The Week
The shades of the Regency glared at the Plebeian assembly called the Trades Union Congress, gathered at Brighthelmstone. Mr Albert Booth, the Minister for Employment had his meeting broken up by leftWingers who went on to prod Mr Clive Jenkins. Mr Len Murray warned that a free for all would end in Queer Street. Meanwhile the strike at Leyland fizzled out. Mr Jack Jones sued the New Statesman and the body Mail.
The seamen's union voted—by a majority of less than one per cent of members—for a national strike. The executive, Sir Harold Wilson's 'tightly knit group of politically motivated men', called the strike for this Saturday. a decision already anticipated by the seamen of Felixstowe. The strike was greeted with strikingly little enthusiasm by fellow unionists.
Dr Kissinger discussed Southern Africa. Mr Vorster, who does not work on the Sabbath, sat with him on Sunday for four hours of 'informal discussions'. The men had widely differeing views of what had been Said and decided. Dr Kissinger saw Mr Callaghan before his leathern wings flapped for Dar es Salaam.
A KLM jet was hijacked but, after a cool display by the Israeli authorities and the Pilot, it was given up in Cyprus. President Amin returned a jet to Israel saying that he was not a thief. Corsican terrorists blew up a Hoeing 707 at Ajaccio airport. A Russian air force officer landed his top-secret MiG-25 In Japan. The Russians asked for it back. f he American Federal Aviation Administrator visited Farnborough and said that Concorde would probably be admitted to New York.
Four people were shot dead in a riot in Cape Town. Thirty people were killed in a train crash near Johannesburg. One hundred and twenty people were killed in a 'normal day of fighting in Beirut'. Signor Andreotti, the Italian prime minister, was mobbed by victims of the Friuli earthquake. Mr Gierek °fPoland warned that there were hard times ahead and that he would co-operate with the Catholic Church. Monsignor Lefebvre said that he wished to co-operate with the Pope. The government of Pakistan impertinent:1Y requested the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond which is part of the Crown Jewels. The opposition in Pakistan walked out of Parliament protesting that the new constitutional Bill was dictatorial. In Spain the °Pposition parties met to discuss unity. The Irish government pressed on with its charges of torture against the British.
A director of the French aviation com13anY Dassault disappeared with £1 million. 'err Schmidt of Bavaria said that Prince
Bernhard had never pressed him to buy the Lockheed Starfighter. Sir Hugh Fraser resigned his position with the Scottish and Universal Investment Trust. The FT index temporarily hit an annual low of 352.
Middlesex won the County Championship. Steele and Willey were not in the MCC party announced for the tour of India. George Best scored his first goal for Fulham after less than two minutes' play. Two people were killed in the Isle of Man TT race. Niki Lauda said he wanted to drive in the Italian Grand Prix.
The National Executive of the Labour party recommended the nationalisation of banks. Senior civil servants joined in the strike of staff at the Public Record Office which the Government is trying to move to Kew. Jon Swain, the missing Sunday Times joirnalist, returned from Khartoum to London. A widow complained that her dead husband's kidneys had been taken by the hospital without consent.
A colony of one hundred and thirty Colorado beetles was discovered and destroyed in Kent. Mr Callaghan said that Mr Thorsen, the Danish 'film maker', was undesirable; the Cambridge Union withdrew an invitation to Mr Thorsen; he bet a bottle of whisky that he would get into Great Britain. Sheila Buckley visited John Stonehouse in prison. .A New York judge found George Harrison, the former Beatle, guilty of plagiarism. And also in New York a man was awarded £.6000 when his dog was mistakenly destroyed by a dog-warden.
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