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Charges for those to blame for crisis President announces criminal investigators to be appointed, temporary controls on moving money

By Stefanos Evripidou

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HE COUNCIL of Ministers will appoint criminal investigators in the coming days with a “clear and wide-ranging mandate” to find those responsible for bringing Cyprus to the brink, President Nicos Anastasiades said last night.

In a televised address to the nation on his return from Brussels where he reached political agreement with the Eurogroup on a Cyprus bailout, the president said he understood the “justifiable sense of anger” felt by people regarding the responsibilities of those who led Cyprus to its current predicament.

Anastasiades confirmed that Cyprus will introduce “very temporary” restrictions on capital flows when banks reopen this week.

“The central bank will implement capital controls on transactions,” he said, adding, “I want to assure you that this will be a very temporary measure that will gradually be relaxed.”

After his late night televised address, Anastasiades held a meeting with central bank governor Panicos Demetriades at the Presidential Palace.

The president said the bailout deal reached overnight Sunday to Monday in frantic talks with the island’s partners in the eurozone was “painful” but the best under the circumstances.

Anastasiades held marathon talks with European Council and Commission Presidents Herman Van Rompuy

and Jose Manuel Barroso, the IMF’s Christine Lagarde and representatives of the European Central Bank before a deal was banged out which the Eurogroup rubber stamped in the early hours of Monday morning.

“The agreement that we reached is difficult but, under the circumstances, the best that we could achieve,” said the president.

Anastasiades said failure to reach agreement on a rescue package at the weekend would have led to the collapse and bankruptcy of the state.

Regarding the high-stakes Brussels visit, he noted there were both “difficult” and “dramatic” moments.

“Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. Our choices were not easy nor the environment ideal. But through tough negotiations, persistence and a sense of responsibility we reached a result that secures the country’s prospects.”

He added: “Together, the people and political leadership fought a hard battle from which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.”

Anastasiades said the country can now leave behind the uncertainty and anxiety witnessed in recent months and look to the future with optimism.

“From tomorrow, begins a new era for Cyprus. In the next few days, tough decisions will be implemented,” he said, adding, “We have an obligation to stand on our feet and get out of the vicious

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All banks to remain closed till Thursday

By Elias Hazou

A parade by mostly students was held as usual yesterday in central Nicosia to mark Greek Independence Day. Those taking part saluted acting president Yiannakis Omirou as they passed him on Byron Avenue (Christos Theodorides)

ALL banks will remain closed until Thursday, the Minister of Finance announced last night. Earlier it was just Bank of Cyprus and Laiki that were to remain closed for a further two days; the change was made last night for the smoother operation of the entire banking sector.

According to sources, the late night decision to stall the opening of the island’s smaller banks followed a disagreement between European Commission and European Central Bank (ECB) officials on how to adjust the banking system in lieu of the restructuring of Laiki and its partial merger with Bank of Cyprus.

In a separate communiqué, the Central Bank said the agreement at the Eurogroup meeting “ensures that Cyprus has avoided default and the associated consequences this would have had for the country. The agreement has also avoided the disorderly default of Laiki Bank”.

It added: “The Bank of Cyprus, which will be restructured and fully capitalised using the relevant legislation, will acquire the performing loans, other assets and the insured deposits of Laiki Bank.”

The initial go-ahead for the banks’ reopening came after a formal decision yesterday by the European Central Bank (ECB) to give Cypriot banks access to emergency central bank funding after the country struck a bailout deal.

Last week, the ECB had said it would cut off emergency funding to Cypriot banks if the country failed to agree on a bailout from international lenders by Monday.

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RUSSIA signalled yesterday it would backstop the European Union’s bailout despite anger that the weekend rescue deal would impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors, many of them Russian.

President Vladimir Putin ordered his government to negotiate the restructuring of a bailout loan it granted to Cyprus in 2011 - having rejected Nicosia’s request for easier terms during crisis talks last week.

Putin “considers it possible to support efforts... aimed at overcoming the crisis in the economy and banking system of this island state,” his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Russia has repeatedly expressed its dismay at Europe’s handling of the debt crisis in Cyprus, while resisting the entreaties of President Nicos Anastasiades to offer significant financial support of its own.

But, following the agreement of a €10 billion European bailout deal over the weekend, Moscow’s position has softened.

While Russia has complained over discrimination against businesses that rely on Cyprus as an offshore centre, the Kremlin has been careful not to become embroiled in a potentially open-ended financial and strategic commitment that could become a nexus of friction with Europe.

Nevertheless, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev - who

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ranks below Putin in Russia’s ruling hierarchy - earlier criticised the bailout deal that will inflict heavy losses on uninsured deposits of over €100,000 at the two

main Cypriot banks.

“The stealing of what has already been stolen continues,” Medvedev was quoted by news agencies as telling a meeting of government of-

ficials.

Cyprus had requested an extension of the existing €2.5 billion Russian loan, and a reduction in the interest it charges to 2.5 per cent from 4.5 per cent.

Russia also last week turned down an offer of stakes in the island’s banks and offshore energy reserves in return for around €6 billion in new financing, a sign that Moscow is reluctant to become over-extended financially and geopolitically despite a strong balance sheet that is underwritten by oil revenues.

Russians are believed to account for most of the €19 billion of non-EU, non-bank money held in Cyprus banks at the last count by the central bank in January. Of €38 billion in deposits from banks, €13 billion came from outside the EU. Speaking after the meeting with Medvedev, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said losses to Russian investors in Cyprus were not yet clear.

He also said that the Cypriot unit of state-controlled VTB, Russian Commercial Bank, would not be affected by measures taken by the government. Russia hopes that further financial support will not be needed.

“What is happening is a good signal to those who plan to move their capital to... Russian banks,” he was quoted as saying. “We have very stable banks.”

Cameron says lessons to be learned from deal THE Cypriot banking crisis is a reminder to the United Kingdom that there is “no alternative” to the economic course set by the coalition, British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday.

But turmoil in Cyprus highlighted a couple of home truths for Britain, he said in a question-and-answer session after a speech on immigration.

“It is good that an agreement has been reached overnight and I think that is welcome for people in Cyprus,”

Cameron said.

“I think the first proposals of taxing people with bank accounts under £100,000 was a complete mistake and I am glad that has been avoided.

“I think, from Britain’s point of view, the situation in Cyprus is a reminder of a couple of important home truths.

“The first is it was right not to join the euro, we are better off outside the euro.

We can have our own economic policy, our own monetary policy and mend our fragile economy, which is badly in

need of mending.

“But I think the second lesson is that while it is very difficult, there isn’t an alternative to getting on top of our deficit, to getting our public spending under control, to making our economy more prone to growth.

“Those difficult steps the government’s taking, there is no alternative to that.

“I think people can see that when they switch on their televisions and see what is happening in other parts of Europe.”

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Home Presidential anger leads EC announces task force to be sent to the island to alleviate social consequences to ashtray continued from page one throwing jibe cycle of recession”.

Charges for those to blame He assured people that the government will do all it can to provide concrete measures to help those who will suffer the most from the crisis.

“As a first measure, we will secure all provident funds of the affected banks.”

Regarding calls to leave the euro currency, he said: “Despite the bitterness and disappointment we all felt regarding the positions some of our partners took against Cyprus, I do not believe distancing ourselves from the European family would be the right response to the crisis.”

Starting from now, Cyprus and its people must begin the reconstruction effort, he said.

“Let’s turn the crisis into an opportunity, making a fresh start to build the future on more solid and sound foundations.”

After hours of ‘tense’ negotiations in Brussels, in exchange for a €10 billion rescue package, Anastasiades agreed to wind down Laiki Bank, inflict heavy losses on big depositors, merge the bank’s healthy assets and loans with the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) and accept a haircut on BoC large deposits, the size of which has yet to be announced. All small savers with under €100,000 deposits in both banks will be protected.

Uninsured deposits above €100,000 in both banks will be frozen and used to resolve Laiki’s debts and recapitalise the Bank of Cyprus through a deposit/equity conversion.

Address to the nation: President Anastasiades speaking from the palace last night Laiki will effectively close down, with thousands of job losses.

According to Reuters, Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijssebloem said the raid on uninsured Laiki depositors is expected to raise €4.2 billion.

The final terms of the agreement will bring a sigh of relief to eurozone leaders who came under heavy criticism for agreeing to hit both insured depositors, guaranteed

by EU law, and uninsured depositors in the first agreement reached on March 15.

That agreement was subsequently rejected by the Cypriot parliament with MPs effectively branding it depositor theft.

Without an agreement, Cyprus had faced certain banking collapse and potential exit from the European single currency. It still risks a run on banks when they reopen

their doors this week.

With the latest agreement, it looks increasingly like Laiki’s big deposits will be all but wiped out while BoC’s big depositors will also take a big hit – an unprecedented step in the eurozone.

Meanwhile, Barroso yesterday announced the creation of a Task Force for Cyprus to provide technical assistance to the Cypriot authorities, with the aim of restarting the

real economy of the country.

He warned that the challenges facing Cyprus are “immense”, but that Cyprus could count on the EU for support.

“We want to alleviate the social consequences of the economic shock by mobilising funds from EU instruments and by supporting the Cypriot authorities’ efforts to restore financial, economic and social stability.”

THE EU/IMF BAILOUT AGREEMENT WITH CYPRUS

Church to lose more than €100m

1. Laiki will be resolved immediately - with full contribution of equity shareholders, bond holders and uninsured depositors - based on a decision by the Central Bank of Cyprus, using the newly adopted Bank Resolution Framework.

THE Church of Cyprus stands to lose more than €100 million in the bailout deal reached with international creditors early yesterday, Archbishop Chrysostomos said.

“The capital owned by the Church, which was over 100 million euros, has been lost,” the archbishop told reporters.

“There will be many difficulties, some will lose their jobs, the hungry will be multiplied and the Church has to take care of people,” he added.

The church has substantial shareholdings on the island, including in the banks at the centre of the drastic financial sector cuts imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund as a condition for releasing €10 billion in emergency loans.

The church’s interests range from hotels to brewers, and it is also the island’s biggest landowner.

Last September, as the financial crisis bit, the church cut salaries of bishops and most priests by 15 to 25 per cent but spared those who received €1,500 or less in monthly salaries.

2. Laiki will be split into a good bank and a bad bank. The bad bank will be run down over time.

3. The good bank will be folded into Bank of Cyprus (BoC), using the Bank Resolution Framework, after having heard the Boards of Directors of BoC and Laiki. It will take 9 billion Euros of ELA with it. Only uninsured deposits in BoC will remain frozen until recapitalisation has been effected, and may subsequently be subject to appropriate conditions.

4. The Governing Council of the ECB will provide liquidity to the BoC in line with applicable rules.

5. BoC will be recapitalised through a deposit/equity conversion of uninsured deposits with full contribution of equity shareholders and bond holders.

6. The conversion will be such that a capital ratio of 9 % is secured by the end of the program.

7. All insured depositors in all banks will be fully protected in accordance with the relevant EU legislation.

8. The money (up to 10 billion Euros) will not be used to recapitalise Laiki and Bank of Cyprus.

SOURCES with access to the Presidential Palace have confirmed that President Nicos Anastasiades at one stage did threaten to resign during tense negotiations with international lenders on Monday morning.

Initial reports had Anastasiades telling International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde: “I table one proposal, you don’t accept it; I table another, same thing. What else do you want me to do? Do you want to force me to resign?

If that’s what you want, let me know,” Anastasiades was quoted as saying.

But it appears that what Anastasiades really said was: “If you think I will resign so that another one will come and you can continue the negotiations, you are very mistaken. Even if I did resign, the negotiations could not restart before 45 days have passed,” the president told Lagarde.

Anastasiades – known for his fiery temper – apparently lost it when Lagarde proposed a 60 per cent haircut on uninsured depositors with the Bank of Cyprus.

During a break in the talks, Anastasiades held a working dinner with European Council President Herman van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

During the dinner, Anastasiades took van Rompuy and Barroso aside and told them something along the lines of: “Make her come to her senses, if we are to talk shop.”

At least that was Anastasiades’ version during a conference call shortly after with political leaders who were gathered at the Presidential Palace.

During the same call to Nicosia, an exasperated president said half-jokingly that he wanted to pick up a chair and throw it.

At which point one of the politicians back in Nicosia taunted him: “Why don’t you throw an ashtray instead?”

It was an allusion to Anastasiades’ rumoured habit of tossing ashtrays whenever he throws a fit.

“There weren’t any ashtrays around,” the president retorted.

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European shares fall as Cyprus bailout relief fades

By Sudip Kar-Gupta EUROPEAN shares fell yestreday, led lower by financial stocks, as relief over a Cyprus bailout faded after the Dutch Finance Minister said the stern deal could set a new template for the region.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index closed down 0.3 per cent, having risen as much as 1 per cent at one stage, while the eurozone’s blue-chip Euro STOXX 50 index fell 1.2 per cent.

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, said the Cyprus rescue represented a new template for resolving eurozone banking problems and other countries may have to restructure their banking sectors.

This raised worries that other debt-ridden countries with troubled banks may face similarly punitive measures as Cyprus, which agreed to close down its secondlargest bank and inflict heavy losses on big depositors.

“The action taken sets a dangerous precedent. I just think there’s still a little sense of unease,” said Berkeley Futures associate director Richard Griffiths.

Griffiths said clients were looking to buy “put” options on the German DAX equity index, which give the right to sell an index in the future and are often used on expectations of a market fall.

In spite of the Cyprus worries, many investors kept a longer-term bullish outlook for European equities, expecting markets to recover after a dip in April due to prospects of a gradual recovery in the global economy.

Willem Sels, the UK head of investment strategy for

HSBC Private Bank, said European equities remained attractive although investors should be wary over increasing their exposure to them for now in the wake of the Cyprus bailout.

