THE Congress of People’s Deputies weakened the position of President Boris Yeltsin still further yesterday by supporting a resolution that would cancel a

THE Congress of People’s Deputies weakened the position of President Boris Yeltsin still further yesterday by supporting a resolution that would cancel a referendum to decide on the division of political power in Russia. Stewart’s 50: 139 min, 90 balls, 8 fours.SRI LANKA – First InningsR S Mahanama c Smith b Emburey .64(102 min, 83 balls, 11 fours)U C Hathurusinghe not out .53(165 min, 122 balls, 7 fours)A P Gurusinha not out .12(61 min, 45 balls, 2 fours)Extras (lb3 w1 nb7) .11 .11Total (for 1, 165 min, 40 overs). The move will leave MB with net cash balances of about pounds 400m. Montagu’s own costs are expected to exceed that amount.About pounds 80m of the award will be covered by existing provisions and insurance taken at Lloyd’s of London.

On the monetary side, it is to ensure that there is sufficient growth in the money supply to allow the productive potential of the economy to be realised while still bearing down on inflation. Players are paid even money for their bets, with better odds for good hands, eg 3-1 for trips, 4-1 for a straight, 5-1 for a flush and 7-1 for a full house.The key question, obviously, is what to play on (necessitating a bet of double your ante) and what to fold (surrendering your ante). Since then, prices have shot into the stratosphere.Real Bentleys are rare because Bentley Motors went bankrupt because it built cars to a standard way above the ceiling of the company’s finances.. Foyles seems to have forgotten that its primary function is to sell books. They have been operated upon and patched up as well as is possible but with only six doctors the situation is clearly desperate.At the top of the International Committee of the Red Cross compound, overlooking the eastern reaches of the city, is an airy green tent containing 15 wounded orphans.

Dogs can also be dyed and coloured for weddings and the shop sells a wide range of specialist diamond encrusted dog collars and leads. Not too far away, 13,000 people had spent a lot of money for the privilege of not being able to see the ball.On the TV in the Wimbledon press room, the BBC team were full of pre-match doom and gloom about the prospect of no one being able to see the ball. For none of this china, all in the form of doll-sized miniatures, stands more than two inches high. At tables in the middle of the foyer, young Middle Eastern boys with weight problems suck at milk shakes while their fathers talk business with colleagues.

Behind the scenes at Val d’Isere, the cosy elite of international skiing – long run, critics charge, as a self-regarding club of central Europeans – faces its biggest challenge in years.The interloper is private television. Pierce helped with a rare miss with a drive volley on game point, and a net cord nudged Wood to break point. Once again, we have a judge apparently pandering to his peer group, oblivious to the greater public interest. Entries to Football Diary, The Independent, 40 City Road, London EC1Y 2DB.. In two of the three years prior to their step up, they were successful in the FA Trophy competition.

Some girls make pounds 100 a day, and more, and they work hard for it. CYRUS VANCE, the UN Special Representative, is due in South Africa today, where he will find that his mission to help to achieve an end to political violence and a resumption of constitutional negotiations is looking less impossible than it did last week. CARL LEWIS finished second to his American compatriot, Dennis Mitchell, over 100 metres at an international meeting in Copenhagen last night, though the former Olympic champion complained that Mitchell had benefited from a premature start. The guests floated around the Park Lane Hotel saying wonderful vin, and Vidal was impressed Johnny Davies became his assistant. Why should this be? Surely artists, both women and men, are as keen on sensuality as anyone else Keener, probably The difference must be in the nature of artistic expression Art is visual; kissing is not. Unlike other swagger portraits, you want to get in close to it, to get up a step ladder and look at that face It’s an intimate portrait.