The lesson: nothing succeeds like a victorious war, even in Europe.Far from owning up to its misguided policies, the West heaped up more.Having tried to keep the country together, it suddenly recognised the independence of every republic. As the ship's bows turn to face the current, reducing the strain, the chain can be pulled in. On paper, you can do a comforting sum: if each botanic garden looked after 17 endangered plants, the problem of their survival would be solved But of course, it is not that simple. From the spread of prices quoted by Continental, loans to Heron are deemed to be about as valuable as those to Peru, but less than junk bonds in RH Macy (the New York department store now in Chapter 11). As the New York Times reports, these days when you ask for a glass of water, the reply may be: 'Evian, Pellegrino or tap?'. You don't have to think giving voice to racial and sexual animosity is a good thing to see that nobody does it better.Another menace to the social order, as yet less notorious but already the subject of tabloid scare stories, manifested itself in the nation's capital last week, as the University of London played host to American 'Riot Grrrls' Bikini Kill. Police have been unable to establish what Magee and the other man, Michael O'Brien, were planning in the area.Magee had been granted bail by the Irish courts in February 1991; he disappeared in autumn 1991, when his challenge over moves to extradite him to Ulster to serve a 25-year sentence for the 1981 murder of an SAS officer looked set to fail.

Somerset win by three wickets ON THE principle of horses for courses Somerset were always favourites. There are no parallel plans to relieve the city, however.The meeting was an all-time record by Nato standards, taking 12 hours. His composure on the ball is already prodigious, and he passes with freedom and precision.The only quibble is with his strike rate. United Nations peace-keepers said three bombs were detonated there at 7.40am local time.

Many, crying, held a corner of their saris over their faces against the stench as they sought their children among the rows of muddy corpses.Some described the sound of the earthquake as like sitting on the tracks in front of a speeding locomotive. The CSA has put it up to pounds 308 a month.'Mr and Mrs Groves have appealed against their assessment. He begins with medieval and Renaissance buildings and takes the story up to the Haussmann era All this we knew But then Sutcliffe looks at the Haussmann legacy He says that it became entrenched until the 1950s. He spoke well on radio: one thinks especially of his BBC series concerned with the various stages of a medical career and of his contributions to a Radio 3 series concerned with the meaning of words.

F&C was inundated with calls when the fund was opened to further money on Tuesday. Thirteen wickets fell on the first day, and eight more by lunch on the second. Bruce's lack of interest in what some would think of as constructive political ideas - integration is never mentioned and Ulster independence is scouted as an irrelevance - reflects the problem of people who cannot believe in any tolerable outcome.The problem for loyalists is that their aspirations do not fit contemporary political labels. There is a continual upgrading of knowledge, and everyone is experimenting with finding better ways to fish. Price, defeated 2 and 1 by Faldo in the semi-finals on Saturday, won the third-place play-off against Ian Woosnam.Price, given a bye into the quarter-finals and a semi-bye into the semi-finals when Greg Norman withdrew after five holes with a neck injury, won pounds 50,000 to Woosnam's pounds 40,000. So when told that Rifaat wanted to renew their old acquaintance this summer, Suleiman declined to see him.Rifaat made similar vain approaches to other powerful men in the Syrian intelligence hierarchy: to Adnan Badr al-Hassan, head of political security, to Mohamed Nassif, head of intelligence security, and to General Ali al-Khouri, head of the foreign intelligence branch of the security services.All refused to meet with him.