11 JANUARY 1986, page 25

The Liverpool Of Nicaragua

Richard West on the Militant Tendency's friends among the Sandinistas Corinto THE Sandinista newspaper Barricada re- cently ran a story about a meeting to honour the Beatles 'at......

Gandhi's Flabby Followers

Dhiren Bhagat on the Congress Party's low ebb in its centenary year Bombay THE centenary celebrations of the Con- gress Party began here the Friday before last at a quarter past......

One Hundred Years Ago

A correspondent writes from Madras: `Theebau arrived yesterday. The Col- onel who brought him over, before he and his men departed, requested the acting Chief Secretary of the......