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...threat of trouble from the unions put a damper even on businessmen's enthusiasm for the budget. One wealthy corporate executive called home to tell his wife to lay in an ample supply of gas for their camping stove, lest there be no fuel next winter in their Kensington flat. And in the two days after Howe delivered his budget message to Commons, the Financial Times stock index dropped 27 points. The Tories stoutly defended their drastic action. "This is a severe package," conceded John Biffen, Chief Secretary to the Treasury. "But the severity is made necessary...
...London, Palestinians tossed a hand grenade beneath the limousine of Iraqi Ambassador Taha Ahmed Daoud outside his embassy in Kensington. Daoud, luckily, was inside the embassy, bidding his staff farewell before leaving for reassignment in Saudi Arabia. London police arrested two Palestinian grenade tossers, a man and a woman...
...kick off celebrations for his 80th birthday, London's Tate Gallery last week invited Moore and 80 of his special friends to dinner and proudly showed off a prize acquisition: 36 Moore sculptures donated by the artist. Across town, Moore mania also reigned in Kensington Gardens, where Londoners flocked to see a new, permanent display of his works. "A sculpture is like a person and you must treat it like one. You must put it in its best environment, like a person," says Moore. "That's why I like my large sculptures to be sited with trees...
Margaret rode out the shock of the divorce announcement in seclusion in London's King Edward VII Hospital, where she was treated for gastroenteritis and hepatitis. Roddy was in Tangier, accompanied-or so said the tabloids-by an unnamed blonde. Lord Snowdon, who now lives in a Kensington town house, appeared briefly to tell reporters stiffly: "I hope you will give support and encouragement to Princess Margaret when she comes out of the hospital and goes about her duties again." One paper acknowledged his own new personal status by flashing a front-page picture of "the girl Snowdon...
Despite the divorce, Margaret will retain her title, her place (sixth) in line for the throne, her $100,000 allowance and her rent-free digs in London's Kensington Palace, as well as custody of her two children...