The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform
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* When Indonesian supreme court judge Syafiuddin Kartasamita<br />
left home just after 8am on Thursday he had no reason to suspect<br />
anything was amiss - less than half an hour later he was dead<br />
29/07/01 B 26 7>8 Photograph<br />
* <strong>The</strong> military regime in Pakistan is preparing to execute a<br />
young illiterate woman despite mounting concerns from human<br />
rights groups 05/08/01 B 21 7>8 Photograph<br />
* Hundreds of people flocked to Brunei for the start the<br />
auctioning of 10,000 lots that once belonged to the business<br />
empire of the autocratic sultan's disgraced younger brother<br />
12/08/01 B 21 1>8 Photograph<br />
* East Timor's former resistance leader and current national<br />
hero, Jose Alexandre 'Xanana' Gusmao has announced he is<br />
willing to become the fledgling nation's first president 26/08/01<br />
B 21 5>6<br />
* Lawyers are launching the world's biggest ever class action<br />
against the British Geological Survey over claims it failed to<br />
spot deadly poisons during crucial tests on water in Bangladesh<br />
30/09/01 B 24 1>8 Photographs<br />
* Former Sri Lankan cricket captain, Arjuna Ranatunga, is on<br />
the verge of announcing his entry as a political candidate in<br />
<strong>December</strong>'s Sri Lankan general elections 04/11/01 B 26 7>8<br />
Photograph<br />
* <strong>The</strong> death camps of Burma 11/11/01 M 42>49 1>4<br />
Photographs<br />
* A new film about Lenin by the controversial Russian director<br />
Alexander Sokurov has provoked anger from a coalition of<br />
Indian writers and politicians after it was shown at a film festival<br />
in India 18/11/01 B 25 1>8 Photograph<br />
* President Bush made a personal intervention in the mounting<br />
diplomatic crisis that threatens war between India and Pakistan<br />
30/12/01 B 3 1>4 Photograph<br />
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: MIDDLE EAST<br />
* A televised speech by Saddam Hussein failed to convince<br />
doubters that he is alive and well 07/01/01 B 21 1>2<br />
* Police mete out lethal justice to Palestinian spies who are paid<br />
to turn family and neighbours over to Tel Aviv's feared security<br />
services 14/01/01 B 3 1>6 Photographs<br />
* Undercover Israeli soldiers posing as Arabs captured a young<br />
Palestinian woman suspected of luring an Israeli youth to his<br />
death via the internet 21/01/01 B 20 5>8 Photographs<br />
* Saddam Hussein is stronger than ever and a class of<br />
entrepreneurs are exploiting the UN embargo to make fortunes<br />
21/01/01 B 21 1>6 Photographs<br />
* Israeli army deserted by soldiers with a conscience 28/01/01 B<br />
21 1>4 Photograph<br />
* Fifty years ago Ariel Sharon terrorised a Palestinian village,<br />
now he will lead Israel 04/02/01 B 21 1>8 Photographs<br />
* Neal Ascherson assesses Israel's risk of new disasters as<br />
Sharon heads for power 04/02/01 B 21 1>5 Photograph<br />
* Britain broke its own ministerial guidelines banning the sale of<br />
weapons in a dispute in the Western Sahara 04/02/01 B 22 6>7<br />
* <strong>The</strong> murky world of expatriate life in Saudi Arabia has been<br />
rocked by the arrests of three Westerners for murder, but are<br />
they being framed? 11/02/01 B 19 1>6 Photographs<br />
* Ariel Sharon, the new Israeli Prime Minister, moved yesterday<br />
to unity a divided Israel and mollify world opinion by making a<br />
dramatic bid to woo senior left-wing figures into his government<br />
11/02/01 B 22 1>8<br />
* Britain and America vowed to launch fresh air raids against<br />
Iraq despite facing international isolation after Friday's stokes on<br />
radar sites near Baghdad 18/02/01 B 1 1>3 Photograph<br />
OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC <strong>2001</strong><br />
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* <strong>The</strong> Raid on Iraq: Bush signals a deadly intent 18/02/01 B<br />
20>21 1>8 Photographs<br />
* Iraq is set for nuclear weapons 25/02/01 B 22 5>7<br />
* Saudi Arabian authorities are flouting international law by now<br />
allowing British officials to visit a jailed Briton who faces public<br />
execution 25/02/01 B 7 6>7 Photograph<br />
* Outrage as the defiant Taliban blow away 1,700 years of<br />
history in central Afghanistan 04/03/01 B 21 1>6 Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> Freud Society of Vienna has cancelled a lecture by<br />
Edward Said, the Palestinian-American professor, after members<br />
saw a photograph of him poised to hurl a stone at an Israeli<br />
guardhouse 11/03/01 B 21 1>6 Photograph<br />
* Palestinians turn backs on violence 18/03/01 B 22 1>8<br />
Photographs<br />
* As they bury their dead, Palestinians charge Bush with<br />
collusion in Israel's hardline tactics 01/04/01 B 23 1>7<br />
Photograph<br />
* Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban rulers have ended its<br />
opium trade - but the world hasn't noticed 01/04/01 B 26 1>7<br />
Photograph<br />
* A conference of revisionist historians of the Holocaust is due<br />
to go ahead in Jordan today despite an international outcry - see<br />
Holocaust, <strong>The</strong> 08/04/01<br />
* Jason Burke in Rafah, Gaza, sees the human tragedy endured<br />
by a people in the grip of mounting violence 15/04/01 B 21 1>8<br />
Photographs<br />
* Now Israel's leader has been forced to retreat 22/04/01 B 21<br />
1>5 Photograph<br />
* Pope John Paul began a historic pilgrimage to Muslin Syria<br />
yesterday with an urgent appeal for peace in the Middle East -<br />
see Pope John Paul 06/05/01<br />
* Afghanistan's worst humanitarian disaster since the Soviet<br />
invasion of 1979 is unfolding as drought, famine and renewed<br />
civil war drive 300 families a day into refugee camps 06/05/01<br />
B 19 1>8 Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> dwindling community of Mishmar David is on the verge<br />
of making history by becoming the first of Israel's 279 kibbutzim<br />
to be disbanded 06/05/01 B 23 1>5 Photographs<br />
* Hatred going back centuries is unleashed as two Jewish<br />
teenagers are stoned to death 13/05/01 B 25 1>7 Photographs<br />
* Report from Paris where ministers and intellectuals want to<br />
halt the rise in sexist imagery 13/05/01 B 26 1>8 Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> violence in the Middle East continued to escalate as Israel<br />
launched more air strikes against Palestinian targets 20/05/01 B<br />
2 8<br />
* Grief and defiance as Israel unleashes more air strikes<br />
20/05/01 B 23 1>6 Photographs<br />
* Grieving relatives are leading a groundswell of public fury<br />
over the shoddy building standards that led to Israel's worst ever<br />
civilian disaster 27/05/01 B 23 1>7 Photographs<br />
* <strong>The</strong> price of petrol could rise by more than 50p a gallon after<br />
Iraq, the world's second largest oil producer, yesterday<br />
announced it was stopping exports tomorrow - see Oil Industry<br />
03/06/01<br />
* Jewish mobs laid siege to a mosque near the site of Friday<br />
night's horrific bombing of a Tel Aviv nightclub 03/06/01 B 1<<br />
25 1>4<br />
* Israel's growing mood for full-scale hostilities in the aftermath<br />
of 18 deaths in a nightclub suicide bomb attack 03/06/01 B 25<br />
1>8 Photographs<br />
* Israeli brothel keepers have the right to buy and sell prostitutes