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of Dodi and Diana!© Diana, Princess of Wales visited Bosnia as part of her campaign to outlaw landmines and to help their victims. At the same time everyone began talking about her friendship with Dodi Fayed, the son of the owner of Harrods, with whom she was shown sunbathing in photographs in tabloid newspapers. Mr Alun Michael, a Home Office minister, announced that the names of some paedophiles might be released by the police 'on the basis of the likelihood of the harm which non-disclosure might other- wise cause', drawing on the national regis- ter of sex offenders set up under the Sex Offenders Act. About 80,000 students decided not to take a year off between school and university to avoid the tuition fees the government is to impose from next year; the government offered to waive their fees if they undertook voluntary service. People in the north of Britain and in cities have more chance of dying early than those in the south or those living in the country- side; citizens of Glasgow were 66 per cent more likely to die prematurely than people living in rural Dorset, according to a survey by the Joseph Rowntree Trust. Mr Tam Dalyell, the Labour Member for Linlithgow (formerly West Lothian) called 'plain silly' support by Mr Peter Mandelson, the Minis- ter without Portfolio, for the government's plans for devolution. Mr Martin McGuin- ness of Sinn Fein, the political face of the Irish Republican Army, debated on televi- sion with Mr Ken Maginnis, the Ulster Unionist, who called him 'the leader of the IRA, who has been the godfather of god- fathers'. The headline annual rate of infla- tion rose to 3.3 per cent in July from 2.9 per cent in June; the government's 'preferred rate' is 2.5 per cent. Unemployment fell to 1,550,000, the lowest since 1980. Lad- broke's won a licence to open the fifth casi- no in London near Tottenham Court Road Underground station. Hailstones the size of golf balls fell on Gloucestershire. There was a small earthquake at Southwell. Mil- lions of sea bass fry swam up the Thames to spend the summer at Teddington.
MR DENNIS Ross, the American special envoy, held talks with Yasser Arafat, the President of the Palestinian entity, and with Israeli authorities. Forces loyal to President Emomali Rakhmonov of Tajildstan drove away from Dushanbe rebel troops following Colonel Makhmud Khudoberdyev. Presi- dent Mohammad Khatami of Iran named Dr Massoumeh Ebtekar as the vice- president responsible for environmental affairs, the first woman vice-president since the revolution of 1979. Credit Suisse will join the world's top ten financial services after an agreed take-over worth $5.8 billion of Winterthur, the Swiss insurers; the new group will have 60,000 staff and 15 million customers. Thailand was given $16 billion in loans, a quarter of it from Japan, in an attempt to prevent its currency from col- lapsing. The president of Yamaichi Securi- ties, one of Japan's largest brokerages, and ten of its executives resigned in an extor- tion scandal, following similar resignations at Nomura Securities and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank; none of the executives admitted any wrongdoing. Sumitomo Corporation of Japan and Hanjin-Itochu, a Japanese- Korean joint venture, are to build a $900- million, 24-mile elevated light railway con- necting Manila to its eastern suburbs. In Phnom Penh a soldier shot a teacher he feared would stop an examination candi- date from cheating. Police at the west Mex- ican port of Colima found more than a ton of cocaine aboard a ship from Colombia. The Yellow River has dried up in Shan- dong province, China, threatening 18.3 million acres of crops and drinking water supplies for 52 million people; the drought has continued for more than four months. Hailstones the size of pigeons' eggs fell on villages east of Madrid.
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