9 DECEMBER 1989

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THE SPECTATOR

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THE SPEGIAOR The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL Telephone 01-405 1706; Telex 27124; Fax 242 0603 WAUGH v. ALDINGTON On 23 May 1945, the Times published a...

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POLITICS

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P___LOI TTI CCS Sir Anthony brings us back to unreality NOEL MALCOLM T o the learned comments on the nature of a stalking horse published in these pages last week, I would...

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ANOTHER VOICE

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ANOTHER VOICE Mickey Mouse is drunk and Tolstoy must be saved AUBERON WAUGH The award of £1 1/2 million in damages to Lord Aldington by a London jury cannot be interpreted as...

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THE KING OF BOHEMIA

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THE KING OF B OHEMIA Timothy Garton Ash on Vdclav Havel, the leader of the Czech revolution Prague A MORE unlikely leader of a revolution it would be hard to imagine. The...

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JUST OBEYING ORDERS

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JUST OBEYING ORDERS John Simpson sees the turncoats revolting at Czechoslovak television Prague THE singing and chanting faded into the distance. The red, white and blue...

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SCENES FROM SCIENCE

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SCENES FROM SCIENCE About caesareans The New Englanid Journdl of Medicinle has reported a study during 1982-83 on the medical care of women in childbirth. It was based on...

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AUTHORS AND NATURAL JUSTICE

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AUTHORS AND NATURAL JUSTICE The Press: Paul Johnson makes a plea for more disinterested reviewing PUBLISHERS send newspapers free Copies of their books in the hope that they...

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Banker bets

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Banker bets COMING shortly are the new appointments at the top of the Bank of England. Eddie George, the home finance director, for long my recommended short-priced bet for...

Savoy right on course

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Savoy right on course RACEGOERS must raise their glasses to the reconciliation scene which has brought down the curtain on the Savoy opera. I can now reveal that I, in my...

Facing charges, paying costs

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Facing charges, paying costs I ADMIRE the spirit of County NatWest, which, seeing former directors and staff facing charges over the Blue Arrow affair, is offering to help with...

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Last election

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Last election Sir: I was surprised to see Alan Watkins suggesting that 'Mrs Margaret Thatcher had not actually said what the Sunday Correspondent claimed she had said: that she...

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[Sir: Victor Lyon's apoplectic response...]

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Sir: Victor Lyon's apoplectic response tLetters, 2 December) to my article on standards at the junior bar will not, I fear, advance the cause he espouses. I do not know what he...

Europe's Treaties

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L E T T E R S Europe's Treaties Sir: The Moscow Communist Party may lose a general election. Nuclear fusion may be demonstrated in a test tube. But when Paul Johnson is...

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Night thoughts

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Night thoughts Sir: Surely your correspondent Mr Farrell ('The hard cell', 11 November) must realise that in these times you cannot walk about the gardens behind houses in 'a...

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Heresy

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Heresy Sir: Oh dear! Christopher Fildes is off again with his proposal to give company managers totalitarian powers to sell part of their shareholders' business without so much...

Founding the Eye

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Founding the Eye Sir: As far as I remember, Private Eye was not founded by David Frost in his mother's kitchen in Beccles (Letters, 11 November) but by William Rushton who was...

Corked

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Corked Sir: I was interested to read Edward Whitley on corks and their strong Portu- I guese connections (11 November). However, I would point out that, although several port...

Anti-Armenian

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Anti-Armenian Sir: The Armenian National Committee (Letters, 18 November) 'believes that ... historical facts . . . will have to be put and discussed in the right perspective'...

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BE CAREFUL WITH MUHAMMAD!: THE SALMAN RUSHDIE AFFAIR by Shabbir Akhtar

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The most offending soul alive Andrew Robinson BE CAREFUL WITH MUHAMMAD!: THE SALMAN RUSHDIE AFFAIR bv Shabbir Akhtar Bellew, f6.95, pp.144 Earlier this year, at the height...

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THE ENIGMA OF JAPANESE POWER by Karel van Wolferen

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A state of mind, not a minding state Jon Halliday THE ENIGMA OF JAPANESE POWER by Karel van Wolferen Macmi/lan, 16.95, pp. 474 Over the past year, the world has been treated...

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ABOUT FACE by Colonel David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman

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Telling it like it was and still is Anatol Lieven ABOUT FACE by Colonel David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman Sidgwick & Jackson, £16.95, pp. 875 it is a rare professional...

TAMBIMUTTU: BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS edited by Jane Williams

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Showing flair in the blackout Alan Ross TAMBIMUTTU: BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS edited by Jane Williams Peter Owen, £25, pp. 296 Tambimuttu's career, in its brief wartime...

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Sale-rooms

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Sale-rooms Smelling of 'Irises' Peter Watson 'Relations between Christie's and Sotheby's have never been so bad', I am told by someone in a position to know. 'It is as if the...

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Field of Dreams

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Cinema Field of Dreams ('PG', Cannon Haymarket) Soft corn Hilary Mantel O ccasionally, along comes a film which seems bad in an important way. This one begins with a swift...

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Dirty old man

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Television Dirty old man Wendy Cope S omebody asked me the other day if I'd noticed that the House of Commons is on television now. Yes, yes - I've even Watched bits of it....

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Low life

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Low life Lamb to the slaughter Jeffrey Bernard I bought a big shoulder of lamb the other day and the person I had hoped to share it with failed to show, so I was saddled with...

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FOOD

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N~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~eeD~~~~~~~~9 -. -1-mom- Imperative cooking: the Smellies Ir I K mI Lo JIo I I . - a 'IS Ali. IT'S bad enough to hear that Mr Selwyn Gurnmer is about to spend...