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Letter: National disaster

Captain M. A. J. McGovern
Monday 05 April 1993 23:02 BST
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Sir: Did most of us not at least giggle over Saturday's chaos at Aintree? Such a shame that there is no English equivalent to that wonderful German term Schadenfreude - the enjoyment experienced through someone else's failures or misfortunes. It is an enjoyment not uncommon to most of us British - least of all on Saturday last.

Yours faithfully,

MICHAEL McGOVERN

Episkopi, Cyprus

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