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Sunday, 23 May 1993
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- Man shot dead
- Law Report: Case Summaries
- MP 'improving'
- Police seek to protect informants
- Fifty charged after motorway demonstration: Environmentalists are warning of a summer of discontent with protests in the South and the Midlands, writes Steve Boggan
- Lessons of History: Politics of pressure that took root in May 1968: David Caute reassesses the impact of the youthful insurrections 25 years ago
- Nine saved from fire
- Queen Mother goes home
- Whistler freed
- Minister signals railcard retreat: MacGregor seeks to pacify backbench rebels
- Newspaper revelations threaten sextuplets deal: Lucrative sponsorship arrangements for the Vince Six are at risk. Mary Braid reports
- Fourth IRA bomb blast in Ulster
- Former officer backs Falklands atrocity claim: Parachute Regiment captain 'saw wounded prisoner being shot over an open grave'
- Campaigners fear science review has been misdirected: Scientists say good ideas not exploited because of failure to invest in research and development
- Trafalgar Day is ruled out: May Day replacement will have no name
- Contemporary Art Market: Recession brings a windfall for figurative artists
- Families haunted by accusations of childhood abuse: A growing number of parents accused by adult children of ill treatment say they are victims of 'false memory syndrome'
- The Daily Poem: Night Shift
- Stranded sailors find a warm welcome on Shetland quayside: A legal wrangle has left the crew of a Lithuanian ship dependent on local largesse. Will Bennett reports
- Heart surgery could be limited to non-smokers: Financial pressures creating ethical dilemma
- Major denies Clark's phone was tapped
- Hundreds of jobs lost . . . and an ordinary man dies: One miner among many laid off at a colliery in Tyne and Wear burnt himself to death. Esther Oxford tells the story
- NHS dentists pay price of successful treatments: Maintaining oral health will prove costly
- Bubbly war leads to bargains galore
- Six hurt in massive IRA blast
- The Royals: join the debate, watch the bulletins, buy the books
- Lamont rules out early ERM re-entry
- Prisoners may be held on ships
- Alzheimer's hope
- Horse acid attack
- Police move in on M3 protesters
- Fire case boy held
- Church to be sued
- A place in the sun loses its shine: Ian MacKinnon reports on the plight of elderly Britons who retired to Spain
- Satellite deal that is proving pure stardust
- Queens of soap attract a staunch camp following: Coronation Street's strong women - all buxon, brazen, brash and blonde - have ousted the vamps of Hollywood as the hot gay icons, reports Marianne Macdonald
- Wartime anniversary fuels feud
- BBC endures unhappy trip to the market
- The undesirable side of academic affairs: Should tutors who have sex with students declare an interest, ask Harriet Martin and Jane Flanagan
- Automation can save shops, say sub-postmasters
- Drawn curtains in a silent village: The Beverly Allitt case: on Friday this baby killer will be sentenced for 26 attacks including four murders. What do they make of it all back home?
- M3 work halted
- Allitt could have been stopped at the beginning
- Ferry threat has Scots steaming
- Three top police informers killed
- Rambutan for the rich, beans for the broke: When big food stores move out of town, the customers left behind pay the price with their health. David Nicholson-Lord reports
- BMA under fire over Aids film
- Swan Hunter vote
- Fairbairn taken ill
- Rape case remand
- Ear today . . .
- Postcard from a Berlin building site: To escape the UK recession workers are pricing themselves into a job and out of the protection of the law, reports Steve Boggan
- Paul Johnson's MAY 1968: When student riots rocked France, the British journalist Paul Johnson was there. This is the report he wrote for the New Statesman 25 years ago
- MAY 1968: Four Students Who Remember it Well
World
- Out of Hong Kong: Luxurious cars take a fast boat to China
- Lebanon's Hizbollah perfects its hit-and-run tactics: The Party of God is increasing its influence in southern villages and treating the UN with contempt as it battles against Israel and its allies. Robert Fisk reports from Eit es-Zut
- Interim president takes power in Venezuela
- ANC in battle to curb violence: Black activists are trying to control crime in the townships. Karl Maier reports from Sharpeville
- Canada rocked by Somalia scandal: 'Cover-up' claim after peace-keepers are accused of beating unarmed civilian to death
- Irish man of nerve is front-runner to settle global trade accord: Peter Sutherland, the former Irish EC commissioner, is likely to be the new Director General of Gatt next month. Alan Murdoch in Dublin assesses his potential to save the world trade system
- Voters brave the weather and Khmer Rouge: Third of electorate turns out on first of six days of polling despite guerrilla threats
- TV debate is height of Spanish poll battle: The first American-style face-off between Gonzalez and Aznar holds the key to around 6 million voters
- Optimism in HK on talks with Peking
- Unita blamed
- Ukraine muffles nuclear blast
- Deserters take dangerous ride on Serb underground railway: Robert Block in Belgrade on the man who has a way out for those who will not fight
- French in a frenzy over philosopher of love and seduction: Steamy dialogues with a former minister have become the non-fiction bestseller. Julian Nundy reports from Paris
- Destiny imposes its own apartheid on twin brothers of the white tribe: They are alike in every way except how they see the Afrikaners' future: one is a messiah of the right, the other backs the ANC. Karl Maier finds out why
- Scandals plague battered President: Patrick Cockburn on the latest White House farce, starring Bill Clinton
- Attali asked French for plush Paris flat
- Irving enlists video Nazis to attack ban on Australia visit
- Tomb find
- Rebecca did it. Sherpas are always doing it - so why all the fuss?: Brian Cathcart profiles Everest, once the ultimate endurance test but now in danger of becoming little more than a conversation piece and a Majorca for mountaineers
- Maastricht from A to Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz: The Danes have said yes. So what does the new Europe mean to you? Andrew Marshall in Brussels explains
- UN Cambodia troops killed
- Khmer Rouge kill UN peace-keepers
- 15 killed in SA township
Science
- Science: Wanted: a boost for British research: The Government is expected to publish a White Paper on Science and Technology this week. Will it herald a much-needed change of priorities? Tom Wilkie, Nicholas Schoon and Susan Watts report
- Science: Down-to-earth lab in marketplace limbo
- Science: The need to build new partnerships
- 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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