'I think it took a few hits during the war while we

'I think it took a few hits during the war while we were still there,' one banker says. Local SC staffers are wondering whether the return might yield the same archive material as their old Vietnam office Standard Chartered left Saigon in 1977. Last week Bobby Ray Inman, his first choice, withdrew claiming he was the victim of a press conspiracy. It is stupid to be so greedy and demanding when there are millions of people unemployed. The Daimler finance chief denied that there had been any 'unconditional capitulation' to the SEC, which was now 'showing flexibility that had not been there before'. Trading profit margins in the segment, however, slid to 1.9 per cent compared with 2.5 per cent in the previous year.Booker has renegotiated contracts with clients, both increasing prices and implementing efficiencies in the distribution network.The jump in gearing to 95 per cent from 71 per cent was partly due to working capital requirements lifting borrowings from pounds 138m to pounds 155m. As the boatman squeezed more and more bodies on to the flimsy wooden seats, I detected a look of anxiety on the faces of the locals. That looks extremely cheap for a company with a sizeable share of a global market still growing at perhaps 20 per cent a year.Serif does not yet have such a strong story to tell.

Some of the others in the side would work themselves up into quite a frenzy - Kempes, Luque, Passarella - but not little Ossie, with his cool head and nimble footwork, exactly the qualities he is now showing as a manager. There is a very good, solid stone wall, about 7ft high on the left- hand side as you look at the garden from the house. The result feels rushed and shallow, without the instant mythic resonance that should be the birthright of every self-respecting western. The seven-partner Holborn firm Steggles Palmer, known for its personal injury and employment work, has set up an employment group to meet an increased demand from clients. Sir John speaks not as someone borne down by the weight of his years but as a working actor still capable of carrying off the title role in King Lear - as in last Sunday's Radio 3 production. Believe me, there is no hiding place.Facsimile transmission is a dreadful technology which has but one thing going for it: you can use it almost anywhere.

In Stone's first (and best) Vietnam film, Platoon, the Vietnamese were scarcely human. However, Mr Hurd said, 'after consultation with ministerial colleagues in London, (Lord Younger) wrote to the Malaysian Minister of Finance in June 1988 to say that aid could not be linked to defence sales'.Mr Cunningham said it was plain that 'Lord Younger, who is no longer in the Government, is being made a scapegoat'. At the time I was drinking heavily; but working here, I saw what drink does to you, so I thought 'I'm helping these people, but I've got to help myself first.' It changed my life, and I cut my drinking down drastically.'Anne Richards, one of the organisers from High Street Methodist Church in Maidenhead, says: 'We get solicitors, office workers, caterers - anybody is welcome.' Mike Fitzsimons is the Christmas Shelter co-ordinator in Lancaster: 'There isn't a typical volunteer, they are right across the board. THE Big Dipper house price graphs produced by the market over the last two decades, rhythmically soaring and swooping to reflect neat cycles, are about to be pulled into a different shape. It found that one year after the operation, women in the first group experienced significantly fewer orgasms.In 1982, a Japanese study of a group of hysterectomy patients found that 27 per cent experienced diminished uterine sensation during sex and as many as 70 per cent had problems reaching orgasm at all.Mr Ray Garry, consultant gynaecologist at South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough, agrees that removal of the cervix may cause a woman to miss out on sexual pleasure.

Only a radical transformation of the present market could affect the prospects of the collieries earmarked for closure on 13 October', he said.Mr Clarke added that government officials and ministers were kept constantly aware of the implications for coal of the 'dash for gas' in power generation, which is pre-empting much of the market.British Coal delivered the hit- list of 31 mines to Michael Heseltine, the President of the Board of Trade, on 12 October. When you see a skinny guy or a fat one you think, 'Sort yourself out'. Ever since, although to a diminishing degree, the England A party has largely consisted of solid but unexceptional county pros: which is why, after four of these tours, they have borne such a singular lack of fruit that the one product to have gone on to consistent performances at Test level is Mike Atherton.This time the party should consist not of 25 to 27-year-olds set in their ways, but those in their early twenties who have a chance of making that final step to Test level. Ministers also believe it is still too early to dismiss the Beer Orders as an outright failure.Sir Bryan Carsberg, Director General of Fair Trading, will nevertheless be taking a long, hard look at the industry when he comes to conduct his formal review of progress, or the lack of it, next year. D M Gaunt, however, warns against this: 'It brings tears to the eyes when making a withdrawal from the depository.'The juice squeezed from a navel may be used for invisible writing, showing up when heated, says Karyn Vitali, proving the point with a faint, although probably microwaved, signature.

But what kind of information is the paying public interested in hearing? Only, it seems, reassuringly lightweight social history Only the kind of history you find on tea towels. At least, to maim.''That rather depends on whether you get the chance, wouldn't you say, Mr Hake?'The voice came from behind Hake He started to whirl round.'I wouldn't move. The military government's first poll divided Nigerians on traditional ethnic and religious lines on Monday: most southerners boycotted and many northerners voted, AP reports from Lagos.. The pin positions, the greens, everything.'Faldo owed his survival to a stroke of outrageous fortune at the 17th hole.