“We remain optimistic on the outlook for equities, as we believe that investor sentiment will remain strong over the coming months as the strength of the global economy is confirmed, especially in the second half of the year,” he wrote in a research note.

“Cyprus counts for very little in terms of the European economy. The worst is behind us,” Roche-Brune Asset Management fund manager Gregoire Laverne said.

However, others were more negative, focusing on renewed fears over Italy.

Italy’s benchmark FTSE MIB equity index fell 2.5 per cent as traders cited speculation of a possible downgrade by rating agency Moody’s.

“It’s easy to speculate against Italy because there is no government,” said the co-founder of an Italian brokerage, who declined to be named.

Wall Street initially opened higher and the Dow Jones industrial average reached another record intraday high, but stocks retreated in morning trade, helping pull European equity markets lower.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.37 per cent. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was down 0.27 per cent. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 0.23 per cent.

Earlier, the Dow had set another lifetime intraday high, and the S&P 500 touched a session high that was within a fraction of a point of its 2007 record closing high.

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German chancellor Angela Merkel speaking at the Bundestag last week about Cyprus

Merkel boost at home but resentment abroad Deal removes one of biggest threats to her re-election

By Noah Barkin EUROPE’S onerous bailout deal for Cyprus has burnished Angela Merkel’s reputation as a tough defender of German interests and removed one of the biggest threats to her reelection prospects half a year before voters go to the polls.

But the agreement, struck in the early morning hours yesterday in Brussels, comes at a price. It is likely to fan resentment in southern Europe over Germany’s bitter reform medicine and may ultimately increase the risk of backsliding by a reluctant government in Nicosia.

“Much more than with Greece, there is concern over programme implementation, that bank restructuring will be circumvented and that deposit outflows cannot be stopped,” said one senior European official.

Merkel’s aides refused to describe the deal, which was reached after tense negotiations that prompted President Nicos Anastasiades to threaten his resignation, as a “total victory” for Berlin, as some commentators did.

But German officials did make clear they had got virtually everything they had been seeking in the run-up to the make-or-break meeting of finance ministers, central bankers and IMF officials.

After coming under sharp criticism for approving a deal last week that would have hit small savers in the island’s banks, Germany and its allies reversed course and forced Anastasiades to accept a massive “bail-in” - or forced losses - for bigger depositors.

Popular Bank (Laiki), will be shut down completely, while deposits in Bank of Cyprus will be slashed.

This kind of deal, which ends the island’s status as an offshore financial centre for rich Russians and Britons, had been Germany’s wish from the start.

“We got what we always wanted, a bail-in that shrinks the over-sized banking sector in Cyprus,” Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said.

The result virtually guarantees that the bailout will sail through the Bundestag lower house of parliament and leaves Germany’s centre-left opposition with precious little to gripe about.

Greens leader Katrin Goering-Eckardt avoided speaking about the new deal altogether, instead criticising the government for hurting confidence with last week’s accord, which is now obsolete.

More importantly for Merkel, the agreement with Cyprus reinforces her image as a tough negotiator only prepared to expose German taxpayers to eurozone bailouts

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in return for the most painful of reform commitments.

She had taken a risk on Cyprus by demanding, initially via Schaeuble, heavy losses for Cypriot bank depositors and then refusing to budge.

Had Anastasiades not relented, Cyprus would have gone bankrupt, potentially spreading contagion across the single currency bloc for which Merkel would have been blamed.

To avoid that and prevent a repeat of the embarrassing deal that unravelled the previous week, sources at the Brussels negotiations said Merkel gave very clear instructions that she wanted a deal sealed before the unwieldy Eurogroup, with its 17 finance ministers, convened.

This meant that a smaller group, led by European Council President Herman van Rompuy and also including European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, ended up negotiating with Anastasiades and Finance Minister Michael Sarris for much of the night, while Schaeuble and his counterparts waited.

Still, the deal carries significant risks and could come back to haunt Germany and its partners down the line.

After a week in which banks were shuttered, Cyprus faces a substantial hit to its econ-

omy and the risk of further capital flight that could shatter the foundations on which the deal is based.

Then there is the question of how eagerly Anastasiades, whose only apparent victory on Monday was preserving the island’s biggest bank in shrunken form, will implement a programme he clearly didn’t want.

Merkel will also have to accept further damage to her image outside Germany and a deepening divide between Europe’s north and south.

German officials were peppered with questions on Monday about whether the Cyprus agreement would aggravate long-simmering resentment of Berlin within Europe, and perhaps even convince some states that Merkel’s cure is worse than their disease.

For Nicosia’s European partners and financial markets, one of the most positive aspects of the deal was that the Cypriot parliament did not have to approve it. But how long will Anastasiades be able to keep onside lawmakers who feel they’ve been mandated to by Berlin?

“It is far from clear that all the current members of the Euro area will be prepared to join Germany on this journey, once they have fully internalised how tough it is going to be,” said JP Morgan analyst Alex White.

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Popular Bank board thought that the EU would not let it fail

By Laura Noonan THE board of collapsed Cyprus Popular Bank thought Europe would never let the ailing lender fail, its departed vice chairman said in his first interview since stepping down on Friday.

Chris Pavlou, a Cypriot-born banker, had joined the board of Cyprus Popular, also known as Laiki, in December 2011 and was put in charge of helping the bank sort out its troubled operations. He had spent more than 30 years working for banks over-

seas including HSBC and Barclays.

Cyprus ultimately agreed to close Laiki, the second-largest bank, and transfer deposits under €100,000 into its competitor, a move that will cost thousands of employees their jobs and could wipe out all deposits above €100,000.

“Professionally today is the worst day of my life. People in the bank, they have been there a long time, a lifetime,” Pavlou said.

He said he stepped down after the decision late on Thursday to split Laiki into a good bank and bad bank, because he disagreed with

the strategy and felt he could do no more on the board.

“To be fair to the rest of the board, they felt that the European Union would never let Cyprus go down, they would never let Laiki go down,” Pavlou said.

“I had a different view to that. I believed that there was that danger very clearly.”

Pavlou had supported Cyprus’ original plan to tax deposits below €100,000 at a rate of 6.75 per cent, a proposal that provoked outrage both locally and internationally since it breached a government guaran-

tee scheme. It was ultimately voted down by parliament last Tuesday.

“Ten days ago when they came back from the EU with that solution, it wasn’t easy but it was the best one,” he said. “I knew in my heart that the next thing to come, it would be worse.”

Pavlou said the first plan was better because both Laiki and Bank of Cyprus would have survived, albeit as smaller institutions, and that the measures would not have imposed such hardship on large depositors.

Those large depositors are “certainly not” all Russian oligarchs.

“It’s a lot of Cypriots who stayed loyal to the banks,” he said, adding that pension funds also had large deposits at the bank.

Pavlou said a significant amount of large deposits had flowed out of the bank in recent months but that closing the banks had prevented an avalanche of withdrawals in the week and a half after the announcement of taxes on deposits.

“Some money did come out in the last 10 days. It was a slide if you like - panic amongst the Cyprus populace - and slowly but surely they were taking money out.”

All banks to remain closed till Thursday

BoC depositors face haircut up to 40 per cent Depositors expected to contribute a percentage of balances over €100,000

By Elias Hazou BANK of Cyprus depositors contributing to the recapitalisation of the island’s oncelargest lender may take a hit of anywhere from 30 to 40 per cent, market sources are guessing.

A last-minute deal reached in Brussels yesterday saves Cyprus from financial meltdown and keeps its European Central Bank lifeline open.

But it’s expected to deal a devastating blow to the island’s financial sector.

According to the Eurogroup statement released yesterday, Laiki (Popular Bank) will be resolved immediately - with full contribution of equity shareholders, bond holders and uninsured depositors.

Laiki will be split into a good bank and a bad bank, and the bad bank will be run down over time, the Eurogroup statement read.

The good bank will be merged with the Bank of Cyprus (BoC). It will take €9 billion of Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) with it.

Only uninsured deposits in BoC will remain frozen until recapitalisation has been effected.

“BoC will be recapitalised through a deposit/equity conversion of uninsured deposits with full contribution of equity shareholders and bond holders,” the Eurogroup said.

The deposits to shares conversion “will be such that a capital ratio of 9 per cent is secured by the end of the programme.”

The deal struck between the government and international creditors does not provide for a levy, or bank tax, on depositors per se. Nevertheless, depositors should expect a de facto haircut since it is their money which will go towards recapitalising the bank.

“In effect, depositors will become the new shareholders,” a senior bank executive said.

Under a partial swap of deposits with ordinary bank shares, senior depositors in

the BoC will contribute a percentage of their cash over €100,000.

Whereas the ‘contribution’ is a given, its extent is not.

That will depend on how much the bank needs to raise to meet capital adequacy requirements.

Bank sources said it was far too early to calculate the size of the ‘haircut’, but speculated it would be in the region of 30 to 40 per cent.

If a depositor has €120,000 in the BoC, he or she would lose, say, 30 per cent of the amount above the €100,000 insured threshold. Thirty per cent of €20,000 comes to €6,000. The depositor will also receive shares of a nominal value for the €6,000 contributed.

Where two natural persons hold a joint account of €200,000, that amount will be ‘split up’ for each of the persons and thus be fully guaranteed. They will lose nothing.

COMPENSATION The €100,000 cap on compensation relates to the total deposits held by a customer in a certain bank. The net compensation amount is calculated as the difference between the deposit amounts and the pending loans or other credit facilities or claims by the bank on the customer.

Bean counters at the BoC now face the mammoth task of going into each and every account to work out how much cash is available.

All other banks operating here have been spared a haircut.

No one can tell whether the BoC can recapitalise to the extent demanded by the European Central Bank.

In October last year the EBA said the two Cyprus banks need a combined bailout of €2.5 billion, due mainly to their exposure to toxic Greek sovereign debt that has suffered a massive writedown.

But those numbers are outdated, and given the situation over the past few weeks,

it’s all but certain that the BoC’s capital ratio has further deteriorated.

The decision to saddle BoC with the emergency liquidity given to Laiki by the European Central Bank will prove the major headache for the bank.

In all, Laiki is said to have received emergency assistance to the tune of €9 billion. But there are limits to how much of this assistance – akin to an overdraft – the ECB can provide to any one bank. Since Laiki’s ELA now ‘belongs’ to BoC, it’s not clear how much more of this assistance the ECB will extend to the bank.

The BoC itself has received some €1.5 billion in ELA funds.

That puts BoC in a vice, since heavy outflows of deposits are anticipated once restrictions on capital movement are lifted. The bank might then run dangerously low on liquidity, forcing it to turn to the ECB for more emergency cash. But because ELA funds are not unlimited, at some point the ECB would presumably turn off the tap.

Whether the BoC can remain a viable concern – a precondition for it to qualify for emergency liquidity – is anyone’s guess, said DISY MP Prodromos Prodromou.

As for Laiki, its fate should have come as no surprise, the lawmaker added.

“The MoU concluded last November between the previous government and the troika specifically called for the resolution of non-viable banks. This was in the text.

Did no one pay attention to it back then? And now we’ve all suddenly remembered this thing called ELA,” he remarked.

“Whatever happens, Cyprus has definitely lost its comparative advantage as a financial services centre. Now our job is to ensure that the Bank of Cyprus survives, that the economy itself survives, so we can start rebuilding,” Prodromou said.

Those with less than €100,000 will not contribute

continued from page one Council decided not to object to the request for provision of Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) by the Central Bank of Cyprus, in accordance with the prevailing rules,” the ECB said in a statement. “It will continue to monitor the situation closely.”

It was still not clear until late last night whether the banks other than Laiki and Bank of Cyprus would operate without any restrictions on transactions or capital movements.

President Nicos Anastasiades met the Central Bank governor at the Presidential Palace last night.

Earlier, online news outlet Stockwatch quoted a Central Bank spokesperson that no restrictions were necessary given the ECB has promised to make emergency cash available to Bank of Cyprus.

It was also unclear whether the ‘good’ Laiki would open or whether the merger with Bank of Cyprus should be completed by Thursday.

The capital control law passed last Friday gives the regulator the power to: restrict cash withdrawals; ban premature termination of time deposits; mandate a compulsory reprogramme of maturing time deposits; ban or restrict opening new accounts; convert current accounts into time deposits; ban or restrict non-cash transactions; restrict use of credit, debit or prepaid cards; ban or restrict cashing cheques; restrict interbank transactions or transactions within the same bank; restrict transactions between the public and credit institutions; and restrict movement of capital, payments and transfers.

OVERSEAS LENDING, BANK EXPOSURE AROUND $100B OVERSEAS lenders, excluding those in Russia, had $59.2 billion of outstanding loans to Cyprus at the end of September, according to Bank for International Settlements (BIS) data.

BIS statistics, the only ones to chart cross-border lending around the world, do not include loans from Russia. Ratings agency Moody’s estimates Russian bank loans to Cyprus-based companies of Russian origin were $30-40 billion.

The BIS data show lenders from Greece and Germany have the biggest exposures to Cyprus of the reporting countries.

Some banks disclose their loans to Cyprus, but the European Banking Authority has not forced banks to release a breakdown since a 2011 stress-test.

That showed Greece’s Alpha Bank had a €4.8 billion exposure at the end of 2010, which it said stood at €4.6 billion at the end of September.

Germany’s HSH Nordbank had about €1.6 billion in corporate loans to Cyprus at the end of September, mainly to ships belonging to German and international firms that are registered in Cyprus.

Dutch group ING had about €900 million exposure at the end of last year to companies registered in Cyprus. Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo said its loan exposure was €138 million.

