Claire, the 15-year-old daughter of Geraldine Evans, from Clanfield, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, carries an adrenalin injector at all times and wears a medical-alert tag on a chain. But in summer, more and more British visitors came up from India - on leave, on safari, on honeymoon - so that soon Kashmir's government felt obliged to publish rules for the British. 'The threat of violence followed by, say, the snap of a finger breaking is much more effective than a general melee,' Drury says, with worrying relish.Radio plays go in waves. A 10-year-old could acquire an Uzi, and drive-by shootings would be a recreational norm.The difference in attitude over firearms may stem from social archetypes. They will be full of defensive bluster.But the fact that politicians talk rubbish about economics is unimportant.What matters is that the self-healing process is not impeded. .''What can you get me on John Major?' I said.'John Major? Oh, come on] He's our leader] Even if we had stories on him - and I'm not saying we haven't - we wouldn't tell you. She completed the test-drive successfully but one of the men, John Samuel of the Guardian, was not so skilful.

As reported in this column at the time, Akio Morita, the chairman of Sony, wrote a long article for the influential Bungei Shunju magazine, in which he launched a broadside against traditional Japanese management. AGAINST a background of growing alarm over neo-Nazi attacks on foreigners, the German government and opposition Social Democrats (SPD) last night announced plans to tighten regulations covering applications for asylum in the country. Safeway agreed yesterday to stop Sunday opening at one of its stores after High Court action by a local council. With Ford's imminent Sierra replacement (the Mondeo) and the Vauxhall Cavalier's recent facelift, the Anglo-French 405, a leading contender in the UK fleet-car market, required some attention to remain competitive. 'Industries once all but ceded to the Japanese are being reinvented by Americans, from advanced microchips to high-definition television.'Dumping protection'Perhaps the seeds of self-destruction lie within all monopolies,' Mr Stewart continues.

The government had hoped to earn some pounds 2bn from tourism this year. Mon, Wed-Sat 10am- 6.45pm, Tue 10am-5.45pm, last admissions 6.30 and 5.30; pounds 4.50, conc pounds 2.50 Reduced adm pounds 2.50 Mon-Fri after 5pm And Adrian Berg. Mr Shevardnadze joined the Georgian Patriarch and wounded soldiers from the continuing war against Russian-backed Abkhazian separatists to light candles for the 21 dead at the stone monument in front of the old parliament building gutted in civil war fighting in 1991. Referring as much to the dangerously escalating Armenian-Azeri war as to Abkhazia, the President said in an interview with the Independent that behind both conflicts was the fact that 'Russia (wants) to stay in the Transcaucasus by all means'.The former Soviet foreign minister warned that the West was too obsessed by turbulence in Russia and should become more involved in the periphery. On some estimates four out of five personal computers sold are PC-compatibles.These are all different packagings of the same components, each one a different combination of processor chips, hard disks, monitors and so on, each offering different levels of after-sales support. If Great Britain's victory a fortnight ago was a monument to organisation and efficiency, then the series- clincher at Wigan on Saturday was a timely reminder of the flair and enterprise within the British game.A back line that always looked potentially devastating had that potential expertly unlocked by Shaun Edwards and Garry Schofield at scrum-half and the result was some of the most exhilarating rugby seen here in an international for many a year.The feeling that the Kiwis would play far better than at Wembley proved perfectly correct.

The tourists have been concentrating on their line- out; Scotland have assembled their biggest-ever pack.But even this is no more than a problem for the smaller All Blacks and whenever they face a problem they simply analyse and solve it. 'WANTED: a leader of men (plus the odd woman); unkempt hair preferable, but use of gel acceptable; omniscience invaluable; proof of training in crowd psychology required; should not be prone to self-doubt; ego the size of one of Holst's planets an absolute sine qua non; ability to sing not necessary Under-75s need not apply. Numerical control was first devised to ensure consistency, but its most revolutionary implication was to speed up resetting.'We can change one of these machines over in as little as three minutes, where it would take hours for an operator on an old-fashioned machine tool,' Mr Hurd says. It isn't called anti-European when the French hold up enlargement of the number of seats for their interests.