PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
ELEVEN people were killed and more than 60 injured when a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in Enniskil- len, Co Fermanagh, as crowds gathered for a Remembrance Sunday service. The Northern Ireland Secretary, Mr Tom King, described the incident as a 'monstrous and foul attack'. Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops strongly condemned those who perpretrated the outrage saying, 'It is sinful to support such organisations or call on others to support them.' Some observers believe that the political resolve of the British and Irish governments to make the two-year-old Anglo-Irish Agreement more effective will now have been strengthened. Interest rates were cut to nine per cent, the second reduction in a fortnight. The House of Commons passed the second reading of the measure allowing all-day opening for public houses in England and Wales. The House of Lords, however, voted down Lord Wyatt of Weeford's Bill to allow betting shops to open on Sundays: Lord Wyatt said that the loss of his Bill by three votes was due to 'Jockey Club peers' preferring a good dinner to turning up in the upper chamber and voting. Russian army officers attended British military exercises at Loch Ryan in Galloway which qualified for observation by Warsaw Pact countries under the Stockholm Accord. In an uncontroversial public exchange of views, Colonel Vjktor Kozhin congratu- lated the British forces on the unexpected- ly good weather. In the wake of the stock market collapse it was revealed that a 15-year-old schoolboy had run up an un- paid account of £100,000 using knowledge gained from 'commerce lessons' to buy shares by telephone during his lunch breaks. The Duke and Duchess of York have been given planning permission for their mock-Tudor mansion to be built in the green belt at Sunninghill Park near Windsor Castle. Miss Lindi St Claire, a prostitute, bought the title of Lady of the Manor in Laxton, Northants: she says that she has 'had the idea of buying a place and opening a home for retired prostitutes so that the girls could enjoy the country'.
THE US Dollar fell again to new lows around the world amid a lack of concrete action on the budget deficit. More than three weeks after ,the stock market crash Western political leaders and international bankers meeting in Switzerland continued to look to Washington for economic lead- ership. Herr Helmut Schmidt, a former West German chancellor, said, 'We are a convoy of ships without an admiral.' The 70th anniversary of the Russian Revolution was celebrated in great style in Moscow. In the Gulf, Iranian speedboats attacked another US-operated tanker. Mr Govan Mbeki, a former chairman of the ANC, was released after serving almost 24 years in prison in South Africa. Habib Bour- guiba was deposed as president of Tunisia. His successor, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, said that the former president, who had led his country to independence from France in 1956, had become senile. Mr Ben Ali's pledge of 'responsible democracy' fell short of a promise to fix a date for elections. Mr Caspar Weinberger resigned from his position as US Defence Secretary due to the ill health of his wife. Judge Douglas Ginsburg became the latest victim of America's current public fixation with the private lives of its national figures. He admitted to 'flirting' with marijuana in the past and had to withdraw from the Presi- dent's nomination to the Supreme Court. Mr Reagan did not help matters when commenting on his new (third) choice for the post said, 'Sometimes I think you could have put their names on a wall and thrown
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