DIARY OF THE YEAR
Wednesday 9 June: Cholera in Bengal seemed to be contained and Britain is ready to send more aid for the refugees. MPS were unhappy after Mr Rippon's brusque explanation of the sterling agreement with the Six and Lord Con- stantine is going back to Trinidad.
Thursday 10 June: On Prince Philip's fiftieth birthday, someone said the Queen's private wealth totalled only £2 million while some other people threw smoke bombs and tomatoes at the South African Defence Minister in London. The PM promised to announce a Parliamentary timetable next week •for EEC entry.
Friday 11 June: Soviet, British and American planes helped to move 2,500,000 refugees away from the India-Pakistan border. pi Britain, almost £500,000 of relief has been raised. Thirty people were arrested in Uganda for attacking a chief who tried to make his villagers wear clothes. Nine left-wing protesters in Mexico were killed by armed mobs.
Saturday 12 June: Wet June continued; the Queen had her official birthday, the Colour was trooped, Tricia Nixon was married and an
Australian woman had nonetuplets. Major Chichester-Clark became a lord, Terence Ratti- gan a knight, Sir Arthur Bliss a CH and Mrs Blanche Amy Coward got the BEM.
Sunday 13 June: Upper Clyde Shipbuilders want £5 million from the GOvernment to avoid collapse. Orangemen, on a march banned by security forces, fought with uK troops on the road to Dungiven, Northern Ireland. Food- poisoning was suspected of killing four British tourists in Andorra and the breathalyser was suspected by American experts of being wildly inaccurate.
Monday 14 June: ucs is to be liquidated after the Government's refusal to prop it up finan- cially. Lords Butler and Longford became Knights of the Garter. While UNESCO experts reckoned the Parthenon is turning to sand, an American professor said that if supersonic aircraft fly, the earth will fry.
Tuesday 15 June: The Provisional Liquidator of the MS consortium said that its total liabilities might amount to £28 million. It was hoped to continue work at the Clyde yards on a tem- porary basis. Violent crime rose last year by 10 per cent but so did its detection.
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