The economy is in freefall and the government has only seven months of fiscal reserves left for the payment of the military

The economy is in freefall and the government has only seven months of fiscal reserves left for the payment of the military and civil service.The confirmation this week by Burundi’s two largest foreign donors, the US and the EU, that they had suspended all economic development aid to the country has come as a blow to an administration already in extremis. Those who broadcast for the common good are painfully mindful of the lethal potential of their medium.The 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda was largely fuelled by the invective poured forth by the extremist Hutu station, Radio Milles Collines.A Franco-Burundian partnership, Radio Omwizero is funded by money from the European Union. Half a dozen propaganda sheets – both Hutu and Tutsi – have been banned by the government in recent weeks. But Radio Democracy, the ironically named Hutu “Hate Station”, is still beaming its supremacist contagion into Burundi from across the border in Zaire.In this mountainous country of isolated rural communities with 80 per cent illiteracy, radio is a potent force for bringing people together – or for driving them still further apart. “We want to broadcast a message of peace and reconciliation, particularly to the young people”.Radio Umwizero, officially launched last weekend, aims to provide a beacon of hope in this deeply divided country, where extremists are all too ready to preach words of hatred and ethnic division. Now its cells are full again, with Palestinians arrested in a crackdown on Hamas activists demanded by Israel after the recent suicide bombings. DAVID ORR

Bujumbura
They call it Radio Umwizero which, in Kirundi, the language of Burundi, means Radio Hope.

For tonight, the station has recorded a special programme on Burundi’s cultural identity.”We never give air time to people who are going to spout politics,” explains Hubert Vieille, the French station head. At least 450 students have been jailed in the past two weeks.. But as he began to speak about “partnership” Mr Arafat was jeered by the crowd and some yelled “collaborator”, the most hated epithet in the Palestinian lexicon.It was a marked change from a scene only three months earlier, when Mr Arafat addressed an adoring crowd at the same site, days after the prison had been abandoned by Israeli soldiers redeploying from Ramallah. General Amram Mitzna, in charge of Israel’s northern command in 1982, says that in the first days of the war he remembers Gen Sharon saying he did not want the government provided with very detailed maps. He wanted them rather to be on “a scale so that the national leadership wouldn’t be able to see where the arrows were pointing”.A problem for Gen Sharon is that Menachem Begin, who died in 1992, was a national icon for Likud supporters, so he needs to show that he had good relations with him. For the same reason, he needs to pull his punches in criticising Benny Begin, who has inherited some of his father’s popularity.The best history of the invasion, Israel’s Lebanon War, by Zeev Schiff and Ehud Yaari, long ago concluded that Gen Sharon originally persuaded the cabinet to allow him to carry out a 48-hour, 40-km attack and that he then escalated it into an all-out war, using tactical developments on the ground as an excuse.They conclude: “Born of the ambition of one wilful, reckless man, Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon was anchored in delusion, propelled by deceit and bound to end in calamity.”. STEPHANIE NOLEN

Ramallah
West Bank university students protested outside the Palestinian authority prison in Ramallah yesterday, demanding the release of the hundreds of students and Hamas activists arrested in the past few weeks, while a mile down the road, Yasser Arafat was leading the first Palestinian Legislative Council meeting ever to be held in the West Bank.Speaking from an impromptu podium, the Palestinian President told the students he had come to them as soon as he heard of their gathering.

