27 OCTOBER 1984, page 5

M'bow Out

T he United States intends to fulfil its promise to withdraw from Unesco, the United Nations educational and cultural organisation, by the end of the year. By doi ng so, it will......

Le Vice Europeen

M any parents, one guesses, do not mind their children-bein g caned. If caning is part of a school's rules, intended to administer justice, they accept it. Many even favour it.......

Notes

T he coal strike of 1926 was remarkably similar to the present dispute, except that F. E. Smith was then a member of the government, and he was wittier and more lucid than any......

Trust The People

rr he su gg estion that the main parties I should agree not to contest by- elections caused by terrorist outra g es has a superficial attraction. The IRA ou g ht not to be......

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