27 NOVEMBER 1976, page 7

Transition Dog Days

Nicholas von Hoffman Washington America is perhaps the only nation since the invention of the city-state to hold its elections in early November and then wait until the end of......

The Gaullists Return

Sam White Paris T he game that the former prime minister J acques Chirac is playing with the President of the French Republic is called 'heads I win, tails you lose.' How Chirac......

Ulster Jailcats

Mark O'Neill Belfast In an Ulster prison cell a nineteen-year-old man lies on the floor. He is naked but for a blanket and moves only to eat and to relieve himself in a pot. The......