15 DECEMBER 1979, page 12

Dinner In A Cairo Suburb

Desmond Stewart Cairo The mosquitoes in Maadi are more Constant than the settlers. In the Nasser years businessmen, pashas, press-kings made room in their leafy suburb for......

Haughey: Hard Or Desperate?

Geoffrey Wheatcroft Dublin The Irish make a useful distinction between two kinds of humanity: 'He's a hard man', or 'he's a desperate chancer'. In the case of Mr Charles......