The general position is that if the original owner of an object cannot

The general position is that if the original owner of an object cannot be located by reasonable means the finder can keep what he or she has found. Surely, in the same way as you invited someone from a Zionist organisation to present a Jewish perspective on the intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina (from their experience of the Holocaust), you could have given an opportunity to a Palestinian to present their view (from their experience of ethnic cleansing).The Palestinians are still experiencing ethnic cleansing Today, hundreds have been expelled from their land. The Building Societies Association said net new mortgage commitments rose to pounds 3.287bn in May from pounds 3.142bn in the previous month and was 18 per cent above a year earlier. The level of commitments is regarded as a forward-looking indicator of conditions in the housing market because it points to future trends in mortgage lending. WESTERN leaders commemorating the 50th anniversary of D-Day were forced yesterday to consider how to deal with North Korea, a modern tyranny that appears to be close to obtaining what Nazi Germany never had - nuclear weapons. It says nothing, it changes nothing.'Everybody had a good January, so did we. We met for the first time after that call.She was singing in Paris, and then Barbara and her husband, Martin, came home after the recital.

However, this has nothing to do with performance pay, which is about performance of individuals in their jobs, at whatever level of responsibility.Public-sector pay has already been used this year as a lever for macro- economic policy. He told an election rally: 'The Gatt negotiations must start again from scratch with a firm European position. The cost to the game of so many managers always believing that only the results matter is, of course, incalculable.Norwich City: B Gunn; I Culverhouse, M Bowen, C Sutton, J Polston, D Smith, I Crook, C Woodthorpe, M Robins (L Power, 89 min), R Fox, D Phillips Subs not used: J Goss, M Walton (gk). 'Melies was only in his twenties when he became so successful as a magician that he bought his own theatre,' Wade says. The principles of non- interference and self-determination are as valid as ever. It's a lot harder to make it happen.'The easy part is to say: 'I need five new players.' The difficult part is to go out and get them There is a lack of talent in England That's one problem.

A champion of Karnataka's small farmers, he has dared to challenge the state's despotic Chief Minister, S Bangarappa, by laughing at him in a big way.Earlier this year Mr Nanjunda Swamy gathered 50,000 farmers to sit outside the state secretariat and tried to 'laugh the government out'. Last week, a delegation of black leaders met the District Attorney, Gil Garcetti, to plead with him to ensure a fair trial, and not to seek the death penalty. 'Good morning]' he smiles.' How are you?' 'Fine, Mr Mandela.' He introduces the woman, who says her name is Lenoy Coetzee. With his first significant contribution, he befriended the elements, deliberately raising the ball into the gale and dropping it at the feet of Dennis Wise The outcome was the winning goal. Victory for Dorahy's Wigan will continue what is starting to look like an inexorable march to a fifth successive Championship. Its centre was the wonderful peroration he gave describing his long life with Jenny, concluding with the simple words: 'She was a good woman'.Mac was a good man.. In the City column, news editor Richard Cook savaged the company, saying it was over-valued, could not launch new titles successfully and had a penny-pinching attitude to management that included things like outlawing the use of Post-it notes.

In an interview in yesterday's Rude Pravo, Antonin Baudys, the Defence Minister, said 'some parts of the new Russian military doctrine have me very concerned. It has been converted into a 'House of Hope' for the workers on the factory ships. We already had a small presence in the market and were keen to expand it. Those since released have given accounts of torture, in particular beatings on the soles of the feet, and electric shocks.Most of the 30,000 Iraqi refugees in Rafha camp are people who took part in the uprising against President Saddam in the spring of 1991 or who fled from the shelling of the cities in the south. Even at the time, some found this statement a bit controversial He was there all right, with the Conservative women Fit and well he may or may not be. All three blockades ended last night.Representatives of fishermen's associations from all over Scotland met yesterday in Aberdeen to discuss the quotas for next year, issued a fortnight ago.

How do I fit the reel on? Bung on a few cork rings, like a normal fishing rod, and there's no rod left. Trump first played for Somerset in 1988 and has yet to earn a county cap in an on- off career that has been more off than on since Mushtaq Ahmed came to Taunton for the start of the 1993 season.But Mushtaq is now back in Pakistan preparing for a series against Sri lanka, and Trump is determined to hold on to his job. John Rudgard, chief executive, confirmed that prices would remain under pressure. 'The promotion has shown it is possible to get people back into brands,' he said. The importance of being ignorant became a state cult in wartime, for good reasons, but it rested on a much older condition: a phenomenal lack of self-importance among ordinary British people. By 30,000 years ago, the people of the New Guinea area had begun using more sophisticated craft, in order to sail across 100 miles of ocean to places such as the Solomon Islands in Melanesia.The oldest surviving boat remains ever found are those of a 9,000-year-old river craft - a dug- out canoe - discovered in Holland. The answer would appear to be an infinite number, so long as the excitement level is kept, as with Rush, to the maximum.