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Sunday, 8 August 1993
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- Law Report: Case Summaries
- Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55
- Wheels of fortune
- Police warn of cocaine epidemic: Officers struggle to penetrate an 'invisible' middle class drug scene. Jojo Moyes reports
- Pub buy-out
- Crossbow shooting
- Silly moo
- Leg amputated
- Officer safe
- Beer float
- Alpine assault
- Body recovered
- Door closes on memory game
- Adultery Briton is released
- Contemporary Art Market: Creations to turn the critics purple
- End of the Pier: Nostalgia meets blue jokes in God's waiting room: Continuing a series on British piers, Martin Wroe finds vulgarity and peace in Blackpool
- 'Increased use of bicyclescould save Britain billions'
- Britons mugged in Florida
- The Daily Poem: Bangkok experience
- Protest as rapist is given leave near victim's home
- Inquiry demanded after air crash bodies are sent to wrong families: Just what did happen after Flight VN474 from Ho Chi Minh City hit a mountain in bad weather? Jason Bennetto reports
- US fund to help Welsh nationalists: Americans 'will send money and lawyers, but not guns' to Wales
- Rail fares 'to rise by 10 per cent': BR warns Government about cost of preparing network for privatisation
- Powerboat death
- Hospital trust climbdown on two-tier list
- Why did Joy Gardner die?: It should not surprise anyone that an illegal immigrant's death can cause a national scandal. Nick Cohen reports
- Prisons seek 'barbaric belt'
- Ulster few enjoy a golden age: The sweet life goes on in North Down despite everything. Ian MacKinnon asks how they do it
- Out of the cage and into the garden: Judy Jones visits Ashworth top security hospital, trying to shed its image as a den of brutality
- Middle-aged, small-sized but most read
- BR fears larger lorries will cut rail freight
- Nurses get to grips with violent patients
- Siege ended
- Man missing
- Killings protest
- Briton freed
- Canoeists saved
- Musician weds
- Tourists in France alerted
- Council taken to task on planning
- Feeling left out but after their rights
- Convicted MP gets state-funded post
- Teacher training crisis as schools demand money
- The modern face of workplace militancy
- Prostitute's homage to caring King
- The battle to visit Trafalgar may end
- Sacred pint faces threat from within
- Europe unites to mourn Belgian monarch
- Millions of poor excluded from aid for VAT on fuel
- PM's think tank faces fundamental shake-up
- Nice house thought the queues fell short
- Giant gooseberry
- Big cuts and fare rises in secret BR papers
World
- Guam quakes
- Madras bomb kills 10
- Neo-Nazis held
- Out of Japan: War and the self-pity of war
- Georgia pull-out
- Slum disaster
- Saddam warns
- Sudanese exodus sweeps into Uganda
- Nigeria raid leaves 35 dead
- Tehran tinkers with its cabinet
- Egyptian police chief killed: Ambush follows hanging of Islamic fundamentalists
- Palestinian leaders threaten to quit: Yasser Arafat's authority is challenged in an unprecedented PLO split over the Middle-East peace talks
- Oz alert
- Four US soldiers die in Somali blast
- Last words
- Away from dusty streets that hold danger for the UN troops, a mother struggles for food
- Clinton counts the cost of victory
- Forty-four killed in Japanese floods and landslides
- 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
Science
- Science: Microbe on the Month: One hop ahead of the grim reaper: Bernard Dixon on the double-edged sword of myxomatosis
- Science: Clipping the costs of high fliers: Peter Bond looks at a reusable rival to the Space Shuttle which could eventually take tourists on holidays that are literally out of this world
- Science: 'I need a drink' is the call of the wild: Botanists have found that plants have a thirst for communication. Paul Simons listens in
- 1 Serena Williams apologises after comment that rape victim 'shouldn't have put herself in that position'
- 2 Disability campaigners celebrate 'victory' after government rethink over plans to make it more difficult to claim disability benefits
- 3 Bankers could face jail after report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
- 4 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 5 We never knew Nigella Lawson - and we still don’t
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