The Week

President Giscard d'Estaing returned from the United States and proposed a French Military intervention. This was greeted with varying degrees of scorn and derision by the

r re nch Opposition, the Syrians and the

Israelis. Mr Rabin of Israel refused to end land-buying by Israelis in occupied Galilee or to set up an investigation into six recent Arab deaths in the West Bank. At the World Health Organisation's annual meeting the 'Third World' majority naturally rejected a favourable report by three WHO experts about medical facilities in the occupied territories.

During an immigration debate Mr Enoch r °well produced a confidential Foreign °Ince report on illegal immigration. The Ronne Office deplored it. There was a

National Front demonstration at Gatwick Anal

where more Goanese refugees from Malawi arrived. Two coloured students were murdered near their lodgings in North London.

The South African conspiracy story fell apart as 'Colonel Cheeseman's' exposure tas followed by a confession from Andre kirt orne, the Guardian's favourite boy, that tale of a dirty film had been a hoax. Another accuser was more successful : Representative Wayne Hays at last admitted that he had been having an affair with his secretary, Miss Liz Ray, as she had claimed, but he insisted that that wasn't Why he had hired her. . The Italian election warmed up. Among Increasingly diverse candidates standing on the Communist lists was a former NATO c.°Mmander, General Nino Pastii This was spite of Pope Paul, who threatened CornSupporters with excommunication. he Pope e found time to make twenty new iV.dinals, including Cardinal Hume of estminster and Cardinal Trin Nhu Khne

"Hanoi.

The Queen visited Finland and Mrs lhatcher visited the German Christian rreolocrat conference in Hanover. Two polt,,.lcianswere assassinated in Uruguay and Policewomen were murdered in Ulster. "-cMcorde flew to Washington, missing ';Ilother aeroplane by 400 feet on landing Anud using the wrong runway on taking off. L "(mg Kong police officer, Superintendent

Yuk Kun, arrived in London to help v.ontrol Chinese gang warfare.

WCIaLvio8 fallen through the stage at the 41:8"-io, Muhammad Ali beat a Yorkshire s:4, Richard Dunn in the fifth round. Not purpris; , '118IY not many Germans were prewaxed to pay

£200 to see this fight, although

Tr Million Americans saw it oh television. Ril°e, West Indian fast bowlers Roberts, Kling and Holder devastated the MCC

batsmen, shot out for 197 and 83.

Mr Robin Maxwell-Hyslop MP found a procedural snag to hold up the Government's Bill to nationalise the ship-building and aircraft industries. The Government was mauled on the same day over its decision to postpone the new scheme for paying child benefits directly to mothers. Mr Foot tried without much 'success to steer himself out of trouble over devolution by proposing increased powers for the Scotch and Welsh assemblies-to-be.

The pound briefly touched a new low at $1.7807, the FT index dipped below 400 and MLR was raised to 11 per cent. But by way of consolation was the news that the Soviet Union was selling gold heavily after a record annual trade deficit estimated at £2500 million.

An inquiry into the leak of Sir Harold Wilson's resignation honours was set up under Sir Philip Allen. Judge Leon—the. author Henry Cecil—died, and Oscar Bonavena, the boxer once described by Muhammad Ali as 'the finest man I know' was shot dead outside a Nevada brothel. Karen Quinlan's artificial life-support system was at last cut off.

Mr Tom Jackson of the Post Office Workers Union declared that the Post Office had become a 'music-hall joke'. Two GLC councillors, Messrs Stephen Haseler and Douglas Eden, had the Labour Whip withdrawn. George Davis was photographed with Mr Peter Hain and poig nantly said that never stopped crying while in prison'. The M62 motorway was completed with the opening of the Ouse Bridge. A woman was killed in rioting in Athens and two people were killed in an explosion at Tel Aviv airport. Thirteen people died in a hijack at Manila airport. Pets were banned from British ships from the autumn as an anti-rabies precaution. A girl hiker in California was carried off by a 'large hairy animal'. And, appropriately for a week of sad news, it was announced that annual deaths from cirrhosis had risen by 39 per cent.