28 JUNE 1986

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

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Bewick's Shepherd and Sheep 1986 L ittle news emerged from South Afri- ca, where the papers could print nothing about the workings of the state of emergency. A man returning...

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WAITED WORDS

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The language is moderate, the content is not. Parliament already exercises little enough scrutiny over laws originating in Brussels. Often the details of such legisla- tion...

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BRUSSELS SPROUTS n Thursday and Friday of this week Mrs Thatcher and Sir Geoffrey Howe will be in the Hague, meeting their counter- parts from the other 11 nations of the EEC....

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DIARY

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DEBORAH DEVONSHIRE T he first sentence of a diary given to a nine-year-old child at Christmas, written on New Year's Day and kept faithfully till at least 10 January, was `Got...

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ANOTHER VOICE

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A personal response to the challenge of the libel law AUBERON WAUGH A lexander Chancellor's cri de coeur in the Sunday Telegraph this week may not have touched many hearts,...

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THE RECLAIMING OF YOB ENGLAND

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Mrs Thatcher has chosen her team to prepare the questions which it must address THE Prime Minister last week took the unusual step of announcing that she had set up a group of...

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SHINING PATH OF FOLLY

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on the most brutal guerrillas in Latin America, 350 of whom were massacred last week Ayacucho, Peru THERE is nothing glamorous about Abi- mael Guzman....

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WHAT A RUSSIAN GIRL WANTS

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Rowlinson Carter meets a Muscovite, teaches English slang to her . . . Moscow ONE of the social adjustments brought about by Mr Gorbachev's clampdown on drinking is that...

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SUNSET AND EVENING STAR

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Alastair Forbes payS tribute to Lady Diana Cooper and describes her last hours WHEN, some years ago, Diana Cooper found in her mail an invitation from her hospitable ducal...

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THE CONVOY AT GLASTONBURY

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Roy Kerridge visits the CND Festival, and finds the Peace Convoy's camp CHILDREN ran excitedly to meet me as I entered a gypsy camp in Somerset. A group of boys and girls,...

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THE CRUELTY OF WORDS

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The media: Paul Johnson defends strict libel laws in a free society LIBEL is a difficult area of the law and surrounded by popular misconceptions. Even experts in the field...

One hundred years ago

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Lord Salisbury on Friday week made an unusually temperate speech at Leeds, in which he endeavoured to explain his indiscreet utterance about 20 years of repression. He declared...

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THE ECONOMY

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The apostasies of Professor 'a little of what you fancy' Budd JOCK BRUCE-GARDYNE T he London Business School has many virtues. It has furnished us with Mr Nigel Lawson's...

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Listening post

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FOR someone whose retail business has been described as making the Co-op look like Laura Ashley (City and Suburban, 13 June), John Roberts is remarkably cordial. He is managing...

Wall game

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FROM Lloyd's lost leader, Ian Hay Davi- son, comes a mine under the City's pro- liferating Chinese walls — the fortifications which will be supposed to stop a bank's...

CITY AND SUBURBAN

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Europe's Court broods over the crime of bringing business to London CHRISTOPHER FILDES E urope's supreme judges must now turn away from the too-easy task of teasing the...

Big bang

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TO BE Governor of a central bank is now a high-risk occupation. In Israel (as I was saying the other week) you get fired, and elsewhere you get fired at. That is apparent in...

Hoggish morals

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THERE is a moral to the sad tale of RFD, which makes equipment for defence, safe- ty, and survival (those aircraft life-jackets) but could not save itself. It has fallen to a...

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Post mortem

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Sir: 'The main effort of Post Office invest- ment goes on behind the scenes in the handling and sorting of mail' (City and Suburban, 7 June). If regularity of delivery is a...

Forbes's points

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Sir: How unkind of Anthony Gilbey (Let- ters, 14 June) to visit the shortcomings of A. N. Wilson on the head of Alastair Forbes. Clearly he does not get the point of either....

LETTERS Macmillan's silence

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Sir: Robert Knight's attack (Letters, 14 June) on Christopher Booker's review of my The Minister and the Massacres would appear to reflect the by now familiar tactic of worrying...

Clean thrill

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Sir: Your interpretation of the presumed connection between litter and civilisation (Charles Moore, Diary, 7 June) indicates that you have never visited Toronto, which is both...

