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Saturday, 19 March 1994
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- The spectre haunting Europe: Record numbers are out of work and worse is to come. Alan Friedman, the American business journalist, went in search of explanations, and solutions
- Climbers safe after helicopter rescue mix-up
- Murder charge
- MP to stand down
- Enduring values and new strength: As the Independent prepares to enter a new phase in its history, its founders, Andreas Whittam Smith and Matthew Symonds, restate the paper's commitment to its guiding principles and its new potential to pursue them with even greater vigour
- Motorcyclist gets one year for killing girl
- Clowns find a ready audience at their seaside convention
- Actress dies
- Shop blackmailer
- Strangeways trial
- Steps to solve drugs problem 'ineffective': Senior officer says police are only 'sitting on the lid'
- Seafront rape
- Man murdered in Turkish cafe
- Golf club members shun media glare to elect new officials
- Potter cleared
- Police repair relations with the village people: Manchester's gay community has had its faith in the force restored, writes Jonathan Foster
- Twyford Down campaigner jailed for breaking M3 ban
- Climbers safe after helicopter rescue mix-up
- Family tries to rekindle search for missing boy
- Clinton praised for support over Ulster: Reynolds and Adams hail US 'interest'
- Quality of life in Britain 'worse than 20 years ago': Rise in personal wealth outweighed by deterioration on social front, study finds
- Car insurance costs 'to fall by 10 per cent': Hidden 'subsidy' in premiums removed
World
- Amtrak builds on Penn's past glories: The monumental decision to reconstruct a once-great station signals a revivalist train of thought for America's railroads
- West Bank law loaded against Arabs
- Sarajevo concert belies the discord: Songs in 'town of strangers'
- British soldier killed in Vitez
- North Korea 'ready for war'
- 'Pailin recaptured'
- Flat Earth: Pig of a job for the Household Cavalry
- Algerians slay 'fundamentalists'
- De Klerk's blind eye to slaughter: John Carlin counts the cost of the Third Force's secret war on the ANC - and tells how his inquiries put him in danger
- Troops enter KwaZulu
- Shadow falls on the tiger as Russia opens its doors
- Conspirators talked of 'taking us out'
- Baku bomb kills 12
- Flat Earth: The LA equation
- Flat Earth: Between the sheets
- Shooting in Naples
- Flat Earth: Kangaroo court
- Clouds of uncertainty mar Italy's new dawn: New electoral system puzzles a nation shaken by scandal
- Mission accomplished
- Zaireans hunger for a way out of misery: Richard Dowden, recently in Kinshasa, meets a family which is displaying one of Africa's mysterious strengths - survival
- New revelations damage Clinton
- Western troops leave Somalia
- Sad new year
- Cold War secrets unveiled
- Zulus slam door on peace talks
- Peking to be urged to lean on N Korea
- Market forces unscramble the Chinese egg: Teresa Poole in Harbin finds boilermakers looking to their welfare as private investors move in
- Israeli weapons 'bound for rebels' in southern Sudan: Arms may be destined for SPLA fight against Khartoum
- Germans break silence on killing of Kurds
- Kabul ceasefire strengthened as Ismaili faction seeks peace
- CIA reports new North Korean missiles
- Iraq 'massing troops'
- Khmer Rouge under attack
- Banker on hit-list
- Iran 'not trying to kill Rushdie'
- Alas, poor Hamlet . . .
- Talks to resume after UN slates Hebron killings
- Dalai Lama stays away from Delhi meeting on Tibet
- FMLN turns from bullets to ballot box: Salvadoreans go the polls tomorrow for the first time since the war, Phil Davison reports
People
- Vintners' Company
- Obituary: Mai Zetterling
- Church appointments
- Appointments
- Wills
- Service appointments
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Sheila Macbeth Mitchell
- Obituary: Professor Tom Hewer
- Faith and Reason: There is no need for an Enemy: Islam has much to teach the West about how to escape the constraints of consumerist culture, if only Christians would take the time to find out, writes Martin Palmer.
- Appeals: Chiltern Open Air Museum
- Appeals: The Flanders Scottish Alliance
Life & Style
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- Gastropod
- Food & Drink / Reader Recipe: Dark, dense and pretty intense (CORRECTED)
- Food & Drink: No longer the humble relation in the Hermitage: A quiet revolution has liberated a rhone with an image problem, says Anthony Rose
- Food & Drink: The way a cookie crumbles: Baking requires good ingredients and good recipes. These take the biscuit
- Food & Drink: Sonny's by name and sunny by nature: There are changes afoot at a favourite local restaurant, but it's in good hands, says Emily Green
- Food & Drink: Black looks, black cooks
- Food & Drink: Now I know why they call it the 'high' table: At last, Michael Jackson got a place at Oxford. He learned how to tell one end of a dog from the other, drank a lot of beer, and then left
Arts & Entertainment
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- Double Play: Heavy brigade: Stephen Johnson and Edward Seckerson review new orchestral releases
- OPERA / Strong meat: Stephen Walsh on Flowers, the Music Theatre Wales premiere
- Classical Music: There's a name for it: Fifth Symphony, Four Seasons, or 'Structures, Book I'? Bayan Northcott explores the mystique of musical titles
Books
- BOOKS / Recommended
- BOOK REVIEW / Wise owls, dangerous asses: We all lost the Cold War - Richard Lebow & Janice Stein: Princeton, pounds 32.50
- BOOK REVIEW / Behold, superlative penguins: Eva Salzman on the deceptively light but rebellious black comedy in the new collection of stories by A L Kennedy: Now that you're back - A L Kennedy: Cape, pounds 8.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window: Projections 3: Faber, pounds 9.99.
- BOOK REVIEW / Ace newsman in death plunge drama: Christopher Morris is alarmed by Peter Arnett's account of a war reporter's high spots: Live from the battlefield - Peter Arnett: Bloomsbury, pounds 17.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window: Ribbentrop - Michael Bloch: Bantam, pounds 9.99
- Postcard from Ilkley: Fists sculpted in the air: Masks with open eyes: Michael Glover sees Tony Harrison and Brendan Kennelly read their poems
- BOOK REVIEW / Sharks with bad porpoises: Burning bright - Helen Dunmore: Viking, pounds 15
- BOOK REVIEW / They shoot hoarse whisperers, don't they?: They whisper - Robert Olen Butler: Secker & Warburg, pounds 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window: Dirty tricks - Martyn Gregory: Little, Brown, pounds 18.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window: Greece: A Literary Companion, Ed. Martin Garrett: John Murray, pounds 16.99
- BOOK / Ralph among the hot water bottles: Sue Gaisford meets Hilary Mantel, whose new book wonders how to do the decent thing
- 1 'He was lucky he didn't die' - George Michael fell out of speeding car onto M1 motorway, according to eye witness
- 2 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 3 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 4 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 5 Why Arsène Wenger must spend to put icing on the cake and buy likes of Stevan Jovetic for Arsenal
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