Input: Dr Andrew Wakefield of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and colleagues screened 25,000 babies delivered at University Hospital, Uppsala, between 1940 and 1949.

Andrew Wakefield

Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine

University Hospital

Uppsala


Input: Four of the mothers had measles while pregnant.


Input: " Three of the four children had Crohn's disease, " Wakefield's group wrote in the Lancet medical journal.

Crohn

Wakefield

Lancet


Input: Crohn's is an inflammation of the bowel that can sometimes require surgery.

Crohn


Input: It causes diarrhoea, abdominal pain and weight loss.


Input: The researchers said the three children involved had especially severe cases.


Input: Exposure to viruses can often cause birth defects.


Input: Most notably, women who get rubella (German measles) have a high risk of a stillborn baby.

German


Input: All the key numbers-CBI August industrial trends.

CBI


Input: LONDON 1996-08-23

LONDON


Input: Following are key data from the August monthly survey of trends in UK manufacturing by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

UK

Confederation of British Industry

CBI


Input: CBI MONTHLY TRENDS ENQUIRY (a) AUG JULY JUNE MAY

CBI


Input: -total order book-10-22-13-17


Input: -export order book-14-13-11-7


Input: -stocks of finished goods +17 +19 +17 +25


Input: -output expectations * +22 +22 +12 +16


Input: -domestic price expectations * 0-1 +6 +4


Input: NOTES-* over the coming four months;


Input: -(a) in percent, giving balance between those


Input: replying " above normal " and those replying " below normal. "


Input: The survey was conducted between July 23 and August 14 and involved 1,305 companies, representing 50 industries, accounting for around half of the UK's manufactured exports and some two million employees.

UK


Input: -- Rosemary Bennett, London Newsroom +44 171 542 7715

Rosemary Bennett

London Newsroom


Input: London shipsales.

London


Input: LONDON 1996-08-22

LONDON


Input: -Secondhand tonnage brokers reported the sale of the following vessels.


Input: Iron Gippsland-(built 1989) 87,241 dwt sold to Greek buyers for $30 million.

Iron Gippsland

Greek


Input: Sairyu Maru No: 2-(built 1982) 60,960 dwt sold to Greek buyers for $15.5 million.

Sairyu Maru No: 2

Greek


Input: Stainless Fighter-(built 1970) 21,718 dwt sold at auction for $6 million.

Stainless Fighter


Input: Some of these sales may not be final as they may be subject to inspection, survey or other conditions.


Input: Garlic pills don't lower cholesterol, study finds.


Input: LONDON 1996-08-22

LONDON


Input: Garlic pills may not lower blood cholesterol and studies that show they do may be flawed, British researchers have reported.

British


Input: A study by a team of doctors at Oxford University has found people with high blood cholesterol do not benefit significantly from taking garlic tablets.

Oxford University


Input: The study involved 115 people with high blood cholesterol levels.


Input: They were given 900 milligrams a day of dried garlic powder or placebo tablets. "


Input: There were no significant differences between the groups receiving garlic and placebo, " they wrote in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians.

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians


Input: Those taking part were told to eat a low-fat diet for six weeks before they started taking the pills, and their blood cholesterol measured before and after the six-week period.


Input: The researchers said this would make their findings more accurate.


Input: Several studies have found garlic pills can lower blood pressure and blood cholesterol.


Input: But the Oxford team disputed these findings and said either previous trials may have been interpreted incorrectly, those taking part were not given special diets beforehand or the duration of the studies may have been too short.

Oxford


Input: The six-month trial was funded by the British Heart Foundation and Lichtwer Pharma GmbH, which makes Kwai brand garlic tablets.

British Heart Foundation

Lichtwer Pharma GmbH

Kwai


Input: The study did not address whether whole garlic could affect cholesterol.


Input: -- London Newsroom +44 171 542 7950

London Newsroom


Input: Britain gives aid to volcano-hit Caribbean island.

Britain

Caribbean


Input: LONDON 1996-08-22

LONDON


Input: Britain said on Thursday it would give 25 million pounds ($39 million) of development aid to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, where much of the population living in the south has fled to avoid a volcano.

Britain

Caribbean

Montserrat


Input: The volcano in the Soufriere hills has erupted three times in the past 13 months and last April some 4,500 people living in the capital, Plymouth, and southern areas were evacuated to the north, where many are living in public shelters and schools.

Plymouth


Input: " This assistance will provide a fast track development programme for the designated (northern) safe area, " Britain's Overseas Development Administration said in a statement.

Britain

Overseas Development Administration


Input: Britain gave 8.5 million pounds ($13 million) to Montserrat, which is one of its dependent territories, when the volcano first became active.

Britain

Montserrat


Input: Overseas Development Minister Lynda Chalker said a recent census had shown most Montserratians wanted to remain on the island. "

Lynda Chalker

Montserratians


Input: The development of the north will help them to do just that, " she said.


Input: Tennis-Philippoussis looms for Sampras in U.S. Open.

Philippoussis

Sampras

U.S. Open


Input: Bill Berkrot

Bill Berkrot


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-22

NEW YORK


Input: World number one Pete Sampras, seeking his first Grand Slam title of the year, and women's top seed Steffi Graf, aiming for her third, should be able to ease into the year's final major, which begins on Monday.

Pete Sampras

Steffi Graf

Grand Slam


Input: Sampras opens the defence of his U.S. Open crown against David Rikl of the Czech Republic, while top-ranked Graf begins her title defence against Yayuk Basuki of Indonesia.

Sampras

David Rikl

Graf

Yayuk Basuki

U.S. Open

Czech Republic

Indonesia


Input: Wednesday's U.S. Open draw ceremony revealed that both title holders should run into their first serious opposition in the third round.

U.S. Open


Input: Looming in Sampras's future is a likely third-round date with recent nemesis Mark Philippoussis, the rising Australian who took out Sampras in the third round of the Australian Open in January.

Sampras

Mark Philippoussis

Sampras

Australian

Australian Open


Input: Sampras avenged that defeat with a straight sets win over the 19-year-old power hitter in the second round at Wimbledon and their rubber match in New York could provide some first-week fireworks.

Sampras

Wimbledon

New York


Input: While only a stunning upset will keep Graf from sailing through to a predictable semifinal showdown with third seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, the German star could also be tested in the third round where she will probably face 28th-ranked veteran Natasha Zvereva of Belarus.

Graf

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

Natasha Zvereva

German

Belarus


Input: There will be no repeat of last year's men's final with eighth-ranked Andre Agassi landing in Sampras's half of the draw.

Andre Agassi

Sampras


Input: Bumping Agassi up to the sixth seeding avoided the possibility that he would run into Sampras as early as the quarter-finals, but they could lock horns in the semis.

Agassi

Sampras


Input: Olympic champion Agassi meets Karim Alami of Morocco in the first round.

Olympic

Agassi

Karim Alami

Morocco


Input: Surprise second seed Michael Chang, ranked third in the world, opens against Czech Daniel Vacek, while women's second seed Monica Seles drew American Anne Miller as her first victim.

Michael Chang

Daniel Vacek

Monica Seles

Anne Miller

Czech

American


Input: Second-ranked Austrian Thomas Muster, who was seeded third, did not have the luck of the draw with him.

Austrian

Thomas Muster


Input: In the first round Muster faces American Richey Reneberg, who has been playing some of the best tennis of his career of late.

Muster

Richey Reneberg

American


Input: If he survives, Muster is seeded to run into either fifth-seeded Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek of the Netherlands or 12th-seeded American Todd Martin in the quarter-finals in Chang's half of the draw.

Muster

Richard Krajicek

Todd Martin

Chang

Wimbledon

American

Netherlands


Input: Perhaps the best, yet most unfortunate, first-round matchup of the men's competition pits eighth seed Jim Courier against retiring star Stefan Edberg.

Jim Courier

Stefan Edberg


Input: The popular Swede is playing his final major tournament next week and the two-time champion's Grand Slam farewell could well be a one-match affair.

Swede

Grand Slam


Input: With the exception of a Philippoussis showdown, Sampras looks to have landed in a comfortable quarter of the draw with the likes of Frenchman Cedric Pioline and ailing French Open champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who is nursing a rib injury, in his path.

Philippoussis

Sampras

Cedric Pioline

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Frenchman

French Open


Input: Seles, runner-up to Graf last year, is seeded to run into fifth-ranked German Anke Huber in the quarter-finals with fourth seed Conchita Martinez or eighth-seeded Olympic champion Lindsay Davenport looking like her most likely semifinal opponents.

Seles

Graf

Anke Huber

Conchita Martinez

Lindsay Davenport

German

Olympic


Input: But Huber will be tested immediately with a first-round encounter against dangerous 18th-ranked South African Amanda Coetzer.

Huber

Amanda Coetzer

South African


Input: Sanchez Vicario, runner-up to Graf at the French Open and Wimbledon, begins play against a qualifier in a quarter of the draw that includes young talent Martina Hingis, the 16th seed, before a probable quarter-final clash with seventh-seeded veteran Jana Novotna.

Sanchez Vicario

Graf

Martina Hingis

Jana Novotna

French Open

Wimbledon


Input: Martinez begins play against Ruxandra Dragomir of Romania.

Martinez

Ruxandra Dragomir

Romania


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

Sydney Newsroom


Input: RTRS-Tennis-Muster upset, Philippoussis wins, Stoltenberg loses.

RTRS

Muster

Philippoussis

Stoltenberg


Input: TORONTO 1996-08-21

TORONTO


Input: Top-seeded Thomas Muster of Austria was beaten 6-3 7-5 by 123rd-ranked Daniel Nestor of Canada on Wednesday in his first match of the $2 million Canadian Open.

Thomas Muster

Daniel Nestor

Austria

Canada

Canadian Open


Input: A lefthander with a strong serve, Nestor kept the rallies short by constantly attacking the net and the tactic worked in the second-round match against Muster, playing his first match after receiving a first-round bye along with the other top eight seeds.

Nestor

Muster


Input: The tournament also lost its second seed on the third day of play when second-seeded Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia was beaten 6-7(3-7) 6-4 6-4 by unseeded Mikael Tillstrom of Sweden.

Goran Ivanisevic

Mikael Tillstrom

Croatia

Sweden


Input: Other seeded players advancing were number three Wayne Ferreira of South Africa, number four Marcelo Rios of Chile, number six MaliVai Washington of the United States and American Todd Martin, the seventh seeed.

Wayne Ferreira

Marcelo Rios

MaliVai Washington

Todd Martin

South Africa

Chile

United States

American


Input: Eighth seed Marc Rosset of Switzerland was eliminated in a one hour, 55 minute battle by unseeded Mark Philippoussis of Australia.

Marc Rosset

Mark Philippoussis

Switzerland

Australia


Input: Philippoussis saved a match point at 5-6 in the third-set tie break before winning 6-3 3-6 7-6 (8-6).

Philippoussis


Input: Philippoussis's compatriot, 13th seed Jason Stoltenberg, was not as fortunate.

Philippoussis

Jason Stoltenberg


Input: He held one match point at 9-8 in a marathon third-set tie break but was beaten 5-7 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (13-11) by unseeded Daniel Vacek of the Czech Republic.

Daniel Vacek

Czech Republic


Input: " I knew I had to serve well and keep the points short and that's what I was able to do, " said Nestor, who ranks 10th in doubles.

Nestor


Input: There were only two service breaks in the match.


Input: The lanky Canadian broke Muster at 4-3 in the first set and 5-5 in the second before ending the match on his third match point when the Austrian hit a service return long.