Its aims were to marginalise the PLO and end Syrian predominance in Lebanon. In both of these objectives it wholly failed.Likud, hoping to win some advantage out of the present government’s problems in Lebanon, does not want memories of the invasion revived.The scandal resurfaced because of Gen Sharon’s fondness for litigation, particularly against the press, which led him to sue the daily Haaretz for libel over an article, originally published in 1991, which said: “Menachem Begin knows very well that Sharon deceived him.”Other testimony in the case is also damaging to Gen Sharon. He quotes his father, whose political career was ended by the Lebanese war, as saying there was “no truth to the statements” made by Gen Sharonthat the cabinet had been informed about plans to go all the way to Beirut.Gen Sharon, who will hope for a senior cabinet post if Likud wins the election, called a press conference to rebut the accusations.He said: “For 14 years I have been hounded by this libel that I lied to Menachem Begin.” He says that the cabinet knew about his plans to send the army across a line 40km north of the Israeli border.There is more at stake here than an historical argument about what happened in Lebanon between 1982 and 1984 It was the least successful war fought by Israel. In the two years of fighting that followed, 600 Israelis and more than 11,500 people in Lebanon were killed, including 800 Palestinians massacred in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps.The claim resurfaced this week – at a deeply inconvenient moment for Likud in the run-up to the general election on 29 May – when testimony by Benny Begin in a libel case brought by Gen Sharon was made public.

PATRICK COCKBURN

Jerusalem
Did General Ariel Sharon lie to the Israeli prime minister about his plans 14 years ago to take the Israeli army all the way to Beirut? He denies it but the fact that it is made by the son of Menachem Begin, prime minister during Israel’s disastrous invasion of Lebanon in 1982, is reopening a feud in the right-wing Likud party, in which both men are leading figures.The dispute centres on the allegation by Benny Begin that Gen Sharon, then Israel’s defence minister, used permission for a limited incursion across the Lebanese border to launch a full-scale invasion. The collapse of the American- Israeli “peace process” is forcing Europeans to search for new policies in the region on the grounds that Europe will remain a neighbour of the Arabs long after the Oslo agreement is a dead letter.And if a new peace process must return to the principles of UN resolutions 242 and 338 – total Israeli withdrawal in return for the security of all states in the area – then France’s seat on the Security Council will give it a casting vote in the next attempt to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.. Nevertheless, today’s state visit has importance for both sides. The Hrawi-Hariri government has been isolated by the US travel ban – to be lifted if Lebanon will stop the Hizbollah attacking Israeli occupation soldiers – and France’s support for Lebanon is a symbol of the country’s continuing links with the West.Mr Chirac will address parliament, visit Mr Hariri and the Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Sfeir, sign two financial assistance programmes, visit French UN troops in southern Lebanon and possibly express support for a French peacekeeping role here when – if – there is peace with Israel.In reality, it is the decreasing likelihood of such an accord that makes Mr Chirac’s visit all the more important. Less honourable missions have included that of a French ministerial bodyguard who turned out to have been smuggling weapons out of civil war Lebanon and the visit of Francois Leotard to General Aoun in 1989, a trip for which the newly-elected leader of the French centre-right UDF coalition was rewarded with a totally worthless Lebanese passport by the grateful general.Mr Chirac’s journey has been preceded by those of Philippe Seguin, the president of the French assembly, Herve de Charette, the Foreign Minister, and the former interior minister Charles Pasqua.

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Robinson has taken As You Like It, reduced the cast to just Orlando, Celia and Rosalind, added a few blues songs, played fast and loose with the dialogue, and relocated it to what appears to be a building site She’s also turned it into a love triangle. The pair are so emotionally close to each other that, when Rosalind is expelled from court, Celia tells her that “thou and I are one”. Here, though, there’s little sense of that closeness, or of how Rosalind’s love for Orlando threatens to destroy it, and even her tortured outburst to Rosalind, “You have simply misused our sex in your love prate”, becomes little more than a momentary strop.From one extreme to another: if the BAC As You Like It begs the question “How little attention to the sub-text can you get away with in Shakespeare?”, Wicked Bastard of Venus (Southwark Playhouse) demands “How much?”.The answer seems to be “a lot”, if you’re as inventive as Julie-Anne Robinson. But the way Brewis fights shy of anything remotely resembling a sub-text has its price, and nowhere more so than in the relationship between Celia and Rosalind. Julia Barrie’s Rosalind is of the type Michael Billington once called “the hoydenish thigh-slapper who looks as if she’s feverishly awaiting the arrival of Dick Whittington’s cat”; Orlando tries to strangle his brother early on, but makes up for it by being squeaky clean thereafter; and Jacques (played by Peter Pacey as Arden’s answer to Reggie Perrin) is more waggish than melancholy.
None of which is necessarily a bad thing: nothing wrong, after all, with a jolly Arden, and this production does have the tremendous benefit of clarity.

