29 SEPTEMBER 1979, page 9

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......

End Of A Bad Joke

Richard West The coup d'etat against Emperor Bokassa is Yet another piece of good news in a year that has seen the disappearance from office of Pol Pot (Cambodia), Field Marshal......

A Hundred Years Ago

Mr J. T. Kay, Librarian of Owens College, raised, on Wednesday, before the Library Association, now sitting at Manchester, a question which will often be argued, as the......