PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
Bewick's Shepherd and Sheep 1986 Little news emerged from South Afri- ca, where the papers could print nothing about the workings of the state of emergency. A man returning from his illegal bookmaker's had his hands and feet hacked off before becoming the first white to be `necklaced'; at least two blacks suffered the same death. The security forces were believed to have detained around 3,000 people, among them the suffragan Bishop of Johannesburg, on whose behalf Mr Terry Waite interceded on BBC radio. The South African govern- ment introduced fresh powers for the police, who may now detain suspects for 180 days without the inconvenience of a trial. Mrs Lynda Chalker, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, met Mr Oliver Tambo of the ANC. Bombs exploded in Durban and Johannesburg. Arne Treholt, the Norwegian spy attempted to escape from jail in Oslo with the assistance of a Gambian drug smuggler. Maoist guerrillas mounted a revolt in the prisons of Lima; the army was sent for and killed at least 350 of them. Coluche, a French clown who ran for the presidency in 1981, when he posed for his campaign photograph naked but for some feathers on his bottom, died. Mr Ian Paisley, political and spiritual leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, was carried, bellowing threats, from the chamber which had housed the defunct Ulster Assembly by police. He forecast civil war. Gary Hopkins was found guilty of murdering Leoni Keating.
THE slaughter and movement of sheep in Cumbria and North Wales were banned after the Ministry of Agriculture announced that rain which fell there a month ago was corrupted by radioactivity from the Chernobyl disaster. The Russians announced that four farms in the affected region would once more be cultivated. The Irish government made known its anger at the confusion surrounding the Stalker in- quiry into alleged malpractice by the RUC. Mr Stalker, the deputy chief constable of Manchester, said he still did not know what the allegations made against him are. Patrick Magee was given eight life sen- tences of 35 years each for the Brighton bomb murders. Thirteen people were kil- led when a van returning from the Glaston- bury festival crossed the central reserva- tion on the M4. Stonehenge was shut to all visitors over the summer solstice. Lord Trefgarne denied that any unit of the British Army practised any form of discri- mination after Prince Charles had express- ed concern that there were no black faces in the Brigade of Guards. Two NUM regional conferences proposed fresh min- ers' strikes; a judge ruled illegal the agree- ment signed in 1946 which gave the NUM sole rights to negotiate with the Coal Board. British Gas is to be privatised on terms which will encourage the employees to take shareholdings. A committee re- porting to the General Synod decided that the ordination of women might lead to a formal schism in the Church of England. Twenty-two out of 104 active bishops signed a petition against women priests. England fans chanting 'How does it feel to lose a war?' watched their football team lose 2-1 to Argentina in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, India won the second Test and with it the series, Barry McGuigan was taken to hospital after losing his world featherweight cham- pionship and John Lloyd lost at Wimble- don and retired. ACB
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