Britain’s HSBC had a net exposure of about $400 million to Cyprus at the end of 2012, Barclays said its net exposure was £323 million and RBS had loans of £377 million, mostly in corporate loans.

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Home A crisis played out How the world viewed the deal that will finally lead to Cyprus’ bailout on social media

From solidarity to vitriol “We got what we always wanted, a bail-in that shrinks the over-sized banking sector in Cyprus” German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble

By Poly Pantelides

“I am confident that the programme will work, but let’s be honest. At this moment, we cannot say exactly what the impact is going to be” European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso “They gave me strength during last night’s difficult struggle, to get the best possible result for Cyprus” President Nicos Anastasiades on Twitter thanking the people of Cyprus for their messages of solidarity “It’s not that we have won a battle, but we really avoided a disastrous exit from the eurozone” Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris “(T)he case of Cyprus offers lessons… the way the Cyprus case was handled is no way to do business in the EU. Negotiations lacked transparency, democratic accountability and were badly communicated” European Parliament Presi-

Comprehensive and credible plan: IMF chief Christine Lagarde. Below: EC President Jose Manuel Barroso dent Martin Schulz “Citizens and markets are puzzled by the degree of improvisation that eurozone leaders have shown. Shaky

agreements that last less than 48 hours are very costly for everybody and lead to an explosive political situation.

No system and no structure can afford to be in a perma-

nent state of emergency” MEP Sharon Bowles, Chair of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee “Unfortunately, instead of support and solidarity, our partners offered blackmail, bile and vitriol” House Speaker Yiannakis Omirou “It took more time for the Cypriots and the Cypriot authorities to fully understand what their options were and how deep the crisis was. It’s hard for me to say what made the penny drop, I think it was probably because it was five to midnight, literally it was five to midnight, and we were not making much progress and we simply said to the Cypriots: ‘look, we’re ready to help you, there’s 10 billion available, but you have to realise what the present situation is. You have to act now. Political choices have run out.’ There was a deadline. And that worked” Eurogroup President (Dutch Finance Minister) Jeroen Dijsselbloem in an interview with Reuters “The people’s concerns, bitterness and frustration regarding the behaviour and reactions of our EU partners were fully justified. We belong to this Union as an

equal member. And we believe in this Union as a family of friendship and solidarity, mutual respect and understanding. There is no place in this family for pressures, threats and blackmail. The dignity of each member of the European family is not measured and is not dependent on its size and weight” Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides “I want to say this to our fellow Europeans in Cyprus: Cyprus and the Cypriots have gone through very difficult times before – and you know what I mean – and the Cypriots have overcome these difficult times. There will be tough times ahead now as well, but I’m sure that by working hard together, we shall overcome these difficulties” European Commission VicePresident Olli Rehn “The agreement reached on Cyprus provides a comprehensive and credible plan to deal with the current economic challenges in the country” International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde “I think, from Britain’s point of view, the situation in Cyprus is a reminder of a couple of important home truths.

The first is it was right not to join the euro, we are better off outside the euro” UK Prime Minister David Cameron “The capital owned by the Church, which was over €100 million, has been lost” Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II “We are expecting an increase in unemployment, a reduction in business activity, a further shrinking of the construction sector and others” Limassol Mayor Andreas Christou on the likely impact of the crisis on the coastal town, where many Russian businesses have set up shop

AWARE that the end of the world as they’ve known it is coming, Cypriots have been expressing a range of emotions on social media over the past week or so, from lamentation to anger and frustration.

People want to see heads roll and a photograph of bankers has been doing the rounds of facebook with the title ‘Wanted’. “These people should pay, they are the responsible ones,” one person said.

People have also been looking to former President Demetris Christofias, many holding him accountable for years of inaction and delays that have contributed to the grim future of thousands of Cypriots.

A cartoon on Greece’s 1821 revolt against the Ottoman Empire on occasion of yesterday’s independence anniversary showed a revolutionary asking whether he should do “the enemy” only to be told to wait for approval by the Eurogroup, the eurozone’s finance ministers.

Many have issued pleas to buy only local products and support local farmers.

And one person wrote directly to President Nicos Anastasiades on Facebook asking that his Cabinet and members of parliament all accept a minimum of 30 per cent cut in wages and benefits.

On Friday last week, Anastasiades wrote on Facebook, “there will be painful aspects but the country must be saved”.

About a week before that, the tone was lighter with Anastasiades declaring his conviction to apply any terms agreed and quoting the head of the Socialists in European Parliament Martin Schulz as saying that Cyprus deserved the same treatment as other countries got. Comments were encouraging and positive at first, but when Anastasiades came back with a deal proposing a levy on all bank deposits, including those holding deposits of less than €100,000, people’s tone changed. A deposits haircut is not equal treatment, “we should leave the euro and self-destruct if we are going to destruction”.

When Parliament threw out the proposal last week a mad race ensued to find a solution, made more urgent after the European Central Bank said it was cutting off emergency liquidity assistance by yesterday unless a bailout programme was agreed on “to ensure the solvency of the banks.” The tone changed again with some regretting not taking the original proposal.

Looking to capture the collective consciousness, a group of young Cypriot historians have created Project And Then, trying to collect the writings and thoughts of people’s experiences “during these eventful times in Cyprus” via project.andthen@ gmail.com And among the tweeters some have been trying to stay positive. One posted, “Good morning my beautiful Cypriots : ) It is time for change! It is time for new beginnings!”

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Money flew out of Cyprus as president ‘fumbled’ bailout S NEW President Nicos Anastasiades hesitated over an EU bailout that has wrecked Cyprus’ offshore financial haven status, money was oozing out of his country’s closed banks.

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In banknotes at cash machines and exceptional transfers for “humanitarian supplies”, large amounts of euros fled the island before and after Cypriot lawmakers stunned Europe by rejecting a levy on all bank deposits last Tuesday.

EU negotiators knew something was wrong when the Central Bank of Cyprus requested more banknotes from the European Central Bank than the withdrawals it was reporting to Frankfurt implied were needed, an EU source familiar with the process said.

“The amount the Cypriots mentioned... on a daily basis was much less than it was in reality,” the source said.

Confusion over just how much money was pulled out of Cyprus’ banks is illustrative of the confusion surrounding the negotiations as a whole.

Representing just 0.2 per cent of the eurozone economy, Cyprus nevertheless threatened to reignite the bloc’s debt crisis. Cyprus’ problems began in Greece - it is heavily exposed to the eurozone’s first bailout casualty.

No one knows exactly how much money has left Cyprus’ banks, or where it has gone.

The two banks at the centre of the crisis - Cyprus Popular Bank (Laiki) and Bank of Cyprus - have units in London which remained open throughout the week and placed no limits on withdrawals. Bank of Cyprus also owns 80 per cent of Russia’s Uniastrum Bank, which put no restrictions on withdrawals in Russia. Russians were among Cypriot banks’ largest depositors.

While ordinary Cypriots queued at ATM machines to withdraw a few hundred euros as credit card transactions stopped, other depositors used an array of techniques to access their money.

Companies that had to meet margin calls to avoid defaulting on deals were granted funds. Transfers for trade in humanitarian products,

Confusion over just how much money was pulled out of the banks illustrative of the confusion surrounding the negotiations as a whole

Anastasiades meets the press in Brussels

Insight Annika Breidthardt, Luke Baker and Michele Kambas medicines and jet fuel were allowed.

Chris Pavlou, who was vice chairman of Laiki until Friday, said while some money was withdrawn over a period of several days it was in the order of millions of euros, not billions.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the bank closure had limited capital flight but that the ECB was looking closely at the issue. He declined to provide figures.

Big depositors, including wealthy Russians and Britons, whom the Cypriot president had sought to shield from a levy of any more than 10 per cent on their holdings, will end up being far more severely burned - if their money is still there.

Under a bailout deal sealed

Cold shoulder: Sarris in Moscow last week

early yesterday in snowy Brussels, Cyprus will have to shut its second largest bank and inflict heavy losses on large account holders at the biggest.

Deposits over €100,000 in both will be frozen and used to resolve the debts of the defunct Laiki and recapitalise Bank of Cyprus. Both banks were hurt by their exposure to Greek sovereign debt when bondholders were forced to take writedowns last year.

By Sunday, one participant in the negotiations said there was almost no capital left in Laiki, a bank whose market value peaked at €8.1 billion in November 2007. Laiki’s former vice chairman Pavlou disagreed, estimating there had been €2.5 billion in foreign deposits alone.

No figure was announced for the scale of the “haircut” on big depositors, but it will be nearer to 50 per cent than the 15 per cent Anastasiades rejected on March 15, those in the negotiations said.

At one point on Sunday afternoon, the conservative president threatened to resign in an emotional exchange with the heads of the EU institutions and the International Monetary Fund.

The troika of lenders called his bluff, saying that if he quit they would continue negotiations with the speaker of the Cypriot parliament, next in line constitutionally, a participant in the talks said. Anastasiades stayed.

For months, bailout talks with his Soviet-educated Communist predecessor, Demetris Christofias, had gone nowhere. “Christofias didn’t want to be the president who had signed a bailout with the troika,” an EU official said.

The cost of a rescue kept

on mounting. By the time the new leader was ready to do a deal, the IMF and Germany were demanding a 40 per cent across-the-board bail-in of creditors and depositors in the two main banks.

An EU source said the IMF and Germany had initially wanted to go further and wind down both Laiki and Bank of Cyprus.

European politicians, anxious to deflect criticism for having been party to an initial deal 10 days ago that would have imposed a levy on all small savers in Cyprus, rushed to say that Nicosia had only itself to blame.

French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said he had always opposed taxing deposits smaller than €100,000, which are subject to an EU guarantee. Yet neither he nor other ministers or European Commission officials spoke out against the idea at the March 15 meeting, participants said.

Only when a firestorm of protest erupted in Cyprus and it became clear the Cypriot parliament would not endorse the plan did they belatedly call for accounts under the €100,000 threshold to be left untouched.

Perhaps the most disastrous episode in a week of blunders and miscalculation was the Cypriot attempt to persuade Russia to provide alternative finance in return for future access to the island’s untapped offshore gas reserves.

Cypriot lawmakers overplayed their hand in rejecting the deposit levy in the misguided belief that Moscow would come to the island’s aid. Cypriot Finance Minister Michael Sarris was dispatched to Moscow without any clear gameplan or mandate the day

after the 56-member legislature voted 36-0 to reject the levy, a source close to his delegation said.

After a frosty initial meeting on Wednesday, at which his Russian counterpart offered nothing in response to his request for a new €5 billion loan and easier repayment terms on an existing €2.5 billion credit, Sarris was left to stew in his suite.

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom denied reports that it was considering lending Cyprus money in return for future gas access, and VTB, Russia’s number two bank, disavowed any interest in buying Laiki.

The Russians kept Sarris waiting all day Thursday.

Talks only resumed at 9pm and went nowhere. By midnight, he knew he would be returning to Nicosia the next morning empty-handed.

The European Commission and the ECB had quietly told the Russian Finance Ministry and central bank that any further loan from Moscow would just add to Cypriot debt and hence undermine the basis for an EU-IMF bailout, sources with knowledge of the exchange said.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev accused the EU of handling the Cyprus crisis “like a bull in a china shop”.

He and President Vladimir Putin complained to visiting European Commission President Barroso that Moscow should have been consulted before the decision to impose a levy on depositors.

The most powerful force pushing Cyprus to accept a deal was the European Central Bank, which for months had kept the country afloat despite growing internal misgivings about the banks’ solvency.

Hours before the ECB announced that it would turn off the ELA taps for Cypriot banks on Monday, a Cypriot lawmaker said: “Anastasiades is just trying to scare parliament. The ECB would never do that, it needs a two thirds majority.”

ECB officials contacted Latvia, another EU country that has received large Russian deposits, to warn authorities against taking in Russian money fleeing Cyprus, two sources familiar with the contacts said.

“It was made clear to our Latvian friends that if they want to join the euro, they should not provide a haven for Russian money exiting Cyprus,” a eurozone central banker said.

Even after a week of drama in Nicosia and disillusionment in Moscow, Anastasiades and his team seemed not to comprehend when they arrived in Brussels on Sunday the magnitude of the collapse they were facing.

“It took more time for the Cypriots and the Cypriot authorities to fully understand what their options were and how deep the crisis was,” Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch chairman of eurozone finance ministers, said in an interview.

“It’s hard for me to say what made the penny drop, I think it was probably because it was five to midnight, literally it was five to midnight, and we were not making much progress and we simply said to the Cypriots: ‘look, we’re ready to help you, there’s 10 billion available, but you have to realise what the present situation is. You have to act now. Political choices have run out.’ There was a deadline. And that worked.”

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US hands over Bagram prison to Afghanistan Issue has strained ties between two countries THE US has handed over to Afghanistan the only prison still under American control, resolving an issue that has strained ties between the countries.

A transfer ceremony took place at the prison, which was renamed the Afghan National Detention Facility at Parwan.

It had been delayed while the two sides finalised a deal over the fate of prisoners considered dangerous.

The handover came as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit.

He is to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai to discuss a series of issues, such as the transfer of security to Afghan forces.

Bagram jail has a chequered reputation, having been at the centre of a number of prisoner abuse allegations.

It was once located in Bagram air base, one of the largest military bases for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, about 40km (25 miles) north of the capital, Kabul. The new Parwan facility was constructed a few miles away and populated with inmates in 2010.

“The transfer of the detention facility is an important part of the overall transition of security lead to Afghan National Security Forces.

This ceremony highlights an increasingly confident,

Although a handover ceremony took place last September, US forces remained at the prison pending a deal over the fate of certain prisoners capable and sovereign Afghanistan,” said Gen Dunford, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.

Last March the US agreed to hand over responsibility for the majority of the detainees, thought to number more than 3,000, and actually held a transfer ceremony last September.

