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Thursday, 24 April 1997
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- Anzacs declare war on the Dirty Digger
- Power-nations look away as crises loom
- French left goes in search of a new ideology
- McVeigh 'planned rivers of blood' aimed to wipe out evil empire
- Deadly threat of micro-organisms
- US welcomes a million migrants
- Greco-Turkish relations show a thaw
- Rebels close on Kinshasa
- New deal for disabled as statue shows Roosevelt in wheelchair
- Clinton wins chemical ban victory
- Le Pen leaves door open to election role
- Saddam's clan get full treatment at Uday's bedside
- Peru hostage-takers' fatal own goal
- Reactions to the drama
- Italy fails first test to join single currency
- Yeltsin shakes hands with China
- Dakota flood recedes
- Ciller warns off military
- Race-attack Germans jailed
- Rebels accused of massacre
- Hostage relatives end visit
- Euro-rebuke wounds Prodi's pride
- Zaire rebels make gains and close on capital
Business
- Market Report: Taking Stock
- pounds 50m to fix computers, says Abbey
- The Investment column: Trinity untroubled by strong pound
- Banks told to prepare for EMU
- The Investment column: ICI fails to beat the ups and downs of the chemical cycle
- Strong sterling knocks Vickers and ICI profits
- Regulator set to approve British Gas price cuts in South-west
- Government urged to cool economy by raising taxes
- The Investment column: Retail group still fragile
- Branson attacks BA's control of Terminal 5
- Invesco fined by Imro for the third time
- The home ownership boom is pushing up unemployment
- Brent Walker debates future of William Hill
- Racketeering scandal hits Nomura profits
- Comment: Iverson slips on her first banana skin
- Comment: Sentiment unlikely to rescue Eurotunnel
- Eurotunnel extension may give governments a share in revenues
- People & Business: Top jobs at the end of the tunnel for Sir Alastair
- Comment: Melmoth the Warrior has excelled himself
- Market Report: Foostie boosted by the growing contingent of banks
- Laura Ashley recovery stalls
- Co-op sees off Regan's pounds 1.2bn bid
- What led to bid collapse
- Betterware chairman defends pounds 9.8m dividend
- Market Report: Taking Stock
- The Investment column: Bargain discovery for Enterprise
- Anglo hits at EU ruling to cut stake in Lonrho
- IMF cheery on world economy but warns against EMU delays
- The Investment column: Drought warning hits Hozelock
- The Investment column: Bank of Scotland steady as a rock
- ASB seeks more risk disclosure
- A&L shareholders get 533.7p at auction
- National Grid to sue Pakistan over cancelled contract
- Market Report: Shares elect to continue longest bull run in four years
- Labour plans under attack
- John Lewis boss defends fat cats
- BA counts cost of IRA hoax
- People & Business: McGowan and Snowdon move into manufacturing
- Comment: Utilities met their Waterloo overseas
- Europe's pounds 50bn-a-year fraudsters 'threaten economic prosperity'
- Comment: Fudge on euro contradicted by IMF
- Bosses at loggerheads over single currency
- Co-op to press for hefty damages
- Retail sales up again as exports dive
- Berkeley fined pounds 70,000 over pensions mis-selling review
- Comment: The City could be made to pay for this piracy
- City PR man witnessed pounds 2.4m payment to Zimet
- Molins reveals hole in accounts
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Letter: Hospitals that help patients to face death
- Letter: Hospitals that help patients to face death
- Letter: Facts are treason to bellicose Brits
- Leading article: The swan, the ducklings and the Three Pilchards
- My race? You can mark me down as multiracial
- Ulster dialogue? It's a slanging match
- Letter: Hospitals fail to accept the fact of death
- Letter: Hospitals fail to accept the fact of death
- Letter: Some advice on tactics
- Letter: Dangers of TV abortion veto
- Letter: Some advice on tactics
Arts & Entertainment
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- Listening post: Hearing Sir Simon Rattle conduct the Vienna Philharmoni c prompts Robert Cowan to go back to Karajan's classic recordings
- Music on radio: Oh for a little nastiness and some stimulation...
- Classical: Crossing frontiers
- Review: Theatre; Out Cry Lyric Hammersmith, London
- Review: Dance: Phoenix Dance Company Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
- 1 Heading for America? Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
- 2 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 3 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 4 David Cameron goes to war with newspapers over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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