21 MARCH 1987, Page 24

Sir: May I apologise for a mistake in my article

'Waugh drops the pilot' (7 March)? Where Waugh wrote of the Belfast Irish- man receiving a bible and a bowl of broth, the final sentence should read: 'He has excreted [not exacted] the soup and is now excreting [not exacting] the treatment.' Alan Bell

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