A passing nurse who cradled General Hernandez's head in her arms yesterday said his last words were: 'God, pardon me.' His killing orphaned seven children, since his wife had died of cancer last year.The assassination, the sixth attributed to Eta in Spain this year, caused indignation among Spaniards at a time of almost tangible national unease over the economic crisis and a string of high-level corruption cases.Even a majority of Basques are sickened by Eta's tactics, which appear to be directed at forcing the Spanish government into negotiations aimed at a separate Basque state.The government has admitted having held secret, fruitless talks with Eta leaders in the past.The Defence Minister, Julian Garcia Vargas, said the killing 'confirms our worst fears. This means that the identity of the woman singing the lullaby is ambiguous and so creates an intensely moving pre-echo of the end of Peer's journey, when, aged and desolate, he slumps on the breast of Solveig - a true mother to him in the metaphoric sense that his best self is the invention of her steadfast love.The prologue also gives a play-within-a-play feel to Peer's adventures and the chorus, who don't hide the fact that they are the same actresses cropping up in different guises everywhere on his itinerary, impart a spooky sense of underlying continuity. 'During a recession, certain unscrupulous people think a fire will improve their cashflow,' he explains.Roger Leggett, an ex-detective sergeant with Greater Manchester Police, was thrown in at the deep end when he joined Pannone & Partners, hours after the former Guinness boss Ernest Saunders became a client. When some colonel suggested we might usefully buy it as an investment for Britain, a delegation of British motor manufacturers went to investigate - and, with the far-sightedness and eagerness to take on the world that was to become such a feature, suggested it should simply be stripped of machine tools to pre-empt future competition.An official at the Board of Trade wrote to the uppity colonel: 'The car undoubtedly had many attractive features, and I have no doubt that the British manufacturers have taken note of these in connection with their future designs, but it has to be borne in mind that the car. Each studio and apartment has its own private telephone/fax line. Form which bodes well for this weekend, and beyond.Assuming that there are no further problems with his knee, his chances of maximum points in his specialist distance look extremely healthy. But why are these initiatives defined and judged only by the most egregious examples? And why is such hysteria being whipped up against something that is essential if we are ever to evolve into a truly just and egalitarian society?In part it must be because it is fashionable to attribute problems to individual failure rather than social and political forces Also, people still cling to the myth of British tolerance.

If the former champion hurdler can return to his best, Michael Jackson, his owner, should again be centre stage.LEOPARDSTOWNAIG EUROPE CHAMPION HURDLE1. The entire procedure, including two appointments, takes two weeks. The pro-choicers are so obsessed with their illiterate conception of freedom that they cannot bring themselves to discuss the limits that define it. Deep down, I have the sense that Bush is going to pull it out again.'Kweisi Mfume, a young, rising black Congressman from Baltimore on the tour, angrily rejects suggestions that African-Americans have been ignored 'I don't know where that comes from. Half a dozen former Morgan Stanley analysts were quoted in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, complaining that investment bankers, anxious to win new underwriting business, had brought pressure on them to drop negative comments and ratings of prospective clients.A number were replaced, transferred or quit after run-ins with the firm's investment banking department.Morgan Stanley blamed any past conflicts on weak management in the research and investment banking departments.

Peter Smith, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: 'The biggest practical problem RE faces is that 54 per cent of RE teachers have no formal qualifications in the subject.'(Photograph omitted). 'In the job that I do, with funerals and things, the theatre is a recreation.'A colleague at the BBC recommended Endgame to Tessa Livingstone, a documentary-maker. The last time Mains tried to do without him, in 1992, he ended up having to bring him back, and even now Fox has not retired.'He is a great player, one in a million, so it's certainly a big responsibility taking his place,' Ellis said. I don't think of myself as a populist, but when it comes to hymns like Montgomery's a populist is what I am, and I object to the way this anthology is consistently elitist.This is masked here and there.

