Input: " If the (Tour's tournament) committee decides to change the rule I would not be against it, " said Ballesteros, Olazabal's compatriot and Ryder Cup captain.

Tour

Ryder Cup

Ballesteros

Olazabal


Input: But commitee member Montgomerie said it could set an unhelpful precedent. "

Montgomerie


Input: I know Olly's situation is very unfortunate, but I don't think we can start giving dispensations, " he said. "

Olly


Input: You've got to have a rule for everybody and I don't think it's feasible. "


Input: The use of carts is generally prohibited in the professional game, and if Olazabal is allowed to use one in Bordeaux, he might then request one for the qualifying tournaments for next year's Ryder Cup.

Olazabal

Bordeaux

Ryder Cup


Input: SOCCER-POLAND TIES CYPRUS 2-2 IN FRIENDLY MATCH.

POLAND

CYPRUS


Input: BELCHATOW, Poland 1996-08-27

BELCHATOW

Poland


Input: Poland and Cyprus drew

Poland

Cyprus


Input: 2-2 (halftime 0-0) in a friendly soccer international on


Input: Tuesday.


Input: Scorers:


Input: Poland-Krzysztof Warzycha (46th minute), Marcin Mieciel

Poland

Krzysztof Warzycha

Marcin Mieciel


Input: Cyprus-Klimis Alexandrou (75th), Kostas Malekos (80th)

Cyprus

Klimis Alexandrou

Kostas Malekos


Input: Attendance 3,000


Input: SOCCER-THOMSON RESIGNS AS MANAGER OF RAITH ROVERS.

THOMSON

RAITH ROVERS


Input: KIRKCALDY, Scotland 1996-08-27

KIRKCALDY

Scotland


Input: Jimmy Thomson became Scotland's first managerial casualty of the season on Tuesday when he quit Raith Rovers, bottom of the premier division.

Jimmy Thomson

Scotland

Raith Rovers


Input: Thomson resigned after the club's directors asked him to return to his previous position as youth team coach.

Thomson


Input: He had been in charge for six months.


Input: Raith lost their first two games of the season away to Rangers and Celtic, then crashed 3-0 at home to Motherwell on Saturday.

Raith

Rangers

Celtic

Motherwell


Input: A club statement said: " The directors of Raith Rovers FC invited Jimmy Thomson to relinquish the post of manager and to resume his former position as youth team coach.

Raith Rovers FC

Jimmy Thomson


Input: " Regrettably Jimmy has felt unable to accept that offer, and has accordingly left the club. "

Jimmy


Input: Thomson said: " I am leaving with my dignity and my pride intact, and that is very important to me.

Thomson


Input: " While not agreeing with the directors' decision, I respect their reasons for making it. "


Input: RUGBY UNION-GRIQUALAND WEST AND NEW ZEALAND DRAW IN TOUR MATCH.

RUGBY UNION

GRIQUALAND WEST

NEW ZEALAND

TOUR


Input: KIMBERLEY, South Africa 1996-08-27

KIMBERLEY

South Africa


Input: Griqualand West

Griqualand West


Input: and New Zealand drew 18-18 (halftime 6-10) in their rugby union

New Zealand


Input: tour maltch on Tuesday.


Input: Scorers:


Input: Griqualand West-Tries: Andre Cloete, Leon van der Wath.

Griqualand West

Andre Cloete

Leon van der Wath


Input: Conversion: Boeta Wessels.

Boeta Wessels


Input: Penalties: Wessels 2.

Wessels


Input: New Zealand-Tries: Scott McLeod, Glen Osborne.

New Zealand

Scott McLeod

Glen Osborne


Input: Conversion:


Input: Jon Preston.

Jon Preston


Input: Penalties: Preston 2.

Preston


Input: SOCCER-BALL RESIGNS AS MANCHESTER CITY MANAGER.

BALL

MANCHESTER CITY


Input: MANCHESTER, England 1996-08-27

MANCHESTER

England


Input: Former England midfielder Alan Ball resigned as manager of first division side Manchester City on Monday night, the club said.

England

Alan Ball

Manchester City


Input: Ball, appointed in July 1995, was unable to prevent City being relegated from the premier league last season and his record read 13 wins, 14 draws and 22 losses in 49 games.

Ball

City


Input: They have lost two of their three matches so far this season.


Input: Club secretary Bernard Halford said in a statement: " The chairman and Board would like to place on record their appreciation of his endeavours and efforts whilst in his period of office and wish him well in the future. "

Bernard Halford

Board


Input: SOCCER-ENGLISH LEAGUE STANDINGS.

ENGLISH


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: English league soccer standings

English


Input: after Tuesday's matches (tabulated under played, won, drawn,


Input: lost, goals for, against, points):


Input: Division one


Input: Tranmere 3 2 1 0 6 3 7

Tranmere


Input: Bolton 3 2 1 0 5 2 7

Bolton


Input: Barnsley 2 2 0 0 5 2 6

Barnsley


Input: Wolverhampton 2 2 0 0 4 1 6

Wolverhampton


Input: Queens Park Rangers 2 2 0 0 4 2 6

Queens Park Rangers


Input: Stoke 2 2 0 0 4 2 6

Stoke


Input: Norwich 3 2 0 1 4 3 6

Norwich


Input: Ipswich 3 1 1 1 6 4 4

Ipswich


Input: Birmingham 2 1 1 0 5 4 4

Birmingham


Input: Crystal Palace 3 1 1 1 3 2 4

Crystal Palace


Input: Oxford 3 1 0 2 6 3 3

Oxford


Input: Bradford 2 1 0 1 3 2 3

Bradford


Input: Huddersfield 2 1 0 1 3 3 3

Huddersfield


Input: Portsmouth 3 1 0 2 3 5 3

Portsmouth


Input: Reading 2 1 0 1 3 5 3

Reading


Input: Manchester City 3 1 0 2 2 3 3

Manchester City


Input: West Bromwich 3 0 2 1 2 3 2

West Bromwich


Input: Port Vale 3 0 2 1 2 4 2

Port Vale


Input: Sheffield United 2 0 1 1 4 5 1

Sheffield United


Input: Grimsby 3 0 1 2 4 7 1

Grimsby


Input: Charlton 2 0 1 1 1 3 1

Charlton


Input: Swindon 2 0 1 1 1 3 1

Swindon


Input: Southend 3 0 1 2 1 7 1

Southend


Input: Oldham 2 0 0 2 2 5 0

Oldham


Input: Divisionn two


Input: Plymouth 3 2 1 0 8 5 7

Plymouth


Input: Brentford 3 2 1 0 6 3 7

Brentford


Input: Shrewsbury 3 2 1 0 6 3 7

Shrewsbury


Input: Bury 3 2 1 0 4 2 7

Bury


Input: Burnley 3 2 0 1 5 5 6

Burnley


Input: Bournemouth 3 2 0 1 4 3 6

Bournemouth


Input: Blackpool 3 2 0 1 3 2 6

Blackpool


Input: Chesterfield 3 2 0 1 3 2 6

Chesterfield


Input: Millwall 3 1 1 1 5 4 4

Millwall


Input: Crewe 3 1 1 1 4 4 4

Crewe


Input: Gillingham 3 1 1 1 4 5 4

Gillingham


Input: Preston 3 1 1 1 3 3 4

Preston


Input: Notts County 2 1 1 0 2 1 4

Notts County


Input: Bristol Rovers 2 1 1 0 1 0 4

Bristol Rovers


Input: Bristol City 3 1 0 2 7 4 3

Bristol City


Input: York 3 1 0 2 5 6 3

York


Input: Watford 3 1 0 2 2 5 3

Watford


Input: Wrexham 2 0 2 0 5 5 2

Wrexham


Input: Wycombe 3 0 2 1 2 3 2

Wycombe


Input: Rotherham 3 0 1 2 3 5 1

Rotherham


Input: Peterborough 2 0 1 1 2 3 1

Peterborough


Input: Walsall 3 0 1 2 2 4 1

Walsall


Input: Stockport 3 0 1 2 0 2 1

Stockport


Input: Luton 3 0 0 3 3 10 0

Luton


Input: Division three


Input: Hartlepool 3 2 1 0 6 3 7

Hartlepool


Input: Wigan 3 2 1 0 5 2 7

Wigan


Input: Hull 3 2 1 0 4 2 7

Hull


Input: Carlisle 3 2 1 0 2 0 7

Carlisle


Input: Fulham 3 2 0 1 4 3 6

Fulham


Input: Scunthorpe 3 2 0 1 2 2 6

Scunthorpe


Input: Scarborough 3 1 2 0 4 2 5

Scarborough


Input: Exeter 3 1 2 0 4 3 5

Exeter


Input: Cambridge 3 1 2 0 3 2 5

Cambridge


Input: Darlington 3 1 1 1 7 5 4

Darlington


Input: Northampton 3 1 1 1 5 3 4

Northampton


Input: Barnet 3 1 1 1 4 2 4

Barnet


Input: Chester 3 1 1 1 4 3 4

Chester


Input: Torquay 3 1 1 1 3 3 4

Torquay


Input: Cardiff 3 1 1 1 1 2 4

Cardiff


Input: Swansea 3 1 0 2 3 7 3

Swansea


Input: Brighton 3 1 0 2 2 5 3

Brighton


Input: Hereford 3 1 0 2 1 2 3

Hereford


Input: Lincoln 3 0 2 1 3 4 2

Lincoln


Input: Colchester 3 0 2 1 1 3 2

Colchester


Input: Rochdale 3 0 1 2 2 4 1

Rochdale


Input: Mansfield 3 0 1 2 2 6 1

Mansfield


Input: Doncaster 3 0 1 2 1 3 1

Doncaster


Input: Leyton Orient 3 0 1 2 1 3 1

Leyton Orient


Input: SOCCER-ENGLISH LEAGUE RESULTS.

ENGLISH


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: Results of English league soccer

English


Input: matches on Tuesday:


Input: Division one


Input: Crystal Palace 0 West Bromwich 0

Crystal Palace

West Bromwich


Input: Ipswich 1 Grimsby 1

Ipswich

Grimsby


Input: Oxford 0 Norwich 1

Oxford

Norwich


Input: Portsmouth 1 Southend 0

Portsmouth

Southend


Input: Tranmere 2 Port Vale 0

Tranmere

Port Vale


Input: Postponed: Charlton v Birmingham, Sheffield United v

Charlton

Birmingham

Sheffield United


Input: Huddersfield

Huddersfield


Input: Division two


Input: Brentford 2 Gillingham 0

Brentford

Gillingham


Input: Bristol City 5 Luton 0

Bristol City

Luton


Input: Burnley 1 Shrewsbury 3

Burnley

Shrewsbury


Input: Chesterfield 1 Walsall 0

Chesterfield

Walsall


Input: Preston 2 Crewe 1

Preston

Crewe


Input: Rotherham 1 Blackpool 2

Rotherham

Blackpool


Input: Stockport 0 Bournemouth 1

Stockport

Bournemouth


Input: Watford 0 Plymouth 2

Watford

Plymouth


Input: Wycombe 0 Bury 1

Wycombe

Bury


Input: York 3 Millwall 2

York

Millwall


Input: Postponed: Peterborough v Notts County, Wrexham v Bristol

Peterborough

Notts County

Wrexham

Bristol


Input: Rovers

Rovers


Input: Division three


Input: Barnet 3 Brighton 0

Barnet

Brighton


Input: Cardiff 0 Wigan 2

Cardiff

Wigan


Input: Carlisle 1 Leyton Orient 0

Carlisle

Leyton Orient


Input: Chester 2 Swansea 0

Chester

Swansea


Input: Darlington 1 Colchester 1

Darlington

Colchester


Input: Exeter 1 Doncaster 1

Exeter

Doncaster


Input: Hartlepool 2 Mansfield 2

Hartlepool

Mansfield


Input: Hereford 0 Hull 1

Hereford

Hull


Input: Lincoln 1 Cambridge 1

Lincoln

Cambridge


Input: Northampton 1 Torquay 1

Northampton

Torquay


Input: Rochdale 1 Fulham 2

Rochdale

Fulham


Input: Scunthorpe 0 Scarborough 2

Scunthorpe

Scarborough


Input: CRICKET-ENGLAND AND PAKISTAN TEST AVERAGES.