But the full transfer was held up over a disagreement about the fate of certain inmates who the US feared could be released if the prison was handed over.

US forces remained at the prison and continued to guard about 50 inmates as

well as those taken into custody since the initial transfer deal, AFP news agency reports.

Earlier this month a ceremony transferring the final prisoners to Afghan custody was called off at the last minute because President Karzai reportedly rejected part of the deal.

The Pentagon said over the weekend that an agreement had been reached. Reports say this ensures that prisoners of concern will not be released from the detention centre without a full review.

The prison has been de-

scribed as ‘Afghanistan’s Guantanamo’.

In January 2012, Afghan investigators accused the US Army of abusing detainees at Bagram. The investigators said prisoners had reported being tortured, held without evidence and subjected to humiliating body searches.

Nato and the US have rejected allegations of abuse as untrue and pointed to the fact that they have given the Afghan Human Rights commission access to check them independently.

In February 2012, US soldiers unwittingly burned

Korans confiscated from prisoners at Bagram, leading to days of protests and targeted killings across Afghanistan.

A US investigation said there was no malicious intent to insult Islam.

But the future of the USrun prison had become a thorn in the side of US-Afghan relations ahead of the planned withdrawal of these forces in 2014.

Many Nato forces have already begun withdrawing troops from Afghanistan ahead of the complete transfer of power to Afghan security forces.

Berlusconi offer fails to end political stalemate

By Roberto Landucci

Pier Luigi Bersani has ruled out an alliance with media baron Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom

SILVIO Berlusconi repeated a demand yesterday to be included in any new Italian government, but there was no sign his centreleft rival would renege on a promise not to ally with the tycoon as a way out of political stalemate.

Pier Luigi Bersani - asked by the president to try to form a coalition after a February election that gave him a majority in the lower house but not in the Senate - has ruled out an alliance with the media baron’s People of Freedom (PDL).

But Bersani’s Democratic Party (PD) has few other options, leaving the eurozone’s third biggest economy in a political limbo that is a danger for the whole currency bloc, badly shaken by near melt-down in Cyprus.

Berlusconi said the PD should allow his party to choose a successor to 87-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano, a left-winger whose term ends on May 15 - another aspect of Berlusconi’s offer which is unappealing to Bersani.

“The line is clear, either the PD changes its ideas and makes itself available for a government with the PDL to get the

economy moving again and declares it is prepared to elect a moderate to the presidency or we go back and vote,” Berlusconi said in an interview with his own Canale 5 television.

Bersani’s overtures to the third biggest group in parliament - the populist 5-Star - have been rejected. The movement led by ex-comic Beppe Grillo says it will have nothing to do with Italy’s mainstream parties, all of which it views as corrupt.

Despite that, the PD said Berlusconi’s offer remained unappealing.

“Our experience is a negative one for a very simple reason. What we’ve seen unfortunately is that, in the end, Berlusconi thinks only of his own interests,” PD deputy leader Enrico Letta told SkyTG24 television.

“Honestly, the idea that in a day after the election you can cancel out everything which has gone on in these past 20 years, we all know it’s just propaganda,” he said.

If he cannot form a coalition, Napolitano may ask a respected figure from outside the main party system to try to form a broad-based government. The other alternative is a return to the polls.

Bersani expressed the urgency of Italy’s dilemma.

WORLD TODAY Hong Kong court denies maid’s residency HONG Kong’s top court has ruled that domestic workers are not eligible to apply for permanent residency, ending a twoyear battle that has split opinion.

The case had centred on Evangeline Banao Vallejos, a maid from the Philippines who has worked in Hong Kong for more than 17 years.

Domestic workers had argued that denying them permanent residency was unconstitutional.

The ruling has implications for Hong Kong’s 300,000 domestic workers.

These workers come mainly from the Philippines and Indonesia, often spending years in the territory.

“The FDH (foreign domestic helper) is obliged to return to the country of origin at the end of the contract and is told from the outset that admission is not for the purposes of settlement and that dependants cannot be brought to reside in Hong Kong,” the Court of Final Appeal said in a written judgement.

Vallejos was “speechless but calmly resigned”, her lawyer, Mark Daly said.

“While we respect the judgment we disagree with it,’’ he said. “The ruling is not a good reflection of the values we should be teaching youngsters and people in our society.’’

EU suspends Zimbabwe sanctions THE European Union said yesterday it would immediately suspend travel bans and asset freezes on most Zimbabwean firms and people on its sanctions list after Zimbabweans approved a new constitution curbing presidential powers.

“The EU has today agreed to immediately suspend the application of measures against 81 individuals and eight entities,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement.

Ten people, including President Robert Mugabe, and two companies, including state-run diamond miner the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, remain on the sanctions list, an EU source said.

A number of “key decision makers” would remain under EU sanctions until peaceful, transparent and credible elections had been held, Ashton said.

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No respite from the big freeze Severe weather could return on Good Friday FREEZING cold weather and snow is continuing to cause disruption, with thousands of homes across the UK without power and many roads still impassable.

Drivers and pedestrians have also been warned about the danger of black ice during yesterday’s morning commute.

Despite the heavy snow giving way to just light flurries, forecasters are now predicting the severe weather could return on Good Friday. It could mean the first white Easter in five years, as the nation enters British Summertime.

Several thousand households in Scotland remain without electricity, down from a peak of about 18,000.

The isle of Arran and parts

Many roads across the country are impassable as the authorities struggle to cope of the south-west mainland of Scotland were particularly badly hit by power cuts on Friday.

Blizzard conditions also lashed Northern Ireland,

where emergency oxygen supplies had to be airlifted to an elderly man who was trapped by heavy snow.

Customers in remote areas of Northern Ireland were

Prince Harry heading back to the US after naked pics furore

By Robert Jobson PRINCE Harry is to return to America on a high-profile official visit for the first time since his Las Vegas naked picture scandal.

He will tour the East Coast in mid-May, visiting New York, New Jersey, Washington DC and Connecticut, and also take in a sporting spectacular for injured troops in Colorado, on his first visit to the US on behalf of the British government.

The visit, announced yesterday only weeks after Harry, 28, returned from frontline duty in Afghanistan serving as an Apache helicopter co-pilot, shows he is regarded as a key ‘ambassador’ for the Foreign Office - and comes despite the row last summer when snaps of him naked in his holiday hotel room made headlines around the world.

The pictures have not damaged his reputation as a roving royal ambassador, following a tour to the Caribbean and Brazil on behalf of the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee.

That trip was seen as a great success, especially as a trade mission.

It is understood he will carry out a series of engagements in the US on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to bolster British trade, along with several engagements that reflect his personal interests, including supporting

Snaps of the prince naked in his holiday hotel room in Las Vegas made headlines around the world last summer war veterans and vulnerable young people.

Harry will end the tour playing polo in Connecticut in aid of Sentebale, the children’s charity he founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to help vulnerable children.

“Prince Harry is a very popular member of the royal family and recognised globally,” said a source. “He is a brilliant asset for the government in helping promote trade.”

Another close source joked: “You can rest assured he will be on soft drinks.”

Harry, currently on leave, has already made a three-

day visit to Lesotho and South Africa to raise awareness of Sentebale since his 20-week tour of duty with the Army Air Corps in Afghanistan came to an end.

With the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge expecting their first child in July, it is thought his share of official duties will increase this year.

As for his private life, he is said to be ‘smitten’ by socialite girlfriend Cressida Bonas, 24.

The trip was first mooted a year ago when Harry said he wanted to go to the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs.

warned that it could be days before electricity is restored to them, due to continuing bad weather, but water supply has now been restored to most of the

1,000 homes affected. Hundreds of people in Cumbria also remain without power.

The Met Office still has sweeping yellow weather warnings in place across

Wales, central and northern England and southern Scotland, advising of the danger of ice. The warning said: “Lying snow in many areas will melt on roads and pavements by day, refreezing by night to give icy patches. The public should be aware of the potential for disruption to travel due to icy patches and snow blowing back on to roads.”

Andy Ratcliffe, a forecaster for MeteoGroup, the weather division for the Press Association, said: “The snow will be mainly confined to the east of Scotland and north-east England where there will be a dusting, but nothing significant. Elsewhere there will be some snow showers but nothing like the accumulations we’ve seen over the last few days and it will remain very cold and breezy.

Into the week there will be more scattered snow flurries but there is potential for more widespread snow returning at the end of the week.”

The Department for Transport has warned motorists to take precautions and only set off from home if they have checked the latest travel conditions. A spokesman said: “The unseasonal weather is affecting transport networks.”

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Eurogroup deal designed to kill off Cyprus, not merely cure it MANY said that Cyprus secured the best possible deal under the circumstances during the 10-hour negotiations in Brussels but this is of little comfort when we ponder the consequences of the terms imposed on President Anastasiades. The best possible deal will push us into a prolonged slump that will shrink the economy beyond recognition, as businesses will close down and the numbers of the unemployed will keep rising.

It is true that Cyprus brought this upon itself, the previous government ignoring the countless warnings over the years and behaving as if the problems would go away if it ignored them. We put ourselves in the position from which there was no escape but this did not justify the punitive nature of the bailout agreement imposed in the early hours of yesterday. The medicine administered by the Eurogroup, on the recommendation of the IMF and the ECB, is designed to finish off rather than cure the patient.

The winding up of Laiki Bank, the second largest lender, should have taken place last year but it was kept afloat by billions from the Emergency Liquidity Assistance. What was unacceptable and indicative of the troika’s bullying was the insistence that Laiki’s €9.2 billion debt should be undertaken by the Bank of Cyprus, which would also be obliged to take over Laiki’s good business, valued rather generously at €7 billion. To be able to survive with an additional €2 billion liability the Bank of Cyprus would have to bail in uninsured deposits by between 30 and 40 per cent to meet capital requirements, instead of the proposed 20 per cent.

This means that many businesses will lose a big chunk of their trading capital, be unable to make payments to creditors and to operate. Add to them the thousands of businesses that were using Laiki and will have lost all their capital and it is difficult to see how the economy would operate. Will credit be available or will the rest of the banks reduce facilities and call in loans to limit their exposure?

When the unaffected banks open today, if there are no restrictions on withdrawals, they could also come under severe pressure and face liquidity shortages because confidence in the Cypriot banking system has been shattered.

This is what the Eurogroup has achieved in its mission to reduce the size of the banking sector and destroy Cyprus’ economic model.

The fact is that Cyprus was small and inconsequential enough for Germany, the ECB and the IMF to make an example of without the risk of contagion for the rest of the eurozone.

They did not dare bail in depositors in the case of Ireland, Greece and Spain’s banks, ignoring the EU policy and legislation, which they felt obliged to pursue for Cyprus.

The big irony is that for months we have been hearing IMF, Eurogroup and Commission officials insisting that Cyprus’ public debt should be sustainable. It would be anything but sustainable now that they have killed off all economic prospects for the next five to 10 years.

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After Cyprus, eurozone faces tough bank regime Analysis Luke Baker

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HE rescue programme agreed for Cyprus on Monday represents a new template for resolving eurozone banking problems and other countries may have to restructure their banking sectors, the head of the region’s finance ministers said.

“What we’ve done last night is what I call pushing back the risks,” Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, said hours after the Cyprus deal was struck.

“If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be ‘Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that?

What can you do to recapitalise yourself?’ If the bank can’t do it, then we’ll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we’ll ask them to contribute in recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders,” he said.

After 12 hours of talks with the EU and IMF, Cyprus agreed to shut down its second largest bank, with insured deposits those below €100,000 - moved to the Bank of Cyprus, the country’s largest lender. Uninsured deposits, those accounts with more than €100,000, face losses of €4.2 billion.

Uninsured depositors in the Bank of Cyprus will have their accounts frozen while the bank is restructured and recapitalised. Any capital that is needed to strengthen the bank will be drawn from accounts above €100,000.

The agreement is what is known as a “bail-in”, with shareholders and bondholders in banks forced to bear the costs of the restructuring first, followed by uninsured depositors. Under EU rules, deposits up to €100,000 are guaranteed.

The approach marks a radical departure for eurozone policy after three years of crisis in which taxpayers across the region have effectively been on the hook for resolving problem banks and indebted governments via multiple rescue programmes.

That process, with governments and taxpayers bearing the costs and providing the back stop, had to stop, Dijsselbloem said. Recent financial

Out of the heat of the crisis: head of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem market calm meant now was the time to make the change, although he conceded there was some concern that it could unsettle markets again.

“If we want to have a healthy, sound financial sector, the only way is to say, ‘Look, there where you take on the risks, you must deal with them, and if you can’t deal with them, then you shouldn’t have taken them on,’” he said.

“The consequences may be that it’s the end of story, and that is an approach that I think, now that we are out of the heat of the crisis, we should take.”

If adopted by the eurozone, Dijsselbloem’s template could also sound a death knell for a plan hatched nine months ago when the eurozone debt crisis was threatening to blow the currency area apart.

Then, eurozone leaders agreed that the bloc’s future rescue fund should be allowed to recapitalise banks directly, thereby breaking the debilitating link between teetering banks and weak governments forced to bail them out. That may now never happen.

Asked what the new approach meant for eurozone countries with highly leveraged banking sectors, such as Luxembourg and Malta, and for other countries with banking problems such as Slovenia, Dijsselbloem said they would have to shrink banks down.

“It means deal with it before you get in trouble. Strengthen your banks, fix your balance sheets and realise that if a bank gets in trouble, the response will no longer automatically be that we’ll come and take away your problem.

We’re going to push them back. That’s the first response we need. Push them back. You deal with them.”

The marked change in attitude, which Dijsselbloem agreed was a shift in strategy for EU policymakers, has consequences for how banks are recapitalised and for how financial markets react.

