He suggests single mothers between 18 and 24 should not receive more state benefits than childless women of the same age. And he clearly has room for manoeuvre because the UN is still not sure it has the right under its charter to fire him. TOM PAULIN is timely, but incorrect in assuming that John Clare's bi-centenary is passing unnoticed (Review, 11 July). It says that because of the fall in defence procurement by the US armed forces 'American arms producers focused greater attention on obtaining additional foreign arms sales contracts to compensate, to the degree possible, for lost domestic orders.'The imperative for US arms companies to sell abroad led to the virtual collapse of the attempt by the permanent five members of the UN Security Council to limit the size of arms sales to the Middle East. They may have names like Fred or Bertie of Burton on Trent but she does not anthropomorphise them.

A week earlier, Terry Ramsden, a playboy and alleged fraudster, had got off all charges against him by accepting four relatively insignificant counts of 'recklessness'. The pounds 1m or more that you are likely to find these days seems adequate. But for those who have watched Leeds acquire their reputation as the great under-achievers of the game, the quality of their defensive work was just as noteworthy and even more surprising.The urgency of a club who knew they had just one trophy left to play for was apparent from the start. Rangers' second came nine minutes from time when Gary Stevens and Ally McCoist, who replaced Durie, combined well to present Trevor Steven with a simple task from close range.Although depressed at having lost Durie, Rangers' fans were delighted to see their favourite, McCoist, back in business for the first time since a hernia operation last October. The third woman, thought to be a friend of Ms Robinson, has not been identified.However, police are understood to know the identities of all six bodies found inside the house, five under the cellar floor and one under a bathroom.Carol went missing from The Pines children's home in Bilton Road, Worcester. The carnival lunacy of Procession of Flagellants is a disaffected, jaundiced parody of an old and discredited form of devoutness. Grass grows out of the engine and interior of a battered estate car.Through a heavy corrugated iron gate lies the inner sanctum of the Claremont Road squatters.

He may not be delighted to be here, but as the rain poured down on him on the training ground he found some consolation.'This,' he said, 'is Redskin weather.'. Because of its geographic location in the centre of Eurasia, Russia's imperial expansion took a different course from that familiar to Europeans. I WAS once cast in a Hollywood 'art' film and assumed I had been chosen for my passion, wit and daring as an actress When I got there, I discovered the truth. With praiseworthy idealism, Germany wrote the right of asylum into its constitution and denied its border police the right to turn anyone away. My employer was an educational, American travel company that prides itself on the academic content of its trips. Outside politics, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (Phoenix) was my novel of the year: not Tolstoy or George Eliot, but rich, pungent, funny and moving.