6 DECEMBER 1986, Page 30

Sir: As my piece about Billy McLean was dictated from

Greece over a very bad line, it is amazing that there were only three slips. Two don't matter much — i.e. in the first column, 'Dara' should be 'Tara', and in column three (four lines from the bottom) 'took' should be 'drew'. But the third slip (end of paragraph, column two) is serious and, for the record, needs rectification. The sentence should end: . . Ethiopia, where he had led an Erit- rean battalion and several thousand Abyssinian irregulars — "McLean's Foot'

Kardamyli, Greece