That suggests that Americans are prepared to overlook assorted shenanigans so long as

That suggests that Americans are prepared to overlook assorted shenanigans, so long as their leaders compensate in other ways That could offer Bill Clinton a useful lesson. SILVIO BERLUSCONI, the Prime Minister, yesterday rejected threats and demands made in court by Salvatore (‘Toto’) Riina, the Mafia ‘boss of all bosses’, and an apparent bid for a modus vivendi between the Mafia and his new right-wing government. In reluctantly having to accept that his course at Novo Sancti Petri – as well as seven others – had been rendered unsuccessful candidates by the previous day’s announcement, Ballesteros’s outwardly serene demeanour was made possible by the fact he had never genuinely expected any other outcome.
Officially, the decision rested with the six members of the Ryder Cup committee – three men from the PGA and three from the European tour. (First Edition)

THE LOYALIST bombing menace has increased to the point where almost 30 per cent of explosive devices come from extreme Protestants, the Army in Northern Ireland said yesterday, writes
According to army statistics, 108 of the devices used this year have been the work of the IRA while loyalists were responsible for 63. Campaign literature piled high on shelves waits to be dispatched to the 2,000 or so supporters stored on a database.Overseeing operations is Andy Davies, who has just completed a PhD in cosmology at London University. Another will be increasingly ever- stretched judicial, police and prison services The result is likely to be not more law and order, but less

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Tengiz Sigua, the acting prime minister, said no one had so far claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.. Despite similarities with thirtysomething (check the acoustic soundtrack) and The Big Chill, this is certainly more substantial than Carlton’s last network drama offering, Head Over Heels. THE picture-postcard Republic of Slovenia, which saw off the Yugoslav army in 10 days of fighting in the summer of 1991, has a young government. Accompanied by wife, Hiba, 29, and son Vernes, 7.Edhem Dedovic, boy, 11, injuries to face and left eye, lesion to right arm. Democracy was seen by the business community as an element of modernisation – it was in favour of it for economic reasons.Is it a matter of coincidence that the economic successes of modern China tend to be taking place as far away from Peking as possible – beyond the emperor’s immediate reach? And is there any hard distinction between these economic reforms and political reforms? Surely the Chinese economy is a deeply politicised affair?The Chinese model (prosperity first, then freedom) suffers from a further disadvantage – it has not been on the road all that long. We shall visit France to inaugurate, with the President of the French Republic, the Channel tunnel in May; and to attend the ceremonies to mark the 50th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, in June. THE attempted murder of two men shot in the grounds of a Leeds hospital was a gangland reprisal, a court was told yesterday.

They want the BAF to use their letter as evidence when it conducts an internal inquiry next month.
The Sunday Times alleges that Norman attempted to stop Temple writing an article criticising him by threatening to expose that the coach had sexually molested one of his best athletes, the former Olympic middle- distance runner, Shireen Bailey.Bailey was among the 20 signatories of the letter, which is being sent to the BAF’s new executive chairman, Peter Radford, who will be leading the inquiry, as well as the Kent coroner’s office, which will be holding an inquest into Temple’s death.The letter reads: ‘The undersigned athletes were coached by Cliff Temple between 1973 and 1994. Editors recently published their Alternative White Paper: it had little new to offer and made no real impact. Each is said to have the support of about six members of the Shadow Cabinet and each has the backing of about 80 MPs, with a similar share of support among MEPs. The deaths bring the number of radicals killed to 79 since 1 June.. Perhaps we can hope for a little encouragement now that Ray Illingworth is in charge.

At least 24 individuals being investigated are thought to have made more than DM100m ( pounds 41.07m) from a ‘front-running’ ring.Front-running is a practice whereby traders buy or sell stocks for themselves before placing big orders for customers that may move the share price. When the French government opened talks with lorry drivers’ union officials last week, it was dealing with men who represented only a fraction of those on the barricades.The first group to start a ‘co-ordination’, enveloping members of various unions and non-union workers, was France’s nurses. I don’t really see what the Government can do in one fell swoop.’A sale would not solve their financial problems. Carver Dana Andrews, actor, born Collins Mississippi 1 January 1909, married 1932 Janet Murray (died 1935; one son deceased), 1939 Mary Todd (one son, two daughters), died Long Beach California 17 December 1992 THAT’S ‘Day-Na’, not ‘Dah-Na’, Andrews.

THE CHANCELLOR was urged by the most senior backbenchers in the Conservative Party last night not to raise taxes in the spring Budget. The train moves off.Two minutes later, he’s back in the carriage, holding a pen and a book. ‘I am dismayed at John Major’s mismanagement of ratification, it is very disquieting,’ he said, adding that he could not see how ‘any democrat’ could have objected to the Labour amendment.’Mr Major is in the driving seat, he has to take into account that he has to have either his own majority or a European majority, at the moment he has neither,’ he said.Conservative MEPs sought to reassure their colleagues. With bay windows adjoining the pavement, they are perfectly designed for the vice trade. Steve was strongly tempted now to say: ‘Yes, mother, I know that Albany is the state capital of New York State and that the potato came from Peru – these are just two things that I know and you don’t,’ but then he thought that these might not get the laughs he thought they deserved.’Steve, you have often told us you want to be a stand-up comedian when you grow up,’ said ‘Dad’.'That’s right,’ said Steve.