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

colonial past when it is accused of committing crimes against
humanity after French forces withdrew from Algeria nearly 40
years ago 19/08/01 B 19 7>8 Photograph
* Britons were warned to be on their guard after a huge car bomb
planted by Eta ripped through one of Spain's most popular tourist
resorts 19/08/01 B 2 2>7 Photograph
* Germany in turmoil: Germans enjoy high incomes and an
efficient welfare state, but now Europe's economic powerhouse
faces radical change that its people will find hard to accept
26/08/01 B 16 1>7 Photographs
* Norway's Crown Prince Haakon marries Mette-Marit Tjessem
Hoiby, whose frankness about her wild past sent her popularity
soaring 26/08/01 B 2 5>7 Photograph
* One of Gerhard Schroder's top Ministers was struggling for
political survival after being caught up in a scandal dubbed 'the
Lustwaffe' affair 02/09/01 B 18 1>3 Photographs
* Self-rule is a dangerous issue on an island where vendettas are
a fact of political life - report from Corsica 02/09/01 B 19 1>8
Photographs
* Former First Lady of Greece, Mimi is set for a career as TV
chat hostess 02/09/01 B 20 4>7 Photograph
* Italian mass killer 'was servant of Satanic sect' 09/09/01 B 18
1>6 Photograph
* Wild boars eat path through French Riviera 09/09/01 B 19
7>8 Photograph
* Stockholm accused of 'dirty tricks' as British firms reveal plot
to end our love affair with carpets in favour of wood floors - see
Business & Industry 16/09/01
* Amid fears of injustice, the case of a gay woman accused of
murdering her partner's daughter grips Spain 16/09/01 B 9 1>7
Photographs
* The sword of St Galgano, said to have been plunged into a
rock by a medieval Tuscan knight, has been authenticated,
bolstering Italy's version of the Excalibur legend 16/09/01 B 9 8
* Guy Loudmer, a corrupt auctioneer stole art cash in France -
see Crime 23/09/01
* Cesar Sicre, a 28-year-old heart-throb has turned out to have
been an undercover investigator hired to infiltrate the
underworld of Spanish celebrities 23/09/01 B 10 1>8
Photographs
* The death toll in the Toulouse chemical plant explosion in
France could rise to 40 as rescuers desperately search the
wreckage for 15 missing workers 23/09/01 B 9 1>6 Photograph,
map
* A murderer with four guns and a grudge in the small town of
Zug in Switzerland, causes mayhem 30/09/01 B 25 1>8
Photographs
* Police in Spain back ecstasy quality control at raves - see
Drugs & Drug Abuse 07/10/01
* Sir Richard Branson has been called in by the Belgian Prime
Minister as a potential rescuer for part of the ailing national
airline, Sabena - see Aviation Industry 07/10/01
* Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, in hot water over his
remarks about Islam, is accused also of turning the law to his
benefit 07/10/01 B 25 1>2 Photograph
* France's most critically acclaimed novel has been removed
from the short list for the country's top literary award because it
has been deemed too controversial in the wake of 11th
September attacks 14/10/01 B 29 1>2 Photograph
* Paris has decided to get rid of its motor scooter-borne dog
mess cleaners who, for 20 years, have been striving to mop up
the foul deposits on the French capital's streets 21/10/01 B 27
1>2
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* St. Gotthard tunnel disaster: last week 11 people died in an
inferno that could easily have been avoided - see Disasters
28/10/01
* Next May's French presidential election is shaping up into
something more complicated 28/10/01 B 27 7>8 Photograph
* Security forces push back the crowds during the first tour by
King Mohamed VI to the Moroccan-seized Western Sahara last
week 04/11/01 B 27 1>8 Photographs
* Violent crime epidemic rocks France 04/11/01 B 27 1>7
Photograph
* 'Scream' movies are being blamed by a teenage girl's copycat
killing in Belgium 18/11/01 B 24 1>3 Photograph
* Some French mayors have resigned over a plan to dig up
civilian cemeteries to make way for a new airstrip in
Vermandovillers 18/11/01 B 24 4>6 Photograph
* Patriotic Gibraltar protests at 'disloyal' hand over to Spain by
Tony Blair 25/11/01 B 23 1>6 Photograph
* The prospect of a march on the French Prime Minister's office
by thousands of angry policemen haunted Lionel Jospin's dreams
this weekend 25/11/01 B 26 6>7
* After £20,000 award to Down's Syndrome child 'unlucky to be
born', French medics may abandon pre-natal scans - see Mental
Health 02/12/01
* Street battles erupt in Berlin as neo-Nazis back Hitler's army
over atrocities - see Neo-Nazis 02/12/01
* After six years of preparation and controversy the opera world
will flock to Milan next week to watch the first act of La Scala's
riskiest melodrama: renovation 02/12/01 B 23 1>2 Photograph
* France's defence minister, Alain Richard, defused a week of
confrontation with the country's gendarmes 09/12/01 B 21 1>8
Photograph
* Italians turn on Silvio Berlusconi in a battle over EU powers of
arrest 09/12/01 B 21 1>7 Photograph
* The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened yesterday after 12 years
when experts battled to stop it toppling 16/12/01 B 1 4
Photograph
* Japan's offer of all-expenses paid trip to Nobel prize officials
outrages Scandinavians 16/12/01 B 20 7>8 Cartoon
* Tourists climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy for the
first time in 12 years 16/12/01 B 20 1>8 Photographs
* The Kremlin accuses Germans of 'making us look like Nazis'
at atrocity museum - see International Affairs: Russia 23/12/01
* Next month the public TV network La Cinq in France will
screen four authors trying to write a collective novel while
closeted in a country house near Paris 23/12/01 B 15 8 Cartoon
* The Greeks are close to unmasking the terror group November
17 23/12/01 B 17 6>8 Photograph
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: FAR EAST
* Nine people were feared dead after a US navy nuclear
submarine blundered into a collision with a Japanese fishing boat
taking children on a study trip off the coast of Hawaii - see
International Affairs: U.S.A. 11/02/01
* Olympic chiefs scorn plan for volleyball in Beijing's
Tiananmen Square, scene of the 1989 massacre of prodemocracy
campaigners 25/02/01 B 22 5>7 Photographs
* Anti-racists take on Hong Kong's secret shame 04/03/01 B 25
1>2 Photograph
* Japan was braced for its eighth prime minister in eight years
after Yoshiro Mori indicated his intention to resign 11/03/01 B
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