Input: " In the run-up to elections, nationalistic political leaders are playing the ethnic/sectarian card, drumming up support within their constituencies by playing on bitter memories or fear. "


Input: After truce, Lebed faces tougher Chechen problem.

Lebed

Chechen


Input: Alastair Macdonald

Alastair Macdonald


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-26

MOSCOW


Input: Alexander Lebed may finally get to discuss his Chechen peace proposals with Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday after a lost weekend in the region when he was forced to abandon plans to sign a new political treaty with the separatist rebels.

Alexander Lebed

Boris Yeltsin

Chechen


Input: It could be a sobering experience for the Kremlin security chief who, just two months after being appointed by the president and two heady weeks after taking charge of the Chechen crisis, had promised to wrap up the 20-month war by the weekend.

Kremlin

Chechen


Input: Despite a mood of compromise in the region after some of the worst fighting of the war, Lebed may be just finding out that concluding a long-term settlement, somewhere between rebel demands for independence and Moscow's insistence that Chechnya remain part of Russia, will be no easy matter.

Lebed

Moscow

Chechnya

Russia


Input: A chain-smoking former paratroop general with a sharp line in deadpan putdowns and a soldier's knack for making life sound simple, Lebed managed to arrange an ambitious ceasefire in the region last week, days after the Russian army threatened to bomb its way back into the rebel-held Chechen capital Grozny.

Lebed

Russian

Chechen

Grozny


Input: He returned at the weekend, pledging to conclude a political settlement that would make this truce work where all others have failed.


Input: But then he apparently thought better of it.


Input: Saying he needed to tidy up legal loose ends on the deal -- and also cover his back against unnamed pro-war schemers in Moscow -- he flew back to the capital empty-handed on Sunday.

Moscow


Input: He met Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on Monday and, according to the press service of Lebed's Security Council, could meet Yeltsin on Tuesday.

Russian

Viktor Chernomyrdin

Lebed

Yeltsin

Security Council


Input: It was not clear if the start of Yeltsin's holiday, announced later, would affect plans to talk.

Yeltsin


Input: Moscow's as yet undisclosed proposals on Chechnya's political future have, meanwhile, been sent back to do the rounds of various government departments.

Moscow

Chechnya


Input: It is not known what caused the delay in the peace plan.


Input: Speculation mounted last week that Lebed was operating out on a limb in Chechnya as Yeltsin, hardly seen since his reelection last month, kept out of sight and then gave an interview criticising his envoy just as he clinched a truce.

Lebed

Yeltsin

Chechnya


Input: But Chernomyrdin took pains at the weekend to insist Lebed was playing for a united team and that the proposals he took to rebel chief-of-staff Aslan Maskhadov had been agreed by Yeltsin.

Chernomyrdin

Lebed

Aslan Maskhadov

Yeltsin


Input: If that were the case, it was unclear why Lebed suddenly found it necessary to have the deal verified in Moscow.

Lebed

Moscow


Input: Lebed himself said he was concerned that powerful interests in Moscow, who have profited from the war and want it to go on, would seize on any inadequacy in the deal to remove him.

Lebed

Moscow


Input: Maskhadov warned that Lebed risked the same fate as a former Russian army commander in the region who sought a compromise and was blown up last year by -- so the Chechens say -- Russian forces.

Maskhadov

Lebed

Russian

Chechens

Russian


Input: Maskhadov may also have made new demands on Lebed, forcing him to check back with the Kremlin on what he could offer.

Maskhadov

Lebed

Kremlin


Input: A rebel spokesman said the two military men had come close to agreement on a face-saving formula acceptable to both sides and involving a referendum on independence at some future date.


Input: Chernomyrdin said voters should decide Chechnya's future but stressed there was no question of the government letting the region quit the Russian Federation -- something Moscow fears could encourage separatist tendencies in other ethnic regions, particularly in the strategic North Caucasus.

Chernomyrdin

Chechnya

Russian Federation

Moscow

North Caucasus


Input: Lebed may be be finding that closing that political gap between the two sides is more difficult than just ending a war.

Lebed


Input: Yeltsin on holiday from Monday-Interfax.

Yeltsin

Interfax


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-26

MOSCOW


Input: Russian President Boris Yeltsin began a new summer holiday on Monday but would remain in control of affairs of state, Interfax news agency said.

Russian

Boris Yeltsin

Interfax


Input: " The head of state's holiday has only just begun, " the agency quoted Sergei Yastrzhembsky as saying, adding that the president was currently in a Kremlin residence near Moscow.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

Kremlin

Moscow


Input: Interfax said Yastrezhembsky did not exclude that Yeltsin could spend some time in other places.

Interfax

Yastrezhembsky

Yeltsin


Input: He would continue working on various documents and might meet " one state offical or another ".


Input: " One must give B. Yeltsin a chance to rest and recover his health after the elections, " Interfax quoted Yastrezhembsky as saying.

B. Yeltsin

Yastrezhembsky

Interfax


Input: " (Yeltsin) controls internal and international policies, daily receives a big packet of documents from Moscow, which demand his intervention ...

Yeltsin

Moscow


Input: Many of those documents return to the president's administration the same day, " he said.


Input: Yeltsin went on a two-day trip outside Moscow last week to check out a holiday home.

Yeltsin

Moscow


Input: Yugo Zastava workers' protest enters 2nd week.

Yugo Zastava


Input: BELGRADE 1996-08-26

BELGRADE


Input: Thousands of workers of Serbia's Zastava arms factory entered the second week of protests on Monday over unpaid wages and the lack of a programme to revive the plant's production.

Serbia

Zastava


Input: " We are stubborn, have strength and time to persist until our demands are met, " said the factory's trade union secretary Dragutin Stanojlovic.

Dragutin Stanojlovic


Input: " We are united and we are waiting for the government to decide what to do with us. "


Input: Trade unions demanded payment of June and July wages and last year's holiday pay, and called on government to develop a revival programme for the plant.


Input: The former Yugoslav national army consumed 90 percent of Zastava's pre-war output, but like the rest of Yugoslavia's economy, the new army of Serbia and Montenegro is crippled by lack of funds.

Yugoslav

Zastava

Yugoslavia

Serbia

Montenegro


Input: In Kragujevac where the plant is based, 9,000 to 10,000 people gathered in the central square to express their bitterness at what Stanojlovic called government indifference.

Kragujevac

Stanojlovic


Input: The ruling Socialist Party last week accused Serbia's opposition of stirring up social unrest and using workers' already difficult social position for their own interests.

Socialist Party

Serbia


Input: " Late wages, no work and (the lack of a) production programme are the main reasons for their protests, " a senior member of the local Socialist Party branch told Reuters.

Socialist Party

Reuters


Input: " But there is a significant influence of opposition parties that are collecting points ahead of coming elections. "


Input: Federal Yugoslav elections are due on November 3.

Yugoslav


Input: The party official said the union's figure on the number of protesters was exaggerated. "


Input: There were about 1,400 to 1,600 people at the protest today -- much less then last week.


Input: " But there were more observers and passers by, " he said.


Input: -- Gordana Kukic, Belgrade Newsroom +381 11 222 4254

Gordana Kukic

Belgrade Newsroom


Input: Croatian lending rate falls to 8.0 vs 9.1 pct.

Croatian


Input: ZAGREB 1996-08-26

ZAGREB


Input: The Croatian lending rate fell to 8.0 percent on Monday from last Friday's 9.1 percent after thin demand for kuna forced bank lenders to trim their rates further.

Croatian


Input: Interbank call money was down to 8.0 from 10.0 percent.

Interbank


Input: Insurers' five-10 and 10-15 day loans were made at a steady 8.0 percent after last week's drop from an earlier 15 percent.


Input: Total Zagreb Money Market settlements shrank to 17.4 million kuna, of which dealers put new borrowing at a meagre 5.5 million.

Zagreb Money Market


Input: Supply stood at a high 180 million kuna.


Input: Overnight trade at the weekend left a surplus of 1.2 billion kuna on the supply side after 40 million were settled.


Input: Croatia's central bank again stayed out of the foreign exchange market.

Croatia


Input: It calculated the kuna midrates for Tuesday's trade stronger at 5.2420 against the dollar and slightly weaker at 3.5486 against the German mark.

German


Input: -- Kolumbina Bencevic, Zagreb Newsroom, 385-1-4557075

Kolumbina Bencevic

Zagreb Newsroom


Input: SVCD Bulgaria air traffic controllers to strike September 3.

SVCD Bulgaria


Input: SOFIA 1996-08-26

SOFIA


Input: Bulgarian air traffic controllers will go on strike on September 3 demanding higher pay, the chief of the Bulgarian association of air traffic controllers (Bulatka) said on Monday.

Bulgarian

Bulgarian

Bulatka


Input: Stefan Raichev told a news conference the strike by more than half of the 1,380 traffic controllers and technicians would paralyse traffic which has increased by 10 percent since last year.

Stefan Raichev


Input: More than 1,500 planes per day fly over Bulgaria, in a strategic location between Europe and the Middle and the Far East, Raichev said.

Bulgaria

Europe

Middle

Far East

Raichev


Input: The director general of the air traffic service Valentin Valkov said last Friday that a controllers' strike would be illegal.

Valentin Valkov


Input: Valkov said he could not curb the summer charter flights of national carrier Balkan Airlines, which carries thousands of foreign tourists to the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts.

Valkov

Balkan Airlines

Bulgarian

Black Sea


Input: But Raichev said it would be " discrimination " against the other airlines if only Balkan planes were guided in.

Raichev

Balkan


Input: " Under the law before launching the strike we have to sign an agreement with our employer for a minimal transport servicing of emergency flights, " Raichev said.

Raichev


Input: Raichev said a lock-out with military air controllers was impossible as they did not speak English.

Raichev

English


Input: The controllers are demanding the monthly wage be increased to $1,000 per month from the current $230, as well as the resignation of the air traffic service's management.


Input: They also demand the financial separation of the 350 air controllers from the technical staff.


Input: -- Liliana Semerdjieva, Sofia Newsroom, 359-2-84561

Liliana Semerdjieva

Sofia Newsroom


Input: Yeltsin's wife has kidney operation.

Yeltsin


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-26

MOSCOW


Input: Naina Yeltsin, wife of the Russian president, has undergone " a planned operation " on her left kidney and is in a satisfactory condition, Itar-Tass news agency said on Monday.

Naina Yeltsin

Russian

Itar-Tass


Input: Tass quoted the Kremlin press service as saying the operation took place on Saturday in the Central Clinical Hospital which treats top officials.

Tass

Kremlin

Central Clinical Hospital


Input: Mrs Yeltsin would be released from hospital in a few days.

Yeltsin


Input: Doctor Sergei Mironov told Tass Naina was " in permanent contact " with her husband and two daughters, Yelena and Tatyana.

Sergei Mironov

Naina

Yelena

Tatyana

Tass


Input: The state of health of Boris Yeltsin, who had two heart attacks last year, has been the centre of media and market speculation after he won a second term in office in the July 3 election run-off and all but disappeared from the public eye.

Boris Yeltsin


Input: A presidential spokesman said on Monday Yeltsin was in Moscow but could give no details about his agenda or whether meetings were planned.

Yeltsin

Moscow


Input: Yeltsin is expected to go on holiday in the near future, but officials have not yet said where he will go or when.

Yeltsin


Input: Mostostal Z shareholders approve bonds.

Mostostal Z


Input: WARSAW 1996-08-26

WARSAW


Input: Shareholders of the Polish construction firm Mostostal Zabrze Holding SA approved a 25- million-zloty, five-year convertible issue with a par value of 100 zlotys each, the company's spokesman said on Monday.

