Johannesburg - The South African government is expected to remove nearly one-quarter of its police generals and to appoint

Johannesburg - The South African government is expected to remove nearly one-quarter of its police generals and to appoint the first blacks to top posts in an effort to build confidence in the force, writes Chris McGreal. We drive past the Armoury, a turreted red-brick former military base which now contains platoons of the homeless. With long bows and arrows tipped with iron salvaged from shipwrecks, they are superb marksmen.Farming is unknown to them. FOUR young men who will have a major influence on the future of British sprinting gave notice of their intentions for 1993 at the Birmingham Games on Saturday. There was a prize, she said, for the first person who could tell her who had just won the Prix Goncourt.Since there was a display in front of me supplying this information (Texaco by Chamoiseau - or perhaps it was Chamoiseau by Texaco, I can't decipher my contemporaneous note), it was hardly a difficult question.My prize was a video of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator 2 - in French.The first person who writes to me with the real-life holiday resort setting of Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (shown on TV at Christmas) will receive Terminator 2 by return of post.. And the legends live on despite exposures of fraud and fakery Some, such as Richard Nixon, prosper. 'There is a final option which I don't want to talk about,' he told liberal supporters in the Democratic Choice alliance.

It may now have to buy it back again.By this week it had sold about half of the homes, which were blighted in 1988 when it was first suggested that the route should come through the Boxley valley. Woosnam's response at the long, par-five third was an eagle three drive, three wood, 25 foot putt. Rounding the bend, the road was blocked by a red minibus used by a crew from the Univision TV network, its doors flung open. Yet from Leonardo onwards, there have been scientists who have made their mark without depending on laboratories and developed observation and imagination through less orthodox means: by play and experiment.Thomas Edison, a daydreamer at school, was written off as uneducable. For since models turned into stars, images from off-limits have become every bit as sought-after as those from the theatre of fashion out front.

As a reward for his astonishing triumph, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, the 23-year-old from the Czech Republic will face Pete Sampras, the world No 1, in the semi-finals today. Many of them perished in the months of rebel shelling which has destroyed nearly every building in town.Ms Chamale has been working with Cuito's orphans for the past 15 years. Jess directs quite tightly - after a year in the business she knows exactly what she wants - but there was no 'look sexy for the camera'. The British carrier is concerned that the subsidies will succeed only in allowing an inefficient airline to increase its capacity at the expense of more competitive airlines in an industry already plagued by over- capacity..

But the affluent owners of the waterfront homes (most with their own speedboats or yachts moored to private jetties; most of them Anglo and car-owning) are unlikely to visit Overtown by bus or any other means. THE NUMBER of companies going into receivership or administration fell 30 per cent last month compared to a year ago, according to figures from Touche Ross, the accountants and management consultants, writes Roger Trapp. 'Any competitions or poetry events we need to know about? Any publications?' It's a serious question; the group has had a fair amount accepted by the National Poetry Foundation.According to Ronnie, the key to writing poetry is simply to put one word on a blank piece of paper ' 'The' is often a good start,' she says helpfully. But if anyone's going to make a break, it's more likely to be the scrum-half.'In that respect, Chalmers is in good company and tomorrow marks the 25th occasion that he and Gary Armstrong have joined forces as Scotland's half-backs. Police were on hand to prevent further skirmishes.Up to 100 people at a time have been on the beach at Ferryside, taking advantage of the crop of cockles, which have thrived in commercial quantities for only the third time in 50 years. 'He is a very honourable man,' said Don de Grut, non-executive director of Newage Transmission, a company that was sold to Williams. Interest in the modern novel has declined from 11 per cent in 1986 to 5 per cent.The Euromonitor Book Report 1993; Euromonitor, 87-88 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5QU; pounds 450.(Graph omitted).