PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
1 gather this doesn't happen in Toxteth either.'
Dr Milton Obote of the Lango tribe, twice President of Uganda, fled his country as he was overthrown by a military coup led by Brigadier Okello of the Acholi tribe. Troops and civilians went on a rampage of looting in Kampala. The new military leaders suspended the constitution, closed the borders and dissolved both Parliament and Cabinet. A Colombian air force DC 6 substituting for a strikebound commercial flight crashed. All 74 passengers are feared dead. France decided to take diplomatic and economic action against South Africa by freezing new investment and withdraw- ing its ambassador to Pretoria. Mr Rajiv Gandhi and the Sikh moderate Mr Har- chand Longowal signed an accord. Abnor- mally high levels of radioactive plutonium trichloride were found in New York's water supply. Opec approved small price' cuts for certain grades of crude oil. The Austrian Cabinet approved new controls on its wine industry. Steve Cram ran a mile in 3 min. 46.31 sec., a world record. It was disclosed that Rock Hudson, the actor, was suffering from Aids. Mr Gor- bachev announced he wanted a ban on all nuclear arms.
THE Commons rose for the summer re- cess. The Government was defeated in the Lords by a majority of five on a motion critical of the proposed pay increases to senior civil servants, judges and soldiers. The Labour Party investigated why 46 of its MPs were missing from the Ccimmons vote on the same subject, where the Government's majority had been reduced to 17 owing to a Tory rebellion. Andrew Neil, 20, of Brixton was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his 21- month-old daughter Tyra. Steven New- man, 19, of Warminster, Wiltshire, wile battered his six week-old stepdaughter to death, was spared from jail by a judge in the High Court who told him he would possibly be freed on probation. The fort- nightly journal Private Eye publicly ap0I°.- gised to Mr Cecil Parkinson and his consti- tuency secretary for alleging that the tvi° were having an adulterous affair. The Home Secretary persuaded the BBC. to stop the proposed screening of a television documentary featuring Martin McGuin- ness, an official of the IRA. BBC journal- ists voted to hold a protest strike. The executive of the electricians' union EET- PU endorsed a no-strike deal with Mr Eddie Shah's company News (UK). Effi- gies of the devil, a cross the size of a mall and cracker biscuits were found near the dead bodies of two young men in a ware- house at Nine Elms, London. D B
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