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Saturday, 12 March 1994
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- Today's papers
- How the Fuhrer knew Lloyd George
- What happens when you scrap the welfare state?: New Zealand has, and its economy is stronger. But there is a dark side: - one in seven below poverty line - record numbers of people in jail - armed police on the streets - queues at charity 'food banks'
- Rapist jailed
- 'Taped confession' defended by police: Law Society says judge right not to allow evidence
- Abuse acquittals
- Adams sells new line in war and peace: Bombs at Heathrow: Sinn Fein credibility damaged but governments pledge to continue talks
- Iraq case 'tailor-made to cope with policy shifts'
- Fatal blaze father arrested after TV plea
- Talking cars
- Judgment deferred
- Stadium go-ahead
- Tour victory
- Stepfather jailed
- Hunger protest
- Veterans battle with bureaucrats to liberate wartime cafe: D-Day 'shrine' faces closure weeks before 50th anniversary celebrations. Frank Barrett reports
- Big game hunt ends with a small catch
- Trio jailed for stealing fine wines worth 2m pounds: Customers' trust in firm betrayed
- British Coal pit in 9m pounds comeback
- 'Callous' killers of off-duty RUC detective condemned
- Union missing-cash inquiry
- Doctors let patient end his life
- Thatcher 'had role in Laker collapse'
- Leaders 'not deflected by Heathrow attacks'
- Born again
- Evangelist offers route to debt salvation
World
- Joint Bosnian army
- Christians killed
- 'Paradise' islands unite against sea level threat: Alarm over global warming
- Flat Earth: Killing cure
- Li vents wrath on Christopher: Human rights rift deepens between China and US
- Flat Earth: Punctured affair
- Flat Earth: Maths test with street cred
- Mobile phone deal
- Flat Earth: Irish myths
- The lionising of Leakey: Wildlife boss wins battle, but war goes on
- Gunmen free 900 from Algerian jail
- Clintons flailing in Whitewater flood: First Lady drops out of sight as allegations of document-shredding and obstruction of justice turn a scandal into a crisis
- How the volk myth died: It took just a few minutes to change the course of South African history. John Carlin reports from Mafikeng
- A Moscow policeman displays his new bullet-proof helmet with face- guard, 9mm pistol and 23mm shotgun
- After the talk of war, death among strangers
- N Korean loggers flee Russian 'slave' camps
- Gunmen shoot Algerian playwright
- Clinton calls Americas summit
- Israeli settlers prepare to resist eviction: Hebron Jews react to suggestions that the government may force hardliners to quit occupied territories
- Frei becomes Chilean president
- Former Japanese minister arrested
- Tajik deputy PM shot dead
- Leakey's 'dazzling' victory
- Liberia rebels agree to disarm
- Ex-Bolivian dictator arrested
- Kabul camp uses prayer as a weapon: Some 10,000 Afghans have died since 1992 but gun-law still rules, writes Raymond Whitaker from Kabul
- US visit begins on sour note
- Peking seeks cash from the masses: China will popularise the sale of bonds to fund its soaring deficit as the budget describes a 'still grim' financial situation
- Toytown image hid apartheid tyranny: As white right-wingers die at the hands of Bophuthatswana forces, Richard Dowden examines the racial purpose of the 'homeland'
- Russian coup plotters face new trial
- Chips down for Beirut
- Clinton friend next in Whitewater firing-line
- Russia's Mid-East 'mission'
- Spanish workers protest
- Slovak leader ousted
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- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Guelfo Zamboni (CORRECTED)
- Faith and Reason: The call to mind God's business: On this historic day, when women are priested for the first time in England, The Rev Stephen Cherry considers the nature of reconciliation. Mr Cherry is the chaplain of King's College, Cambridge.
- Appeals: Victorian Society
- Appeals: Reading Youth Orchestra
- Obituary: George Gibson
- Obituary: Robert Bayne-Powell
- Obituary: Melina Mercouri
- Obituary: Anita Morris
- Obituary: Abdallah Sallal
Life & Style
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- Gastropod
- Drink: Good wine needs no bush: Australia's wines need no longer masquerade as French, they are quite robust enough to sell on their own merits, argues Anthony Rose
- Food & Drink: Salting away the treasures of the sea: It is prized in Portugal, beloved of the Basques and the traditional standby for Catholic fast-days, but salt cod is no longer a Mediterranean preserve
- Reader Recipe: Eastern oil and spice
- Food & Drink: Owners and baby doing well: It was born in a barn three months ago and seems sure to thrive. Emily Green visits a Newcastle bistro with few teething troubles
Arts & Entertainment
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- Upbeat: Coda
- Upbeat: Travel agents
- Classic Music: Pride against the odds: When Moscow snubbed her cosmopolitan group, Lygia O'Riordan went on hunger strike. Andrew Green reports
- Upbeat: Early bath
- Music: Honour bound: Anthony Payne on Verdi's Ernani, in concert performance at the Barbican
- Double Play: Short ride, high flight, long face: DISCS: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson take a collision course with John Adams and Henry Purcell
Books
- BOOK REVIEW / Lost in karma water: 'What's Wrong with America?' - Scott Bradfield: Picador, 14.99
- Books: Postcard from Rio / A deadly, virtuous thug: Amanda Hopkinson talks to a great literary figure in a macho tradition
- BOOK REIVEW / Camel-trains and mandarins: 'A History of Civilizations' - Fernand Braudel: Allen Lane, 25 pounds QBY: JAN MORRIS
- BOOK REIVEW / Bringing home the body: 'Desperadoes' - Joseph O'Connor: Flamingo, 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / The pink plastic dummy award: 'Roald Dahl' - Jeremy Treglown: Faber, 17.50
- BOOK REVIEW / Joe Leaphorn aims for China: 'Sacred Clowns' - Tony Hillerman: Michael Joseph, 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Small sparks set off the explosions: 'Backing Into the Future' - Bernard Knox: Norton, 19.95 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Murder on the Oriental Excess: 'The Arabian Nights: A Companion' - Robert Irwin: Allen Lane, 20 pounds
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