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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorThe Church giving moral guidance T he strike at Ford ended with the management withdrawing its insistence on a three-year pay and practices deal. Work- ers will now receive a...
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THE SPECTATOR
The SpectatorEURO-BANG The actual deal on the Community budget and the CAP is of course a messy one. Yes, she conceded points that she had more or less adamantly declared . she would never...
THE SPECTATOR
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POLITICS
The SpectatorBattling it out on the playing fields of Eastbourne NOEL MALCOLM T he teaching of moral values, said Mr Baker at last weekend's Young Conserva- tive conference, is the most...
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DIARY
The SpectatorPETER LEVI B eing fussy about food can get you into trouble though. The noble Utopian Con- dorcet was recognised and promptly ex- ecuted in the French Revolution because he went...
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MY YEARS AS HEALTH MINISTER
The SpectatorThe assumptions of the expanding Health Service 25 years ago have since been profoundly modified. J. Enoch Powell looks back on the surprises and achievements of his last...
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WHEN THE BOAT GOES UP
The SpectatorCharles Glass on the PLO's unsuccessful attempt to hijack Israeli history Athens SOME day, an Israeli intelligence officer will write his memoirs. In them, he will recount his...
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DOLE IN THE DOLDRUMS
The SpectatorAmbrose Evans-Pritchard weighs up the importance of the snake factor in the presidential race Washington `YOU'VE voted for tax increases 600 times in your career. How can you...
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SUED IN THE HEART OF TEXAS
The SpectatorJames Buchan traces the strange collapse into bankruptcy of the Texaco oil company New York DOWN in Texas, as everybody knows, they do things big: high hats, tall women,...
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THE SHORTEST WAY WITH DISSIDENTS
The SpectatorTony Paterson reports on the East German refusal to espouse glasnost Berlin EAST Germany is these days rather like a giant version of one of those workers' holiday camps...
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TWO BORDER INCIDENTS
The SpectatorAnthony Daniels runs into trouble in Honduras and Nicaragua I SHOULD like to write at some length of the situation in Honduras, but unfortu- nately the brevity of my...
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GETTING HIS TEETH INTO ART
The SpectatorMargaret's men: a profile of Jocelyn Stevens, newspaperman and rector of the RCA This is one of a series of profiles of men the Prime Minister admires. HOSTILE epithets can...
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SOUTH AFRICA'S STICKY PICKET
The SpectatorMyles Harris joins the non-stop demonstration outside South Africa House THE picket steward outside South Africa House wore two thin gold rings in each ear, and had the manner...
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A PSEUDO-QUALITY PAPER
The Spectatorthe new Guardian but finds it an ominous portent WE ARE now witnessing a hard-fought battle for readers among our five posh national dailies. By their standards a great deal of...
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Complacency and alarm
The Spectator`SIR Kenneth Berrill: alarming level of complacency' was the caption, in the City pages this week, to a picture of the Securities and Investments Board's chair- man. This severe...
CITY AND SUBURBAN
The SpectatorSomebody's got to be summonsed, And it was decided upon CHRI STOPHER FILD ES T he first John Ritblat knew of the Department of Trade and Industry's in- quiry into his share...
Shazam
The SpectatorA DIRE report reaches me from Wall Street of a bond salesman in trouble sacked by his firm, wiped out on his personal dealings, sued by his wife, in- formed that his mistress...
Us and them at Ford
The SpectatorFORD of Britain is reaching for reverse gear and backing away from the barri- cades, where its 32,500 employees have quite plainly faced the management down. Which was the last...
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LETTERS Bustards?
The SpectatorSir: In his article on the Yugoslav province of Kosovo (Two-faced buzzards', 12 De- cember) Richard West makes it plain that he has walked into one of the most troubled...
Perfection in the womb
The SpectatorSir: In his letter (23 January) replying to mine on foetal development, Quentin Crewe accuses me of 'waffle', then waffles himself about calling me 'Ms' — though that is not my...
Waldheim's war
The SpectatorSir: In 'Austria's Nixon' (23 January), Robert Rhodes James alleges that Kurt Waldheim is a war criminal and lied about his war record. Unfortunately prevarication was neces-...
Pacific cruise
The SpectatorSir: The total frustration of CND's strategy against cruise missile deployment in Bri- tain has clearly taken its toll of Bruce Kent (Letters, 23 January). No one disputes his...
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Sectaries
The SpectatorSir: Your analysis of the present crisis in the Church of England (Leader, 12 December) is faulty, because it is based on a misunderstanding of the historical pro- cess which...
• A bit loathsome
The SpectatorSir: In reply to Mr Smith and Ms Nicholson (Letters, 23 and 30 January), of course a cause may be so loathsome that it should be denied PR. But then, it must have been at least...
Freelance schmooze
The SpectatorSir: What's so special about Chaim Ber- mant ('What the papers pay', 30 January) that he feels hard done by getting £21.95 for half an hour's cosy schmooze with a charming and...
Random
The SpectatorSir: I am writing with reference to Aube- ron Waugh's articles of 9 and 16 January. These disgraceful pieces not only con- tained a vindictive personal attack on Mr Peter...
Sir: Chaim Bermant should not grumble too pay', 30 January)
The Spectatorshould not grumble too much. In the summer of 1946 The Spectator published an article of mine about our troubled times in Palestine where I was stationed. For this, the then...
