Portrait of the Week
BUGANDA AND BRITAIN were simultaneously thrown into a state of emergency on Mon- day : Buganda had a curfew in the capital, communications cut, riots, secret arrests, the palace besieged and the Kabaka reported cap- tured, same said killed, by troops of the Ugan- dan government. Britain remained compara- tively calm, with a reign of terror imposed by pressmen on. Covent Garden but no firing on the palace and no arrests as yet. Mr Hogarth thought the seamen could well hold out another month. In Nigeria, Gederal Ironsi abolished political parties and declared the country a republic. In Zambia, Presi- dent Kaunda refused to pay Rhodesian rail- freight charges, declined to discr•ss his decision and suggested Britain should leave the Com- monwealth. Mrs Judith Hart flew out to meet him and was not met at the airport. In Viet- nam, the Buddhists in Da Nang surrendered to the government after days of siege and bloody fighting. In Guyana, independence was ushered in on Thursday with a special six- point productivity plan: one point being that no Guyanese should sleep more than six hours a night, since every hour spent sleeping was an hour lost to productivity.
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