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Prison-soviet Style

New house of the dead TIBOR SZAMUELY Prisons are news. International com- missions investigate them; teams of report- ers calculate the exact number of political prisoners held......

A Spectator's Notebook

JOHN HOLLOWAY Suddenly, we have news from Pakistan again. The unpredictable disappearance of news items from our papers has long in- trigued me. Some months ago the papers were......