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Might And Right In San Salvador

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard WEAKNESS AND DECEIT by Raymond Bonner Hamish Hamilton, f13.95 T hey were priests and their catechists, teachers and their students, carpenters and......

Apples, A Dead Baby And Orphans

David Profumo THE CIDER HOUSE RULES by John Irving Cape, f8.95 F or a writer like Irving, whose sen- timentalism and graphic violence are equally celebrated, the choice of an......