2 OCTOBER 1982

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Portrait of the week

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A t the Labour Party's annual con- ference, the left wing suffered a set- back when five supporters of Anthony Wedgwood Benn were defeated in the elec- tions to the national...

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Political commentary

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Dead sheep at bay Colin Welch S tag at bay week for Mr Foot at Black- 1.-3 pool, his wounds and embarrassment accumulating, his antlers wobbling, his flanks gory, the cruel...

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Notebook

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Blackpool g T he real reason for the witch-hunt is to try to win the support of the ruling class back for another "safe" Labour government from the bosses point of view....

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Another voice

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New history of Zimbabwe Auberon Waugh Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe O n the plane between Harare (formerly Salisbury) and Masvingo (as Fort Vic- toria was renamed on the day of my...

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Mrs Thatcher's morals

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Murray Sayle Tokyo Travel, they say, can often broaden the mind, as surely as the other end of the torso. A gloomier view sees the traveller carrying his (or her) troubles as...

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Treachery in Bonn

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Timothy Garton Ash Lt ke an oil tanker trying to change course WestGermany is trying to change government. It is a slow business. The peo- ple who designed the political system...

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A fit and proper person?

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Christopher Hitchens Washington rr he great American columnist Calvin 1 Trillin has what he calls a Golden rule of American political satire. The rule is named for Harry...

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The Great Spectator Treasure Hunt

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Next week sees the start of the Great Spectator Treasure Hunt. The first prize is an oil painting of a Moroccan interior, entitled `Habiba', by Sir John Lavery, valued at...

One hundred years ago The dispute about the famine in

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Iceland affords a remarkable example of the difficulty, not to say the impossibili- t y , of obtaining accurate facts about the c ondition of any place. It has been reported,...

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A question of allegiance

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Charles Moore W hat constitutes a serious public ques- tion? For the BBC, at least, anything to do with sex, the social services or 'discrimination' qualifies. Driving through...

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Politics versus democracy

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Paul Johnson A t one time it was a reasonable assumption that 'politics' and 'demo- cracy' were closely associated concepts, in- terdependent, mutually supportive. One...

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The press

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The right to know Andrew Brown Oslo When Harry Evans talks, the meaning elk Pushes through his metaphors like an , d trampling down dead bulrushes. F ollow the money tree,' he...

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In the City

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Britoil unissued Tony Rudd A loud no bigger than a man's foot has been hanging over the investment scene these last few months, namely the disposal by a public stock market...

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Letters

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Predictable slaughter Sir: 'Anyone who is claiming now, after the cruel murders of Palestinian civilians by the Phalangists, that this is not Israel's respon- sibility is...

Wrong line

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Sir: Why are writers like Richard West so often silly about railways (in the ridiculous- ly named article, 'Loot from the Lebanon', 11 September)? He could not get a ticket from...

Saving St Barnabas

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Sir: I have not until today seen Gavin Stamp's article, 'Redundancy of imagina- tion' (4 September), in which he makes an outstandingly good case for a continuing independent...

For the record

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Sir: Grateful as I am for the huge amount of space given to my review of Ben n Y Green's Wisden Anthology (25 Septembe r), one small cut which might have cause d , puzzlement...

Voluntary contribution

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Sir: You do an injustice to the staff of Wel ls Cathedral, to the English language an d to yourself, when you refer to the cathedral . vitation for subscriptions as blackm ail...

Forum on porn

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Sir: A good Harley Street psychiatrist costs only £30 per hour and even at the meagre rate of remuneration reportedly available to Spectator contributors this should not be...

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AUTUMN BOOKS

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Sheep in sheep's clothing John Grigg C lement Attlee was seriously underrated during most of his active career, but he h as been no less seriously overrated ever since. An...

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All the old tunes

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Peregrine Worsthorne 'I f you do succeed at first, try it on, try it on and try it on again' would make a good motto for Anthony Sampson who has just re-published his...

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Cat-portraits

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A. N. Wilson Customs and Characters Peter Quennell (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £10.95) E velyn Waugh, if we may judge from his letters and diaries, was not often moved to pay...

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Titus and twins

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Peter Levi e Latin Sexual Vocabulary J. N. Adams Duckworth £24) e Latin Sexual Vocabulary J. N. Adams Duckworth £24) A school we used to believe that if you had a big enough...

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Unbelievable

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Harriet Waugh F ay Weldon has delighted and irritate d critics and readers for some time rit Women, on the whole, give her the thumbs up sign, men are sometimes inclined to be...

Ties of blood

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Francis King On the Black Hill Bruce Chatwin (Cape £7.50) S ome years ago there was an account in the papers of the deaths of two twin brothers who, rarely leaving their farm...

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Bin boys

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Anthony Thwaite The Life of John Berryman John Haf- fenden (Routledge £15) wives, like coal miners' wives, or the wives of other men engaged in dangerous occupations, feel a...

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A book in my life

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Harold Wilson I t has taken me a long time to decide on my choice of 'my favourite book'. For most of my summer holiday in the Isles of Scilly my choice fell on two American...

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ARTS

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Just think of the libretto Rodney Milnes Rigoletto (Coliseum) I approached Jonathan Miller's Rigoletto with the gravest possible misgivings. Up- dating the action of an opera...

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Theatre

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Fizzy Ribena Mark Amory Mass Appeal (Lyric Hammersmith) Schweyk in the Second World War (Olivier) The Spanish Tragedy (Cottesloe) Miss Margarida's Way (Hampstead) B efore a...

Cin ema

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Out of town peter Ackroyd M idsummer Night's Sex Comedy (`AA', Selected cinemas) M idsummer Night's Sex Comedy (`AA', Selected cinemas) W oodY Allen has been in danger of...

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Art

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In memory John McEwen C ollages and Reliefs 1910-1945 (Annely Juda Fine Art till 2 October) is the 12th in the gallery's series of annual exhibitions devoted to the...

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Cricket

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Over and out 'Van Gibson T he cricket season had its satisfactory l moments: none better than Brearley ad , 11.1 8 Middlesex to the championship in his last match. His...

Television

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Performances Richard Ingrams rrhe Labour Party conference at 1 Blackpool has once again provided some richly humorous material. What gives this event its air of unreality is...

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Low life

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Down-cast Jeffrey Bernard o ne afternoon last week I lost a ..; fbraon igc n o o tnh t t e ea . n T Fi h nr e egn s ac a h m b r e ap e nu v db e . n n i e n Tw g h isIswh...

High life

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Winning ways Athens I n January 1976 I wrote an article for which I was eventually to be awarded the first of many prizes that I have won for my writing. When the time came...

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No. 1235: The winners

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Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for communications between a medium and Oscar Wilde such as might have appeared in a book published in 1924. The book in question,...

Competition

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No. 1238: Bouts rimes Set by Jaspistos: You are invited to write a 16-line poem with the following rhymes in the following order: still, less, ill, yes, skill, express, tell,...

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Crossword 577

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A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 18 October. Entries to: Crosswohl 577, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL. 1 2...

Chess

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Last leg Raymond Keene G ary Kasparov qualified easily from the third and final Interzonal, outdistanc- ing, by a point or more, the leading scores from Las Palmas and Toluca....

Correction: In last week's till"- (576) Clue 28 Down should

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be 9 Down.