16 DECEMBER 1989, page 17

Poor And Unhappy Forever

Anthony Daniels discusses the repatriation of the Vietnamese boat people `CHOW time!' exclaimed the CBS camera- man, rushing over to the main gate of Sham Shui Po Closed Centre......

Free Democrat Free Spirit

A philosopher has just fought a free election in Hungary. Charles Moore joined him Budapest `WHEN I was a boy,' Gaspar Miklos Tamas told me, 'my idea was to be Doge of Venice,......

One Hundred Years Ago

AN EPIDEMIC of influenza has appeared in Russia, Germany, Austria, and France, and it is feared it may spread to England also. In St Peters- burg and Vienna it has attacked all......