To get around and catch Mansell to pass again for the win seemed impossible, but just then the yellow flag came out for a full-course caution, allowing Andretti to close in behind his team-mate.To many viewers, the yellow flag appeared to be contrived to make a more exciting finish. However, Gide had Persephone voluntarily sacrificing herself out of pity for the lost souls in the underworld, thus insinuating a Christian gloss which the Russian Orthodox inflections of Stravinsky’s choral writing, even in his most supposedly neo- classical phase, were bound to enhance.Unfortunately, in elaborating his text for the theatre, Gide not only imposed a pretty leisurely pace on the action, but inserted sub-Wagnerian suggestions of how the music should go which were bound to irritate so anti-romantic a composer. A Philosophical Investigation, which managed the unlikely feat of introducing Wittgenstein to the crime novel, fizzed with ideas and had a cool brilliance which helped disguise the fact that it was mutton dressed as lamb Now comes Dead Meat which, sad to say, is pure mutton

The subject could hardly be more timely. Profits before tax for the six months to 28 August were pounds 9m, up from pounds 7.4m last time, on sales 8.3 per cent ahead at pounds 86.2m.

The way he dealt with Paisley was impassioned, and totally effective,’ one Cabinet minister on the right of the party said.
Tory MPs privately said that if the IRA resumed their terrorist campaign in the new year, it would not be Mr Major who would take the blame ‘He has taken a risk in talking to the IRA The IRA are tired and do want to give up. I don’t think I’d done that for the first three years on tour. But eventually things settled, and we met a team of real- life saintly people including Keith, a large man with a spike-top haircut and a gold- stud earring who gives up most of his Sundays to go in and weigh the hedgehogs.One of the RSPCA’s doctors offered the opinion that ‘Everywhere where there is an interaction between man and wildlife, wildlife suffers.’ Coming directly after a scene in which some medics were urging each other to keep their fingers well out of the cage they were carrying, in order not to have them removed at the knuckle by the badger inside it, this seemed a slight exaggeration Still, the seal made it.Thomas Sutcliffe is away. As the tourists streamed past, the PRs’ pitches would melt into one another: ‘Cheapest bar in town, girls Two for the price of one. Though one of the richest nations in the world, it remains one of the least visited and understood. ‘Control of security is always in the hands of the Spaniards,’ says Marc Puig ‘Spanish policemen in Catalonia come from Spain.

The inflated cost of food on the black market is creating hundreds of beggars. But it does feel a bit like opening somebody else’s hate mail. I have become the financial analyst most men love to hate.Sometimes I feel like the proverbial thousand-year-old man. The shares climbed at one time or another 4p to 17p, closing at 16p in busy trading. The strength of local feeling has been demonstrated by the large attendance at the vigils held outside the hospital and by the window stickers supporting the ‘Save the Charing Cross’ campaign.We wish to emphasise that the accident and emergency department provides a service in this area that is fully stretched, and our traffic problems put the alternatives of the Hammersmith Hospital, Ealing General and/or the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital way outside the 10 minutes allowed for by Sir Bernard Tomlinson.Yours faithfully,JOHN KENSINGTON, JOHN FULHAM, FRANK LONGFORD, PATRICK O’CONNOR, JOHN STEPHENSONLondon, W827 January. Written off they might have been but in the happy hunting ground that is their home from home, Michael Bradley and his team confounded the critics.

The West has no strategy for dealing with this wider problem. Mr Lamont, said to be relaxed and cheerful, has told colleagues that his mailbag is showing heavy support for his resignation speech.(Photograph omitted). The picture is particularly bleak in the US, where operating profits fell from pounds 4m to pounds 2.4m, and margins slumped from 8.6 per cent to 4.9 per cent.The impossible debt position means Ransomes will do well to notch up earnings for this year or next The chance of any dividend income is similarly slight Avoid the shares.. William Harrison Riker, political scientist and historian: born Des Moines, Iowa 1921; Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester, New York 1962-93; President, American Political Science Association 1984; married 1943 Mary Elizabeth Lewis (one son, two daughters); died Rochester, NY 26 June 1993

WILLIAM H RIKER was one of the founders of rigorous political science. ‘My last years of work here in Frankfurt have brought about a total identification with the principles of the Bundesbank,’ he said.. An ambitious drama-documentary, it reconstructed the six-year struggle of lawyers led by Martyn Day (David Threlfall) to prove a link between British Nuclear Fuels’ plant at Sellafield and the high incidence of leukaemia in local children.