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EXHIBITIONS / Great little masterclass: The history of the petits maitres of French painting has long been overlooked in this country. But three exhibitions in London offer a chance to catch up00:02
Guardian of the ANC's flame dies00:02
City File: Rothschild creeps up on sleepy giant00:02
Football: Taylor untroubled by Gascoigne00:02
Move to replace Wembley chairman00:02
Rugby Union: Union giving Bluey a chance00:02
Letter: Panda starred in Chinese circus00:02
Letter: Words not deeds00:02
Letter: History also says military intervention can work00:02
Cricket: Lathwell flashes with brilliance: Derek Hodgson reports from Chelmsford00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: B Monkey - Andrew Davies: Minerva, pounds 5.9900:02
Waco: Clinton's core of indecision exposed in the glare of apocalypse: Patrick Cockburn in Washington finds fears about the President's judgement confirmed00:02
Derelict house rouses anger00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Say what you like about . . .00:02
London can take it00:02
Recycling: Making a mint out of muck: Rebuilding cartridges for laser printers is proving a business success. Mary Wilson reports00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Sport in Short: Horse Racing00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
The Bishopsgate Bomb: Terrorists shrug off Warrington backlash: The IRA has returned to strike again at the economic strength of the nation, say Terry Kirby and David McKittrick00:02
Heterosexual Aids will peak in 40 years00:02
Bosnia needs military help now, not our despair00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Ian Jacob dies00:02
Hunters of the double helix - 40 years on: The story of DNA and the team of scientists that revealed its structure are recalled by Steve Connor and Tom Wilkie00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Racing: 1,000 Guineas entries00:02
ETCETERA / Chess: THE International Master, Keith Arkell, gives a lesson in king and pawn endgame play00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: Lost Footsteps - Bel Mooney: Viking, pounds 14.9900:02
City File: Punt on pipes00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Ancestral manoeuvres in the dark: The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind - Erik Trinkaus and Pat Shipman: Cape, pounds 2000:02
Then & Now: Set in a silver sea00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Letter: Catholics pay twice for their children's education00:02
Thomas Keneally's journey into Eritrea00:02
The Independent / Scholastic: Story of the Year: Writing for children: pounds 3,000 of prizes to be won in a new competition00:02
No fears on yen00:02
Police paid00:02
Cricket: Summer shorn of seduction: The new-look County Championship, made up entirely of four-day matches, starts this week. Simon Hughes expects a long haul00:02
Political Commentary: Life in the old amendment yet?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Poker player without a cause: Nicholas Ray: An American Journey - Bernard Eisenschitz trs Tom Milne: Faber, pounds 2000:02
City File: Sell on bounce00:02
Opinions: Would you like Mrs Thatcher back?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Glory be to God for babbled things: Translations from the natural world - Les Murray: Carcanet, pounds 6.9500:02
PROPERTY / Telecommuter competition: Apple Macintosh computer to be won00:02
Football: Fratton spark drives Pompey00:02
RECORDS / New releases: Sugar - Beaster (Creation, LP/tape/CD)00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
The John Kobal Foundation / Independent on Sunday Photographic Portrait Award00:02
Tennis: Pioline brushes Edberg aside00:02
Football: World Cup: Jasper Rees talks to four former internationals about their countries' prospects in this week's World Cup qualifiers00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Leading Article: What a lot of tosh00:02
TV venture00:02
Public Services Management: Services get the tender touch: Paul Gosling detects rising support for free-standing council business units00:02
Leading Article: Unfit to compete00:02
Business urged to build on skills of the homeless00:02
City File: RTZ00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: The Meanings of Death - John Bowker: Canto, pounds 6.9500:02
