Government spokesmen in Prague however stressed that the return of Jewish properties

Government spokesmen in Prague, however, stressed that the return of Jewish properties should be seen as an exception and that there was no question of other groups, particularly the Sudeten Germans, being treated in the same way. Under the draft law agreed by the government last week, the Jewish community in the Czech Republic, which now numbers just 3,000 compared to its 120,000 pre-war total, will be handed back synagogues, cemeteries, libraries and other community buildings that were confiscated by the Nazis and are still in state hands.Although not as far-reaching as Jewish leaders had hoped, the draft law, which is expected to be rubber-stamped by parliament, marks a decisive break with the Czech Republic's existing restitution laws, which cover only properties confiscated after February 1948, the date of the Communist takeover.'If the government has accepted that properties taken from the Jews as early as 1938 should be returned, it will have to accept the validity of our claims,' Mr Badenheuer said. Next Tuesday, Elizabeth Banks will speak on 'The Restoration of Historic Gardens' Membership of the club is pounds 6.. Sir Owen Green, former chairman of BTR, seems an odd bedfellow with the massed ranks of the auditing profession, but the vested interests of both were on display yesterday as they called for the introduction of limited liability for auditors. Trains come and go at busy junction without any information as to which train is leaving first or going where: order complimentary Travelcard. Confirming that monetary policy is on hold for the moment, while the central bank watches developments in M3 money supply, the officials held out the prospect of further rate cuts later this year. Sir: Your diarist (12 August) asks 'What is a trisexual?' I, too, once had occasion to ask, and was told 'someone who will try anything, once' Yours faithfully,LEILA HOSSAINLondon, W1412 August. Some Europeans, principally Belgian residents, crossed the Congo River to Brazzaville.Turmoil in Africa has added to the burdens on the French armed forces, which are playing important roles in United Nations operations in Cambodia, Somalia and former Yugoslavia.

This was Saturday, and the place hummed with well-heeled family groups: middle-aged parents with their student sons/daughters and girlfriends/boyfriends in tow; younger parents with small children. One might complain that Pushkin's ironic anti-hero is essentially a pre-emancipation, pre- 1861 figure. Although I think it's hard for them being in that kind of demanding society, it equips them to be adults.For my two older children it's been an enormous success They had a smashing time. He parcels out his life between gays under bridges (his nuits fauves), a teenage girlfriend (Romane Bohringer) and a sexually ambiguous rugby player (Carlos Lopez) The less he commits himself, the more they desire him. Starting next Thursday and for the following three weeks, children aged 9 to 15 will have the chance to win musical instruments for their school plus a schools workshop with professional musicians. Leeds United .0 Manchester United 2 IT COULD be all over by Monday night.

His other problems were partly of his own making, partly the result of his team not functioning and partly because the tenacity and discipline that put a shine on Chesea's first-half efforts denied him the ball and, when it did arrive, the space to use it to effect.To Chelsea's surprise Cantona spent most of the first hour alongside Mark Hughes rather than as the deadly foil positioned just behind and poised to find red with his trademark flicks and casual passes angled beyond and between their markers. Options for Change delivered cuts of more than pounds 1bn with deep reductions in the numbers of troops and led to campaigns to save famous regiments.Mr Rifkind warned colleagues that cuts of that magnitude in the front line could not continue without risking Britain's defence capability. The wallpaper now varies in colour from cafe au lait, where it is fully bleached by the sun, back to deep crimson where it has been protected by pictures. While ruling the country with an iron rod, it introduced advanced social and labour legislation and pursued strongly nationalistic policies designed to build up local industry behind a wall of tariff and non-tariff barriers.

'But don't you do it, 'cos I'll kill you.' Playing to (or, as she says, 'dealing with') an all-white audience in Edinburgh is hardly going to intimidate a comedian who made her name performing in places like Dothan, Alabama and Starkville, Mississippi The road to recognition was paved with confrontation 'I played places a white woman ain't got no place to be. Even there, a snatch of the Slade Christmas hit on a shortwave radio, or a rogue tinsel garland in a taxi could quite easily sabotage the whole costly strategy.Christmas in a hotel in Britain is emphatically not for Christmas haters - at least if what you hate is the commercialised package plugged from early November onwards by any establishment with half a chance of making a buck out of it: evergreens, 'snow', Santas, twinkly things, baby Jesuses, open fires.Work avoidance, on the other hand, is a sure-fire hit. ONE-TIME Asda supermarket chief John Hardman has plunged back into the business world, although few in Britain are likely to notice the splash. By the time they go on record, a sort of camaraderie has developed even though they're against each other.' Minutiae: The 'Mastermind Club' has a quarterly magazine entitled Pass. FISA yesterday issued a list of teams and drivers for the 1993 world championship which did not include Williams-Renault, the title holders.

In the words of a colleague who once represented the International Committee of the Red Cross in Lebanon: 'It is odd to lump Israel in the company of Iraq, and what remains of Yugoslavia, but that is not our choice.'Yours sincerely,ERNIE ROSSMP for Dundee West (Lab)House of CommonsLondon, SW128 JanuaryThe writer is chair of the All Party Britain/Palestine Group.. Fabian's big idea - to become a wrestling promoter as a way of turning a fast buck - essentially entails cheating a cast of hapless, but seductive characters: the Arthur Daley-like Figler, worried nightclub owner Phil Nosseross, Phil's wife Helen and an assortment of chancers, prostitutes and blackmail victims.The book helped establish the young Gerald Kersh, although probably not financially. So London's river was the family's life but the idea that an ordinary person could be an artist was not unusual to them.The Greaves boys were drawing by the river one day when Whistler approached them and invited them to his studio This was around 1860, when he was first in Chelsea. 'The problem was, we had not even checked to see if there was any water in the pool.' Today, after three years of soaring inflation, rising unemployment and plummeting production, Poland at last appears to be coming up for air.