ENGLAND

PAKISTAN


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: England and Pakistan Test averages

England

Pakistan


Input: after their three-match series which ended on Monday:


Input: England

England


Input: Batting (tabulated under matches, innings, not outs, runs,


Input: highest score, average):


Input: Alec Stewart 3 5 0 396 170 79.20

Alec Stewart


Input: John Crawley 2 3 0 178 106 59.33

John Crawley


Input: Nick Knight 3 5 0 190 113 38.00

Nick Knight


Input: Nasser Hussain 2 3 0 111 51 37.00

Nasser Hussain


Input: Mike Atherton 3 5 0 162 64 32.40

Mike Atherton


Input: Graham Thorpe 3 5 0 159 77 31.80

Graham Thorpe


Input: Jack Russell 2 3 1 51 41no 25.50

Jack Russell


Input: Ian Salisbury 2 4 1 50 40 16.66

Ian Salisbury


Input: Mark Ealham 1 2 0 30 25 15.00

Mark Ealham


Input: Dominic Cork 3 5 0 58 26 11.60

Dominic Cork


Input: Robert Croft 1 2 1 11 6 11.00

Robert Croft


Input: Simon Brown 1 2 1 11 10no 11.00

Simon Brown


Input: Alan Mullally 3 5 1 39 24 9.75

Alan Mullally


Input: Chris Lewis 2 3 0 18 9 6.00

Chris Lewis


Input: Andy Caddick 1 1 0 4 4 4.00

Andy Caddick


Input: Graeme Hick 1 2 0 8 4 4.00

Graeme Hick


Input: Bowling (tabulated under overs, maidens, runs, wickets,


Input: average):


Input: Atherton 7 1 20 1 20.00

Atherton


Input: Caddick 57.2 10 165 6 27.50

Caddick


Input: Cork 131 23 434 12 36.16

Cork


Input: Mullally 150.3 36 377 10 37.70

Mullally


Input: Hick 13 2 42 1 42.00

Hick


Input: Croft 47.4 10 125 2 62.50

Croft


Input: Brown 33 4 138 2 69.00

Brown


Input: Ealham 37 8 81 1 81.00

Ealham


Input: Salisbury 61.2 8 221 2 110.50

Salisbury


Input: Lewis 71 10 264 1 264.00

Lewis


Input: Thorpe 13 4 19 0-

Thorpe


Input: Pakistan

Pakistan


Input: Batting:


Input: Moin Khan 2 3 1 158 105 79.00

Moin Khan


Input: Ijaz Ahmed 3 6 1 344 141 68.80

Ijaz Ahmed


Input: Salim Malik 3 5 2 195 100no 65.00

Salim Malik


Input: Inzamam-ul-Haq 3 5 0 320 148 64.00

Inzamam-ul-Haq


Input: Saeed Anwar 3 6 0 362 176 60.33

Saeed Anwar


Input: Rashid Latif 1 1 0 45 45 45.00

Rashid Latif


Input: Aamir Sohail 2 3 1 77 46 38.50

Aamir Sohail


Input: Asif Mujtaba 2 3 0 90 51 30.00

Asif Mujtaba


Input: Wasim Akram 3 5 1 98 40 24.50

Wasim Akram


Input: Shadab Kabir 2 4 0 87 35 21.75

Shadab Kabir


Input: Mushtaq Ahmed 3 5 1 44 20 11.00

Mushtaq Ahmed


Input: Waqar Younis 3 3 1 11 7 5.50

Waqar Younis


Input: Ata-ur-Rehman 2 2 2 10 10no-

Ata-ur-Rehman


Input: Mohammad Akram 1 0 0 0 0-

Mohammad Akram


Input: Bowling:


Input: Mushtaq Ahmed 195 52 447 17 26.29

Mushtaq Ahmed


Input: Waqar Younis 125 25 431 16 26.93

Waqar Younis


Input: Wasim Akram 128 29 350 11 31.81

Wasim Akram


Input: Ata-ur-Rehman 48.4 6 173 5 34.60

Ata-ur-Rehman


Input: Mohammad Akram 22 4 71 1 71.00

Mohammad Akram


Input: Aamir Sohail 11 3 24 0-

Aamir Sohail


Input: Asif Mujtaba 7 5 6 0-

Asif Mujtaba


Input: Salim Malik 1 0 1 0-

Salim Malik


Input: Shadab Kabir 1 0 9 0-

Shadab Kabir


Input: CRICKET-GOOCH TO PLAY ANOTHER SEASON FOR ESSEX.

GOOCH

ESSEX


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: Graham Gooch, the 43-year-old former England captain, is to continue playing county cricket for at least another season, his club Essex announced on Tuesday.

Graham Gooch

England

Essex


Input: Opener Gooch's decision comes towards the end of a season in which he has underlined his consistency by becoming the leading scorer in Essex's history, beating Keith Fletcher's aggregate of 29,434.

Gooch

Keith Fletcher

Essex


Input: Gooch, who retired from test cricket after the 1994-95 tour of Australia but is now an England selector, is seventh in this season's first-class averages with 1,429 runs at 64.95, having hit five centuries and one double century.

Gooch

Australia

England


Input: Essex secretary-general manager Peter Edwards said: " He is a remarkable batsman and still the best in this country.

Essex

Peter Edwards


Input: No-one will argue with that.


Input: You just have to look at his record to appreciate that fact. "


Input: SOCCER-ROMANIA CLUB BOSS BANNED FOR HEADBUTT.

ROMANIA


Input: BUCHAREST 1996-08-27

BUCHAREST


Input: The Romanian Soccer Federation has banned first division club Jiul Petrosani's president Miron Cozma for two years for headbutting a visiting team player, a federation statement said.

Romanian Soccer Federation

Jiul Petrosani

Miron Cozma


Input: Romania's soccer bosses also fined Cozma, a well-known miners' union leader, 10 million lei ($3000) for the half-time attack on Dinamo Bucharest's Danut Lupu last Sunday.

Romania

Cozma

Danut Lupu

Dinamo Bucharest


Input: Miners led by Cozma rioted in Bucharest in 1990 and 1991, bringing down the reformist government of premier Petre Roman.

Cozma

Petre Roman

Bucharest


Input: Cozma is awaiting trial for assault and criminal damage in a bar in his home town of Petrosan, 300 kms west of Bucharest.

Cozma

Petrosan

Bucharest


Input: The attack on Lupu came during a tunnel skirmish between opposing players as they left the field.

Lupu


Input: " Cozma's blow was not too painful because I'm a tall man, " Lupu told Reuters on Tuesday.

Cozma

Lupu

Reuters


Input: Lupu is one of the tallest players in Romania's first division, towering over Cozma by some 17 cms,

Lupu

Cozma

Romania


Input: Jiul Petrosani, promoted to the first division this year, won the league game 1-0.

Jiul Petrosani


Input: Cozma is barred from taking part in any official soccer activity during the ban.

Cozma


Input: SQUASH-HONG KONG OPEN FIRST ROUND RESULTS.

HONG KONG OPEN


Input: HONG KONG 1996-08-27

HONG KONG


Input: First round results in the Hong

Hong


Input: Kong Open squash tournament on Tuesday (prefix denotes seeding):

Kong Open


Input: 1-Jansher Khan (Pakistnn) beat Jackie Lee (Hong Kong) 15-8 15-8

Jansher Khan

Jackie Lee

Hong Kong


Input: 3-Brett Martin (Australia) beat David Evans (Wales) 14-17 15-1

Brett Martin

David Evans

Australia

Wales


Input: 13-15 17-14 15-12


Input: Mark Cairns (England) beat 6-Del Harris (England) 15-12 7-15

Mark Cairns

Del Harris

England

England


Input: 15-6 15-12


Input: Anthony Hill (Australia) beat 8-Mark Chaloner (England) 15-11

Anthony Hill

Mark Chaloner

Australia

England


Input: 17-16 17-16


Input: Simon Frenz (Germany) beat Martin Heath (Scotland) 12-15 15-6

Simon Frenz

Martin Heath

Germany

Scotland


Input: 15-4 12-15 15-14


Input: Joseph Kneipp (Australia) beat Ahmed Faizy (Egypt) 15-8 12-15

Joseph Kneipp

Ahmed Faizy

Australia

Egypt


Input: 15-14 15-9


Input: Mir Zaman Gul (Pakistan) beat Stephen Meads (England) 10-15

Mir Zaman Gul

Stephen Meads

Pakistan

England


Input: 15-12 15-10 15-3


Input: Dan Jensen (Australia) beat Anders Thoren (Sweden) 8-15 15-12

Dan Jensen

Anders Thoren

Australia

Sweden


Input: 10-15 15-5 15-11


Input: TENNIS-EDBERG EXTENDS GRAND SLAM RUN, TOPPLES WIMBLEDON CHAMP.

EDBERG

WIMBLEDON


Input: Larry Fine

Larry Fine


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-27

NEW YORK


Input: Stefan Edberg produced some of his vintage best on Tuesday to extend his grand run at the Grand Slams by toppling Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek in straight sets at the U.S. Open.

Stefan Edberg

Richard Krajicek

Grand Slams

Wimbledon

U.S. Open


Input: Edberg, competing in the 54th consecutive and final Grand Slam event of his illustrious career, turned back the clock at Stadium Court with a flowing 6-3 6-3 6-3 serve-and-volley victory over the fifth-seeded Dutchman.

Edberg

Grand Slam

Dutchman

Stadium Court


Input: " It's a win that I can be proud of, " said the 30-year-old Swede, winner of two U.S. Opens and six Grand Slam titles in all. "

Swede

Grand Slam

U.S.


Input: It's never easy to beat the Wimbledon champion. "

Wimbledon


Input: Edberg, who has said he will retire at season's end, made it look easy under gray skies at the National Tennis Centre.

Edberg

National Tennis Centre


Input: The unseeded Swede struck quickly, breaking Krajicek in the first game and never let loose his grip on the one hour 44 minute match as he served and volleyed with the grace that made him one of the dominant players of his time.

Swede

Krajicek


Input: " There's not doubt about it, Richard was definitely off his game and I took advantage, " said Edberg.

Richard

Edberg


Input: " I still have my days where I feel great out there. "


Input: Also reaching the second round were top-seeded defending champion Pete Sampras, a 6-2 6-2 6-1 winner over last minute replacement Jimy Szymanski of Venezuela, called on after Adrian Voinea of Romania withdrew because of a sprained ankle.

Pete Sampras

Jimy Szymanski

Adrian Voinea

Venezuela

Romania


Input: Third seed Thomas Muster of Austria also charged into the second round with a 6-1 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 romp over Javier Frana of Argentina.

Thomas Muster

Javier Frana

Austria

Argentina


Input: Marcelo Rios of Chile, the 10th seed, also advanced.

Marcelo Rios

Chile


Input: Rios claimed a 4-6 6-1 6-4 6-2 victory over Romania's Andrei Pavel.

Rios

Andrei Pavel

Romania


Input: On the women's side, second seed Monica Seles got off to a strong start by beating fellow-American Anne Miller 6-0 6-1 and was joined in the second round by Spain's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (seeded third), Olympic champion Lindsay Davenport (8) and Karina Habsudova of Slovakia (17).

Monica Seles

Anne Miller

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

Lindsay Davenport

Karina Habsudova

Spain

Slovakia

Olympic


Input: The women's draw lost another seed when Austrian Judith Wiesner overcame Iva Majoli of Croatia 2-6 6-3 6-1.

Austrian

Judith Wiesner

Iva Majoli

Croatia


Input: The fifth- seeded Majoli joined Anke Huber (5) and Magdalena Maleeva (12) on the sidelines.

Majoli

Anke Huber

Magdalena Maleeva


Input: TENNIS-TUESDAY'S RESULTS FROM U.S. OPEN.

U.S. OPEN


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-27

NEW YORK


Input: Results of first round matches on Tuesday in the U.S. Open tennis championships at the National Tennis Centre (prefix denotes seeding):

U.S. Open

National Tennis Centre


Input: Women's singles


Input: 2-Monica Seles (U.S.) beat Anne Miller (U.S.) 6-0 6-1

Monica Seles

Anne Miller

U.S.

U.S.


Input: Rita Grande (Italy) beat Alexia Dechaume-Balleret (France) 6-3 6-0

Rita Grande

Alexia Dechaume-Balleret

Italy

France


Input: Judith Wiesner (Austria) beat 5-Iva Majoli (Croatia) 2-6 6-3 6- 1

Judith Wiesner

Iva Majoli

Austria

Croatia


Input: Men's singles


Input: 3-Thomas Muster (Austria) beat Javier Frana (Argentina) 6-1 7-6 (7-2) 6-2

Thomas Muster

Javier Frana

Austria

Argentina


Input: Men's singles


Input: 1-Pete Sampras (U.S.) beat Jimy Szymanski (Venezuela) 6-2 6-2 6-1

Pete Sampras

Jimy Szymanski

U.S.

Venezuela


Input: Jiri Novak (Czech Republic) beat Ben Ellwood (Australia) 6-2 6- 4 6-3

Jiri Novak

Ben Ellwood

Czech Republic

Australia


Input: Women's singles


Input: Mariaan de Swardt (South Africa) beat Dominique Van Roost (Belgium) 1-6 6-2 7-6 (7-4)

Mariaan de Swardt

Dominique Van Roost

South Africa

Belgium


Input: Florencia Labat (Argentina) beat Kathy Rinaldi Stunkel (U.S.) 6-2 6-2

Florencia Labat

Kathy Rinaldi Stunkel

Argentina

U.S.


Input: Nathalie Tauziat (France) beat Angelica Gavaldon (Mexico) 7-6 (7-4) 6-2

Nathalie Tauziat

Angelica Gavaldon

France

Mexico


Input: Paola Suarez (Argentina) beat Marianne Werdel Witmeyer (U.S.) 6-4 6-3

Paola Suarez

Marianne Werdel Witmeyer

Argentina

U.S.


Input: Ann Grossman (U.S.) beat Silvia Farina (Italy) 6-4 6-3

Ann Grossman

Silvia Farina

U.S.

Italy


Input: Men's singles


Input: Alex Corretja (Spain) beat Byron Black (Zimbabwe) 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 6-2 6-2

Alex Corretja

Byron Black

Spain

Zimbabwe


Input: Scott Draper (Australia) beat Galo Blanco (Spain) 6-3 7-5 6-3

Scott Draper

Galo Blanco

Australia

Spain


Input: Petr Korda (Czech Republic) beat David Caldwell (U.S.) 6-3 3-6 6-3 7-5

Petr Korda

David Caldwell

Czech Republic

U.S.


