President Elias Hrawi’s cabinet convened yesterday as emissaries sought Syria’s permission to defer the election, at least until the withdrawal of Syrian troops from the capital.Lebanon, of course, is supposed by its inhabitants to be synonymous with democracy, a hypothesis that makes the events of the past few days all the more weird. They fell to 90 for 5 before John Crawley salvaged some pride by scoring 93.Glamorgan’s Tony Cottey and Viv Richards held up Kent’s charge for the runners-up spot at Canterbury. The others began their third week in exile, some doubting they would see their families or homes in 1993. In recent years, unfortunately, the light has faded badly (‘Memo to John Birt: re gobbledygook’, 17 January). The catalogue, taken simply as art or cultural history, is an intellectual disgrace. ‘Do any of you read the National Enquirer?’ The National Enquirer is America’s most widely read paper, a tabloid sold in supermarkets, which devotes itself to tales of the extraordinary, of the ‘I licked an Elvis stamp and cured my throat cancer’ variety. the data reveals that Leeds, Sussex and several other universities are in some way ‘better’ than Glasgow, and a couple of weeks later that Glasgow is superior to them?’ he asks..

‘The sea offers a natural medium both for introspection and for forming close ties with one’s colleagues,’ he said, while pointing out that the boat was based on encouragement rather than the endurance test ideas behind some other outdoor activities.The idea was to give those involved a complete break from the stress of job hunting. Putting the Budget, which raises taxes, together with the expenditure round, which expends them, was meant to discipline spending ministers. But this background does go some of the way to explaining why Lloyds Abbey’s first dividend rise for three years was greeted by a 15p fall in its share price to 447p.Economic recovery is bringing much better results from Bowmaker and Black Horse Agencies (which actually made money in the second half), but the core life insurance businesses are looking sluggish.Most worrying is the lack of progress at Black Horse Financial Services, which sells life insurance, pensions and investments to Lloyds Bank customers. It was a powerful tale and, like last week’s film on black wartime pilots, a distinguished contribution to social archaeology – a growing field on television. —————————————————————– ITINERARY: 18 May Orange Free State (Bloemfontein); 21 May Natal (Durban); 25 May Western Transvaal (Potchefstroom); 28 May Transvaal (Johannesburg); 31 May South Africa B (Kimberley); 4 June SOUTH AFRICA (Pretoria, First Test); 7 June Eastern Province (Port Elizabeth); 11 June SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town, Second Test). Smith New Court buy advice pushed the shares 7p higher to 204p. The merger would create a third big national player, competing with McCaw, which AT&T is buying for dollars 12.6bn, and with GTE Corp’s cellular division.
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Renting makes financial sense when prices are stable or falling but values need rise only just over 2 per cent a year to reverse this.But this still leaves times when people would prefer – or be better off – renting. Mr Todd, who retired as general secretary of the TGWU last March, had sued over an article in December 1990 about the re-running of elections to the union’s executive committee after it was discovered that surplus ballot papers had been used illegitimately.The newspaper alleged that he lied in a press release by stating that he had called in the police.The High Court in London was told that as the re-run ballot closed on 23 March 1990, Mr Todd handed police a report on the fraud and it was announced that he had called in the police.The Sun accepted that the press release was true, Mr Todd had not lied, there was no reason to doubt his motives and he was not trying to hide anything It also agreed to pay his legal costs.. A typical week on a singles’ cruise from Turkey in May would cost pounds 570, inclusive of flights.Sailing conditions in the Mediterranean are usually considerably less exacting than those in the English Channel, which is one of the most awkward, lumpish pieces of water on this earth. Benson then croons or scats, according to the mood.Half the time he performed admirably as soul balladeer. He did not see the gas being pumped into the room through a hole in the ceiling, but he felt it beginning to burn ‘around my right eye, buttocks and genitals’.

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