THE WIDENED gap between the French government and Germany’s central bank in their approaches to European monetary union was

THE WIDENED gap between the French government and Germany’s central bank in their approaches to European monetary union was boldly highlighted at the European Banking Congress in Frankfurt yesterday. The Prince delivered a scheduled speech before shaken guests and VIPs. However, a meeting between the PLO chairman, Yasser Arafat, and Shimon Peres, Israel’s Foreign Minister, scheduled for Cairo on Sunday, will now take place, despite earlier doubts.Palestinians received their first tangible dividend of peace with Israel yesterday when the US signed an agreement to give dollars 25m ( pounds 16.6m) to housing projects in Gaza, Reuter reports.. Two other ways of declaring at high-low are simultaneous declaration with coins in the hand (1 for low, 2 for high and 3 for both ways) or consecutive verbal declaration. In the first seven weeks of the war an estimated 5,000 people died, most of them women and children slashed by shrapnel or blasted by shells whose target had been a mile away All sides used artillery at random on each other’s sectors.

Some were pale violet, the petals suffused around the edges with magenta.The colour change is not linked to the ageing of the flowers; the greatest variation in colouring comes with the first flush of blooms in May and June The second crop is invariably pale It is a compact clematis, which can be an advantage. If privatising the Post Office was ever a serious runner, then Michael Heseltine’s unfortunate heart attack has probably dealt it the coup de grace. There are hopes that the UK will follow ‘very shortly’.Wellcome also has a second string to its bow in the shape of its Aids treatment Retrovir, which contributed pounds 131m to sales, a 14 per cent underlying increase. ‘They are robust buildings, structurally,’ he reassured an anxious public. What was once a depressing, airless bottleneck is being revealed as a city of more than passing interest, with an elegant and interesting historic quarter.Malaga airport, only a couple of years ago, was a nasty, sweltering jam of miserable travellers, where I once witnessed two well-dressed English women having a fist-fight for the privilege of being 219th in the queue for a charter flight to Luton. So United wouldn’t have asked for the penalty to be retaken if they had scored from it? I simply point out the provision in the laws that stipulates that when a defender encroaches into the penalty area, the referee must order the kick to be retaken only if it is missed.Yours faithfully,MARTIN CROOKALLReddish, Stockport15 February. The public should have been told as soon as the raised levels of patulin were discovered, he said.His criticisms were echoed by the National Consumer Council and Parents for Safe Food, whose director, Tim Lang, criticised the ‘institutional collusion’ between the ministry and the food industry.

Mid-month it passes close to the bull’s ‘eye’, Aldebaran (which is slightly brighter than Mars and almost as red), and the Pleiades star cluster. ‘At first I thought he had blown up or even broken down, but as soon as we got to the line I realised he was going to keel over with me and just hopped off in time.’Royal Gait will go down as having had one of racing’s more eventful careers, and if any horse has had the pleasure of lying on shredded newspaper of his own stories, the odds are that it is him.Purchased as a two-year-old for 5,500 gns at the Doncaster Sales, the horse was first sent to Spain, where he collected races and trainers in abundance.He won for seven different handlers, but made his name internationally only when he won the Prix du Cadran at Longchamp as a four-year-old.Competition in France became more frequent when Royal Gait was switched to the Chantilly stables of John Fellows, but it was in Britain that his most notable moment came, in the Ascot Gold Cup of 1988.Having proved he was demonstrably the best horse in that race, Royal Gait, under Cash Asmussen, was disqualified by the stewards for causing interference, a decision which ranks among racing’s greatest bungles.Sheikh Mohammed subsequently bought the horse, but never managed to run him on the Flat as the gelding was struck down by a leg injury and retired.A pensioner’s life did not agree with Royal Gait and he became sufficiently frisky after three years away from the racecourse to earn a return to action, based at the Newmarket yard of James Fanshawe.’It’s a devastating blow for the stable and the owner,’ the trainer said yesterday. He said: ‘Our leadership around the world is being eroded by a stop-and-start policy of hesitancy.’ After victory in the Cold War in 1989 and over Iraq in 1991, American wishes have been successfuly challenged by Bosnian Serbs, Somali warlords and Haitian generals.Mr Clinton changed so little in American foreign policy when he came into office that the real failure must be in the policy itself and not primarily in the men implementing it. While pre-1993 banknotes would be invalid from tomorrow, people had until 7 August to change notes. The languorous nature of her performance makes it hard to watch standing up – you feel drinks should be being brought to your table. Since 1968, the report says, life expectancy among blacks has declined, while broad measures of infant mortality, unemployment and poverty have all risen.

‘All-stops-out, fast-moving exploitation,’ Variety said, typically. When the depression begins, governments, businesses and individuals face rising debt on a falling income. Somebody asked Larry Mullin: ‘What’s worst about rock ‘n’ roll?’ Mullin answers: ‘Excess.’ ‘What’s best about rock ‘n’ roll?’ ‘Excess.’There was no originality, no real fun here, and no ambiguity. The Supply team was dispersed, to Franks’s dismay, and synoptic thinking about how to reform British backwardness reverted – if at all – to the Board of Trade.Franks found it typical of the Government’s ignorance of professional management that Attlee should have offered him, as someone already ‘known’, the chairmanship of the Coal Board, just as Churchill later proffered BP and then British Railways.Disillusioned, he refused all three. I’ve got to concentrate on getting as match fit as I can.’Peter Reid, the Manchester City player-manager, is to travel to the Netherlands on Monday to try to secure the signature of Arthur Numan, the 21-year-old FC Twente midfielder.Alan Shearer’s move to Blackburn is still in the balance. But a film can verify for those watching it that there are others who think the same way.’If they can hear a common response to something they have been holding secretly in themselves, it can give them empowerment. Equally humiliating in a different way is being made the scapegoat for a weak or incompetent boss.’There’s no doubt that having a bad relationship with your boss is the major source of work-related illness,’ says John Nicholson, chairman of John Nicholson Associates, a leading business psychology consultancy.