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Saturday, 7 August 1993
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- Paris Post War
- Stag hunt to continue despite ban
- 10m pounds of ecstasy seized in raid
- Palace reveals selected secrets: Nation's most prestigious tourist attraction shows a surprising line in red carpets and electric fires
- Security van robbed
- Drink-drive case
- Policeman seeks to 'discredit' solicitor
- Gas death council is fined 25,000 pounds: 'Disastrous programme' of work led to incorrect installation of 800 heaters and escape of poisonous fumes, court told
- Buyers sweep up Nadir's treasures
- Police name missing man after girls tell of rape
- 'Pink Panther gang' jailed for four years: Court told of 'beautifully executed' raid to steal Cartier gold and jewels
- Up to 1 million pounds stolen in armed raid
- Actor prepares to face new audience with first one-man show of paintings, drawings and sculptures
- Youth job prospects 'set to worsen'
- Virus suspected of killing thousands of garden frogs
- Banks get little credit from watchdogs
- 'Brothel' raided
- Judge pulls stumps on village cricketers
- Pensioner loses case over Hoover free flights offer
- Pharmacists protests
- Award-winning design makes light work for jazz veteran and friend
- Attempted gassing
- Wave boy inquest
- Population increase
- Taxi driver dies during inspection
- Climbers 'unlucky'
- Molester jailed
- Display of body-belt is vetoed: Commissioner warned inquiry into deportee's death could be prejudiced
- Georgian building saved by 1 million pounds
- School leavers 'face jobs squeeze'
World
- The rocky horror show that left the Queen in a scrape: Brian Cathcart on the inexact science of seafaring that put a hole in the QE2
- Nationalism makes a hell of tolerant Bosnian haven
- MPs unite in condemning Britain's record on war crime prosecutions
- How legitimate is the US President?
- UN takes action to head off air strikes: Deal for Serb withdrawal from the Sarajevo mountains angers Muslims hoping for military intervention from the West
- Guide to the US budget bill
- New FBI chief
- Yeltsin pardon
- Ex-beauty queen who is lording it over Spaniards
- Gore puts the wind back into Clinton's sails: David Usborne in Washington on the single vote that saved the President's taxation policy from disaster
- A peep between the curtains at the traumas of a theatrical dynasty: Peter Pringle in New York watches Lynn Redgrave's voyage round her father
- Afrikaner rally ends a week of violence
- Four shot dead
- New life for Germany's Jews: Adrian Bridge reports from Berlin on a community's joy as it opens a
- Call rejected
- Russia keeps up the war with inflation
- M-way robbers
- Georgia force
- 40 rebels killed
- Train strike
- Bangladesh gift
- Castro's high tea in Bolivia
- Tyson loses rape sentence appeal
- Israeli gamble comes off in Lebanon: Bombing Hizbollah has not upset the peace talks, writes Charles Richards
- Blaze out
- Three soldiers die in West Bank attacks
- Hizbollah resumes shelling of the south: Lebanese PM says Shia militia will not be disarmed until Israel leaves Lebanon
- Malaysia denies passport to 'anti-logging' poet: Cecil Rajendra puts verse to work in his radical criticism of environmental destruction, writes Raymond Whitaker
- Belgian anger at US mourners
- 'Call me madam' is Hollywood hit
- Kurd confusion
- Babangida fails to silence the press
- Train terror starts again in S Africa: After 12-month lull, gunmen kill five commuters in early-morning attack
- Ex-PM faces trial
- Senate set for close vote on deficit bill: Defeat of plan to trim the budget despite Democrat majority would deal a body blow to Clinton
- Wily aristocrat finally achieves his ambition: Japan's new PM has coveted the job since entering politics in 1971, Terry McCarthy writes from Tokyo
- Unita bombed
People
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- Birthdays
- Wills
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Professor W. W. Robson
- Anniversaries
- Faith and Reason: Christian love but no procreation: This week we start a new series, exploring Christian answers to the question Why Have Sex? The first writer is Diarmaid MacCulloch, who lectures in church history at Bristol.
- Obituary: Henri Pharoun
- Obituary: Bob Cooper
- Appeals: Share Music
- Obituary: Professor W. W. Robson
- Appeals: The Johnstone Mausoleum
- Obituary: William T. Rawlinson
Life & Style
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- Gastropod
- Recipe: Real cool summer soup
- Food and Drink: Sage advice and secrets of perfect pork
- Food and Drink: Proof of the peach is in the pudding: Plump, perfumed peaches are superabundant right now, so make the most of this voluptuous fruit
- Drink: Wine choice
- Food and Drink: From toffee apples to a bass-baritone: What does it take to make good beer great? Michael Jackson on that Extra something
- Food and Drink: Art by Hockney, soda by Silver: Emily Green found herself sandwiched between modern art and high fashion at a converted mill in Yorkshire
Arts & Entertainment
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- Bookshop Window
- Books / Historic beakers full of the warm south: The Mediterranean: Tony Peake reflects on the continuing allure of a tideless, eternal sea
- BOOK REVIEW / The Women of South Africa: Little, Brown, 14.95
- BOOK REVIEW / Life below the salt: 'The Descent of Manners ' - Andrew St George: Chatto & Windus, 20 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Wild rover in a bar: 'Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour' - Evelyn Conlon: Blackstaff Press, 6.99
- BOOK REVIEW / A cool head among the desperadoes: 'Turmoil and Triumph' - George P Shultz: Scribner's, 25.95
- BOOK REVIEW / Taking the linguistic turn: 'Origins of Analytical Philosophy' - Michael Dummett; Duckworth, 25 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Malice in marble halls: 'Eyes' - Maggie Hemingway: Sinclair-Stevenson, 14.99
- 1 Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good
- 2 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 3 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 4 Archaeologists uncover nearly 5,000 cave paintings in Burgos, Mexico
- 5 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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