Although nearly 11,000 of those coming in July were from the former Yugoslavia, the highest number (13,700) came from Romania.According to the Interior Ministry, of the 132,000 applications that have been processed so far this year, only 5,700 have been granted asylum.Despite complaints from nearly all the German Lander (regional states) that there is no more space for newcomers, Germany is set to receive a further 5,000 refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina later this week.The regional authorities in Saxony-Anhalt, meanwhile, announced yesterday that 42 orphans from Sarajevo had safely arrived in Zerbst, which is near Magdeburg.Relief at their arrival was muted, however, by the grief over the death of two of the children, who were killed by sniper fire as their coach sought to leave Sarajevo over the weekend.It was also overshadowed by the continuing dispute over who was responsible for ordering the coach to embark on the journey against the advice of United Nations representatives on the ground.Officials of the Saxony-Anhalt government insist that the decision was taken only after gaining the approval of the German Foreign Ministry. To this task he gave of himself always with true generosity of heart and soul, and a prodigious physical and mental energy, creating terms of reference, constructing new systems, inventing rudiments of a working language in the spirit of Leibnitz’s monumental works.Guattari’s arguments are sometimes hard to follow, and hard to accept, but one is always rewarded in the end, and spiritually refreshed. A SENIOR House of Commons select committee is to consider an inquiry into whether standards in public life are declining. Their isolation from each other was plain.This was accentuated in June last year, when the Prince visited Prince William in hospital after his son was involved in an accident at school. The brawl about Verdi in Opera magazine has turned into a nasty confrontation between partisans for two styles of production: call them the literalist and the expressionist. Messier still is any war justified as humanitarian intervention: the seeming contradiction of advocating extreme violence as a means of preserving human life and dignity throws up enormously complex moral and practical dilemmas. Of the five, the National Gallery’s is the only door one can walk through after 6pm, and that on a mere nine Wednesdays each year.

142 P-U Johansson (Swe) 72 70, D Ray 72 70, P O’Malley (Aus) 73 69, B Marchbank 71 71. BOSNIA’s Muslim-led parliament voted unanimously last night in favour of the planned division of the country into three ethnic states, but only did so after adding a list of rigorous conditions which rejected the current shape of the peace plan. Moreleigh, near Totnes, south Devon, was sealed off after Ian Fitzgerald-Hay, 40, fired shots in a pub then fled to a farmhouse. But things began with just two players on the stage, for the British premiere of Previn’s new Cello Sonata, which he and Ma performed together.Now Previn is another distinguished polymath: conductor, jazz musician, pianist, Morecambe and Wise straight man. The new movie, Bound and Gagged (see opposite) has harvested lukewarm reviews, although many warmed to Allen’s dazed, funny performance.All these roles still have an erotic and exploitative element to them – no one’s offering her Hamlet.

But the INS will grant larger companies, subject to their satisfying certain criteria, blanket approval for the transfer of certain employees to the US. His remarks were seen as confirming that British ministers are working on a declaration to add to the treaty at the EC summit in December, to clarify limitation of the powers.. PUBLIC approval for President George Bush has sunk to depths from which no past president has ever returned. ‘You’ve got to hit it in the right places all the time,’ Faldo said.Sauers shot 70 yesterday and at 206 was seven under par for the championship, two strokes ahead of Jeff Maggert and the Zimbabwean Nick Price. Mr Major will hear warnings that he needs to get a grip of his government at today’s lunch.