10 JULY 1982

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Portrait of the week

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he ASLEF rail strike started with both I sides sounding confident, Mr Buckton that the response had been as good as he could have hoped after a hostile press cam- paign; British...

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Political commentary

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The triumph of Roy Stephen Fay R oy Jenkins arrived at the Social Democrats' headquarters last Friday, to hear of his victory in the Party's leader- ship election, looking...

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Notebook

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M y Sunday was completely ruined by the. Sunday Times. I read three things in it which cumulatively plunged me into despair and filled me with feelings of bit- terness towards...

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Another voice

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To be a virgin Auberon Waugh A t a time when the whole of intelligent Britain is discussing Mr Ferdinand Mount's brilliant new book: The Subver- sive Family: An Alternative...

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Journalist fails to vanish

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Patrick Marnham Tegucigalpa to San Salvador T he bus company's sign was intended to be reassuring. `Transportes El Salvador — Safety, Comfort, Responsibility.' Lower down, as...

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Forgetting Chappaquiddick

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Christopher Hitchens New York A few mornings ago, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy of Massachusetts was being interviewed on CBS news by Diane Sawyer. She relayed to him a joke...

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Raking over the ashes

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Sam White A most everyone involved in the events of May 1968 was at one time or an- other touched with madness. There was de Gaulle himself raging impotently as control of the...

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Fairbairn in the tropics

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Anthony Mockler S he looked over her shoulder as if fearful, even in her own guesthouse, of spies. It is a very common precaution in the Seychelles nowadays. 'Tell me, M'sieu...

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The Sunnier side

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Patrick Desmond `Trouble in the Middle East' has for so 1 long meant war between Israel and her neighbours, or the threat of it, that Western eyes have rarely strayed to the...

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The Fatima connection

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David Gollob Seville If you push them they will remind you that, before, Palmar was nothing; whereas now . . . They gesture to the metal gates in the 15-foot wall that seals...

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A letter to Enoch Powell

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Roy Kerridge D ear Enoch Powell: Anyone who is an admirer not only of George Borrow, but also of Surtees, must be a man of sound views. However, I am afraid that I consider Your...

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Wimbledon scenes

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John Stewart Collis I t was really two tournaments. There was a challenge between the players; and there was the challenge against the weather. Thus in the first week when...

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The Pope's hardest journey

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Timothy Garton Ash `T he atmosphere is remarkably free', says the Professor just back from Warsaw. Food is:no problem': at least, he always had plenty to eat. You think for a...

One hundred years ago

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Sir E. Watkin has at last been com- pelled to suspend the works on the Channel Tunnel. The Board of Trade on Wednesday applied to the High Court (Chancery Division) for an...

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Polish monetarism

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Geoffrey Stern `T regard myself as spokesman, teacher 1 and follower of the social line of Catholicism and not of capitalism or socialism. My devotion to truth, justice and...

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The press

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Unapologetic Paul Johnson A l of us journalists must submit, from time to time, to rebukes from readers. Why, even the delightful Arthur Marshall has just been rapped over the...

God should not be mocked

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Jo GrimOnd Q urely it cannot be true that the Falkland victory is to be celebrated like a Roman Triumph at St Paul's Cathedral? If we want to commemorate the dead, a funeral...

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In the City

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Rate for the job Tony Rudd S o now it's official. What we took for the light at the end of the tunnel is after all that of an oncoming train. Economic recovery as part of the...

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TV merchandise

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Sir: Yet again Paul Johnson (26 June) calls for free market considerations to dominate television programmes. Can he really be serious? As a form of communication television is...

Sir: As a convinced Cobdenite free-trader may I hope that

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when the terms of reference of the inquiry into the origins of the recent Falkland Islands debacle come to be drawn, the recent history of commercial relationships between...

Sir: It was wise to quote the letter of an

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Anglo-Argentine lady without comment (Notebook, 26 June). The comment might have been intemperate, which this writer is fighting not to be. My connection with Argentina has...

Nancy Mitford

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Sir: I am working on a biography of Nancy Mitford and would be very grateful if any of your readers who knew her, or who have information or papers relating to 'her, would be so...

Letters

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The Falkland Islands Sir: As your readers are painfully aware, and as the archives will indelibly confirm, the Spectator lost its nerve over the Falklands war. I imagine that...