Polish

Mostostal Zabrze Holding SA


Input: Piotr Grabowski told Reuters that a Mostostal extraordinary shareholders meeting on Saturday had decided that the price of the 250,000 bonds would be set as a 10-session average price of Mostostal shares plus a premium.

Piotr Grabowski

Reuters

Mostostal

Mostostal


Input: " The premium will be no lower than 15 percent and will be set by management before the issue ...


Input: which we expect at the beginning of next year, " Grabowksi said.

Grabowksi


Input: Mostostal, based in southern Poland, wants to offer the bonds to large investors in a public offering, paying an annual coupon of no more than 80 percent of the yield of the benchmark 52-week T-bill.

Mostostal

Poland


Input: The firm has signed an agreement with the Polish Development Bank (PBR) to manage the issue and plans them to be listed on the Warsaw bourse's bond market.

Polish Development Bank

PBR

Warsaw


Input: Grabowski also said shareholders approved the issue of 1.6 million shares for which the bonds could be exchanged, a ratio of 6.4 shares per bond.

Grabowski


Input: He also said shareholders approved the issue of 2.6 million new shares, two million of which are earmarked for large investors and 600,000 for retail domestic investors.


Input: The price will be determined through book-building.


Input: Mostostal plans to use the proceeds from the issues to add companies to its holding and modernise its plant.

Mostostal


Input: -- Warsaw Newsroom +48 22 653 9700

Warsaw Newsroom


Input: Unknown group kidnaps Dutch couple in Costa Rica.

Dutch

Costa Rica


Input: SAN JOSE, Costa Rica 1996-08-26

SAN JOSE

Costa Rica


Input: Kidnappers have seized a Dutch couple who manage a farm in northern Costa Rica and have demanded a $1.5 million ransom, authorities said on Monday.

Dutch

Costa Rica


Input: Officials said Humberto Hueite Zyrecha and his wife Jetty Kors, both 50, were kidnapped late on Saturday or early Sunday.

Humberto Hueite Zyrecha

Jetty Kors


Input: Col.

Col


Input: Misael Valerio, head of border police at the Security Ministry, told reporters surveillance of the northern border with Nicaragua has been stepped up to keep the kidnappers from fleeing Costa Rica.

Misael Valerio

Security Ministry

Nicaragua

Costa Rica


Input: Preliminary reports said the couple were kidnapped on the " Altamira " farm, owned by Dutchman Richard Wisinga, at Aguas Zarcas de San Carlos near the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border.

Altamira

Aguas Zarcas de San Carlos

Costa Rica-Nicaragua

Dutchman

Richard Wisinga


Input: Unconfirmed news reports said a vehicle belonging to them was found abandoned at Santa Maria de Pocosol, about 12 miles (20 km) north of the site of the abduction.

Santa Maria de Pocosol


Input: The reports said authorities found a statement, supposedly from the kidnappers, in the vehicle, addressed to Wisinga and demanding a $1.5 million ransom.

Wisinga


Input: Wisinga was believed to be travelling in Europe, they said.

Wisinga

Europe


Input: A Swiss tourist guide and a German tourist were kidnapped in the same area on New Year's Day by a group of former Nicaraguan guerrillas.

Swiss

German

New Year's Day

Nicaraguan


Input: Regula Susana Siegfried, 50, and Nicola Fleuchaus, 25, were released after 71 days after a $200,000 ransom was paid.

Regula Susana Siegfried

Fleuchaus

Nicola


Input: In a bizarre twist, Fleuchaus and the leader of the kidnappers, Julio Cesar Vega Rojas, developed a sentimental attachment during her captivity, according to photographs printed in Costa Rican newspapers and court documents including a love letter written by Vega.

Fleuchaus

Julio Cesar Vega Rojas

Vega

Costa Rican


Input: Interacciones ups Mexico GDP forecast, lowers peso.

Interacciones

Mexico


Input: MEXICO CITY 1996-08-26

MEXICO CITY


Input: Interacciones brokerage on Monday raised its forecasts for 1996 gross domestic product growth to 4.3 percent from 3.8 percent, but it kept its 1997 projection unchanged at 4.5 percent, a statement said.

Interacciones


Input: Economist Alonso Cervera said the revisions were chiefly fueled by stronger than expected growth of 7.2 percent in the second quarter and he forecast an annual GDP rise of 6.1 percent in the third quarter and 4.9 percent in Q4.

Alonso Cervera


Input: The firm also revised down its year-end peso forecast to 7.85-8.15 per dollar from 8.20-8.50.


Input: It forecast an end 1997 peso in the range of 9.20-9.40.


Input: Interacciones kept its 1996 and 1997 inflation forecast unchanged at 26 percent and 20 percent, expecting the government's 1997 inflation target to be around 15 percent.

Interacciones


Input: It bumped up its average interest rate projection in 1997 to 25.8 percent from 23 percent.


Input: Fiscal policy was expected to be loosened a bit in the second half of this year, boosting growth without running into a deficit.


Input: " Next year, the fiscal policy will have less margin of freedom because the government will have to face commitments that it has taken on under different support schemes for the banks, debtors and firms, " the brokerage said.


Input: -- Henry Tricks, Mexico City newsroom +525 728-9560

Henry Tricks

Mexico City


Input: Bancomext official says Mexico peso level suitable.

Bancomext

Mexico


Input: MEXICO CITY 1996-08-26

MEXICO CITY


Input: A top official of export development bank Bancomext said the peso's appreciation against the dollar this year has not hurt demand for Mexican exports.

Bancomext

Mexican


Input: " We have a suitable exchange rate.


Input: We haven't felt a drop-off in demand ....


Input: We have no basis for saying that the exchange rate is affecting exports, " Rafael Moreno Turrent, deputy director general for foreign trade promotion at the bank, said at a news conference.

Rafael Moreno Turrent


Input: Colombian peso closes lower, importers buy dlrs.

Colombian


Input: BOGOTA 1996-08-26

BOGOTA


Input: Colombia's peso closed lower at 1,044 after coming under pressure from dollar-buying by importers seeking to meet their commitments abroad, interbank dealers said.

Colombia


Input: It was the second consecutive session that saw the peso, which ended at 1,041 Friday, close lower.


Input: " The (dollar's) rise was due to demand from importers who have a lot of wire transfers accumulated, " one dealer said.


Input: Contributing to the peso's weakness, another dealer said banks who might have sold greenbacks in Monday's trading appeared to shy away from the market.


Input: This, according to the trader, was typical of month-end position-squaring -- and the fact that a stronger U.S. currency helps limit some foreign exchange losses.

U.S.


Input: Dealers reported 355 trades for a total of $142 million and said the peso hit an intra-day high of 1,037 before heading lower into the close.


Input: -- Juan Guillermo Londono, Bogota newsroom, 571 610 7944

Juan Guillermo Londono

Bogota


Input: Japan's Hashimoto leaves Brazil for Peru.

Japan

Brazil

Peru

Hashimoto


Input: BRASILIA 1996-08-26

BRASILIA


Input: Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto left Brasilia on Monday for Lima, the penultimate stop on a 10-day Latin American tour, a Brazilian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

Japanese

Latin American

Brazilian

Ryutaro Hashimoto

Brasilia

Lima

Foreign Ministry


Input: Hashimoto, who has already visited Mexico and Chile, spent three days in Brazil.

Hashimoto

Mexico

Chile

Brazil


Input: After Peru, he was due to go to Costa Rica.

Peru

Costa Rica


Input: Nicaraguan president has operation in U.S.

Nicaraguan

U.S


Input: MANAGUA, Nicaragua 1996-08-26

MANAGUA

Nicaragua


Input: Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro underwent successful surgery in the United States on Monday to correct a compression in her lower spinal column, the government said.

Nicaraguan

Violeta Chamorro

United States


Input: Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore found an inflamation in her spinal column that, once treated, will free her of chronic pain in her back and one leg that has limited her movement, a government statement said.

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore


Input: " (Chamorro) is in good health and, according to her doctors, will be able to return to Nicaragua next week, " it said.

Chamorro

Nicaragua


Input: Chamorro, 66, had complained of lower back pain since a trip to Taiwan in May, when pain forced her to go to Taipei University Hospital for an examination.

Chamorro

Taiwan

Taipei University Hospital


Input: She suffers from osteoporosis, a disease that weakens the bones, and has repeatedly flown to Washington for treatment.

Washington


Input: She is scheduled to step down in January after a term of nearly seven years.


Input: Eight drown in Venezuelan boating accident.

Venezuelan


Input: MARACAIBO, Venezuela 1996-08-26

MARACAIBO

Venezuela


Input: Eight members of a family, five of them children aged between two and seven, drowned when their small boat sank on Lake Maracaibo in western Venezuela early on Monday, authorities said.

Lake Maracaibo

Venezuela


Input: The accident happened when the Sanchez Zarraga family took their boat out for a nighttime spin, Civil Defence and Coast Guard officials said.

Sanchez Zarraga

Civil Defence and Coast Guard


Input: The cause of the sinking was not known but officials said the boat had a hole in the stern and no lifejackets.


Input: Three members of the party were rescued unhurt.


Input: Banco de Mexico to inject 3.412 bln pesos.

Banco de Mexico


Input: MEXICO CITY 1996-08-26

MEXICO CITY


Input: Banco de Mexico sought to inject 3.412 billion pesos in the secondary market on Monday through three credit auctions, dealers said.

Banco de Mexico


Input: The auctions were offered as follows:


Input: AMOUNT TERM


Input: 1.206 bln 9 days


Input: 1.206 bln 3 days


Input: 1.000 bln 1 day


Input: -Mexico City newsroom 525 728-9559

Mexico City


Input: Dutch couple kidnapped in Costa Rica.

Dutch

Costa Rica


Input: SAN JOSE, Costa Rica 1996-08-26

SAN JOSE

Costa Rica


Input: A Dutch couple who manage a farm in northern Costa Rica have been kidnapped by an unidentified group demanding $1.5 million in ransom, authorities said on Monday.

Dutch

Costa Rica


Input: Officials said Humberto Hueite Zyrecha and his wife Jetty Kors, both 50, were kidnapped late Saturday or early Sunday.

Humberto Hueite Zyrecha

Jetty Kors


Input: Col.

Col


Input: Misael Valerio, head of border police at the Security Ministry, told reporters that surveillance of the country's northern border with Nicaragua has been stepped up to stop the kidnappers from fleeing Costa Rica.

Misael Valerio

Security Ministry

Nicaragua

Costa Rica


Input: No other details were immediately available.


Input: RTRS-Melbourne train collides with truck, 15 injured.

RTRS

Melbourne


Input: MELBOURNE 1996-08-26

MELBOURNE


Input: Fifteen people were injured when a suburban passenger train and a truck collided at a street-level rail crossing in the Australian city of Melbourne on Monday, said rail and ambulance officials.

Australian

Melbourne


Input: The injured, which included a pregnant woman, were taken to hospital, but were not in a serious condition, an ambulance spokesman told Reuters.

Reuters


Input: A Public Transport Corporation spokesman said the train, collided with the truck loaded with concrete pylons in the north Melbourne suburb of Preston just before 8.30 a.m ..

Public Transport Corporation

Melbourne

Preston


Input: The train was derailed when a corner of the driver's compartment caught the rear of the truck, the spokesman said.


Input: The truck was overturned, spilling its load onto the crossing, and careered into the nearby Bell St Station.

Bell St Station


Input: " Remarkably both the train driver and the truck driver were not injured, " the rail spokesman said.


Input: " It had the potential to be quite a nasty accident. "


Input: -- Sydney Newsroom 61-2 373-1800

Sydney Newsroom


Input: Police capture Auckland gunman.

Auckland


Input: AUCKLAND 1996-08-27

AUCKLAND


Input: A gunman being hunted on Auckland's North Shore was captured by police just after 9 a.m. on Tuesday, New Zealand Press Association reported.