There is nothing remotely dark about Peter Brewis’s production. Peter Brewis’s As You Like It (BAC) has a deceptive beginning. In Oliver’s orchard, a single red apple hangs in the air, immediately to be plucked and eaten. Charles the Wrestler plonks his huge frame down on to a child’s chair The tone is sinister, the set likewise. Veiny tree roots creep out from one corner of the stage but, this apart, Arden resembles not so much a forest as an ocean, all sea greens and blues, with a whirlpool of squirls centre- stage

Well, perhaps you can read too much into a design. A lot of the philosophy is gone, but the basics are there quite strongly.”They’re also conspicuously absent from the down-market sequel to War and Peace published in Russia earlier this year. The plot does, however, tell of Pierre Bezukhov’s involvement in the Decembrist uprising of 1825, his trial and exile to Siberia.

In an un-Tolstoyan character development, his wife, Natasha, is even found inspecting her naked body in the mirror. It sounds like there’s a television series in it.n `War and Peace’ opens at the Cottesloe, Royal National Theatre, London SE1 (0171-928 2252) on 25 June The BBC TV `War and Peace’ is available on video. “There’s a lot of that, which, of course, isn’t drama,” agrees Davies, “and is nothing to do with what we were trying to get on the screen.” Only Edmundson’s peacetime version demurs: “The theories haven’t gone completely. The surprise, given these unwelcome resonances, is that most adaptations of Tolstoy’s novel save time by ignoring its historical theories. “The opera house is not a place for theorising,” says Sir Edward. With Leningrad under siege the same year, Prokofiev was encouraged to stress the novel’s patriotic elements. To his 11-scene piano score he added heroic marches, arias and choruses, shifting the focus from the domestic scenes that will be played up by Edmundson’s adaptation.

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But nobody is perfect, and even the best-placed and best-intentioned thumb occasionally sports a bruise. Polly Toynbee is my hero, a journalistic knight in shining armour. Sir: I totally agree with the Labour MP Bernie Grant about returning the Benin artefacts to their rightful owners (“The looting of Benin”, 22 February). I am writing to Mr Grant to organise compensation for the descendants of the brave and heroic people killed during the rape of Benin in 1897 – one of whom was my great-great-grandfather.
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Jack Straw’s speech this week is a signal that the shadow front bench is beginning at long last to show steadier nerves on lesbian and gay issues, and is therefore to be welcomed.
If, as we are told, “New Labour” is intent on making only those promises it can and will keep, then it may yet become the party of government that sets rolling the wheel of change on homosexual issues that was loosened, and no more, by the age of consent debate three years ago.Here’s to a ray of cautious optimism.JOHN JACKSONLondon SW16. Sir: I share Peter Tatchell’s disappointment that Labour appears to have withdrawn its pledge, made in 1992, to introduce anti-discrimination legislation for the gay community (“Labour gives pledge on age of gay consent”, 20 February). We ask that anyone looking after a child from abroad makes sure that we have this vital information.
No doubt there will be a number of cases similar to Edita’s where foster parents in Britain wish to adopt Bosnian children in their charge.The Red Cross urges that enquiries are first undertaken, and properly followed up, through the Red Cross, to find out if relatives are still alive and able to care for such children.In our experience, tracing enquiries can take some time and a period of least two years should elapse before any adoption procedures begin.This allows time for information to be gathered and a family reunion to take place if circumstances allow.SANDRA SINGERBritish Red CrossLondon SW1. This register allows us to hold, in confidence, details on young people which will help us to locate them and restore family contact should there be an enquiry from a parent or close relative via the Red Cross International Tracing and Messages Services. The British Red Cross keeps a register for all children coming into the country without their parents or usual carers. Sir: The case of four-year-old Edita Keranovic (“Family furious as judge says war baby must stay”, 18 February) highlights the reasons why the Red Cross takes specific steps to ensure that families living in armed conflict situations either remain together or are reunited as soon as possible.

