PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
Breakthrough in arms control.
Police continued their search for the Fulham estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, but Sarah Lambert, who disappeared, was found safe and well after spending a costly weekend with an escaped prisoner. Mr Robert Healey, a driving instructor, was charged with the murder of his wife and 13-year-old step-daughter whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Clywd. The Putney rapist, who operates through- out south-west London, claimed his 11th victim. A survey in a women's magazine suggested that 76 per cent of rape victims did not report their attacks, and a national newspaper reported that the actor who plays Dirty Den in the BBC's EastEnders soap opera had served 11 years in jail for murdering a German taxi-driver. Rolls- Royce won a £600-million contract to supply engines to British Airways for their new generation of jumbo jets, and the Government denied it had exerted any pressure. It was revealed that 60,000 tons of Common Market butter was to be sold at a cost of 11/2 pence a packet to be fed to animals. Mr Norman Tebbit, the Conserva- tive Party chairman, obtained a High Court injunction to prevent the distribu- tion of a magazine produced by the Fed- eration of Conservative Students which suggested that the Earl of Stockton be tried as a war criminal. Mr Tebbit inter- rupted his holiday in France to send his apologies to the Macmillan family. Unem- ployment rose to 3,279,594, an increase of over 50,000 from the previous month, and the trend was upwards for the eighth consecutive month. Ministers blamed the rise on exorbitant pay increases, which are now averaging over three times the rate of inflation. The reprocessing unit at Sella- field was shut down when radioactive waste was found to be too concentrated to be released into the Irish Sea.
IN PAKISTAN Miss Benazir Bhutto was arrested while on a protest march in Karachi as rioting erupted on the country's independence day. Six climbers, including two Britons, died on K2, the world's second highest mountain. Five blacks were killed by a landmine in South Africa's Transvaal province, and the government announced that 8,501 people had been detained without trial under the state of emergency declared on 12 June. An airliner carrying 60 people was shot down by rebels in southern Sudan, prompting interna- tional relief organisations to stop their flights of food and medical supplies to two million starving Sudanese. Mr Gorbachev announced an extension of the Soviet Union's one-year freeze on the testing of nuclear weapons, and challenged President Reagan to do the same: the US State Department rejected the proposal. Local residents began the mass evacuation of the hedgehog population of North Ronaldsay in the Orkneys; the creatures were eating too many eggs and threatening the island's rare bird population. In Los Angeles a 13-year-old girl reported her parents to police for possessing drugs. Mrs Reagan said, 'She must have loved them very
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