Auckland

North Shore

New Zealand Press Association


Input: Senior Sergeant Dave Pearson of Auckland police said John Grant Fagan was in police custody, but further details of his capture would not be released until a press conference later in the day.

Dave Pearson

John Grant Fagan

Auckland


Input: Fagan had earlier telephoned an Auckland radio station in a distraught state, saying he feared for his life.

Fagan

Auckland


Input: Police said he did not have a weapon when taken into custody and was now cooperating with them.


Input: Radio New Zealand reported earlier that an armed man on Monday entered the Northcote College swimming pool changing sheds and confronted a 16-year-old schoolgirl.

Radio New Zealand

Northcote College


Input: A shot was fired, but onlookers managed to disarm the man.


Input: -- Wellington newsroom 64 4 473-4746

Wellington


Input: Police seek fugitive after Auckland gun incident.

Auckland


Input: WELLINGTON 1996-08-27

WELLINGTON


Input: Auckland police were seeking an escaped gunman on Tuesday after an incident in which he fired at a 16-year-old schoolgirl, Radio New Zealand said.

Auckland

Radio New Zealand


Input: The man entered the Northcote College swimming pool changing sheds on Monday and told the girl and a friend: " You're for it now. "

Northcote College


Input: A shot was fired, but onlookers managed to seize the gun, the radio said.


Input: Police, who were unsuccessful in finding the man overnight, described him as disturbed and dangerous.


Input: -- Wellington newsroom 64 4 473-4746

Wellington


Input: SIMEX Brent closed on Monday owing to IPE holiday.

SIMEX Brent

IPE


Input: SINGAPORE 1996-08-26

SINGAPORE


Input: The Brent crude futures market on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) was closed on Monday in respect for a U.K. national holiday.

Brent

Singapore International Monetary Exchange

SIMEX

U.K.


Input: THE SIMEX Brent market keeps to the trading schedule of the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London, which is closed for a British bank holiday.

SIMEX Brent

International Petroleum Exchange

IPE

London

British


Input: Contracts traded in Singapore are mutually offset against contracts traded in London.

Singapore

London


Input: -- Singapore Newsroom (+65 870 3081)

Singapore Newsroom


Input: Metro slides 3.3 pct after market opens.

Metro


Input: SINGAPORE 1996-08-26

SINGAPORE


Input: Shares in retailer Metro Holdings dropped 3.31 percent, or Singapore $0.20, to S$ 5.85 minutes after the market opened on Monday.

Metro Holdings

Singapore

S$


Input: By 0120 GMT, 357,000 Metro shares had been traded.

GMT

Metro


Input: On Friday, Metro Holdings topped gainers, soaring by S$ 1.55 to close at S$ 6.05 on market rumours of a takeover bid by First Capital Corp.

Metro Holdings

First Capital Corp

S$

S$


Input: The company said it was not aware of any reason for the surge.


Input: -- Singapore newsroom (65 8703080)

Singapore


Input: Indonesian rupiah stable in quiet late trading.

Indonesian


Input: JAKARTA 1996-08-26

JAKARTA


Input: The Indonesian rupiah was stable against the dollar in quiet trading on Monday, dealers said.

Indonesian


Input: They said volume was thin following a public holiday in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

Hong Kong

United Kingdom


Input: " We didn't see anything from Singapore operators either.

Singapore


Input: It's a pretty quiet day, " one foreign bank dealer said.


Input: Spot rupiah was quoted at 2,342.0/42.5 at 0915 GMT, unchanged from the opening level.

GMT


Input: It was softer in the morning due to relatively ample rupiah liquidity but recovered later.


Input: Tomorrow and today rupiah closed at 2,342.00/42.45 and 2,341.5/42.0, respectively.


Input: Another dealer said operators were reluctant to unload rupiah despite ample conditions due to the month-end factor.


Input: " There are two factors which determine the market at present.


Input: The liquidity at month-end and the next court hearing scheduled for Thursday, " the dealer said.


Input: Megawati Sukarnoputri, deposed leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) has sued the government for ousting her as PDI leader.

Megawati Sukarnoputri

Indonesian Democratic Party

PDI

PDI


Input: The central Jakarta court adjourned the case last Thursday for possible out-of-court settlement.

Jakarta


Input: The hearing is due to resume on Thursday.


Input: Megawati's lawyers said they were still discussing a possible out of court settlement but they was not optimistic an agreement could be reached.

Megawati


Input: The dealer said this issue remained a factor but its importance to the market seemed to diminish.


Input: He said liquidity would be the main concern for the next few days.


Input: Overnight swap was at 0.45/0.48 and tom/next at 0.50/0.55.


Input: One-month swap was at 18.0/18.5, two at 34.0/35.0, three at 52.75/53.50 and six at 106.5/107.0 points.


Input: The central bank kept its intervention rate at 2,337/2,455 and the conversion rate at 2,337/2,383 on Monday.


Input: Senate intelligence chairman in Saudi bomb probe.

Senate

Saudi


Input: DUBAI 1996-08-26

DUBAI


Input: U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Arlen Specter, who has questioned whether Defence Secretary William Perry should resign over the latest bombing in Saudi Arabia, met Saudi officials on Monday during a brief visit to the kingdom.

U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee

Defence

Arlen Specter

William Perry

Saudi Arabia

Saudi


Input: A U.S. embassy spokesman in Riyadh said Specter, who arrived from neighbouring Oman on Sunday and left on Monday, had talks with Saudi and American officials in Dhahran, where 19 U.S. airmen were killed by a fuel truck bomb on June 25, and Riyadh.

U.S.

Riyadh

Oman

Dhahran

U.S.

Riyadh

Specter

Saudi

American


Input: Specter met Crown Prince Abdullah and Minister of Defence and Aviation Prince Sultan in Jeddah, Saudi state television and the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

Specter

Prince Abdullah

Sultan

Defence and Aviation

Saudi Press Agency

Jeddah

Saudi


Input: He had earlier visited Japan, South Korea and China.

Japan

South Korea

China


Input: Specter said after the bombing there should be a shake-up at the Pentagon and questioned whether Perry should resign.

Specter

Perry

Pentagon


Input: He said he was not satisfied with some of Perry's answers to the committee's questions in closed testimony last month.

Perry


Input: The question of whether Perry should resign remained open, the Pennsylvania Republican said.

Perry

Pennsylvania

Republican


Input: FBI Director Louis Freeh, who has twice visited Saudi Arabia to seek improved cooperation with Saudi investigators, told the committee he was not entirely satisfied with Saudi cooperation on the Dhahran bomb and a previous bomb attack in Riyadh.

FBI

Louis Freeh

Saudi Arabia

Dhahran

Riyadh

Saudi

Saudi


Input: " If we're to stay in Saudi Arabia, we need to have total cooperation, " Specter said.

Saudi Arabia

Specter


Input: The United States has 5,000 U.S. air force and other military personnel in Saudi Arabia.

United States

U.S.

Saudi Arabia


Input: Hijacked Sudanese plane leaves Cyprus for Britain.

Sudanese

Cyprus

Britain


Input: LARNACA, Cyprus 1996-08-27

LARNACA

Cyprus


Input: A Sudan Airways plane with 199 passengers and crew which was hijacked to Cyprus took off from Larnaca airport after refuelling and headed to Britain early on Tuesday, witnesses said.

Sudan Airways

Cyprus

Larnaca

Britain


Input: Police said an unknown number of hijackers were on board the Airbus 310 which was hijacked on its way from Khartoum to Amman in Jordan.

Airbus 310

Khartoum

Amman

Jordan


Input: One had threatened to blow it up unless it was refuelled and they were taken to London where they intended to surrender and seek political asylum.

London


Input: Kurds clash again in Iraq, dozens reported dead.

Kurds

Iraq


Input: ANKARA 1996-08-26

ANKARA


Input: Heavy fighting broke out between two rival Kurdish factions in northern Iraq at midnight Sunday and at least 29 people were killed, one of the groups said on Monday.

Kurdish

Iraq


Input: The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) said the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) had broken the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreed between the two parties last week.

Kurdistan Democratic Party

KDP

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

PUK

U.S.-brokered


Input: The factions reached a ceasefire on Friday after a week of fierce fighting which had put an end to a truce agreed a year earlier.


Input: " The PUK leadership who pledged to end fighting and cooperate with the latest U.S. initiative started a major military offensive against KDP positions, " the KDP said in a statement.

PUK

KDP

KDP

U.S.


Input: It said heavy fighting started at midnight in the region dividing the two warring factions, with the PUK aiming to break through to KDP's headquarters in Salahuddin.

PUK

KDP

Salahuddin


Input: The KDP said 29 PUK fighters were killed in the attack.

KDP

PUK


Input: It did not provide details of KDP casualties and a PUK spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

KDP

PUK


Input: The statement said the PUK resumed its attack on Monday morning on KDP positions near Rawandouz and indiscriminately shelled the town of Dayana, killing a priest and injuring some civilians.

PUK

KDP

Rawandouz

Dayana


Input: The fighting has threatened a U.S.-led peace plan to unite the mountainous Kurdish region in northern Iraq against President Saddam Hussein.

U.S.-led

Kurdish

Iraq

Saddam Hussein


Input: A U.S.-led air force has protected Iraqi Kurds against attack from Baghdad since shortly after the Gulf War in 1991.

U.S.-led

Iraqi Kurds

Gulf War

Baghdad


Input: Egypt to press Britain over Islamist conference.

Egypt

Britain

Islamist


Input: CAIRO 1996-08-26

CAIRO


Input: Egypt will tell Britain it is concerned about a meeting of Islamists to be held in London soon, Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said on Monday.

Egypt

Britain

London

Islamists

Amr Moussa


Input: " There is a question mark over this issue.


Input: We, and many other countries, don't understand this (Britain's) position, " Moussa told reporters.

Britain

Moussa


Input: " Egypt will contact the British government to find out the truth of the matter and to discuss the possible consequences of such an unfortunate step, " he added.

Egypt

British


Input: Egyptian government newspapers have criticised Britain for allowing Islamists, whom they brand as " terrorists ", to hold their conference, saying the meeting will be a chance for dangerous Moslem militants to plot against their countries of origin.

Egyptian

Islamists

Moslem

Britain


Input: It is not clear when the conference will be held.


Input: About 1,000 people have been killed in Egypt since Islamic militants took up arms in 1992 in an attempt to overthrow the government and set up a strict Islamic state.

Egypt

Islamic

Islamic


Input: Cairo says several Egyptian militants on the run from death sentences or convictions for violent attacks at home have taken shelter in Britain.

Cairo

Britain

Egyptian


Input: Israeli army ransacks Bedouin Palestinian camp.

Israeli

Bedouin Palestinian


Input: AL-MUNTAR, West Bank 1996-08-26

AL-MUNTAR

West Bank


Input: Israeli security forces ransacked a Bedouin encampment in the West Bank on Monday to expel them from an area which Palestinians say had been earmarked for Jewish settlement expansion, residents said.

Israeli

Bedouin

Palestinians

Jewish

West Bank


Input: They said soldiers stole a gold necklace and about $2,000 in Israeli currency from an elderly woman and her daughter-in-law while rummaging through their luggage before destroying family shacks and animal barns.

Israeli


Input: " They rammed our shacks with jeeps and destroyed the shack over my baby, " said 25-year-old Amina Muhammad. "

Amina Muhammad


Input: He was saved only by a miracle. "


Input: A spokesman for Israel's civil administration in the West Bank said the Bedouins were moved because they were encamped on an Israeli army firing zone.

Israel

West Bank

Bedouins

Israeli


Input: The spokesman Peter Lerner said he knew nothing about soldiers having stolen anything from the Palestinians.