Tell a lady

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Sir: The value of good deportment (De - borah Devonshire, Diary, 14 June) cannot be overestimated. I can still hear my old headmistress saying: 'Gels, sit up, never mind the...

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BOOKS

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Come, come, ye sons of art Eric Christiansen HENRY PRINCE OF WALES AND ENGLAND'S LOST RENAISSANCE by Roy Strong Thames & Hudson, £12.95 REFLECTIONS ON THE PURITAN REVOLUTION...

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Anticipating Agatha Christie

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Isabel Colegate THE SHOOTING PARTY by Anton Chekhov Andre Deutsch, 1'8.95 T he count, wearing a many-coloured dressing-gown and a straw hat, is walking in the garden with the...

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At the height of her powers

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Anita Brookner THE MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE by Edith Wharton Virago, £3.95 HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED by Edith Wharton Virago, f4.95 E dith Wharton, great lady of Amer- ican...

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No complaints while on the warpath

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William Boyd MARCHING OVER AFRICA by Frank Emery Hodder & Stoughton, £12.95 Q ueen Victoria certainly kept her armies busy. There were the big wars Crimea, the Indian...

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A Californian novel in verse

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Christopher Hawtree THE GOLDEN GATE by Vikram Seth Faber, f9.95 M uch the most obvious way of giving an account of this novel would be to venture some verse of one's own. Of...

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A classicist not a Red Indian

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Martin Butlin THE PAINTINGS OF BENJAMIN WEST by Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley Yale University Press, £50 0 ne of the most common criticisms of avant-garde artists in the...

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From Gothic to quaintness

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James Lees-Milne THE ENGLISH HOUSE, 1860-1914 THE FLOWERING OF ENGLISH DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE by Gavin Stamp and Andre Goulancourt Faber & Faber, f25 I am glad to possess this...

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ARTS

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Exhibitions Cecil Beaton (Barbican Art Gallery till 20 July) The flavour of Cecil Simon Blow A friend of mine once asked Cecil Beaton, rather cheekily, whether he thought...

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Cinema

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King David (`PC', Odeon Haymarket) Lamentations, not Revelations Peter Ackroyd R eligious epics are not considered a vital ingredient of the cinema these days, but here is...

Opera Rusalka (Coliseum)

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Transformation scene Rodney Milnes S hock horror sensation: booing at Glyndebourne! One scarcely knew where to look. Wise old heads gathered in the bar afterwards wondering...

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Exhibitions

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Victor Willing: Retrospective Exhibition 1952-1985 (Whitechapel till 20 July) The horror of order Alistair Hicks an's attempt at imposing order on chaos is revealed in all...

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Wimbledon

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Early days Ferdinand Mount Even at this centenary Wimbledon, there is still little sign that lawn tennis has acquired the same mythopoeic qualities as cricket or golf. One...

Theatre

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Regent's Park) When We Are Married (Whitehall) A talent to amuse Christopher Edwards I n this revival of Toby Robertson's 1985 production the...

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Radio

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Black and white Noel Malcolm S emper aliquid novi Africa affert — or, as we might translate it, there's always something on the news about South Africa. On last week's...

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Gardens

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All squared up Ursula Buchan I s it, I wonder, a fascist tendency, a fatal weakness for the smack of strong govern- ment, a reprehensible craving for a Neue Ordnung even,...

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Television

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Man v. monitor Alexander Chancellor W ho needs referees or umpires any more? Television cameras do their job much better and make fools of them in the process. Millions of...

High life

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Loss of a friend Taki T he Ancient Greeks, in their infinite wisdom, knew a thing or two about pain, grief, and the loss of loved ones. Unlike today's godless urban biomasses,...

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Home life

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Furs and furbelows Alice Thomas Ellis I t occurred to me the other day that the inside of my wardrobe very much resem- bles the inside of my head; that is, it is crammed with...

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CHESS

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I have not yet given any of Kasparov's wins against Miles from their match. This week I make amends by publishing their amazing 6th game with variations shown to me personally...

COMPETITION

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I n Competition No. 1426 you were asked for a police report on some 'incident' in the flat-footed style of, for example, a chief constable's recent pronouncement on the hippy...

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w- a tinmiL

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Strawberry fare FIRST of all I hope none of you paid any attention to the unfortunate error (allowed to slip through by my dear non-cook editor) in my rice salad receipt last...

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Solution to 761: Light and dark T Z I L

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CROSSWORD

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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the...