PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
Bringing up father.
Liverpudlians shouted, 'Kill the bas- tards,' as two ten-year-old boys left court where they had been accused of murdering a two-year-old boy abducted from a shop- ping centre. Crowds had previously attacked the house of a 12-year-old whom the police had questioned; he and his fami- ly then went into hiding. Another crowd at Anfield football ground stood in silence in memory of the murdered boy. The Prime Minister proposed a crusade against crime, particularly youth crime, saying that 'soci- ety needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less'. He was broadly supported by Mr Kenneth Clarke, the Home Secretary, and Mr Tony Blair, his Labour counterpart. A solicitor's clerk was shot dead by teenage robbers in a Ham- mersmith newsagent's. A Turner painting, `Van Tromp Going About to Please his Masters, Ships at Sea, Getting a Good Wet- ting' was sold by the Royal Holloway Col- lege for £11 million to the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. Mr Peter Brooke, the Heritage Secretary, denied that the Government's art collection would be sold off. Six of Mr Lamont's 'Seven Wise Men' advised him not to raise taxes at the Budget lest economic recovery be harmed. Last year saw the fewest days lost to strikes since 1891. Prescription charges were put up by 50p to £4.25. The Chess World Champi- onship final between Gary Kasparov and Nigel Short will take place in Manchester in August. There were floods in Norfolk and 387 men were evacuated from a North Sea oil accommodation platform. The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals threw away little woolly coats knit- ted by Somerset villagers for birds recover- ing from the Braer oil spillage: 'They're not used to wearing coats and they fall over,' a spokesman said. An unemployed waitress was charged with causing unnecessary suf- fering to a pet rat by leaving it unattended when she went to stay with friends. Mrs Judith Chaplin, a Conservative MP, died, aged 53. Sir Dick White, who had been head of both MI5 and MI6, died, aged 86.
PRESIDENT Clinton claimed that the European Airbus had been taking jobs away from Boeing by unfair competition. Mr Major visited Washington for, among other things, an attempt to persuade him otherwise. Mrs Clinton admitted to holding imaginary conversations with the late Eleanor Roosevelt. The United States decided to start dropping supplies by parachute over Bosnia, aiming at hungry Muslims. The United Nations, at the insis- tence of its Secretary-General, Mr Boutros Boutros Ghali, resumed efforts to send relief overland, which had been suspended by the UNHCR last week because of the violence and depredations of all parties. The UN Security Council resolved to set up a tribunal to try war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia; it would be the first such since Nuremberg. The US Secretary of State, Mr Warren Christopher, visited the Israeli Prime Minister and Palestinian rep- resentatives in an effort to restart peace negotiations in the Middle East. Israel took steps towards establishing diplomatic rela- tions with Vietnam. Parts of Hitler's skull were said to have been discovered in a Moscow archive. More than 1,000 people drowned when an overcrowded Haitian ferry capsized. French fishermen destroyed millions of pounds' worth of British-caught fish near Paris as part of continuing protests against imports. President Mobutu of Zaire, under pressure to resign, decided to extend a visit to France on health grounds. Cuba held its first free elections since Castro took power, but only for party- approved candidates. Australia is to hold a referendum on whether the Queen should remain Head of State if Labor wins next month's election. India beat England in the Test at Bombay by an innings and 15 runs, securing the series by three matches to nil. Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of the car company, died, aged 76.
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