They had a baby and two little girls, and they just wanted me to sit for about an hour a day and talk English to the two girls.It turned out to be absolutely horrible; the family were in temporary accommodation, waiting to move (into a very grand apartment), but we never did move. All that, and much defiant rhetoric, despite last Wednesday's allied attack on missile sites in the southern no-fly zone.The merit of that exercise, later described as a mere 'spanking', and of last night's, was that they were not grossly disproportionate in their severity, and that civilians were spared. Over the past decade there has been a steady decline in the use of custody for teenagers aged under 17. With a pension mortgage the lump sum built up has to repay the mortgage at the end of the term and also provide a pension. The advantage is that the borrower receives tax relief on the premiums. It is the first time that scientists have been able to survey from space the displacement caused by an earthquake. If this hits sales substantially, the share flotation could be delayed.The industry view of price cuts on tabloid papers is that the circulation advantage seldom compensates for the loss of revenue. Existing policy is in any case to store the most radioactive wastes on the surface for at least 50 years before trying to dispose of them..

It was a surprise that not more of the boxers dropped out considering that, at 48 hours' notice, the prize-money for the event's winner was reduced to dollars 140,000. Tony Tubbs, a former World Boxing Association world heavyweight champion, walked off with the loot after coming through three three-round elimination bouts to outpoint a previously obscure Romanian, Daniel Dancuta, in front of a live gate of 5,283 and a pay-per- view television audience that the Canadian promoters Don Arnott and Trevor Wallden hope will come to millions more.Tubbs and Dancuta, a novice professional, appeared fatigued throughout the lacklustre final, which the almost exclusively white, red-neck crowd at Casino Magic greeted with chants of 'bullshit'. By ending their mutually destructive war, the Muslims and Croats opened the way for a redoubled effort to cut the Brcko corridor.The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has warned that if the corridor falls, his self-declared state will instantly merge with Krajina. C5, a new free national television channel, could be up and running by the end of 1995.. Football is by no means the only game in which racism surfaces, but the campaigners know that it has the highest profile and offers the best chance of bringing a universal improvement. Shorts ended up to half a point higher.Hanson, following an investment lunch at UBS, gained 3p to 255.25p and Lucas Industries, ahead of visits by fund managers and stockbrokers to its new disc brake factory, the largest in Europe, at Bouzonville, France, shaded 1p to 186p. Happy birthday.Cicely Berry is Voice Director at the RSC(Photograph omitted). Rumours of a realignment swept the markets throughout the day.

Highlight of a game they controlled throughout was Sam Mills's 75-yard fumble return for a touchdown.. Eighteen people were killed in the storms here, and there were a further 20 deaths as blizzards struck higher up the eastern seaboard of the United States. Compared with the desolation of the inappropriately named Homestead, a few miles away, Key Biscayne is in reasonable shape, though mangled palm trees and gaps in the landscape are a reminder of Andrew's havoc.The tennis centre at Crandon Park had to be closed on Saturday, when an iguana was one of the few beings to venture on to the centre court. In a rare public interview, the White House Chief of Staff, Thomas 'Mack' Mclarty, declined to predict how long US servicemen would be required to stay in the country. Replacements: C Cusani (Orrell) for Vyvyan, 23; Ainscough (Orrell) for Grayson, 80.Referee: K McCartney (Scotland).. THE ROWING blazers were outnumbered by the monks' robes at yesterday's blessing of the Abbot of the Benedictine monastic community at Belmont, Hereford and Worcester, but it was a close-run thing. More than 1,000 foreign observers, including Britain's Kenneth Baker, visited polling stations to make sure ballot boxes were not tampered with or voters intimidated. But even if the monitors conclude there was no single abuse yesterday, the election - and an accompanying referendum on a new constitution increasing presidential powers - can hardly be said to meet democratic ideals. No more joyously entertaining and invigorating festival could be imagined than the celebration of Emmanuel Chabrier's centenary staged this week by the South Bank.

This may yet turn out to be nothing more than an inconsequential bite out of the postman's trousers, in that the West Indian attack has yet to be unleashed on a difficult, uneven pitch, and England will have to bat better than they have so far threatened in this series to make much above 200 themselves. However, it was none the less heartening to see Ian Salisbury and Chris Lewis salvage England's faint hopes of recovering from 2-0 down with three to play at a time when it would not have been greatly surprising to see heads starting to drop.Salisbury split an opening partnership of 66 by bowling Desmond Haynes, who had been badly dropped by Mike Atherton at mid- off off Angus Fraser, and after a second-wicket partnership of 92 between Richie Richardson and Brian Lara, Salisbury and Lewis turned what was threatening to be another gloom-laden day into something more respectable.Between them they took four wickets in five overs to leave the West Indies at 164 for 5, and Lewis's personal contribution was three wickets for two runs in 17 deliveries.However, they did have some assistance from a couple of dodgy umpiring decisions, and the bowler-friendly nature of the pitch was illustrated by the normally fluent Richardson struggling for four hours to reach his half-century.Richardson, having got away with making a mess of the toss in Guyana, this time had his entire complement of fast bowlers peering and prodding at the pitch half and hour before spinning up. Conditions for such feats were perfect - still air, even light, and a crowd wanting plenty of thrills 'I served OK,' Ivanisevic said, enjoying the understatement. Car owners were deemed deserving of a special offence when joyriding became epidemic in the late Eighties. And when I got to match point, I still wasn't hearing anything, because I knew he was maybe three serves away from holding serve.'When his serve went into the net, my eyes lit up and I was really aware that it could all be done with one backhand return When his volley went into the net I was just overwhelmed.