The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

* Italian police were questioning a suspected double murderer
who threatened to litter the city of Padua with the corpses of
estate agents 18/02/01 B 25 1>2
* The Mafia's chief has been in hiding since 196, now family
letters could trap him 18/02/01 B 26 1>8 Photographs
* Last week they were washed up on the Riviera, now they are
on the move again, Kurdish refugees forced to make yet another
journey - see Refugees 25/02/01
* Later this month in Paris Socialist Party candidate Bertrand
Delanoe is expected to become mayor and he will be the most
powerful openly gay man in the world 04/03/01 B 22 1>8
Photographs
* DNA tests on blood found at the scene of a murder of a
wealthy widow have reopened one of the most baffling criminal
cases in French history 04/03/01 B 23 1>2 Photograph
* Neo-Nazis are gaining a foothold in Iceland, the country
admired by Hitler as a model for the creation of an Aryan super
race - see Neo-Nazis 11/03/01
* The new film by acclaimed French director Luc Besson was
set to be a box-office hit, but the director is being sued by the
film's scriptwriters - see Film 11/03/01
* Report from Berlin as the Right beats a patriotic drum as a
troubled nation faces its history 25/03/01 B 23 1>6 Photographs
* Sacked French staff of Marks & Spencer demonstrate in Paris,
claiming the firm broke employment laws 08/04/01 B 11 1>8
Photograph
* A costly engagement ring hidden as a surprise on a chocolate
Easter egg has proved the cause of intense pre-marital tension
for a young Italian couple 15/04/01 B 17 4>8
* Lionel Jospin's trouble with women could be the deciding
factor on whether he stands for the French presidency next
spring 15/04/01 B 20 1>8 Photographs
* Profile on Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politician - see Berlusconi,
Silvio 22/04/01
* How Germany's leader finally found his father 22/04/01 B 20
1>8 Photographs
* Novelist Andre Gide would not recognise his Normandy home
after its restoration to the eighteenth-century style 22/04/01 B
21 1>4 Photograph
* Tourists who flock to Florence may soon be charged an
admission fee to enter the city 29/04/01 B 18 4>5 Photograph
* France is becoming more stupid and its political life is being
destroyed because of the nation's growing obsession with sport,
according to a leading French philosopher 29/04/01 B 21 1>3
Photographs
* In Denmark Claus Bork Hansen was riddled with 26 bullets in
a murder some fear could herald the resumption of vicious
warfare between Hell's Angels gangs 06/05/01 B 21 1>2
Photograph
* Italy is in turmoil over an election that has mutated into an
unprecedented contest between Silvio Berlusconi and the
international media 06/05/01 B 21 1>8 Photograph
* France was plunged into controversy as it agonised over
whether its leading politicians knew of a so-called French
'Gestapo in Algeria' that committed atrocities during the war of
independence 06/05/01 B 22 1>6 Photographs
* Italians go to the polls today to elect a new government after a
brutal campaign in which left and right tarred each other as
crooks, liars and tyrants 13/05/01 B 25 8
* A group of young Swiss potholders were rescued after
spending three days trapped underground in a flooded cave in
eastern France 20/05/01 B 25 8
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* The introduction of a shorter working week has given French
workers more time to enjoy their leisure pursuits 27/05/01 B 23
1>5 Photograph
* Thousands of Germans will start dieting today as they join in a
Big Brother-style television project designed to help the nation
lose weight 27/05/01 B 26 5>6 Cartoon
* A row is set to erupt between Britain and France over Home
Secretary Jack Straw's refusal to extradite billionaire Nadhmi
Auchi over his alleged role in the Elf-Aquitaine scandal - see
Auchi, Nadhmi 03/06/01
* France's left-wing administration has been accused of
McCarthyism after it was revealed that leading human rights
campaigners have secretly been put under close police
surveillance 10/06/01 B 21 1>4 Photographs
* The Sicilian port where body parts come in with the cod can no
longer resist an inquiry into the drowning of 283 Pakistanis in
1997 10/06/01 B 21 1>6 Photograph
* The opposition Union for French Democracy, France's most
pro-European party will lead attempts to wreck the Nice Treaty
during a parliamentary debate on ratification on Tuesday
10/06/01 B 22 7>8
* Newborn cousins brought into the world to inherit £2m and a
legacy of bitter family strife in France 17/06/01 B 19 1>8
Photograph
* Paralysed Briton ignores doctor's advice and returns to
Germany five years after a vicious assault by neo-Nazis
17/06/01 B 22 1>8 Photograph
* Report from Paris that looks at how the French accept
corruption with little more than a Gallic shrug 01/07/01 B 18
1>8 Photographs
* The Government is to abandon its support for the controversial
Ilisu dam in Turkey 01/07/01 B 4 5>6
* A British oil company paid $1m to Serbian war criminal Arkan
to settle a score over a secret oil deal to supply Serbia with fuel
01/07/01 B 6 1>4 Photographs
* France is in shock as 11 teenagers are crushed by a falling tree
at a concert 08/07/01 B 24 1>8 Photographs
* President Chirac of France denies corruption in an address to
the nation 15/07/01 B 19 1>3 Photograph
* Despite being embroiled in 'sleaze' Jaques Chirac is
accelerating away from rivals for next year's presidential election
22/07/01 B 19 1>2 Photograph
* Pompeii faces a new catastrophe - thanks to the Mafia
22/07/01 B 20 4>7 Photographs
* Olaia Castresana wanted to be an infant school teacher but
instead she become a separatist bomber and blew herself up at a
holiday apartment in Torrevieja, eastern Spain 29/07/01 B 22
1>6 Photographs
* Bad weather and building projects have combined to create an
erosion crisis in Normandy 05/08/01 B 21 1>6 Photograph
* A leading British hotel chain is at the centre of a controversial
project to reinvent Hitler's former holiday resort as a luxury
leisure complex 05/08/01 B 23 1>6 Photographs
* Three people were killed and five others seriously injured
when a gunman held up a bank in a suburb north of Paris
12/08/01 B 2 6>7
* Jobless figures mock Germany's Chancellor Gerhard
Schroder's election pledge 12/08/01 B 20 7>8 Photograph
* France's favourite food campaigner, sheep farmer Jose Bove, is
back at his most famous battleground - outside McDonald's in
Millau 12/08/01 B 22 1>6 Photographs
* France will be forced to confront a shameful chapter in its