Canadian

Austrian

Muster


Input: " I probably didn't hit five ground strokes in the whole match, " said Muster, only partly joking. "

Muster


Input: The way he was chipping and charging and serving and volleying I didn't really get my timing playing from the baseline. "


Input: " He played a good match, took a few chances, and every time he was down he was able to come up with a big first serve. "


Input: Playing at night was not Muster's preference. "

Muster


Input: I asked for a day match and they gave me a night match, " he said. "


Input: I don't like playing under the lights but maybe it would not have made any difference. "


Input: Ivanisevic rallied from a 2-5 deficit in the first set but then played erratically against the 44th-ranked Tillstrom, who was a surprise winner over his famous compatriot Stefan Edberg in the second round at Wimbledon.

Ivanisevic

Tillstrom

Stefan Edberg

Wimbledon


Input: Ivanisevic hit 32 aces but was outplayed from the back court by the 24-year-old Tillstrom.

Ivanisevic

Tillstrom


Input: The sixth-ranked Ivanisevic, who lost in the final at Indianapolis to world number one Pete Sampras of the U.S. last Sunday, made a quick getaway after his loss but did say: " Something was not there when I arrived (in Toronto).

Ivanisevic

Pete Sampras

Indianapolis

U.S.

Toronto


Input: I didn't feel good.


Input: And I didn't have a good feeling as soon as I lost in my doubles (on Tuesday). "


Input: " I thought he looked a little unfocused at certain times on his ground strokes, " said Tillstrom.

Tillstrom


Input: The 19-year-old Philippoussis, who beat Sampras in the third round of this year's Australian Open, stayed calm in a nervy third-set tie break against Rosset.

Philippoussis

Sampras

Rosset

Australian Open


Input: " I'm pleased because I didn't play that great today, but I fought really well, " he said. "


Input: When I was down 2-5 in the tiebreak (in the third set), I just thought about winning my two serves and hoped that he might get tight.


Input: Then he shanked a forehand at to make it 5-all and that helped me back. "


Input: Soccer-Results of South Korean pro-soccer games.

South Korean


Input: SEOUL 1996-08-22

SEOUL


Input: Results of South Korean pro-soccer games played on Wednesday.

South Korean


Input: Anyang 3 Chonnam 3 (halftime 2-0)

Anyang

Chonnam


Input: Puchon 0 Suwon 0 (halftime 0-0)

Puchon

Suwon


Input: Standings after games played on Wednesday (tabulate under-won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):


Input: W D L G/F G/A P


Input: Puchon 1 1 0 1 0 4

Puchon


Input: Chonan 1 0 0 5 4 3

Chonan


Input: Anyang 0 2 0 5 5 2

Anyang


Input: Suwon 0 2 0 3 3 2

Suwon


Input: Pohang 0 1 0 3 3 1

Pohang


Input: Pusan 0 1 0 0 2 1

Pusan


Input: Chonnam 0 1 1 5 6 1

Chonnam


Input: Ulsan 0 0 1 4 5 0

Ulsan


Input: Chonbuk 0 0 0 0 0 0

Chonbuk


Input: Senegal cholera outbreak kills five.

Senegal


Input: DAKAR 1996-08-22

DAKAR


Input: An outbreak of cholera has killed five people in the central Senegal town of Kaolack, where health authorities have recorded 291 cases since August 11, a medical official said on Thursday.

Senegal

Kaolack


Input: Doctor Masserigne Ndiaye said medical staff were overwhelmed with work. "

Masserigne Ndiaye


Input: People are rushing to the hospital as soon as the first symptoms appear, that's why we have fewer deaths, " he told Reuters by telephone from the town, 160 km (100 miles) southeast of the Senegalese capital Dakar.

Reuters

Senegalese

Dakar


Input: Nigerian general takes over Liberia ECOMOG force.

Nigerian

Liberia

ECOMOG


Input: MONROVIA 1996-08-22

MONROVIA


Input: Nigerian Major General Sam Victor Malu took over on Thursday as commander of the ECOMOG peacekeeping force in Liberia, two days after the start of the latest ceasefire in the six-year civil war.

Nigerian

Sam Victor Malu

ECOMOG

Liberia


Input: Malu replaced another Nigerian major general, John Inienger, who told officers at the handover ceremony that peace was now at hand for Liberia after six years of fighting and more than a dozen failed accords.

Malu

John Inienger

Nigerian

Liberia


Input: " The search for peace in Liberia has been difficult, challenging and sometimes painful.

Liberia


Input: Peacekeepers were harassed, killed and taken hostage, " he said.


Input: " It is difficult but I want to assure you that peace is in sight. "


Input: United Nations military observers travelling to the western town of Tubmanburg on Wednesday to monitor the ceasefire were delayed by shooting along the highway, U.N. special representative Anthony Nyakyi said.

United Nations

U.N.

Tubmanburg

Anthony Nyakyi


Input: They finally went ahead with an escort from the ULIMO-J faction.

ULIMO-J


Input: Faction leaders who agreed a new peace deal in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Saturday have accused each other of breaking the ceasefire.

Nigerian

Abuja


Input: The latest peace deal foresees the disarmament of an estimated 60,000 combatants and sets a target date of May 30 next year for elections.


Input: The ECOMOG force, currently 10,000 strong, was sent to Liberia by the Economic Community of West African States in 1990 at the height of the fighting.

ECOMOG

Economic Community of West African States

Liberia


Input: Guinea calls two days of prayer.

Guinea


Input: CONAKRY 1996-08-22

CONAKRY


Input: The West African state of Guinea declared Thursday and Friday days of national prayer.

West African

Guinea


Input: A government statement, broadcast repeatedly by state radio, said the two days of prayer were " for the dead, for peace and prosperity in Guinea, the victory of the new government and the health of the head of state ".

Guinea


Input: The precise reason for the call was not immediately clear.


Input: Guinea's president, Lansana Conte, vice-president of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, left for Kuwait on August 16 to prepare the next OIC summit in Pakistan in 1997.

Guinea

Kuwait

Pakistan

Lansana Conte

Organisation of the Islamic Conference

OIC


Input: Koranic reading sessions and prayers were to be held in the farming town of Badi-Tondon, near his home about 60 km (40 miles) from the capital Conakry.

Koranic

Badi-Tondon

Conakry


Input: Conte, an army general, survived a February army pay revolt which at the time he described as a veiled attempt to topple him.

Conte


Input: He has since named a prime minister for the first time since early in his rule and ordered a crackdown on corruption.


Input: Conte seized power in 1984 after the death of veteran Marxist leader Ahmed Sekou Toure.

Conte

Ahmed Sekou Toure

Marxist


Input: He won elections in 1993.


Input: South African answers U.S. message in a bottle.

South African

U.S.


Input: JOHANNESBURG 1996-08-22

JOHANNESBURG


Input: A South African boy is writing back to an American girl whose message in a bottle he found washed up on President Nelson Mandela's old prison island.

South African

American

Nelson Mandela


Input: But Carlo Hoffmann, an 11-year-old jailer's son who found the bottle on the beach at Robben Island off Cape Town after winter storms, will send his letter back by ordinary mail on Thursday, the post office said.

Carlo Hoffmann

Robben Island

Cape Town


Input: It will be sent for free.


Input: Danielle Murray from Sandusky, Ohio, the same age as her new penfriend, asked for a reply from whoever received the message she flung on its journey months ago on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Danielle Murray

Sandusky

Ohio

Atlantic Ocean


Input: Rottweiler kills South African toddler.

Rottweiler

South African


Input: JOHANNESBURG 1996-08-22

JOHANNESBURG


Input: A rottweiler dog belonging to an elderly South African couple savaged to death their two-year-old grandson who was visiting, police said on Thursday.

South African


Input: The dog attacked Louis Booy in the front garden of his grandparents' house in Vanderbijlpark near Johannesburg on Tuesday.

Louis Booy

Vanderbijlpark

Johannesburg


Input: His bloody body was lying in the garden when his parents arrived in the afternoon to pick him up.


Input: It was unclear where the grandparents were at the time.


Input: Dogs fierce enough to scare off burglars are becoming increasingly popular in the crime-infested Johannesburg area.

Johannesburg


Input: INDICATORS-Hungary-updated Aug 22.

Hungary


Input: BUDAPEST 1996-08-22

BUDAPEST


Input: The latest indicators:


Input: CPI (pct) July +0.4m/m; 23.0yr/yr (June +0.9;+23.6)


Input: PPI (pct) June +0.7 m/m;+21.5yr/yr (May +1.7;+22.0)


Input: Industry output (pct) June-7.8 m/m;-0.2yr/yr (May +7.3;-3.6)


Input: Current account Jan-May-$738 million (Jan-April-$748 million)


Input: NBH trade balance Jan-May-$934 million (Jan-April-$774 million)

NBH


Input: MIT trade balance Jan-June-$1.45 bln (Jan-May-$1.24 bln)

MIT


Input: Gross foreign debt May $27,246.5 million (April $28,716.8 million)


Input: Net foreign debt May $14,390.7 million (April $15,704.3 million)


Input: Unemployment (pct) July 10.8 pct (June 10.6 pct)


Input: Budget deficit (HUF) Jan-July 102 bln (Jan-June 122 bln)


Input: T-bill yields% (1mo) 22.95 (3mo) 23.02 (6mo) 23.53 (1yr) 24.40


Input: Government bond yields: (2-yr 1998/J) 25.49,(3-yr 1999/c) 24.44


Input: The NBH is BBB-minus by Duff & Phelps, IBCA and Thomson BankWatch, BB-plus by S&P, BA1 by Moody's Investors Service, BBB+ by the Japan Credit Rating Agency.

NBH

Duff & Phelps

IBCA

Thomson BankWatch

S&P

Moody's Investors Service

Japan Credit Rating Agency


Input: The NBH trade data is based on cash flow, MIT data on customs statistics.

NBH

MIT


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

Budapest


Input: Fifty Russians die in clash with rebels-Interfax.

Russians


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-22

MOSCOW


Input: At least 50 Russian servicemen have been killed in a battle with separatist rebels which erupted in the Chechen capital Grozny on Thursday and continued after Russia and the rebels agreed a truce, Interfax news agency said.

Russian

Chechen

Grozny

Russia

Interfax


Input: Interfax quoted Russian military command in Chechnya as saying that about 200 interior ministry forces, sent on reconaisance mission, clashed with rebels at Minutka Square.

Interfax

interior ministry

Russian

Chechnya

Minutka Square


Input: The Interfax report could not be independently confirmed.

Interfax


Input: Moscow peacemaker Alexander Lebed and rebel chief-of-staff Aslan Maskhadov signed an agreement earlier on Thursday under which the two sides would cease all hostilities at noon (0800 GMT) on Friday.

Moscow

Alexander Lebed

Aslan Maskhadov

GMT


Input: Interfax made clear that the interior ministry detachment had been sent on the mission before the truce deal had been signed at the local equivalent of 1500 GMT.

Interfax

interior ministry

GMT


Input: But fierce fighting still raged at 1600 GMT, Interfax said.

GMT

Interfax


Input: It quoted a source in the Russian command in Chechnya as saying that the servicemen were outnumbered by the rebels.

Russian

Chechnya


Input: Polish schoolgirl blackmailer wanted textbooks.

Polish


Input: GDANSK, Poland 1996-08-22

GDANSK

Poland


Input: A Polish schoolgirl blackmailed two women with anonymous letters threatening death and later explained that she needed money for textbooks, police said on Thursday.

Polish


Input: " The 13-year-old girl tried to extract 60 and 70 zlotys ($22 and $26) from two residents of Sierakowice by threatening to take their lives, " a police spokesman said in the nearby northern city of Gdansk on Thursday.

Sierakowice

Gdansk


Input: He said the women reported the blackmail letters and police caught the girl on Wednesday as she tried to pick up the cash at the Sierakowice railway station.

Sierakowice


Input: " Interviewed in the presence of a psychologist, she said she wanted to use the money for school books and clothes, " spokesman Kazimierz Socha told Reuters.