Peter Lerner

Palestinians


Input: Israeli security forces have been pursuing Bedouin Palestinians living in the desolate wilderness between East Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, where several Jewish settlements have been established.

Israeli

Bedouin Palestinians

Jewish

East Jerusalem

Dead Sea


Input: The Israeli army also uses the area for military training.

Israeli


Input: U.S. base metals and scrap prices-August 26.

U.S.


Input: U.S. premiums added to LME official cash settlement price, except for copper, which is added to the COMEX spot month.

U.S.

LME

COMEX


Input: Premium includes price for delivery to consumer's works.


Input: Aluminum: Western grade 3.25-3.75 cents/pound

Western


Input: Russian grade A7E 3.25-3.75 cents/pound

Russian


Input: Russian grade A0 nominal 2.00-2.25 cents/pound

Russian


Input: Zinc: Special high grade SHG 5.50-6.00 cents/pound


Input: Lead 3.50-4.00 cents/pound


Input: Tin (Grade A) 6.5-8.5 cents/pound


Input: (low lead, 50 ppm) 9.0-10.5 cents/pound


Input: Nickel (melting grade) 9.0-12.0 cents/pound


Input: Copper (high grade cathode) 2.50-3.0 cents/pound


Input: Aluminum alloy (A380 grade), Midwest

Midwest


Input: and East coast, delivered to consumer 65-66 cents/pound

East coast


Input: Aluminum scrap, Midwest and East coast average price,

Midwest

East coast


Input: delivered to consumer


Input: Old Sheet and Cast metal 42 to 44 cents/pound


Input: Turnings, clean and dry 43 to 44 cents/pound


Input: Mixed low-copper clips 48 to 49 cents/pound


Input: Copper scrap, Midwest and East coast average price,

Midwest

East coast


Input: delivered to consumer


Input: No2 Refined 75 to 77 cents/pound


Input: No1 Bare Bright 91 to 92 cents/pound


Input: No1 Burnt 87 to 90 cents/pound


Input: Lead batteries, delivered consumer 4.5 to 6.0 cents/pound


Input: U.S. Producer list/transaction prices

U.S.


Input: Alcan aluminum, U.S. Midwest (effective date: August 1, 1996)

Alcan

U.S. Midwest


Input: P1020 ingot 75 cents/pound


Input: extrusion billet 85 cents/pound


Input: Noranda aluminum, U.S. Midwest (effective date:August 1, 1996)

Noranda

U.S. Midwest


Input: ingot 75 cents/pound


Input: extrusion billet 85 cents/pound


Input: RSR pure lead price (effective date: March 20, 1996)

RSR


Input: 52 cents/pound


Input: Doe Run pure lead price (effective date: August 14, 1996)

Doe Run


Input: 50 cents/pound


Input: ASARCO pure lead (effective date: August 1, 1996)

ASARCO


Input: premium over LME cash 7.5 cents/pound

LME


Input: -- (New York commodities desk 212 859 1646)

New York


Input: Florida boy kills himself before starting new school.

Florida


Input: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. 1996-08-26

FORT LAUDERDALE

Fla.


Input: A 12-year-old Florida boy hanged himself in his backyard just hours before he was due to start at a new school on Monday, police said.

Florida


Input: Samuel Graham, who told his family earlier that he was nervous about starting at a new school because he feared teasing about his weight problem, had been due to spend his first day at Parkway Middle School Monday, police said.

Samuel Graham

Parkway Middle School


Input: The boy was last seen alive Sunday night when he joined his two younger brothers and father in a bedtime prayer.


Input: Two younger brothers found him hanging from a tree early Monday morning.


Input: His father cut him down and tried to revive him but paramedics pronounced him dead when they arrived.


Input: The Broward County Sheriff's Office found a step stool and a flashlight under the tree where the boy was hanged.

Broward County Sheriff's Office


Input: They said there was no sign of foul play and that investigators believed the death was a suicide.


Input: CBOT rice closes higher on technical bounce.


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-26

CHICAGO


Input: CBOT rice futures closed higher on a technical bounce tied to signs the market was oversold, traders said.


Input: " It rallied on ideas the market was oversold, " a trader said.


Input: Traders said the U.S. cash market remains well above the benchmark Thai price which limited gains.

U.S.

Thai


Input: Rice futures volume was estimated at 450 contracts, up from 202 Friday.


Input: Rice options volume was estimated at 50 contracts, down from 56 Friday.


Input: Rice futures closed 13 to 16 cents per cwt higher, with September up 16 at $10.28 a cwt.


Input: Sam Nelson 312-408-8721

Sam Nelson


Input: Talbott to meet Russian, Canadian counterparts.

Talbott

Russian

Canadian


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-26

WASHINGTON


Input: Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott flew to Ottawa on Monday to meet his Russian counterpart and discuss a range of bilateral and European security issues, the State Department said.

Strobe Talbott

Ottawa

Russian

European

State Department


Input: Talbott, the second-ranking State Department official, was to meet Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Mamedov as part of a regular pattern of consultations, the department said.

Talbott

Georgy Mamedov

State Department

Russian


Input: " There is much to discuss on the fall calendar, " acting chief spokesman Glyn Davies said. "

Glyn Davies


Input: There's a fairly intensive diplomatic calendar coming up in the fall. "


Input: He said Talbott, who was scheduled to return on Tuesday, would also to meet his Canadian counterpart, Gordon Smith, in Ottawa for talks that would include the situation in Haiti.

Talbott

Gordon Smith

Canadian

Ottawa

Haiti


Input: U.S. Midwest hog market seen steady Tuesday-trade.

U.S. Midwest


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-26

CHICAGO


Input: Midwest direct cash hog prices Tuesday were seen steady following strong demand Monday that lifted prices as much as $1.50 per cwt in some areas, livestock dealers said.

Midwest


Input: The demand was sparked by Saturday's active slaughter, which left some packers short on supplies to get Monday operations started, they said.


Input: Top prices in Iowa/southern Minnesota Tuesday were expected to range from mostly $59.50 to $60.00, steady following a $0.50-$1.50 jump Monday.

Iowa

Minnesota


Input: Illinois tops were seen matching Monday's at $59.00 with tops in Indiana at $57.50.

Illinois

Indiana


Input: However, USDA reported tops of $58.00 in Illinois and in Iowa/southern Minnesota, $60.00 on some hogs Monday.

USDA

Illinois

Iowa

Minnesota


Input: Attempts to move prices higher again Tuesday could be offset by expected increased hog marketings this week, sources said.


Input: Producers were expected to ship as many hogs as they can ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend, they said.

Labor Day


Input: Demand for hogs is expected to be light by the end of the week, as the industry prepares for Labor Day, Monday, September 1 when most U.S. packers will be closed.

Labor Day

U.S.


Input: -- Bob Janis 312-983-7347--

Bob Janis


Input: Gore presents new image of lead attack dog.

Gore


Input: Michael Posner

Michael Posner


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-26

CHICAGO


Input: No more mild-mannered and meek Al Gore, the vice president and likely heir apparent to President Bill Clinton, emerged on Monday as the new Democratic attack dog leading a front-line assault on Bob Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Al Gore

Bill Clinton

Bob Dole

Newt Gingrich

Democratic

House


Input: While Clinton takes a train trip to the Democratic Convention that will renominate him on Wednesday for a second term, Gore is the bright star in the convention city now.

Clinton

Gore

Democratic Convention


Input: Crowds anxiously wait for his appearances, thrusting out hands for him to grip as they scream " 12 more years " -- a wishful hope to eight years of Gore after a Clinton re-election.

Gore

Clinton


Input: Over a 15-hour span from Sunday evening to Monday morning, so many people jammed Gore events that the fire marshal stopped members of Congress, reporters and others from entering a pro-Israel rally and a meeting of the New York delegation.

Gore

Congress

pro-Israel

New York


Input: In his appearances, the often stiff and wooden Gore seemed transformed into a new energetic, gesturing " pol " as he ripped into Republican presidential nominee Dole and Gingrich, who has emerged as the favorite right-wing foil of Democrats.

Gore

Dole

Gingrich

Republican

Democrats


Input: Gore told a roaring labor rally of about 1,000 union workers that Dole and Gingrich were the virtual personifaction of evil, without even mentioning that former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp is Dole's running mate.

Gore

Dole

Gingrich

Jack Kemp

Dole


Input: " With equal measures of ignorance and audacity this two-headed monster of Dole and Gingrich has been launching an all out assault on decades of progress of behalf of working men and women, " Gore said to whoops of " 12 more years. "

Dole

Gingrich

Gore


Input: " They want to drive you out of politics and they can't, " he added. "


Input: They want to silence your voices in elections. "


Input: At a downtown hotel Monday, the 48-year-old Gore gave Wisconsin delegates a taste again of the new Gore.

Gore

Gore

Wisconsin


Input: " I want you to ask this question.


Input: What would Wisconsin face if the same extremist coalition, the Gingrich/Dole Congress, also controlled the executive branch? "

Wisconsin

Gingrich/Dole Congress


Input: Gore said.

Gore


Input: Noting the next presidential term will probably see two or three Supreme Court justice nominations, he warned, " Their extremist agenda would come out of the Gingrich Congress, into and through the Dole White House, down through the Supreme Court. "

Supreme Court

Gingrich Congress

Dole White House

Supreme Court


Input: He painted a scene of horrors he saw if Republicans controlled the White House and the Congress they hold now. "

Republicans

White House

Congress


Input: Our personal and religious liberties would be at risk.


Input: Medicare would be at risk of withering on the vine.

Medicare


Input: Medicaid would be at risk of being taken away from poor children.

Medicaid


Input: Education would be at risk.


Input: The environment would be at risk from the polluters that control that coalition, " he said.


Input: His new style mixed an assault on Republicans with what he sees as " productive opportunity, a vision for the future that lifts up working families, that builds Wisconsin stronger, that builds America stronger.

Republicans

Wisconsin

America


Input: With your help we can re-elect Bill Clinton. "

Bill Clinton


Input: Dole's tax cut plans were called " deja-voodoo economics .... It's a warmed-over plan that failed and drove our economy into a ditch.

Dole


Input: We got burned once and we won't let that happen to our nation again. "


Input: Gore ridiculed Dole's defense of the tobacco industry, praised Clinton for " courage " in advancing regulations of it.

Gore

Dole

Clinton


Input: To the delegates of Wisconsin, a leading dairy state, Gore had the right audience in poking fun at Dole's comparison to addiction to tobacco to those who can't tolerate milk.

Wisconsin

Gore

Dole


Input: " Some people say milk is bad for you, " Gore said as Wisconsin delegates held aloft a plastic inflated cow.

Gore

Wisconsin


Input: He praised Clinton for vetoing the Republican Congress' attempt to repeal parts of the Clean Air Act, and criticized Republicans for " slashing money to combat drugs in schools. "

Clinton

Republican

Clean Air Act

Republicans

Congress


Input: " The choice has never been starker, the stakes today have never been higher, " Gore said. "

Gore


Input: We're not going to let them get away with that. "


Input: Actor Reeve highlights Democrats' first night.

Reeve

Democrats


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-26

CHICAGO


Input: The highlights of the first day of the Democratic convention on Monday were expected to feature a mix of party leaders and people who have overcome adversity.

Democratic


Input: Among the latter were gun control advocate Sarah Brady and actor Christopher Reeve and the politicians included Rep.

Sarah Brady

Christopher Reeve

Rep.


Input: Richard Gephardt and Sen.

Richard Gephardt


Input: Thomas Daschle.

Thomas Daschle


Input: Here are thumbnail profiles of the convention's key Monday speakers.


Input: Sarah Brady -- The nation's toughest gun control law is named after Ronald Reagan's press secretary James Brady but it was his wife who was the major force behind its passage.

