PORTRAIT OF A WEEK
In the first stage of Chancellor Barber's acts, the we was abolished, along with the Consumers' Council, free school milk, and subsidies for London commuters. Aiming at a net reduction of government expenditure of £330m in the next financial year, and of £1,600m by 1974-75, the Chancellor promised 6d off income tax in his April Budget, and a reduction of Cor- poration Tax from 45 per cent to 42 per cent.
In Montreal, stringent security measures were taken during the funeral of Mr Pierre Laporte; and Mayor Drapeau's Civic Party won a devastating victory at the polls. In a gruesome multiple murder recalling the Sharon Tate murders, a wealthy eye surgeon and four others were found shot dead in a California swimming pool. Turning a blind eye to the two us generals stranded in Russia. after their plane was forced down inside the border, Mr Gromyko, the Russian Foreign Minister, arrived in England on a four day official visit.
In a week in which forty English Catholics, martyred under the aegis of Mary i, were solemnly canonised by the Pope in St Peter's, Mr George Brown changed his name to George George- Brown to avoid confusion with another Lord Brown when he takes his seat in the House of Lords. The four defendants in the Irish arms conspiracy trial, who in- cluded Charles Haughey, former Minister of Finance, were all acquitted.
In Atlanta, Georgia, Cassius Clay sur- prised no one by defeating his challenger, Jerry Quarry, in three rounds. He took away a million dollars for the exercise.
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