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Saturday, 16 July 1994
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- Woman loses school bullying damages case
- Student debt being funded by parents
- Benefits of Apollo prove difficult to pin down: Susan Watts looks at the technological legacy of Nasa's manned spaceflight programme
- How the three astronauts have adjusted to life on Earth: A new book has been published about the Apollo astronauts. Susan Watts talked to the author
- Disabled document greeted by protests
- Alleged computer virus writer arrested
- Scientific leaps that put man on the Moon: Next Wednesday is the 25th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's legendary 'small step for man' into the Sea of Tranquillity
- 'Black British' stake claim in London: Many in ethnic minority groups adopt UK identity. Martin Whitfield reports
World
- Indonesia rejects US curb on arms
- Monks' killer jailed
- HK meeting off
- 40 Cubans 'drown'
- Militants convicted
- Europe's new man airbrushed into history: Unknown Santer gets top billing
- Ties that bind the liberated Germany: Europe uber alles is the message in a week that saw America's best friend emerge on to the world stage
- Berlusconi decree threatens coalition
- Refugees resigned to life in exile
- Flat Earth: To the lighthouse
- Signs of struggle over Kim's coffin: South Korean police clash with students
- Profits beckon in the Holy Land: Palestinians left trailing as Israeli peace talks pave the way for tourist barons' bonanza
- Flat Earth: Beloved country
- Rebels inherit the wind: Rwanda empties as millions flee advancing Tutsi forces
- Flat Earth: Bussed-up
- Indonesia defiant over Timor
- Carvajal suicide
- Envoys 'abducted'
- US changes tack on Haiti death squads
- Red-Green coalition
- Lagos considers freeing Abiola
- Dollar facelift hits the wrong note
- King officer sacked
- 100 killed as Iranian religious conflicts smoulder
- Nigerian standstill
- Killings denied
- Socialist takeover
- Alligator netted
- Clinton hails first Israel-Jordan summit
- W Australia ex-premier jailed for two years
- More power
- Pyongyang warned
- Serb danger halts Demirel
- Argentine impasse
- Refugees escape to hunger and thirst: Patrick Cockburn in Lakil discovers that the inability to cope with a human tide is pushing Clinton towards an invasion of Haiti
- Amnesty may pursue death row case at UN
- Rwanda rebels bow to appeal for ceasefire: Military commander issues statement giving assurance of safety to stem flight by frightened Hutus
- Baby tug-of-war puts O J out of the news
- Expats threatened
- Conciliatory Horn
People
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- Obituary: Lars-Eric Lindblad (CORRECTED)
- Obituary: Arthur Berry
- Obituary: Princess Faiza Rauf
- Obituary: Nina Stroganova
- Appeals: Plas tan y Bwlch ('The House on a Hill') and gardens
- Appeals: Riders for Health
- Faith and Reason: Why do as the Roman men do?: We start a new series this week, asking how far feminism and Catholicism are compatible with each other. The first writer is Katy Brown, a freelance Catholic journalist.
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Voices
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- Letter: Mark Tully: the BBC will regret the loss of its 'old dinosaur'
- Letter: Mark Tully: the BBC will regret the loss of its 'old dinosaur'
- Letter: Jesus may have been a revolutionary but never a philosopher
- Rear Window: Death of a tyrant: Even Stalin's victims wept with grief when he died
- Letter: Greene giant
- Letter: People must talk to architects
- Letter: Scotland does need its Senate
- Letter: Bridling at abuse of footpaths
- Letter: Mark Tully: the BBC will regret the loss of its 'old dinosaur'
- Letter: Good campaign - no bull
- Letter: Slow learners
- Letter: Britain is still rich in clay
- Letter: Jesus may have been a revolutionary but never a philosopher
- Letter: Why goods are our best export
Life & Style
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- Food & Drink: Gastropod
- Food & Drink: The rabbit is fair game if the gastrognomes are
- Food & Drink: The list of the summer wine: Taking the car over to France this summer? Take Anthony Rose's guide, too, and collect a boot-load of bargain wines on the way back
- Food & Drink: READER RECIPE / Strong Sicilian tastes
- Food & Drink: Nutty fruit of a well-hung tree: So smooth it used to be known as 'midshipman's butter', the avocado makes delicious salads, soups and sandwiches
Motoring
- Motoring: Seized by M-plate mania? Choose your new car here: August is the worst month to buy a car. But since so many people are tempted by the new registration, Gavin Green offers a guide to cars at the top of their class
- Motoring: Road Test: Seat's benchmark: A Volkswagen made in Spain and dressed by an Italian: Roger Bell greets the Seat Cordoba
Arts & Entertainment
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- ARTS / And what's more . . .
- RECORDS / Double Play: Where's the face behind the mask?: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson review new releases of Respighi rarities and familiar Stravinsky
- MUSIC / When two minds meet: Sviatoslav Richter has raised unpredictability to an art. But when he's good, he's great. Stephen Johnson reports on the 21-CD 'authorised' edition
- OPERA / Air and graces: Nick Kimberley on Midsummer Opera's Marriage of Figaro in an Ealing garden
Books
- BOOK REVIEW / Recommended
- Slimy jeremiads of a serial killer: Christina Hardyment looks with dismay at the books shortlisted for the Carnegie medal
- BOOK REVIEW / Brass beds and wet blancmange: 'The Kenneth Williams Letters' - Russell Davies: Harper Collins, 18 pounds: Anthony Quinn finds humour, pathos, and telephone phobia in the witty and engaging letters of Kenneth Williams
- BOOK REVIEW / Endless deadly knights: 'The Flanders Panel' - Arturo Perez Reverte Tr. Margaret Jull Costa: Harvill, 15.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Yellow scarf dreams: 'Evangelista's Fan' - Rose Tremain: Sinclair-Stevenson, 14.99 pounds: Michele Roberts considers the refined clarity and historical fervour of Rose Tremain's short stories
- BOOK REVIEW / War crimes with leisure centres: 'The Wages of Guilt' - Ian Buruma: Cape, 18.99 pounds: John David Morley on a new study of the spectacular careers of Germany and Japan
- BOOK REVIEW / The house that Ludwig built: 'Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect' - Paul Wijdeveld: Thames & Hudson, 45 pounds: Hugo Barnacle explores the architectural inventiveness of the only great philosopher to have turned master-builder
- SECOND THOUGHTS / Walking the mean streets: Gillian Slovo reflects on how the feisty heroine of her detective fiction has changed over the years
- BOOK REVIEW / All quiet on the wasp front: 'Across the Bridge' - Mavis Gallant: Bloomsbury, 9.95 pounds: Natasha Walter on a quiet, well-mannered new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant
- 1 Exclusive: Woolwich attack suspect was known to banned terror group and security services
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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