22 NOVEMBER 1968, page 5

Tough—or Bluff?

DEFENCE LAURENCE MARTIN After last week's meeting of NATO defence ministers, Mr Healey told a press conference that the 'rot had been stopped.' Having used precisely the same......

Couve And The Avalanche

FRANCE MARC ULLMANN Paris, Wednesday-:--General de Gaulle has found it easier to retain the votes of his fellow countrymen than their banknotes. Since the May 'troubles' around......

All Right For Some

SANCTIONS JOCK BRUCE-GARDYNE The economic realities behind the failure of Mr George Thomson's latest mission to Rhodesia did not intrude in any unseemly man- ner into the course......