Input: " They could cause serious damage as much as 500 meters (yards) away from wherever they were detonated, " the spokesman added.


Input: He said police backed by explosive experts were combing the area in search of other possible weapons or explosive devices.


Input: The police spokeman said plastic explosive like C-4 is not a normal component in claymore mines.


Input: But he said the eight mines seized by police had been " specially adapted. "


Input: The spokesman declined further comment, except to say that two women and a man identified as a lawyer had been arrested in connection with the landmines.


Input: Assault charges dropped against Surinam ex-rebel.

Surinam


Input: PARAMARIBO, Surinam 1996-08-30

PARAMARIBO

Surinam


Input: Flamboyant former Surinamese guerrilla leader Ronny Brunswijk walked free on Friday after charges of attempted murder were dropped, police said.

Surinamese

Ronny Brunswijk


Input: Brunswijk had been in police custody for 10 days after Freddy Pinas, a Surinamese-born visitor from the Netherlands, accused Brunswijk of trying to kill him in a bar-room brawl in the mining town of Moengo 56 miles (90 km) east of Paramaribo.

Brunswijk

Freddy Pinas

Brunswijk

Surinamese-born

Netherlands

Moengo

Paramaribo


Input: Brunswijk, 35, denied the charge and reached an agreement with Pinas after replacing a golden necklace lost in the scuffle.

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 for shooting a thief in the backside.


Input: Brunswijk, who led a rebel group against the military regime of Desi Bouterse in the late 1980s, is now a successful businessman with mining and logging interests.

Brunswijk

Desi Bouterse


Input: Cambodian opposition newspaper editor pardoned.

Cambodian


Input: PHNOM PENH 1996-08-30

PHNOM PENH


Input: Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk on Friday gave a royal pardon to an opposition newspaper editor who had alleged top-level corruption.

Cambodia

Norodom Sihanouk


Input: Hen Vipheak, former editor of the Sereipheap Thmei (New Liberty) newspaper, stepped through the gates of the run-down French colonial-era T3 prison late Friday afternoon, following intervention on his behalf by King Sihanouk.

Hen Vipheak

Sihanouk

Sereipheap Thmei

New Liberty

French


Input: The Supreme Court had on August 23 sent the opposition Khmer Nation Party steering committee member to jail after upholding rulings by the municipal and appeal courts that handed down a five million riels ($2,000) fine and one year's imprisonment.

Supreme Court

Khmer Nation Party


Input: The judge overturned a decision to shut down Hen Vipheak's newspaper.

Hen Vipheak


Input: The editor was prosecuted following a May 1995 article alleging top-level corruption.


Input: Sihanouk promised an amnesty to Hen Vipheak, along with fellow KNP member and journalist Chan Rattana, who was released after serving a week of a year-long jail term in June.

Sihanouk

Hen Vipheak

Chan Rattana

KNP


Input: Co-Premiers Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Hun Sen agreed earlier this week to the king's request for an amnesty.

Norodom Ranariddh

Hun Sen


Input: Far East Gold-Moribund market seen continuing.

Far East


Input: Mishi Saran

Mishi Saran


Input: HONG KONG 1996-08-30

HONG KONG


Input: Far East gold traders thumped foreheads in frustration at the market's foot-dragging this week and forecast on Friday that next week would not be much better.

Far East


Input: The Southeast Asian gold market was more or less a photo-fit picture of the previous week's position with activity slow and bullion prices trapped in a well-worn range awaiting a seasonal upturn in demand and prices into the fourth quarter.

Southeast Asian


Input: Singapore premiums for Australian kilo bars were quoted unchanged at between 25-45 cents an ounce over spot loco London prices, with South Korean and Indonesian-origin premiums also steady at 10-20 cents an ounce.

Singapore

London

Australian

South Korean

Indonesian-origin


Input: Singapore dealers said they were concerned that there had been a marked revival in offers to sell gold by South Korean traders, following the distress sales of recent months after the Seoul government's crackdown on bullion arbitrage trade.

Singapore

Seoul

South Korean


Input: " I was shocked to see these offers coming in again, though there's been no indication of price or volume.


Input: I dread to think what will happen to the premiums if the Koreans start selling in force, " one dealer said.

Koreans


Input: Continued dishoarding of kilo-bars by Indonesian sources ahead of next year's presidential election has also kept a lid on premiums.

Indonesian


Input: Gold closed down at $387.00/$387.50 an ounce in Hong Kong on Friday, versus New York's $387.60/$388 finish on Thursday.

Hong Kong

New York


Input: Dealers said the precious metal eased on a report that the International Monetary Fund might sell some of its gold to reduce the debts of the poorest developing countries.

International Monetary Fund


Input: Easier silver prices mid-week helped keep spot gold locked in a $386-$389 an ounce range, dealers said, but they remained optimistic that the usual seasonal pick-up in jewellery fabrication demand would see gold at $395 by end-October.


Input: " I still think we'll see gold at $395 by the end of October, in a retracement of the $418-$380 move we saw at the start of the year, " one said.


Input: Silver, basis the September contract on New York's Comex market, was expected to find support at between $5.12-$5.15 an ounce and meet resistance from $5.25-$5.30, they added.

New York


Input: September silver closed up $0.004 in New York on Thursday at $5.255 an ounce.

New York


Input: Tripoli decks out for coup celebrations.

Tripoli


Input: Mona Eltahawy

Mona Eltahawy


Input: TRIPOLI 1996-08-30

TRIPOLI


Input: Libyans are dressing up their capital Tripoli for celebrations on Sunday of the 27th anniversary of the coup which brought Muammar Gaddafi to power.

Libyans

Tripoli

Muammar Gaddafi


Input: Green flags and banners praise the " great revolution " and promise defiance against United Nations sanctions imposed for Libya's refusal to hand over for trial two suspects wanted in connection with the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland.

United Nations

Pan Am

Libya

Lockerbie

Scotland


Input: " We have chosen the challenge because it is our only option, " proclaimed one banner on the road to Tripoli airport which serves only internal flights because of the sanctions.

Tripoli


Input: Huge stadium lights are directed at the city's Green Square where makeshift stages await Sunday's festivities.

Green Square


Input: Three African leaders -- from Niger, Guinea and Ghana -- are expected to attend the celebrations marking September 1, 1969 when a group of young army officers, led by a 27-year-old Gaddafi, deposed King Mohammed Idris.

African

Niger

Guinea

Ghana

Gaddafi

Mohammed Idris


Input: " The revolution has brought us great achievements ...


Input: We are comfortable the revolution has taken care of us, improved our lives and given us capabilites, " Samer Ammar Soliman, 42, told Reuters as he came out of Friday prayers.

Samer Ammar Soliman

Reuters


Input: But some Libyans have begun to show their discontent in the country's east, which has become a hotbed of militant violence.

Libyans


Input: Tripoli-based diplomats and exiled opponents said Gaddafi's airforce blasted in July rebel strongholds in the mountainous Jebel al-Akhdar region.

Tripoli-based

Gaddafi

Jebel al-Akhdar


Input: Travellers arriving in Egypt say militants and police officers clash regularly in Benghazi.

Egypt

Benghazi


Input: At least 20 people were killed in the capital in early July after bodyguards loyal to Gaddafi's sons fired at spectators of a football match who were chanting subversive slogans.

Gaddafi


Input: Gaddafi has dismissed any unrest as the work of foreigners, and last year deported thousands of Sudanese and Egyptian workers.

Gaddafi

Sudanese

Egyptian


Input: Twilight zone for Wall Street as political race heats up.

Wall Street


Input: Pierre Belec

Pierre Belec


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-30

NEW YORK


Input: For Wall Street, this is the season to be cautious as the presidential contest puts the stock market in the twilight zone.

Wall Street


Input: President Clinton, Bob Dole and Ross Perot are hitting the road now that the partying is over, and people who have billions of dollars invested in stocks were bracing for political promises that could have an impact on their wealth.

Clinton

Bob Dole

Ross Perot


Input: Analysts believe that the candidates will add to the market's list of uncertainties, which already includes the question of whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to cool economic growth.

Federal Reserve


Input: They say the politicians will need to promote legislation that helps the economy without scaring the socks off financial markets.


Input: " The worst thing that could happen for financial markets is that if Clinton and Dole start to trade shots in the middle of the ring with one-upmanship, " said Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer at First Albany Corp. " That's when Wall Street will need to worry. "

Clinton

Dole

Hugh Johnson

First Albany Corp.

Wall Street


Input: He said that the bond market would be the first to react if the " bidding " intensifies and stocks would quickly drop as interest rates rise.


Input: " I don't think it would imply the collapse of the stock market, unless the rise in rates touches off a dynamic within the market, which would include selling by portfolio managers, redemptions by individuals of mutual funds that would, in turn, pressure the portfolio managers to sell even more stock. "


Input: This week, the market weighed Dole's proposal to lower federal income taxes by 15 percent across the board, a package that carries a price tag of $548 billion.

Dole


Input: Clinton proposes an $8.4 billion re-election agenda that would spare most home-sellers from capital gains taxes and give employers tax incentives to hire people off the welfare rolls.

Clinton


Input: Clinton claims Dole's plan would increase the deficit, while the White House said some corporate taxes would be raised to offset the cost of the president's plan.

Clinton

Dole

White House


Input: The experts said there are some unusual risks for the market from this year's political season because the rush to promise tax cuts to win votes could upset Wall Street's expectations that Washington will balance the budget.

Wall Street

Washington


Input: " The stock market will have to edit the promises and then do a probability study on those edited promises, " said John Geraghty at the consulting firm North American Equity Services.

John Geraghty

North American Equity Services


Input: During the past four presidential elections, the candidate that has favoured tax cuts has won.


Input: Ronald Reagan's tax cut won him a second four-year term in the White House in 1984, while Democrat Walter Mondale, who promised higher taxes, lost.

Ronald Reagan

Walter Mondale

White House

Democrat


Input: George Bush became president in 1988 on his no-new-tax campaign and Clinton won in 1992 with a promise to fatten workers' paychecks.

George Bush

Clinton


Input: The trick, they said, will be for the candidates to continue to convince Wall Street that the Treasury's 30-year bond -- the most closely-watched interest rate -- will fall to between 4 percent and 5 percent by the end of the decade.

Wall Street

Treasury


Input: Johnson said that long-term interest rates have already been spooked by the election.

Johnson


Input: The long-term bond jumped this week to 7.13 percent after starting the year at 5.95 percent.


Input: The surge of buying in stocks during the last two years has come amid an environment of low interest rates, which has boosted corporate profits.


Input: But the market stalled this summer after the Dow Jones industrial average set a record high of 5,778.00 points on May 22.

Dow Jones


Input: " The market doesn't seem to be able to make new highs and it has been back and forth in a fairly horizontal mode which looks like a holding pattern, " said Geraghty.

Geraghty


Input: He said the market reflects the political uncertainty, now that Dole has sharply narrowed the gap with Clinton in the polls.

Dole

Clinton


Input: Geraghty said that the one thing that could completely turn the election around are new findings in the Whitewater scandal that would damage the Clintons.

Geraghty

Clintons

Whitewater


Input: " Stocks are on a delicate edge because if something happens that looks like it could upset the presidency, it could throw the political and, to some extent the economic, process into chaos, " Geraghty said.

Geraghty


Input: Right now, Wall Street is pondering the candidates.

Wall Street


Input: " We have an election where there are so many unknown variables that most people will probably want to hold fire, and even take the chance that they will have to pay higher prices for stocks after the November election, than take the risk that a shock to the system will hurt the stock market, " Geraghty said.

Geraghty


Input: On Friday, the Dow Jones index closed down 31.44 points at 5,616.21.

Dow Jones


Input: For the week, it was down 106.53 points.


Input: The Nasdaq composite index closed 3.53 points lower Friday at 1,141.50.

