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Wednesday, 11 August 1993
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- Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55
- Paris Post War: Art and existentialism 1945-55
- The Daily Poem
- Premium rises revive insurance profits: An industry badly hit by the recession could enjoy a near-record year, writes Paul Durman
- Grants boost for 'green' farmers: Extra pounds 30m to help landscape and wildlife
- Threat to cut 200 jobs at protected Welsh pit
- Gang is jailed for 'ruthless' raid
- EC move will raise maternity pay: Thousands of pregnant women to benefit from directive despite employers' objections
- Disease-resistant elm being bred
- Films 'promote smoking' with tobacco as prop
- Docklands body in move to block legal aid for residents
- Weather forecaster threatened
- North Sea companies fined for rig explosion
- Policeman held
- Employers 'helping workers to claim dole': Fraud inspectors are cracking down on firms encouraging staff to 'sign on' illegally. Will Bennett reports
- Europeans' pass rates show wide fluctation: How drivers are put to the test elsewhere in Europe
- 'Mum's army' idea for non-graduates likely to be dropped or watered down: Ministers to back down over infant teacher plan
- Sex attacker seizes woman in rush-hour car hijack: Knifeman climbed into vehicle and forced victim to drive for six hours. David Connett reports
- Dog attack ruling
- Young driving offenders may have to retake test: Nick Walker examines proposals aimed at cutting 'tragic and unnecessary' road deaths
- Race bias award
- Pounds 1m fraud inquiry
- Labour in lead
- Gerbil eaten alive
- Legion victim
- Champion beaten
- Ministers queue to give the public 'good news': The Government has cranked up its publicity machine
- Killer flu warning
- Firm's fear factor
- Cult leader 'was blackmailed by daughter'
- Rape case judge angers women
World
- Buthelezi calls for peace but warns towns of civil war: ANC's armed wing must be disbanded, says Inkatha leader
- Fatal shot was 'inside the car'
- 'Russians held'
- Argentina may try to buy out Falklands: Each islander could be offered 475,000 pounds
- Freed Britons turned against Kurd captors: 'We were not anti-them initially. . . But something happened over the past few days, something deplorable'
- Indian lovers pay with their lives for breaking taboo
- Castro seeks talks with Washington
- Have long holiday, will travel nowhere in job: Terry McCarthy in Tokyo relates the tale of a Japanese bureaucrat who dared to leave his desk for two weeks
- Arnhem outrage
- Alien race
- 'Forgive spies'
- And, finally . . .
- 'Iraq coup plot'
- 'Unita repelled'
- Women at top
- Hovering death
- Aryan confesses
- Little and loud
- Clinton names army man as military chief
- Consul freed
- Crime bill to limit gun sales
- Neo-Nazis desecrate more than 100 Allied war graves near Arnhem
- 'Fatal shot came from within car': Georgian security chief suspended
- US ready to greet Pope but not his crusade: Meeting with liberal Clinton unlikely to be comfortable
- Marines fazed by marital arts
- Court in Israel delays ruling on Nazi SS guard: Senior lawyer opposes Demjanjuk retrial
- PLO 'link' plan
- Out of Switzerland: Grave reminder of a late-night scoop
- Egypt shooting
- Call to Castro
- Salvador arms
- Algeria killing
- Quake in NZ
- Race receipt
- Royal row
- Lockerbie offer
- Hardliners who stop at nothing
- Palestinians want Jericho in a mini-state: Leaders attempt to put pressure on Israel to clarify what the 'entity' might look like
- 'Envoy' death reveals US role in Georgia: Suspected CIA agent was part of Washington policy to establish influence in former Soviet Union
- Bail for accused in Hani murder case
- Nigeria threat
- Civilians bear brunt of Angola's ferocious war: At least 100,000 have died since Unita took up arms in October after losing elections
- China hijack
- US 'plans to leave Somalia'
- Reggae welcome
- Out of America: Wife cuts to heart of the problem
- Clinton's budget vote victory fails to impress: Deep divisions over benefits of hard-won cost-cutting package
- Elephants draw up battlelines to hold their ground: Villagers' encroachment on their lands is turning the animals into killers, writes Tim McGirk in New Delhi
- Torrential rainfall wreaks havoc in southern Japan: Floods and landslides leave tens of thousands without water and electricity
- Hosokawa stakes all on reform programme: New Japanese PM says he will quit if bills are not passed by end of year
- Clues point to aide's suicide
Media
- Media: The last rites for 'First Tuesday': Does the decision to drop its highly regarded documentary series mean the death of serious journalism at ITV? Sue Summers investigates
- Media: Ageing swingers who have become Radio 1 turn-offs: Martin Wroe expects other fortysomething disc jockeys to go the same way as DLT
- Media: Suddenly it's sexy to be sensible: Martin Rosenbaum examines the changed advertising philosophy of the nervy Nineties
- Media: Reading the minds of a 'Lost Generation'
- 1 'He was lucky he didn't die' - George Michael fell out of speeding car onto M1 motorway, according to eye witness
- 2 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 3 After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
- 4 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
- 5 'It was just like the movie Twister': Man survives Oklahoma tornado by taking refuge in horse stall
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