While not disagreeing, I feel that it would be better if you advised him not to tax attempts to save energy. If I buy loft insulation, pay a contractor to put in cavity-wall insulation, pay for double glazing, or buy energy-efficient light bulbs – all as advocated by our government – that same government sits back rubbing its hands in glee and pocketing 17.5 per cent VAT on the value of my purchases.
S C BLACKNewton Aycliffe, Co Durham. Sir: Your leading article on John Gummer and his warnings of global warming (22 February) concludes with the advice to tax energy. I stick to the belief that the shifting of human remains from one venue to another, except for some dire necessity, is lacking in respect. The placing of them on open display for the purpose of tourism is similarly disrespectful, and if it is done to encourage pilgrimage or prayer then it indicates a pre-Reformation theology in which prayer offered in the presence of relics has more validity than other prayer.MARGARET THOMPSONSecretary, The Prayer Book SocietyLondon EC4.

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Rebutting his critics, Jon Gosselin accuses Kate of not “speaking from heart.”

He will challenge the other parties to think about whether one way is to say explicitly where the money would go, as the Liberal Democrats did in the general election with their 1p income tax rise for education; and whether another would be referenda on tax-raising proposals for specific projects such as the Channel Tunnel link.The usual gripe against the Liberal Democrats is that they can afford the luxury of raising such questions, because they stand no chance of dirtying their hands with power. ‘But I was really forced to recover quickly because I had to go out and prove a point every time I stepped out on to the track.’He is still doing that. Such is the demand that a few lines in a single episode of Home And Away or Neighbours may soon be enough to guarantee you six weeks’ panto in a provincial theatre.Australia’s pantomime pioneers first popped up a few years ago, but now some 25 actors from the two television soaps are treading the boards in Britain. The messages of property were becoming more complex.Moving to the semi was hard after that. He was taunted for cruelty by the critic Pauline Kael, but she was mistaking sportiveness for malignity.Welles was always large: at 13, over 6ft and 13 stone; later, up to 19 stone, with a 56-inch waist. Add to the model range the highly reliable and frugal diesels, as well as the frighteningly fast GTi Turbo, and there is clearly a CX for everyone.Looked after, these cars run up huge six-figure mileages, and tidy examples can still be had for a reasonable few thousand, but be warned: prices are rising simply because there is nothing else like them.

While the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy keeps Britain in the absurd position of having to import 15 per cent of its milk, the market will always be distorted. The media can be useful in getting a point of view across to other shareholders, maybe small shareholders and institutions who may not be aware of what is happening, and getting a groundswell of opinion to put more pressure on management.’He points to Alan Sugar’s questionable and abortive buyout offer for Amstrad. In the Twenties and Thirties, Sweden was very passive towards us. Hopes of an interest rate cut to accompany this month’s Budget were undimmed despite the good news from the Department of Employment.

But not even then would the RFU be finished, because the final step would be to redesign (though probably not rebuild) the 12-year-old South Stand and so complete a gigantic bowl holding something like 82,000 people. Max Knight, writer and translator, died Berkeley, California, 31 August, aged 84. THE SECRET of eight-year-old Clare Mendham’s smile was revealed yesterday by her plastic surgeon, who told how he had restored movement to her paralysed face. The initial charge is 3.5 per cent and the annual management fee 0.75 per cent. ‘I never heard of anything like this happening, throughout the war or after it,’ he said.

For black people with roots in the Caribbean, the family has different meanings from those which have prevailed in British society.In many ways, we share the tradition of the tightly structured, extended family relationship that has been brought back into British society by Asians. The bushes tend to get large and leggy, so it is better to renew them each summer with a few outdoor cuttings stuck into the ground. the sort of gutsy peasant food I had rarely made before, but suddenly craved.When we finally waved Rosie goodbye on the plane at the end of her stay with us, there was no problem deciding what we might eat that night But her stay has subtly changed the way we eat now. We must therefore send for Miss Marple, who has at least glanced idly now and then at her village team of St Mary Mead.The facts in the Fifth Cornhill Test are these: England in two innings, in hot cloudless weather and on an unflawed pitch, have scored 207 all out and 137 for 5, without batting badly.

