DIARY OF THE YEAR
Thursday July 8: UK troops shot dead two men during rioting in Londonderry. The BC defended itself in a statement against Labour's protests over 'Yesterday's Men' and refused to apologize, while Labour defended Greenwich in a by-election and won.
Friday July 9: The spectacles of rioting, shooting, barricading, and CS-gassing in Londonderry did not deter Mr Wilson from captivating himself with his own shillyshallying over the EEC, though everyone else knew he would finally oppose entry. Over fifty people died in an earthquake in Chile and 300 in floods in Columbia.
Saturday July 10: King Hassan of Morocco survived an attempt to overthrow him while Lord Snowdon was reported to have thrown over the Queen Mother's horse trainer last week two glasses of wine, one white, one red. Zambia is to buy maize from Rhodesia despite the histrionics of recent years. Lee Trevino won the British open golf championship. Sunday July 11: King Hassan said the chief plotters would be executed tomorrow and the Stormont Opposition said it would withdraw from Parliament unless there was an inquiry into the deaths of two rioters last Thursday. Mr Healey started losing his enthusiasm for ECC entry while Lord Avebury lost his for becoming Mr Eric Lubbock again.
Monday July 12: Another soldier, the ninth, was killed in Ulster, although the Orange parades passed off quietly; there is to be no official Inquiry into Thurday's riot deaths. Three French campers in Cheshire were murdered. Our brisk PM held a 'world press conference' about the EEC.
Tuesday July 13: Mr Robert Maxwell is to sue the Department of Trade because he was called all sorts of nasty things in an official report on Pergamon Press. The hunt for the killer of the French tourists was called off after a man's body was found in a fume-filled car. The Government published its rent reform proposals. England won the Test series against Pakistan.
Wednesday July 14: Yet another soldier was killed in Ulster. Our valiant PM answered further questions on the EEC at •a special Conservative conference; the TUC and transport-workers opposed British entry, but the railwaymen refused to.
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