However, if the ownership of these precious parts of London (and elsewhere) is to be dispersed, then some formula must be found to maintain their visual control.Yours faithfully,MARTIN RICHARDSONLondon, NW127 February. A few days ago, though, I met Maria Slobodskaya, founder and president of 'Robin Bobin', Russia's first club for the flabby. Individuals who are offered training must see that it is in their own self- interest: it enhances their personal marketability It is not just for the good of the organisation.3. EIGHT years ago Bernhard Langer was in an almost identical situation. A sinister figure with a sousaphone is drafted in at a moment's notice and, before you can say 'piccolo', Garth has disappeared up the tuba. It all began with Mark Twain, and his story of an outcast boy and a runaway slave, Huckleberry Finn, is the quintessential American classic. The partners have yet to decide where to site the European office.Glaxo has formed a separate joint venture with Warner-Lambert under which it has agreed to supply Zantac and other over-the-counter versions of its drugs to the joint venture.

A great and abiding resentment against him followed his move to America. His will to win is total, and, as was the case with England when Micky was manager, occasionally leads to him sailing close to the wind in the increasingly cloudy field of what qualifies as acceptable deportment.As captain of Surrey, he was warned by the club when the team were twice fingered in 1992 for ball- tampering (although there is not a professional team in the world that does not have at least one bowler with thumbnails that could open a can of corned beef) and was fined (privately) in Australia three winters ago for a relatively mild display of dissent in the Sydney Test match.He also has a reputation for body language that leaves the umpire in no doubt of his opinion when he thinks he has been given out incorrectly, an image he is well enough aware of to be working on improving. But he admits to having been 'blue-eyed at the beginning', and is quick to distinguish between revolution (which he wholeheartedly supported) and unification. Nato has seized control of the operation from the UN after unhappiness over the way previous air operations were handled. Season the monkfish with salt, pepper and saffron powder and saute it briskly in this pan for 3 minutes. What we intend to do is to collect all these glimpses into short biographies which may at least form a rudimentary sketch of their lives in Auschwitz.'After their first meeting on a computer science course in Vienna in 1989, Dr Thaller and Jan Parcer received enthusiastic backing from concentration camp survivor, Matt Zygelman, and from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Vienna, as well as financial support from numerous donors.IBM has donated about dollars 250,000 worth of computer equipment. 'In Britain, as far as I can see,' Friedman said in an interview last week, 'monetarism has come to be a term of abuse, applied to whatever Mrs Thatcher was thought to be in favour of at any given moment.'Now semi-retired, he spends much of his time at his retreat in the mountains north of San Francisco He was unwilling to be visited there.

In an hour you can travel from the Peruvian capital of Lima, now threatened by a cholera epidemic, to the Bolivian capital of La Paz, 13,000ft above sea- level, where the air is thin enough to induce high-altitude pulmonary oedema - blood in the lungs - in a significant number of travellers. When the text of the speech, due to be made by Mr MacGregor in his South Norfolk constituency, was issued by Conservative Central Office, the word privatisation was not mentioned once in the body of the text.Instead, the Secretary of State repeated the 'commercialisation' formula he had used at the weekend, saying: 'Most of the recent criticisms of our plans for commercialising BR passenger services are based on complete misunderstandings of what we are actually proposing. THE SHIAS in southern Iraq, who Washington says are protected by the allied no- fly zone, are facing a worsening plight on several fronts. Confrontations with Khmer Rouge troops had followed, and on Monday armed guards had been placed on the UN workers' house. Since then we've had warm duck salad, oeuf florentine, croque-monsieur. But paying in roubles, even an overripe pineapple would cost a Muscovite a day's pay.The preserved food is a lot better. Constituency parties, especially in working-class areas, are often paper organisations; there is no youth or student movement to speak of; trade unions, in decline themselves, rarely engage in political education; and the majority of working-class voters read Conservative newspapers.

THE CLINTON administration yesterday presented a dollars 1,520bn ( pounds 1,020bn) budget for next year, containing sizeable tax increases and a trimming of defence spending - the first stage in its plan to reduce the federal deficit to dollars 200bn or less by 1997. Only in the final six months did the opposite apply.And what would Mr Lamont's critics have had him do during this latter period? Devalue sterling and remain within the system? Clearly not. Is this the same William Leith who writes a column each week? David Brokensha Sherborne, Dorset. Waikato .38 British Isles.