Nasdaq


Input: For the week, it was down 1.55 points.


Input: The Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks was off 5.41 points at 651.99, down 15.03 points for the week.

Standard & Poor


Input: The American Stock Exchange index was down 1.66 points at 559.68, and was off 1.26 for the week.

American Stock Exchange


Input: Brisk economic reports rattle markets anew.


Input: Glenn Somerville

Glenn Somerville


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-30

WASHINGTON


Input: Factory orders rose in July and manufacturing surged in the Midwest in August, reports said Friday, sparking worries about inflation that battered financial markets for a second straight day.

Midwest


Input: The Commerce Department said orders for manufactured goods climbed 1.8 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted $317.6 billion -- nearly twice the increase that had been expected.

Commerce Department


Input: Shipments of everything from new cars to food items rose, as did order backlogs, in a sign that the strength in the industrial sector would continue in coming months.


Input: A separate report from Chicago area purchasing managers underlined the strength in manufacturing as the group's barometer of manufacturing in the region jumped to 60 in August from 51.2 in July.

Chicago


Input: A reading above 50 indicates growth in manufacturing.


Input: While production and orders rose at Midwest area businesses, the prices they paid for goods used in manufacturing remained well in check.

Midwest


Input: Analysts said the reports implied the economy was not slowing down in the third quarter after a burst of growth in the spring, and that the lull in late June and July was more temporary than Federal Reserve policy-makers had wanted.

Federal Reserve


Input: " It appears that August is showing an economy again reversing course and is not moving onto a significantly slower track at this point, " said economist Lynn Reaser of Barnett Banks Inc. in Jacksonville, Fla.

Lynn Reaser

Barnett Banks Inc.

Jacksonville

Fla


Input: The reports fanned worries on Wall Street that the Fed, the nation's central bank, would raise rates next month in a bid to ward off inflation, driving stock and bond prices sharply lower for a second day running.

Wall Street

Fed


Input: The 30-year Treasury fell almost a point, raising its yield, which moves in the opposite direction from the price, to 7.12 percent from 7.04 percent late Thursday.

Treasury


Input: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 31.44 points to 5,616.21 after a 64.73-point decline Thursday.

Dow Jones


Input: A third report from the Commerce Department, on July personal income and spending, pointed to a potential slowdown in consumer spending that some analysts said may help moderate growth in the second half.

Commerce Department


Input: It showed spending rose only 0.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $5.15 trillion after dropping a revised 0.4 percent in June.


Input: Incomes from wages, salaries and all other sources gained 0.1 percent to a rate of $6.47 trillion after a 0.9 percent jump in June.


Input: July's slight gain in incomes was the weakest in six months, since January when they were flat.


Input: Economist Joel Naroff of First Union bank in Philadelphia said consumer spending, which fuels two-thirds of the nation's economy, may be much slower in the third quarter than in the first half, which should slow economic growth.

Joel Naroff

First Union

Philadelphia


Input: " The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) has been forecasting a slowing in economic activity and moderating household demand will have a large impact on overall economic growth, " Naroff said in a written comment.

FOMC

Federal Open Market Committee

Naroff


Input: The policy-making FOMC is to meet on Sept.

FOMC


Input: 24 to plot interest-rate strategy.


Input: It already has adopted a bias toward raising rates to keep a lid on wage and price rises and help sustain the 5-1/2-year-old economic expansion.


Input: In an interview on the cable television network CNBC Friday, Federal Reserve Governor Lawrence Lindsey said there still were " mixed signals " about the economy's direction.

CNBC

Federal Reserve

Lawrence Lindsey


Input: " I think that, on balance, it is looking a little bit on the strong side, " Lindsey said.

Lindsey


Input: He added that with expansion as solid as it is and with unemployment so low " the greater risks are clearly that we might see some overheating. "


Input: While July consumer spending rose only slightly, there were ample indications that consumers remained confident.


Input: The University of Michigan's August index of consumer sentiment, made available on Friday to paying subscribers, rose to 95.3 from 94.7 in July.

University of Michigan


Input: Reaser said strong consumer confidence coupled with relatively lean inventories were providing manufacturers with a reason to gear up production.

Reaser


Input: " The economy is not going to be expanding at the 4.8 percent (annual) rate that we had in the second quarter but it is likely to keep expanding in the 3 percent range, " she said, above the 2 percent to 2-1/4 percent that the Fed considers to be non-inflationary.

Fed


Input: New orders to factories were strong for durable goods like new cars and for nondurables like paper and food products.


Input: Orders for durable goods, meant to last three years or more, rose a revised 1.7 percent in July after falling 0.2 percent in June.


Input: Orders for nondurables jumped 1.8 percent following a 1.2 percent decrease in June.


Input: Mexican avocados not expected in U.S.

Mexican

U.S


Input: Maggie McNeil

Maggie McNeil


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-30

WASHINGTON


Input: U.S. Agriculture Department officials said Friday that Mexican avocados -- which are restricted from entering the continental United States -- will not likely be entering U.S. markets any time soon, even if the controversial ban were lifted today.

U.S. Agriculture Department

Mexican

United States

U.S.


Input: " The opportunity to import (Mexican avocados) probably won't become possible for another year, " said Paul Drazek, senior trade advisor to Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman.

Mexican

Paul Drazek

Dan Glickman


Input: " We could lift the ban tomorrow, but that would not mean anything immediately, " said Drazek. "

Drazek


Input: We probably would not see avacados come in until next season, next November. "


Input: The Agriculture Department proposed more than a year ago to significantly ease an 82-year ban on Mexican avocados.

Agriculture Department

Mexican


Input: Under the administration's proposal, the borders to the Mexican produce would be opened into 19 Northern and Northeastern states from November through February.

Mexican


Input: The plan has raised a storm of protest from U.S. avocado growers, who are largely concentrated in California.

U.S.

California


Input: California growers have charged that removing the restrictions, even on a limited basis, would endanger the $1 billion U.S. industry if potentially harmful Mexican insects were brought into the country along with the avocados.

California

U.S.

Mexican


Input: Mexican officials contend that there is no scientific basis for the ban, and that it is illegal under international trading rules of the World Trade Organisation.

Mexican

World Trade Organisation


Input: Proponents of the plan discount the worries of the U.S. growers and say the plan has enough safeguards built into it to eliminate any significant threat to American producers.

U.S.

American


Input: Under the proposal, only imports of export-quality avocados growing in approved orchards in Michoacan, Mexico, the country's main avocado area, would be allowed.

Michoacan

Mexico


Input: Mexican growers and distributors would have to abide by strict rules established by the Mexican and U.S. agriculture agencies.

Mexican

Mexican

U.S.


Input: The California Avocado Commission -- which has spearheaded the opposition to lifting the ban -- said new data the group submitted to the Agriculture Department last spring shows the department underestimated the pest problem in Mexico and have urged that the agency reopen its study of the issue.

California Avocado Commission

Agriculture Department

Mexico


Input: The administration is still studying the new data, and officials have said that if experts think the information is significant, the agency could reopen its investigation.


Input: But U.S. avocado industry sources said that while they may have delayed the plan for a while, they ultimately do not expect the administration to change its position.

U.S.


Input: " From a common-sense view, the department should reconsider this plan, but due to politics they will probably go ahead with this, " said Tom Bellamore of the California avocado group.

Tom Bellamore

California


Input: Administration officials said they want to get the issue resolved as quickly as possible, but said there is no timetable they are working under.


Input: " It's a very complicated issue, " said the Agriculture Department's Drazek. "

Agriculture Department

Drazek


Input: We'll get it resolved as quickly as we can, based on the best available science. "


Input: U.S. Cardinal Bernardin says has terminal cancer.

U.S.

Bernardin


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-30

CHICAGO


Input: Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, head of the second-largest U.S. Roman Catholic archdiocese, said on Friday his doctors had diagnosed him as having liver cancer and he had a year or less to live.

Chicago

U.S.

Joseph Bernardin

Roman Catholic


Input: Bernardin, 68, underwent extensive surgery for pancreatic cancer in June 1995 followed by months of chemotherapy, which he said made him more aware of his own vulnerabilities and the need to minister to the sick.

Bernardin


Input: " On Wednesday, examinations indicated that the cancer has returned, this time in the liver.


Input: I am told that it is terminal and that my life expectancy is one year or less, " a composed Bernardin told a news conference.

Bernardin


Input: In 14 years as Chicago's archbishop, he built a prayerful, saintly image and was deeply involved in world church issues and publicly committed to rooting out abuses by clergy.

Chicago


Input: " I have been assured that I still have some quality time left, " he said, saying he would undergo a new form of chemotherapy but his doctors have told him there was only a slim chance of a cure and the liver cancer was inoperable.


Input: " It's not going to be easy to say goodbye to everybody.


Input: Death does have some sad dimensions to it but I am a man of faith, " he said. "


Input: Death is a natural phenomenom. "


Input: He said he would " serve until the end " as cardinal.


Input: Pancreatic cancer is among the most deadly forms of the disease, although Bernardin's case was caught early.

Bernardin


Input: Surgeons removed a cancerous kidney, parts of his pancreas and stomach, small intestine, bile duct and surrounding tissues.


Input: He made a rapid recovery and resumed most of his duties, but then developed a deteriorating condition in his spine that caused him great pain and shortened his height by several inches.


Input: He was scheduled to undergo back surgery next month, but that was cancelled when the cancer was discovered in his liver in order to avoid delaying the start of chemotherapy.


Input: The spare, soft-spoken son of an Italian stonecutter took over the Chicago archdiocese, the nation's second-largest after Los Angeles, with 2.3 million parishioners, in 1982.

Italian

Chicago

Los Angeles


Input: Ironically, Bernardin, who developed a progressive, much-praised programme to deal with pedophilia involving priests, became the highest-ranking church official ever accused of sexual improprieties when a former seminary student leveled charges in 1993 that he had been sexually abused by Bernardin during the 1970s.

Bernardin

Bernardin


Input: Bernardin steadfastly denied the charges and the former student later recanted his tale of abuse.

Bernardin


Input: Bernardin prayed with him before he died from AIDS last year.

Bernardin

AIDS


Input: Bernardin, who became archbishop of Cincinnati in 1972, played an increasingly prominent role in the U.S. church as a moderate voice of compromise among liberals and conservatives in the ranks of the bishops.

Bernardin

Cincinnati

U.S.


Input: This month, he announced that he would oversee a series of conferences to find " common ground " among American Catholics.

American Catholics


Input: Previously, he was instrumental in drafting church policy on war, peace and nuclear arms, and for seven years he headed the bishops' anti-abortion policy committee, espousing a policy describing human life as a " seamless garment. "


Input: Boatmen's deal could spark more mergers.

Boatmen's


Input: Brad Dorfman

Brad Dorfman


Input: CHICAGO 1996-08-30

CHICAGO


Input: The $9.5 billion proposed acquisition of Boatmen's Bancshares Inc. by NationsBank Corp. could spark a flurry of other mergers involving Missouri banks, which until last year were protected from outside buyers by state regulations.

Boatmen's Bancshares Inc.

NationsBank Corp.

Missouri


Input: " NationsBank just strolled into the Midwest and bagged the biggest banking trophy in the landscape, " said Michael Ancell, banking industry analyst at Edward D. Jones & Co. "

NationsBank

Edward D. Jones & Co

Midwest

Michael Ancell


Input: Whoever wants a big market position in the Midwest has to come in and grab Mercantile or Commerce. "

Midwest

Mercantile

Commerce


Input: St. Louis-based Mercantile Bancorp Inc., a bank holding company with $18.04 billion in assets, was seen by many analysts as the most attractive Missouri franchise in size after Boatmen's.

St. Louis-based

Mercantile Bancorp Inc.

