Having just lost a run-off Senate election in Georgia a second loss would be a defeat of some significance

Having just lost a run-off Senate election in Georgia, a second loss would be a defeat of some significance early in the Clinton administration.Senator Bentsen, son of a wealthy Texas landowner, was first elected to Congress in 1948 at the age of 27. Baghdad claimed, meanwhile, that an anti-aircraft battery near the southern city of Basra had ‘confronted an enemy target’ and forced it to flee. As investors began to believe recovery was under way, they switched out of defensive stocks such as Glaxo and into cyclical stocks, which they believed would benefit more from a sharp economic bounce.This trend was amplified by the appearance of the health reform bogeyman. Its appeal has produced some popular backing for restrictive laws and demands that the press clean up its act. It is likely this is still going on, as Russia lacks the resources to develop safer means of disposal on land.The White Book caused particular concern in Japan, both Koreas and Norway, as it revealed that 20 nuclear reactors, plus other radioactive waste, mostly from atomic submarines and ice-breakers, had been tipped into Far Eastern and Arctic waters by the navy and the Murmansk Shipping Line between 1959 and 1992.The authors of the White Book did say the waste dumped was mostly ‘low and medium-active’, was usually put in hermetically sealed containers and that there was ‘no significant danger of radioactivity or contamination’ of the seas concerned.

Many of his supporters want him to stay on in the interests of stability and argue that he is not obliged to hold an early poll as he already has a popular mandate. First, I would hand-pick a celebrity (dread word]) such as an Archbishop of Canterbury, an International Statesman or a Cabinet Minister. There is nothing faked or clamorous about her gentle glances, and when she loves, she loves for real. This is a story about two women of Hackney, one called Julia and one called Jane. / The lunatics who said / they would lock women in their houses / cannot show their faces now. One wonders why so few of Webern’s followers were prepared to learn from that, opting instead for self-obscuring perplexity – unless it was simply that they never heard Webern played so well.’Lucid’ may not be the word that leaps to mind during Edgard Varese’s Ecuatorial, and yet the writing is obviously as he heard it – Varese knew the sounds he was creating and there’s a gripping sense of cohesion. These fragments are the voices of the ghosts still present in the village of Comala, who between them gradually build up the jigsaw of his father’s life and death.

So far Morgan Grenfell has done a remarkably effective job in persuading debenture holders to hold fire. Johnsoniana and Johnsonian.Collinge and Clarke 13 Leigh Street, WC1 (071 387 7105). There used to be a character called Mona Lott in the programme of the 1940s, ITMA, whose catchphrase was: ‘It’s being so cheerful as keeps me going.’ ‘It’s being so ambitious as keeps me going’ – that is Mr Heseltine’s health tip.To forestall critics such as Mrs Gorman, Mr Heseltine has (in the language of our time) moved to the right So also has Mr John Major, for the same reason. THE PROFOUND contempt of governments throughout the world for human rights is the theme of Amnesty International’s annual report, which was published yesterday. White: David Norwood Black: Erling MortensenReykjavik 1990So your position is hopeless, and your opponent is grinning to himself.Should you resign gracefully and plot your revenge? Absolutely not] Relax.Sit back Enjoy life, as you are already dead. Talk of letting the ‘house price adjustment run its natural course’ is frequently on ministerial lips.Dramatic action to kick-start the market, such as doubling mortgage interest relief, would probably only be attempted in limited circumstances: if the difficulties in the housing market were perceived to be undermining (or threatening to) the stability of the financial system, if they seriously threatened to stymie a nascent recovery or if the housing market was chosen as a specific tool to get the economy moving.The Government is sufficiently worried, though, as the Independent on Sunday reported last week, to have commissioned a ‘what if’ report from the accountants Touche Ross, who have been asked to work out how enmeshed the economy and housing market are and to map the consequences of a further slump.It is an unenviable task.

The difficulty was made all the worse by the prospect of the French referendum on the Maastricht treaty this Sunday. That was when Mr Allen realised complete new bikes could be built for sale.The model he chose is the 1961 version of the Manx, with the larger engine option (350cc machines were also produced). He studied for seven years at the Gregorian University in Rome, took an MA at Glasgow University in maths and Latin, with a bit of Italian and moral philosphy thrown in, and rounded it off with a year’s teacher training. THE INDUSTRIAL world faces the prospect of a slide back into recession if demand in the US and Japan weakens and the European downturn grows worse, the authoritative Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warned yesterday. Other interesting paintings are by Elizabeth Blackadder, Alan Davie, Ian Howard, Eileen Lawrence, Renny Tait and Keith McIntyre All in all, a revealing survey What does it prove? Hare has no doubts. Taylor tells me his greatest scoop as a Reuters newshound was when he was 10 minutes ahead of the AP-Dow Jones wire service in reporting a cut in French interest rates. The scourge of rookie dustmen, he will always ask anyone new on his lorry if they have a video recorder.

As I listened to Mr Cook I wondered whether I hadn’t been a little rash.’(Photograph omitted). This exclusively bright bunch of women – Martha Whittingham, Jane Varadi and Karen Wigley among them – looked suspiciously hand- picked. ‘Elevated temperatures, humidity, and changes in the gas atmosphere inside the warhead may in turn cause the high-explosives components to age, degrading their physical integrity and increasing sensitivity. While the transfer itself cost some dollars 780,000, the firm also assumed a dollars 5.2m loss on the house Mr Golub had been building for himself in Minnesota.Mr Robinson, by contrast, earned about dollars 3m for his six weeks of service with the company in 1993 – the year American Express divested itself of the last of the costly acquisitions it made during his ambitious diversification drive in the 1980s.In 1992, Mr Robinson received dollars 4.75m in salary and share options, of which dollars 975,000 was described as base salary Mr Golub received dollars 776,000 last year in salary.. If you use your study time wisely, you will have ample time for other things A balance between recreation and work is important. The party came his way on Europe, disarmament, Scottish devolution.The irony was not lost on him when, before the last election, a row broke out about his taxation proposals. ‘One of the television teams came to film me, and all the cameramen said they were going to vote for me.’Dr Sked, 46, formed his party before the last Euro-elections, as the Anti-Federalist League, and changed its name after Maastricht, when he felt the only way for Britain to avoid a federalist Europe was to leave the EU altogether.

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