Preoccupied with internal order and self-preservation, their ruling cliques conducted unsuccessful wars against an ever stronger Zionist enemy. Child care campaigners yesterday accused Labour of a U-turn on its manifesto commitment to support wider tax exemptions after it opposed a Finance Bill amendment on child care vouchers given by employers. Only Channel 4 could compare for strike-rate.How long before BSkyB viewers are playing Spot the Goal?. Dismissing calls for a short-term boost to the economy, Mr Heseltine said: ‘It will lead to a depreciation in the value of our currency, rising inflation and rising interest rates in this country and once more into the cycle of stop go, which has been the besetting, underlying evil of post-war British economic management.’The Government was surprised by the backlash among Tory MPs. WITH Peter Mayle’s book A Year in Provence now being dramatised on television, Francophiles might well have their minds on the idea of buying their own little piece of France.

WINDING UP a six-day visit to Sarajevo with indelible memories of a people who will not surrender, Joan Baez gave a closing concert for about 800 grateful people packed into a tiny cinema. Passing card details to an outside company might be a breach of the Data Protection Act. He said the UN’s total cash reserves were some dollars 380m as against monthly expenses of about dollars 310m. It is extremely rare to see a proposal where the lawyers give a buyer any real steer on why they should use their firm.’The most common mistake, he says, is for the lawyers to concentrate on presenting themselves while hardly making a mention of the clients’ needs.

Why are the tabs at the back of shirt collars sewn down, while those on pullovers are allowed to flap? (Professor J Hibbs). – Alan Hilditch, Chedburgh, SuffolkThe first step must be a campaign similar to those on seat belts, safer sex and looking after one’s heart. Santander’s goalkeeper, Jose Ceballos, earned the game’s first red card before the visitors’ Albert Ferrer was sent off for fouling Radchenko just before half- time. Flirty is a good word for our Thora with her relentless cheeriness and memories of harmless frolics. ‘After the Liberation something had to be done to show the world that the vitality of French fashion was as strong as ever, and that it was ready for business.’ And that something, touched upon briefly in their book, was a magical project, the ‘Theatre de la Mode’.The project encapsulated the constructive verve of the French. Analysts expect Harland’s annual profits to fall from pounds 10.5m to pounds 4m.The company has said pounds 3m of the shortfall is due to problems at Perfect Information, a privately owned news cutting and financial information service to which Harland is substantially exposed.Despite limited financial resources, Perfect is a major customer of Harland, paying for pounds 7.4m of equipment since March 1991.

We excavated two miles of original pathways with machetes and chainsaws. Other sea birds, such as frigates, boatswains (or tropics) and boobies (various forms of gannet), have withdrawn to inaccessible cliffs, or to the cat- free stronghold of Boatswain Bird Island, off the east coast.Less vicious yet equally persistent survivors of the marines’ occupation are the wild donkeys – large, light-coloured animals, apparently able to live on a diet of cinders and thorn bushes – which make off with loud hisses when you approach them. The belief that low inflation will eventually solve the unemployment problem was the basis of John Major’s long-held faith in the ERM. The average was just over 6 per cent.An ‘astonishingly large’ number of the cars travelled very few business miles. In response, they have turned on two vulnerable departments of the Establishment itself One is the media.