Sarah Brady

Ronald Reagan

James Brady


Input: As head of Handgun Control Inc., Sarah Brady, 54, campaigned nonstop for tough gun control in the years following the shooting of her husband and then President Reagan in 1981.

Handgun Control Inc.

Sarah Brady

Reagan


Input: Her reward was the passage in 1993 of the " Brady Bill " which requires a mandatory five-day waiting period for purchase of handguns and also mandates background checks for would-be gun purchasers.

Brady Bill


Input: Reagan recovered fully from his wounds but Brady, who was close to death after being shot by John Hinckley Jr.

Reagan

Brady

John Hinckley Jr


Input: , suffered serious brain damage.


Input: Sarah was Brady's second wife and they have a son, James Scott Brady Jr.

Sarah

Brady

James Scott Brady Jr


Input: Before the assassination attempt, she had worked for Republican congressmen and for the Republican Party.

Republican

Republican Party


Input: Christopher Reeve -- Reeve was best known for playing the comic book hero Superman in four movies but his greatest heroics came in real life.

Christopher Reeve

Reeve

Superman


Input: Reeve, an accomplished rider who owned several horses, suffered multiple injuries including two shattered neck vertebrae when he was thrown from his horse at an equestrian event in Culpepper, Virginia, on May 27, 1995.

Reeve

Culpepper

Virginia


Input: Almost entirely paralyzed, Reeve underwent extensive surgery to fuse the vertebrae to the base of the skull and prevent any further damage to his spine.

Reeve


Input: That allowed him to be moved to a semi-upright position.


Input: Over time he regained the power of speech, so much so that he was asked to address the opening night of the Democratic National Convention.

Democratic National Convention


Input: Reeve, 43, was classically trained as an actor but became the prototypical handsome leading man.

Reeve


Input: He performed in summer stock and soap operas before being plucked as an almost unknown to play the lead in " Superman " and three sequels.

Superman


Input: Richard Gephardt -- Gephardt, House Democratic leader, is a politician with a " Mr Clean " reputation who sought the presidency eight years ago and is widely believed to still have ambitions for the job.

Richard Gephardt

Gephardt

Mr Clean

House

Democratic


Input: Gephardt, 55, the son of a milkman from a working class district of St. Louis, is a consummate congressional insider, sufficiently skilled in compromise and the ways of the legislature to manage the often-unruly House Democrats.

Gephardt

St. Louis

House

Democrats


Input: A former lawyer, he was in the front line of President Bill Clinton's battle with the Republican-led Congress over the budget but has opposed the president's decision to sign the Republican-written welfare reform bill.

Bill Clinton

Republican-led

Republican-written

Congress


Input: He advocated tough action against foreign countries to cut U.S. trade deficits but sometimes been out of step with the party's liberal wing.

U.S.


Input: He was an opponent of abortion until 1986 and voted for President Ronald Reagan's big tax cut bill.

Ronald Reagan


Input: Gephardt, a red-haired square-jawed man, is a less than fiery orator.

Gephardt


Input: His 1988 bid for the Democratic nomination only took off after he recreated himself as a firebreathing reformer of the establishment, standing up for blue collar workers and farmers.

Democratic


Input: Tom Daschle -- Daschle, 48, was largely unknown outside Washington and his state of South Dakota when he surprisingly beat more prominent rivals to become Senate Democratic leader after the party lost its majority to the Republicans in 1994.

Tom Daschle

Daschle

Washington

South Dakota

Senate

Democratic

Republicans


Input: A mild-mannered and youthful man who rose rapidly after entering the Senate in 1987, he presented himself as a Midwest moderate, as a Democratic winner in a Republican state able to unite Senate factions.

Senate

Senate

Midwest

Democratic

Republican


Input: Concern that he might be steamrollered by the vastly more experienced Republican leader Bob Dole was dispelled when he showed a tough edge, outmaneuvering Dole in a wrangle over scrapping a gas tax and raising the federal minimum wage.

Republican

Bob Dole

Dole


Input: In his early Senate years he was seen as a " prairie populist ", working on legislation protecting farmers' prices and also on compensating veterans sickened by Agent Orange defoliant spraying in the Vietnam War.

Senate

Agent Orange

Vietnam War


Input: Daschle was a key player in President Bill Clinton's failed attempt at sweeping healthcare changes but when he became minority leader he declared he would be no water-carrier for the White House.

Daschle

Bill Clinton

White House


Input: He has made clear he opposed Clinton's signing of the Republican-initiated welfare reform bill.

Clinton

Republican-initiated


Input: He has spent his adult life in politics, coming to Congress as an aide in 1972 after three years in the Air Force and then being elected to the House of Representatives himself in 1978.

Congress

Air Force

House of Representatives


Input: U.S. boy, 13, accused of murdering adoptive mother.

U.S.


Input: DALLAS 1996-08-26

DALLAS


Input: A 13-year-old Dallas boy has been charged with murdering his adoptive mother over the weekend, police said on Monday.

Dallas


Input: Margaret McCullough, 55, was found dead in her home on Saturday with gunshot wounds to the head.

Margaret McCullough


Input: Police, who at first thought her son had been kidnapped, found him on Sunday with a friend in his mother's car in Oklahoma and arrested him.

Oklahoma


Input: A shotgun and a .357 handgun were found in the car.


Input: A police spokesman said the boy was being questioned. "


Input: They are talking to him now about the motive and everything else. "


Input: McCullough had adopted the boy, who was the grandson of her late husband, shortly after his birth but neighbours said they often had loud arguments.

McCullough


Input: Pakistani bourse to use new recomposed index.

Pakistani


Input: KARACHI, Pakistan 1996-08-26

KARACHI

Pakistan


Input: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) said on Monday it would introduce a new recomposed KSE-100 index on September 10.

Karachi Stock Exchange

KSE


Input: A KSE statement said the recomposed index would be more representative, capturing market capitalisation of 82.3 percent, up from 79.9 percent previously.

KSE


Input: -- Karachi newsroom 9221-5685192

Karachi


Input: NWE oil products mixed, holiday dulls trade.


Input: LONDON 1996-08-26

LONDON


Input: NWE oil products were mixed on Monday but markets were becalmed because of a public holiday in the United Kingdom, traders said.

United Kingdom


Input: An explosion at Repsol's Puertollano refinery, which killed four workers, had not affected output of oil products, an official said.

Repsol

Puertollano


Input: " The plant is functioning as usual, " Jose Manuel Prieto, director of personnel, told Spanish state television.

Jose Manuel Prieto

Spanish


Input: Gasoline prices were notionally unchanged from Friday despite sagging NYMEX numbers, with the arbitrage window to the U.S. considered closed for the moment.

U.S.


Input: Eurograde barges were offered at $207 fob ARA for Amsterdam-Rotterdam barrels, and at $206 for full ARA material.

Amsterdam-Rotterdam


Input: " There is no market at the moment, " one Rotterdam trader said. "

Rotterdam


Input: Maybe sentiment is a little bit weaker but prices have not changed. "


Input: Outright gas oil prices were notionally softer as the NYMEX heating oil contract headed lower, and following news that the Indian Oil Corp (IOC) had issued a tender to buy only 120,000 tonnes of high speed diesel for October.

Indian Oil Corp

IOC


Input: Asian traders had earlier expected an IOC tender for around 400,000 tonnes.

Asian

IOC


Input: ARA gas oil barges were quiet although one trader said he had seen offers at $1 a tonne over September IPE for prompt barrels, while Antwerp material was available for 0-50 cents over September.

Antwerp


Input: The IOC tender had " a bearish impact, but not a great impact, " one German player said.

IOC

German


Input: Fuel oil markets were also listless.


Input: Offers were around a dollar a tonne higher at $102 fob ARA but bids were scarce.


Input: -- Nicholas Shaxson, London newsroom +44 171 542 8167

Nicholas Shaxson

London


Input: Prairies saw no frost Monday, none rest of week.

Prairies


Input: WINNIPEG 1996-08-26

WINNIPEG


Input: Canada's Prairies saw no frost on Monday morning and none was expected anywhere on the grainbelt until late in the Labour Day long weekend, Environment Canada said.

Canada

Prairies

Labour Day

Environment Canada


Input: " Apparently, we're home free for the rest of the week.


Input: We're not calling for any frost until after the weekend when it starts to cool off in northwestern Alberta after the weekend probably Monday or Tuesday, " meteorologist Gerald Machnee told Reuters.

Alberta

Gerald Machnee

Reuters


Input: Sprague, Manitoba, on the Minnesota border was the cold spot of the Prairies Monday morning at 4.0 Celsius (39.2 F).

Sprague

Manitoba

Minnesota

Prairies

Celsius

F


Input: Temperatures at ground level can be 2.0 to 5.0 Celsius lower than at chest level depending on windspeed, sky conditions and ground surface moisture.

Celsius


Input: Freezing occurs at 0 Celsius (32.0 F).

Celsius

F


Input: North Battleford, Sask.

North Battleford

Sask


Input: , reported a low of 5.0 Celsius (41.0 F) and Grande Prairie, Alta.

Celsius

F

Grande Prairie

Alta


Input: , in the Peace River Valley reported 7.0 Celsius (44.6 F).

Peace River Valley

Celsius

F


Input: Machnee dismissed talk of frost Wednesday by proponents of the " full moon, frost soon " school of thought.

Machnee


Input: Lows on August 28 across the Prairies should range from 8.0 to 12.0 Celsius with highs around 30.0 Celsius.

Prairies

Celsius

Celsius


Input: -- Gilbert Le Gras 204 947 3548

Gilbert Le Gras


Input: Brush Wellman comments on beryllium lawsuits.

Brush Wellman


Input: CLEVELAND 1996-08-26

CLEVELAND


Input: Brush Wellman Inc said Monday that 10 of 24 lawsuits involving chronic beryllium disease have been dismissed since July 1.

Brush Wellman Inc


Input: The leading U.S. beryllium producer said in a conference call it has traditionally been pro-active regarding the workplace disease, a lung ailment which can affects a small percent of people whose immune systems are susceptible.

U.S.


Input: Of the 14 remaining suits, 10 were filed by employees of industrial Brush Wellman customers and Brush Wellman liability in such suits is typically covered by insurance, Timothy Reid, vice president of corporate communications, said on the call.

Brush Wellman

Brush Wellman

Timothy Reid


Input: The company was responding to an article in Sunday's New York Times.

New York Times


Input: He said the article largely reiterated information about the suits and the disease which had previously been made public via Securities and Exchange Commission filings and annual reports.

Securities and Exchange Commission


Input: " Brush Wellman has been a leader in dealing with health and safety issues (related to chronic Beryllium disease) for nearly 50 years, " he said. "

Brush Wellman


Input: We have a record of going beyond regulatory requirements ... and we consistently share the most current information available ... with customers and employees. "


Input: The customer employee suits were filed in 1990-95, he said.


Input: A class action filed by a former Brush Wellman employee in April 1996 was dismissed in July, he said.

Brush Wellman


Input: The company is " vigorously defending " the remaining four suits filed by former and current Brush Wellman employees, he said.

Brush Wellman


Input: After a delayed opening, the stock was off 1-1/2 to 18-7/8.


Input: -- Cleveland Newsdesk 216-579-0077

Cleveland Newsdesk


Input: Salomon cuts refiner Q3 EPS view on margin concern.

Salomon


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-26

NEW YORK


Input: Salomon Brothers analyst Paul Ting said he cut his share earnings estimates on refiners for the third quarter on the belief the companies will face sharp revisions in refining and marketing margins.

