If required he will turn out in the 4 x 400m relay but would prefer not to run again until he can be sure that the real Michael Johnson will show up. 280 R Berhorst (Ger) 68 71 71 70; S Richardson 67 71 71 71; J M Carriles (Spain) 68 68 72 72; T Levet (Fra) 65 72 71 72; R Lee 66 72 69 73.. The Gestapo had recently confiscated his Paris apartment, and the Vichy authorities were about to turn Benjamin over to them. Mosaic's shares were unchanged at 30p yesterday.The disposal will raise pounds 3m for Mosaic, although pounds 1m will be set aside to indemnify Mosaic against its European venture and pounds 750,000 will be lent to CPG. Mr Wollenberg was on holiday yesterday and unavailable for comment.The two directors are backed by holders of 51.3 per cent of BDA's shares, including PosTel, Fidelity, Barings and Gartmore.Mr Duker said he was approached by Ayton last week, a few days after the dissidents formally called on the company to hold a shareholders' meeting. Bennett is a loose cannon, sure, but he speaks up for us and they want that to stop.'Scotland Yard dismissed suggestions that the investigation was intended to gag Sgt Bennett. I am surprised how well I'm managing.'He's lost some weight and shaved off his distinctive mutton- chop whiskers 'I just got fed up of hair, that was all.' Tut tut, Keith Fed up with, surely.

These are worth a bob or two, as long as they do not try to sell them all at once.(Photographs omitted). Despite the attendance of right-wing MPs at Mainstream's inaugural dinner a fortnight ago, by last weekend its campaign was beginning to fray at the edges.One senior right-winger said yesterday: 'I have been telling colleagues that this is no longer about personalities; it's about whether or not we sell out on Europe.'All 12 current members of the executive are standing for re-election in the secret ballot. As it is, Mr Yeltsin's proposals do not deserve to be called constitutional They are a bid for emergency powers. If it were to admit Libyan capital it could jeopardise the market's standing with the US authorities. It called for the director-general's anonymous critics to declare themselves. Sir: Bryan Appleyard ('Beware a card marked 1984', 29 September) mentions Britain being alone in retaining passports for travelling within a borderless Europe. He talks of cosmic religious feeling 'which has no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no Church whose central teachings are based on it'.

While he would prefer simply to open he seems to relish his reputation as uncomplainingly shouldering any burden.A keen Chelsea fan who answers to the title 'Gaffer' as Surrey captain, Stewart, when covering for a sick Gooch in Madras, led England to defeat, as did Allan Lamb on the three occasions he stepped in for an injured Gooch. It would have been interesting to have heard something from the 'father of Danish music', Niels Gade, or the 'Danish Ives', Rued Langgaard, or something rather meatier than we did hear from those two outstanding contemporary Danes, Per Norgard and Poul Ruders - or from the Finn Aulis Sallinen. There he was eventually to build the world's first supertanker, revolutionising the oil tanker business, but still keeping a low profile and never attaining the fame of other shipping legends such as the Greek magnate Aristotle Onassis and Sir YK Pao, of Hong Kong.The huge wealth generated from Ludwig's shipping empire was meanwhile being channelled into an array of other ventures, including coal-mining in the United States and Australia, cattle ranching, real estate and insurance, before his pet project in Brazil began to take up most of his time. CARL PREAN came closer to qualifying for the knockout stage of the table-tennis when he overcame a surprisingly persistent challenge from the local player Roberto Casares by 21-11, 19-21, 21-10. A motorway planned between Pau and Zaragossa will pass through the valley where the rarely seen beasts live.