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THE SPECIIOR The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL Telephone: 071-405 1706; Telex 27124; Fax 071-242 0603 STUPID OR EVIL? W hen Italy held the presidency of the...

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POLITICS

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P O L I T I C S A man in search of a course off which to be blown SIMON HEFFER The Government seems to have developed its own disaster management routine. After the initial...

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One hundred years ago

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One hundred years ago THE Servian Ministry has been reconstituted in consequence of an incident of some political importance. It appears that after his abdication, King Milan...

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If symptoms persist...

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If symptoms persist. . THOSE WHO regret their youth plainly forget what it was actually like: all those hormones swirling about in the blood. until one couldn't distinguish...

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Pensions punch-up

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Pensions punch-up Sir: I suppose it all depends on the company one keeps, but when Lord Vinson asserts (Letters, 2 April) that 'few of us' thought that the sale of personal...

Good old days

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Good old days Sir: Eheu Fugaces! Have Nigel Nicolson (Long life, 19 February) and Roger Pemberton (Letters, 26 March) forgotten that, until 1967, Oxford had a fourth class...

We got it wrong

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We got it wrong Sir: My article on ozone ('The earth is fine; the problem is the Greens', 12 March) was accompanied by delightful illustrations by Peter Brookes and a...

War over peace

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L E T TER S War over peace Sir: John Simpson argues that the present moves towards peace in Bosnia show that British policy there during the last two years has been successful...

Dissatisfied customer

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Dissatisfied customer Sir: I eagerly passed on to a dear niece the suggestion given in Dear Mary (March 12). She subsequently introduced a gentleman friend at a reception as...

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THE RISE, CORRUPTION AND COMING FALL OF THE HOUSE OF SAUD by Said K. Aburish

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The sands of time are running out Richard Johns THE RISE, CORRUPTION AND COMING FALL OF THE HOUSE OF SAUD by Said K. Aburish Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 325 Like a rotting carcass,...

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Ten Days Break

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Ten Days Break When you took the kids away for ten days I thought Freedom! This is the life. The house to myself, I bought drink and wrote as if I hadn't touched a word for...

THE MARRIAGE DIARIES OF ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN translated by Peter Ostwald, edited by Gerd Nauhaus

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Two's a company Fiona Maddocks THE MARRIAGE DIARIES OF ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN translated by Peter Ostwald, edited by Gerd Nauhaus Robson, £22.95, pp. 416 This is the tale...

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MR VERTIGO by Paul Auster

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Facing fearful odds James Walton MR VERTIGO by Paul Auster Faber, i14.99, pp. 278 .A s the standard government comment on the economy has demonstrated over the last three...

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Birmingham Royal Ballet

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Dance Birmingham Royal Ballet (Covent Garden) Memorable stage pictures Sophie Constanti Birmingham Royal Ballet's Stars and Stripes triple bill is a loosely themed evening...

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Emergence of a new Era

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Pop music Emergence of a new Era Marcus Berkmann it is always fun to spot trends in pop music, and even more fun to make them Up. Adolescents, of course, are astonishinglY...

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Profile of a pilgrim

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Television Profile of a pilgrim Martyn Harris Y16.ris Kristofferson has written a handful of decent country and western songs, though most of them have been better covered by...

Kalifornia

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Cinema Kalifornia ('18', Selected cinemas) Digging serial killers Mark Steyn K lifornia sounded promising, but the spelling should have given it away. I suppose Dominic...

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High life

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High life Athens tea-party Taki New York I n the autumn of 1971, the then Vice- President of the United States, Spiro Agnew, came to the Olive Republic on an official...

Low life

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Low life Pub sweet pub Jeffrey Bernard M y friends are beginning to treat this flat of mine like a pub. That is to say a pub where all the drinks are on the slate. It is high...

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SPECTATOR SPORT

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SPECTATOR SPORT - - Double Silk to stroll it Frank Keating CAPTAIN KEITH Brown curtly tells me that 'no thank you very much', he will not be attending the Grand National at...