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By Tony Da we disputes affecting 41 of the 123 jails the detriment of the criminal hours or cover for senior officers or quires: at StyaJL Cheshire, night and *‘civilianisation”, which of England and Wales. The POA justice system.” prison hospital and catering staff patrols cannot be reorganised; and means employing ancillary staff in WITHIN the walls of Britain's claims that the prison department Sir John is one of many urging who might be absent or on leave. at Dartmoor and Wandsworth, prison hospitals and kitchens to largest top-security jail, a determ¬ has reneged on agreements to the government to “grasp the Their action has closed the prison agency nurses cannot be employed free trained prison officers to ined challenge will be mounted this provide extra staff to offset cuts in nettle”. The catalyst for action at workshops, reduced the scanty in the hospitals to alleviate staff concentrate more on caring for the week to one of the last bastions of overtime. Wakefield is the arrival this morn¬ amount of education classes and shortages. inmates. r.-
Optimism rises as ON says American hostage to be set free soon Convoy forced to abandon sick in Shamir secures ‘medieval siege’
The extent of the agony ofl'ukovar is becoming cabinet backing apparent as relief workers describe conditions under the federal attack, reports Anne McElroy The foil horror of the terrible journey,” he said. siege of Vukovar was “Everything that could go laid bare to relief workers wrong did. Our great fear just returned from the Cro¬ was that people would die for Madrid talks on the way.’ atian town after a gruelling 13-hour journey across the Seven people had to be From Richard Beeston in Jerusalem and Ali Jaber in Beirut most perilous territory in transported to Zagreb yes¬ ISRAEL yesterday over¬ United Nations said yesterday Panlrin has voiced support for the Yugoslav conflict The terday for emergency treat¬ that an American was ex¬ Syria's insistence on security grey, fixed expressions of ment. Faced with the cruel whelmingly approved choice imposed by the lim¬ participation in next pected to be freed within 24 council resolutions 242 and the aid workers and the hours. Attention centred on 338 — stipulating Israel’s ex¬ mud-spattered white uni¬ ited space and the danger of week's Middle East peace forms of the monitors bore the route out, it was decided conference, in spite of Jesse Turner, who has been change of land for peace with held in Lebanon since January its Arab neighbours — as a witness to the horror of the to transport only those warnings from three 24,1987. Last week the group basis for a settlement Israel trip. Few had even the whose condition was con¬ hardline ministers that holding Mr Turner invited his rejects the principle, saying it energy to speak. Those who sidered stable enough to survive a gruelling journey. the country was being led wife and daughter to see him has already complied by did said the town was into a trap. for one hour. returning the Sinai to Egypt suffering all the pain of a The wounded of Vukovar medieval siege, made blood¬ were piled hastily into After a lengthy, and fre¬ The Israeli cabinet vote — Although the key Israeli quently acrimonious, de¬ 16 in favour, three against and ier still by the destructive trucks covered with canvas conditions for attendance, power of modern weaponry. bate the most uncompro¬ one abstention — was never in to allow a quick getaway. namely the make-up of the The convoy, organised by Only eight people could be any real doubt, ever since Palestinian delegation and the mising coalition govern¬ the French charity M£derin afforded the luxury of an ment in Israel’s history Yitzhak Shamir, the prime feoe-to-fece bilateral talks, minister, reluctantly agreed to Sans Frontferes and accom¬ ambulance. As soon as the committed itself to talks have been met, there is right- panied by European Com¬ last of the vehicles left the with its Arab neighbours attend the conference under wing suspicion in Israel that pressure from James Baker, munity monitors, evacuated town, a fresh bombardment Washington is intent on 109 seriously wounded aimed at settling the the US Secretary of State. began. Palestinian question and imposing an unacceptable ter- people. Bui others, includ¬ When the first tarpaulin ritofral-compreimse:--''-;•••■ the Arab-Israeli conflict Western governments and ing the elderly sick, had to cover was pulled back, it The decision was accompa¬ moderate Arab states have llie mood at yesterday’s be left behind. One medical revealed a mass of bodies nied by renewed optimism been placed on an anti-terror¬ cabinet meeting was summed worker said: “People were lying four deep in a ghastly over the fete of Western ist alert after opposition to the up by the transport minister, reaching out their arms to us mess of bloodied bandages, hostages in Lebanon. The conference from ban, Iraq, Moshe Katzav, a Likud party as we drove into Vukovar, pins, and dangling, dis¬ Libya and the extremist member who voted in favour begging us to take them with jointed limbs. A woman’s iratio on a groups they finance. Yes¬ of attendance, but said: wWe us. It was a torture to have voice moaned over and over terday Iran hosted delegates have decided to attend but to ignore them." again: “Get us ouL please from 45 countries at a meeting with reservations. Not one As the convoy halted get usoul” opposed to the conference, member of the cabinet voted outside the Djakovo hos¬ One driver spoke of a TODAY IN which is to be held in Madrid with 100 per cent certainty.” pital gates, guarded by ner¬ scene of “complete devasta¬ THE TIMES on October 30. Predictably, opposition to vous Croat guardsmen and tion”. The town has been Syria, Jordan and Lebanon the move was lad by Ariel kept in total darkness to without electricity, water or have agreed to attend the con¬ Sharon, the housing minister, ward off air attacks, Bert food supplies forabout three ference, sponsored by Amer¬ who demanded that Mr Nauta, a Dutch monitor sat weeks. ica and the Soviet Union. Shamir step down as prime motionless in his ambulance The convoy arrived at the HARD DRIVING Egypt and the Saudi Arabian- minister over the peace con¬ with his head buried in his Continued on page 20, col 2 led Gulf Co-operation Council ference. Mr Sharon suggested hands, exhaustion rendering plan to go as observers. that the leadership fight his face a mask. “It was a Coast road opened, page 7 Diplomatic sources in Wash¬ American pressure to attend ington said Israel and Syria the talks by mobilising world were already at odds about Jewry against President Bush. where to go from Madrid. The other two opponents Yassir Arafat, the PLO lead¬ were Yuval Nee man, the sci¬ er, flew to Amman yesterday ence minister and leader of the Uplifting: Jesse Turner's daughter Joanne, with her grandfather, Eugene Ronnebnrg For those who from Damascus, with a letter small and extreme Tehiya Ayrton Senna retained from President Assad of Syria party, and Rehavam Zeevi, a his world Formula One to King Hussein about the minister without portfolio and thrive on pressure championship yesterday possible convening of a mini- leader of the Moledei party, while Australia and Arab summit ahead of the who warned the government Tory ‘retreat’ on health Middle East peace conference. not to negotiate with a "Xhe T.ig-Hcuer series -4000 is New Zealand won rugby By Richard Ford, political correspondent World Cup semi-final Boris Pankin, the Soviet Continued on page 20, col 1 a truly original and elegant places foreign minister, who also WILLIAM Waldegrave yes¬ Major's government was up five points on last month at watch for competitors Pages 35,36 and 40 visited Damascus and Am¬ Spirit of T7 lacking, page 10 terday surprised the Treasury preparing to distance itself still 46, Conservative down one on everywhere. It is water man yesterday, and said that Terror alert, page 10 by indicating that the govern¬ further from the free market 39, Liberal Democrats down resistant to 200 metres and Leading article, page 15 difficulties lay ahead. Mr ment could retreat from the drive of his predecessor came one ou 12, Nationalists on features a unidirectional Thaicherite policy of provid¬ as the government made clear three and Greens on one. HIGH STEPPING turning bezel, scratch ing tax relief for pensioners that it is deeply unhappy with Today Tony Newton, the resistant sapphire glass and SZmS* » taking out private health care. the system for awarding social security secretary, will end of life battery indicator. BCCI enquiry arrests The health secretary's sug¬ independent television fran¬ announce a 4.1 per cent When you buy your By Bill Frost gestion that the relief may be chises. Mr Mqjor intends to increase in pensions from Tag-Heuer from Watches of withdrawn in the next budget April and a 7.2 per cent boost cany out reform of the system Switzerland you'll benefit A CITY accountant seconded Coopers and Lybrand, was was greeted with incredulity if the Conservatives win the to income-related benefits, from expert advice, to the Serious Fraud Office to arrested at the weekend. Also by Labour, which accused the general election. including income support and free insurance cover*, work on the Bank of Credit arrested was Bernard Lynch, government of reversing a Mr Waldegrave's indication housing benefiL The- annual and Commerce International aged 28, a self-employed acc¬ range of policies introduced that the government might uprating of social security Interest Free Credit’, extended guarantees, enquiry will appear today ountant, of Forest Hill, south¬ under Margaret Thatcher. scrap tax relief for private benefits will also give an Since Lynn Seymour east London. Both are charged in-house watchmakers was introduced to before Horseferry Road mag¬ “I have to say it has not health care came as ministers unexpected bonus to the over istrates, central London, with conspiracy to remove, worked very well.” Mr prepared for today’s Com¬ 80s: their weekly supplement and excellent after sales Covent Garden in The service. So why not call in Burrow, the charged with conspiracy to destroy or deface evidence Waldegrave said on tele¬ mons debate on the health has been frozen at 25pand will choreography has been pervert the course of justice. relating to fraud trials follow¬ vision. “It is expensive to service with an Harris opinion be increased to £1. There will to one of our showrooms virtually forgotten. Now Mark Braley. aged 24 of ing the BCCI collapse. administer and and has not poll in The Observer giving Continued on page 20, col 6 and see the full range of the ballet is to rescued BexJeyheath, southeast Lon¬ been taken up, I gather, very Labour a seven point lead. Tag-Hcuei watches on offer. Page 13 don, who is employed by Qaestions for Bass, page 21 widely.” His him that John The full figures show Labour Diary, page 14 Cents Scm'.-r 4l’)0Ci Qmirtz £520.00 -inp iix kilobit' on hiti'n::-: Free Crr/uf (Ai’K i<>‘> th-pa-jit xvUh 12 Heaven is polite nudists and speechless MPs liiontiiiu I’tiuiKcutf of £59.(11.1" _ Arts.--12,13,18 Births, marriages, deaths 16,1/ Business-—..21-26 By Ruth Gledhill free white robes, with a red sash for the Sue Townsend, the diabetic creator of Classified-17,27-32 RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT extra nice. Babies do not cry. Joan Adrian Mole, longs to eat chocolate and &f Coffins looks 70, and Pavarotti sings free smoke cigarettes to her heart's contenL Court Asocial--16 EARTH would appear to be hell for Crosswords--17,20 at every cloud junction. most people living on it, if two books on Julian Petlifer, the broadcaster, dreams Education__ 31,33 The Rev Nick Aiken, of the Church of views of heaven are anything to go by. of talent contests on television, no life Law Report-34 England's Guildford Diocese, asked insurance salesmen and no plastic cups. Leading articles-15 With a few notable exceptions, most The World's Premier Watch Specialists Letters--15 seem to want in heaven simply the celebrities to describe their perfect day Ken Livingstone, the Labour MP, seeks Life and Times-...-11 opposite of what they have on earth. trip to heaven. His book follows a “no fear, no loathing, no Thatcher, no Watches of Switzerland London Showrooms: Obituaries...... --—16 Many men might imagine that heaven similar work compiled by Fr Michael TebbH” while Liberal Democrat Sir > New Bond Street. 6v Bmmpton Road Kr.ichisb ridge, 1 Ole Bond Sheet, . Spon...34-40 would be to stand in the boots of Will Seed, ecumenical adviser to Cardinal Cyril Smith hopes “to be allowed to sit no Oxford Street, The Swiss Centre Leicester Square, i2i Regent Sheet, TV Sl radio-19 2~9 Regent Sheet, 22 Royal Ihrhange TtneadneedJeSir??;, cT Carling, captain of the England rugby Hume, Archbishop of Westminster. and snooze - no teeth in. slippers on ... Weather.-20 F-2-63 Fencnurch Street, Bren! Cross Shopping Centre team. Coding himself, however, longs to A child of eight in Fr Seed’s book longs to watch a soap opera to help me to escape the bruises of earthly life. Perhaps for “a place where animals don’t bite". sleep". Watches of Switzerland Siin'.v rooms in the British Wes: with foresight of the weekend’s World Ken Hargreaves, the Conservative MP, David Shepherd, the wildlife artist, London, Edinburgh. Cardiff, CUsuOv., Ne-istie, Leeds, Manchester, Cup quarter-final against France in fentasises of a heavenly parliament hopes he will not be mistaken for David Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford, Bournemouth, Jerses vM Paris, he writes somewhat wistfully of “where Sl Dennis Skinner doesn’t- Sheppard, the Bishop of Liverpool, as Tor furl her information send nov, for our complimentary catalogue to: his longing for “an amazingly peaceful, always have the Iasi word”. The Arch¬ happens frequently on earth, and John Watclie.. of Switzerland l td.,Hired Mail Division, l>1 friars Square, soporific atmosphere ... everyone gets bishop of Canterbury, George Carey, Major dreams of celestial cricket Avle-hny., 2TL Tel: (i'09h! looks forward in both books to meeting out of each other's way and if you Day Trips to Heaven (Marshall Pickering. ’Credit available subject to status “trsurancc subject to terms (2 conditions happen to bump a fellow *transparent\ ChrisL and in Mr Aiken’s book fashion Written quotations on request 770140"046015 £5.99, all royalties 10 ihe Prince's Trust); / everyone actually says, Tra sorry’!” celebrities dream of a world where Will See You in Heaven, St Paul Publica¬ ****** In his heaven, everyone wears crease- clothes do not exist. tions. £24.95). 2 Home News THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991
Straw says Trollope to take his place among Abbey’s great and good Labour SHK-' ' RvRnRrm Y/wnun _•„ . • ... ~ ... . ■ >_ ____ By Robin Young pressed into service as an annexe writers, including Chaucer, Milton, larly pack Trollope novels as their authors get a pane in the memorial THE Trollope Society yesterday for late literary luminaries who Dickens, Hardy. Coleridge, Words¬ holiday reading, though Mr Major window too.Today the Turner will keep claimed victory for its vigorous cannot be accommodated worth, Longfellow, Tennyson, Kip¬ is also known to read books by Society masts to discuss how to set campaign, backed by the prime elsewhere. ling, Jane Austen and George Eliot. Jeffrey Archer. The prime minister about winning a place for the pupil tests minister and his wife, to win Poets1 Comer was declared full Lord Rees-Mogg, a former editor wrote a letter of support for painter. By David Tytler Anthony Trollope a niche in the last month when Laurence Oliv¬ of The Times and a founder of the Trollope’s claim to recognition Claims have also been advanced EDUCATION EDITOR overcrowded confines of Poets* iers ashes were buried In the last Trollope Society, had volunteered which would have been difficult for for David Niven, Beatrix Potter. Comer in Westminster Abbey. remaining space beneath the floor, to take a crowbar to prise out those the abbey authorities to ignore. John Lennon, and Grade Fields, TESTING of pupils Trollope, who wrote the appropriately at the foot of Shake¬ he considered less deserving occu¬ Historically it has always helped and Kingsley Amis is campaigning seven will continue under Barsetshire chronicles and the speare’s monument Olivier was pants of precious space if room to have such a champion in high for A.E Housman of The Shrop¬ Labour government. Jack Palliser novels in his spare time (he not the first actor to find his way were not found for Trollope. The places. Ben Jonson was backed by shire Lad. It is unlikely that one Straw, Labour’s education had a full-time job with the Post into the comer. He was preceded peer had specifically singled out the Earl of Oxford, and Shake¬ window will be enough. Spokesman, says in an article Office, for whom be invented the by David Garrick. DJH. Lawrence. speare by Pope, Burlington and Decisions on all those cases have for The Times. Mr Straw, for pillar box), is to be commemorated The chapter decreed .that Oliv¬ The Trollope Society’s cause was others. to be taken by Michael Mayne, the the first time, commits a with the first of 30 plaques in a ier’s plaque should be the last in a undeniably assisted by the arrival The announcement of Trollope’s dean of Westminster, whose idea it Labour administration to previously plain south transept space whose floor and walls are success, however, will only intens¬ was that the window could accom¬ tegular testing for all pupils is Trollope: cause supported of John Major as prime minister. window which the dean and chap¬ now thickly covered with a jumble ify the efforts of other writers' fens modate memorials that could not spite of objections from the by the prime minister He and his wife, Norma, are ter of the abbey have agreed can be of memorials and plaques to 100 members of the society and regu¬ to ensure that their favourite be squeezed in anywhere else. country’s largest teachers’ union, the National Union of Teachers; which wants assess¬ MARC ASPtAlMD ment left to teachers. Regular testing at seven, 1 i, and 14 was introduced under Maintain standards the 1988 Education Reform Act and began for seven-year- olds two years ago. The tests have been surrounded by con¬ troversy with the first tests for or forfeit licence, primary school children pro¬ ving unworkable and dis¬ rupting routine classroom teaching. This year’s tests were ITV losers are told amplified but still attracted criticism. Kenneth Clarke, the By Melinda Wittstock, media correspondent education secretary, has now introduced simpler penefl- THE licences of the four losers newcomer to move in early. tner although its reduced bud¬ and-paper tests in English, in the ITV auction could be That can be done at any time," gets will restrict it to domestic revoked immediately between maths and science for seven- Mr Russell told Channel 4’s investigations. year-okls for 1992 which, he □ow and their expiry at the Answering Back yesterday. But Thames, cutting its says, will cause the minimum end of next year if the In¬ His threat comes as Thames regional programmes down to dependent Television Com¬ of disruption. disclosed that three of its the bare minimum required Mr Straw says that he has mission finds a serious decline regional programmes — The by the commission as not yet decided the form that in the quality and breadth of City Programme, Thames Re¬ transforms itself into an in¬ tests will take but believes that programmes being broadcast. ports and Thames Action — dependent producer and shed¬ these should be external George Russell, chairman would be axed before Christ¬ ding 1,000 jobs, is unlikely to checks on teachers' assess¬ of the commission, has said mas with the loss of 200 jobs. fell foul of a breach of ments. He says: “Standards that any company not living These programmes will be contract must be laid down externally up to its contractual obliga¬ replaced by cheaper pro¬ As long as it keeps to the six- and be comparable across the tions would be forced ofT air grammes and repeats, leaving hour minimum for regional country.” early and replaced by die just Thames News, Thames programmes, the commission Education, pages 31,33 newcomer. Help, Thames Sport and 01 would not be able to revoke its “If eventually they are For London. licence before 1993, when barely carrying a service, we This Week, Thames1 net¬ Carlton Television is due to Mayhew calms obviously have the right to work current affairs flagship, take over. Until now, Thames take them off air and ask the will continue until next sum- has always supplied for more Jewish fears regional programmes than re¬ quired. Convictions for anti-Semitic Mr Russell said it was in the offences were difficult because interest of losers such as of the lack of concrete evi¬ BBC ‘should end dence, the Attorney General Thames, TVS, TV-am and TSW to keep their standards said yesterday. Sir Patrick up in the next 14 months if Mayhew, who was accused local services’ they wished to continue as last year by Aubrey Rose of independent producers. the Commission for Racial All quiet: but behind the grim exterior of Wandsworth prison a struggle for authority is continuing Equality of foiling to act over By Our Media Correspondent The losers still have to submit schedules for ap¬ anti-Semitism, admitted there THE BBC should move out of Office has now begun a rig¬ were few convictions. proval “They can not just local radio and television and orous examination of the Giving the annual me¬ ditch tilings wholesale. They concentrate entirely on BBC's role, the results of morial lecture to the Associ¬ have to provide a certain Jail union holds the key to reform providing a high-quality nat¬ which will be published in a ation of Jewish Ex-Service¬ number of hours of local ional service that can keep the discussion document next A PRISONER, a governor men and Women in London, new ITV on its toes, George programmes, educational pro¬ manning levels and these have year. All options will be and three prison officers were An apparently simple argument over the prevented prisoners’ from he said that where emotional Russell, chairman of the In¬ grammes, news, religious pro¬ considered, including involved in a recent dispute -. attending education; classes forces were so intense, it was dependent Television Com¬ subscription and the privatisa¬ grammes and the like. They housing of a Wandsworth inmate tempting but wrong to attrib¬ cannot just replace them with on the top landing of E wtng in and workshops and have even mission, said yesterday. tion of radios l and 2. carrying the hepatitis virus has shown ute a refusal to prosecute “to cheap game, shows," a com¬ Wandsworth Jail, south cut the number of baths and Speaking on Channel 4*s Mr Russell described Mar¬ London. No one was hurt, no the powers of the Prison Officers’ indifference, or'- something Answering Back yesterday, Mr mission spokesman said. changes of clothing available garet Thatcher’s apologetic abuse was hurled but the to them. The" union argues worse”. Russell, who presided over the letter to Bruce GyngelL the Viewers worried about Association, Tony Dawe reports decline in programme quality incident a few days ago said as '•that" there- are-not enough government’s blind-bid tender TVnam chairman, as “surpris¬ much about the state of Brit¬ for ITV franchises, said: “If once the winning ITV Udders officers to provide these facil¬ Road dispute ing” because her system for ain’s prisons as the worst of the union called for the man to to the arguments of prison the BBC wants to use its take over in 1993 should take ities bat critics accuse the The planning committee of awarding licences had been the riots of the past two years. be moved- reformers, members of the money they should use it to be heart: the commission is union of being bloody- Cornwall county council has “carried out to the lull”. Graham Clark, the gov¬ Les Cave, & junior governor prison inspectorate, MPs and minded. the major national broad¬ aimed with a more stringent voted 10-9 in principle against He defended the controver¬ ernor of Wandsworth, had who was told of the decision, even ministers who believe caster. They’ve got five radio sanctions to hold ticencees to Last month, the , prison the counriTs own proposals sial £500,000 “golden hand¬ decided that the prisoner, who went immediately to the E that the power of the POA is channels, two television chan¬ their promised schedules. A authorities attempted to for an improved link between cuff” payment which had kept had just arrived from a local wing landing where he found the biggest obstacle to improv¬ tackle the staffing issue by nels. and a world service. You Michael Grade at Channel 4 St Austell and the A30 near magistrates’ court and was the prisoner being led from bis ing prisons. employing six agency nurses Bodmin. Opponents say the know, that’s a pretty big job to as chief executive. He said Mr cell by two prison officers. He awaiting sentence, should be Sir John Wheeler, chairman in the prison hospital. The new road would spoil beauti¬ concentrate on." Grade was “well worth hang¬ instructed them to return the placed in a normal cell al¬ of the Commons home affairs POA objected to the move ful countryside, divide forms, His comments came as ing on to" as one of the only though he was infected with man and bis few belongings to select committee, said: “It and started a second dispute. broadcasters and politicians people who could successfully and damage important his¬ the hepatitis virus and had the celL Behind him, however, shows that the prison service Terry McLaren, former toric gardens. The planning turn their attention to the retain Channel 4’s remit for asked for an HIV tesL stood Mark Healy, a senior is not in control of its re¬ POA branch secretary at future structure and funding minority and experimental committee chairman has re¬ The ground floor of K wing, officer and member of the sources.” Neither is the case Wandsworth and now a mem¬ ceived 400 objections. of the corporation in the lead- programming in a more called Kl, is devoted to people POA branch committee. He an isolated example of what ber of the union's national up to the expiry of its royal Letters, page 15 competitive broadcasting who are either HIV or hepa¬ told his colleagues to move the goes on in Wandsworth. The executive, said: “We need 26 charier in 1996. The Home environment titis positive and those who prisoner to Kl. POA has a reputation for extra officers now in Wands¬ have applied for tests at the The prison officers obeyed running “a military regime" in worth to return the regime to Labour pledge request of the Prison Officers’ their union official, the pris¬ the prison while failing to what it was five years ago. GC John Smith, the shadow chan¬ Association. oner was moved and today he heed the instructions of the “Bringing in outride nurses cellor, promised an overhaul The governor decided, in remains on Kl, even though management, a dispute three is not the solution. They will of the inheritance taxation keeping with Home Office Mr Healy has received a years ago, shortly aflier Mr be unable to cope with the system as part of a drive to cut Russell: franchises could policy, that it was unnecessary warning letter about his con¬ Clark became governor, led to psychiatric problems of pris¬ down on tax avoidance. A be revoked immediately to house the new prisoner in duct from the authorities. police officers being brought oners or the secure environ¬ Labour government would re¬ penalty points system will lead the special unit. The local The case is a classic example in to run the prison. ment. The move is a pernic¬ view the levels of inheritance to fines for offenders which, POA branch disagreed and at of who controls Britain's pris¬ Further disagreements have ious attempt by the prison tax and the rules under which for persistent offenders, could hastily convened meeting ons. It will add further weight arisen more recently over depanment to introduce people can try to avoid the tax, grow to millions of pounds. privatisation quietly.” he said yesterday. Labour First offences will result in a On Wandsworth’s third and would change the existing reprimand and on-air apology, latest dispute, he said that his system under which the donor followed by fines of increasing Psychiatric wing may close members objected to placing rather than the recipient pays severity before the ultimate HIV and hepatitis-positive the inheritance tax. sanction: the shortening or By Quentin COwdrey. home affairs correspondent prisoners in normal cells for termination of the franchise. THE prison service’s new mentally disturbed, has been two years were brought about fear that the prison would I Richard TVenornyp □ Carlton Television, which becomenWYimp “a rimTinirtodumping ground” 1 ^ director believes urgent steps condemned in a report on the by lack of care. Coroners have for such people. Out report (August 29) of will replace Thames, has an¬ state of Britain's jails com¬ nounced that John Bishop, should be taken to dose the criticised prison officers and The Home Office has now committal proceedings assistant head of variety pro¬ psychiatric wing at Bruton jail piled by Council of Europe medical staff for not consult¬ attempted to launch an in¬ against Mr Richard Trengove south London where 14 prison inspectors. Attempts to ing more with one another. before Fleetwood magistrates & grammes at the BBC and a dependent enquiry into this former director of Top of The inmates have committed sui¬ improve the regime on F wing Mr Pilling is to consider most recent controversy. It on cannabis charges did not Pops, will be controUcn- of cide since January 1989. have been undermined by the alternative ways of dealing asked the governor of an Isle mention that three further entertainment. Tracy Hoff¬ No firm decision has been block's gloomy Victorian de¬ with the 7,000 mentally dis¬ of Wight prison, who was charges against him involving man, an independent pro¬ made, but Joe Pilling, who sign, stretched staffing levels turbed men sent to Brixton visiting Wandsworth on amphetamines were dropped; took charge of the service last and the sheer number of each year during a meeting that a prosecution witness told UnAks Le ducer and former assistant another matter, to conduct an < iCLc ' head of drama at Channel 4, month, considers it is almost mentally disordered prisoners today with lan Boon, area investigation. The POA re¬ the court that while Mr *' vw Trip -ripi will head drama. impossible to raise standards who use it manager for jails in south fused, however, to agree the Trengove permitted cannabis wr -vv/k ji <-i J 1 lUi, within the unit to an accept¬ Inquest juries have con¬ London. Some prisoners may terms of the euquiry. to be smoked, he did not Diary, page 12 able level The wing, housing cluded that three of-the sui¬ be sent to the new Belmarsh encourage it, and that he did not act as a supplier. x ^ ^h-zr ’-“V r- Letters, page 13 240 prisoners, most of them cides on F wing over the past jail in southeast London. Judge's visit, page 1 -w w i e — t w s.* i * ;s
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By Peter Victor sexual harassment MORE than one third of Britain’s population will be over the age of 50 b> the >ear By Louise Hidalgo 2021. according to a stud} THE European parliament is strengthen existing legislation more than 5,500 complaints of published today by the tonight expected to approve a to cover it, and also to sexual harassment, a third of University of Strathclyde's code of practice on sexual implement the code in the them from men. Centre for the Study of Public harassment which, if ratified, public sector as an example to Louise Noakes, the co-or¬ Policy. could clear up once and for all private employers. Employers dinator of Wash, said: “The The report. Older Britons. what constitutes sexual inti¬ are urged to adopt their own EC has recognised sexual says that the number over the midation in the European policies, educate employees harassment as one of the most age or 50 is expected to workplace. and set up procedures for important forms of discrimin¬ increase by 5.3 million in the The code, due to be of¬ dealing with complaints. ation in the work place and next three" decades while the ficially launched in The Hague Although the code will not given us a definition number under that age will at the beginning of next have the legal force of an EC which gets rid of the grey area decline by 2. t million. of when behaviour becomes month, has been welcomed by directive, member states have More money will be needed sexual intimidation.” British groups that have been to report back to the EC in to provide national insurance Since the US Senate's de¬ campaigning for a legal defi¬ three years on how they have pensions, at present the largest cision last week to ratify nition of sexual harassment, a implemented it. single item in the public Piaw»n«» Thomas's nomina¬ move backed by the Equal The code has been wel¬ budget at £24 billion a year. Opportunities Commission. comed by Women Against tion as a Supreme Court Increasing numbers of women It spells out what behaviour judge, after a lengthy and claiming pensions indepen- Sexual Harassment (Wash), a much publicised debate over constitutes sexual harassment lobby group that this year I deni of their husbands will an allegation that he had and urges governments to alone expects to deal with lead to a disproportionate sexually intimidated a woman increase in the amount spent, law professor ten years before, says the centre. Wash has received more than 50 calls from women pursuing Health services also will Thomas case puts their own cases of sexual require greater funding. harassment. People over the age of 50 Most, according to Ms already account for almost offices on edge Noakes, said they feared that two thirds of health service the publicity accompanying spending. From Charles Bremner in new york the Thomas decision would Older people will be better LOTHARIOS of the Ameri¬ message”. Even if most not have helped, but could off financially, however, as a can office who have foiled to women disbelieve Professor rather have hindered their Tartan gathering: Ronald Reagan and Presbyterian service in a church was installed Last night as a member of greater proportion will be get the message after a week Hill, according to polls, the cases. his wife, Nancy, who were in Scotland capable of bolding 400. the “Keepers of the Qnakh”, a society home ow ners. While just over of national agony over sex¬ national consciousness has “They are questioning how yesterday to worship in the church Mr Reagan's great, great promoting Scotch whisky, bad not half of older Britons are home ual harassment have some¬ been jolted. “It has been the people will respond to them if where two of the former US president’s gaud parents, Claud Wilson, a weaver, originally planned to visit Paisley. It is owners at present, the propor¬ thing new to worry about: most major national click an articulate woman, prepared ancestors married. After being greeted and Peggy Downie, were married in understood that advisers initially liked tion will have increased to the object of their advances on an issue since the early to undergo a lie detector test, by the Rev Gordon Kirkwood, right, the church in 1807. Peggy Downie's the idea of a visit to Paisley, believing more than two thirds in 20 may be wired for sound. 1970s, when the women's has seeminly bad her com¬ the Reagans, both wearing tartan father was sentenced to death then it to be a quaint old Scottish village. years’ time. Rom coast to coast, movement first look off," plaint so publicly rejected." outfits, took part in the Sunday service deported to Amsterdam in 1794 for an They had second thoughts after learn¬ At present, the report says, shops selling spy equipment Rosemary Dempsey, of the The Equal Opportunities at Castlehead church in Paisley. anti-government plot. The tartan ing it to be a big industrial town with a less than t per cent of the report a rush for recorders National Organisation of Commission last week called Police and US secret servicemen jacket Mr Reagan wore at the service history of radical politics. retired population is not built into brief cases and Women, said. on the government to streng¬ mounted a strict security operation on was said to be the VVflson family As they left the church, the Reagans white. There will be at least a handbags. “We’re flooded Companies are forbidding then the 1975 Sexual Discrim¬ the ground while a helicopter ended tartan were presented with a picture mi the fourfold increase in the num¬ with calls.” said Ed Sldar, joke-te&ing and “dating” be¬ ination Act to include its own overhead. Bnt only 150 worshippers The Reagans, at the start of a visit to church painted by Margaret Barrie, a ber of a-lired people from president ofSpytech, a New tween employees, and are definition of sexual harass¬ took part in the simple Scottish Scotland where the former president paris boner. ethnic minorities. York firm selling bugs. bolding sensitivity seminars ment The amendment would, “Women are coming in and and banning terms such as the organisation said, clarify saying they never realised “honey” that might malm women's recourse, and dass what their bosses are doing women feel demeaned. sexual harassment as discrim¬ is illegal.” Spy World, a Many men are said to be ination. It put recommenda¬ rival, reports “a real big up¬ confused about whax is tions on the issue to the Home surge in the last eight days”. acceptable, a matter of some Office last November. The “My boss had been haras¬ import now that the office government has not yet issued sing me about three and a has replaced singles bars, adeciaon. half years,” said Shirley, a health dubs and discos as Michael Rnbenstein, the co¬ Spytech customer. “I finally editor of Equal Opportunities said I'm going to boy me a Review and a consultant to tape recorder so when he the European Commission on starts talking This garbage to the code of conduct, said the me. I'm going to have it on issue was not what constituted me.” sexual harassment but how to However, in the sexual give victims the confidence to battlefield that has opened come forward. up after the Senate’s Clar¬ “The government needs to ence Thomas hearings, pul effort into publicising that women are not having it all this type of behaviour is their way. Stops report that • .unacceptable, unlawful and a up to a third of orders are disciplinary offence,” he said. from men fearful that in the “There are a lot of women current dimate of suspicion, putting up with sexual harass¬ they may be the target of ment at work because they are accusations. “I'm taping HB1: sent a shockwave not sufficiently confident they everything in case the occas¬ through American offices win be listened to if they stand ion arises where if s one up to it” person’s word against the main hunting ground for The number of complaints another ” said a New York mates in America. “Men about sexual intimidation at executive who bought an and women now work side work has been steadily rising attach^ case with a recorder. by side, but still look at each in recent years, according to Some bosses are installing other with fear and bewild¬ the EOG The commission “anti-bug" devices to detect erment,” the Wall Street received 463 formal com¬ tape recorders. Journal said in a supple¬ plaints between January last The notion that your col¬ ment on the post-Thomas year and May this year, 25 per league may be bugging you battle of the sexes. cent more than a similar is hardly likely to calm the “Are offices destined to period a year before. psychological shockwave become sombre and serious Nearly 300 cases of sexual that has surged through with people living in fear of harassment have been taken offices since Anita Hill took offending their co-work- to industrial tribunal since her charges against Judge ers?” the Journal wondered. 1986, of which 54 were Thomas to Capitol Hill. With caution, it presented successful and 150 settled out As women flood the me¬ what it said was an accept¬ of court Several companies, dia with accounts of suffer¬ able joke — “Question: How including British Rail, the ing at the hands of insensit¬ many women does it take to Royal Bank of Scotland, IQ ive or predatory bosses, change a light bulb? Answer and the Midland Bank, have feminists are dedaring that One and there is nothing already adopted policies and men have “finally got the funny about it”. procedures on sexual harassment. Master forger confesses