The Prime Minister and John MacGregor, Secretary of State for Transport, are both said to be anxious not to see the airline collapse because of the resulting job losses and threat to Gatwick that would entail.But their regulatory advisers, led by the Civil Aviation Authority, are expected to urge strongly that any merger between the two would need to be fully examined either by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission or competition authorities in Brussels.’Unless BA comes up with some trump card that gets the Government off the hook it is hard to see a deal not being referred,’ one official said. To spend a couple of years in a new religious movement that you later decide is not for you is an experience shared by thousands. The best example of this is resistance to methicillin, an antibiotic introduced 30 years ago to treat infections of penicillin-resistant bacteria. It was here that Horsfield honed her trademark skill: handling a bagful of characters with the deftness of a juggler. Most professions now see a degree as their minimum entry requirement To this must be added several years of good experience. IT IS MINUS 25C in Siberia and the Mephistopheles of Russian nationalism sits shivering in the back of his campaign bus, a clunky green delivery van on loan from the Omsk Times, a weekly tribune of anger against Boris Yeltsin and the world

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Jackson advisor Tohme Tohme turns over cash, Neverland items to Jackson estate.

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Mori Seiki will pay 18 million euros for a 5 percent sharein Gildemeister through a capital hike It will become thebiggest single shareholder in the latter Both will get a seat on each other’s board.  Henrik Tallinder turned and skated with him, but he appeared to stumble, tripping the Lightning center as he fell, and landing awkwardly on his shoulder.Tallinder was called for a penalty and had to leave the ice for the locker room, his right arm hanging limply down. Portis is a downhill runner that can run people over if he wants to, but he needs good blocking to take out big defenders. We were all riveted by the failures of the Bucs and the Cowboys, the resilience of the Dolphins, and the good fortune of the Eagles. Nick Young also was in double figures with 13 points.Tayshaun Prince followed Hamilton with 19 points.

What sport, above all others, embodies the fire of the human spirit? What sport combines more grit, guts, and gregariousness than Odysseus or Ulysses ever knew? What sport propels men, women, and children beyond their hardened limits and into the world of excellence and legend?Most of you, I’m sure, have already guessed the answer. He also had a +6 and 174 penalty minutes.If the Hawks are to have success on their scoring lines, Versteeg will be a huge component, taking pressure off of Andrew Ladd and providing back-up to Patrick Sharp.These players are all going to end up being relied upon to contribute to the success of this playoff-hungry club. The Wildcats will win this game as long as Josh Freeman can get time in the pocket and find holes to run through. However, I think the Buffs defense will do a good job containing him, and pick him off a few times. Jim Kennedy, AP’s vice president of strategic planning,said in a telephone interview that AP would have to reduce itscosts to compensate for the rate cuts That includes notfilling vacant jobs and possibly buyouts. Employees` Need to Delay Retirement May Conflict With Workforce RealitiesThe very notion of what it means “to retire” has also changed in light of thefinancial crisis, and as a result, more employees are looking to the workplacefor delayed retirement or post-retirement employment opportunities. Over 380 million people in India now own mobile phones, and significantopportunities for content providers and service providers are available in thisnascent market. weekly jobless claims better than expected * ECB’s Trichet says euro zone rates have room to fall * BoE says it will continue quantitative easing (Adds details, updates prices, changes byline) By Vivianne Rodrigues NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) – The dollar climbed againstthe yen on Thursday as positive earnings news from Wells Fargoand better-than-expected U.S.

