The Week
We all change our minds: President !di Amin rang up a friend in Israel, LieutenantColonel Baruch Bar-Lev, to say that he was 'finished with terrorists' because they caused him a lot of trouble. The body of Mrs Dora Bloch, missing since the hijack incident in Entebbe, was found in a nearby forest. The British second secretary in Kampala, who had last seen her, was expelled from Uganda. Mr Ted Rowlands of the Foreign Office demanded that the Ugandan Government Should bring those responsible to justice. Her Majesty's Government formally rebuked the Ugandans—having sent its condolences for those killed in the Israeli rescue—and the British High Commissioner to Uganda, Mr Hennessy, remained in London. Thousands of Kenyans fled -Uganda, fearing massacre.
Mr Anthony Crosland—whose wife Susan was nursing a broken jaw after her unfortunate fall at a dance in Washington— returned to London. A 'full review of British relationship with Uganda' was onducted. The government also expressed Its horror at the executions of three British Mercenaries in Angola. No one could decide who was to pay £1500 each for their bodies to be returned. It was a trigger-happy week in Angola: a Rumanian diplomat was Shot by a nervous sentry. A public prosecutor was assassinated in Rome.
Mr Roy Jenkins was appointed Executive President of the EEC, at a modest salary of 465,000 per annum, tax-free. The member nations of the Common Market agreed at last on the seats at the directly elected European Parliament: like France, Italy and West Germany the UK received eightyone seats out of 410. Mr Edward Heath— Who had been considered for the Jenkins Job—celebrated his sixtieth birthday by deliberately widening the rift with Mrs Thatcher, to Tory consternation. MPs awarded themselves an £8 per week pay rise, 'on honour' not to take it if it raised their total income too high.
The Wakefield Building Society 'lost'
500,000. The Government, contemplating sPending cuts, allocated £2 million for fluoridation of the water supply. The Meriden motor-cycle cooperative, set up With £5 million of public money, announced a first year's trading loss of £1.29 million. Two Americans were jailed for three Months for smuggling dogs into England. ir he Archbishop of Canterbury called for a .clearly defined limit' to the number of IMmigrants into Great Britain.
In New York Mr Jimmy Carter was antiellrnactically acclaimed as the Democratic „Presidential candidate. -Mayor Beame of ‘teW York hoped for national purity, as the
city was filled—according to a police official—with so many hookers that there 'aren't enough delegates to go round.' Dr Henry Kissinger said that Queen Elizabeth who was leaving the United States, had 'a whole lot of savvy'. The Queen went on to Canada to open the Olympic Games, which a dispute between Canada, Taiwan and the Olympic Committee did not, alas, prevent.
A man was jailed for six years for welfare frauds against the Department of Health and Social Security. He had been taking £10,000 from forty aliases. Sir Harold Wilson opened the Harold Wilson building at Thamesmead. The Headmaster of Winchester was ejected from the .M3 inquiry. The House of Lords was told that it would have to sit in September.
Talks began between the Syrians and the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Eighteen 'economic saboteurs' were shot by the progressive revolutionary government in Ethiopia. One of Japan's leading businessmen, Mr Hiro Hiyama, was arrested and charged with bribery. Lockheed's Japanese agents apologised. President Numeiry of Sudan went to visit President Sadat of Egypt to discuss the problem of their common neighbour Colonel Gaddafi.
A general strike took place in Australia. There were riots in Madrid and in Djibouti, but not in Ulster where the Twelfth of July saw the arrival of a delegation of Orangemen from West Africa. The liberal Mexican newspaper Excelsior was taken over by conservative employees. Frank Sinatra married for the fourth time and gave his bride a £55,000 Rolls-Royce. The West Indians won the Old Trafford Test by 425 runs and Johnny Miller won the British Open.
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