With equally worthy intentions, the curtain raiser - extracts from Senator Helms's Congressional speeches -vitiates its own purpose.

It is hard to quarrel with worthy intentions, like those displayed at Columbia, and I am not about to admit that critics have no influence on news executives.

Its clear and worthy intention is to use its monologues to further that much-discussed, much-thwarted open dialogue on race in the United States.

The book had worthy intentions, and the text made some good points, but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor.

However worthy its intentions, and however able its personnel, no government will be able to put Britain right unless and until it has modernised our constitution.

In both instances, however worthy his intentions, Mr. Sharif's political antennae relayed all the wrong signals.

Television movies tackling big issues are indeed commendable for their worthy intentions, but too often the result gets mired in the artistic quicksand of being deadly earnest.

The principal lesson, however, is that it is one thing to declare such worthy intentions and something else to carry them out.

But the program was testimony that worthy intentions are no artistic guarantee.

THE day began with worthy intentions.