20 OCTOBER 1990, Page 30

Dissident dates

Sir: The opening paragraph of my inter- view with Andrei Plesu (`On the high wire', 13 October) contained an inaccura- cy. The last well-known dissident other than Mr Plesu left the Rumanian govern- ment at the elections in May, not after the miners' pogrom in June. I corrected this before the article went to press, and was sorry to see that The Spectator printed the uncorrected version.

Noel Malcolm

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