Some buyers have refused to pay the latest pounds 50,000 instalment now falling due, after seeing the car's value plummet. So when Bono bungs in a big proto- gospel climax, it feels rather half- hearted. Mike McCurry, a State Department spokesman, agreed the deaths would make the United States reassess its role in Somalia.But he insisted Washington was determined to continue its efforts to bring stability to the country. It produced documents for the ICI/Zeneca demerger, BT3 and the privatisation of Northern Ireland Electricity.Mr Emley said Burrups hoped to capture business in the run-up to France's privatisation programme, and had opened a sales office in Paris.Business in the US took a dive in the second half, especially in medical titles, because President Bill Clinton's healthcare review hit advertising spending.Capital spending in the year of pounds 18.7m included the modernisation of production facilities in the US, and outstripped depreciation charges of pounds 16.3m.Mr Emley said the balance sheet remained strong, with no net debt. Second, he has tried to shore up the fractured Tory majority. 'The shares are unlikely to perform until there is some evidence of an improvement in the near-term trading environment,' she says in an internal memo.Abacus, an electronic components group, made a firm start, closing at 153p against a 140p placing price.The first of the Lloyd's of London funds made their debut.

On stage, Rostropovich seems tiny, barely able to wrap himself around his cello. The other reason is the reverence with which we tend to regard our mortgages: we behave more like grateful beneficiaries than consumers.Simon Tyler of Chase de Vere Mortgage Management thinks borrowers should view mortgages like any other household goods 'They have the same in-built obsolescence,' he said. Despite repeated protestations that Moscow no longer viewed its former Warsaw Pact allies as vassal states, the suspicion remained that it was unwilling to surrender all claims on them.'We can only be safe by joining Nato in the way it is organised and run now. Last night the Foreign Office would not confirm that Sir David Gillmore, head of the diplomatic service and a former High Commissioner to Malaysia, was preparing to fly to Kuala Lumpur as Mr Major's envoy.The message from Mr Major was understood to have been conveyed through Duncan Slater, the present High Commissioner.Arms and aid, page 2. Continental profits slid from Ir pounds 21m to Ir pounds 8m, mainly because of fierce competition in the corrugated board market in Spain and Italy.In the US and Canada losses climbed from Ir pounds 1m to Ir pounds 15m. For dollars 20,000 ( pounds 13,330), reporters can travel with the Palestine Liberation Organisation chairman from his headquarters in Tunis and back, dine with him and have access to details of his itinerary.

The owners of Milliyet newspaper, the Dogan group, bought a 50-per-cent stake in the Hurriyet group and in front-page advertisements vowed to create 'a giant cooperation in the media'. Few outsiders immediately understood the implications of the surprise deal. It comes from the Greek and means a pattern, model or example, no more. 'The coverage he gets is invaluable, but the advertising must stand alone from it. But this, like his opening satanic prayer (courtesy of Faustus) and apparition as a naked Ganymede (courtesy of Dido), is only a part of the play's long-range strategy. As in the old days, Russian nationals living abroad again need a visa to visit their own country and an exit visa to leave. When she came back from 3-7 to 7-7 in the first game, it seemed she just might take advantage of the favourite's nerves, but a great chance to reach game point disappeared when, with the court open, Horner chose to play a cross-court backhand drive instead of a drop, and saw it go straight to her opponent.After the loss of the second game in only five minutes, the match was almost over.

Next may have been a brilliant concept, but its rapid growth was testing the management's skills and the customers' enthusiasm.In December 1988, a profits warning from the group confirmed what the share price was already signalling: Next had stalled. He is restoring the craft, built in 1936 and once based on the Thames in south-east London, between his shifts as a psychiatric nurse (Photograph omitted). This means actively seeking the views of local people about the services they want, not those which politicians and managers think they should have.'. Either way they have to score quickly (spinners needing more time to take their wickets than seamers). At match point in Japan's favour, Samuelson received a second yellow card caution for over-exuberant protestation and should have been dismissed and a point given to his opponents.The referee, Azerbaijan's Ramis Samedov, was unwilling to finish the match on a technicality, however, and allowed Samuelson to remain, no doubt squirming at such largesse as the Americans retrieved victory.The next day the International Federation of Volleyball rightly upheld a Japanese protest and set in motion an outbreak of solidarity via the shaver in which every US player removed his hair to match Samuelson, who has a skin condition similar to Britain's Duncan Goodhew and is completely bald. Far more claims are expected from 80 victims of sexual abuse and regression therapy in Leicestershire children's homes.But on 4 September, North Wales Police said that it was investigating the 'biggest ever child abuse scandal in Britain', involving 300 victims.