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ARTS / Show People: This Boo is made for talking: 37. Betty Boo00:02
ICI profits likely to fall by pounds 80m00:02
This scepter'd isle, this tourist trap00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Norse racing: Vinland - George Mackay Brown: John Murray, pounds 14.9500:02
Racing: The show must go on throughout the weekend: Rob Steen on how the seventh day has become the focus of the sporting week00:02
Private firm pays fattest cheque00:02
Then & Now: Deaths00:02
Olympics 1992 Wednesday 5 August: New Age: Rob Denmark - 5000 metres: Round 1 8.55pm00:02
BOOKS / Contemporary Poets: 7 Michael Longley00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Profile: The mould-breaker: Cheltenham & Gloucester's Andrew Longhurst is a believer in treading on toes, writes William Kay00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Novels in brief: Bodily Harm - Rachel Billington: Macmillan, pounds 14.9900:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Letter: Why 'ethnic cleansing' is such a filthy phrase00:02
Opinions: Is there such a thing as a mid-life crisis?00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Return of a star who quit: Jonathan Cope retired from the Royal Ballet aged 27. Now he is set for a comeback. Kathy Marks hears why00:02
Racing: Kayvee holds Stewards' key00:02
Banking: Enterprising Asians hit by BCCI fall-out: India's stock market scandal has brought further problems of credibility, writes Paul Gosling00:02
Q & A: Prime Ministers' passions . . . and the cost of taking part00:02
Feuds hit these unscepter'd isles: All over the world, countries quarrel over specks on the map. Andrew Marshall reports00:02
Britain calls conference on Yugoslavia00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Iraq defiant as America warns of war: Humiliate UN team says Saddam's man00:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Six to follow: Hugh Jones with a selection of athletes who could extend the boundaries in Barcelona00:02
Political Commentary: Party games with private lives00:02
Our Price may hive off distribution: Correction00:02
TRAVEL / Come fly with me . . . if you're well enough: Not all travellers are fit to cope with the stresses of long-haul airline journeys. Jenny Bryan suggests an austere regime to conquer the perils of high life00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
City: Wanted: strong leaders in the City00:02
Jason and the aeronauts: All Michael Bywater wanted was an airline ticket. But he was flying in the face of the Almighty travel agent00:02
Westminster Tories 'hired activists'00:02
Olympics 1992 Friday 31 July: Spear of Destiny: Tessa Sanderson - Javelin: Qualifying 6.30pm00:02
BOOKS / Truly a prophet: Shelley was born 200 years ago next week. Abroad he is spoken of with awe, but in England his poetry has been falsified and abused. Now it's time to give him his due00:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Cotton makes clear his single goal for Britain: Golf00:02
City: Hard landings00:02
Suzuki models' safety disputed00:02
British pupils fly out to teach the Japanese: A school from Devon is set to explain the mysteries of progressive education. David Nicholson-Lord reports00:02
Cricket: Warwickshire waste their wickets: Graeme Wright reports from Edgbaston00:02
Olympics 1992 Friday 7 August: Setting the pace: Liz McColgan - 10,000 metres: Final at 8.20pm00:02
Sport in Short: Speedway00:02
Letter: Clean lucre00:02
INTERIORS / Orders of the bath: Clinical white once reflected aversion to germs, now it's a reaction to avocado suites. A look at why bathroom design reveals so much more than people's washing habits00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Bunhill: His Notes00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Novels in brief: Night Fishing - Patrice Chaplin: Virago, pounds 5.9900:02
No interest paid to those who cool off00:02
Life on Mars: The Mars family saga has all the classic elements00:02
Olympics 1992 Tuesday 28 July: Elsewhere00:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Olympics answers00:02