Salomon Brothers

Paul Ting


Input: He cut his third-quarter share earnings estimate on:


Input: -- Diamond Shamrock Inc to $0.38 from $0.73 versus the Street's consensus $0.63

Diamond Shamrock Inc


Input: -- Sun Co to $0.15 from $0.85 versus the consensus $0.63

Sun Co


Input: -- Tosco Corp to $0.95 from $1.03 versus the consensus $0.94

Tosco Corp


Input: -- Total Petroleum (North America) Ltd to $0.15 from $0.46 versus the consensus $0.33

Total Petroleum (North America) Ltd


Input: -- And, Valero Energy Corp to $0.27 from $0.55 compared with the consensus $0.40.

Valero Energy Corp


Input: PRESALE-Marion County Board of Education, W. Va.

Marion County Board of Education

W. Va


Input: AMT: 3,250,000 DATE: 09/04/96 NYC Time: 1200 CUSIP: 569399

NYC Time


Input: ISSUER: Marion County Board of Education ST: WV

Marion County Board of Education


Input: ISSUE: Public School, Series 1996 TAX STAT:Exempt-ULT


Input: M/SP/F: NA/NA/NA BOOK ENTRY: Y


Input: ENHANCEMENTS: None BANK QUAL: Y


Input: DTD: 09/01/96 SURE BID: N


Input: DUE: 5/1/98-02 SR MGR:


Input: 1ST CPN: 05/01/97


Input: CALL: Non-Callable NIC


Input: DELIVERY: 9/17/96 approx ORDERS:


Input: PAYING AGENT: WesBanco Bank Fairmont, Fairmont

WesBanco Bank

Fairmont

Fairmont


Input: L.O.: Steptoe & Johnson, Clarksburg

Steptoe & Johnson

Clarksburg


Input: F.A.: Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc., Charleston

Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.

Charleston


Input: LAST SALE: $7,330,000 (MBIA) 3/1/90 @6.14900% NIC; 4yrs 4mos Avg; BBI-7.27%


Input: Year Amount Coupon Yield Price Conc.


Input: 1998 575,000


Input: 1999 610,000


Input: 2000 650,000


Input: 2001 685,000


Input: 2002 730,000


Input: COMPETITIVE PRE-SALE CONTRIBUTED BY J.J. KENNY K-SHEETS:

J.J. KENNY


Input: BALANCE-Ohio refunding bonds at $290,000.

Ohio


Input: STATE OF OHIO

STATE OF OHIO


Input: RE: $70,375,000


Input: (OHIO BUILDING AUTHORITY)

OHIO BUILDING AUTHORITY


Input: STATE FACILITIES REFUNDING BONDS


Input: 1996 SERIES A


Input: REPRICING OF THE BALANCE OF THE BONDS IN THE ACCOUNT.


Input: OCASEK GOVERNMENT OFFICE BUILDING


Input: (C)


Input: MOODY'S: A1 S&P: AA- FITCH: AA-

MOODY'S

S&P


Input: CONFIRMED CONFIRMED


Input: Delivery Date: 08/29/1996


Input: Maturity Balance Coupon List


Input: 10/01/1998C 125M 4.50 4.20


Input: VERN RIFFE CENTER


Input: (D)


Input: MOODY'S: A1 S&P: AA- FITCH: AA-

MOODY'S

S&P


Input: CONFIRMED CONFIRMED


Input: Delivery Date: 08/29/1996


Input: Maturity Balance Coupon List


Input: 10/01/1998D 165M 4.50 4.20


Input: Grand Total: 290M


Input: Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Goldman, Sachs & Co


Input: A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc


Input: Banc One Capital Corporation

Banc One Capital Corporation


Input: S.B.K- Brooks Investment Corp.

S.B.K- Brooks Investment Corp


Input: Seasongood & Mayer

Seasongood & Mayer


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

U.S. Municipal Desk


Input: PRESS DIGEST-Washington Post business-Aug 26.

Washington Post


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-26

WASHINGTON


Input: The Washington Post carried only local business stories on August 26, 1996.

The Washington Post


Input: Chelsea makes political debut on Clinton train trip.

Chelsea

Clinton


Input: CHILLICOTHE, Ohio 1996-08-25

CHILLICOTHE

Ohio


Input: -Chelsea Clinton, until now carefully shielded from the exposure of public life, made her political debut on Sunday on her father's whistlestop train trip.

Chelsea Clinton


Input: Chelsea, 16, was at President Bill Clinton's side as he rode the rails through parts of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, and was introduced at every stop.

Chelsea

Bill Clinton

West Virginia

Kentucky

Ohio


Input: She even worked ropelines, shaking hands with excited fans.


Input: Hillary Rodham Clinton saw her husband and daughter off on the trip in Huntington, West Virginia and then went on to Chicago to begin a rigorous Democratic Convention schedule.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Huntington

West Virginia

Chicago

Democratic Convention


Input: Asked if Chelsea would have a prominent role in the campaign, White House spokesman Mike McCurry said: " She'll do what she did today when she can.

Chelsea

Mike McCurry

White House


Input: She has to go back to school. "


Input: The president's daughter is going into her senior year of high school at Sidwell Friends School, a private school in Washington.

Sidwell Friends School

Washington


Input: McCurry said Chelsea has asked to go on the train trip and attend the convention where her father will be renominated, but said her exposure did not signal the start of a new political career.

McCurry

Chelsea


Input: Chelsea " is a very poised young lady, but she's not that much interested in politics, " the spokesman said.

Chelsea


Input: Dutch closing share market report.

Dutch


Input: AMSTERDAM 1996-08-26

AMSTERDAM


Input: Dutch shares drifted to a lower close on Monday, dragged down by weakness in the domestic bond market and turnover depressed by the UK bank holiday and lack of any significant U.S. economic data.

Dutch

UK

U.S.


Input: The AEX index of leading shares closed 4.54 points easier at 556.19, the day's low.

AEX


Input: The Dutch market had been on the defensive all day but a softer start to Wall Street did little to boost sentiment in late trade, dealers said.

Dutch

Wall Street


Input: " It was always going to be a tough day with participation so low.


Input: But the only thing really worrying the market was the bonds, and that dragged us lower, " one dealer said.


Input: Stocks were down across the board, with Dutch PTT topping the volume list and closing down 1.90 guilders at 58.70.

Dutch PTT


Input: The post and telecoms firm posted an 8.5 percent rise in first half earnings on Friday, just below analysts' expectations.


Input: IHC Caland reported first half results well under forecasts on Monday and the shares suffered as a result.

IHC Caland


Input: They were trading unchanged just before the release of figures but closed 2.40 guilders down at 80.70 after it reported net profits of 34.9 million guilders against 36.6 million last year and estimates ranging from 37.5 to 47.2 million.


Input: IHC also forecast post tax earnings rising 21 percent for the full year.

IHC


Input: Banking group ING traded ex-dividend today and finished 0.60 guilders weaker at 52.90 as a result.

ING


Input: But Nutricia shrugged off its ex-div tag to soar a further 4.10 guilders to 214.40 continuing its explosive rally sparked by the 51 percent jump in first half net profits last week, which set the market alight on Friday, sending the shares up 18.40 at 210.00 by the close.

Nutricia


Input: Engineering concern Stork started the day well as the shares attracted some follow-through interest to the announcement late on Friday that its Fokker Aviation unit had won a major order.

Stork

Fokker Aviation


Input: But the rally was short-lived and Stork ended just 0.20 up at 51.00 guilders.

Stork


Input: -- Amsterdam Newsroom +31 20 504 5000

Amsterdam Newsroom


Input: Tapie to quit French assembly seat as film opens.

Tapie

French


Input: PARIS 1996-08-26

PARIS


Input: Former businessman and soccer boss Bernard Tapie said that he would give up his seat in the National Assembly by Wednesday, the day a film by Claude Lelouche in which he stars opens in France.

Bernard Tapie

Claude Lelouche

National Assembly

France


Input: " I will no longer be deputy by the time the film opens, " he said in a broadcast interview.


Input: " Just about, " he told Europe 1 radio when asked whether he had sent his letter of resignation to Assembly speaker Philippe Seguin.

Europe 1

Assembly

Philippe Seguin


Input: A Seguin spokeswoman confirmed that no letter or call had yet been received.

Seguin


Input: Tapie, 53, was resigning just ahead of expected government action to eject him from the Assembly following a finding by the Supreme Court that he was bankrupt and thus ineligible for public office for a five-year period.

Tapie

Assembly

Supreme Court


Input: Tapie, the target of a blizzard of legal actions over his now-destroyed business empire and the Marseille soccer team he once ran, has a starring role in Lelouche's " Homme, femmes: mode d'emploi " (Men, women: instructions for use).

Tapie

Lelouche

Marseille


Input: He plays a power-hungry lawyer in the movie described as " a tender and cruel comedy " by Lelouche, who is making his 35th film.

Lelouche


Input: " I have paid too dearly for mixing two careers, " Tapie said. "

Tapie


Input: In France, you cannot be a film artist and a national politician at the same time.

France


Input: That is why I will no longer be deputy by the time the film opens. "


Input: Justice Minister Jacques Toubon began last month the formal process of ejecting Tapie from the French parliament as well as stripping him of his seat in the European parliament.

Jacques Toubon

Tapie

French

European


Input: The French procedure was expected to be completed before October 2, when the National Assembly is to reconvene after a summer break, but the European procedure was expected to take longer.

French

European

National Assembly


Input: Tapie's lawyer has said he intends to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to prevent or delay the loss of his European seat.

Tapie

European Court of Human Rights

European


Input: But such an appeal, even if the court were to accept the case, which it is not obliged to do, would not suspend enforcement of the French judgement against him.

French


Input: Tapie faces a probable spell in prison after he loses his parliamentary immunity, since two appeal courts have confirmed jail sentences of eight and six months against him for tax fraud and rigging a soccer match.

Tapie


Input: He is appealing in both cases to the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court


Input: Bank of France drains 3.9 bln Ffr at tender.

Bank of France

Ffr


Input: PARIS 1996-08-26

PARIS


Input: The Bank of France drained 3.9 billion francs at a securities repurchase tender held on Monday to allocate funds for injection into the money market on Tuesday.

Bank of France


Input: It accepted bids for 44.3 billion francs in new liquidity, 3.9 billion less than the 48.2 billion leaving the market on Tuesday when a previous pact expires.


Input: The new pact expires on September 3.


Input: The Bank of France said it allocated 13.4 billion francs to bidders offering Treasury bills as collateral, satisfying 3.4 percent of such demand.

Bank of France

Treasury


Input: It allotted a further 30.9 billion to bidders putting up private paper, satisfying 12.5 percent of this demand.


Input: -- Paris Newsroom +33 1 4221 5452

Paris Newsroom


Input: RABOBANK [RABN.CN] SEES H2 NET GROWTH UNDER 10 PCT.

RABOBANK


Input: AMSTERDAM 1996-08-26

AMSTERDAM


Input: Dutch co-operative bank Rabobank Nederland BA's net profit growth might slow to less than than 10 year percent in the second half of 1996, executive board chairman Herman Wijffels said on Monday.

Dutch

Rabobank Nederland BA

Herman Wijffels


Input: The unlisted bank earlier announced a 1996 interim net profit of 853 million guilders, up 21.5 percent on the 702 million guilders reported in the first half of 1995.


Input: He said second-half profit growth would depend on customer demand for loans, which was already easing, and the performance of financial markets, which were strong in the first half and boosted securities, trading and underwriting income.


Input: " We expect reasonable growth in the second half.


Input: Maybe it will be in single-digits, " Wijffels told Reuters.

Wijffels

Reuters


Input: He said growth in customer demand in the first half was 50 percent above normal but it was hard to maintain this pace.


Input: Rabobank's net profit was 1.43 billion guilders in 1995.

Rabobank


Input: The bank earlier warned that profit growth would slow in the second half, citing the increasing momentum in profit growth in the comparative period of 1995 and increased investment.


