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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine February 7th 1988
The English family Patel – The Patels are a highly visible minority – you can find them on most street comers in Britain. But less visible is the close network that binds together this community in a system of shared values and mutual support. It’s the secret of their formidable success. Academics and fighter pilots alike boast the name and all that it entails
Cover story: Comrades in corruption. Ten years after his defection from Romania, the former head of foreign intelligence, Ion Pacepa, exposes the atrocities of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. But the spy himself is little more than a spectre. Cover by Sam Kittner
Impressions in the sand – After a 30-year absence the writer Howard Jacobson returns reluctantly to the Costa Brava and finds Spain’s ‘plucky coast’ bearing up well to an invasion by the world’s ‘most hopeless people’. The third part in our travel series
76 pages. This issue is in very good condition for age. There is some creasing and a small tear on the centre pages
