The funeral will take place on Wednesday

The funeral will take place on Wednesday. President Clinton declared Wednesday a day of national mourning. We don't think it's part of civilised behaviour to sit with one's friends and relax and eat good food. It first means to strip a body of its clothes or armour (originally from the Latin word spolium, the skin or hide of an animal), especially in combat.In other words you can only spoil a dead, defeated or weaker enemy. Mr Leotard said France would comply with Mr Boutros-Ghali's request if certain conditions were met. Contracts may be over-priced, and therefore the country over-charged, as the contract value is inflated by as much as 20 per cent. There's immense pride when clubs go into battle against the Premier.

When the brat terrified the toffs at Wimbledon with an on-court tantrum, the Nike executives loved it. Interviewed on television to mark Bastille Day, Mr Mitterrand said that a 'no' vote on ratification in the French referendum on 20 September would 'put an end to 45 years of France's foreign policy'. Twelve songs about life, love and the pursuit of therapy, with lovely tunes, words that are both heartfelt and polished, and backdrops, by Daniel Lanois, that have depth, grandeur and a haunting sense of space. Another disappointing defeat beckoned before Cody Carlson, deputising again for the injured Warren Moon, orchestrated a pair of touchdown drives which saw the Oilers prevail 17-14.Philadelphia's game against Washington produced everything expected of this intense divisional rivalry, including a tight finish. At present there are 1,500 in the village and in the close vicinity, housed by the local population of about 3,000. Batteries for the British market, Silver Seal, are labelled here, though the labels come from Japan.

'At least three-fifths of women employed as lecturers are employed in the former women's colleges where the teaching loads are higher and many have to leave at 5pm to look after children,' she said.'More needs to be done to ensure that women have the time to do research and publish it; for example, by giving them research fellowships and special lectureships and ensuring that libraries are kept open throughout the year. The result, almost inevitably, is empty sex scenes.Tragedy - or pathos, at any rate - stalks the book when Ben allows himself to drift away from Veronique, who has imperceptibly become his one chance for happiness. In their last three League and Cup games, Manchester United have had nine different goalscorers Is this a record?A - My team, Liverpool, can equal this. Government talk of delays is simply scare tactics which they have used in the past.'Underlining that point, one Conservative rebel said he would be surprised if the Bill's report stage took more than two days, and one senior government source still did not rule out getting the legislation on the statute book by the end of July.Mr Hurd told ITN's Channel 4 News: 'I don't think there's any confusion among our partners about the will and the ability of the Prime Minister to deliver the Bill and ratify the treaty. And that clash of perspectives lies at the root of many of the more recent problems in Britain's and Hong Kong's relations with China.For China's Communist leaders, the seizure of Hong Kong is neither 'dead' nor distant history. Mr Smith's instinct is to play a long game; in what is characterised as an argument between modernisers and traditionalists, it is far from clear yet whose side he is on.But once he has fastened on a clear direction nobody will be allowed to get in his way, as a party aide discovered last week when the leader took his charm offensive right into the enemy camp - the Hospitality Inn suite in Brighton where the GMB was having a traditional bash, complete with dance band, a raffle and balloons.The photographers wanted Mr Smith to pose behind the bar, pulling a pint of John Smith's bitter.

More worryingly, the index of coincident indicators, which attempts to reflect the economy's current performance, tumbled to 20 per cent in October from 65 per cent in September - the first slide below 50 per cent in three months. How many other women have fought the Establishment so publicly, and so cheerfully? Yours faithfully,RUPERT GREYPetersfield, Hampshire23 December. NONE OF the high-voltage cables above the Sparking Clog pub leaks electricity to drinkers below, but a potentially fatal pollution from the power lines may be in the air. Like the earlier novel, the first part of the sequence, Mercy of a Rude Stream, recounts the journey into maturity of a Jewish teenager growing up in New York in the early years of this century. It has still not reported.In the meantime, families pour into Yehud to tell their stories. At the Paris spring-summer '95 menswear show, he is just one of a tribe of which there are three distinct camps emerging. Jean Paul Gaultier put on a show that was one part Kid Creole and the Coconuts and two parts Julian Clary.

They strike up loudly with 'Mr Jones'; the horn section are fantastic, but somewhere deep in the rhythm section something is amiss. The Neal Street phenomenon is being repeated in Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham and other cities.The new wave of men's fashion is unusual because it is not led by a narrow elite of fashion enthusiasts. Thomas Cook was sold to LTU, a German travel company for pounds 200m.It's a lovely building and it's completely surrounded by debts as far as the eye can see. And if she is confirmed in her new post, she will need every ounce of them. Heat, but do not boil (so as to retain colour) and pour into a tureen over the beaten egg, which thickens the mixture, or stir in cream.