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Tuesday, 4 May 1993
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- Shorter training period for junior doctors urged: Proposals for overhaul of career structure
- Teachers 'swipe' at bar code game: Parents could face 'intolerable pressure' from children to buy goods linked to a computer game. Rhys Williams reports
- Clarke agrees changes to unit-fines Act: Urgent reforms will mean legislation operates 'as Home Office meant it to'
- Cocaine party
- 'Moving Pictures', photographs of Romania and Hungary by Matthew Mawson, at Warren Street station, on the London Underground. An estimated 12,000 people a day will pass the collection of 20 pictures, which will be on display until the end of this month
- Saatchi's bricks fail to find a buyer: Geraldine Norman reports from New York on Sotheby's most unsuccessful sale since 1990
- US court asks for IRA papers
- Body of Thames Water chairman found in river
- Book buyers offered their money back
- Line to close
- Malaria pay-out
- Torture pair jailed
- Iraq weapons guidelines 'kept secret' from MPs: Scott inquiry told crucial policy changes withheld for nine months.
- Opera house to launch cut-price performances: Subsidised tickets to be sold to students, unemployed and young for first time
- Newspapers plan to strengthen self-regulation: Measures aim to make Press more accountable and forestall proposals for statutory controls
- Race bias PC wins 25,000 pounds
- Man who dressed Cher admits his links to the Mob: When Bob Mackie hit financial trouble he turned to the Mafia for help. Marion Hume reports
- Soprano robbed
- The Bluffer's Briefing on: Opera
- War clouds Eurovision contest: Urgent reforms will mean legislation operates 'as Home Office meant it to'
- BT 'bargain'
- Mass funeral
- CAA to await tests on new 747 'pins': British airlines will be told to replace part blamed for crashes once substitute gains approval in US
- Chess contest 'unofficial'
- Murder remand
- Varying fines for offences 'unfair': Adam Sage spent a day in a Leeds court with magistrates operating the unit fines system Offenders must not be sentenced for their past history
- Aids grants cut in tactical switch: Bottomley to target high-risk groups
- Eggar urged to stop coal pension fund 'raid': 'Maxwell-style' plans attacked by Labour
- County Council Polls: Election rivals who preferred pragmatism to party politics: Consensus reigns in Avon, but that could change on Thursday. Peter Dunn reports
- BBC ends seafaring voyage for radio show: Seamen's programme to be axed after 50 years
- Average household charged 50p a day
- Regulators battle over increases in water bills: Rivers body days spending will only maintain quality of water, not improve it. Nicholas Schoon and Mary Fagan report
- Colourful future for light-sensitive clothes: Fashion innovation no longer seen as a fad
- Pilot recalls skill that saved crippled 707: Five Boeing aircraft have lost engines in flight since the end of 1991. Christian Wolmar talks to a pilot who describes what happened when his jet shed two of its four power-plants at 32,000ft over the Swiss Alps
- Man on mini-cab bomb charge
- NHS 'wastes millions' on computers for GPs: Doctors' systems are ineffective and incompatible, experts say. Tim Kelsey reports
- Far left reclaims May Day for workers: Socialist Workers Party sets out its stall as the left's unofficial opposition to Labour. Alex Renton reports
- Heseltine faces egg-throwers: Communists disrupt Newbury by-election meeting. Patricia Wynn Davies reports
- Slow boat to Boulogne puts emphasis on pleasure: A former Isle of Man ferry aims to return nostalgia to the Channel crossing. David Hewson reports
- Social Chapter 'cannot be resisted': Labour discussion paper puts Europe at 'heart of its policies'. Patricia Wynn Davies reports
- Double blow
- Magistrates to seek reform of unit fines: Talks with Clarke could lead to changes in means-related system
- Uproar as man faces two counts of murder
- The bluffer's briefing: Maastricht
- Police shell-shocked
World
- Texas execution
- 'Give them their own state,' say Israeli employers: The decision to keep out Palestinian workers has had a big impact on local attitudes
- Star's arrest worries the film industry: Indian cinema is no longer popular with politicians, writes Tim
- Clinton gets tough with White House team: As problems mount over the budget, health care and Bosnia, the President seeks a disciplinarian for staff shake-up
- LA police in new 'deadly force' row: Outcry after officers shoot dead black witness in brutality case brought against the force
- Patten meets a stone wall on China
- Sri Lanka mourns and fears for future: Ethnic tension mounts in Colombo as thousands pay their last respects to assassinated president
- FO presses Pakistan over kidnapped diplomats: Efforts are being stepped up to free three Europeans held in Afghanistan
- Yeltsin vow
- Hunters foiled
- Kuwait ruling
- Second day of India clashes
- Mandela charms London with vision of future: A tour de force at the start of his European visit belies ANC leader's 74 years
- US 'expulsion'
- Out of America: Buffaloes muddy the waters of political correctness
- Georgia black-out
- Gaza deaths
- Gay murder trial
- Eritrea hope
- Off Oz
- HIV blood trial opens in Paris
- Khmer Rouge attack town
- Wine-maker dies
- Religious right shakes up NY school polls: Peter Pringle on a conservative rally against the liberal agenda in the classroom
- Mandela visit
- UN takes over
- New mayor
- Escobar letter
- India riots
- Gaullist suicide
- Sri Lanka leader catapulted to top: The simple and unassuming man who stepped into Premadasa's shoes may yet surprise
- Koresh was shot before fire
- War strips southern Sudan bare: Tribal fighting among rebels has increased hunger, writes Richard Dowden in Kongor
- People: Catalonia's homage to Lennon the peacemaker
- Clinton keeps Patten guessing
People
- Court Circular
- Birthdays
- Obituary: Michael Gordon
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Professor Christopher Cornford
- Obituary: Alexei Adzhubei
- Obituary: Julio Gallo
- Anniversaries
- Court Circular
- Birthdays
- Obituary: Catherine Richards
- Obituary: Dominique Bozo
- Obituary: Commander J. G. D. Ouvry
- Obituary: Mick Ronson
Media
- Europe or bust: a tale of two newspapers: When Robert Maxwell died, few thought the newspaper he founded would survive. Thanks to its editor's faith, it has, says Martin Wroe
- Putting the fizz back in Perrier: Dominic Murphy sees an ad agency taking the plunge to find a new image
- Bankrolled by Wall Street, read by the seriously rich
- Media Types: Occasionally prone to work: The creative
- 1 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 2 'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
- 3 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 4 Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
- 5 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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