Cycling: Quiet man of the Tour: Robin Nicholl with the Tour de France00:02
Sport on television00:02
Notebook: Wimbledon's shady legacy lives on: Villagers were cudgelled, highwaymen were hung, duels were fought there. And today 'Wimbedounyng', where Rachel Nickell was murdered 11 days ago, is still on edge00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A-Z guide for intrepid sperm: A fool's alphabet - Sebastian Faulks: Hutchinson, pounds 13.9900:02
Companies caught by graduate gap: Sparse recruitment of new blood in bad times leaves a quality shortfall later, as Sally Watts reports00:02
Troops to Sicily00:02
ART MARKET / Up for sale00:02
Banks wary of Goodman00:02
How We Met: 44. Roger Glossop and Alan Ayckbourn00:02
Olympics 1992 Monday 3 August: Peaking: John Regis - 200 metres: Round 1 8.35am, round 2 5.45pm00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
Cricket: Morris shines on a sleepy day: Rupert Metcalf reports from Abergavenny00:02
The Mellor Affair: French have a word for it - irrelevant00:02
Public Services Management: We can't go on meeting like this: Councillors are having to face up to a change in their traditional role and must rediscover their importance00:02
Letter: A bit back to front over Labour embracing capitalism00:02
Cricket: Man in the Middle: Bicknell finding time on his side: John Collis00:02
Change of plan00:02
INTERVIEW / Freedom's demon king: Milton Friedman:The father of monetarism, 80 this week, defends his reviled ideological progeny to John Lichfield00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell tied to magnetic pole: Nigel Roebuck reports from Hockenheim00:02
More talks00:02
Racing: Racing for a share of the leisure trade: Brough Scott looks at the background to today's first Sunday race meeting00:02
Bunhill: Coincidence corner00:02
Cricket / Fourth Test: Headingley still suffering from civil war wounds: Derek Hodgson looks at the conflicts which have led to a Test venue's decline00:02
ROCK / Diamond that's as big as the Wembley Arena: Neil Diamond; Pavement00:02
Bonds00:02
'Geagea held'00:02
Paper closes00:02
Do us a favour - call us queer: Gay days are over, says Peter Tatchell as homosexuals redefine themselves00:02
Pollsters to get council boost00:02
Harley-Davidsons for charity00:02
Olympics 1992 Saturday 8 August: Hi-tech: Steve Backley - Javelin: Final at 5.55pm00:02
Japan 'to cut interest rate'00:02
The Mellor Affair: When the fun stopped: Mary Braid and Jason Bennetto on the intrigue, double-dealing, and betrayal that lie behind the lurid headlines00:02
Building societies' cash flow squeezed00:02
Letter: Browned off00:02
Olympics 1992 Saturday 8 August: Elsewhere00:02
Olympics 199200:02
Olympics 1992 Saturday 1 August: Step Up: Sally Gunnell - 400 metres hurdles: Round 1 10am00:02
Let your home to the council: Paul Gosling reports on a tenant who could prove ideal00:02
The great safe-sex illusion: 'Swingers' and other sexual adventurers may have a lesson to teach increasingly complacent 'straights' about Aids, writes Jack O'Sullivan00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Cricket: Exuberant Tufnell: Rob Steen reports from Lord's00:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Officer class of athlete: Guy Hodgson on Britain's modern pentathlon chances00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
FILM / Farce about a farce that's no joke: Noises Off (12); Beethoven' (U)00:02
FILM / We have ways of making you talk: Chris Peachment on the unspeakable things stars do with accents00:02
Olympics 1992 Monday 27 July: Mary Thomson - Three-day event: Dressage at 7.30am00:02
Business as usual, Club Riviera says00:02
THEATRE / Shirley Valentine with depth: Shades - Albery; Columbus - Barbican00:02
Football: Steven moves back to Ibrox00:02
Oftel rejects BT pleas00:02
Advertisers enthralled by the games children play: A highly targeted message comes with the video show, writes Corinne Simcock00:02
Bunhill: Do a runner in New York00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Olympics 1992 Golden Grind: Mark Lawson looks at what makes the archetypal British Olympic champion00:02
