Portrait of the week
Astriking miner was killed when a railway embankment at Normanton fell on him while he was digging for coal. After peace talks had broken down, the Coal Board concluded that it would not be possible to reach a -negotiated settlement with Mr Arthur Scargill. They offered miners who return to work before Christ- mas a large bonus, and reported that the trickle of men returning to work had turned into a 'surge'. Mr Kinnock declined an invitation to attend any of the five mass rallies planned to consolidate support for the strike. The Government challenged Mr Scargill to say whether the NUM was receiving support from the USSR and other communist countries as well as from Libya. The British Association of Colliery Managers publicly criticised Mr MacGre- gor's handling of the strike, though not his aims. Mr Geoffrey Kirk, the board's head of public relations, resigned on the grounds that Mr MacGregor paid no attention to what he said. Sequestrators acting for the High Court successfully applied to a judge in Dublin to have £2.8 million of the NUM's funds frozen in a Dublin bank, but another six million pounds had just been transferred to America. Austin Rover sought an injunction under the new Trade Union Act to stop shop stewards declaring a strike without a secret ballot of the workforce. The Ministry of Defence announced that it had lost the navigator's log from HMS Conqueror, the ship which sank the Belgrano. Mr Heseltine, Secret- ary of State for Defence, told MPs that publication of the log would not embarras the Government. Two Egyptian brothers bought Lonhro's 29.9 per cent stake in the Harrods group. The three culprits in the 'toe in mouth' case of the tortured newsa- gent and wife were sentenced to a total of 46 years' imprisonment. Brighton police said they wanted to trace a Mr Walsh in connection with the bombing there.
president Reagan was re-elected by a 1 landslide majority. The Republicans also retained control of the Senate, and reduced the Democrats' majority in the House of Representatives. Earlier in the week, the first woman in America to be executed for 22 years, Mrs Barfield, known as 'the murdering granny', was injected with lethal drugs. She choose Coca-Cola and `Cheez Doodles' for her last meal and wore pink pyjamas for her death, receiving almost as much television coverage as the President. In India, Mrs Gandhi's funeral pyre on the banks of the River Jumna was lit by her son and heir, Rajiv. Hindu mobs attacked Sikhs, dragging them from trains and buildings, stabbing, shooting and burning them. After three days the disturb- ances quietened down. After 35 years China officially stopped persecuting class
enemies: 'Landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries and bad elements.' A quarter of a million Poles attended the funeral of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, who may be beatified, and whose tomb later had a large bunch of chrysanthemums and ferns laid on it by Mr Rifkind, the Foreign Office Minister, inscribed: 'With express- ions of deepest sorrow and respect from Her Majesty's Government and the entire British nation.' Mrs Peters of Cambridge, also known as Svetlana Alliluyeva, daugh- ter of Stalin, returned to Moscow 17 years after leaving and had her Soviet citizenship restored. The RAF began Operation Bushel, to fly grain to starving Ethiopians. In Australia, Mr Kerry Packer issued an 8,000 word denial of involvement \vith organised crime. In Canada, Mr Colin Thatcher, a politician, was sentenced to 25 years' jail for killing his wife, Mrs Joann Thatcher.
The Pope praised 'the self-discipline of sexual abstinence' in marriage. The much-talking Bishop of Durham declared: 'Anyone who says that I do not believe in the Resurrection or the Incarnation is a liar.' The Duke of Edinburgh urged man- kind to 'come to its senses and realise that we share this planet with the rest of life': other species had to be conserved or man's own days would be numbered. Miss Ger- many, in London for the Miss World contest, said: 'Princess Di has set the look for all women and is definitely the number one beauty of the world.' Mr Francis Noel-Baker, formerly Labour MP for Swindon, sued Greece's Socialist govern- ment for a million pounds, for taking his 11,000 acre estate away. England lost 19-3 to Australia at rugger. Typhoon Agnes hit the Philippines, where more than a thousand people have died in storms this
see Kinnock's drifting back to work.'
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