One of the major steps the eurozone has taken over the past three years has been to set up a rescue mechanism with guarantees and paid in capital totaling up to €700 billion - the European Stability Mechanism.

The expectation was that the ESM would be able to directly recapitalise eurozone banks that run into trouble from mid2014, once the European Central Bank has full oversight of all the region’s banks.

The goal of the ESM and direct recapitalisation was to break the so-called “doom loop” between indebted governments and their banking sectors. Now, Dijsselbloem says the aim is for the ESM never to have to be used.

“We should aim at a situation where we will never need to even consider direct recapitalisation,” he said.

“If we have even more instruments in terms of bail-in and how far we can go on bail-in, the need for direct recap will become smaller and smaller.

“I think the approach needs to be, let’s deal with the banks within the banks first, before looking at public money or any other instrument coming from the public side. Banks should basically be able to save themselves, or at least restructure or recapitalise themselves as far as possible.”

Dijsselbloem, 46, who took over as Eurogroup president only in January, said he had discussed the new approach with financial market participants and said he expected that they would adjust to the new regime over time.

“Now we’re going down the bail-in track and I’m pretty confident that the markets will see this as a sensible, very concentrated and direct approach instead of a more general approach,” he said.

“It will force all financial institutions, as well as investors, to think about the risks they are taking on because they will now have to realise that it may also hurt them. The risks might come towards them.”

LETTERS to the Editor Time to start asking the Brits to pay up for the Bases?

I WRITE to you to ask you if you think it is now time for Cyprus to fight back against the big bully boys of Europe.

I am an Irishman that visits your beautiful country every year, sometimes twice. I was sad to see the predicament Cyprus found itself in with the latest crisis.

I ask you and your people, especially the politicians in government, is it not now time to stand up against the

freebooters of Britain that occupy their military bases that are on “sovereign Cypriot soil”.

It is my belief that Britain should be asked to pay a substantial rent for their continued occupation of Cypriot land. I have read that Britain defaulted in 1964. If this is the case I believe the Cypriot people have the right to be compensated and claim rents and arrears.

This would surely enrich the exchequer of Cyprus and teach the bigger powers that they cannot ride roughshod over smaller nations for their own political contrivances.

I am in no way anti British. I must stress, however I feel that this issue should be taken to Europe for the good and betterment of your lovely people.

Joseph Canning, Northern Ireland

CYPRUS MAIL Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Local cultural show.

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Moiraia Fengaria Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

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Local period drama, based on true events.

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Brothers & Sisters (rpt) Fourth season of drama series. ‘Almost Normal’. Robert and Nora help Kitty make a decision about her treatment and prepare to tell the family that her cancer has spread.

Saul and Holly attend a wine auction, where an unwanted guest is determined to sabotage their offers.

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Two-part adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel, about Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Starring Naomie Harris. 2009. Part 2 of 2.

Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

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Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Passage To Malaysia (rpt) Documentary that explores some of the threads that weave the rich fabric that is modern Malaysia.

Current affairs show.

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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

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Klemmeni Zoi (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Yia Sena Local talk-show.

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News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Oi Vasiliades New daily family comedy based on the Argentinian sitcomtelenovela Los Roldan, replacing I Zoi tis allis.

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Local comedy series.

Twin brothers separated as infants unite to seek revenge on their parents’ killers.

Thrilling martial arts adventure, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as both siblings. 1991.

FILM: Sherlock Holmes Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. Detective thriller sequel, starring Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law and Rachel McAdams. 2009.

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Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema Fotis - Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: Wake A woman with a hobby of attending wakes falls for a widower.

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Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

S’ Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Capital Sports (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue News Sports News Igeia & Zoi FILM: The Third Miracle An investigative priest suffers a crisis of faith - but the strange death of a woman gives him a new perspective.

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01:20 dinnerladies 01:55 The Green Green Grass 02:25 Ideal 02:55 The Weakest Link 03:40 EastEnders 04:10 Doctors 04:40 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 05:10 Ideal 05:45 The Green Green Grass 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 3rd & Bird 07:10 Fimbles 07:30 Boogie Beebies 07:45 Tellytales 07:55 Tweenies 08:15 3rd & Bird 08:25 Fimbles 08:45 Boogie Beebies 09:00 Tellytales 09:10 Tweenies 09:30 dinnerladies 10:00 The Green Green Grass 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 32 Brinkburn Street 12:55 Fawlty Towers 13:25 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 14:20 dinnerladies 14:50 The Green Green Grass 15:20 The Weakest Link 16:05 EastEnders 16:35 Doctors 17:05 32 Brinkburn Street 17:45 dinnerladies 18:20 The Weakest Link 19:05 EastEnders 19:35 Doctors 20:05 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 20:55 Fawlty Towers 21:30 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 22:00 South Riding 22:50 As Time Goes By 23:20 Lab Rats 23:50 Outcasts 00:40 Fawlty Towers

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The Messenger (LTV3, 20.00) “We walk into these people’s lives; we don’t know anything,” says Ben Foster. “Trust me,” replies Woody Harrelson: “You don’t want to know”. Ben is the Messenger, the bearer of bad news - a US soldier tasked with the awful mission of going to relatives’ homes and being the first to notify them that their loved ones have been killed in action - but Woody is the MVP here (director Oren Moverman gave him an even better role three years later in Rampart), gruff and magnificent as the hard-living older soldier who partners Ben in his soul-crushing work. Some of the relatives collapse with grief, others lash out; one wife (Samantha Morton) is shaken but composed, thank-

ing the Messengers and saying that she knows it can’t be easy for them - and Ben, intrigued by her unusual reaction, decides to get closer. One of the most acclaimed Hollywood films of the past few years, though the quasi-romance is less successful than the spiky, joshing camaraderie between the two very different soldiers - a reminder that Moverman himself (who’s from Israel) did four years in the Army. Made in 2009.

Seeking Justice (Novacinema2, 20.10) “We’re just a few citizens seeking justice,” purrs Guy Pearce creepily - and you have to wonder when he became such a great villain (see also Lawless), but Ni-

Seeking Justice

colas Cage has no time to wonder because his life is going down the drain. It all starts when his wife (January Jones) is attacked on the street one night - and Nic is visiting her in hospital, looking devastated, when smoothie Pearce turns up and says he represents an “organisation” who’d be happy to kill the scumbag responsible: “This wouldn’t cost you anything financially, but we may ask a favour of you at some point in the future”. Don’t do it, Nic! Don’t give in to Pearce’s silky blandishments! You can guess what happens and in fact there are no surprises, except perhaps the fact that Cage is so subdued by his standards; even the equally crappy Trespass had that great bit where he yelled “Your filthy lust invited them in!”. Made in 2011.

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Reportage Cubby Broccoli started life selling vegetables in Harlem, but ended up with Hollywood’s ultimate ‘golden goose’. Now his daughter Barbara and stepson Michael are in control. Andrew Wilson on the lives and loves of the family behind Bond

Meet your makers, Mr Bond T

AKE A walk down Piccadilly in the direction of Hyde Park and you will see a grand, 18th-century, Grade II-listed building fashioned from Portland stone. Apart from a discreet metal plaque engraved with the words Eon House, there is nothing to tell you that this is the headquarters of brand Bond, one of the most profitable film franchises in the world. Eon Productions - formed by Cubby Broccoli in 1961 - is an acronym for ‘everything or nothing’, words that could stand as the family’s motto.

Since the release of Dr No, the first Bond film 50 years ago, 007’s celluloid exploits have grossed over $5 billion, transforming the Broccoli family from immigrant farmers scraping a living in Long Island, New York, into multimillionaires with homes in London and Los Angeles.

What is remarkable is that the Bond franchise is very much a family affair.

“One person described the Bond franchise as the most successful corner shop in the world,” says Stevan Riley, director of documentary Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007. “On Cubby’s deathbed he told his daughter Barbara not to let outside forces screw up Bond. He wanted it to be kept in the family. He knew it was a golden goose, but to him the Bond franchise was much more: it was an heirloom that needed to be treasured.”

Cubby died from heart failure in Beverly Hills in 1996.

Today, Eon is owned by his daughter Barbara, 52, and his stepson Michael Gregg Wilson, 69. It is difficult to assess their personal wealth, but one of Barbara’s former lovers, the TV chef James Martin said, “She wasn’t just in the mega league, she was at the very top of it.”

Barbara’s world of first-

class travel and celebrity soirees (she was close to the late Dodi Fayed and is friends with Hugh Grant and David Walliams) could not be more different from her father’s poverty-stricken upbringing. Albert Romolo Broccoli was born in April 1909 in a tenement block in Astoria, Queens, but almost did not survive as his was a breech birth and he had trouble breathing. His grandmother Marietta, who had emigrated from Calabria to America in 1897, resorted to a traditional remedy – the insertion of the head of a black chicken into the child’s mouth.

The treatment worked and the boy started to breathe again.

Albert - who was first called ‘Cubby’ by his cousin Pat DiCicco, after the cartoon character Abie Kabibble grew up on his father’s farm in Long Island. One of his duties was to sell the family’s produce at Harlem Market.

In 1934, with the encouragement of DiCicco, a Hollywood agent, Cubby travelled to LA to break into showbusiness. At first, life was tough and Cubby sold hair products and Christmas trees to get by. How-

ever, his cousin was wellplaced to introduce him ctor to people such as the actor m he Cary Grant, with whom became great friends, the hes, director Howard Hughes, who employed him as an assistant on the film The Outlaw, and Charles Feldob in man, who gave him a job his talent agency. In the early 1950s, Cubby made the transition from agent to film producer, working with partner Irving Allen. Their first joint venture was the 1953 rring film The Red Beret, starring reenAlan Ladd, with a screenaum, play by Richard Maibaum, who would later write many of the Bond films. ubby The following year Cubby pted and his wife Nedra adopted a son Tony and two years later she gave birth to a daughter Tina. Tragically, in September 1958, at the age of only 39, Nedra died of cancer while in New York. It was during this time that Cubby first attempted to secure the film rights to Bond.

Ian Fleming had published his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953 and immediately found international fame. Cubby knew at once that the books would be filmic gold. “Fleming’s fictional character offered ex-

citing scope for all the basics in screen entertainment,” he wrote in his autobiography. “A virile and resourceexotic ful hero, locations, the ingenious apparatus of espionage, and sex on a fairly sophisticated level.”

In June 1959 Cubby married Dana - who was divorced from actor Lewis Wilson and mother of Michael - with Cary Grant as best man. Dana adopted Tony and Tina, then in June 1960, in London, she gave birth to Barbara. The following year Cubby formed Londonbased Eon Productions with Canadian film producer Harry Saltzman, with the intention of bringing Bond to the

Barbara with Daniel Craig, 2008 (left) and Cubby with Princess Diana, 1983

big screen. “Fleming had been trying for many years to get his novels filmed,” says the author’s biographer Andrew Lycett. “He had even tried to set up his own studio in the Bahamas to make his ill-fated version of Thunderball. But he had no success until Broccoli and Saltzman came along.

They were his saviours and he was delighted.”

After the deal was done, the producers then had to look for an actor who could play Bond. It was Dana who first spotted Sean Connery’s talent. “Cubby called me and said, ‘Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I don’t know whether this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal,’” she recalled later. “I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said, ‘Cubby, he’s fabulous!’

He was just perfect, he had star material right there.”

Dr No, made with a budget of $1 million, went on to gross nearly $60 million worldwide. The second film in the franchise, From Russia With Love, with a budget of $2 million, pulled in boxoffice receipts of $78 million.

For Cubby and his family, wealth and success were assured.

Barbara grew up in Lon-

don in a household so posby sessed Bond that, until she was s ven, she thought se seven, 007 was a real person. “We lived like one big circus family,” she says, a circus in which her charismatic father was the ring-master.

“Robert Davi [who played the drug lord Franz Sanchez in Licence to Kill] describes Cubby as being like Marlon Brando without the crime, while Roger Moore remembers him as a typical Italian padrino, a godfather,” says Riley.

He was also famous for an ‘everything or nothing’ approach that served him well as the franchise grew and the business side of movie-making became more aggressive. By the mid-1970s the relationship between Cubby and Saltzman had reached crisis point. Whereas Broccoli was more than happy to devote his life to Bond, Saltzman wanted to be involved in other projects. “He’d make an appearance on the set or on location, do a lot of shooting, then he’d be off to France, Italy or someplace else, making a film,” said Cubby. Saltzman also ran up debts said to be close to $20 million, using Danjaq (the partners’ Swiss-based holding company named after their wives, Dana and Jacqueline) as security.

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The world is not enough: Cubby Broccoli (right) and Harry Saltzman on the Pinewood set of You Only Live Twice, 1966

“Harry Saltzman eventually sold his 50 per cent share in the business to United Artists [the distributor of the films] in 1975 but then United Artists was sold to Transamerica, an insurance company,” says Riley. “This meant there started to be more suits on set, more interference, until finally Cubby could stand it no longer.

He became so frustrated with the situation that he even considered selling Bond, something that was not made public at the time.”

In 1981, after Transamerica put United Artists up for sale, the studio was bought by MGM for $380 million, a company that went on to suffer from, in Broccoli’s words, a series of “financial convulsions” and rapid-fire changes. In 1990 when Cubby learned that the Italian-born financier Giancarlo Parretti, owner of Pathé Communications, wanted to use the Bond franchise as a way of partly financing a bid to take over MGM, he sued the troubled studio and Pathé. “I had nothing against Parretti,” said Cubby. “But I had the strongest objections to his using the Bond pictures as cut-price sweeteners in

his scramble to raise the $1.3 billion to buy MGM/ UA.” The resulting lawsuits, which were finally settled in Cubby’s favour, meant that there was no Bond film between Licence to Kill starring Timothy Dalton in 1989 and GoldenEye with Pierce Brosnan in 1995.

