Portrait of the Week
MORE AMERICANS were killed last weekend in Los Angeles than in Vietnam, and probably more troops were deployed. Four days of burning, looting, shooting, and stoning left the populace bloody, battered and hungry amid the ruins. In Kashmir India seemed to have gained an upper hand after heavy fighting, though not without troubles of her own. Mr. Shastri'i parliament was besieged on Monday by a column of dissidents, seven abreast and four miles long, demanding re- occupation of the Rann of Kutch and a nuclear bomb for India, while waiting inside were eight motions expressing lack of confidence. Mr, Lee Kuan Yew and Tunku Abdul Rahman, no longer sharing the same pillow, tossed uneasily in separate beds, while President Sukarno, whose speech on Tuesday was a dose of much the same mixture as before, seemed oddly nonplussed by their divorce.
* IN SOUTH AFRICA, police paid their fifth visit in two months to the offices of the Rand Daily Mail, and the warder who prevaricated about prison conditions was sentenced with remarkable speed to the, heaviest sentence the law allows. One Kcmpton Bunton, in London. explained that he had intended to set up a charity to buy TV licences for the poor with the proceeds of the Goya theft, and was sent for trial to the Old Bailey. The Eire Extradition Act came into force on Monday—with no spectacular result since Charles Wilson et al had long since left those shores.
THE UN SURVIVED to fight again another day since America finally waived the right to invoke Article 19 against bad debtor's, and U Thant acquired a Russian as his deputy. The US found a surplus after eight years of deficit in her balance of payments, and the USSR discovered a continent on the dark side of the moon. There was polio in Blackburn, paratyphoid in Sheffield, and distemper in Leicestershire. Herring were two weeks late off Whitby and came by a new route. The Labour party announced forthcoming attractions, starring Wilson, Brown and Callaghan with jazz bands, beat groups and massed choirs, and the army issued a recruiting car-sticker: 'I've got a pal in the Coldstream Guards.' There were tempests in Chile, further indecisions in Greece and a revolt of French car drivers at the Gibral- tar frontier. The Foreign Secretary is to tour Latin America in January. New heights were scaled in the course of the week by the Beatles, Mr. Cecil Chalk and the Tinkerbelle, who respec- tively earned a record fee, caught a record monk- fish and completed a record Atlantic crossing to the sound of church bells.
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