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JULIAN HERBERT Standards and facilities under fire Research resources Mackay criticises ‘should be pooled9 magistrates for poor By John CTLearx HIGHER EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT UNIVERSITIES should pool service in courts resources to prevent some conurbations being left with¬ By Frances Gibb, legal affairs correspondent out the academic expertise to attract industry when research MAGISTRATES were be¬ thought the crown prosecutor first time and likely to be income is distributed more rated by the Lord Chancellor was running the court. nervous and apprehensive. He selectively, the new chairman at the weekend over the poor In another case, a man was praised urixas who found of their fending council says quality of service in their ushered into the magistrates’ time to steer people to the today. courts and for paying too tittfa room, where he was given right place. How conns were Universities' automatic en¬ attention to witnesses, defen¬ coffee and joined in the gen¬ chaired was of crucial im¬ titlement to research income dants and other court users. eral discussion. “It was only portance to magistrates’ reput¬ is to be scaled down as more of Lord Mackay of Oashfem five minutes before the court ation irnay The chair¬ the science budgei is targeted told JPs at the animal meeting sat that it was discovered he man must ensure that he or on top-rated departments. of the Magistrates’ Associ¬ was a defendant and not a she was seen to be in control Ministers have said that some ation in Loudon on Saturday, magistrate,” Lord Mackay and not assume people under¬ universities will have to con¬ that it could be an “eye said. stood the procedure. centrate an teaching. opener” if they saw what He also criticised courts Tbe Lord Chancellor also In an interview with The occurred in the foyer of then- that were still operating a commented on the need to Times. Sir Ron Dearing. the court on a busy day. The system ofblock listing; so that recruit younger magistrates, first person to chair both the standard of service in some all cases were listed for hearing which he said was of fun¬ polytechnics' and the univer¬ cases had fallen, “well below at IQam, for example. All damental importance. Some sities' councils, calls for “re¬ what court users may reason¬ courts should now have stag¬ steps had been taken with gional clustering” to preserve ably expect to receive”. gered listing, he said. success, but more needed to be research. “1 think it would be a He cited letters he Had The victim*’ ntqwtff pub¬ done, he said. He had blow to a major conurbation if received indicating “consid¬ lished last year by the home encouraged magistrates’ adv¬ it found itself with institutions erable concern” at the lack of secretary provided a checklist isory committees to make that were not rated welt in re¬ attention paid by courts to tbe of the services courts should contact with local employers search. because it would re¬ convenience and comfort of provide, he said. The check¬ through open days and meet¬ duce the ability of higher edu¬ users. In some courts, he said, list included whether people ings. Another help would be cation to interact with indus¬ he was told that there were no were given an information the recent mewe in allow¬ Sea lord’s salute: sea cadets representing units from tbe Home Counties, Midlands and South-West parading try and help nourish growth.” adequate facilities for telling leaflet on how to get to court ances announced by the home in front of Nelson’s column to mark Trafalgar Day yesterday. The salute was taken by the Second Sea Lord, people what cases were to be or where to park; whether secretary, he said. Admiral Sir Michael Uvesay. The Duke of York took the salute at another parade in Windsor Education, page 31 beard or how the court court listing was done on a worked, so that “people may block basis or in a way to cut be left sitting in the court's inconvenience to witnesses; foyer when the bench has whether there were public retired at lunchtime, not telephones or refreshment knowing what is happening facilities; whether there were and what they should do”. notices and signs so people One unrepresented defen¬ knew where to go; and dant had complained that no whether there were separate attempt was made by the court waiting areas for victims and to explain who was speaking accused. or what his role was. A survey Lord Mackay reminded JPs by a magistrate in one area that most witnesses and defen¬ had shown that a defendant dants wonld be in court for the Lawyers urged to resist funds plan THE government's proposals well-equipped, fully staffed for a system of funding mag¬ courts would be able to attain istrates’ courts by results was a high level of efficiency while severely criticised by the the smaller, poorer courts rhafraiaw of the Bar at the would become even smaller weekend. Anthony Scrivener, and poorer. QC, told the Law Society Mr Scrivener said that the conference in Brussels that distribution of grants should such a system was more be left to the central conned of appropriate to “canning peas” magistrates’ courts commit¬ than ensuing that justice was tees so that resources xould be done (Frances Gibb writes). used to -improve facilities He said :the dogma of where needed. “To use market market forces and the con¬ force dogma to drive the cepts of buying and selling poorer courts into the ground were now being applied to makes no sense.” areas where they were entirely The system had nothing to inappropriate. He added: do with dispensing justice, he “Unless we join together to added. It was the “brave new object, justice and service to world” for magistrates* courts. the public will become sub¬ • Company directors and merged as the disciples of the managers responsible for market force economy pour deaths and injury in disasters out to impose tbe gospd.” could be disqualified from Under the government’s business for up to ten years proposals, which have been under a new draft bfli widely criticised by mag¬ launched at the conference in istrates and justices’ clerics, Brussels. the level of funding mag¬ David McIntosh, senior istrates' courts would receive partner of the London law would be according to the firm Davies Arnold Cooper, number of cases they heard, which has formulated the how quickly they beard them, proposals, said that too often and how soon fines were “corporate high-ups” went un¬ collected. punished while those lower Mr Scrivener said that the down suffered prosecution. ‘Missing’ Mozart script rediscovered By John Shaw A MOZART manuscript, pages written in brown- thought to be lost for almost black ink on 12 folded 130 years, has been redis¬ sheets of paper. The title. covered on the Continent Sonata, in Mozart’s hand, and will be auctioned on has been crossed out and December 6, the day after be. substituted by Nissen, the died in 1791. composer’s first biographer, Tbe church sonata in C with the words in German major for organ and or¬ Symphony with organ chestra K329/317a was last accompaniment 177-. known in 1864- The pre-sale Mozart died on December estimate would have aston¬ 5 1791 and Dr Roe said it ished tbe composer, who had been decided not to sell always had money troubles. it on the anniversary Sotheby’s has put it at because potential buyers £200,000-1300,000. Scholars believe the work was probably written to be performed with the great coronation mass in C major, first heard in Salzburg in March 1779. It is in the same key and scored for the same instruments, including The Art of Mastering the Unexpected two trumpets, which were rarely heard in Salzburg Cathedral At Diners Club we understand that other unforeseen events wili leave you thankful Ludwig von Kdchel (1800-77) tbe man who first as there are no limits to the disasters that you took along your Diners Club Card. classified, and thus gave his name to all Mozart’s woric, can befall business travellers, there must be no So whatever sudden pressure is put upon mentions the manuscript but describes it as losL The Mozart: manuscript automatic limit to their spending power either. your finances, just relax - there’s nothing we rained at £2,000-£3,000 piece was. listed in a sale catalogue of 1864. 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By Kevin Eason, motoring correspondent A SECRET switch will protect is known, is activated by a key even though manufacturers a new generation of high' that is inserted into a lock have been tokl by Kenneth performance cars from joy¬ hidden in the car. Only the Baker, the home secretary, riders who steal them by “hot- owner and mechanics who fit that it is foe simplest way to wiring” their engines. the system at Renault UK's deter thieves. Mr Baker has Thieves steal 500,000 cars a engineering centre in London given car makers until Christ¬ year, triggering the starter will know where the activator mas to come up with pro¬ motor by by-passing the ig¬ lock and computer control posals for protecting their cars nition switch and connecting system are hidden. against crime that costs insur¬ electrical wires behind the The switch will be fitted to ers £600 million a year. He is dashboard, a manoeuvre that Renault’s four high-perfor¬ angry that^ although manufac¬ takes only a few seconds. mance cars, starting with the turers have made big imp¬ Renault, however, seeks to be Renault Clio 16v that gpes on rovements in the performance the first company in Europe to sale in Britain from Novem¬ of foeir cars, they have done protect its fastest cars by ber I. The others are the little to ensure their vehicles fining an electronic cut-out Renault 19 16v, the 21 2L are not vulnerable to theft or switch that prevents the en¬ Turbo and the Alpine GTA. break-ins. gine from being started, The cars will be the only Mr Baker said: “Manufac¬ illegally. ones on sale in Britain with a turers are foe masters of The computer padlock, as it factory-fitted engine isolator. technology and that technol¬ ogy can be used to reduce car crime. It would be effective to install an isolating switch so that, if someone breaks in, Charity premiere then foe thief cannot take the car." Executives from Renault for rare Burton UK were among foe manufac¬ turers who met Mr Baker at By Tar Jones foe Home Office earlier this month. Michel Gigou, the A RARE film of Richard didn't want it shown during company’s managing director, Burton which the actor would his lifetime when he was still ordered his engineers to come not allow to be shown in his considering stage work." up with ideas for an engine lifetime is to receive its pre¬ Support for foe premiere isolator. The result costs about Forking out: Geoff Goodman, who was told rt»af an organic form mighr main* him an extra £10,000 a year, but would cost £40,000 to achieve miere in Britain next month to has already come in foe form £100 and uses an infra-red help to raise funds for a new of cash donations from actors transmitter to sense whether orphanage in Romania. including Sir John Gielgud anyone is breaking into foe The film is a frill-length and Anthony Hopkins. car. When it detects move¬ Farmer counts the cost of going organic version of his starring role in The evening, arranged by ment, an alarm sounds and 6,000 to 5,300 litres per cow. that full organic status might the New York production of foe Romanian Orphanage Ap- foe computer is told to shut THE Prince of Wales’s forth¬ Hamlet, which was staged in coming book on organic Michael Hornsby reports on a family This foil in output however take five years to achieve. down all electronic systems in During that time, form out¬ 1964. Burton intended to foe engine. forming will have to be that had every intention of converting would have been more than put would be foiling without place it on general release after If foe owner loses foe ac¬ unusually persuasive if he offset by the assumed higher their farm to organic production, but foe compensation of higher the New York run but then tivator key, the system can be hopes to change the minds of price of organic produce — changed his mind because of over-ridden by punching a foe Goodman family, who who found that the process is only for 22.2p a litre for milk (com¬ prices. the possibility of more stage personal identification num¬ own and rent 357 acres of the very rich or the very committed pared with 18.3p for non- “We simply did . not see work. ber into foe computer control pasture and arable land in organic) and £220 a ton for how we could contemplate The film, three and a half in the engine compartment. foe wooded hills around cereals (as against £112). these risks and costs, part¬ would have been permitted hours long, was discovered by Three wrong attempts will Great Willey. Worcester¬ thinking about foe organic Money would have been icularly when we are already his widow Sally when sire shut down foe computer until shire. If he cannot make option for some time," Mr as fertiliser. To maintain saved on fertilisers, chemi¬ paying £17,850 a year in rent moved out of the former Renault engineers are called converts of such sympa¬ Goodman said. fertility, foe Goodmans cals and drugs, but feed¬ and interest oh bank loans. I family home in Switzerland. in. M Gigou said: “The iso¬ thetic folk as foe Goodmans, At present foe Goodmans would have had to rely on stuff, fuel and machinery was also not persuaded that She mentioned it to Burton's lator system is simple but his cause would seem lost have a dairy herd of 145 crop rotation, which in turn maintenance would have foe market premium for family in Wales and agreed to effective. Thieves cannot get Geoff Goodman, who cows, 63 beef cattle, 237 would have entailed re-seed¬ cost more. A second full¬ organic produce would al¬ it being shown for foe first away with foe car even if they runs foe form with his wife, acres of permanent and tem¬ ing up to 200 acres with a time farmhand might have ways be there. Frankly, milk time in his homeland, where do find foe isolator. And then Judy, son, Andrew, and one porary pasture and 120 acres dover-rich grass to "fix” been needed. Still the bot¬ is about as natural a he never appeared on stage they would have to know foe full-time employee, would of wheat, barley and fodder nitrogen in the soil No tom line looked quite good: commodity as you can get. after achieving Hollywood Sally Burton: found film after her husband's death code to start foe engine." be happy to form less inten¬ crops. Mrs Goodman also chemical pesticides would once the form was running as however you produce iL" success. Renault has refused to fix sively. But, unlike the runs a free-range flock of have been allowed. an organic unit, foe family The. Goodmans’ doubts peal Fund in Wales, will be The premiere, which will deadlocks to its cars because it prince, he is not a rich 1,800 geese. At least 80 per cent of foe could expea a net income of seem to be widely shared. So take place in Cardiff on attended by Princess Helen of believes they could be dan¬ Under foe consultants’ cows' feed would have had £29,700 a year, £10,000- for no more than 800 of Romania, who lives in landowner who can afford to November 10, which would gerous in accidents in which indulge a hobby. blueprint, foe Goodmans to be organically grown. more titan now. The snag Britain's 250,000 farmers have been Burton's 66fo birth¬ Britain. rescue services would have to would have concentrated on Veterinary drugs would have was how to get there. . haye^^gpne Mly .organic, The Cardiff-based appeal Earlier this year, foe fam¬ day, is being organised by his unlock foe doors. Deadlocks ily called in a consultant to producing milk and cereals. been allowed if animals fell ■ -The Goodmans wire-told despite the acti ve promotion hopes to raise £100,000 to niece, Sian Owen, a successful of foe kind fitted by Ford and advise on the feasibility of The beef cattle would have ill, but there would have they would need to spend by supermarkets of a small, TV actor. assist in foe building of a new VauxhaD cannot be tripped converting to organic meth¬ gone, leaving more pasture been a ban on foe routine use £40,000 bn re-seeding pas¬ but growing s demand for She said: “I have seen a orphanage is Vaslui, where foe from foe inside even if thieves ods. “The notion that you for foe dairy herd. The of antibiotics to prevent ture, on extra storage for organic food. Without video version of it and it is a original orphanage was de¬ break windows to gain entry. can reduce output, so acreage now under barley infections. grain and manure and on significant government aid. really great performance. Ap¬ stroyed by an earthquake. The Renault’s refusal has sparked putting Jess pressure on land and fodder beet would have Cereal yields, it was cal¬ new machinery for spread¬ conversion to organic form¬ parently it had originally been fund also intends to provide a debate within foe motor and livestock, and make a been turned over to wheat culated, would have fallen ing muck and weeding un¬ ing is likely to be for the very intended for release but for long-term support by setting industry, which wants EC- better profit than before, is and oats. from 3 to 1.8 metric tons an sprayed fields. More rich or foe ideologically various reasons that never up a full training and edu¬ wide standards on vehicle I seductive and we bad been Only farmyard manure acre and milk , yields from worrying was foe estimate committed. happened. Uncle Richard cation programme. security. Irish army Cost of living cheaper than Benefits dismisses a year ago, says survey ^foroocostly wives , soldier By Paul Wilkinson Married women with no per¬ By Ed ward Gorman IRISH AFFAIRS WORKERS could maintain quality of life index for the in council house, rents of 13.3 sonal income could be paid a CORRESPONDENT foeir present living standards regions. The average regional per cent, housing costs have basic soda) security benefit on 3.5 per cent less money salary of a middle manager is dropped 17.2 per cent since independently of foeir hus¬ THE Irish army confirmed than a year ago, according to a compared with foe national August last year. bands’ income, according to yesterday that a soldier has new survey of salary levels. In average. However, Reward's consu¬ the Policy Studies Institute. been dismissed for allegedly fact, wages have risen by Similarly, the regional cost mer price index shows, ex¬ However a study published passing on security informa¬ almost 9 per cent over foe past of living average is compared cluding housing and direct today concludes that, al¬ tion to foe Provisional IRA. 12 months. with the national average. One taxation, an annual rise of 9.5 though it would be equitable In a statement, foe army The report, by the market is subtracted from the other to per cent The report says it in¬ for married couples to claim said a joint investigation was research company Reward, produce Reward's quality of dicates foe underlying rate of existing benefits as though launched with foe police sev¬ says that foe cost of living has life index. The South-East has inflation is still too high. they were single, no govern¬ eral weeks ago into foe alleged been reduced by foe combined the lowest rating with a factor ment would be willing to abuse of what it called effects of lower interest rates, of -10.8 while Northern Ire¬ Reward UK Regional Cost of commit itself to the cost, information of a "restricted which have fallen 3.45 per Living Report September 1991 equivalent to a tax increase of land has the highest at +16.6. (Reward House, Diamond Way, short-term nature". cent since August last year, a The survey also shows that, 7p in the pound. The soldier was sub¬ Stone Business Park, Stone, 2.4 per cent foil in house prices in spite of an average increase Staffordshire, STI5 OSD; £90) The study it concludes that, sequently discharged and may and foe cut in poll tax. for an increase of Ip in the face criminal charges. The “Whichever way one looks pound, a number of benefit army said a review of security at it, most people in employ¬ options could be made avail¬ procedures specific to foe area ment who have a mortgage are able, paying around £20 a of foe soldier’s employment better off than they were a year week, without regard to mar¬ was nearing completion. ago,” foe survey says, and it ital status. This is the second similar suggests that a consumer incident in the republic in less boom could result Killings claim than a month. A policeman “Once they have repaired from Co Cork is on £30,000 Scotland Yard is trying to foe financial damage caused verify a man's claims that he boil awaiting trial on charges earlier, and if they are confi¬ killed two women in Brixton, under foe Official Secrets Act. dent about continued employ¬ south London, last month. Denis Kelly, aged 28. from ment, they win start to in¬ The man, aged 43, was being Mallow, is charged with crease spending in foe run up held on remand in connection imparting information on to Christmas. This may cause with an alleged violent crime. police operations to an un¬ a run on imports, but it is an named party, prejudicial to essential ingredient in halting foe security and preservation the increase in unemploy¬ Body washed up of foe state. ment." The report also shows The body of Anthony Barns, □ Hugh Annesley. chief con¬ that pound for pound North¬ aged 50, swept off a pier in stable of foe RUC, yesterday ern Ireland is foe cheapest South Shields, Tyne and disclosed that he had set up a ' place to live. In foe South- Wear, in last week's storms confidential telephone I Sailors' sale: Charles Berry, a boat equipment dealer, examining a propeUor East of England a pound buys has been washed ashore.. helpline to encourage North¬ offered at £85 at a nautical jumble sale at Chatham Historic Dockyard. Kent foe least Reward has created a ern Ireland businessmen to Impaled on train report the activities of An inter-city train arrived at a racketeers. station with a 'man's body Mr Annesley, speaking in a Disputed castle grounds open on eve of golf enquiry impaled on the engine. Darren radio interview, also said that Sims, aged 24, of Rossington, following a recent advertising By Craig Seton public were given access to foe Tussauds, foe leisure group, after 18 months of dispute of this listed park. The bene¬ needed to restore foe park and South Yorkshire, was believed campaign enquiries from po¬ 690-acre grounds for foe first more than a decade ago. about the proposal. Conserva¬ fits would not balance or foal that was unlikely to be to have stood in front of foe A PUBLIC enquiry is to open time since foe park was land¬ outweigh foe permanent harm tential Catholic recruits to foe tomorrow into plans for a Mr Newling Ward bought tion bodies and amenity achieved without some form train after a tiff with his girl RUC had increased from scaped, almost 250 years ago. to this nationally important hotel and country club with the park from a local former groups are to give evidence of commercial development. friend. about ten a month to nine¬ two 18-hole golf courses on Several hundred Warwick for over £5 million. He is due opposing foe scheme. Mr site in a conservation area.” Virtually nothing of Capab¬ teen. Catholics constitute Warwick Castle Park, which residents were allowed in by to tell foe public enquiry, at Newling Ward will call experts David Lambert, of foe. ility Brown's design was left. Nailing a. record about 8 per cent of foe almost conservationists describe as David Newling Ward, foe Leamington Spa town hail in architecture, ecology and Garden History Society, has Warwick Castle's adminis¬ 13,000-strong force. John Cassar, of Brisley, Nor¬ being among foe finest of park's owner, to see what his that his development is the landscape history to dem¬ described the park as “among trators had been supportive, Surveying security in foe folk, aims to set a world record English landscape parks. plans entail. best way to restore foe park to onstrate bis keenness to retain the very best of England’s Mr Newling Ward said. He in Lincoln this week by having province, Mr Annesley high¬ Opponents of the proposed The park, incorporating some of its former glory after many landscape features. landscape parks, comparable added: “They are very realistic lighted foe increased pro¬ 15,000 people walk over him £40 million golf development woodland, a 20-acre lake and a years of neglect and give Peter Storrie, a planning to Blenheim” and realise it is the only suit¬ ficiency of loyalist para¬ while he lies on a bed of nails. are to claim foal it will spoil a hunting lodge, was pan de¬ limited public access across consultant, is to oppose foe Warwick district council able proposal for foe estate. militaries, he said their historically important land¬ signed by Capability Brown footpaths. He has pledged to plan for foe Warwickshire Supports Mr Newling Ward's The golf courses will be kept Bond winners activities were largely reactive and it was his first private create a 100-acre deer park in branch of foe Council for the plan in principle, subjea to well away from the castle.". to republican violence. The scape. listed grade one on the Winners in the weekly National English Heritage register of assignment when he began the grounds, so as to enhance Protection of Rural England, safeguards. English Heritage is The plan would create more IRA still posed foe greatest Savings Premium Bonds prize parks and gardens, and dam¬ landscape work there in 1749. the view from foe castle, and foe Warwick Society and foe due to give evidence at foe than 250 jobs and bring £5 draw: £100.000, number 22KZ threat, he said. Ii has been closed to foe public to site foe hotel and country Friends of Warwick Castle enquiry but has not disclosed million a year to foe local 007964 (value of holding £744, He described relations be¬ age views from Warwick Cas¬ ever since. The grounds were club a mile from the castle to Park. He said: “We believe what view it is due to express. economy. If it went ahead, winner from Hampshire); tween foe RUC and foe army tle. one of Britain's most £50.000,18TP 242916 (£10,000. sold separately when Warwick make it less visually intrusive. this development will damage Mr Newling Ward said that local people would be given with foe Irish forces in border visited stately homes. Essex); £25,000. 17TW 275527 Yesterday members of foe Castle was bought by Madame Tomorrow's enquiry comes foe character and appearance millions of pounds were access to park footpaths. areas as excellent (£6,396, Staffordshire). 'Hi, '“i-r „
THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Overseas News i Gorbachev seeks to Croats reopen salvage viability key road on Dalmatia coast of new parliament From Douglas Hamilton in pag APART from two dozen road¬ of Pag. the supply lorries From Mary Dejevsky in Moscow blocks, a deiour by camou¬ queue by foe dozen to board foe Saint Jure, a modem roll¬ WITH the inter-republic eco- foreign policy, and even — central parliament has been flaged ferry and a bridge with a on, roll-off ferry. “Two weeks finally under his despite Friday’s economic restructured and win comprise hole in the middle. Yugo¬ ago, it was a beautiful white belt. President Gorbachev will treaty — on economic policy, two chambers which win op- slavia's beautiful Dalmatian two chambers which will op¬ ship,” said one regular pas¬ ™day try to shore up what was dipping. erate for the most part sepa- coast road is now effectively erate for the most pan sepa¬ senger. Bui Yugoslav planes rcmains of central legislative The opening of the autumn rarefy.rately. The upper chamber, open, providing a lifeline for the rebel republic of Croatia in fired on foe ferry and it is now- authonty when the restruc- parliamentary session, orig- the new Chamber of the daubed battleship grey, with tured Soviet pariiaxnent con- inaJJy scheduled for October 2, Republics, wiD be smaller its war with foe Serbian-led — ‘XT splashes of green. vraes for its autumn session, was twice postponed in the than its predecessor, the federal army. Tankers, lorries and trailers At irregular intervals on foe Yesterday, however, as dep- hope that more republics Chamber of Nationalities, and mainland highway, at junc¬ uties arrived in the Kremlin to would agree to part Last in both chambers deputies are snake endlessly along foe winding highway between bar¬ tions among olive groves or register their participation, it week, however, the steering now directly mandated from ren mountains and the Adri¬ on blind bends where a col¬ emerged that only seven of the committee decided to proceed their republics. This reverses atic. “This is the only road umn could be halted. Croatian 12 SoSovietviet republics would be regardless. The absence of the d*the previous structure where i national guard forces armed represented, raising doubts members of the union par¬ there is. If you go left, you’re represented, raising doubts Ukraine in particular win members of the union par- in foe sea. If you go right, into with Kalashnikov assault ri¬ about whether the parliament leave Russia with such an lamentliament were directly elected, foe mountains, you'd be look¬ fles man anti-tank chicanes. would be able to function. overwhelming majority that 31x1and wberewhere H*the central par-par¬ At one fresh detour in foe liament handed down de- ing for trouble,'* a Croatian The legislature was not the the other delegates could soon lia?3cm banded down de- guide said. Including a 30- quiet back country, a bathtub only central institution whose dedde that there is no point in radons to the republics. mile detour over the island of blocks the road and a very aomry to ao its job was turning up. little else is known about ability to do its job was railed Pag, a drive north on the 225- young man in jeans directs into question. The weekend Under legislation by how 0x5 new pwbament will mile road from foe port of traffic. Pans of the route vary also offered evidence that the the Soviet Congress of Peo- W®*** 81x1 2”*“ appears to Split to Rijeka lakes more by foe day or hour, depending centre’s hold on defence and pie’s Deputies last month, the “Y* °oax *" *° 25pnties » than nine hours, not least on foe activities of the Yugo¬ ______decide. Andrei Sebentsov, slav army or of Serbian guer¬ from the steering committee, because of the regular checks by soldiers at sandbagged rilla snipers. roadblocks. The road over Part of foe road, near Nin, is Yeltsin to Ukraine Pag, a lunar landscape of little more than a dirt track stone, was substituted for the through fields. In a forested mainland highway after fed¬ stretch close to a zone where sign Volga to set up =~Hs5H eral army forces captured Pag Serbian forces operate. Croat *--,1 bridge further south, cutting soldiers search the ground Q currently in custody charged around a Renault car which ” a T*jYJ T J with mverivement in the foiled foe usual route. accord army But foe Yugoslav air force has slewed off the road, its August coup. In the absence of MoscowVtnarnw —- RnricBoris Yeltsin,Y^hein tit#the AAAJw failed to destroy a second windscreen shattered. At the '■*.1 - ■*"»! t 4-'.non i„ ,... RussianilugMP president,president, will sisigngn an From Robert Seely bridge to Pag. which runs high port of Zadar, tall blocks of •" Jihirif agreement«reement min Germany nest inIN KIEVKiev uWoresenL ^ over a narrow sea channel flats are pock-marked by- month outlining (be final "There were four air attacks heavy machin«.-gun fire and terms for re-establishing an THE Soviet Army in the on the bridge," Reno Sinov- holed by shells. Resort hotels Ukraine is to be phased out autonomousuitotKJmouT^cGSnan ethnic German Ukra™! “J? * ***** ouj emerged about cic. aged 30, a Croat guards¬ in Biograd, Crikvcnica, i organic homelandlomdand in Russia’sM
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THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 10 Overseas News Ca Spirit of 1977 fails to materialise as gloom descends oeace table was the easy AFTER 43 years of mutual of straight talking last which erupted in December Israelis believe the Syrians nan,” a State Department hostility and five wars, the Expectation of failure exceeds the Wednesday, he would not iti$pd£ want territory for non-bellig¬ 1987. official aid. “You have lo Arabs and Israelis are prepar¬ even contemplate shaking The mutual distrust which wildest hopes for peace as Arabs and erency. And I am not going assume the most difficult ing to sit down and talk the hand of his counterpart, to sit here and tell you, before 12 years of peace have done pans are yet to come. peace. But in the Middle East Israelis prepare for the Madrid talks, David Levy — ironically one they get together and nego¬ little to eradicate was illus¬ TTbe main hope is that the there is nq sign of that frisson of the most pro-conference tiate, that we have already trated yesterday by a hapless writes Christopher Walker from Cairo process of resolving the of hope sparked by President members in the Israeli cabi¬ changed their positions,” .re- , Japanese tourist wandering ■- w world's most troublesome Sadat’s flight to Jerusalem in net “This very hand that marked a senior member of through the dusty streets of dispute has been irrevocably November 1977. Secretary of State, has called States, than because of any you would like me to shake is the Baker party after the Cairo with his luggage, ..-*i!«»#. CteH Instead, the mood in both the magic words “land for feeling of reconciliation. very guilty," he said. "It is a conference announcement vainly hunting for the office notched forward. “I can probably predict with con¬ ramps is anxious and peace” contrasts sharply Noi only did Sinai, which hand which occupies our The atmosphere in which of El-AL the Israeli airline. fidence that this process will gloomy, with expectations with the reply given when was eventually returned in lands, ignores the Palestinian the expectation of failure The first-floor office is so ■ *- ft* low and signs that hardline Menachem Begin was asked lull to Egypt, not have the national rights and, for the overshadows hope has been well disguised that even the break down, but it will never he uM.i positions are being en¬ by one of the 1977 middle¬ emotional or security pull for last decades, we have been reinforced by the state of the one small sign in the window be this hard to gel them ... tm trenched. It was summed up men, the late Nicolae Israelis of the West Bank or suffering from this constant 1979 Egyptian-Isradi treaty, was removed before the Gulf together again.” said william m mk yesterday by a cartoon in the Ceausescu, whether he the Golan Heights, but the occupation.” the only one of its kind.. war; leaving no indication of Quandt a former American .rHiMrtllh i semi-official Cairo news¬ would make concessions if personalities now involved His suspicions are shared Known throughout the re¬ its whereabouts. “They are official involved in the Camp paper, Al-Gomhourio, which Sadat agreed to visit the holy are very different from Sadat in Israel where doubts about gion as "the cold peace” it chicken, and 1 do not blame David process. He added that even if negotiations did contained a crude caricature city. “Definitely,” the then and Begin. Daring the Egyp¬ what can be achieved spread has been a document without them,” said an Egyptian. .... fc* of Yitzhak Shamir, Israel’s Israeli prime minister tian leader’s momentous beyond the extreme right underlying friendship under “None of us wants them occur, they were likely to be • .tvmm desultory at best until 1993 prime minister. “Yes, I will pledged. Whereas on that visit to Jerusalem, the two Even if against expectations, which Egypt has remained here.” ..*» pi ii attend the talks,” he is occasion the imagination of men hit it off. They some¬ Israel agrees to surrender ashamed of hs few Israeli The mood is recognised by because Israel and the saying. “However, I will not the world was fired, the times walked hand in hand, land under pressure from links. These have fallen dras¬ .the Americans who have United States will be allow any negotiations to be overriding impression this called each other “friend”, Washington, the conference tically short of the expecta¬ repeatedly reminded report¬ conducting national elec¬ initiated on the future of time is that both Jews and and gave currency to the will begin without any Arab tions originally held In. ers of the difficulties and said tions. "The point of holding Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Arabs are being dragged kick¬ phrase "No more war.” assurances that Israel would Jerusalem. Egypt feds that' that a breakdown in Madrid a conference now is that you Bank, or the Golan Heights.” ing and screaming to a peace Such warmth i$ unlikely in get the peace treaties it seeks the Israelis exploited it to is a strong possibility. “1 am are investing to put in place a : . :A The Israeli attitude to conference, more because Madrid. As Farouk al- in exchange. “The Syrians wage war on the Palestinians sure that what we will be structure to exploit any pos¬ ■ ■ \ Levy: Syrian counterpart what the chief peacemaker, they do not want — or cannot Sharaa, the Syrian foreign believe that the Israelis want in Lebanon in 1982. and to saying in six months from itive opening that comes refuses to shake hands Janies Baker, the American afford — to upset the United minister, said in a moment peace for peace, and the crush the Palestinian intifada now was that getting to the along,” Mr Quandt said. . MW*** ift.ltaft Torture West on terror alert graves . MNife’j1 in face of hardline found : i.