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Saturday, 16 January 1993
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- Fiennes hits Pole
- Gales batter ship
- Pit closure challenge
- Ski collision death
- Comedy stage veterans die
- Scotland's big thaw
- Memo to John Birt: re gobbledygook: The BBC's outward-centred communications need objective-oriented enhancement, postulates Michael Leapman
- Labour accuses Tory placemen of 'blowing windfall tax off course'
- Refugees set deadline on 'broken promises': Edward Pilkington meets ethnic cleansing victims desperate to be reunited with their families
- Jobs for the Ministers
- Adrian the Editor keeps it strictly in the family
- Speech unit may be forced to close
- Oh Mr Major, what shall we do, we wanted to go to Aberdeen and there isn't a train from Crewe: The junction at BR's heart is a shadow of its former self. Will privatisation mean the end? Peter Crookston talks to passengers and railwaymen
- Clarke in clash on right to silence
- Short finds form to take the lead
- Never-on-Sunday shop staff to lose protection
- Private Lives?: The tightrope between free expression and privacy; the Law
- Plan to boost use of coal will save pits, say MPs
- Government re-think may save Bart's
- Britain backs into Bosnia no-fly deal
- Private Lives?: Victims served on a plate for a news-hungry nation; the Public
- Scotland braves a no-drive zone: London was not impressed, but 'the white stuff' caused havoc in the Highlands last week, reports James Cusick
- Is it time for the cult of youth to grow up?: Age Concern thinks older people are increasingly being marginalised. Geraldine Bedell investigates
- It must be true, they leaked it to the papers
- Tales from the Frozen North
- Bugging: Can you hear me? Yes, darling, and so can an awful lot of other people
- Cold comfort for the perfect human body
- Bomb damage cost hits flats
- The Week in Review: Home News
- Doubts raised over safety at Sizewell
- Worker's hovel stands in way of pounds 1.5m housing scheme: City planners are determined to preserve an 18th-century relic. Chris Arnot reports
- Beds crisis forces ban on routine operations
- Judge reverses ruling on disclosing evidence
- Second World War tank outside John Gladden's home in Norbury
- JCB 'joust'
- Man accepts 100,000 pounds from police over assault claim
- Dons 'penalised'
- X-ray detection
World
- Showdown in Iraq: Images of glory deflated by pin-prick tactics: Baghdad sees signs of confusion as Clinton walks into the crossfire of a hot and cold running war; The US View
- Showdown in Iraq: The Gulf war that Saddam won: To the West it was a spanking for a despot, but to Arabs it was another example of our hypocrisy; The Middle East
- Nominee fined
- Medicine man casts a spell on Karadzic: Michael Sheridan reports from Geneva on how Lord Owen scored a victory over the Bosnian Serbs
- Secret lives of Kremlin wives: Andrew Higgins on the loneliness of women at the heart of Soviet power
- 'Hoffa with a halo' film angers Kennedy aides: Phil Reeves in Los Angeles on a row over Hollywood's distortion of history
- Space play
- UN aid convoy halted outside Muslim town
- Tests for Honecker
- Pupils raped
- Indian shuffle
- Kurds fear Saddam poised to strike
- America curbs Haiti refugees
- Judge blocks 'anti-gay' law
- Woody Allen and Mia Farrow after a meeting
- Red Cross halts Somalia operation over killing
- Zaire opposition launches protest
- Silent killers stalk their prey in Angola's long night: Thousands have died in fighting after rebels reneged on a deal, writes Karl Maier in Lobito
- Russia offers security deal
- The cavalry flies in as a symbol of US resolve: Robert Fisk watches American troops arrive in Kuwait City for another mission in the region
- Pact to banish chemical arms
- Saudis behead woman for murder
- Out of Senegal: A Muslim voice speaking across the continents
- Rao runs gauntlet in Bombay riot areas
- The US in Transition: Gifted Greek named as Clinton spokesman - The mouthpiece
- Arab shot after Tel Aviv stabbings
- Cambodia attack rekindles debate on Japan troops
People
- Anniversaries
- Court Circular
- Service appointments
- Birthdays
- Wills
- Church appointments
- Appeals
- Tribology Trust
- Faith and Reason: Torn apart along a perforated line: In the third article in our series on warring faiths, the Ven George Austin, Archdeacon of York, argues that there can be no progress where a dialogue requires believers to deny the revealed truth of their creed
- Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
- Obituary: Walter Maas
- Obituary: Lt-Col Montagu Cleeve
- Obituary: Rene Pleven
- Obituary: Professor George Rude
Life & Style
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- Food & Drink: Gastropod
- Food & Drink: Pure genius, threatened by folly: In the week that Guinness announces the closure of five whisky plants, Michael Jackson pleads for the survival of its finest beer
- Food & Drink: In an adventure playground for the palate: Emily Green delights in Bistrot Bruno, a new Soho restaurant where the moonlighting chef has created a strange and wonderful menu
- Food & Drink: Taking the mould out of Moldova: The new republic looked to the West for help in improving its wine industry. Now it is looking to the West for its market, says Anthony Rose
- Food & Drink: The girls' bloodless revolution: Joanna Blythman has sympathy for the growing number of teenage vegetarians. But when one joined her family, her patience was taxed
- Recipe: Go to work on a drink
- Recipe: Pasta spells disaster
- Food & Drink: Basil is at home in Italy, not Vietnam
Motoring
- This is the bike that Bernie built: Norton's 500cc Manx is back in production. Roland Brown meets the man who aims to make a profit building four of the classic machines a year
- The Independent Road Test: The balloon on wheels is set to take off: Roger Bell compares Nissan's new Micra, the Car of the Year, with the Renault Clio and the Rover Metro
Arts & Entertainment
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- Recommended Books
- SECOND THOUGHTS / A little dinghy bobbing with joy: Jonathan Keates on why his biography Handel: The Man and his Music (Gollancz pounds 7.99) struck a discordant note
- BOOK REVIEW / Into the field of human conflict: D C Watt finds Dr Charmley's controversial biography of Churchill anything but meticulous. 'Churchill: The End of Glory' - John Charmley: Hodder & Stoughton, 30 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Doctor in the Penal Colony: Robert Shannan Peckham enjoys a re-issue of Chekhov's travel book. 'A Journey to Sakhalin' - Anton Chekhov; Tr. Brian Reeve: Ian Faulkner, 8.95 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / She was probably just asking for it: Christina Hardyment on a clear, spirited and detailed discussion of the way women are treated by Britain's legal system. 'Eve was Framed' - Helena Kennedy: Chatto and Windus, 16.99 pounds
- Aussie scrub-bashing with a machete: Marianne Brace talks to the Australian writer Helen Garner about wretchedness and work
- BOOK REVIEW / Guilt-edged security: 'Living Dangerously' - Roger Graef: HarperCollins, 14.99 pounds
- Recent paperbacks
- Letter from Budapest: Dissident with nobs on: Frederick Baker meets the Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy
- BOOK REVIEW / Mean streaks of Rio: 'Turbulence' - Chico Buarque; trs Peter Bush: Bloomsbury, 13.99 pounds
- A lumpy hero approaches the abyss: 'A Dream of Intelligence' - Sebastian Barker: Littlewood Arc, 15.95 pounds
- 1 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 2 British business: We need to stay in the European Union - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
- 3 The moral case on tax avoidance is overwhelming - and we all know Google wants to do the right thing
- 4 Sam Wallace: The second coming of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea will be a reunion that can only end in tears
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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