4 DECEMBER 1982, page 18

Letters

Blood libels Sir: Surely Paul Johnson is mistaken when he asserts in his article on the press (20 November) that the heavy coverage by the Western media of the killings in......

No Way Out?

Sir: I have been 'with' Christopher Pc n n i(er l (metaphorically speaking) for longer r 1 " — as , can accurately remember, so I ,r,, ec i therefore, surprised to find......

Long Memory

Sir: The Times, as Auberon Waugh claims, may be a boring newspaper (27 November). But inaccurate, wrong and mischief-maker it certainly is not. It was once brought into utter......

Sir: 'the Latest Cycle Of Violence Began In 1970 When

the Lebanon was invaded by Palestinian Moslem terrorists,' writes Paul Johnson (20 November). This is an exact example of the sort of slanderous bias which he suggests is being......

Right Behind The Times Sir: Perhaps Not Many Of Your

readers will be surprised at Auberon Waugh's un- balanced and intemperate attack on the Times (27 November). But few, I imagine, will not be, like me, astonished at your......

Greeks And Turks

Sir: A few weeks ago I visited the site of a mass grave in the Turkish Cypriot zone of Cyprus, containing the bodies of victims whose ages ranged from eight months to 80. This......