DAILY EXPRESS Tuesday April 18 1989 27 And we’re working on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r one. 1 9 Last Autumn, 90% of <strong>the</strong> payphones in Britain worked. Today, over 95% are working (96.5% to be exact). Yet we’re still not satisfied. We’ll continue to install new pay phones at <strong>the</strong> rate of 400 a month. (There are currently 86,000 all over Britain.) We’ll be making more and more phones tough enough to beat <strong>the</strong> vandals. And we’ll be improving <strong>the</strong> ability of our payphones to automatically tell us when <strong>the</strong>y are full or out of order. Of course, this is only one of <strong>the</strong> areas in which we are improving our service to you. British TELECOM _ It’s you we answer to For example, our engineers will now specify whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>y will call in <strong>the</strong> morning or afternoon, so you don’t have to wait in all day. We won’t be totally happy with our service until you are. So you can be sure we’re giving it 100%.
28 DAILY EXPRESS Tuesday April 18 1989 by Marjorie Orr YOUR STARS TODAY, PLUS PHONE-IN HOROSCOPE LINE Calls cost 38p peak/standard and 25p cheap rate per minute IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: Your year ahead will find you veering from extreme to extreme, wanting to be helpful <strong>the</strong>n wanting to fea<strong>the</strong>r your own nest. Career changes will keep you awake but emotionally you feel calmer. ARIES (March 21 ■ April 2 0 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 30 0 4 4 4 . Discussions about career and cash find you a touch neurotic, as if you couldn't actually make up your mind what you wanted. Try to let <strong>the</strong> confusion clear before you commit yourself. Common sense is on hand to guide you. TAURUS (April 21 - May 2 0 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 4 4 5 . Slow and stubborn you may be but your wits are sharp enough when it suits you. Today you are having to clarify a few of your ideas and outlooks but ultimately you win <strong>the</strong> day in major discussions T 7 I GEMINI (May 21 - J u n e 2 1 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 3 3 4 . Nothing is above board and straightforward at <strong>the</strong> moment and you will have to live with that fact. Stick to close confidantes to unburden your thoughts about joint finances, work and emotional life. You cannot afford to antagonise too many people CANCER (June 2 2 - July 2 3 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 3 3 5 . Team mates and friends are giving you all <strong>the</strong> stability and intellectual stimulus that close relation- ships are not offering. Try to talk through partnership difficulties. It is not easy since both your outlooks tend to change from moment to moment. ~ T | LEO (July 2 4 - A ugust 2 3 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 3 3 6 . — Your sharp wits are working overtime on job situations at present. You may feel undermined and gloomy but that does not mean you should hot persevere with discussions and negotiations which will fur<strong>the</strong>r your cause. VIRGO (A ugust 2 4 - S ep tem b er 2 3 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 30 0 33 7 . You are in danger of forcing <strong>the</strong> pace in discussions now and you may even be totally unaware of <strong>the</strong> vehemence with which you are expressing yourself. So smile a little more and be tighter hearted. Today your emotions are unsettled. LIBRA (S ep tem b er 2 4 - O ctober 2 2 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 3 3 8 . You are pulling no punches at present whien facing up to extremely tricky situations. Truth be told you are delving into situations way out of your normal territory but it is right and proper that you should. SCORPIO (O ctober 2 3 , - N ovem ber 2 2 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 3 4 0 . Close partners really do need to understand just how dissatisfied you really are with yourself and life in general. Your perpetual mood swings are not. just arbitrary but a genuine difficulty in. settling to a conclusion. Try to be flexible though. ^ SAGITTARIUS (N ovem ber 2 3 } D ecem b er 2 2 ) Starcall: 089.8 3 0 0 3 4 1 . J Your nit picking, fairly critical approach to life at present may well not be going down jto Well with workmates. Today, <strong>the</strong>y take exception to your contradictory approach to finances. You need to be aware of your motivation. CAPRICORN (D ecem ber 2 3 - January 2 0 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 3 4 2 . You start <strong>the</strong> day vague but go on to take a more constructive view. Your ability to state your case with flair is helping you entertain, if not educate, your social companions. You need to be aware of how