Exit poll predictions and partial returns put Mr Iliescu, a former minister under Nicolai Ceausescu, comfortably ahead of his main rival, Emil Constantinescu, the rector of Bucharest University and leader of the opposition Democratic Convention. What the production lacks, though, is any strong sense of atmosphere or personality. MANX GAELIC is to be taught in all schools on the Isle of Man for the first time in an attempt to revive the ancient language once spoken by most of the population, writes Will Bennett. Merrill, Wall Street’s biggest securities firm, was the first to release its annual proxy statement to shareholders, detailing how it paid senior executives. A brilliant cross-examiner and a powerful advocate he was a favourite with many a British judge at the Calcutta High Court.

LOUIS BENJAMIN’s face was familiar to millions who never really knew him. It was a window of escape, a small one.Kim and Mr Mackie finally ended their high-altitude odyssey across the Himalayas on Monday, when they were led down from the peaks It was a relief to their captors as well. The Government’s onslaught on ‘red tape’ has already led to the abolition of some burdens, such as the statutory audit requirement for the smallest firms. ‘But sometimes if I practise serving too long, there’s a little ache in my shoulder. The Unionists of Belfast revolted and brought down the power-sharing executive. Southern Sudanese the world over are mourning for a woman they thought of as ‘truly one of us’.(Photograph omitted).

Marcia Williams, in her book Inside Number 10, confirms that as early as the spring of 1965 Fernyhough had identified that there was a major Vietnam issue and was already warning Wilson of the consequences, before many people had discovered where Vietnam was on the map.It was not only on Vietnam that Fernyhough was influential. The unlucky ones will become the victims of violence, alcohol and drug abuse, or sexual exploitation.Mary Asprey and her colleagues are constantly asking themselves whether people should be allowed to remain missing. If we allow cultural relativism to creep into English it becomes more difficult to establish a sense of order in other subjects.’ Teachers who favour a greater emphasis on creative expression argue that grammar exercises may be just a way of keeping the lower orders in their place. PATRICK DEVLIN was in 1948, at the age of 42, the youngest High Court judge to be appointed this century. I was more than a little dispirited to find composers resorting to the same kind of gestures over and over again in the clarinet-piano pieces. IN HIS latest film, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Woody Allen has a nice little joke about poker He can’t play the game but wants to improve. Guy’s is a chaotic jumble of patched-up Victorian buildings and a brutal Sixties tower near London Bridge station; St Thomas’s is a couple of miles up river, opposite the Palace of Westminster.

‘Overnight, I learned that a leader is not simply someone who experiences the personal exhilaration of being in charge. This week, aged 73 and still espousing racist views, he appears on the same murder charge in a new trial that raises some troubling questions about whether Mr Beckwith’s own civil rights are now being violated.
Although it would seem clear from the 30-year interval in prosecutions for the same crime that Mr Beckwith is being deprived of his right under the Sixth Amendment to a speedy trial, local politics has intervened. On politics, it is seriously unbalanced, offering only 100 pages on Disraeli’s 1874-1880 majority government. A week in the US will cost about pounds 1.20 per person in extra charges, or 75p each week for a fortnight in Europe.A spokeswoman for the jointly owned Dixons and Currys electrical chains said warranty cover currently stands at pounds 149 over five years for a washing machine, pounds 110 for a 21-inch colour TV, or pounds 138 for a video recorder. She was hailed as a genius by her doting German maternal grandparents for her childish efforts, and now all that remains of her is a few pages of an exercise book, treasured by her bereaved and demented mother Lara was never much of a dancer. CONFUSION was rife yesterday after Unilever announced its head office reorganisation.