IN HIS navy blue blazer and dark glasses the heavily built figure watching proceedings from behind a tree could have passed for

IN HIS navy blue blazer and dark glasses, the heavily built figure watching proceedings from behind a tree could have passed for a secret service agent. In particular he was, as a young man, shocked by the Labour government's support for the United States in Vietnam.But Mr Kinnock could still have adopted Lord Wilson's wit without embracing his duplicity. major generals in the Army and Royal Marines and Air vice-marshals in the RAF. Gen Aoun - still in exile in Marseilles but issuing angry denunciations of Damascus - cannot yet return but his former Foreign Ministry secretary-general, Farouk Abillama, has re-emerged with demands for withdrawal of both Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon before an election.Even the hitherto mild and inoffensive Maronite Patriarch, Nasrallah Sfeir, has seen fit to demand a postponement of the elections, denouncing candidates as 'false witnesses'.A columnist in the pro-Syrian As Safir newspaper hinted darkly yesterday that Sfeir was obeying the orders of the Vatican which was plotting, Borgia-like, to set up a separate Christian canton in Lebanon.Syria's allies have lamented the Christian boycott. CHELSEA turned to Luton Town's Alec Chamberlain yesterday in an attempt to solve their goalkeeping problems. As he sat in front of a bank of screens watching, for the first time, Mrs Thatcher's tribute to him the day he resigned, the camera homed in on a normally controlled man whose nervous fingering of his chin said more about him than any of his words.Parkinson apparently made his millions in underwater grouting, which played a large part in Equinox: How They Built the Channel Tunnel (Sunday, C4).Sandy Balfour's film opened with the 'Rawhide' music, raising hopes of a rousing look at the work of the underwater tunneller. Trencherwood, a local housebuilder, lost pounds 21.4m last year, and sold barely half as many houses as in 1991 - its survival has followed a deal with its bankers.

The time-and-motion man came round with our gang a couple of weeks back, and he clocked 22 miles on his chart.People could help by keeping their dustbin neat instead of overflowing it, and by making access easier. But St John's decided to build a modern housing development for sale to the public as well.Usually that would mean a mixture of two-storey semis and detached houses in red brick with pantile roofs: it is difficult to find anything more radical without having to commission your own architect, and that requires plenty of courage, confidence and cash. Cortina is the most Italian of resorts, which gives it a head start in my book: the 'frontier' with the German-speaking part of the Dolomites (what was the Sud Tirol) is a good few miles away. After that we were left to savour an exhibition from a horse that has never fallen and wait for Wilkins's word on whether his horse would take in the Gold Cup on the way to Aintree. Next to a man selling African tribal artefacts, half-a-dozen pavement artists work the line for the Empire cinema, ready to pack up their easels at the first sign of a policeman.'You find no English artist here,' said Alex, an art student from Moscow 'We are from China, Serbia, Poland. To be in favour of progressive taxation is all well and good, but who isn't? As a matter of fact, the UK income tax system is already unusually progressive.

They obliged through Craig Levein before the interval, his header from a corner arcing in at the far post.The mood of the game turned in the second half from the moment Robertson fell in an off-the-ball incident with Silhavy. Castleford will be without Martin Ketteridge, who, like Blackmore, is having knee surgery, and must decide between Keith England and Dean Sampson at prop. Gladiators got a more downbeat welcome when they entered the Colosseum. So it was a surprise first to hear his voice. * In a lake, if you are unsure of your ability swim parallel to the shore * Never drink alcohol and swim. There is also the question of whether Benedict has the personal, managerial talents to pull it off. But what I knew in my heart was the awful truth: one day soon, this could be me.THE THING about a really lousy holiday - the pay-back, so to speak - is that everyone will love you afterwards. ----------------------------------------------------------------- TREVOR FRANCIS ----------------------------------------------------------------- THOUGHT too nice to be a manager by Brian Clough among others but proving many people wrong after an acrimonious start at QPR.

'I don't know for sure that they will come for us, but I do know that no woman here is going anywhere without her children. But Bill Cottham, its chairman and managing director, said the board had concluded that Rider could best be developed as part of a bigger bus grouping. Bernard Lavery regards his work as 'the fun end of gardening' He grows giant, prize-winning fruit, vegetables and flowers He is very enthusiastic. In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. Details of some of 1993's highlights are listed here.JANUARY6 New Developments Liverpool Playhouse A three-week season of new writing from Merseyside, opening with Boy by Shaun Duggan.7 Mr Cinders King's Head, London N1 Revival of the boy meets girl musical comedy. '), has been adopted as a universal anthem of homesick modern-day emigrants from the west of Ireland scattered as far afield as Canada and Australia.Moran's own speech is spiced with curious slang of the 'shams', sharp-dressed Tuam youths, who deem themselves urban sophisticates next to 'the buffs - the country fellers'.

Smith's second, after 65 minutes, was an opportunist prod from much closer in, Kevin Campbell having done the spadework with a bone- shaking challenge on Andy Thorn.Coppell's rethink brought on an extra forward, Grant Watts, which helped to make the second half more even, but all the huffing and puffing came to nought for the want of a serviceable striker.Coleman? He was as nimble as a ton of nutty slack when crosses from McGoldrick and Simon Osborn sat up and begged for a decent finish.Palace rallied, but the penalty it took to rouse them, nine minutes into the second half, had Adams justifiably incensed. The Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill removes a right to appeal for would-be visitors and students who are refused entry visas, saving pounds 1.25m. Elsewhere on the upper floors, the building opens on to balconies so visitors can take the air and soak in views of Nimes, as if from a handsome liner berthed in the city centre, as passengers once did of Liverpool from the upper decks of Lusitania or New York from those of Queen Mary.The Carre d'Art is a model of how to bring a big modern building into an old city centre by employing the best architecture of today - in civic service - to raise the profile and fortunes of a provincial centre. Sadly, this worthy policy shows worrying signs of becoming like other badges of liberal respectability, such as open government - a policy passionately advocated in opposition and dispassionately forsworn in office.