PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
`OK so I do heroin — I can handle it.'
One person was killed and 17 were seriously injured when two trains collided in Staffordshire. Princess Anne made a ferocious attack on the British press at an official luncheon in the City of London: she complained of the 'unadulterated tri- via, rubbish and gratuitous trouble- making that appears in all sections of the so-called media'. A ten-week-old baby became the youngest recipient of a new heart and lungs during an operation at Papworth hospital. Mr David Steel failed to persuade the Liberal Party to accept the need to retain nuclear weapons, thus re- ducing the chances that the Alliance will fight the next general election with a single defence policy. Australia and India tied the first Test match of their current series, only the second time a Test has ever been tied. John McEnroe won his first Grand Prix victory for almost a year, and Nigel Man- sell the Portuguese Formula One Grand Prix, his fifth victory of the season. Geof- frey Boycott was sacked by Yorkshire after 24 years with the club. The pound streng- thened against European currencies, but continued to decline against the American dollar. Luton Town were thrown out of the Littlewoods Cup, once known as the League Cup, for refusing to allow follow- ers of Cardiff City into their ground: Luton had banned all away supporters from its stadium in an attempt to prevent football hooliganism. Mr Douglas Hurd warned that Britain faced a dreadful danger from the import of drugs. The Prince of Wales revealed in a documentary television prog- ramme that he likes to relax in his garden by talking to the plants.
NATO and Warsaw Pact countries agreed to be less secretive about their security arrangements and troop movements, at the end of a meeting, which had lasted over two and a half years, in Stockholm. Presi- dent Reagan addressed the United Nations general assembly and offered to ratify two important nuclear test ban treaties, to work towards an immediate interim agree- ment on medium-range weapons in Europe, and to postpone deploying Star Wars weaponry for seven years. Three days previously the President had expelled 25 members of the Soviet mission to the United Nations. The Soviet authorities were said to be offended by Mr Reagan's strong words on the continued incarcera- tion of the American journalist Nicholas Daniloff. A memorial service, held for the 177 miners who died in South Africa's worst mine disaster, was disrupted by groups of workers who refused to pray with whites. In New York, the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Shimon Peres, met the Soviet foreign minister, Mr Eduard Shevard- nadze , the highest-level meeting between the two countries for nearly 20 years. A Danish hunter, who laid his shotgun down on the ground after an unsuccessful day's shooting, was seriously injured when his dog stepped on the trigger and shot him.
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