14 JANUARY 1984, page 9

The Quality Of Mercy

Nicholas von Hoffman Washington yn the television pictures from Damascus, 1Lt. Robert Goodman and Jesse Jackson were up front and animated, but over to the left sat a dour......

Scotland Omega One

Allan Massie Edinburgh he Seventies were a period of unusual 1 intellectual excitement in Scotland. It's hard to say quite why, but three elements may be identified. There was......