26 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 22

Letters Violent Stimulus

Sir: Paul Johnson's useful ability to think clearly deserted him when he was consider- ing television violence CA halt to vio- lence?', 5 September). 'Whatever the programme......

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Gough Splutter'

Sir: There has come to light, and merits the severest condemnation of the international community, a new and flagrant example of the obscene hypocrisy of Thatcher's Bri- tain......

Naming The Gulf

Sir: I must correct you (Diary, 15 August). The Times has not recently banished the name of the Persian Gulf under Arab pressure. Quite the reverse. Under Amer- ican influence......

Mosley Contra Mundum

Sir: In the war against the criminal Nazi regime, `no British interest was involved'! (Diana Mosley, Letters, 5 September.) Only a fool or a Nazi fanatic could think such......

Too Much Corpsing

Sir: Since John Huston's death I have read three of his obituaries, two of which gave different versions of Huston kneeling by a corpse and exclaiming variants of the phrase......