Input: Bohdan Ulihrach (Czech Republic) beat 14-Alberto Costa (Spain) 2-6 6-4 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 6-1

Bohdan Ulihrach

Alberto Costa

Czech Republic

Spain


Input: Bernd Karbacher (Germany) beat Jonathan Stark (U.S.) 7-5 6-3 5- 7 7-5

Bernd Karbacher

Jonathan Stark

Germany

U.S.


Input: Women's singles


Input: 8-Lindsay Davenport (U.S.) beat Adriana Serra-Zanetti (Italy) 6-2 6-1

Lindsay Davenport

Adriana Serra-Zanetti

U.S.

Italy


Input: Elena Wagner (Germany) beat Gigi Fernandez (U.S.) 6-1 6-4

Elena Wagner

Gigi Fernandez

Germany

U.S.


Input: Kristie Boogert (Netherlands) beat Joannette Kruger (South Africa) 6-1 6-0

Kristie Boogert

Joannette Kruger

Netherlands

South Africa


Input: Men's singles


Input: Stefan Edberg (Sweden) beat 5-Richard Krajicek (Netherlands) 6- 3 6-3 6-3

Stefan Edberg

Richard Krajicek

Sweden

Netherlands


Input: 10-Marcelo Rios (Chile) beat Andrei Pavel (Romania) 4-6 6-1 6-4 6-2

Marcelo Rios

Andrei Pavel

Chile

Romania


Input: Women's singles


Input: 3-Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spain) beat Laxmi Poruri (U.S.) 6-2 6-1

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

Laxmi Poruri

Spain

U.S.


Input: Men's singles


Input: Andrei Olhovskiy (Russia) beat Pat Cash (Australia) 6-4 6-3 6-2

Andrei Olhovskiy

Pat Cash

Russia

Australia


Input: Filippo Veglio (Switzerland) beat Christian Ruud (Norway) 1-6 6

Filippo Veglio

Christian Ruud

Switzerland

Norway


Input: -2 6-4 6-4


Input: Tim Henman (Britain) beat Roberto Jabali (Brazil) 6-2 6-3 6-4

Tim Henman

Roberto Jabali

Britain

Brazil


Input: Pablo Campana (Ecuador) beat Todd Woodbridge (Australia) 6-2 4-

Pablo Campana

Todd Woodbridge

Ecuador

Australia


Input: 6 6-2 6-4


Input: Herman Gumy (Argentina) beat Martin Damm (Czech Republic) 7-5 6

Herman Gumy

Martin Damm

Argentina

Czech Republic


Input: -4 7-5


Input: Jacob Hlasek (Switzerland) beat Nicklas Kulti (Sweden) 6-3 6-4

Jacob Hlasek

Nicklas Kulti

Switzerland

Sweden


Input: 4-6 6-4


Input: Women's singles


Input: 17- Karina Habsudova (Slovakia) beat Radka Bobkova (Czech

Karina Habsudova

Radka Bobkova

Slovakia

Czech


Input: Republic) 6-4 6-1

Republic


Input: Karin Kschwendt (Austria) beat Sandra

Karin Kschwendt

Sandra

Austria


Input: Kleinova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-4

Kleinova

Czech Republic


Input: Annabel Ellwood (Australia) beat Jennifer Capriati (U.S.) 6-4 6

Annabel Ellwood

Jennifer Capriati

Australia

U.S.


Input: Nicole Arendt (U.S.) beat Sandra Cacic (U.S.) 6-2 7-6 (8-6)

Nicole Arendt

Sandra Cacic

U.S.

U.S.


Input: Elena Likhovtseva (Russia) beat Kyoko Nagatsuka (Japan) 7-6 (7-

Elena Likhovtseva

Kyoko Nagatsuka

Russia

Japan


Input: 5) 6-1


Input: Sandrine Testud (France) beat Pam Shriver (U.S.) 7-5 6-2

Sandrine Testud

Pam Shriver

France

U.S.


Input: Women's singles


Input: Kimberly Po (U.S.) beat 10-Kimiko Date (Japan) 6-2 7-5

Kimberly Po

Kimiko Date

U.S.

Japan


Input: Natasha Zvereva (Belarus) beat Virginia Ruano-Pascual (Spain) 6

Natasha Zvereva

Virginia Ruano-Pascual

Belarus

Spain


Input: -2 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 Tina Kirzan (Slovakia) beat Rika Hiraki (Japan)

Tina Kirzan

Rika Hiraki

Slovakia

Japan


Input: 7-6 (7-4) 7-5


Input: Petra Langrova (Czech Republic) beat Karina Adams (U.S.) 6-4 6-2

Petra Langrova

Karina Adams

Czech Republic

U.S.


Input: Tami Whitlinger Jones (U.S.) beat Sandra Cecchini (Italy) 6-2 6-0

Tami Whitlinger Jones

Sandra Cecchini

U.S.

Italy


Input: 7-Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) beat Francesca Lubiani (Italy)

Jana Novotna

Francesca Lubiani

Czech Republic

Italy


Input: 6-1 7-5


Input: Men's singles


Input: 13-Thomas Enqvist (Sweden) beat Stephane Simian (France) 6-3 6-1 6-4

Thomas Enqvist

Stephane Simian

Sweden

France


Input: Men's singles


Input: Mikael Tillstrom (Sweden) beat Tamer El Sawy (Egypt) 1-6 7-6 (9

Mikael Tillstrom

Tamer El Sawy

Sweden

Egypt


Input: -7) 6-1 3-6 6-4


Input: Roberto Carretero (Spain) beat Jordi Burillo (Spain) 6-3 4-6 6-

Roberto Carretero

Jordi Burillo

Spain

Spain


Input: 0 1-0 Retired (ankle injury)


Input: Thomas Johansson (Sweden) beat Renzo Furlan (Italy) 4-6 2-6 7-5

Thomas Johansson

Renzo Furlan

Sweden

Italy


Input: 6-1 7-5


Input: Mark Knowles (Bahamas) beat Marcelo Filippini (Uruguay) 6-3 7-5

Mark Knowles

Marcelo Filippini

Bahamas

Uruguay


Input: Jared Palmer (U.S.) beat 15-Marc Rosset (Switzerland) 6-7 (7-9)

Jared Palmer

Marc Rosset

U.S.

Switzerland


Input: 6-4 6-4 6-3


Input: Women's singles


Input: Amy Frazier (U.S.) beat Larisa Neiland (Latvia) 6-1 6-3

Amy Frazier

Larisa Neiland

U.S.

Latvia


Input: Women's singles


Input: Lisa Raymond (U.S.) beat Lori McNeil (U.S.) 7-6 (8-6) 6-3

Lisa Raymond

Lori McNeil

U.S.

U.S.


Input: Sandra Dopfer (Austria) beat Zina Garrison Jackson (U.S.) 2-6 6-3 7-5

Sandra Dopfer

Zina Garrison Jackson

Austria

U.S.


Input: 4-Conchita Martinez (Spain) beat Ruxandra Dragomir (Romania) 6-2 6-0

Conchita Martinez

Ruxandra Dragomir

Spain

Romania


Input: Naoko Sawamatsu (Japan) beat Rennae Stubbs (Australia) 6-4 6-3

Naoko Sawamatsu

Rennae Stubbs

Japan

Australia


Input: Miriam Oremans (Netherlands) beat Radka Zrubakova (Slovakia) 6-2 4-6 6-1

Miriam Oremans

Radka Zrubakova

Netherlands

Slovakia


Input: Men's singles


Input: Doug Flach (U.S.) beat Gianluca Pozzi (Italy) 7-5 7-6 (7-5) 2-6 7-6 (8-6)

Doug Flach

Gianluca Pozzi

U.S.

Italy


Input: 16-Cedric Pioline (France) beat Francisco Clavet (Spain) 6-4 7-6 (7-3) 6-4

Cedric Pioline

Francisco Clavet

France

Spain


Input: Javier Sanchez (Spain) beat David Skoch (Czech Republic) 6-2 7-6 (7-0) 6-3

Javier Sanchez

David Skoch

Spain

Czech Republic


Input: Women's singles, first round 1-Steffi Graf (Germany) beat Yayuk Basuki (Indonesia) 6-3 7-6 (7-4)

Steffi Graf

Yayuk Basuki

Germany

Indonesia


Input: BASEBALL-MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AFTER MONDAY'S GAMES.

MAJOR LEAGUE


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-27

NEW YORK


Input: Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball


Input: standings after games played on Monday (tabulate under won,


Input: lost, winning percentage and games behind):


Input: AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE


Input: EASTERN DIVISION

EASTERN DIVISION


Input: W L PCT GB


Input: NEW YORK 74 56 .569-

NEW YORK


Input: BALTIMORE 69 61 .531 5

BALTIMORE


Input: BOSTON 67 65 .508 8

BOSTON


Input: TORONTO 62 70 .470 13

TORONTO


Input: DETROIT 47 84 .359 27 1/2

DETROIT


Input: CENTRAL DIVISION

CENTRAL DIVISION


Input: CLEVELAND 78 53 .595-

CLEVELAND


Input: CHICAGO 70 63 .526 9

CHICAGO


Input: MINNESOTA 65 66 .496 13

MINNESOTA


Input: MILWAUKEE 63 69 .477 15 1/2

MILWAUKEE


Input: KANSAS CITY 59 73 .447 19 1/2

KANSAS CITY


Input: WESTERN DIVISION

WESTERN DIVISION


Input: TEXAS 75 56 .573-

TEXAS


Input: SEATTLE 67 63 .515 7 1/2

SEATTLE


Input: OAKLAND 63 71 .470 13 1/2

OAKLAND


Input: CALIFORNIA 61 70 .466 14

CALIFORNIA


Input: TUESDAY, AUGUST 27TH SCHEDULE


Input: CLEVELAND AT DETROIT

CLEVELAND

DETROIT


Input: OAKLAND AT BALTIMORE

OAKLAND

BALTIMORE


Input: MINNESOTA AT TORONTO

MINNESOTA

TORONTO


Input: MILWAUKEE AT CHICAGO

MILWAUKEE

CHICAGO


Input: TEXAS AT KANSAS CITY

TEXAS

KANSAS CITY


Input: BOSTON AT CALIFORNIA

BOSTON

CALIFORNIA


Input: NEW YORK AT SEATTLE

NEW YORK

SEATTLE


Input: NATIONAL LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE


Input: EASTERN DIVISION

EASTERN DIVISION


Input: W L PCT GB


Input: ATLANTA 81 48 .628-

ATLANTA


Input: MONTREAL 70 59 .543 11

MONTREAL


Input: FLORIDA 61 70 .466 21

FLORIDA


Input: NEW YORK 59 72 .450 23

NEW YORK


Input: PHILADELPHIA 53 79 .402 29 1/2

PHILADELPHIA


Input: CENTRAL DIVISION

CENTRAL DIVISION


Input: HOUSTON 70 62 .530-

HOUSTON


Input: ST LOUIS 69 62 .527 1/2

ST LOUIS


Input: CHICAGO 64 64 .500 4

CHICAGO


Input: CINCINNATI 64 66 .492 5

CINCINNATI


Input: PITTSBURGH 55 75 .423 14

PITTSBURGH


Input: WESTERN DIVISION

WESTERN DIVISION


Input: SAN DIEGO 72 60 .545-

SAN DIEGO


Input: LOS ANGELES 70 60 .538 1

LOS ANGELES


Input: COLORADO 69 63 .523 3

COLORADO


Input: SAN FRANCISCO 56 73 .434 14 1/2

SAN FRANCISCO


Input: TUESDAY, AUGUST 27TH SCHEDULE


Input: PHILADELPHIA AT SAN FRANCISCO

PHILADELPHIA

SAN FRANCISCO


Input: LOS ANGELES AT MONTREAL

LOS ANGELES

MONTREAL


Input: ATLANTA AT PITTSBURGH

ATLANTA

PITTSBURGH


Input: SAN DIEGO AT NEW YORK

SAN DIEGO

NEW YORK


Input: CHICAGO AT HOUSTON

CHICAGO

HOUSTON


Input: FLORIDA AT ST LOUIS

FLORIDA

ST LOUIS


Input: CINCINNATI AT COLORADO

CINCINNATI

COLORADO


Input: BASEBALL-GIANTS EDGE PHILLIES 1-0.

GIANTS

PHILLIES


Input: SAN FRANCISCO 1996-08-27

SAN FRANCISCO


Input: William VanLandingham pitched eight scoreless innings and Glenallen Hill drove in the game's only run with a first-inning single as the San Francisco Giants claimed a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday.

William VanLandingham

Glenallen Hill

San Francisco Giants

Philadelphia Phillies


Input: VanLandingham (8-13), who entered the game with one complete game in the first 56 starts of his career, limited the Phillies to two hits and two walks with four strikeouts.

VanLandingham

Phillies


Input: " We've been working all year on my follow-through, and I really concentrated on that, " VanLandingham said. "

VanLandingham


Input: It gave me more life in all of my pitches, so the ball moved more. "


Input: At Colorado, Andres Galarraga homered and drove in three runs as the Colorado Rockies had 10 extra-base hits and Billy Swift won his first game in almost a year in a 9-5 rain-shortened seven-inning victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Colorado

Andres Galarraga

Billy Swift

Colorado Rockies

Cincinnati Reds


Input: Swift (1-0), who made his first start since June 3rd and underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder earlier in the season, allowed five runs and six hits in five innings.

Swift


Input: In Houston, Andy Benes allowed two runs over seven innings and Royce Clayton had a run-scoring single in the seventh to lift the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-2 victory over the Houston Astros.

Houston

Andy Benes

Royce Clayton

St. Louis Cardinals

Houston Astros


Input: Benes (14-9) allowed five hits, walked five and struck out 10 for his 11th win in 12 decisions.