Boatmen's

Missouri


Input: Kansas City, Mo.-based Commerce Bancshares Inc., with $9.32 billion in assets, also could help a regional bank establish a strong presence in the lower Midwest, analysts added.

Kansas City

Midwest

Mo.-based

Commerce Bancshares Inc.


Input: " It focuses more attention on Mercantile, Commerce and Roosevelt, " said James Weber, analyst at A.G. Edwards & Sons.

Mercantile

Commerce

Roosevelt

A.G. Edwards & Sons

James Weber


Input: Roosevelt Financial Group Inc is a $9.33 billion asset-St.

Roosevelt Financial Group Inc

asset-St.


Input: Louis based thrift.

Louis


Input: " Now ... the most coveted bank out there is Mercantile, " Weber said.

Mercantile

Weber


Input: Mercantile and Commerce did not return phone calls seeking comment.

Mercantile

Commerce


Input: Among those seen as having an interest in buying in Missouri are Minneapolis-based First Bank System Inc. and Norwest Corp., Ohio-based KeyCorp and Banc One Corp., and First Chicago NBD Corp. in Illinois.

Missouri

Illinois

Minneapolis-based

Ohio-based

First Bank System Inc.

Norwest Corp.

KeyCorp

Banc One Corp.

First Chicago NBD Corp.


Input: Representatives of First Bank, Norwest, Banc One and First Chicago said the banks do not comment on rumors of possible mergers or acquisitions.

First Bank

Norwest

Banc One

First Chicago


Input: KeyCorp, contacted by phone, would not comment.

KeyCorp


Input: With a presence in nine states and $41 billion in assets,


Input: Boatmen's was the prize in Missouri, where barriers to outside acquirers were brought down last year by a federal banking statute.

Boatmen's

Missouri


Input: " Boatmen's was the plum of Missouri and was the plum of the central Midwest, " Weber said.

Boatmen's

Missouri

Midwest

Weber


Input: Talk that the Missouri banks were seeking inflated prices from buyers was seen as a reason a deal has not occurred sooner.

Missouri


Input: But NationsBank's bid, representing a premium of 40 percent for Boatmen's stock, was large enough to get the deal done.

NationsBank

Boatmen's


Input: " I think Boatmen's was shopping itself, and everybody knew if you wanted to be the winning buyer here, you had to make the bid nobody would beat, " Ancell said.

Boatmen's

Ancell


Input: But some analysts cautioned that other targets should not expect as large a premium.


Input: They also questioned whether NationsBank can recoup shareholder value with such a large bid for Boatmen's.

NationsBank

Boatmen's


Input: " I think initially some stocks will trade up on sympathy, but the wild premium NationsBank put on this deal here, I don't see a lot of other deals being done at this premium, " said Michael Durante, analyst at McDonald & Co.

NationsBank

McDonald & Co

Michael Durante


Input: U.S. tight-lipped on Libya's award to Farrakhan.

U.S.

Libya

Farrakhan


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-30

WASHINGTON


Input: The State Department refused to speculate on Friday on what might happen in the case of Louis Farrakhan, the U.S. black leader who was awarded a $250,000 human rights prize by Libya.

State Department

Louis Farrakhan

U.S.

Libya


Input: " I'm not going to speculate about what may or may not happen in that case, " State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said. "

State Department

Glyn Davies


Input: ... The view of the U.S. government on (Farrakhan's) not accepting any gifts from Libya is well-known. "

U.S.

Libya

Farrakhan


Input: Davies also noted: " We've talked about the passport restriction for travel to Libya " but he did not elaborate.

Davies

Libya


Input: The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday denied Farrakhan's application to receive the $250,000 award or a $1 billion donation Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had pledged to Farrakhan's Nation of Islam group after they met last January.

U.S. Treasury Department

Nation of Islam

Farrakhan

Muammar Gaddafi

Farrakhan

Libyan


Input: Farrakhan organised last October's Million Man March that brought thousands of black men to Washington for a peaceful rally.

Farrakhan

Million Man March

Washington


Input: The Treasury Department said Libya was on the U.S. list of states that sponsor international terrorism and noted that Tripoli has refused to hand over two Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Treasury Department

Libya

U.S.

Tripoli

Lockerbie

Scotland

Libyan

Pan Am flight 103


Input: That refusal led to the imposition of U.N. sanctions on Libya.

U.N.

Libya


Input: U.S. Gulf rig down by one to 162 in week.

U.S. Gulf


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-30

NEW YORK


Input: There were 162 rigs under contract in the U.S. Gulf as of August 30, down one from the prior week, Offshore Data Services said.

U.S. Gulf

Offshore Data Services


Input: The utilization rate for rigs working in the Gulf, based on a total fleet of 181, was 89.5 percent.

Gulf


Input: The number of working rigs in European/Mediterranean remained unchanged this week, with 105 rigs under contract out of a total fleet of 105, a utilization rate of 100 percent.

European

Mediterranean


Input: The worldwide rig count fell by one to 554 out of a total fleet of 608, making the utilization rate 91.1 percent.


Input: -- New York Energy Desk 212-859-1620

New York Energy Desk


Input: Dole team seeking to pin down debate details.

Dole


Input: IRVINE, Calif 1996-08-30

IRVINE

Calif


Input: Now that the party conventions are over, Republicans have signalled they are ready to move into the next phase of the campaign and meet with President Clinton's aides to hammer out details of presidential debates.

Republicans

Clinton


Input: The Dole campaign released a letter Friday inviting their Clinton counterparts to meet with Dole campaign manager Scott Reed to discuss particulars of the televised debates.

Dole

Clinton

Dole

Scott Reed


Input: " Next week, a small group of representatives from each of our campaigns should meet to address participants, format, timing and logistical issues surrounding the debates, " Dole campaign manager Scott Reed wrote to Clinton campaign manager Peter Knight.

Dole

Scott Reed

Clinton

Peter Knight


Input: Tentative dates for the debates are Sept.


Input: 25, Oct. 9 and Oct. 16.


Input: The vice presidential debate is scheduled for Oct. 2.


Input: Former South Carolina Gov.

South Carolina


Input: Carroll Campbell, who was on Dole's vice presidential short list before Dole decided on Jack Kemp, will head Dole's team.

Carroll Campbell

Dole

Dole

Jack Kemp

Dole


Input: A decision is expected by mid-September on whether Texas billionaire Ross Perot, the Reform Party candidate, will be allowed to participate in the debates, which are sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a non-profit, non-partisan organisation that took over the forums in 1988 from the League of Women Voters.

Texas

Ross Perot

Reform Party

Commission on Presidential Debates

League of Women Voters


Input: Titanic recovery mission is scrapped.

Titanic


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-30

NEW YORK


Input: Equipment problems and mechanical failure forced a recovery expedition to give up efforts to retrieve a giant slab of the RMS Titanic from the ocean floor, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

RMS Titanic


Input: A 20-ton piece of the Titanic's steel hull, which had been attached by cables to a recovery ship off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, fell back to the bottom of the sea, said Erin Purcell of Boston-based Reagan Communications that represents two of the ships used in the expedition.

Titanic

Boston-based

Newfoundland

Canada

Erin Purcell

Reagan Communications


Input: The piece of hull, lifted from the ocean floor by means of several diesel-filled bags, had been stuck about 200 feet (about 70 metres) below the water's surface before it fell, she said.


Input: It fell as recovery crews were trying to haul the piece into more shallow water and several of the bags burst and cables snapped, she said.


Input: The steel-hulled Titanic, thought to be unsinkable, struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and sank, killing 1,523 of the 2,200 passengers and crew on board.

Titanic


Input: The wreck was located in 1985.


Input: Passengers who had paid $1,500 and up to accompany the recovery expedition on two cruise ships had returned back to port on Thursday, Purcell said.

Purcell


Input: Bonn appeals for Middle East peace.

Bonn

Middle East


Input: BONN 1996-08-30

BONN


Input: The German government urged Israelis and Palestinians on Friday to avoid any course of action that might jeopardise the peace process in the Middle East.

German

Israelis

Palestinians

Middle East


Input: Israel announced this week the expansion of Jewish West Bank settlements surrounding Jerusalem and the demolition of an Arab community centre in East Jerusalem.

Israel

West Bank

Jerusalem

East Jerusalem

Jewish

Arab


Input: City officials there said the centre was being erected illegally.


Input: But Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said the moves by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government were tantamount to war.

Palestinian

Yasser Arafat

Benjamin Netanyahu


Input: Tension has been rising in the region since.


Input: " We believe that the Israeli settlement policy in the occupied areas is an obstacle to the establishment of peace, " German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Erdmann said.

Israeli

German

Foreign Ministry

Martin Erdmann


Input: " All concerned must avoid taking any course of action that could pose an obstacle to the peace process and which could make a peaceful solution difficult, " he said, as news came of a renewed breakdown in Arab-Israeli peace talks in Jerusalem.

Arab-Israeli

Jerusalem


Input: Erdmann told reporters Bonn supported European Union efforts to persuade Israel to stop further Jewish settlement on the West Bank.

Erdmann

Bonn

Israel

West Bank

European Union

Jewish


Input: The foreign ministry later announced Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy would visit Bonn for talks with his German counterpart Klaus Kinkel next month.

Israeli

German

David Levy

Klaus Kinkel

Bonn


Input: The ministry said Levy and Kinkel would discuss the Middle East process and German-Israeli relations at their meeting on September 9.

Levy

Kinkel

Middle East

German-Israeli


Input: Levy's visit would be the first by an Israeli cabinet minister since Netanyahu's conservative government took power in une this year, the ministry said.

Levy

Netanyahu

Israeli


Input: Before Levy's arrival in Bonn, German Defence Minister Volker Ruehe will visit Israel from September 2 to 4, the defence ministry said.

Levy

Volker Ruehe

Bonn

Israel

German


Input: Ruehe planned to meet his Israeli counterpart Yitzhak Mordechai and Israeli President Ezer Weizman, the ministry said.

Ruehe

Yitzhak Mordechai

Ezer Weizman

Israeli

Israeli


Input: He was also expected to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu and opposition leader Shimon Peres for talks.

Netanyahu

Shimon Peres


Input: France expels African, Air France unions protest.

France

African

Air France


Input: PARIS 1996-08-30

PARIS


Input: France on Friday expelled another African man seized in a police raid on a Paris church as about 100 Air France workers denounced " charters of shame " used to fly illegal immigrants home.

France

Paris

African

Air France


Input: A Guinean man, detained in a round-up in the Saint-Bernard church a week ago, was deported on a scheduled Air France flight to Conakry after his appeals failed, a spokesman for Air France's pro-Socialist CFDT union said.

Guinean

Saint-Bernard

Conakry

Air France

Air France

CFDT


Input: He was apparently the eighth African deported from among 210 people evicted from the church after a 50-day occupation aimed at securing residence permits, unions said.

African


Input: Most of the others have been released after a brief stay in detention.


Input: About 100 people from the CFDT and the Communist-led CGT unions marched outside Air France headquarters at Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris against the use of civilian jets and staff in deporting illegal immigrants.

CFDT

CGT

Air France

Communist-led

Charles de Gaulle

Paris


Input: " We must obtain a formal commitment from (Air France chairman) Christian Blanc that no plane, no personnel be used to transform our air companies into charters of shame, " CFDT spokesman Francois Cabrera said.

Air France

CFDT

Christian Blanc

Francois Cabrera


Input: He said civilians should not be police accomplices.


Input: Twenty-three out of 25 charters flying illegal immigrants home since Prime Minister Alain Juppe's government took office in May 1995 have been civilian jets.

Alain Juppe


Input: The other two were military jets.


Input: Separately, Juppe confirmed the conservative government was preparing to submit a draft bill to parliament to tighten laws on illegal workers as part of a crackdown on immigration.

