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Thursday, 15 February 1996
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- Greek minister attacks Rifkind
- American networks to classify TV shows
- Communists plump for chameleon-like favourite son
- Gas and dust implode and a star is born 20 million light years away
- War memories widen Belgium's communal rift
- Squiggle ties the knot with his Mayte
- Extremist campaign organiser dumped
- Bosnia deal fraying as leaders head for Rome
- Would-be North Korean defector shot at embassy
- Buchanan's jobs crusade hits a nerve
- Bombs enforce boycott of Bangladesh 'sham' election
- China sings virtues of one honest official
- South Africa defends sport against pay-TV
- Contrite Yeltsin throws his hat in the ring
- Serbs erupt in violence over arrest of officers
- US envoy annoys Europe again
- Chalker speech angers aid agencies
- Qatar's freedoms put Bahrain on the spot
- Philippines forces boat people back to Vietnam
- Yeltsin's town prepares a bitter homecoming for its fallen idol
- MEPs back campaign to limit foreign TV
- Gramm's exit puts the South up for grabs
- Polling day in Bangladesh, but to vote could mean death
- Keating pledges referendum on the monarchy
- Alexander's bandwagon hits the road at last
Business
- Business as usual - despite Sainsbury's
- Mine's a Coke - no, make that a Pammy
- Bid fever again takes a hold on the City
- Rentokil seeks agreed pounds 1.8bn takeover of BET
- Prickly problem of porcine sex life
- Allquiet closes the door before the horse bolts
- TSB mortgage deal may take C&G to 3rd place
- Disclosure of directors' pensions triggers clash
- Shell attacks British Gas over contracts
- Record loss at DASA Daimler
- CSO moves on new unemployment gauge
- Shareholders endorse Farnell bid for Premier
- Bundesbank warns of German budget blowout
- Britain offers best deal on luxury cars
- Why the cascade of wealth has dried up
- Signs of strength in US
- Sharp increase at Philips
- Time to blow the lid on pensions secrecy
- Upgrade for Allied bowls
- How account 88888 sank Britain's oldest bank
- Shell's cost-cuts fail to impress
- Takeover fever boosts blue-chip towards all-time high
- pounds 10m Danish buy takes Airtours to Finland
- We trounce the Italians in the late-payment league
- Inflation fall points to rate cut
- Consumer body complains over Sweb marketing
- The art of forecasting inflation for all seasons
- Long way to go on environment
- Goodbye to all that tosh about wage/price spirals
- A marriage made in PR Heaven
- Hanson results disappoint
- Rumours of Rentokil bid boost BET
- Take-off of Boeing's stretched jumbo puts Airbus on the spot
- Fall in jobless points to 'golden scenario'
- Lloyds Abbey warns of further slump
- Barings bondholders to sue
- Unilever to pay $770m for US hair-care group
- Rationalisation breathes new life into Lloyds Abbey fortunes
- Bensons losses cut by Bash Street Kids
- PolyGram makes it an eighth year of growth
- United's uncontested MAI merger costs pounds 30m in fees
People
- Birthdays
- LETTER : Continuing value of religious education in our schools
- LETTER : Continuing value of religious education in our schools
- LETTER : Continuing value of religious education in our schools
- LETTER : In the dark
- LETTER : Protect species in wild, not zoos
- LETTER : Colossus first
- LETTER : Batting with the umpire
- LETTER : Nameless crime
- LETTER : Continuing value of religious education in our schools
- Birthdays
- OBITUARIES
- OBITUARY : Bob Paisley
- OBITUARY : John Pfeiffer
- Change in probation officers' qualifications
- OBITUARY : Lady Caroline Blackwood
- Are Jews marrying oblivion?
- Buchanan's message is not a load of hogwash
- Malice and a failure to understand
- 1 Stoke City investigate 'religious abuse' after 'pig's head is found in Kenwyne Jones' locker'
- 2 Gove’s lesson: spare the comma, spoil the child
- 3 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 4 Join Ryanair! See the world! But we'll only pay you for nine months a year
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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