“This kind of attitude was typical Cubby - instead of compromising and releasing a second-rate product he decided not to make a Bond film at all,” says Riley. “Cubby was essential to Bond’s continuing success - you can see why he was attracted to the character as both men are survivors. Whereas the motto ‘The World is Not Enough’ was interpreted

by Ian Fleming as meaning perfection is not attainable, to Cubby it meant the opposite: he believed, like Bond, that anything was possible.”

By all accounts, Cubby has passed on his hard-headed approach to business to his children. Michael is a robust negotiator who was deeply involved in the Saltzman and United Artist/MGM crises. “His firmness in standing up to the incompetents who ran interference on our

pr productions wa was widely acknowledged,” sa said Cubby of his stepso son.

He may look sober, always dres dressed in his d dark suits - he trained as a lawyer but Michael is s something of a secret show showman.

In addit addition to his produc he has role of producer, th scripts helped to write the t for a number of the films, and, like Hitchcock, Hitchcock he’s also appeared in cameo roles in many of the Bond movies. d “There is a great deal of afMi fection between Michael and Ri Barbara,” says Riley.

“And ope they seem to operate very much as equals.”

Barbara, who studied motion picture and television communications at Loyola Marymount University in LA, started working in the family business at the age of 17 when she assisted in the publicity department for The Spy Who Loved Me. She worked her way up the company, from second assistant director on Octopussy in 1983, to associate producer on The Living Daylights in 1987, to fully fledged co-producer of all the films since GoldenEye in 1995. Like her mother before her, Barbara - who in the words of her late father has “the touch of steel when it matters” - has a knack for finding the perfect actor to play 007. In 2005 she made the controversial decision to cast (a blond) Daniel Craig, prompting such headlines as ‘The name’s Bland - James Bland’. Many have since regarded Barbara’s casting as inspirational. “She is incredibly smart,” says her friend, the former Bond Girl Fiona Fullerton, who starred in A View to a Kill. “She is not interested in trying to simply recreate the kind of films her father made. She has moved

with the times.”

Barbara also has a very Italian, all-or-nothing attitude. If you remain loyal, she will be a friend for life. In 2005, after the death of her former partner, the actor Michael Billington - who, throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, was thought to be in line to take over the role of 007 - Barbara became the legal guardian of his teenage son Michael Jr, whose mother Katherine Kristoff had died in 1998.

“Barbara is very protective and warm,” says Fullerton.

“She is incredibly socially aware,” adds Riley, “always coming to the help of anyone who feels isolated in a group.

Like Cubby, she has the common touch, in the nicest sense.”

However, if you cross her she will have no qualms about cutting you out of her life, as American screenwriter Doug Richardson recalls.

The two were good friends Richardson had worked with her husband Fred Zollo, the father of Barbara’s daughter Angelica, now 20 and studying writing at NYU - until one day Barbara stopped returning his calls. It was only a couple of years later, when he met a mutual friend, that he discovered the truth: a throwaway remark describing Zollo, a successful theatre and film producer, as ‘a Hollywood dilettante’ had made its way back to Barbara. “I’d somehow dissed her damned husband before I’d ever met her,” he says.

“She’d once bragged to me about her ability to hold a grudge. She insisted it was due to the Italian in her.”

And what of the future? As it seems likely that, at some point in the next decade, Michael will either retire, or at least take more of a back seat from Bond, who will inherit the 007 legacy? Both of Michael’s sons work at Eon but, for the moment, Barbara is going nowhere. “How could I get tired?” she says.

“It’s an extraordinary life.

It’s a privilege. It’s magic making movies.”

The golden touch: George Lazenby with Cubby and director Peter Hunt in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1969

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Acid drop; 6 Cork; 8 Angina; 9 Thrift; 10 Hold the fort; 11 Raider; 14 Tirade; 16 Divorce suit; 20 Frigid; 21 Guilty; 22 Anne; 23 Serenade. Down – 2 Conch; 3 Drilled; 4 Roast; 5 Patient; 6 Curio; 7 Refuted; 12 Andiron; 13 Reredos; 15 Reunion; 17 Vague; 18 Edgar; 19 Toted.

QUICK: Across – 1 Short-cut; 6 Luke; 8 Evolve; 9 Unwind; 10 Repurchased; 11 Assess; 14 Defame; 16 Peripatetic; 20 Couple; 21 Legend; 22 Stun; 23 Tendency. Down – 2 Hover; 3 Relapse; 4 Cheer; 5 Touched; 6 Lewis; 7 Kingdom; 12 Support; 13 Sapient; 15 Fatigue; 17 Ripon; 18 Talon; 19 Conic.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Though you may find that you’re more popular, and that things seem to go your way, you might not welcome all the attention you get. It might help to handle all relationships from the most casual to the most intimate with care. Having said that, it’s a good day to take a chance, especially if it involves a goal dear to your heart Aries.

Don’t let today’s passage of the Moon across Saturn overly affect your confidence and sense of self. Because at least for a time, you might feel a tad less self assured.

But with another superb and progress influence in play, as long as you continue to believe in yourself, you can cultivate some brilliant possibilities, especially linked to travel.

Being original and adventurous may be the way to get yourself noticed. If you’re involved in an ongoing intimate relationship, it can seem suddenly new and exciting. Perhaps you’ll make plans today that give you both something to look forward to. Do take care of finances, though.

Don’t take a gamble on something in which you stand to lose out.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

You may realise that you do after all hold strong feelings for that person from your past. And yet equally, the thought might seem oppressive, especially if you have worked hard to move on, perhaps even with someone new. So today can throw up some bitter sweet moments.

Equally, you may decide enough’s enough with a current tie that’s ailing.

Shared financial matters or business deals show both promise and the need for careful consideration today. If someone pushes for all the power or keeps secrets or says things that cause resentment, try to steer clear if you can. On the other hand, a very upbeat influence spells success in one particular financial deal. Go for it if it feels right.

Challenging or critical opinions may shake up things at home. Perhaps your outlook is too rigid, and family members are trying to encourage you to change your ways. If you can meet them halfway or at least consider a compromise, it would be a good start. An exceptionally upbeat influence reveals positive news that might make you smile.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Enjoy friends, expansive plans and shared hopes. There’s a lot to be said for discussing your fondest dreams with someone who may be able to help you achieve them. A fun event tonight could encourage you to connect with an associate with whom you might wish to collaborate. Yet don’t give time to anyone who’s too pushy or who has unrealistic expectations.

As Mars aspects Jupiter today, you may be keen to get together with someone who has some bright and inspiring ideas that they’d love to involve you with. However, another aspect between Mars and Pluto suggests it may be a day to watch what you say or what you do. The Moon in your sign may give you the upper hand just when you need it.

A delightful aspect between Mars and Jupiter suggests you may be keen to get a project or even a business under way. Positive feedback and confidence in your ability lend this day a successful entrepreneurial cast. You have a lot going for you and it’s certainly time to share your message with the world. Don’t let doubts prevent you from pressing ahead.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You might have to brace yourself today, especially at work.

If you are a Cancer who prefers not to engage in confrontations, you might be perfectly pleasant to someone and yet in return they can seem very sour. Try to shrug this off.

It may be that the added attention that is coming your way is hard for them to take. Sparkle on!

You may impress at work, which suggests that either you could land a new contract, or some other perk, or gain in relation to your daily work quotas. However, as Mars also angles with Pluto, take extra care when dealing with colleagues as emotional outbursts could be a possibility. Exercise could be a way to channel any intense frustration.

Home may be the place where acceptance, support and accord are found. You may be keen to splash out on items for your abode or to work on a home improvement project.

Either of which would give you pleasure. Entertaining there can also be fun, but whatever social events you attend, watch out for a friend who may be jealous of you.

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor on stairs and bedrooms,4 wc,3 bathrooms, 2 en suite, big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3 covered parking spaces, roof garden access, in a quiet neighbourhood on Mon Parnas hill – Engomi €800 (photos in the website).

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TO LET NICOSIA 9. New modern luxury very good quality finished semi detached house built in 3 levels. Upstairs 1st level 3 bedrs all en suite+ laundry room, 2nd level big attic room which can be used for office space or bedroom. Ground floor with 2 sitting areas ,dining area and breakfast area, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, central heating, full a/c units. Basement with kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher, microwave and 2 refrigerators, sitting room with fireplace, and 2 bedrooms with one bathroom. Outside private fenced garden with artificial grass, bbq area and covered veranda. The house has blinds and shutters on all windows, false ceiling with spot lights throughout house, pressure system, covered parking, satellite dish, central music and network system, storage room, very good double glazed windows.

Behind General flooring in the centre of Makedonitissa - €2000 (H4MAK0001-R), (photos on the website).

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stairs, big sitting room and dining area downstairs, wooden floor, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, 2 bathrooms(one en suite),3wc,CH independent, A/C, big garden – Nicosia Centre €1400 (H4NIC0002-R), (photos in the website).

cooker and oven, 6wc, 2 covered parking, yard with tiles and SWIMMING POOL, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Platy Aglantzias €2500 (H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website)

13. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedrooms in the basement luxury detached house (all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which also has separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor throughout house, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big over flow, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar (bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker), mature garden around the house,2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H5PAG0002-R).

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14. 4 bedr very big luxury semi detached house 350sq.m, with big separate basement 80sq.m with 2 rooms, sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. Consists of big sitting and dining areas upstairs, big kitchen with big family room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3 showers, 1 bathroom, central heating, full a/c, black out blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking and patio with bbq in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Makarios football stadium.CAN BE RENTED FURNISHED, PARTIALLY FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED - Makedonitissa €1500(H4MAK0032-R), (photos in the website) 15. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/ maid’s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted

***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr luxury finished spacious floor apartment with very big sitting and dining areas with family room with fire place, solid parquet floor all through, central heating independent, full a/c, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, 4wc, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all windows, big covered veranda, covered parking, big storage room, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood – Agios Andreas- €1300 – A3AAD0005-R (photos on website).

2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, covered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website).

3. 2 bedr penthouse apartment, 100sq.m + 80sq.m veranda with flowers and bbq, big sitting and dining room with big 60” TV, storage heaters, full a/v, 2 wc, en suite bathroom/jacuzzi, roman blinds, cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine and refrigerator in the kitchen, covered parking, near Metro supermarket – Aglantzia €600 (photos in the website).

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TO LET NICOSIA pendent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite network, FULLY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered parking, double glazed windows, aluminium shutters, on Pericleous street near Klimataria traffic lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fireplace, covered parking and big over floor heated covered swimming pool on the ground floor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital – Engomi €1500 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos in the website) 6. 1 bedr new luxury apartment in a modern building(TSENTAS),with central heating ind, 2 a/c, cooker and oven, refrigerator and washing machine in the kitchen, parquet floor, NICELY FURNISHED big covered veranda, big sitting room off Kyriakou Matsi street, 1 km from the centre €460 (A1AOM0002-R), (photos in the website).

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1 bedr cozy luxury apartment,60sq.m,parquet floor, nicely furnished ,all fitted electrical appliances (cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge), roman blinds, provisions for home cinema, big covered verandah, storage heaters, 2 a/c ,covered parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital.

– Dasoupoli €470 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website)

8. 2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with separate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot– Agioi Omologites €500 (A2AOM0003-R) (photos in the website)

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 9. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 flats only. Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, fully fitted kitchen with all the electrical appliances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neighbourhood near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE end of March – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) .

10. New luxury finished 1 bedr penthouse apartment with big verandah with nice view, in a small modern building,55sq.m,storage heaters,2 a/c, blinds on the windows, expensive electrical appliances(cooker, oven, extractor, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer),covered parking and storage room, off Kalippoleos street opposite Dessange Day Spa near the University – Lykavitos €420 (A1LYK0002-R), (photos in the website).

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TO LET NICOSIA machine and dishwasher in the kitchen, CH independent, full a/c, big reception areas opening to the verandas, pressure system and 2 Pcovered with remote control entrance, walking distance to the centre very close to Debenhams €1300 (A3NIC0028-R), (photos in the website) 12. 2 bedr new modern luxury finished apartment with parquet floor, central heating independent, 2 a/c, modern kitchen with all fitted expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking in a quiet neighbourhood off Kallipoleos Street - Lykavitos €700 (A2LYK0024-R) (photos on the website) 13. 3 bedr luxury penthouse apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered and uncovered veranda, covered parking, in Strovolos near the Municipal building - €650 (A3ST10014-R) (photos on the website) 14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq.m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating in-

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erence number: Rtl_447 also available modern detached 3 bedroom villa on this private road. Website reference number: RTL_572 3. KISSONERGA €650 stunning detached 3 bedroom villa situated in quiet residential area with sea & rural views. Private drive with car port. Enclosed low maintenance garden with sea water private pool.

Modern villa, master with ensuite plus downstairs guest wc. Beautifully furnished with good quality furnishing & fittings, including black out blinds, nilesat satelitte & pressurised water system. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: RTL_497 4. MESOGI €700 spacious 4 bedroom villa plus playroom or office including gas central heating. one bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. available unfurnished. enclosed low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy & views over countryside. situated in a quiet residential area. Website reference number: Rtl_618 5. LOWER CHLORAKA €750 spacious detached 3 bedroom villa offering stunning views of the sea.

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Lovely garden with spacious veranda & private pool. Available unfurnished. Website reference number: RTL_669 7. PEYIA €950 we are delighted to offer this ultra modern 4 bedroom villa with luxury furnishings & fittings.

Offering spacious accommodation with breathtaking sea views. Finished to a very high quality. Spacious living area with modern fitted kitchen & utility area. One bedroom on ground floor with ensuite & kitchenette. Guest wc. Private infinity pool & enclosed low maintenance garden. A must to see! website reference number: RTL_670 8. CHLORAKA €2,200 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq meters), beautifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens.

