Madam, - Dmitri Volkogonov has written that when Nikita Khrushchev's enemies ousted him as Soviet leader in 1964 they cited the fact that his picture had appeared in the press more than a thousand times in a single year.
In a single day recently I counted 11 pictures of Bertie Ahern in just three Irish newspapers. Have we reason to be hopeful? - Yours, etc,
PADDY CLARKE, Glendoher Park, Dublin 16.