23 JANUARY 1988, page 14

Austria's Nixon

Robert Rhodes James sees a disillusioned electorate ending the career of Kurt Waldheim THE eerie similarities between the down- fall of President Nixon and the impending doom of......

The Wunderkind Gets Arthritis

Anatol Lieven sees the West German economic miracle beginning to falter THE announcement that West Germany is to raise its consumer taxes in 1989 to cope with a steeply rising......