out the improvements called for by the new rules.

SEC

Richard Lindsey

Wall Street


Input: In proposing the rules last year, the SEC noted that while technology has improved, commonplace practices still existed that worked against investors' best interests.

SEC


Input: It noted that customers whose orders were not displayed lost the chance of getting the best possible price available in the market.


Input: It also cited the potential problem of a two-tiered market in which market makers quote one price to public investors while quoting better prices in private systems, thus robbing investors without access to " hidden " quotes the benefit of the best available prices.


Input: Earlier this month, the SEC settled charges of alleged malpractices on Nasdaq when the parent of the Nasdaq market, the National Association of Securities Dealers, agreed to spend $100 million over five years to upgrade its oversight of brokers' trading practices.

SEC

National Association of Securities Dealers

Nasdaq

Nasdaq


Input: The SEC dropped a third proposal that would have allowed investors with market orders to trade at a better price if there were shifts in prices before their orders were executed.

SEC


Input: The agency said it would monitor effects of the two new rules before considering the " price improvement " proposal again.


Input: The agency also proposed rule changes that would require continuous " bid " and " ask " quotations from exchange specialists and market makers who trade more than 1 percent of a stock during any quarter on Nasdaq.

Nasdaq


Input: The SEC's limit order display rule will mean a major change for Nasdaq, where such orders have never been displayed.

SEC

Nasdaq


Input: The president of the Nasdaq, Alfred Berkeley, was to hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon to elaborate on the new rules' effects on the market, the second largest in the world.

Nasdaq

Alfred Berkeley


Input: ITALIAN CABINET APPROVES TELEVISION DECREE.

ITALIAN


Input: ROME 1996-08-28

ROME


Input: The Italian cabinet on Wednesday granted a reprieve for media mogul Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset television empire with a decree extending the current legal framework for television stations until January 31, 1997.

Italian

Silvio Berlusconi

Mediaset


Input: The decree plugs a legal void in which magistrates could have forced the former prime minister to take one of the three stations he controls off the air because of a court ruling that no single proprietor should be allowed to keep three channels.


Input: Passengers injured in train collision in Linz.

Linz


Input: LINZ, Austria 1996-08-28

LINZ

Austria


Input: A passenger train collided with a locomotive at a main railway station in Linz on Wednesday and police said around 10 people were injured.

Linz


Input: Austrian television reported earlier that more than 20 had been hurt in the accident at the station in Linz, 300 km (180 miles) west of Vienna.

Austrian

Linz

Vienna


Input: " One locomotive was stationary and the passenger train collided into the back of it, " a police spokesman in Linz told Reuters by telephone.

Linz

Reuters


Input: The express passenger train travelling from Steyr, southeast of Linz, with around 80 people on board, hit the back of a service locomotive used to shunt wagons into sidings.

Steyr

Linz


Input: The police spokesman said he was not sure whether any more passengers were still trapped in the wreckage.


Input: Doctors and medical staff from a hospital across the road from the station were at the scene of the accident within minutes and were able to treat the injured quickly, he added.


Input: Greater damage was averted as the driver of the passenger train had time to apply his emergency brakes before the collision occurred, a state railways spokesman told Austrian news agency APA.

Austrian

APA


Input: Saskatchewan Wheat Pool eyes hog market.

Saskatchewan Wheat Pool


Input: WINNIPEG 1996-08-28

WINNIPEG


Input: Canada's largest grain handling firm said Wednesday it expects to forge a partnership with hog farmers by 1997 with a view to expanding the company's scope into pork production.

Canada


Input: " Saskatchewan is well positioned to take advantage of growing world markets for pork, " Saskatchewan Wheat Pool chief executive Don Loewen said in a company statement.

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan Wheat Pool

Don Loewen


Input: SWP said it was analyzing potential partnerships with hog farmers and expected the first deal to be in place in 1997.

SWP


Input: The end of Canada's rail freight subsidy last year caused a shift in feed grain production to the eastern Prairie.

Canada


Input: Analysts said livestock production would likely shift to the eastern Prairie rather than feed grains being shipped to the western Prairie.


Input: SWP said it may develop pork production systems that provide farmers with large integrated units, and it may consider contracting programs between producers and packers which would operate within the existing hog market framework.

SWP


Input: Saskatchewan Pork International Marketing Group has an export monopoly but some Saskatchewan farmers earlier this month called for an open market in hogs.

Saskatchewan Pork International Marketing Group

Saskatchewan


Input: -- Gilbert Le Gras 204 947 3548

Gilbert Le Gras


Input: ATHLETICS-ROVERETO INTERNATIONAL MEETING RESULTS.

