Germany’s Federal Prosecutor said the head of former East Germany’s military espionage service had

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor said the head of former East Germany’s military espionage service had been charged with treason, Reuter reports from Karlsruhe. CORRECTION (PUBLISHED 22 JANUARY 1994) INCORPORATED INTO THIS ARTICLE

THE new ‘granny bond’ promised in the Budget will go on sale from today with an interest rate of 7 per cent, writes Vivien Goldsmith.
The Pensioners Guaranteed Income Bond pays monthly income and gives the over-65s a two-way bet on interest rates.If rates fall they will be cushioned for five years but if rates rise investors may close the investment by giving 60-days’ notice and sacrificing 60-days’ interest.The bond is only available to those over 65. Healthy volunteers have been given up to a pint of the artificial haemoglobin, known as rHb1.1. I got the impression that he was not overmuch bothered by split infinitives, or even annoyed by the thing that drives so many people potty: the sound of people saying ‘Laura Norder’ instead of ‘law and order’.It was only subjects and verbs that did not agree which seemed to drive him to the point of madness. Without economic and monetary stability to their west they are in trouble. His work as an official war artist is held by the Imperial War Museum and at the RAF Museum in Hendon.(Photograph omitted).

So yesterday, the Department of Health, partly taking back the initiative over institutional child care, announced its own plans for secure units.All these factors make for unpredictability in the state’s behaviour as parent Violent swings in policy do vulnerable children little good. There are excerpts from the brothers’ diaries, referring to their plane’s ’starting track, a 60ft monorail of iron- shod wood on a slope of eight degrees’. Clive Derby-Lewis was arrested after police questioning of the murder suspect, Janusz Walus, a Polish immigrant, state television said. Yet now, both in journalism (Bryan Appleyard’s article on these pages, 21 April) and in government policy as reflected in the funding of voluntary agencies, the slightest hint that the Aids figures have reached a a plateau – though plateau is hardly the word, when what is meant is the slight bottoming out of a still deepening trench of mortality – is used as evidence that the epidemic is in some sense over, no longer a priority.
It would be handy at this point to contrast the continued funding of a cot deaths campaign with the cuts to be visited, for instance, on the Terrence Higgins Trust (amounting to 65 per cent in the next three years), except that funding has been withdrawn from the cot deaths campaign, too A bit of a blow for minority rhetoric, that. Hasn’t the Gatt round been continuing for about three years beyond the original deadline for the talks?The second would be that antagonism is mostly the fault of the French. Directors at Civic Leisure were this week referring inquiries on to Queens Moat, where no one was available to comment.

Months of painstaking laboratory work in the Verulamium Museum at St Albans has been needed because after the king had lain in state, he and all his possessions were burnt on a pyre, leaving a charred mass that has been picked apart using scalpels, X- ray equipment and an air-abrasive unit, a kind of sophisticated sand-blaster.It appears the dead king lay in state on an iron-framed bed decorated with ivory and silver, surrounded by precious objects, including a chain-mail tunic, silverware, including cups, a casket with solid silver handles and riding equipment inlaid with bronze and enamel.The king also possessed a 30- piece Roman dinner service comprising cups, plates and bowls manufactured in potteries in the Rhineland and south of France and four Italian wine amphorae, each almost one metre (3ft) tall and capable of holding 12 litres (2.64 gallons) of wine.The pottery has enabled ceramics experts to date the funeral at between AD45 and AD50, that is between two and seven years after the Roman conquest of Britain by Emperor Claudius.Some archaeologists have concluded that the St Albans tomb may be that of Adminius, a Roman collaborator who may have been allowed to rule part of the most important native kingdom in the newly conquered Britain.Adminius was a son of pre-Roman Britain’s most important king, Cunobelin.For most of his reign (cAD7-41) Cunobelin – king of a tribal confederacy which included the powerful Catuvelauni tribe, based in Verulamium (St Albans) – was moderately pro-Roman.But in the late AD30s, relations deteriorated Cunobelin expelled his pro-Roman son. But it is far from being just a reincarnation of the coup- plotters’ State Emergency Committee. David James, chairman of the group which owns Dan-Air said ‘there are no dialogues in hand beyond such minimal levels .’ Yesterday talks were confirmed.All clear?. Sir: James Meade has put forward a comprehensive package (Letters, 29 September) for economic policy during the period of a floating pound.

It is time to channel compassion into rational anger at home.Mike PennLondon SE24. No wonder Lady Thatcher, who never made any real effort to help British industry, mistrusted him and kept him cooped up in Northern Ireland.. Then there are even more specialist roles, requiring specialised degrees, such as quality assurance.’Retailing has expanded quite rapidly. But the Direct Debit Squirearchy, which pays for the National Trust, is far more likely to be generous towards a very conservationist trust, so for the trust’s foresters the bottom line should not be timber.Another good reason for leaving the trees standing, or where they are when they fall down, is that there are apparently some bugs which like the dead wood of which British parkland is a rare bastion, as it is of living old trees.It’s a pity these two arguments are right because they rob us of the fun of promoting the idea that Croft Castle’s dying chestnuts should be bagged up as chic firewood. It produces a good outcome for Greenwich.’Originally, transitional relief had been introduced just for the introductory year of council tax, but was extended for a second year in a slimline form. The prefs rose 10p to 76p; they were 60.5p on Tuesday.The FT-SE 100 index moved from a 14.5-point loss to a 12 gain, ending 2.5 down at 3,129 The FT-SE 250 index fell 13.9 to 3,764.2 Turnover was 715.1 million shares from only 28,012 deals The account ends today with settlement on 18 April.. British Coal is negotiating with Edwards Energy, which hopes to restart mining at Trentham colliery, near Stoke- on-Trent.

In plain English, these clauses allow the borrower to repay the foreign currency investor in cruzeiros, should the Brazilian government introduce foreign exchange restrictions, as in the debt crisis of 1982.The implication of this is that the borrowers will not technically default on their bonds, even though their payments on them could be virtually worthless. After defeating Labour in 1979, she won the 1983 and 1987 elections with PSBRs of pounds 8.9bn and pounds 3.6bn. She appeared in Derek Jarman’s film Wittgenstein; she created Lowry’s mother in Gillian Lynne’s ballet A Simple Man; and she’s currently performing in a new production by the experimental dance theatre group Second Stride.
Escape at Sea is partly inspired by Chekhov’s The Seagull (Seymour plays the ageing actress Arkadina), but it also uses other texts, as well as song, dance and image to create a free-wheeling fantasy about exile and loss. The EPLF included Muslims and Christians, though it is led by the Christian intelligensia.