Weapons training proceeds apace in farms in the northern Transvaal, where yesterday the police arrested five white men caught in possession of ammunition stolen from an army depot on Thursday.(Photograph omitted). As the match proceeds, they plot how the players win each point. Angus Fraser kicked the ground after Glamorgan took a third batting point, one run short of a full complement for the first time this season.Fielding standards declined in the heat before Middlesex were reunited with the fleeting acquaintance of their own dressing-room.The figures meant everything to Glamorgan: Dale’s innings of 214 from 455 balls, included 22 fours. It had the result of lengthening the queues outside the No 2 Court but also of redoubling the American’s efforts and, predictably, her baseline power eventually forced the Dorset girl to yield, 7-6, 2-6, 1-6.(Photograph omitted). If an alternative employer offers better terms, they are off.This change in attitude among employees was encapsulated in Michael Lewis’s chronicle of life at the investment bank Salomon Brothers in the Eighties boom.

EVEN BEFORE he sat down, ministers were in the members’ lobby proclaiming what a good job Michael Heseltine had done, writes Colin Brown. There are optimal procedures: it takes two workers 45 minutes to strip all the re-useable parts from a late 1970s vehicle. Karen Neale, of Barclays de Zoete Wedd, said: ‘It’s quite attractively priced and it secures the group’s survival.’The chairman, Martin Mays- Smith, said the rights issue was aimed at strengthening the group’s capital position and increasing liquidity. He extended the concert audience and broadened its taste to appreciate masterpieces by Schoenberg, Bartok and Debussy that were still anathema in Vienna, Budapest and Paris. A group of 10 banks extended a pounds 200m cash lifeboat to rescue the firm last summer.However, continued deterioration in the housing market has exposed shaky loans and kept the lender struggling to stay afloat.After announcing a pounds 48m loss for the 1991 financial year in November, chief executive Kevin Milner and several other directors departed.Other drastic measures have been taken. In the second half, however, the action hots up, the complexity deepens and the play reveals itself as what it inevitably must be: a study of one man’s personal psychosis, rather than a discourse on the ethics of terrorism.Moliere’s The Sister hood (Les Femmes Savantes) at the New End, a lampooning of 17th-century blue-stockings, is an obvious candidate to be made into a satire of contemporary feminist theorists, and the translator, Ranjit Bolt, has let no opportunity pass him by.

We have discourses on Neolithic agriculture and the relative merits of birch, yew and alder in constructing the Bronze Age equivalent of the rucksack. An amazing editorial last Saturday in the Citizen, South Africa’s most right-wing English-language daily, drew the following conclusion from Mr Mandela’s live debate on Thursday night with Mr de Klerk: ‘Nobody can doubt, from this performance, he is a man who can carry the mantle of state president with great humility and success.’The ballast for the change was provided by the political guarantees the ANC was persuaded to provide after an excruciatingly long process of negotiation. But the pets’ owners ignore the signs and stroll their dogs on to that spot outside Marks & Spencer.With more fur coats per square metre than possibly anywhere else in the world, what can you expect in Salamanca? A poopa-scoopa is just not an acceptable accessory. Klavierstucke

Gerhard Oppitz, Bavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra / Colin Davis(RCA 09026 61620-2: two CDs)STRONG hands at work: Gerhard Oppitz positively straddles the opening maestoso of the D minor. ‘Today is the day in 1987, you may not remember, when a friend of mine, a man whom I admire deeply, a man who is a real hero, was taken hostage in Beirut. It is best known, however, for a chocolate-coated bear-shaped marshmallow called Le Petit Oursin.
Turnover for the year to last April was pounds 29m and the company will be run by managers at Cadbury’s operation in France at Chocolat Poulain.The company said the deal would be financed from cash resources.