-Mt «****- A Nicosia — Iraqi Kurd rebels two mass graves contain¬ ing the bodies of Kurds tor¬ filling tured »nd killed by President opposition to talks Sfrddam Hussein's troops had been discovered near the From Christopher Walker in Cairo northern Iraqi towns of ■u'ttfta SENIOR Western diplomatic that the secret services of the nity for the present peace Sulaymaniyah and IrbiL sources said yesterday that hardline states may also strike initiative. A statement issued “The scare and other signs Western governments and against those backing the yesterday in Baghdad attacked of torture on the corpses prove moderate Arab states had peace process, notably mod¬ the Madrid talks as an Ameri¬ that the Kurds were severely v.Vrtflfj implemented a full-scale ter¬ erate supporters of the Pal¬ can (dot to “liquidate” the beaten prior to their execu¬ rorist alert after growing oppo¬ estine Liberation Organisa¬ Palestine issue and dominate tion,” the Patriotic Voice of sition to the Middle East peace tion and members of the die region. Although some of Iraqi Kurdistan radio reported conference from Iran, Iraq, Jordanian delegation. the more radical Palestinian at the weekend. Allied sources in northern Iraq confirmed . hand Libya and the extremist The Western sources said groups are based in Damas¬ the reports and said the graves groups that they finance. the alert was similar to that cus, much of their funds are now believed to come from each contained the bodies of Among the groups believed implemented before the Gulf nine Kurds. The sources did to be involved in an im¬ war. The latest security scare Iran, Iraq and Libya as the ■r. il l Syrian regime seeks to im¬ not know the circumstances of promptu campaign to disrupt was preceded by a public the killings. warning on October 11 from prove its international image: the October 30 Madrid confer¬ The radio, monitored by the ■■ a ence are the Abu Nidal org¬ James Baker, the American Efforts by Egypt to contain Iranian news agency, said it anisation, the Palestinian Secretary of State, based on the opposition by Colonel was believed the Kurds had Liberation Front of Abu “highly classified informa¬ Muammar Gadaffi to the been buried after being killed Abbas and elements of the tion" that the opposers would Madrid conference appeared by Iraqi troops in recent Popular Front for the Libera¬ try to sabotage the talks. to have foiled despite the battles in northern Iraq. tion of Palestine - General As Iran bosted at the week¬ Libyan leader’s visit this About 400 people were killed • i >§£j Command headed by Ahmed end delegates from 45 coun¬ month to Cairo to attend the in fierce fighting between v-ufr.,'5 Jibril. Western experts fear tries opposed to the Madrid wedding of President Muba¬ Kurdish rebels and Iraqi gov¬ conference at a meeting on rak’s son. The Libyan news ernment troops around Sulay¬ * #1 Palestine, the Islamic Resis¬ agency Jana issued an appeal maniyah this month. At least tance, a guerrilla coalition led by Colonel Gadaffi for an 60 Iraqi government soldiers Reagan by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah opinion poll to be held were -shot -or bludgeoned to claimed responsibility for a throughout the Arab world death after the army shelled bomb which killed three Is¬ about the peace conference. civilian.areas, •...« ‘knew of raeli soldiers and wounded The Libyan leader accused The unrest in Sulaymaniyah five others yesterday in south moderate Arab leaders of was the most serious in north¬ Lebanon. Two Hezbollah ignoring public opinion by ern Iraq since Saddam’s forces leaders, Abbas Musawi and agreeing to sit down with crushed a Kurdish uprising amis deal9 Sheikh Mohammed Husain IsraeL In the appeal he said: Making up: -Yassir Arafat embracing Abdd-Halim KtM»driami the Syrian vice-president, in Damascus yesterday against his rule after his defeat Fadlallah, were among the 400 “We warn our brothers ... to by the American-led alliance By David Watts delegates in Tehran for the take into consideration the in the Gulf war. (Reuter) DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT four-day gathering. opinion of the masses because OLIVER North, the retired Iran's spiritual leader. Aya¬ these masses themselves liq¬ Guerrillas instil Shamir warheads sands of time American marine lieutenant- tollah Ali Khamenei, told the uidated King Abdullah (of __ 9 - • Bonn — FaUingbostai.FailmgbostaL head¬1 colonel, believes that Presi¬ delegates that resistance to the Jordan, who also tried to quarters of toe Desert Rats, is dent Reagan knew all about Madrid conference was a holy initiate peace talks with Is¬ preparing for a baby invasion. the Iran-Contra affair and the war. “All Muslims are bound rael), toppled Farouk (of fear from grave ‘target Russia a&gThe wives of more than 200 of diversion of cash from arms to participate in this jihad and Egypt), Faisal (of Iraq) and the men who served in toe From Richard Beeston in gadot, Israel By David Watts, diplomatic correspondent sales to Iran to the Nicaraguan funnel their financial and Sanusi (the former Libyan Gulf are now pregnant, with guerrillas. political information and monarch ousted by Gadaffi) AT FIRST sight the crooked actually the resting place for ISRAEL’S nudear arsenal is the Soviet Union with its 23 babies due in December * •»!#**» “Five years later. I am even military aid to the Palestin¬ and othere who disregarded white markers by the side of a hundreds of Lebanese and far bigger than previously nudear-capable FI 6 Ameri¬ and another 43 in January. ■v more convinced: President ians," he said. Arab rights.” dirt road near this lribbutz Palestinian gunmen — 335 believed and many of its can-built jets in toe belief that The first baby is expected on Reagan knew everything," Mr Among those attending the form in northern Galilee give according to the numbered nuclear weapons are targeted toe threat would deter Mos¬ December 6 by Susan Love. North says in his memoirs, conference were delegates Israel agrees, page 1 the appearance of an unkempt graves — who have died in on the Soviet Union, accord¬ cow from arming its Middle aHM'l Under Firev An American from Iraq, whose defeat in the vegetable patch long ago aban¬ border dashes with the Israeli ing to a new book. East Arab clients with nudear Hravri mission wher-f Story. He offers as proof the Gulf war created the opportu- Leading article, page 15 doned by its gardener. The defence forces in the past 25 Seymour Hersh, the author, weapons and from helping Paris — President Hrawi of wp fact that the Contras were not fencing is rusted and in places years of guerrilla activity. If claims that Yitzhak Shamir, them in the event of a war the only recipients of cash Lebanon arrived in Paris from broken through, litter has the graves were marked with the prime minister, has under with Israel To ensure toe Beirut amid heavy security for m from the arms deals. collected by the locked gate, names rather than numbers his control three times more Kremlin got toe message, toe “Because these activities a visit Which is aimed at Israeli troops die in and whoever planted the num¬ they would probably read like nudear weapons than the 100 Israelis made sure that it mending fences with France were so sensitive, I got explicit bered stakes into the rocky a roll call of the men of generally estimated. He says received sanitised versions of permission for each one. Ev¬ and to seek aid to help his ground appeared to have done violence of this region of the that Israel has tactical and American targeting intelli¬ country recover from 15 years ery time one of these projects Hezbollah attack the job quickly and without world, hailed as heroic mar¬ strategic weapons, including gence indicating their in¬ came up I wrote a memo to of civil war. He said that he mu#'* From Au J aber in Beirut any enthusiasm. tyrs just a few miles across the more than 100 nuclear artil¬ tentions. hoped for French help to [Rear-Admiral John] Poin¬ “This place has always border in Lebanon, but here lery shells and nudear land¬ The Israelis procured their dexter outlining how the GUERRILLAS of the Iranian- against the Soviet-American rebuild services such as power given me the creeps,” said regarded by the Israeli army as mines in the Golan Heights, as information about Soviet tar¬ and telephones. (Reuter) money would be used. It was backed Hezbollah said yes¬ Middle East peace plan. The Noa Stephenson, a member of terrorists intent on infiltrating well as hundreds of low-yield gets. both legally and illegally, always my belief that these terday that they had killed and radio said Hezbollah's fighters the local kibbutz prepared to the Jewish state to kill Israelis. neutron warheads capable of from American reconnaisance memos were passed up the wounded 15 Israeli service¬ had vowed to continue the take visitors to the site, but Although most locals would destroying large numbers of satellites. Much of toe inform¬ Fires nearly out line to the president, because men by detonating a large armed struggle against Israel, who will not actually venture nor begrudge them toe right to enemy troops. Israel has al¬ ation required for targeting toe Randhatain, Kuwait — Fire¬ • and documents of this type gener¬ bomb as an Israeli patrol and emphasised the group's into the area itself. “It is a decent burial, this will not be ways denied owning nudear southern Soviet Union came fighters say only about 70 of ally were. In fact, it was a copy passed inside Israel’s self- opposition to peace talks. deserted, sad, and unwanted.” their final resting place, as the weapons. from Jonathan Pollard, toe toe 732 Kuwaiti oil wells set of one of these memos, from proclaimed security zone in Another source in southern The problem is not that Gadot recently disturbed ground in “The size and sophistica¬ spy who, Mr Hersh says, was alight or damaged by Iraq ‘Hr#* April 1986, that made the southern Lebanon. Lebnanon said at least six is situated in a particularly one section of the cemetery tion of Israel's nudear arsenal active in Washington for four remain to be capped. David Attorney-general aware of the A spokesman for the guer¬ Israeli troops were killed in unpleasant spot, above the suggests: last month remains allows men such as Ariel years, not just toe 17 months Barnett, of the Texan-based 'diversion'. For all my cele¬ rilla group said: “Our fighters the attack, adding that “bodies Jordan river in what used to of nine members of the Leba¬ Sharon [toe hardline Israeli revealed at his triaL Neal Adams Firefighters, said idPi brated shredding skills. I had set off a big bomb at the road were seen scattered at the housing minister] to dream of he expected these to be capped missed that one," he writes. be the no man’s land between nese Shia Muslim militia The author confirms pre¬ intersection of aJ-Tourah vil¬ scene after the bomb". The Hezbollah were disinterred ( redrawing the map of the by early next month. Others Mr North's revelations Israel and Syria before the vious suspicions that Israel, lage in the path of an Israeli source added that Israeli heli¬ 1967 war, but more likely that and released to the Inter¬ Middle East, aided by the with South African assistance, said that mid-November was about the abortive mission to armoured patrol at approxi¬ copters and ambulances more likely. (Reuter) Tehran with Robert McFar- the morbid nature of the work national Committee of the | implicit threat of nuclear tested as many as three neu¬ mately 10.15am." The spokes¬ rushed to the scene to bring here does not inspire people to Red Cross, who returned them , force," Mr Hersh says. He tron bombs in the southern lane, the former American man added that the attack was out the dead and wounded. Fur days9 work national security adviser, linger longer than they ab¬ to their families in Lebanon in 1 accuses successive American Atlantic in 1979. He says that one of the group's biggest The attack flew in the face solutely have to. exchange for information governments of consciously Israel’s nudear machine has Kuwait City — Hundreds of show that it bordered on the operations against Israel. of the Lebanese government's -*** farcical at times and was so "Military area, no photo¬ about missing Israeli ser¬ ignoring the growth of the gone on frill alert three times — sailors from the American “Radio of the Light", which attempt to stop attacks across vicemen. The morbid trade in poorly prepared that it could graphy.” reads the faded He¬ Israeli nuclear programme. twice during the 1973 Yom warship. L.Y. Spear, have speaks for Hezbollah, said that the border from southern brew sign on the gate, the only bodies is expected to continue I In The Samson Option, Mr Kippur war, and once during volunteered for “Operation have scarcely been expected to the explosion was aimed Lebanon. this autumn. Paws and Claws” to repair -iwf'ti succeed. In retrospect, the hint that this Little plot is Hersh says that Israel targeted the Gulf war. American belief that the hos¬ cages and fences at Kuwait's zoo damaged by Iraqis. They tages could be freed with one -Up are also installing water heat¬ phone call looks naive at best ers and repairing air-condi¬ He reveals that the ultimate Ozal heads for stormy waters in wake of Turkish poll tioning at a school for disabled aim of the Tehran trip was to children. (AP) set up a meeting between From Andrew Finkel in ankara Hashemi Rafsanjani, then TURKEY went to the polls modest comeback for some of Reports from Istanbul and party has also received toe in toe last parliament, the Populist party has been ha¬ Speaker of the Iranian par¬ Afghan battles yesterday in an election that the other politicians whose Izmir airports yesterday said powerful endorsement of the Social Democratic Populist rassed in its campaign by toe liament and now president, Islamabad - The Afghan gov¬ **••’*** could unseat the government careers the military tried to that thousands of Welfare right-wing Turkish Hearth party, yesterday still looked successes of Mr Ecevit’s rival ernment and its guerrilla and George Bush, then the and largely undermine the end when they held power Association which helped the most likely kingmaker in left-wing party and the un¬ vice-president But the key party supporters were being opponents reported fighting authority of President Ozal. between 1980 and 1983. The flown in on charter flights negotiate a pre-election deal a future coalition, although popularity of some of the around three cities in eastern Iranian middle man, Manu- whom foreign capitals have parties of two of Mr between the party and ex¬ any deal between it and Mr party's big city mayors. cher Ghorbani&r, appeared to from Germany. The Welfare Afghanistan. The rebels said long seen as being well in Demirefs former rivals, Bu- treme nationalists led by Demirel might be simply to In southeast Turkey heli¬ have been saying different they recaptured a government command of Turkish policy. leni Ecevii and Necmettin Alpaslan Turkes. effect constitutional changes copters were used to ferry things to different people and military post outside Gardez The 1982 constitution, seen Erbakan, look likely to get Many of Turkey’s extreme in advance of another early ballot boxes against possible did not have anything like the but were attacked by planes by critics as a threat to more than toe 10 per cent of right took umbrage at toe way election. attack by separatists of the access that the Americans around Jalalabad. Kabul radio individual and collective the popular vote which a they were manoeuvred out of The worry over a future Kurdish Workers’ party. The said guerrillas fired rockets at believed him to have. rights, is also under threat party needs to qualify for positions of influence in Mr short-term coalition govern¬ problem of how to deal with Mr North shatters some Mehtar Lam. (Reuter) seats in parliamenL Owl's Motherland party ment is that its constituent the aspirations of the nation’s myths about the mission, With the results under Turkey's complex electoral Mr Erbakan's pro-lslamic when toe president’s wife, parties would be unable to Kurds will also test the most notably the cake which Cabinet acclaim Welfare party, whose eco¬ Semra Ozal. became head of take the unpopular steps country’s new confidence in was supposed to have been system still being counted. Baghdad Two out of three nomic policies revolve toe Istanbul party. They are needed to get Turkey’s infla¬ toe democratic process. The sent as a gift along with Suleyman Demire! — six Iraqis believe the government around toe abolition of in¬ also critical of Mesut Yilmaz, tion rate (expected to run at southeast remains under a matched pistols and a bible. times prime minister and appointed by President Sad¬ terest. will no doubt test the a man from the centre-right 75 per cent for 1991) under form of emergency rule with The cake, it turns out, was twice unsealed by the military dam Hussein after the Gulf who was elected prime min¬ control. One of toe Mother¬ never intended for the Iran¬ - appeared set to win the secular Turkish establish¬ opinion divided on whether war is a success, according to a land party's legacies was a ians. Mr Ghorbanifer had most votes. The weaker ment’s commitment to ister last July. Turkey’s busi¬ radical concessions to Kurd¬ poll in Bobil, toe newspaper ness community, many of round of pre-election public asked for a rake to be brought performance of his True Path democracy. It is not yet clear ish demands for cultural or owned by Saddam’s son, whom attribute their troubles spending, and many believe from Israel as a present for his party in the big cities may whether the party will get even some form of limited Uday. Hussein Kamel Has- the economy can ill afford mother in Tehran. But it was deny him an overall majority. enough seats to be in a to the high cost of borrowing, political autonomy will cure san, the defence minister, was further electioneering. never presented: Revolu¬ Opinion polls before the position to bargain as a Demirel: seems likely to are turning to Mr Demirel. or only aggravate separatist chosen as the cabinet's The Social Democratic tionary Guards ate it election also promised a possible coalition partner. win most votes The main opposition party violence. handsomest man. (Reuter) THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Life and Times 11 Can modem dads be blokes, too? America MARTIN BEDOALL under a Michael Rosen explains to Libby Pnrves that it is possible to be a caring. spell sharing father without being a wimp Witchcraft may be he “new man”, as every his principles rigorously into mar- . *®ows, is a riage and the dues of children. “If the latest phase in 1 Messing. 011 the women are human beings, then mimrf th? h« d *** Ms bit they’re entitled to go out and do women’s rights 00 whatever men enjoy doing. If H?_0 ,5^- . thinks he invented fathers are human beings, too. oodbye broomsticks. Fare¬ them. It is nice that he takes an then one of the ways of proving it G well eye of newt. Contem¬ interest in pregnancy, but irritat¬ is by having something to do with ing when he snatches the drink porary American witches those other human beings called pick up the telephone and say: ~i from your hand. It is certainly an children. Fathers who totally wont be around tomorrow but my advance that he has decided to avoid childcare always seem to be voice mail will be active." weep and express feelings and taiv trying to avoid paying their dues The voice on the answering about relationships, but unfortu¬ as members of the human race.” nate that he does it so relentlessly. machine belongs to Cheryl Costa, His book, however, reads nei¬ a computer programmer at a Indeed, role reversal can go too ther leftish nor earnest It isjokiJy consulting firm in Washington. far. it may sound churlish to say alphabetical from Babies* Blotches so, but there is a certain kind of Outside office hours she is Lady (“Rashes and blobs appear aft over Cassandra, a third degree high medial and new lather whose diem for no apparent reason") to quivering sensitivity is enough to priestess in the Alexandrian Path Winding (“Nobody winds piglets, ofWicca. drive any sensible woman straight and they seem to manage"). Much “We’re just like everyone else," to the pub for a game of dans. of what he advises is sound It puts men offtoa A recent Ms Costa says. But not everyone commonsense parenthood of the would spend a wet Friday night London conference heard — from type that needs to be restated for speaker after exasperated speaker performing a pagan ceremony every generation, lut his tone of around a makeshift altar (a — that there is little truth in the voice is unusual in being both modern myth of the involved wooden table) with shop-bought immedical and unfeminine. This chocolate-chip cookies and apple father. Outside the chattering is no new man speaking, not when classes,they insisted, men goon as juice lo four-part chants wafting he says things like “A father’s role from a portable cassette player. they always have: shy of babies, at parties is to eat lots of ice¬ repelled by nappies and elsewhere Lady Cassandra, dressed for the cream” or makes refreshingly ceremony in a rumpled black robe during messy weekend teatimes. tasteless jokes about waters break¬ But neither are they wholly happy and a metal tiara, is unfazed that ing. He is breezy and faddish, and some people find her weird. about it: young there is little in the men have been “Strange spirituality," she smiles, book that unrecon¬ “is better than no spirituality at told that things structed old-style could be different ‘Fathers and all." Therein lies the secret of men could not un- pagan religion’s popularity in the and better. Since blushingly quote to United States today. Many they lack the net- mothers are one * another wonts of advice women have rejected Jud co- around a snooker Christian male domination. Yet that women build, not the same table. But neither each one has to they long for ritual in a disorderly is he a callous joker world. Intellectuals have argued pioneer his own thing. I don’t of the “Kids, way into modern that goddess worship is the latest who’d have phase in women's rights. fatherhood and pretend to be a them?” school. many feiL They The number of active pagans is There are real nug¬ is difficult to establish. Margot feel subtly ex¬ woman. If I gets of insight here: cluded. They long Adler, a journalist with National his comments on Public Radio, estimates there to for a real man to change a the cause of tan¬ be at least 100,000. maybe tell them how to trums are solid 500.000. start. nappy, Ido it gold, and in the Suddenly one middle of a knock¬ Ms Adler’s book, Draw- has. Michael in a blokey about account of ing Down the Moon: Rosen, a children’s getting small child- Witches, Druids, God¬ author and per¬ sort of way’ ren to bed, he will dess-Worshippers and Other Pa¬ former, has con- quietly observe: gans in America Today, written a densed his “Going to bed decade ago, still sells about 10,000 experience of five children and means going to sleep, which copies a year. Public demand for stepchildren into a breezy manual means saying goodbye, and no- astrology, witchcraft and horo¬ for other men. His background is one likes saying goodbye to loved scope titles supports a national Jewish — “not religiously so, but ones no matter how old you are.” mail order company. very strongly culturally'’. His He also devotes a page to “Being In academic circles, too, pagan¬ childhood memories are of a Around”, and attacks the com¬ ism has its champions. The Har¬ strong mother — “Always standing mon male view (shared by some vard Divinity School has a up and saying ‘I do three jobs! So working mothers) that unless you specialist. University campuses why am I doing the shopping?” "— are doing formal quality-time around the country host sessions and a father (the educationalist activities with the children your on women's spirituality. Professor Harold Rosea).' who has presence is not needed and. you Almost anything, except satan- always been “great to talk to” but can'• delegate school runs and ism, goes. Modem American who •' had, his son' observes, a passive childminding. Being witches claim not to use spells for genius for being elsewhere than at around, in his book, involves the evil at all but for what one might family tea “He did a lot of DIY, domestic pottering mothers have call willpower to chivvy fete into and he would always be 'just going always done: “Wiping the table or winking a certain way. up to the dump to look for some tidying the mantelpiece, doing the The prospect for financial prof¬ old sinks’." It is a ploy many wives washing and cleaning the loo ... its in today’s race for spiritual will recognise. during these times you make a fulfilment cannot be underesti¬ Mike Rosen's own fatheriy relationship with your children. mated. A publishing survey shows credentials are impeccable. “With It’s then they ask you the really Boys together Michael Rosen, with son Eddie, aged II — “yom presence is a big affirmation that yon like the company yon Ye keeping," he says that the rare areas of expansion my first wife we were both part- important things — ‘Do buffaloes during a recession this year were timers so we shared exactly fifty- eat spaghetti?* — and other vital change a nappy, I do it in a blokey competitiveness, then stick to golf His wife Geraldine, an active ridiculously straight lines. I sup¬ dieting, feminism and the occu!l fifty. I was into everything from questions. Even reading the paper, sort of way.. .But I do it.” and Volvos." birth teacher, was not allowed to pose she’s right, I don’t have Ms Costa was brought up a the start. I think having been your presence is a great big He even feels that being a man, It he adds firmly, a man does see the book in progress. When she enough hangups. I just look at a Catholic, but felt let down by the involved with all the poo and sick affirmation that you like the unbothered by ideals of perfect his fair share of the work he earns did she was exasperated, accord¬ job, and think ‘That can be done. emphasis on heterosexuality in and stuff actually makes the company you’re keeping, just as motherhood, is quite useful. Ap¬ a right to do it his own way. He is ing to Mr Rosen, by the half- Yippee’. And I don’t feel threat¬ her church’s teaching. She relationship with kids better, cud¬ your absence creates the tiny ropos potty training, be may raise scornful of certain sacred cows like flippant way in which he ened by women. Why should I? swapped theology for "sheology". dlier. When we separated, the two anxiety that home isn’t where you a few female hackles by observing: “the Middle Gass Curriculum — 1 presented his more serious in¬ I’ve worked for the BBC long Her divinity is Mother Earth. children came to me for half the want to be and the children aren’t “The worst aspect of women being can’t think of anything more sights. “She shouted at me that I enough ... Then she said I'm Now she and her assistant. Erica week." Divorce, he admits, “is who you want to be with. If you restricted to a domestic role is that dreary than tired little children had thrown away the points about afraid to be taken seriously. I deny AngeU, a.k.a. Kestryl, a second- never going to be great for kids. are just around, then children will this seems to have induced areas screeching away hatefully on vi¬ relationships and feeling jealous of that.” degree high priestess, have But the important thing is that claim you." of pride where they are least olins" — and of neurotic over- your kids and all that I said, well, But it would probably have launched a bi-weekly cable tele¬ they’re not abandoned. It drove Mr Rosen is a big man with a appropriate. So, it becomes a achieving parents. “One of the that’s how 1 say these things. 1 do been a proof of failure if Mrs vision programme aiming to show my new partner mad that I spent tangled black beard, and exudes matter of pride that a child doesn’t tricks of the fatherhood game is to throw them away. I don’t go on Rosen had liked the book. It isn't a variety of bewitching cere¬ hours on bedtime rituals when chaotic, benevolent masculinity. wet the bed. A bedwetting child is forgo the need be a winner. You about them. A lot ofblokes are tike meant for her. it's for men. And if monies. For $25 (£14.50) per they were with us — she’d say ‘It’s Believing in equality does not, he a slur on motherhood. Ideally, the can admit that some days you only that, and I think there’s a link with they read and heed it, we should person, they also run an occa¬ nine o'clock and you're still says, deny the differences between great thing about being a bloke is managed to do one thing: buy Jewish humour there, too." Pause, complain? I think not sional crash course in rudimentary singing!'. But I owed it to them." men and women. “Fathers and that you don’t cany this burden. some orange juice. Some days for a rather good Jewish joke. £) Times Newspapers Ltd 1991 Wicca, a paganism named after an A 1960s student revolutionary, mothers are not the same thing. I Your kid wets the bed? So he wets all you did was plotter around “Then she said I didn’t have any • Goodies and Daddies, published old English word for witch. Mr Rosen felt it logical to extend don’t pretend to be a woman. If I the bed. If you’re into male doing nothing. And that’s OK.” pain as a child, so I see things in by John Murray. October 24 (£9.95). On the damp Friday, a dozen people showed up, mainly married or divorced women. Obediently, they looked for “that space within . . . and why are so many of them insisting on writing about it? yourself that you cannot be sepa¬ rated from", picturing themselves as trees sinking their roots ever MORE and more books for Men (British Psychological Society, not advice but a humorous look {Parenting, revised 1989. £5.99, came out that while it was all deeper into the soil. Nobody Only are shouldering their way £6.99). “The more strident are at fatherhood. Penguin) and Hugh Jolly (The right in the era of Dr Spock for laughed. onto shop shelves: in the American but an increasing Frances Lincoln, the publisher, Book of Childcare, first published middle-aged doctors lo lay down Hailing spirits of the East and childcare and parenting section. number of British ones are now also stresses the importance of 1975, Unwin Hyman, £8.99); the law, now women tend to have guardians of the West from the Daily Dr Spock finds more and popping up all over the place." accessibility for non-academics newcomers such as William Sears female doctors, prefer female corners of her class-room with a more mates as fathers become Fathers' interest in cleaning and and non-professionals. Last week (TheFussy' Baby. The New doctors and want somebody sword, Kestryl cast her first spell, increasingly keen to get their caring for, as well as creating, it published Your Child’s American Library. £5.95) and, writing who can tell them that between nibbles on the cookies, fathering right - and to write little Einsteins, however, is only Development (£16.95) by the most noticeably. Dr Christopher certain aspects, such as calling on the worshippers to pray about it. relatively recent “Parenthood has psychologists Marjorie Walker Green (Babies. Simon and depression and the pain of labour, for something positive. Lady Men, used to putting up shelves, become fashionable in the last and Richard Landsdown. Schuster, £6.99; Toddler Taming. are felt by everyone, someone Cassandra mentioned “my car. assembling train sets and creating couple of years," says Nicola “Because fathers are playing a Century. £8.99). “It’s never struck who is actually writing from which has an oil leak". credible excuses for being late Cowen from Ebury, part of the much more important role than me as at all odd that men should personal experience." Among the disgruntled cus¬ home from the office, already publishers Random Century. Last ten years ago, we felt it was very write about having children.” Mr An awareness of the gaps in male tomers, however, was one of two dominate in the field of DIY year they published the actress important to have both a man A book is born: Nigel Planer Fishwick says. experience, heightened by the fact men. During an interval in supersprogs. Men are more Julie Walters’s best-selling and a woman, and that both be Clyde Hunter, from Dotting that she was also expecting her Kestryl’s lecture on the origins of obsessed than their female account of parenthood; now the parents.” says Erica Hunningher, should men hesitate to write Kindersley. on the other hand, first baby, led Ms Cowen to the Maypole, he left a tart counterparts with creating actor Nigel Planer has followed the editorial director. The about fatherhood? Iron John may thinks the phenomenon is not suggest that her own company evaluation by her blackboard: children in the image, not of with a book on being a grown-up company expects the book to be want to go hunting swathed in only very odd but to be publish men's accounts of being “Less erroneous historical ma¬ themselves, but of genius. “These and a daddy. “Books on bought by both sexes; skins, lots of today's Johns would discouraged. His own publishers present during labour. The idea terial, please." Kestryl was un¬ books reflect the male parenthood are traditionally “Statistically women buy more rather iron baby clothes. Mr do, of course, publish the best¬ was vetoed: “Ebury were worried deterred. “What’s the difference competitive spirit," explained serious and traditionally a books and give more books," Ms Fishwick's own company's selling childcare queen Miriam it would frighten the poor between a pagan event and a New Michael Howe, a professor of woman’s realm dominated by the Cowen says. “It’s not that men publication Your Growing Child, Stoppard, whose New Babycare creatures,” she says. “Not even Age experience?" she quipped. psychology at Exeter University, Penelope Leacbs and the Miriam are too embarrassed. Why should by David Fontana (£9.99), Book (£7.99), revised last year, the newest of new men was Everyone gave in. “About 3.500 and the author of Sense and Stoppards," Ms Cowen says. A they be?" recently joined those by a cluster has sold half a million copies. expected to be able to cope with bucks." Nonsense About Hothouse Good Enough Dad (scheduled for And why, asks Michael Fish wide, of other male professionals: old Mr Hunter says maikei research lhaL" ^ Children, published last year publication next May at £8.99) is an editor at HarperCoIlins, bands such as Dr Spock supports his view. “A feeling Nicola murphy Susan Ellicott
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12 Arts THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Setting the stage in style f an exhibition is being Pleasures and Terrors of I John Russell Taylor reports on Seurat with showbiz, and Domestic Comfort, in which staged in Paris, the organisers usually appear dozens of recent American to thinlr that the only a host of other exhibitions opening in New York photographers turn their at¬ ihmg required is to mount the tentions, sometimes witty, Pourings on the lacklustre of twisting and turning to not always capture attention America had not been in the more often appalled, to the walls of the Grand Palais; cross-check. The Metropoli¬ without a real contest. way: vaguely contemporary homelife of the hinterland. everything else will take care tan has sensibly abandoned The Seurat show is on this art from Japan, China, Korea There is also the Whitney Mu¬ of itself In New York, by the photographs, and con¬ year because it is the cen¬ and so on. Part three takes up seum's tribute to John BaWes- contrast, museums and gal¬ centrated on grouping the tenary of the painter’s death. — and not'before time, insists sjui him of the photo-pieces leries understand that they are anrilliaiy works to make Another landmark, much an influential lobbying cam¬ in which coloured blobs are in the business of making satisfactory sense on their more important in an Ameri¬ paign — the theme, of native substituted for all the feces, great exhibitions, with all of own. The background colours can context is looming: the American art: Aztec sculpture, and, earlier, of staged photo¬ showbiz know-how this im¬ of walls and lighting are much 500th anniversary next year of the gold of Columbia, and all graphs of domestic violence. plies. That possibly explains more sensitive, and the Columbus’s discovery of the other things that Colum¬ why the giant travelling show compartments of the gallery America. First past the post bus, by his discovery, helped Meanwhile, the of Seurat looks so much better space smaller and more inti¬ with a big commemorative destroy. Other shows suggest¬ commercial sec¬ at the Metropolitan Museum mate. The result is that ab¬ exhibition is the National ing a contrary view of Colum¬ tor appears to be than it ever did in Paris. sences are minimised, so the Gallery in Washington, which bus’s achievement are already taking refuge Even so, in New York as in masterpieces that are present this month opened the gigan¬ around, including the spec¬ .from recession in reliable Paris, the show’s main prob¬ - Parade de cirque. La Cirque tic Circa 1492: Art in the Age tacular Mexico: Splendours of modem classics (insofar as lem is that it looks like Hamlet and Jeune femme se poudrant of Exploration. The “area”' Thirty Centuries at the Los anything is reliable). No sur¬ without the prince. Three of — really assert themselves. has to be taken in its widest Angeles County Museum. prises here, except at the the small number of capital In addition, there is a possible sense: it seems to be rack at the Metropolitan in recently established Stiebel works, the London National revealing background show within a century either way. New York, no shadow of Modem (an off-shoot of a re¬ Gallery’s Une baignade. As- devoted to Neo-Impression¬ Also, much of the art shown doubt is allowed to faH The spected traditional gallery), niires, the Chicago Art Instit¬ ism: The Friends and Follow¬ has nothing to do with “the other big new show there is which gives a one-person ute’s Un dimanche d la ers of Georges Seurat, all Age of Exploration” — though Resplendence of the Spanish show to Sara Rossberg, who Grande Jatte and the Barnes drawn from the museum’s it could be argued that if a Monarchy, an extraordinary has become one of London's Foundation’s Poseuses. are permanent collection. It dem¬ chance is offered to see, fin- collection of tapestries and leading realists. The new too fragile to travel, or prevent¬ onstrates the nature and scope example, the Leonardo Lady armour from the Patrononio works carry further a pre¬ ed by the terms of their dona¬ of Seurat’s innovations, and With An Ermine, who will National, all dating from the occupation with dimensional tion. In Paris these were pres¬ the eyeopening effect his complain of irrelevance? SO years after 1492, the period paint teased into the texture of ent only in the dispiriting form pointilliste technique had on a The show’s first part ranges of the newly-united Spanish a woollen bedspread or a of black-and-white photo¬ whole generation of French from Durer to Michelangelo, monarchy’s greatest power. crumpled nylon shirt. This graphs, surrounded by related and Belgian painters. Early and also takes in Islamic The tapestries mostly come sounds like a gimmick but drawings and oil sketches. Matisse jostles with such contributions to the art of from the Low Countries, works well, especially since Not exactly surrounded, lesser 'figures as Maximilian navigation. Part two is in¬ which were then ruled by the scenes depicted are as however, since the layout of Luce, Hippo lyte Petitjean and spired by what Columbus Charles I of Spain (later tense and mysterious as ever. St MkhaeL- detail from a 16th centnry tapestry in “Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy* the Grand Palais dictated a lot Charles Angrand, and does thought he was going to find, if Emperor Charles V). The • Seurat. Neo Impressionism. detail is intricate and evoc- . Resplendence of the Spanish alive, but looks better in the - Monarchy: Metropolitan Mu¬ catalogue's fine colour photo- ‘ seum of An. Fifth Avenue at graphs than in the galleries' 82nd Street. New York (212-879 5500). all until January. necessarily dim lights. The • Circa 1492: National Gallery armour, however, most of it of An, 600 Constitution Avenue. - ifp from Augsburg or Milan, has a Washington DC (202-727 4215) remarkable physical presence; until January 12. rr?- its beautiful design and • Pleasures and Terrors of workmanship seem far from Domestic Comfort: Museum of Modem An. II Wesf 53rd the practicalities of warfare, Street. New York (212-708 9400) but as an embodiment of the until December 31. panoply of worldly power it • John Baldcssari: Whitney could hardly be bettered. Museum. Madison Avenue at Elsewhere in New York pub¬ 75th St/vet. New York (212-570 lic galleries seem bait on 3676) until October 20. contemplating America’s na¬ • Sara Ross berg: Stiebel Mod¬ em. 32 East 57th Street. New vel, with such shows as the York pi2-759 5536) until Museum of Modem Art's November 9.