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***************************** MANDRIA PAFOS 2 bedroom furnished bungalow within walking distance of the village. Large bedrooms, kitchen, sitting room/dining area with fire place, large bathroom.

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ting/dining area, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, master en suite, private pool, covered parking. Ref: 1214 €550

MESOGI PAFOS 4 bedroom house offered furnished, near all amenities. Property has sitting,dining area, kitchen, storage, downstairs bedroom, guest wc. Upstairs 3 additional bedrooms, master en suite, family bathroom. Off street parking, back garden with lawn Ref 1211 €690

CORAL BAY PAFOS 3 bedroom Villa offered furnished or unfurnished in a lovely private and peaceful location. Property is cosy with a small kitchen, sitting room and dining area with a fire place, ac, guest wc, 3 bedrooms master en suite, family bathroom. Nice views Ref: 842 €750

SEA CAVES PAFOS modern bungalow offered furnished or unfurnished, 3 bedroom, master en suite shower, family bathroom, kitchen, sitting area, outside private pool, roof garden, outside shower-toilte, flyscreens nice location with sea views. Ref: 1213 €750

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1. MESA CHORIO– 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen. 2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool.

Euros 400.00 per month 2 FYTI 3 bed, 3 bath furnished villa in a very quiet location. The property offers stylish accommodation and has many luxury features.

Open plan living area with feature fireplace. Dining area. Large fully fitted L shaped kitchen with appliances and breakfast bar Doors out to rear garden and pool. Guest WC. Stairs up to 3 very spacious bedrooms. Master with ensuite.

Family bathroom and storage cupboard. Stairs up to roof garden with panoramic views. Outside there is a feature pergola, swimming pool and landscaped gardens. Euros 700.00 a month.

3. OLYMPUS ESTATE, NR TSADA – 3 bed, 2.5 bath furnished bungalow set on this prestigious estate. The house has central heating, A/C, fireplace, shutters & flyscreens. Spacious open plan living area with dining space.

Large “L” shaped kitchen. 3 double bedrooms all leading to pool and gardens. Master with en-suite.

Covered patio with sea and rural views, swimming pool and garden areas. Feature outside dining area. Breakfast area to the side of the property. Easy care gardens.

Pool with Roman steps. Parking for 3 cars. Bargain price!!! Euros 800.00 per month furnished, unfurnished by arrangement at lower cost.

4. TALA - 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with dining space.

TO LET PAPHOS Fully fitted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden. Storage room. Ground floor bedroom with adjacent shower. Stairs to two double bedrooms both en-suite, one with Jacuzzi tub. Small seating area with adjacent balcony.

Pool and off street parking. Landscaped gardens Euros 650.00 per month 5. AYIOS DEMITRIANOS (POLEMI) – 3 bed, 2 bath furnished villa (bungalow style) set in a private and quiet location. Open plan living area with fireplace. Fully fitted kitchen with quality appliances.

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Garden areas, large terraces with outstanding views. Private pool 10x5, Covered parking. Euros 700.00 per month furnished, 650 unfurnished.

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Sport Djokovic and Sharapova win in windy Miami

IN BRIEF Heat extend hot streak to 26 games

‘It was very difficult to get into a rhythm’

By Gene Cherry WORLD number one Novak Djokovic and Russian Maria Sharapova shook off windy conditions to move into the fourth round of the Sony Open in Miami.

Serb Djokovic posted a 6-2 6-4 victory over India’s Somdev Devvarman and Sharapova turned back fellow Russian Elena Vesnina 6-4 6-2.

Djokovic’s win set up a clash with German Tommy Haas, who beat Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-3 6-2.

“It was very difficult to kind of get into a rhythm because you couldn’t really serve at 100 per cent,” Djokovic, the two-time defending champion, told reporters.

“You had to go more for precision and put twice as much effort into the step adjustments because of the windy conditions. All in all, I’m just happy to get through the rough day.”

The top-seeded Serb took 28 of his 31 first-serve points and faced just one break point in the 68-minute victory.

Haas, seeded 15th, moved through to the fourth round for the first time since 2001.

Maria Sharapova is on an eight-match winning streak He hit 13 aces and saved seven of the eight break points against his serve.

“He’s probably one of the most experienced active players in the world now,” Djokovic said of the German. “He can play equally well on any surface.”

Spain’s world number five David Ferrer outlasted Italian Fabio Fognini 6-1 7-5 and Japan’s Kei Nishikori, Ferrer’s next opponent, beat Xavier Malisse of Belgium 6-2 7-5.

World number two Sharapova, who is on an eightmatch winning streak, fell behind 3-1 in the first set but won 11 of the next 14 games to advance in straight sets.

“It wasn’t easy for the both of us with the heat and the wind,” Sharapova said. “It was just one of those days where you know you might not be playing your best tennis. I certainly wasn’t today.”

The third seed next faces Czech Klara Zakopalova, who beat Russia’s Maria Kirilenko 6-2 7-6.

Romanian Sorana Cirstea pulled off the day’s biggest surprise, taking out sixth seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4 6-0.

After Kerber held at 4-4, Cirstea won eight games in a row - and lost just seven points in those eight games.

“I didn’t have any expectations coming into this tournament because I’ve never played that well in Miami,” Cirstea said.

“But I’ve been fighting the best I could and working my way through every single match, and it’s working.”

She draws former finalist Jelena Jankovic of Serbia, a 7-6 6-4 winner over Russian Nadia Petrova.

World number one Novak Djokovic is the two-time defending champion at the prestigious event

De Villiers rides luck to steer South Africa to series win

By Nick Said

AB de Villiers won the Man of the Series award by scoring 367 runs at an average of over 91

AB de Villiers survived being dropped early to smash a series-winning unbeaten 95 for South Africa who beat Pakistan by six wickets in the deciding match of their one-day international series.

De Villiers offered a routine opportunity to Younus Khan at slip when he had just one and made Pakistan pay dearly for that miss by guiding his side to a 3-2 series success with six overs to spare.

Pakistan, who won the toss and elected to bat first at Willowmoore Park on a wicket that had variable bounce, had limped to 205 all out.

The home side always looked comfortable in their chase and the win was sealed with an 88-run stand between De Villiers and Farhaan Behardien

(35) for the fourth wicket.

“We got some partnerships together with bat and ball. The whole bowling unit got better as the series went on and today was the best performance of all,” said De Villiers, who won the Man of the Series award by scoring 367 runs at an average of over 91.

“Pakistan are a worldclass team, there is talent all around their side. It made for a very good series and a very tough series for us.”

UNABLE TO COPE Pakistan found life at the crease difficult, unable to cope with the tight line of the home bowlers.

Kamran Akmal was the pick of the visiting batsman with a fluent 48 before he top-edged a Robin Peterson delivery on the sweep to Ryan McLaren at square leg.

Plenty of others got starts, but many lost their wicket as they tried to push up the scoring rate.

Younus (29) became a first one day international wicket for Behardien as the part-time seamer dropped a delivery short outside off stump. Younus smashed the ball towards mid-wicket but picked out Hashim Amla, who took an excellent reaction catch.

Shoaib Malik (28), Misbah-ul-Haq (24) and Junaid Khan (25) also got into the 20s, but all fell before they could make a telling impact.

“It was a 250 pitch and the way we started it was gettable. But we did not show responsibility as a batting side,” said Pakistan captain Misbah.

“It was a crucial miss [the De Villiers drop], but that happens in cricket. The real problem we were short 50 runs.”

IF Dwyane Wade had to pick a game to sit out with a bruised right knee, this was the one.

A mismatch on paper between the teams with the NBA’s best record - the Miami Heat - and worst record - the Charlotte Bobcats - was made a little closer with the absence of Wade.

But thanks to LeBron James, Miami had more than enough to subdue the Bobcats 109-77 on Sunday night to extend the second-longest winning streak in NBA history to 26 games.

James had 32 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds to keep the Heat on track in its chase of the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers’ record of 33 consecutive wins.

But while Wade sat out the game, he did play a role. Donning a white spots coat, Wade took the television microphone and interviewed James after the game.

“What does it say about this team, when you have a superstar out and the rest of the guys step up?”

Wade asked James, who responded with a serious face.

“When you have a superstar like ‘WOW’ (Wade) out, Norris Cole gave us a big boost, Mike Miller hit a couple of threes to start the game,” James said. “When you have a superstar Hall of Famer out, everyone else needs to step up.”

Wallabies sent home WALLABIES backs Kurtley Beale and Cooper Vuna have been sent home from South Africa by Super Rugby side Melbourne Rebels and face further sanctions from the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) after an incident on the team bus.

The incident came in the wake of a record 64-7 drubbing for the Rebels in their match against South Africa’s Sharks in Durban on Saturday and both players were stood down after a club investigation on Sunday.

“The club will not tolerate this type of behaviour and I am embarrassed for everyone associated with building this club,” Rebels coach Damian Hill said in a team statement.

“The expectation of the club and our supporters is that the management and players in South Africa focus immediately on their task of making amends.”

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Sport Seedorf sent off for leaving pitch the wrong way

Argentina coach Sabella does not believe in ‘ghosts’

By Pedro Fonseca

Bolivia provide major high-altitude test

By Rex Gowar HIGH-FLYING Argentina, humiliated 6-1 the last time they played Bolivia in La Paz, have the confidence to avoid crashing badly again in the thin air for today’s World Cup qualifier.

But Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella is taking no chances, mindful of predecessor Diego Maradona’s team and their shock demolition in the equivalent qualifier in 2009.

Argentina brilliantly dismantled a much improved Venezuela 3-0 on Friday at the Monumental to stay firmly in charge of the South American group and Sabella has since sat at his drawing board looking at alternative high-altitude tactics.

He has not gone quite so far as Enrique Omar Sivori, the former European Footballer of the Year who sent a young, second-string squad known as ‘the ghost team’ to prepare for a month in the northwestern Andean province of Jujuy in 1973.

The team, which included a teenage Mario Kempes making his Argentina debut, went through bad times but beat Bolivia 1-0 to help Sivori’s main squad book a place in the 1974 World Cup in West Germany.

“The AFA forgot about us and we had a really bad time,” Kempes said in Matador, a biography.

“We were in a dead-end hotel with nothing to eat.

Two warm-ups had been arranged but we ended up playing six or seven to raise money so we could buy stuff

at the supermarket for one of us to cook a meal.

“I came back home weighing seven or eight kilos less.”

Scorer Oscar Fornari had slightly better memories of the match saying: “It was the most important goal of my life ... They called us the ghost national team and even took our picture wearing sheets.”

Sabella, whose squad enjoy a harmony absent from the Argentina teams of the early 1970s, appears to be plotting a different strategy for the match at the Hernando Siles stadium, which stands 4,000 metres above sea level and leaves unaccustomed players gasping for air long before 90 minutes are up.

In a practice session, he lined up a team with four backs, five midfielders and one man up front, recalling perhaps that two breakaway Hernan Crespo goals helped Argentina draw 3-3 there in 2001.

Whoever he picks as striker, it will not be the group’s leading scorer Gonzalo Higuain, who took his tally to nine with a brace against Venezuela but was booked and will miss the match through suspension.

Argentina will be looking to end a run of three matches without a win against Bolivia, having been held 1-1 twice at home in 2011, in a World Cup qualifier and a Copa America group phase match.

Bolivia, who welcome back central defender Ronald Raldes from suspension after a 5-0 pasting by Colombia on the Caribbean coast on Friday, will be looking for the

form that helped them beat Uruguay 4-1 in La Paz in October.

Argentina lead the ninenation group with 23 points from 10 matches, followed by Colombia on 19 and Ecuador 17, though both have a game in hand.

Colombia visit fifth-placed Venezuela in what should be a fascinating match in Puerto Ordaz.

The Colombians, spearheaded by Radamel Falcao, play fluent, attacking football exploiting the wings with fast full backs while Venezuela are a well-drilled, compact outfit hard to break down.

Ecuador are at home to bottom team Paraguay and favoured to extend their perfect home record with a sixth win at the Atahualpa in Quito, another high altitude stronghold feared by visiting teams.

Chile, like Paraguay, are in danger of failing to reach the finals in Brazil next year and a second successive World Cup after having fallen to a fourth consecutive defeat away to Peru on Friday.

Their new Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli will be looking to end the rot in Santiago against a fourth-placed Uruguay side held 1-1 at home by Paraguay and deprived through suspension of defender Maxi Pereira and holding midfielder Diego Perez.

The top four teams at the end of the qualifiers in October will go through to Brazil.

The fifth-placed team, at present Venezuela, will enter a playoff against an Asian qualifier for another berth.

Alejandro Sabella (top) is mindful of Argentina’s 6-1 humiliation the last time they played in La Paz. The coach will have to cope without suspended top scorer Gonzalo Higuain

Germany should not become complacent, warns Loew

By Karolos Grohmann

The Germans are five points clear at the top of Group C but have been told to keep their foot on the gas

VICTORY in Kazakhstan and a slip-up by Group C rivals Sweden in Friday’s World Cup qualifiers have sent Germany five points clear but coach Joachim Loew has warned against complacency ahead of today’s home game against the Kazakhs.

The Germans, 3-0 winners in Astana, are cruising towards 2014 World Cup qualification and even a suspension to Bastian Schweinsteiger looks unlikely to stop them from notching their fifth win in six group games.

While a meltdown similar to the one late last year that saw them spectacularly squander a 4-0 lead against Sweden to draw 4-4

is not expected in Nuremberg, Loew wants his players to firmly focus on what is at stake.

Germany are top of Group C with 13 points from five games, five ahead of Sweden, who drew 0-0 with Ireland and have a match in hand.

