PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
This is nothing — you should see what they do to each other.'
Abomb thought to have been planted by the Animal Liberation Front exploded beneath the car of a psychologist involved in animal research in Bristol, damaging a baby. An IRA bomb injured ten men and a woman at the headquarters of the Honour- able Artillery Company in the City of London. A retired police reservist and his wife were killed by an IRA bomb in Belfast. There was also an explosion at the previous home of Lord McAlpine, former- ly Conservative Party Treasurer. Nicholas Mullen, a fixer for the IRA, was jailed for 30 years for conspiracy to cause explosions. The pilot of a British Airways jet was saved from being sucked out of his aircraft by members of the crew, who held on to his legs after the windscreen shattered. An internal MoD study recommended that the Army should be cut by 60,000. The pound rose to its highest level since February on rumours that Britain might join the Euro- pean Exchange Rate Mechanism this au- tumn. Ten jails were overcrowded by more than half at the end of March, according to the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. An inquiry into the Strangeways prison riot was told the Home Office prevented the governor and prison officers from taking control again within two days. William Hill sus- pended the book on the Archbishop of Canterbury because eight large bets had been placed in one day on the Bishop of St Albans, the Rt Revd John Taylor, whose wife later said he did not Want the job. A woman mistakenly diagnosed as a cancer sufferer was awarded damages of £155,000 for severe depression after 13 months of debilitating treatment including the remov- al of a healthy ovary. A former deputy mayoress of Rochdale was found guilty of threatening to castrate a gas board worker with a knife because of noise from his pneumatic drill.
PRESIDENT Gorbachev met the presi- dents of the Baltic republics to discuss their claims for independence. Earlier he told a meeting of the Warsaw Pact that it had to reform or die. It agreed its new main role was to work for disarmament and a pan- European security system. Mrs Thatcher told Nato foreign ministers that you don't cancel your home insurance policy just because there have been fewer burglaries
in your street in the last 12 months. Later she met Mr Gorbachev in Moscow and insisted that a unified Germany must re- main in Nato. The Russian Parliament claimed supremacy of its constitution and laws over those of the Soviet Union as a whole. More than 1.6 million Soviet Jews were reported to have applied to leave for Israel. Yitzhak Shamir formed the most right-wing government in Israel's history. Vaclav Havel's Civic Forum won a land- slide victory in Czechoslovakia's first free elections. Rear Admiral Poindexter was sentenced to six months in prison in the United States for attempting to cover up the Iran-Contra scandal. The former com- munist Party won an election in Bulgaria. The State of Emergency in South Africa was lifted in all areas except Natal. Amer- icans were evacuated from Liberia by aeroplane after the government and rebels agreed to carry on fighting while holding peace talks. France, West Germany and Italy lifted their bans on British beef cattle after new health controls were agreed. Argentina lost to Cameroon and Scotland lost to Costa Rica in the opening games of
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