CLASSICAL MUSIC: SOUTH BANK
A tantalising Li taste A Little Italy, the South inance by Luisa Castellan i. Bank’s festival of mod-, who .kept just this side of cm ItaKan music is, as archness and witchery: she 4 it engagingly admits in its also, gave a comptiling ac¬ name, little. But perhaps the count of the solo piece measured dose will do more Sequenza ni, nervier and for our musical health than weirder than Cathy Berberian, the marathons and blockbust¬ more dosely suggesting a ers of beadier times: six con¬ Beckett musical certs in two and a half weeks Other voices appeared in make a more manageable the rest of the programme: prospect than SO in six months those of two sopranos and — manageable for the audi¬ three clarinets in the whis¬ ence and also for the adminis¬ pered dose textures of Agnus, tration, which has been able to a wonderful extended mo- make this a choice offering of meat of numbed fright that pieces and performers. Berio wrote lor the revised Rightly, the main attraction version of his first opera, is Luciano Berio, whose new which still awaits a production orchestral piece. Continue, here; and those of David will have its first European Osmond-Smith with the Lon¬ performance next week. don Smfbnietta Voices and Throughout Berio's career Chorus, performing with the there runs a thread of major equally eloquent instrumental works in which the whole voices of the Sinfonietta in the sound of massed instruments, Dante voyage Laborintus II. of groups without explicit This last was done with t- »Wd. soloists, has been thriltingly unusual strength and beauty. reshaped, by a musical mind Osmond-Smith spoke the of unrivalled virtuosity and narration, usefully in English, sophistication. The prospect with the severity, the dry of the next stage in this ex¬ squeezed rhetoric, that its ploration is tantalising, es- author Edoardo Sanguined pecially with a canny used to bring to performances, surrounding programme of while the singers and in- Berio arrange¬ strumentalists ments. (realising splashed with the the orchestral sensuousness of songs latent in Berio's contribu¬ Mahler's early tion to the map¬ lieder, and the ping of helL No clarinet concerto doubt Terry Ed¬ waiting in wards's sound Brahms's F mi¬ projection helped nor sonata), and here, as it certain¬ with the com¬ ly did in bringing poser present to forward the taped conduct component: this He was there sounded dated, too last week at t of course (the the beginning of Beno work was a the festival, in another all- French radio commission for Beno concert, but of smaller the Dante septemcentenary in ,965?’ but it was no less The~ ~one new item was Calmo,* ebullient and evocative for written in 1974 as a short that . .. memorial song for his friend Altogether the evening was • and colleague Bruno Mad¬ an event and a heartening era a, but substantially revised start to the festival, which and extended in 1988-9, with continues on Friday with, the the original fragment from the first of two concerts by the . Odyssey Hike a singer who Arditti Quartet Its pro- knows, , how, to use the lyre and gamines include Maderna’s calmly plucks the strings”) quartet and a new work bv preceded by a long poetic, that master of the quiricy fin* - phonetic and musical prepara- spun and baroque NiccolO tion. Here the ingredients are Castiglionj, as well as Giadmo NOT ONLY DO WE BRING THE IMAGE TO LIFE, WE BRING stirred - verbal sounds, me- Scelsi’s Fourth Quartet But Iodic ideas, chord movements perhaps the Arditti Quartet's in a subaqueous ensemble of most enticing offering is LIFE TO THE IMAGE. blended middle-range in- Nono’s Fragmeme-Stilleznd struraents - until they gel into certainly “a Little [mIv" the Homeric song. should have a memorable As world leaders in LSI technology And with improved NICAM digital to expect from Toshiba. 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But then, that's what you have come foremost producers of turbines. truly efficient, reliable energy for us alL her wear bracelets and anklets music by Schoenberg {4 Surn of jingles, instantly transforms vorfrom Warsaw) and Beeiho- her into a person of formal ven (the complete Eemom gestures and hieratic, incanta- score). Given by BBC forces In Touch with Tomorrow tory presence. She seems to be under Ingo Metzmacher this commanding the orchestra; rare concert takes place on her authority is magical and November 2. TOSHIBA unassailable. Or so it appeared FQ9 FVRTUU INFOSWATMN TWHIM 111*.I I.TD TOSHIBA HOUSE, KIMUT FOAft niMUTC. CAMBMLET. SUMETf GUIS SJJ. TIUtPHCWI: W7» MSM. ■ from the remarkable perfor-. PAUL GRIFFITHS
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THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Mobutll ARTS 13 DANCE 1 BRIEFING 1 "ra"ts to Debra Craine on how two ‘lost’ works have been rescued from obscurity by Birmingham Royal Ballet rePlaCe Lift-off agreed JLre«% ’ ENGLISH National Op¬ Something old, era, which is losing Peter Jonas, its general direc¬ tor, to Bavarian State Opera, has galloped to the rescue of foe Munich house. The Bavarians ex¬ pected to stage a new » ■' i-l- '-'Hru something new, Peter Hail production of .. -'.:...Vl • iMm,,, Peter Grimes this season, but their ancient stage • ••• • . ‘ rf v,h , 0,1 hydraulic equipment ..* £*** proved unequal to the challenge- So Munich is borrowing ENO's ad¬ something true mired Grimes, which re¬ quires no hydraulics. f all the great European Tim Albery will restage O ballet was an incomplete film. his production in Mu¬ • . . -N. performing arts, none “If you saw the film you would to*5 been so careless nich. and Andrew Davis ■>'■ "■■■f-i * 'Hm, laugh,” says Leskova. “Massine is conducting. ■... “"'mu .. about its own immortal¬ didn't want to spend money on ity as dance. Symphonies and . ■ '“I someone to take a film so he took it operas have been meticulously himself at Nervi And it’s terrible; Harwich score recorded in their myriad notes for you can’t see anything.” eternity’s pleasure. Plays - at least ONE of Britain's oldest Still, the film did jog Leskova's surviving purpose-built since the days of the medieval memory, and with the help of ■ tii' K^ am cinemas celebrates its ;■ liturgical dramas — have been Tamara Grigorieva, another Ballet enshrined in immutable texts. But eightieth anniversary Russe dancer, the steps for each of next month by screening some of the choicest heirlooms in the 24 dancers were pieced to¬ •• t*. a silent classic with a live ballet’s rich inheritance have been gether. The result, according to lost to posterity, victims of the musical score. The Elec¬ Leskova, is “97 to 98 per cent tric Palace in Harwich, simple feet that nobody ever accurate. bothered to write them down. Essex, screens Moulin .. • i. .. v SuPpf^Kv “There are gaps, but maybe of Rouge on November 29 ,,, t ,b-*S? Systems of notating dance are only four beats at the most here almost as old as ballet itself — the with a score by Mike and there. But I didn't invent Westbrook, foe jazz com¬ Kenamo accord first such system was published in anything for this ballet. Where 1700 — but it was not until the something was missing, say four poser. The score was ::uv': ..V-»■■«*** premiered at last year's latter half of the 20th century that it Recreating the pash Leskova beats, 1 would ask myself what became standard practice to main* London Film Festival, .. ’'■“'■Tnufc * Massine did in other ballets and and will tour Europe next a written account of a ballet's 7didn't invent then copy his steps. So it's all component steps. Until then, many year, accompanying E.A. Massine, not my choreography ” Dupont's 1928 classic. ballets had no “score”; they were anything for this This time Choreartium is being . 1. ‘ ™n| to j. handed down by example, passing ballet. Where notated and professionally filmed from one generation to the next so it will be preserved for posterity Critics’ choice . ’v*"'>«,.■* something was ... —»«A {ITIllf . through the fallible memories of at last, almost 60 years after its choreographers and their dancers. SIR Michael Tippett will .v.T.vJ.itiiinj missing; say four premiere. Leskova hopes the result Along the way, inevitably, entire wQl enhance the choreographer's receive foe 1991 Critics’ •• • r*i-.-.ui.>7. works were forgotten. beats, / would ask reputation. Circle Award on Thurs¬ > Bikci apology These days, though, reconstruct¬ myself what Massine “Massine is under-rated because day. In foe same cere¬ ing these lost ballets has become his lighter ballets like La Boutique mony David Rennie, a ,.--'.:»*sru-‘hurs - ^.r_ fashionable, in America, dance did in other ballets and fantasque, Gaiti Parisienne and Le Cambridge student, re¬ historians such as Millicent then copy his steps' Beau Danube sold better to com¬ ceives the Anne Frankell •' i i. L £ Hodson have reclaimed early 20th panies. and he was a man who liked Prize of £S00 to a film ■ ’’ I'll century works by Nijinsky and to earn money. But his greatness critic under the age of 25. ••• Balanchine. Like detectives, the Arnold Haskell called it “the birth lies in his symphonic ballets; his - v i is-. dance archaeologists chase elderly and triumph of pure dancing!” and choreography for them is architec¬ ■■■■•' ~ * witnesses and unearth fragments of many others regarded the abstract ture. Choreartium is very dramatic, documentary evidence in their work as Massine's masterpiece. It without actually putting a knife Rewriting the past: Lynn Seymour and Donald MacLeary as the lovers in the original The Burrow search for clues. And step by was last staged in 1960 when the in your heart, and it's very painstaking step, another link in choreographer himself mounted a sophisticated.” adis, is also giving the ballet a audiences did three decades ago. the original idea’. The same intent ballet's evolutionary chain is production in Italy (also seen at the While Leskova has been trying to different look with new sets and but be believes The Burrows has to come across and that rather discovered. Edinburgh Festival that year), but remember every detail of Mas¬ costumes. psycho-political slant is still valid, hamstrings you in the choice of Apartheid talk This season Birmingham Royal since then the ballet has slipped out sine's original choreography. even more universal. “Because it steps you use; it imprisons you. 1 Ballet is adding two more “lost” ofsighL Kenneth MacMillandillan has been ased on Kafka’s short was so close to the war I think would rather start again and make dance works to the saved fist: Massine died in 1979 so the task forgetting his forfix' The Burrow. story of the same name, everyone identified it with that at a whole new ballet. The sky's the Massine's 1933 symphonic ballet, of re-creating his masterpiece has which is also beinging revived after a |J The Burrow was the first the time,” he says. “I think it will limit when you're doing something Choreartium. and MacMillan's fallen to Tatiana Leskova, a Hwnrer 30-year intervalL Made forfin* the ^ of MacMillan’s trademark be harder for audiences today to new.” 195S psycho-drama. The Burrow. with Ballet Russe from 1939-45, Royal Ballet in 1958, it, too, was psychological ballets and the one identify it but I don't think it will Still, this restaging offers the In the case of the former, the idea who was responsible for Chorear- not notated, onlyt badly filmed, but which introduced the ballerina be less relevant because people are choreographer a unique opportu¬ has been to reproduce artistic tium's last restaging 30 years ago MacMillan does; not care: he has Lynn Seymour to Covent Garden, still being persecuted in the world. I nity to rethink one of his earliest Apptaoded: Sir Michael history; in the case of the latter, the and also for the 1989 Paris Opera decided to completelylpletely rechoreo¬reeboreo- Set to Frank Martin's Concerto for mean who knows what's going on works, and the experience is one he idea bias been to rewrite it, Ballet revival of Les Presages, the graph it . • ■ -5 V5rewind Instruments, Timpani, Per¬ in those Eastern bloc countries still, appreciates. “1 think a lot of foe Last chance... Choreartium. created for the' first'symphonic ballet . “I'm locating,mit at. irA*OE:newli Md Strings, it tells of a or in South America. Nowadays ballet was very naive choreographi- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Leskova has spent the past year ballet.? inti?titint£3St ii.foeis, foe; .group of 20 people hiding in a you could read any enemy you like cally. I hope I’m a little bit more AS JIM Kerr, vocalist of 1933. was the second of Massine's studying amateur film of Chorear- sfflfieljM htoisSt of die room, living in fear of the in- outside the door.” sophisticated now. I hope I’ve done Simple Minds, said: “If Prawinp the IL symphonic ballets and the only one lium. immersing herself in its steps. I’ve forgotten the original evitable knock at the door. Its dark For MacMillan the task of re¬ it better.” there’s such a thing as a without literary or narrative con¬ music and digging into the mem¬ impetus for the ballett so I keep themes captured the mood of the writing himself is proving very • Choreartium opens at the big league, we want to be tent. Set to Brahms's Fourth Sym¬ ories of her fellow dancers from the looking at this flickering□g little film day: one critic described it as “the different from making a new ballet. Birmingham Hippodrome (021- in it” Mission accom¬ phony, it was a revolutionary work Ballet Russe. The 1960 production that was taken at theie time and first British ballet to express the “When you're creating a ballet 622 7486) on Friday; The Burrow plished, the Scottish which aroused the scorn of musical was no help: because of the thinking: ‘My God, whyrhy did 1 do feelings of the post-war, H-bomb- there are no rules. But when you're opens on October 31. Both ballets group plays at Wembley* purists who believed that it was prohibitive expense of hiring a that? 1 can't do that now.>w. I have to ridden generation". re-creating a ballet there are rules will be seen at the Grand Theatre. Arena (081-900 1234) to¬ sacrilege for symphonies to be set notator it was never written down; do something else.' ” The ballet's MacMillan does not expea to- which people remember. All the Leeds (0532 459 351) the week of night and Wednesday, to choreography. Yet the critic the only recording made of the original designer, NicholasioIas Georgj-Georgi- day's audience to react the same as time you think ‘I have to stick to November 4. the final British dates of a lour that has taken them to the biggest venues in TELEVISION REVIEW ARTS REVIEWS Europe. The show is foe usual display of majestic Aida in Birmingham bluster, although foe and the Dublin “Free South Africa” rhet¬ Theatre Festival oric has been quietly put History cleverly faked for the cameras Page 18 under wraps.
xtvcniism During a routine visit to Alan Bennett’s A Question the point of identifying long- the royal picture re¬ of Attribution (BBC 1 last ago sitters (that is. long-ago storer, Sir Anthony night) was so packed with communists) — we might have Blunt (James Fox) notices, in clever art historical metaphors had one of those vertiginous passing, the unwrapping of a and analogies of this kind that Stoppardian hall-of-mirrors dark ferocious Renaissance it was almost too rich for the treatments, where every sur¬ picture, its silent howls (of mental digestion — especially, face simply reflects light in¬ exaggerated anguish arresting if I may say so, a digestion stead of colouring iL him in his tracks. He performs accustomed to the rather thin The play lost a few laughs in a slight double-take. “What gruel of earlier Screen One its transition to foe screen (it , frightful thing is happening offerings. Anyone naively was originally seen as half of here?” he asks, peering down expecting foe play to tell them the National' Theatre double his nose at the canvas. “The what Sir Anthony was “really bill Single Spies, wiih Bennett , Martyrdom of St Laurence" is like” will have been surprised as Blunt). Bui its great set 1 the eager reply - and the by the irritability with which piece — the encounter between picture (though shown on foe question was implicitly Blum and his royal employer screen for a mere half-second) sweptaside. This wasa play of “H MQ” in a corridor at sure enough depicts the fam¬ ideas, not psychology. It dealt Buckingham Palace, in which ous 3rd century saint being for less with “Why did he do the brightly smiling monarch slow-roasted on a gridiron. it?” than with “Why do you muses on the inadequacy of “An!” exclaims Bhmt, and want to know?” portraiture while pressing hurries off to his next appoint¬ Similarly, anyone recalling Blunt on foe subject of “fakes” ment, presumably thinking no Alan Bates's superbly twice- — survived with dignity, with more about St Laurence. Yet as-natural performance as Prunella Scales's marvellously the image of slow cooking Guy Burgess in Bennett’s inscrutable performance companion play. An English¬ seeming to embody all these ought to ring a bell, since this Word play that forms the images: James Fox, left, as Blunt and David Calder as Chubb same next appointment takes man Abroad, will have noticed art historical issues (while Blunt to his own version of immediately that Blunt was a and intensely private' life, back, as though trying to Rather like Bennett himself, gening the best from the jokes) sizzling sunny-side up on the decidedly less charming and apparently devoid^ofpleasure. _ identify a difficult smell. But perhaps? For Bennett warms in a way that James Fox’s gridiron: enduring foe slow, entertaining character. As To convey aSjthisJ Fbx, placed. he showed perfectly wefi that' • nicely'to every conceit in foe never quite managed. are persistent interrogation meth¬ depicted by James Fox. slightly too niu^ reliance oS foe only- thing Blum -cauld: play, without revealing his ods of a dogged MIS officer. Blum’s was a stately, snobbish frowning with-his head tilted - warm to washis'subject' own sympathies. The action Lynne Truss -centres on foe rather satisfying ^1 . ——■■ parallel between the identi- the movers and shakers ficalion of an enigmatic old ybu are at Liberty pjT7 AR TO RnMF master canvas in foe royal IHCiXUV Iv ilVJiYlEi collection (wrongly attributed to choose behind the national We have a new home-a generous gift which will help us to *? Titian) and theinterrop- Setu/een the good look after more elderly people. It IsabappypLace-areal P.9” °l an-9PgF'atlt: ~,d Art and the very best curriculum? Friends of the Elderly home from home wlMLRoy!2JF°nnCC; Please help us to provide for the many aspects of care ut^W2Jn °f and attention so important to the old and fralL Many of us r. but really a lead longer, contented lives today but for some there is an asks unacceptable price to pay in loneliness and need. 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Thank WELLS (Dept. T), 42Ebury Street. FRIENDS(A % % London WIM 5FF LONDON SWIswi w OLZ. OFOFTHE THE ELDERETELDERLT he didn't. Instead of lei: 07I-486-3IH, 071 278 8916 /5 i.ncij Registered charity number:number 2260A4226064 and Gentlefolk's helphdp THE TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT firtc Call 07 I H0 7100 071-935-7378 2< hn 7 daji «' f 14 THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 •vv Yes,yes, yes Hole in the heart of the cholesterol cult listen to the propagandise one Watch out ifs Cholesterol * would imagine that heart deaths Countdown Week. That Nigel Hawkes on medical flaws in ‘Countdown Week’ were rising out of POntroL JThe should provide the cue nuth is that mortality rates from cholesterol levels and heart dis¬ lamshire Hospital in Sheffield, is minister for another bout of well-in- What is this huge group of people heart disease have fallen rapidly in 1 ease, or the equally well estab¬ discouraging. They found that the nvD tentioned advice, as health supposed to do about it? The Britain since the late 1970s, and lished links with obesity, smoking diet normally recommended to campaigners launch themselves at standard answer is to eat a healthy are now about where they woe in Peter Riddell senses an impending and high blood pressure. The those with moderate to high one of the last redoubts of diet but, as we shall see, this is 1950- Interestingly, the fall m British ignorance. evidence that reducing cholesterol cholesterol produces very small unlikely to make a useful mortality has been m a period - V « Most of us exist in happy can prolong life is, however, much reductions, of 2 per cent or so. Bui bout of departmental multiplication difference. when diet has hardly changed. innocence of our cholesterol more equivocal. we have already seen that, accord¬ The alternative is cholesterol- All this suggests that panics count The Family Heart Associ¬ Several studies in which choles¬ ing to accepted wisdom, at least 40 reducing drugs, but even the frasfd on one measure of increased Whenever I hear a poli¬ ation, unable to rest easy in its bed Family Heart Association would terol was reduced by dieting or by per cent of adults are not 2 but at risk are not what is needed. Nor do tician arguing for a min¬ while this slate of affairs con¬ probably draw the line at defining drugs have shown a reduction in least 20 per cent too high. RIDDELL doctors need the dilemma of istry of this or a minister tinues, will spend the week urging so many healthy people as ill and heart deaths, but no reduction in The consequence is that doctors ON MONDAY facing patients who know their for that I reach for my cheque the British population to “know semwnring them to a lifetime of overall death rates. In studies and patients are being boxed into a cholesterol level but nothing else. book. Such proposals are generally your number”. At present, no lipid-reducing drugs. where a reduction in overall death corner, Professor Ramsay con- The Family Heart Association is mistaken and almost always ex¬ more than 13 per cent of us have The truth is that measuring rates was achieved, other con¬ dudes. When dieting fails, a doing no service to the people it is pensive for taxpayers. And we the creation of three new depart¬ had a cholesterol test, and the cholesterol levels is a trap. The founding factors such as smoking stricter diet may be trial, but that trying to help; as Professor Ram¬ may have another bout of ministry ments (women, consumer affairs FHA is convinced that deaths certainty it seems to offer is a false make it difficult to know how to is untested and may have its own and legal administration), the say puts it “The ethics of seeking creation after the next election. from heart disease could be re¬ one. For the great majority of attribute the success. risks. The most likely, outcome for out healthy individuals, measur¬ Such designated ministers are renaming and expansion of three duced if many more were to people, knowing their cholesterol But let us, for the sake of the doctor harassed by a patient ing cholesterol concentrations, invariably created to please in¬ others (food and fanning, arts and submit themselves. level will offer neither guidance argument, accept that reducing who “knows his number** is that terest groups. Special titles foster media, and overseas development To challenge this may appear cholesterol levels may do some he will prescribe drugs. Nobody and offering intervention of such nor a longer life. It may well, limited efficacy needs to be recon¬ the hope that a cause will be and co-operation), phis a sprin¬ reactionary, but challenged it must however, encourage them to eat a good. How are we to achieve it? can pretend that putting so many advanced by the granting of kling of new special ministers be. About 40 per cent of the adult dreary diet in the belief that it is The evidence on dieting, summar¬ people on drugs makes any medi¬ sidered.” Those are his words; mine would be stronger — mis¬ favours and subsidies. The worst (children and environmental population of Britain has a choles¬ doing them good. ised in The British Medical Jour¬ cal or financial sense. perpetrator was Harold Wilson. protection). The ministers for terol' level at least 20 per cent ' Nobody now questions the nal last week by Lawrence In any case, are we wise to create chievous, misleading, and wrong One of the first symbols ofhis new women and overseas development above the recommended level statistical link between elevated Ramsay and colleagues from Hal- such panic about heart disease? To are the ones that leap to mind. style of government in October would have seats in the cabinet. 1964 was the creation of five new Mr Kinnock added another to the departments — economic affairs, list in his Brighton conference land and natural resources, over¬ Speech; his text referred to a Bernard Levin finds a Wagnerian affront at Covent Garden — and a renewal of artistic faith seas development, technology and minister for science, though my Wales. Only the last survives as an notes say he went further and independent entity. The main called for a ministry of science. result of the formation of the first Will the cabinet table have to be two was endless friction, while enlarged? As it is, Mr Kinnock is Richard Crossman noted in his running up against the legal limit The eyesore and the ecstasy diaries the efforts of Dame Evelyn on the number of cabinet min¬ Sharp to save “her department isters; under Labour's constitution from my stupidity and ignorance" he has to accommodate aO 18 of ow look here. I haven’t But there, the whole point of the N Ring, where I am concerned, is the over Wilson’s original proposal to the shadow cabinet to be elected written about Wagner split planning from bousing. on Wednesday. since September 1988; tattle between my head and the One of Margaret Thatcher’s The proposed ministry for do you really begrudge fixative. My companion, who was virtues was her dislike of such women epitomises empty token¬ me a thousand or two triennial seeing it for the first time (sancta gimmicks. She put _ ism. There is no words on the subject? I have simplicitasi), said after Siegfried, the departments of function for such a an excuse; 1 have just sat “By ihe end, 1 don’t know who HI trade and industry department except through the Ring at Covent be", and I instantly realised, so together - with the ’’The proposed to trample on, or Garden, but before I pronounce perceptive was the remark, that anti-protectionist more likely be artistic judgment I must pro¬ she was numbered in the company former now at last ministry for trampled by. other nounce, in the most vulgar man¬ of Wagner's sworn vassals for life, gaining the upper departments. Lab¬ ner, on monetary matters. trapped by his magic (wait till she hand — and she women our says the min¬ It is well known that I do not hears Tristan1.) and without any divided the depart¬ istry will co¬ reck the cost of my pleasures and hope of cure from the fever called ment of health and epitomises ordinate sex that I am accustomed to share Richard Wagner. social security. equality action; these with a companion. More¬ I have long lost count of how Mrs Thatcher was, empty those are proper over, my sight is poor, which many times I have sat in the however, unable to roles for the Home necessitates seats dose to the stage darkness and begged for release end the Wilsonian tokenism. It Office or the at theatrical events, and as every¬ from his thrall; in vain. I know practice of giving Department of one knows these are the most that in one sense it is deadly additional titles to will have no Employment. A expensive. Very well; but even my trousers, three days’ I went in the poison, seeping into the pro- bai.lvd ministers. While powerful minister hand trembled as I wrote out a stubble and bare opera house, I could foundest depths of the human designated min¬ function' there, say a Bar- cheque, for two tickets of ad¬ chests with braces. hear the same words psyche, to whisper into our ears isters are less costly bara Castle, would mission, with the words seven Not a bit; wherever I again and again: “It’s the. terrible truths .that we cannot than separate de¬ do more for hundred and eighty-four pounds. looked I saw spotless all right if you keep face. Yet it is also a healing agent, partments, they similarly reflect women than a new ministry. I cannot dig; to beg I am white shirts with your eyes closed". telling us that we can be the notion of ministers as spon¬ If John Major wins the election, ashamed. But something will have smart ties. O si sic Ah. but ft was all whole if we can only learn the sors of special interests, and changes in Whitehall are also to be done, if only because there omnesl right if you kept your lesson he teaches us. reinforce the illusion that govern¬ likely. The Department of Energy are not enough Pools jackpot I would have grum¬ eyes dosed. The vic¬ ments are responsible for every¬ has lost much of its justification winners to fill the house nightly. bled less at the ticket tor ludorum of this I know of no work of art that (Wait a minute; my Ring tickets prices if the staging Ring is without doubt draws us more completely thing. What has Christopher with the privatisation of gas and tel Chope done to deserve the title of electricity. And the dividing lines cost £98 each, but I have just had been less dread¬ Bernard Haitink. It is into its deepest recesses; for minister for roads and traffic? between the departments of trade noticed that in the coming season, ful; for those not well customary to match that matter, I know of no Next time you are in a jam on the and industry and employment are for Figaro — Figaro, I ask you! — up in these matters, l new Ring conductors work of art to which it can be M2S you will know who to blame. messy. One legacy of the Lord the top price is £113. That ghostly shall let you into the at Covent Garden usefully compared King Lear? The least necessary legacies of Young era — now excessively chuckle you beard was Salieri, picture. Covent against the . two great¬ The Issenheim Altar? The Magic the 1960s are the ministers for the denigrated — is that the small- enjoying his revenge.) Garden had launched est post-war ones: FI..hush!, ‘ we are dose to arts and sport. Both are inherently firms service and tourism stayed Mind you, the audience was not itself on a new Ring Kemp^and^lti, the blasphemy!. The Ring is.inex¬ private-sector, voluntary -activ¬ with employment. There is talk of alone in worrying about money. with a Russian direc¬ haustible'' (hollow laughter from ities. Any state role in providing creating a department of com¬ The orchestra —1 multi-colour tor, Lyubimov. It is delicacy, the second ihoise who find it insufferable) encouragement and subsidies does merce to handle regulatory issues leaflets were being given out as we impossible to put a all fire and pulse; both precisely because it deals with not require such cheerleaders. (why not revive the Board of entered—were complaining about complete Ring on the entirely valid. I rather eternal things and the way mortals David Mellor can do more for the Trade name?) sad a department of their pay, and for a moment we stage in a single year think that from now face or fail to face their meetings arts now as chief secretary to the enterprise (Lord Young’s pre¬ clutched tiie leaflet in alarm, (even Bayreuth takes a on we shall be with eternity. I can well under¬ Treasury than he ever did when he ferred title for trade and industry). convinced that they were on year out when one . comparing those who stand the weariness complained of was minister for the arts. The A radical government would split strike. And so they were, but only Ring finishes, to prepare for the completed one. The choice fell on come after to Haitink, who owes in the way that the Ring goes latter mainly negotiates once a up the Ministry of Agriculture, in the wonderful Japanese man¬ □ext), so Covent Garden had Berlin, where Gotz Friedrich had notiiing to either of those two great about it; the cumbersome “fur¬ year with the Treasury over public ending its role as spokesman for ner, which consists of the work¬ scheduled the four operas over recently concluded a Ring. He had examplars, but has coined his own niture" of giants and dwarfs and spending and has the status of a the fanners. force turning up an hour earlier three yean. So far, so good; done one for Covent Garden in currency. (He also, presumably, gods and heroes and magic caps minor member of the royal family Whatever the precise demarca¬ than clocking-in time, and having unfortunately it tuned out that 1976, which had much to com¬ chose his own cast, and they did (and occasionally a touch of old- — a kind of fourth substitute — at tion tines, any changes by Mr a strike until the hooter sounds. Lyubimov spoke not a word of mend it, but a single glance at his him proud; there was a weak fashioned murder), but what the opening of plays or ex¬ Major should produce one less The Covent Garden orchestra’s English, quarrelled with new one was enough to show that Sieglinde and a weaker Woodbind, great work of art dispenses hibitions. And at least one recent ministry. They are, however, un¬ version of this benign industrial body and began with a Rhei Covent Garden might have done but everywhere else there were with symbols? minister for spent had to be told by likely to reduce the number of action was — wdl, let them speak that was deservedly hooted better to stick with Lyubimov, or splendid voices making splendid The due to Wagner is that ^ $um his secretary of state that his job ministers — at present 85 in the for themselves. off the Stage- better still to turn the place into a meanings.) I don't think I have nobody can be indifferent to him; was not to attend every inter¬ Commons, including whips. “The orchestra of the Royal Consternation; Jeremy Isaacs, bingo halL Tired, lazy, perverse, heard more exciting versions of there are passionate haters of him, ' :v *'»•* national fixture anywhere in the Many junior and middle-ranking House ... is taking industrial who had just been appointed to ugly and devoid of imagination, Lhe greai climaxes — ihe fire at the and passionate lovers of him, and world involving an English team. ministers are not fully stretched, action in attempt to improve basic run Covent Garden, was only with Friedrich’s Ring lurched on to the end of WalkUre, the invocation to passionate lovers of him who wish • • •-• r»i!I The state can assist in the pro¬ but party managers will not vol¬ salaries... The Musicians' Union difficulty dissuaded from hanging stage; Mr Isaacs will stay in after Erda, the Entry into Valhalla, they could hate him, and there are ' rtm vision of sport and leisure facil- untarily reduce the size of the has attempted to negotiate an bimsdfi and in any case his hair school and write out 100 times: Siegfried’s last encounter with even passionate haters ofhixn who iiies for young people, but that is government, since that involves amicable settlement ... Despite turned grey in a single night “If, when the curtain goes up, Wotan, the bridal procession -in wish they could love him, but all this it is not our intention to Lyubimov was dispensed with, part of the normal job of the cutting the number of prizes that what the audience sees is rubbish, GOtterdOmmerung — nor have I nobody can come away from the i departments of education and can be offered and the size of the interfere with this evening's but that left a Ring-shaped hole in it will not cease to be rubbish by heard such enormous (but experience of the Ring unmarked " - : ’■Man the environment. loyal payroll vote. But there is no performance, except by wearing the schedule; it was far too late to being called a lime tunnel’, impeccably controlled) volume; at by his power. I shall try to Neil Kinnock is preparing to go case for making matters worse by casual dress...” start again, and the only alter¬ particularly when no meaning is the final crash which ends resist writing about him for down the Wilson road. Labour's creating new departments with no I peered into the pit, expecting native, if there was going to be a attributed to the tunnel and no Siegfried I thought my head another three years, but I main policy document proposes proper functions. to see tom jeans, beer-stained Ring at all, was to borrow a reference made lo lime." Wtaer- would come off cannot promise. news, children’s and factual pro¬ throat and opihalmology services. ...and moreover Wine with the grammes. As the commission’s The Tories have been quick to deliberations continued, Russell seize on the gaffe, especially as the cardinal was acutely aware of the reper¬ NHS trust application includes Matthew Parris cussions on his daughter’s career, pictures of all three hospitals. FOR THE first time in its 70-year but it did not stop TVS joining the Michael Bates, the Tory can¬ history. Northern Ireland is to four auction losers. One ITC didate, says: “It’s all Lhe more According to an economist commentary — the Oakleys, genuinely admire. Malcolm honour the leader of the Roman source says: “It just goes to show ironic given the Labour slogan for friend, if every pros¬ Coles and Hugo Youngs — into Riflrind once-directed me to a Catholic Church of All Ireland there is no partiality here." the by-election: make Langbauigb perous widower in Britain the undergrowth, where second¬ remark made by an old conser¬ Peter Brooke, the Northern Ire¬ Unlike Carol Thatcher, Olivia count. It’s high time Labour learnt married his housekeeper tomor¬ ary creatures like me, the squir¬ vative in a di Lampedusa novel: land secretary, is holding a recep¬ Russell may lose her job because how to count from two to three.” row, there would be an immedi¬ rels of the media world, scurry “If you want things to stay the tion for Cardinal Cahal Daly at TVS bid too much, not too little. ate small but sharp drop in the around picking up interviews same, then things are going to Hillsborough Castle this week. But there is unlikely to be any • The cold war may be over, but gross national product. House¬ with CNN and telephone chats have to change." Though Mr The reception is to mark Daly’s leaked letter expressing heart¬ Ministry of Defence police in Scot¬ keepers are employed; house¬ with Newsbeat. It’s all new busi¬ Riflrind may not have meant this receipt of the cardinal’s red hat A break. Russell is understood to land were concerned enough re¬ wives. apparently, are not ness, for it does not simply to describe her strategy, it does similar event for his predecessor, will be present. It is a cross¬ have telephoned her. cently to report to their superiors arid And it works both ways. Start replace other news items. News¬ so perfectly. Tomas O Fiaich, would have been community guest list" that Soviet slogans haa been to pay people for what they were papers run to more pages and Well, we all want to keep the inconceivable. Neither Brooke nor A far cry from the early 1960s Loss of trust daubed on the fence of the Faslane doing anyway and, if the fee is magazines grow fatter on House of Lords. And we all Daly wants an offidal fuss to be when Northern Ireland was ruled nuclear submarine base. False notifiable to the Inland Rev¬ Thatcherabilia, while radio pro¬ retain an affection for the heredi¬ made about the historic gathering. from Stormont and Terence LABOUR appears to have scored alarm: they turned out to be He¬ enue, GNP rises. grammes play fewer American tary principle. But in our class¬ No politician apart from Brooke O'Neill, the prime minister, was an own-goal in Langbamgh as brew hieroglyphics spelling out a That is why I argue that Mrs rap records to feature the home¬ less society the idea is looking will be there. Attendance is lim¬ criticised for having the temerity William WaJdegrave today pre¬ message of peace from CND. Thatcher is single-handedly grown stuff: Maggie-rap. . vulnerable. Cleverly, Mrs ited to 150 of Daly's family and to visit a Catholic schooL What pares to “nail Labour lies” over helping kick-start the economy And what an artiste she is! Thatcher sneaked the creation of friends, and representatives of James Craig, the first prime min¬ the National Health Service. Pam¬ out of recession. Creating news Barely moving a muscle, she hereditary peerages tack on to the educational world and the ister of Northern Ireland, would phlets have been issued by Oat to Ratt by her every move, she_ is knows just when to give a the agenda by including a child¬ civil service. make of it is anyone’s guess. He Labour's by-election candidate THE MOST devoted fans of described Stormont as “a boosting the output, drculation discreet stir, the tiniest prod with less Labour Speaker among her “It is unprecedented,7 says Ashok Kumar opposing the trust Uwis Carroll’s poem The Hunt¬ Protestant parliament for a. and revenue of magazines and that elegant little finger. To first. The next move must be Daly. “I was very surprised to status applications by local hos¬ ing of the Snark are boycotting Protestant people". newspapers, and providing sub¬ whom will she apologise next? equally cunning. Parliament receive the invitation. 