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Friday, 16 July 1993
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- Paris Post War
- Memento of Byron's most innocent love to be sold: A locket of hair the poet sent to his childhood sweetheart was a romantic token of a unique friendship. Dalya Alberge reports
- Soldier killed
- Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55
- Treasury attacked for failure to halt fraud
- MPs and trade unionists establish archive for art of the workers
- Gordon a 'hostage to history': Boxes of documents released at the Public Record Office chart the activities of British intelligence and its network of agents from a century ago. Stephen Ward reports
- Morale is low at the BBC, Birt says
- Savile Row begins fightback to save the gentleman's suit: Roger Tredre looks at the way traditional tailors suffering a decade of declining trade hope to halt the march of casual fashion
- The Daily Poem: What Are These Mountains Thinking About
- Major looks set to drop 'Scallywag' libel action
World
- Azeri 'assassination attempt'
- Defences crumble as mighty rivers merge: Homes abandoned to the flood amid torrential rains as waters of the Mississippi and Missouri defeat efforts to contain them
- Latin summit stirred but not shaken by Fidel: Cuba accepts a watered-down resolution backing its stand against US embargo
- Lebanese are won over by the Shamrock: Sarah Helm talks to the UN's Irish force near Israel's 'security zone'
- Baghdad signals hard line in dealing with UN
- Italian businessmen arrested
- Iraqi dissidents ponder move to Kurdish refuge: 30,000 Shias hope to leave Saudi camp
- Cubans to own dollars
- Crowe heads list for London post: Raymond Seitz to serve out his full term
- Japan's voters set to endorse political change
- Buthelezi threatens split
- Pyongyang talks with US hit snag: Neighbours remain wary of N Korea's nuclear intentions
- UN tries to clear up Somalia mess: The row with Italy over operations in Mogadishu is casting a shadow across the future of peace-keeping
- Mobutu guard enters fray
- Ukraine gets nuclear warning
- Fonzi in disgrace
- Nigeria sets poll date
- UN 'twice told Italians not to arrest Aideed': Patricia Clough in Rome reports on the local view of the Somalia dispute
- Algiers death
- Sex shock
- Ceasefire call in Angola
- Whites and blacks unite to foil democracy: A mass-murderer's death highlights sinister links between extremists, writes John Carlin in Johannesburg
- Rome says commander will stay
- Le Pen snub
- Tyson sued
- Polisario talks
- Rains cause many deaths across Asia
- Race 'plot'
- Russia accused of Afghan attack
- Pakistan left off terror list
- Japanese Elections: Dreaming of freedom and change: Significant political reform will not appear overnight and when it comes it will be imposed from the top down
- Hussein warns of religious tensions
- US unable to tame the Mississippi: The 1993 floods, which could cost the US as much as dollars 5bn, show no sign of abating - and more rain is forecast
- People: Italians give a big hand for Mr Clean
People
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- Birthdays
- Obituary: Robert Campbell Jnr
- Obituary: Antun Soljan
- Obituary: Douglas Bell
- Obituary: Peretz Miransky
- Obituary: Roderick Anthony
- Obituary: Jo France
- Obituary: Professor Herbert Spencer
- Obituary: Mircho Spassov
- Faith and Reason: Claim to authority divides a church: Our series on Catholicism without Rome returns to the Church of England: Elizabeth Mills, of Forward in Faith, argues that women priests are incompatible with catholicism.
- Obituary: A. K. Ramanujan
- Birthdays
- Court Circular
- Anniversaries
- Parish Clerks' Company
- Obituary: Dame Susan Walker
- Obituary: Jacques Chazot
- Obituary: Professor Percy Johnson-Marshall
- Royal College of Physicians of London
- Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Obituary: Ray Hudson
- Obituary: Michael Rothenstein
- Obituary: Harry Irving
- Obituary: Patrick Lippert
Life & Style
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- Gastropod
- Food and Drink: Grist of anarchy from the organic mills: Emily Green, one of the judges in the Organic Food Awards, is disappointed in general, but delighted by the best foods on offer
- Food and Drink: A cheap guide to China
- Drink: A taste of the new world wine order: Sainsbury's has 94 new wines on its books. Anthony Rose charts the company's return to form
- Food and Drink: Chill out with a cool soup: The traditional winter warmer can be just as satisfying if delivered cold on a summer's day - and there's no need even to switch on the stove
- Drink: Selection from the shelves
- Correction: Squeeze the fruit until the pith squeeks
- Recipe / Last orders of summer pasta
Motoring
- Motoring: Never mind the price; look at the history: James Ruppert hails the return to fashion of the estate car - and tests some models on the second-hand market
- Motoring: The Independent Road Test: A marriage of style, space and power: Estate cars used to mean barn-like styling and barge-like performance, but the Ford Mondeo epitomises how things have changed, says Phil Llewellin
Arts & Entertainment
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- Recommended books
- BOOK REVIEW / The day-to-day pain of hated stains: 'Marble Skin' - Slavenka Drakulic, Tr. Greg Mosse: Hutchinson, 13.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Telling tales in Greek and other larks: 'A Different Sea' - Claudio Magris Tr. M S Spurr: Harvill, 12.99 pounds
- Books: A man-reader in Malgudi: The Indian writer R K Narayan tells Tim McGirk about his many misadventures
- Books: Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Outrages along the new wall: Ralph Manheim, who translated The Call of the Toad by Gunter Grass (Secker & Warburg, 14.99), died last year. The following is an extract from the novel
- Books: Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Messages transmitted by facts: Peter Guttridge talks to Paul Wilson, translator of My Golden Trades by Ivan Klima (Granta, 13.99)
- Books: Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Sorcerer in the national night: Nick Caistor talks to Barbara Bray, translator of The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare (Harvill, 7.99)
- Books: Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Comfortable at sea in syntax: Sabine Durrant talks to Helen Lane, translator of Makbara by Juan Goytisolo (Serpent's Tail, 9.99)
- Off the Shelf: Malicious gossip after Mass: Derek Severn on The Postman, a neglected work by the Nobel laureate Roger Martin du Gard
- Books: Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Adventures in humility: Robert Winder talks to Giovanni Pontiero, who translated The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago (Harvill 14.99)
- Books: Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Translation: The Grand International
- Books: Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Symbol machine on full throttle: Natasha Walter talks to Hillel Halkin, translator of Mr Mani by A B Yehoshua (Peter Halban 15.99)
- 1 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 2 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 3 Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
- 4 EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
- 5 Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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