Single particle properties of nuclei.- Single-nucleon removal energies.- Effective interactions in nuclei.- Proton, gamma angular correlations near analogue resonances in the mass 90 region.- Analogue resonances -- some aspects of reaction mechanism and spectroscopy revisited.- The shape of the fission barrier.- Common aspects in fission and heavy ion reactions.- Determination of nuclear deformations from inelastic scattering of heavy ions near the Coulomb barrier.- Hyperfine interactions in highly ionized atoms.- Measurements of electric quadrupole moments by the pac-technique.- Stopping power effects in nuclear lifetime measurements.- Status of the Darmstadt project.- The new accelerator facility in rehovot.- Some new developments in direct reactions induced by heavy ions.