Paunch at pace: Charles Nevin takes the measure of a grand line of corpulent sporting heroes00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
Would you ever cheat to pass an exam? Discuss00:02
First-year team neglects its homework00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: True love among the fish kettles00:02
TELEVISION / Not on a level filming field00:02
Cricket's faces to follow for 1993: The 18 county captains give (1) their county to watch, (2) their most promising player from another county, and (3) the player to watch from their own team00:02
Britain takes lead in threat of air strikes in Bosnia00:02
Projected profits may turn Clark bid00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: And the rest is history00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Letter: Standard English is common sense00:02
My Biggest Mistake: John Rimington00:02
RECORDS / New releases: Deep Blues (Anxious 4509-91981-2, CD & tape)00:02
Football: Lineker in need of fine tuning: Richard Williams sees the Japanese team, Grampus Eight, lose 2-1 at Leeds United00:02
DNA: what it all means00:02
Letter: Standard English is common sense00:02
The Bishopsgate Bomb: City's reputation around the world is put at risk00:02
Drug firms show signs of health: Big pharmaceutical players like Zeneca will find favour again before long, writes Richard Thomson00:02
Sport in Short: Australian Rules00:02
ROCK / Reggae show in no guns shock00:02
The Bishopsgate Bomb: Countdown to 'heinous attack on innocents'00:02
Scotland Yard sets up unit to tackle loan fraud00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
City File: Tullow Oil00:02
City: Bulls have stronger case than bears00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: The Gonne Yeats Letters 1993-1938, eds Anna MacBride and A Norman Jeffares: Pimlico, pounds 12.5000:02
Football: Taylor tackles the Dutch conundrum: At Wembley on Wednesday England will discover whether the Netherlands are in decline or transition. Norman Fox reports00:02
Census points way to success00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Y-on Earth?00:02
ARTS / Show People: Off the cuff and on the spot: 74. Josie Lawrence00:02
BOOK REVIEW / No meat, high moral fibre: The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism - Colin Spencer: 4th Estate, pounds 2000:02
FOOD & DRINK / A-Z of Treats: Clafoutis00:02
Recession is officially over: Surge in national output figures will confirm that economic recovery is under way00:02
Gun-run swap00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: A Responsible Man - Cynthia Kee: Chatto, pounds 13.9900:02
Snooker: Hendry the assassin sharpens sights: Guy Hodgson reports from Sheffield00:02
Glimmers in the East bloc: Investment by the West in countries of the former Soviet bloc is proving to be a slower and more difficult process than first thought. Peter Torday looks at the reasons for reluctance00:02
Profile: A solid brick in the wall: Tarmac needs clear vision from Neville Simms for the road ahead. Heather Connon reports00:02
Naked assault on the truth: Laurie Taylor explains why you can never believe what you read in surveys on sex00:02
Higher council tax plea00:02
Germany's east wind of change: John Eisenhammer talks to consultancy guru Roland Berger00:02
Sport in Short: Speedway00:02
Cannon Street plunges deeper into the red00:02
Absence makes bills grow longer00:02
City: No black hole00:02
Ulster talks00:02
Phantom tapes charged to cancelled credit card: Correction: BookTalk00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Pyrotechnics of loathing: Pompey - Jonathan Meades: Cape, pounds 14.9900:02
Protect children from the angels00:02
Waco: Seventh-day Adventists used spies in the battle to halt Koresh's crusade: Evidence gathered three years ago by a church in Britain shows that the 'Lamb of God' predicted he would die in 1993. Cal McCrystal reports00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby League00:02
Even ombudsman make mistakes00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
IoS man wins00:02
Shares: When size really is important00:02
OPERA / Brash warrior spirit turns punk in warpaint: Norma; Jenufa00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: The Puberty Tree - D M Thomas: Bloodaxe, pounds 8.9500:02
