It is not just Norman Lamont who should be apologising - it is

It is not just Norman Lamont who should be apologising - it is the Prime Minister. PARIS - The French National Assembly debated yesterday whether to open legal proceedings against two former ministers for the distribution of HIV-contaminated blood products in 1985, writes Julian Nundy. EMPLOYERS are taking unfair short cuts to sort out the record number of graduates hunting a dwindling number of jobs, a survey published yesterday says. On Tuesday, the Defence Minister suggested it would resist any such proposal now, too, saying the army 'should not and will not deviate from the centre'.President Yeltsin's - and the military's - dilemma is that this centre is becoming increasingly unstable.. Ms Woodley says they realised simultaneously that bra straps would detract from the aesthetic effect, and the minister agreed to drop them.The result is a photograph that suggests far more than intended. I would guess that a large majority of voters, even in the South, already think big, anonymous corporations and fat cats have got off too easily for years. The scale of the exit charges would depend on how long the money remained in the fund.The industry may well follow Fidelity's charging pattern on PEPs, by which it levies an exit charge of 3 per cent if a PEP is cashed in within 12 months.

This is less an indignity than an inevitable progression, since Hill has already announced his intention to retire and go into coaching at the end of the season and, even though a scrum-half, has even gone so far as to bring out a coaching book for threequarters. Among a number of others, Hill was rested from last Saturday's First Division win over London Irish, but Ian Sanders did well enough in his place to stay in the side. 'Goodnessknows how many times we could have caught him,' he said.It is not clear whether this constitutes three double-figure pike in a day for the angler concerned. Janet Boateng, 38, is married to the Labour MP for Brent South, Paul Boateng. On the shore at Sandymount, Bloom, a small- time Jewish ad-canvasser and Joyce's 20th-century Everyman, exchanges increasingly meaningful glances with Gerty MacDowell, an adolescent whose romantic soul tends to take refuge from its sexual longings in winsome euphemism and 'poetic' flights. She is turned on, though, by the worship in Bloom's eyes, an act of adoration which is in droll counterpoint to the Benediction Service audibly taking place in a nearby church. A win by 12 hours would only be worth one extra point, as would a win by 12 seconds. One part deals with the processes involved in developing manuals and can be too idealistic in the face of time and money constraints. Whether the outsiders came to settle or only to 'discover', they meant by definition to win things from the ice.Some of these were straightforward and concrete, because the Arctic was a storehouse of marketable riches, once the link could be made between the oil and gold and furs and the customers eager for them.

The Queenslander has won seven times for Honda this season, while Donington was only the Texan's second victory this year. Speaking in terms of 'missions' and 'targets', Mr Stevens says that the competition assessors (Terry Farrell, an architect and English Heritage commissioner; Dame Elizabeth Chesterton, an architect and member of the National Trust Council; Michael Andrews, a landscape artist; Rodney Melville, a National Trust architect; and Mr Stevens) will meet on 26 August to choose six entrants to the competition proper. More typically at the moment they drink - usually as an aperitif - 1986 or 1987, at the slightest hint of celebration a 1983, 1970 or 1971, and the very good though not quite superlative 1976, 1959 or 1964 for family celebrations. And the Scandinavian banking crisis is far worse than the relatively modest losses by UK banks.There are, of course, gainers from falling inflation: the elderly in every country, who tend to be the main savers; and companies that have relied on reinvested profits to finance their expansion.But the fact that there are costs has led to suggestions that the shift towards low inflation is a misguided policy, imposed by central banks for ideological reasons (with the Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan catching most of the flak).Maybe. Dr Broome is fortunate to work in a family planning clinic attached to a hospital licensed unit.The use of RU486 itself is subject to tight controls to avoid a black market in the drug and any other improper or unsafe use. Women are disillusioned with the 'superwoman' role, which demands that the good wife and mother is also out working, keeping fit and still somehow finding time to entertain elegantly and have a sunshine smile.

I want to go to Ghent, immediately.Pictures may tell stories, but they are not always available. Diplomats looked for signs of troops being positioned, a likely safeguard before an announcement All was quiet. The grey stone facade of Turkey's General Staff Headquarters loomed ominously out of the nation's television screens as spokesmen issued vengeful statements after the death of the highest-ranking officer killed in the war so far. Roussel-Uclaf and the non-profit Population Council in New York have been trying to find a US company that could make the pill under licence and market it in this country. Having survived that, Chelsea pulled one back after 65 minutes when John Spencer's neat header from Craig Burley's right- wing cross rewarded a penetrative run by Frank Sinclair.Wednesday stepped up a gear towards the finish and made the game safe with John Sheridan's 85th- minute penalty after Bright had been pushed by Sinclair.Sheffield Wednesday (4-4-2): Pressman; Nilsson, Pearce, Walker, Worthington; Williams (Watson, 63), Palmer, Sheridan, Jones; Bart-Williams (Hyde, 89), Bright.

The most extraordinary time was when we took a modern dress Macbeth to Santiago in Chile last year We had machine-guns, loud percussion and lounge suits. Christie's equivalent sale the previous day had seen 50 per cent unsold and the worst overall result for decades. The highs of Sotheby's sale were a late work by the Austrian master Gustav Klimt, Dame mit Facher, of 1917-18, which made dollars 11,662,500 (pounds 7,775,000) where Sotheby's were hoping for dollars 7m or dollars 8m (pounds 4 1/2-5 1/2 m), and a Mondrian abstract of 1939-42 which made dollars 5,612,500 (pounds 3,741,000) compared with an estimate of about dollars 4m (pounds 2 1/2 m).The lows were a big, late Monet vista of the Grand Canal in Venice which was unsold at dollars 5.7m (pounds 3.8m), and a very rare Brancusi marble, titled Bird (c 1947), unsold at dollars 6m (pounds 4m). CHELSEA yesterday signed the England Under-21 international Scott Minto on a three-year contract for pounds 775,000 from Charlton Athletic. Emap said these were not significant issues and stressed that in any case it would make a detailed review of the accounts before the deal was completed.The UK publisher said it was paying Fr204.2m for 10 other magazines, principally L'Auto Journal, which were not part of the Editions Mondiales stable. In vain to protest that even a thief may be robbed, or a prostitute sexually assaulted against her will, the law likes an innocent victim, and will dock points accordingly from those less than lily white.And sexual harassment, as a concept, turns on the notion of unwelcomed, unsought, unexpected and unreciprocated sexual activity. The corridor outside my room was full of smoke, and people were running to and fro. In schools, for example, the government gives each state dollars 50,000 for such programmes.Obesity was estimated to have cost the nation nearly dollars 70bn in 1990.