Juppe


Input: " Legislation is insufficient in several areas, notably in those concerning illegal work, " Juppe told reporters.

Juppe


Input: German police probe sex link in child kidnap case.

German


Input: BERLIN 1996-08-30

BERLIN


Input: German police searching for a missing 10-year-old schoolgirl said on Friday the prime suspects in the case may have been involved in running a child prostitution ring.

German


Input: Police suspect Nicole Nichterwitz's aunt and a male companion abducted the girl and took her to the Netherlands.

Nicole Nichterwitz

Netherlands


Input: She was last seen being collected by the pair from school in Velten near Berlin on Monday.

Velten

Berlin


Input: Public prosecutors said they had found a list of children's names and ages at the couple's flat.


Input: The list was being studied for possible links to previous child kidnappings and prostitution, a prosecutors' spokesman told Reuters.

Reuters


Input: Missing German girl found alive at Dutch campsite.

German

Dutch


Input: GRONINGEN, Netherlands 1996-08-30

GRONINGEN

Netherlands


Input: Dutch police said on Friday they had found missing German girl Nicole Nichterwitz alive on a campsite in the northern city of Groningen and had arrested her aunt and companion on charges of kidnapping.

Dutch

German

Nicole Nichterwitz

Groningen


Input: " We have found Nicole on a campsite in Groningen thanks to tipoffs from the Dutch public.

Nicole

Groningen

Dutch


Input: We have also found and arrested her aunt and companion, " said a spokeswoman of the Dutch criminal investigation service.

Dutch


Input: Police could not yet tell whether the 10-year-old showed any signs of sexual abuse.


Input: " We don't know yet.


Input: It's too early to tell, " she said.


Input: The girl was abducted from her school in Velten near Berlin on Monday.

Velten

Berlin


Input: German police suspected her aunt, 47, and companion, 28, were involved in running a child prostitution ring.

German


Input: Public prosecutors said they had found a list of children's names and ages at the couple's flat.


Input: The list was being studied for possible links to previous child kidnappings and prostitution, a prosecutors' spokesman said.


Input: The couple would probably be extradited to Germany which has requested their deportation, the Dutch police spokeswoman said.

Germany

Dutch


Input: Descriptions of the couple's car released to Dutch media led to their arrest, she added.

Dutch


Input: Indian copper falls, state firm may cut rates.

Indian


Input: BOMBAY 1996-08-30

BOMBAY


Input: Indian copper prices fell on Friday as dealers awaited an announcement relating to price cuts by state-owned producer, Hindustan Copper Ltd, traders said.

Indian

Hindustan Copper Ltd


Input: Nickel extended gains while other base metals were unchanged in narrow trade, they said.


Input: Ready copper fell by 150 rupees at 12,350 rupees per quintal on fresh offerings by the stockists who expect Hindustan Copper to cut prices.

Hindustan Copper


Input: Nickel rose by 500 to 39,200 rupees on thin supply and fresh buying by stainless steel makers.


Input: Tin was unchanged at 36,000 rupees, so did zinc at 6,300 rupees and lead at 4,900 rupees.


Input: Aluminium was quiet at 7,450 rupees.


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

Bombay Commodities


Input: MARTELA H1 PROFIT FIM 6.3 MLN VS 21.0 MLN.

MARTELA


Input: HELSINKI 1996-08-30

HELSINKI


Input: Six months to June 30,


Input: (million markka unless stated)


Input: Profit before extraordinaries, appropriations,


Input: taxes 6.3 vs 21.0


Input: Earnings per share (markka) 2.2 vs 7.2


Input: Net sales 289.1 vs 256.9


Input: Canadian bonds open softer, spreads to U.S. shrink.

Canadian

U.S.


Input: TORONTO 1996-08-30

TORONTO


Input: Canadian bonds opened softer on Friday, pulled lower by a sinking U.S. market, but outperformed U.S. bonds on positive Canadian economic data, analysts said.

Canadian

Canadian

U.S.

U.S.


Input: " I think this morning's Canadian numbers were very supportive of narrower spreads, particularly the current account number, " said Jim Webber, director of fixed-income research with TD Securities Inc.

Canadian

Jim Webber

TD Securities Inc


Input: Canada's 8.0 percent bond due 2023 fell C$ 0.45 to C$ 101.15 to yield 7.894 percent.

Canada

C$

C$


Input: The U.S. 30-year benchmark fell 30/32 to yield 7.12 percent.

U.S.


Input: The spread between benchmark bonds narrowed 77 basis points from 81 basis points at the close of trading on Wednesday.


Input: Statistics Canada on Friday reported Canada's current account moved to a higher-than-expected C$ 1.15 billion second quarter surplus from a C$ 1.62 billion deficit in the first quarter.

Statistics Canada

Canada

C$

C$


Input: It was the first surplus since the fourth quarter of 1984.


Input: The agency also reported Canada's real gross domestic product rose a weaker-than-expected 0.3 percent in the second quarter or 1.3 percent at an annualized rate.

Canada


Input: While the data provided support for Canadian bonds, both Canadian and U.S. markets weakened after the release of strong U.S. economic data, including a report showing the Chicago Purchasing Managers August index rose to 60 from 51.2 in July.

Canadian

Canadian

U.S.

U.S.

Chicago Purchasing Managers


Input: " The purchasing managers' number is extremely, extremely strong, " said Webber.

Webber


Input: In other news, the Toronto Bond Traders' Association said it is recommending that dealings in the Canadian bond market end early at 1400 EDT/1800 GMT on Friday.

Toronto Bond Traders' Association

Canadian

GMT


Input: The Canadian market typically closes early on holiday weekends and Canadian financial markets will be closed on Monday for Labour Day.

Canadian

Canadian

Labour Day


Input: In other prices, the 7.0 percent of 2006 fell C$ 0.28 to C$ 96.89 to yield 7.437 percent.

C$

C$


Input: The U.S. 10-year benchmark fell 21/32 to yield 6.95 percent.

U.S.


Input: The spread between the two bonds narrowed to 49 basis points from 54 basis points at the close of trading on Thursday.


Input: The three-month cash bill traded at 4.04 percent against the U.S. three-month bill at 5.26 percent.

U.S.


Input: -- Jeffrey Hodgson (416) 941-8105, e-mail: jeffrey.hodgson@reuters.com

Jeffrey Hodgson


Input: Aw Computer Systems Inc Q2 loss widens.

Computer Systems Inc


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-30

NEW YORK


Input: 1996 1995


Input: Shr loss $0.22 loss $0.07


Input: Net loss 1,071 loss 277


Input: Revs 130 1,279


Input: Avg shrs 4,841 3,990


Input: First Half


Input: Shr loss $0.42 loss $0.21


Input: Net loss 1,967 loss 841


Input: Revs 476 2,253


Input: Avg shrs 4,666 3,944


Input: (All Data Above 000s Except Per Share Numbers)


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

New York Newsdesk


Input: IPO FILING -- Homegate Hospitality Inc.

Homegate Hospitality Inc


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-30

WASHINGTON


Input: Company Name Homegate Hospitality Inc

Name

Homegate Hospitality Inc


Input: Nasdaq Stock symbol HMGT

Nasdaq


Input: Estimated price range N/A


Input: Total shares to be offered N/A


Input: Shrs offered by company N/A


Input: Shrs outstanding after ipo N/A


Input: Lead Underwriter Bear Stearns & Co Inc

Bear Stearns & Co Inc


Input: Underwriters over-allotment N/A


Input: Business: Company's goal is to become a national provider of high quality extended-stay hotels in strategically selected markets located throughout the United States.

United States


Input: Use of Proceeds: To finance the development of additional extended-stay hotels and other general corporate purposes.


Input: Financial Data in 000s: 1995 1994


Input: -Revenue N/A N/A


Input: -Net Income N/A N/A


Input: Syria slams Israel on settlements.

Syria

Israel


Input: DAMASCUS 1996-08-30

DAMASCUS


Input: Syria on Friday condemned Israel's settlement policy and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing for war with Arabs.

Syria

Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu

Arabs


Input: " Practices of the Israeli government, especially its settlement activities, came to confirm that dealing with this government inflicts the biggest harm on the Arab cause, " state-run Damascus Radio said in a commentary.

Israeli

Arab

Damascus Radio


Input: " When this government insists on stabbing the peace process and tearing it apart, this means that it is preparing for war, " the radio said.


Input: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat described this week the decision to expand settlements in the West Bank as a declaration of war.

Palestinian

Yasser Arafat

West Bank


Input: Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza observed a strike on Thursday to protest against the Israeli move.

Palestinians

Israeli

West Bank

Gaza


Input: The radio urged Arabs to unify their ranks to thwart the policies of the right-wing Israeli government.

Arabs

Israeli


Input: " Israel could not confront a united Arab stand or usurp their rights because the Arab rights could be regained when they achieve unity and solidarity, " Damascus radio said.

Israel

Damascus

Arab

Arab


Input: It welcomed the international criticism of Israel's settlement policies but called for practical steps to force the Israeli government to abandon this policy.

Israel

Israeli


Input: " It is important to translate the criticism into pressuring action to prevent Israel from undermining the big international efforts aimed at making the peace process achieve success, " the radio said.

Israel


Input: Syria and Arabs have been dismayed by Netanyahu's refusal to trade the occupied Arab lands for peace, his support for the expansion of settlements and his insistance on Jerusalem as a unifed capital for Israel.

Syria

Jerusalem

Israel

Arabs

Arab

Netanyahu


Input: Syria has held sporadic peace talks with Israel since 1991 without achieving a breakthrough.

Syria

Israel


Input: Egypt police detain 26 suspected Moslem militants.

Egypt

Moslem


Input: CAIRO 1996-08-30

CAIRO


Input: Police have detained 26 suspected members of Egypt's largest militant group al-Gama'a al-Islamiya (Islamic Group), government newspapers reported on Friday.

Egypt

al-Gama'a al-Islamiya

Islamic Group


Input: They said police arrested the militants in the eastern Sharqiyah province after capturing their leader Rami al-Saadani in a satellite city outside Cairo.

Sharqiyah

Cairo

Rami al-Saadani


Input: Al-Akhbar newspapers said the men had been plotting against " strategic institutions and prominent individuals " but gave no other details.

Al-Akhbar


Input: The newspapers said the men were being interrogated.


Input: State security officials were not immediately available for comment.


Input: More than 960 people have been killed in the armed struggle the Gama'a launched in 1992 to topple President Hosni Mubarak's government and establish a purist Islamic state in its place

Gama'a

Islamic

Hosni Mubarak


Input: Israel blocks Palestinian pilgrims' progress.

Israel

Palestinian


Input: Sami Aboudi

Sami Aboudi


Input: AL-RAM, West Bank 1996-08-30

AL-RAM

West Bank


Input: Kamil Jamil didn't have a prayer.

Kamil Jamil


Input: An Israeli roadblock stopped the 38-year-old Palestinian from answering Yasser Arafat's call to worship at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Friday.

Israeli

Palestinian

Yasser Arafat

Jerusalem

al-Aqsa


Input: " Go home.


Input: There are no prayers today, " an Israeli soldier yelled at Jamil in Hebrew.

Israeli

Hebrew

Jamil


Input: Palestinian President Arafat, attacking Israel's decision to expand Jewish settlements and its policy on Jerusalem, went before the Palestinian legislature on Wednesday to urge the two million Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza to go to the holy city.

Palestinian

Jewish

Palestinian

Arabs

Arafat

Israel

Jerusalem

West Bank

Gaza


Input: Pilgrims stood little chance of making progress.


Input: Palestinians have been banned by Israel from travelling from the West Bank to Jerusalem since suicide bombings by Moslem militants killed 59 people in the Jewish state in February and March.

