During his recent visit to Tokyo President Bill Clinton went out of his way to support the movement for political change, horrifying LDP elders who know many Japanese, almost despite themselves, cannot help thinking of the US as big brother who knows best.The central figure among the reformers is Ichiro Ozawa, the 51-year- old former secretary-general of the LDP who precipitated the split of the party last month and has established the Shinsei (Renewal) party. A freeze on repayments on most of the pounds 1bn bank debt is a sign of a company in dire straits. They predict 40 million cars being registed in China early next century, against 5 million today.This raises an enormous issue of international trade. HARARE (AFP) – Thousands of supporters thronged the Blantyre High Court yesterday as Chakufwa Chihana, a democracy activist, pleaded not guilty to four charges of sedition, his lawyer said. So far, he has got round it by looking alternately menacing, thoughtful, tormented, concerned, pious and devilish, and all of them behind a Robinson Crusoe beard The women’s parts, by contrast, are cracking. However, some soaps have been nursed to reasonable health with patience.In 1982 Brookside dropped from 3.4 to 1.9 million viewers after three weeks on Channel 4; like Eldorado it was too costly to cancel By 1984 it was C4’s top-rated series.

Inkatha’s bosses in the security forces, Bheki knows, are never happier than when the blacks are killing each other.’I don’t know, my friend,’ he finally answered ‘I’m afraid they’ve damaged my child She might be pregnant. ‘It is up to the German presidency to take charge of this matter,’ said the French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe.Bonn and Paris, whose EU presidencies run back-to-back, are likely to find their room for manoeuvre limited, and will have to tread more carefully in future – although both countries are in the run-up to national elections and are too self-absorbed to make Europe their principal consideration for the moment. Joanna Griffiths, whose mother was also among the casualties, was reported to be undergoing brain surgery last night. RELEGATION may cast a rare shadow across Everton tomorrow but Goodison’s longer-term future has brightened, following an agreement between the club’s suitors, writes Henry Winter. If the present government had its way, we should still have nominated members, even more obedient party hacks than those who sit now.

IT’S always encouraging to read about out-of- body experiencs where the almost-departed waft round the emergency-room ceiling, greeting their deceased loved ones, reluctant to return to the medical panic below because it’s just so great being dead. Is this because it is a feminist issue? Or just because it is a good source of jokes? Unwinding after the show, Brand chews the fat: ‘I say to people that I do those jokes to pre-empt heckling, but I really do them because I think they’re funny. In its first seven years, it was shared among four clubs: Bedford, Coventry, Gloucester and Gosforth.In the last seven it has been shared among only three: Bath, Harlequins and Leicester, of whom Bath have won four times. The High Weald is to be hit by seven separate schemes, the Cotswolds by three.Over three-quarters of them have been placed in the Government’s top two priorities.Yet the DoT says it ‘has a long-standing policy of keeping roads away from protected areas such as Sites of Special Scientific Interest, national parks, and areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, wherever possible’.Thirty-nine of the 57 schemes described in a confidential Department of the Environment report as very or highly controversial are to go ahead – and all but five of them are in the top two categories. But they say the difficulty for the Government is identifying such persistent offenders. THE first travellers arrived back in 1987.

And now he’s hoping to perform a few miracles for hockey.If you were at a hockey game last weekend, you would have fallen victim to one of his ideas ‘Every player was asked to donate pounds 1 We reckon that 100,000 adults play at weekends. When the shell-shocked clients mentioned costs, Wright airily suggested dollars 250,000, a wild underestimate even at 1950s prices The Millers tactfully allowed the commission to lapse. People who are terminally ill or aged over 58 will not have to undergo the test. ‘Brilliant flavour] The taste stays all the time you are chewing them,’ according to Freddie.*FRISPS CHEESE & ONION23p/28g packRippled texture was popular, scored well for crunch, less well forflavour.’Nice and light,’ said Camilla. The new lyric to Ashman’s opening number was penned by the composer of the music, Alan Menken, and the head of Walt Disney animation studios, Peter Schneider.Daniel Battsek, London-based managing director of Buena Vista International, the distribution company for Walt Disney pictures, said yesterday: ‘The decision was made in America after complaints from Arab pressure groups The studio considered that perhaps they had a case. ‘Sure,’ she said, ‘I’ll just hit a few more balls.’ She was then informed she had an hour to catch a plane from Sarasota in order to connect with an 8.40pm flight to Glasgow.Jensen did just enough yesterday to confuse Cross, a 19-year-old left-hander from Devon, to win 6-4, 7-6. Both now feel it was the best possible solution.Exploring Parenthood, Latimer Education Centre, 194 Freston Road, London W10 6TT (tel: 081-960 1678).

During a recent meal, fresh, dense tuna was lightly seared but raw inside, and served cold with a zingy and exceptionally light oriental dressing of soy, spring onion, ginger, garlic and lime This was delicious. Anything can happen.’Going into the Ryder Cup without Ballesteros would be like going to India without David Gower. Marvin saw himself as a composer – he did things that aren’t regular soul or gospel things. Stories are circulating that Chevron Corporation, the US group, has sold its controlling stake in the development, which includes the promising Lisheern zinc-lead deposit. In 1962 he launched the paperback African Writers Series with Things Fall Apart, Kenneth Kaunda’s Zambia Will Be Free and other titles.