PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
'Which Side are you on?'
he Ulster Defence Association, a 'loyal- ist' paramilitary group, was proscribed, but Sinn Fein remained legal. Some 5,000 hip- pies and New Age travellers gathered at Romsey in Hampshire. The remnants of their three-day rave were moved on by police. Miss Jani Allan, a journalist from South Africa, failed in her libel case against Channel 4, which had accused her of an affair with the right-wing extremist, Mr Eugene Terre'blanche. She is left with a £300,000 bill for costs. Mr Terre'blanche continued to deny a key item of evidence — that he had been discovered drunk in a pair of green underpants with holes in them; 'I never wear green,' he said. A number of dirty tricks emerged after the trial, includ- ing theft of evidence, break-ins, death threats and a stabbing. Lord Devlin died, aged 86. His most celebrated case as a judge was the trial of the notorious Dr John Bodkin Adams, who was found not guilty. BP published plans to get rid of 10 per cent of its workforce; Barclays announced an 86 per cent drop in half-year profits; BT acqui- esced in Oftel proposals to keep its prices down. A couple who performed an act of sexual intercourse in a crowded train received complaints only when they indulged in a post-coital cigarette in a no-
smoking carriage. Each was fined £50. A schoolmaster monk was jailed for nine months for indecency with boys. A former employee of GEC-Marconi was charged with two offences under the Official Secrets Act. A pensioner at a public meeting threw a jug of water over Mr Val Tjolle, the chair- man of the collapsed Land Travel company. An international body responsible for bird nomenclature threatened to rename the grouse 'the willow ptarmigan'.
BRITAIN and France at first resisted sug- gestions by the United States that military action endorsed by a resolution of the UN should be mounted in the remains of Yugoslavia. Lady Thatcher told Americans and anyone else listening that intervention was a moral issue. A compromise resolu- tion to use 'all measures necessary' to send humanitarian aid was put to the UN Securi- ty Council. The Western media were much preoccupied by pictures of emaciated men in Serbian-run concentration camps, and stories of atrocities by Muslim women in Bosnia. Serbian officials warned the UN to expect a further 20,000 refugees, as ethnic cleansing continued. UN inspectors resumed their search for weapons of mass- destruction in Iraq. Grand Ayatollah
Abolciassem al-Khoei, the spiritual leader of the world's Shia Muslims, died in his Iraqi home at the age of 92. President Bush approved loan guarantees of $10 billion to Israel in return for assurances from Mr Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister, that settlements in occupied territories would be curtailed. The American Presi- dent denounced as lies claims that he had had an affair with a member of his staff, Jennifer Fitzgerald. The QE2 ran aground and damaged her hull on the Massachusetts coast. A 222-foot Italian power boat brought the Atlantic record down to 58 hours 34 minutes. The Olympic Games in Barcelona closed with a colourful ceremonY watched on television by an estimated 2 bil- lion. The United team from the former Soviet nations won 45 gold medals; Britain won five. Former President Kaunda was detained for several hours by Zambian police over a political meeting. Pol Pot met other Khmer Rouge leaders to determine its policy on Cambodian peace negotia- tions. Afghan planes bombed rebel strongholds south of Kabul and hundreds were reported killed. Mr Scott Killen, a native of Vancouver, shook hands with 25,289 people in 30 hours at the Canadian
pavilion in the Seville exposition. CSI'
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