Rob Edwards

Political crisis in Nepal

comment, filed for Scotland on Sunday, 15 April 1990

Two years ago I was sitting in a guest house 8,900 feet above sea level toasting tired feet over a box of hot coals secreted beneath my table. On the radio, a bizarre broadcast was in progress.

"On the auspicious occasion of his auspicious majesty's forty-third birthday, there have been celebrations throughout the country", reported a rich, respectful, upper-class English voice. "Tributes to his auspicious majesty on this auspicious occasion have been pouring in from foreign leaders."

Soviet politicians come to Edinburgh to talk

filed for Scotland on Sunday, 01 April 1990

Early this morning a party of senior Soviet politicians and academics are expected to arrive in Edinburgh for a unique series of discussions about the global ecological crisis.

For the first three days of this week, mostly in private, they will join with a group of British academics and conservationists under the banner of the "New Edinburgh Conversations" to exchange ideas about the politics and economics of environmental survival.