1 did not pitals, making much of the party's Mike Batt’s musical, which opens ject matter for every section of From which Belgravia dinner hesitate to accept iu I think it on Thursday at the Prince Edward must strike a blow for tradition, • Sir Bernard Ingham's views on the media. She nas assumed the party will a private remark about and for radical feminism, in a represents a very sincere desire by Theatre in London. The Snark the Secretary of Stale to honour homelessness, "moral blackmail", status of permanent news item. the competence of which cabinet single stroke. Club, set up by medical students at And without lifting a finger. It minister leak into the public the Catholic community. I think it are in sharp contrast to those of his Cambridge in 1934, is dis- It’s not that 1 don’t like Mark. predecessor at Downing Street. Sir is requiring no material alter¬ domain? Where next will a is a recognition of the fact that consoiate at Ban's presumption. Actually I do. But he’s fixed up there are two traditions in Ireland. Tom McCaffrey. James Collar ation to her life or ours. Since the It’s a travesty.” says Michael routine tree-planting ceremony nicely already, don’t you think? ghan’s press secretary for three dawn of lime we have chattered include the hint of a coded Both are worthy of respect." Harmer, a retired surgeon who is Now Carol is a lot of fan. She’s The Northern Ireland Office is years, was at the weekend rattling about what our acquaintances criticism of her successor's ap¬ Beaman of the dub, now down to an independent, funny, gutsy being more opaque. “The Sec¬ a collection tin for the Leatherhead will do after they have retired, proach to monetary union? woman and deserves a better : pGoo-JoT*' eight of the original ten members. retary of State is holding more mid hostel for the homeless, open 365 “From what I have heard the gossiped about how they are And then there’s the P-word. press. “Miss" or “Mrs" will nights a year, which he helps run. more receptions," it says in¬ j -l m“s, I * - ■: S-.-O: THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 15 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 1 Pennington Street, London El 9XN Telephone 071-782 5000 LEADING HORSES TO WATER ^ ***** conference, agreed Two of die delegations arotmd the table Thatcher letter to Gyngell as evidence of ITV ‘chaos’ Need to reform will cause little trouble. Lebanon, back from From the Earl cf Stockton Broadcasting Act, TV-am were who not only had a dominant share of trade marks law ^ 15 a for American 15 years of turmoil, is now ready to pick up Sir, The disclosure by the managing bound io lose unless they were the audience but were the first ITV diplomacy. Coming after a line of successes the earlier negotiations with Israel that director of TV-am, Mr Bruce unopposed. company radically to change working From Mr Christopher Aforcom, QC thal included arms control agreements, foundered on Syrian-inspired opposition. Gyngefl, of his personal letter from Why? First of all, TV-am were the practices and reduce staffing levels. Sir. On September 19 last year the German unification and an end to the Cold Jordan, almost throttled by the anger of Gulf Mrs Thatcher (report, October 18) prisoners of their own recent success But the franchise system was government published, in a white War, it is a personal achievement for James states and the West for its equivocation reopens the validity of other aspects and past history. They were far the never designed to be fair to ITV’s paper (Cm 1203), proposals for the most profitable of fee ITV com¬ staff or shareholders; indeed, ii reform of United Kingdom trade Baker that confirms his place as a great during the Gulf war, is desperate to resume of the Broadcasting Act, if the panies in terms of return on sales. totally failed to take into account marks law. Existing law in this field American secretary of state. He has reached its good standing in the world. principal architect and overriding force behind the legislation now They were capitalised on the day that they had any rights to recog¬ is still based upon the Trade Marks ‘JP* elud£d Predecessors, The other participants show no such repudiates one of its fundamentals. before the bid at £83 million — a nition. For this Mrs Thatcher, who Act 1938, although in 1986 there Umted Nations resolutions and would-be amenability. The Palestinians, who will sit As one of many in both houses of level incompatible with a really chaired the Cabinet subcommittee came into force a long overdue peace-ms&ere around the world: bringing with the Jordanians, axe humiliated at the Parliament who warned that the biO competitive bid. Sunrise, fee con¬ on broadcasting, quite rightly takes amendment providing, for fee first Israel and all its Arab neighbours around a severe conditions of their inclusion. Limited would produce the present absurd sortium of which LWT is a part, has her share of responsibility. Her paid time, for the registration of marks negotiating table. and unpaid advisers, and the other by the intifada in their room for manoeuvre, and chaotic position and found that, an equity base of £12 million, and for services. although we had persuaded the total capital of £27 million. Day¬ members of that sub-committee, are The 1938 Act was poorly drafted, He was helped by a combination of they hover on the brink of acknowledging equally culpable. circumstances. There is now an extraor- officials of the Home Office of our break, who bid at a similar level to and ceased many years ago to meet allegiance to the PLO, a move that would case, their better judgment was Sunrise, have a similar capital Those of us who have emerged the needs of industry to any dmaiy degree of co-operation between give Israeli rejectionists the excuse they seek overruled by direct intervention structure. alive from the process are appro¬ adequate extent. In certain respects Washington and Moscow, the antagonists* to shatter the brittle accord. Syria is also from Downing Street, I now mge the Secondly. TV-am operate out of priately grateful to David Mellor for the law still does not comply with forma- patrons and arms suppliers. The likely to make its demands for the return of new administration to think studios and transmission facilities his amendments during the com¬ our obligations under the Paris combined pressure of the Soviet Union and the Golan Heights an early sticking point especially on the questions of the used — under-used — exclusively for mittee stage of the Bill and George Convention of 1883. the United States can move even the most ownership of ITN, the inhibition of breakfast television. TV-am’s rivals Russell and the ITC for setting the The white paper was immediately and an obstacle to later discussion of water quality hurdle high. The 1980 fran¬ stubborn politicians, overcome the most mergers between Channel 3 compa¬ both proposed to share these fixed welcomed among those who are resources and regional co-operation. nies, and the exclusion of non-dom¬ assets, with LWT and ITN respec¬ chise-round’s epitaph was “There concerned about trade marks. Not intractable hatreds. Fortuitioiisly Israel’s The Americans will keep up the pressure. estic satellite services from the law. tively. Their costs are significantly must be a better way". This wasn’t only did it include the changes request for a massive loan gnara^t****1 ai*n They have not come lids far to walk away The question of the designated lower as a result. it; the only appropriate comment on which are necessary for the United gave Washington unexpected leverage in when the bickering starts. Mr Baker must do news provider is the most urgent, Thirdly, fee quality threshold for fee 1991 process is "It could have Kingdom to comply with the EC Jerusalem. President Bush, buoyed by a as he did before: use American (and Soviet) and the government should support breakfast was, for a credible group, been much worse”. directive for harmonisation of home popularity that has made him chairmanship to set d«»dtinpc mobilise the Independent Television Com¬ relatively easy to pass. And excep¬ Yours sincerely member-states' trade mark laws, impervious to electoral blackmail, laced mission’s 'dew that the majority tional circumstances were never CHRISTOPHER BLAND. adopted at the end of 19SS; it went international opinion, block lines of retreat, holding in ITN should be in the likely to be invoked. Chairman. LWT (Holdings) pic. far further, making proposals for a down the consequent intense lobbying. To by holding all sides to security council hands of the C3 licence-holders. None of this was fair on either the The London Television Centre, comprehensive reform of the law an unusual degree Mr Baker enjoys the trust resolutions and previous undertakings. There is no serious television net¬ staff or the shareholders of TV-am, Upper Ground. SEI. and for enabling the United King¬ and shares the thinking of his president. The whole point of the meeting is direct, work in the world that does not dom to ratify the 1989 Protocol to As Peter Brooke has found to his chagrin face to face negotiations, something Israel control its news provider, and cial penalties of going off air, the com¬ the Madrid Agreement for the Thames and the unions pany would ultimately back down. in Ulster, however, it is one thing to get the unless the government rejects the international registration of trade has long proclaimed as its goal. No Whai in fact happened was that consent of bitter enemies to talk, quite mistaken Thatcher/Bornett concept From Sir Hugh Dundas marks. delegation must be allowed to use the the unions were told quite firmly The government’s expressed in¬ another to make peace. Each side, anticipat¬ — that the majority of shares may Sir, Reports ofMrs Thatcher’s letter Americans, Russians or other interested not be held by Channel 3 licence- to Mr Bruce Gyngell have referred that the company was determined to tention was to introduce legislation, ing ever greater pressure for concessions, parties as proxy negotiators. Nor must they holders — the BBC will be handed tile to TV-am’s defiance of the unions achieve its stated objectives and, on the lines set out, as soon as the will look for ways of sabotaging the talks in be under any illusion that they can toy with serious news monopoly on a plate. when, in 1987, it locked them out when they accordingly withdrew parliamentary timetable permits. advance. Their trick will be to pick on some world hopes by toying with the issues. For all Far from opening up the market for several months and broadcast a their labour, the broadcasting of Despite earlier hopes, it now ap¬ in commercial television, the Act service mounted by management programmes was undertaken, suc¬ pears that the government does not procedural niggle, invest it with spurious the talk of trust and good wilL it is the threat cessfully, by management. principle and manipulate the other side into has enhanced the subjective nature It seems to have been forgotten intend to introduce the legislation and fear of isolation that has brought and of the judgments by the ITC, both It was a momentous decision, until after the general election. breaking off the talks and incurring the will stin bring most of the participants to that another and much larger ITV implemented with very great diffi¬ on quality thresholds and on busi¬ company, Thames Television — The implications are obvious: opprobrium. Mr Baker has anticipated this Madrid. It has taken Mr Baker eight visits to ness plans. These judgments, ar¬ culty as well as very great determ¬ industry will continue to be de¬ He has allowed the participants no room for also, like TV-am, a victim of the ination by managers whose ingenu¬ the region to get a conference agreed. The rived at in apparently non-con- new system of awarding contracts to prived. for at least two years and retreat and little time to make mischief. hard part is now beginning tiguous smoke-filled rooms, confirm ity and endurance were stretched to probably more, of the proper means the highest bidder — took the first the limit the Alice in Wonderland nature of really decisive step in combating for the protection of its trade marks, the system on which Alice herself The courage and good sense of which it so urgently needs if it is to restrictive practices which had been Thames’s board and management at has now done a U-turn. allowed to flourish for too long. play its full pan in the EC and BALLAD OF WAKEFIELD JAIL Yours sincerely, that time undoubtedly produced internationally. STOCKTON, In the autumn of 1984, following incalculable benefits to an industry The government should think One of the greatest barriers to the reform of agement and staff have yet to be appointed, House of Lords. extensive negotiations with its from which the company, together again, and include these excellent the prison system in England and Wales is is the ideal opportunity for a fresh start. October 18. unions, Thames insisted on the with TV-am, which followed and essential proposals in its pro¬ the obstruction of the Prison Officers* There is nothing immoral, illiberal or implementation of changes in work¬ Thames’s good example three years gramme for the coming session. From the Chairman ofLWT ing practices and in new technology. later, is now to be banished. Association. One stark illustration of its reactionary in prisons being run other than Sr, Mrs Thatcher’s mystification at Yours faithfully, Yours faithfully. However, there was undoubtedly a CHRISTOPHER MORCOM. baleful influence — at Wakefield prison in. by state agencies, provided they are run well; TV-am’s loss of the breakfast fran¬ general expectation, not least on the HUGH DUNDAS (Chairman, Yorkshire — is given in The Times today. chise is, to say the least, surprising. Thames Television, 1981-7), 1 Essex Court, Temple, EC4. and there is no intrinsic reason why they part of the unions and their mem¬ October 16. Officers there face an ultimatum to end their should be ran badly. In the United States Under the rules set out in the 1991 bers, that in order to avoid the finan¬ 55 Ivema Court. W8. seven months of disruption or be sacked. At they are often better than average. The ill least 37 of the 123 penal establishments repute of private prisons dates from before Cornwall’s dilemma over proposals for relief road Arts at British Library under the jurisdiction of the Home Office the nationalisation of the system in the From the President of the Royal are currently afflicted with similar industrial From the County Surveyor of From Dr A. L. Rowse, FBA From Mr G. M. Patrick Academy of Arts Prison Reform Act of 1878. That infamy Cornwall disputes, some more than one at a time. The arose from die way prisoners were charged Sir, We here in mid-Cornwall who Sir. It is not only fee environment Sir, I write to express my own Sir, The proposed road improve¬ care for its beauty and amenities are which will suffer from fee proposed dismay, and that of the council of total is rising. This cannot go on. . for their own incarceration, not because of ments between St Austell and the The current spate of disputes means staff appalled at the proposal to run a Bodmin to St Austell link road. As a the Royal Academy, at the govern¬ the prinripierof private ownership. Many A38,- reported by Mr Binney on London businessman in fee process working to rule, prisoners locked in then- new road through the park at ment’s decision to cut off funds for stale-run prisons (in effect, POA-run) stand October 14 (early editions), are the Tregrehan and on stilts across the of starting up a new company in fee commissioning of works of art cells all day, educational and welfare result of an extensive study of south in dreadful repute already; the private sector entrance to fee lovely Luxulyan Bodmin, I believe fee new road and fbrfee new British Library, reported facilities unused, prisoners not delivered to could hardly do worse. Cornwall's transportation needs. Valley. Both are as yet unspoiled. schemes like it are bad for business. by Richard Cork (October 17). This courts for trial, police station cells over¬ The environmental issues have If a business needs to move heavy raises important issues of principle. The current industrial relations mess in been fully taken into consideration The park at Tregrehan contains a crowded. It also means more pressure on prisons is nothing new. Its immediate cause collection of rare trees, treasured by goods around, either as raw materi¬ The monuments of the past — in in determining the alignment of the als or finished goods, it is at particular the great public buildings prisoners, more suicides, greater risk of riots. is the Fresh Start programme, introduced in proposed route, nearly half of which expert gardeners. It has only re¬ The government is close to losing all control cently been opened to fee public, competitive disadvantage in -Corn¬ — have always been adorned wife 1987, designed to end the extravagant over¬ would consist of widening the wall however many roads are built works of art which were among the over management — and thus policy — in the existing roads. We canvassed 25,000 with much care and hard work, for time worked by staff in prisons which itself the pleasure and instruction of fee In attracting business, the one major liveliest expressions of the age in prison service; and many of the Woolf had been the cause of almost continuous local households this summer, of advantage the county can offer is its which they were built: the best those who replied, 68 per cent ex¬ public. reforms are stalled. industrial civil war. Fresh Start was reminis¬ lovely environment, and as new architects (in modem times, no less This breakdown of state control over pressed support for improved road If there must be yet another road, roads are built Cornwall's only cent of various abortive attempts to secure it should be kept to the north, and than ancient) have always been prisons is the biggest single argument in links and 57 per cent supported the advantage is gradually destroyed. mindful of this, and have welcomed union consent to “reform” Fleet Street in the proposed route. run through the china-clay country favour of their privatisation. But the Cornwall should try to attract the the work of other artists in their own 1970s. Since Fresh Start the POA has None of the alternative routes which is populous and where it new growth, hi-tech industries government has been lukewarm about pri¬ designs. changed its point of attack from overtime to would solve the long-term traffic could serve several villages along which do not need roads but which vatising prisons, and has let the case go by the route. Any such new road should At fee British Library, an exem¬ overmanning, demanding ever more prison problems in fee area, and each will be attracted by fee excellent plary scheme was launched by the default. The criminal justice bOl initially would cause severe environmental be kept away from St Austell Bay, working environment- In other officers. In pursuit of that goal, every reform damage. All of them cross open which has several resorts. then minister for fee arts, as recently allowed private contractors to run only words, road-building in Cornwall, as May 1990. The national library is or flexibility that the prison management countryside, affecting a large num¬ remand prisons, and the government left it I do not think it would even be beyond that required for basic a national monument, and fee ber of farm holdings, rural commu¬ to its backbenchers earlier this year to press proposes is blocked- Such is POA control in good business to spoil the beauty requirements, is counter-productive. British Library is probably the most nities and nature conservation sites corridor and landing that if it says prisoners and amenities of fee area, apart Yours sincerely, important public building to have an amendment which extended this to all of county importance. from anything else. other types of establishment So far the extra must stay in their cells all day, stay they do. GAL PATRICK, been put up in this country this The proposed route would cross Yours sincerely, The Roundhouse Bam, power remains unused. The Home Office cannot run a service like century. The siting of fee works was the edge of the parkland at Lesquite, Lanivet, an integral part of fee architect's this. Its monopoly as a provider of prisons Tregrehan, not the garden, as Mr A L. ROWSE, Yet a dozen or more new prisons are ex¬ Trenarren, Bodmin, Cornwall. plans: a distinguished group of pected to be completed and brought into use reinforces the POA’s monopoly as a pro- Binney reports. Tregrehan fronts on St Austell From Mrs Rosemary Baldwin persons was appointed to recom¬ in the next few years. The government fears vider of labour. The only way to undermine to the busy A390 primary route, and mend and commission the works; we believe that the new road will CorowalL that the wholesale selling off of existing pri¬ it is by a plural and diverse system of locally Sir, There is an alternative way to and a modest sum of money was cause no significant increase in October 16. encourage tourism into the Fowey sons in the state system might trigger a war owned and managed prisons, regulated by allocated for this purpose. noise levels, particularly given the area, a dangerously few miles to the The government's decision pro¬ to the finish with the POA, and today’s min¬ government and paid for by taxes, but extensive landscaping feat would be south-east of fee projected road: the vides little encouragement for fee isters appear to have no stomach for such otherwise left to get on with the job. Only carried out. We also believe that the re-opening to passengers of the thus will England and Wales get a well run, private developers who have industrial ordeals. But the opening of new scheme would not seriously inter¬ railway line that runs along the - commissioned works of an for feeir prisons on “green-field” sites, whose man¬ reformed and enlightened penal system. rupt the view around St Blazey beautiful valley of the Fowey river. own projects wife such success in Gate, as a Kew spokesman is quoted This line is now used exclusively by recent years. Can fee government as alleging, and that it would fee company carrying china-clay to really wish to set such a bad example provide safer access for visitors to ships from all over Europe tied up at to all? The decision should be SPOILING A SPORT the gardens. fee docks outside fee old port. reconsidered. Our proposals are at the initial Passengers would then be able to Yours faithfully. Rugby football is no game for sissies. Phys- rugby authorities are likely to punish those feasibility stage, and a public in¬ join the Intercity line at Lost- ROGER de GREY, President. quiry wlU take place, should this icaf contact is of its essence. Scrums, rucks involved in Saturday’s outrages, but they wifereL They would have enjoyed a Royal Academy of Arts, and mauls all depend on big men pushing also need to examine the cause. The referee prove necessary. All of these facts journey of incredible beauty, allied Piccadilly, Wl. other big men roughly about, arms and legs is becoming the most important determi- could have been made available to with bird-watching, without any October 18. Mr Binney if he had taken the damage to fee environment. These flailing. A rugby player who fears the tackle nant of the outcome of many matches, as trouble to contact my staff before are fee kind of memories that is even less use than the goalkeeper who penalties are ever more frequent The laws writing his report. remain in fee minds of visitors. Christian route fears the penalty. Commitment is total. are subject to widely differing interpreta- Yours faithfully, Yours sincerely, From Mr G. W. Johnston These essentials have been exacerbated by tions. Southern hemisphere referees prefer BRIAN MANSELL, ROSEMARY BALDWIN, Sir, Canon Richardson and Mr the game’s increasing popularity. A handful rucks between players who are standing up. County Surveyor, Studio Cottage, Latham (October 15) put forward an of top players are amateurs only in name, European referees let the ruck continue Cornwall County Council Golan t, interesting set of arguments to County HaD, Truro, Cornwall. Fowey, ComwalL support fee view that Christianity commanding payments for off-the-fiefd when they are on the ground. One refs may not be the sole route to God. promotions no less generous than those that peccadillo is another refs scrum and a third At John 14:6 (New English Bible) go to professional footballers. The present refs penalty. Three kicked penalties bring Dying voluntarily From Monsignor H. Wilson Once upon a time Jesus says, “I am the way, I am the Sir, Those who claim fee right to world cup competition itself is a £40-miIlion nine points, more than two unconverted From Dr Stephen Henderson Smith From Mrs C. H. Middleton truth and I am life; no one comes to dispose of their lives should ask fee Father except by me”. I rather event Patriotism and the pocket: two of the tries. In this weekend’s world cup matches, Sir, If circumstances have made life themselves the question, can I Sir, Your report (October 14) on fee most powerful human motivators work to- tries (17) only just outnumbered penalties intolerable (article, October II; financial prospects for Euro Disney, think it is safer to stick wife Jesus’s destroy what I did not produce? opinion on the matter. gether to create a heady brew. (16). letters, October 16,18,19) suffering Yours sincerely, fee theme park east of Paris, The world cup was bound to see rugby’s Rugby has a successful record m changing may have to be endured, but we are H. WILSON, suggests feat it is “in deference to Yours faithfully, GARETH JOHNSTON, most competitive side in evidence. But how its rules. The discouragement of direct surely beyond extolling masochism Beech wood Convent, the host nation”, that the 15-storey for its own sake; Broadway, Derbyshire. edifice is also called “Le ChSteau de 3 Londonderry Gardens, Comber, much such authorised violence is tolerable? touch-kicking from outside 22-metre lines; Nor is depression always the la Belle au Bois Dormant”. Co Down, Northern Ireland. October 16. It exploded on Saturday. And hardly had the the four-point try; the introduction of the concomitant of voluntary dying. I should prefer to believe feat the match in Dublin started yesterday than free kick itself: these changes have made for Many elderly would be happy to die Nothing to celebrate? reason for this decision is not fee Ireland and Australia players were at each a faster free-moving game. More changes are at a time of their own choosing From Mr Ken Broad castle’s location but the fact that “La Early festivities other’s throats. England versus France was a urgent There must be more emphasis on rather than go through the mil} of Sir, As Bemud Levin commented Belle au Bois Dormant” (Sleeping From Mrs Marion Higgs residential home, nursing home, geri¬ (“Salt of the earth flavour”. October Beauty), as well as “Cendrillon” hard on the pitch, but worse followed open running play, hence even more points atric unit and psycho-geriatric ward. 10), Britain is virtually alone in Sir, I read today’s report. “It may be when the referee, David Bishop of New for tries or conversions. The laws governing (Cinderella), “Le Chat Bone” (Puss balmy, but Christmas beckons”, Attitudes to hie have changed never having had a meaningful in Boots), “Le Petit Chaperon Zealand, was assaulted in the tunnel ' rucks and mauls dearly need to be tightened. radically. We have absorbed crema¬ revolution. I fed this has not been wife considerable sympathy. My rouge” (Red Riding Hood) and family and I booked a table for In no could such a development be These licensed fistfigbts may sooner or later tion, contraception, abortion and wholly to our advantage. others are the works of a French¬ counselling. It is time we I have eryoyed four Bastille Day September 28 at our local Bend more dangerous. Anarchy on the rugby field have to be banned, as in rugby league: at man, Charles Perraull (1628-1703), restaurant, in order to celebrate our is checked only by the referee’s authority, very least they should stop when a man Ms leami to die at the right time, celebrations in various pans of who also wrote philosophical works. philosophically and even cheerfully. France and at each one I had to daughter's 20th birthday and her These fairy tales were originally resulting in a constant break in the flow of with the ball to the ground, What a relief such an arrangement explain that there was nothing imminent departure to university. written for adults with a strong play as penalty follows penalty. Such is the Just as the free kick was substituted for the would be? comparable, at least not in England. The Christmas cards (last year’s, moral line. They were subsequently presumably) dangling from the ceil¬ tension of the game that rugby players find penalty for a technical mfiingement so now Yours faithfully, Last Quaiorze Juillet, during an themselves risking any number of penalties there should be one-pomt penalties for evening of splendid food and wines, adapted for children and have been ing. Santa’s grotto and the fully S. L. HENDERSON SMITH, the equivalent of English nursery decorated and illuminated Christ¬ in their zest to win. Yet penalties are the only minor offences, two-point for graver and 2 Crosland Court, of fireworks and dancing, a French friend turned and suggested: “Surely rhymes for countless generations of mas tree next to our table somewhat way of keeping a lid on the cauldron. If the. three-point penalties for the gravest, im- Oakes, Huddersfield, French children. spoilt fee atmosphere. West Yorkshire. a revolution is but a small price to referee’s authority goes, the game is likely to posed without hesitation on those who pay for a night such as this." Yours faithfully, Yours faithfully, degenerate into nothing but a brawl behave dangerously. This worid cup was Letters to fee editor shoald carr s Yours truly, NICOLE MIDDLETON, MARION HIGGS, Many of the scenes witnessed on Saturday ■ meant to be a glorious celebration of an daytime telephone number. Tt ey KEN BROAD, 21 Woodside Road, Hazeldene Cottage. were crimes, and would be treated as such in underrated game. It is m danger of showing may be sent to a fax number — Manor Court, Church Aston, Woodford Green, Essex. North Waltham. the street or pub, or in any other game. The how much the game needs to reform itself (071)782 5046. Newport, Shropshire. October 15. Basingstoke, Hampshire. f T. ..* .‘SSL ’ . ™Ja*&dSK ’. '■£ *'L~.' THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 B9i Obituaries HIS HON JUDGE pspfc ■■■ . ».• • hnM INSKIP 1** * ?': joined in the early 1960s as . [W! * ALINE MacMAHON Judge Hampden Inskip, GC \ ., •, .«*’ «M-' f*mii . j * circuit judge, died on October chairman of the Le Court CfM I aged 67. He was born on Cheshire Home. He became a -tlfc •• trustee of the foundation irf r f me Aline MacMahon, American stage and Fdavary 1,1924 ..un COURT CIRCULAR screen actress, died of pneumonia at her 1969 and continued to serve > ■« tKxM Manhattan home on October 12 aged 92. HAMPDEN Inskip served until 1986. His particular • f . -.-Wi » interest was. always with the BUCKINGHAM PALACE The Princess Royal, Honor¬ She was bom in McKeesport, Pennsylva¬ with the Scots Guards in the ■ ihi Ml residents for whom he was a #1, » October 19: The Queen, ary Colonel, University of nia, on May 3,1899. second world war and was attended by the Duchess of London Contingent Officer wounded in Italy, losing an passionate advocate, es¬ Grafton, the Lady Elton, the Training Corps, this morning ALINE MacMahon's stage career ended eye. Thereafter, he wore a pecially the mentally disabled. Right Hon Sir Robert Fellowes, visited the Freshets' Assessment His Influence in forming and Weekend at Crowborough where it began, playing in Pinero's black eye-patch which gave Rear-Admiral Sir Paul Green¬ extending the foundation’s •u U'l*1 Ounp. Trelawny of the Wells. That was in 1975, him a piratical appearance ing, Mr Robin Jaavrin, Mr involvement in this area is Charles Anson, Surgeon opposite Meryl Streep. She had starred in and unusual authority on the Miss Victoria Legge-Bourke evidenced by the fad that Captain Norman Blacklock. was in attendance. the same play as a student at Barnard bench. At the same time he jr. . :: O at ! RN, Air Commodore the Hon College, 56 years earlier. - remained wholly approach¬ there are now 16 homes for , .. a * p»'b October 20: The Duke of York, . -it— K Timothy El worthy. Wing Com¬ In a career spanning over half a able and was always helpful people with a mental disabil¬ mander David Walker, RAF, Honorary Commander of The ity. He wrote tbefoundation’s Sea Cadet Corps, today took century Aline MacMahoa had taken and encouraging to young and Brigadier Clive Robertson, leading roles in countless stage produc¬ basic handbook of care which ■*tA arrived at Heathrow Airport, The Salute at the Berkshire barristers. He was a gentle, District Trafalgar Day Parade at was published in 1981, the . ..-««• London this evening from tions and appeared in 43 films with "modest and courageous man. Zimbabwe. Windsor and was received by actors as varied as Lionel Barrymore, Inskip came from an estab¬ Year of Disabled People, and Her Majesty was received at Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant Marlene Dietrich, Burt Lancaster and lished Bristol family with deep later wrote its handbook on for the Royal County of Berk¬ the Airport by the Earl of Airlie, roots in the law. His father was family support services. shire (Mr John R. Henderson). Joan Gawfoid. The New York Times K.T (Lord Chamberlain) and Mr drama critic Walter Kerr wrote of her in Lord Mayor of Bristol and his His expertise in this field Roger Cato (Acting Operations Captain Alexander Baiitie- had already been recognised Director. Heathrow Airport). Hambton was in attendance. 1967; “I have been seeing Aline Mac- unde, Sir Thomas Inskip, Mahon for more years that I'm going to became Lord Chancellor. by his appointment in 1972 as be honest enough or ungentlemanly Hampden Inskip was edu¬ chairman of a committee of enough to count. Always she has pleased cated at Clifton College and enquiry into the care of pa¬ • - i r" Memorial services me; sometimes more, sometimes less, King's College, Cambridge. tients at South Ockendou •-'•‘I -3E Major-General FJV. “Chips" Sturdy, dean of the college, nevertheless always.” After the war he was called Hospital, Essex, following the Grant officiated. Dr Peter Gray, mas¬ She made hex Broadway debut in 1921 j to the Bar and practised death of a 65-year-old patient A service of thanksgiving for the ter of the college, read the lesson in The Mirage but it was in 1926, with mainly on the Western Cir¬ who was found to have suf¬ life of Major-General F.N. and Dr John Casey gave an fered severe bruising to his “Chips” Grant was held on address. rave reviews for her performance in cuit. At the Bar he soon Saturday at Ropley Parish Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond The Horizon, became known as a man of face and stomach. An inquest Mr A.R. Born Church. Hampshire. The Rev that her career really took wing. Nofl uncommon independence. He cleared the staff of causing the Royston Such officiated. Mr Evensong dedicated in memory Coward described her as “astonishing, was elected a master of the man's death but, under Alastir Grant, son, read the of Mr A.R. (Robin) Burn was moving and beautiful,” and The New bench of the Inner Temple in Inskip’s chairmanship,- the held on Saturday in Christ lesson and Major David God¬ Yorker said she “tempted one to rank her 1975. From 1970 to 1982 he committee of enquiry found — dard gave an address. Church Cathedral, Oxford. The Rev Julian Bomyer, Precentor, immediately as among the Olympians.” was Recorder of Bourne¬ after hearing more than a Professor Michael Oakeshott and the Dean of Christ Church, With her soulful, melancholy looks, mouth and, later, a recorder of million words of evidence — A memorial service for Profes¬ the Very Rev John Drury, Aline Mac Mahon was tailor-made for the crown court. He was also, that gross overcrowding was a sor Michael Oakeshott was held officiated. Dr David Lewis, the dramas of the period. Among her from 1973 to 1982, a member root cause of what was on Saturday in the Chapel of Student of Christ Church, and more memorable plays were Pictures in of the criminal law revision described as unnecessary vi¬ Gonville and Caius College. Chnon Rowan Williams, read olence by nurses on severely Cambridge. The Rev John the lessons. the Hallway, Once in a Lifetime, the committee. He became a cir¬ ; iwt Confidential Clerk, and All The Way cuit judge in 1982 and re¬ subnormal patients and that .4* J*. Home. Later films included Ah, Wilderness, Montgomery Clift’s screen debut As she inforced his reputation as a human failings by dOCtOTS, She went to Hollywood in 1931, The Lady is Willing, Babbitt, One Way moved into her sixties Aline MacMabon man of unfailing courtesy, nurses and laymen on the Birthdays Today’s royal administrative side were a making her screen debut in Five Star Passage and The Flame and the Arrow. found time for drama and compassion and firmness of Final with Edward G. Robinson. In 1933 principle. contributing factor. The re¬ Though she never achieved screen appeared in seasons at the Shakespeare today engagements a Warner Brothers casting director Inslnp's interest in his port, published in 1974, had a stardom, she received an Oscar nomina¬ Festival in Connecticut Mr Malcolm Arnold, composer, The Duke of Edinburgh, as placed her among the ten smartest garden was paramount in his far-reaching influence on the 70; Mr Geoffrey Boycott, crick¬ International President of actresses, along with Katharine Hepburn tion in 1944 as best supporting actress for Aline MacMahon was the danghn»r of leisure time. He created, at his approach to standards in men¬ eter, SI; Lord Brand, 68; Mr WWF-Worid Wide Fund for and Helen Hayes. She appeared, quite her role in Dragon Seed with Katharine a broker turned magazine editor, and home in Hampshire, a garden tal nursing. Norman Clarke, former sec¬ Nature, will attend the launch of Hepburn. grew up in New York City. Her mother, retary and registrar, Institute of “Caring for the Earth - a strategy acerbically, in Gold Diggers of1933 and of such an English style that it Inskip was appointed presi¬ came Mathematics and its Applica¬ for sustainable living” at The developed a nice line in playing attrac¬ One of her best roles wdH on in Jennie Simon MacMahon, began a stage was the envy of all who were dent of the Transport Tri¬ tions, 75; Mr Dizzy Gillespie, Queen Elizabeth II Conference tive secretaries ready with a raised her career, when the melancholy in the career ofher own at her daughter’s urging privileged to walk through it bunal in 1982. jazz musician, 74; Lord Graves Centre at 11.00. eyebrow and a wisecrack. She was face had deepened, with Fred at the age of 53. She died in 1984, three , with him. Hampden Insltip married (Peter Graves), actor, 80; Mr The Princess of Wales will photographed by Cecil Beaton and her Zinnemann's underestimated film, The weeks before her 107th birthday. His other great interest was Ann Davies in 1947. She Simon Gray, writer, 55; Lord attend a luncheon at Lancaster Search (1948). This semi-documentary the Leonard Cheshire survives him, with a son and a Grieve, 74; Sir Maurice Hodg¬ beauty inspired a marble bust by Isamu Aline MacMahon’s husband, an archi¬ House at 12.10 to mark the Noguchi. Foundation, which he first daughter. son. former chairman. British launch of the Department of drama set in postwar Europe marked tect, predeceased her. Home Stores. 