16 FEBRUARY 1991, page 17

The Cheque Is In The Post

Jonathan Rauch explains how the Americans work out what the war will cost NO ONE in Washington can remember anything like the eeriness of this war. It is not what war is......

Ex-party Privateers

Stephen Handelman on the old apparatchiks who want to corner the new Soviet market Moscow HE LOOKED vaguely important in his tailored Western suit. Pudgy, self- confident and......