Input: But Wijffels was unable to quantify second half investment to improve and extend domestic and offshore services.

Wijffels


Input: -- Garry West, Amsterdam newsroom +31 20 504 5000

Garry West

Amsterdam


Input: PRESS DIGEST-FRANCE-LE MONDE AUG 26.

FRANCE

LE MONDE


Input: PARIS 1996-08-26

PARIS


Input: These are leading stories in Monday's afternoon daily Le Monde, dated Aug 27.

Le Monde


Input: FRONT PAGE


Input: -- Ipsos poll reports majority of French public opinion sympathises with plight of Africans seeking to renew or obtain work and residence permits, calling government " stubborn, " " confused " and " cold-hearted. "

Ipsos

French

Africans


Input: BUSINESS PAGES


Input: -- SNCF railway trade unions want renegotiation of government bailout package, as European Union prepares more proposals to increase competition.

SNCF

European Union


Input: -- World steel market shows signs of upturn.


Input: -- Paris Newsroom +33 1 42 21 53 81

Paris Newsroom


Input: ATRIA SEES H2 RESULT UP ON H1.

ATRIA


Input: HELSINKI 1996-08-26

HELSINKI


Input: Finnish foodstuffs group Atria Oy said in a statement on Monday it expects its result to improve in the second half of 1996 compared to the first half.

Finnish

Atria Oy


Input: " The result of the second year-half is expected to improve on the early part of the year, " Atria said.

Atria


Input: Atria said earlier its January-June profit before extraordinary items, appropriations and taxes fell to 15 million markka from 39 in the first-half of 1995.

Atria


Input: BRIGHT-BELGIANS SPEED AFTER SCHUMACHER'S WIN.

BRIGHT-BELGIANS

SCHUMACHER


Input: BRUSSELS

BRUSSELS


Input: Michael Schumacher's victory in the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps sparked a speeding epidemic on Belgian roads after the race was over.

Michael Schumacher

Belgian

Formula One Grand Prix

Belgian

Spa-Francorchamps


Input: Belga news agency reported that police checked more than 3,000 drivers amd booked 222 for speeding on their way home after the race.

Belga


Input: Some were clocked doing 180 kilometres an hour (112 miles per hour), Belga said.

Belga


Input: Schumacher won the race in 1 hour 28 minutes 15.125 seconds at an average speed of 208.442 km/hour (130 m.p.h.).

Schumacher


Input: Thai PM proposes Sept 18 for no-confidence debate.

Thai


Input: BANGKOK 1996-08-26

BANGKOK


Input: Thai Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa on Monday proposed September 18 as the date for parliamentary debate on an opposition no-confidence motion accusing him of incompetence.

Thai

Banharn Silpa-archa


Input: The president of parliament had earlier said September 11 could be set for the debate.


Input: The opposition motion against Banharn accuses him of being incompetent, lacking ethical leadership and alleges his administration is corrupt.

Banharn


Input: His critics allege he may be attempting to delay the debate.


Input: Banharn has denied the accusations and said he is ready to clear himself in parliament.

Banharn


Input: " In my opinion September 18 would be a convenient date for the government to answer questions.


Input: This has nothing to do with the accusation that I am trying to escape the debate, " Banharn told reporters after meeting coalition partners.

Banharn


Input: Banharn's 13-month-old, six-party coalition government controls 209 seats in the 391-seat lower house of parliament.

Banharn


Input: Political infighting within Banharn's Chart Thai party has raised doubts whether he can hold his supporters together and defeat the opposition motion, political analysts said.

Banharn

Chart Thai


Input: " We are still waiting to fix a date.


Input: September 18 is regarded as tentative because we still have not received the order to fix it on the agenda, " said an official at parliament's agenda section.


Input: The last no-confidence debate against Banharn's coalition in May was won by the government.

Banharn


Input: Fontaine-6mth parent forecast.

Fontaine


Input: TOKYO 1996-08-26

TOKYO


Input: Six months to August 31, 1996


Input: (in billions of yen unless specified)


Input: LATEST PREVIOUS ACTUAL


Input: (Parent) FORECAST FORECAST YEAR-AGO


Input: Sales 3.30 3.17 2.75


Input: Current 400 million 260 million 231 million


Input: Net 170 million 170 million 142 million


Input: NOTE-Fontaine Co Ltd sells women " s fashion wigs.

Fontaine Co Ltd


Input: Manila international coconut oil prices.

Manila


Input: MANILA 1996-08-26

MANILA


Input: International Philippine coconut oil prices as reported by the United Coconut Associations of the Philippines (dollars per tonne cif Europe).

International Philippine

United Coconut Associations of the Philippines

Europe


Input: Buyers Sellers Last Prev


Input: JulAug 775 787.50 unq unq


Input: AugSep 752.50 758.75 unq unq


Input: SepOct 733.75 743.50 unq unq


Input: OctNov unq 740 unq unq


Input: NovDec unq 732.50 unq unq


Input: RESEARCH ALERT-Aronkasei cut.

Aronkasei


Input: TOKYO 1996-08-26

TOKYO


Input: Nomura Research Institute Ltd downgraded Aronkasei Co Ltd to a " 2 " rating from its previous " 1 ", market sources said on Monday.

Nomura Research Institute Ltd

Aronkasei Co Ltd


Input: In its three-grade rating system, the research institute assigns a " 2 " rating to issues whose values it sees moving within 10 percentage points in either direction of the key 225-share Nikkei average over the next six months.

Nikkei


Input: Nomura officials were not immediately available for comment.

Nomura


Input: PRESS DIGEST-Tunisia-Aug 26.

Tunisia


Input: TUNIS 1996-08-26

TUNIS


Input: These are the leading stories in the Tunisian press on Monday.

Tunisian


Input: Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Reuters


Input: LA PRESSE

LA PRESSE


Input: -English langage to be taught as of the eighth year of the primary school instead of the third year of the secondary school.

English


Input: LE TEMPS

LE TEMPS


Input: -International Fair opens in the northern city of Beja with the participation of 16 foreign countries.

International Fair

Beja


Input: U.N. official Ekeus heads for Baghdad.

U.N.

Ekeus

Baghdad


Input: MANAMA 1996-08-26

MANAMA


Input: Senior United Nations arms official Rolf Ekeus left Bahrain for Baghdad on Monday for talks with Iraqi officials, a U.N. spokesman said.

United Nations

U.N.

Rolf Ekeus

Bahrain

Baghdad

Iraqi


Input: The spokesman said Ekeus, chairman of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), would spend two or three days in Iraq but declined to give further details.

Ekeus

United Nations Special Commission

UNSCOM

Iraq


Input: U.N. oficials have said Ekeus would hold talks with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz and other officials as part of an agreement Iraq reached with the United Nations in June to hold higher level political talks with Ekeus.

U.N.

United Nations

Ekeus

Tareq Aziz

Ekeus

Iraqi

Iraq


Input: The Security Council on Friday asked Iraq to stop blocking arms inspectors search for concealed weapons or materials they believe were being shuttled around to avoid detection.

Security Council

Iraq


Input: Disarming Iraq of weapons of mass destruction under 1991 Gulf War ceasefire terms is a prerequisite before the lifting of crippling sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1990 for invading Kuwait.

Iraq

Iraq

Kuwait

Gulf War


Input: PRESS DIGEST-Lebanon-Aug 26.

Lebanon


Input: BEIRUT 1996-08-26

BEIRUT


Input: These are the leading stories in the Beirut press on Monday.

Beirut


Input: Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Reuters


Input: AN-NAHAR

AN-NAHAR


Input: -The north Lebanon elections ...

Lebanon


Input: Almost no chance at all for any complete ticket to win altogether and the results will weaken some leaders.


Input: -The surprise ...


Input: Opposition Boutros Harb scoring high in preliminary results and former prime minister Omar Karame moves backwards.

Boutros Harb

Omar Karame


Input: -Fears of an Israeli operation causes the redistribution of Syrian troops locations in Lebanon.

Israeli

Syrian

Lebanon


Input: AS-SAFIR

AS-SAFIR


Input: -Parliament Speaker Berri: The occupied south should not be used as a winning card in elections.

Berri


Input: -Prices of alimentary goods up 13.4 percent in 1996.


Input: AL-ANWAR

AL-ANWAR


Input: -Christian Maronite Patriarch Sfeir: We fear a movement from democracy to dictatorship.

Christian Maronite

Sfeir


Input: AD-DIYAR

AD-DIYAR


Input: -A cabinet minister: " Lebanon First " aims at splitting the Syrian-Lebanese peace tracks with Israel.

Lebanon First

Syrian-Lebanese

Israel


Input: NIDA'A AL-WATAN

NIDA'A AL-WATAN


Input: -Prime Minister Hariri: Elections are the beginning of a long political life which we begin with an incomplete ticket of 17 candidates.

Hariri


Input: -The Lebanese Association for the Democracy of Elections cited 51 incidents of violation in the north Lebanon round.

Lebanese Association for the Democracy of Elections

Lebanon


Input: PRESS DIGEST-Malta-Aug 26.

Malta


Input: VALLETTA 1996-08-26

VALLETTA


Input: These are the leading stories in the Maltese press on Monday.

Maltese


Input: Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Reuters


Input: THE TIMES

THE TIMES


Input: -Visitors slam bus and taxi drivers for cheating.


Input: Tourists interviewed in Malta complain about over-charging.

Malta


Input: IN-NAZZJON

IN-NAZZJON


Input: -Government considering measures for better road discipline.


Input: Malta, with a population of 365,000, has 195,000 registered vehicles, with 80,000 new cars having been introduced on the congested roads in 10 years.

Malta


Input: -Five people arrested in Romania after drugs container found in Malta.

Romania

Malta


Input: The container, with 7.5 tonnes of cannabis, was found in Malta Freeport in transit from Singapore to Romania.

Malta Freeport

Singapore

Romania


Input: L-ORIZZONT

L-ORIZZONT


Input: -Opposition leader Alfred Sant on steep rise in taxes over 10 years.

Alfred Sant


Input: He reiterates promise that a future Labour government will remove VAT.

Labour


Input: Tamils demonstrate outside U.N. headquarters.

Tamils

U.N.


Input: GENEVA 1996-08-26

GENEVA


Input: Thousands of Tamils demonstrated outside the United Nations' European headquarters in Geneva on Monday to appeal for U.N. recognition of their fight for independence from Sri Lanka.

Tamils

European

United Nations

U.N.

Geneva

Sri Lanka


Input: The demonstrators, said by police to number 6,000, also urged the release of Nadarajah Muralidaran, Swiss-based leader of the the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, who has been held in a Zurich jail since April on charges of extortion.

Nadarajah Muralidaran

Swiss-based

Tamil Tiger

Zurich


Input: The demonstrators delivered an appeal to the U.N. human rights centre demanding an immediate end to " state terrorism " against Tamils and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

U.N.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

LTTE

Tamils


Input: FOCUS-Eurobourses end mixed but London recovers.

Eurobourses

London


Input: Leonard Santorelli

Leonard Santorelli


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: European bourses closed mixed on Tuesday with London clawing back most of the day's losses despite an unsteady start on wall Street, hit by inflation worries.

European

London

wall Street


Input: The dollar weakened during the day with many dealers sidelined because of uncertainty over Tokyo's monetary direction ahead of the important Japanese Tankan economic survey out on Wednesday.

Tokyo

Japanese

Tankan


Input: But it recovered at the close of trade.


Input: Stocks in London started the week badly after a three-day weekend, slipping 0.3 percent, but bargain-hunters later moved in and the FTSE index recovered most of the lost ground to end only just in negative ground.

