LEADERS
15 France turns tetchy
16 India's brave budget
17 Zapping Iraq?
18 American taxes: Wooing Mr Average
19 Farewell, BBC
20 An SEC for London
22 Absurdity in air transport
Special
23 The Blue Arrow affair
Books and Arts
115 History goes on, but differently
116 Baffled American shareholders
116 Ecologically correct holidays
119 French films win in Berlin
120 The film that wasn't there
120 The fading of reading
Letters
6 On America's inaccessible health care, democracy
and honesty, France's place in Europe, Venice,
Eichmann and living, Kinnock's course work, building
errors, Lamont's cycling tricks, militant Islam, the
deadly googly
World Politics and Current Affairs
Britain
31 THIS WEEK
33 Tory education policy under fire
34 Green ideas for the budget
34 More rigour for competition policy
36 British Rail's 225 train
39 Explaining the rise in crime
39 London's street fashion
40 Bagehot: Parties as regional alliances
American Survey
43 How Democrats divide
44 Jerry Brown's campaign
44 Pat Buchanan rolls on
45 Tax cuts in fashion
45 Industrial policy revived
48 Policing Los Angeles
49 Tips for Super Tuesday
50 Lexington: The black vote
Europe
51 War in the ex-Soviet Union
52 Eyewitness to slaughter
52 Bosnia goes for broke
57 Mitterrand's choices
57 Behold, the Eurofruit
58 Poland's taxmen
59 Italy's party games
59 Dark days in Albania
60 Kazakhstan's eastern promise
60 Kazakhstan's ethnic Germans
Asia
65 India's budget breaks with the past
66 A new boss for Pakistan's spies
66 Budget misery in Japan
67 Money and the Thai election
67 Taiwan's ruling politics
68 Selling arms for the Chinese army
International
73 America, Libya and Iraq
74 Qaddafi's finest hour
74 A Saudi form of democracy
75 The future of the West Bank
76 Canada finds its confidence
76 Quebec Inc loses its shine
78 Rio's earth summit
78 The French and Africa
Business, Finance and Science
8l THIS WEEK
Business
83 The glut of commercial aircraft
84 Japan's crashing helicopter market
86 Management focus: Office design
88 Saatchi & Saatchi struggles
88 Management consultants disappoint
90 Rhone-Poulenc's drug merger
90 vw's troubled Czech car maker
91 Breaching Europe's postal monopolies
92 Replacing ozone-destroying CFCS
Finance
95 Indexed funds pain the pundits
96 Japan's life insurers boycott shares
96 American banks' interest-rate fears
99 Economic focus: Bond yields
100 Inflation in the Antipodes
100 France's Lazard fights for its friends
102 British banks battle on
105 More Wellcome shares
105 Share-price volatility and returns
106 Bank of Tokyo: Better than billed
Science and Technology
111 Carving up the air waves
112 Battery-driven cars
112 Plankton suffer sun-stroke
113 Ozone and sheep
Economic and financial indicators
135 Output, demand,jobs, prices, wages and commodities,
plus closer looks at world steel production and beef
136 Stockmarkets, money supplies, interest rates, trade,
exchange rates and reserves, plus a closer look at
the Toronto stock exchange
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