The timing and amount of the offer depends very much on a civil case which the majority shareholders were

The timing and amount of the offer depends very much on a civil case which the majority shareholders were planning to file on or before 25 December against 13 senior BCCI officials now on trial on criminal charges in the emirate.Justice Shihab Abdurrahman, who presided over a court hearing on 13 November, adjourned the case until 25 December at the request of lawyers for 11 of the defendants so they could study new audit reports detailing the charges.'They (the majority shareholders) paid the fees to file the civil claims,' said Adli Mahmmoud, who represented the attorney-general's office on 13 November.Lawyers are planning to run the two cases, civil and criminal, at the same time, but officials admit that unless the defendants are found guilty it will be very difficult to continue with the civil case.Sources in the emirate, which question whether the government will be able to recover any money from the defendants if they are found guilty, believe the civil case will be brought for its psychological effect.Abu Dhabi is mindful of the need to rebuild its reputation following the bad publicity surrounding the collapse of BCCI amid charges of long-term massive corruption by the bank.Liquidators have traced a dollars 10bn 'black hole'in the bank's accounts, built over years of fraud and incompetence.Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al- Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates, is keen to portray the emirate as being as much of a victim of the fraud and embezzlement scandal as the BCCI creditors in Bradford and Cairo.Emirate figures claim that it lost a total of dollars 7bn because of the scandal.Pressure is on the emirate because one of the creditors whose appeal against the original compensation plan caused its downfall in the Luxembourg courts is now threatening legal action if an increased offer is not forthcoming.Adil Elias, a Florida-based businessman, was one of three BCCI creditors who appealed successfully against the original plan.He is now demanding a minimum payout of 50 per cent of all creditors' claims by July 1994. Welles is playing with the book's own anachronism, as it were, bringing it up to date. Throughout the occupied territories Palestinians observed a strike in memory of Aqel, 24, a commander with Hamas's military wing. But there must be something you can't do with money, surely?A Yes Take it with you.Q. In fact, no-one has to do marathon running at all, but don't tell them that.'Are they all mad?'Yes they are, but that's only half the story. less likely to go wrong than a child brought up in an unstable, unloving family that happens to be rich.'The second point about Blair's age is that he came to political maturity when Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher were using their period of opposition to hammer out a new Tory programme. Her home was destroyed a year ago, and she lives in a school filled by 700 people.

Before he took over, the club had always had remarkably few injuries and all the time the legend of Bill Shankly and the inner strength of Bob Paisley remained, players felt they were invincible, or at least were joining an invincible club Once Shankly and Paisley had gone, the aura began to fade. The Sinfonietta, as Paul Griffiths' introductory article explained, 'has always been more about the present than the past'. Mr and Mrs Fortey are now managing what was their own pub, working an 84-hour week for pounds 50 each. Although many of these - 174 - came from industry, there were also representatives from European and international organisations, as well as those from other public services such as education and health. On the other hand, in the Catholic cathedral in Barcelona recently, I admired the architecture, lit a candle and prayed, and stopped to hear part of a Mass being held in a chapel at the time, and no attempt was made to eject or move me.I have been a member of the Church of England all my life and have no intention of leaving, but I sometimes find it hard to defend.Yours faithfully,MARION PITMANTwickenham,Middlesex18 August. 'Over the years, the size and number of cards have grown, advertising a sexual subculture full of underground terms.Displaying a collection of colour blow-ups and framed cards (pounds 250-pounds 1,450), the exhibition offers a chance to sip strawberries in wine while admiring this lively street artform.There aren't that many exhibits, but you can browse through copies of Devlin's fascinating book, The X-Directory, containing the best 600 'The cards show creativity beyond the call of duty. Until recently fishing quotas were allocated only to whites with connections in the National Party, while deep-sea trawling and wholesaling was controlled by a handful of big companies which used their political influence to keep smaller competitors out.According to Johnny Issel, an ANC candidate and spokesman on fisheries, 'major intervention' is planned for communities such as Arniston which scrape a living from inshore line fishing.

Rothschilds picked up 365,000 shares, lifting its stake to 20.1 per cent.Ransomes, the struggling lawn mower group where a reconstruction is expected, hardened to 22p; Steinhardt Partners, a US group, has acquired 30 per cent of the convertible preference shares for pounds 10m. 'As far as I was concerned, I was to patrol the cell block to stop people breaking in and releasing Mr Hill or Mr Hill breaking out,' he said.Mr Hill has claimed he was threatened with a gun before being forced to make a confession for his alleged part in the murder of a former soldier, kidnapped and shot dead by the IRA a few months before the bombings.The Crown has insisted that no armed officers were on duty on the night before he made his alleged statement of admission.Mr Hill is appealing against the conviction and life sentence for the murder of Brian Shaw, 21.On the seventh day of the hearing, Mr Kennison, a sergeant with the Surrey constabulary at the time of the investigation, said he was ordered by a senior officer to get a gun. However, today a London priest will seek a High Court injunction to prevent the Synod from voting on the matter.The Rev Paul Williamson, vicar of Hanworth in west London, has already attempted to have the Archbishops of Canterbury and York arraigned for high treason as part of his campaign against women priests. We are catalysts for change.'A hospital stay can be an alienating experience.

.sperm density and motile sperm density fell significantly only in those living within the TWA from 105 to 76 million sperm per millilitre, and from 61.7 to 40.8 million per millilitre, respectively, whereas in those living outside the TWA sperm density and motile sperm density remained unchanged'.But Dr Ginsburg acknowledged that the men studied were not necessarily representative of the general population, and that water supply is not the only environmental factor peculiar to those living within the TWA.. If you typed in a URL, please make sure you have typed it correctly. In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. Yet once Wright and Alan Smith had begun to find their feet, Arsenal were the more hungry.Cole had only just spurned his first chance, failing to get any pace on a snap-shot from Lee Clark's penetrating ball into the penalty area, when, after 15 minutes, Wright struck. Beleaguered Lloyd's of London continues to ricochet from disaster to disaster. Interesting that Asprey, the jeweller run by the endearingly enthusiastic Naim Attallah, has stumped up pounds 120,000 for a 76 per cent stake in posh frock designer Tomasz Starzewski. If BR can't do that, then we'll bloody well have a stab at doing it ourselves.'This may well be the only railway man in the country enthusiastic about privatisation.