P123 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                  * 8 September - The National Health  Service privatises cleaning, catering  and laundering services in a move  which Social Services Secretary Norman  Fowler predicts will save between 90  million and 180 million a year.  * 11 September - The SDP Conference  voted against a merger with the  Liberals until at least 1988.  * 17 September Vanessa Lynn Williams  becomes the first African-American to  be crowned Miss America, in Atlantic  City, New Jersey.     100-Contents 101-Headlines   Next       Prev       Home        End