The battle of Stalingrad, arguably the point at which Hitler lost the war, was ultimately all about who should control the Baku oilfields.A more peaceful but just as prolonged struggle now rages between the state oil company and Western outfits such as Amoco and BP. A UN agency had never before been handed such top-grade intelligence material and its success in destroying Iraq's missiles, chemical weapons stockpiles and nuclear development facilities has proven the case for UN involvement in multilateral disarmament.Drawn mostly from Western countries, the UN's experts have been combing through Iraq's most secret military sites since 1991. suitable to bright impudent roles.' She was therefore a demi-character dancer but she had also, Anthony added, 'a lyrical quality which she could and did use when necessary'. But after six months of deliberation it has decided to snub the financier's offer. The price stunned staff and pupils at Canford School, Dorset. The D-Day anniversary should commemorate an immensely courageous and hazardous operation in ways that bring it alive to younger generations.

The state-subsidised revolutionaries of the 1970s were in no position to censure Littlewood's gypsies for failing to rough it.Equally, if you list the main theatrical growth areas of the past 20 years - the development of physical skills, rediscovery of continental stagecraft, enlargement of the classical repertory, collective creation, politically and socially pioneering new texts - you find that Littlewood got there first. In reverse order, Rushing Wild, the Gold Cup runner-up, died in action in the Irish version at Fairyhouse, Aintree put a red nose on the face of the sport in April and, more pleasurably, Mister Ed produced one of the performances of the season to win the Midlands National at Uttoxeter. A schizophrenic who was released back into the community three times following periods in psychiatric units was convicted at the Old Bailey of raping three women. The prosecutors said the work showed that Mr Izetbegovic wanted to create an ethnically pure Muslim state out of Bosnia, Kosovo and other Muslim-inhabited parts of Yugoslavia. They don't yet know what it's like to get burnt.Everywhere there are advertisements urging you to buy, buy, buy. Since September, Slavko Kovacevic and his workmates have buried more than 500 corpses in this frozen ground, almost all of them victims of the same 10-month bombardment that hissed over us yesterday.Mr Dekic, sixty-five years undisturbed until his grave was needed by the war's latest victim, was a Croat - Catholics are buried together in St Josip's, Orthodox Serbs in the adjoining plot of St Mark's - but his Serb neighbours are treated with equal indignity.

'From where?' the gunman demanded, pointing at the un-European features of the civil affairs adviser. Philippe Seguin may be leader of the campaign against the Maastricht treaty in France and a man who has caused President Mitterrand endless problems, but he does not have an office in the Elysee Palace. This pub is a popular spot from which to watch the Boat Race, so it would be a good idea to avoid it in early April. 'It was a disciplined performance and we are making less errors each game.'ENGLAND UNDER-21: S Mason (Firebrands); B Waugh (Southgate, capt); R Davies (St Albans), A Humphrey (Welton), B Cope (St Albans), N Conway (Doncaster); J Wyatt (Reading), S Nicklin (Slough); P Gibbins (St Albans), D Woods (St Albans), J Hauck (Teddington).NETHERLANDS UNDER-21: R Peters; E Jazet; T Schopman Capt, E Steegers, D Donk; M Van Dijk, J Delmee, S Van Heeswijk; R Van Wijk, D Smolenaars.Umpires: M Gallivan (Wal) and F Caballero (Sp).Results, Sport in Short, page 37. Several dull performances - enlivened only by the midfield skills of Martin Russell - did little to help.Last season, it looked as if the marginal existence we Seadogs fans had endured looked to be ending. 'I look after British art of all periods, and I do think that this show is quite a good barometer It always tells me quite a lot And it's changing.