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Lord Louis Mountbatten, uncle to Prince Philip, was murdered
by the IRA on August 27th 1979. This previous post
dealt with that event. After a Funeral service at London’s Westminster Abbey,
Lord Mountbatten was taken to Romsey Abbey, near his Broadlands estate, for
burial.
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Sgt Ian Rogers was also murdered on August 27th
along with 17 other soldiers at an IRA ambush in Warrenpoint.
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The right-wing Daily Mail having a field-day at the expense
of the left-wing Trades Union Congress in Blackpool.
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A couple of snippets from the America column. The beauty of
the tape hoax is that even if they were caught they hadn’t actually done
anything illegal.
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Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, began his 5-year
killing spree in 1975 and was finally caught when, in January 1981 he was
arrested on a motoring offence and while in custody confessed. He was tried on
13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder.
The police came under a lot of criticism for not catching
Sutcliffe sooner. During their investigation they interviewed him 9 times. In
their defence it must be noted that it was one of the largest ever
investigations and being pre-computer was overwhelmed with paperwork. They were
also distracted by a hoaxer who led the police seriously astray.
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A bit sad for an actor and director to have his obituary headed as ‘husband of…’.
Between 1965 and his early death Derek Seaton had done everything from
Shakespeare to Doctor Who.
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In 1941 the Adolph Hitler’s Deputy Rudolf Hess flew himself
to Scotland to try to negotiate a peace between Germany and England, but he was
arrested and treated as a Prisoner of War. In 1946 he stood trial along with
other top Nazi’s and was sentenced to Life, which he spent in Spandau Prison.
From 1966 onwards he was Spandua’s only inmate and was guarded in turn by
English, American, French and Russian guards. He apparently committed suicide
in 1987 by throttling himself with an electric cord. At the age of 93.
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Seventeen years after the Cuban Crisis brought the World to
the brink of Nuclear War we have the Cuban Slight Upset. President Jimmy Carter
and various Senators got their knickers in a twist about a company of Russian
combat troops ‘only 90 miles from Florida’ that turned out to have been there
for several years and were perfectly entitled, under the Russian/US agreements
dating back to 1962, to be in Cuba. The Russian Government ignored Carter and
it all blew over.
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Rolf Schild, his wife and daughter were kidnapped while on
holiday in Sardinia. As the article says he was released with a ransom demand
for the release of his family. His wife was released in January 1980, and his
daughter in March. £220,000 was paid in ransom money but two years later 13
people were found guilty of the crime and were jailed.
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There’s good news and there’s bad news. Sizewell Nuclear
Power Station A was decommissioned in 2006 but Sizewell B came online in 1995.
Why not use the code issued to residents close to Windscale?
One devastating nuclear disaster is much like another.
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Film star Peter Sellers had married his fourth wife, Lynne
Frederick, in 1977 but by all accounts it was a stormy relationship that could
have ended in divorce had he not died of a heart attack in 1980.
If only his acting career could have ended with his
penultimate performance in the incredible ‘Being There’ instead of the dire
‘The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu’.
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It seems that Sebastian Coe went on to win Gold at both the
1980 Moscow and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, become an MP and a Lord and have
something to do with the 2012 London Olympics.
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