28 MAY 1988, page 13

The Communist Squirearchy

Robert Knowles sees the appointment of Hungary's new leader as a triumph for the apparatchiks Budapest WHEN the Western mind considers East- ern Europe, its repertoire of mental......

Gorbachev's Home Town

Sarah Traxler reports from the place where the Soviet leader made his career Stavropol WHY would a man at the summit of power want to hide his mother? Maria Pan- teleyevna......