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West leaps to fund Vietnam's march to market economy: Infrastructure improvement is vital, reports Raymond Whitaker00:02
Grown-ups take the wreckers in hand00:02
TELEVISION / Bearing false witness: Thomas Sutcliffe on Living Dangerously00:02
Letter: Ragga, 'racism' and attacks on gays00:02
Letter: Home Secretary's crime proposals are short-sighted00:02
Homes law to favour couples: Priority for young single mothers in council house provision to end00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Hurd extols public servant class: Patricia Wynn Davies reports on the Foreign Secretary's entry into an ideological fray00:02
BNP leader fined00:02
Diary: Getting the film industry to act00:02
Tennis: Pullin starts Britain off on the right foot: Britain's young women make promising start to their annual 21-and-under challenge against the United States00:02
Tennis: Agassi banned for Davis Cup refusal in the Bahamas00:02
The Law Society Results 199300:02
Export of arms tools to Iraq 'approved by Thatcher'00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Maestro of exquisite minimalism00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Clarke prepares way for tax rises: Chancellor ignores doubters and insists cut in spending is not enough00:02
Law Update: Public spirit00:02
Obituary: Cyril Cusack00:02
Rugby Union: Evans denies misconduct allegations: Sacked WRU secretary breaks his long silence00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Letter: Ragga, 'racism' and attacks on gays00:02
Letter: The Wilton Diptych illuminated00:02
Livingstone backs Maze fugitive: Labour MP ignores concern of senior party members that court appearance will be seen as endorsing IRA terrorists00:02
Racing: Czechs make changes: Julian Duplain on moves to lessen the Pardubicka's dangers00:02
Golf: Ballesteros' isolationism: Spaniard aims to keep amazing record00:02
Scot stabbed on Florida beach: Tourist injured by two muggers00:02
Leadership contest00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Football: Sunderland continue on the big-game trail: Villa's Roker task00:02
Donkey man jailed00:02
FILM / Some kind of wonderful: Anthony Minghella would like you to forget Sleepless in Seattle. He tells Sheila Johnston why00:02
Issues in black and white for New Yorkers: Peter Pringle reports from New York, where David Dinkins is defending his creaking mayoral fortress against a hard-right Republican00:02
'Briefcase admiral' blamed in Somalia crisis: American UN envoy lambasted for 'personal vendetta' against Aideed and for deploying gunships over Mogadishu00:02
Letter: Home Secretary's crime proposals are short-sighted00:02
Hockey: Grant in limelight00:02
Iraq may reveal arms secrets00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Death in the towns with funny names: 'Klaonica: Poems for Bosnia' - Ed. Ken Smith: Bloodaxe, 7.95 pounds00:02
Budget fears hitting sales, says Etam00:02
Murder 'followed insurance fraud tip-off': Court told hitmen's victim was named in phone call to Lloyd's investigator. Malcolm Pithers reports00:02
1993 Head Waiter of the Year competition at the Savoy Hotel00:02
View from City Road: Fruits of securitisation00:02
Izetbegovic rejects 'vivisection'00:02
Classic attempt to perfect word power: The leading word processor has put on a new face. Tim Nott finds some cracks in the make-up00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Greycoat on a knife edge: Goldman Sachs to vote in favour of Postel's deal00:02
ScotMet sale nets pounds 53m: Bidding adds 13% to price of building00:02
Surfers back in Vietnam00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
THEATRE / The revenge of the squirrel: Paul Taylor reviews A Doll's House at the Gate Theatre in Dublin00:02
Lonrho delays vote on non-executives: Plans to improve company's accountability are held up00:02
City tests smart way ahead for car users: Cambridge has embarked on a hi-tech, road-pricing diet but the start was not without its hiccups00:02
Iran tries to mend fences with Iraq00:02
Bhutto and Sharif are chastened by poll: Rival party leaders woo MPs in a desperate attempt to build enough support to form a government00:02
Fuel crisis hits Sudan00:02
This Weekend / Dragon boats: National Championships - Nottingham00:02
Plea to save Chinese dissident00:02
Oilmen jailed for corruption00:02
Clinton gives deadline for leaving Somalia00:02
Squash: England aim for a medal00:02
Bottom Line: Higgs, the survivor00:02
Nobel winner leads way for black American writers00:02
