During the 1970s and for most of the 1980s there seemed to be a suitable yardstick for Continental Europe at least in the

During the 1970s and for most of the 1980s there seemed to be a suitable yardstick, for Continental Europe at least, in the German mark. Mr Nakanishi said yesterday that he would expand Japanese military participation in UN peace-keeping missions, and also hinted at a more assertive defence policy for a country that still feels inhibited by its wartime record.TOKYO’S NEW MINISTERSPrime Minister: Morihiro Hosokawa (J); Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier: Tsutomu Hata (R); Special Minister for Political Reform: Sadao Yamahana (S); Justice: Akira Mikazuki (N); Finance: Hirohisa Fujii (R); Education: Ryoko Akamatsu (N); Health and Welfare: Keigo Ouchi (D); Agriculture: Eijiro Hata (R); International Trade and Industry: Hiroshi Kumagai (R); Transport: Shigeru Ito (S); Posts and Telecommunications: Takenori Kanzaki (K); Labour: Chikara Sakaguchi (K); Construction: Kozo Igarashi (S); Home Affairs: Kanju Sato (S); Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masayoshi Takemura (H); Management and Co-ordination: Koshiro Ishida (K); Defence: Keisuke Nakanishi (R); Economic Planning: Manae Kubota (S); Science and Technology: Satsuki Eda (F); Environment: Wakako Hironaka (K); Land Development: Kosuke Uehara (S).(Key to the parties: S = Socialist; J = Japan New; R = Japan Renewal; H = Harbinger New; K = Komeito; D = Democratic Socialist; F = Social Democratic Federation; N = Non-political). It is such hopes that continue to sustain the share price.Yet from the beginning, Disney has been careful to distance itself from Euro Disney. At the viewer’s end, the gallery is partially closed off by walls coming in from either side, a bottle- neck which sets up an enormous pressure of population within the space the figures occupy. ‘I should be four or five shots in the lead.’He had a remarkable birdie on the 586-yard 15th hole which is unreachable in two to all but the longest hitters. But Mr Aristide refuses to meet the group despite US urging, and instead calls for increased economic sanctions against Haiti’s military rulers.. After all, only one of the adult versions of these teams will be at this year’s World Cup, and it isn’t England.It was billed as a schools international, but England played with a mature accomplishment that belied their years About the Swiss, however, there was a touching naivety Headers and tackling weren’t their scene.

Under the nightmare scenario, Hamas benefits from the humiliations of the Oslo debacle and sets up a power centre in the West Bank and Gaza. Abnormally high temperatures and humidity added to the challenge of the 26,000- metre marathon. Instead of regrouping and settling for a 1-0 defeat, which would have left them an even-money bet in the second leg, they chased the game and lost their shape with consequences which were all too predictable.They were naive in the extreme, but the reasons they lost, and for the failure of British clubs against top-class opposition, go much deeper than that. No goals from four outings is a poor return for an outfit that can boast attacking strength in the shape of David White and Niall Quinn, with Rick Holden primed to deliver the crosses.From the start Wright was sparky but thankfully not spiky as he all too often tends to be. To this end firms arrange extensive programmes of in- house seminars given by lawyers and others involved in the industry.

Charles Clarke was a key point of contact for senior union officials who knew that he spoke with the full authority of the leader In Mr Smith’s office no one fulfils that role. A better fact to demonstrate the magnitude of the crisis facing the planet is that in only 16 years, even at the current population growth rate, an additional area the size of the Isle of Wight will be required to accommodate all the extra people.Yours faithfully,NIGEL CURTISHENRIETTA WILLIAMSALEX CURTISLondon, W96 December. This was the period of Harold Macmillan’s ‘wind of change’ and Mrs Grimshaw decided it was time for one of her own.’There’s no provision at all for women’s bowls in Glamorgan,’ she says. The big casinos avoid tactical games played to win, preferring the slot machine’s easy profits.

Nor is there much optimism that serious inroads can be made into unemployment, now at 7.2 per cent, especially if growth goes below the 3 per cent mark.’It is like a muddy game of British soccer with lots of play in the mid-field and neither side managing to score a goal,’ Roger Kubarych, a Wall Street money manager, said yesterday. If ever an FA Cup tie had the ingredients of an upset, this was it.Crystal Palace had set out at the Victoria Ground yesterday with all the confidence you would expect of a Premier League side that had just won their last six matches. For most of the last 11 years the French have been crashing into the six-foot bollard of Winterbottom’s tackling stance or squaring up to his ball-carrying charges downfield. Visiting an ever-expanding family plot, Kibazo touched the graves of his forefathers – ‘It’s kind of a funny feeling, knowing where you’re going to be buried But. Three cannons sounded and over the radio came a squawky voice saying ‘general recall’, which worked about as well as Keith Brown’s flag at Aintree.After nearly quarter of an hour of trying to keep out of the following racers’ way, and wondering what happened next, we studied a handy rule book, which informed us that we should have sailed back behind the line straight away, and that the restart would be in under a minute.We stumbled back and three or four minutes later crossed the line properly. It took Wimbledon half an hour to get a shot on target, Warren Barton and Dean Holdsworth testing Alan Kelly – but not seriously – from 20 yards in the space of 30 seconds.Flo put another looping header over before, inevitably, his blond head rose above the pack to head home Kevin Gage’s free kick from two yards. While the two sides were close on what to do with some of the VW employees for whom GM has been seeking a temporary employment ban, other issues raised by the American company have complicated proceedings.
The least controversial proposal appears to be that VW removes from its purchasing department for eight months four colleagues of Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, VW’s purchasing director and the man at the centre of an industrial espionage row between the two companies.GM and its European subsidiary, Opel, had originally sought to ban all seven of the managers who followed Mr Lopez to VW, on the grounds that the mass defection represented unfair competition.

Apart from foreigners, Algerian intellectuals have also been the target of assassination attempts by Islamic guerrillas in what has become an atmosphere of virtual civil war.In Paris, Alain Juppe, the Foreign Minister, said France was continuing to try to persuade French citizens to leave Algeria.. She is actually his wife’s cousin, but a Welsh cousin-in- law is better than nothing.COURT SHORTFor a magazine aimed at helping writers make a living, Writers’ Monthly has upset a number of contributors (as I have chronicled recently) who have either written articles for it and not been paid, or sent manuscripts for expert guidance and never seen them again. He called for an inquiry.A senior UN military source said that apart from worries over Gorazde, the Muslims’ main concern about agreeing to a ceasefire was that any final agreement might freeze current confrontation lines and turn them into final ethnic borders within Bosnia.’The Bosnian government is concerned that freezing the lines will prejudice the eventual political decision at peace negotiations on where the borders will run,’ the source said.’But that cannot be our concern. On Tuesday John Major will launch a White Paper on competitiveness that is expected to shatter one of the cornerstones of Thatcherism by putting manufacturing recovery at the centre of government policy.
Helping Business Win will be launched with the ministerial firepower normally accorded only to an election manifesto, to emphasise that all departments will now be expected to look at the industrial impact of their actions.Mr Major will be flanked by Michael Heseltine, President of the Board of Trade, who is the White Paper’s author, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretaries of State for Transport, Environment and Education, and the Minister of Public Service and Science.The launch was postponed from last week, officially because of John Smith’s death. Solicitors acting for Alan Clark, the former defence minister, said they were taking action after a series of allegations about his sexual conduct, most recently that he fathered an illegitimate child.. ARTHUR BERRY – painter, playwright, broadcaster and story-teller – was an irreplaceable piece of living culture. It is yes versus no, right versus wrong – in public at least.