Kazimierz Socha

Reuters


Input: He said the case of the girl, from a poor family that had never been in trouble with the law, would go before a special court dealing with underage offenders.


Input: Czech CNB-120 index rises 1.2 pts to 869.3.

Czech


Input: PRAGUE 1996-08-22

PRAGUE


Input: The CNB-120 index, a broad daily measure of Czech equities, rose 1.2 points on Thursday to 869.3, the Czech National Bank (CNB) said.

Czech

Czech National Bank

CNB


Input: Eight of the ten sectoral indices rose, with the banking index rising the most, up 14.4 points to 1,294.5.


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

Prague Newsroom


Input: Russians, rebels sign deal in Chechnya.

Russians

Chechnya


Input: NOVYE ATAGI, Russia 1996-08-22

NOVYE ATAGI

Russia


Input: Russian President Boris Yeltsin's security supremo Alexander Lebed and Chechen rebel chief-of-staff Aslan Maskhadov signed a deal on Thursday aimed at ending three weeks of renewed fighting in the region.

Russian

Chechen

Boris Yeltsin

Alexander Lebed

Aslan Maskhadov


Input: The final contents of the document negotiated in this village south of the Chechen capital Grozny have not been officially disclosed.

Chechen

Grozny


Input: Itar-Tass news agency said it provided for the disengagement of Russian and rebel forces in Chechnya.

Itar-Tass

Russian

Chechnya


Input: Lebed aide says Russian-Chechen talks going well.

Lebed

Russian-Chechen


Input: NOVYE ATAGI, Russia 1996-08-22

NOVYE ATAGI

Russia


Input: Talks between Russia's Alexander Lebed and Chechen separatist leaders were going well on Thursday and the two sides were working out a detailed schedule on how to stop the war, a Lebed aide said.

Russia

Alexander Lebed

Lebed

Chechen


Input: Press spokesman Alexander Barkhatov told reporters the negotiations, being held at this rebel-held village some 20 km (12 miles) south of the Chechen capital Grozny, were progressing briskly and being conducted in a good mood.

Alexander Barkhatov

Chechen

Grozny


Input: He said a document would be completed in an hour's time for signature by the two sides, who were working on a " day-by-day schedule to stop the war in Chechnya. "

Chechnya


Input: Yeltsin shown on Russian television.

Yeltsin

Russian


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-22

MOSCOW


Input: Russian television showed a brief clip of Boris Yeltsin on Thursday, with the president laughing and smiling as he spoke to nominee health minister Tatyana Dmitrieva.

Russian

Boris Yeltsin

Tatyana Dmitrieva


Input: It was the first time the president had been shown on television since he was inaugurated for a second term in office on August 9.


Input: He returned to the Kremlin on Thursday after a two-day break in the lakelands of northwestern Russia.

Kremlin

Russia


Input: PRESS DIGEST-Bosnia-Aug 22.

Bosnia


Input: SARAJEVO 1996-08-22

SARAJEVO


Input: These are the leading stories in the Sarajevo press on Thursday.

Sarajevo


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

Reuters


Input: OSLOBODJENJE

OSLOBODJENJE


Input: -The Bosnian federation launches a common payment system on Friday.

Bosnian


Input: Under the new system taxes and customs may be paid in the Bosnian dinar, the Croatian kuna or the Deutsche mark until a new Bosnian currency is introduced.

Bosnian

Croatian

Bosnian


Input: -The president of the Bosnian Association for Refugees and Displaced Persons, Mirhunisa Komarica says many survivors of the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica are languishing as forced laborers in Serbian mines.

Bosnian Association for Refugees and Displaced Persons

Mirhunisa Komarica

Bosnian

Serbian

Srebrenica


Input: According to Komarica, 2,400 male residents of Srebrenica work in the Trepca mine and 1,900 work in a mine in Aleksandrovac.

Komarica

Srebrenica

Trepca

Aleksandrovac


Input: DNEVNI AVAZ

DNEVNI AVAZ


Input: -Slovenian police briefly detain two Bosnian opposition leaders in Ljubljana and cancel opposition political rallies in Ljubljana and Maribor.

Slovenian

Bosnian

Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Maribor


Input: -- Sarajevo newsroom, +387-71-663-864.

Sarajevo


Input: Grozny quiet overnight after raids.

Grozny


Input: ALKHAN-YURT, Russia 1996-08-22

ALKHAN-YURT

Russia


Input: The city of Grozny, pounded by Russian planes and artillery for hours on Wednesday, calmed down overnight, although sporadic explosions and shooting could still be heard.

Grozny

Russian


Input: Reuters correspondent Lawrence Sheets, speaking from the nearby village of Alkhan-Yurt, said he had heard little from Grozny since Wednesday evening's arrival of Russian security chief Alexander Lebed, who said he " came with peace ".

Reuters

Lawrence Sheets

Alexander Lebed

Alkhan-Yurt

Grozny

Russian


Input: A couple of helicopters flew over the city early on Thursday morning, but did not appear to be firing at anything.


Input: Lebed said on Wednesday he had clinched a truce with Chechen separatists and he promised to halt a threatened bombing assault on Grozny, which the rebels have held since August 6.

Lebed

Chechen

Grozny


Input: Boat passengers rescued off Colombian coast.

Colombian


Input: BOGOTA, Colombia 1996-08-22

BOGOTA

Colombia


Input: Colombia's Coast Guard on Thursday rescued 12 people lost for three days in an open boat off the Pacific coast, officials said.

Colombia

Pacific

Coast Guard


Input: The boat had been missing since Monday afternoon when it left the tiny island of Gorgona off Colombia's southwest coast with sightseers for a return trip to Narino province, near the border with Ecuador.

Gorgona

Colombia

Narino

Ecuador


Input: The boat ran out of fuel and did not have a radio to call for help, Navy spokesman Lt. Italo Pineda said.

Navy

Italo Pineda


Input: He said 11 passengers and one boatman survived on coconuts and rainwater during 65 hours lost at sea.


Input: The boat was towed to the port city of Buenaventura.

Buenaventura


Input: Argentine July raw steel output up 14.8 pct vs' 95.

Argentine


Input: BUENOS AIRES 1996-08-22

BUENOS AIRES


Input: Argentine raw steel output was 355,900 tonnes in July, 14.8 percent higher than in July 1995 and up 1.9 percent from June, Steel Industry Center said Thursday.

Argentine

Steel Industry Center


Input: Primary iron output was 297,700 tonnes, 14.5 percent more than last July and 0.1 percent more than in June.


Input: Hot laminate production was 349,000 tonnes, 3.2 percent up from July 1995 and 0.8 percent up from June.


Input: Production of cold laminates was 120,500 tonnes, 4.2 percent higher than the same month last year and 11 percent higher than in June.


Input: -- Jason Webb, Buenos Aires Newsroom +541 318-0655

Jason Webb

Buenos Aires Newsroom


Input: Peru's guerrillas kill one, take 8 hostage in jungle.

Peru


Input: LIMA, Peru 1996-08-21

LIMA

Peru


Input: Peruvian guerrillas killed one man and took eight people hostage after taking over a village in the country's northeastern jungle region, anti- terrorist police sources said on Wednesday.

Peruvian


Input: For three hours on Tuesday, around 100 members of the Maoist rebel group Shining Path took control of Alomella Robles, a small village about 345 miles (550 km) northeast of Lima, the sources said.

Maoist

Shining Path

Alomella Robles

Lima


Input: Some guerrillas made villagers listen to propaganda speeches in the village centre, others forced passing motorists out of their cars and daubed their vehicles with slogans.


Input: By Wednesday, the whereabouts of the eight hostages was still not known, the sources said.


Input: In recent months the Shining Path, severely weakened since the 1992 capture of its leader Abimael Guzman, has been stepping up both its military and propaganda activities.

Shining Path

Abimael Guzman


Input: Peru's guerrilla conflicts have cost at least 30,000 lives and $25 billion in damage to infrastructure since 1980.

Peru


Input: Former Surinam rebel leader held after shooting.

Surinam


Input: PARAMARIBO, Surinam 1996-08-21

PARAMARIBO

Surinam


Input: Flamboyant former Surinamese rebel leader Ronny Brunswijk was in custody on Wednesday charged with attempted murder, police said.

Surinamese

Ronny Brunswijk


Input: Brunswijk turned himself into police after Freddy Pinas, a Surinamese-born visitor from the Netherlands, accused Brunswijk of trying to kill him on Sunday after a bar-room brawl in the small mining town of Moengo, about 56 miles (90 km) east of Paramaribo, said police spokesman Ro Gajadhar.

Brunswijk

Freddy Pinas

Brunswijk

Ro Gajadhar

Surinamese-born

Netherlands

Moengo

Paramaribo


Input: Pinas, showing cuts and bruises on his face, told reporters the former head of the feared Jungle Command had tried and failed to shoot him after Pinas objected to Brunswijk's advances toward his wife.

Pinas

Pinas

Brunswijk

Jungle Command


Input: Pinas said Brunswijk then ordered his bodyguards to beat him up.

Pinas

Brunswijk


Input: Brunswijk, 35, denied the charges and said he had merely defended himself when Pinas attacked him with a bottle.

Brunswijk

Pinas


Input: It was the second time Brunswijk had been charged with attempted murder in less than two years.

Brunswijk


Input: In 1994 he served two months in prison for shooting a thief in the buttocks.


Input: Brunswijk led a rebel group of about 1,000 in a 1986 uprising against the regime of military strongman Desi Bouterse.

Brunswijk

Desi Bouterse


Input: The conflict, which killed more than 500 and caused thousands to flee to neighbouring French Guiana in the late 1980s, eventually paved the way to democratic elections in 1991.

French Guiana


Input: Despite numerous problems with authorities, Brunswijk went on to become a successful businessman with mining and logging interests.

Brunswijk


Input: He also manages and occasionally plays for one of the leading local soccer teams.


Input: Noisy saw leads Thai police to heroin hideaway.

Thai


Input: BANGKOK 1996-08-22

BANGKOK


Input: A Hong Kong carpenter was arrested in the Thai seaside town of Pattaya after police seized 18 kg (39.7 pounds) of heroin following complaints by residents of a noisy saw, police said on Thursday.

Hong Kong

Pattaya

Thai


Input: Cheung Siu Man, 40, was arrested late on Wednesday after police searched a house and found heroin in bags and hidden in hollow spaces in wooden planks, police said.

Cheung Siu Man


Input: The suspect said he was hired to make a wooden box from the planks in order to hide the heroin.


Input: Police went to the house after receiving complaints of sawing during the night over the course of several days.


Input: When they arrived to investigate, police saw people escaping from the back door so they decided to search the house.


Input: The seized heroin has an estimated street value of about 300 million baht ($12 million), police said.


Input: Officials are now hunting for the suspect's collaborators, police said.


Input: Cheung was being detained pending formal charges, police said.

Cheung


Input: Australia foreign minister arrives in China.

Australia

China


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-22

BEIJING


Input: Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer arrived in Beijing on Thursday for a four-day visit that follows rising friction between the two nations in recent weeks.

Australian

Alexander Downer

Beijing


Input: Downer was to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and sign an agreement on an Australian consulate in Hong Kong, an official of the Australian embassy in Beijing said.

Downer

Qian Qichen

Chinese

Australian

Australian

Hong Kong

Beijing


Input: China will resume sovereignty over Hong Kong, a British colony, in mid-1997.

China

Hong Kong

British


Input: Relations between China and Australia have been strained in recent weeks because of Australia's plan to sell uranium to China's rival Taiwan.

China

Australia

Australia

China

Taiwan


Input: Other issues affecting ties include plans by an Australian cabinet minister to visit Taiwan, a security pact between Canberra and Washington and a possible visit to Australia next month by Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

Australian

Taiwan

Canberra

Washington

Australia

Tibet

Dalai Lama


Input: Downer is the first Australian minister to visit China since the new conservative government took office in Canberra in March.

