11 SEPTEMBER 1999, page 26

The Pope Defies The Pentagon

Julian Manyon on American fury over John Paul Ws plans to make a pilgrimage to Iraq Amman HE may be 79 years old, bent, frail and suffering from what looks to many eyes like......

Mind Your Language

`I CAN'T help what the dictionary says,' my husband exclaimed, standing in the doorway. 'That's what it says in the literature.' By 'literature' he meant medical jour- nals — as......