4 AUGUST 1979, page 19

Air Fares

Sir: My attention has been drawn to remarks made in your issue of 30 June on the subject of the cost of air travel within Europe, You attribute the blame for what you call the......

Oil And The Us

Nicholas von Hoffman's article in your 41 July issue goes a long way toward e th )( Plaining why it is impossible to believe "le same issue's leader when it sanctimomslY asserts......

Stately

Sir: May I congratulate you on Mr Geoffrey Wheatcroft's pleasing and stately series entitled 'Last word'. I had not expected to see the word `meiotically' (7 July) used again,......

Zimbabwe

Sir: I read Xan Smiley's article, 'How to save Zimbabwe' (28 July) with close attention and growing dismay. Mr Smiley has much first-hand experience of Rhodesia, and I have......

The Death Penalty

Sir: Unlike Alexander Chancellor I like my pro-hinger friends best. They are realists and have their priorities right. Repugnant though the death sentence is to all normal......

Paderewskl

Sir: I am writing a biography of 1.J. Paderewski, and would be most grateful to hear from any of your readers who might possess any letters, documents or other material......