3 DECEMBER 1988, page 12

The Kingdom Of Tamburlaine

Stephen Handelman on the nationalist sensibilities of Soviet Central Asia Samarkand IT IS only a short walk from the green marble tomb of Tamburlaine, the 14th- century......

Last Chance For The Nuclear Dream

Jonathan Davis reports on nuclear man's and woman's — latest, and probably last, attempt to put fission back into fashion 'NUCLEAR electricity, energy of the fu- ture', boldly......