His reputation for being free with his fists, solidly built back home, already extended to France, where last season with Tarbes was marked by incidents against Beziers, Brive and Pau, for whom Hari Dumitras, the captain of Romania, had been on as a replacement about 45 seconds when he was poleaxed.Yesterday's irony was that, Benazzi's cheek having been shown to be intact, Geldenhuys then had to have an X-ray himself on his now-famous left hand.But he, too, was clear, meaning that he will play in the second Test in Paris on Saturday. Against McEnroe he adopted a similar approach, using his powerful ground strokes to take control from the start and holding firm when McEnroe pumped himself up for a fling in the third set.'I am sure we are going to miss him when he is gone,' Courier said 'You just don't replace talents just like that I am not writing him off, by the way. When a gang started a dispute in his garden, he went indoors, brought out a camera and started to take photographs 'or appeared to, as there was no film in the camera. Here I admit that the pestle may have the edge taste- wise as it presses out the juices, but the difference is not great.

In a message read on his behalf on television and radio, he said Iraqis would defeat the partitioning of the country by 'further indignation, derision and rejection' of the conspiracy.'I realise that the young among you cannot stand this aggressive and infidel act and are burning with wrath, wanting to respond,' President Saddam said.'I don't want to hide that we (leaders) like you have the same feelings, but we in the leadership resort to patience, which God wants.'Al-Thawra, the ruling Baath Party's newspaper, said the Shia dissidents gave themselves up to party offices in Basra, where long queues of volunteers waited to receive arms to defend Iraq's unity. In 1747 there were 1,300 fixed and movable feasts and fairs throughout Britain, held on holy days by permission of Royal Charter, as part of our tradition of venerating the spirit of the land with gladness, music and good cheer. 'I think we are seeing a slight shift of people going back to support their local team,' Ian Cotton, of the Football League, said. But he dismissed reports of a possible tally of nine as 'pure speculation'.He said: 'The remains were found in the cellar area of the house.

He admits that when Guinness bought Distillers in 1986 it took on responsibility for victims of thalidomide (about half a dozen have successfully claimed compensation), but says: 'We have no responsibility for claims settled many years ago.'(Photograph omitted). THE STAFFING crisis in university science departments predicted in our home news pages today is less surprising than it may seem. The Finns, believing their interests have been unfairly lumped with Sweden in these negotiations, were supporting Canada. Mr Whittaker said this appeared to be in response to greater competition between store groups rather than a desire to increase capacity to cope with higher demand.Retail sales in the US rose, by 0.4 per cent, for the eighth month in succession in November, providing more evidence of strong growth in the fourth quarter. The proposal by outsiders to build a plant for VW offers the company a possible way out of its difficulties. Usually in England you don't know whether to take a coat with you but at least you know you'll have to take one in April.'What, though, of the future? He hesitated, for once a little coy, then said: 'I've never hidden the fact that I wanted a Grand Prix and I shall do all I can to get another.