Benes


Input: The Cardinals moved within one-half game of first-place Houston in the National League Central Division.

Cardinals

Houston

National League Central Division


Input: BASEBALL-ORIOLES WIN, YANKEES LOSE.

ORIOLES

YANKEES


Input: BALTIMORE 1996-08-27

BALTIMORE


Input: Cal Ripken's bases-loaded walk scored Brady Anderson with the winning run in the bottom of the 10th as the Baltimore Orioles regained control of the top spot in the wild-card race with a wild 12-11 victory over the Oakland Athletics.

Cal Ripken

Brady Anderson

Baltimore Orioles

Oakland Athletics


Input: Trailing by a run entering the 11th, the Orioles rallied against Oakland reliever Mark Acre (0-2) with a walk and a triple by Brady Anderson to tie the game.

Orioles

Oakland

Mark Acre

Brady Anderson


Input: Then Oakland manager Art Howe decided to intentionally walk Rafael Palmeiro and Bobby Bonilla to load the bases but Acre was nowhere near the plate to Ripken.

Oakland

Art Howe

Rafael Palmeiro

Bobby Bonilla

Acre

Ripken


Input: The decisive pitch nearly hit Ripken and gave the Orioles a one-half game lead over the Chicago White Sox in the wild-card race.

Ripken

Orioles

Chicago White Sox


Input: In Seattle, Jay Buhner's eighth-inning single snapped a tie as the Seattle Mariners edged the New York Yankees 2-1 in the opener of a three-game series.

Seattle

Jay Buhner

Seattle Mariners

New York Yankees


Input: New York starter Jimmy Key left the game in the first inning after Seattle shortstop Alex Rodriguez lined a shot off his left elbow.

New York

Seattle

Jimmy Key

Alex Rodriguez


Input: The Yankees have lost 12 of their last 19 games and their lead in the AL East over Baltimore fell to five games.

Yankees

Baltimore

AL

East


Input: At California, Tim Wakefield pitched a six-hitter for his third complete game of the season and Mo Vaughn and Troy O'Leary hit solo home runs in the second inning as the surging Boston Red Sox won their third straight 4-1 over the California Angels.

California

Tim Wakefield

Mo Vaughn

Troy O'Leary

Boston Red Sox

California Angels


Input: Boston has won seven of eight and is 20-6 since August 2nd.

Boston


Input: The Red Sox are two games over .500 for the first time this season.

Red Sox


Input: In Chicago, Cal Eldred pitched 5-1/3 scoreless innings and John Jaha scored one run and doubled in another as the Milwaukee Brewers held off the slumping Chicago White Sox, 3-2.

Chicago

Cal Eldred

John Jaha

Milwaukee Brewers

Chicago White Sox


Input: Eldred (6-5) walked one and struck out three.


Input: Angel Miranda retired one batter and Bob Wickman retired the next four but loaded the bases in the eighth.

Angel Miranda

Bob Wickman


Input: In Detroit, Jim Thome's solo homer in the ninth inning snapped a tie and Charles Nagy pitched a three-hitter for his first win in over a month, leading the Cleveland Indians to their 11th straight victory over the Detroit Tigers, 2-1.

Detroit

Jim Thome

Charles Nagy

Cleveland Indians

Detroit Tigers


Input: With the score tied 1-1 in the ninth, Thome hit a 2-2 pitch from starter Felipe Lira (6-11) over the left-field fence for his 29th homer.

Felipe Lira


Input: In Toronto, Juan Guzman allowed three runs over seven innings to make homers by Joe Carter and Carlos Delgado stand up as the surging Toronto Blue Jays held off the Minnesota Twins, 5-3.

Toronto

Juan Guzman

Joe Carter

Carlos Delgado

Toronto Blue Jays

Minnesota Twins


Input: Toronto returned home from a 10-game road trip and won for the eighth time in nine games as Guzman (11-8) allowed nine hits and struck out eight without a walk.

Toronto

Guzman


Input: BASEBALL-MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS MONDAY.

MAJOR LEAGUE


Input: NEW YORK

NEW YORK


Input: Results of Major League Baseball games

Major League Baseball


Input: played on Monday (home team in CAPS):


Input: American League

American League


Input: Cleveland 2 DETROIT 1

Cleveland

DETROIT


Input: BALTIMORE 12 Oakland 11 (10 innings)

BALTIMORE

Oakland


Input: TORONTO 5 Minnesota 3

TORONTO

Minnesota


Input: Milwaukee 3 CHICAGO 2

Milwaukee

CHICAGO


Input: Boston 4 CALIFORNIA 1

Boston

CALIFORNIA


Input: SEATTLE 2 New York 1

SEATTLE

New York


Input: National League

National League


Input: SAN FRANCISCO 1 Philadelphia 0

SAN FRANCISCO

Philadelphia


Input: St Louis 3 HOUSTON 2

St Louis

HOUSTON


Input: COLORADO 9 Cincinnati 5

COLORADO

Cincinnati


Input: TENNIS-CHANG, WASHINGTON ADVANCE, TWO WOMEN'S SEEDS FALL.

CHANG

WASHINGTON


Input: Larry Fine

Larry Fine


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-26

NEW YORK


Input: Michael Chang is playing in his 10th U.S. Open and enjoying his highest seeding ever, but the 24-year-old American had to overcome a case of the jitters Monday before winning his first-round match on opening day.

Michael Chang

U.S. Open

American


Input: Chang, seeded second behind defending champion Pete Sampras, took two hours 40 minutes to defeat 186th-ranked Jaime Oncins of Brazil 3-6 6-1 6-0 7-6, 8-6 in the tiebreaker.

Chang

Pete Sampras

Jaime Oncins

Brazil


Input: " I was pretty tight the whole match, " conceded Chang, one of the hottest players on tour this summer with a 16-2 record on hardcourts that included two titles and a runner-up finish.

Chang


Input: " Everyone has moments when they get tight.


Input: Hopefully, this will have been my nerves for the whole tournament. "


Input: Joining Chang into the second round was Wimbledon runner-up MaliVai Washington, the 11th seed, who also needed four sets to get past talented Moroccan Karim Alami 6-4 2-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-1.

Chang

MaliVai Washington

Karim Alami

Wimbledon

Moroccan


Input: Washington's win was not comfortable, either.

Washington


Input: The 27-year-old American hurried off the Stadium Court for treatment of an upset stomach after his two and a half hour struggle against Alami.

American

Stadium Court

Alami


Input: " Towards the end of my match my stomach felt like week-old sushi, " said Washington. "

Washington


Input: Maybe it was a combination of the heat and something I ate. "


Input: Chang and Washington were the only men's seeds in action on a day that saw two seeded women's players fall.

Chang

Washington


Input: Australian Open runner-up Anke Huber of Germany, the sixth seed, was undone by an unlucky draw that put her against 17th ranked South African Amanda Coetzer in her opening match.

Australian Open

South African

Anke Huber

Amanda Coetzer

Germany


Input: Coetzer claimed revenge for the semifinal defeat she suffered to Huber in Melbourne by taking a 6-1 2-6 6-2 victory.

Coetzer

Huber

Melbourne


Input: Last year's Wimbledon junior champion, Aleksandra Olsza of Poland, removed another seed from the draw by eliminating number 12 Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-4 6-2.

Wimbledon

Aleksandra Olsza

Magdalena Maleeva

Poland

Bulgaria


Input: Other men's winners included a pair of former Grand Slam tournament champions whose victories set up a showdown in the second round.

Grand Slam


Input: Germany's Michael Stich, the 1991 Wimbledon champion, and two-time French Open winner Sergi Bruguera of Spain will face each other next after beating German Tommy Haas 6-3 1-6 6-1 7-5, and Belgian Kris Goossens 6-2 6-0 7-6 (7-1), respectively.

Germany

Spain

Michael Stich

Sergi Bruguera

Tommy Haas

Kris Goossens

Wimbledon

French Open

German

Belgian


Input: Alex O'Brien, who scored his first professional title eight days ago in New Haven, advanced to the second round with a 6-4 1-6 6-4 6-3 win over Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti.

Alex O'Brien

Nicolas Lapentti

New Haven

Ecuador


Input: Wimbledon bad boy Jeff Tarango caught a break Monday when he advanced after the retirement of German Alex Radulescu due to heat exhaustion.

Wimbledon

German

Jeff Tarango

Alex Radulescu


Input: Tarango was leading 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 6-1 3-1.

Tarango


Input: Chang blamed breezy conditions for some of the erratic play in his match with Oncins, who had beaten him in the round of 32 at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Chang

Oncins

Barcelona

Olympics


Input: Chang committed an untidy 53 unforced errors, though he made seven fewer than the Brazilian, who also walloped a woeful 24 double faults.

Chang

Brazilian


Input: The most deflating double fault came when Oncins was serving to force a fifth set, leading 6-4 in the tiebreaker.

Oncins


Input: The set point came after confusion at the net on the point previous, which was awarded to Oncins after the two exchanged shots at close quarters at the net.

Oncins


Input: First Chang approached the umpire, then Oncins, then Chang again before play finally resumed.

Chang

Oncins

Chang


Input: " Those little seconds were like an hour to me, " said Oncins, who promptly fired two serves barely contained by the baseline as he frittered away his best chance.

Oncins


Input: Chang ran off the next three points to close out the match but for Oncins, the contest was a personal victory.

Chang

Oncins


Input: The 26-year-old Brazilian had risen into the top 30 in 1992.

Brazilian


Input: The next year a close friend was struck by a stray bullet while riding home in a car from a soccer game in Sao Paulo.

Sao Paulo


Input: He died slumped against Oncins, who subsequently lost interest in tennis.

Oncins


Input: " Two months ago I started talking about quitting, " said Oncins, who decided to give it one last try and made it through the Open qualifying tournament last weekend.

Oncins

Open


Input: " I believe in my game again, " he said.


Input: At the end of the day, a spate of withdrawals from the tournament were announced.


Input: Eighth seed Jim Courier withdrew because of a bruised right knee, and 1988 Open champion Mats Wilander bowed out due to a groin pull, organisers said.

Jim Courier

Mats Wilander

Open


Input: Women's ninth seed Mary Joe Fernandez pulled out because of tendinitis in her right wrist.

Mary Joe Fernandez


Input: SOCCER-FRENCH FIRST DIVISION SUMMARY.

FRENCH


Input: PARIS 1996-08-27

PARIS


Input: Summary of a French first division soccer match on Tuesday:

French


Input: Auxerre 0 Marseille 0.

Auxerre

Marseille


Input: Attendance: 20,000


Input: SOCCER-MARSEILLE HOLD AUXERRE TO GOALLESS DRAW.

MARSEILLE

AUXERRE


Input: PARIS 1996-08-27

PARIS


Input: Former European champions Marseille held French champions Auxerre to a goalless draw in a lacklustre league match on Tuesday.

European

French

Marseille

Auxerre


Input: The bill looked promising but both sides, struggling to find their form early in the season, were disappointing.


Input: Auxerre, who start their European Cup campaign next week against Ajax Amsterdam, dominated the match but were unable to score.

Auxerre

Ajax Amsterdam

European Cup


Input: Unbeaten in four matches, they still trail leaders Lens by one point.

Lens


Input: Lens, who have won all their three league matches so far, host Montpellier on Wednesday night.

Lens

Montpellier


Input: Despite another dismal performance, especially in defence, Marseille restored some pride by keeping the reigning champions at bay after losing 2-1 at home to Metz last Saturday.

Marseille

Metz


Input: After two seasons in the second division and after taking on half a dozen new recruits this season, some of whom do not speak a word of French, Marseille are not playing with any fluidity.

French

Marseille


Input: But German international goalkeeper Andreas Koepke again proved a sound investment when under pressure from the Auxerre strikers, saving his team with a number of fine parries.

German

Andreas Koepke

Auxerre


Input: Marseille now lie seventh in the league on five points.

Marseille


Input: SOCCER-FRENCH FIRST DIVISION RESULT.

FRENCH


Input: PARIS 1996-08-27

PARIS


Input: Result of a French first division

French


Input: soccer match played on Tuesday:


Input: Auxerre 0 Marseille 0

Auxerre

Marseille


Input: SOCCER-GERMAN FIRST DIVISION SUMMARIES.

GERMAN


Input: BONN 1996-08-27

BONN


Input: Summaries of Bundesliga matches

Bundesliga


Input: played on Tuesday:


Input: Borussia Dortmund 3 (Riedle 8th minute, Heinrich 29th,

Borussia Dortmund

Riedle

Heinrich


Input: Tretschok 77th) Freiburg 1 (Decheiver 51st penalty).

Tretschok

Decheiver

Freiburg


Input: Halftime


Input: Attendance 48,800.


Input: Hamburg 0 VfB Stuttgart 4 (Balakov 29th, Bobic 47th and 60th,

Hamburg

VfB Stuttgart

Balakov

Bobic


Input: Hagner 85th).

Hagner


Input: Werder Bremen 1 (Schulz 31st) Borussia Moenchengladbach 0.

Werder Bremen

Borussia Moenchengladbach

Schulz


Input: Schalke 1 (Thon 2nd) Bochum 1 (Donkow 86th).

Schalke

Bochum

Thon

Donkow


Input: SOCCER-GERMAN FIRST DIVISION RESULTS.

