Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe resigns; Britain swelters under a heatwave; peanut farming becomes a thing of the past for America's president-elect, Jimmy Cartter; British mercenaries fight in Angola; there are riots in Soweto in South Africa; the Notting Hill Carnival erupts into violence; the heatwave results in water-rationing; John Curry wins a gold medal for skating at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.