21 JANUARY 1989, page 12

Playing Sneaks And Leaders

The Japanese have scandals where we have the current campaign Tokyo WITH the new year (appropriately, the Year of the Snake) we have a new Emper- or, the same old politicians,......

Mr Yeltsin's Damascus

Stephen Handelman reveals a tape recording that details the conversion of an ideologue Moscow KNOWLEDGEABLE Muscovites have been stunned this month by reports of an amazing......