Portrait of the week
Lord Chalfont told an Italian reporter that Britain laid no claim to a special relationship with the United States after all. Mr Christopher Chataway, leader of the Inner London Education Authority, announced plans for preserving forty grammar schools. Seven parliamentary private secretaries, dismissed for abstaining on the Common Market vote in May, were forgiven. The shipping industry and port employers asked the Government to in- tervene in the dock strike—but 7,000 men on Merseyside were not deterred from staying out. Liberals castigated Mr Heath for urging talks with Rhodesia, and the British Lions are going to play rugby there.
Lord Attlee died on Sunday, aged eighty-four, and the Queen spoke of his 'enduring place in history.' Statistics of the week: the Brain Drain has doubled over the last six years, and last year 6,200 qualified men left for better-paid jobs abroad, mostly in the USA. Lung cancer deaths for 1966 were up from 18,000 to 27,025. Russia announced a £900 million increase in arms expenditure. Ameri- can casualties in Vietnam topped 100,000, and a Gallup poll showed 57 per cent dissatisfied with the way the war is being run.
Greek newspaper owner Mrs Vlachos, at present under house arrest, smuggled out a letter to the International Press Institute. 'Don't stop writing about Greece,' it said. Meanwhile former premier Mr Papandreou was freed and urged to leave the country. In Japan a student was killed and 611 policemen were injured in an anti-Vietnam-war riot. Chinese journalists in London tried to cross their five-mile limit on a visit to the freighter 'Hang- Zhou.' They waved their red books at the police- men who stopped them. 'Die Soldaten' had its premiere in Berlin and author Rolf Hochhuth was booed. 'Che' Guevara was killed by nine bullets.
The libel action brought by Mr Wilson against pop-group 'The Move' was settled, with apologies to the Prime Minister from all concerned. A number of Oxford students were disciplined for 'turning on,' Prince Charles went to his first lecture at Cambridge, and breathalysers emptied the pubt. Chelsea lost Docherty and seven-nil to Leeds.
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