22 FEBRUARY 1986, page 12

An Old Stager Scrapes Home

William McGurn on Portugal's surprising choice of a new president Lisbon EVEN as far north as Portugal's second city of Oporto, famous for the splendid wine it produces in such......

Ultra-gaullist Mitterrand

Sam White on the paradoxes flowing from the Socialists' coming defeat in the March elections Paris THE only certainty about the general election in France next month is that the......