Portrait of the week
president Reagan tried to ingratiate him- , self with Argentina by proposing a -"eeting with President Bignone when he ',sits Latin America next week, but the of- fer was turned down. In a further effort to repair relations after the Falklands war, the tej, was said to have decided to sell 25 Mrs fighter-bombers to Argentina. "ars Thatcher was reported 'hopping mad' at the French for resuming delivery to the
, of Super-Etendard aircraft tempered her reaction to one of disappoint-
t, acknowledging that France had a contract to fulfil. Argentina is also about to receive two Exocet-carrying German andtclestroYers, equipped with Rolls Royce gas :nr,bine engines, British Lynx helicopters British-made electronic control systems, ti, The 'privatisation' of Britoil made a less "can successful start when only 30 per cent -,..13', issue 255 million shares were taken up. 'ne had been underwritten by mer- chan banks; shares were traded initially at a 19e t Per cent discount. The value of the ZPound fell sharply for most of the week, at ie dropping below $1.59 in spite of election of e ono England support. As the general elan nd, Mr in Ireland came to an i Haughey played on the oariglOPhObia of the electorate, accusing his s„DD°11ent, Dr FitzGerald, of enjoying the 1Port of the British government and col- lunch w, with a 'trained British spy' (one with with the Duke of Norfolk). A dispute lith the Society of Graphical and Allied ra,cles Prevented publication of the Daily the'egraPh in London for several days, also vle Sunday Telegraph. The Mail on Sunday was rePorted to be losing £1/2 million a week.' and Mr Murdoch warned employees :i i_ creas Tunees Newspapers not to expect a pay n next year. He agreed to buy H Other American newspaper, the Boston rne.ic.clid American, with annual losses of $12 his 10n. Mr Ronald Spark of the Sun won tic; aPpeal against expulsion from the Na- two Union of Journalists for accusing p,,°,_ reporters of 'treason' during the further war. British Steel announced a °further 1,700 redundancies. Two Constable oil, sketches of Salisbury Cathedral made 44,000 and £216,000 at Christie's. Yarning was named by President W M Reagan as the site for 100 nuclear LA Missiles, to be operational by 1986 at a ckonst , of $26000 million. The missiles, de';'vn as 'Peacekeepers', are to be thploYed in one formation on what is called rnuie fratricide' principle. China's foreign denister, Huang Hua, was replaced by his
MAY, Wu Xiuquan, on his return from meetings in Moscow which seemed to presage better relations between the two countries. Mr Huang had been ill for some time and his replacement was not unex- pected. Following elections in Brazil it was clear that military government would con- tinue at least until 1991.
At the inquiry in Jerusalem evidence was given that Mr Shamir, the Israeli foreign minister, had been told of the massacre of Palestinians at two Beirut refugee camps some 30 hours before Mr Begin said he first heard about it on the BBC news. The com- mander of US forces in Japan was rebuked for comparing Mr Andropov unfavourably with a snake. The Home Office disclosed that 140 foreign diplomats serving in Lon- don were suspected of having committed criminal offences this year, but no charges had been brought. The widow of Mr Bhut- to was allowed to leave Pakistan to receive treatment for cancer in Munich.
The Queen Mother left hospital after a successful operation to remove a 'foreign body' from her throat. Five pathologists gave differing interpretations of the injuries to Helen Smith, at the resum- ed inquest at Leeds into her death in Jed- dah, Saudi Arabia, in 1979. It was sug- gested that she might have been un- conscious, or dead, before she fell, or was pushed, from a height of 10, 30 or 70 feet above the ground. All were agreed, however, that Miss Smith had had energetic, or possibly forcible, sexual inter- course shortly before her death. In King's Cross, London, the church of Holy Cross was occupied by assorted feminists, sub- sidised by the GLC, complaining of 'police illegality and racism' towards prostitutes in the area. Pregnant women who smoke marijuana were warned of the risk of giving
birth to a deformed child. SPC 'Don't worry, dear, I'm sure it's another one of his gaffes.'
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