Separately, off-price retailers TJX Cos Inc (TJX.N) andRoss Stores Inc (ROST.O) said their first-quarter results couldbe better than they previously anticipated. In 2008, 86 percent ofthe children who completed their program at Youth Villages were dischargedsuccessfully; data consistently show that 84 percent are living successfullyin the community two years after discharge.The case on Youth Villages was written for inclusion in a new course Grossmanhas developed at the Harvard Business School called “Leading and GoverningHighly Effective Nonprofit Organizations.” The course teaches what it takes tobe an organization that does innovative and highly effective work and exploresvarious challenges those organizations encounter. 13, 2006, except for a brief seven-week period in 2007 when Sharapova held the top spot.Even since Henin’s retirement in May 2008, the womens’ world no.1 ranking have swapped places four times, first by Maria Sharapova, then Ana Ivanovic, then Jelena Jankovic, before Ivanovic took it back again. Maybe that’s why The War Machine got involved in the fray that was going on involving NO SURRENDER opponents Angelina Love and Taylor Wilde. The DMP2160UFDB co-packages two of the same MOSFETs in the DFN2020format.

The WWE has mentioned that they have contacted tons of celebrities who are fans of the WWE or want to promote a film, TV show, music, etc.The celebrities realize that it is a huge thing because so many people watch the RAW program. Louis.This was perhaps the closest battle in the American League as Chicago’s Jermaine Dye and Tampa’s Ben Zobrist also have the stats to start, but, in my opinion, Bay was the right choice.. He could flip out, he could start ripping the ball like he did last year when he had a .321 avg., or he could just continue to be terrible. 16, 1940 in Worcester, MA, In his 14-year career Billy Hamilton was with the Kansas City Cowboys for two years, the Philadelphia Phillies six years and the Boston Beeneaters six years.Hamilton won two batting titles, was the league leader in hits once, runs scored four times, stolen bases five times.  His .344 batting average is just .0001 behind the great Ted Williams.He batted over .400 once, .300+ 11 times, had over 200 hits twice, scored over 100 runs 11 times (10 consecutively) and stole over 90 bases five times, three of them over 100.Hamilton was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1961 by the Veteran’s Committee. 7.  Hugh “Sir Hugh” DuffyBorn: Nov 26, 1866 in Cranston, RI         Died: Oct. What, you mean “1.34 x (receptions ?rgets) + 45.98 x (touchdowns ?rgets)” doesn’t excite you? Kiss our algorithm! Matchups We Can’t Wait For: Aaron Curry vs. Thisacquisition also expands Novell’s focus on UNIX to Linux migration by offeringcustomers a single tool for managing superuser access while they migrate to SUSELinux Enterprise. The Bank offers a variety of financial servicesto its retail and commercial banking customers.

That bit of bitter history aside, Tracy could exact revenge seven years later but stealing a victory and thumbing his nose at Tony George once and for all. For more information on EWSI visit Waste Inc. He had been elected as successor to the Swedish throne by Sweden’s parliament in 1810.Carl XVI Gustaf has been King of Sweden since 1973. Hooley heldsenior roles in Institutional Investor Servicing and information technology. Whichever way this series plays out, the NHL is in good hands with Crosby and Ovechkin at the helm..

insurance sector and the European summit — the market is just not prepared to take on a lot of risk,” said Dustin Reid, senior currency strategist at RBS Global Banking & Markets in Chicago. Severalcompanies blazed that path for us, but we are really pioneering the idea offolding the cost savings into product improvements and exclusive ingredients.Without this model, our products would be priced for an exclusive few. “We may do a bit more on the entertainment side.”American Airlines spent between $45 million and $50 million on sponsorships in 2007, according to IEG, which has since stopped providing estimates for individual companies.Sanez declined to say how much his company spends annually, but said about three-quarters of the budget is spent on sports.AMR has naming rights deals for two arenas that are home to the National Basketball Association’s Miami Heat, as well as the Dallas Mavericks basketball and Dallas Stars hockey teams. Last year, in seven games he had 35 catches for 332 yards and one touchdown. Stats:PPG:27.3 Reb: 5.4 Ast:4.9 Kobe Bryant has played great this year for the Western Conference’s best team, the LA Lakers.

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