9 JANUARY 1988

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[No one could fairly accuse Mr David...]

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THE SPECTATOR TACTLESS IN GAZA No one could fairly accuse Mr David Mellor of a lack of opportunism. But the particular opportunity he seized in the Gaza strip last week was...

WHO LIVES

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WHO LIVES THE Today programme reports that it is becoming quite common for Asian women in Britain to have their foetuses aborted when they discover that the babies will be...

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ANOTHER VOICE

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A NO THER VOI CE _ _ Further reflections on the Nanny Hurd Terror AUBERON WAUGH S omething rather strange has happened in the last few months in England - I cannot, of...

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MISSING IN NURISTAN

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MISSING IN NURISTAN Radek Sikorski fears that Afghan guerrilla discord has cost a cameraman's life THERE is still a tiny ray of hope that Andy Skrzypkowiak might be alive in...

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Virtue rewarded

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Virtue rewarded THANK you for a splendid and varied supply of cardinal virtues. I asked what we should look for in a business, beyond the three staples of honesty, competence...

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Deep waters, Lawson

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Deep waters, Lawson THE perfect illustration of Gilmore's Law came this week from Mrs Teresa Gorman, MP, who has (if I may so express myself) taken over Harvey Proctor's old...

Toffee for Philip

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Toffee for Philip I AM delighted to see that the management buy-in is back. That is the charm and point of the £2 billion bid for Dee Corporation, the Gateway supermarket...

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Science research

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Science research Sir: The bizarre article by Terence Kealey ('How academics waste money', 14 November) requires some response, lest your readers believe it. In trying to show...

Free press

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Free press Sir: For many years I have devoted part of each Saturday to perusing your esteemed journal at Holborn Library in Theobalds Road. Imagine, therefore, my horror upon...

[Sir: Paul Johnson has missed the point in...]

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Sir: Paul Johnson has missed the point in his piece, 'Journalists' Own Secrets'. If a journalist cannot protect the source of his stories, those stories will cease. No stories,...

[Sir: In his piece 'Journalists' own secrets'...]

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L E T T E R S Journalists and secrets | Sir: In his piece 'Journalists' own secrets' (19/26 December) Paul Johnson takes three strands of argument relating to confidentiality...

Grace abounding

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Grace abounding Sir: I am surprised that Digby Anderson ('Grace and flavour', 19/26 December) did I not include the much-loved Scots Covenanters' grace: Some hae meat an' canna...

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Who won the prizes in France

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B O OKS Who won the prizes in France Anita Brookner The literary season in France takes place in November, with banquets for the publishers and publicity for the writers. The...

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THE END OF A DREAM: A MEMOIR by Gael Elton Mayo

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Remembrance of places past Marie-Alice de Beaumarchais THE END OF A DREAM: A MEMOIR by Gael Elton Mayo Deutsch, £8.95 Y et another book about France! By now the British must...

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RED OR GREEN FOR FARMERS (AND THE REST OF US) by Richard Body

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The coming political crisis David Howell RED OR GREEN FOR FARMERS (AND THE REST OF US) by Richard Body Broad Leys Publishing, £3.95 Hlas the moment of supreme rural crisis...

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PETER PAUL RUBENS: MAN AND ARTIST by Christopher White

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Renaissance man at his height Gregory Martin PETER PAUL RUBENS: MAN AND ARTIST by Christopher White Yale, £40 in our hyperbolical culture, it is difficult to convey proper...

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THE RISE OF THE GREEKS by Michael Grant

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A scholar of wide range Hugh Lloyd-Jones THE RISE OF THE GREEKS by Michael Grant Weidenfeld, £ 7.95 INM ichael Grant is a unique figure among the classical scholars of our...

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Bring back real carols

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AR TS Music Bring back real carols Peter Phillips Perhaps this is not a good moment to recall to mind the nature of Christmas carol services. For many revellers, such...

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Critical state

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Art Critical state Giles Auty Another year starts and whatever good critical resolutions one has made must wait a further week to be put into effect. In London's West End,...

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Charm of the bourgeoisie

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Yugoslav cinema Charm of the bourgeoisie Richard West During the 1960s, the Yugoslavs made a few films comparable in their art and honesty with the best from Poland,...

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High life

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High life The party's over Taki New York H .owever contradictory it may sound, | the older I get the more I amuse myself at my own parties. Especially during the holidays....

The Duke and Mike show

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Television The Duke and Mike show Wendy Cope 'The minstrel sings of sorrow.' 'The minstrel sings of humility.' 'The minstrel tells his joy of nature and the muses.' It seems...

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Low life

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Low life New haunts Jeffrey Bernard I am on the move again and I shall very much miss the flat I have been borrowing since last October. Connaught Street behind Marble Arch...

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Home life

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Home life Know thyself Alice Thomas Ellis I have always felt that the wise person as she floats through life on her broomstick should utilise the business, brushing end to...