Hospitals accused of starving patients: Nutritional deficiencies 'increasing NHS costs'00:02
Leading Article: Judge's ruling is final insult00:02
Rugby Union: All Blacks lose Jones00:02
Parents back classroom role00:02
Brixton escaper jailed in Dublin00:02
Home Computer: Jargon buster00:02
FILM / Box-Office Charts00:02
Study shows no evidence of queue jumping: Rosie Waterhouse looks at the statistics behind the image created by Tory ministers00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Fuel VAT 'will cost the party dear in next elections': A party stalwart tells Chris Blackhurst what he would have liked to say to the Chancellor00:02
Rugby Union: Davies' power diminishes: Out-of-step Wales increase number of selectors00:02
Rothmans loses place in Footsie00:02
Pensioner died after wood cycle collapsed00:02
Clinic for sex offenders is told to close: Planning permission refused after campaign by worried neighbours00:02
Equestrianism: Whitaker makes mark with safety play: Rising to the challenge without rearing up proves difficult for man and mount00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Out of Russia: Communism's first cadaver awaits its fate00:02
Leading Article: Handle Lenin with care, Mr Yeltsin00:02
Campari results disappoint City00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Clarke's pledge sets stage for Major00:02
Senior Barclays man to go early: Vice-chairman's departure coincides with chief executive's arrival00:02
Police escape trial by jury: Judge says Birmingham Six officers cannot get fair hearing because of media publicity00:02
People: Greek gifts with a history00:02
Young people 'failing to vote'00:02
High fashion exacts a high price in China00:02
Football: McFarland retakes corridors of power: Derby's new manager relies on old-fashioned principles. Phil Shaw reports00:02
Law Update: Success brings closure00:02
Driver is convicted of attack00:02
TELEVISION / Briefing: Times to make a cup of tea00:02
Smoker is refused operation00:02
Plan Ahead: Wimbledon 199400:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Short loses control and is quick to accept draw00:02
Peking tries sweet reason over HK00:02
Life for sex attacks00:02
Georgia calls for Western aid00:02
Escobar accomplice shot dead00:02
Athletics: China's 11 positive drug tests: Wang not among offenders00:02
Football: Jordan favourite to be Brady's successor: Celtic begin search for a new manager following Irishman's resignation after two years and four months without a trophy00:02
An overnight switch from protector to intruder00:02
Yeltsin seizes chance to purge political enemies: Russian flags fly at half mast during day of mourning for 170 victims of armed uprising00:02
Murder suspect killed himself00:02
Jubilation for the Phillies00:02
Obituary: Canon F. W. Dillistone00:02
MUSIC / A test of nerve: Stephen Kovacevich thinks performance is 'torture' but he still wins awards for it. Mark Pappenheim reports00:02
Birthdays00:02
Letter: Apartheid by another name00:02
Yes, it's true. I'm going to be sectioned next week00:02
Georgia warns of bread riots00:02
Solent ruling could increase water bills: Tougher sewage controls if sea is classified as estuary00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Outside Edge: Jim White on the man who'll have you fighting over pieces of plastic pie this Christmas00:02
Football: Spurs fine Durie over outburst: Maximum penalty for striker00:02
US bribe claims threaten trade deal00:02
Four-star request00:02
Market Report: Guinness feels draught of doubts over LVMH00:02
Jim White on Friday: A price war hotter than a vindaloo: Cheap curries are the order of the day in Hampstead. But the restaurant owners are finding full houses cost them dear00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Patients with urgent conditions to have priority00:02
Home Computer: Review: Wordperfect: Word Processor. Software00:02
Hani accused put in place by the maid00:02
Nuclear tests for France00:02
Cricket: Lancashire to lose DeFreitas00:02
Football: Marseille could be relegated: French authorities check Stade Velodrome books00:02
Obituary: Ivor Bulmer-Thomas00:02
Nobel winner leads way for black American writers00:02
FILM / The gospel according to Ken: The British are Coming: And two turned up - all in the same week00:02
Golden chimes00:02
Mercury lines up fee waiver00:02
Pembroke: Bowled over00:02
View from City Road: FT reflects changing reality00:02
Suicides by mental patients put at 160: Survey exposes gaps in care programme for schizophrenics00:02
