Portrait of the week
Sixteen people were killed — 11 of them „ soldiers — when a bomb exploded ilthout warning in a public house in sallYkelly, Co Londonderry; more than 60 euffered serious injury: Some Labour iNacillors of the GLC, but not Mr K. Liv- wIl.gs, Li)ne, changed their minds about rCotning two members of Sinn Fein, :celltlY elected to the Northern Ireland ii'.ssembly, to London next week. Sinn Fein h not condemn the bombing, which may ta:tve been the work of the 'Irish National .-iciera.:_n
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th "le Inner London Education Authority s'tureatened to withdraw its annual f62,000 01113sidY to the scouts because of the em- e15 Placed by the Chief Scout, Major- Inal Walsh, on standards of discipline 6n,th, e movement. GLC grants to the q:6"sh Collective of Prostitutes, London were Teenagers and Women Against Rape 1;re not, however, in jeopardy. Mrs qicEli-Inne became Labour member for INIsr,g°w Queen's Park at a by-election th;"Wing the death of her husband. Less N'n half the electorate voted, the Scottish serbati°nal Party came second, and the Con- de-,,ative and Alliance candidates lost their the its Concern was expressed to and by that independent Broadcasting Authority pos.' many programmes on the Channel ni Lir television channel were offensive; :st viewers seemed to find the program- 00 boring to concern them at all.
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Chin°f the Arab League to Russia and to -a to canvass support for its proposals ea settle the Middle Eastern question. Both atti.lnries were sympathetic; Russia warned joaralrist acceptance of America's plan for a lie rniao-Palestinian federation. Mr petn, having already rejected Mr Reagan's e,s_ce Proposals, showed no willingness to 1170Perate in withdrawing Israeli forces ret in Lebanon, and the two US negotiators ktlorned to Washington. Members of the re00-' recently evacuated from Beirut, were the :ted to be re-entering Lebanon across giv 4rian border. Mr Begin decided not to ill e further evidence to the commission of c:irY in Jerusalem into the Beirut befsacre last September, and Mr Sharon, Ilee Minister, went off to make friends 41.°nduras. khlor
an Smith, formerly prime minister of
at thdesia, suffered continuing harassment Aft"e hands of the Zimbabwe government. wasser questioning by police, his passport he nfiscated , his farm was searched, and (Saii"Las taken to his house in Harare 'enie`suorY) by officials acting with Of t-hrgericY powers'. Captain A. P. Zotov
"e Russian embassy in London was
ordered to leave the country, suspected of trying to recruit Libyans to be Soviet agents. He returned to Moscow in naval uniform, protesting his innocence. Pro- fessor Hugh Hambleton was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for spying for resident in Russia. Donald Maclean, Rus- sia since 1951, was reported seriously ill. Denmark continued to hold up the conclu- sion of an EEC fishing agreement, by in- sisting on a larger share of mackerel from British waters.
C r Gonzalez was sworn in as prime 1..3minister of Spain: he announced an 8 per cent devaluation of the peseta, and the opening next week to pedestrians of the frontier with Gibraltar. Another consign- ment of Super-Etendard aircraft and Ex- ocet missiles left St Nazaire for delivery to Argentina under a contract signed in 1980. In Brest, British sailors from HMS Hermes, on a goodwill visit, were involved in fighting with locals while discussing the role of the Exocet in the Falklands war. The US House of Representatives refused to pro- vide funds for the MX missile; Russia threatened to produce an identical weapon and declined America's offer of more wheat. Walter Mondale said he saw himself as Democratic front-runner for president in 1984 in the absence of Edward Kennedy.
In Texas, Charles Brooks was executed by the injection of three drugs, having been convicted of murder in 1977. In Utah, Mr was given a polyurethane Barney Clark heart, the first ever to be implanted. In Bangkok, hundreds of men celebrated the birthday of King Bhumibol by volunteering for vasectomies under local anaesthetic. In London, the Court of Appeal ruled that it was not necessary for 'normal sexual inter- course' to take place at a massage parlour for it to be classified as a brothel. SPC
'Ken Livingstone should come over here — then he could listen to the IRA point of view quite often.
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