“If you score a victory away then there is the danger that you keep this in your head for some time,” Loew told reporters.

“We have to keep reminding the players that we are playing at home and we will only win if we have the right attitude and seriousness.”

Loew is aware of the gap in quality between the world’s second best team and a side ranked 139 but he also saw the Kazakhs trying to battle back at 2-0 down in the first game and

having two clear chances as Germany took their foot off the gas.

He will not have suspended Schweinsteiger to orchestrate their play but the Germans should be faster with the return of Marco Reus, who sat out his own one-game ban on Friday.

Loew opted not to play with an out-and-out striker in the first game but could revert back to his tested 4-2-3-1 system that would offer more pace and entertainment for the fans.

For Kazakhstan, still looking for their maiden victory in this qualification, it will be an even harder task with the Germans back home on natural grass and with an early evening kick off time as opposed to Friday’s midnight game on an artificial pitch.

DUTCHMAN Clarence Seedorf was bizarrely sent off in Botafogo’s 2-1 win over Madureira on Sunday for arguing with the referee over where he should leave the pitch after being substituted.

His stoppage-time dismissal capped an afternoon in which Botafogo were also awarded a penalty, only for the referee to change his mind as Seedorf (below) was about to take the kick.

The first-half spot-kick was awarded with the game still goalless when Rafael Marques appeared to be fouled in the penalty area.

Former AC Milan, Ajax, Sampdoria and Real Madrid midfielder Seedorf had began his run-up when the referee stopped the game, consulted his linesman and changed his mind, saying that Marques had been passed the ball by a player in an offside decision.

Botafogo protested angrily, claiming the referee had received information from sources off the pitch who had seen television replays.

On being substituted at the end, Seedorf, who scored the winning goal in the 68th minute, walked towards the Botafogo bench but was ordered by the referee to go off on the other side of the pitch to save time, Seedorf protested, was booked, turned his back on the referee and was given another yellow card.

“I didn’t understand anything,” he told touchline reporters.

The game was played in the Carioca championship, one of a plethora of regional tournaments which kick off the Brazilian season.

The weekend’s programme went ahead as usual even though some clubs were missing players called up for Brazil’s friendlies against Italy, which they drew 2-2 in Geneva last Thursday, and Russia in London last night.

Brazilian champions Fluminense, missing three players including striker Fred, drew 0-0 at Duque de Caxias in front of barely more than 1,000 fans on Saturday.

Santos, deprived of prodigy Neymar, drew 0-0 with Palmeiras in the Paulista championship on Sunday.

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Miller says Scotland keen to move on from Wales loss ‘We can’t feel sorry for ourselves’

By Zoran Milosavljevic

By Gavin McCafferty SCOTLAND striker Kenny Miller insists his team can quickly bounce back from one of their lowest ebbs.

The Scots sit bottom of their World Cup qualifying group with two points from five matches ahead of their clash with Serbia in Novi Sad tonight.

But Miller believes one victory could be all it takes to lift Scotland following their 2-1 defeat by Wales on Friday night.

Miller said: “We have been low before and we have been picked back up.

“We have got to put Friday night behind us, don’t feel sorry for ourselves and hopefully get a result in Serbia.

“If you look at the last Wales game, when we played down there, both teams were getting a bit of stick.

“I don’t really see much of what goes on down there but it seems to have had an effect on their team.

“They have beaten us twice so they are obviously on the up.

“There is only one thing we can do - get our head down and work hard and get good performances and get results.

“There is no magic formula - it’s all through hard work.”

Croatia on a high but wary of Wales and fit Bale

Scotland striker Kenny Miller (lying on floor) was left dejected after his side’s loss to Wales on Friday Miller accepted his chances of playing in the World Cup finals had gone following the Hampden defeat by Wales, but the 33-year-old could start in Serbia after Steven Fletcher went back

to Sunderland nursing the ankle injury that forced him off in the opening stages.

And the experience of Miller could persuade manager Gordon Strachan to utilise the Vancouver Whitecaps

forward tonight to help steady a Scotland side which is also missing Scott Brown, Darren Fletcher, James Morrison and the suspended Robert Snodgrass.

Miller said: “Obviously this

campaign does look like it’s going to be petering out, but if we can put some good results towards the end of this campaign, we can then maybe carry that on to the next campaign.”

O’Shea aware of importance

By Damian Spellman

Republic of Ireland star John O’Shea (left) says it’s vital his side beat Austria tonight in Dublin

JOHN O’Shea has warned the Republic of Ireland they cannot afford to risk their chances of World Cup qualification by losing their heads against Austria.

The Republic will face the Austrians at the Aviva Stadium tonight knowing victory would leave them in second place in Group C behind leaders and favourites Germany.

However, O’Shea is equally aware that all the hard work which secured a 0-0 draw in Sweden on Friday would be wasted if they launched an all-out assault and forgot about their defensive responsibilities.

The 31-year-old said: “If we can start on the front foot, like we did against Sweden, and have the pressing, cohesive unit that we had the other night and stop Austria playing, then we can build our attacks from there.

“But let’s wait and see how they decide to approach the

game as well.

“It will be on us as the home side, but we are not going to be too silly and go gung-ho because they have got lots of attacking threats.”

The phrase “gung-ho” is simply not in manager Giovanni Trapattoni’s vocabulary, and not just because of his limited English.

Trapattoni is a man for whom results mean everything, and while he too knows the game is a mustwin affair if Ireland are to stand a chance of making it to the finals in Brazil next summer, he will look to defensive solidity to provide a platform for what happens at the other end of the pitch.

He was delighted with what he saw at the Friends Arena with goalkeeper David Forde making his competitive debut and Seamus Coleman, Ciaran Clark and Marc Wilson lining up alongside O’Shea at the back.

O’Shea said: “The more consistency the team can get with selection, I suppose,

the better, and also the confidence from Seamus and Marc as an attacking threat also joining, it was good to see the other night.

“But look, it’s an international game of football. Generally at the moment, there is very little between teams, so if we can do a bit more with our set-pieces also, we will be able to cause them lots more problems.

“The formation from us I don’t think will change too much. Whether one or two of the personnel change, we will have to wait and see.

“But we are the home team and we have to go out and win the game if we want to be qualifying for the World Cup. It’s very simple.”

Ireland have suffered a blow, though, with skipper Robbie Keane ruled out because of a calf problem, while Jon Walters is nursing a back injury, but midfielder Glenn Whelan, who missed the game in Sweden because of an ankle injury, has returned to training and is likely to be reinstated.

ELATED after their emotional 2-0 home win over Serbia, Croatia visit Wales for a World Cup qualifier tonight knowing they can ill-afford to rest on their laurels with Group A rivals Belgium also flying high.

The pair are locked on 13 points at the top after much-fancied Belgium strolled to a 2-0 win in Macedonia on Friday when Croatia were celebrating victory over their neighbours.

Inspirational playmaker Luka Modric said the Croatians would have more than just his former Tottenham Hotspur team mate Gareth Bale to worry about against Wales, who beat Scotland 2-1 away on Friday to lie third.

“One player can’t win games by himself and we know that we will be up against a good team who will be roared on by a passionate home crowd,” Modric told Croatian media.

“Only a win against the Welsh will do for us, otherwise the win against Serbia will lose a lot of its gloss and we risk falling behind in the battle to win the group.”

Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey was sent off against Scotland so misses out while Bale was substituted at halftime but expects to start in Swansea.

“Nothing wrong with my ankle. I came off due to the stomach virus. Should be OK for Tuesday,” he said on Twitter.

Croatia coach Igor Stimac has said he will make at least three changes to the starting lineup that brushed Serbia aside in the first half and then held out comfortably in the second.

Veteran striker Ivica Olic, who was at the heart of Croatia’s win after scoring one goal and setting up the other, is likely to be one of the players rested after rolling back the years against the Serbians.

Everton forward Nikica Jelavic should replace the 33-year-old while teenage midfielder Mateo Kovacic, whose mature performance in Zagreb impressed both Stimac and Serbian counterpart Sinisa Mihajlovic, could make way for Ognjen Vukojevic.

Midfielder Josip Radosevic or Eduardo da Silva could break into the starting lineup instead of Niko Kranjcar, who picked up a knee injury against the Serbians and is likely to be out of action for up to four weeks.

Defender Josip Simunic is also nursing a knock but the Croatia doctors have cleared him to play against Wales, although Stimac may be tempted to rest him and give Domagoj Vida a chance.

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Nervy night in store for England and Spain on road to World Cup Three Lions face tricky test in Montenegro while world champions take on France

By Martyn Herman

H

AVING waltzed through the qualifying process for their last two major tournaments Spain find themselves in an undignified tangle at the halfway point on the road to the World Cup in Brazil.

While most of the fancied nations appear well-placed to qualify for next year’s finals automatically, world champions Spain head to Paris to play Group I leaders France tonight knowing defeat would leave them five points adrift.

They are not alone in feeling a little vulnerable. England, despite an 8-0 victory in San Marino on Friday, go to Montenegro trailing the tiny Adriatic nation by two points and with two of Serie A’s leading strikers to contend with.

Portugal too, have plenty of work ahead of them to reach the country they discovered.

They make the long trip to Azerbaijan sitting third in Group F, without suspended captain and talisman Cristiano Ronaldo, and with the pressure growing on coach Paulo Bento.

“We are in a difficult situation, but nothing is impossible. Winning in Azerbaijan is the only way to continue the fight for qualification for the World Cup,” said defender Joao Pereira.

Spain’s surprise home draw with Finland on Friday followed October’s 1-1 home draw with France and

Wayne Rooney (left), who was sent off on England’s last visit to Montenegro in 2011, will be hoping to fare better tonight, while Spain need a win in Paris after being held to a home draw against lowly Finland on Friday handed the initiative to Les Bleus who beat Georgia 3-1 on Friday.

Anything less than victory in the Stade de France would leave Spain contemplating a back door entry to Brazil via the playoffs.

“We were always going to

Paris to win and nothing has changed,” striker David Villa said in Spanish newspaper Marca.

“The result against Finland has given us even more reason to go there and get three points.”

Arsenal defender Nacho

Monreal said that although the clash with France could not be considered a “final” whoever wins it would take a huge step towards Brazil.

“It’s too early to talk about it like a final but we don’t have much margin for error,” the Spaniard said. “If we

lose we would be five points behind and in a small group it would be complicated to finish in first position.”

Spain have won three of their last four matches against the French, including at last year’s Euro 2012 finals in Ukraine, and the

last time they tasted defeat was in the last 16 of the 2006 World Cup. Montenegro versus England does not have the same tradition as a meeting of France and Spain but nevertheless the Balkan nation have quickly proved they are capable of mixing it with the big boys of world football.

England failed to beat them in Euro 2012 qualifying, drawing home and away, and another failure to do so would make it an uncomfortable time before they face Moldova in September.

The question marks at the heart of England’s defence, which has been robbed of the likes of John Terry and Rio Ferdinand as well as several others to injury, remain after an 8-0 win in San Marino in which Roy Hodgson would have learnt nothing.

Montenegro’s Italy-based strikers Mirko Vucinic and Stevan Jovetic will be ready to exploit any weakness in that area in what will be a noisy atmosphere in Podgorica.

“They have got certain individuals in the world class category. We are well aware of the task in hand and know it’s a much tougher game,” England captain Steven Gerrard, who along with Ashley Cole was rested against San Marino, said.

“I don’t know whether crucial is the right word to describe this game but it is certainly a result we need.”

A total of 17 matches take place across Europe today, after which the qualifying picture may be a little clearer.

Australian surf may not temper Webber’s fury over Sepang

By Nick Mulvenney EVEN catching a few waves on his surfboard back home in Australia might not be enough to assuage Mark Webber’s fury at the way his team-mate Sebastian Vettel stole victory from him at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Three-time world champion Vettel was forced to make a grovelling apology after ignoring team orders for the Red Bull drivers to keep their positions by overtaking Webber with 10 laps remaining of Sunday’s race.

The 36-year-old Australian, who finished second in a Red Bull one-two, made his displeasure absolutely clear on the podium and

said he would be considering his position during a spell of rest and recuperation on the Queensland coast.

The incident laid bare once more the issue of his place at the team he has raced for since 2007, alongside Vettel since 2009.

Webber has always maintained that he should be his German team mate’s equal in the race for the world title but often suspected that was not the case.

“They know that I need 100 per cent support,” he said at the launch of the RB9 in February.

“You cannot fight for world championships with 90. You need 100 ... we’re going in to 2013 with this in place and I’m comfortable with that.”

One-fingered salute: Mark Webber made his feelings clear after being overtaken by team-mate Sebastian Vettel At the same event in Milton Keynes, team principal Christian Horner offered public reassurance that would be the case.

“For us it doesn’t matter

which driver wins so long as it’s a driver in one of these cars,” he said. “As a team we will do the very best we can to support both drivers.”

Sunday’s incident clearly gave Webber plenty of food for thought.

“There were a lot of things going through my head in those closing laps,” he said.

“Not just from today, but from the past as well.”

He might have been thinking about Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko’s decision to say in an interview with Red Bull’s own magazine this year that while Webber could win races, he struggled to handle the pressures of a championship challenge.

Horner is a past master at smoothing these matters over, in public at least, but Webber’s comment about Vettel at Sepang was instructive.

“Seb made his own decisions and will have protec-

tion as usual,” he said.

Webber, who turned down an offer from Ferrari to stay with the team on a one-year deal, has plenty of time to think about his future at Red Bull and perhaps even in Formula One with the third race of the season in Shanghai not until April 14.

“This time tomorrow I’ll be catching a few waves on my surfboard and reflecting on everything that’s happened,” he said. “I hope the weather’s good.”