GERMAN


Input: BONN 1996-08-27

BONN


Input: Results of Bundesliga matches

Bundesliga


Input: played on Tuesday:


Input: Borussia Dortmund 3 Freiburg 1

Borussia Dortmund

Freiburg


Input: Hamburg 0 VfB Stuttgart 4

Hamburg

VfB Stuttgart


Input: Werder Bremen 1 Borussia Moenchengladbach 0

Werder Bremen

Borussia Moenchengladbach


Input: Schalke 1 Bochum 1

Schalke

Bochum


Input: Bundesliga standings after Tuesday's games (tabulate under

Bundesliga


Input: played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):


Input: VfB Stuttgart 3 3 0 0 10 1 9

VfB Stuttgart


Input: Borussia Dortmund 4 3 0 1 12 6 9

Borussia Dortmund


Input: Cologne 3 3 0 0 7 1 9

Cologne


Input: Bayern Munich 3 2 1 0 7 2 7

Bayern Munich


Input: Bayer Leverkusen 3 2 0 1 7 4 6

Bayer Leverkusen


Input: VfL Bochum 4 1 3 0 4 3 6

VfL Bochum


Input: Hamburg 4 2 0 2 7 7 6

Hamburg


Input: Karlsruhe 2 1 1 0 5 3 4

Karlsruhe


Input: St Pauli 3 1 1 1 7 7 4

St Pauli


Input: Werder Bremen 4 1 1 2 5 6 4

Werder Bremen


Input: 1860 Munich 3 1 0 2 3 5 3

1860 Munich


Input: Schalke 4 0 3 1 5 9 3

Schalke


Input: Fortuna Duesseldorf 3 1 0 2 1 7 3

Fortuna Duesseldorf


Input: Freiburg 4 1 0 3 6 13 3

Freiburg


Input: Hansa Rostock 3 0 2 1 3 4 2

Hansa Rostock


Input: Arminia Bielefeld 3 0 2 1 2 3 2

Arminia Bielefeld


Input: Borussia Moenchengladbach 4 0 2 2 1 4 2

Borussia Moenchengladbach


Input: MSV Duisburg 3 0 0 3 1 8 0

MSV Duisburg


Input: SOCCER-DUTCH FIRST DIVISION SUMMARY.

DUTCH


Input: AMSTERDAM 1996-08-27

AMSTERDAM


Input: Dutch first division summary on

Dutch


Input: Tuesday:


Input: Fortuna Sittard 2 (Jeffrey 7, Roest 33) Heerenveen 4 (Korneev

Fortuna Sittard

Heerenveen

Jeffrey

Roest

Korneev


Input: 15, Hansma 24, Wouden 70, 90).

Hansma

Wouden


Input: Halftime 2-2.


Input: SOCCER-DUTCH FIRST DIVISION RESULT.

DUTCH


Input: AMSTERDAM 1996-08-27

AMSTERDAM


Input: Result of a Dutch first

Dutch


Input: division soccer match played on Tuesday:


Input: Fortuna Sittard 2 Heerenveen 4

Fortuna Sittard

Heerenveen


Input: ICE HOCKEY-FINLAND BEAT CZECH REPUBLIC IN WORLD CUP MATCH.

FINLAND

CZECH REPUBLIC

WORLD CUP


Input: HELSINKI 1996-08-27

HELSINKI


Input: Finland beat the Czech Republic

Finland

Czech Republic


Input: 7-3 (period scores 4-1 1-1 2-1) in their ice hockey World Cup,

World Cup


Input: European group match on Tuesday.

European


Input: Scorers:


Input: Finland-Ville Peltonen (10th minute), Juha Ylonen (10th),

Finland

Ville Peltonen

Juha Ylonen


Input: Teemu Selanne (11th), Jyrki Lumme (13th and 51st), Janne Ojanen

Teemu Selanne

Jyrki Lumme

Janne Ojanen


Input: (23rd), Christian Ruuttu (45th)

Christian Ruuttu


Input: Czech Republic-Radek Bonk (7th), Robert Reichel (33rd,

Czech Republic

Radek Bonk

Robert Reichel


Input: penalty), Jiri Dopita (57th)

Jiri Dopita


Input: Standings (tabulate under played, won, drawn, lost, goals


Input: for, against, points):


Input: Sweden 1 1 0 0 6 1 2

Sweden


Input: Finland 1 1 0 0 7 3 2

Finland


Input: Czech Republic 1 0 0 1 3 7 0

Czech Republic


Input: Germany 1 0 0 1 1 6 0

Germany


Input: SOCCER-NEUCHATEL TO APPEAL AGAINST CYPRIEN'S NINE-MONTH BAN.

NEUCHATEL

CYPRIEN


Input: GENEVA 1996-08-27

GENEVA


Input: Swiss league leaders Neuchatel Xamax said on Tuesday they would appeal against a nine-month ban imposed on French international defender Jean-Pierre Cyprien for his part in a post-match brawl.

Swiss

French

Neuchatel Xamax

Jean-Pierre Cyprien


Input: Cyprien, also fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($8,400), traded punches with St Gallen's Brazilian player Claudio Moura after a match on Saturday.

Cyprien

Claudio Moura

Swiss

Brazilian

St Gallen


Input: When officials and coaching staff tried to intervene, Cyprien launched a flying kick at Moura, but only succeeded in kneeing St Gallen coach Roger Hegi in the stomach.

Cyprien

Moura

Roger Hegi

St Gallen


Input: Moura, who appeared to have elbowed Cyprien in the final minutes of the 3-0 win by Neuchatel, was suspended for seven matches and fined 1,000 francs ($840) by the Swiss league disciplinary committee.

Moura

Cyprien

Neuchatel

Swiss


Input: Club president Gilbert Facchinetti said he was astonished the committee had arrived at its decision so quickly and vowed the club would appeal.

Gilbert Facchinetti


Input: Neuchatel coach Gilbert Gress described the incident as " shocking ", but said Moura was also to blame.

Neuchatel

Gilbert Gress

Moura


Input: " Moura physically and verbally provoked Cyprien during the match.

Moura

Cyprien


Input: The referee could not have seen it or he would have punished him, " Gress said.

Gress


Input: " During the scuffle, Moura threw the first punch.

Moura


Input: Tomorrow, if someone punches me, I would not know how to react. "


Input: Cyprien, who won his one French cap against Italy in February 1994, cannot play in Switzerland or elsewhere until May next year.

Cyprien

French

Italy

Switzerland


Input: CYCLING-BUGNO CLEARED OF DOPING.

BUGNO


Input: MILAN 1996-08-27

MILAN


Input: Veteran Italian Gianni Bugno has been cleared of doping after testing positive for high levels of testosterone during the Tour of Switzerland in June, the Italian cycling federation said on Tuesday.

Italian

Tour of Switzerland

Italian

Gianni Bugno


Input: " He has been cleared.


Input: The case is closed, " a spokesman said.


Input: Bugno tested positive for the banned hormone after the fifth stage of the Tour, in which he finished third overall.

Bugno

Tour


Input: But the spokesman said subsequent tests in Cologne proved his body produced higher-than-average testosterone levels naturally.

Cologne


Input: Bugno, who won the Giro d'Italia in 1990 and two successive world titles, was banned for three months in 1994 after testing positive for the stimulant caffeine.

Bugno

Giro d'Italia


Input: CYCLING-COLONNA WINS FIRST STAGE OF TOUR OF NETHERLANDS.

COLONNA

TOUR OF NETHERLANDS


Input: HAARLEM, Netherlands 1996-08-27

HAARLEM

Netherlands


Input: Leading results and overall standings after the 161 kilometre first stage of the Tour of the Netherlands between Gouda and Haarlem on Tuesday.

Tour of the Netherlands

Gouda

Haarlem


Input: 1. Federico Colonna (Italy) Mapei three hours 43 mins five secs

Federico Colonna

Italy

Mapei


Input: 2. Robbie McEwen (Australia) Rabobank

Robbie McEwen

Australia

Rabobank


Input: 3. Jans Koerts (Netherlands) Palmans

Jans Koerts

Netherlands

Palmans


Input: 4. Sven Teutenberg (Germany) US Postal

Sven Teutenberg

Germany

US Postal


Input: 5. Tom Steels (Belgium) Mapei

Tom Steels

Belgium

Mapei


Input: 6. Endrio Leoni (Italy) Aki

Endrio Leoni

Aki

Italy


Input: 7. Johan Capiot (Belgium) Collstrop

Johan Capiot

Belgium

Collstrop


Input: 8. John den Braber (Neths) Collstrop

John den Braber

Neths

Collstrop


Input: 9. Jeroen Blijlevens (Neths) TVM

Jeroen Blijlevens

Neths

TVM


Input: 10. Michael van der Wolf (Neths) Foreldorado all same time.

Michael van der Wolf

Neths

Foreldorado


Input: Leading overall standings after first stage.


Input: 1. Colonna three hours 42 mins 55 seconds

Colonna


Input: 2. McEwen 0:04 seconds behind

McEwen


Input: 3. Koerts 0:06

Koerts


Input: 4. Gianluca Corini (Italy) Aki 0:07

Gianluca Corini

Italy

Aki


Input: 5. Wim Omloop (Belgium) Collstrop same time

Wim Omloop

Belgium

Collstrop


Input: 6. Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola 0:08

Lance Armstrong

USA

Motorola


Input: 7. Tristan Hoffman (Neths) TVM same time

Tristan Hoffman

Neths

TVM


Input: 8. George Hincapie (USA) Motorola 0:09

George Hincapie

USA

Motorola


Input: 9. John Talen (Neths) Foreldorado same time

John Talen

Neths

Foreldorado


Input: 10. Teutenberg 0:10

Teutenberg


Input: COFINEC SLIPS ON BUDAPEST BOURSE BUT FUTURE STRONG.

COFINEC

BUDAPEST


Input: Emese Bartha

Emese Bartha


Input: BUDAPEST 1996-08-27

BUDAPEST


Input: Expectations that Cofinec S.A., the Hungarian bourse's first foreign listing, will report a disappointing first half have depressed the stock below its issue price, but analysts expect a rebound in the long term.

Cofinec S.A.

Hungarian


Input: " The first half of the year is unlikely to be as strong as expected so the company will probably be unable to reach its annual plan in 1996, " said Gabor Sitanyi, a London-based analyst for ING Barings.

Gabor Sitanyi

ING Barings


Input: The French-registered packaging materials company, which floated its shares in Hungary in July, for most of the past two weeks hovered below the 6,425 forints/Global Depositary Receipts price of its initial offering, which was oversubscribed.

French-registered

Hungary


Input: The company, which asked for a two-week delay from the usual August 15 deadline for reporting first-half results, closed on Tuesday at 5,800 forints, down 300.


Input: " Cofinec's first-half figures will be ...

Cofinec


Input: between one-third of two-fifths of its annual plan, " said Tamas Erdei, a Budapest-based analyst for ABN-AMRO Hoare Govett.

Tamas Erdei

Budapest-based

ABN-AMRO Hoare Govett


Input: Analysts blame, at least partly, Hungary's macroeconomic environment for the weaker figures for Cofinec which, operating in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, now generates about 55 to 60 percent of its annual sales from Hungary.

Hungary

Hungary

Poland

Czech Republic

Hungary

Cofinec


Input: Hungary's Gross Domestic Product fell one percentage point in the first quarter while real wages plunged 7.2 percentage points in the first half of 1996.

Hungary


Input: Both will have their impact on Cofinec's figures, the analysts said.

Cofinec


Input: Despite the current difficulties, however, analysts were convinced that Cofinec's outlook was strong.

Cofinec


Input: " The eastern European market offers good chances, " said Erdei. "

European

Erdei


Input: Just like many other companies on the bourse, Cofinec has big growth opportunities. "

Cofinec


Input: " At the same time, it's an advantage for Cofinec that it has a foreign management which perhaps understands the market better, " Erdei added.

Cofinec

Erdei


Input: " Cofinec is a very good story in the long-term as the per capita packaging consumption is still so low in east Europe that a very strong increase can be expected (long-term), " Sitanyi said, saying that several recent moves by Cofinec boosted its position.

Cofinec

Cofinec

Europe

Sitanyi


Input: Among them, he noted that Cofinec had acquired the outstanding stake in its Czech folding company Krpaco a.s., increasing its ownership to 100 percent, so in the second half the whole of Krpaco's figures will be consolidated.

Cofinec

Krpaco a.s.

Krpaco

Czech


Input: The company also repaid some $21 million of debt, well above the originally planned $8 million to $9 million.


Input: In addition, its Polish operation began with some six weeks of delay due to cold winter weather and the test run was also longer than planned.

Polish


Input: -- Budapest newsroom (36 1) 266 2410

Budapest


Input: DIRECT EQUITY TRADES ON THE CZECH PSE-AUG 27.

CZECH

PSE


Input: PRAGUE 1996-08-27

PRAGUE


Input: The following is a list of


Input: direct equity trades made on the Prague Stock Exchange:

Prague Stock Exchange


Input: ISSUE Min.


Input: Price Max.


Input: Price Volume Turnover


Input: (CZK) (CZK) (shares) (CZK 000's)


Input: AGROTONZ TLUMACOV 336.47 336.47 59440 19999.777

AGROTONZ TLUMACOV


Input: AVIA 290.00 290.00 700 203.000

AVIA


Input: BARUM HOLDING 171.00 171.00 14432 2467.872

BARUM HOLDING


Input: CESKA SPORITELNA 335.00 375.00 533153 198354.941

CESKA SPORITELNA


Input: CKD PRAHA HOLDING 369.66 384.00 5565 2065.260

CKD PRAHA HOLDING


Input: EMKAM 25.00 25.00 34684 867.100

EMKAM


Input: KABLO KLADNO 960.00 960.00 2230 2140.800

KABLO KLADNO


Input: KOMERCNI BANKA 2320.00 2370.00 7000 16408.700

KOMERCNI BANKA


Input: LECIVA PRAHA 2470.00 2470.00 1360 3359.200

LECIVA PRAHA


Input: METROSTAV 3024.95 3024.95 3000 9074.850

METROSTAV


Input: MORAV.CHEMIC. ZAV.

