12 MARCH 1994, page 23

Wind Of Change

IF YOU can't have a summit you can always have a conference. This penny has dropped with the Organisation for Eco- nomic Co-operation and Development, which is rather on its......

City And Suburban

Bang, bang, you're off the dole in Detroit it's the unemployment summit CHRISTOPHER FILDES D etroit has evolved its own way to deal with unemployment. It's murder. There is a......

The Harder They Fall

BOND PRICES have come down like an express lift, bondholders (like your bank or pension fund) are feeling queasy, so here come UBS, the brokers, with a message of comfort:......

Indie Heads For Dock.. .

THE BATTERED ship Newspaper Pub- lishing — 'Old Indie' — alters course, with Tony O'Reilly's Zero still embedded in her funnel. Mr O'Reilly (as I noted at the time) staged the......

. . . Or Round In Circles

MICHAEL HESELTINE must now decide whether, as a condition of his blessing on the deal, he wants to see independent (or Independent) directors on Newspaper Pub- lishing's board,......