72; Mr John Hull, Transport's child pedestrian former deputy chairman of road safety campaign; and, as Schraders, 66. Patron of Relate, will attend the Mr Leo Kirch, German media film premiere of Rambling Rose entrepreneur and industrialist, at the Odeon, Marble Arch at DR ANTOINETTE PIRIE 65: Professor Sir Roy Marshall, 7.45. former vice-chancellor, Hun The Duke and Duchess of Kent Antoinette Pirie. former head of the one of the major approaches to the in the front rows, wearing hats." eye which had not been touched at University, 71; Miss Nadia will attend a dinner to mark the department of ophthalmology, at prevention of blinding mal¬ When in 1968 she received the some time in the past by ha- team. Nerina. prima ballerina, 64; 25lh anniversary of the 1966 Lord Oranmore and Browne, Oxford University and director of the nutrition. Proctor Award, as its first woman In 1962 she held a symposium in World Cup at Wembley Sta¬ 90; Sir Georg Solti, conductor, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmol¬ Experimentally, she was able to recipient, she ngoiced in the much- Oxford on “Lens Metabolism in dium at 7.00 in aid of the Stars 79; Mr John Stevens, chief ogy, died on October 11 aged 86. She show the role of white-cell derived changed scene, with an international Relation to Cataract”, which was Organistion for Spastics. constable, Northumbria, 49; was bom on October 4,1905. proteolytic enzymes in this process. community of scientists working attended by Lnternationally-disti o- Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, Princess Alexandra will attend a reception at Government She also demonstrated that whereas together towards common goals. guished ophthalmic biochemists. 60; Mr PJ. Tosch, former “TONY" Pirie was remarkable in chairman, Vauxhall Motors, 51; House, Isle of Man, at 11.50 for the effectiveness of systemic vita¬ When Ida Mann retired in 1947 Following the symposium, she Mr Francis Warner, poet and members of charitable organ¬ sustaining two careers, one as a min A therapy might be blocked by Tony Pirie succeeded her as Mar¬ established the International Com¬ dramatist, 54; Dr Elsie isations; and will open Sultry biochemist and the other as an lack of a specific plasma transport garet Ogilvie’s reader in mittee for Eye Research which she Widdowson, nutritionist. 85. Primary School, at 1.50. educator, working on malnutrition. protein in protein-malnutrition, ophthalmology and was elected to a ' chaired from 1968 to 1972. This was Both careers were committed to the retinoic arid applied topically to the professorial fellowship at Somerville the fore-runner of the International Anniversaries Service dinners prevention of blinding eye disease. eye would by-pass the block. This College, taking an active part in its Society for Eye Research, which is In 1971, shortly before her retire¬ was later confirmed clinically in the academic life. now the single most important BIRTHS: George Caiman the HMS Hermkrae ment from Oxford, she was asked by field. In 1990 she received an award In the years that followed. Dr platform for eye research. Younger, actor, London, 1762; The Wardroom HMS Hermioae Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, held a Trafalgar Night Dinner the Royal Commonwealth Society for her life-long services to xeroph¬ Pirie built up an enviable team of Tony Pirie was a person of Ottery St Mary, Devon, 1772; on Bogmalo beach, Goa, on for the Blind to investigate vitamin thalmia from the International researchers concerned to unravel the conviction. She was committed to Alphonse de Lamartine, poet October 19, 1991. Lieutenant deficiency in Tamil Nadu, Southern Association for the Prevention of major eye diseases by a study of the the scientific method and its capab¬ and statesman, MScon, France, Commander M.R. Boniwell, India. They were concerned with the Blindness. fundamental biochemical processes ility to unravel the problems of 1790; Alfred Nobel, inventor of Royal Navy, presided. Lieuten¬ global problem of vitamin A de¬ Tony Pirie obtained a first-class human eye disease. She was equally dynamite, founder of prizes of the eye. Although initially almost ant Commander C.AJ. Collins, ficiency (xerophthalmia), respon¬ bearing his name, Stockholm, Royal Navy, proposed the Loyal degree in biochemistry at Gun- every ocular tissue was examined, committed socially. In Cambridge, 1833. Toast and the Guest of Honour, sible for an annual incidence of bridge, where she later gained her later research was directed almost she was for a time a Labour DEATHS: Edmund Waller, Captain J.P. Cardale, Royal blindness of over a quarter of a doctorate. Her post-doctoral work exclusively to the lens and cataracL councillor. She was also an active poet, Beaconsfield, Bucking¬ Navy, Naval Attache New million, in Asia alone. By this time on tumour viruses was carried out at She made fundamental discoveries member of CND who spoke out hamshire, 1687; Arthur Schnitz- Delhi, proposed the toast to the she had built up a considerable the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 4A# * in the areas of lens metabolism, strongly at rallies about the hazards ler, dramatist, Vienna, 1931; “Immortal Memory”. reputation in the study of vitamin Laboratories at Mill HilL At the enzymes and lens proteins. She of radiation and nuclear fall-out. Jack Krrouac, writer. Lowell, selves to the problems of ocular -" THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Announcements and Personal n BIRTHS ,0" Ortoaer 15th. for sale LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES frawfuilv at SL Joseph's ANNOUNCEMENTS RENTALS RENTALS OVERSEAS TRAVEL 3 “teplce. London E8. after a ] ] ANDERSON - On October Illness bravely borne. NEWSPAPERS LTD. I ith. 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Pataca (071-434 0909) how casually Dublin is taking hs tragedy, the promise of redemption at □ HIPPOLYTOS: Muled Janet Suzman O A SWELL PARTY: Four singers, two ■ Mbs Saigon: Theatre Royal Diuy ■n otherwise wind Eurtpxlespisztoptay pianists In Hreable tribute to Oole Porter's Lane (071494 5400]... □ The status as European City of Culture its heart, is trivialised. The actors are about sexual deare. dsbonak wit and wry melodes. Mousetrap: Si Martin's (071-836 (perhaps it feels it always was one); hardly to Name for generating little Atonida. Aknoata Street N1 (071-350 VaudevBe. The Strand. WC2 (071-838 1443) . ■ The Phantom of the and it must be admitted that no great warmth: foe central couple give no 4404) Mon-Sot. 8pm. mat Sat 4pm. 8967) Moryfn. Bpm, Sat 830pm. mats Opera: Her Majesty's (071-839 2244) 100mm Wed. 230pm. 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Sat TkAel information wypfied bySooety Adam Travelling Theatre comes to next forceful woman who comes along 2.30pm. 135mm 3pm tS5mkia. Rnaf week. of West End Theatre the Royal Court in December. By that — certainly a valid demem in 'his time the distinguished novelist and character but not the only one; no sign AIDA: Bxmln^iam's now National dkectan of veteran choreogrephsr Victor Indoor Arena houses a stadium-sized TODAY S EVENTS Smknov-Gatovanov. playwright Thomas Kiboy may have of foe lazily lascivious hunk irresist¬ production of VardTa opera. Aida, Hippodrome, Si Augotme’s Parade. disentangled the strands of whimsy, ible to women. drectod by Wtorto Rossi end presented ANTHONY CARO; When Honry Moore Bristol (QZ72 299444) caricature, nostalgia, dark psychologi¬ by the promoter Victor Hochheuser. The tfed, Anthony Caro was Uiemam Hie Richmond production was production, coating £2 mtaton, has e cast claimant to the title of greatest lying CHARLES MMGUSG BTTAPK cal probing and glancing political breathless with tension as destiny- of600 (Mixing the dtatingushed British sculptor. This is not the Charles Mtogus's Epitaph, written tore comment that are currently displayed, American atoger Grace Bumbry) s 240- retrospective that might prove tin point 31-piece jazz orchestra, wesdacoverad plunged inexorably onwards; one atep stareese as part of the set more but an Impressive snail whkXtion of only after his death in 1979, and was none too coherently, at the enchanting scene in particular bad foe rich Own 300 extras as staves; and 1500 targe recent woks - the biggest Alter never performed in ha Batime. Now It Gaiety Theatre. complexity of an operatic ensemble as coatumet made by Baton caotuniera OtympbL 76 ft hxvj. comes courtesy of jazz musicologist The setting is promising: a rural (sea review, ngm) Tata Gaiety, MRisnk. London SWl composer and conductor Gunther foe unwitting cuckokf on his death¬ National Indoor Arena. Bamngham (971-8211313) Mon-Set 10sm830pm. SdUler, who has prepared Bw work tar community in Eire during the second bed apologised for his harshness to the (021-6333333/2002222) tonight 730. Sut 2830pm. uita January 5. its first British performance. An al- world war when the republic’s sen¬ equally remorseful young.man, nei¬ JAPAN AND BRITAIN: AN American orchestra todudes saxophonist RICHARD IILOtortarAvrard-winner tan George Adams and bunpeier Randy sitive neutrality entailed its own state ther of them aware that foe old man McKelen as mo chiang dctator In AESTHETIC DIALOGUE (1650-1930): The Barbican's new show during the Brocket of emergency, rationing, home guard light performances: Bernadette Short in The Power of Darkness has been poisoned by the women — a Rchard Eyre's TNrbes-wyte production Barbican Hal. S» Street London EC2 tor the Natural Thestre The production Japan Festival season is a survey of the and occasional reaentfol theory that humdinger of a scene casually brushed (0718388891). 8pm. finishes its tour at the Apofio Theatre. art ol Japan and Britain, showing (tie Churchill was trying to draw than in terrible didtes — Dickens summed it rest There are feint probings at foe past by this lightweight cast. Marie Oxford, next weak. Wkwnoea that each cUture brought to the other. The show explores Victorian MIKE GBBS BANO/JOHN or starve them out. A British travel¬ up with Vincent Crummies, Rattigan insular suspicion foal underlines Mullen makes the zernble old woman Theatre Royal. Royal Parade. Plymouth SCOFiaJ): Rhodaetanbom composer, (0752 267222), 7 15pm. Guam's taaanation with Japanese art. ling theatre company arrives, having reminded us in Harlequinade. Helen small town life, the eagerness to make into a wry, jokey cross between the knpact ol popular dilute, and Die arranger end trombonist fcfte Gtabs and POETS TAKE THE STAGE: The development of modem Japanese art. jazz guitar hero John Scofield finish their crossed the border from the north Ryan launches foe over-elided rueful strangers scapegoats for unexplained Widow Quin in Playboy of the Nations! presents some of Ekrtasi's Barbican Art Gallery. S» Street tour m Coventry. 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MOSCOW CnY BALLET: This young Scofield's guter nterpretations. Lytotton Theatre. South Bar*. London oompsny n one of s number of Warwick Arts Centra. Coventry (0203 The strolling players recall the sort sub-plot concerning a crooked grey¬ becomes dreadiully unfunny. Jim professional appearance, shows SEI (071-828 2252). 7pm fndepenaoni dance tiafpss tint have 524504). 730pm. sprung up n the Soviet Union hi recent of theatre epitomised by Anew hound race thickens the texture Nolan directs. warmth, commitment and red- SHAJAR1AN IN CONCERT; A years. Rends Ms British visit in Bnstoi BYRON IN ITALY: Paul Johnson. McMaster (remembered in the pro¬ without enriching it; and the mental - Another distinguished writer, foe blooded humanity in a performance progamma of Jasecal Man muse and thw week, perfomvng three U4sngtii Horary editor of The Spectator, twks gramme note by Harold Pinter’s scars of a young Cockney actor (in the prize-winning novelist John of great promise. about Byron's marts to Italy, what he dkf song performed Hr an accompashad bfltieis Swan taka. SeefmgBemuty generous and affectionate memory of 1940s?), whose suffering from black¬ McGahero, has transported Tolstoy to master ol kanandosscal singmg. and Gtaeae. Sokxsts indude Botahoi there .and the WINNING MOVE Answers from page 20 fiy Raymond Keene. HURTADO C Aru Cvrmpondcni (c) Francisco (1669-1725), one of foe greatest of This position is from the game Spanish baroqoe architem, and the most Pokfauf - Lau. Neuonahr 1991. enaberantfy rich. 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Fast-moving general knowledge quiz presented knockout quiz hosted by John Sachs . , l'aa use their own beaches to leave them free for the tourists and Toon Adventmes. Cartoon adventures created by Sloven by Wil&am G. Stewart (s) 215 Knots Landing. West coast spin-off from Dates. This afternoon forests and mountains are destroyed in the drive for ever more Spielberg 4.40 Cartoon starring Speedy and Sylvester 420 How 520 The Late Late Show. Music and chat from Dublin, hosted by Gay Val receives a letter from Ben who has been missing fo Central construction.^(Ceefax) 2 Facts made tun series presented by Fred Dinenage, Carol Byrne >•***. America for a year 320 Better Than New. Albert Jackson and Vorderman and Gareth Jones 6.00 The Wonder Years. Comedy drama series about growing up in David Day with advice on renovating furniture 3P5 The Hogan v.• Lilir_r,,,< 5.10 Blockbusters. General knowledge quiz game for teenagers. The the United States during the fate 1960s. This week Kevin struggles FamBy. American domestic comedy series questiorunaster is Bob Hotness over he English homework — writing his own obituary (r) 320 Penny Crayon. Animated series (r) (s) 4.00 Haaan Scarum. :“mw 540 News with Carol Barnes. (Oracle) Weather 620 Tonight Wtth Jonathan Roas. The first in a new senes ol the chat Picture book stories toid by Shefla Hancock and Joss Addand 4.10 .‘j^ «-7 525 Thames Help. Jackie Spreckley with news of Breakthrough, a show The guests are actress Brooke Shields and her mother Ten, The New Adventures of Rfighty House. Cartoon (r) (s) 42S new campaign looking into the causes of breast cancar who is also her manager. They talk about the pressures ot child -*5£ Ptgsty. Animated musical fun 425 Teenage Mutant Hero 620 Homo and Away (r). (Oracle) stardom and celebrity fame. And Aba Ballard who has a Turtles. (Ceefax) (s) 620 Thames News and weather menagerie of parrot b that imitate the famous 620 Newsround with Juliet Morris 525 Blue Peter presented by 7.00 The Krypton Factor. The group B final of the brain and brawn 720 Channel 4 News. (Teletext). Weather : V* Yvette Fielding, John Lesie and Dian&Uxitee Jordan. (Ceefax) (s) competition in which four contestants face cerebral and physical 720 Comment 525 Neighbours (r). (Ceefax) (a). Northern Ireland: Inside Ulster challenges. Introduced by Gordon Bums, with celebrity guests 820 Brook side. Soap set in a Merseyside suburb dose. (Teletext) (s) 620 Six O’clock News with John Humphry* and JH Dando. Weather Tony Robinson and Michelle Collins. (Oracle) (8) 820 Inspector Moras: The Secret of Bay 5b. Romance beckons the 620 Regional News magazines. Northern Ireland: Neighbours 720 Coronation Street (Oracle) bachelor inspector, but first he must solve the mystery of a murder •' V ^ 720 Wogan. Tonight's guests are Wanen Mitchefi, Robert Earl, singer -W JFEJ1 11 r. !!! !- 1 . ™ »!*...■• • m a multi-storey carpark and find a connection between a jealous Lloyd Cole and New York barber Btf Black (s) husband, an unlaithlul wife and a playboy architect. Starring John Thaw. Kevin Whatety and Amanda Hillwood (r). (Teletext) V^stuyT j " ''mfc Caribbean bound: dotphin Rocky heads for freedom (820pm) .., , ■'■t' I: 820 Nature: Must the Show Go On? • CHOICE: Rocky, Mssy and Silver are three "British" dolphins 'jan;1 which under pressure from foe wBdlife lobby are being returned to >r.-foyfV: their natural habitat in the Caribbean. But as this even-handed report demonstrates, the debate about keeping dofohms in captivity is by no means dear cut Critics include Rk: O'Barry, who claims that the dolphin he trained lor the television series FUpper .r^tdis-; committed suicide in his arms. A British vet BE Jordan, argues that keeping dolphins in a pool builds up stress and pool water is said to contain harmful chemicals. On the other hand Dr Margaret ;•■ ’Ciiir: Kfinowska, author of a report for the British government, found no Consumer choice: Lynn Faited* Wood, John Stapleton (720pm) evidence of a higher death rate among captive dolphins than those in the wild. The people who run dolphinaria, such as Sea World in 720 Watchdog. Consumer affairs series presented by Lynn Fan ids Florida, are naturally unreprentant, claiming that their shows are Wood and John Stapleton. This week's topics are the insulin actually educating the public about the need for conservation. debate affecting thousands of efiabetirar. the ITC's pofidng on (Ceefax) Aberfan: foe tragedy that brought a vtUege together (1020pm) •dWWig^ television advertising; and holidays abroad that are more 820 Film: Bridesmaids (1989) starring Shelley Hack, Seta Ward, Hoping for a Jackpot Michael Barrymore (8.00pm) expensive tor chfldren than their parents Stephanie Faracy and Brooke Adams. Predictable and 1020 Aberfan: 25 Yearn of Experience. 5.00 TeBy Addicts. Philip Baines at Preston joins tvs three sisters in s unassuming TV movie about four former college friends reunited, 820 Strike it Lucky. Quiz game show hosted by Michael Barrymore (s) • CHOICE: K is 25 years to the day that a colliery waste tip test of television programme knowledge against the aB-woman after an absence of 20 years, as bridesmaids at a friend's wedding. 020 World in Action: Sax For Sale. An investigation into the twilight collapsed above Aberfan in south Wales, sending an avalanche ivhen t Gardiner team from Cambridge. Noel Edmonds is the They take the occasion to renew friendships and tie up loose ends. world of foe world's oldest profession down the mountainside and burying the village school The questionmaater Directed by Ufa Garrett. (Ceefax) 920 Flint: That’s Life (1986) starring Jack Lemmon and Juhe Andrews. tragedy claimed the bves of 116 children and 28 adults. This aishfej 820 Sea Trek. In the third of their exotic underwater journeys. Martha 1020 Naked Video. Comedy drama about a hypochondriac architect, his singer wife moving f3m was made with the collaboration ot local people and is Holmes and Mike deGniy (five to the subaquatic kelp forests of • CHOICE- One of foe main virtues of the Scottish comedy show who may have a malignant throat tumor and their daughter who narrated in their words. The aim is not to go back over the disaster California- (Ceefax) is that its sketches rarely outstay their welcome. Some are one- has boyfriend troubles. Described by one critic as like watching a as such but to show how Aberfan rebuilt its life. It helped that there 920 Nine O'clock News wtth Michael Buerk. (Ceefax) Regional news liners in Ihe literal sense and you rarely get the feeling that a joke is home movie belonging to people you detest. Directed by Bfake was already a dose community, ironicaly based on the industry and weather being prolonged long after the point has been made. The quality of Edwards. (Oracle) (continues alter the news) that had built the tip. In the wake of the tragedy unity was forged 920 Panorama: No Surrender, No Progress. John Ware examines the humour is inevitably uneven and the large number of writers 10.00 News at Ten. (Oracle) Weather 1020 Thames News and during a two-year fight lo gel the remaining tips removed. Later the reasons for the breakdown of the talks on the poBticaHuture of means that there is no overall style. But the ratio of hits to misses is weather there was a successful campaign to prevent a new bunk road Northern Ireland. Is the hardline Unionist attitude sabotaging generally high and no one can accuse foe show of not spreading 1040 FBm: Thai's Life continued being routed through the raddle ol the village. The story keeps prospects for an agreement? With contributions from Ian Paisley, Its net widely. Among tonight's targets are plastic surgery, 1125 Video Re-View *91. Marietta Frostrup reports from the British coming back to coal. The pit dosed in 1989. Some of the older folk James Motyneaux, John Hume and Gerry Coffins super loos, TV dinners and executive war games. Perhaps Videogram awards ceremony at London's Grosvenor House hotel say it did them no favours but the young must look elsewhere for 10.10 Cop Rock. Innovative musical police drama series set in the Los because of their exposure elsewhere Helen Lederer and Gregor 1225am Sportaworid Extra. Football action and highlights from foe work(s) Angeles police department, created by Steven Bochoo who was Fisher tend to stand out, though Is unfair to the other members of a BMW golf open from Munich 1120 Tonight With Jonathan Rosa. The second appearance of the responsible for Hiff Street Blues (s). Northern Ireland: Now and lively and talented ensemble. The Scottish flavour is strong but the 125 FBm: I Cover the Waterfront (1933, b/w) starring Claudette evening for the energetic Mr Ross. He is joined by former pom star Then 10.40 Cop Rock accents should cause no difficulty south of the border. (Ceefax) (s) Colbert and Ben Lyon. Crisp dockside drama about a woman who Robin Byrd who now hosts a New York cade television chat show 11.00 The Victorian Kitchen. Ruth Mott cooks up a Victorian luncheon 1020 Newsmght presented by Jeremy Paxman is tom between loyalty to her smuggler father and the love of the on which her guests appear semi-raked (s) of galantine, poached eggs on spinach and gooseberry tart (r% 11.15 The Late Show. Arts and media magazine. Tonight's edition newspaper reporter who is about to expose tan. Directed by 1220 Wordsearch. A behind-the-scenes look at the auditioning for a (Ceefax) includes profiles of sculptor Anthony Caro and music producer James Cruze presenter to jom Terry Christian and Amanda de Cade net on The 1120 See Hear! A deaf Roman fan woman returns to her vffiage for a Adrian Sherwood (s) 320 American College FootbalL Baylor v SMU Word(f) famSy wedding. How have things changed since the fafl of 1125 Snooker. Fixtherfifth round action from the Rothman's grand prix, 4.00 Music Special. Highlights of the group Queen's concert in 1220am Tha Trojans. A documentary about the staging of Hector Ceausescu? (rj. Northern Ireland: The Victorian Kitchen , introduced by David Vine at the Hexagon, Reading Budapest, recoded in July 1986 (r) (a) Bertoz's opera The Trojans by three Mg companies — Opera 1200 Weather. Northern Ireland: See Heart 1245am Weather 520ITN Morning News. Ends at 820 North, Welsh National Opera end Scottish Opera. Ends at 220 HTV WEST People 2.45-3.15 AcItoN 5.10-5.40 .S4C : 1210am Alton .Nation (1968); 'Science- Videos • Via the Astra sataUte. - As London except: 120pm The-SURane ttomeenitAiway .620Goest to Coast 623-'- BtatK.&OOsm C4 Dafly 9.25 Yspfan tiction thrfler starring James Cam and tScomedy 720 Country Ways • • . wmm 200pm Indoor Terra. Vienna 330 Safeig 220-220 Gardening Time 5.102,40 Home 1£00 Fwniy Pnde 1220 Nswyddton 12X0 Mandyftatinkfei • Via trie Astra setaiitos. OMYA Race Porto. Cervo 430 Latfcs ANGLIA end Awoy 620 HTV News B2G72D Whafa Star MeOMn 1.00 F«sen To One 130 230 One Down, Two To Go (1983). 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London, performs Schumann through some lesser-known (s) (r) (Quartet in A minor, Op41 No (Cantaloupe Island) 1040 530 Haul* Aktud630World News 4 Business Report 6.151ta Worid Today 630Loretta writingswriting# otof Oscar wide, end.and. 11J0 Today (nParfamant 1); Haydn (Quartet in E flat. Brian Morton talks lo Jim Sew 7.14 BBC Engfcdi 739 News Summary 730 News m German 600 German feetuea Smith 1020 Herbie Hancock meets poet Grace NicholsNichafa (a)fa) IZOOim Nawfi, ind 12-27 Weather ndudrg Katattoskop 654 News in German 600 News & Busmen Report 9-15 Londres Op 7i No 3) 445 Young Playwrights' Festival 1233 Shipping FCrfltMSf From the family juuknai. of Mr. C. Camprell-Howes, -05 Third Opinion. 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World Servica MW Op 9, Pten Quartet in E flat, B48kHz/483m. Jazz FM 1022. LBCt 1l5aHz/26lmj FM 973. Capital: COMPILED BY PETER DEAR AND F1UPE FK3UBRA Suite); Hindemith (Symphonic TV CHOICE PETER WAYMAflK/RADIO CHOICE PETER DAVALLE Metamorphosis on Themes by Op47)(r) l548kHz^l 94m: FM 95A GUI: l4SBkHz/20an; FM94A Matody FM 1045. _THE- XIMSR MONDAY ,-AftCC THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 o Orchestra pay row forces Covent Garden to close By Robin Young jiff THE Royal Opera House, case. Robert Trory, the Mu¬ Three extra intervals would Covent Garden, will close this sicians' Union spokesman in have extended the opera’s week because the orchestra, the orchestra, said yesterday running time by at least an dissatisfied with the manage¬ that basic pay for rank-and- hour, and would have quali¬ ment's response to their pay file players was £17,000 a year. fied the musicians for over¬ claim, had threatened to cre¬ With overtime, and television time payments. The manage¬ ate three extra intervals in the and recording fees, the maxi¬ ment’s response was to say performance of the new mum players could hope to that unless the orchestra aban¬ production of Meyerbeer’s Les earn in a year was £24,000. doned all industrial action and Huguenots, which was due to The union bad claimed a 20 accepted a 5.5 per cent rise open on Thursday night. per cent increase in basic pay, offered to all opera house staff Last week the orchestra but had offered to take 24 per Covent Garden would be played four performances in cent over two years. The dosed. A spokeswoman said shirt-sleeves, jeans and casual orchestra’s basic working last night “Our deficit is dress in place of fill] evening week is 21 hours at rehearsals running at £1 million a year dress, to protest against being and performances, but this and our financial situation is the only department at the can include split shifts on the well known. We simply can¬ Royal Opera House expected same day with rehearsals in not afford any more." to pay for their own costumes the morning and performance At a meeting attended by and tools. The orchestra buy late at night The players can 100 of the 120 musicians in and maintain their own in¬ be called to work at any the orchestra on Saturday the struments, whose total worth including weekends, at 28 only disagreement was be¬ xi+ at any performance is likely to days' notice. tween those who wished to be about £2 million. Mr Trory claimed that rank- continue with the threatened The gesture seemed to win and-file members would never industrial action «nri a small support from the audience, be paid more than £22,000 by minority who favoured who had been handed leaflets the opera itself Additional returning to work while a fees from outside sources explaining the orchestra's ballot was undertaken for an thft might contribute an extra all-out strike. £2,000 a year. There was to have been a A Royal Opera spokesman dress rehearsal for Les Hugue¬ Shamir said that broadcast and nots this morning, open, to recording fees came the or¬ Friends of Covent Garden .. -■**' chestra's way only because who had ballotted for tickets. . j m convinces they worked for the Royal That will now go ahead Opera House. The orchestra accompanied by paino and Stars and stripes: Christian ourful shows on home territory claim that little more than 7 without an audience. cabinet Lacroix's line up of black, per cent of the Royal Opera and parades Ms ready-to-wear The first public perfor¬ white, red, blue and green * ***-. Con tinned from page 1 mance to be affected wfll be collection in the intimacy of House budget is now devoted swimsuits in spots, arabesque Tories accused of ‘retreat’ • Mtf- Palestinian delegation which tomorrow night’s Rigoletto. his pink-painted couture sa¬ to them. Twenty years ago, prints and striped Lycra from represented the PLO. Yitzhak The opening of the new Royal lon. Yesterday be demon¬ Continued from page 1 pledged that the government before Norman Lamont had they calculate, the proportion his spring/summer ready-to- strated his new thrusting mood Modai, the Likud finance Ballet season, with Cyrano on also be increases in state help had no intention of extending completed the autumn public was more than 12 per cent. wear collection shown in Paris A minister, abstained. Wednesday night, is also in the competitive designer tax relief for private health spending round. A Labour “The management refused yesterday. Staging a fashion market not just by showing a for the elderly in private If Haider Abdel-Shafi, aged likely to be cancelled unless care. The relief was an¬ source said it was astonishing all discussions, and refused show in one of the vast and more desirable and saleable residential homes. 72, who was chosen on Sat¬ the dispute can be resolved. nounced in Nigel Lawson's for Mr Waldegrave to be condliarion,'’ Mr Trory said, uniformly bland tents pitched version of his signature dec¬ With health continuing to urday to head the Palestinian In 1987 the Royal Opera 1989 budget. discussing budget measures in “so we decided to reinstate in a courtyard in the Louvre orative and flamboyant style, dominate the political agenda delegation to the conference, intervals at the end of each act House lost 13 performances in and the poll showing that the The Treasury was dearly a television interview. The said yesterday that he ex¬ a dispute with the chorus. On provides some designers with but by moving his show back as originally schemed by the an identity crisis (Liz Smith, electorate is sceptical of the unprepared for Mr Walde- shadow health secretary, pected Israel to freeze Jewish that occasion the orchestra into the hard-sell atmosphere composer. In Les Huguenots, Fashion Editor, writes). La¬ of the Louvre toils. He did it, government's proposals for grave's intervention. One of¬ Robin Cook, said: “What we settlements in the occupied which was originally a five-act accepted the pay offer that had saw was the secretary of state been marin croix has never been one of however, on his own toms; a the health service. Mr Walde- ficial commented that the West Bank and Gaza Strip opera, that would have meant them: he is a designer with a health secretary appeared to in foil retreat.” soon after talks begin. tent was decorated for him in grave gave assurances that taking four intervals instead of distinctive handwriting who shocking pink, of course, with Meanwhile, the UN an¬ there would be no wholesale be writing the Chancellor of the one planned." Bernard Levin, page 14 usually prefers to stage his col¬ a lavish stage set. 4 nounced a breakthrough in privatisation of the NHS. He the Exchequer's budget even Diary, page 14 t efforts to organise an exchange of Westerners for Arab pris¬ oners held by IsraeL A UN communique released in Bei¬ Convoy forced to abandon old and sick in ‘medieval siege’ rut did not say which of tin five Americans still held in continued from page 1 in front of the ambulance in one of the trucks. The taken under its escort through to have been an attempt by ambulances, eight trucks and fighting to hold the centre Lebanon would be freed, but makeshift hospitals of Dja- which they were travelling. wounded men in the vehicle the no man’s land and into the federal forces to demonstrate some EC vehicles and aimed from occupation by the army .. Hfi speculation centred on Mr kovo and Mikanovd early They were winched from the weren't injured by the blast, Serbian city of Sid before its control over the exercise at evacuating the worst of the and Serb guerrillas. Turner, a professor of com¬ yesterday. It had taken 13 road by helicopter and taken although the truck itself was proceeding back into Croatia. but infuriated many of the wounded m as short a time as Jospef Fngan, a Canadian puter sciences and mathemat¬ hours in driving rain to cover to Belgrade. A British doctor badly damaged and buckled, The change of route appears convoy staff many of whom possible. monitor with the convoy said, ics, who is a prisoner of the the 70-mile journey, which with the convoy. Dr Chris¬ but two of our nurses sitting in described the behaviour of the The hospital in the town has “The people were in the most Islamic Jihad for the Libera¬ included diversions by the topher Besse, a general prac¬ the front seats were thrown army as a cynical manipula¬ been severely damaged in the excruciating pain. They gave tion of Palestine. On Friday army through cornfields and titioner and surgeon from out of the cab through the tion of the humanitarian effort bombardment. On Friday it them painkillers, but they night the group invited his mud slopes and into Serbian Holland Park. London, said windscreen. They were cov¬ for propaganda purposes. was hit by a bomb which fell wore-off as the journey went wife, Badr, and daughter. Jo¬ territory. the two nurses were hurt when ered in blood but actually The mission was the fifth through three floors, de¬ oil We were driving through anne, to visit him “for One man, suffering from their truck struck a landmine. turned out not to have been as attempt to relieve the town. molishing the ceilings in the cornfields and hitting pot¬ humanitarian reasons'*. bums, died yesterday morn¬ They were not as badly in¬ badly injured as we feared.” An EC convoy, which at¬ building but landing, miracu¬ holes. Sometimes we would The hostage release was put ing. Sinis Varga, a doctor at jured as first thought- The vehicles had entered tempted to enter the town last lously unexploded in a ward. crawl along to stop the jolting, in jeopardy, however, after a Mikanovd described the inju¬ Speaking from Belgrade to a Vukovar through the Croatian weekend, turned back after it The patients who came out but in the sniper areas, we had roadside bomb killed three ries as some of the worst he representative of the Midecins areas of Vinkovci and Nustar. came under fire, and the army with the convoy are mainly no option but to speed up. 1 Israeli soldiers in south Leba¬ had ever seen. sans Fronti^res in London, he After they had passed, fierce young men, a mixture of could hear peple crying out non yesterday. The pro-Iran¬ and Croat forces refused to A Belgian and Dutch nurse said: “Just when it looked as if shelling broke out there and agree on an access route. This civilian casualties from the with the pain and cold." ian group, Hezbollah, claimed everything was going to be the army demanded that the constant bombardment and responsibility. and a Croatian driver were time, the convoy was more injured when a mine exploded okay, a mine went off under exit route from the city be modest, consisting of four guardsmen injured while Coast road opened, page 7 Most places will be dry and THE TIMES CROSSWORD NO 18,742 & S'-P fairly bright, with the best of By Philip Howard the sunshine in southern England. Ooudy with a little rain or ARCHTTECTICS drizzle in parts of west Wades and southwest England but - .ItLdl'r HURTADO turning brighter. Possibility of drizzle in parts of Northern l An icuttiB Braiding Ireland and northern and western Scotland. Winds lighter J-IV b. Alternating courses of brick ai -••urn stone than recently and slightly warmer. Outlook; mostly dry but c. A Baroqae architect rather cloudy with some overnight mist and fog. .. 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Hcatoterod as a newspaper at me Fast OfOOe. 