MORAV.CHEMIC. ZAV


Input: 637.50 637.50 1626 1036.575


Input: OKD 111.50 112.56 95975 10752.092

OKD


Input: PF IKS KB PLUS 156.00 156.00 6000 936.000

PF IKS KB PLUS


Input: RIF 900.00 900.00 5500 4950.000

RIF


Input: SELIKO 4000.00 20000.00 3565 32607.500

SELIKO


Input: SOKOLOVSKA UHELNA 785.00 785.00 6000 4710.000

SOKOLOVSKA UHELNA


Input: SPIF CESKY 339.00 340.00 7546 2562.094

SPIF CESKY


Input: SPT TELECOM 3355.00 3404.71 10700 36337.137

SPT TELECOM


Input: SKODA PLZEN 1045.56 1060.00 10772 11361.330

SKODA PLZEN


Input: TABAK 6700.00 6700.00 1000 6700.000

TABAK


Input: TRINECKE ZELEZARNY 210.00 210.00 3000 630.000

TRINECKE ZELEZARNY


Input: VODNI STAVBY PRAHA 1915.00 1915.00 2000 3830.000

VODNI STAVBY PRAHA


Input: -- Prague Newsroom, 42-2-2423-0003

Prague Newsroom


Input: AFTER THE BELL-After hours slows in light volume.


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-27

NEW YORK


Input: Traders said on Tuesday after-hours activity was light.


Input: Both WorldCom Inc and MFS Communications Co Inc were trading but they moved in line with their close.

WorldCom Inc

MFS Communications Co Inc


Input: WorldCom, which said it will buy MFS, shed 1-3/4 to close at 21 while MFS lost 3-8/16 to close at 41-5/16.

WorldCom

MFS

MFS


Input: The New York Stock Exchange said its session one volume was 5,700 shares compared to 53,400 shares Monday.

New York Stock Exchange


Input: Session two volume was 4,153,800 shares compared to no volume Monday.


Input: The American Stock Exchange said there was no after-hours activity.

American Stock Exchange


Input: CBOE in routine review of MFS options.

CBOE

MFS


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-27

CHICAGO


Input: The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) said on Tuesday it was doing a routine investigation into trading in options on MFS Communications Co Inc shares.

Chicago Board Options Exchange

CBOE

MFS Communications Co Inc


Input: On Monday, the company said it had agreed to be acquired by WorldCom Inc in a deal valued at $14 billion.

WorldCom Inc


Input: MFS shares surged on the news while WorldCom fell on fears of dilution.

MFS

WorldCom


Input: The New York Times said on Tuesday some of the options trading in MFS last Friday may suggest insider trading.

The New York Times

MFS


Input: MFS options also trade on the American Stock Exchange and the Pacific Stock Exchange.

MFS

American Stock Exchange

Pacific Stock Exchange


Input: A spokesman for the American Stock Exchange would neither confirm or deny whether the exchange was looking into trading.

American Stock Exchange


Input: " If there is unusual activity, certainly we look at it, but that's not to say we're doing anything official, " he said.


Input: Pacific Stock Exchange officials were not available.

Pacific Stock Exchange


Input: One trader said trading in MFS options had increased steadily from about mid-August, and doubted whether any of last Friday's activity was insider trading.

MFS


Input: -Derivatives desk, 312 408-8750/E-mail: derivatives@reuters.com


Input: Faulding target of patent lawsuit.

Faulding


Input: ELIZABETH, N.J. 1996-08-27

ELIZABETH

N.J.


Input: Faulding Inc said on Tuesday Purdue Frederick Co filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Faulding and its Purepac Pharamceutical unit.

Faulding Inc

Purdue Frederick Co

Faulding

Purepac Pharamceutical


Input: The suit was filed because of Purepac's manufacture of Kadian, a sustained release morphine product, Faulding said.

Purepac

Faulding

Kadian


Input: Faulding said the claims in the lawsuit are without merit and will not impact upon the launch of Kadian in the United States.

Faulding

Kadian

United States


Input: Kadian was approved for sale in the United States last month, Faulding said.

Kadian

United States

Faulding


Input: Zeneca Group Plc, which will market Kadian, was named in the lawsuit with F.H. Faulding & Co, the majority shareholder of Faulding Inc, the company said.

Zeneca Group Plc

F.H. Faulding & Co

Faulding Inc

Kadian


Input: McGrath left out of Ireland World Cup squad.

McGrath

Ireland

World Cup


Input: DUBLIN 1996-08-27

DUBLIN


Input: Ireland's most experienced player, defender Paul McGrath, was left out of the national squad for the first time in 11 years on Tuesday when new manager Mick McCarthy named his side to face Liechtenstein in a World Cup qualifier.

Ireland

Liechtenstein

Paul McGrath

Mick McCarthy

World Cup


Input: The 36-year-old Aston Villa player won the last of his Irish record of 82 international caps against the Czech Republic in Prague in April.

Aston Villa

Irish

Czech Republic

Prague


Input: " Paul accepted the situation.

Paul


Input: He hasn't played any first-team games for Villa this season and he's not the type of player I would have brought on as a substitute, " McCarthy said. "

Villa

McCarthy


Input: But he surprised me in training over the last two days because of his involvement.


Input: He's certainly is still very much part of my plans for the future.


Input: " At 24, 25 or 26 you could get away with it, not having played first-team games.


Input: But at 36 it would be asking too much of Paul, " he said.

Paul


Input: Also omitted from the 20-man squad which will travel to Vaduz for Saturday's group eight match are central defenders Alan Kernaghan and Liam Daish.

Vaduz

Alan Kernaghan

Liam Daish


Input: Leeds United defender Gary Kelly is unable to travel because of a knee injury picked up in Monday's 1-0 victory over Wimbledon at Elland Road.

Leeds United

Wimbledon

Gary Kelly

Elland Road


Input: Since taking over from Jack Charlton in February, McCarthy has played largely experimental sides and seen them lose five times, draw twice and win just once.

Jack Charlton

McCarthy


Input: Squad: Alan Kelly, Shay Given, Denis Irwin, Phil Babb, Jeff Kenna, Curtis Fleming, Gary Breen, Ian Harte, Kenny Cunningham, Steve Staunton, Andy Townsend, Ray Houghton, Gareth Farrelly, Alan McLoughlin, Jason McAteer, Alan Moore, Keith O'Neill, Tony Cascarino, Niall Quinn, David Kelly.

Alan Kelly

Shay Given

Denis Irwin

Phil Babb

Jeff Kenna

Curtis Fleming

Gary Breen

Ian Harte

Kenny Cunningham

Steve Staunton

Andy Townsend

Ray Houghton

Gareth Farrelly

Alan McLoughlin

Jason McAteer

Alan Moore

Keith O'Neill

Tony Cascarino

Niall Quinn

David Kelly


Input: -- Dublin Newsroom +6613377

Dublin Newsroom


Input: S. African apartheid killer convicted of six murders.

S. African


Input: PRETORIA 1996-08-27

PRETORIA


Input: South African apartheid killer Eugene de Kock was found guilty of murder and attempted murder on Tuesday, a day after he was convicted of five other murders.

South African

Eugene de Kock


Input: De Kock, 48, a former police colonel who commanded a hit-squad that wiped out opponents of apartheid, is the most senior servant of white rule yet to face justice.

De Kock


Input: Sudanese rebels say missionaries should be freed.

Sudanese


Input: Peter Smerdon

Peter Smerdon


Input: NAIROBI 1996-08-27

NAIROBI


Input: The main rebel group in south Sudan said on Tuesday it was trying to arrange the release of six Roman Catholic missionaries, including three Australian nuns, held for nearly two weeks.

Sudan

Roman Catholic

Australian


Input: George Garang, Nairobi spokesman for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), said it was urgently trying to contact SPLA commander Nuour Marial at Mapourdit in the south to free the six.

George Garang

Nuour Marial

Nairobi

Mapourdit

Sudan People's Liberation Army

SPLA

SPLA


Input: " The movement is making arrangements for them to be set free.


Input: This is a decision of the leadership, " Garang said.

Garang


Input: " Commander Nuour Marial is a soldier so he must accept the leadership's decision.

Nuour Marial


Input: But communications at this time of year are very difficult because of rains and a lack of power, " he added.


Input: The Catholic Information Office in Nairobi said on Monday that four of the six had been charged by the SPLA with spying, spreading Islam and hindering recruitment into the rebel group.

Catholic Information Office

SPLA

Nairobi

Islam


Input: " These charges are the interpretation of the church, " Garang said on Tuesday. "

Garang


Input: We have no idea why they are being held.


Input: We are still trying to establish contact with the local commander. "


Input: Asked whether this meant the commander was out of control, Garang said the rebel movement was working on the problem.

Garang


Input: He said he believed all six were being held in the mission compound at Mapourdit and were reported to be in good health.

Mapourdit


Input: The Catholic Information office in Nairobi said on Monday that Australian Sisters Moira Lynch, 73, and Mary Batchelor, 68, American Father Michael Barton, 48, and Sudanese Father Raphael Riel, 48, were held in a prison in south Sudan by the SPLA.

Catholic Information office

SPLA

Nairobi

Sudan

Australian

American

Sudanese

Moira Lynch

Mary Batchelor

Michael Barton

Raphael Riel


Input: It said Australian Sister Maureen Carey, 52, and Italian Brother Raniero Iacomella, 28, were held inside the compound.

Australian

Italian

Maureen Carey

Raniero Iacomella


Input: The church in Australia said on Monday Lynch, Batchelor, Barton and Riel were held in a prison until the weekend, when they were moved to join the other captives at the compound.

Australia

Riel

Lynch

Batchelor

Barton


Input: The Catholic Information Office said the SPLA in the Kenyan capital had attributed the detentions of the six to a local commander and had promised they would be freed by August 23.

Catholic Information Office

SPLA

Kenyan


Input: But the church learned in a recent meeting with the local commander that no instructions to release the prisoners were received and they would be held until investigations were completed.


Input: It said last Friday they were visited by Monsignor Caesar Mazzolari, apostolic administrator of the diocese of Rumbek in southern Sudan, and an SPLA administrator and appeared in good condition.

Caesar Mazzolari

Rumbek

Sudan

SPLA


Input: " On August 17 the mission was surrounded (by the SPLA) and sealed off.

SPLA


Input: The evening of the same day the missionaries were put in prison or isolation.


Input: Later the mission was looted, " it added.


Input: An Australian foreign ministry official said the charges against them were " fairly bizarre " and a matter for concern.

Australian


Input: He said Australian diplomats in Nairobi were working with the Roman Catholic church in southern Sudan and with U.S. and Italian diplomats in the region to help free the missionaries.

Australian

Roman Catholic

Italian

Nairobi

Sudan

U.S.


Input: The SPLA has fought Khartoum's government forces in the south since 1983 for greater autonomy or independence of the mainly Christian and animist region from the Moslem, Arabised north.

SPLA

Khartoum

Arabised north

Christian

Moslem


Input: OSCE postpones Bosnian municipal elections.

OSCE

Bosnian


Input: SARAJEVO 1996-08-27

SARAJEVO


Input: The U.S. diplomat in charge of elections in Bosnia announced on Tuesday that voting for municipal assemblies would be postponed because of irregularities by the Serbs in registering voters.

U.S.

Bosnia

Serbs


Input: Ambassador Robert Frowick, representing the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), told reporters that municipal polls due on September 14 with other Bosnian elections would be put off.

Robert Frowick

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

OSCE

Bosnian


Input: " I have made a chairman's decision that it is not feasible to hold municipal elections on September 14, " said Frowick.

Frowick


Input: He said no exact date had been set but it was possible the local elections would take place in the spring of 1997.


Input: According to OSCE officials, Serb authorities have pressed their refugees to register to vote in towns now under Serb control, but which used to have Moslem majorities.

OSCE

Serb

Serb

Moslem


Input: Human rights workers say authorities in Serbia and Bosnian Serb territory have conducted a well-organised campaign to coerce refugees into registering only on Serb territory and failed to inform them of their rights under the Dayton peace agreement.

Serbia

Dayton

Bosnian Serb

Serb


Input: Diplomats say the effect of the electoral engineering would be to establish political control over districts they conquered and ethnically cleansed in war.


Input: The response of the Bosnian Serbs to the OSCE's announcement was not immediately clear.

Bosnian Serbs

OSCE


Input: But Bosnian Serb leaders have hinted they would boycott the poll if the municipal elections were postponed, or go ahead with their own.

Bosnian Serb


Input: The Bosnian Serb cabinet, in a letter to the OSCE, said on Monday that any delay of local elections would be " a direct and flagrant violation fo the Dayton agreement ".

Bosnian Serb

OSCE

Dayton


Input: The Serbs, who administer half of Bosnia in a Serb republic, said they had met all conditions for holding the September elections.

Serbs

Serb

Bosnia


Input: Diplomats fear that the crisis could cast doubt over the entire election process, which already appears set to confirm Bosnia's ethnic partition rather than its reintegration as the Dayton peace agreement had planned.

Bosnia

Dayton


Input: New talks in Chechnya as Lebed waits for Yeltsin.

