VNS: Mon 25-Jul-1994
Gwyn Evans 25-Jul-1994 1030
Edition : 3121 Monday 25-Jul-1994 Circulation : 5899
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VNS MAIN NEWS: [Andy Payne, VNS UK News Desk]
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Here is the News at 09:00 BST on Monday 25th July 1994
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UK News
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Hopes for an early end to violence in Northern Ireland faded last night
after Sinn Fein effectively rejected the Downing Street Declaration on
the Province's political future. A conference of the IRA's political
wing turned down key parts of the Anglo-Irish peace initiative saying
it contained "negative and contradictory elements". Mr Gerry Adams,
Sinn Fein president, refused to recommend an end to violence, saying
the IRA would have to "take its own counsel" on the future of its
terrorist campaign.
Riot police clashed with protesters trying to break down the gates to
Downing Street yesterday. There were chaotic scenes as 50,000
demonstrators on a Coalition Against The Criminal Justice Bill march
filled Whitehall. About 15 mounted policemen and riot officers with
batons and shields had to move in three times when a small minority,
including some wearing masks and sunglasses, stormed the heavy wrought
iron gates.
Michael Atherton, the England cricket captain, was fined 1,000 pounds
last night for having dirt in his pocket during the Test match with
South Africa. He was fined another 1,000 pounds for not telling the
whole truth at a closed doors inquiry by the International Cricket
Council's referee Peter Burge 24 hours earlier. The fines, imposed by
the chairman of the selectors Ray Illingworth, followed a confession
extraordinary in the annals of English cricket when Atherton admitted
not disclosing the full facts. It came in an interview televised live
from the ground a few minutes after England's humiliating 365-run
defeat.
Twenty-six people were injured when a massive fire and a series of
explosions rocked an oil refinery at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire,
yesterday after it was struck by lightning.
World News
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British tourists in The Gambia were carrying on with their holidays
yesterday almost oblivious to a military coup in the tiny West African
country. Around 2,000 Britons, including 1,500 holiday-makers, are in
the Gambia, a former colony which attracts more than 30,000 British
tourists each year.
America's first air drops to the fugitives of Rwanda's civil war did
little to stem the death rate yesterday. Many of the refugees had
already decided to return to their own country after Zaire reopened its
borders.
{News courtesy of the Daily Telegraph}
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