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Saturday, 1 August 1992
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- Hurd review will curb EC power
- Donkey 'sacrified'
- Government delay stops charity appeal
- New Age travellers face dole crackdown
- Private firms may buy closed pits
- Five die as two cars collide
- War hero who found God: Andrew Brown on the RAF bomber leader who became a candidate for sainthood and died on Friday at 74
- 115th birthday
- More BBC repeats
- Car makers pin 'K' hope on advert orgy
- Tears and boos as Jacko calls off the show: Michael Jackson pleaded illness. David Lister saw the dismay of 72,000 fans
- Royal yachtsmen: Prince Philip, with Prince Edward at the helm, on the opening day of Cowes Week
- Cross lines over poet's honeymoon
- Firebombs found
- The week in review: Home news
- Woman wins murder case retrial: Appeal court judges quash conviction of battered wife who set fire to her husband after 10 years of violence
- 'Repro' replaces the Regency
- Row brings a smile to denture trade
- Bombs hunt paralyses city centre
- Pastor Bonnke lays claim to miracle cures: Andrew Brown sees a German evangelist conducting one of his four open-air shows in Birmingham this week
- Judge and jury were 'seriously misled' by police
- Dentists set up regional scheme to replace NHS: Fee reductions have left the dental service in turmoil, but in the West Country the profession is taking unilateral action to solve its problems
- Carrots 'as addictive as cigarette smoking'
- Inmates at Ford Open Prison, West Sussex, rehearsing their 40-minute mini-opera
- Tory MP to be tried by a jury
- Car dealers drive a hard bargain for 'K' day: Both sides seem happy but the 'low prices' may not be what they seem
- BR admits error
- Judges attack the Government over court funding
- 'National hero' Lord Cheshire dies aged 74
- Anger as Guildford Four inquiry curtailed: Questions about the role of senior police officers and lawyers in the miscarriage of justice 17 years ago may never be resolved
- Police halt rail getaway
- Neo-Nazi denies having affair with journalist
- Families ousted
- Manwaring charge
- TV ban on Sinn Fein rejected
- Defamation 'victory for poor'
- EC clears way for road link at Twyford Down
- Truck injury
- 'Kidnapped' man must face trial in UK court
- Loyalist attack
- Family may sue over shell blast
- Race case fails
- LSE delivers 65m pounds bid for County Hall
- Greenham park
World
- 76 Ivory Coast dissidents freed
- The strange flight of BA 149: Why did no one prevent a British Airways flight into Kuwait after the invasion began? Andrew Marshall on a riddle that won't go away
- Italy finally loses its cool over chaos
- Ice-cold Margot leaves Erich in the lurch: Adrian Bridge in Berlin on the skeletons in the closet of East Germany's former First Lady
- Blood on carpets of Paris: The Aids trial has exposed the shadowy role of civil servants who take decisions without informing their superiors, writes Julian Nundy
- Troops to Kuwait
- Favourite son bears hopes of townships: John Carlin talks to Cyril Ramaphosa, man of the people
- Tolstoy's legacy
- Tudjman whips up election mayhem: The campaign leading up to today's vote in Croatia has focused solely on nationalist issues, writes Tony Barber in Zagreb
- Arson investigator burnt down buildings
- Confessions of an atom spy: Forty years after Bruno Pontecorvo, a British scientist, went to work for Moscow, he tells Charles Richards in Rome why he changed sides
- Shuttle blasts off with a string and a prayer
- Druze protests grow
- Out of Central Asia: End of the line for the Russians the Soviet Union left behind
- Opening doors to the past and the future: Palestinians suspect Israeli motives in allowing the Arab Studies Centre to reopen in east Jerusalem, writes Sarah Helm
- Iraq 'trying to wipe out Marsh Arabs'
- Washington reels from one scandal to another
- Nigerians contemplate the price of democracy
- Rescuers battle to reach Thai plane wreckage
- Cabin crew take credit for jet-blaze escape
- Vance hopes for 'wisdom' in SA
- Somalis blamed for Kenya crime
- Witness tells of Collor cover-up
- Japanese woman under siege after harassment case
People
- Obituary: Lord Cheshire VC
- Obituary: Lord Cheshire VC
- Court Circular
- Appointments
- Wills
- Anniversaries
- Birthdays
- Appointments: Church appointments
- Church appeals
- Obituary: Max Dupain
- Faith and Reason: Who put the poor man at your gate?: Mark Birchall continues our series on money and justice. He argues that we may not know what to do right, but we must know we are living wrong. He is a former stockbroker.
- Obituary: Auguste Lecoeur
Life & Style
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- Gastropod
- Wines of the week
- Seasoned in the southern sun: Carla Tomasi cooks sun-ripened tomatoes, aubergines and peppers and celebrates the sensual cuisines of southern Italy
- Sometimes Provence
- I'll eat my way around Paris if I have to: the Independent Cook 1992: Joanna Blythman did not need much persuading to accompany John Wood, winner of our cookery competition, on his gastronomic tour
- Recipe: A little pick-me-upma in the evening
- A woman's kitchen is in the place: Crostini and Cajun, cooked in a cafe by a female team. Tim Jackson dines out in Hampstead
- Tested by pigeons, drunk by the landlord: Michael Jackson is toasting Yorkshire Day with a Timothy Taylor's bitter - his Beer of the Month
Arts & Entertainment
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- Recommended books
- Letter from Berlin: At home with Grass
- BOOK REVIEW / After the freeze, into the flames: 'Probing the limits of representation' - Ed. Saul Friedlander: Harvard, 19.95
- BOOK REVIEW / Dancing within a step of death: Stephen Goodwin reviews three books by mountain climbers on why they take risks
- BOOK REVIEW / The Sparklet tells all: 'Curriculum Vitae' - Muriel Spark: Constable, 14.95
- BOOK REVIEW / Dial the Mission for murder: 'Overthrown by strangers' - Ronan Bennett: Hamish Hamilton, 14.99
- Second Thoughts: A life wrapped up in work: Nicholas Boyle on the desires behind Volume I of Goethe: The Poet and the Age (Oxford, 15 pounds)
- Mine's a large Groping and Trauma: Simon Melber meets Guy Bellamy, whose best-selling comic novels chronicle the temptations that afflict the British abroad
- BOOK REVIEW / The dog from hell lies down: 'Turtle Moon' - Alice Hoffman: Macmillan, 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / A sleeping giant in search of new shoes: 'Praying for Sheetrock' - Melissa Fay Greene: Secker & Warburg, 9.99
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- 3 Special Report: US troops are stationed in Japan to protect the nation. But to sex workers in Okinawa, they bring fear, not security
- 4 Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
- 5 Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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