15 SEPTEMBER 1984, page 7

Radical Rainbow

T he question of whether the SDP and Liberals should merge is at present of ve ry little public interest, but might be- me extremely important during the next general election.......

Point Of Order

M r David Young has been appointed to the Cabinet without yet holding a seat in either House of Parliament. Surely this is unconstitutional? Not so, according to the Downing......

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Notes

uppose you are a nob in the Kremlin and you have just got rid of Nikolai Ogarkov, your Chief of Staff and Deputy Defence Minister, for reasons best known to yourself, what do......

Knocking Glory

A erospatiale, the French manufactur- ers of the Exocet missile have place an advertisement in the Economist. They are offended by the 'orchestrated cam- paigns of denigration'......

In Response To Mrs Galina Koryagin's Moving Account Of A

visit to her husband in a Soviet prison (`The Koryagin family', 1 September), Mr Christopher Wood of Seymour Place, London Wl, has written to ask if we could publish the address......