Very rare 7 Days magazine/newspaper issue No 4 17-24, 1971. 

Cover photograph by Tim Picton/7 Days

Home News, pp 3-5 Last week 7 DAYS reported ‘on the situation in Jarrow, a town

where 12 men out. of every 100 are out of work. Jarrow is not

exceptional. The deliberately. wielded weapon of unemployment is

causing misery and destitution over the entire country. It is in fact

killing people, as our story shows on the opposite page. Over the

coming months of winter this tapestry of misery, particularly for the

old, will get worse. 7 DAYS will continue, each week, to report on

these murderous effects of Conservative economic policy. ,

Also on this page the story behind another glamour development

scheme on the south bank of the Thames.

Photo-Feature, pp + 5 Miss Brazil finally became Miss World, a fact presumably as pleasing

to the rulers and policemen of that country as their football team’s

triumph in the World Cup. A large and satisfactory demonstration

took place outside the Albert Hall during the Miss World

Competition, and we devote the first of this issue’s photo-features to

this assault on Mecca and its works.

Capitalism, p 6 The British computer industry is in a disastrous mess. 7 DAYS has

been looking into its relationship with US and European technology

and describes what is likely to happen in this crucial sector.

Industry, p 7 Five times as many working days are lost through industrial

accidents as through strikes. The employers and newspapers make a

hundred times less fuss. Jack Finnegan assesses the record.

Foreign News, pp 8-10 On Okinawa the US has established the densest concentration of

military bases in the world. Now there is a feeble pretence that

Okinawa is being returned to Japan. Jon Halliday tells what is really

happening. Also on the foreign pages, news from Canada, West

Germany; and Ireland, ,

Photo-Feature, pp 11-13 Our centre pages review some triumphs of the British Army. Firstly

7 DAYS sent Tim Daly, the war museum bomber, to cover the

opening of the National Army Museum; secondly we present the

story of Imber, where the Army has against enormous odds, for 30

years, proudly refused to haul down the flag.

Sport, p 14 Do you really want to win the Pools? Billy Hack has been studying

the lives of the big winners, and stays our zeal

Life Selling, p 15 All over the country people stick trading stamps into their books

and imagine they are getting a good deal. Not so. John Mathews

paints the true features of the Free Enterprise tax man.

Law and Order, p 16 Two political trials of great importance are being conducted in

London at the moment. Prescott and Purdie stand accused of the

Angry Brigade bombings, the Mangrove Nine have just opened their

defence. We have given over a page to the proceedings.

ldeas, p 17 Wilhelm Reich has been a maligned and misunderstood thinker.

David Fernbach explains his ideas and his concept of the Sexual

Revolution.

ts - The Italian director Pasolini is in England at the moment, engaged in

Arts, pp 18-20 the worthy task of filming the Canterbury Tales. 7-DAYS

interviewed him about this apparently bizarre project and about his

7 recent activities. Also Charles Sawyer greets BB King, and extolls his

music. Stuart Hood writes about the Yugoslav partisans and we catch the BBC up to its usual spaniel tricks.

Special Feature, pp 21-23 The subject of this week’s special feature is the CIA. A short while

ago 7 DAYS acquired a secret memorandum in which the scope and

ambitions of US espionage and subversion were discussed by a clutch

of top bankers, politicians and spies. In the feature we also trace the

recent shake-ups on the US spy-structure and provide a check list of

the CIA’s known activities.

Staff Home news: Peter Fuller. Industrial News: Graham Burchell.

Research Reports: John Mathews, Judith McFadzean-Ferguson.

Foreign News: Fred Halliday. Sports: David Triesman. Capitalism:

Alexander Cockburn. Life: John Hoyland. Arts: Maxine Molyneux.

Special Features: Anthony Barnett. Presentation & Pictures:

Alexander Cockburn. Design: Alan Turkie. Production: Rosalind

Delmar. Advertising: Marjorie Grieveson. Distribution: Phil Kelly.

Aide: Tom Picton.

Non staff editors: Stuart Hood, Gareth Stedman Jones, John

McGrath, Jenny Moss, David Triesman, Peter Wollen.

Size A3 Approx 16 ¾ " X 11½ " ( 42 x30cm )

Good+ condition but middle page is frayed as seen.