6 DECEMBER 1986, page 19

Eating Roses For Serbia

John Ralston Saul finds poetic disagreement on East-West imperialism Belgrade GEO Bogza, Romania's greatest poet, opened this year's meeting of the Serbian Writers' Union by......

A Stylish Curiosity

Profile: Alan Ross, sportsman, traveller, writer and editor AT SOME stage in his autobiography, Blindfold Games, Alan Ross tells a tanta- lising, highly charged story of how,......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE fifteen New York Aldermen ac- cused of taking bribes for granting concessions of city railways seem likely to escape penal servitude. Two of them are under trial, and two of......