Palestinians

Moslem

Jewish

Israel

West Bank

Jerusalem


Input: And Israeli checkpoints have circled Jerusalem since 1993, a concrete and constant reminder of Israel's hold on a city it considers its eternal capital.

Israeli

Jerusalem

Israel


Input: The PLO wants Arab East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

PLO

Arab East Jerusalem

Palestinian


Input: Only a few Palestinians trickled to the roadblocks.

Palestinians


Input: They were immediately turned back.


Input: " I am heeding Abu Ammar's (Arafat's) call to pray at al-Aqsa and I came.

Abu Ammar

Arafat

al-Aqsa


Input: It is our duty towards al-Aqsa to come and pray, " Jamil said.

al-Aqsa

Jamil


Input: A tourist from Jordan was also told by Israeli soldiers at the al-Ram checkpoint that he could not enter Jerusalem.

Jordan

al-Ram

Jerusalem

Israeli


Input: " We have a peace treaty with them and we let them go wherever they want when they come to Jordan, " said the tourist, Khaled Hijazi, 37. "

Jordan

Khaled Hijazi


Input: I feel terrible.


Input: I am entitled to see Jerusalem, " he said.

Jerusalem


Input: Some Palestinians took to back roads, only to run into waiting Israeli security forces.

Palestinians

Israeli


Input: " The Israelis have no right to prevent us from going to pray.

Israelis


Input: What kind of peace is this that prevents us from reaching our holy places? "


Input: asked Mustafa Hoshiyeh, a 27-year-old West Bank labourer turned around by a police patrol on a back road.

Mustafa Hoshiyeh

West Bank


Input: " Abu Ammar (Arafat) is right.

Abu Ammar

Arafat


Input: We have signed a peace treaty with the Israelis but on the ground, we see that nothing has changed, " said 20-year-old Ali Ahmed from Qalandia refugee camp.

Israelis

Ali Ahmed

Qalandia


Input: PRESALE-Bay Co Bldg Auth, Mich ..

Bay Co Bldg Auth

Mich


Input: AMT: 1,200,000 DATE: 09/05/96 NYC Time: 1600 CUSIP: 072261

NYC


Input: ISSUER: Bay Co Building Authority ST: MI

Bay Co Building Authority

MI


Input: ISSUE: Bldg auth (law enforcement ctr) Series 1996-A TAX STAT: Exempt-REV


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


Input: ENHANCEMENTS: None BANK QUAL: Y


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


Input: DUE: 11/1/96-11 SR MGR:


Input: 1ST CPN: 11/01/96


Input: CALL: 11/1/05 @101, dtp 11/1/07 NIC


Input: DELIVERY: 45 days approx ORDERS:


Input: PAYING AGENT: Michigan National Bank, Detroit

Michigan National Bank

Detroit


Input: L.O.: Bodman, Longely & Dahling, Detroit

Bodman, Longely & Dahling

Detroit


Input: F.A.: First of Michigan Corp., Detroit

First of Michigan Corp.

Detroit


Input: LAST SALE: None


Input: Year Amount Coupon Yield Price Conc.


Input: 1996 45,000


Input: 1997 50,000


Input: 1998 55,000


Input: 1999 55,000


Input: 2000 60,000


Input: 2001 65,000


Input: 2002 70,000


Input: 2003 70,000


Input: 2004 75,000


Input: 2005 80,000


Input: 2006 85,000


Input: 2007 90,000


Input: 2008 90,000


Input: 2009 95,000


Input: 2010 105,000


Input: 2011 110,000


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

J.J. KENNY


Input: Consumer spending, incomes edge up in July.


Input: Glenn Somerville

Glenn Somerville


Input: WASHINGTON 1996-08-30

WASHINGTON


Input: Consumer spending barely edged up in July, the Commerce Department said Friday, as income growth slowed abruptly to the weakest pace in six months.

Commerce Department


Input: Spending rose 0.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $5.15 trillion after dropping a revised 0.4 percent in June.


Input: Incomes from wages, salaries and all other sources gained 0.1 percent to a rate of $6.47 trillion after a 0.9 percent jump in June.


Input: Department officials said July's slight gain in incomes was the weakest for any month since January, when they were flat.


Input: Wages and salaries came under pressure in July as a shorter average workweek and lower hourly earnings cut into paychecks.


Input: The department said wages and salaries decreased by $6.9 billion in July after climbing $45 billion in June.


Input: " In July, average weekly hours and average hourly earnings declined, more than offsetting the effect of an increase in employment, " Commerce said.

Commerce


Input: But more money went into savings accounts, as savings held at 5.3 cents out of each dollar earned in both June and July.


Input: That was the highest savings rate since October last year, when 5.5 cents out of each dollar earned was being saved.


Input: The generally lackluster report on spending and incomes in July had been expected.


Input: At the same time, the department said in a separate report that new orders received by U.S. factories climbed strongly in July, with widespread gains across most major categories.

U.S.


Input: Orders increased 1.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted $317.6 billion, significantly stronger than the 1 percent rise forecast by Wall Street economists.

Wall Street


Input: That followed a revised 0.7 percent decline in June orders.


Input: Commerce said previously that spending at retail stores was up only 0.1 percent in July, partly because of softer sales of new cars and light trucks.


Input: In addition, the Labour Department's July employment report had foreshadowed the muted income growth.

Labour Department


Input: It showed average hourly earnings fell in July by 0.2 percent to $11.00 and the average workweek shortened to 34.3 hours from 34.7 in June.


Input: Gains in personal income, which includes wages and salaries as well as income from sources such as dividends, interest and businesses, are essential for funding consumer purchases, which fuel two-thirds of national economic activity.


Input: Spending on all types of durable goods, which includes cars, fell to an annual rate of $626.3 billion in July from $633.6 billion in June.


Input: But spending on nondurable products increased moderately to a rate of $1.55 trillion from $1.54 trillion in June, while spending for services was up to $2.97 trillion in July from $2.96 trillion.


Input: Payrolls of manufacturing companies rose in July by $2.3 billion to an annual rate of $678 billion.


Input: World Markets Overnight Summary-Aug 30.


Input: NEW YORK 1996-08-29

NEW YORK


Input: WORLD MARKETS ROUND-UP


Input: STOCKS GOLD METALS


Input: NY Dow close London opening LME close

NY Dow

London

LME


Input: 5647.65 (-64.73) $387.70 copper per tonne


Input: Nikkei latest CRUDE OIL $1987.0

Nikkei


Input: 20202.87 (-350.29) Sept Brent zinc per tonne

Brent


Input: FTSE close $21.25 $1000.0

FTSE


Input: 3885.0 (-33.7)


Input: ----- oOo-----


Input: STOCKS SINK AS BOND RATES JUMP ON STRONG DATA


Input: Blue-chip stocks sank to their biggest loss since mid-July Thursday as fresh signs of a surprisingly strong economy boosted long-term bond interest rates above 7 percent.


Input: The dollar rose slightly against the German mark, but edged lower against the Japanese yen.

German

Japanese


Input: The Dow Jones industrial average ended down 64.73 points at 5,647.65, its largest drop since July 15, when it closed with a loss of 161 points.

Dow Jones


Input: In the broader market, declining issues beat advances 1,627 to 743 on moderate volume of 321 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange.

New York Stock Exchange


Input: In the bond market, the 30-year Treasury bond fell 23/32 of a point, or $7.1875 on a $1,000 bond, raising its yield to 7.04 percent -- the highest since July 31 -- from 6.98 percent at Wednesday's close.

Treasury


Input: " Seven percent creates psychological problems and a legitimate competitor for money from equities, " said Ralph Bloch, chief technical analyst at Raymond James.

Ralph Bloch

Raymond James


Input: " We could carry another 100 points lower in the Dow, " he said. "

Dow


Input: I'm telling clients things are dicey going into next Friday (Sept.


Input: 6) so let's be careful. "


Input: Wall Street on Sept.

Wall Street


Input: 6 faces the key monthly employment report, which has been known to cause dramatic swings in stock prices.


Input: " We had two very strong economic reports, " said David Shulman, Salomon Bros.'

David Shulman

Salomon Bros.


Input: chief equity strategist. "


Input: There are more worries in bond land.


Input: Fears of a Fed tightening next month have resurfaced for the first time since the end of July. "

Fed


Input: The Commerce Department reported that the nation's gross domestic product expanded at a 4.8 percent annual rate in the three months from April through June instead of the 4.2 percent estimated a month ago.

Commerce Department


Input: In another report, sales of new homes jumped unexpectedly in July to the briskest rate in five months, driving prices up in a strong housing market.


Input: Sales shot up 7.9 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 783,000 units -- the strongest since February, when new homes were selling at a rate of 784,000 a year.


Input: Analysts said the stock market was also worried about the impact on President Clinton's re-election bid of his top political strategist resigning.

Clinton


Input: Dick Morris, who is credited with resurrecting Clinton's political fortunes over the past 18 months by masterminding his turn to the political centre, quit after a supermarket tabloid reported he engaged in a yearlong affair with a prostitute, with whom he allegedly shared confidential campaign documents.

Dick Morris

Clinton


Input: Analysts said Wall Street had grown accustomed to a moderate Republican in the form of Democratic President Clinton.

Wall Street

Republican

Democratic

Clinton


Input: Morris' departure raised fears that Clinton would veer more to the left in a second term.

Morris

Clinton


Input: The dollar closed at 1.4772 marks, up from 1.4767 late Wednesday.


Input: The dollar slipped to 108.40 yen from 108.45.


Input: Oil markets rose sharply on a combination of low stocks, two hurricanes and allegations of illicit trading by Iraq.

Iraq


Input: September heating oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed 1.63 cents higher at 63.67 cents a gallon, September unleaded gasoline finished 1.39 cents up at 63.72 cents a gallon and October crude rose 44 cents to $22.15 a barrel.

New York Mercantile Exchange


Input: December cotton closed 0.95 cent higher at 77.06 cents per pound on the New York Cotton Exchange despite some easing of concern about the twin hurricane threat to key U.S. growing areas with forecasts indicating both storms may remain offshore.

New York Cotton Exchange

U.S.


Input: Overseas, London's FTSE 100 index had earlier climbed to 3,8921.1 just below its record of 3,922.1, before edging down through the afternoon session to finish the day at 3,885.0, a fall of 33.7 points.

London

FTSE 100


Input: In Tokyo, the key 225-share Nikkei average shed 156.65 points, or 0.76 percent, to end at 20,553.16.

Tokyo

Nikkei


Input: Pirelli cables look to tap Chinese growth.

Pirelli

Chinese


Input: David Jones

David Jones


Input: MILAN 1996-08-30

MILAN


Input: Italian tyre and cables giant Pirelli on Friday announced its long-awaited move into China with a cables joint venture set to capitalise on the rapidly-growing Chinese telecommunications market.

Italian

Chinese

Pirelli

China


Input: Pirelli is linking with Hong Kong-based group CITIC Pacific in a venture to be called the Wuxi Tong Ling Company Ltd, which will operate in partnership with a local industrial company at its existing factory in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, Shanghai.

Pirelli

CITIC Pacific

Wuxi Tong Ling Company Ltd

Hong Kong-based

Wuxi

Jiangsu

Shanghai


Input: The partners will invest around $30 million in the existing copper cable plant at Wuxi to update technology and include optic fibre production, with annual turnover expected to reach $60 million within the next few years.

Wuxi


Input: The move marks a further move by Pirelli's cables division to expand in the fast-growing Far Eastern developing markets with the group already present in Indonesia, India and Malaysia.

Pirelli

Far Eastern

Indonesia

India

Malaysia


Input: " This is really positive news for Pirelli, and I expect that it will produce one of the best half-year results in late September compared to other industrial Italian companies, " said analyst Paula Buratti at Indosuez.

