6 AUGUST 1988, page 12

Beating A False Retreat

Robert Cranborne warns that the Russians could still stay in Afghanistan THE captains and kings depart from Afghanistan. Just in time for his retirement President Reagan can......

Making The Red One Green

The Soviet Union is at last Odessa THE usual crowd is at the Soviet Riviera this summer. On the beaches of Odessa, Siberian factory workers are jostling apparatchiks from Moscow......