with complaints to contact Police or the RSPCA. Officials from the Driving Horse and Pony Club have denied they make their animals suffer during weekly meetings. ---- Page 2 MARIJUANA USE SPOTLIGHTED SUR DGS Marijuana use spotlighted More schoolchildren smoked marijuana than cigarettes in the month before the National Drug Commission surveyed them. The revelation was made by a 1997 survey of around 3,000 students in Bermuda aged between 11 and 19. ---- Page 3 ACE AGREES CIGNA BUYOUT BUC ACE agrees Cigna buyout Bermuda-based ACE yesterday agreed to pay $3.45 billion cash for the property and casualty businesses of Cigna Corp. The deal, signed in Philadelphia, will allow the company to diversify. ---- Business, Page 13 WEBB READY TO RETIRE AT 86 BUC Webb ready to retire at 86 Charles H. Webb, 86, is planning to retire after running Webb's Upholstery.

But even in retirement he intends to keep one machine in his garage. ---- Business, Page 13 KAVIN GIVING NOTHING AWAY MAR RUN Kavin giving nothing away Bermuda's top road-runner Kavin Smith is playing it cagey over International Race Weekend. Smith, the first Islander over the finishing line in the half-marathon last year, has refused to reveal which event he will enter this weekend. ---- Sport, Page 37