These include specially adapted Swiss PC-7 training aircraft firing rockets and, in the last few days, Soviet-built Su- 25 Frogfoot ground attack planes. BERLIN - A French-German consortium led by Elf Aquitaine yesterday signed a contract to buy Minol, the former East Germany's petrol station chain, the Leuna oil refinery, and a synthetic oil plant in Zeitz, writes Adrian Bridge. This was the most important goal of my life.'Branco, brought in at left back for the suspended Leonardo, scored Brazil's winner with a blistering 30-yard free kick in the 81st minute. The first things you saw were floorboards and a floor-level view of the pictures.

Penguin is being more enterprising, commissioning books and tapes together - such as a new narrative poem by Craig Raine: History, The Home Movie.As Jan Paterson of Penguin pointed out to the seminar, tapes enable publishers to reach back to storytelling days. The solutions that are being proposed from outside, like the confederation of three states, will lead to war. Thereafter Kalecki was Steindl's role-model; indeed, his own work resembles Kalecki's in style, substance and depth more than any other economist of his generation.In 1950 Steindl returned to Austria. Any shot played in that direction became known as 'the cow shot'.Several cricketing authorities ascribe this phrase to Tom Box of Sussex but it is difficult to authenticate such a precise attribution. THE COURAGE Championship is less a marathon than an intermittent series of sprints, which is why from the moment it takes its midwinter break to accommodate the Divisional Championship and Christmas it loses not only its shape but also its impetus. Channel 4 attracted an audience of 2.4m on Sunday for its programme of highlights from Longchamp compared with 1.6m the previous year when the Arc was covered live.

But even though they too are near the end of their careers, do not rule the Guernsey women, Lisa Opie and Martine Le Moignan.. I remember he looked so little, I just put my arms around him I felt so sorry for him That's when it began, really It just sort of happened.' The tabby cat flexes its claws. We had no children.'Two years ago, he found he had cancer of the colon. If there is no will, the cohabitant gets nothing.The financial drawbacks of cohabitation are huge. Ministers were urged to consider extending housing benefit for the first time to home owners in a research paper for the Social Security Advisory Committee by Peter Kemp, professor of housing at the University of York.With mortgage defaulters continuing to cause concern, the report is certain to increase pressure on ministers to find new ways of helping mortgage-payers on low incomes.

This was apparently a controversial recommendation, as some bureaucrats felt the government should play a much larger role. But we're nearly two thirds of the way through before one of the characters braces themselves and drops the big one. RESEARCH shows that the Government's tax policies have greatly exaggerated the increasing gap between high and low earners, writes Barrie Clement. There is also an increase in our unit trust business, and the equity business is improving.'S&P said Nikko's downgrade reflected poor prospects for increased earnings in the short term. On table manners, for example: 'Eat away, chew away, munch and blot and guzzle/Never leave the table till you're full up to the muzzle.'FRANK FIELD, Labour MP: R S Thomas is the greatest British poet we've had this century, which gives the two fingers up to Philip Larkin and his gang.