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WHAT HAPPENED ON 19th October 1996?
18th October 1996
ABBOT REVEALS
£25m PURCHASE Abbot Group is extending its presence in a growing north European market for oilfield drilling services. It is paying approximately £24.7m for for the US-owned Nabors Europe group. Nabors based in Aberdeen provides drilling & drilling-related services to companies developing oilfields on Britain's Continental Shelf. At present Nabors operates nine rigs on production platforms for Chevron Elf & Oryx as well as offering wire- line logging & remedial services.
19th October 1996
Sir James Goldsmith has been making a
speech at the Referendum Party's first conference. Founder Sir James Goldsmith said the Referendum Party included people with a broad diversity of views. They were united in the belief that the voter should have the right to decide on Britain's future. For the first time he described the kind of referendum he wants: a choice between four different visions.
19th October 1996
Sir James Goldsmith has been making a
speech at the Referendum Party's first conference. Sir James wants people to choose between a federal Europe a family of sovereign nations a free trade area and Britain's withdrawal from Europe. He said members would strive to obtain the right for Britons to decide whether the country should remain a nation. The tone of Sir James's speech & those that preceded him confirm it is an essentially Euro-sceptical party.
18th October 1996
NAZI VICTIMS' CASH MAY BE IN POLAND
Some of the money deposited in Swiss banks by holocaust victims might have ended up in Poland The suspicion follows the disclosure of an exchange of letters between the Swiss & Polish governments. They covered Swiss accounts opened by people living in Poland before the war. The letters say that if these account- holders did not come forward by 1954 the Swiss were to transfer the funds to the national bank of communist Poland.
19th October 1996
Sir James Goldsmith has been making a
speech at the Referendum Party's first conference. Founder Sir James Goldsmith said the Referendum Party included people with a broad diversity of views. They were united in the belief that the voter should have the right to decide on Britain's future. For the first time he described the kind of referendum he wants: a choice between four different visions.
19th October 1996
Sir James Goldsmith has been making a
speech at the Referendum Party's first conference. Sir James wants people to choose between a federal Europe a family of sovereign nations a free trade area and Britain's withdrawal from Europe. He said members would strive to obtain the right for Britons to decide whether the country should remain a nation. The tone of Sir James's speech & those that preceded him confirm it is an essentially Euro-sceptical party.