Bunhill: Law Society complaints00:02
Racing: The Whitbread curse strikes again: Paul Hayward reports from Sandown Park00:02
Letter: The 'green car' already exists00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Standing death on its head: Scar tissue - Michael Ignatieff: Chatto, pounds 9.9900:02
Letter: Unforgiveable00:02
Your Money: Don't fall for glitter of gilts00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
Then & Now: Anniversaries00:02
The Campaign for Cheaper CDs: MPs ready to demand cut in price of CDs00:02
China's modern model village falls from grace: From TERESA POOLE and agencies00:02
Football Round-up: Barnet go up despite defeat00:02
Instant cash loses its attractions as fees loom behind holes in the wall00:02
US plunge00:02
Business on Sunday's Independent 100: A leading edge in the middle00:02
Bonds00:02
The Campaign for Cheaper CDs: Plain speaking in committee00:02
Best and worst: Attitude matures on pay-outs - 25-year endowment policies00:02
Switched-on advertisers ready for a rave00:02
Pensioners in new Maxwell bail-out plea00:02
Economics: Give industry a reason to have faith00:02
First Class to Pity City: Alan Bleasdale's new play is heading for London, trailing clouds of laughter and compassion. He likes to say he has no background. Few writers have more00:02
INTERVIEW / A victim takes control: Herman Ouseley: The Commission for Racial Equality is riven by conflict. John Torode finds its new chairman is used to fielding flak00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Letter: Baseless claims to the throne of England00:02
Rugby Union: Swansea sunk by Scarlets' superior style00:02
RECORDS / The IOS Playlist: The five best records of the moment00:02
Hold the Class War - the real threat is the enemy within00:02
Sport in Short: Rallying00:02
Charles left out over new Windsor00:02
ART MARKET / The master etcher of Amsterdam: A collection of copper plates by Rembrandt, greatest of all printmakers, went on sale recently. This extraordinary event attracted no media brouhaha - but buyers galore00:02
Should men work with children?: As a male nursery nurse is jailed for child sexual abuse, Angela Neustatter asks if it is time to address the most uncomfortable question of all00:02
Trust 'saving' of hamlet has ruined it, say locals00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Airline talks00:02
Innovation: Magic goes to market: Movie wizardry of computer imaging is about to revolutionise industry00:02
TRAVEL / A dance to the music of wine: Away from the Algarve, the hills are heavy with the scent of pine, quince and the latest vintage. Michael Pye gets heady on the real Portugal00:02
Ruling due on Walker00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In brief: The Other Mother - Seth Margolis: Headline, pounds 15.9900:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Why your friend can't be your therapist as well: Critics of psychotherapy say it's just as good to talk things over with someone you know. Dorothy Rowe disagrees00:02
Bunhill: Live Wire00:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Bumpy path from the zoo to the aquarium: The prospective partner of the Natural History Museum has had a string of business disappointments00:02
BOOK REVIEW / There but for a tentacled hairbrush: Cleopatra's sister - Penelope Lively: Viking, pounds 14.9900:02
Letter: Briefly00:02
Football: Beating the world with a clenched fist: Jeered by opposing fans, cheered by fellow professionals, Tony Adams is considered by some to be the very face of English football. Richard Williams reports00:02
GARDENING / The orchids of North Britain: Next week Glasgow hosts the World Orchid Conference. A hundred years ago, a tropical collection flowered near Edinburgh. Wilma Paterson on its recent rediscovery00:02
HEALTH / Common Remedies: Sleeping pills00:02
The Bishopsgate Bomb: Guard cut by glass00:02
The Bishopsgate Bomb: Bart's plea highlighted00:02
Boxing: Ashley's excuse00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Well-versed in the art of simple communication00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Upward mobility for vegetables: Once they were the side order, today they're stars of the show. Michael Bateman on the rise of courgette, aubergine and friends00:02
