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Friday, 4 June 1993
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- Booby trap blast
- Chemical alert
- School tests are 'a disgraceful waste of money': Spending on national curriculum bureaucracy draining education budget, conference told
- Au pair jailed
- Birthday death
- Police swoop
- Girl's death 'could have been avoided': Care agencies criticised over murder of child aged three
- Fishing protest
- Guard for victim
- Two lungs made from one: Pioneering surgery may help donor shortage, writes Liz Hunt
- Mikhail Baryshnikov at Sadler's Wells in London, where he is dancing tonight with the White Oak Dance Project, an American company he co-founded in 1990
- Fall of a tarnished grandee: Steve Boggan and Michael Prestage trace the career of Sir Edward Du Cann, the Tory haunted by debt
- Despairing search for an education: Karen Gold talks to three people hit by the cancellation of degree courses
- Cargo ship 'did not respond to warnings'
- Man shoots lover dead in car park and kills himself: Daughter and grandchildren see woman killed
- Law Update: New code
- Murder inquiry
- Soldier charged
World
- High flyer
- Disarming rethink
- Judge lifts ban on Hindus
- Egypt 'foiled Islamic plot'
- Protest blocked
- Assets freeze on Haiti military
- Traditional healers fight Aids: Millions of lives in Africa depend on the success of a campaign to teach preventative measures
- Goalkeeper held
- Army backs off
- Venezuela stand-in
- Guinier shockwaves buffet Clinton: Another blow for President's prestige as he withdraws his nomination of a controversial lawyer for civil rights chief
- Sihanouk's deal falls apart: Prince withdraws plan for coalition rule
- White Australia feels land shift under its feet: The ruling that Aborigines own Murray Island has prompted more claims, writes Robert Milliken
- Jury fall out over damages in case of 'reckless pen': Peter Pringle reports from New York on a writer found guilty of making up quotes in a 'New Yorker' article
- Power for president
- Texas reprieve shows up penal flaws: Gary Graham's case highlights the dangers of a state deeply attached to the death penalty
- Yeltsin imposes his will with constitution draft: Special assembly of 700 Russians opens today to consider a 133-article document which is the sole basis for discussion
- Guatemalan vice-president prevented from taking over
- Drug cartel tunnels to US
- Sri Lanka's deadly friendship
- Guatemalan vice-president prevented from taking over
- Argentine war crimes inquiry
- Support grows for ban on guns
- Deadlock over psychoanalyst libel
- Out of Russia: Science fiction comes into its own among the true believers Russia
- China's government uses drilling to teach university students to keep in step
- People: Bubble-heads clash with the eggheads
- Crash inquiry
- An illegal immigrant greets California - but a clampdown is coming
- Writer dies
- Nomination of liberal lands Clinton in new fracas
- Tussling still lies ahead on SA poll date: Multi-party negotiators aim at 27 April next year for first democratic elections
- Drug cartel tunnels to US
- Escobar relative murdered
- Common plug policy
- LA smoking ban nearer
- Sihanouk takes over and aims for a coalition: With royalist party ahead in Cambodia Prince moves to avert return to war
People
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- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Appeals
- Obituary: Bernard Simons
- Obituary: Bernard Simons
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Sir Austin Robinson
- Royal College of Pathologists
- Faith and Reason: Roman Catholicity is deeply flawed: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, the General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, responds to Margaret Hebblethwaite's attack on Anglicanism last week with a consideration of Roman claims.
- Obituary: Marv Johnson
- Obituary: Ian Thomas
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Court circular
- Obituary: Fr Anthony Ross
- Obituary: Esme Gordon
- Obituary: The Right Rev Falkner Allison
- Obituary: Trevor Fisk
- Obituary: Richard Murphy
Life & Style
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- Wine box
- Gastropod
- Full of flavour, but not for the faint-hearted: You have to put aside any squeamishness to make the most of fresh squid, but the meltingly tender results are well worth the effort
- Taking the Chinese takeaway back to Peking: Introducing a short series based on a period of travel around the mainland in search of the country's authentic cuisine
- Recipe: Messing about with a pate
- He's putting the bee back into his beer: Michael Jackson finds a tradition of brewing with honey undergoing a revival in the Black Country. The results may soon be available at a pub near you
- Saucerer's apprentice makes good: After nine years spent learning her craft, Cathy Gradwell, the new head chef at Launceston Place, has made an impressive debut, says Emily Green
- Silver palate, golden touch: Sheila Lukins tells Emily Green how she accidentally became a best-selling cookery writer
Motoring
- A mountain climber takes on Fiat's problem child: A British motor industry veteran hopes to put brio back into the Italian family's UK sales. Phil Llewellin met him
- The Independent Road Test: Comfortable leader in the mini marathon: Phil Llewellin is pleasantly surprised when he takes the Fiat Cinquecento on his own 24-hour 'Le Mans' road race to find out just what it is made of
Arts & Entertainment
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- Second Thoughts / Single skulls contest: Ian Thomson on the bizarre voodoo cult that inspired Bonjour Blanc (Penguin, 6.99 pounds )
- Outside, with time's whips and scorns: Peter Guttridge meets the unusual, prolific and provocative author
- BOOK REVIEW / Greece is the word: 'Shame and Necessity' - Bernard Williams: University of California, 18.50
- BOOK REVIEW / Monks, minstrels, and a river runs through it
- BOOK REVIEW / Ice-maiden stung by a spider: 'Change the Name' - Anna Kavan: Peter Owen, 15.50
- BOOK REVIEW / Dr Gonzo and a peacock expert: 'Hunter' - E Jean Carroll: Simon & Schuster, 16.99
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan, 29 pounds .
- BOOK REVIEW / Trial and error over Nuremberg: 'The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials' - Telford Taylor: Bloomsbury, 25 pounds
- The wild sheep chase: Letter from Moniack
- Classic Thoughts: Iron fist in iron glove: Frederic Raphael on Arthur Koestler's bleak masterpiece, Darkness at Noon (1940)
- 1 The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey pays more income tax than big cities of the North
- 2 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 3 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 4 The moral case on tax avoidance is overwhelming - and we all know Google wants to do the right thing
- 5 Sam Wallace: The second coming of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea will be a reunion that can only end in tears
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