The third seed double- faulted, and Fernandez saved a further four match points and went on to win, 1-6, 7-6, 10-8 on her fifth match point. Though the amazing recovery owed as much to Sabatini's loss of nerve as to Fernandez's resilience, it stands comparison with Michael Chang's comeback against Ivan Lendl here in 1989 and Jimmy Connors' great escape against Mikael Pernfors at Wimbledon in 1987.Sabatini took only half an hour to win the opening set, and 53 minutes had elapsed when she prepared to serve on the first match point. Nevertheless, the race is a great spectacle (more than 25,000 runners will take part this year) and a big fund-raiser for charities ( pounds 1.4m to local bodies since the first race in 1981).But a call to NutraSweet, the race's new sponsors, reveals the company is putting in pounds 2m a year. Perhaps the most naturally gifted of the female players, she is handicapped by a feeble serve. Mr Clinton said UN relief workers 'have to be defended for trying to facilitate their escape, not for supporting ethnic cleansing. Work will begin on converting the building next week.Pupils and students will study the national curriculum, as well as Islamic Studies, Arabic and other modern languages There will be an emphasis on 'moral education'. a mixture of special pleading dressed up as analysis and assertion masquerading as evidence' (Mansion House, October 1985).

It shares with the Netherlands the lowest rate of road deaths. On average 528 out of every 100,000 people die from heart disease in the UK. If voters have short memories when it comes to recession and tax-rises, then it is fair to ask why they won't forget this leadership controversy too.Logic again. And I for one can live with her quirkiness and overstatements.Unlike some remote academic, Dr Leach understood precisely, during our programme viewings, what would appeal, say, to pre- school children; how things needed to be both bright and relatively slow in pace. Both appointments are effective immediately.Sir Peter Harding resigned on Sunday night after newspaper allegations that he had an affair with Bienvenida Perez-Blanco, 32, at a time when she was married to Sir Antony Buck, 65, a former Tory MP and junior Navy minister in the Heath administration.During Sir Peter Harding's tenure as Chief of Defence Staff, the MoD issued its own code of conduct warning service personnel against extra-marital affairs. Terry Mansfield, managing director of National Magazines, said he was not interviewing anyone else for her job, er, for the moment. It didn't occur to me that it was a great risk for him to put himself in the hands of a young director. The economy has been liberalised over the past couple of years, yet investment in productive industry remains limited, and the country relies heavily on imports.By the same token, Western countries are keen to exploit opportunities in the lucrative Iranian market.

However, it is quite clear that a pounds 3bn a year investment programme needs better justification. Until then Maxwell had an investment worth 40 per cent of the group's capital, though his voting power was restricted to under 15 per cent, the level at which the Bank of England demands prior approval.Shareholders representing more than 43 per cent of Sterling's capital are expected to show their anger at the group's annual meeting this morning.There is also an extraordinary meeting next month at which the capital repayment proposal was to be voted upon. The uplift in confidence has fuelled speculation that the Chancellor will decide on a tight Budget next week. Main Budget decisions already made are believed to include an extension of VAT to domestic fuel and power, designed to raise pounds 2.5bn in a full year, coupled with an effective rise in income tax by freezing or restricting the annual rise in personal allowances.Suggestions that an extension of VAT would have only a limited impact on inflation are backed up by a report today from the Confederation of British Industry, which says that fear of unemployment and the depth of the recession have helped drive down pay awards to the lowest levels on record.According to the CBI's latest pay databank, settlements across industry are now running at under 3 per cent while one in three companies has imposed a pay freeze since last August.On Friday the FT-SE 100 index closed at a record high of 2,922.1 as the stock market took the view that recovery might at last be taking hold in the UK economy, helped by the prospect of lower interest rates in Germany.The latest Smith New Court/ Gallup survey of investment fund managers shows that 22 per cent think the economic situation will get a lot better in the next 12 months, compared with 10 per cent in December.The Institute of Directors bi- monthly business opinion survey finds that 51 per cent of company directors are more optimistic about the economy now, compared with 38 per cent in December.In its latest survey of consumer confidence, PA Cambridge Economic Consultants says although the results showed that confidence among consumers was still poor there were indications that a turning point had been reached, with many key indicators showing a recovery after several quarters of decline.Its index of consumer confidence showed a marginal rise from 72.8 in its last survey in December to 75.2 now, representing an end to the slide since the middle of last year, when the index stood at 93.6.Households have become less pessimistic about their own financial situation and employment prospects although confidence in the Government remains low, PA says.'We believe that our results indicate the beginning of an upturn for consumers but that any recovery will be fragile and must be handled with care if it is to continue.'Infolink, a credit information company, this morning reports an increase in demand for new car loans in January, the fourth consecutive monthly rise.Describing the latest pay settlement figures as 'extremely good news', Howard Davies, the CBI's director general, said: 'What matters now is that we keep up the progress. All the signs are that Mr Major and his colleagues know this full well. 'He is better known to more people than any player - including Martin Offiah, Ellery Hanley and Garry Schofield.'Meanwhile, Widnes are moving towards becoming a limited company, something that their chairman, Jim Mills, believes would ease the financial crisis that makes them willing to sell Davies. Only Nicholas Ridley stayed for much more than a year.In one respect the writing was on the wall when the Transport separated from Environment.

'When Swansea asked if I was available, I said I would love to play as long as they cleared it with someone high up in the England or South-West set-up and as long as it wouldn't damage my chances.'Clearance inevitably denied, he set about the North's Martin Whitcombe and then London's wiliest of front-row campaigners, Jeff Probyn, late of England. PLANS to give greater priority to job-creating projects such as road-building and other infrastructure work could force a cut in the cushion for next year's council tax, Michael Howard, Secretary of State for the Environment, warned yesterday. None came as he described a terminal parabola faster than the sinking pound/dollar* (*delete according to personal circumstances).There was an immediate hike in the interest rate.To Lloyd's of London to see a spanking new video, Lloyd's - Looking Ahead, extolling the virtues of the troubled insurance market. But that decision may not be made for another few days, - so you may not receive your form until early next week.If you are pretty sure you will be rejected then, don't wait for that form before ringing round. But the net asset figure is likely to have been substantially reduced by trading losses. Post- war lads growing up in a Cold War world: no wonder bebop and bags of marijuana seemed like 'a new world philosophy'.