PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
`That was the last painting he did.'
Lord Young of Graffham, the Secret- ary of State for Trade and Industry, won his appeal against a High Court decision forcing him to refer the House of Fraser takeover to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Mr Viraj Mendis, a Revolu- tionary Communist, illegal immigrant, re- sident for the past two years in a Manches- ter church was deported back to Sri Lanka after having been forcibly removed from his 'sanctuary' by the police. Mr Norris McWhirter's Freedom Association failed in the courts to prevent the International Cricket Conference (meeting at Lord's) deciding on a policy against players who visit South Africa. Some 6,000 citizens of Kent marched through Maidstone, protest- ing against British Rail's plans for a high- speed rail link to the Channel from Lon- don. Dr Tony Ridley, Chairman of Lon- don Underground at the time of the King's Cross fire, was appointed a deputy manag- ing director of Eurotunnel. Claims that Turkish peasants were being brought to London to sell their kidneys for trans- plantation were being investigated by the British and Turkish governments. Shares on the London. Stock Market reached their highest level since the crash of October 1987. Unemployment figures fell for the 29th month in succession, leading to hopes that the figures will drop below two million by next month. A slimmed-down Mr John Smith, the shadow Chancellor, was wel- comed back to active politics after recover- ing from his recent heart attack. The actress Beatrice Lillie, the surrealist Salva- dor Dali, the film critic Leslie Halliwell, and Field Marshal Lord Harding of Pether- ton, GCB, CBE, DSO and two bars, MC, a former chief of Imperial General Staff, died.
RONALD Reagan took his final curtain call as President of the United States, leaving behind a letter for his successor under the heading, 'Don't let the turkeys get you down.' President Bush declared that the US had a mission to 'make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world'. The Soviet Union announced further cuts in their nuclear forces in Central Europe. Poland and East Germany also announced cuts in troops and tanks. In Moscow the renowned dissi- dent, Andrei Sakharov, is to stand in the forthcoming elections for the new national congress against Vitaly Vorotnikov, presi- dent of the Russian Federation and a full member of the Politburo. The final Rus- sian withdrawal from Kabul appeared to be beginning. Rajiv Gandhi's ruling Congress (I) Party suffered defeat in elections in the state of Tamil Nadu. In Poland, Solidar- ity's leadership announced that it had accepted an offer from the Communist Government authorities to open negotia- tions intended to lead to the legalisation of the union. More than 1,400 were feared to have died following an earthquake in the Soviet republic of Tadzhikistan. The Israeli cabinet, faced with a general strike that closed most of the occupied Gaza Strip, endorsed a new military crackdown. In Miami racial violence claimed two lives; 325 youths were arrested, mostly for loot- ing. A serial sexual murderer, Theodore Bundy went to the electric chair in Florida. An engine fell off the wing of a Boeing 737 as it took off from O'Hare Airport in
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