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Conditions in hospitals are bound to worsen this winter as a deficit in the health service deepens, the Liberal Democrat conference was told yesterday. He was acquitted at the Old Bailey in 1979 after being charged with conspiracy to murder.Mr Thorpe appeared briefly on the campaign trail with Mr Ashdown in the South West of England in 1992, but he has made few political appearances since his acquittal.A spokesman for Mr Ashdown said: “The party had a long, hard climb back from the wilderness years in the 1940s and 1950s and the contribution of Jo Grimond, Jeremy Thorpe and David (now Lord) Steel to that climb back has been immense.”Jeremy Thorpe’s leadership at that time was tremendously inspirational and so the party is very pleased to see him here.”. Jeremy Thorpe, the disgraced former Liberal Party leader, was given a rousing reception when he appeared at the conference yesterday. Mr Thorpe, who is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, made what was believed to be his first conference appearance for nearly 20 years.
He came to hear Paddy Ashdown’s speech and took his seat in the auditorium at Eastbourne shortly before lunchtime.He rose to his feet as he was introduced by the platform and clasped his hands together above his head to acknowledge the cheers of delegates, some of them giving him a standing ovation.The former Liberal leader nodded and applauded with others through Mr Ashdown’s speech and rose to his feet with the rest of those in the hall at the end.Mr Thorpe stood down as Liberal leader in 1976 after a series of allegations about his private life. The independent daily El Watan, which only reported the document on its third page, doubted the AIS commander could influence the groups nominally under his authority, let alone the GIA, whose powerbase is Algiers and its hinterland where the bloodiest slaughters have occurred.In an earlier gesture of reconcilation, the government in July released the FIS deputy leader Abassi Madani – only to see the brutality plumb unprecedented depths. The FIS, which was poised to win the 1992 elections whose cancellation detonated five years of savagery in which 60,000 people may have died.If the authorship of the communique is not in doubt, its impact is questionable.

Calling on other groups as well to lay down their arms, it vowed “to expose the enemy” behind the killings, and “isolate the criminal remnants of the perverse GIA extremists, and those who hide behind them”.
The attention in the official media is a sign the military regime of President Liamine Zeroual is taking the gambit seriously – and also indirectly confirms that the government has been negotiating secretly with its opponents. Disassociating itself from the wave of butchery that for months now has terrorised Algiers and the surrounding countryside, the IAS leader pinned the blame squarely on the rival Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The olive branch, if such it is, came in the form of a two-page communique signed by Madani Mezerag, the senior commander of the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), the military wing of the banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and published across the front pages of state-controlled Algerian newspapers yesterday. We need to increase the role of the state in the economy.” The president’s remarks means that he has in his sights the nation’s often shady bankers, who bankrolled his re-election, but with whom his administration has been squabbling over the spoils of privatisation.
The Russian government has been highly ineffectual, hobbled by organised crime, excessive bureaucracy and corruption that reaches from top to bottom But Mr Yeltsin vowed to toughen up its role.. The success stories include Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique..

Pronouncing Communism dead, Boris Yeltsin has vowed to introduce a “new economic order” into Russia in which the state plays a far larger role in curbing the excesses of the free market. Speaking to the upper house of parliament, a robust-looking Mr Yeltsin signalled that he intends to crack down on one of the struts of his political support – Russia’s tiny but vastly rich class of new capitalists who cashed in during the first, lawless post-Soviet years

“Freedom alone is not enough We need a new economic order,” said Mr Yeltsin “In itself, the market is not a panacea. But there are hopeful signs from the 48 nations classed as least developed, which are home to one- tenth of the Earth’s population.In the face of declining overseas aid from rich countries, huge foreign debts and next to no private sector investment, several have enjoyed real gains in prosperity during the 1990s. The report blames their decline on civil war and chaotic or non-existent governments. The list includes the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Liberia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Haiti and Mynamar (Burma).

More than 20 of the world’s poorest countries are in “economic and social regress”, according to a United Nations report on least-developed nations published yesterday. The average income per capita of these 22 has declined by at least 10 per cent since 1980 and in half of them most people now eat fewer calories per day than they did 10 years ago.
In eight of the regressing nations infant mortality rates increased sharply between 1985 and 1995. The research shows that reading recovery, which involves daily one-to-one tuition for 20 weeks, made no significant difference after five years to most children’s reading but it did help the slowest readers who were on free school meals.. “If we are not expecting enough in tests which children are set already and not stretching children’s potential enough, we are not going to make up the gap with our international competitors,” he said.National test results out today will show progress towards the Government’s goal of 75 per cent of pupils reaching the expected maths level by 2002.Children from poor families who cannot read at the age of six are still benefiting from “reading recovery” schemes five years later, says a study from London University’s Institute of Education. But the latest international study found that English nine-year-olds were only 10th out of 17 countries in maths, well behind those in the Pacific Rim.The report says: “If our national standards are low, then schools scoring close to the national average must also have low standards.” However, some schools, even in the poorest areas are already close to achieving the Government’s targets, suggesting that the national target for maths is achievable.Chris Woodhead, the Chief Inspector of Schools, said targets for pupils’ performance needed to be under constant review if we were to match our competitors.