Downer

Australian

China

Canberra


Input: Palestinians accuse PA of banning books.

Palestinians

PA


Input: NABLUS, West Bank 1996-08-22

NABLUS

West Bank


Input: A West Bank bookseller charged on Thursday that the Palestinian Information Ministry has forced him to sign an undertaking not to distribute books written by critics of Israeli-PLO self-rule deals.

West Bank

Palestinian Information Ministry

Israeli-PLO


Input: " They made me sign an undertaking not to sell the books to anyone at the risk of legal action.


Input: One official told me' you have to either destroy the books or return them to Amman', " Daoud Makkawi, owner of the Nablus-based al-Risala bookshop, told Reuters.

Amman

al-Risala

Daoud Makkawi

Nablus-based

Reuters


Input: He said ministry officials made him sign this a few weeks ago after he brought about a dozen copies from Jordan of a book by Edward Said, a prominent scholar at New York City's Columbia University.

Jordan

New York City

Edward Said

Columbia University


Input: Said, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian origin, has been an outspoken critic of the 1993 Israeli-PLO self-rule deal and has written at least two books on the accord.

Said

U.S.

Palestinian

Israeli-PLO


Input: On Wednesday a bookseller in the West Bank town of Ramallah said police about a month ago confiscated several copies of two of Said's books on the Israel-PLO self-rule deals.

West Bank

Ramallah

Said

Israel-PLO


Input: Palestinian Information Ministry Director-General Mutawakel Taha denied that ministry officials forced anyone to sign any undertaking and insisted that the Palestinian Authority has no plans to censor books.

Palestinian Information Ministry

Palestinian Authority

Mutawakel Taha


Input: " There is no strategy to ban books or to suppress freedom of expression in any form whatsoever, " Taha told Reuters.

Taha

Reuters


Input: But Taha said that the absence of relevent legislations may have resulted in some mistakes by some security officials.

Taha


Input: " This may explain some mistakes against some journalists and writers, " he said.


Input: Daoud said books by other authors, including British Journalist Patrick Seale, were also banned.

Daoud

Patrick Seale

British


Input: He said that security officials often visit his shop to make sure he was not selling the books.


Input: " I think this is a bad beginning.


Input: If we have confidence, why should we be afraid of the other opinion? "


Input: Daoud said.

Daoud


Input: Thousands of books were banned from sale in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by the Israeli military authorities before the Jewish state handed over parts of the two areas to the PLO under a self-rule deal in 1994.

West Bank

Gaza Strip

Israeli

Jewish

PLO


Input: Egypt blames Istanbul control tower for accident.

Egypt

Istanbul


Input: CAIRO 1996-08-22

CAIRO


Input: The chairman of national carrier EgyptAir on Thursday blamed the control tower at Istanbul airport for the EgyptAir plane accident.

EgyptAir

EgyptAir

Istanbul


Input: Twenty people were injured on Wednesday when the EgyptAir Boeing 707 overshot the runway, caught fire, hit a taxi and skipped across a road onto a railway line.

EgyptAir

Boeing


Input: Chairman Mohamed Fahim Rayyan told a news conference at Cairo airport: " The control tower should have allocated the plane another runway, instead of the one the plane landed on. "

Mohamed Fahim Rayyan

Cairo


Input: " The one it landed on is 2,250 metres (2,460 yards) long while the other one if more than 3,000 metres (3,300 yards) long and is less steep, " he added.


Input: He said a Turkish civil aviation authority official had made the same point and he noted that a Turkish plane had a similar accident there in 1994.

Turkish

Turkish


Input: The EgyptAir pilot blamed Turkish airport staff for misleading him.

EgyptAir

Turkish


Input: The landing took place after a rainstorm.


Input: " Its not an accident.


Input: It's very wet.


Input: The brake action is very poor and the tower said it's medium.


Input: That's wrong, " the pilot told private Ihlas news agency in English.

Ihlas

English


Input: Egypt wants nothing to do with Sudanese rulers.

Egypt

Sudanese


Input: CAIRO 1996-08-22

CAIRO


Input: The Egyptian government will have nothing more to do with the Sudanese government because it continues to shelter and support Egyptian militants, President Hosni Mubarak said in a speech on Thursday.

Egyptian

Sudanese

Egyptian

Hosni Mubarak


Input: Egypt says the Sudanese government helped the Moslem militants who tried to kill Mubarak in Addis Ababa last year.

Egypt

Addis Ababa

Sudanese

Moslem

Mubarak


Input: It sponsored last week's U.N. Security Council resolution threatening a ban on Sudanese flights abroad if Khartoum does not hand over three men accused in the Addis Ababa incident.

U.N. Security Council

Sudanese

Khartoum

Addis Ababa


Input: The sanctions will come into effect in November if Sudan fails to extradite the men, but Sudan says it cannot hand them over to Ethiopia for trial because they are not in Sudan.

Sudan

Sudan

Ethiopia

Sudan


Input: " We are still eager that nothing should affect the Sudanese people but we will not deal with the current regime or the Turabi front or whatever, " Mubarak told a group of academics.

Sudanese

Turabi

Mubarak


Input: Hassan al-Turabi is the leader of the National Islamic Front, the political force behind the Sudanese government.

Hassan al-Turabi

National Islamic Front

Sudanese


Input: " I don't want to go into more details than that but there are more details and they are bitter.


Input: There are terrorists they are sheltering and they make Sudanese passorts for them and they get paid by them, " Mubarak said.

Sudanese

Mubarak


Input: He did not say if Egypt would go so far as to break relations, a step it has been reluctant to take, ostensibly because it would affect ordinary Sudanese.

Egypt

Sudanese


Input: Turkish shares shed gains in profit-taking.

Turkish


Input: ISTANBUL 1996-08-22

ISTANBUL


Input: Turkish shares ended lower on Thursday, shedding gains of earlier in the week amid profit-taking sales, brokers said.

Turkish


Input: The IMKB-100 lost 0.19 percent or 123.89 points to end at 64,178.78.


Input: Gains so far this week have totalled 2.92 percent.


Input: Daily volume dropped to 7.2 trillion lira from Wednesday's 7.8 trillion lira.


Input: " Profit-taking sales in the afternoon showed the latest gains of the index were actually a reaction rise.


Input: I expect the market to go as far down as 63,000 tomorrow if sales continue, " said Burcin Mavituna from Interbank.

Burcin Mavituna

Interbank


Input: Brokers said profit taking sales had come especially as the index approached the 65,000 resistance level.


Input: They said the index could also rise towards 65,000 if the cheap share prices attracted buyers.


Input: The market had its first resistance at 67,000 if it pierced 65,000, they added.


Input: The session's most active shares were those of Isbank gained 300 lira to 8,600.

Isbank


Input: Shares of utility Cukurova lost 3,000 lira to 67,000.

Cukurova


Input: The 85-share industrial index lost 0.47 percent to 70,848.86 and the 15-share financial index rose by 0.55 percent to 55,929.89.


Input: Of the 218 shares traded, gainers outdid losers by 100 to 64 and 54 shares were stable.


Input: -- Istanbul Newsroom, +90-212-275 0875 SA

Istanbul Newsroom


Input: Miss Universe hides behind veil of silence.

Miss Universe


Input: Kieran Murray

Kieran Murray


Input: LAS CRUCES, N.M. 1996-08-22

LAS CRUCES


Input: Miss Universe, Venezuela's Alicia Machado, left New Mexico on Thursday, refusing to answer questions about her weight or claims she was told to either go on a crash diet or give up her title.

Miss Universe

Venezuela

New Mexico

Alicia Machado


Input: Machado, 19, flew to Los Angeles after slipping away from the New Mexico desert town of Las Cruces, where she attended the 1996 Miss Teen USA pageant on Wednesday.

Machado

Los Angeles

New Mexico

Las Cruces

1996 Miss Teen USA


Input: While Machado was not a contestant here, she came under intense scrutiny following reports she was given an ultimatum by Los Angeles-based Miss Universe Inc. to drop 27 pounds (12 kg) in two weeks or risk losing her crown.

Machado

Los Angeles-based

Miss Universe Inc.


Input: In Venezuela, her mother told Reuters that Machado had a swollen face when she left home two weeks ago because she had her wisdom teeth extracted.

Venezuela

Reuters

Machado


Input: Marta Fajardo insisted her daughter, who weighed 112 pounds (51 kg) when she won the Miss Universe title in Las Vegas in May, had perfectly normal eating habits.

Marta Fajardo

Miss Universe

Las Vegas


Input: " Everybody has their own addiction to something or other but it's not as if she eats cakes like crazy, " she said.


Input: Organisers flatly denied ever threatening Machado but immediately put her under wraps and blocked access to her.

Machado


Input: Dressed in a black strapless evening gown at Wednesday's pageant, Machado was clearly heavier than the contestants but still won rave reviews after her brief appearance on stage.

Machado


Input: " Are you kidding?


Input: She's fantastic, " said Nikki Campbell, 28, who went to the pageant. "

Nikki Campbell


Input: She looked great.


Input: Very sexy. "


Input: Machado's publicists said on Thursday she was scheduled to stay in Los Angeles for promotional work with sponsors before returning to Venezuela on Sept.

Machado

Los Angeles

Venezuela


Input: Beauty queens are high-profile personalities in Venezuela and Machado's alleged weight problem made front page news this week.

Venezuela

Machado


Input: It was an official of the Miss Venezuela Organisation who first said Machado had been told to lose weight fast.

Miss Venezuela Organisation

Machado


Input: People close to her said she then eased up on her diet and indulged her passion for pasta and cake, but it was not clear how many pounds she gained and most people who saw her said she was still a long way from being fat.


Input: Martin Brooks, president of Miss Universe Inc, said he spoke with Machado to assure her that organisers were not putting pressure on her.

Martin Brooks

Machado

Miss Universe Inc


Input: " She's fine with it.


Input: She wished, as we all did, that it hadn't happened but she's spiritually and mentally terrific.


Input: There's no problem whatsoever, " he told Reuters.

Reuters


Input: He said the lifestyle associated with being Miss Universe could make routine exercise difficult.

Miss Universe


Input: " The problem is they travel so much and are so busy that the ability to have any type of regimented routine workout doesn't exist.


Input: I dont know if Alicia is working out.

Alicia


Input: We haven't talked about it because it hasn't been an issue, " he said.


Input: Kevorkian attends third suicide in week.

Kevorkian


Input: PONTIAC, Mich.

PONTIAC

Mich


Input: Dr. Jack Kevorkian attended his third suicide in less than a week on Thursday, bringing the body of a 40-year-old Missouri woman suffering from multiple sclerosis to a hospital emergency room, doctors said.

Jack Kevorkian

Missouri


Input: Dr Robert Aranosian, emergency room director at Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, said Kevorkian brought in the body of Patricia Smith, of Lees Summit, Mo.

Robert Aranosian

Kevorkian

Patricia Smith

Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital

Lees Summit

Mo


Input: , at midday and told doctors that she had been paralysed by the disease.


Input: It was his second assisted-suicide in 36 hours and the 37th that he has acknowledged attending since starting his crusade for doctor assisted suicide in 1990.


Input: Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, said those attending Smith's death included her husband, David, a police officer, her father, James Poland, and Kevorkian.

Kevorkian

Geoffrey Fieger

Smith

David

James Poland

Kevorkian


Input: It was the first known time that a police officer has been president at the suicide of one of Kevorkian's patients.

Kevorkian


Input: He offered no details about the cause of Smith's death or the location.

Smith


Input: She was a nurse who had " rapidly progressing multple sclerosis. "


Input: On Tuesday night, Kevorkian attended the death of Louise Siebens, a 76-year-old Texas woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Kevorkian

Louise Siebens

Lou Gehrig

Texas


Input: On August 15, Kevorkian helped Judith Curren, a 42-year-old Massachusetts nurse, who suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, a non-terminal illness, to end her life.

