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October 24, 1980 Issue - 37 Articles- Leader, p. 2
- Pol Pot vote at the UN
Anthony Barnett
, p. 3 - Open letter to Denis Healey
Christopher Price
, p. 3 - Jimmy Kelly case goes to European Court
Rob Rohrer
, p. 4 - Plan to sell the Ordnance Survey
Christopher Hall
, p. 4 - What MPs think of Thatcherism
Peter Kellner
, p. 5 - The Times
Bruce Page and Peter Kellner
, pp. 6-7 - America's bloodthirsty electorate
Claudia Wright
, p. 8 - Isle of Grain dispute
Patrick Wintour
, pp. 8-9 - The City I: control of pension funds
Richard Minns
, pp. 10-11 - The City II: who sold in the dawn raids
Christopher Hird
, pp. 12-15 - H-Block
Mary Holland
, p. 16 - Thatcher's merchants of death
Duncan Campbell
, p. 16 - Assault on Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Battek
Jan Kavan
, p. 17 - Britain's new bread
Hannah Wright
, p. 17 - Defence of Britain: a plan for a democratic policy
David Fernbach
, p. 18 - Midlands Diary
Judith Cook
, p. 19 - Letters to the editor, p. 20
- First Person
Arthur Marshall
, p. 21 Signal failure
- The danger of freedom
Roger Woddis
, p. 21 Books & Arts
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The World and the Word (Review) David Caute
, p. 22 Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess
- Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
- Foreign Affairs
Michael Hofmann
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Debray Chez Lui (Review) Pierre Joris
, p. 24 L'Esperance au Purgatoire, by Regis Debray
- L'Esperance au Purgatoire by Regis Debray
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You Name It (Review) Judy Cooke
, p. 24 Fanny, by Erica Jong
- Fanny by Erica Jong
- Leaving the Burning City
Clive Wilmer
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First-rate (3 Reviews) Alan Hollinghurst
, p. 26 The Girl in a Swing, by Richard Adams
- The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams
- The Birds of the Air by Alice Thomas Ellis
- World's End and Other Stories by Paul Theroux
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Murky Spaces (3 Reviews) Paul Thompson
, p. 26 The Fat Man in History, by Peter Carey
- The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
- Samurai by Hisako Matsubara
- In Flight by Jonathan Smith
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The Other US (3 Reviews) Charles Glass
, p. 27 A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- American Dream, Global Nightmare by Sandy Vogelsang
- Counting Our Blessings by Daniel P. Moynihan
- Howard Brenton's Romans
Benedict Nightingale
, p. 28 - Translators' rights re-examined
Charles Marowitz
, p. 29 - Photographing jazzmen
Charles Fox
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Films: Rule .303 (2 Reviews) John Coleman
, p. 30 Breaker Morant (1980 Film), by Bruce Beresford
- Breaker Morant (1980 Film) by Bruce Beresford
- The Blues Brothers (1980 Film) by John Landis
- Gainsborough
John Spurling
, p. 31 - Promoting new music
Andrew Clements
, p. 31 - Weekend Competition and Chess, p. 32
- Crossword, pp. 33-36
- Cover
Peter Till