Falkland Parkway
The SpectatorSir: I'm glad that Mr Simon Courtauld (Diary, 9 January), has brought the busi- ness of British Rail adding 'Parkway' to some of its stations on the Western Region to the...
Spitting image
The SpectatorSir: I am afraid that Christopher Fildes's reference-checker has let him down. (City and suburban, 16 January.) It was not Soapy Molloy who was the inefficient spitter, but his...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorQuite wise during the events Richard Cobb PARIS NOTEBOOKS: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS by Mavis Gallant T here are a good many moments in modern French history that it would have been...
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A kiss is no longer just a kiss
The SpectatorAnita Brookner YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS by Joyce Carol Oates Macmillan, £10.95 I f I had had my way I should have been re-reading Elizabeth Taylor's At Mrs Lip- pincote's, but...
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The battle runs through the courts
The SpectatorDenis Hills POLITICAL TRIALS IN POLAND 1981-1986 by Andrzej Swidlicki Croom Helm, £25 A ndrzej Swidlicki, a journalist with Radio Free Europe in Munich, has written his book...
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Megabrill at the boarding-house
The SpectatorFrancis King WHAT HETTY DID by J. L. Carr Quince Tree Press, £3.95 I t is easy and tempting to present J. L. Can as a gifted amateur. Now 72, he came to novel writing —...
Do I dare to eat a peach?
The SpectatorBrian Martin WATCHING THE DETECTIVES by Andrew Brown Hodder & Stoughton, £10.95 T hank God for the police, and particu- larly the Metropolitan police. In the au- tumn of 1985...
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A miserable old third-rate bore
The SpectatorDuncan Fallowell WILLIAM WALTON: BEHIND THE FACADE by Susana Walton OUP, £12.95 T his is a very surprising book. William Walton was a minor composer of engaging, derivative...
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Inflammatory power of poetry
The SpectatorPatrick Skene Catling BURNING PATIENCE by Antonio Skarmeta, translated by Katherine Silver Methuen, f9.95 A ntonio Skarmeta is a passionate Chilean novelist and dramatist who...
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A cowardly, unprincipled warmonger
The SpectatorJohn Zametica CHURCHILL'S WAR: VOLUME I: THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER by David Irving Veritas, f16.95 T he underlying theme of this book is that Churchill was a man Britain could...
Waking in the Garden
The SpectatorI think I know where I am. A rumbling train shivers the ants in the grass, a branch shifts and groans, my cheek is creased by a rug of folded hills. I cannot make my eyes...
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ARTS
The SpectatorPhotography Roger Fenton (Hayward Gallery, till 17 April) Master of light Francis Hodgson I f Roger Fenton's name is known at all outside the small coterie interested in...
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Opera Seraglio Carmen (Opera 80, touring)
The SpectatorActs of sadism Rodney Milnes 0 pera 80 has for eight years been performing the valuable function of tour- ing fully staged and orchestrally accompa- nied performances to parts...
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Theatre
The SpectatorThe Best of Friends (Apollo) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyttelton) Doodles of a master Christopher Edwards H ugh Whitemore has put together a slight, at times rather twee...
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Cinema
The SpectatorRoboCop (`18', selected cinemas) Good clean violence Hilary Mantel I n the Detroit of Paul Verhoeven's black and gruesome comedy, the world news takes three minutes to read:...
Pop music
The SpectatorWhistle while you rock Marcus Berkmann A perk of this pop punditry nonsense is that I now get to see as many live bands as I wish to, which luckily for my ears isn't that...
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Exhibitions
The SpectatorDegas (Grand Palais, Paris, till 16 May) Van Gogh in Paris (Musee d'Orsay, Paris, till 15 May) Paris remembered Giles Auty T his is a time of year when I often find myself in...
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Television
The SpectatorLove stories Wendy Cope 0 nce upon a time a young woman took a job in a sub-post office in the west of Ireland. She had only worked there for a few days when a young man...
High life
The SpectatorEmperor of Slough Taki I hone for the fish-knives, Norman' is the only thing that comes to mind after three days and nights in the Big Olive. If Betjeman were here he would...
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Low life
The SpectatorMisspent time Jeffrey Bernard T his is the sort of thing that comes through the letter-box: 'Dear Sir, I've been reading a few things of yours in The Spectator, not a lot but...
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Home life
The SpectatorColour problem Alice Thomas Ellis It was most invigorating to enjoy an evening out. And I met P. J. Kavanagh whom I hadn't seen since he was a little boy at his school in...
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F Imperative cooking: Cadiz h ail
The SpectatorI CAN reveal what a splendid destination Cadiz makes for a weekend food outing without the slightest danger that hordes of Spectator readers will descend on it. It is massively...
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COMPETITION
The SpectatorValentine Jaspistos I N Competition No. 1510 you were invited to write a Valentine of some sort in the form of a sonnet of some sort. `The connection of lovers with Valen-...
CHESS
The SpectatorProdigious Raymond Keene S o often future stars . definitively announce their presence by scoring a not- able result against the world champion in a simultaneous display, in...
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Solution to 843: Pen-friends ' F ' O 11 3 T il ' E ' S A°
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No. 1513: Add the meanings
The SpectatorYou are invited to produce a plausible piece of prose (maximum 150 words) in which the following non-existent words appear to mean something: dawlish, per- zundle, gradge,...
CROSSWORD
The SpectatorA first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first...