resentful you feel about a particular friendship. AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 3 4 3 . Home, emotional and domestic matters are gaining your full attention now though you are still desperately confused about what you really want. The main thing is not to be pushed around ei<strong>the</strong>r by o<strong>the</strong>r people's jealousy or by your own sense of powerlessness. PISCES (February 2 0 - March 2 0 ) Starcall: 0 8 9 8 3 0 0 4 4 3 . Busy as bee, chattering like a canary, you are unlikely to settle easily to routines now. You want to thrash out major areas of concern in group efforts and also sort out your future. Close companions are being more difficult than <strong>the</strong>y need be. YOUR SOCIAL LIFELINE _A_ GETTING on with people can make all <strong>the</strong>,difference to your life, at home, at work, in following outside interests. Advice from Marjorie Orr on how to enjoy personal relationships is just a phone call away. All <strong>the</strong> numbers are 0 8 9 8 300. For example, for Leo call 08 9 8 3 0 0 484; Virgo 0898 3 0 0 485 etc. Calls are charged at 25p for one minute {cheap rate} and 38p for one minute at o<strong>the</strong>r times {including VAT}. LEO.................... 48 4 AQUARIUS...............................490 ---------------- VIRGO......................... 485 LIBRA................................ ......4 8 6 SCORPIO...................................487 SAGITTARIUS......................... 488 CAPRICORN...' ............ 489 PISCES ................... .491 ARIES............................. 492 TAURUS................................... 493 GEMINI...................................... 49 4 CANCER.:.; y. .,..,.4 9 5 . BEFORE and after <strong>the</strong> war, food prices were m aintained by <strong>the</strong> little corner shopkeepers who were satisfied with a regular weekly wage. Today, food prices are controlled by shareholders of large chain stores, who dem and a bigger and bigger slice of <strong>the</strong> cake. . The threat goes down <strong>the</strong> line “More sales, or else” and <strong>the</strong> poor m anager is at his wits’ end. He has n o , m ore custom ers than last week, he cannot drag <strong>the</strong>m into his store, so, to show an increase on his last week’s figures, he is left with only one alternative — to reprice his existing stock to m ake m ore profit. This happens at very regular intervals and prices soon rise beyond th e rate of inflation. The only answer, is <strong>the</strong> re-introduction of Retail Price Maintenance, and punishm ent for non- compliance. H. Dallas Wigginton, York Cheque out THE £50 cheque card guarantee lim it is becom ing obsolete w ith th e appearance of Debit Cards. These cards, like cheques, transfer funds from your current bank account and have no limit. Barclays Connect arid Lloyds paym ent cards are accepted by alm ost all Visa outlets, while <strong>the</strong> switch cards . NatW est and M idland can be used at retailers with electronic term inals like those used for credit cards. Ian WiHiams, Amersham, Bucks. Small Crossword ACROSS: 1 O<strong>the</strong>rwise (4). 5 Scots, perhaps (5) 10 Haymaker’s im plement (9) 11 Declare positively (4) 12 German forename (4) 13 Feeling of disgust (9) 14 Made tea (6) 17 Choose (3) 18 Command (5) 19 Against (4) 20 Placing apart (9) 23 Cooking tat (4) 24 Go and get (5) 25 Fills with dread (4). 26 Property of value (5) DOWN: 2 A vital organ (5) 3 Dock worker (9) 4 Unbleached linen (4) 5 Nasty disease (7) 6 Newts (4) 245 Blatkfriars Road, London, SE1 9UX in store over pricing Let Rushdie foot <strong>the</strong> bill I DO n ot agree w ith th e am ount o f m oney it is costing to safeguard Salm an R ushdie. I b elieve that th e m oney he is m aking out.of h is book should b e u sed to stand <strong>the</strong> b ill! Robert Clayton, Scunthorpe, Humberside Little Englanders I AM a 20-year-old Germ an student on holiday in England. I have been watching television news, and.am full of consternation because th e English m edia pay so little attention to neighbouring countries’ political and cultural development. The extent to which English people are inform ed about daily life in E urope is highly unsatisfactory and insufficient. The intellectual horizon of English people should n o t end w ith news about <strong>the</strong> Royal Fam ily and union wars. Michael Schuster, Bayreuth, West Germany. A grain drain WHY IS it, th at with so many people starving in th e world, good food th a t we produce in this country is fed to cattle in order th a t we may eat meat. Ten 7 Liquid cosmetic (6) 8 Assembled company (5) 9 Very close-fitting (4-5) 10 Partly cook, in w ater O) 15 Joins In m etal (5) 16 F ruit from palm (5) 21 Cutting tool (3) 22 Of It (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLU TION: ACROSS: 1 Flashbulb, 9 Iona, 10 Knee, 