The Week
Leathern wings were heard flapping as Dr Henry Kissinger passed over England. The new Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Crosland, journeyed to Lincolnshire to pay his homage, before Dr Kissinger moved on to make peace in Africa, where he was photographed with President Kenyatta's fly whip. The State Department gave the Secretary of State no help by issuing to the Press photographs, wrongly captioned, of African leaders.
Ghana refused to receive the demon Doctor, who had announced a ten point Plan for black rule in Rhodesia. Elsewhere in Southern Africa the Daily Mirror 'discovered' Lord Lucan, clean-shaven and wearing a blond wig.
Portugal and Vietnam held elections, the results awaited with varying degrees of
expectancy. The Portuguese voted princiPally for Dr Soares's socialists, who hoped to form a minority government. President Franjieh of the Lebanon at last prepared for his own resignation, as for once Beirut enjoyed a period of calm. The sixtieth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Dublin Passed by without violence. Marshal Gretchko, Hero of Kutuzov and liberator of Czechoslovakia in 1968, died. Another gallant Russian, Captain Valentin Laichenko, connoisseur of Kensington public houses, returned to Moscow in the company of three large comrades. Two Hungarian 'diplomats' were arrested photographing a nuclear weapons plant, where they had gone early in the morning to run in a new car.
, Mr Jimmy Carter won another resound!ng primary victory in Pennsylvania, and looked set for the Democratic nomination. 11, is defeated rival, Senator Jackson, gloomily announced that he would change the Yle of his campaign. Mr Carter said that IS only threat now came from Mr Hubert Humphrey.
Mr James Callaghan launched into nautical metaphor to address the shopworkers' union: 'I can't say that you won't be seasick. The conference rejected the three per
tent Policy; all the same, there did seem to .ie—in a well-known trade union phraselght at the end of the tunnel in government nuegotiations with the TUC. Meanwhile, Mr L".caleY went to Luxembourg to explain to IS Common Market colleagues why the Pound continued to sink.
reThe Devlin Committee at last reported, shccnrimending that identification evidence Ould only be used to convict, on its own,
r_nly in the rarest circumstances. A report Out Lancaster University showed that aProgressive' teaching methods were less cadelTlicallY successful than traditional ones. Mr Jeremy Thorpe threatened to follow the footsteps of Mr Jimmy Goldsmith and institute criminal libel proceedings against Private Eye.
Great Britain faced the severest drought, for many decades. Sir Harold Wilson, newly knighted, found a flat in Westminster. The man next door cautiously said, 'There is no reason why they should not be welcome as good neighbours.' Mr John Stonehouse sacked his lawyer immediately before his trial and attacked other MPs. In Singapore MPs were told that they would have to do regular manual labour.
The men of the Swiss canton of Appenzell assembled in mediaeval costume to vote against giving the vote to women. The Pope appointed twenty-one new cardinals, including Archbishop Hume of Westminster. The House of Lords approved the decision of its privileges committee in the Ampthill case, but Lord Boyd expressed his grave anxiety.
The Indian cricket captain Bedi threw away the last Test match as a protest against dangerous bowling by the West Indians, who announced a team consisting mainly of fast bowlers to tour England this summer. To the relief of many it looked as though Stan Bowles of Queen's Park Rangers would be leaving English football to play for Hamburg. Princess Anne's doctor said that she would be riding again in a few weeks. And Wollow took the first Classic for England.
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