Pirelli

Indosuez

Italian

Paula Buratti


Input: She emphasised that the move was positive because Pirelli will have management control of the Chinese venture, and it also showed another example of Pirelli exporting its technical know-how to developing markets.

Pirelli

Pirelli

Chinese


Input: Pirelli shares reacted favourable even though talks had been underway for some time and news about a venture had been widely expected.

Pirelli


Input: The shares rose 0.2 percent to 2,555 lire by 1350 GMT in an easier Milan stock market.

GMT

Milan


Input: This will be Pirelli's first industrial involvement in a Chinese market where demand for telecommunication networks is expected to grow to 80-100 million new lines between 1996 and 2000, doubling demand for optical cables.

Pirelli

Chinese


Input: China's second largest telecoms operator Unicom already has a mandate from the central government to establish 15 million new phone lines by the year 2000, which will necessitate new trunk line systems and local distribution networks.

China

Unicom


Input: " The starting of this production base in China has for our group an undoubted strategic value, representing an important enhancement of our presence in Asia, " said Pirelli SpA chairman and chief executive officer Marco Tonchetti Provera.

China

Asia

Pirelli SpA

Marco Tonchetti Provera


Input: Pirelli Cables has global sales of over $3.5 billion, and has become a large supplier of optic cables and systems to major telecoms carriers in the U.S., Europe and the Far East.

Pirelli Cables

U.S.

Europe

Far East


Input: CITIC Pacific is a major Hong Kong-listed company focusing on infrastruture, trading, distribution and property, with 28 percent of its 1995 profits coming from telecoms.

CITIC Pacific

Hong Kong-listed


Input: It has investments in several industrial joint ventures in China.

China


Input: Dutch bond futures revival delayed-EOE.

Dutch

EOE


Input: AMSTERDAM 1996-08-30

AMSTERDAM


Input: A broad attempt to spur activity in Dutch bond futures has been delayed to give participants a chance to become familiar with the trading system, the European Options Exchange (EOE) said on Friday.

Dutch

European Options Exchange

EOE


Input: Market-making in the rarely-traded FTO contract was expected to begin today, but an EOE spokesman said the 10 banks and brokers involved in the initiative needed time to get accustomed to changes in the electronic trading system.

FTO

EOE


Input: " It's not ready yet.


Input: We found it wise to take some time between the commitment to start and the actual start, " EOE spokesman Lex van Drooge told Reuters.

EOE

Reuters

Lex van Drooge


Input: He said no date had been fixed yet for the start of price making in the 10-year contract, but the EOE had agreed to speak again to the participants in one to two weeks.

EOE


Input: Investors in Dutch bonds currently use German bond futures to hedge their portfolios because the FTO contract is so illiquid.

Dutch

German

FTO


Input: A limited attempt to reinvigorate the contract two years ago failed.


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

Amsterdam


Input: OSCE defends record over Chechnya peace mission.

OSCE

Chechnya


Input: BONN 1996-08-30

BONN


Input: The head of an international mediating mission defended its record on Friday in the face of criticism by pro-Moscow leaders in breakway Chechnya and insisted it was doing its best to bring peace to the region.

Chechnya


Input: Flavio Cotti, the chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), told German radio the Vienna-based body viewed the conflict in Chechnya as an internal Russian problem.

Flavio Cotti

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

OSCE

German

Vienna-based

Russian

Chechnya


Input: " The OSCE is completely involved.

OSCE


Input: But one must not forget that the OSCE only has limited powers there, " said Cotti, who is also the Swiss foreign minister. "

OSCE

Swiss


Input: Our mission in Chechnya has done all it can within the given limitations. "

Chechnya


Input: Pro-Moscow leaders in Chechnya have criticised Tim Guldimann, the Swiss diplomat who heads the OSCE Chechnya mission, saying he was biased toward Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, president of the self-declared separatist government.

Pro-Moscow

Swiss

Chechnya

Chechnya

Tim Guldimann

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev

OSCE


Input: Russian peacemaker Alexander Lebed and Chechen separatist military leader Aslan Maskhadov started a new round of peace talks on Friday just outside the rebel region.

Russian

Chechen

Alexander Lebed

Aslan Maskhadov


Input: Cotti said Chechnya must remain part of Russia, but the solution to the conflict would be to accord the region maximum autonomy within Russia's borders.

Cotti

Chechnya

Russia

Russia


Input: " There is no doubt that Chechnya, according to OSCE principles, belongs to a state called Russia, " he said, pointing out that Russia was an OSCE member and it was not the organisation's policy to challenge members' sovereignty.

Chechnya

Russia

Russia

OSCE

OSCE


Input: He added that the OSCE was the only international body which has been allowed into the Chechnya to monitor the human rights situation there, but that its means were restricted by the fact that the conflict was a " internal issue ".

OSCE

Chechnya


Input: " We have a small concept, the details of which have yet to be worked out.


Input: Chechnya must be accorded the maximum autonomy possible within the framework of Russian integrity, " said Cotti.

Chechnya

Russian

Cotti


Input: Dutch say no reason to reopen El Al carqo enquiry.

Dutch

El Al


Input: THE HAGUE 1996-08-30

THE HAGUE


Input: The Dutch transport minister Annemarie Jorritsma told the country' second chamber that there is no further need to investigate the 1992 crash of an El Al freighter which left 43 dead in an Amsterdam suburb.

Dutch

Annemarie Jorritsma

El Al

Amsterdam


Input: She said that a request from her ministry for the aircraft's waybill documentation and further information about the contents of its hold had been complied with by El Al's head office in Tel Aviv.

El Al

Tel Aviv


Input: The Dutch transport ministry had come in for pressure from a cross-section of Dutch members of parliaments in May this year, some of whom believed the aircraft had been carrying unlisted, dangerous goods.

Dutch

Dutch


Input: Others said they thought the aircraft was loaded with too much airfreight.


Input: Jorritsma said the latest evidence from El Al in no way supported the allegations, and added there is no justification for a further investigation into the incident.

Jorritsma

El Al


Input: -- Air Cargo Newsroom Tel+44 171 542 8982 Fax +44 171 542 5017

Air Cargo Newsroom


Input: Armenians, Azeris hold peace talks in Germany.

Armenians

Azeris

Germany


Input: BONN 1996-08-30

BONN


Input: Representatives from Armenia and Azerbaijan held talks earlier this week in Germany on bringing a lasting peace to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, a diplomatic source close to the talks said on Friday.

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Germany

Nagorno-Karabakh


Input: The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Azerbaijani presidential adviser Vafa Gulizade and his Armenian counterpart Zhirayr Liparityan met to discuss the disputed enclave on Wednesday and had now flown home.

Azerbaijani

Vafa Gulizade

Zhirayr Liparityan

Armenian


Input: An uneasy ceasefire has prevailed in Nagorno-Karabakh, which represents around 20 percent of Azeri territory, since May 1994 after ethnic Armenians drove Azeris out of the region.

Nagorno-Karabakh

Azeri

Armenians

Azeris


Input: The conflict, which began in 1988, claimed over 10,000 lives.


Input: " The main subject (of the talks) was the search for a peaceful solution for Nagorno-Karabakh, " the source said.

Nagorno-Karabakh


Input: He declined to reveal any more details about the content of the talks or their exact location in Germany.

Germany


Input: Azerbaijan has said it is prepared to grant autonomy to Nagorno-Karabakh if Armenian forces pull out, but will not accept Armenia's demands for the independence of the enclave.

Azerbaijan

Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenia


Input: Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday the officials had departed for negotiations in Germany, adding that face-to-face talks between the two sides first took place last December in Amsterdam.

Russia

Germany

Amsterdam

Interfax


Input: Interfax said the discussions were being held in parallel with peace talks mediated by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the broad-based Minsk Group of countries led by Russia and Finland.

Interfax

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

OSCE

Minsk Group

Russia

Finland


Input: Sombre mood on Arctic island after plane crash.

Arctic


Input: Rolf Soderlind

Rolf Soderlind


Input: LONGYEAR, Norway 1996-08-30

LONGYEAR

Norway


Input: The windblown, chilly streets of this tiny Arctic town are all but deserted and flags are flying at half-mast beneath a brooding, clouded sky.

Arctic


Input: Longyear is a town in mourning, a close-knit community that has been shattered.

Longyear


Input: Disaster struck on Thursday when a Russian airliner bringing coal miners to work crashed as it came in to land at the airport, killing all 141 people on board.

Russian


Input: " It's a sight I will never forget.


Input: I will remember it for the rest of my life, " said Stig Onarheim.

Stig Onarheim


Input: He was one of a handful of rescuers who raced to the scene of the crash in a helicopter on Thursday, hoping in vain to find survivors.


Input: The plane smashed into a snow-capped mountain on the Arctic island of Spitzbergen on Thursday, just east of Longyear.

Arctic

Spitzbergen

Longyear


Input: " Imagine a big plane with a lot of luggage and people on board.


Input: Think of all that mixed together, with twisted, wrecked parts on the slope, " Onarheim, 29, told Reuters.

Onarheim

Reuters


Input: Police and local officials have sealed off the crash site, protecting it from intrusive reporters and from the polar bears that roam freely across the icy expanses.


Input: The dead were all Russians and Ukrainians, coming to work in the mining towns of Barentsburg and Pyramiden.

Russians

Ukrainians

Barentsburg

Pyramiden


Input: Longyear is a Norwegian settlement of just over 1,000 people, but it also feels the loss keenly.

Longyear

Norwegian


Input: " I have trouble finding the words to express my grief.


Input: It's a tragedy for everyone.


Input: We know many of the people who live in Barentsburg, some of them could have been on the plane, " said Johan Sletten, 52.

Barentsburg

Johan Sletten


Input: Sletten, a caretaker who has lived on the island for 30 years, said the Norwegian and Russian communities visit frequently, competing at soccer in the summer and with snow-scooter races in the winter.

Sletten

Norwegian

Russian


Input: Teenage shop assistant Heidi Groenstein was blunter.

Heidi Groenstein


Input: " I'm glad it was not a Norwegian plane, " she said. "

Norwegian


Input: Just think of it -- a mining village where so many workers die.


Input: They must be having a tough time of it now. "


Input: Barentsburg, just a few hours ride by snow-scooter or 15 minutes by helicopter from Longyear, has asked to be left alone with its grief and told reporters to stay away.

Barentsburg

Longyear


Input: Around 100 Russian and Ukrainian miners were waiting in Longyear to fly home on the plane that crashed.

Russian

Ukrainian

Longyear


Input: They were given shelter in the town's church overnight and ate a sombre breakfast before getting on a bus for the airport.


Input: Another plane had been sent from Moscow to pick them up.

Moscow


Input: At this time of year, the only colour in Longyear comes from the brightly-painted wooden houses.

Longyear


Input: Everything else is muddy, the waters of the fjord leaden.


Input: Winter is in the air.


Input: Barentsburg is an even grimmer place, a run-down testament to the hardships of the new Russia.

Barentsburg

Russia


Input: Spitzbergen lies some 500 miles (800 km) off the northern tip of Norway and endures one of the most extreme climates on the planet.

Spitzbergen

Norway


Input: Inhabited by fewer than 3,000 people in total, it sees the sun for 24 hours a day during summer and is plunged into round-the-clock darkness in the winter months.


Input: The terrain is mountainous, the only roads are dirt tracks.


Input: Norway rules the island group under the terms of a 1920s international treaty which gave many other nations the right to establish setttlements and exploit the coal that is still mined there.

Norway


Input: Only Russia has chosen to do so.

Russia


Input: Ericsson says wins 1.2 bln SKR China order.

Ericsson

China


Input: STOCKHOLM 1996-08-30

STOCKHOLM


Input: Swedish telecoms group LM Ericsson AB said on Friday it won an order worth 1.2 billion crowns for a fixed public telecoms network in the Guangdong province of China.

