The organisation is set to upgrade its prediction of 2.1 per cent growth in the OECD area, driven by higher than previously forecast growth in the US and Japan. But I don't believe they will happen.'The Nato Secretary-General, Manfred Worner, said yesterday that the alliance was making immediate plans for air strikes if the Serbs continued their 'strangulation' of Sarajevo or any group blocked aid convoys. Hopes are high.'It won't make any difference whether we win or lose,' says Lisa, the captain. Seeing them in real life is an advantage, really.'(Photographs omitted). Like other 'miracle treatments' it will raise the hopes of parents of autistic children, who are often desperate for an answer.Since her account of life with an autistic child was published on the Living page last month, Kate Rankin has received many letters of sympathy and support from other parents.Her 14-year-old son, Gabriel, attends a school for autistic children: it has a high staff/pupil ratio and an intensive, highly structured programme of activities that includes training in social skills as well as music and movement therapy designed to help the children, who find verbal communication difficult, to express themselves. 'The secret of successful change seems to be self-inflicted catastrophe. 'I only wish I had that excuse in Malaysia,' Schwantz said. Schwantz clocked 45min 49.996sec, ahead of Australia's Doohan, who finished second on a Honda in 45:53.470.Japan's top rider, Shinichi Itoh, also riding a Honda, came in third in 45:57.985 while his compatriot, Norifumi Abe, crashed on the 19th lap.

Early this month four members of the US congress, which once heartily backed Unita with millions of dollars in arms, were forced to abort a visit after Unita began shelling the town. Alternatively, it may suggest a deal whereby Scottish Television buys out Granada's 50 per cent interest in The Time Exchange, which sells airtime for Granada, Scottish, Grampian and Border.Sir Christopher Bland, LWT's chairman, said: 'We want to get the bid out of the way so that we can get on with running the business and we see no reason for the thing to drag on.' He said reports of attempted 'white knight' deals with US companies were all speculation. They replaced the pukka sports cars of the Seventies, which were far more ostentatious. 'We want to make the ground-floor restaurant very buzzy and cheap,' he says, with a bar serving sandwiches and espresso coffee, as well as a main concourse for drinks and light food. She was conducting a flirtation by electronic mail, as do most people who have access to it. Tim, 12, never regained consciousness after suffering appalling head injuries from the second bomb blast in Warrington's Golden Square shopping centre nearly a fortnight ago.

They were drawn from across southern California.In the last few weeks, the police and National Guard troops have been conducting highly publicised riot-training exercises in preparation for further unrest in Los Angeles if the officers are acquitted again (this time they face charges of civil-rights violations, which are harder to prove). I said, oh really, what kind of body was that? She was vague, but intimated it had a slightly dodgy reputation I left it there. 'A lot can happen in three or four years, so there is much to be said for selecting a degree subject about which one has enthusiasm, resolving to take full advantage of the student experience in order to be able to offer a range of skills to future employers. Willie Hay, president of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, believes the EC is determined to manage the fishing industry by limiting the number of days spent at sea rather than by simply setting fishing quotas.Fishing News, the newspaper of the fishing industry, says the industry is in the 'greatest turmoil it has ever seen,' beset with a bewildering mass of regulations.The effect of all this is that many fishermen in Whitby, an area already facing high unemployment, will be forced out of business.Chris Bellchamber, 36, has spent 21 years fishing in the North Sea from Whitby.