AS MARGINS in the tough personal computer market get slimmer, manufacturers are seeking imaginative ways to trim costs. I clearly recognised the dialect’.She told the judge yesterday: ‘I did not understand the words, but it was a triumphant kind of cry.’Ms Maguire and Mr Hughes, both from Newry, Co Down, and Mr Hick, from Glenageary, Co Dublin, were cleared by a Dutch court of murdering two Australian tourists in Roermond five days before the shooting in Germany.They were extradited to stand trial for Major Dillon-Lee’s murder and the attempted murders of a policeman and a civilian guard Under German law they do not have to enter a plea The three deny being IRA members The trial is expected to last until next April.. Nov 1990It’s a long way from Brixton to No 10 Downing Street. This week, we are told, he will finally decide on the far greater matter of a replacement for Justice Byron White.

They go by code names, and their by-play takes the form of convoluted arguments about the meaning of Madonna songs, or the casting histories of TV shows – which suits Tarantino fine because that’s the kind of round-and-round, expletive-ridden, everything-and-nothing dialogue that he’s good at writing.But when things go wrong, there are substantial questions to be asked, like: who’s the rat?Tarantino raises the stakes without changing the game, so that the characters are still ciphers but every decision becomes life or death. Lendl faces Jaime Yzaga, of Peru, in the first round.John McEnroe, seeded No 16 after reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon, drew the Dutchman Michiel Schapers in the first round, while Andre Agassi, who beat him on the way to the title, and Pete Sampras will face qualifiers.The top seeds, Jim Courier and Monica Seles, will face American opponents in their first matches, Courier taking on the wild card recipient, Alex O’Brien, and Seles facing Audra Keller. ‘I’d like to give her one, the Swedish bird,’ said Dirty Drew. Successive Jockey Club chief medical officers have worked in conjunction with the Jockeys’ Association to improve the design of riders’ crash helmets which came into use less than 40 years ago and which are now lighter but more durable than ever.
Nevertheless, Dr Michael Allen, who did much to advance the cause of riders’ safety as the medical officer preceding the present incumbent, Dr Michael Turner, has said that in the case of a high-velocity collision with the turf or a horse’s hooves, the helmets cannot provide jockeys with complete protection.It is a view with which Michael Caulfield, the secretary of the Jockeys’ Association, would concur.

My Italian vintners would have done better to stage three meals of three wines each than one with 11 I know. Do you see what I mean?’ Donna Reed could not have put it better.In A Short History of a Small Place, T R Pearson has written an entertaining, innocuous, at times witty and at times trite novel which, happily bouncing its way from episode to episode, barely ever strikes a false note and hardly ever rings a true one.Beatrix Campbell is ill.. The G5 became the G7, with the inclusion of Canada and Italy, at the Tokyo summit in 1986.As a ’steering committee’ capable of tackling the world’s most pressing problems, it is the only forum that actually works. In fact, Meiko’s sale was not for weapons work and was approved by British authorities.The article also accused the Livermore of spending American tax dollars on the lowering of national security.

ARGOS, the catalogue-based retail group, yesterday axed its Chesterman home furnishings stores with the loss of 127 jobs, admitting that the pilot project had been a pounds 20.6m flop. And, at the moment, the index is still a healthy 22 per cent up on the beginning of the year. However, the studies quoted in the article are much less dogmatic but do agree that the ‘war diet’, being low in sugar, fat and meat, was a healthy, anti-cancer diet. Now a senior vice-president of the Atlanta Braves, he commented: ‘This person has no business being involved in baseball or society at all with what she thinks of blacks and Jews.’The Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and former presidential candidate, has promised to hold a demonstration outside the owners’ meeting tomorrow, and other black leaders have called for a national boycott of all Reds games as long as Mrs Schott remains. Will there be ack-ack guns on the control tower? Will the riot police round up the passengers as they reach the terminal?

The prospect is an entertaining one, but there is also a serious point.

If Shabab (Youth) of Jedda has an away game against Alwehdah (Unity) of Mecca in the holy city, their fans will generally try to go there. Sir: The ‘confirmation’ by British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) that reactor-grade plutonium used in the 1962 Nevada bomb test ‘had come from its Calder Hall and Chapel Cross reactors’ (‘US made atomic bomb with fuel from British reactors’, 29 June) is at variance with the evidence given to the Sizewell public inquiry by a team of three BNFL experts. It was Sarvatra Ekadashi – an auspicious day in the Hindu calendar when Hindus observe fast and offer prayers to their chosen deities. Much of it also goes on the administrative costs of insurance schemes.