23 APRIL 1988, page 13

Forty Years' War

Con Coughlin finds little to celebrate on Israel's anniversary of independence Jerusalem AT the point where the main Tel Aviv- Jerusalem highway begins to plough its way through......

Retreat From Kabul

Radek Sikorski argues that the Soviet Union should be pressed to withdraw completely NOT a single Soviet tank has yet crossed the River Oxus back into the Soviet Union and there......

One Hundred Years Ago

ENGLAND is the poorer this week by a great poet. On Sunday afternoon, Mr. Matthew Arnold was in Liverpool, walking with his wife towards the landing , Stage, where he expected......