Grim stuff but true Cardboard Citizens base all their plays on real life

Grim stuff, but true; Cardboard Citizens base all their plays on real life. Not only is their play about homelessness, it is acted and directed by homeless people. Sotirios Mousouris, a UN special envoy, said from Islamabad: 'Soon famine will envelop those remaining innocent civilians in Kabul.' He appealed to Mr Hekmatyar's faction to lift its blockade around Kabul and allow food and supplies through from Jalalabad, the main staging-point for relief operations, a day's journey north of the capital.Afghanistan has fallen off our map of conscience, not only because it is far away and no longer the rocky arena of Cold War clashes, but because the Afghans seem bent on tearing their country to pieces. This is not the infliction of punishment by God, but a perversion of human nature, self-inflicted because we are all ultimately responsible for our own choices, however much we may be influenced by our genes and our environment.If there are any lost souls, perhaps God in his mercy 'decreates' them. Sharp, which helped to develop MessagePad, with Apple, will also be on the market in September. Now Solidade's lime quarrymen-turned-archaeology enthusiasts are waiting for the tourists.Solidade's rock art is probably the largest single concentration of prehistoric paintings in South America.'The scope for further research is immense,' says Eduardo Bagnioli, who works on a voluntary basis as head of a scientific commission attached to the Solidade villagers' community archaeology association. Before his retirement in 1985 he served as the US representative to Nato's military committee (Photograph omitted).

THE GOVERNMENT is expected to allow a Labour MP's Right to Know Bill to be given a Second Reading - a move its backers believe will be a significant milestone in the battle for freedom of information legislation, writes Nicholas Timmins. Smith was up against Peter Holmberg, of the Virgin Islands, who was declared winner of the double round robin for the 10 competitors after a countback tie-break put him ahead of the Netherlands' Roy Heiner. His desire to depict movement, 80 years after the Futurists and Marcel Duchamp, is not new. By the mid-Fifties the Atkinson Morley was dealing with between 2,000 and 3,000 patients per year, probably three times the number that any other unit in Britain was dealing with.

This, in turn, has been caused by the recession, which has produced unprecedented numbers of company collapses. Now it is 'wash', 8 per cent alcohol and, Mr Massie says, 'like strong sweet beer, without the hops'.Mr Greener believes the whisky industry has itself to blame for the decline in its traditional markets. With hunger and desperation setting in, I think of my two planned safety-nets: an appeal first to a Jewish charity, then, failing that, to the British Consulate The telephone book lists 'Jewish Personal Services'. Some of them, wearing club blazers with shocking stripes of yellow, purple and black, looked like flotsam from Henley Regatta. Roses, lilies, chrysanthemums, all potted neatly between the missiles and the wide screens with their action-replays of the Gulf war's supposedly surgical precision bombing. 'She's something high up in the BBC,' says a North Ronaldsay neighbour.Ms Forgan, like Sir Peter, has converted a croft for second home-ownership. 'Because I could take a bogey at the last and still win.'Even then he pulled his drive at the 18th into thick rough, but played a superb nine-iron on to the green and two putts gave him the title.Faldo, playing as consistently as ever, shot a final round 67, four under par, to play all four rounds in under 70.

Lloyd's investigation department has reopened the case and officials said yesterday that they were co-operating with the SFO.Michael Deeny, leader of an action group representing 2,145 Gooda Walker members, called on Lloyd's for compensation. Henry Cecil expects Magique Rond Point (4.15), the lesser fancied of his two runners in the Oak Tree Stakes, to perform creditably, while HOPEFUL BID (nap 2.30) must go well at a big price as he is only 1lb higher than when chasing home En Attendant in a particularly competitive handicap at Newmarket last month.(Photograph omitted). It is cold, wet, and noisy and it stinks like hell.'She said she stuck with the job because at the time she was a single mother with two teenage children.In a statement Bernard Matthews said it took the matter seriously and never underestimated the risk to employees. His explanation, that the main reason he and his Attorney- General, Janet Reno, decided to end the siege was because the children were being sexually molested, was officially denied by the FBI.