6 JULY 1985, page 12

Mitterrand's Rough Ride

Sam White on the French Socialists, bitterly divided over an election they will in any case lose Paris IT WAS only a week or two ago that the French Left was smiling with......

Hostages To Misfortune

Charles Glass on who manipulated whom during the Beirut hijacking Frankfurt IN HIS book Oriental Encounters (Heine- mann, 1918), Marmaduke Pickthall recal- led that during his......