Kevorkian

Judith Curren

Massachusetts


Input: Fairview, Texas, $1.82 million deal Baa1-Moody's.

Fairview

Texas

Moody's


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-22

NEW YORK


Input: Moody's Investors Service-

Moody's Investors Service


Input: Rating Announcement As of 08/21/96.


Input: Issuer: Fairview Town

Fairview Town


Input: State: TX

TX


Input: Rating: Baa1


Input: Sale Amount: 1,820,000


Input: Expected Sale Date: 08/27/96


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

U.S. Municipal Desk


Input: Defiant U.S. neo-Nazi jailed by German court.

U.S.

neo-Nazi

German


Input: Andrew Gray

Andrew Gray


Input: HAMBURG, Germany 1996-08-22

HAMBURG

Germany


Input: A Hamburg court sentenced U.S. neo-Nazi leader Gary Lauck on Thursday to four years in prison for pumping banned extremist propaganda into Germany from his base in the United States.

Hamburg

U.S.

Germany

United States

neo-Nazi

Gary Lauck


Input: Lauck, from Lincoln, Nebraska, yelled a tirade of abuse at the court after his conviction for inciting racial hatred.

Lauck

Lincoln

Nebraska


Input: " The struggle will go on, " the 43-year-old shouted in German before being escorted out by security guards.

German


Input: Lauck's lawyer vowed he would appeal against the court's decision, arguing that his client should have been set free because he had not committed any offence under German law.

Lauck

German


Input: The German government hailed the conviction as a major victory in the fight against neo-Nazism.

German

neo-Nazism


Input: Lauck's worldwide network has been the main source of anti-Semitic propaganda material flowing into Germany since the 1970s.

Lauck

anti-Semitic

Germany


Input: " Lauck possessed a well-oiled propaganda machine, honed during more than 20 years, " presiding judge Guenter Bertram told the court.

Lauck

Guenter Bertram


Input: " He set up a propaganda cannon and fired it at Germany. "

Germany


Input: said Bertram, who also read out extracts from Lauck's material praising Hitler as " the greatest of all leaders " and describing the Nazi slaughter of millions of Jews as a myth.

Bertram

Lauck

Hitler

Nazi

Jews


Input: Eager to put Lauck behind bars quickly and avoid a long and complex trial, prosecutor Bernd Mauruschat limited his charges to offences since 1994.

Lauck

Bernd Mauruschat


Input: He had demanded a five-year jail term but said he was satisfied with the court's sentence.


Input: Publishing and distributing neo-Nazi material is illegal in Germany but Lauck's defence team had argued that U.S freedom of speech laws meant he was free to produce his swastika-covered books, magazines, videos and flags in his homeland.

neo-Nazi

Germany

U.S

Lauck


Input: Interior Minister Manfred Kanther said in a statement he " welcomed the prosecution and conviction of one of the ringleaders of international neo-Nazism and biggest distributers of vicious racist publications ".

Manfred Kanther

neo-Nazism


Input: " It is high time he was behind bars, " the opposition Social Democrats said in a statement.

Social Democrats


Input: Lauck, dressed in a sober blue suit and sporting his trademark Hitleresque black moustache, showed no sign of emotion as Bertram spent more than an hour reading out the verdict and explaining the court's decision.

Lauck

Bertram

Hitleresque


Input: But as Lauck was about to be led away, he turned to reporters and blurted out a virtually incomprehensible quick-fire diatribe against the court.

Lauck


Input: " Neither the National Socialists (Nazis) nor the communists dared to kidnap an American citizen, " he shouted, in an oblique reference to his extradition to Germany from Denmark. "

National Socialists

Nazis

American

Germany

Denmark


Input: That's the truth. "


Input: His attorney, Hans-Otto Sieg, told reporters outside the courtroom that the judges had not explained how a German court could judge someone for actions carried out in the United States.

Hans-Otto Sieg

German

United States


Input: Bertram said Lauck was obsessed by Nazism and devoted his life to leading his National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organisation (NSDAP-AO), which derives its name from the full German title of Hitler's Nazi party.

Bertram

Lauck

Hitler

Nazism

German

Nazi

National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organisation

NSDAP-AO


Input: During the three-month trial, the court dealt mainly with issues of the NSDAP-AO's " NS Kampfruf " (" National Socialist Battle Cry ") magazine, filled with references to Aryan supremacy and defamatory statements about Jews.

NSDAP-AO

NS Kampfruf

National Socialist Battle Cry

Aryan

Jews


Input: The court rejected Sieg's argument that Lauck's extradition from Denmark, where he was arrested in March last year at the request of German authorities, was illegal.

Sieg

Lauck

Denmark

German


Input: Lauck was also convicted of disseminating the symbols of anti-constitutional organisations.

Lauck


Input: He will probably be free in around two and a half years.


Input: The court ruled that the 15 months he has spent in custody since his arrest should be subtracted from his prison term.


Input: UN official says Iraqi deal will occur " soon ".

UN

Iraqi


Input: UNITED NATIONS 1996-08-22

UNITED NATIONS


Input: A senior U.N. official said on Thursday he expected arrangements to implement the Iraqi oil-for-food deal could be completed " quite soon. "

U.N.

Iraqi


Input: " I am reluctant to speculate but we are doing the preparations and the secretary-general is anxious to start the program, " said Undersecretary-General Yasushi Akashi.

Yasushi Akashi


Input: " It might be sooner than you think, " he told reporters after briefing the Security Council on arrangements for monitors needed to carry out the agreement.

Security Council


Input: Akashi is head of the Department of Humanitarian affairs.

Akashi

Department of Humanitarian affairs


Input: His deputy earlier speculated at least 10 days.


Input: Suspected killers of bishop dead -- Algeria TV.

Algeria TV


Input: PARIS 1996-08-22

PARIS


Input: Algerian security forces have shot dead three Moslem guerrillas suspected of killing a leading French bishop in western Algeria, the Algerian state-run television said on Thursday.

Algerian

Moslem

French

Algerian

Algeria


Input: Security forces also arrested four other men sought for giving support to the slain Moslem rebels, the television said.

Moslem


Input: The television, which did not say when the security forces killed the rebels, said the four arrested men confessed details of the assassination of the French Roman Catholic Bishop Pierre Claverie.

French

Roman Catholic

Pierre Claverie


Input: The 58-year-old Claverie was killed in August 1 in a bomb blast at his residence in the western Algerian city of Oran, hours after he met visiting French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette in Algiers.

Claverie

Herve de Charette

Algerian

French

Oran

Algiers


Input: An estimated 50,000 Algerians and more than 110 foreigners have been killed in Algeria's violence pitting Moslem rebels against the Algerian government forces since early 1992, when the authorities cancelled a general election in which radical Islamists took a commanding lead.

Algerians

Moslem

Algerian

Islamists

Algeria


Input: German flown cargo January-July rise 3.8 percent.

German


Input: FRANKFURT 1996-08-22

FRANKFURT


Input: The following table shows total flown air cargo volumes in tonnes handled at international German airports January-July 1996.

German


Input: The figures exclude trucked airfreight according to the German airports association ADV.

German

ADV


Input: Berlin (total) 17,844 up 5.9 pct

Berlin


Input: -Tegel 10,896 up 3.1

Tegel


Input: -Tempelhof 202 down 60.0

Tempelhof


Input: -Schoenefeld 6,746 up 16.8

Schoenefeld


Input: Bremen 1,453 up 13.1

Bremen


Input: Dresden 792 up 11.4

Dresden


Input: Duessseldorf 31,347 down 4.4

Duessseldorf


Input: Frankfurt 768,269 up 1.5

Frankfurt


Input: Hamburg 21,240 down 3.5

Hamburg


Input: Hannover 6,030 up 15.3

Hannover


Input: Koeln (Cologne) 182,887 up 11.8

Koeln

Cologne


Input: Leipzig/Halle 1,806 up 45.6

Leipzig

Halle


Input: Munich 44,525 up 11.8

Munich


Input: Muenster/Osnabrueck 382 up 28.2

Muenster

Osnabrueck


Input: Nuremberg 25,929 up 17.8

Nuremberg


Input: Saarbruecken 626 up 28.3

Saarbruecken


Input: Stuttgart 10,655 up 11.7

Stuttgart


Input: TOTAL 1,113,785 up 3.8


Input: -Air Cargo Newsroom Tel+44 161 542 7706 Fax+44 171 542 5017

Air Cargo Newsroom


Input: Paribas repeats buy on Aegon after results.

Paribas

Aegon


Input: AMSTERDAM 1996-08-22

AMSTERDAM


Input: Summary of Aug 22 research.


Input: Company-------------Price---Broker----------------


Input: Aegon 83.40 Paribas

Aegon

Paribas


Input: COMMENT: " Not only did Aegon surprise with earnings of 711 million guilders, which were above the top of the expected range, it also forecast a similar performance in the second half. "

Aegon


Input: Reiterates previous " buy " recommendation after results.


Input: Estimates (Dfl): EPS P/E Dividend

Dfl


Input: 1996 5.83 13.8 2.75


Input: 1997 6.59 12.2 3.10


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

Amsterdam


Input: Clinton's Ballybunion fans invited to Chicago.

Clinton

Ballybunion

Chicago


Input: DUBLIN 1996-08-22

DUBLIN


Input: U.S. President Bill Clinton had to drop the resort of Ballybunion from a whirlwind Irish tour last year.

U.S.

Bill Clinton

Ballybunion

Irish


Input: So Ballybunion is going to America instead.

Ballybunion

America


Input: Two residents of the Atlantic resort, where Clinton was to have played golf with the Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring, have been invited to the Democratic party convention in Chicago on August 26-29.

Atlantic

Chicago

Clinton

Dick Spring

Irish

Democratic


Input: They have been asked to bring with them the placards they waved when Clinton addressed Ireland at a packed ceremony in Dublin city centre on December 1, last year.

Clinton

Ireland

Dublin


Input: They read: " Ballybunion backs Clinton. "

Ballybunion

Clinton


Input: " The Democratic party have requested we bring our placards with us.

Democratic


Input: We will be guests of the Kennedys, " said Frank Quilter, one of the two who have been invited to Chicago.

Kennedys

Frank Quilter

Chicago


Input: Clinton made a triumphant Irish tour to back a Northern Ireland peace process but was forced to drop Ballybunion from a packed schedule at the last minute.

Clinton

Irish

Northern Ireland

Ballybunion


Input: Bonn says Moscow has promised to observe ceasefire.

Bonn

Moscow


Input: BONN 1996-08-22

BONN


Input: Germany said on Thursday it had received assurances from the Russian government that its forces would observe the latest ceasefire in Chechnya.

Germany

Chechnya

Russian


Input: Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Erdmann said top Bonn diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger had been assured by senior Russian officials that the ultimatum to storm and take the Chechen capital of Grozny was not valid.

Foreign Ministry

Martin Erdmann

Wolfgang Ischinger

Bonn

Grozny

Russian

Chechen


Input: " The Russian side confirmed that the ceasefire is in place and they will keep to it, " Erdmann told Reuters after speaking by telephone to Ischinger, who had met the officials on a two-day visit to Moscow.

Russian

Erdmann

Ischinger

Reuters

Moscow


Input: He returned to Bonn on Thursday.

Bonn


Input: Ischinger is the political director of Bonn's foreign ministry.

Ischinger

Bonn


Input: Ischinger said he met three Russian deputy foreign ministers and a vice defence minister, who confirmed Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov's pledge that Moscow would seek a political solution under the aegis of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Ischinger

Yevgeny Primakov

Russian

Russian

Moscow

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

OSCE


Input: " The ultimatum (to storm Grozny) is no longer an issue, " he said quoting Ischinger, who had been sent to Moscow by German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel as his personal envoy to urge an end to Moscow's military campaign in the breakaway region.

