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In this paper we present an RNC-algorithm for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted 3-uniform hypergraph, assuming the edge weights are given in unary, and a fully polynomial time randomized approximation scheme if the edge weights are given in binary. From this result we then derive RNC-approximation algorithms for the Steiner problem in networks with approximation ratio (1+e)5/3 for all e>0.