24 JANUARY 1987, page 12

Odds Against An Afghan Peace

Radek Sikorski on the snags in the Soviet-backed amnesty proposals I TOOK a bet with a Social Democratic peer before the recent hullabaloo that by next Christmas there will......

Young Russia Opts Out

Bohdan Nahaylo discovers a distaste for the Aghan war in Soviet youth papers IN RECENT weeks the Soviet media has at last broken an important taboo in its coverage of the......