Grozny

Moscow

Moscow

Ischinger

Klaus Kinkel

German


Input: Ischinger said the threat of a major assault to take Grozny had been the unauthorised initiative of the commanding general and not Moscow's intention.

Ischinger

Grozny

Moscow


Input: The officials had been positive about Kinkel's request on Wednesday that President Boris Yeltsin's security chief Alexander Lebed should, on his return to Moscow, meet Tim Goldiman, the OSCE representative responsible for Chechnya, he said.

Kinkel

Boris Yeltsin

Alexander Lebed

Tim Goldiman

Moscow

Chechnya

OSCE


Input: India says sees no arms race with China, Pakistan.

India

China

Pakistan


Input: NEW DELHI 1996-08-22

NEW DELHI


Input: India said on Thursday that its opposition to a global nuclear test ban treaty did not mean New Delhi intended to enter into an arms race with neighbouring Pakistan and China.

India

New Delhi

Pakistan

China


Input: Foreign Minister I.K. Gujral was asked at a news conference if India's decision to block adoption of the accord in Geneva would lead to an arms race with Pakistan and China.

I.K. Gujral

India

Geneva

Pakistan

China


Input: " I don't see that possibility because India is not entering into any arms race, " he said. "

India


Input: Our not signing a new treaty does not mean we are going in for any new kind of weapons, particularly nuclear. "


Input: China, along with Britain, France, Russia and the United States, is a declared nuclear power.

China

Britain

France

Russia

United States


Input: India carried out a nuclear test in 1974 but says it has not built the bomb.

India


Input: Experts believe both India and Pakistan could quickly assemble nuclear weapons.

India

Pakistan


Input: Gujral said he did not expect India's veto of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to damage bilateral ties with other nations.

Gujral

India

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

CTBT


Input: " I do not visualise its straining our bilateral relations with any country.


Input: The text has already been blocked, " he said.


Input: Gujral said India would re-examine its position if the treaty, particularly a clause providing for its entry into force, was modified.

Gujral

India


Input: Asked what India would do if the pact were forwarded to the United Nations General Assembly, Gujral said: " That bridge I will cross when I come to it. "

India

United Nations General Assembly

Gujral


Input: In a written statement released at the news conference, Gujral reiterated India's objections to the treaty, under negotiation at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

Gujral

India

Geneva

Conference on Disarmament


Input: " It is a sad fact that the nuclear weapon states show no interest in giving up their nuclear hegemony, " the statement said.


Input: Gujral said India had national security concerns that made it impossible for New Delhi to sign the CTBT.

Gujral

India

New Delhi

CTBT


Input: " Our security concerns oblige us to maintain our nuclear option, " he said, adding that India had exercised restraint in not carrying out any nuclear tests since the country's lone test blast in 1974.

India


Input: He said: " We cannot accept constraints on our option as long as nuclear weapon states continue to rely on their nuclear arsenals for their security ".


Input: Britain says death of its citizen will sour ties.

Britain


Input: DHAKA 1996-08-22

DHAKA


Input: A British minister expressed his government's official disquiet on Thursday at the recent death of a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin at Dhaka airport.

British

British

Bangladeshi

Dhaka


Input: " I have told Bangladesh leaders that British goverment has attached serious importance to the resolution of the tragic death of Siraj Mia, " Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Liam Fox Fox, told reporters.

Bangladesh

British

Siraj Mia

Liam Fox Fox

Commonwealth


Input: Siraj Mia died at Dhaka airport on May 9 during interogation by customs officials after arriving from London.

Siraj Mia

Dhaka

London


Input: His body bore multiple injuries, and his relatives complained that he was murdered.


Input: A post-mortem report suggested he might have been tortured.


Input: But customs authorities said the passenger was drunk and died of loss of blood from a deep cut in his wrist after he hit a glass sheet.


Input: Fox, who arrived in Bangladesh on Tuesday on four-day visit, said Britain wanted Dhaka to act seriously on the case.

Fox

Bangladesh

Britain

Dhaka


Input: " This is one of the reasons of my visit here ...


Input: this is an important issue in our relationship ", said Fox, who is due to leave for Nepal on Friday.

Fox

Nepal


Input: Fox said the incident had strained relations between the two governments.

Fox


Input: He said the Mia's issue had been raised in the House of Commons.

Mia

House of Commons


Input: Fox said he had brought up the issue at every meeting he had had with government leaders in Dhaka.

Fox

Dhaka


Input: He said the Bangladesh government had assured him it was taking the matter seriously.

Bangladesh


Input: " The British government wants a thorough investigation and a just outcome, " he said.

British


Input: Fox said the British government wanted an end to the alleged harassment of its nationals at Dhaka airport by customs officials.

Fox

British

Dhaka


Input: Bangladesh's Criminal Investigation Department has charged two immigration officials in connection with Mia's killing.

Bangladesh

Criminal Investigation Department

Mia


Input: Mia, a father of five children, had a restaurant business in a London suburb.

Mia

London


Input: India fears attempts to disrupt Kashmir polls.

India

Kashmir


Input: SRINAGAR, India 1996-08-22

SRINAGAR

India


Input: India's Home (interior) Minister accused Pakistan on on Thursday of planning to disrupt state elections in troubled Jammu and Kashmir state.

India

Pakistan

Jammu

Kashmir


Input: " It seems that from across the border there is going to be a planned attempt to disrupt the elections, " Inderjit Gupta told reporters in the state capital Srinagar.

Inderjit Gupta

Srinagar


Input: The local polls next month will be the first since 1987 in the state, clamped under direct rule from New Delhi since 1990.

New Delhi


Input: India has often accused Pakistan of abetting militancy in the valley, a charge Islamabad has always denied.

India

Pakistan

Islamabad


Input: Gupta said there might be an increase in the number of people infiltrating the Kashmir valley to create disturbance in the region.

Gupta

Kashmir


Input: " We noticed among the people who come from across the border, there is a growing number of foreign mercenaries, " Gupta said.

Gupta


Input: India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over the troubled region of Kashmir since independence from Britain in 1947.

India

Pakistan

Kashmir

Britain


Input: Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda's centre-left government hopes the elections will help restore normality and democratic rule in Jammu and Kashmir, where more than 20,000 people have died in insurgency-related violence since 1990.

H.D. Deve Gowda

Jammu

Kashmir


Input: Over a dozen militant groups are fighting New Delhi's rule in the state.

New Delhi


Input: Dhaka stocks end up on gains by engineering, banks.

Dhaka


Input: DHAKA 1996-08-22

DHAKA


Input: Dhaka stocks edged up on sharply higher volume as engineering and cash shares gained amid buying by both small and institutional investors, brokers said.

Dhaka


Input: The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) all-share price index rose 8.05 points or 0.7 percent to 1,156.79 on a turnover of 146.2 million taka.

Dhaka Stock Exchange

DSE


Input: Of the total 119 issues traded 71 closed higher, 44 ended lower and four remained unchanged.


Input: National Bank rose 12.71 taka to 228.7, Eastern Cables gained 20.37 to 677.98 and Apex Tannery lost 22.72 to 597.

National Bank

Eastern Cables

Apex Tannery


Input: Brokers said the stocks recovered early losses to edge up at close because of institutional support and short-covering ahead of Friday weekend.


Input: India RBI chief sees cut in cash reserve ratio.

India

RBI


Input: NEW DELHI 1996-08-22

NEW DELHI


Input: The Reserve bank of India governor C. Rangarajan said on Thursday that he expected the cash reserve ratio (CRR) maintained by banks to be reduced over the medium term.

Reserve bank of India

C. Rangarajan


Input: " Over the medium term, yes, " he told Reuters after addressing industrialists in the capital.

Reuters


Input: He denied having said in a recent newspaper interview that the CRR could be raised if necessary.


Input: He said he was only trying (in that newspaper report) to explain the theoretical position on the use of the CRR by central banks to manage money supply.


Input: Rangarajan explained that the cash reserve ratio was an instrument that central banks could use to regulate money supply by reducing or increasing the ratio.

Rangarajan


Input: But in the current context, the government stood by an earlier commitment to reduce it over a period of time, he said in response to a question.


Input: -- New Delhi newsroom, +91-11-3012024

New Delhi


Input: Two pct India current account deficit viable-RBI.

India

RBI


Input: BOMBAY 1996-08-22

BOMBAY


Input: The Reserve Bank of India Governor Chakravarty Rangarajan said on Thursday that a current account deficit of two percent of gross domestic product (GDP) was sustainable given the currrent rate of growth.

Reserve Bank of India

Chakravarty Rangarajan


Input: " The current account deficit of around two percent of GDP is a sustainable level of deficit given the expected real growth rate and the trends in imports and exports, " Rangarajan said in an address to business leaders in New Delhi.

Rangarajan

New Delhi


Input: Rangarajan said a current account deficit of two percent brought about by a 16-17 percent annual growth in exports and a 14-15 percent rise in imports along with an increase in non-debt flows could lead to a reduction in the debt-service ratio to below 20 percent over the next five years.

Rangarajan


Input: -- Bombay newsroom +91-22-265 9000

Bombay


Input: Mother Teresa devoted to world's poor.

Mother Teresa


Input: CALCUTTA 1996-08-22

CALCUTTA


Input: Mother Teresa, known as the Saint of the Gutters, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for bringing hope and dignity to millions of poor, unwanted people with her simple message: " The poor must know that we love them. "

Mother Teresa

Saint of the Gutters

Nobel Peace Prize


Input: While the world heaps honours on her and even regards her as a living saint, the nun of Albanian descent maintains she is merely doing God's work.

Albanian

God


Input: " It gives me great joy and fulfilment to love and care for the poor and neglected, " she said. "


Input: The poor do not need our sympathy and pity.


Input: They need our love and compassion. "


Input: The diminutive Roman Catholic missionary was on respiratory support in intensive care in an Indian nursing home on Thursday after suffering heart failure.

Roman Catholic

Indian


Input: But an attending doctor said Mother Teresa, who turns 86 next Tuesday, was conscious and in stable condition.

Mother Teresa


Input: The task Mother Teresa began alone in 1949 in the slums of densely-populated Calcutta, and grew to touch the hearts of people around the world.

Mother Teresa

Calcutta


Input: When in 1979 she was told she had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she said characteristically: " I am unworthy. "

Nobel Peace Prize


Input: The world disagreed, showering more than 80 national and international honours on her including the Bharat Ratna, or Jewel of India, the country's highest civilian award.

Bharat Ratna

Jewel of India


Input: Her health began to deteriorate in 1989 when she was fitted with a heart pacemaker.


Input: A year later, the Vatican announced she was stepping down as Superior of her Missionaries of Charity order.

Vatican

Missionaries of Charity


Input: More than 100 delegates flew in from around the world to elect a successor.


Input: They could not agree, so asked her to stay on.


Input: She agreed.


Input: In 1991, Mother Teresa was treated at a California hospital for heart disease and bacterial pneumonia.

Mother Teresa

California


Input: In 1993, she fell in Rome and broke three ribs.

Rome


Input: In August the same year, while in New Delhi to receive yet another award, she developed malaria, complicated by her heart and lung problems.

New Delhi


Input: Last April she fractured her left collar bone.


Input: But her increasing frailty, arthritis and failing eyesight has not stopped her travels around the world to mingle with the poor and desperate.


Input: Mother Teresa was born Agnes Goinxha Bejaxhiu to Albanian parents in Skopje, in what was then Serbia, on August 27, 1910.

Mother Teresa

Agnes Goinxha Bejaxhiu

Albanian

Skopje

Serbia


Input: She attended a government school and was already deeply religious by the time she was 12.


