In 1956 Moscow proposed returning the two smaller islands Shikotan and Habomai in exchange for

In 1956 Moscow proposed returning the two smaller islands, Shikotan and Habomai, in exchange for the signing of a peace treaty, but this was never carried out.Today Tokyo says it will not give any substantial aid to Moscow until Japanese sovereignty over all four islands is acknowledged.Mr Poltoranin's visit was intended to prepare for President Yeltsin's arrival in mid-September. Panmure Gordon, the broker, has cut its forecast from pounds 115m to pounds 108m before tax. Three years later, he linked up with Greycoat, run by Mr Lipton and Geoffrey Wilson. 'I believe the majority of people in this country want us to make a success of our membership of the European Community,' Mr Major said. Placed there, the Rubens would have ruined the appearance of both.The altarpiece arrived at King's on 15 November 1961 (it took 10 men two hours to get it across the college court) and was installed provisionally on a special easel in the antechapel near the south end of the organ screen.Here it remained for two years, some people favouring its permanent retention in this position. It is the first mainstream model to offer a standard driver's-side airbag, an important safety first. Who was exploiting whom? It is a tragic biography: it resembles an unwritten play by George Bernard Shaw.

But the truly unsatisfying thing about this argument is: that's it. Sir: In 'Sporting Ghosts of Christmas Past' (27 December) Rob Steen informs us that in 1914 British and German soldiers played football in no man's land during a Yuletide truce at the height of the Battle of the Somme The battle, though, took place two years later Yours, DAVID HEADBradford on Avon, Wilts. But three out of four building society mortgages are on properties in this bracket. She makes most of her own clothes, though the beauty of her job, she says, 'is that I don't have to worry about what I wear'.I first heard about Miss Manson from a friend, whose child had been acting up in her class.

Given a text as dense as this, though, you need all the help you can get to project an idea of character. The other carp was the way that Kavanagh tried, rather clumsily, to emphasise contemporary resonances. INEQUALITY of wealth has increased dramatically since 1979, with the richest 10 per cent of the population becoming 60 per cent richer and the poorest 20 per cent no better off, government figures published yesterday reveal. The general view here now is that he is not just the best prop in the game, but the best forward.Platt is a player who takes others' opinions of him with several truck-loads of salt. They are taking our money but not talking to us.'Take the money and run? Clubs have been doing that for years, but enough was enough. What impressed me from day one was her incredible sense of rhythm, the way she lays down the beat.Each player's role changes from piece to piece.