At off-peak periods, stored electricity will be used to pump water back through the reversible turbines from the Yarlung River to replenish the lake. Next month, Channel 4 launches a prime-time ‘religious’ series, Witness, which features cannibalism in the South Pacific, neo-Nazis – who deny that the Holocaust took place – meeting a survivor from Auschwitz, and a study of the ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’ whereby the devotion of pilgrims to the holy city drives them mad. Bond International Speed Challenge: 1 Dun Equity (K Shore, GB) 73.55sec; 2 Everest Fire One (G Luckett, GB) 74.21; 3 Flying Cloud (D Inglis, GB) 74.91.. It is a study which reflects the profusion and opportunism of its subjects, and which he sees as one of the noble and natural pursuits of that uniquely diverse product of evolution, homo sapiens. In the past the appointment was made ‘behind closed doors’.Slow progress, page 28(Photograph omitted).
And along with the decline in the average level of unemployment, output should have risen, allowing other structural problems (such as the balance of payments deficit) to improve. It is still quite possible that Britain has slipped slowly into one-party government: all the more important, then, that the one party is self-questioning.Mr Major’s refusal to attack Labour or the Liberal Democrats yesterday, when he briskly dismissed them as ‘utterly irrelevant’, was insulting – but eloquent and half-persuasive, too.His own speech failed to live up to the rest of this extraordinary conference. And then there’s the bizarre Fifties /Sixties category showcasing people posing proudly with their television sets.But it is the realisation that we take the same pictures time and time again – same compositions, same themes – that makes for uneasy, if compelling viewing. Three days earlier Judge Goldstone had released his report on the ‘third force’, saying that a policeman he called ‘Q’ had been one of his main sources of information on the involvement of, among other senior officers, deputy police commissioner Basie Smit in a township terror campaign that has claimed thousands of lives.Gen van der Merwe summoned Capt Klopper – whom he believed to be ‘Q’ – to Pretoria through a message on a pager. Experienced, independent- minded journalists insist he was ‘extremely accurate on security matters’ and ’showed many government people to be liars’. In Kingdom’s next show, he is determined to come out from behind his mask and speak for himself. After the court ruled that their dismissal was unlawful the ministry changed its policy and accepted financial liability for all the other pregnant servicewomen who had been discharged between 9 August 1978 and August 1990.So far, claims have been received from 3,700 women dismissed from the RAF, Navy and Army; 1,500 have accepted MoD offers to settle and another 1,000 are due to be decided by industrial tribunals.
Sir: With reference to your article ‘(John) Redwood condemned for ‘bullying’ single mothers’ (5 July), I would be grateful if you would allow me the opportunity to tell my story. Mr Bruce said he was accompanied by an official from the treasurer’s department at Conservative Central Office, but he refused to name the official.’I was not there to extract money out of anyone,’ he said. She also believes that ‘it is no good trying to see them as hapless victims of evil drug barons. Such information is normally fed to foreign news agencies 10 minutes after the Japanese press has received it which, in today’s world of instantaneous news transmission by screen, puts the foreign agencies at a strong competitive disadvantage.The Stock Exchange press club has said it will now try to accommodate the foreign reporters’ demands. This production, by contrast, is given to the arresting (and far from mindless) operatic gesture. The Bulletin, then a radical nationalist magazine, lampooned Queen Victoria and the British, but the invective did not last.