Economics: The path to stability in housing00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Green investment advisers link up: Ethical investment firms have agreed to co-operate. Andrew Bibby reports00:02
FOOD & DRINK / The health and flavour question: Organic food may be safer and ethically preferable. But does it taste better? Michael Bateman finds supermarkets and producers disagree00:02
City File: Greene King00:02
Wellcome heads for success00:02
Bigger is better for Britain's battered industry: Our industrial decline is by no means terminal but, says David Bowen, UK factories are far too cautious when it comes to expansion00:02
Court upholds ruling against high-rate loan: Those with huge interest charges may have a chance, writes Sue Fieldman00:02
ART MARKET / Delhi delights: Is India on the brink of an economic miracle? Sotheby's thinks so - it's holding its first auctions there in October00:02
Letter: More than just 12 miles out00:02
Cricket: Proceeding with caution: Niall Edworthy reports from Worcester00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Funeral cost sharpens death's sting: Burial and cremation charges are soaring, writes Ian Hunter. One solution is to pay first and die later00:02
City File: Anxious market misreads the signs00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Survival of the wettest: Buxton Festival00:02
Olympics 1992 Friday 31 July: In trim: Yvonne Murray - 3000 metres: Round 1 6.50pm00:02
Olympics 1992 Wednesday 5 August: Elsewhere00:02
Olympics 1992 Tuesday 28 July: Stick Ability: Sean Kerly - Hockey: Pool match v Germany 7.0pm00:02
Honecker stays00:02
Arrivederci Italia: The new government will have to upset a few allies if it is to shore up the economy. James Ball reports00:02
RECORDS / Jazz: Miles Davis - Doo-bop (Warner Bros 7599-26938)00:02
JAZZ / An hour which passed in a single breath00:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Poised to move out of the shadow of drugs: Faster, stronger, cleaner? Hugh Jones looks at the standards - in every sense - we can look forward to00:02
Bunhill: Cleveland's rock revival00:02
Spending curb follows tax threat00:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Locals widening the audience for the fastest ball game in the world: Pelota00:02
Mystery of Britons missing in outback00:02
Olympics 1992 Tuesday 4 August: The Great Grey rises: John Whitaker - Show jumping: Team event 7.0am and 2.0pm00:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Americans' water-power: Guy Hodgson looks at contrasting US and British expectations in the swimming pool00:02
Drug rings muscle in on pirate radios: Criminal syndicates are moving on to the airwaves to advertise their pay parties and evade police action, writes Steve Boggan00:02
MOTORING / Alphabetical disorder: Buyers are about to rush for new K-registered cars. This yearly binge distorts the market, says Roger Bell00:02
Letter: Why 'ethnic cleansing' is such a filthy phrase00:02
Olympics 1992 Monday 27 July: Elsewhere00:02
Industry slipping back, CBI says00:02
The Mellor Affair: Rebel at the heart of the 'Sun': Michael Leapman on Wapping's unlikely champion of the people00:02
Business Information Service: Last Week00:02
Then & Now: Anniversaries00:02
FASHION / Berlin00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Flame-red hair and a rush to nowhere: I lock my door upon myself - Joyce Carol Oates: Blackstaff, pounds 6.9500:02
Olympics 1992 Friday 31 July: A last dash for the line: Linford Christie - 100 metres: Round 1 10.30am, round 2 5.35pm00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Olympics 1992 Thursday 30 July: Elsewhere00:02
Olympics 1992 Tuesday 4 August: Elsewhere00:02
Letter: The brass neck above the ivory parapet00:02
Shell tipped to enter bid battle for Lasmo00:02
DANCE / Sinners create heaven: Programme Two - London Coliseum00:02
Fishing Lines: Super-bait that may not be such good news after all00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Wives of Mohamed and the veil of tears: Women and gender in Islam - Leila Ahmed: Yale, pounds 17.9500:02
They're doing what to get the job?00:02
Letter: A bit back to front over Labour embracing capitalism00:02
