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Friday, 17 May 1996
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- Disco 'king' held in drugs crackdown
- Spying squabble brings back the Cold war blues
- Nation in arms stands down at last
- Gibraltar looks to end isolation from Spain
- Yeltsin's new model army set to halve in size
- Heseltine flies the trade flag in China
- British firms follow old colonial footsteps in southern boom town celebrates
- Hanging out in Harlem with dead presidents and dime pieces
- Far East rivalries reach fever pitch
- Dole hits the road to capitalise on gamble
- Hookers' clients given a lesson
- Bishop cleared of gay ordination 'heresy'
- Croatia promises better democracy
- China raises stakes in trade row with US
- 'Suicide' of US naval chief on eve of scandal
- BJP compromises in quest for power
- Hizbollah bomb link stirs fears for Israel's poll
- Serbia urged to turn Karadzic over to UN
- Ruby celebration for Burma
- Prodi named Italy's premier-designate
- Dominican Republic's women rise to the occasion
Business
- TAKING STOCK
- Footsie surges as takeover optimists return in force
- British Gas tries to enlist Sids' aid
- Don't rely on Labour to derail gravy train
- Cable investors put on rose-tinted glasses; The Investment Column
- Lloyd's to fight court ruling in names' favour
- BA tie with American Airlines 'imminent'
- PowerGen finance boss heads for British Steel
- Drought goes on at Yorkshire Water
- Celsis shapes up as limbo star: The Investment Column
- Budget guessing game beats the first cuckoo
- Warning socks Phipps shares
- Institutions scramble to ride with Railtrack
- Hinchliffe faces DTI court battle
- Clarke's scope for tax cuts 'all but gone'
- National Power gives pounds 1.2bn back to investors
- In Brief
- BT puts pounds 50,000 price on a head
- Miner eyes prospect of Sardinian gold
- Open skies kept on the ground
- Clarke hails boost to consumer spending
- Hanson steers clear of one crucial issue
- Hanson set to spin off businesses by October
- Uncomfortable moments north of the border
- Pru may bid pounds 450m for Birmingham Midshires
- McAlpine directors arrested over false accounting
- Downsizers have laboured under a grand delusion
- BoS chief resigns from Standard Life
- Defiant British Gas to press ahead with split
- Saunders goes soft on Guinness
- BTR profits warning sends shares into slide
- Glaxo Wellcome shows youngsters a clean pair of heels
- BSkyB to contribute to Astra costs
- Burton recovery shapes up with 31% growth
- 650,000 Sids apply to board Railtrack
- Carpetbaggers under attack
- Buoyant MAM shrugs off Warburg split
- Apocalypse now for Gas shareholders
- Grouse are the losers in the corporate crossfire
- British Midland seeks Eurostar ticket deal
Arts & Entertainment
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- Audiobooks
- In the beginning was the gene
- Book review / A plague on all our houses?
- Book Review / Recipes for love and loss
- Book review / Riddle of the human envelope
- Book review / A regard for feelings
- THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS by Erskine Childers (1903)
- Book review / Saturday night's all right for fighting
- Book review / Voyagers to the undiscovered country
- Book review / Sex on the graveyard shift
- 1 Asteroid nine times the size of the QE2 liner to sail pass Earth
- 2 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 3 British business: We need to stay in the EU - or risk losing up to £92bn a year
- 4 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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