21 BUSINESS AND FINANCE 21-26 EDUCATION 31,33 Business Editor LAW REPORT 34 John Bell SPORT 34-40 BUSINESS MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 UK seeks BAe issue faces crucial week Police accounting Surveys raise question pact with chiefs America By Graham Searjeant doubts of at Bass FINANCIAL EDITOR By Angela Mackay THE chartered accountancy institutes are proposing a mu¬ POLICE have interviewed se¬ tual recognition agreement be¬ nior executives of Bass, the tween the British Isles and drinks group, as pan of an America under which Ameri¬ early recovery inquiry* inio lhe relationship can Certified Public Accoun¬ between Nazmu Vi rani's Con¬ tants (CPAs) practising in By Philip Bassett, industrial editor trol Securities and the col¬ Britain or Ireland would be lapsed Bank of Credit and Com¬ entitled to become members TENTATIVE indications Industry is not expected to making larger and non-essen¬ merce International (BCCI). of the three institutes, style of increasing business show large differences from tial purchases.” The authorities are in¬ themselves chartered accoun¬ the picture to be painted by Shops such as booksellers, terested in a deal two years ago confidence are signalled when Control bought a chain tants and become partners in today in several econ¬ the chambers. Meanwhile, electrical goods and house¬ British chartered accountancy three separate samplings of hold retailers are reporting of hotels in Spain from Bass firms. omic surveys, whicb sug¬ different levels of industrial sales still well below last year’s for £45 million. According to a The proposal would reverse gest, however, that im¬ opinion published today tend levels, but clothing retailers confidential position paper a spate of tit-for-tat protec¬ provements in the econ¬ to support the view that as yet, have seen August’s sales in¬ prepared for the Serious Fraud tionism that started in Califor¬ omy are still faint and only forward-looking indica¬ crease reversed. Office. Bass is still owed £23 nia in 1977 and has virtually patchy. tors such as overall business The cautious improvement million on the sale. About £11 barred chartered accountants Ministers will see the results confidence are showing any first recorded in last month’s million of this is believed to be from practising as auditors in as further support for their real sign of recovery, and then survey, which covers more due next September. But il America. claims that the recovery is only tentatively. than 15,000 retail and whole¬ appears £12 million fell due John Williams, the director under way. In its latest high street sale outlets, is finally feeding last month and has not been of international affairs for the Later this week, the Associ¬ business survey, the CBI sees through to wholesalers, how¬ paid. institutes' joint committee, ation of British Chambers of the continuation of “flickering ever. They report their first On Thursday the fraud will present the proposal to¬ Commerce will publish its signs of an improvement”. year-on-year increase in sales office raided the offices of day at the annual conference latest sampling of business The confederation says that volumes since last September. Control and the home of Mr of American state accoun¬ Opinion. While this is ex¬ sales in Britain’s shops, stores In overall terms, shops and Virani. The chairman said last tancy boards in Hawaii Mr pected to show an improve¬ and supermarkets in Septem¬ distributors are reporting their week that neither he nor his Williams is critical of Ameri¬ ment in general industrial ber were above last year's first positive balance in the two brothers, who are also at ca's proposed Uniform Ac¬ confidence, the chambers’ levels, but improvement re¬ volume of their sales — the Control, had been involved in any wrongdoing. The shares countancy Act. findings will show that the mained patchy. □umbers reporting an increase This will, for the first time, economy is still in recession were suspended on Thursday Nigel Whittaker, chairman set against those charting a at 16Vjp. allow American accountants and any slow pick-up is un¬ of the CBTs distributive decline — for a year, with the from different states to prac¬ likely until some time into trades panel, said: “The full August balance of minus 1 per After BCCI closed its doors tise freely in all the United next year. impact of lower interest rates cent moving to a positive 6 per in July. Control made pro¬ visions of £3.S million related States. But it makes no pro¬ Within a few days of the has not yet fed through to the cent in September. to monies held on deposit and vision for agreeing mutual chambers’ results, the key high street Consumers re¬ Business volumes in the rent owed on two properties recognition internationally. industrial trends survey from main cautious in the present motor trade are expected to BCCI leased from Control. At Mr Williams says this is the Confederation of British climate, holding back from worsen still further. the lime Mr Virani said this contrary to the spirit of the The 3i investment capital provision covered the group's negotiations for extending group says that its enterprise Gatt rules to professions and barometer, measuring con¬ total exposure. other services. fidence among smaller, and Two other leading share¬ Chartered accountants were Trade gap likely holders in Control arc Gerald often traditionally high- allowed to practise m America growth companies, has risen Ronson's Heron Internat¬ before 1977, when Californian sharply: up from minus 8 per ional, which owns almost 16 law was changed after a chall¬ to remain steady cent to 47 per cent its highest per cent, and British Airways' enge from accountants with since April 1989. Forty-nine Aiming to soothe fears: Sir Graham Day, caretaker chairman of British Aerospace pension fund, which owns 5.4 qualifications from the Phil¬ per cent of the companies per cent ippines who did not enjoy the By Cohn Narbrough. economics correspondent questioned expect to increase While there is no suggestion that Bass or its executives are same privilege. Severe and OFFICIAL figures out tomor¬ that rising domestic demand their turnover in the next Day will varying protectionist rules quarter. While there has also under investigation by the row are expected to show that could start sucking in imports Northwest Airlines authorities, the fraud office then spread across America. the improvement in Britain’s rapidly once more. The very been an improvement in in¬ Britain retaliated in 1984 vestment prospects, in the stay ‘as and BCCTs liquidators are trade balance has come to rest slow recovery that most uyirig to unravel several deals under reciprocity clauses in with the monthly visible defi¬ economists foresee, mean¬ main more companies are still the Companies Acts, so that expecting to cut investment feels cash squeeze including the Spanish hotels cit stuck at alx>ut £750 million. while, suggests only a gradual long as deal. American CPAs are no longer City forecasts centre on a pick-up in imported goods. than increase it, and further From Our Correspondent in new york authorised by the trade sec¬ Exports, widely hailed as a job cuts are in prospect □ The BCCI Depositors’ deficit of this magnitude on NORTHWEST Airlines, the ambitious plans to keep up Protection Association, which retary U> practise here. success story over the -past In London, business con¬ it takes9 visible goods,- only frac¬ cash-strapped American car¬ with United. American and is based in London and repre¬ Mr Williams's proposal year, have benefited from a fidence is at its highest for 18 By Our City Staff tionally higher than the £743 rier where Royal Dutch KjLM Delta. Last week Nortwest sents 40,000 BCCI depositors would restore mutual recog¬ domestic recession, while key months, according to the lat- 1 million reported for August owns 20 per cent and where agreed to buy the financially in Britain, is objecting to nition with safeguards similar markets abroad, especially est quarterly economic trends WITH just a week left to The current account which British Airways is tipped to troubled Midway Airlines for proposals that will benefit to those in the European also encompasses trade in Germany, remained buoyant survey from the London rescue British Aerospace's forge closer links, is under $174 million. American tax authorities and Community’s mutual recog¬ invisibles, such as banking, Germany is now slowing. Chamber of Commerce. But £432 million rights issue. Sir Graham Day, the caretaker increasing financial pressure. KLM, one of the original prejudice British and other nition directive, but also give insurances, aviation and ship¬ Recovery in America could the chamber cautions against chairman, will be reassuring Analysts say the airline, MBO backers, is in talks with claims on the collapsed bank American CPAs the right to ping, is predicted to show a offset weaker European de¬ interpreting this ixnprovment America's fourth-largest is BA but Northwest refuses to (Colin Campbell writes). become members of the three mand, although last week’s as evidence of an upturn. institutional shareholders that deficit holding steady at about short of cash after the collapse comment on its involvement Dr Adil Elias, chairman of institutes, which they could mixed bag of American figures Overall business activity in he will stay in the job "for as £550 million. The Budget the association, says that by not do before. suggested that America's London remains weak, and long as it lakes”. of a deal last week that could A link with Northwest would forecast for the whole of 1991 levying fines and civil pen¬ climb out of recession remains the economy continues to In a crucial series of meet¬ have given it $740 million of give BA significant access to is for a current account deficit fresh capital. The airline's $2 the key American market alties, the American authori¬ of £6 billion. extremely patchy. contract though the rate of ings planned for the next five Barings silent Rising motor industry ex¬ decline has slowed. Jacqui days. Sir Graham will be billion-$3 billion debts are due It is unclear whether BA ties stand to benefit at the Although the government seeking to soothe fears that his to a $3.65 billion management would invest in Northwest, but expense of the general body of on talk of deal has been dearly pleased by the ports, which have played a Ginnane, the chamber’s chief important role in improving economist said: “Our in¬ □on-executive chairmanships buyout two years ago. new US rules allow it to control creditors. He is to lobby Speculation that Barings may narrowing of the trade gap, the trade balance, could, how¬ dicators suggest that a signifi¬ at PowerGen and Cadbury More cash is needed to fund up to 49 per cent of the votes. parliament about the plan. take a minority interest in ministers will be watching ever, prove difficult to sustain, cant reversal in the confidence Schweppes, plus a number of Dillon Read, the American closely for signs that the deficit is starling to grow again according to some analysts. of London firms has taken other commitments, will lead investment bank, has met to an early departure from as the economy moves out of There has only been one place. But it will only be when with a firm “no comment” month this year when the this is translated into sales that BAe. from Peter Baring, chairman recession. If the recovery proves as current account has been in a real upturn will be experi¬ It is understood that Sir of the private merchant bank Graham would not welcome robust as the government has the black: in June, when there enced in the London econ¬ and securities group. Trav¬ an extension of his chairman¬ forecast City economists fear was a surplus of £23 million. omy. This is not yet visible”. elers, one of the largest Ameri¬ ship beyond his sixtieth birth¬ can insurance groups, bought day, just two years away, an 80 per cent stake in Dillon though he is not ruling it out. Read in 1986 for about £90 Bui he will be telling substan¬ million, the remaining equity Britain to force issue over debt tial shareholders that the being owned by management search for a new permanent Dillon Read is one of the By Anatole Kaletsky, economics editor chairman may well require a less spectacular and more year before the new man is BRITAIN will make a final at¬ licly last week was an indica¬ Bank annual meeting in respected American houses tempt this week to preserve the Bangkok. effectively in harness and that and has avoided the fluctua¬ tion of the political impor¬ Mr Lamont tried three times he is prepared for such a tions of some rivals. The in¬ international consensus on tance attached by Mr Major to Third World debt after John to get references to debt relief timescale. surance group suffered heavy his speech in Harare. The tim¬ Uncertainty over Sir Gra¬ Major’s speech last week in written into the communiques provisions against properly ing was also conditioned by ham’s tenure is only one of the last year. Barings is thought to Harare demanding more gener¬ the frustration experienced by of the main policy making ous treatment of the poorest de¬ meetings in Bangkok — first at problems facing the issue after save you money. have made a tentative ap¬ Norman Lamont, the Chan¬ the collapse on Friday of proach a few weeks ago. veloping countries. The speech cellor, as the result of Ameri¬ the Group of Seven meeting, Hillsdowo Holdings' £281 then at the IMF interim com¬ directly challenged the Ameri¬ can tactics at the IMF-World million cash call. can leadership on this issue. mittee and finally at the World BAe shares are trading at AWA applies At a meeting in Paris on Bank development committee. 380p, the level at which new Aijo Wiggins Appleton, with Wednesday, Treasury officials Each time his proposal was shares are being offered, leav¬ an annual turnover of £1.1 will spell out to the Americans blocked by Nicholas Brady, the ing existing holders little in¬ billion, has applied to the what win amount to an ul¬ American Treasury secretary. centive to take up their Spanish stock exchange to timatum. Either the Bush Mr Lamont argued that the allotments. make a public lender offer for administration will have to American position was in¬ Sir Graham and his advisers Corporaci6n Comercial Kan- agree to Mr Major’s {dan to consistent with the agreement will be stressing that BAe guros, which has a turnover of forgive two-thirds of the debts by President Bush to sign last shares are rated at bargain £50 million. owed by the poorest developing July’s communique at the basement levels, showing an nations, or Britain wifi go ahead London summit There, it was 8.8 per cent prospective yield, regardless, probably taking with specifically agreed to press for which is a 70 per cent pre¬ with the truth? CHANGE ON WEEK it most other European coun¬ more generous debt terms. 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"* added support, is no longer enough of a paid executives, took a 93 per cent pay profits will rise 21 per cent this year. 4894.82 (+737.10) Others fear that, after years of stunning selling poinL Wall Street wiped almost cut, from $14 million to about $1 YOUR HOME IS AT RISK IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP REPAYMENTS ON million. growth, Reebok’s air-powered profits are $400 million from the value of Reebok A MORTGAGE OR OTHER LOAN SECURED ON IT. ****** last week despite a 60 per cent surge in During the past five years, his pay. about to suffer a puncture. r -.9 - U.-ac.-isaWi.nx'- ^ T* . .thetimexjmonbayj: 22 Business and Finance THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Agnew to Smaller investors continue as TVS step up pressure chairman By Martin Wauer over Brent Walker RUDOLPH Agnew, the chair¬ man of TVS Entertainment, By Colin Campbell will continue in the chair for SOME came by underground, reckoned with. If necessary, the time being while the group to make it 250 per cent geared others by car and the rest came the count would solicit min¬ who should be called to carries out its asset disposal on foot. programme, despite the loss of isterial and/or government answer. When the 50-odd dis¬ its licence last week. TVS is in intervention to stop Brent Brent Walker shares traded gruntled Brent Walker share¬ tflilrs with its bankers over its Walker being stream-rolled at 17p on Friday, and ordinary holders sat down in the $100 million debts after the into tiie debt reconstruction shareholders had little left to disastrous 1988 purchase of ballroom of the Portman plan put forward by the lose. Shareholders would not Intercontinental Hotel in Lon¬ MTM, the American produc¬ company's 47 creditor banks. be walked over — and it v tion company that remains its don on Saturday, they dapped He argued there were other no good tiie banks threatening most easily saleable asset. and cheered as Count Alexei more attractive alternatives. liquidation. Count Orlov said. Orlov, representing their ac¬ There is no deadline for “We are setting a precedent It was suggested that die agreement with TVS'S bank¬ tion committee, urged every¬ for all shareholders, aH banks action committee be repre¬ ers, but their support is nec¬ body “to walk the extra mile". and all boards. If shareholders sented on the board. “I am essary for the disposals to The count, on behalf of the are denied the facts, then you horrified that Brent Walker is continue. Mr Agnew, formerly Brent Walker Shareholders' should not be a pic;" the spending £150,000 a week on chairman of Consolidated Action Committee, which is meeting was told. legal auditors' fees. The Gold Fields, was brought in trying to save Brent Walker Lonrho, a bondholder in money should go to a 73-year- last December, when his main from the “scorched earth" Brent Walker, last month old widow I represent rather priority was seen as steering game-plan of the group's cred¬ proposed a restructuring plan than to a fat-behinded lawyer the group through the fran¬ itor banks, will today walk an that was rejected by the banks. in the City,” the count said. chise round. The loss of the extra mile to the Bank of Eng¬ Tiny Rowland, its chief; could This was met with loud licence to Meridian last week land to seek “advice and guid¬ stiQ be interested, however, in cheers. One shareholder, how¬ little cheer: the harvest is celebrated with a traditional festival, but this year there may not be much to toast apparently posed a question ance" from a “senior official". making a firm offer — if ever, said lie was 70, and mark over Ids future there. Saturday's meeting, ex¬ Lonrho was allowed to con¬ doubted if he would live long Analysts believe that plac¬ plained the count, armed with duct due diligence, the meet¬ enough to get anything. McDonnell ing any value on the TVS overwhelming proxies in his ing was told. Lonrho, Count Orlov said, Cash-strapped Hungarian shares, which continued their favour, was a “dummy-run" The creditor banks, owed had intimated it would offer decline from a post-1987 high for any formal Brent Walker £1.4 billion, had everything to one preference share for two in talks on of 361p to slide another lip meeting to show that ordinary lose. It was those who lent Brent Walker shares (worth last week to 16p, is difficult shareholders were a force to be Brent Walker enough money 30p), with an element of cash vineyards appeal to West stake sale because firm decisions about for those banks unwilling to By Catherine Dodds By Our Crrv Staff the company's future have yet j+yi. accept Lonrho paper. to be taken. m “I would rather have TOKAJ-Hegyajjai, the best- borrowings are a serious prob¬ cent, while foreign interests THE McDonnelJ-Douglas .. . . • :• • As well as MTM, the main I;v; Lonrho paper than the Sword known of Hungary's wine lem, and the revenue pros¬ are being invited by Credit Corporation may sell up to 49 assets the board can call on are of Damocles called Standard producing regions, badly pects for the co-ops* thous¬ Lyonnais to make competitive per cent of its commercial the television studios and Chartered [the lead syndicate needs Western capital if it is to ands of members are little offers for the remaining 49 per aircraft business to one or production facilities. bank] hanging over my head, avoid financial collapse. short of catastrophic. Debt cent The plan is that these more Asian concerns. Mc¬ Nick Ward, a media analyst he said. “Ordinary Brent Credit Lyonnais, the French from state commercial banks three areas will continue the Donnell has held talks “with a at Smith New Court, said: Walker shareholders should bank, has undertaken to win¬ exceeds more than half the arrangement with the co-ops. number of companies and “It’s possible they will take the not, nor are they going to be, kle out of western Europe, worth of Borkombinat’s huge For the eight other vineyard countries" and these are con¬ view that TVS doesn’t have treated like goals." north America and perhaps stocks. Due to Hungary’s properties, a majority holding tinuing. Analysts suggest that f. ■■ ^ t * • much of a future as a produc¬ One observation from the Japan sufficient investment to inflation rate, interest on these in each is to be awarded to a McDonnell could raise be¬ tion company and try to floor was that in refusing to rescue the region, but it may loans averages 36 per cenL Credit Lyonnais-recommend¬ tween $500 million and $1 realise whatever they can. The return to the negotiating table run out of time. From this week, the start of ed foreign investor, with the billion for a 20 per cent stake most logical thing for them is and re-examine a Lonrho The Borkombinat, the the three-week harvest, the state company taking only a in the commercial part of its to do a deal with Meridian and offer, the banks were like “the 6,170-hectare Tokaj-Hegyal- state vineyard must find cash minority stake. Douglas Aircraft Company. sell them as much of their kit louts in Newcastle who pre¬ jai's state vineyard, has been to pay casual pickers. And The French bank is also Herbert Lanese, McDon¬ as possible." vented the fire engines from the productive and commer¬ next month, the coops will be seeking, on tbe security of nell's chief financial officer, There have been attempts getting to the fire". More cial centre of the region for 20 looting for an advance on Borkombinat’s stocks, a loan said the money raised would 7Cf. .. to sell MTM before and cheers. If 1991 was the year of years. The vineyard, with their 1991 grapes. in American dollars to help help launch its MD-12 Disney was rumoured to have the Citizen's Charter, then let 1,220 hectares of its own, acts While the Hungarian gov¬ the state vineyard pay off its jetliner, first deliveries of been interested at about $50 there be fair play, another said. on behalf of the region’s ernment is making available debt to Hungarian banks. which are expected in 1997. million but no deal material¬ The message from Lord growers’ co-operatives by 15 billion florints (£120 mil¬ Underbeig, the ' German But McDonnell said, “the ised. On this basis, Mr Ward Kindersley, the Brent Walker turning their harvests into lion) to the country’s 20 wine drinks group, wants a foothold company will not surrender puts a value of £20 million or chairman, who did not ride, wine, then bottling, ageing and regions to reduce swelling in the Tokaj and exclusive control of its jetline business," less on the subsidiary. tube, or walk to Saturday’s selling it surpluses by promoting ex¬ distribution rights for the best which generates more than The value of other assets is meeting, was that the board The Borkombinat has sold, ports to the West, this win wine. Ye^ with a worldwide half of its annual revenues. harder to quantify, but he welcomed any proposal that however, only a tiny amount take time. Credit Lyonnais, ghil of good wine, it is not Talks have also concerned believes there could be a was for the good of all — of the Tokaj’s production out¬ the Hungarian government dear who else is prepared to risk-sharing sub-contracts in fiuther £25 million-worth of provided the banks’ rescue side the communist bloc at re¬ agency for privatising state follow the German concern which participants would pay residua] film rights. But TVS plan was not “jeopardised". alistic prices. Until almost a property and Andras Bacso, into the technically backward part of-the aircraft's $4 billion shareholders are left in an On his way to Threadneedle year ago, the Soviet Union Borkombinat*s director, hope Hungarian vineyards. development costs. In return, unenviable position in the Street today. Count Orlov paid partly for its regular 65 for a quicker solution. - Suntory and LVMH-Mo€t they would secure a share of event of a break-up. should still have the cheers of per cent of all Tokaj wine The suite vineyard's land is Hennessy Louis Vuitton are the programme's profits and Even. tf. the. value of the shareholders ringing in his exports with inefficient trac¬ to be divided into separate . among the big nanies being contracts to supply large struc¬ assets eventually exceeds the ears as he makes another one- tors. Then, with the break¬ domains — three big and eight bandied about in Tbkaj and tures. The MD-12 would seat liJ- debts, they rank behind the mile step for Brent Walker, down of East Germany, Mos¬ much smaller. In the three Paris. But Yves B6nard, of more than 375 passengers and preference shareholders, who and another for shareholders’ cow stopped importing wine. large areas, a state company LVMH, is adopting a “wait be the first direct competitor have first call on the proceeds. Fighting talk: “We are not goats,” says the count rights. The Borkombinat’s heavy will have a controlling 51 per and see” policy. to Boeing’s 747. mLrnmttwmries Management buyout failures Jr# Pwa CH UB Gres* Or Pin Ctfgi Gross Oh An Oi'flo 6hh On M on YM to « a* w PMMfcton to ti rih YN £ o—ir FfktaT nek pnee % P/E ftriay mk paKn ft W e cmm Fflfcy week pan ft p/t f+*# C.‘ -.51 » ‘A.. •;V . J - v’ ; \ \) '* I I'M I \ \ THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Business and Finance 23 Vision, or “the vision thing” place to look is to Europe, whose as George Bush used to call post-war development has al¬ it when he was running for ways been a more useful model president, is unfashionable these Wicks, Viceroy of Russia for die future Soviet Union than days, especially in the Anglo- the I$ih century' creation of the Saxon world. Britain under in the process of transforming the ••yyr;; it, comes in. As the main United States. As M Altali Margaret Thatcher, America Soviet Union, just as President ■ jfciSv.: V v*i' conduits for help to the Soviet remarked in Bangkok: "If the under Ronald Reagan, and above Gorbachev and Grigori Yavlin¬ Union, the IMFand World Bank Soviets cannot design an eco¬ all Russia under 70 years of sky, his chief economic adviser, have a fatal flaw. They lack the nomic agreement maybe we marxism, are ail deemed to have had hoped. Anatole Kaletsky critical political dimension. The could just translate the Treaty of suffered from a surfeit of vision. As both Mr Lamont and Mr IMF may set political constraints Rome into Russian.” Of course, Yet at last week’s IMF-Worid Yavlinsky made clear in Bang¬ on public spending and monetary Europe is now moving far Bank annual meeting — attended, kok, the G7 mission travelling to the European Bank, was even reforming the Soviet Union, the policy, but il is not in the beyond the original Common of all people, by finance ministers Moscow, next week, will not be more specific about the West’s G7 is doing the right thing, but business of designing legal Market, but that is all the more and _ centra] bankers — vague going just to collect information intentions. “We have to organise also taking a huge risk. In effect, systems, supervising secessions reason to press for a new 40- stirrings of idealism could be but also tell the republican the republics into an economic it is inventing a new job of and writing constitutions. naiion area of free trade and dearly discerned. leaders the economic and poEt- agreement, even if it is only an astonishing scope for Nigel Even today, after democracy political co-existence, embracing The dour and laconic Norman ical facts of life: above aDL that agreement to separate. We have Wicks, the British Treasury and human rights have been ex¬ both eastern Europe and die Lamont came to life, for there can be no aid or diplomatic to tell them that it is impossible official, who will lead the G7 plicitly written into the Articles Soviet Union, M .Altali main¬ example, when the subject turned recognition for any republic that to finance any project without a delegation. When he arrives in of the European Bank, the IMF tains. from the British economy to fails to sign the new economic clear understanding about their Moscow, Mr Wicks will be met and World Bank consider such At present, Pan-Europeanists Third World debt relief or the treaty or alternatively to abide by relations on trade, debt and with child-like hope, respect and oven politicisation as totally out like M Altali, Jacques Delors and potential of the Soviet Union. a constitutional divorce defence. fear by the warring regional of bounds. This is inevitable as Hans-Dieuich Genscher are Even the Americans seemed to settlement acceptable to both the “In the East, people used to princes. He will be greeted as long as they- remain global ridiculed in London and Wash¬ have caught the vision bug, when Russian government and the accept discipline because of the Viceroy of AH the Russias. institutions, if the IMF continues ington for their over-developed Nicholas Brady, the American West. As Mr Lamont pointed Gulag. In the West, they accepted Of course, the G7 does not go to deal with Zaire. China and vision. But when Mr Wicks Treasury secretary, compared the out, a system based on private because of respect for the law. in for such colourful terms. “The Iran, it cannot then apply totally returns from his vice-regal effort to reconstruct the Soviet property cannot take root But, today, in the Soviet Union G7 cannot become a directorate different political standards to mission 10 Moscow, what will he state with the 20-year birth pangs without a settled legal and they are in a no-man's land and for the whole world,” Mr Lamont the Soviet Union simply on the report? Perhaps that the Soviets of the American constitution. constitutional framework. So for the economy that is perhaps said last week, adding that the grounds that most of the people now have a need even more Despite initial appearances, it until a constitution is agreed, worse than either side.” IMF and World Bank would there are white. urgent than bridging loans or seems that the Group of Seven there is little point in discussing In recognising constitutional remain the main points of Who, then, is to represent 1he technical assistance on central industrial nations is being sucked market reforms. uncertainty as the cancer that is contact with the Soviet Union. West in the restructuring of the banking. They need a political into “constructive engagement” Jacques Altali, the president of now eating away at the hopes of But this is where vision, or lack of Soviet system? The obvious vision. a nan W«. City prepares to prospect for A taxing question on training COMPANIES that invest in ployed and even unemployed training should be able to ob¬ Philip Bassett people also need financial tain a tax rebate equal to 1 per reports that incentives, the report suggests. cent of their national insur¬ Personnel managers arc also gold in a sanction-free land ance contributions, personnel personnel rejecting the proposal, put managers will urge this week. managers are forward by the government in A training strategy docu¬ poised to come the education and training willing to look now, but it is ment, from the Institute of joint white paper, that tax The South African up to South African com¬ Personnel Management, will into conflict with incentives should be confined panies to promote themselves bring personnel managers into the government only to those studying for economy is caught here.” conflict with the government recognised qualifications run The message has not been over training by insisting that and education for all young by the National Council for in a vicious circle. lost on the City's financial the government, and not just people. Companies would pay Vocational Qualifications. public relations firms, and companies or individuals, for on-the-job training, and The TPM says in its document Jon Ashworth competition for South African should play a substantial pan the trainees would contribute that this would be “unduly business is intense. Repre¬ of training costs. by accepting lower wages. restrictive.” sentatives are spending an Though the government Employers would be able to The IPM is also proposing a looks at moves to increasing amount of time in funds employment-related obtain generous tax incentives reduction in the number of Johannesburg, working their training, through programmes to train, equal to a fixed pro¬ industry-led bodies setting widen trade links way down a list which in¬ run by Training and Enter¬ portion of their normal nat¬ training standards, and the cludes giants like Anglo- prise Councils, ministers be¬ ional insurance costs. Sclf-em- setting up of a new indepen¬ American, Gencor, Barlow lieve that both companies and dent forum to draw together PROSPECTS for a new wave especially individuals receiv¬ all those involved in training. of investment in South Africa Rand, Liberty Life. Rem¬ brandt and SA Breweries. ing training should meet much Government ministers will soared over the weekend after more of the biU. be uneasy about the conclu¬ agreement among the Com¬ Their antics have delighted local businessmen who are But the document, to be sions of the IPM’s report, but monwealth nations that sanc¬ launched at a meeting featur¬ Labour leaders will welcome tions will be phased out in happy to be able to call the tune after years of isolation. ing Sir Bryan Nicholson, its findings as a rejection of stages. chairman of the CBTs edu¬ some of the government's “People to people” sanc¬ Kent Durr, South African cation committee, and Henry most cherished beliefs. tions are expected to be lifted ambassador to London, will McLeish, Labour’s employ¬ □ Separate research, carried immediately, with the blessing discuss South Africa's invest¬ ment spokesman, at the IPM’s out for the IPM by Sussex of the African National Con¬ ment potential at a seminar in annual conference in Harro¬ University's Institute of Man¬ gress, allowing resumption of Eroigrating: Adam Fleming hopes the bank will be in the right place at the right time London on October 30. Fel¬ gate. says that this cost should power Studies, will show no low speakers include Rudolf tourism, cultural and aca¬ veiled- in London this month. corporate finance. James first step, but hard-core invest¬ be shared by the three parties. .link between improved com- Gouws, economist at Rand demic exchanges and air links. SG Warburg Securities, which CapeL, the broker, is contem¬ ment may be some way off. • The IPM says that “it would ,pai)y performance and either The news will please South is underwriting the Liberty plating opening a representa¬ The South African economy Merchant Bank, and Colin not be unreasonable” for the performance-related pay or African Airways which has Hail, chief executive of government to pay for all off- Life issue, has bom sending tive office in Nairobi rather is caught in a vidous rircle. other forms of corporate been negotiating to recom¬ Wooltru. the-job and general training Sir Bryan: at the launch performance management. scouts to South Africa. Smith than Johannesburg, giving it Improvements will not come mence flights between New Court, the broker, has immediate access to the Cen¬ without foreign investment, Johannesburg and New York. traditional links with the tral and Southern African but foreign institutions want But the economic sanctions, South African mining houses region. It could share offices to see improvements before which have battered the South and Hambros, which enjoys there with Equator Bank, a they take the plunge. Inflation African economy, will remain in*T. dose South African links, is fellow subsidiary of the Hong¬ is running at between 15 to 17 in force for now. However, the kong and Shanghai Banking per cent, and black unemploy¬ softening of altitude, an¬ presently working on a major Corporation. ment has been estimated at nounced in Harare, will be funding project Cazenove, News of an easing of sanc¬ anything from 40 to 60 per welcomed in the City, where the broker, remained open for For businessmen tions was warmly received at cent. Seven million people are banks and stockbrokers are business in Johannesburg the Johannesburg Slock Ex¬ out of work. rapidly rethinking their stance through the thick of the The failure of the Old on investment south of the troubles. change. Mike Thompson, Klein wort Benson, the only chief operating officer, said: Mutual South Africa Fund, Limpopo. which had hoped to raise Less than a week ago, US$50 million to invest in with more Robert Fleming opened a South African blue chip and representative office in Improvements will not come without growth stock, has encouraged Johannesburg, following a many potential investors to lead set by Standard Char¬ foreign investment, but foreign tered, in August. Adam Flem¬ think again. A new upsurge in institutions want to see improvements violence despite the signing of ing, a director, has emigrated sense than money. to South Africa with his family the recent peace accord has to oversee the operation that British bank In the syndicate “We welcome the optimistic served as a reminder that he hopes will leave the bank in for South Africa’s DM400 shift in stance that the ANC is South Africa is unstable, and will be for some time. the right place at the right million Eurobond issue in taking. From our point of time. September, has a repre¬ view, sanctions are an ab¬ David Baraber, former Mr Fleming, who is joined sentative office in Johannes¬ solute negative, and any economics editor of the South by Michael Oliver, a fellow burg and has revamped its change is to be warmly African Broadcasting Corpo¬ director, said he hoped to act London team. Mark Welles¬ welcomed.” ration, who is now based in as a conduit for new business. ley-Wood, who left Kleinwort City observers give warning London, said it was wrong to “The world has sold out of Benson last year to become that investment will not pour assume South Africa would South Africa and is, we think, chief executive of Geevor, the in overnight. Bankers who open up to new investment now going to buy hack into it-” mining company, has rejoined used to go to South Africa just overnight. “There has been a Robert Fleming subscribed the firm to provide research for a holiday are now taking tendency on the part of South for the first £10 million of on South African stocks, their notebooks, but not their African companies to think Liberty Life's £110 million working alongside Alex chequebooks... yet. Opening people are opening up. but this international share issue, un- Doibey and Mike Stirzaker in representative offices is the is not the case. 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WE UNE OUR BOOTS WITH BOOT •■AM* boors thar can withstand the worst conditions happens water cannot infiltrate the boot. on earth. Our determination to stave off the Let’s start with the inside of the boot. It is, elements doesn’t stop there. after all, where your feet spend all their tune. To seal the inside of the boot from the Other manufacturers think that merely by outside world, we use soles made from a light¬ lining a boot with a fake fur they can convince weight dual-density polyurethane. Or another you that your feet will be warm and cosy. highly resistant substance called Vibram EVA. We know better. These soles are then permanently bonded Which is why inside our boots the toes are to the uppers utilising one of Timberland’s Wh\ bon! ■r protected by Ensolite. many patented processes. And the shaft, tongue and quarter are We even add a fibre glass shank along the ire buck: insulated with B-400 Thinsulate. base of the boot for extra strength. So efficient are these man-made fabrics However good we are at lining the inside that we can afford to pamper your feet a little. of our boors, it would all come to nothing if iad new The linings and cushioned insoles are the outside wasn’t up to scratch- . : r.=.. made from soft glove leather. Or high per¬ So we comb the country in search of formance Cambrelle. tanneries that understand the importance we Likewise the collars you’ll find on attach to the well-being of your feet. many of our boots. A task made harder by the fact that we’re Aside from providing extra not just picky, we’re plain contrary. comfort, these padded collars We want leathers that are tough yet soft. follow the form of your Strong yet supple. Long-lasting but good- looking. A tall order, we know. But we rarely come back empty-handed. Once in the workshops, the leathers are c — • impregnated with silicone. This prevents them drying or cracking with age. It also stops water seeping through. i;,_ (There we go again.) ,»£?.“■ We also subject them to a machine called iff- ■ a Maser Flex, which tests waterproof leathers. l&:. Ours withstand 15,000 flexes, equal to the highest standards demanded by the US Military. n %z \ Have you any idea what happens to the ankle to help stop the elements sneaking in. The same mentality that puts fake fur body at 20° or 30° below? Keeping the cold air out and the hot air in inside a boot can be counted on to compromise 1*“ •« The blood thickens. The brain slows. Your could have the effect of ‘cooking1 your feet. in other ways too. !»v. concentration lapses. Energy can drain from To prevent this, we often drop in a bootie Not us. 'sr-, i?t ;• ■ you faster than water from an emptying tub. made from Gore-Tex. We dye our leathers right through so the !**’- Of course, the body doesn’t take this kind This remarkable man-made fibre has 9 colours won’t scuff or flake off even after years i SC; ■ of treatment lying down. billion pores per square inch, each one 20,000 of regular use. !