Swedish

LM Ericsson AB

Guangdong

China


Input: Ericsson said in a statement the order was from the Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Administration (GPTA).

Ericsson

Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Administration

GPTA


Input: The order included AXE switching equipment, ISDN equipment, Intelligent Network (IN) products, broad-band multi-media communication network products, services and training, Ericsson spokesman Per Zetterquist told Reuters.

AXE

Intelligent Network

IN

Ericsson

Reuters

Per Zetterquist


Input: Deliveries are due to be completed by 1999, the company said.


Input: -- Stockholm newsroom +46-8-700 1017

Stockholm


Input: HK has infrastructure in place for post-97-Tsang.

HK

Tsang


Input: AUCKLAND 1996-08-30

AUCKLAND


Input: Hong Kong Financial Secretary Donald Tsang said on Friday that the territory had the " infrastructural hardware " to make a success of its future under Chinese sovereignty from mid-1997.

Hong Kong

Donald Tsang

Chinese


Input: " We have the largest and most efficient port on the South China coast; we have the best transport and telecommunications infrastructure in the world; and we are investing in this hardware on an enormous scale, " Tsang said in a speech to Auckland during a visit to New Zealand.

South China

Auckland

New Zealand

Tsang


Input: Hong Kong also had the necessary " constitutional infrastructure " in place, with the promise of autonomy in running its affairs after the handover from Britain to China.

Hong Kong

Britain

China


Input: " What this means in practice is that Hong Kong will go on raising its own taxes, issuing its own currency, setting its own expenditure priorities and managing its own enormous financial reserves, " Tsang said.

Hong Kong

Tsang


Input: He acknowledged that many Hong Kong people had decided to seek their future elsewhere and others were sure to follow in the next nine months. "

Hong Kong


Input: But for the great majority of us, Hong Kong is our home and Hong Kong's future is our future. "

Hong Kong

Hong Kong


Input: -- Wellington newsroom 64 4 473-4746

Wellington


Input: PRESS DIGEST-Indonesian newspapers-August 30.

Indonesian


Input: Following is a summary of major Indonesian political and business stories in leading newspapers, prepared by Reuters in Jakarta.

Indonesian

Reuters

Jakarta


Input: Reuters has not checked the stories and does not guarantee their accuracy.

Reuters


Input: Telephone: (6221) 384-6364.


Input: Fax: (6221) 344-8404.


Input: KOMPAS

KOMPAS


Input: Indonesian President Suharto has asked businessmen to share their experiences with each other in an effort to boost the country's exports.

Indonesian

Suharto


Input: JAKARTA POST

JAKARTA POST


Input: Speaker of the House of Representatives Wahono has called on those serving in high state institutions to direct their efforts in the coming years towards dismantling all barriers to social justice.

House of Representatives

Wahono


Input: An agreement to bring peace to the southern Philippines is set to be initialed on Friday after delegates from the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) concluded negotiations on the treaty which is set to end almost 25 years of conflict in the region.

Philippines

Philippine

Moro National Liberation Front

MNLF


Input: MEDIA INDONESIA

MEDIA INDONESIA


Input: Around 2,000 of Indonesia's controversial Timor national car made by Kia Motor Corp of South Korea arrived at Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port on Thursday.

Indonesia

South Korea

Jakarta

Tanjung Priok

Kia Motor Corp


Input: The cars will be jointly marketed by Kia and PT Timor Putra Nasional, controlled by a son of President Suharto, which plans next year to start assembling the vehicles in Indonesia.

Kia

PT Timor Putra Nasional

Suharto

Indonesia


Input: REPUBLIKA

REPUBLIKA


Input: The Central Jakarta District Court has started to hear the suit filed by ousted Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) leader Megawati Sukarnoputri against the government and party rivals after the parties failed to reach an out-of-court settlement.

Central Jakarta District Court

Indonesian Democratic Party

PDI

Megawati Sukarnoputri


Input: Megawati has sued the defendants over a government-backed rebel congress which ousted her last June.

Megawati


Input: Jeans Mate Corp-6mth parent forecast.

Jeans Mate Corp


Input: TOKYO 1996-08-30

TOKYO


Input: Six months to August 20, 1996


Input: (in billions of yen unless specified)


Input: LATEST PREVIOUS ACTUAL


Input: (Parent) FORECAST FORECAST YEAR-AGO


Input: Sales 9.06 9.31 8.42


Input: Current 818 million 979 million 882 million


Input: Net 415 million 490 million 412 million


Input: NOTE-Jeans Mate Corp is the full company name.

Jeans Mate Corp


Input: Apic Yamada-6mth parent forecast.

Apic Yamada


Input: TOKYO 1996-08-30

TOKYO


Input: Six months to September 30, 1996


Input: (in billions of yen unless specified)


Input: LATEST PREVIOUS ACTUAL


Input: (Parent) FORECAST FORECAST YEAR-AGO


Input: Sales 12.50 13.00 11.27


Input: Current 1.30 1.35 1.09


Input: Net 650 million 680 million 600 million


Input: NOTE-Apic Yamada Corp is a leading manufacturer of semiconductor leadframes.

Apic Yamada Corp


Input: Bootleg brew kills 35 in China, police nab suspects.

China


Input: BEIJING 1996-08-30

BEIJING


Input: Police in southwest China have arrested 30 people suspected of making and selling homemade alcohol that killed 35 people and poisoned 157, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

China

Xinhua


Input: A group of farmers in Huize county in the southwestern province of Yunnan were arrested for blending alcohol with methanol and selling the toxic liquor to local residents, the agency said.

Huize

Yunnan


Input: Between late June and July, a total of 192 people were poisoned by the toxic liquor, and 35 of them died and six were left severely handicapped, it said.


Input: Local authorities launched an investigation after they received reports of several similar deaths in the area, it said.


Input: Post-mortem examinations showed they were all caused by methanol poisoning.


Input: Police had confiscated the remainder of the poisonous liquor, Xinhua said.

Xinhua


Input: It gave no further details.


Input: Singapore hangs Thai drug trafficker.

Singapore

Thai


Input: SINGAPORE 1996-08-30

SINGAPORE


Input: Singapore hanged a Thai farmer at Changi Prison on Friday for drug trafficking, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said.

Singapore

Changi Prison

Thai

Central Narcotics Bureau

CNB


Input: Jeerasak Densakul, 24, was arrested in 1995 when he was found with 11 slabs of cannabis weighing 2.2 kg (4.8 pounds), the CNB said.

Jeerasak Densakul

CNB


Input: Singapore has a mandatory death sentence for anyone over 18 years of age found guilty of trafficking in more than 15 grams (half an ounce) of heroin, 30 grams (an ounce) of morphine or 500 grams (18 oz) of cannabis or marijuana.

Singapore


Input: Of the nearly 270 people hanged for various crimes in Singapore since 1975, almost half have been for drug-related charges.

Singapore


Input: Arafat goes to Nablus ahead of cabinet meeting.

Arafat

Nablus


Input: NABLUS, West Bank 1996-08-30

NABLUS

West Bank


Input: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat arrived in the West Bank self-rule enclave of Nablus from Ramallah on Friday, witnesses said.

Palestinian

Yasser Arafat

West Bank

Nablus

Ramallah


Input: His aides said Arafat would hold the weekly meeting of the Palestinian self-rule Authority's cabinet in Nablus on Saturday.

Arafat

Palestinian self-rule Authority

Nablus


Input: In Jerusalem, Israeli security forces were bracing for thousands of Palestinians expected to answer Arafat's call earlier this week to come to the city holy to Moslems, Arabs and Jews to pray in protest against Israel's settlement policy in the West Bank and delay in peace negotiations.

Jerusalem

Israel

West Bank

Israeli

Palestinians

Moslems

Arabs

Jews

Arafat


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

Palestinians

Arab East Jerusalem


Input: Israel, which captured and annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, says it will never cede any part of the city.

Israel

East Jerusalem


Input: Arafat, who made an interim peace deal with Israel in 1993 that set up self-rule, says he will only visit Jerusalem once Israeli occupation has ended.

Arafat

Israel

Jerusalem

Israeli


Input: U.N. Council concerned about Israeli bulldozers.

U.N. Council

Israeli


Input: UNITED NATIONS 1996-08-29

UNITED NATIONS


Input: Security Council members expressed concern on Thursday that Israel's bulldozing of a Palestinian day-care centre for the disabled might further injure the Middle East peace process.

Security Council

Israel

Middle East

Palestinian


Input: Responding to a letter from the the Palestinian U.N. observer mission, Security Council President Tono Eitel of Germany said that members asked him to convey their views to Israel's charge d'affaires, David Peleg.

Palestinian

U.N.

Security Council

Tono Eitel

David Peleg

Germany

Israel


Input: " The members expressed their concern about the maintenance of the peace process and they urged that no action be taken that would have a negative impact on the negotiations, " Eitel said after an informal council session.

Eitel


Input: " They asked me to call in the Israeli charge d'affaires and discuss the matter with him, " he added.

Israeli


Input: The Palestinian letter from Marwan Jilani said the destruction of the Jerusalem centre was an effort by Israel to " alter the character, demographic composition and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem " and violated agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.

Palestinian

Marwan Jilani

Jerusalem

Israel

Holy City of Jerusalem

Israel

Palestinian Liberation Organisation


Input: " This most recent measure represents a revival of old, malicious plans to confiscate the land and build units for Israeli settlers within the walls of the Old City. "

Israeli

Old City


Input: " We expect the international community to take a clear and firm position, based on international law and in accordance with U.N. resolutions, against all such Israeli violations and illegal practices, " he said.

U.N.

Israeli


Input: On Tuesday, Israeli crews hoisted a bulldozer over the walls of Jerusalem's old city and demolished the centre, saying it was being restored without a building permit.

Israeli

Jerusalem


Input: Canada had recently donated $30 million to the centre, called the Burj al-Laqlaq Society.

Canada

Burj al-Laqlaq Society


Input: SOCCER-REAL SCRAPE 1-1 DRAW IN SCRAPPY OPENING MATCH.

REAL


Input: LA CORUNA, Spain 1996-08-31

LA CORUNA

Spain


Input: A late goal by newly-signed defender Roberto Carlos saved the blushes of Real Madrid coach Fabio Capello and his multi-billion peseta line-up in the opening game of the Spanish championship on Saturday.

Roberto Carlos

Fabio Capello

Real Madrid

Spanish


Input: The Brazilian's 79th-minute effort was enough to earn Real a point from a scrappy 1-1 draw at fellow title contenders Deportivo Coruna.

Brazilian

Real

Deportivo Coruna


Input: Deportivo started strongly, taking the lead midway through the first half when former Auxerre playmaker Corentine Martins headed home a corner after a flick-on by Brazilian-born Spanish international midfielder Donato.

Deportivo

Auxerre

Corentine Martins

Donato

Brazilian-born

Spanish


Input: Real looked to be in deep trouble shortly after the break when Luis Milla was sent off for committing two bookable offences in as many minutes.

Real

Luis Milla


Input: But Deportivo were unable to capitalise on their numerical advantage, and were themselves reduced to ten men when Armando Alvarez was sent off 15 minutes from time.

Deportivo

Armando Alvarez


Input: Shortly afterwards Roberto Carlos found space in the home defence and equalised for Real with a shot that was deflected past despairing Deportivo' keeper Jacques Songo'o.

Roberto Carlos

Jacques Songo'o

Real

Deportivo


Input: In a frantic final five minutes there were chances at both ends, and Donato, who had earlier been booked, was sent off for protesting about the incursion of Real players at a free kick.

Donato

Real


Input: Before the match Deportivo chairman Augusto Lendoiro said he would ignore a FIFA decision banning Brazilian midfielder Mauro Silva from playing in the match for failing to join his national side's tour of Europe.

