JASON BENNETTO The forthcoming Asylum and Immigration Bill will be one of the Government's most

JASON BENNETTO The forthcoming Asylum and Immigration Bill will be one of the Government's most controversial pieces of new legislation and has already provoked accusations that it is playing the race card in the run-up to the general election. One of the central planks of the Bill, whose main aim is to restrict the number of people claiming asylum, is the creation of a so called "white list" of countries, deemed to be "safe" and therefore unlikely to produce real refugees. "The time has come for others to consider their own response to the tragic conflict of loyalties with which I have myself wrestled for perhaps too long," he said, felling her with the best tool of revenge of all, the one the Princess of Wales is about to take up - words.. The most memorable political revenge was the blow Geoffrey (now Lord) Howe dealt against Margaret (now Baroness) Thatcher in his resignation speech as deputy prime minister. Samson lost his strength when Delilah cut off his hair.But it is not only domestic revenge that flourishes.

And Mike Owen nailed up a for sale sign which read "adulterous wife" in foot-high red letters outside his pounds 250,000 house after his wife ran off with their builder.Seeking vengeance is as old as civilisation. Ms Sladek has been compared with Lorena Bobbit, the American woman who hacked off the penis of her husband, John Wayne Bobbit, and threw it in the road in revenge for an alleged rape attack.Men have also taken to more direct forms of retributions. Kevin Wilton snatched a picture of his ex-girlfriend Tamany Baker in the bath and then had it made into Christmas cards, which he sent out to a wide circle of friends. This was not the approach taken by the first Mrs TS Eliot, who poured hot melted chocolate through her husband's office letter box when his secretary refused to pass on her calls. But the most recent practitioners of getting one's own back, like the Princess of Wales, have allowed themselves time to plot.

Destroying clothing, planting mustard seed on an unfaithful partner's soaked carpet, and hiding rotten fish inside curtain rails are now commonplace.Lady Sarah Graham-Moon, whose husband, Sir Peter, went off with another woman, cut off the sleeves of his Savile Row suits, daubed paint over his BMW and delivered his vintage wine to doorsteps around the village like bottles of milk.Diane Sladek decided a "cold" revenge would not suffice and poured boiling wax over her the penis of her unfaithful husband's penis. CBS, one of the major American channels, confirmed it wasamong the bidders.. REBECCA FOWLER Revenge is a dish best eaten cold, according to the Italians. The adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice has been licensed to nine countries so far, with contracts worth pounds 500,000.A BBC source added: "[The interview] could end up being seen by more people in the world than any other programme has been before."But the spokesman said that although it was in discussion with a "large number of foreign broadcasters," the BBC did not expect to finalise any sales before Friday. The People's Century history documentary series has brought in pounds 5m, but that was only half the production cost.

Other recent successes have notched up significant sales abroad but were more expensive to make. "The only request we had from the Princess was that she was to tell the Palace first that she had done the interview," Mr Hall said. "It was a proper interview over a wide range of issues including the role of the princess and her future role."The BBC is sensitive about being seen to benefit commercially from the programme, which has dismayed Buckingham Palace, but sources suggested the bidding could bring in millions.A BBC spokesman conceded the straightforward format of a head-to-head interview made the sales virtually "all profit". Filming took place without any Royal aides or press officers present on 5 November, when the Queen was in New Zealand.There were no constraints. LOUISE JURY and MARIANNE MACDONALD The world is set to be stunned by the astonishingly frank interview given by the Princess of Wales to the BBC, it emerged yesterday.As the corporation began sifting bids from every major broadcaster in the world for the rights to show the Panorama programme, informed speculation pointed to the Princess having pulled no punches talking to reporter Martin Bashir.It is understood that she has spoken on all the key questions of her family, separation and future in the hour-long interview which the BBC believes will prove a riveting insight into the Charles and Diana story.Worldwide interest in the documentary was described yesterday as "unprecedented" by one television insider, even though details of the interview are known only to a handful and are not being revealed prior to Monday's screening.Tony Hall, managing director of news and current affairs, said the tape had been seen by only eight people, including John Birt, the director general, but not Marmaduke Hussey, the chairman of the governors whose wife is lady-in-waiting to the Queen.He revealed that the Princess gave the final go-ahead about two weeks ago, after several meetings with Mr Bashir during his research for a programme on the constitution. Only 25 per cent of revenue comes from admission charges, currently Ffr195 per adult in the high season, falling to Ffr150 in the winter.New revenue streams are being developed through building additional leisure facilities for guests staying at its hotels such as a multi-screen cinema, and by targeting families.Talks are being held with Eurostar to run charter trains direct from Waterloo.Investment column, page 26.

"Our bad times are behind us and talk of whether we have built the park in the right place or whether it will ever be profitable is in the past," he added.However, analysts said the company would have to run fast to stand still given the adverse economic conditions across Europe and the strength of the French currency.More people may be going to the theme park, but once inside they are reluctant to spend more money than the previous year's visitors. Revenues, he said, only needed to be increased by 5 per cent each year to cover the additional payments to the banks and Disney. In 1996, its interest charges will rise by Ffr120m, by another Ffr230m in 1997, and a further Ffr120m the following year.Walt Disney, which owns a 39 per cent share stake in the company, intends to start charging Euro Disney hundreds of millions of francs for management time and for copyright royalties in 1999.Steve Burke, chief operating officer of Euro Disney, yesterday acknowledged the problem, but said he was confident that it could be overcome. The shares dropped 21p to 194p, and the steepness of the fall triggered an automatic suspension of share dealings on the Paris bourse.The profit announced yesterday was only achieved by courtesy of banks allowing the company a holiday on Ffr600m of interest payments on loans, and a separate waiver by the Walt Disney company on management fees and royalties.Euro Disney's holiday on interest payments begins to wind down from next year. In particular, the analysts continue to harbour negative views about the company's financial health, despite the recent refinancing that erased Ffr8.8bn of debts from the balance sheet.The reaction among investors yesterday was equally negative.