She encouraged a young woman to spend a few nights with Robert

She encouraged a young woman to spend a few nights with Robert, but when the girl became pregnant Laura insisted on an abortion, witnessed it, and then banished her. It has not proved easy for Slovakia, a small republic that has traditionally lagged behind the Czech lands, to compensate for such losses.Still, the picture is not uniformly bleak. Mr Baker said that this can take many months and no interest is payable. The whole UN effort was stalled because it was inadequately resourced and supported.’Instead of making vague threats, such as, ’strong measures are not excluded’, which the Foreign Secretary got into such a mess trying to explain, ought there not to be a commitment to action such as the use of air strikes to make the aggressors understand that the international community will not tolerate the defiance of international authority and the dismemberment of Bosnia?’Mr Major dismissed the Labour leader as long on criticisms but a little short on solutions. Under Hoxha’s ruthlessly repressive form of Communism, Greeks and Albanians were treated with equal severity. They reported that anti-aircraft artillery was being used as ground fire and that there was sporadic sniper fire.
Bosnian Muslim-controlled radio said 91 people were killed and 152 wounded in Serb artillery and multiple rocket launcher attacks on Gorazde yesterday.’This is possibly the most terrible day.

Valued at more than pounds 5m, the Garman-Ryan collection was given to Walsall in 1973 by Kathleen Garman, widow of the sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein.Born at nearby Wednesbury, she wanted her art treasures to be somewhere close to her home. (Vogue’s French edition was shut down until after the Liberation.)The Vogue photographers did their bit. How many other actors could bring plausibility to a line as hackneyed as ‘It wasn’t just a fight, it was the biggest chance of his life’?La Plante’s dramas are a little like Frank Bruno: macho, good- looking, immensely popular, given to the odd humorous touch, and seemingly on the telly every time you switch it on. TELEVISION takes its latest stride into the future today with the launch of the UK’s first interactive news service, available to the 200,000 subscribers of the cable TV channel Videotron, broadcasting in London and the South, writes Marianne Macdonald.

The Green Party is now considering a ‘purge’ of members who belong to Eco.Judy Maciejowska, a former co-chair of the Green Party who resigned in 1992 and now chairs Eco, last week described this proposal as McCarthyite ‘I think it is sad,’ she said. The turnaround won’t be enough for payments to be resumed on the company’s 7 per cent convertible preference stock this year, but the shares must be an excellent punt at their present near- 75 per cent discount.BEWARE the fashion for Baldwin, the wide-ranging leisure group that shot to 140p, against a 1993 low of 63p, on last Friday’s announcement of doubled profits for the year to 30 October. ‘I will ask for the prince’s hand in marriage.’There was a loud ringing noise. Special trains were run and on Hogmanay the pier at Kyle of Lochalsh was thronged with men waiting to make the final leg of their journey to the islands.