PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
he Chancellor denied that Britain was about to cease its veto of European monet- ary union. Colonel Gaddafi of Libya paid £250,000 into a police charity in an express- ion of regret for the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Peo- ple's Bureau. The Foreign Office refused to resume relations with Libya. A Gallup poll showed that Labour had an eight point lead over the Conservatives. Labour held a party in the Park Lane Hotel with tickets at £500 a head. Mr John Major said it would be a calamity if Labour won, and was believed to have postponed the election till 1992. He suffered further criticism from the Bruges Group, which alleged he was 'scared' of being firm with the EEC. The Commons passed a measure to muzzle fighting breeds of dogs. England, cap- tained by Graham Gooch, won the first home Test match against the West Indies for 22 years. Kenneth Baker announced that a treatment programme for sex offen- ders would begin in the autumn. Curtis Howard, an American, was charged with the murder of Catherine Ayling, a student, and proceedings began to extradite him to Britain. Mr Bill Morris was elected general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, becoming the first black union leader in Britain. Commentators
described the job as a poisoned chalice. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service dropped a scheme whereby single women were helped to conceive. The DSS re- ported that more than two thirds of single mothers are given no money by the child's father, but don't regret leaving him. Prince Philip celebrated his 70th birthday by listening to a 41-gun salute in Hyde Park. Devon and Cornwall police were called in to find out how a condom entered the mains water supply of the Salmon family in Truro. Mr John Drummond, the Control- ler of Radio 3, castigated Nigel Kennedy, the violinist, as 'the Liberace of the Nine- ties'. The Oaks was won by Jet Ski Lady at 50-1.
VICTORY parades in Washington and New York celebrated the American suc- cess in the Gulf war. Israel refused an appeal by President Bush to compromise in order to bring about a peace conference in the Middle East. The Pope said that the creation of the state of Israel was an act of historical justice but refused to tell the Vatican to recognise that state. The Soviet Union was said to be heading towards unemployment for 20 million citizens. President Bush held out the promise of $1,000 million in trade credits for the Soviets. Douglas Hurd said the seven leading industrial nations would not give President Gorbachev concrete promises of cash. Wives of ruling National Party mem- bers in South Africa received warnings of future widowhood unless their husbands resigned. President de Klerk of South Africa announced an official visit to Kenya. Ethiopia's new leadership named Tamirat Laynie as acting prime minister of the country. Seven million of his people were said to be facing starvation. Poland and Germany signed a treaty of friendship, and Germans in Silesia were granted equal rights with other minorities in Poland. Rumania prepared legislation to curb the market in babies for adoption abroad. Albania and Britain held talks on Albanian gold and Albanian compensation for loss of British life in 1946. Male Japanese business leaders appealed to Japanese women to have more babies so that Japanese industry can be kept racially pure. Twin sisters who each twice married the same 85-year-old man went on trial in the United States for helping to murder him. The first transatlantic snail races were arranged in Norfolk and British Columbia, to compete over a 13-inch course.
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