Why the Guards decided to fall into line: Andrew Higgins wonders about the motives of the generals who acted to save their President's skin00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Letter: Home Secretary's crime proposals are short-sighted00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: On the Front00:02
Disloyalty: the Tories' secret weapon: Correction00:02
She cheats, and I care: Rosalind Twist finds some elderly charges refuse to play by the rules00:02
FILM / Rushes00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Law Update: Five go east00:02
Rugby League: NZ pair free to play in first Test00:02
Cannabis haul00:02
Home Computer: Finding the key to success00:02
Greeks heading back to the future: Andreas Papandreou seems set to regain power in Sunday's poll, writes Leonard Doyle in Athens00:02
This Weekend / Hovercrafts: National series - Tattershall Park00:02
Small businesses hit by shift in banking: Closure of branches 'has devastating effect' on poor areas00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Lamont's public spending cuts hark back to 'golden age'00:02
Timing of Camco sale sparks Pearson buying talk00:02
Letter: Home Secretary's crime proposals are short-sighted00:02
Tiphook plummets on profit warning: Leasing group has debts of pounds 1bn and will make first-half loss Articles of association to be changed00:02
Bophuthatswana and Ciskei tribal 'homelands' pulled out of democracy talks00:02
McLaughlin in talks with its bankers00:02
Amnesty condemns Burma00:02
Peace moves in Angola00:02
Dividend is slashed as Martin goes into red00:02
Fireman cleared00:02
Today's Number: 26000:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Warning over new curbs on press00:02
Letter: Home Secretary's crime proposals are short-sighted00:02
Racing: BBC televise Worcester00:02
Letter: Fast food French00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Letter: The Wilton Diptych illuminated00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Palestinian refuseniks set out to undermine 'traitor' Arafat: Damascus talks aim to destroy accord with Rabin but avert formal PLO split00:02
Croats accused of massacring Serbs: New blow for Tudjman as UN condemns scorched-earth policy in Krajina villages00:02
Kidnap remand00:02
Letter: Absolute truth00:02
TELEVISION / Statistics00:02
Dublin to discuss Ulster peace plan00:02
Leading Article: High stakes for the UN in Somalia00:02
Letter: Nuclear nonsense00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Burn Stewart slips 21% and warns of tough year00:02
Orchestra contest 'will sacrifice quality': The head of the London Philharmonic tells David Lister there will be no merger, just fewer concerts with a diminished repertoire00:02
The fruit and peril of democracy00:02
Moscow's panic cannot be purged00:02
Ultrasound 'may harm foetuses'00:02
Rarity pushes up value of Bank of England's oldest pound note by pounds 51,99900:02
Deported runaway returns00:02
Non-League Football: James the novice takes on Merthyr mission00:02
Home Computer: Not quite the real thing: Tim Jackson quickly picks up the rudiments, but wonders if it is all worth the effort00:02
Bibby plans to demerge00:02
FILM / A really bad Dwight in: Sheila Johnston reviews the charming This Boy's Life, John Woo's Hard Target and Me Ivan You Abraham00:02
Racing: Owners seek a quiet revolution: A sounding of the people who pay the bills detects apathy instead of an urge to force improvement through boycotts00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Modern farming blamed for birds' decline: Arable land, now largely cleared of weeds, offers little to sustain popular species such as the skylark, writes Nicholas Schoon00:02
Seven-year sentence for joyrider who killed girl: Judge attacks 'folly' of giving repeated bail to youths who ignore conditions00:02
Ferranti chairman warns of heavy half-year loss00:02
View from City Road: Changing mortgage tax relief has its pitfalls00:02
Lawyers demonstrate to gain code of conduct in fight against discrimination in legal profession00:02
Basketball: Byrd shoots Guildford through00:02
Surfers back in Vietnam00:02
Nursery reprieve00:02
The Daily Poem: Prayer00:02
FILM / Critical round-up00:02
No 'normal' cycle00:02
The Conservative Party in Blackpool: Quotes of the day00:02
Court Circular00:02
Bridge over troubled waters on the sanctions-hit Danube: The UN embargo is causing upheaval and unrest in Bulgaria, reports Adrian Bridge from Sofia00:02
FILM / Nationwide readers' screening00:02
BAe will sell Ballast00:02
Black matters: Toni Morrison is the new Nobel laureate for literature. Here, we print an extract from her writing on whiteness and the literary imagination