29 OCTOBER 1988, page 13

Jam And Sympathy

Diana Geddes finds the French government unbending towards the strikers Paris FOR the past month, France has been subjected to a series of strikes and demon- strations: first......

In The Teeth Of Joan

Richard West weathered the storm amid political blasts and counter-blasts Managua HURRICANE Joan battered the Nicara- guan government almost as much as the town of Bluefields,......