Portrait of the week
Parliament reconvened this week. The Lords re- versed their July amendments to the Abortion Law Reform Bill and returned it to the Commons. Mr Wilson and Mr Brown were' kept busy entertaining Dr Kiesinger, the West German Chancellor. His professed support for British entry tO the Common Market was made much of, particularly in the fight of M• Couve de Murville's latest bombshell: the French foreign minister announced on Monday that Britain would have to solve her economic problems and make the pound a national currency before negotiations could start. Dutch foreign minister Dr Luns said, meiotically: 'A crisis is not to he excluded.'
In the Middle East a new crisis has already occurred. Epptians fired Russian missiles at the ilnteli destroyer Pilot,' which sank with seventeen dead and eighteen missing. The Israelis retaliated with heavy firing along the Suez Cabal, destroying. oil storage depots and Port installations; six People were killed.. - There • were world-wide anti-Vietnam-war demonstrations at the weekend. In London a_ Mr Cole showed his spirit by biting three policemen while demonstrating in Grosvenor Square, and was sentenced to one month per constable.
Lou Lewis, Communist leader of the Barbican strikers, was expelled from the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers for the second time; the railway guards, persuaded by Mr Gunter, went back to work and the dockers, addresSed by Mr Cousins, did not. There was a move to impose stricter security measures On civil servants, and the Ministry of Defence denied the report that Royal Navy frogmen were helping the Americans in Viet- nam. Phuc Yen, North Vietnam's chief airfield, was bombed for the first time, and fighting stopped a performance of Richard Lester's 'anti-war-film- film' How I Won the War. Michael (X) Malik told a meeting in All Souls, Oxford, that 'white people. are vicious and nasty.'.
Two policemen in North Devon chased an Unidentified Flying Object, but were unable to keep up with it; a pyjamaed High Court judge chased an unidentified intruder across Chelsea, but be wasn't
fast enough either.
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