Sir: South African friends and relations think of their government

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in much the same way that the woman correspondent, quoted by Alexander Chancellor (Notebook, 26 June), thinks about her government in Argentina. And, for that matter, the way...

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BOOKS

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Team spirit Geoffrey Wheatcroft e was a so-called Pink, who believed in what so-called Pinks believe in (Progressive Education, the Integrity of anyone spying for Russia,...

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Cattleman and Devil man

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Richard West Travels in West Africa Mary Kingsley (Virago £5.95) 'T sabella Bird is the ideal traveller' wrote the Spectator critic in 1879, of the first edition of A Lady's...

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Good blood

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Robert Bernard Martin A be Burrows used to sing plaintively that he was walking down Memory Lane without a single thing to remember. Not so H. R. F. Keating, who apparently has...

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The genius of William Trevor Patrick Skene Catling A good short story, like a good poem, exists only in its expression. Its essence is irreducible and immutable. As William...

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Recent fiction

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Miranda Seymour The Prodigal Child David Storey (Jonathan Cape £7.50) rr he ability of Carlos Fuentes t° fascinate, baffle and provoke puts him alongside Nabokov and Calvino...

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Books Wanted

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FREDERICK THE GREAT by Nancy Mitford. 9. Rothwell Street, London NW1 8YH. AUDREY WYNNE HATFIELD: any out - of- print herb books by this author urgently wanted; also gardening...

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A very minor poet

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Marghanita Laski I was an English Poet: A biography of Sir William Watson Jean Moorcroft Wilson (Cecil Woolf £12.50) W illiam Watson, who was born in 1858, was knighted in 1917...

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ARTS

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Pursuit of excellence Anthony Burgess Toscanini Beethoven's complete sym- phonies (RCA VL 46020) Toscanini Wagner: Siegfried Act II/Idyll (RCA VL 46008) Toscanini Wagner:...

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Art

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Sssch... John McEwen J ulian Schnabel is 31 and hails from Brooklyn. His painting (Tate Gallery till 3 September) is a visual equivalent of Funk Rock. It makes up in bombast...

Cinema

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Goofing off Peter Ackroyd A Kind of Hero (`AA', selected cinemas) J udging by the audience at the cinema 1 attended, Richard Pryor, the black American comedian, has a...

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Theatre

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Fool's Day Mark Amory King Lear (Stratford) Lear (The Other Place) A t the interval after two hours of King Lear I had not suffered a dull moment and after a further hour and...

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Find an Italian

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Talc' New York T he New York Yacht Club is located west of New York's Fifth Avenue, but that is its only drawback. Although some members think that its proximity to the New...

Low life

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Inside out Jeffrey Bernard To Ken, H.M. Prison, Stanford Hill, Sheerness, Kent. D ear Ken, Just a line to let you kW; that the Russians gave an `outspoke n feminist four...

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Competition entries

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To enable competitors to economise on postage, entries for one or more weeks of the competition and crossword may be posted together under one cover addressed 'Competition...

Competition

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No. 1226: Transformations Set by Jaspistos: You are invited to expand a well-known nursery rhyme, limerick or clerihew (please specify which one) into a poem (maximum 14 lines)...

No. 1223: The winners

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Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked to list amusing and accurate differences, barring the biological ones, between men and women in this unisex age. La difference...

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Correction: In Crossword 564 ( 140 week) 23 Down is, as

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clued, a nin e. letter word and the horizontal b° , cutting off the last letter should b e ignored.

Chess

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Improvements Raymond Keene w orld Championship games are always subjected to intense scrutiny by post- mortem analysts, and in some cases (notably the Spassky-Fischer clash of...

Crossword 565

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A pr'ze of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correci solution opened on 26 July. Entries to: Crossword 565, The Spectator, 56 D )ughty Street, London WCIN 2LL. 1 2 3 4...

Solution to 562: Rev. Ver.

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The nursery rhyme (20 16) is ' diddle-diddle' and the variarfr. replace: 28 cat; 10 fiddle; 42 NW' 21D moon; 35 dog; ID fun; 23 dis h; 8 spoon (see Chambers). Winner: Charles A....