Input: At the age of 18 she became a Loretto nun, hoping to work at the Order's Calcutta mission.

Loretto

Calcutta


Input: She was sent to Loretto Abbey in Dublin and from there to India to begin her novitiate and teach geography at a convent school in Calcutta.

Loretto Abbey

Dublin

India

Calcutta


Input: She said her divine call to work among the poor came in September, 1946. "


Input: The message was quite clear, " she told one interviewer. "


Input: I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.


Input: It was an order.


Input: I knew where I belonged. "


Input: The Vatican and the mother superior in Dublin approved and after intensive training as a nurse with American missionaries she opened her first Calcutta slum school in December 1949.

Vatican

Dublin

Calcutta

American


Input: She took the name of Teresa, after France's Saint Therese of the Child Jesus.

Teresa

Therese

Jesus

France


Input: In India she was simply called Mother.

India

Mother


Input: Mother Teresa set up her first home for the dying in a Hindu rest house in Calcutta after she saw a penniless woman turned away by a city hospital.

Mother Teresa

Hindu

Calcutta


Input: Named " Nirmal Hriday " (Tender Heart), it was the first of a chain of 150 homes for dying, destitute people, admitting nearly 18,000 a year.

Nirmal Hriday

Tender Heart


Input: Her Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious order she founded in 1949, now runs about 300 homes for unwanted children and the destitute in India and abroad.

Missionaries of Charity

Roman Catholic

India


Input: In 1994 a British television documentary called the myth around Mother Teresa a mixture of " hyperbole and credulity ".

British

Mother Teresa


Input: Catholics around the world rose to her defence.

Catholics


Input: RTRS-FOCUS-News forecasts alien-led profit boost.

RTRS


Input: Bernard Hickey

Bernard Hickey


Input: SYDNEY 1996-08-22

SYDNEY


Input: Media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Ltd reported lower than expected 1995/96 profits on Thursday, but forecast that the hit film " Independence Day " would help increase profits by at least 20 percent in 1996/97.

Rupert Murdoch

News Corp Ltd

Independence Day


Input: " From an earnings perspective, the current fiscal year has begun with great promise due to the hit motion picture' Independence Day,' " News Corp said in a statement announcing its results for the year to June 30, 1996.

Independence Day

News Corp


Input: It said moderating paper prices and solid orders for advertising at its Fox Broadcasting television network in the United States would also help boost profits in the 1996/97 year. "

Fox Broadcasting

United States


Input: A budgeted profit increase of at least 20 percent for the full year currently appears very attainable, " News Corp said.

News Corp


Input: The bullish comments for the coming year soothed analysts and most shareholders, who were disappointed by the lower than expected profit for 1995/96.


Input: News announced pre-abnormals net profit for the year fell six percent to A$ 1.26 billion (US$ 995 million) and earnings per share dropped to 40 cents from 46 cents.

News

A$

US$


Input: Analysts had on average expected a pre-abnormals profit of A$ 1.343 billion.

A$


Input: " The year just gone was disappointing, but the outlook for the current year looks good, " First Pacific media analyst Lachlan Drummond said.

First Pacific

Lachlan Drummond


Input: News Corp said strong performances in U.S. television and British newspapers were offset by lower profits from News Corp's magazine and publishing divisions and further hefty losses from its Asian Star TV operations.

News Corp

News Corp

Asian Star TV

U.S.

British


Input: Higher newsprint prices hit profits hard. "


Input: Throughout the group, higher paper prices increased costs by over US$ 300 million, " it said.

US$


Input: News Corp said British newspaper operating profits rose 10 percent for the year, as higher cover prices at The Sun and The Times and higher advertising volumes offset increased newsprint costs.

News Corp

The Sun

The Times

British


Input: Advertising revenues at The Times grew 20 percent.

The Times


Input: Analysts said sharply lower earnings from News Corp's book publishing division and its U.S. magazines had been the major surprises in the results for 1995/96.

News Corp

U.S.


Input: News Corp said revenue gains at its magazines and inserts division were offset by higher paper prices and lower sales at the U.S. TV Guide.

News Corp

TV Guide

U.S.


Input: News said dramatically lower earnings from the British arm of its Harper-Collins publishing division more than offset healthy results from its U.S. operation.

News

Harper-Collins

British

U.S.


Input: It said the demise of the Net Book Agreement had hurt the British operations, and weak performances from the San Francisco unit of Harper-Collins had not helped.

Net Book Agreement

British

San Francisco

Harper-Collins


Input: The minimum price setting expired last September when three publishers pulled out.


Input: But it was the bullish profit forecast for 1996/97 that took the spotlight in the market, with some analysts saying 20 percent may even be an understatement.


Input: " If they're saying at least 20 percent, then their internal forecasts are probably saying 25 or 30 percent, " said one Sydney media analyst who declined to be named.

Sydney


Input: News Corp's shares were down eight cents at A$ 6.39 at 2.00 p.m. (0400 GMT) in a soft market.

News Corp

A$

GMT


Input: (A$ 1 = US$ 0.79)

A$

US$


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

Sydney Newsroom


Input: RTRS-Budget cuts to boost Australia savings-RBA.

RTRS

RBA

Australia


Input: CANBERRA 1996-08-22

CANBERRA


Input: The Australian government's plans to slash its budget deficit should make a useful contribution to national savings, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said in its annual report.

Australian

Reserve Bank of Australia

RBA


Input: " The government's announced plans to balance the budget, if realised, would make a useful contribution to raising national savings, " the RBA said.

RBA


Input: The bank said there were concerns fiscal consolidation would unduly restrict growth, but evidence was ambiguous.


Input: In its 1996/97 budget announced on Tuesday, the Australian Coalition government announced an underlying budget deficit of A$ 5.65 billion, and pledged to return the underlying budget balance to surplus by 1998/99.

Australian

A$

Coalition


Input: The budget deficit was A$ 10.3 billion in 1995/96.

A$


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

Sydney Newsroom


Input: " Determined and credible efforts to rein in unsustainable fiscal positions (are) often rewarded by rising confidence, giving favourable effects on economic activity even in the short term, " it said.


Input: " More generally, the long-term effects of fiscal consolidation are clearly positive, with higher saving tending to promote economic growth by raising investment and lowering long-term real interest rates, " the RBA said.

RBA


Input: BNZ cuts NZ fixed home lending rates.

BNZ

NZ


Input: WELLINGTON 1996-08-22

WELLINGTON


Input: Bank of New Zealand said on Thursday it was cutting its fixed home lending rates.

Bank of New Zealand


Input: The rates are:


Input: New rate old rate


Input: Six month rate 10.5 pct 10.75


Input: One year 10.5 pct 10.95


Input: Two year 10.5 pct 11.25


Input: Three year 10.5 pct 11.25


Input: BNZ said it was responding to lower wholesale rates.

BNZ


Input: Fixed business and farm lending rates rates were left unchanged although they were under review.


Input: -- Wellington newsroom 64 4 4734 746

Wellington


Input: Power NZ ODV up 8 pct at NZ$ 524 million.

Power NZ ODV

NZ$


Input: WELLINGTON 1996-08-22

WELLINGTON


Input: Power New Zealand said on Thursday that the Optimised Deprival Value (ODV) of its network at March 31, 1996 has been set at $524.2 million, an increase of eight percent on its $486.5 million valuation a year earlier.

Power New Zealand


Input: The company said the increase reflected the value of extensions to the network to meet economic growth in its supply area and an increase in the estimated lifespan of the network.


Input: It said the increase was consistent with the approach followed by other power companies and reflected the company's new levels of preventative maintenance and equipment upgrading.


Input: The revaluation was undertaken to meet the disclosure


Input: requirements of the Ministry of Commerce.

Ministry of Commerce


Input: -- Wellington newsroom 64 4 4734 746

Wellington


Input: Thais hunt for Australian jail breaker.

Australian


Input: BANGKOK

BANGKOK


Input: Thailand has launched a manhunt for an Australian who escaped from a high security prison in Bangkok while awaiting trial on drug possession charges, officials said on Thursday.

Thailand

Bangkok

Australian


Input: Daniel Westlake, 46, from Victoria, made the first sucessful escape from Klongprem prison in the northern outskirts of the capital on Sunday night.

Daniel Westlake

Victoria

Klongprem


Input: He was believed by prison officials to still be in Thailand.

Thailand


Input: " We have ordered a massive hunt for him and I am quite confident we will get him soon, " Vivit Chatuparisut, deputy director general of the Correction Department, told Reuters.

Vivit Chatuparisut

Correction Department

Reuters


Input: Westlake, arrested in December 1993 and charged with heroin trafficking, sawed the iron grill off his cell window and climbed down the prison's five-metre (15-foot) wall on a rope made from bed sheets, Vivit said.

Westlake


Input: The corrections department was probing the escape and had ordered all foreign inmates chained to prevent more breakouts.


Input: There are 266 Westerners, including six Australians, in the prison, most awaiting trial on drugs charges.

Westerners

Australians


Input: There also are about 5,000 Thai inmates in Klongprem, a prison official said.

Thai

Klongprem


Input: Tokyo Soir-1996 parent forecast.

Tokyo Soir


Input: TOKYO 1996-08-22

TOKYO


Input: Year to December 31, 1996


Input: (in billions of yen unless specified)


Input: LATEST ACTUAL


Input: (Parent) FORECAST YEAR-AGO


Input: Sales 26.00 26.70


Input: Current 400 million 329 million


Input: Net 250 million 84 million


Input: EPS 11.61 yen 3.92 yen


Input: Ord div 10.00 yen 10.00 yen


Input: NOTE-Tokyo Soir Co Ltd is a specialised manufacturer of women " s formal wear.

Tokyo Soir Co Ltd


Input: Ka Wah Bank sets HK$ 43 mln FRCD.

Ka Wah Bank

HK$


Input: HONG KONG 1996-08-22

HONG KONG


Input: Ka Wah Bank's HK$ 43 million floating rate certificate of deposit issue has been privately placed, sole arranger HSBC Markets said.

Ka Wah Bank

HSBC Markets

HK$


Input: The facility has a tenor of six months.


Input: It pays a coupon of 15 basis points over the six-month Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate.

Hong Kong Interbank


Input: Other details are not available.


Input: The deposit date is September 5, 1996.


Input: Clearing is through the Hong Kong Central Moneymarkets Unit.

Hong Kong Central Moneymarkets Unit


Input: -- Hong Kong Newsroom (852) 2847 4039

Hong Kong Newsroom


Input: Malaysia bans nitrofuran usage in chicken feed.

Malaysia


Input: KUALA LUMPUR 1996-08-22

KUALA LUMPUR


Input: Malaysia has banned the use of nitrofuran, an antibiotic, in chicken feed and veterinary applications because it believes the drug could cause cancer, the health ministry said on Thursday.

Malaysia


Input: " It is hoped that livestock breeders and feedmillers will abide by the laws and respect the cabinet decision in the interest of consumer safety, " Health Minister Chua Jui Meng was quoted as saying by the national Bernama news agency.

Chua Jui

Bernama


Input: Chua said offenders could face a two-year prison sentence and a maximum fine of 5,000 ringgit ($2000).

Chua


Input: " The ban takes effect immediately, " he added.


Input: INDONESIAN STOCKS-factors to watch-August 22.

INDONESIAN


Input: JAKARTA 1996-08-22

JAKARTA


Input: Following are some of the main factors likely to affect Indonesian stocks on Thursday:

Indonesian


Input: ** Security was tight in Jakarta ahead of a trial involving ousted Indonesian Democratic Party leader Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Jakarta

Indonesian Democratic Party

Megawati Sukarnoputri


Input: Around 200 police and troops were stationed outside the court in central Jakarta but there was no sign of demonstrators.

