On Friday afternoon she discarded her uniform in a lavatory before calmly walking past the main exit security office with the 9lb blonde baby wrapped in a pink blanket. He wrote the standard study of the great Venetian painter and has helped owners of his works - one jumped seven times in price in the five years after Links had identified it as being by the master.Links is now busy revising the study, when he can spare the time from doing his book reviews.If you buy the Venice guidebook direct from the publishers, Pallas Athene (59 Linden Gardens, London W2), pounds 1 of the pounds 9.95 cost goes to the Venice in Peril Fund.Oh, and by the way, Links will be 90 this year.. Chris Hammond, director of the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), said she has been receiving reports of a fixer preying on desperate couples.'We were surprised that someone would be involved in Romania because there is a large network of self-help groups who give advice and contacts to people for free, but I have heard from several sources who say that a woman is actively engaged in charging for her services in this area,' she said.So far, BAAF has failed to identify the woman but adoption workers have been alerted to her activities. MANY thought that Yitzhak Shamir would retire after he lost the Israeli election in 1992. Still, even Western leaders were wary of coming up with hard cash for Mr Gorbachev.In July 1991, the G7 leaders sent him back to Moscow, with declarations of political love, but otherwise empty-handed.When the coup came a month later, some regarded this as proof that the West should have done more to help Mr Gorbachev.

DO THIS sum in your head: 7 x 8. Only his lawyers attended that hearing and they walked out shortly after it started The board did not rule.(Photograph omitted). Associated Newspapers (Daily Mail and General Trust) placed its 7.5 per cent interest with institutions.The electrical group Bennett & Fountain held at 4.5p as 8.8 million shares were traded at the market price; the steel group Brown & Tawse rose 2p to 58p as the mini-conglomerate Suter lifted its stake to 7.38 per cent.British Data Management eased 1p to 133p. Water is a basic public health need and all disconnections should be banned.Yours faithfully,PETER ARCHERChairHousing CommitteeInstitution of EnvironmentalHealth OfficersLondon, SE1. Up in a first-floor room, white- coated 'laminators' are turning out, from the in-house sculptor's master- casts, glass-fibre replicas of the models in Rootstein's spring catalogue. Anthony Greener, chairman and chief executive of the UK's biggest drinks group, remains confident about making steady progress this year View from City Road, page 26 (Photograph omitted). He introduced a Private Member's Bill, the Solicitors Scotland (Wills) Act, and later the Intestate Succession (Scotland) Act.

Bonefish, although they rarely grow larger than 10lb, are fitted with twin turbochargers and make catching trout and salmon seem like winding in a polythene bag.North America is far more conservation-minded than Britain. .' No doubt the very rarity of the experience actually heightened his responsiveness, since he cannot have heard larger-scale pieces more than a few times a year, on trips back to his old university, Oxford, or up to London. He concluded that they punish women for not providing the perfect love experienced in infancy before they had to make the psychological separation necessary to 'learn' to become men. This is our historical structure, it is our task to make the thing work as effectively as possible.'A radical attempt to concentrate quality and give the moderate sides an interest outside one- day cricket would involve two divisions and promotion and relegation. Overnight Mr Abiola said he would accept no role in the interim government Our criticism was therefore misplaced.. At a stroke, all sorts of bad practice could be closed to public scrutiny. SHOSTAKOVICH: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Ewing, Haugland, Larin, Langridge, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bastille Opera / Chung (DG 437 511-2: two CDs)MARIA EWING'S stage performances are generally best seen as well as heard - or in this case, seen and not heard.

Louis Gentile, head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office in northern Bosnia, blamed the international community for its lack of resolve to stop ethnic cleansing, but he also said that if there were Western air strikes against the Serbs, UN civilian personnel and other foreign aid workers would be killed or held hostage by Serbs bent on exacting revenge. 'The best I am hoping is that we would be held hostage,' Mr Gentile said in his office in the northern Bosnian town of Banja Luka, a nationalist Serbian stronghold where a brutal end game to 21 months of war is being played out.International relief agencies have been caught in that game. I cannot ask them to leave, because they may die somewhere else.'The black caucus in Washington has vigorously attacked as racist the policy of allowing white Cubans political asylum while sending black Haitians home.President Aristide and his supporters would prefer to get rid of the junta through sanctions and US diplomatic pressure, fearing that US military action might turn into a quasi-occupation. Only one-quarter of these jobs are filled by men, compared with 40 per cent in London.The leader of East Yorkshire borough council, Mike Clubley, said he had no idea why there were so few women managers in his area. His food was politically correct: cheap, therefore desirable. Were sterling to fall sharply over the winter from yesterday's levels, inflation would indeed be higher, but short of some catastrophic decline in the pound, inflation will remain a disappearing problem.European interest rates will also be coming down fast, though many may feel not fast enough. The familiar picture of sheepish-looking Germans with over-stuffed plastic bags wandering up and down the Boulevard Royal has stayed.

The claim is somewhat like Germans seeking to regain property in Poland and what was Sudetenland.Enter Livio Caputo, the deputy editor of the right-wing Il Giornale, who last year collected 144,000 signatures demanding for the Osimo Treaty to be renegotiated 'It's not a question of money any more,' Mr Caputo argues. They tied up a woman, her three children and her 88-year-old mother-in-law, beat the woman's husband when he returned and fled with pounds 10,000 in cash and jewellery.Det Insp Hope argued that criminals were prepared to take risks because 'they realise that the chances of being caught and convicted are so low. But to put something up about two directors was scandalous.'I don't know whether the idiots were thrown out but I would ban them from the ground for life.'Late goals by Steve Vickers and Paul Wilkinson earned Middlesbrough their three points from a game of fluctuating fortunes. 'He always made clear he was ready to give up his life for his beliefs,' said one settler. Their arguments are backed by the latest opinion poll, which shows Mr Perez de Cuellar leading Mr Fujimori by 41 per cent to 40..