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* 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.
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