17 SEPTEMBER 1983, page 12

Pyrrhic Victory

Olivia O'Leary Dublin T w°years ago Provisional Sinn Fein, the apologists for the IRA, sewed a phrase into Irish political hackery when they boasted in Dublin that they could......

_who Needs Jokes?

T imothy Garton Ash What is the difference between commu- nists- and Christians? Christians believeinlife after death; communists in Posthumo us rehabilitation. and capitalism?......