THEATRE / Just the right treatment from Crimp at the Court: The Treatment - Royal Court; A Love Song for Ulster - Tricycle; For Services Rendered - Old Vic; A Jovial Crew - The Pit00:02
Football / Women's FA Cup Final: Arsenal on trail of the treble: Shipp stands firm as the Belles rue lack of a finishing touch: Sam Elliott reports from Oxford00:02
Yeltsin welcomes moment of truth00:02
Rugby Union: Nervous triumph for Bath00:02
Fishing Lines: Detectives aim to reveal the sea trout's true identity00:02
Bunhill: TNT drivers wait on for Murdoch00:02
Mother Nature puts flesh on Spielberg's monsters: Robert Block on a find that makes fact of dinosaur fiction00:02
The early bird buys a tie and a pair of knickers: Hester Matthewman on the intimate secrets of station shoppers00:02
Rugby Union: Twickenham's final attraction: Back vs Winterbottom: The age-old rivalry of pace and power will be at the heart of an open master-class during rugby union's showpiece. John Hopkins reports00:02
Bunhill: The London Golf Club00:02
BOOK REVIEW / More hers than hymns: The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse: edited by Jerome J McGann, pounds 2500:02
Letter: History also says military intervention can work00:02
Police find mother00:02
Cricket: W Indies stay in control: Tony Cozier reports from Bridgetown, Barbados00:02
City File: Perpetual00:02
Letter: Catholics pay twice for their children's education00:02
The Bishopsgate Bomb: Bank chief 'horrified'00:02
Waiting to be king of Iraq00:02
Football: The XI00:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
Boxing: Bruno made to work for his success: Ken Jones reports from Birmingham00:02
PHOTOGRAPHY / Night pictures00:02
Letter: Standard English is common sense00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
THE BROADER PICTURE / The vision thing00:02
Rugby Union: Howley's solo efforts in vain00:02
Labour to dodge row on electoral reform00:02
Motor Racing: Hill's confidence rises as Prost takes pole: David Tremayne reports from Imola00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: 1959 - Thulani Davis: Penguin, pounds 5.9900:02
Envoys 'arrested'00:02
Then & Now: Deaths00:02
The Bishopsgate Bomb: 'We were making jokes, then the whole building shook': The relaxed routine that turned to fear and shock00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
Class system short-changes on benefits: People who take time out from their careers find National Insurance rules make it difficult to protect all their entitlements. Maria Scott reports00:02
Hijacker shot dead00:02
Football: Stein stirs hesitant Stoke00:02
Call from Coke00:02
FILM / Once more with not so much feeling: Sommersby (12); Un Coeur en Hiver (12); Mr Saturday Night (15)00:02
St Tropez loses 'le cool' over mayor's hardline regime: Julian Nundy finds slander and scandal at the heart of an election campaign on the Riviera00:02
How We Met: Robert Plant and David Bates00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paperbacks: Expletives Deleted - Angela Carter: Vintage, pounds 5.9900:02
Grand Met takes Venables to court over pub dispute00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
EC accord00:02
Owen outraged as Serbs reject new peace plan00:02
Letter: Nonsense and sensibility00:02
SA reporter killed00:02
FASHION / Last Tango in Paris00:02
Letter: Standard English is common sense00:02
Fears that vice-chairman may leave Barclays: Barclays says that Andrew Buxton will 'relinquish hands-on control'00:02
Rugby Union: Wasps always look second best00:02
Rugby League: Widnes rely on family values: Dave Hadfield on the burden Bobby Goulding bears in the Challenge Cup final on Saturday00:02
Help for sellers when estate agents fall out: Sue Fieldman on a court ruling that settled the fight over who collects the fee00:02
Q & A: Playing happy families . . . and high times in Oldham00:02
MOTORING / Rover makes its marque on history: A monument to Britain's motoring heritage contains some surprising omissions, as Phil Dourado reports00:02
The fine art of foiling thieves: Mary Wilson on a plan to thwart criminals by storing pictures and details of valuables00:02
Football: Speedie brings relief00:02
The Bishopsgate Bomb: One bomb: pounds 1bn devastation: Man dead after City blast - Two more explosions late last night00:02
Bunhill: A bank for the favoured few