18 AUGUST 1984, page 8

You Too Can Be One

Timothy Garton Ash I n Moscow last month I asked a senior Pravda journalist what he thought of Erich Honecker's planned visit to West Germany — the first ever by an East German......

Romanian Superlife

Adam Nicolson I t is fashionable in Romania to wear clothes with English words printed on them. The meaning does not seem to matter — few people speak the language — and it is......