Government soldiers responded by hitting rebel positions in the city centre with rockets, artillery and mortars. AT LEAST 16 cargo ships from the former Soviet Union have been held at British ports this year because of severe safety defects, writes Nicholas Schoon. If this war continues we simply don't know where everyone will go.'. But John Houbolt and others at Nasa's Langley Research Centre preferred a lunar orbital rendezvous: a two-part spacecraft fired direct to the Moon where it would separate, with two crew members descending to the surface while a third circled the Moon in the other part; the lunar landing over, the Moon- men would rejoin their companion and jettison their landing vehicle. She taught non-musicians too, and in several countries, so that she was able to combine her knowledge of languages and love of travel with her work.And teaching drew on her enormous energy and love of people.A brilliant teacher, she was always wanting to learn She saved lives She slid down banisters She went trekking in Katmandu.

Which was a pity, because even some of the dumb things he said got people talking - and thinking. Thereafter he will have a busy legal calendar, appearing in the dock in several Mafia trials, including one for the murders of Piersanti Mattarella, the President of the Sicilian Region, and two top Christian Democrat politicians.. At its last session in December, it forced him to dump his reformist Prime Minister, Yegor Gaidar, in favour of a former energy industry apparatchik, Viktor Chernomyrdin.Russia is currently run under a jerry-built constitution inherited from the Soviet era. The St Bartholomew's Hospital's Accident and Emergency Unit is threatened with closure after the Tomlinson Report on the future of hospitals in central London. The pre-tax profit figure is likely to be pounds 15m.Thomas Cook, the German- controlled travel agency that paid 150p a share in a tender offer in April, taking its stake in Owners to more than 20 per cent, said it strongly supported the action proposed by the board and remained fully committed to the strategic alliance.Owners blamed its woes on severe price pressure, changes in destination preferences and directional selling since Easter. But the reason we clicked - and it sounds awfully trite - is because of trust. The net balance of respondents experiencing significant increases rose to 11 per cent from 4 per cent in the previous quarter, while those seeing a slight increase rose from 19 to 30 per cent. Trade Indemnity found the proportion of companies working at or above full capacity has risen to 16 per cent.

All the same, they fell into line.Across Russia, this week has revived one of the great rituals of communism: the collective cringe. We call on Virginia Bottomley to introduce national minimum standards so everyone has a legal right to appropriate care, be that secure provision or somewhere decent to live in the community.'Majorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said the new measures would help only if the Government halted or reversed its programme for closing psychiatric beds and hospitals. I wouldn't dare call the RCA a vainglorious institution, but it does like to claim credit for students who were formed by their undergraduate art schools. For years, staff members would show visitors the door and murmur, 'and that's the famous Boot Room'. Making Headway Lloyds Bank is offering free pounds 2 Mercury phone cards, and pounds 2 refund vouchers from Top Shop and Top Man, plus a free bowling voucher and other discounts to young people who open a Headway account, aimed at 11- to 17-year-olds. Asking adviceA free leaflet with key questions investors should be asking prospective independent financial advisers, is available from The Investors Portfolio, Troston Lodge, Troston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1EW.Teaching at homeEndsleigh is cutting the cost of its home and contents insurance from 10 to 15 per cent for teachers and lecturers who belong to the AUT, Nasuwt and Natfhe. But unless you are the Japanese telecommunications authority or IBM, that is a detail. THEY hanged Bassam al-Muslah in Sidon just over five weeks ago.

As Elliott puts it with the judgmental harshness of a proletarian metaller: 'They got rich and lost their primal edge.'This touches on a more deep- seated concern that he and thousands of other aficionados over 18 have: is the music that they loved because it was, in his words, 'loud and obnoxious and annoyed your parents', being sanitised by the mass teenage appeal of the loud but melodic and therefore ideologically questionable American heavy metal bands like Guns N' Roses and Metallica?Other major award-winners: Bon Jovi (best international live act): Aerosmith (creativity award); Almighty (best British live act); Sepultura (best album); Peter Grant, former Led Zeppelin manager (special award); Pantera (best new international act); Paradise Lost (best video); Therapy (best alternative metalalbum).(Photograph omitted). Although ideologically committed to cost-cutting, he believes they would be politically insensitive at a time of rising unemployment. Mr Walker disputed this, saying the transfer was covered by French law, under which the guarantee was not valid.Mr Hocking was unavailable for comment about the conduct of the meeting and the vote.The banks have one month to make challenges to the vote.(Photograph omitted). The rest held similar positions in the West Bank.Yesterday's deaths in Gaza came as mourners in Khan Younis in the south of the strip, where the curfew was stillin place, defied it to hold wakes for eight people, including a girl who died during or as a result of clashes on Saturday after protests at the deportations.Palestinians said the brothers, Ismail and Mohammed Abdeen, were standing on a roof watching scuffles below. IFE is also offering shares worth about 63p for each preference share, as well as cash worth 23p or shares worth 35p for the ordinary shares.The extra cash in the offer will cost IFE about pounds 8m.IFE threatened to withdraw the bid unless the rebel preference shareholders, believed to command about 30 per cent of the shares, gave in.

But it was the Children's Encyclopaedia I went back to again and again, feeling rather ashamed, thinking I should have got over it.What else? I just adored the Chalet books, which I read at about seven or eight - perhaps I just loved the idea of schools] I hadn't the foggiest idea where Innsbruck was but it was certainly more fun than where I was living, which was in Pinner I loved books with girls in them. But when offered the job she was 'absolutely delighted'.For the previous five years she had been one of the department's deputy chairmen, heavily involved in negotiations for the single European market. 'It can do some of the things,' she says, 'but it certainly can't do all. How could it, when an obsessive with a knife had restored her above Seles?A similar reservation could be made with regard to the beckoning Grand Slam II.