Deportivo

FIFA

Augusto Lendoiro

Mauro Silva

Brazilian

Europe


Input: In the event, coach John Toshack decided not to use Silva, who had claimed he did not join the Brazil squad because he had lost his passport.

John Toshack

Silva

Brazil


Input: RUGBY LEAGUE-WIGAN BEAT BRADFORD 42-36 IN SEMIFINAL.

RUGBY LEAGUE

WIGAN

BRADFORD


Input: WIGAN, England 1996-08-31

WIGAN

England


Input: Result of English rugby league premiership semifinal played on Saturday:

English


Input: Wigan 42 Bradford Bulls 36

Wigan

Bradford Bulls


Input: SOCCER-ISRAEL BEAT BULGARIA IN EUROPEAN UNDER-21 QUALIFIER.

ISRAEL

BULGARIA

EUROPEAN


Input: HERZLIYA, Israel 1996-08-31

HERZLIYA

Israel


Input: Result of European under-21 championship group 5 qualifier on Saturday:

European


Input: Israel 2, Bulgaria 0 (halftime 0-0) Scorers: Haim Hajaj (47th), Nir Sivilia (57th).

Israel

Bulgaria

Haim Hajaj

Nir Sivilia


Input: Attendance: 2,000.


Input: SOCCER-IRISH ERASE PAINFUL MEMORIES WITH 5-0 WIN.

IRISH


Input: ESCHEN, Liechtenstein 1996-08-31

ESCHEN

Liechtenstein


Input: The Republic of Ireland's new-look side dispelled painful memories of their last visit to Liechtenstein by beating the Alpine part-timers 5-0 in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday.

Republic of Ireland

Liechtenstein

Alpine

World Cup


Input: The Irish, under new manager Mick McCarthy, took a 4-0 lead within 20 minutes through captain Andy Townsend, 20-year-old Norwich striker Keith O'Neill, Sunderland forward Niall Quinn and teenager Ian Harte.

Irish

Mick McCarthy

Andy Townsend

Keith O'Neill

Niall Quinn

Ian Harte

Norwich

Sunderland


Input: Quinn added his second and Ireland's fifth just after the hour to complete the rout and give the Irish their biggest-ever away win.

Quinn

Ireland

Irish


Input: The result helped erase memories of Ireland's visit to the Eschen stadium 14 months ago, when Jack Charlton's side were held to a frustrating 0-0 draw which ultimately cost them a place in the European championship finals.

Ireland

Eschen

Jack Charlton

European


Input: SOCCER-IRELAND BEAT LIECHTENSTEIN 5-0 IN WORLD CUP QUALIFIER.

IRELAND

LIECHTENSTEIN

WORLD CUP


Input: ESCHEN 1996-08-31

ESCHEN


Input: The Republic of Ireland beat Liechtenstein 5-0 (halftime 4-0) in a World Cup soccer European group 8 qualifier on Saturday.

Republic of Ireland

Liechtenstein

World Cup

European


Input: Scorers: Andy Townsend (5th), Keith O'Neill (7th), Niall Quinn (11th, 61st), Ian Harte (19th).

Andy Townsend

Keith O'Neill

Niall Quinn

Ian Harte


Input: Attendance: 3,900


Input: GOLF-BRITISH MASTERS FINAL SCORES.

BRITISH MASTERS


Input: NORTHAMPTON, England 1996-08-31

NORTHAMPTON

England


Input: Leading scores after the final round of the British Masters golf tournament on Saturday (British unless stated):

British Masters

British


Input: 284 Robert Allenby (Australia) 69 71 71 73, Miguel Angel Martin (Spain) 75 70 71 68 (Allenby won at first play-off hole)

Robert Allenby

Miguel Angel Martin

Allenby

Australia

Spain


Input: 285 Costantino Rocca (Italy) 71 73 72 69

Costantino Rocca

Italy


Input: 286 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 74 72 73 67

Miguel Angel Jimenez

Spain


Input: 287 Ian Woosnam 70 76 71 70

Ian Woosnam


Input: 288 Jose Coceres (Argentina) 69 78 71 70

Jose Coceres

Argentina


Input: 289 Joakim Haeggman (Sweden) 71 77 70 71, Antoine Lebouc (France) 74 73 70 72

Joakim Haeggman

Antoine Lebouc

Sweden

France


Input: 290 Colin Montgomerie 68 76 77 69, Robert Coles 74 76 71 69, Philip Walton (Ireland) 71 74 74 71, Peter Mitchell 74 71 74 71, Klas Eriksson (Sweden) 71 75 72 72, Pedro Linhart (Spain) 72 73 67 78

Colin Montgomerie

Robert Coles

Philip Walton

Peter Mitchell

Klas Eriksson

Pedro Linhart

Ireland

Sweden

Spain


Input: 291 Phillip Price 72 76 74 69, Adam Hunter 70 79 73 69, Peter O'Malley (Australia) 71 73 75 72, Mark Roe 69 71 78 73, Mike Clayton (Australia) 69 76 73 73

Phillip Price

Adam Hunter

Peter O'Malley

Mark Roe

Mike Clayton

Australia

Australia


Input: 292 Iain Pyman 71 75 75 71, David Gilford 69 74 77 72, Peter Hedblom (Sweden) 70 75 75 72, Stephen McAllister 73 76 69 74.

Iain Pyman

David Gilford

Peter Hedblom

Stephen McAllister

Sweden


Input: SOCCER-SLOVAKIA BEAT FAROES IN WORLD CUP QUALIFIER.

SLOVAKIA

FAROES

WORLD CUP


Input: TOFTIR, Faroe Islands 1996-08-31

TOFTIR

Faroe Islands


Input: Slovakia beat the Faroe Islands 2-1 (halftime 1-0) in their World Cup soccer European group six qualifying match on Saturday.

Slovakia

Faroe Islands

World Cup

European


Input: Scorers:


Input: Faroe Islands-Jan Allan Mueller (60th minute)

Faroe Islands

Jan Allan Mueller


Input: Slovakia-Lubomir Moravcik (13th), Peter Dubovsky (88th)

Slovakia

Lubomir Moravcik

Peter Dubovsky


Input: Attendance: 1,445.


Input: CRICKET-ENGLAND BEAT PAKISTAN BY 107 RUNS IN SECOND ONE-DAYER.

ENGLAND

PAKISTAN


Input: BIRMINGHAM, England 1996-08-31

BIRMINGHAM

England


Input: England beat Pakistan by 107 runs in the second one-day international at Edgbaston on Saturday to take the series 2-0.

England

Pakistan

Edgbaston


Input: Scores: England 292-8 innings closed (N. Knight 113), Pakistan 185 (Ijaz Ahmed 79; A. Hollioake 4-23)

England

Pakistan

N. Knight

Ijaz Ahmed

A. Hollioake


Input: CYCLING-TOUR OF NETHERLANDS FINAL RESULTS/STANDINGS.

TOUR OF NETHERLANDS


Input: LANDGRAAF, Netherlands 1996-08-31

LANDGRAAF

Netherlands


Input: Leading results of


Input: the 205-km sixth and final stage of the Tour of the Netherlands

Tour of the Netherlands


Input: between Roermond and Landgraaf on Saturday:

Roermond

Landgraaf


Input: 1. Olaf Ludwig (Germany) Telekom 4 hours 48 mins 2 seconds

Olaf Ludwig

Germany

Telekom


Input: 2. Giovanni Lombardi (Italy) Polti 5 seconds behind

Giovanni Lombardi

Italy

Polti


Input: 3. Tristan Hoffman (Netherlands) TVM same time

Tristan Hoffman

Netherlands

TVM


Input: 4. Erik Breukink (Netherlands) Rabobank 8 seconds

Erik Breukink

Netherlands

Rabobank


Input: 5. Jesper Skibby (Denmark) TVM 9

Jesper Skibby

Denmark

TVM


Input: 6. Vyacheslav Ekimov (Russia) Rabobank same time

Vyacheslav Ekimov

Russia

Rabobank


Input: 7. Luca Pavanello (Italy) Aki 11

Luca Pavanello

Aki

Italy


Input: 8. Eleuterio Anguita (Spain) MX Onda

Eleuterio Anguita

Spain

MX Onda


Input: 9. Michael Andersson (Sweden) Telekom

Michael Andersson

Sweden

Telekom


Input: 10. Johan Capiot (Belgium) Collstrop all same time

Johan Capiot

Belgium

Collstrop


Input: Final overall placings (after six stages):


Input: 1. Rolf Sorensen (Denmark) Rabobank 20:36:54

Rolf Sorensen

Denmark

Rabobank


Input: 2. Lance Armstrong (U.S.) Motorola 2 seconds behind

Lance Armstrong

U.S.

Motorola


Input: 3. Ekimov 1:7

Ekimov


Input: 4. Marco Lietti (Italy) MG-Technogym 1:16

Marco Lietti

Italy

MG-Technogym


Input: 5. Erik Dekker (Netherlands) Rabobank 1:23

Erik Dekker

Netherlands

Rabobank


Input: 6. Ludwig 1:25

Ludwig


Input: 6. Breukink same time

Breukink


Input: 8. Maarten den Bakker (Netherlands) TVM 1:33

Maarten den Bakker

Netherlands

TVM


Input: 9. Andersson 1:34

Andersson


Input: 10. Skibby 1:45

Skibby


Input: CRICKET-ENGLAND V PAKISTAN ONE-DAY SCOREBOARD.

ENGLAND

PAKISTAN


Input: BIRMINGHAM, England 1996-08-31

BIRMINGHAM

England


Input: Scoreboard of the second one-day cricket match between England and Pakistan on Saturday:

England

Pakistan


Input: England

England


Input: N. Knight st Moin Khan b Saqlain Mushtaq 113

N. Knight

Moin Khan

Saqlain Mushtaq


Input: A. Stewart b Mushtaq Ahmed 46

A. Stewart

Mushtaq Ahmed


Input: M. Atherton lbw b Mushtaq Ahmed 1

M. Atherton

Mushtaq Ahmed


Input: G. Thorpe lbw b Ata-ur-Rehman 21

G. Thorpe

Ata-ur-Rehman


Input: M. Maynard run out 1

M. Maynard


Input: R. Irani not out 45

R. Irani


Input: A. Hollioake run out 15

A. Hollioake


Input: D. Gough run out 0

D. Gough


Input: R. Croft b Waqar Younis 15

R. Croft

Waqar Younis


Input: D. Headley not out 3

D. Headley


Input: Extras (lb-25 w-4 nb-3) 32


Input: Total (for 8 wickets, innings closed) 292


Input: Fall: 1-103 2-105 3-163 4-168 5-221 6-257 7-257 8-286.


Input: Did Not Bat: A. Mullally.

A. Mullally


Input: Bowling: Wasim Akram 10-0-50-0, Waqar Younis 9-0-54-1,

Wasim Akram

Waqar Younis


Input: Ata-ur-Rehman 6-0-40-1, Saqlain Mushtaq 10-0-59-1, Mushtaq Ahmed

Ata-ur-Rehman

Saqlain Mushtaq

Mushtaq Ahmed


Input: 10-0-33-2, Aamir Sohail 5-0-31-0.

Aamir Sohail


Input: pakistan


Input: Saeed Anwar c Stewart b Gough 33

Saeed Anwar

Stewart

Gough


Input: Aamir Sohail c Croft b Gough 0

Aamir Sohail

Croft

Gough


Input: Moin Khan lbw b Mullally 0

Moin Khan

Mullally


Input: Ijaz Ahmed b Croft 79

Ijaz Ahmed

Croft


Input: Inzamam-ul-Haq c Thorpe b Croft 6

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Thorpe

Croft


Input: Salim Malik c Stewart b Hollioake 23

Salim Malik

Stewart

Hollioake