Top health scientists join new brain drain00:02
Real Life: Mistresses of the House: Why on earth did he? How on earth could she? Fiametta Rocco asks the women who know: the lovers and wives of the honourable members00:02
The Mellor Affair: Home is . . . where the votes are00:02
Profile: He's really quite remarkable: David Coleman00:02
Why I'm proud, and glad, that I broke the law00:02
Bank protest00:02
Olympics 1992 Monday 27 July: Pulling Power: Redgrave and Pinsent - Coxless pairs: Heats at 7.0am00:02
ROCK / Velvet revolutionaries no longer underground: The godparents of grunge are back on form. Ben Thompson meets Sonic Youth00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Dreams of tail-fins and gas-guzzling: Biography of a Buick - Bill Morris: Granta, pounds 8.9900:02
Optimistic Wellcome00:02
Olympics 1992 Monday 27 July: Elsewhere00:02
War sinks its teeth ever deeper into Somalia: The world is still averting its gaze from its most savage conflict, writes Richard Dowden00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
After Halford: where next?00:02
From blighted inner cities to the edge of despair: As rioters clashed with police on the streets of Burnley, Blackburn and Bristol, 30 years of social breakdown found expression in violence00:02
Police attacked in Paris suburb00:02
Olympics 1992 Wednesday 29 July: Big Time: Nick Gillingham - 200 metres breaststroke: Heats at 9.0am, final at 5.0pm00:02
Rachel's son, two, speaks of killing00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
Racing: St Jovite's triumph for Irish00:02
Cricket: Batsmen bowling along: Scyld Berry on how Essex's drive for the championship has been underpinned by the speed with which they score their runs00:02
Britain's serious money league00:02
City File: British Aerospace00:02
Olympics 1992 Saturday 1 August: Elsewhere00:02
GARDENING / The great Enfield flower and shed show: A new kind of demonstration garden offers very practical help, Mary Keen discovers00:02
The Death of Prisoner DB317800:02
Estate agents face branch closures00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the Week00:02
Olympics 1992 Sunday 2 August: Elsewhere00:02
Olympics 1992 Saturday 1 August: Step Up: Roger Black - 400 metres: Heats 9.0am00:02
Lloyd's braces for showdown with rebel names00:02
Worlock loses lung00:02
Cricket: Donelan takes firm grip00:02
Still a favourite at the Tory fair: Loyalists greet Mellor with applause - and the press with brickbats00:02
CHILDREN / Would your child go with a stranger?: Danger can appear in many different guises and children need to know it when they see it, says Sandy Sulaiman00:02
Bunhill: His Notes00:02
Police on alert as hippies invade00:02
Letter: Britain peddles the recycling line, but Germany's got it wrapped up00:02
Leading Article: When just asking a question is illegal00:02
Laura's straw hat puts Patten in the shade00:02
Olympics 1992 Sunday 9 August: The hill00:02
Letter: Waiting on the Germans isn't news00:02
Swinging to the rules in condoms and latex gloves00:02
Copyright: Inventors learn from the errors of Rubik: Warding off pirates is no game, writes Ian Hunter00:02
Letter: The brass neck above the ivory parapet00:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: Bucks in abundance and a cast of billions: Guy Hodgson reports from Barcelona as the flame is lit at the opening of the 1992 Olympic Games00:02
'Copycat' disorders with different causes: As rioters clashed with police on the streets of Burnley, Blackburn and Bristol, 30 years of social breakdown found expression in violence00:02
City File: Shrinking to grow00:02
Collapse of holiday giant feared by travel industry00:02
Olympics 1992 Friday 7 August: Elsewhere00:02
Real Life: How can you prove it's because you're a woman?: Linda Grant asks why so many sex discrimination cases are failing in court00:02
Gin makers lobby hard to avoid US tariffs00:02
Bombs and bodysuits in Barcelona: As the quadrennial Games begin, Phil Davison reports that not everyone in Catalonia is bathing in the Olympic spirit00:02
Olympics 1992 Sunday 26 July: The deep river runs on: Adrian Moorhouse - 100 metres breaststroke: Heats at 9.0am, final at 5.0pm00:02
