P159 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                                 * 30 November - The British and French  governments announce their intention  to seek private promoters for the  construction of the Channel Tunnel in  order to build and operate it without  public funding. The tunnel, for which  proposals were first made as long ago  as 1802, is expected to be open in the  early 1990s.  * 30 November - The Tamil Tigers begin  the purge of the Sinhalese people from  North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are  killed.     100-Contents 101-Headlines   Next       Prev       Home        End