This is the explanation given for the death of Pablo Escobar and other minor drug traffickers, while the national cartels remain protected by the state.Yours faithfully,NORBERTO SERNAPresidentThe Colombian Committee for Human RightsLondon, SE1. One of the informers had worked for the police on previous occasions and had a lengthy criminal record, with a number of convictions for deception. For many it is a unique experience.Some pluck up the courage to air serious personal problems. Lonely, because unlike a nation state, the UN has only a nebulous authority to call on; demanding, because each move requires a wearisome process of consent and compromise between rival member states.
Yet at 71 and previously immersed in the slow-moving currents of Arab diplomacy, a Francophile who prefers a life of letters to the perusal of draft resolutions, Boutros Boutros-Ghali shows no sign of slackening. So virtually every extra pound produced for the taxman by imposing VAT on books would come from publishers’ revenues.
They calculate that VAT at the full rate would lead to a 15 per cent drop in sales. ‘Now I’d need a medium to contact the medium,’ he laughs.He is old and quite sick The Grandmother’s Tale will probably be his last work I’d been instructed not to tire him with too many questions. Gabriel’s cultured, airy tones were perfectly complemented by her angelic caterwaul.

But she’s turning conventional sexual icons upside down, tongue in cheek.’ ‘No further questions,’ said Mr Trumpie, collapsing into his chair.But the ordeal was not over. It doesn’t seem that surprising: the club is peopled by chaps who have been getting away with murder for years, but this time a detective enters the club as a waiter, and starts snooping. Fortunes were made on the back of the anti-apartheid struggle.. In another of her acclaimed books, Opium and the Romantic Imagination, a doctor’s definition of a likely addict as someone who ‘fails to identify with normal adult goals such as financial independence, stable employment and the establishment of his own home and family’ prompts her to comment that such a list ‘may not seem to us to comprehend the Whole Aim of Man’.

Until you know what drugs are not being taken, it is impossible to know why they are not being taken.’The health minister is hoping that a detailed analysis of what is left unused in bathroom cabinets will provide better guidance for doctors on what they should and should not be prescribing.What was in bathroom cabinets was ‘a major question which ought to be attracting more attention than it has been doing’, he said, adding that he would be announcing ’shortly’ how he intended to pursue the issue.He is also considering a new drive against prescription fraud, where people who are not entitled to them claim free prescriptions. Worshippers in the church lit eight rows of candles.Each shrine cost a family several hundred new pesos, more than dollars 100, or an entire month’s income. In total, Micropal lists 10 Indian and Pakistan equity funds, and all have dropped in value by at least 6 per cent over the year. Bizarre Womad bill, with Gary Glitter and Midge Ure at the top, Nigerian big- band supremo Chief Dr Bannister in the middle and the great pianist Johnnie Johnson near the bottom.Iggy Pop (London Forum, 071-284 2200, Tues & Wed; Nottingham Rock City, 0602 483456, Fri; Glasgow Barrowlands, 041-226 4679, Sat) The grand old man of punk returns.

Mr Major is out and about, selling himself and his optimism in a series of speeches. Everything Mr Smith has been saying about reform is oil for the hinge.On one central issue, though, the Labour leader remains hostile: ‘I am not in favour of changing to PR, but I have made a commitment to a referendum and I mean that, and I believe we ought to have the issue settled. Give or take a posse of plastic bag salesmen, you can have Europe’s newest capital to yourself.(Photograph omitted)Getting there: No Slovak visa is required for holders of British passports. The Commons Public Accounts Committee criticised the payment system last month for giving ‘indiscriminate support to low volume, high cost pharmacies’.Sir John Bourn, the Comptroller and Auditor General, said last year that at least half of Britain’s pharmacists were working ‘well below the volume.

The case was unusual in that it involved the son of MCA’s president, Sidney Sheinberg, who overheard his father at home discussing the impending deal. Should they slip up, second-placed Blueharts, likely winners at Bracknell, are in the wings.. The suite makes gibberish of the story, the costume designs plumb new depths of ugliness and the choreography for the peasant community is laughable.The only compensations were Maria Bylova hitting the back of her head with her shapely foot in a flashy sequence of jetes and Gedeminas Taranda and Julia Malkhasiants on fine and jolly form as the gypsy couple.Within his cruelly limited range the 31-year-old Taranda is one of the company’s greatest dancers, but could this creature from the Grigorovich hothouse survive in the wild? Siegfried he ain’t, and the heavies of Western ballet would hardly make full use of his extraordinary flair for athletic melodrama. National and international food policy is manipulated by the manufacturers of fatty, sugary food. Ministers believe the critics will be supported there by Baroness Thatcher, who is expected to attack the treaty in her maiden speech in the Lords today.The Foreign Secretary had expected a barrage of criticism during Foreign Office questions in the Commons yesterday But one dissident said: ‘We are holding our fire. Drawing on churchwardens’ accounts for hundreds of parishes, he examines the prevalence and decline of all sorts of customs, and finds the Reformation the prime cause of change in the ritual year.This makes good sense: many rites of the old church, such as crawling to the cross at Easter (Henry VIII saved his knees with a carpet) and ringing bells for the poor souls stuck in purgatory, clearly had no relevance to the Protestant faith. A ceremony in memory and celebration of the life of Brian Edward Clark will take place on Wednesday 25 May 1994 at 3pm in the Dora Cohen Hall on the Wheatley Campus of Oxford Brookes University.