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Wednesday, 21 August 1996
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- Marines' tour of Haiti is 'timely'
- Staged fights, betting guards, gunfire and death for the gladiators
- Erbakan looks east to build tiger economy
- De Klerk 'sorry' for apartheid era
- Iran 'supplying arms to fuel Kurdish civil war'
- Grozny flees before the gathering storm
- Hostage Briton is set free
- UN sends Bosnia 'free and fair' election warning
- Waiting for a toy train by a misty mountain tea garden
- NO-HEADLINE
- Bosnia's Big Bang alarms the mayor
- City fathers go to pot in Netherlands
- Iraq behind bread riots, says Hussein
- French Muslims in battle for Islam
- Marriage made in eco-heaven for green giant
- Aborigines add to dissent over federal cuts
Business
- TAKING STOCK
- Lucas merger with Varity set to go ahead peacefully; MARKET REPORT
- Mersey pays the price of dispute; The Investment Column
- Politics and taxation are objects of undue speculation; ECONOMIC VIEW
- Marley's record remains patchy; The Investment Column
- EW Fact thrives on competition; The Investment Column
- Spending dip takes City by surprise
- GWR poised to take control of Classic FM
- Gas prices row set to end in MMC referral
- Talks fail to defuse Refuge merger row
- If you see Fritz, tell him it's time for 'T'
- 'Wealth creator' who lost the City a packet
- BNFL in $600m US contract
- Milk wholesaler agrees to OFT prices shake-up
- French firm may buy third rail franchise
- LVMH and Guinness: more than a fantasy?
- Mersey Docks says dispute may drag on
- UK firms face councils crisis
- Rentokil's non-execs are in a different league; City Diary
- The Ofgas climbdown gives very little away
- New Look plans to open 200 stores over
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- TAKING STOCK
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- Maxmin back with home shopping plan
- BSkyB to launch pay-view assault
- Consumers call for power investigation
- Digital costs push up losses at Orange
- Shares soar as lenders signal house market boom
- Bond jailed for three years for art fraud
- Enterprise leads the way as oil groups spurt upwards; MARKET REPORT
- Sharp-tongued Chisholm aims a blow at Panmure; City Diary:The Investment Column
- TCI willing to cede control of Flextech in cable deal
- Takare suffers in care confusion:The Investment Column
- Orange is still a leap of faith:The Investment Column
- Thistle joins growing list of hoteliers coming to the market
- Refuge attempts to avert revolt on United merger
- Share of new home loans falls at Halifax
- More explanations called for in Refuge deal
- An unexpected snag for BA's link-up
- Can anything now stop BSkyB?:The Investment Column
- Thatcher feared De Lorean backlash
- Hotels' rush to market is no fad
- Active Imaging shares drop below placing price
Voices
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- Letter: Westminster impotent to curb Europe
- Letter: Let down by Ucas system
- Letter: A way forward for Cyprus
- Letter: Brunel roasts station buffet
- Letter: Westminster impotent to curb Europe
- Leading article: Motor pollution is an issue for local will
- How we can clear the air
- Letter: Lever's true model village
- Major's knights of the retreating army
- Letter: No apology for a summer of research
- Letter: No apology for a summer of research
- 1 Diary of Second World War German teenager reveals young lives untroubled by Nazi Holocaust in wartime Berlin
- 2 Bosses of collapsed banks should be sent to jail, banking standards commission tells George Osborne
- 3 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 4 Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed
- 5 Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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