000779634 *** Document 9 of 14 for FBS3 *** DOCN 000264513 PDTG P 240826Z APR 01 FM FM FBIS RESTON VA TO TO RHDIAAA/ACCIS LANGLEY AFB VA//36IS// RHDLCNE/CINCUSNAVEUR LONDON UK//N2// RHEFJWC/JWAC DAHLGREN VA RHEFNGA/CDRNGIC CHARLOTTESVILLE VA RHFPAAA/UTAIS RAMSTEIN AD GE//INOW// RUCXNIS/DIRNAVCRIMINVSERV WASHINGTON DC RUCXONI/ONI WASHINGTON DC//2140// RUEABND/DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMIN'HQ WASHINGTON DC//POL// RUEAIIS/STORAGE CENTER FBIS RESTON VA RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHINGTON DC//INR// RUEHVI/AMEMBASSY VIENNA RUEKDIA/DIA WASHINGTON DC RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC RUEPMAX/GISA FT BRAGG NC RUEPPOG/CDR4THPSYOPGP FT BRAGG NC//AOCP-POG-SB// RUEPWDC/DA AMHS WASHINGTON DC RUETIAA/NSACSS FT GEORGE G MEADE MD RUFGAID/USCINCEUR INTEL VAIHINGEN GE RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK RUFTAKA/USAREUR ACE DARMSTADT GE RUFTAKC/UDITDUSAREUR HEIDELBERG GE RUHHAEA/NAIC WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB OH RUKAESE/CDR USASETAF VICENZA IT//AESE-CMO// RUQVKEW/AFIWC KELLY AFB TX//OSKC// ACCT FBWA-EWDK BT CLAS UNCLAS WARN WARNINGS TOPICS INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SERI SERIALS WAX20010424000121 COUN COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM SUBJ SUBJS TAKE 2 OF 2--European Press Review for 24 April REF REFS 1. EUP20010424000025 Caversham BBC Monitoring in English 24 Apr 01 ///DjukanovlTc's narrow victory. SOUR SOURCES Caversham BBC Monitoring In English 24 Apr 01 TEXT TEXTS The daily speaks about a Pyrrhic victory which signals a great deal of trouble ahead for the Balkans. If Montenegro goes independent, it says, all other separatist movements and undercurrents so typical for the Balkans might emerge. Yugoslavia will cease to exist and so will its president, Vojislav Kostunica, on whom Western politicians have pinned their hopes. Thus, PRACA warns, the Western politicians who used to back Djukanovic's separatism ware reaping the benefit; of what they sowed, for in the new situation which has come at in the Balkans, the division of Yugoslavia could have fatal consequences". Mr fix-it? Ahead of the presentation by the French government on Tuesday of new "measures aimed at tightening up the economic legislation , notably regarding redundancies. in a context of bt job loss announcements, the daily LIBEATION carries a cartoon of Jospln which covers two-thirds of its' front page, headlined: "Redundancless Jospln fixes the prices". It shows the prime minister surrounded by huge taps, bearing the names of big companies - such as Marks and Spencer, Danone and Dim - which have recently announced closing plans in France. People are pouring from the taps into a large protesting crowd that a barefooted and unsteady Jospln is attempting to cross. Taking the biscuit in Hungary The Budapest daily MAGYAR HIRLAP reflects on what it calls "perhaps Hungary's first close encounter with globalization", the then French multinationalhfoodsgroupfiDtanane local biscuit factory by APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATEiOL2?02 C00779634 The problem's global nature Is also reflected by the fact that Hungary is not alone with its problem, Danone has also announced similar closures in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy, the paper says. Referring to the old traditions of the Hungarian biscuit factory "as part of the national culture", the paper says= "the plan might be Justified in business terms, but certainly not in social terms". In the light of large-scale protests by employees and sympathetic consumers the paper even questions the business rationale behind the decision: "It is doubtful whether the outrage will not have a fatal impact on Danone". UFO sector in recession At a time when international groups such as Danone and Mark and Spencer have announced closing plans which have given rise to strong protests in France, the French LE FIGARO decries another closure, but in Britain this time. * "The very official British Flying Saucer Bureau has stopped its *UFOs,""it eapapertsaysain a kind of paa mphletyontt dayssrworld of "But, this time, profits have nothing to do with it. It is the aliens who are to blame and even French Communist Leader Robert Hue is powerless against that," it continues with the same hit of irony. * "One must know that the flyying saucer sector is in recession," it says, quoting figure : "The 1,500 ufologists working for the *Bureau used to report a~t 38 UFOs a year and today? Nothing, nothing at all!". According to the head of the Bureau, the reason is probably that "our cousins from 'overplanets' have finished their scientific programme of exploration". [Description of Source: Caversham BBC Monitoring in English --I THIS REPORT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. (endall) 88354 NNNN NNNN PPER (407) SERIAL NOT FOUND OR INCORRECTLY FORMATTED. ELST 407 - NONCRITICAL (PPER.L): SERIAL NOT FOUND OR INCORRECTLY FORMATTED. EFLG NONCRITICALERROR ===EOD===