Walloons and Flemings originally chose to forget their linguistic differences and live in one country last century in as much as Serbs and Croats

Walloons and Flemings originally chose to forget their linguistic differences and live in one country last century in as much as Serbs and Croats initially chose to forget religious differences on Europe's other extremity this century. emphasis to the rights of individuals.'Mr Smith also listed reform of the Lords - 'I am appalled at the way in which Britain is so slow in making constitutional changes. Keith Cheeseman, 50, pleaded guilty to six charges at an earlier hearing before a United States federal court in Manhattan. As for Japanese political expansion in Asia, that is not really an issue that directly concerns the UK.For the US, though, it is quite different. BASKETBALL is set for its first trial by video following Worthing Bears' decision to send to the English Basket Ball Association a recording of an incident from their recent Carlsberg League First Division game against Guildford Kings. He uses it to explore cyber-ontology in a world where computer viruses are amongst the oldest living organisms.

Kitaj is hostile towards 'formalists', who are unimpressed by his sources. It's a three-storey building with a wildly horizontal emphasis achieved by broad overhanging eaves creating deep shadows at each level. Inside, the structure is expressed through polished timber beams which are hand-finished, curved on the corners and held together with metal straps. Here is no war, no famine, no Horsemen of the Apocalypse pounding down the pavement, yet this is unknowable from the faces in the street. Some indication of the relative innocence of the world that Ball policed is that, when he was appointed as co-ordinator of intelligence for the Queen's Coronation in 1953, his principal problems lay with pickpockets and con men rather than international terrorists. Born in west London in 1903, he started his working life as a legal clerk before joining the Metropolitan Police at the age of 22. Nor can it rely on its own restive miners in the Donbass to keep digging coal. 'We have no other option than to use atomic energy,' said an MP, Volodymyr Duntau.

Someone minding the second-hand dresses exclaims: 'She's a proper woman. Only 18 per cent want to increase military commitment, while 8 per cent say the US should continue as at present. Tony Edwards, head of Dowty Aerospace, will become chairman and chief executive with Jean-Paul Bechat of Snecma as deputy chairman, while TI has the right to appoint its own chief financial officer, implying tight UK management control. The moves mark another step in the rationalisation of the world aerospace industry.Airframe manufacture is dominated by three firms - Boeing, Airbus Industrie and McDonnell Douglas - while engine manufacture is concentrated in the hands of GE and Pratt & Whitney in the US and Rolls-Royce in the UK.While Messier-Bugatti and Dowty have divided up Airbus orders between them, their two main US competitors - Cleveland Pneumatic, recently bought by BF Goodrich, and Menasco - have shared Boeing landing gear orders, although Messier-Bugatti is a sub-contractor to Menasco on the Boeing 777.According to Mr Edwards each has around 20 per cent of the broad landing gear market. They can't understand that our experience of summer is of bush fires and smells and tastes totally alien to this country.'Evidently Oil fans in Brixton do understand. If you simply want to play commercial multimedia software on your computer, you will probably need to buy a CD-ROM drive. 'Yet apparently, every Englishman or Briton has an opinion on who should win the Boat Race.

United's trip to the Eagles' lair is fraught with potential pitfalls even for a side so outwardly relaxed and in form as Alex Ferguson's. Those things needed saying.'Yvonne RobertsA 44-year-old journalist, she rushed out her book, Mad About Women, to coincide with Lyndon's, because 'if I was not saying this, he would get a clear run. In boom times it is at the top of that scale; when the inevitable downturn comes, it falls towards the bottom.For prices to fall below three times earnings, there would have to have been either national economic collapse or a radical shift in the desirability of owning property. It makes John Major happy, because he can show that he is brave enough to tackle state concerns that even Margaret Thatcher hesitated to touch. If all goes well in Sunday's race, the Group Two Prix de Pomone, the filly will attempt to repeat last year's success in the Yorkshire Oaks before an autumn campaign which may culminate in a run in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.On Sunday, Magnificent Star is due to be joined by Henry Cecil's Miss Plum, an easy winner at Bath last time out, and Always Friendly, trained by Henry Candy. The driver was frisked and asked in pidgin Arabic for his identity card He replied in Hebrew.

We do not think we are above the law,' and carried on with some dignity. Having nowhere to walk for nearly 80 days has meant a severe reduction in his aerobic fitness.The boat has also taken a beating, but speaking by radio as he approached the last lap, Blake said it was looking remarkably well. The device reduces air pollution by doing away with a bonfire, but makes enough noise to be marketed as a form of aversion therapy for hangovers, notably when chomping sticks up to an inch thick. Bream, equally proficient on lute, guitar and indeed the vihuela, and well aware, if not uncritical of, the advances of 'authenticity', has been able to do justice to all three repertoires. I don't believe I've done my job if I've just shown horror.''Lion in the Streets' previews from tomorrow at the Hamspstead Theatre; it opens on 19 April (071-722 9301)At the Royal Court 'Treatment' previews from tomorrow, opens 20 April; 'Search and Destroy' previews from 29 April, opens 5 May; 'Oleanna' previews from 24 June, opens 30 June (071-730 1745)Paines Plough's 'Festival of New Writing from Canada' at the Riverside Studios runs 16-18 April (081-748 3354)The Gate's American season runs to 1 May (071-229 0706)At the Traverse, Edinburgh 'The Swan' runs to 18 April (031-228 1404)(Photograph omitted).