PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
Shuffling the pack reshuffle before the next election,' the Prime Minister commented, after making bigger changes to the Government than expected. Mr Brittan was moved from the Home Office to the Department of Trade and Industry, Mr Hurd from Northern Ireland to the Home Office, Mr King from Employment to Northern Ireland, Lord Young from being Minister without Port- folio (in which post he was responsible for stimulating job creation) to Employment. Messrs Jenkin and Rees were moved to the backbenches. Mr Parkinson was left on the backbenches. Lord Gowrie announced, surprisingly, his own resignation, to pursue a career outside Government. Mr Gummer was told to stop being Tory Party Chair- man and to pursue a career as Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Mr Tebbit was made Chairman. Mr Jeffrey Archer, popular writer, became Deputy Chairman. In Cam- bodia, Pol Pot ceased to be leader of the Khmer Rouge and Son Sen, the guerrillas' `defence minister', replaced him. Mr Robert Maxwell and the National Graphic- al Association, whom he had two days earlier blamed for the 'entrenched union anarchy' which made it 'no longer possible' to print the Mirror Group's papers at its London headquarters, reached an agree- ment, having lost 11 days' papers, to go on printing all the titles at headquarters after all, except the Sporting Life, which is being sold. Inner London Crown Court heard that James Mattinoe, arrested for being drunk in charge of an invalid carriage, was also wanted for jumping bail in 1972, when he was charged with running a brothel. Baroness Sharp died.
SOUTH African business organisations called on Mr Botha to talk to black leaders, including those in gaol. The South African government froze foreign debt repayments for four months but reopened foreign exchange dealings. The rand was firmer. At least 28 people were killed in riots in Cape Town. In Ireland, 70 prisoners from Spike Island prison in Cork harbour rioted and destroyed most of the prison, but killed nobody and failed to escape from the island. Forty-three people were killed in a train crash in France. The driver admitted he had been driving three times faster than. the (temporary) speed limit. The wreck of the Titanic, which sank in 1912 with the loss of 1,513 lives, was found lying in 13,120 feet of water 560 miles south of Newfoundland. At the Trades Union Con- gress, a motion proposed by Mr Arthur Scargill was passed, committing the TUC to campaign for Labour to reimburse the National Union of Mineworkers for costs incurred during the miners' strike, review the sentences of all jailed strikers and reinstate all sacked strikers, if the Labour Party ever returns to power. Moves were made to expel the engineers from the TUC, for accepting Government money for ballots. England won the last Test by an innings and 94 runs, and the Ashes by three victories to one. Miss Rabe Korn, who says that since 1979 the disc jockey David Hamilton has been pestering her telepathically, was charged with throwing white paint over the foyer at Broadcasting House. Karpov and Kasparov started to replay the World Chess Championship, now limited to 24 games. AJSG
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