26 MAY 1990, Page 4

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

An IRA bomb outside an Army careers office in north London killed one sergeant and injured another. Police re- moved suspected terrorist guns from a car after a chase through north London streets. A report into leaks from security forces in Northern Ireland to Loyalist terrorists found that the abuse was not widespread, but controls over sensitive documents needed tightening. A judicial inquiry began into the convictions of Annie Maguire and her family for being involved in bomb making. Public terror of mad cow disease rose after another cat died of a feline variant, though John Gummer, the Agriculture Minister, publicly ate a beef- burger and Margaret Thatcher ordered steak for lunch. An inquiry into the disease was launched by the Commons agricultural committee. Eight recommendations for air safety were made by the coroner presiding over the inquest into the crash of a Boeing 737 at Kegworth last year, after the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The Prime Minister met President de Klerk of South Africa, who could not give her a timetable for the establishment of demo- cracy in his country. Nine hooligan suppor-

ters of Bolton Wanderers were jailed after an undercover police investigation. It was announced that Ravenscraig strip mill in Lanarkshire, Scotland, was to close with the loss of 770 jobs. The new Conservative rulers of Ealing borough council in west London are to sack 70, including race and sex equality staff. Rising unemployment figures cheered up the City, and the pound and share prices responded. The Court of Appeal ruled that earnings from prostitu- tion are taxable. The comedian Max Wall died at 82. A rottweiler called Cassius, aged two, did not bite a woman, but instead retrieved her from a river in which she was drowning.

VOTERS in Rumania's first free election for over 50 years chose the National Salvation Front, led by Ion Iliescu, as their government. President Gorbachev met Kazimiera Prunskiene, the Prime Minister of Lithuania for talks and demanded the country drop its declaration of independ- ence. The CIA predicted that spiralling unemployment and inflation in Eastern Europe would destabilise its young demo- cracies. The United States and the Soviet

Union agreed on the main points of a treaty to cut their long-range nuclear forces. Eight Arabs were killed by a mentally unstable Israeli who ran amok near Tel Aviv, and widespread violence followed between police and Arab protes- tors. Amnesty International reported that China executed hundreds of Pro- democracy campaigners at two killing grounds in Peking after the Tiananmen Square massacre last June. Jiang Zemin, China's supreme leader, denied this and told American television viewers that the West's outrage was 'much ado about no- thing'. Thousands of students in South Korea celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Kwangju Massacre, the crushing of a student revolt with hundreds of deaths, with petrol bombs. North and South Ye- men agreed to unite as the Yemeni Repub- lic, with the North Yemen president General Saleh, becoming head of the new state. A Texan infected with, Aids admitted he had raped 50 boys in Mexico and the United States. A quarrel between two tribes in Papua New Guinea over how a PI should be served at a peace ceremony le