Jakarta


Input: ** The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 31.44 points at 5,689.82 on Wednesday, ending a three-session winning streak as investors took profits and tobacco stocks took a beating.

Dow Jones


Input: MARKETS:


Input: ** The Jakarta composite index rose 2.60 points, or 0.48 percent, to 542.20 points on Wednesday on the back of bargain-hunting in selected big-capitalised stocks and secondliners.

Jakarta


Input: ** On Thursday, the Indonesian rupiah was at 2,343.00/43.50 in early trading against an opening of 2,342.75/43.50.

Indonesian


Input: STOCKS TO WATCH


Input: ** Packaging manufacturer Super Indah Makmur on announcement of a tender offer by PT VDH Teguh Sakti, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore-listed Van Der Horst.

Super Indah Makmur

PT VDH Teguh Sakti

Van Der Horst

Singapore-listed


Input: ** Privately-owned Bank Duta on market talk that it is obtaining fresh syndicated loans, a management reshuffle and fresh equity injection.

Bank Duta


Input: ** Ciputra Development on reports of a plan to build property projects worth $2 billion in Jakarta and Surabaya.

Ciputra Development

Jakarta

Surabaya


Input: Key stock and currency market movements at 1600 GMT.

GMT


Input: LONDON 1996-08-23

LONDON


Input: The following table shows the latest close of key indices* on major world stock exchanges, the day's change in points and the indices' 1996 closing highs and lows (with dates).


Input: Also shown are the London closing values of the German mark, the Japanese yen, the British pound and gold bullion (previous day's closes in brackets):

London

German

Japanese

British


Input: AUG 23 DAY'S CHANGE 1996 HIGH 1996 LOW


Input: CLOSE IN POINTS


Input: NEW YORK 5,710.53-22.94 5,778.00 5,032.94

NEW YORK


Input: (midday) (May 22) (Jan 10)


Input: LONDON 3,907.5 +16.4 3,907.5 3,632.3

LONDON


Input: (Aug 23) (Jul 16)


Input: TOKYO 21,228.80-134.44 22,666.80 19,734.70

TOKYO


Input: (Jun 26) (Mar 13)


Input: FRANKFURT 2,555.16-2.10 2,583.49) 2,284.86

FRANKFURT


Input: (Jul 5) (Jan 2)


Input: PARIS 2,020.82 +3.06 2,146.79 1,897.85

PARIS


Input: (Apr 30) (Jan 11)


Input: SYDNEY 2,292.9 +18.3 2,326.00 2,096.10

SYDNEY


Input: (Apr 26) (Jul 17)


Input: HONG KONG 11,424.64-54.13 11,594.99 10,204.87

HONG KONG


Input: (Feb 16) (Jan 2)


Input: FOREIGN EXCHANGE/GOLD BULLION CLOSE IN LONDON

LONDON


Input: Dollar/mark ...


Input: 1.4871 (1.4935)


Input: Dollar/yen ....


Input: 108.50 (108.43)


Input: Pound/dollar ..


Input: $1.5520 ($1.5497)


Input: Gold (ounce) ..


Input: $387.50 ($386.95)


Input: *INDICES USED AND THEIR ALL-TIME CLOSING HIGHS


Input: New York Dow Jones industrial average -- 5,778.00 (May 22/96)

New York

Dow Jones


Input: London FTSE-100 index -- 3,907.5 (Aug 23/96)

London


Input: Tokyo Nikkei average -- 38,915.87 (Dec 29/89)

Tokyo

Nikkei


Input: Frankfurt DAX-3O index -- 2,583.49 (Jul 5/96)

Frankfurt


Input: Paris CAC-40 General index -- 2,355.93 (Feb 2/94)

Paris

CAC-40 General


Input: Sydney Australian All-Ordinaries index -- 2,340.6 (Feb 3/94)

Sydney

Australian All-Ordinaries


Input: Hong Kong Hang Seng index -- 12,201.09 (Jan 4/94)

Hong Kong

Hang Seng


Input: Ukraine hails peace as marks five-year independence.

Ukraine


Input: Rostislav Khotin

Rostislav Khotin


Input: KIEV 1996-08-23

KIEV


Input: Ukraine celebrates five years of independence from Kremlin rule on Saturday, hailing civil and inter-ethnic peace as its main post-Soviet achievement.

Ukraine

Kremlin

post-Soviet


Input: Ukraine's declaration of independence in 1991, backed nine-to-one by a referendum in December of that year, effectively dealt a death blow to the Soviet empire and ended more than three centuries of rule from Moscow.

Ukraine

Moscow

Soviet


Input: Ukraine, with a Russian community of 11 million people -- the world's largest outside Russia -- has avoided conflicts like those in Russia's Chechnya, neighbouring Moldova, and the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan.

Ukraine

Russia

Russia

Chechnya

Moldova

Georgia

Azerbaijan

Tajikistan

Russian

Soviet


Input: " Ukraine's biggest achievements for five years are the preservation of civil peace and inter-ethnic harmony, " President Leonid Kuchma said in televised statement this week.

Ukraine

Leonid Kuchma


Input: " Unlike many other post-Soviet countries we were able to deal with conflict situations in a peaceful and civilised way. "

post-Soviet


Input: But independence was initially accompanied by hyper-inflation and economic collapse, although there are signs of a turnaround.


Input: Inflation -- a hyper-inflationary 10,300 percent a year in 1993 -- was a respectable 0.1 percent a month in June and July and the economy has just begun to grow.


Input: Kuchma told a solemn ceremony at the Ukraina Palace on Friday that " there was a turning point " in reforms and that he expected a rise in the standard of living in the near future.

Kuchma

Ukraina Palace


Input: " There is no doubt that economic growth has already started, " said Adelbert Knobl, head of the International Monetary Fund's mission in Ukraine. "

Adelbert Knobl

International Monetary Fund

Ukraine


Input: The national bank and the government have every reason to be proud of their efforts. "


Input: Central bank officials said on Thursday that a much-postponed hryvna currency would " definitely " be introduced before the end of this year.


Input: It will replace the interim karbovanets currency, which was introduced at par to the Russian rouble in 1992 but now trades at almost 33 karbovanets per rouble.

Russian


Input: Ukraine has repeatedly promised to introduce the hryvna but had to postpone the plans because of economic problems.

Ukraine


Input: Proud of its record in promptly joining both the Council of Europe and NATO's Partnership for Peace, Ukraine caused a foreign policy wrangle this week, offending China by allowing a Taiwanese minister to appear on a public, if unofficial visit.

Council of Europe

NATO

Partnership for Peace

Taiwanese

Ukraine

China


Input: China cancelled a visit by a top-level delegation in protest.

China


Input: Kiev's Foreign Minister Hennady Udovenko said Beijing was overreacting.

Kiev

Beijing

Hennady Udovenko


Input: But Ukraine, seeing itself as a bridge between Russia and the rapidly Westernising countries of eastern Europe, is looking West as well as East.

Ukraine

Russia

Europe

Westernising


Input: " The strategic aim of European integration should not in any way damage Ukraine's interests in post-Soviet areas.

European

post-Soviet

Ukraine


Input: Relations with Russia, which is our main partner, have great importance, " Kuchma said.

Russia

Kuchma


Input: " But Ukraine cannot be economically oriented on Russia, even though those in some circles push us to do that. "

Ukraine

Russia


Input: Kuchma has said Kiev wants membership of the European Union, associate membership of the Western European Union defence grouping and to move closer to NATO.

Kuchma

Kiev

European Union

Western European Union

NATO


Input: A message from the West this week from U.S. President Bill Clinton congratulated Ukraine on the anniversary, promising to support market reforms and praising Ukraine as a " stabilising factor " in a united Europe.

U.S.

Ukraine

Ukraine

Europe

Bill Clinton


Input: Oldest Albania book disappears from Vatican-paper.

Albania

Vatican


Input: TIRANA 1996-08-23

TIRANA


Input: A 16th-century document, the earliest complete example of written Albanian, has disappeared from the Vatican archives, an Albanian newspaper said on Friday.

Albanian

Albanian

Vatican


Input: Gazeta Shqiptare said the " Book of Mass', by Gjon Buzuku, dating from 1555 and discovered in 1740 in a religious seminary in Rome, was the first major document published in the Albanian language.

Gazeta Shqiptare

Book of Mass

Albanian

Gjon Buzuku

Rome


Input: " We Albanians, sons of Buzuku, believed our language had a written document but now we do not have it any more, " lamented scholar Musa Hamiti, told of the loss by the Vatican library.

Albanians

Buzuku

Musa Hamiti

Vatican


Input: Tirana's national library has three copies of the " Book of Mass'. "

Tirana

Book of Mass


Input: There is nothing left for us but to be grateful to civilisation for inventing photocopies, " Gazeta Shqiptare said.

Gazeta Shqiptare


Input: Russia to clamp down on barter deals.

Russia


Input: MOSCOW 1996-08-23

MOSCOW


Input: Russian officials, keen to cut capital flight, will adopt tight measures to cut barter deals in foreign trade to a minimum, a customs official said on Friday.

Russian


Input: " We have always been concerned about barter deals with other countries, viewing them as a disguised kind of capital flight from Russia, " Marina Volkova, deputy head of the currency department at the State Customs Committee, told Reuters.

Russia

Marina Volkova

State Customs Committee

Reuters


Input: Volkova said last year goods had been exported under many Russian barter deals, with nothing imported in return.

Volkova

Russian


Input: She said the cost of such unimported goods was $1.10 billion in 1995.


Input: Barter deals were worth $4.9 billion last year, or about eight percent of all Russian exports estimated at $61.5 billion, she said.

Russian


Input: " The cost of exported goods is too often understated, so the actual share of barter deals in Russian exports and the amount of unimported goods may be even higher, " Volkova said.

Russian

Volkova


Input: A few days ago Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree on state regulation of foreign barter deals, and Volkova said this " could substantially improve the situation ".

Russian

Boris Yeltsin

Volkova


Input: In line with the decree, which will come into force on November 1, all Russian barter traders will be obliged to import goods worth the cost of their exports within 180 days.

Russian


Input: " If traders are late, they will have to pay fines worth the cost of their exported goods, " Volkova said.

Volkova


Input: Understating the cost of exported goods could still be a loophole for barter dealers, but Volkova said the authorities are currently " tackling the technicalities of the issue ".

Volkova


Input: Barter has always been a feature of the Soviet Union's foreign trade, but Yeltsin's decrees liberalising foreign trade in 1991-1992 has given barter a new impetus.

Soviet Union

Yeltsin


Input: A few years ago, barter deals accounted for up to 25-30 percent of Russian exports because " thousands (of) trade companies which popped up preferred barter in the absence of reliable Russian banks and money transfer systems ", Volkova said.

Russian

Russian

Volkova


Input: " Now many Russian banks are strong and can make various sorts of money tranfers, while incompetent traders are being ousted by more experienced ones.

Russian


Input: But the current share of barter deals in Russian exports is still high, " she said.

Russian


Input: -- Dmitry Solovyov, Moscow Newsroom, +7095 941 8520

Dmitry Solovyov

Moscow Newsroom


Input: Viacom plans " Mission " sequel-report.

Viacom

Mission


Input: LOS ANGELES 1996-08-22

LOS ANGELES


Input: Paramount Pictures is going ahead with a sequel to the Tom Cruise blockbuster, " Mission: Impossible " and hopes to release it in the summer of 1998, Daily Variety reported in its Friday edition.

Paramount Pictures

Daily Variety

Tom Cruise

Mission: Impossible


Input: The big-screen version of the spy TV series has grossed $175 million domestically since opening May 22, and $338 million overseas so far.


Input: It's the biggest success for Viacom Inc-owned Paramount since 1994's " Forrest Gump ".

Viacom Inc-owned

Forrest Gump

Paramount


Input: However, many critics complained its plot was incomprehensible.