PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
My God, hasn't she got any sense of moral duty? The Princess of Wales broadcast to the nation, saying that she had had an affair with Captain James Hewitt; that, because of the Prince of Wales's affair with Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles, 'there were three of us in the marriage'; and that she did not see herself becoming Queen. She then flew to Argenti- na. Rosemary West was found guilty of three murders; the jury then retired to con- sider seven more murder charges. Many bodies had been found buried beneath the house in Gloucester that she shared with her husband, Fred, who killed himself in prison. The Queen Mother had a hip replacement. Mr Michael Heseltine, the deputy Prime Minister, had a kidney stone removed. Mr John Major, the Prime Minister, spoke on the telephone to Mr John Bruton, the Taoiseach of Ireland, in an attempt to secure peace in Northern Ireland. Eleven new working peers were made, including Sir Gordon Borrie, formerly of the Office of Fair Trading, and Professor Robert Win- ston, the fertility expert, for Labour, Canon Peter Pilkington for the Conservatives and Mr Tom McNally for the Liberal Democrats. Camelot, the National Lottery operators, said they were making more than ever: £1 million a day after tax. The chief executive of Lloyd's, Mr Peter Middleton, suddenly resigned to join Salomon Brothers, the United States investment bank. Workers at Vauxhall voted to strike in support of an 11 per cent pay rise in the face of a manage- ment offer of 3.5 per cent. Lord Young and Mr James Ross, the chairman and chief executive of Cable and Wireless resigned. Granada made a £3 billion takeover bid for the Forte group. Reed Regional Newspa- pers was bought by its management for £205 million. Miron Grindea, the editor of Adam for 50 years, died, aged 86. Archbishop John Murphy of Cardiff died, aged 89. The three surviving Beatles released a recording of them singing along with a tape of the late John Lennon. Jackanory, the children's story programme on television, is to be dropped after 30 years.
THE DEADLINE passed for talks to be concluded in Dayton, Ohio, between the warring factions in the former Yugoslavia, but they then signed a peace treaty. The sig- natories were, Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia; the Bosnian Serb leadership denounced the agreement. Some 60,000 troops under the command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are to go to Bosnia, including 13,000 British ones. Congress voted against sending troops to Bosnia, despite President Clinton's undertaking to send 20,000. Mr Mohamed Sacirbey said he would be resign- ing as Foreign Minister of Bosnia when it was all over. President Clinton cancelled a trip to China so that he could try to sort out a row with Congress at home which had meant that 800,000 federal servants spent a week without being paid. Even so, China announced a cut of trade tariffs by a third. Mr Ruud Lubbers said that he was not being made Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation because the United States wanted someone who would do as he was told. The Dow Jones index reached a record high. Mr Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former communist, was elected President of Poland by 51.72 per cent of the vote against 48.28 for Mr Lech Walesa, the incumbent President and Soli- darity leader. The Egyptian embassy in Islamabad was blown up by Islamic extrem- ists, with the loss of 15 lives. France tested the fourth atomic bomb in a series under an atoll in the Pacific. Sri Lankan troops said they had entered Jaffna, the stronghold of the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, for the first time in five years. The Cambodian Parliament voted to lift immunity from Prince Norodom Sirivudh, the half-brother of King Sihanouk, over charges of conspiracy to murder Mr Hun Sen, a co-prime minister. Accusations of corruption were levelled against officials who awarded a radar system in the Brazilian Amazon region. A hundred Malaysian foot- ballers were arrested in charges of match-
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