— Portrait of the Week A SOVIET ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNIT shot down
an American photographer spying from the air on Soviet military secrets; the Royal yacht refrained from shooting down a Daily Express photo- grapher spying from the air on Princess Margaret's honeymoon.
THE COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS continued their conference, most of them finding Mr. Louw, of South Africa, persona not particularly grata, and with rather better reason than the South African Minister of Justice bothered to produce f9r saying the same of Miss Hannah Stanton, the detained British missionary, whose profession 9, Is to care for her fellow-men. The Ghanaian Government withdrew its invitation to Mr. Louw to visit Accra, and the Ghanaian Opposition United Party appealed to the Commonwealth Conference to press for the release of its mem- bers detained in Ghana without trial. The Con- vocation of Canterbury condemned apartheid as being 'contrary to the purpose of God for his children as understood by the majority of Christian people.' The Queen Mother left Lon- don for her tour of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, in spite of the news of violent rioting in the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, wherepolice reservists were called up. Mr. Antonis Pharmakides, the Greek Cypriot editor, Was found in a cave twelve days after having their kidnapped; he praised the kidnappers for h
Ministpatriotism. In Ankara, the Turkish Prime
Mr. Menderes, cried 'Why don't you kill !Ile?: to four thousand students heckling and Jesthng him as he toured the streets by car, and they cried back 'Resign! Resign He didn't, 4nd they didn't.
THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR SUBMARINE, Triton, e9inpleted a 41,000-mile underwater voyage round the world, and the Jodrell Bank station switched 29 a transmitter in the United States satellite Pioneer V when it was eight million miles away f a new distance record for transmitting signals b'roin earth to space. Workers on the ill-fated 'Atte Streak and its ancillary devices became redundant, and lost their jobs. Seven thousand all)rentices in the shipyard and aircraft indus- r,,rtes and the engineering shops of Belfast joined ine British apprentices' strike, but there were reports of some going back to work in Scotland.
▪ FOREIGN MINISTERS of • the six COBUTEM M• arket countries called unanimously for a i resumption of trade talks with Britain, and n the. no doubt benign atmosphere of a Wine and Pirit Trades Benevolent Society dinner the "resident of the Board of Trade promised 'a posi- tive and forthcoming response.'
Mt
f -"ER OF THE ETU who 'don't care overmuch its Communist leadership announced that :eel' intended to serve writs on the union's 'ea.ders in an attempt to redress the very serious ,grievances of the members of the union.' The BBC 49nnuneed that it intended to abolish the nine .clock news. At a meeting in Trafalgar Square, Oswald Mosley promised that the Union °vement would fight all constituencies at the 9e.xt election 'as and when we get the money to do !t. Press and public were excluded from the hear- 19g at Worksop Magistrates' Court of undisclosed ehll.arges against ten local men. A player broke pl.8 leg and the referee was booed in the FA Cup 81,991. in which Wolverhampton Wanderers beat tackburn Rovers. Train and tube fares went up, atId so did Senator Kennedy's Presidential stock, ith his landslide victory in the West Virginia '-'emocratic primary.
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