22 MARCH 1986, page 13

Cosy French Bedfellows

Sam White finds that the Right's narrow victory has given Mitterrand a chance to be generous Paris THE principal winner of last Sunday's French parliamentary elections —......

Horrible Merger

Nicholas von Hoffman on the takeover fever that has struck America New York AMERICA'S third largest airline was sold the other day but it was a one-day story outside the......

One Hundred Years Ago

Mr Arthur O'Connor on Tuesday tried to induce the House of Commons to crush Messrs W. H. Smith and Co. He declared that the great newsdealing firm made £148,000 a year out of......