29 SEPTEMBER 1979, page 8

Eastern Europe's New Upper Class

Tim Garton Ash Prague The traveller is encouraged to try the waters at Karlsbad', Karl Baedeker admonishes. The names of the sanatoria are not encouraging: 'Albanie',......

The Pope In The Rat Pit

Peter Nichols Rome Like Ireland now, the forecastle of the merchantman Rights of Man was a rat-pit of quarrels: 'But Billy came, and it was like a Catholic priest striking peace......