22 JANUARY 1983, Page 34

Portrait of the week

Two detective constables, John Jardine and Peter Finch, were charged, and remanded' on bail, in connection with the 'tragic case of mistaken identity' which resulted in the shooting by police of a man in a rented car in Kensington, London. Earlier, a preliminary report had been given to the Director of Public Prosecutions, and Mr Whitelaw said there would be no whitewash. The policemen, perhaps mistak- ing a shot aimed at one of the car's tyres for a shot coming from the vehicle, fired at least five times at a passenger, Stephen Waldorf, aged 26. He was not killed, but wounded in the head, chest and liver. Jar- dine was charged with attempting to murder, Finch with attempting to wound. The police had intended to shoot David Martin, aged 35, an escaped remand prisoner charged with the attempted murder of a policeman last summer. Mar- tin's girl friend was in the car, but he was not. In Brussels, an Englishman was shot dead by Belgian police.

The report of the Falkland Islands Review Committee under Lord Franks was an even tamer affair than had been ex- pected. It concluded that the invasion of the islands by Argentina last April could not possibly have been foreseen, and that the Government was therefore not to be blam- ed or criticised in any way. However, the report did say that it was 'inadvisable' for the Government to announce the decision to withdraw HMS Endurance from service, and that it should have been rescinded. It was this decision which probably convinced General Galtieri that he could take and keep the Falklands. Twenty-nine thousand water and sewerage workers decided to strike for a 15 per cent wage increase. The chairman of the Coal Board, Mr Norman Siddall, was given a 15 per cent pay rise. Two RAF officers were convicted of negligence, in shooting down a Jaguar fighter with a Sidewinder missile, by a court martial in West Germany, and severely reprimanded. A Roman Catholic county court judge, William Doyle, was killed by the IRA in Belfast.

The State Department in Washington confirmed that an agreement last year between the chief US negotiator on arms control, Paul Nitze, and his Russian counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky — for the reduction of SS-20 and Cruise and Pershing ll missiles — had been rejected by both governments. President Reagan dismissed two of his negotiators, Eugene Rostow and Richard Staar, but reiterated his confidence in Ed Nitze, apparently a reference to Paul. In Bonn, Mr Gromyko, the Russian foreign minister, warned the Chancellor, Herr Kohl, of the consequences of keeping so many missiles so close to Russia and said

that the West's 'zero option' was out of the question. Mr Andropov hopes to influence the outcome of the general election in March in favour of the SPD, whose leader, Herr Vogel, he welcomed in Moscow with Russia's proposals for limiting nuclear arms. Mr N. V. Podgorny, formerly chair- man of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, died at 79. Mr V. A. Chernov, a Russian translator for the International Wheat Council in London, was expelled from Britain for spying.

Musa Celebi, a suspected Turkish ter- rorist, was extradited from West Ger- many to Italy in connection with the at- tempted assassination of the Pope in 1981. He is said to have given £750,000 to Mehmet Ali Agca who is serving a life sentence for the crime. The little-known President Navon of Israel visited the US, and President Mitterrand visited West Africa. In Zimbabwe, venereal disease was said to be affecting half the adult female population. In California, an agency was established to enable those suffering from the serpiginous disease, herpes, to meet those similarly afflicted.

The Prince and Princess of Wales return- ed to England after a skiing holiday somewhat marred by the attentions of the 'gentlemen' of the press. Buckingham Palace complained of intolerable harass- ment, but the press said it was in the public interest that the couple be photographed in the snow and the Princess had refused to cooperate. Heather Ross (Miss Bermuda) was sent to prison for three years for smug- gling cocaine into Britain. In Strasbourg, the home of foie gras, the European Parlia- ment discussed whether it was desirable to force-feed geese with maize in order to pro- vide this delicious pate. SPC

'Because of the impending water strike, I think I'll forego washing tonight to con- serve water for the nation.'