Remember A DayA Sydney man assaulting his ‘vampire’ neighbour, the queen’s art adviser being exposed as a Soviet spy and a teenager being swallowed by a python: headlines from 40 years ago
- A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history
A Sydney man assaulting his “vampire” neighbour, the queen’s art adviser being exposed as a Soviet spy and a teenager being swallowed by a python made the headlines four decades ago this week.
November 18, 1979
● Left-wing British Labour Members of Parliament demanded to know later that week whether the queen was ever informed that her art adviser had been a Soviet spy. Buckingham Palace had invoked confidentiality surrounding the monarch in refusing to answer this question. A former British intelligence chief said a massive Soviet spy ring which used the queen’s art curator, Professor Anthony Blunt, had stretched its influence throughout Britain.
November 19, 1979
● A dog staggering through the streets of the Spanish city of Palma with a golden earring aroused police suspicions. Officers took the canine into custody and discovered its collar was packed with LSD and that the dog had been drugged. Police believed the Alsatian, earlier reported stolen, was being used by drug pushers and the earring was intended for easy identification.
