El Salvador's generals unused to being on the defensive are furious that they may be named in the report drawn up

El Salvador's generals, unused to being on the defensive, are furious that they may be named in the report drawn up by the UN-sponsored Truth Commission. Yet when the Prince officially opens the new Tate on 23 June, he will walk under just the kind of cool and glassy portico that usually brings him out in spots.Perhaps the dramatically beautiful setting will provide some comfort. That is to set interest rates to keep sterling relatively low, and to head off any inflationary threat by curbing public spending and raising taxes - preferably taxes on incomes rather than those that add to prices.But there was no real hint here of Mr Clarke's intentions. Nobody would catch him with his trousers down, and in due course he would go home to green fields, an old nanny, a commission in a good regiment, a safe seat in Parliament.

He gave much thought to the problems of creating rural employment and to the adverse impact of second homes on village life and economy.His gift for public speaking was memorable; even his economics lectures gained the rapt attention of his students. But then on comes the teen-rock, trawled from some Seventies repository, blithely jumping the line between simple and trite.Time was when Townshend could perform tiny miracles with little or nothing at all Not here. Entire literary traditions, both oral and written; unique systems of grammar and vocabulary reflecting equally unique systems of thought and lifestyle; language as the cornerstone of thousands of human cultures: all will vanish, leaving the world immeasurably poorer in cultural terms.Empire building and genocide were the main causes of language extinction over the past 500 years. If Stamford is anything to go by, the country is quite tolerant and generous-spirited enough to accept the truth that MPs are not supermen But there is a conspiracy to keep it from us.

Mr Waldegrave was questioned about a letter to the Daily Telegraph by Sir Robin. That was where he first met Mandela, who was six years older, also studying law, as a mature student 'We had violent arguments in the corridor. Yet only the most churlish would deny that amid the turmoil in schools since the 1988 Education Reform Act, there have been benefits Standards really are rising. It must be imposed, by an act of will, and communicated by acts of language. ANKARA - A UN agency approved dollars 1.6m (pounds 830,000) funding yesterday for a plan to repatriate 19,500 Kurds who fled to Turkey to escape Iraqi chemical attacks in 1988, Reuter reports.. They're very expensive (2,800 roubles) but I don't mind high prices if it means there is something to buy.'Not everyone agrees. SHOPPING by telephone and paying by credit or debit card is convenient, but has its price if something goes wrong.

The APR works on the assumption she switches to variable rates at the end of this period. Rich and sweet with deliciousapricot and honey flavours.***1990 Clos St Georges, Graves Superieures ( pounds 6.95 Sainsbury). The serious weakness of the public finances makes it clear that if there is any tightening to be done, it should be on the fiscal front - by cutting government spending and raising taxes.Yet it is not only net exports that need to grow if the British economy is to be rebalanced Investment needs to expand, too But not any old investment. A host of other problems remain, such as resistance among some countries to liberalising trade in services, and unresolved disputes over anti-dumping rules and steel. Bill Hamilton believes he is at last in sight of a satisfactory explanation for sex, and 'Mother Nature's bizarre invention of maleness' Males are needed to fight disease, he explains. In January, Eurotunnel will announce its prices for Channel Tunnel trips, which will begin in May.Stefan Szymanski, author of the report, says his figures show that, in the eight years before the tunnel project was announced in 1985, real fare levels were static. The best finish of the day, meanwhile, came from Vladimir Kramnik.CH18OUT-Harts-nwsBlack against Leonid Yudasin in the diagram position, he attacked with 1 Qf4] Now 2 Re2 Nf3] leaves White in trouble, so Yudasin played 2 Qxd6 and Kramnik continued with 2 e3] when 3 fxe3 Ng3+] 4 hxg3 Qh6 is mate The game continued 3 Rxe3, hoping to buy off the attack with 3 Nxe3 4 fxe3, but Kramnik played the killing 3 .Qxe3] when 4 fxe3 Ng3+] 5 hxg3 Rh5 is mate..

Both action groups have begun legal proceedings.The pounds 900m offer is due to close on 14 February. They assumed this because of a previous ruling in 1987 related to Specialist Mouldings, a company that went into receivership.Last week Lord Justice Dillon attacked the Specialist Mouldings precedent, thereby undermining the whole of the UK's corporate rescue system. Their repayments are on annual review and they were looking forward to a decrease in April as the society had reduced the interest rate on both their loans from 8.55 per cent in 1993 to 7.89 per cent this year - a reduction of 0.56 of a percentage point.Mrs Balcam said: 'We were somewhat stunned to find that the mortgage repayments on one of our loans remained virtually identical to the previous year.'The couple had taken out their first loan in 1974 for about pounds 5,000.They had decided to take out an endowment mortgage, where only the interest is paid off on a monthly basis.On a rate of 8.55 per cent, the total amount paid during the year in interest without tax relief is just over pounds 400; 25 per cent tax relief would cut that annual payment by a quarter in this case to pounds 297.54, equalling monthly repayments of pounds 24.On a rate of 7.89 per cent, the total amount of interest paid during the year without tax relief would be about pounds 376; 20 per cent tax relief on that amount would cut the annual total to about pounds 300 - monthly repayments of pounds 25.The couple had a buildings insurance policy that was paid on a monthly basis with the Norwich Union. SHORT of Rip Van Winkle making a comeback as an alternative comedian with a ring through his eyebrow, it is hard to find any comparison for the opening of Ben Travers's The Bed Before Yesterday on 9 December 1975.