11 Tactician, 13 E<strong>the</strong>r, 14 Lord, 15 Thousands, 17 Retrial, 21 Nos, 22 Pois, 23 Imperfect, 24 Celery, 25 Dee DOWN: 1 Pit, 2 Loathsome, 3 Anchors, 4 Sate, 5 Hairs, 6 Unionised, 7 Lear, 8 Bends, 12 Clarify, 13 Ethnic, 16 Dance, 18 Epee,- 19 Tor, 20 Lute Rupert and <strong>the</strong> Golden Acorn — 14 “As <strong>the</strong> boy was carried off he threw..." Rupert begins. But <strong>the</strong> girl is. not listening. “Wait here!" she orders him. “Do not stir until I return." With that she turns and hurries away through <strong>the</strong> trees. When she returns not many minutes later she is leading a big woodman by <strong>the</strong> hand. “My fa<strong>the</strong>r would hear your tale," she says. ‘Tell him all.” So once again Rupert has to describe how he met <strong>the</strong> boy who was hiding in a cave and what happened to him. All rights reserved. Satanic bills: Salman Rushdie pounds w orth of grain will only produce one pound of meat. There would be enough food to feed <strong>the</strong> world three tim es over if we stopped giving our food to anim als. Not only is it cruel to breed anim als ju st for food, but eating too m uch m eat can m ake you overweight, raise your blood pressure and generally keep you unhealthy. Miss A. Thomson, Erith, Kent In poor health I RECENTLY had occasion to be referred to a hospital by my GP for a series of blood tests to be carried out under th e NHS. H e told m e th at w hen th e reform s come tests like this would not be possible as he could not afford <strong>the</strong>m out of his proposed budget of £60 per patient: So m uch for <strong>the</strong> NHS “being safe in our hands.” L. W. Hill, Upminster, Essex. 16 1 /7 R u p e rt fans can o b ta in a p e rfe ct re p ro d u c tio n o f th e 1937 A n n u a l fo r £7.90. Send cheque/postal o rd e r m ade pa yable to Express Newspapers pic, to : R u p e rt O ffer; P.O. B o x 7, M anchester M 19 2HD. C alvin and H obbes b y bhi w a tterso n . Wofcl, SUSIE GOT SENT 10 TWEUEftDMRSTEKS OFFICE/ SUES IK TROUBLE NON, M i. RiGHT.1 * whemw* r sure was LUCKS BLAMED SUSIE TOR DIERflHlNG. W K BRENS. e g © -aj’ o •!*"’ OH,NO.' WHAT HF SUSIE RATS ON ME? SUPPOSE THEM MAKE HER S\N&.' SUPPOSE SHE SQUEMS/ SUPPOSE. SHE FINGERS ME W \ | Don’t! miss thfe: Gambols oo Page 34: oh. i ’ia x^ RELIEVED. I WAS fmiD'foO WOULDN'T BELIEVE ME. Ott,1ES, WHE SOT QU\TE A. FILE ON OUR FRIEND CALVIN. The image of Russia with love is folly AS someone who grew up and studied in an E astern Bloc country, I would like to reply to M r R. Bardsley’s letter in <strong>the</strong> Express. Prom my experiences of <strong>the</strong> 1956 uprising in Budapest, H ungary, I believe Mr Bardsley and <strong>the</strong> Queen will be making <strong>the</strong> deadliest m istake if <strong>the</strong>y decide to love th e Russians. Russia is using th e W est to pacify th e starving, uprising nations under its suppression. And when this use is over, it will tie a rope around th e W est’s neck and hang it high. Mr Bardsley has been free all his life in this beautiful and lovely country, so he can be forgiven for his naivety in believing every pleasant sm ile of perestroika. B ut people like m e who rem em ber all th e horrors of Com munism will never forgive its torture, killing and torm ent. Mrs Yutka Wild, Red car, Cleveland. Breadline B&B ? SEEING as this Governm ent, doesn’t give senior citizens any spare money tor holidays, it is difficult for u s to pay £8-£12 each for bed and breakfast. My husband and I have relatives and friends we would love to visit who cannot accommodate us overnight. We d o n ’t requ ire h ea te d room s or baths and we can even take our own soap. Surely it is possible to provide a room for £5 per night? W hat do guest . house owners think of cut-rate charges and how many o<strong>the</strong>r pensioners would take advantage and fill em pty rooms? L E T T E R L IN E Mrs Joan Springer, Hertford, Herts. YOU can phone your views to <strong>the</strong> Daily Express on our 24- hour Letterline. Please lim it your comments to 150 words. Phone 01-928 7311. TARGET N 0 T M0 R C 1 G HOW m any w ords of four le tte rs o r n>ore can you m ake from th e le tte rs show n here? In m aking a word, each le tte r m ay be used once only. E ach w ord m u st contain th e large le tte r, and th e re m u st be at least one 10-letter w ord in th e list. No plurals; no - foreign words; no p ro p er nam es. TODAY’S TARGET: 19 w ords, good; 24 w ords, very good; 30 words,, e x c e lle n t. S o lu tio n tom orrow . Y e ste rd a y ’s so lu tio n : A crobat ac to r aircraft aortic bo ric b rac t ca rat carob c a rro t c a rt coat cobra coif coir co rf crab craft crib cro ft fabric F A B R IC A T O R fa c ia fa c t fa c to r o rca o tic ta ro c to re to ric tric a r jtrocar; ^ : r i
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