The CBI was merely echoing what Britain’s biggest private sector employers have already told the Government. A possible defeat for President Bush in the November presidential elections is also weakening the dollar.Yesterday, US leading indicators for August fell 0.2 per cent, and the Conference Board said its index of US consumer confidence declined again in September as consumers became dispirited about future economic prospects.Although the dollar fell across the board, the marked decline against the pound was due largely to Middle East investors who unwound short positions taken out against sterling two weeks ago.Hopes of lower German rates helped to turn around a 28-point fall in the FT-SE 100 index, which ended up 5.5 at 2,565.5.Some believe the Bundesbank will go to great lengths to avoid another upheaval in the European exchange rate mechanism which could be unleashed if it decides to leave rates unchanged.Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Governor of the Bank of England, appeared to bolster hopes of lower German rates when he said that a relaxation of monetary policy by countries ‘with strong currencies and a satisfactory price performance, such as Germany’ could have a positive international impact.But the Bundesbank is known to regard inflation figures as far from satisfactory. King Hussein of Jordan and the Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, signed a declaration on the White House lawn which says: ‘The state of belligerency between Jordan and Israel has been terminated.’

President Bill Clinton, who hosted the meeting between the two leaders, said: ‘From this day forward they pledge to settle their differences by peaceful means.’ He said the two sides had agreed to ‘take immediate steps to normalise relations and resolve disputes in areas of common concern’.
The declaration still leaves unresolved the future of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees who fled to Jordan in 1948 and disputed water rights in the Jordan Valley. At 143 calories an ounce it has never been an entirely straightforward pleasure, but this petty little guilt is nothing to the waves of self-loathing you could generate if you gave one thought to the women who pick the actual beans.

New markets, for example in the Pacific Basin and China, will open up, and writers and artists will enjoy hitherto undreamed-of protection.But Professor Parrinder fears that the extension of copyright will restrict the access of scholars, literary critics and biographers to authors’ works and delay the creation of definitive texts, for example, the recent revised edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Yesterday MEPs from all parties reacted with anger and key members warned they would not accept new members without voting reform. The stage show, with its greatly revised and expanded score, dates from last year, when David Thacker approached Townshend about the rights for Tommy, discovered they had already gone to Broadway, and sat down with the rocker to see what could be done Two main changes took place. Deprived of an early try when he lost the ball over the line, Sadourny’s entries into the back line repeatedly split the Romanian defence.France’s pack confirmed their progression, with another mature performance from Olivier Roumat and a try in his first Test for the Senegal-born flanker Leon Loppy. Commentators say Israeli public opinion has hardened against territorial compromise as a result of the conflict.

WHAT ARE touring opera companies for? Leaving aside the national and regional companies that tour from a fixed base, they serve two main functions: to bring a version – usually somewhat miniaturised – of the opera house experience to locations otherwise starved of opera; and to develop ways of staging that radically differ from that same opera house experience. ‘If they can get their problems over the ownership of their ground sorted out, the potential here is limitless. Amiga also has systems for the general computing market costing up to pounds 2,000 and has pioneered moves into multimedia computing – using sound and pictures – with its CDTV system.AppleIf the Amstrad PCW is the Volkswagon – or maybe Trabant – of the industry, Apple is the BMW. I ENJOY it, but like any other job it gets a bit of a routine after a while.

Some are at risk, but they eat the right diet and do not get cancer. The essays by Vaclav Havel expound the philosophy of the Velvet Revolution. After the first couple of hours yesterday morning, 99 looked like being a decent total for England never mind Hick.If there is one thing that the groundsman here cannot be accused of, it is over-preparation of the pitch. The two heads of government also announced their joint resolve to force the Commission not to allow the talks to die, and to try to prevent the United States from beginning a tit-for-tat trade war.Meanwhile, an unrepentant France continued the blocking strategy that diplomats say it has pursued ever since last month’s narrow referendum in favour of the Maastricht treaty on European union. Substitutes not used: Martin, Wallace, Walsh (gk).Leeds United: Lukic; Newsome (Hodge, 68), Dorigo, Batty, Fairclough, Whyte, Cantona, Wallace (Strachan, 16), Chapman, McAllister, Speed.

‘Of course you can]’ ‘I don’t think an incompetent like you should go into politics.’ ‘Well, what do you suggest?’ ‘Well, your programmes are rubbish. It’s much like the other million or so restaurants in the former empire where Soviet service, palm- greasing included, reigns. ‘It is certainly possible to teach them to go on command,’ she says. European automotive and construction, two key industries for Pilkington, are at a low ebb so that any positive news will be beneficial.’Bernard Clark, of Lloyd’s Investment Managers: ‘A recent newcomer to the market, Greater London-based independent pub operator Regent Inns, is trading at 209p and a prospective p/e ratio of 17. That was the problem in the end.’I don’t think he bowled any different than in Melbourne I think it may have taken a little bit more turn here He’s got that flipper.