ROVERETO INTERNATIONAL


Input: ROVERETO, Italy 1996-08-28

ROVERETO

Italy


Input: Leading results from an


Input: international athletics meeting on Wednesday:


Input: Women's long jump:


Input: 1. Ludmila Ninova (Austria) 6.72 metres

Ludmila Ninova

Austria


Input: 2. Heike Drechsler (Germany) 6.65

Heike Drechsler

Germany


Input: 3. Fiona May (Italy) 6.64

Fiona May

Italy


Input: Men's 110 metres hurdles:


Input: 1. Emilio Valle (Cuba) 13.42 seconds

Emilio Valle

Cuba


Input: 2. Steve Brown (U.S.) 13.45

Steve Brown

U.S.


Input: 3. Andrea Giaconi (Italy) 13.80

Andrea Giaconi

Italy


Input: Women's 100 metres:


Input: 1. Chandra Sturrup (Bahamas) 11.34 seconds

Chandra Sturrup

Bahamas


Input: 2. Natalya Voronova (Russia) 11.53

Natalya Voronova

Russia


Input: 3. Gabi Rokmeier (Germany) 11.61

Gabi Rokmeier

Germany


Input: Men's javelin:


Input: 1. Sergey Makarov (Russia) 85.26 metres

Sergey Makarov

Russia


Input: 2. Tom Pukstys (U.S.) 84.20

Tom Pukstys

U.S.


Input: 3. Peter Blank (Germany) 81.64

Peter Blank

Germany


Input: Men's 100 metres:


Input: 1. Osmond Ezinwa (Nigeria) 10.13 seconds

Osmond Ezinwa

Nigeria


Input: 2. Davidson Ezinwa (Nigeria) 10.18

Davidson Ezinwa

Nigeria


Input: 3. Stefano Tilli (Italy) 10.43

Stefano Tilli

Italy


Input: Men's 400 metres:


Input: 1. Davis Kamoga (Uganda) 45.15 seconds

Davis Kamoga

Uganda


Input: 2. Marco Vaccari (Italy) 46.16

Marco Vaccari

Italy


Input: 3. Kennedy Ochieng (Kenya) 46.21

Kennedy Ochieng

Kenya


Input: Women's pole vault:


Input: 1. Mariacarla Bresciani (Italy) 3.85 metres

Mariacarla Bresciani

Italy


Input: 2. Andrea Muller (Germany) 3.75

Andrea Muller

Germany


Input: 3. Nastja Rysich (germany) 3.75

Nastja Rysich

germany


Input: Women's 800 metres:


Input: 1. Ana Fidelia Quirot (Cuba) 1 minute 58.98 seconds

Ana Fidelia Quirot

Cuba


Input: 2. Letitia Vriesde (Surinam) 2:00.39

Letitia Vriesde

Surinam


Input: 3. Inez Turner (Jamaica) 2:00.91

Inez Turner

Jamaica


Input: Men's high jump:


Input: 1. Wolfgang Kreissig (Germany) 2.20 metres

Wolfgang Kreissig

Germany


Input: 2. Kostantin Matusevitch (Israel) 2.20

Kostantin Matusevitch

Israel


Input: 3. Michele Buiatti (Italy) 2.15

Michele Buiatti

Italy


Input: Men's 800 metres:


Input: 1. Robert Kibet (Kenya) 1:45.24

Robert Kibet

Kenya


Input: 2. Vincent Malakwen (Kenya) 1:45.62

Vincent Malakwen

Kenya


Input: 3. Philip Kibitok (Kenya) 1:46.09

Philip Kibitok

Kenya


Input: Women's javelin:


Input: 1. Oksana Ovchinnikova (Russia) 58.94 metres

Oksana Ovchinnikova

Russia


Input: 2. Natalya Shikolenko (Belarus) 57.44

Natalya Shikolenko

Belarus


Input: 3. Silke Renk (Germany) 56.70

Silke Renk

Germany


Input: Women's 400 metres hurdles:


Input: 1. Virna De Angeli (Italy) 55.66

Virna De Angeli

Italy


Input: 2. Natalya Torshina (Kazakhstan) 55.99

Natalya Torshina

Kazakhstan


Input: 3. Anna Knoroz (Russia) 57.02

Anna Knoroz

Russia


Input: Men's 400 metres hurdles:


Input: 1. Lauren Ottoz (Italy) 49.16

Lauren Ottoz

Italy


Input: 2. Brian Bronson (U.S.) 49.67

Brian Bronson

U.S.


Input: 3. John Ridgeon (Britain) 49.83

John Ridgeon

Britain


Input: Men's 3,000 metres:


Input: 1. Luke Kipkosgei (Kenya) 7:46.91

Luke Kipkosgei

Kenya