7 JULY 1990, page 8

The President Turns Back . . .

Mr Bush has broken with Reaganism by nice mess he has got himself into Washington 'OUR long national nightmare is over,' said Gerald Ford on the day that Richard Nixon resigned......

One Hundred Years Ago

MODERN historians distrust the stor- ies of the Roman poisoner Locusta, and of the women who in Italy sold aqua tofana as the best means of satisfying jealousy, or hate, or......