City File: Buoyant brew00:02
Letter: A bit back to front over Labour embracing capitalism00:02
Bunhill: Playing a mugs game00:02
PROPERTY / A call to alms: The sheltered world of almshouses is poised for battle as trustees face pressure to sell, says Nicky Hughes00:02
Olympics 1992 Friday 31 July: Elsewhere00:02
Cricket / Fourth Test: Waqar takes the tail to task: Scyld Berry reports from Headingley00:02
Scrutator: Docklands dream has flown00:02
UK distributor of VideoPlus loses franchise00:02
Olympics 1992 Sunday 2 August: On Top: Colin Jackson - 110 metres hurdles: Round 1 9am, round 2 5.30pm00:02
ETCETERA / Chess: David Norwood gives more advice on the Art of Swindling00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
Bunhill: Emporium's new clothes00:02
Opt-out school 'getting rid of troublesome boys'00:02
Thrift ruling00:02
Your Money: Mortgage rise waits in wings00:02
RECORDS / Classical: Sibelius - Lemminkainen Legends; En Saga. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Salonen (Sony SK48067)00:02
Olympics 1992 Thursday 6 August: Hail the happening man: Kriss Akabusi - 400 metres hurdles: Final 6.0pm00:02
Merger saving00:02
Olympics 1992 Test your Olympics knowledge00:02
A tough time on the sofa00:02
Panic the idealist confronts real life00:02
Then & Now: Brought to book00:02
HAELTH / Common Remedies: Endoscopy00:02
European court to act over arsonists00:02
Olympics 1992 Monday 27 July: Penny Way - Boardsailing: Race 1 at 12.15pm00:02
Olympics 1992 Thursday 30 July: All Miles: Ian Wilson - 1500 metres freestyle: Heats at 9.0am00:02
College sets stiff test for failing Bush: John Lichfield in Washington on the hidden battleground in the closest US election since 197600:02
OLYMPICS / Barcelona 1992: The point of no return: Ken Jones reports from the Nou Camp on how players are coping with the new rule on back-passes00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Letter: A bit back to front over Labour embracing capitalism00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Olympics 1992 Monday 3 August: Elsewhere00:02
The Mellor Affair: Actress's sex scene is art, producer insists00:02
Bunhill: Bond tries to be artless00:02
Letter: Britain peddles the recycling line, but Germany's got it wrapped up00:02
Animal art banned00:02
Iran angered by expulsions from Britain00:02
Olympics 1992 Wednesday 29 July: Elsewhere00:02
Few tears for travel firm00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Barrister-errant to the rescue: Rumpole on trial - John Mortimer: Viking, pounds 16.9900:02
Tops in toys00:02
Scotch exporters scent victory00:02
Cricket: Essex respond to challenge: John Culley reports from Leicester00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Underground of the mind: The Last Magician - Janette Turner Hospital: Virago, pounds 14.9900:02
The best and worst: Mortgages00:02
TELEVISION / God comes off badly, man comes off worse00:02
Shares: As solid as houses: Quentin Lumsden pinpoints some strong Eperformers in construction00:02
Half-point rise in mortgage rate looms00:02
Thorpe tipped for Liffe job00:02
Me and My Kit: Graham Brookhouse, Member of Britain's Olympic modern pentathlon team00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Michael Day00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The habits of a lifetime: Unveiled: Nuns Talking - Mary Loudon: Chatto, pounds 9.9900:02
Red-hot and Mexican00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Brinkmanship in Baghdad: Patrick Cockburn looks behind the war of words between the United Nations and Iraq that threatens to reopen the Gulf conflict00:02
ARTS / Time, Gentlemen: Kasmin is a small man with a big name as a dealer in contemporary art. Now, after 30 years, he is saying goodbye to Cork Street. Simon Garfield was just asking him about it when an old friend dropped by00:02
Sport in Short: Shooting00:02
Olympics 1992 Thursday 6 August: Elsewhere00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The spy who never was: The fatal lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage - Julie Wheelwright: Collins & Brown, pounds 16.99