12 JANUARY 1991, page 11

Fighting For Screen Time

Stephen Robinson on American television's preparations for war Washington THE Vietnam war, as every media execu- tive and disgruntled GI vet knows, was lost on the television......

Herbivores And Carnivores

John Simpson meets Yasser Arafat and hears his private views on the Gulf Baghdad FOR a moment there was silence. People reached across the luncheon table to spear pieces of......