Chechnya

Lebed

Yeltsin


Input: Dmitry Kuznets

Dmitry Kuznets


Input: NOVYE ATAGI, Russia 1996-08-27

NOVYE ATAGI

Russia


Input: Russian and rebel military commanders finally met in Chechnya on Tuesday for delayed talks aimed at finalising a ceasefire arranged last week by President Boris Yeltsin's envoy Alexander Lebed.

Russian

Chechnya

Boris Yeltsin

Alexander Lebed


Input: The Russian army commander in the region, General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, arrived at the rebel-held village of Novye Atagi, some 20 km (12 miles) south of the Chechen capital Grozny for discussions with rebel chief-of-staff Aslan Maskhadov.

Russian

Chechen

Vyacheslav Tikhomirov

Aslan Maskhadov

Novye Atagi

Grozny


Input: But Lebed himself, the Kremlin security chief, is still waiting back in Moscow to meet Yeltsin over his plans for a lasting political settlement in Chechnya.

Lebed

Yeltsin

Kremlin

Moscow

Chechnya


Input: Itar-Tass news agency quoted the Kremlin press service as saying Yeltsin, who left for a state holiday home near Moscow on Monday, would hold no working meetings on Tuesday.

Itar-Tass

Kremlin

Moscow

Yeltsin


Input: Lebed interrupted talks with Chechnya's separatists on a political deal on Sunday, saying he had to consult with Yeltsin.

Lebed

Yeltsin

Chechnya


Input: After a meeting failed to materialise on Monday, Lebed's spokesman said he might meet the president on Tuesday.

Lebed


Input: But Yeltsin's spokesman rebuffed the suggestion, saying the president had left Moscow for a holiday near the capital.

Yeltsin

Moscow


Input: The Russians postponed the talks after a Chechen band disarmed a column of interior ministry troops on Sunday.

Russians

Chechen

interior ministry


Input: The Chechens said a renegade group seized the weapons and said on Monday they had all been returned.

Chechens


Input: The Russian command insisted that not all the weapons were the same as those taken.

Russian


Input: Tass said the weapons and the practical implementation of the ceasefire signed by Lebed and Maskhadov last Thursday would be on the agenda of today's talks.

Tass

Lebed

Maskhadov


Input: Neither spoke to reporters before the meeting, which started around 10.45 a.m. (0645 GMT).

GMT


Input: Also in Novye Atagi on Tuesday morning, was Tim Guldimann, the Swiss diplomat who heads the Chechnya mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Novye Atagi

Chechnya

Tim Guldimann

Swiss

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

OSCE


Input: Guldimann, who helped broker an earlier truce in May, was not taking part in the Tikhomirov-Maskhadov talks.

Guldimann

Tikhomirov-Maskhadov


Input: Lebed's peace mission this month has stopped some of the worst fighting of the 20-month-old conflict.

Lebed


Input: However, tension on the ground indicates that it could falter if the momentum for a settlement is not maintained.


Input: Three Russian servicemen were wounded in a total of six shooting incidents overnight, Itar-Tass news agency quoted the Russian military as saying on Tuesday morning.

Russian

Russian

Itar-Tass


Input: RIA news agency quoted an army source accusing rebel fighters of failing to turn up for joint Russian-Chechen police patrols in some districts of the capital Grozny on Tuesday.

RIA

Russian-Chechen

Grozny


Input: But the separatist command told Interfax news agency the patrols, part of the truce brokered by Lebed last week, would begin on Tuesday after delays for " technical reasons ".

Interfax

Lebed


Input: Yeltsin's spokesman said he might meet officials during his break, but indicated Lebed was low on the list by saying Yeltsin would need time to study the proposals before talking to him.

Yeltsin

Lebed

Yeltsin


Input: Russian news agencies also quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying that Lebed's representatives had not sought a meeting, hinting at an attempt by the president to put his popular and outspoken protege in his place with a lesson on protocol.

Russian

Kremlin

Lebed


Input: Yeltsin, 65, has kept a low profile since he was reelected in July, prompting new speculation that the two heart attacks he suffered last year and a rumoured drinking problem could be taking their toll, weakening his grip on affairs of state.

Yeltsin


Input: Aides have dismissed such speculation, insisting that he simply needs a rest after his energetic election campaign.


Input: Some analysts say the Kremlin leader, whose order sending troops and tanks into Chechnya in 1994 started Russia's ill-fated military campaign, could merely be reluctant to put his name to a peace process which might fall apart.

Kremlin

Chechnya

Russia


Input: But Lebed, who has no real power without his boss and has hinted at dark forces in Moscow working against him, appears to think a deal will not stick without strong backing from Yeltsin.

Lebed

Yeltsin

Moscow


Input: His proposals have not been spelled out but are expected to involve a compromise between the separatists' demand for independence and Moscow's insistence that Chechnya remain part of the Russian Federation.

Moscow

Chechnya

Russian Federation


Input: Slovenia and Poland target EU, NATO membership.

Slovenia

Poland

EU

NATO


Input: LJUBLJANA 1996-08-27

LJUBLJANA


Input: Slovenia and Poland pledged to intensify cooperation on Tuesday and reinforced their determination to join the European Union and NATO at the earliest possible date.

Slovenia

Poland

European Union

NATO


Input: Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his Slovenian counterpart, Milan Kucan, met for talks at the start of a two-day visit to Slovenia by Kwasniewski.

Polish

Slovenian

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Milan Kucan

Kwasniewski

Slovenia


Input: It was their fourth meeting this year.


Input: They said in a statement they agreed to have regular telephone contact to discuss progress in strengthening ties with the West.

West


Input: " We expect our cooperation will help both countries towards entering the European Union and NATO, " Kwasniewski said.

European Union

NATO

Kwasniewski


Input: " We have similar ambitions as far as our internal development and international life is concerned, " Kucan said.

Kucan


Input: Poland and Slovenia are hoping to be among the first group of former eastern bloc countries to join the European Union and NATO.

Poland

Slovenia

European Union

NATO


Input: They have already signed an association agreement with the European Union and are both part of the Central European Free Trade Area, which also comprises Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

European Union

Central European Free Trade Area

Hungary

Slovakia

Czech Republic


Input: Slovenia's trade with Poland rose to $142.3 million in 1995 from $118.8 million in 1994.

Slovenia

Poland


Input: During his visit to Slovenia, Kwasniewski is also scheduled to meet Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek, representatives of Slovenian political parties and representatives of the Chamber of Economy.

Slovenia

Kwasniewski

Janez Drnovsek

Slovenian

Chamber of Economy


Input: Nationalists want Iliescu ousted for Hungary pact.

Iliescu

Hungary


Input: BUCHAREST 1996-08-27

BUCHAREST


Input: Junior Nationalist members of Romania's ruling coalition called on Tuesday for the impeachment of President Ion Iliescu for backing a friendship treaty with neighbouring Hungary.

Romania

Hungary

Ion Iliescu


Input: Iliescu's Party of Social Democracy, the senior coalition partner, immediately dismissed the National Unity Party (PUNR) demand as crude electioneering.

Iliescu

Party of Social Democracy

National Unity Party

PUNR


Input: " It is a desperate move by the PUNR, which is losing its only reason for existing ahead of the electoral campaign, " said PDSR executive president Adrian Nastase.

PUNR

PDSR

Adrian Nastase


Input: " This treaty is both necessary and good, " Nastase said, adding that the PUNR's stance was threatening its position in the government.

Nastase

PUNR


Input: The treaty agreed unexpectedly two weeks ago will end years of disputes over the status of Romania's large ethnic Hungarian minority.

Romania

Hungarian


Input: It will also boost both countries' chances of admission to NATO and the European Union.

NATO

European Union


Input: " If they (the PUNR) are so vexed, they could leave the government ...

PUNR


Input: We might also help them to do it, if they go on like this, " he said.


Input: The PUNR holds four key ministries -- justice, transport, agriculture and communications.

PUNR


Input: PUNR leader Gheorghe Funar said in a statement Iliescu, in power since the fall of communism in 1989, should be impeached for treason for compromising on the issue of ethnic Hungarian minority rights in the treaty due to be signed next month.

PUNR

Gheorghe Funar

Iliescu

Hungarian


Input: Funar's call came on the eve of the official launch of Iliescu's campaign for a new term at November 3 polls.

Funar

Iliescu


Input: His appeal to the opposition to back his attempt to oust Iliescu was unlikely to succeed, analysts said.

Iliescu


Input: Iliescu has invited political leaders to a meeting on Thursday to discuss the final form of the pact which both Romanian and Hungarian nationalists oppose for different reasons.

Iliescu

Romanian

Hungarian


Input: Presidential officials were not available to comment on the call for Iliescu's impeachment.

Iliescu


Input: Estonian MPS see little hope of electing president.

Estonian


Input: Belinda Goldsmith

Belinda Goldsmith


Input: TALLINN 1996-08-27

TALLINN


Input: Estonia's parliament failed for a second time to elect a president on Tuesday, dealing a blow to incumbent Lennart Meri and pushing the country towards stalemate in its choice of a new head of state.

Estonia

Lennart Meri


Input: Neither Meri, who oversaw Estonia's first steps into statehood after the collapse of the Soviet Union, nor his arch-rival, former communist Arnold Ruutel, have secured the 68 votes necessary from the 101-member parliament.

Meri

Arnold Ruutel

Estonia

Soviet Union


Input: Meri garnered 49 votes and Meri 34 in Tuesday's ballot for the five-year presidency of Estonia.

Meri

Meri

Estonia


Input: A third and final vote was due to be held when parliament reconvened on Tuesday but legislators were not expecting a clear result.


Input: If there is no result the decision will be ceded to an electoral college.


Input: " The votes are a strong message to Meri that he is not favoured by some politicians any more, " Reform Party head Heiki Kranich told Reuters.

Meri

Heiki Kranich

Reform Party

Reuters


Input: Under a constitution agreed in 1992, a year after independence, the president has no executive powers.


Input: His only political role is to smoothe the functioning of government in periods of crisis.


Input: But Meri, 67, has been accused in parliament of taking too much power and not always consulting parliamentarians before making decisions.

Meri


Input: His relations with a leftist-led government have sometimes been tense.


Input: His support in the first round of voting on Monday was much lower than expected, scoring only 45 votes, which political analysts put down as a vote of no confidence in his performance.


Input: This support only inched up to 49 in the second vote.


Input: Support for Ruutel, 68, remained constant at 34 votes.

Ruutel


Input: If the third vote fails to give either Meri or Ruutel 68 votes, the parliamentary speaker will convene an electoral college of 101 MPs and 273 local goverment representatives to hold a new poll that could include new nominations.

Meri

Ruutel


Input: This would be the first time that the former Soviet republic has had to call together an electoral college.

Soviet


Input: In its first presidential election in 1992 Meri won the necessary votes in in a parliamentary election against Ruutel.

Meri

Ruutel


Input: Parliamentary organisers said the exact timetable remained unclear but it would probably take about a month to organise an electoral college which could also hold several rounds of voting before a clear winner emerges.


Input: Estonia assembly fails to elect state president.

Estonia


Input: TALLINN 1996-08-27

TALLINN


Input: The Estonian parliament failed for a third and final time to elect a new state president on Tuesday, refusing a second mandate for incumbent Lennart Meri.

Estonian

Lennart Meri


Input: Neither Meri nor his rival Arnold Ruutel could garner the 68 votes needed from the 101 members of parliament to become president.

Meri

Arnold Ruutel


Input: In the third vote Meri won 52 and Ruutel won 32 votes.

Meri

Ruutel


Input: The final decision will now be made by a larger assembly.


Input: Meri won 49 in a second vote earlier on Tuesday and 45 in the first on Monday.

Meri


Input: Ruutel won 34 votes in the first two secret ballots.

Ruutel


Input: Enn Markvart, chairman of the National Election Commission said 96 members of parliament cast votes, with one ballot paper invalid and 11 abstentions.

Enn Markvart

National Election Commission


Input: The election will now go before an electoral college involving MPs and local government representatives that will be convened by the parliamentary Speaker in the next day or so.


Input: It could take up to a month before a new vote but the timetable is not yet clear.


Input: This is the first time the former Soviet republic has had to convene such a group.

Soviet


Input: Albania charges Briton with child sex abuse.

Albania

Briton


Input: TIRANA 1996-08-27

TIRANA


Input: Albanian authorities have arrested and charged a British man for sexually abusing two young boys, a Tirana prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Albanian

British

Tirana


Input: " We have arrested him and charged him with these shameful acts of sex abuse of little children, " prosecutor Adnan Xhelili told Reuters.

Adnan Xhelili

Reuters


Input: Xhelili said Paul Thompson, 34, from Wiltshire, was arrested on Sunday in a hotel in the Adriatic resort of Durres, 45 km (30 miles) west of Tirana.

Xhelili

Paul Thompson

Wiltshire

Durres

Tirana

Adriatic


Input: Thompson has denied the charges.

Thompson


Input: He could face up to five years in jail if convicted.


Input: Xhelili said Thompson, who is divorced, said he befriended the boys, both aged under 10, because they reminded him of his own children who live with his former wife in London.

Xhelili

Thompson

London


Input: The prosecutor's office said no date had yet been set for a trial to begin as investigations had first to be completed.


Input: The British embassy in Tirana said it had sent an embassy official to talk to Thompson who is being held in jail.

British

Tirana

Thompson


Input: The age of consent for heterosexual and homosexual sex in Albania is 14.

