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New pamphlet from the Socialist Forum for Southern Africa Solidarity. 90p plus 20p postage. available via Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, London N8 8PL. Greenham Common. may come to seem to historians one of the grandest follies of the Thatcher government.

The words of Yuri Andropov come, therefore, to seem like the reassuring patter of a rival hood who speaks the same lingo. At least there is no nonsense from him about unilateral action.

The same thinking was revealed by Sir Frank Cooper, the retiring civil servant at the head of the Ministry of Defence, in an interview with John Mortimer in the Sunday Times.

The interview began with Mortimer asking "If you could wave a magic wand and deprive Russia of all nuclear weapons, do you think the world would become a much safer place?" to which Cooper replied candidly, "No, much more dangerous."

He adds "it is very important that Europe has a strong NATO alliance and i strong Warsaw Pact. That's what leads to stability."

• The Daily Mail is not in fact letting its side down. It has responded to the captain's instructions for a change of tactic.

The paper has been learning the message that Steele and Williams have been preachine - that if thos want to rescue multilateral disarmament from the rubbish bin of political ideas, it vould be as well to have some kind of talks in prospect. That is why the Daily Mall has a new banner on its masthead: better dead than unilateraled.

'SHOOT to -kill' was the TURKEY'S military junta has sentenced 149 members of the illegal Turkish Communist Party to jail terms of up to 10 years on charges of 'forming an illegal organisation aimed at establishing a Communist state.' The military court acquitted 110 of the accused and deferred judgement on a further eight,. the . Anatolian 90p Bob Fine Lawrence Welch

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Turkish jailings

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