... SUKARNO SPEAKS In-his first Press conference since the coup attempt, President Sukarno told a group of Japanese correspondents today that the Soviet Union’s insistence on participating in the second ' Afro- Asian conference might wreck the meetiniufle ...

... CHANCELLOR SPEAKS }q{ 7(7:aghgiggn's welcome was uch cooler, the audience appearg unsure whether they were the t or the mouse. Mr Callaghan ave what now passes as a stock ”’ speech. The theme was simple. Labour ad inherited grave economic roblems and ...

... Speaking by numbers 0 alive in our collective subconscious seems the phone’s early hearing sflHieoe and stand that we still say “hang up”, “off the hook” me a bell”. The American company became known some grudging affection as Ma Bell in the United States ...

... Plain speaking RE the reference by my esteemed award-winning colleague, Kenneth Roy, to La Mancha in West Lothian. Could this, asks'A Reader, in any way be related to Lamancha in Peeblesshire, so named because of its resemblance to the hot, dry Span ish ...

... Roughly Speaking Last vear we attempted to take a vow, partly as the result of domestic pressure that we would drop public speaking. As it turned out we were much too half-hearted, with the result that, now that the lugubrious season of unwise utterance ...

... Speaking volumes In The Clicking of Cuthbert, PG Wodehouse gave the fullest description of the horrors of a book club - in this case, Mrs Willoughby Smethhurst’s pompous literary society. “With my feeble powers of narrative,” he wrote, “I cannot hope ...

... SPEAK FOR YOURSELF MELVYN BRAGG: S b { . ”‘&uk or & Warburg). WE ALL OUGHT to beware of tape-recorders. Nixon proved they are dangerous in politics; they convict you out of your, own mouth. Now Melvyn Bragg has come along with a book which is largely ...

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... To appear but not to speak? IT IS DOUBTFUL whether yesterday's ruling by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal that three police officers can be compelled to go into the witness-box at the inquest of three men killed by police bullets six years ago will ...

... “DUTY TO SPEAK” But to-day, Mr Emanuel Percy Bradlow, furniture tycoon and barrister, declared South African business men “not only have authority to advise the Government on national policy—_lt was their duty to do so.” Mr Bradlow was backed up by a ...

... Double-speak VENTS in Europe are embarrassing the British Government in a manner that will force it to come clean over the single European currency. Labour and its allies in big business would have us believe that scrapping the pound for the euro is a ...