The Week
Although it was two MPs lighter after last week's by-elections, the Government scraped through its critical divisions in the House of Commons. The contentious Bills which had been amended in the Lords were successfully guillotined. Mrs Hayman turned up as threatened with his infant child. Mr Raphael Tuck MP pleaded that he was seriously ill, but the Tories refused him a Pair. He said, 'There is no compassion whatsoever in Parliament.'
in one division the Government's majority was down to one, the vote being that of Mr Frank Maguire, the Republican Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and ' A former internee, which brought Consery ' Iltive jeers of 'Saved by the IRA.‘ Another :Member, Mr Cyril Smith, spoke at an antiabortion rally with the double-edged argu'Pent that he was one of 'the poor bastards Who might never have been born.'
The Men from the IMF finally surfaced
after a week incognito in London, and started to tell Mr Callaghan and Mr Healey how to run the economy. Mr Alan Whittome, one of the IMF delegation, found that the English were not yet starving: he could not find a table for dinner at Wheeler's Or two other Soho restaurants. Meanwhile the Treasury was forecasting an increase in Public sector borrowing of £2000 million for next year.
Mr Ivor Richard left the Rhodesia talks
at Geneva but then flew back in the hope that there might be a break-through. The Archbishop of Madrid banned requiem 'Passes for General Franco.
Sir Ronald McIntosh, head of the
National Economic Development Office, said that it would be 'unthinkable' to raise direct taxation any further. Mr Raymond 1-ePPard, the conductor, announced that he Was emigrating to America to escape socialism. The internal problems of Equity. the actors' union, continued after an inconOusive all-day meeting.
Mr Enoch Powell planned to tell the City Young Conservatives that he did not wish to see the Labour Government 'incontintitlY' replaced by the Tories, but once the
' ories got wind of his speech, the invitation 10 make it was withdrawn. Twenty-four People were arrested in Bethnal Green after a racial street-fight. Equities fell dramaticallY on the London Stock market but recovered to an FT index figure of 305.4 by Wednesday. An appeal court stopped the Payment of £20,000 to Mr Joe Cahill, 4, warded as public compansation after he `lad been injured in an internal IRA titiabble.
Fierce fighting was reported in southern ARgola as the apparently defeated UNITA forces reappeared. Château Margaux was bought on the edge of bankruptcy by the Credit Agricole bank. The Pakistani journalists' union launched an attack on the government's new press laws.
The Ford motor company was accused of asking the families of its British employees to act as spies to prevent dishonesty. British Steel suspended seventy-eight men in Middlesbrough who had habitually left work early to get to the pubs at opening time.
Mr Brezhnev presided over the Red Square parade marking the fifty-ninth anniversary of the RussLn revolution. Mr Vladimir Sivakov, a Russian violinist, was daubed with paint by demonstrators during a New York concert. Syrian troops fighting in the Lebanon reached the outskirts of Beirut.
Members of the Scotland Yard pornography squad were accused of taking bribes. The population of British prisons reached 42,000, a level previously declared 'intolerable.' The newly-elected MPs arrived at Westminster. One of them, Mr Richard Page of Workington, is a new-style Tory with a daughter called Tracy. And, in Yugoslavia, the Austrian ambassador accidentally shot dead the French ambassador in a shooting party.
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