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Saturday, 21 May 1994
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- One in four fires started deliberately: Arson attacks double over 10 years
- Universities plead for pounds 2bn as fears over quality grow
- Cerne Abbas giant may have held severed head: Oliver Gillie reports on parts of an ancient chalk figure that other archaeologists have been unable to reach
- Hay prepares to welcome writers and book-lovers to its literary festival
- Bypass opponents anger villagers in traffic trap: Those whose lives are blighted by 25,000 vehicles a day have little time for Solsbury Hill campaigners. Peter Dunn reports
- Plans to dilute industrial safety laws abandoned
- Secret mission to kill Churchill is revealed: Wartime papers released yesterday show extent of German confusion over Allied invasion. Stephen Ward reports
- Machines drown out the sounds of summer
- Nazis thought D-Day landings were a feint: Wartime papers released yesterday show extent of German confusion over Allied invasion. Stephen Ward reports
- Hell's Angel killer freed
- Invention of the Year can beat print fraud
- Classic lock up
- Riverbank killer jailed for 40 years: Previous victims hear sentence on man with history of random violent attacks on women. Mary Braid reports
World
- Nuclear cloud
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A mystery even to herself: She was caught between innocence and worldliness, writes Edna O'Brien of her friend who died on Friday
- Flat Earth: Toying with guilt
- Public Schools lure rich Russians: Gordonstoun is among the private educators laying out their stall in Moscow - but not for children of the mafia
- Flat Earth: New faces in the same old places
- 'Mud races' attack racist immigrant
- Flat Earth: Fitting acronyms
- Kiss of life for drowned lake: Greens seek revenge over loss of Tasmanian natural wonder, writes Robert Milliken in Sidney
- Virgin victory
- Muluzi sworn in
- Greece marks out limits of tolerance: Despite pressure from EU partners and others, Athens is reluctant to dismantle laws curbing activities of the non-Orthodox
- Haitians take to boats: Sanctions will cost 8,000 jobs but are unlikely to force military regime from power
- Noose tightens
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Burial to take place tomorrow
- Kigali airport truce rejected
- Israel braced for reprisals after daring kidnap raid
- Singer killed
- Dismay in Israel as US envoy goes home
- Solzhenitsyn trek
- Ukraine confronts rebellious Crimea
- No end to the tide of human misery that afflicts Rwanda
- Setback for ex-PM
- Tapie swoop
- Violations mark 100 days of ceasefire
- Clinton may be protected from law suit
- Yemen truce called by North
- Killings by militants test Palestinian authority
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: In memory of eternal images: Her life was marred by tragedy but her style and elegance in the White House renewed confidence in a nation enchanted by her story - Peter Pringle in New York tells what gave Jackie that sure touch of Royalty
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Jackie O - gilded icon and the last real Kennedy: Reggie Nadelson looks back to what lay behind the Manhattan myth
- SA ministers clear the air for a new style of government
- Out of Russia: Lure of money brought the music to a close
- N Korea sets off nuclear alarm
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The first lady of fashion set her own style: Although betrayed by her marriage to Onassis, the public was unable to end its love affair with America's undisputed queen of fashion - She was modern, ice-cool and always elegant, recalls Alison Veness Fashion Correspondent
- US threat
- Berlusconi wins
People
- Obituary: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Birthdays
- Obituary: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Anniversaries
- Church appointments
- Court Circular
- Wills
- Service appointments
- Obituary: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Faith and Reason: A case for taking the long view: In a further article in our series on whether God can be held to be guilty when crimes against humanity are committed, Sara Maitland argues that a fair verdict is one of 'not proven'.
- Appeals: The Opera Company
- Appeals: The Norfolk Churches Trust
- Appeals: Arnhem Bells Appeal
Voices
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- Letter: Media's 'fictional' Liverpool
- Letter: 'Recovered' memories of sex abuse may be old nightmares
- Letters Briefly
- Letter: 'Recovered' memories of sex abuse may be old nightmares
- Letter: Media's 'fictional' Liverpool
- Letter: No excuse for brutality
- Letter: Nature's cure for melancholy
- Letter: Short cuts to bottle feeding
- Letter: It's a manager's job to manage
- Letter: The root of the matter
- Letter: A classic lesson in populism
- Letter: Why Galileo got off lightly
- Rear Window: The First Englishman: Everybody fell for Mr Piltdown
- Letter: The ghost of Marx laid to rest
- Letter: No blessing for the Italians
- Letter: A meaningful slip
- Letter: Hirsute yourself
Life & Style
Life & Style RSS Feed - click to grab the feedFood & Drink
- Cookery Competition: The last chance to taste success
- FOOD / Wrapping up the world of pastries: To conclude a two-part series on small savouries, we sample the flamboyant flavours of Mexico, China and India
- FOOD AND DRINK / In which we are catered into submission
- DRINK / Versatile crowd-pleaser charms new audiences: Far from falling out of favour, chardonnay continues to expand, says Anthony Rose
- FOOD AND DRINK / Gastropod
- FOOD / Corky cat is no flash in the pan: Emily Green is served pizza with pizazz by an Irish American, and wakes up to the big, big breakfast
- FOOD / The cream of early peaches: Joanna Blythman meets a specialist grower who supplies delectable fruit to the British market
- DRINK / The local down in your pint: When the French wanted to learn about the different styles of British beer, they consulted the expert. This is what Michael Jackson told them
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment RSS Feed - click to grab the feedBooks
- BOOKS / Recommended
- BOOK REVIEW / Barefoot in the desert: 'Far from Medina' - Assia Djebar Tr. Dorothy S Blair: Quartet, 16.95 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / More than a media magician: Godfrey Hodgson has his mind changed by Henry Kissinger's forthright new book: 'Diplomacy' - Henry Kissinger: Simon & Schuster, 25 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Dogma in the bordello: 'The Republic of Whores' - Josef Skvorecky Tr. Paul Wilson: Faber & Faber, 14.99 pounds
- Hay Festival: Very in tents: books on Wye: The Hay Festival has begun: John Walsh remembers previous delights
- BOOK REVIEW / Something to hurroosh for: 'John Betjeman: Letters Vol I (1926-51)' Ed. Candida Lycett Green: Methuen, 20 pounds
- Hay Festival: 24-carat diva in a mews, with grace: The Hay Festival has begun: John Walsh remembers previous delights and Helen Birch talks to Maya Angelou, who leads today's events
- BOOK REVIEW / The unruly swamps: Natasha Walter on the brilliant career of a remarkable American poet, Adrienne Rich
- 1 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 2 'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
- 3 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 4 Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
- 5 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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