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Saturday, 19 December 1992
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- Premium Bonds
- Who's who in the royal pecking order
- How victims' cash is cut: Adam Sage on the fight for fairer compensation after sexual attack
- Aids success meets cautious response
- Brother's habits rile neighbours
- On a hippy mission to murder?: Two former devotees of the 'sex cult' guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, face extradition to the United States for their alleged part in a conspiracy to kill a US federal attorney in 1985. Nick Cohen reports
- Wheelchair sports face dilemma as the able-bodied join in
- Wife loses fight for coma man's sperm
- John Collet was buried last week. He had been shot by the IRA. Few mourned his passing: Eamonn McCann reports on the cruel - but apparently popular - justice dispensed in the Bogside
- Lamont's legal fees lead to rule-change
- Ripping, gripping and slicing yarns
- Good, awful, and expurgated: When not eating, drinking, or even worshipping, what will you be doing over Christmas? Our writers look at ways of passing the time
- For once, a genuine hit tops the charts
- Men seek a lifeline on sex: Geraldine Bedell on the male anxieties revealed by a BBC advice service
- Pay back Maxwell money, Labour peer is told: Correction
- Singer link in Joanna case
- Pooper scooped
- City: Out of credit
- City: Bull run in '93, or a case of mad cow?
- The long walk is over, so the miners take to a bus
- Martha dies as hospitals close beds
- The quiet detective on the trail of the terrorists
- Heseltine lifeline for bombed firms
- MBA Fair
- Nurses charged
- Girl beaten
- Ex-soldier held
- Smith plans New Year offensive
- Troops die in truck accident
- The Week in Review: Home News
- Buy-and-fly deals take off in face of recession: Correction
- Artists lament decline of album sleeve: Correction
- Minorities make up 5.5% of UK population
- Thieves abandon baby by roadside after stealing car
World
- West's aid could turn tide of war in Bosnia
- Law and order
- Life or death polling day for Serbia: Marcus Tanner in Belgrade on how toothless sanctions may spoil Panic's pitch
- Threat to UN men
- S Koreans get civilian leader
- New Russia fears a dose of old medicine: Yeltsin is fighting for his political life. Helen Womack in Moscow reports
- The stakes rise in Strip poker: A grim message from Gaza
- Bush's team of 3,000 get on their bikes: Patrick Cockburn in Washington on bleak job prospects for Republicans
- Rabin hostage to the martyrs of his revenge: In one fell swoop Israel has uprooted the seeds of trust. Sarah Helm looks at damage to peace hopes
- Clinton smear leads to White House
- De Klerk stirs up a nest of plotters: The South African President has finally exposed the 'third force'. But how much did he know? John Carlin reports from Johannesburg
- Clinton chided for not wooing women
- Aid suspended
- Nationalists win
- US stunned by Yeltsin's nuclear present
- Taiwan vote marks watershed for democracy: The island's first full parliamentary elections being held today are dominated by electoral corruption and relations with China, writes Teresa Poole
- China attacks HK conglomerate
- US radio fined for 'indecency'
- Hamas builds support for destruction of Israel: Sarah Helm visits occupied Gaza City and speaks to a Palestinian leader whose quiet tones belie his religious zeal and deadly purpose in the cause of Islam
- Maharajas do battle to restore their honour: India's noblemen hope to regain some of the wealth and privilege stripped from them 20 years ago, writes Tim McGirk in Jodhpur
- UN set to condemn Palestinian expulsions
- Doctors learn a hard lesson on SA frontline: John Carlin meets medical staff in Sebokeng, where murder has become the routine method of resolving neighbourhood disputes
- Fighting upsets secret Karabakh talks
- Prosecutor appointed to lead Clinton files inquiry
- Seoul ruling party claims win
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- Faith & Reason: Playing around with a date for Christmas: Symbolic calculation, seasons and solstices, have all been used to explain the choice of 25 December. The Rev Dr Kenneth Stevenson assesses the competing theories.
- Appeals: Scultpor's charity
- Obituary: Kenneth Bourne
- Obituary: Archbishop Timothy Olufosoye
- Obituary: Ewan Cameron
- Obituary: Dusan Plenicar
- Obituary: Dana Andrews
- Obituary: Dominique Bagouet
- Territorial Army promotions
- Obituary: Sir Sidney Nolan
Life & Style
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- Food and Drink: Gastropod
- Food and Drink: Memories to make the mouth water: It's the time of the year when awards are dished out; Emily Green tickles her taste buds to recall some of her favourite pubs, restaurants, bistros and brasseries of 1992
- Food and Drink: Winter draughts that keep out the cold: Many breweries offer seasonal ales, and some of the best are from Fuller's, says Michael Jackson
- Food and Drink: You can learn a lot from an educated cabbage
- Food and Drink: Gifts good enough to eat: Emily Green profiles a selection of specialist food shops and suggests tempting additions for the cheeseboard, sideboard and stocking
- DRINK / Glad tidings for discerning tipplers: The choice is wider and the battle for supremacy on the supermarket wine shelves tougher than ever. Anthony Rose uncorks the best bottles
- RECIPE / Round the world on a stir-fry
Motoring
- Motoring: Hop in and take your prejudices for a drive: Would you choose a Ford Escort over a Porsche 968? Gavin Green sets out to puncture some vehicle reputations and establish others
- Motoring: Independent Road Test: Sleek style in the slow lane: Audi's convertible will be coveted for its looks but will disappoint drivers wanting to leave those saloons behind, says Phil Llewellin
Arts & Entertainment
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- BOOK REVIEW / Home thoughts on the taste of rowanberries: Correction
- BOOK REVIEW / Recommended
- BOOK REVIEW / The other side of Millionsville: He writes bestsellers and is very rich. Peter Guttridge meets Sidney Sheldon
- BOOK REVIEW / Pet subjects: Jan Morris on dogs and dolphins
- BOOK REVIEW / Grime and punishment in Glasgow: 'Swing Hammer Swing]' - Jeff Torrington: Secker & Warburg, 7.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Stripped and ready for action: Roger Sabin reflects on the high hopes for the graphic novel this year
- BOOK REVIEW / Bucking up the aristocracy with delicate needles: 'Dope-Girls' - Marek Kohn: Lawrence & Wishart, 11.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Drought, famine, fire and flood, for ever and ever: Anthony Quinn searches for signs of God in a new anthology of contemporary short stories - 'God: An Anthology' - Ed. Stephen Hayward & Sarah Lefanu: Serpent's Tail, 9.99 pounds
- BOOKS / The prize winners of 1992
- BOOK REVIEW / Photojournalism
- BOOK REVIEW / The singing flight of the frump: 'Tsvetaeva' - Viktoria Schweitzer, Tr. Robert Chandler & H T Willetts: Harvill 20 pounds
- 1 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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