Sir: Friends of the Earth would like to thank Michel Pautrat, Guy Liardet (Letters, 27 July) and T F W McKillop (Letters, 30 July) respectively for disclosing the actual amount of toxic metals discharged by the Rhone-Poulenc Rorer plant at Dagenham, the Ectona Fibres (now Eastman Chemicals) Ectona Ltd plant in Cumbria and the ICI plant at Macclesfield (three companies on our list of the holders of the top 100 permits to discharge ‘trade effluents’ containing toxic metals into the sewers). Our households similarly geared up by borrowing in the 1980s, but they invested the money mainly in houses that have been losing their value, reducing the private sector’s net worth.Americans invested more in financial and other assets that have held value. The necessary expansion is likely to be funded partly by Lucas but yesterday the company could give no estimate of the sums involved.The joint venture with Sagem, which will have a majority stake, would initially have combined sales of between pounds 30m and pounds 50m in the engine management systems and petrol injectors sectors.The European market is worth pounds 1bn, and the two companies hope to double their share of it.Engine management systems are intended to reduce emissions and increase fuel economy using electronic control units, sensors and injectors. The men, Sukhwinder Singh Sukha and Harjinder Singh Jinda, had shot dead General Arun Sridhar Vaidya, who was responsible for leading the 1984 army assault on the Golden Temple of Amritsar where Sikh separatists had taken refuge. The hearing into the legality of the deportation last month of more than 400 Palestinians to Lebanon began four hours before the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Amr Moussa, arrived in Israel to discuss fears that the expulsions could derail the Middle East peace talks..

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