14 DECEMBER 1991, page 30

Dupes And Nitwits

MEN like Maxwell create willing dupes. In patronising political figures, he did no more than Beaverbrook — who kept a cabinet minister on retainer — but that patronage was......

City And Suburban

The hindquarters of an elephant, or where the Maxwell money went CHRISTOPHER FILDES I say of Robert Maxwell what the Caliph said of Hassan: his impudence had a mon- strous......

Gallant Captain

THERE HAD to be a 'my nights of passion with Captain Bob' revelation, and there is. Wendy has told (or sold) her steamy (or seamy) story to the Sun, the Mirror Group's chief......

Friends Fall Out

ROBERT Maxwell's are not the only accounts with a hole in them. Some $4 bil- lion seems to be missing from the late Sovi- et Union's reserves. Valentin Falin, head of the late......

Pensioned Off

IF THERE is one last public service that Robert Maxwell has performed, it is to teach us not to put blind trust in blind trusts or take our pension funds for grant- ed. There is......