They include the printer Watmoughs; a components distributor, Farnell Electronics; the greeting-cards group Fine Art Developments; the supermarkets group William Morrison, which is growing twice as fast as J Sainsbury; a textile printer, Leeds Group; a door-to-door financial services business, Provident Financial; in speciality chemicals, Allied Colloids, Yorkshire Chemicals and Hickson International; the upmarket textiles concern Allied Textiles; the dairy products and fresh foods supplier Northern Foods; in property, Evans of Leeds and Town Centre Securities; construction company Henry Boot; a steel foundries business, William Cook, transformed by Andrew Cook, whose gritty realism extended to sacking his father when the company's fortunes were at a low ebb; and Barr & Wallace Arnold Trust, where family buying has lifted a thinly traded share.An investor who had bet his shirt on any of these companies 20 years ago would certainly no longer need to work. If it were Black to play, he would be dead: his only move is 1 g3, when 2 fxg3 f2 3 Nc2+] bxc2 4 Nxf2 Ka2 5 Kxc2 lets the g-pawn queen and deliver mate on a8 The trouble is that White cannot easily lose a move Since 1 Kd2 Kb1 2. Oliver will be brought over from France to see his father in prison.'Mr Malkin, of Bridge Place Country Club, near Canterbury, was arrested at Heathrow on 6 January when he returned with his son from Egypt. Almost all its apparent importance on the day fades quickly, and few stories can really be said to change people's lives or minds. And still it ends with the mother of all C major sunrises. The real glory of Davis's performance was his orchestra - the BBC Symphony.

When he was asked why the Vatican was now making difficulties about married clergy, the cardinal replied that the problem was one of proportionality: in other words the prize was not worth the price.Officially, only 156 Anglican priests have approached Roman Catholic bishops with a view to converting, but some opponents of women priests are still predicting that up to 1,000 will leave over the next 10 years. The idea of sitting quietly waiting for something to happen (and in salmon fishing, it rarely does) is anathema. Months ago, he sold my very gaseous Danish wood-burning stove in one of his monthly odds-and-sods auctions in a local village hall, among all those Lovejoys He is still smoking like a convict. InSkinParams = new Array(); InSkinParams['srv_SectionID'] = '124015'; InSkinParams['srv_Keywords'] = 'home'; InSkinParams['srv_Categories'] = ''; InSkinParams['srv_UseSAS'] = 'false'; InSkinParams['sas_PauseAdTag'] = ''; InSkinParams['plr_InSkinID'] = 'myPageSkin'; InSkinParams['plr_ContentID'] = 'myContent1'; InSkinParams['plr_ContentW'] = '975'; InSkinParams['plr_FrameTop'] = '90'; InSkinParams['plr_FrameSide'] = '130'; InSkinParams['plr_FrameBottom'] = '90'; InSkinParams['plr_TotalW'] = '900'; InSkinParams['plr_TotalH'] = '600'; InSkinParams['plr_ContentType'] = 'PAGE'; InSkinParams['plr_HideElementsByID'] = ''; InSkinParams['plr_HideElementsByClass'] = ''; InSkinParams['plr_ExpandableDetached'] = 'true'; InSkinParams['plr_NoSkinInSkinResize'] = 'true'; InSkinParams['plr_AssumeSkin'] = 'false'; function addEvent( obj, type, fn ) { var obj = ( obj.constructor === String ) ? document.getElementById( obj ) : obj; if ( obj.attachEvent ) { obj[ 'e' + type + fn ] = fn; obj[ type + fn ] = function(){ obj[ 'e' + type + fn ]( window.event ) }; obj.attachEvent( 'on' + type, obj[ type + fn ] ); } else obj.addEventListener( type, fn, false ); } if ((navigator.platform.indexOf("Mac") == -1) && (navigator.platform.indexOf("Linux") == -1)) { addEvent(window, 'load', function() { var adjustment = 0; InSkinParams['plr_ContentH'] = jQuery('#InSkinPageContainer_' + InSkinParams['plr_InSkinID']).height() + adjustment; if (screen.width >= 1235) { InSkinLoad.init(InSkinParams); } }); }. Meanwhile, upstairs, they were quietly filing along the gangways. In my day it was understood that by accepting such an invitation a woman left herself open to the man making sexual advances. I am not in any way condoning rape but these two young woman certainly walked into a dangerous situation.Effie S MostafaAyr.