Russians believe that Soviet control of Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1990 created a buffer zone

Russians believe that Soviet control of Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1990 created a buffer zone that protected the motherland against attack. 'It appeals to statistic freaks, anoraks, really,' Hey says 'The patron saint is John Motson. It may be something to do with his bull-headedness: groups and schools repel his extrovert and mischievous nature. His work celebrates degradation, angst, tears and trauma and we soon realise that he has actually lived and limped through such drinking scenes and street campaigns as he depicts. With a three-year licence from the local council - who own the Rec - to use the ground, his club is being run as a sound, sensibly funded business, with significant supporters' ownership of shares 'This is the people's club,' Owens said. It works quite well in the lab but it's not so easy to get it working with the patients.'He is quick to stress, however, that paraplegics will not be able to throw away their wheelchairs 'But it would enable them to get from the car to the house. Guzman, who was seized with other guerrilla leaders in a raid on a middle- class district of southern Lima two weeks ago, was being held under close guard yesterday at an armed forces base, police sources said.. The market is expecting taxable profits to rise to pounds 8m this year.The shares rose 1p to 169p..

'When I first started welding the oil drums together, people thought I had gone barmy,' he says 'But usually that's a great spur to me. The very same day, however, Levin forced the resignations of a half-dozen Ross loyalists from the Time Warner board, expressing concern about 'the influence of insiders'.(Photograph omitted). Since then, he has often been a season or two ahead of his peers: he showed the Seventies skinny-rib look on the catwalks two years ago.In fashion, however, designers who are ahead of their time rarely reap the benefits in financial terms. Commissioned by the National Theatre's department of new writing and financed by Carl and Suggs of the pop group Madness, Fantasy Bonds, opened this week under Mahoney's direction at the Old Red Lion in Islington, London, the pub-theatre that launched his career 12 years ago. Friday Nights, a bleak comedy about a violent night out in north London, opened in 1981 and got rave reviews before transferring to The Riverside Studios. Engel says: 'I have tried to make it more comprehensive, more readable and perhaps just a little bit more fun.'Now that John Arlott, sadly, can no longer put kind words to the year's cricket books, Engel has enlisted J L Carr, that erudite and witty author of Extraordinary Cricketers, an admirable choice.E W Swanton and Alan Lee debate four-day cricket, Jack Bannister considers ball-tampering, Donald Woods was the obvious man to write about South Africa's return while David Rayvern Allen notes the theatre's love of the game: ' 'All the world's a stage,' wrote somebody qualified to play for Warwickshire,' is an intro we have all missed.Of the five players of the year, Wasim Akram was a certainty, Alec Stewart nearly so but the other three names may come as a pleasant surprise, Ian Salisbury and two dedicated county captains: Martyn Moxon and Nigel Briers.One last thought on Engel's first Wisden: his predecessors, John Woodcock and Graeme Wright, signalled that the Almanack could no longer be regarded as a repository of records and a reflection on the past game. TI's share price has suffered after last year's acquisition of Dowty but could be boosted by this clarification of its strategy.. The two main types of black cabs do not provide access for every wheelchair user, he said.

Many people have tried to compare these events, starting with the failed putsch of August 1991, to the years after the collapse of the tsardom in 1917. Extended monologues by voices from the 1980s strive to be heard above the rustle of questionable documents in which their ancestors' secrets are exposed. Did my wife moan, did she whine, till we got a slightly quieter room.Then there had been a violent storm the week before, five people killed, floods everywhere, worst for 50 years. Both the ferry operators and Eurotunnel insist that they have no interest in a price war. I thought, why can't we do that in Britain? I came back and met Douglas Hurd, and he was helpful, and so were the civil servants. Flashbacks to the spirit underworld, which is presided over by the great golden-winged Rock Bird, reveal that the Ghul is also part of an oppressed forge-working minority in a power structure that is a distorted reflection of the one on Earth.The spirit's sojourn here is a penance for day-dreaming and insubordination, and permission to return to his wife and children depends upon his total obedience to whichever human has charge of a magic medallion. How could it be that the daring Mendelssohn and richly expressive Schumann of Gloria d'Atri, the rhetorically commanding and sometimes ravishingly beautiful Busoni of Anthony Padilla, the finely crafted Rachmaninov of Ya-Fei Chuang, were passed over for the brashly unpleasant work of Attila Pertis, the rock-drummer inclinations of Niklas Sivelov and the chilly mechanics of Shirley Hsiao-Ni Pan?Happily, in response to the obvious concern about problems in this area, the artistic director, John O'Conor, has decided to increase to 24 the number of players who will go through to the second round of the 1997 competition.Sponsored by the GPA GroupMichael Dervan is the music critic of the 'Irish Times'.

In the newspapers the next day were the headlines: 'Shareholders' meetings pass off quietly.'. LAST WEEK, I promised to give you my views on the criteria you should adopt for selecting great growth shares. The issue is pressing, because the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons comes up for renewal in 1995, and non-nuclear states have been pressing for a CTB as evidence of good faith on the part of the superpowers.One of the stumbling blocks on the road to a comprehensive nuclear test ban has been worry about the possibility of some nations cheating and going undetected. We are hoping that we will be in a position to resume normal service early in the new year.'Wimbledon has pounds 25m- pounds 30m of loans secured on a variety of residential and commercial property.Earlier this summer, it was paying high rates of interest on deposits compared with those generally on offer from rival banks, building societies and finance houses.Much-increased bad debts caused Wimbledon to lose pounds 1.7m in the year to March 1992, reducing its net assets to pounds 2.345m.It lost more money in the year to March 1993, though 'considerably less' than in the previous year, according to Mr Eve.He said that Wimbledon had turned in a 'reasonable profit' for the first half of the current year.The bank's losses have left it with insufficient funds to meet the recent European banking directive on capital adequacy, which requires banks to have capital of 5 million ecu, or about pounds 3.8m.Mr Scriven said Wimbledon was 'probably just a little bit short of (this amount)'.The directive came into effect at the start of this year, but transitional 'grandfathering' arrangements allow Wimbledon additional time to meet the requirements.To help it reach the target, earlier this year Wimbledon merged with a smaller but profitable rival, Holdenhurst Securities.That company's last results show a pounds 134,000 pre-tax profit, and the company's balance sheet showed net assets of pounds 800,000. I've got total confidence in him and believe he's got the same in me. Neither ever deserted him.Finally, the Queen of Portugal got under way on 23 July and reached Lisbon on 14 August. Perhaps one might call it 'depenistration'.' Richard Thomas, of Collins Dictionary, is more cautious: 'We collect 8,000 new words a year, of which a tiny proportion gets into the dictionary.