18 AUGUST 1990, page 14
A Dictionary Of Cant
PREDICTABLE A pejorative word for the tiresome consistency of one's ene- mies' opinions. Nigel Burke......
Redrawing The Battle Lines
John Simpson on the new alignments of nations in the Middle East A HEAVY palm slapped the wall-map of the Middle East four times: Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt. The minister was......
Purgatory Or Hell
Andrew Kenny on the hopeless alternatives for South Africa Richard's Bay ON 7 August, Nelson Mandela announced the end of the ANC's 'armed struggle'. During the next week, 47......
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