Several Burmese compare the mining centres to the gold rush towns of the American west As one geologist said: 'There are bars, brothels and guns You see a lot of dead bodies in the river There's no law. ANTI-TERRORIST police warned shop staff to be on the alert after a firebomb caused minor damage to a Mister Byrite branch in London's Oxford Street. Georgia's leader, Eduard Shevardnadze, sent 3,000 troops to the west of the country yesterday to hunt down anti-government rebels who had rejected an ultimatum to free the kidnapped Georgian Interior Minister, Roman Gventsadze, and five other officials.However, it was unclear how effective such a large force could be against a small number of rebels, who had spirited their captives to an unknown hiding- place. In particular, make sure that the URL you typed is all in lower case. (First Edition) CAIRO (Reuter) - Thousands of Egyptian troops and police swept through a Cairo slum, arresting muslim militants.. In Tokyo, where the living are forced to put up with tiny flats, space for the dead has almost run out.There are some publicly run graveyards, but by now it is standing room only.'The municipal graveyards offer some plots every August, but they are always oversubscribed 25 or 30 times,' said Susumu Suzuki, a salesperson for Sudo Sekizai, a gravestone dealer. Rational expectations, and other false gods of the 1980s, never seeped into Bundesbank thinking.

The temporary price cut, equal to 40 cents a pack in the US, has reversed the decline in Marlboro's sales, increasing its market share by two to four points, chief executive Michael Miles said yesterday. At the same time Gallaher, Britain's largest tobacco company and the manufacturer of brands such as Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut, said it is closing a cigar factory in Port Talbot, South Wales with the loss of 370 jobs. The American world champion, scheduled to make a telephone link-up with the assembled British press yesterday, took such an age to pick up the receiver after it had been answered by a person unknown that his manager, Joe Douglas, present with the waiting journalists at a London hotel, ventured: 'Maybe he's in the bathroom.' Two minutes passed 'Yes,' Douglas concluded. He said he expected retail sales to drop slightly in July following the large increase in June as the summer sales got off to an early start.John Marsland, of UBS, said the figures showed no domestic case for a cut in base rates, but the pound was likely to rise. Before the game the country's most prolific striker had been presented with yet another award to mark his achievement in finishing top scorer in the Premier League last season.

The agency gave them money under 'counter-narcotics' and they used their training to do other things in the political arena.'Brian Latell, the CIA's leading analyst on Latin America, told congressional leaders last month that Fr Aristide was mentally unstable. 'Nobody has shown consistency apart from them (United), and unless a team does put a good run together quickly they won't be caught.'Even Leeds, lying second, will need to find a higher gear if they are to start making inroads into United's lead. 1 will walk to a polling station and cast my vote.'Helen Suzman also ends on a hopeful note: after referring to an Afrikaner Nationalist's remark that they had to try apartheid to show that it would not work, she declares: 'Whatever the obstacles we now have to try democracy to show that it will work.'(Photograph omitted). (And) I know that, without exception, the people in the acount group and the creative department who I find the most brilliant will have the hardest time fitting into, and being accepted by, the agency structure. Walter Smith, the Rangers manager, has recalled McCoist after Gordon Durie failed a fitness test.

They will now develop their ideas for the next leg of the contest. David Welch, chief executive of the Royal Parks, said: 'When we launched the competition I hoped that imaginative solutions would be suggested. Corgi have recently introduced a new range of models aimed at teenagers. TRINITY Holdings, the buses and dustcarts manufacturer, expects a planned joint venture to build vehicles in Malaysia to go ahead, despite the recent Pergau dam threat to British trade. Its claim of more than pounds 600m will not be resolved for possibly two years. Even trout and salmon, it seems, are mixing sperm and egg on gravelly river bottoms. Interim taxable profits of pounds 605m were right at the bottom end of wide-ranging expectations which, among optimists, stretched to more than pounds 670m. I suppose they're saying that I'm past it at last - that the old so-and-so has either lost his touch or finally gone off his rocker.But I'll tell you one thing (talking to the press), I'll out-see all of you guys.

We have two tills at all our stores that are confectionery-free. He may be encouraged by polls that find overwhelming admiration for Peter the Great. He is expected to take five or six days to recover and will miss this weekend's scheduled rookie test. However, Johnny Capels, of the USAC, the sanctioning body for the Indianapolis 500, said: 'In recognition of Nigel's accomplished status in the racing world and in view of his recent demonstration of skill in IndyCar competition, USAC has deferred Nigel's test until he is pronounced fit for participation at the Speedway.'For Mansell, whose first taste of IndyCar racing on oval tracks ended in an accident, the physical relief will be accompanied by the mounting pressure of attempting to succeed in qualifying for Indianapolis. Earlier this year it sold a 59 per cent stake in Thames Television for pounds 58m and a fire appliances business for pounds 40m to Williams Holdings, the industrial conglomerate.Thorn is also understood to be in talks to sell its defence arm to GEC for about pounds 140m. They don't let them have anything they perceive as unhealthy, and they serve minute portions.