London

FTSE


Input: Tuesday's patchy showing in London followed a string of records last week, culminating in Friday's trading high of 3,911, fuelled by a wave of European interest rate cuts.

London

European


Input: The London bourse drew little help from the unsettled morning on Wall Street, which slipped in and out of positive ground after a stronger-than-expected August consumer confidence report refuelled inflation fears, pulling U.S. Treasuries back from their early peaks.

London

Wall Street

U.S. Treasuries


Input: Shortly after the report appeared showing the confidence index rising to 109.4 in August from a revised 107.0 in July, Wall Street relinquished virtually all its morning gains.

Wall Street


Input: " Treasuries remain very sensitive to any indication of a strong economy and we're still in that summer doldrum period of light trading, " said Alan Ackerman, market strategist at Fahnestock & Co. "

Treasuries

Fahnestock & Co

Alan Ackerman


Input: Consequently, stocks and bonds are both subject to rapid swings. "


Input: Frankfurt was the one bright spot in Europe.

Frankfurt

Europe


Input: Floor trading ended up 0.25 percent and the computerised IBIS index climbed nearly 0.4 percent, given a push by the performance of chemical shares. "

IBIS


Input: The market is trading 100 percent on fundamentals at the moment as interest rate fantasy disappears -- it's all company news, " said one trader.


Input: French shares ended slightly down amid growing unease about a difficult autumn for the government which also weighed on the franc, dealers said.

French


Input: Bond prices were weaker and the franc was quoted at 3.4210 per mark for the first time since August 13 as worries about the government's autumn budget and a weak U.S. currency lifted the mark and squeezed French investments.

U.S.

French


Input: The dollar, which dropped sharply on Monday because of jitters over the Japanese Tankan survey, weakened further in quiet trading but regained losses to end the day close to Monday's levels.

Japanese

Tankan


Input: " Besides the Tankan, there's nothing really until the U.S. jobs numbers next week, " said a UK bank corporate dealer. "

Tankan

U.S.

UK


Input: There is still the summer malaise hanging over the market. "


Input: Foreign exchange markets regard the Tankan report as an important indication of the country's future monetary policy direction.

Tankan


Input: If it points to weakness in the economy, the report will help the dollar regain some lost ground as speculation of a near-term rise in Japanese interest rates will evaporate.

Japanese


Input: The Japanese discount rate is currently at a record low of 0.5 percent.

Japanese


Input: The dollar was also pressured by the mark's strength against European currencies amid renewed concerns over Europe's economic and monetary union (EMU) timetable.

European

EMU

Europe


Input: CURRENCIES


Input: The dollar was at 1.4788 marks and 107.74 yen at the close of European trading compared with 1.4789 marks and 107.55 yen on Monday.

European


Input: STOCK MARKETS


Input: The Financial Times-Stock Exchange index of 100 leading British shares ended 1.8 points lower at 3,905.7.

Financial Times-Stock Exchange

British


Input: In Paris, the CAC-40 share index finished down 2.43 at 2,017.99.

Paris


Input: The 30-share DAX index in Frankfurt closed up 6.48 at 2,558.84.

DAX

Frankfurt


Input: PRECIOUS METALS


Input: Gold closed at $388.55 an ounce, compared with Monday's close of $388.75 on international markets.


Input: Silver ended up one cent $5.24.


Input: More hostages freed from hijacked Sudanese plane.

Sudanese


Input: STANSTED, England 1996-08-27

STANSTED

England


Input: Armed hijackers believed to be Iraqis released between 60 and 70 people on Tuesday from a Sudan Airways plane carrying 199 passengers and crew that landed in London after being diverted on a flight from Khartoum to Amman, authorities said.

Iraqis

Sudan Airways

London

Khartoum

Amman


Input: A spokesman for Stansted airport said that the unidentified hijackers were demanding to see a British-based member of the Iraqi Community Association, called Mr Sadiki, and that police were trying to trace him.

Stansted

British-based

Iraqi Community Association

Sadiki


Input: Police spokeswoman Kim White said police had already contacted Sadiki and were trying to arrange to bring him to Stansted, 30 miles (48 km) north-east of London, to talk to the hijackers.

Kim White

Sadiki

Stansted

London


Input: The airport spokesman said the six hijackers, who police said were armed with grenades and possibly other explosives, were believed to be Iraqi nationals.

Iraqi


Input: The hijackers started to release people for the Airbus plane in batches of 10, starting with women and children, in what police described as a " controlled release ".

Airbus


Input: Police said most of the passengers were Sudanese but that there were also an unknown number of Iraqis, Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Saudis.

Sudanese

Iraqis

Jordanians

Palestinians

Syrians

Saudis


Input: Later they said the number of passengers released from the plane had reached 80.


Input: FEATURE-" Eco terrorists " target UK builders.

UK


Input: Edna Fernandes

Edna Fernandes


Input: LONDON 1996-08-27

LONDON


Input: Ecological warfare has broken out across the British construction industry, striking some of the biggest corporates as activists give up peaceful protests and seek to hit builders where it hurts -- their profit margins.

British


Input: Described by one British company as " eco-terrorism ", it is seen as the new business risk of the 1990s.

British


Input: Famous names like Tarmac Plc, Costain Group Plc and ARC, a unit of conglomerate Hanson Plc, have all been targeted.

Tarmac Plc

Costain Group Plc

ARC

Hanson Plc


Input: Activist groups are no longer seen by British firms as a harmless, badly organised ragbag of students and hippies.

British


Input: " You only have to see them in action at protests, " said David Harding, spokesman at ARC, Hanson's aggregates company. "

David Harding

ARC

Hanson


Input: They walk around with mobile phones and camera equipment, they communicate and gather support for demos via the Internet -- we're talking about a highly sophisticated organisation. "

Internet


Input: One road protestor under the codename Steady Eddie told construction journal " Building " earlier this year, " If it comes down to full-scale economic warfare, we will aim to drive them out of business. "

Steady Eddie

Building


Input: As well as financial threats, companies also emphasise the " terror " tactics used.


Input: Costain's contract to build the controversial Newbury bypass, which runs through a conservation area, has led to violent protests delaying building, bomb threats, staff intimidation and picketing of chief executive Alan Lovell's home.

Costain

Newbury

Alan Lovell


Input: A Costain spokesman told Reuters: " We've had all sorts of protests at the head office and the chief executive's house.

Costain

Reuters


Input: But it's when it gets to the (employee) families -- that it goes across the line. "


Input: Tactics used by some underground groups including the cryptic Berkshire Wood Elves, which distribute leaflets with instructions on home-made explosives, are now the subject of a police investigation.

Berkshire Wood Elves


Input: Other larger activist groups include Earth First, The Land is Ours, Alarm UK and Road Alert.

Earth First

The Land is Ours

Alarm UK

Road Alert


Input: The groups have targeted specific projects like the Newbury bypass and the M3 motorway through Twyford Down in the southern county of Hampshire.

Newbury

Twyford Down

Hampshire


Input: But they are also campaigning on broader issue such as stopping the government road building programme and out-of-town superstores which they say create more traffic, pollution and damage local communities.


Input: The government has slashed its road-building spending.


Input: Although protests may have contributed to the decision it has been seen primarily as economic rather than ecological.


Input: Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, said: " I don't think many firms involved in tendering for sensitive projects realise the impact environmental activity has on the cost of running a project.

Graham Watts

Construction Industry Council


Input: " But they are more alert than they were 3-4 years ago.


Input: There's no doubt it's a big issue now. "


Input: He says the damage comes in two forms: " Tangible -- in the form of extra costs, additional security, threats to staff and the more intangible damage caused by negative publicity. "


Input: Watts said the cost of protesting can be heavy once the company is locked into a contract.

Watts


Input: " I do often hear on the industry circuit of tales where the company tenders at low margins and the demonstrations which follow means they are running the project at a loss. "


Input: ARC says it's not just contractors in the front line but also suppliers like itself.

ARC


Input: Its own quarries came under attack after it emerged that it may be a supplier for the Newbury bypass.

Newbury


Input: " It was called the " First Battle of the Newbury bypass', " said ARC's Harding.

First Battle of the Newbury bypass

ARC

Harding


Input: " We had 300 Earth First protestors invade and occupy our site.

Earth First


Input: Hundreds of thousands of pounds (dollars) of damage was done in one day.


Input: Plus there was the knock-on cost of lost production and extra security in future. "


Input: Simon Brown, analyst at investement bank UBS, said this new phenomenon has led to a change in the way the industry evaluates project risk.

Simon Brown

UBS


Input: " When talking to Tarmac about the M3 link (through Twyford Down) they made it fairly clear that their risk assessment methods have been changed and now involve a very clear environmental risk analysis. "

Tarmac

Twyford Down


Input: Harding says others have done the same. "

Harding


Input: As a result of eco-terrorism we are looking at controversial jobs more closely to see if the profit margins are wide enough to cover things like extra security. "


Input: For an industry already suffering from razor-thin margins, overcapacity and stagnant demand, eco-terrorism is the latest bizarre twist in the construction sector's tale of woe.


Input: London Carnival ends in high spirits.

London Carnival


Input: LONDON 1996-08-26

LONDON


Input: London's annual Notting Hill Carnival, the largest in Europe and second in the world only to Rio, ended peacefully on Monday with an estimated 800,000 revellers singing and dancing the day away in high spirits.

London

Europe

Rio

Notting Hill Carnival


Input: Police said they made 30 arrests and there were two stabbings.


Input: But there was no repeat of the ugly scenes that used to scar the street festival, and police praised the crowds over the two days of festivities as good-natured.


Input: Around 400 police were wounded in riots in 1976 when the carnival, now in its 31st year, acquired its darker reputation from which it is now only slowly recovering.


Input: Shopkeepers still board up their windows and many residents leave town for the weekend, but for four or five years there has been no disorder and relatively little crime.


Input: OFFICIAL JOURNAL CONTENTS-OJ C 248 OF AUGUST 26, 1996.

OFFICIAL JOURNAL

OJ


Input: (Note-contents are displayed in reverse order to that in the printed Journal)

Journal


Input: ANNEX


Input: STATEMENT OF THE COUNCIL'S REASONS


Input: ANNEX I


Input: ANNEX A


Input: STATEMENT OF THE COUNCIL'S REASONS END OF DOCUMENT.


Input: Indonesia newspaper reports central bank scandal.

Indonesia


Input: JAKARTA 1996-08-27

JAKARTA


Input: Indonesia's central bank suffered seven billion rupiah ($2.9 million) in losses resulting from fake transactions, the Jakarta Post reported on Tuesday.

Indonesia

Jakarta Post


Input: A Bank Indonesia spokeswoman confirmed the newspaper report but declined to give further details.

Bank Indonesia


Input: The bank's governor Sudradjat Djiwandono was quoted as saying on Monday about 5.4 billion rupiah of the seven billion rupiah had been recovered.

Sudradjat Djiwandono


Input: The newspaper said it was the central bank's first public scandal in its 43-year history.


Input: The paper said five people had been arrested and police were looking for two more suspects.


Input: ($1 = 2,341 rupiah)


Input: GOLF-PLAYERS DIVIDED ON CART REQUEST FOR OLAZABAL.

OLAZABAL


Input: NORTHAMPTON, England 1996-08-27

NORTHAMPTON

England


Input: Seve Ballesteros and Colin Montgomerie are divided on whether Jose Maria Olazabal should be allowed to return to the European PGA Tour using a motorised cart to transport him around the course.

Seve Ballesteros

Colin Montgomerie

Jose Maria Olazabal

European PGA Tour


Input: The Spaniard has not played for nearly a year because of rheumatoid arthritis in both his feet, and organisers of a pairs event to be staged in Bordeaux, France from October 17 to 20 have been asked to provide him with a buggy.

Spaniard

Bordeaux

France