PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
`Oh, Lord, help us cleanse this world of sinners.'
The Irish Republican Army launched mortar bombs onto London Airport at Heathrow on three days; they all mysteri- ously failed to explode. The IRA respond- ed to the Anglo-Irish declaration by saying that Britain should 'move from its current negative stance', which was said to differ from the IRA's 'positive and flexible atti- tude'. Mr Albert Reynolds, the Prime Min- ister of Ireland, said in America that the Anglo-Irish declaration was still just the thing upon which to build a peace process. A Dublin court found itself unable to extra- dite a man that English police want to charge with murdering a British soldier. Mr Peter Robinson, the deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, said that if Mr John Major, the Prime Minister of Britain, would not consolidate the Union, then Unionists would have to find some other solution. The chief of the defence staff, Sir Peter Harding, resigned when he was accused of having an affair with the oddly- named Bienvenida, Lady Buck, supposedly aged 32, the wife of the twice-married Sir Antony Buck, aged 65, an ex-MP. Thirty- two women were admitted to the priest- hood of the Church of England in Bristol. Dr Stanley Adams, who in 1973 exposed price-fixing by European pharmaceutical companies, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of plotting to have his wife killed. Hundreds of excited homosexu- als, calling for the right to have congress with 16-year-old boys, tried to march on Parliament and decided to lie down when police blo5ked their passage. The first Mrs Evelyn Waugh, Mrs Ronald Nightingale, died, aged 90. A pressure group resolved to give money to 11 women who want to become MPs; two are unemployed, three are charity workers, and the rest are teach- ers and that sort of thing.
MR WEBSTER HUBBELL, the associate Attorney-General of the United States and the third most senior law officer of that country, resigned. He had been a partner of Mrs Bill Clinton in her legal practice in Arkansas. Someone called Ms Dee Dee Myers commented: 'This is not something the White House asked him to do.' Britain resisted a change in the voting rules of the European Community consequent upon its future expansion to include Austria, Fin- land, Sweden and Norway; proposed rules, which would limit Britain's influence will be reconsidered next week. The United Nations Security Council called upon Serbs and Croats to end the siege of Maglaj in Bosnia, but it deferred declaring the city a `safe area', which would mean recruiting another 1,500 UN troops. South African soldiers took control of the homeland of Bophuthatswana after murderous fighting between black activists and Afrikaner sepa- ratists. Inkatha, the Zulu Party in South Africa missed the boat for taking part in next month's elections. Representatives from the G-7 group of wealthy nations held a conference in Detroit, which is not the capital of Michigan, on employment; Mr Lloyd Bentsen, the American Treasury Sec- retary, said, in reply to accusations that two million US job-gains were in trivial service industries: 'These are not just hamburger- flipping jobs.' The level of Japanese goods sold to the United States rose last month to $10.9 thousand million; the last figure was $10.5 thousand million. Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider of Fortaleza in Brazil was kid- napped by prisoners escaping from jail, who were allowed to go off in an armoured car. EuroDisney said that it had agreed a scheme with its bankers to continue trad- ing. Fernando Rey, the film actor, died, aged 76. Mr Garri Kasparov, the world's strongest male chess player, was accused of cheating in his game against the word's top woman player, Ms Judit Polgar. Allegedly he took a move back. Indisputably he won the game. A tiger, among hungry animals being evacuated from Luanda zoo in Ango- la to South Africa, got free and killed a cameraman.
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