27 AUGUST 1983, page 16

The Press

A babel of voices Paul Johnson ooked at with the clinical eye of a news 1--deditor, it has not been a bad August: wars in Central America and Africa; the Middle East bubbling......

Letters

Spending and the ILEA Sir: Poor Charles Moore (13 August). He really is terribly confused about who does what in local government and how well they do it. He criticises, for......

How Low Can You Get?

Sir: Presumably some of your readers are entertained by the blend of self-advertising alcoholism with puerile racial abuse which fills Jeffrey Bernard's Low life column. But one......

Arabic Noises

Sir: I sympathise with Simon Courtauld over the spelling of the Libyan leader (Notebook, 20 August). It is true that the initial consonants of the Libyan and Iranian leaders are......