Albania


Input: A large number of destitute children can be seen begging in the streets of impoverished Albania, especially in towns and resorts visited by foreigners.

Albania


Input: Estonia assembly again fails to elect president.

Estonia


Input: TALLINN 1996-08-27

TALLINN


Input: Estonia's parliament again failed to elect a new state president on Tuesday when neither of two candidates secured a majority in second-round voting.

Estonia


Input: Incumbent president Lennart Meri won 49 votes compared to 34 won by his rival, deputy Parliamentary Speaker Arnold Ruutel.

Lennart Meri

Arnold Ruutel


Input: But Meri's support was not enough for the 68 needed for election and a third secret ballot will take place later in the day (1300 GMT), parliamentary officials said.

Meri

GMT


Input: To win a clear mandate for the five-year presidential term, a candidate must secure 68 votes from the 101-member parliament.


Input: Enn Markvart, Chairman of the National Election Commission, said 96 members of parliament voted in the second round, with 12 abstentions and one ballot paper invalid.

Enn Markvart

National Election Commission


Input: On Monday, in the first round of voting, Meri secured 45 votes and Ruutel 34.

Meri

Ruutel


Input: Meri's popularity has suffered in recent years, with politicians criticising him for taking too much power and acting without consulting parliament.

Meri


Input: If a third round of voting fails to give either candidate 68 votes, the parliamentary speaker has to convene an electoral college of all 101 MPs and 273 local government representatives for a new vote that could take up to a month.


Input: Slovak women visited Dutroux, police say.

Slovak

Dutroux


Input: Peter Laca

Peter Laca


Input: BRATISLAVA 1996-08-27

BRATISLAVA


Input: Marc Dutroux, the chief accused in Belgium's sensational child murder and sex abuse case, visited Slovakia a number of times and about 10 young Slovak women went to Belgium at his invitation, police said on Tuesday.

Marc Dutroux

Belgium

Slovakia

Belgium

Slovak


Input: But they have difficulty remembering what happened there, perhaps because of drugs, and are unsure whether they were filmed for pornography, Rudolf Gajdos, head of the Slovak office of Interpol, told Reuters.

Rudolf Gajdos

Slovak

Interpol

Reuters


Input: Although Gajdos spoke of " girls " his deputy, Eva Boudova, said the case involved about 10 young women in their early 20s.

Gajdos

Eva Boudova


Input: " The police interrogated several Slovak girls who said that they had been invited by Mark Dutroux to visit Belgium, " Gajdos said.

Slovak

Mark Dutroux

Gajdos

Belgium


Input: " The girls said they went to Belgium voluntarily and the police suspect that they were used to act in pornographic films. "

Belgium


Input: " The police suspect (the girls) were under the influence of drugs as some girls admitted they took unspecified pills. "


Input: " We have suspicions of a rape, but the police still have to find the victim, " Gajdos added.

Gajdos


Input: Dutroux's last visit to Slovakia was reported to have been as recent as July.

Dutroux

Slovakia


Input: Slovak police are also cooperating with Belgium in the search for An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks, who went missing last August.

Slovak

Belgium

An Marchal

Eefje Lambrecks


Input: Dutroux, 39, who was charged last week with the abduction and illegal imprisonment of two other girls aged 14 and 12, is one of several suspects in the Marchal and Lambrecks case.

Dutroux

Marchal

Lambrecks


Input: Last Saturday he led police to the bodies of two other girls, aged eight, who died of starvation this year after their abduction in June, 1995.


Input: The Czech office of Interpol said on Friday it would neither confirm nor deny that Dutroux had been in the Czech Republic, Slovakia's western neighbour and former federation partner.

Czech

Interpol

Dutroux

Czech Republic

Slovakia


Input: Belgian police said an officer had visited Bratislava to talk with Slovak detectives about An and Eefje and other disappearances, and he planned to go also to Prague.

Belgian

Slovak

Bratislava

Prague

An

Eefje


Input: WEATHER-Conditions at CIS airports-August 27.

CIS


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-27

MOSCOW


Input: No closures of airports due to bad weather are expected in the Commonwealth of Independent States on August 28 and August 29, the Russian Weather Service said on Tuesday.

Commonwealth of Independent States

Russian Weather Service


Input: -- Moscow Newsroom +7095 941 8520

Moscow Newsroom


Input: Russian serial killer strikes again.

Russian


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-27

MOSCOW


Input: Russian police in the Urals city of Perm are on the trail of a serial killer who has claimed his seventh victim in just a few months, Itar-Tass news agency said on Tuesday.

Russian

Urals

Perm

Itar-Tass


Input: In the latest attack, the killer raped and stabbed a young woman in a lift, leaving her body on a landing.


Input: Tass did not say exactly when it took place.

Tass


Input: Police earlier released a suspect after women who had survived an attack failed to identify him.


Input: Russian army, Chechens open new round of talks.

Russian

Chechens


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-27

MOSCOW


Input: Russia's military commander in Chechnya began new talks with separatist chief-of-staff Aslan Maskhadov on Tuesday, Itar-Tass news agency said.

Russia

Chechnya

Aslan Maskhadov

Itar-Tass


Input: Tass said the talks were taking place in the settlement of Novye Atagi, some 20 km (12 miles) south of the Chechen capital Grozny.

Tass

Novye Atagi

Grozny

Chechen


Input: The talks had been postponed while the Russians waited for the rebels to return arms and ammunition seized from Russian soldiers at the weekend.

Russians

Russian


Input: The Chechens said on Monday they had returned all the weapons, which they said were seized by a renegade group.

Chechens


Input: The talks between Maskhadov and Russia's Vyacheslav Tikhomirov are aimed at putting the finishing touches to a ceasefire sealed last week in talks with Russian security chief Alexander Lebed.

Maskhadov

Vyacheslav Tikhomirov

Alexander Lebed

Russia

Russian


Input: Lebed, who met Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on Monday to discuss the progress he made on a political settlement for the breakaway region, has been seeking a meeting with President Boris Yeltsin, who started a holiday near Moscow on Monday.

Lebed

Viktor Chernomyrdin

Boris Yeltsin

Russian

Moscow


Input: Argentine bishop reminds cabinet of Commandments.

Argentine


Input: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina 1996-08-27

BUENOS AIRES

Argentina


Input: The Archbishop of Buenos Aires said on Tuesday the first thing he would do if elected president of Argentina would be to put up posters of the Ten Commandments in government offices.

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Ten Commandments


Input: " They asked me what would be the first thing I would do if I were president, and I said the first thing I would do would be to resign straight away, " Archbishop Antonio Quarracino said at a sermon attended by several cabinet ministers.

Antonio Quarracino


Input: " But before going, I would have big signs put up in all government offices, those to do with justice, in all sectors, with the Ten Commandments, " he added.

Ten Commandments


Input: Argentina's top Roman Catholic cleric said the Biblical commandment " Thou shalt not steal " would get special emphasis " because it has to be about the most common thing these days. "

Argentina

Roman Catholic

Biblical


Input: Quarracino and other Church leaders are regular critics of the government's free-market economic policy.

Quarracino


Input: Brazil's Eletropaulo names new president.

Brazil

Eletropaulo


Input: SAO PAULO 1996-08-27

SAO PAULO


Input: Sao Paulo state power firm Eletropaulo said it has named Eduardo Bernini as new president, replacing Emmanuel Sobral, who will head a secretariat at the Transportation Ministry.

Sao Paulo

Eletropaulo

Transportation Ministry

Eduardo Bernini

Emmanuel Sobral


Input: Bernini is expected to take office Thursday, a Eletropaulo spokeswoman said.

Bernini

Eletropaulo


Input: -- Romina Nicaretta, Sao Paulo newsroom, 5511 232 4411.

Romina Nicaretta

Sao Paulo


Input: Dutch government won't pay ransom for kidnap victims.

Dutch


Input: SAN JOSE, Costa Rica 1996-08-27

SAN JOSE

Costa Rica


Input: The Netherlands government has ruled out paying ransom money for a Dutch couple kidnapped from their farm, while Costa Rican authorities said on Tuesday they had no leads in the case.

The Netherlands

Dutch

Costa Rican


Input: " We have not had contact with the kidnappers nor do we have any leads to take us to where they might be held, " Chief of Judicial Police Manuel Alvarado told Reuters.

Judicial Police

Reuters

Manuel Alvarado


Input: Hurte Sierd Zylstra and his wife, Jetsi Hendrika Coers, both 50, were abducted from the teak plantation they managed late Saturday or early Sunday by at least two men demanding $1.5 million ransom, authorities said.

Hurte Sierd Zylstra

Jetsi Hendrika Coers


Input: Costa Rican officials on Monday had given different names for the couple.

Costa Rican


Input: Anton Schutte, an official with the embassy for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, said the Dutch government had ruled out paying any money in ransom. "

Anton Schutte

Belgium

Netherlands

Luxembourg

Dutch


Input: We're looking at a criminal act that has no political aspect as far as what we can tell, " Schutte added.

Schutte


Input: A note with the ransom demand was left in the couple's car, which was used in the kidnapping, Schutte told a news conference on Monday.

Schutte


Input: He said the note, believed to have been hand-written in Spanish and signed by the victims, was addressed to Ebe Huizinga, another Dutch citizen who owns the tree plantation. "

Spanish

Dutch

Ebe Huizinga


Input: Depending on you, we will either live or die, " it said.


Input: Alvarado said the car was abandoned about 40 miles (60 km) north of the couple's house but said that did not indicate the kidnappers intended to take their victims into neighbouring Nicaragua.

Alvarado

Nicaragua


Input: The farm is in the border region where a German tourist and a Swiss tour guide were kidnapped last New Year's Eve by a heavily armed band led by a former Nicaraguan guerrilla.

German

Swiss

Nicaraguan


Input: The two were held for 71 days until relatives paid a ransom.


Input: Two of the suspected abductors have since been arrested.


Input: Venezuela unions harden towards CVG privatization.

Venezuela

CVG


Input: CARACAS 1996-08-27

CARACAS


Input: A swell of protest is growing within Venezuela's trade unions at the proposed year-end privatization of the state-owned holding company Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (CVG), CVG union leaders said Tuesday.

Venezuela

Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana

CVG

CVG


Input: " We oppose the way the government is proceeding with the sale, " Ramon Machuca, Sidor trade union Secretary General and member of union-based opposition party Radical Cause, told reporters.

Ramon Machuca

Sidor

Radical Cause


Input: " We don't believe the government will make its timetable, " he added.


Input: Sidor is the CVG's steel-producing arm, slated for a December sale worth an estimated $1.5 billion.

Sidor

CVG


Input: The CVG's aluminum companies Venalum and Alucasa are also scheduled to be sold early 1997.

CVG

Venalum

Alucasa


Input: Arguing that CVG's privatization would result in some 13,000 layoffs, compared to the government's estimated 1,500, CVG's union leaders told reporters they would strike and stage protests if their concerns were not addressed.

CVG

CVG


Input: " We oppose any privatization that hurts workers' welfare and does not take into account its social impact, " they said.


Input: The opposition party Radical Cause controls all of the unionized workers at the CVG heavy industry complex and has systematically opposed all government legislation in congress.

Radical Cause

CVG


Input: -- Omar Lugo, Caracas newsroom, 582 834405

Omar Lugo

Caracas


Input: Nicaraguan drunks fear " lovebite " bandit.

Nicaraguan


Input: MANAGUA, Nicaragua 1996-08-27

MANAGUA

Nicaragua


Input: Heavy drinkers in a Nicaraguan city were searching for someone who has covered them in " lovebites " while they were passed out in a drunken stupor, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Nicaraguan


Input: The dreaded " chupabolos " -- " drunksucker " -- preys on men who have passed out in the streets of Matagalpa, 80 miles (130 kms) north of Managua, placing hickey-like " lovebites " on various parts of their bodies, El Nuevo Diario reported.

Matagalpa

Managua

El Nuevo Diario


Input: Enraged drunks and street people in this town known for its machismo have organised a so-far unsuccessful search for the culprit who finds victims in the dark streets surrounding a local market.


Input: The total number of victims was still unknown.


Input: The first of the victims were two vagrants who slept in an abandoned car in front of a local bank, the newspaper said.


Input: In spite of the collective fear gripping Matagalpa's drinkers, local women expressed little sympathy.

Matagalpa


Input: " Its just desserts for all the' bolos' (drunkards) who sleep in the streets of our beautiful town, " said a woman who worked in the local market.


Input: Brazil likely to turn Banespa federal bank-paper.

Brazil

Banespa


Input: SAO PAULO 1996-08-27

SAO PAULO


Input: Brazil is likely to turn Sao Paulo state bank Banespa into a federal bank in a prior step to privatization, according to unnamed government sources, O Globo daily said.

Brazil

Sao Paulo

Banespa

O Globo


Input: The newspaper said the Central Bank special administration of Banespa ends in December 30 and after that the bank has to be liquidated or turned into a federal bank since there are no conditions to return Banespa to Sao Paulo state government.

Central Bank

Banespa

Banespa

Sao Paulo


Input: A Central Bank spokesman said he could not confirm or deny the report.

Central Bank


Input: Banespa has been under central bank special temporary administration since December 1994.

Banespa


Input: The central bank management could be lifted if Sao Paulo state decided to take part in the recent federal government's plan to restructure state banks.

Sao Paulo


Input: Under the plan, the federal government would provide 100 percent of the financing needed to restructure debt of state banks being privatized, liquidated or turned into development banks.


Input: It also offers to refinance up to 50 percent of the debt held by state banks whose governments decide to keep control of their banks.