29 SEPTEMBER 1990, page 33

Ages Of Man

Sir: I write with reference to Don Cupitt's review of Freedom in Exile: The Auto- biography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet (15 September). 'He claims to be a......

Twaddledum, Twaddledee

Sir: It is a great day for academic prestige when the publicity manager of the Yale University Press (Letters, 8 September) considers herself incapable of writing twad- dle......

Timor Terror

Sir: In East Timor today depleted national- ist forces continue to fight a guerrilla war against the Indonesian army. Portugal, Britain's Nato ally, continues to claim......

Is Rushdie Safe?

Sir: Kalim Siddiqui ('Blasphemers must die,' 22 September) was being economical with the truth in suggesting to John Mor- timer that the fatwa against Salman Rush- die was......

Deep-rooted

Sir: Ruth Willers writes (Letters, 15 September), 'If Arab roots in the soil [of the West Bank] are old and deep, Jewish roots are some 3,000 years older and therefore that much......

Nothing For Something

Sir: Perhaps Paul Johnson (The press, 15 September) thinks, like Dr Goebbels, that if you must repeat something often enough people will believe it, which is why he reiterates......

Tradition In The Church

Sir: Two years ago, when Church in Danger was launched to represent the views and fears of Traditionalists within the Church of England, we listed a number of warning signs......