When he retired he became a sought-after lecturer in education at Glasgow University and assessor in education at Strathclyde University, which has now merged with Jordanhill.Jordanhill was so large that it could easily have become one of those huge impersonal institutions which do little to inspire the affection of the young people who pass through it. Major Richard Margesson has been commanding No 3 Company, the Coldstream Guards, in their new base in a former school in Maglaj for two weeks. There’s an exchange between the two women in the play (‘Why is it that men will laugh at absolutely everything except themselves’ – ‘Same reason that women will laugh at absolutely nothing but men’) which strikes you as a bit pat and approximate.But it’s telling that the Dead Funny Society only has one female member, women tending on the whole to develop a more personal and unsystematised sense of what is amusing. The Pope denounced him as an agent of Satan, the royal courts of Europe thought he was a terrorist and Karl Marx, whom he met in London, wrote him off as a bourgeois reactionary.

The government and some officials from the judiciary seem also to be trying to compensate for their former leniency by rigorously, almost hysterically, applying the full force of the law. He has a degree in business studies from what was then Central London Polytechnic, and worked since 1983 as a computer programmer, most recently for Daiwa, a Japanese company in east London.He was made redundant in September 1992, just before the bombing campaign began. Belgium and Portugal both have candidates to head the Western European Union, the EU’s defence arm.But several diplomats discounted the idea of a ‘package deal’ yesterday. A NATIONAL outdoor professional league in the United States, picking up where the North American Soccer League left off amid debts and apathy in 1985, was unveiled in Chicago last night in an attempt to build on any public enthusiasm generated by the World Cup.

Apparently in response to the newly tough Western stance – including the threat of direct action in Sarajevo, which was previously excluded – Radovan Karadzic, the Serbian leader in Bosnia, has started talking peace for the first time (although he also said yesterday that Serbs would have ‘no choice but to fight’, if US forces sought to disarm Serbs who have been besieging Sarajevo) So far, so good.But the violence may move on. But it should be recognised that the recession is only just beginning on the Continent, and political support for the ERM will drop as fast as unemployment will increase throughout Europe next year.Fourth, German unification desynchronised the European economies. HEPWORTH, the building products group, is expanding its European gas boilers business with the acquisition of two businesses for pounds 10.2m, writes Neil Thapar. ‘The German press does not want to poison the climate but they do if they take the Independent stories and reprint them.’ He denied that Heckler & Koch had exported weapons to Serbia.Judge Haage is to consider whether to end the trial The case continues next week..

Buildings are captured in the full beauty of their youth, in a good mood and with all their make-up on: they are sculptural forms stripped of their context, with the tedious clutter of the land- or cityscapes in which they stand magically dissolved outside the frame of the lens. The wind had swung round to the north-west, rising to force eight and creating a swell of five to six metres Water had got into the engine and now it would not start. But can little Deportivo de la Coruna, promoted to the First Division only three seasons ago, hold off Barcelona and break the eight-year championship duopoly of Barcelona and Real Madrid?

Deportivo are four games away from becoming the first Galician side to win the championship. That might result from your own perceived excellence as an employer; but when you base it on such weak evidence as that produced by the centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics, your readers deserve better. 69 K Waters, L Janzen (US), R Chapman, M Miller, V Singh (Fiji), R Kawagishi (Jap), M Roe, F Nobilo (NZ), J Quiros (Sp), V Fernandez (Arg), H Makino (Jap), C Mason, P Fowler (Aus), T Weiskopf (US), B Malley (US), B Marchbank, R Mediate (US), J Rystrom (Swe), C Maltman, D R Jones, K Trimble (Aus), W Westner (SA), N Faldo, H Clark, M Harwood (Aus), B Faxon (US); G Brand Jnr, Y Kuramoto (Jap). ‘It was so cold,’ he said, ‘it was virtually impossible to keep your hands warm. Gael Elton Mayo, writer and painter, born Sydney 1923, books include Mad Mosaic 1983, Undertow 1989, Living with Beelzebub 1992, married Vsevolod Gebrovsky Von Schneeuhr (deceased; one son; marriage dissolved), 1943 Guy Vincent de la Maisoneuve (one daughter; marriage dissolved), Georges de Chamberet (deceased; one daughter), died London 16 October 1992.