*&• Something called a neuro vascular impulse times smaller than a raindrop but 700 rimes We use solid brass eyelets. And D-rings !;fc . shunts blood away from your extremities to larger than a molecule of perspiration. made from stainless steeL Neither of them vital organs like the heart, kidneys and liver. As a result, our boots get an extra layer of rusts, it’s as simple as that. r •* * Which is very clever of it. waterproofing and your feet can breathe more Laces are made from self-oiling raw hide I •* • Except that a lot of people regard their easily. for extra flexibility. Or premium grade nylon if extremities as pretty viral too. Even so, any foot couped up in one of our when greater strength is required. fc- Particularly their feet. boots is bound to sweat a little. Nothing is over-looked in our desire to At Timberland, we make our living mak¬ So to absorb any perspiration, some of build a comfortable,, long-lasting boor that ing boots and shoes for people who enjoy the our boors are fitted with a special removable protects your feet from the cold. ; 'A-.. . sc *■-." great outdoors. polypropylene insole. You may never experience temperatures as 5 Which, as you can imagine, becomes the Perhaps because Timberlands come from low as 20° or 30° below. is* not-so great-outdoors when winter sets in. the rainy State of New Hampshire, we set a lot But if your feet are soaking wet and numb, 13. So how do we protect our customer’s feet of store by things that keep feet dry. who’s counting? I.J ' V ‘ from the body’s natural desire to leave them in For example, all the important seams on the lurch every time there’s a cold snap? our boots are stitched using no less than four ,k-s '• '« We use every material known to man (and rows of nylon stitching. We then tape seal ■ft some known only to Timberland) to build them with latex to make sure thar whatever IV. .. r: . •\!£ * ■■■r -. THE INSIDE of a boot is hardly the most promising of subjects. But this advertisement got you into it. Notice also how I- ■ -r. effortlessly it dispels our assumption that feet are better off in fur. This is what the written word can do. It builds !&■;■■■ - ‘ 4,’ i’ >ridges between products and people. Gets the message over fast and effectively. Timberland shoes used to be cultish. One !&■.:> lewspaper campaign later, their name is on everyone’s feet. Take a big step forward. Advertise in the newspapers. f'tlr. ' ’> •- This advertisement was placed by the Newspaper Publishers Association. '■ui ft: I h *Ti. \) THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Business and Finance 25 REPOfrilNGTHIS WEEK Aberfoyle dissidents Currency movements will cushion Smiths claim loan By Martin Barrow shareholder* in SMITHS ladostries, the aero¬ Finals;' Amber Day Kokflngs. tax profits to £9.5 million, Investment Trust. Smiths DISSIDENT Aberfoyle Holdings, the em¬ space and medical equipment Clydesdale investment Dust, Pa¬ according to County NatWesL Industries. cific Horizon Investment Trust, PTC Economic statistics: Index of battled trading group that group headed by Roger Hum, The dividend should be held production and construction for International Portfofio Fund. operates in Zimbabwe, say should announce a relatively Economic statistics; CBl survey ot at 12p. Wales (second quarter): construc¬ resilient performance on Wed¬ distrtoutive trades (September); re- tion - new orders (August - they have secured a loan nesday. Final pre-tax profits tafl sales (September—provtslonat). The decline in profits will provisional). facility to overcome short¬ are expected u> slip to £117 reflea delayed military expen¬ term funding difficulties and diture, as about 65 per cent of THURSDAY million, slightly down on last TOMORROW held talks with two o\crseas time's £120 million, according sales are in the defence sector. interims: Aberdeen Petroleum, trading houses that wish to UBS Phillips & Drew expects to Pete Deighton, at County Market forecasts range from AbertOftti Split Level Trust (first inject some of their African the annual pre-tax profits at £9.5 million to £11 million. quarter). Airflow Streamlines. interests into Aberfoyle. NalWesl Wood Mac. Boxmore International, Geared In¬ McKedmie. the metals and Interims: Densltran International. The group, which hopes to Earnings per share of 27p plastics group, to decline to come investment Trust, London (27.5p) and an increased divi¬ FR Group. Petrocon Group. Rowe American Ventures Trust. NEC unseat most of the board at an £21 million, down from £28 Evans Investments, Waterford dend of 10.7p (9.9p) are Corporation. RadiotrusL Scottish extraordinary meeting in Lon¬ million last time, although the Wedgwood. Mortgage & Trust, Securities Trust forecast Market forecasts dividend should be main¬ Ftnafcc Allied London Properties. of Scotland, SKF (AB) (Uwd quar¬ don on Thursday, also said range from £112 million to Edinburgh Investment Trust, Ex¬ ter). Toshiba Corporation. that Dr Joshua Nkomo, the tained at 14.7Sp. Market fore¬ moor Dual Investment Trust. Finals: Cotorgen Inc. Govett Strate¬ £120 million. The gnat) de¬ casts range from £20 million Zimbabwean vice-president, McKechnie. Pressac Holdings. UDO gic investment Trust. GR Holdings, has welcomed ils proposals to cline in profits anticipated by to £23 million. Holdings. Wolsetey. Majedie investments. Overseas most will provide a welcome Investment Trust. speed up the Mwcnczi palm With the United Kingdom Economic statistics: Balance of respite from an average de¬ payments, current account and Economic statistics: British Cham¬ oil development, Abcrfoyle’s accounting for about 75 per bers of Commerce quarterly eco¬ cline in the industry of about cent of McKechnie's trading overseas trade figures (September). nomic survey; buMlng societies largest project. 25 percent The dissidents claim to profits and Australia about 14 monthly figures (September): new The foil in profits will be WEDNESDAY eamings survey 199T, part C: speak for 40 per cent of Aber¬ per cent, the effects of the analyses by industry. substantially cushioned by recession on both countries Attwoods, the waste manage¬ foyle, including the 27 per cent bolding of Kojo Owusu-Nyan- currency benefits. Smiths, will afreet the group in most ment company, should unveil FRIDAY tekyi, a Ghanaian business¬ which makes nearly 40 per areas. a healthy advance in profits, man who has led the two-year cent of its profits in America, Allied London Properties, Resffieat performance; Roger Hunt’s Smiths Industries is expected to lift its payout with Smith New Court going Interims: Abtrust New Thai Invest¬ ment Trust, Btecklai*} CM. Castte campaign against the board. wifi benefit from a move in the the housebuilder and property for £38 million, up from £28.5 pre-tax profits win plunge to equipment and services, will company, which is the world's MiO international. Clayton, Son & Aberfoyle's pre-tax profits sterling exchange rate from investor, reported a pre-tax million last time. In spite of a Co. Conrad Continental, New £73 million, down from slip to about £9.1 million, leading manufacturer of print¬ fell from £5.3 million lo £1.2 $1.85 in July 1990 to$1.68 last loss of £5.4 million (£3.9 relatively dull performance in Throgmorton Trust (1983). July. £120.7 million last time. How¬ down from £9.8 million. ed circuits to control motor lisbome. Vanbrugh Currency Fund. million last year. The com¬ million profit) in its first half the United Kingdom, affected ever, this is at the bottom end Taxable profits at Pressac car dashboard instruments, Wensum. pany has suspended refinanc¬ after an £8 million writedown by the group’s exposure to the Finals: British Assets Trust, inves¬ TODAY of market forecasts, which Holdings, the maker of elec¬ should pay a maintained divi¬ ing talks and is now dependent in the value of its house¬ south of England, the com¬ tors Capital Trust. New Frontiers range from £73 million to £85 trical and electronic compo¬ dend of 2.4p for the year. on funds provided by Ian Amber Day Holdings, the building land bank and unsold pany derives about two-thirds Development Trust. million. nents, are likely to decline to FR Group, the defence and Economic statistics: Quarterly Coafes. irs chairman. Aber- discount fashion retailing bouses. of its profits from America. Analysis project that pre-tax £2.3 million, against £2.7 mil¬ house purchase finance statistics foyle’s shares have fallen from group headed by Philip Green, Robert Fowlds, an analyst aviation equipment maker, is Interims: British & American Film (third quarter]. lion. according to UBS Phil¬ a high of (i2p in 1^8? to 8p, is expected to report a jump in at KJeinwort Benson, expects profits at UDO Holdings, the expected to report a 13 per Holdings. Craig 4 Rose, Ptastisea/. lips & Drew. However, the capitalising it at £3.66 million. pre-tax profits to £9.8 million, Allied to make a foil-year pre¬ supplier of drawing office cent decline in first-half pre¬ Fmatoc Attwoods, City of Oxford Philip Pangalos against £3 million last time, tax loss of about £1.5 million, according to Joan D'Olier at compared with a profit of £6.1 County NatWesL million. The group forecast pre-tax The net asset value per profits of not less than £9.75 share is predicted to fall to million and a final dividend of about 135p (166pX although not less than 1.7p, malting Klein wort experts a main¬ 2.6p (2p) for the year, at the tained dividend of 3.53p. time of June's rights issue. Market forecasts have a broad The advance in profits will spread, with analysts antici¬ The best laser printers in the world. reflect a foil contribution from pating anything from a loss of What Everyone Wants, the £2.7 million to a profit of £9.1 Scottish discount dothmg-to- million. toys chain that was acquired All divisions are having a for £47 million in May 1990. difficult lime at WolseJey, the interims: Bourne End Properties, distributor of plumbing, heat¬ Hidring Pentecost. New Central ing and building products. Witwatersrand Areas. Vizcaya HokJmqs. Panmure Gordon believes Why bond buyers are bucking the bad news trend In the gilts market, bad foreign exchanges. Although news is good news. Gilt sterling has been pretty sta¬ practitioners are usually ble within the ERM, it is not the only ones smiling when strong enough for Mr La- industrial output drops and mont to fed comfortable unemployment soars. On about cutting base rates, that basis, there ought to even though inflation will have been some happy feces soon fen below Germany’s. as recovery hopes took a The reason is, at bottom, turn for the worse again. political; the markets are still Even "Norman Lam on t, the worried by Labour. Of Chancellor, now seems cau¬ course, they fear a much tious. (Was the earlier mood higher PSBR. More im¬ of optimism hyped up to portant, there is doubt that keep open the option of a Labour would stick to the November election?) ERM parity and about Yet the gilt market has whether, although they in¬ languished, losing all the tended to stidc to it, they gains of September. would be capable of suf¬ The prime reason is not a ficient self-discipline to ad¬ deterioration in the outlook opt policies enabling them to for inflation. Despite slightly do so beyond the first few disappointing RPI figures, months. most statistics relevant to in¬ In limiting the scope for flation have been encour¬ base rate cuts, fragility of aging — producer price in¬ sterling poses two problems flation is felling and wage for the market First, it settlements are tumbling. makes re-election of the Meanwhile, retail price infla¬ Conservatives more difficult tion looks set to be about 4 and hence redoubles the per cent — below the ERM otheT difficulties. Second, it average — by the end of the puts off st£U further the year and to stay that way return to the so-called nor¬ through most of 1992. mal (upward doping) yield Some of the market’s lack curve the market needs. of forward momentum can Bui recovery also relates be put down to comparison to another pre-occupa¬ with other international tion of the market — bond markets. There is a funding. A good part of the widespread feeling that after upsurge in the PSBR is the strong outperfbrmance cyclical. A return to reason¬ over the summer, for gilts to able growth would bring go much better now, other stronger revenues and re¬ markets, principally the Ger¬ duced pressure on spending. man, will have to advance. Indeed, even that pan of There is a good deal in this, the increased PSBR that is even though the yield not directly cyclical is spreads of gilts over other nevertheless related to the markets have widened re¬ state of the economy. Why is cently, and there ought to be the government apparently scope for them to narrow. going soft on public spend¬ The domestic reasons for ing? Because the economy is the gilt market’s malaise are in desperate shape and, con¬ several and varied but they comitantly, the government all come together under a is behind in the opinion single heading - continued polls. If the Tories win, in an recession. 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The Company Parcels victors will be those O', - * Federal Express investing heavily in & &■*!* • computer technology m ■ ~t- I ILtf •"*“ says Rodney Hobson Ak , \ ^ H* * v« _ Providing courier services mm HSilSpI *%%* «*iiA ‘-'■v' *_ 111 ■ ^-f'-i . ..-t •»— ' ‘. .tv 4: ••••-' : \ '•-«' * -' K • -':jt T • ' * t. 'MC.gfrxL'? » . % •s'-. ' V\ _ . • \ -- • 'V ,/*v. .. >. ■ w' V. V 4 %' i -»* vN-' AI N’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH Documents. Parcels. Freight. Mountains or molehills. V. i™ :/ From parcels to the Pope, call TNT s the economies of East¬ This growth is crucial to the A Rodney Hobson finds that the courier business has been successful in looking East for new business company's growth in Europe, as it ern Europe gradually has lagged behind the other, larger open to the West, their JOHN MANNING needs for efficient dis¬ carriers in developing its conti¬ tribution services to link with the nental network. rest of the world are growing With 65 per cent of the market, rapidly. As a result of this and DHL claims to be the leader in Eastern Europe's outdated and Eastern Europe, giving it pro-, often inadequate electronic mail¬ jected revenue of more than £6 ing systems, many international million. It has set up operations in couriers see the former communist Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech¬ bloc nations as a fertile area for oslovakia, the Soviet Unfed, business growth. Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania;1 TNT Express Worldwide had and this year, the Baltic states. started to move into Eastern Europe well before the Iron Cur¬ Even Yugoslavia' has tain was tom down. The company shown slanting growth in has contributed towards establish¬ recent months, draphe ing internal networks in Poland, the unrest, DHL'reports. Hungary and Czechoslovakia, The escalating violence has dis¬ making Eastern Europe an integral couraged people from travelling, part of a pan-European network. but the exchange of information is According to Roger Corcoran. still vital to biwiness. TNT Express Worldwide’s UK In : the Baltics, Tallinn, the manager, it is continuing growth in capital of Estonia, has been estab¬ world trade that will allow room lished as a gateway. Inward ship¬ for the industry to expand. TNT Networking in the East: Roger Corcoran, of TNT (left), sees European expansion, indnding the provision of transport for the Papal visit to Hungary, as vital to growth ments are Sown from Brussels to says its business in Eastern Europe Helsinki and ferried from Finland is doubling every year. That means a next-day service puter system as part of the express delivery service was before we set up our operation.” for international operations, says: to Tallinn for distribution by rafl. John Monaghan, the general to Warsaw from anywhere in company’s development of its started in Czechoslovakia with Of other companies operating in “Eastern Europe is destined to DHL hopes to be handling more manager for network dev¬ Europe, with an extra day added to Eastern European network. TNT’s offices in Prague and 14 other large Eastern Europe, UPS Inter¬ become a major market and offers than 500 deliveries a month by the elopment, singles out Poland as locations elsewhere in Poland operations in Hungary became cities. national Air Service, part of enormous growth potential. West¬ end of this year, intending to the country with probably most Maciej Bielicki, TNT’s general folly operational in 1987. The local United Parcels Service, now op¬ ern companies looking to succeed establish wholly owned Baltic potential. Import and export vol¬ manager in Poland says: “Poland airline, Malev, provides air tephen Badger, TNT’s re¬ erates in seven countries and in the in these new markets will be able companies in the next few months. as a market is continuing to grow S umes for Poland are approaching connections between Budapest gional network develop¬ former East Germany. The com¬ to take advantage of the service.” As an example of the rapid those of the much larger Soviet rapidly. During the past year the and Cologne in Germany. The ment manager, says: “Traf¬ pany has opened in Leipzig so that UPS works in partnership with changes in East Europe, at the end Union. TNT has bought the country has achieved growth rates office network in Hungary was fic levels were doubling it now has six centres in the former national agencies in some cases, of Jtrfy, DHL, with an office and courier business of Evimar, a of nearly 200 per cent in volume. expanded last year, and the com¬ even during the early months of communist part of Germany, for example, with Romtxans in five staff, even established a company with which it signed a Poland is commercially an ex¬ pany even provided transport the operation, without any mar¬ which is seen as a link to the East Romania. This gives access to presence in Tirana, the capital of joint venture agreement last year, tremely advanced nation.” services when the Pope recently keting support. as well as part of the unified more destinations than a foreign Albania, which was always the in order to deliver to 26 Polish Next month, Poland will be visited the country. “There was sufficient demand nation. carrier could hope to serve most isolated of the formerly cities and towns. linked into TNT’s on-line com¬ In February, a new international from Czechoslovakian businesses Don Layden. th* vice-president economically. communist countries. How the smaller Your UPS Parcel Has Started To Clear Customs operators can still % % deliver the goods Smaller companies whose the film and advertising in¬ Jh. international business dustries delivering items such 1 has been sq ueezed by as proofs and reels. S I the big four have still managed Alan Soper, the managing to flourish in Britain by being director of Lynx, says the flexible and looking for the flexible operators are benefit¬ i • right niche, Rodney Hobson ing because customers no writes. Some have even man¬ longer think of distribution as aged to offer a European something that is tacked on to service by linking up with tire individual business. similar smaller outfits in other- Lynx was set up as part of countries. NFC, the former National W. The case of Elan seems to Freight Corporation. Mr So¬ confirm that a place exists for per claims the global operators smaller carriers. The company cannot offer the same degree was set up by DHL in 1983 of flexibility and personal with the aim of building a service because - they are European express delivery ser¬ geared up to conformity. * vice specialising in overnight “A global network, with delivery of heavier items. The huge capital investment, will uJm.. of the time, die .British1,end of foefopept- ,/tesajs. f.r . ?; .yf -r-*: libu -was\boC&ht outibythe rTbe advantage that i ref- management-' . ’- ']'■ 1 .•=:< \ative szehasgjven Lynx, and . Stephen the EuTO- . companies like it, is the agility pean sates; manager of Ska- to . respond to the customer’s bourne World Expresst-claims l precise. requirementvprovic^ the smaller companies-can 1 'mg solutions that are exactly1 score by trying: harder. He right for individual customers .w .. says: “We treatoor customers all the time.” , * on a .more personal basis. It sounds a-bit old hat but our Mr Soper says the term' customers are names, not “niche” can be mis¬ numbers: We visit them on a leading by implying a regular basis.” hole-in-coraer activity, yet Mr Fasham claims that a even smaller British operators, smaller courier has greater can take advantage of oppor¬ flexibility, to divert or turn tunities in Europe. back a van at. a moment’s . “Although we may not Defore Its Cleared For Take-Off. notice to pick up.an emer¬ have the same investment’ gency dispatch. ability to buy in or establish He says: ”We had.a call new networks on the conti- from a. major etient.^at •neat,. by establishing;partner- !I.T5am asking us todolryeiia. : ships with like-minded Eutcf By the time your express parcel or document takes off to its international destination, magnetic tape, to: Brussels as Rean;carriers, we can provide soon as possible. We picked the same flexible service on a the process of customs clearance has already begun. up the package in Hig^; Wyc¬ pan-feuropean basis,” he says. ombe. Buckinghamshire; af “Lynx is the LTK partner in. 11.30am and delivered 'if in a. consortium! of II European Before it arrives, our local customs experts will know when to expect it Brussels at 2:40pm. express . carriers '. providing “I do not-think' yoir would time-guaranteied ■ collection and what it contains. In fact, everything they need to know to minimize delays. get a better example of flexibil¬ . and; delivery services to 13 ity with speed and.service.”. .. , European Countries/-; Mr Fasham saysifis inY 1?The - omsdrtihDLu..means Thanks to our Electronic Customs Pre-Alert system. portam thin the 'smaller op¬ that Lynx is not committed to erator can match the large a hugemvestment programme The UPS network connects you with over 180 countries and territories worldwide. courier in refiabilrtyr He says: in Europe but can still provide “The client wants the earliest a fast and efficient 'service possible delivery time we can- through partners familiar with With your package monitored throughout its journey by our electronic tracking system. offer, but it has to happen each territory.” every time, not just most of Mr Fasham admits that life Electronic Customs Pre-Alert. Electronic tracking. the time.” has been harder during the Couriers such as Seaboume recession, partly because belt- are helped by the fact that tightening customers have A commitment to on-time deliveries, at competitive rates. most traffic comes into or out consolidated shipments rather of London, which narrows than sending out packets one Quite simply at UPS, we aim to deliver a better package. down the number of set routes by one as they are ready to go. that must be operated. However; he. says: “We can They have also coped with live with the bigger couriers. recession by operating in To. some extent , we even niche markets. For example, benefit from their'advertise¬ Seaboume has a 24-hours-a- ments, because they create an day media service directed at awareness of the industry.*1 JAMES GRAY -United Parcel Service As sure as taking it there yourself. Company Name, Address- '..y.&'ALs.. _ Post Code I.—i—. i. __ Telephone - For further information, please send to UPS, UPS House. Forest Road, Feltham. Middlesex. TVP’13 7DY. or ring 081 -890 8888 ® Trademark and «emce mark of United Parcel Service of Amenta. Inc . of U S A T 21/10 | Stephen Fasham: treating customers on a personal basis THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Courier and Express Services 29 QEN2IL McNEELWCE Challenging time for the easy riders obody knows quite how he says. “So it is one accident per many motorcycle cou¬ Motorbike despatch two million miles, it amazes me, rier companies there but there are very few accidents. . are in the United King¬ businesses are facing Most of these guys have wives, dom.N Estimates vary from 200 kids and mortgages.” upwards, but everyone agrees rapid changes, reports That last point is, for those who there are fewer than there were two have followed the business, one of years ago. The recession has cut Malcolm Brown the most obvious changes of the turnover by between 15 and 20 per past decade. cent and the weakest have gone to handle 20 bikes quite adequately. “Ten years ago, young guys the walL After that, you need more circuits, became motorcycle couriers with The worst period has been the more back-up hardware. the intention of doing it for a few last five or six months. Businesses Most of the companies are run weeks, a month, six months, to get that started on the crest of the and staffed by individualists. some money before they went off wave in 1987 and 1988, many of Their riders are usually self- round the world," Mr Doughty Jem getting a great deal of work employed subcontractors who says. “A lot of those people who from the City after Big Bang, have supply their own bikes, petrol and started ten years ago are still doing faded to cope during the recession. clothing. On a typical central it today. One of the biggest companies, London delivery, the company “A lot of them are now basically West One, has offered an unusual wDi take 40 or 50 percent of the fee professional, full-time couriers. alternative for small companies and give the remainder to the The average age of the courier has that cannot malcft it on their own. rider. gone up probably from the low- Raid Meunier.; West One’s admin¬ “Prices do vary," Mr Doughty twenties to the low to mid-thirties. istrative director, explains: “We says, “but you tend to get what you That is quite a difference. These have made an offer to companies pay for. If you want to pay less for people are doing it for a living, to come into our premises anrf run your motorcycle delivery, rather long-term." Riding out the recession: motorbike couriers are smartening up their image and safety record, as their companies fight to win work their business from here, without than more, you are likely to get all the problems of their own your delivery more slowly, and accounts department and their there is more chance that it will get own credit facilities." The com¬ lost" panies — seven so far—retain their One slightly cheaper service Airline revolution that is ready to take off independence, but get core ser¬ offered by some courier com¬ consortium including two the investment they would ha' e to vices from West One. panies is bicycle delivery. Clients A After one buy-in by international airlines, international airlines took make if they moved into door-to- The impact of the recession on do not choose bicycles as an door express would be greater than individual companies will have an option on a large stake in economy measure, Mr Doughty DHL, the global express carrier, the courier industry is watching for more they could justify at present. depended to some extent on the says. “In very dense traffic areas, a Express couriers need big. sector of the market in which they last year, a deal which set longues push bike is possibly quicker than warning in the express business, market is becoming mature and is A less dramatic approach is that expensive sales teams as they an.* specialised. The mainstay of most a motorcycle, just in terms of its faring competition from facsimile of Air France, which has opted for aiming their service at business companies is a big firm of solic¬ Malcoun Brown writes. narrowness and its ability to get Observers predicted that more transmission and electronic mail. organic growth. Through its and industry generally. Their tar¬ itors or accountants, says Robert through traffic." airlines, many already providing The toe-hold in Japan is strate¬ subsidiary. Sodcxi. ir is offering a get is any businessman that wants Doughty, the secretary of the However, push bikes work only gically important, allowing DHL door-io-door express sen'ice pre¬ to send a package. Despatch Association, the couri¬ carriage services for the express over relatively short distances. Mr companies, would pile into the to strengthen its presence in the cisely like that of the established There is. though, a third option. ers* trade body, but others may Doughty says; “You are not going business. Nearly a year and a half Far East, an area in which one of courier companies. Sodexi has a This is the one adopted by British have depended on advertising to say to your push bike rider, later, the expected revolution has its arch rivals. Federal Express, has joinl venture agreement with the Airways, which, rather than get¬ agencies or photographic com¬ Take this package to Heathrow’, not started. been well represented, especially Birmingham-based carrier, WPS. ting into the door-to-door market, panies, clients that have them¬ because he is going to be fairly Nobody any longer says a since iu purchase of the cargo and is expanding through similar or “retail" end of the business, is selves been hit hard by the tired by the time he gets to precedent has been set by the DHL airline, Hying Tigers. DHL also deals. opting to remain as a “whole¬ recession. Chiswick, and by the time he gets deal — under which the German gets a great deal of readily- saler". BA is in the express market Mr Doughty, who has run his to Heathrow, the plane has prob¬ airline Lufthansa, the Japanese available capacity on airlines that ne of the concerns of but plays a behind-the-scenes role. own small company. City Bikes, O ably left, which defeats the object airline JAL, and the Japanese between them cover many prime airlines has been that, if BA's Speedbird service is aimed at for the past seven years, says trading company Nissho Iwai took routes around the world. they set up as express specialists, such as forwarders and clients are more careful now about One perennial problem initial stakes in DHL International The airlines, for their part, gel a couriers under their own names, express courier companies. bike use. “In the heady days of for the courier com¬ with the option of building up to neat piece of diversification into a they may alienate express carriers BA offers airpon-lo-door deliv¬ champagne and caviar, people panies is their safety 57.5 per cent closely allied business that allows or freight forwarders that are eries to 120 countries. The for¬ would maybe get a bike to go down record. The public view The DHL deal has great them 10 use their capacity 10 the existing customers who would see warder deals with the end to McDonald’s to pick up a Big of motorcycle couriers is of men potential for all the parties in¬ fuJL them as a threat to their own customer, but BA provides the Mac," he says. “Now, the people willing to ride at high speed and, if volved. DHL, whose reputation The DHL deal is the “big bang" business. forwarder with a large pari of that in the accounts department are a necessary, cut comers on safety. has always rested on its pre¬ approach: the airlines are buying It is not. of course, just a service. Such services are much bit more wary about office gifts There are still regular calls for eminence in express documents, into the express business at one go question of competition. Some cheaper to set up than the services who will just ring up and book a special controls. the tightest end of the express by taking a big slice of a leading airlines have less freight capacity that traditional retail companies bike." Mr Doughty believes the criti¬ market, gets what looks like a firm company. The indications are that than Air Francv and would there¬ offer. The front-end sales costs are The courier business embraces cism is ill-conceived. His own foothold in the Japanese parcels - there will be more tie-ups between fore be less keen to establish what low and the lo-ihe-door delivery is many small companies. A fleet of company, for example, averages market, which will soon be deregu¬ the airlines and the express couri¬ may appear to be a competitive done through agents. The whole¬ 20 to 25 bikes is regarded as a one reportable accident a year. Speedbird: BA's express lated. This is especially important ers, but that terms will vary service. Airlines arc hardly pov¬ saler, therefore, does not need to good, manageable size by many “That is one accident per 20 riders, service saves on costs at a time when the documents widely. erty-stricken, but some may feel have trucks and depots. operators. One radio Circuit will each doing about 100,000 miles," Guess who didn't send It by Federal Express? Give us a ring and we'll give you the commitment that has made us famous worldwide. Commitment to delivering your package on time. Every time. Our extensive fleet, including more than 400aircraft, delivers nearly 1.5 million packages to 135 countries. What's more, we can tell you precisely where your consignment is at the exact moment ^ you call, with our unique 'Cosmos' system. As well as providing proof of pick up and delivery. So from documents to freight, round the corner or round the world, you can i 1 trust the world's no.1 package and air freight earner. Absolutely, positively. For information call 0800 123 800. Federal Express. When it absolutely, positively has to be there on time. ____;..IUE TTMFSLMflNnAY nCTORF.R 2i^AAQA 30 Courier and Express Services THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 ,..,0EOFFtj^ *L; choose xset PETER TWEVNOR Gabriel’s ' >*E lucrative Rrisfrt|s message fights> 0m Driving ambition, a van and £8,000 are the secret behind running your own parcel ■1 51’’* delivery service, Rodney Hobson writes .' \> A 11 tff.j: Franchising has been the depots. Mr Drew says files are ;!/- :: essence of the enterprise bulging with applicants begging for il^. culture, as it spreads the franchises, applicants who say they risks and costs of business are willing to move to any pan of between franchisors and franchi¬ the country. Opportunities are, Own boss John Fisher (above): “It is very demanding, but if yon enjoy it, It does not feel like work" and (right) British Rail’s Red Star parcel sotting office at Easton 'i£” sees. turning a local operation into however, few and far between. l | a nationwide business, while A typical franchise will cost Red Star's parcel-delivery 1983, when Red Star Europe was allowing individuals to be their £8,000, plus the cost of a van, but service is among the best- launched. A service to the United •! f.‘- own boss. because of the scheme's success, known of its type, having How the States was added in 1987 and Red JOHN FISHER is an Interlink hart to show the drivers that the Richard Gabriel had the idea of banks are usually willing to lend been set up in 1963 as a very basic Star now operates to more than l: r- franchising his business when he towards the cost of a franchise. franchisee, working from Green¬ governor can do it." concept the customer took a 100 countries. wich, southeast London. He set up Interlink Express in Bristol The concept was so successful It has not been progress all the package to the station and ar¬ Even in Europe, some parcels go !■ fcv : says: “It Is very demanding, bat I way. Having built np to seven train takes by train, especially to France and ten years ago. Outlets would be that in 1987 an employee, Roger ranged for somebody to collect it • -• 1 do not regard that as a dis¬ drivers, be had to lay off two and Belgium. Most overseas services independent yet interdependent Baines, decided to set up his own at the other end, Rodney Hobson •! y' •’’ ■. and maintain a set of standards. overnight parcels delivery service advantage. If yon enjoy it, it does sell two vehicles this year during writes. are, however, run in conjunction not feel like work." Advertising, marketing and bill¬ on a franchise basis, allied Am- the recession. An office girl also That service still exists as an the strain with a local service at the other ing customers would be done trak, which now has 120 Mr Fisher started his business had to go. important part of the business and end. For instance. Red Star has a i; jjpane^ <’i,s centrally, so the individual busi¬ territories. three years ago this month frith Now, as the approach of many customers still call at a craft, vans and motorcycles, reciprocal arrangement with Air¬ nesses were spared the risk of bad Despite the competition. Inter¬ four drivers. He immediately Christmas brings increasing station and specify the train on carrying a total of up to 6.5 million borne Express in the US. Niche debts. The central office would link progressed until it was taken realised he needed five and business and there are tentative which they want the parcel to be parcels a year. markets are sought overseas, an I' ". also organise the trunk routes over last month by an American within four months had six. signs of an end to the recession, carried, but it is now the most Red Star claims to make the example being the service to IsraeL between individual franchisees, company in a bid that valued He says: “Things happened be has been able to employ seven basic of a wider range. fastest deliveries within Britain. The opening of the Channel while every outlet provided its Inieriink at more than £50 million. very quickly. The potential of the drivers again. Collecting and delivering door- London to Edinburgh takes four tunnel will be an extra boost for own vans and drivers. Central Mr Drew explains why the area was part of the attraction." Mr Fisher says the transition to-door amounts to nearly half the hours. An aircraft reaches Scot¬ the European service. The aim is office paid them a commission concept succeeded: “From Edin¬ He works Saturday mornings, from being manager for some¬ custom, with a choice of delivery land faster, but it cannot beat the to have a same-day service be¬ tween London, Paris and Brussels i!*.; based on the volume of traffic. burgh to Exeter, the customer feels and if he is a driver short, he still body else to being manager of his times. The slowest is noon next time from city centre to city centre, :i v*. Dan Drew, the group finance it is Mr Interlink who sees him. He gets behind the wheel himself. own business was surprisingly day, a service used mainly by the and is likely to cost more. The that will deliver foster than air¬ l1:/ •’ director, says: “This industry lends feels he is dealing with a person “That happens more often than I shorter the journey, the greater the craft. There is also a proposal for difficult “There is always some¬ manufacturing industry. The top- 'I:*'-- itself to franchising. We started who cares because that person would like, bat this is an indfrid- body else to blame if three is a of-the-range service is delivery advantage of rail over air travel. an overnight parcel service to Brussels airport, under which par¬ with 24 depots. Within 12 months, owns the business. nai business that does not have a governor over yon." He bad to within 15 minutes of a time Other carriers often use Red Star I ■ there were 60 and we could say it “A franchisee will work longer bottomless pit of money," he learn bow to sort out problems specified by the sender. because of its speed. cels leave London at 10pm and i fv- • really was a national network." hours and work twice as hard. It is says. “In any case, it does not and administer discipline. Red Star is no longer purely a The international side of the feed into the international parcels The network has spread to 120 a profitable combination." railway-based service. It uses air- business has been developed since hub in Europe. a. • U-v Computer keeps your Art of <:c4j parcels on right TRAC tK i*:■ - Tar- Bar code technology is being used to ensure that customers to- can monitor their packages’ progress all the way to delivery P”" The bar code, which has infiltrated every part of NO ONE ELSE our lives from the ‘Air*-:.. supermarket checkout to the front page of The Times, has; become vital to the express parcels business,’ Malcolm Brown writes. The express companies have all developed tracking CAN QUOTE systems, based on bar code scanning, which enable the customer sending a pared with the courier to keep tabs on its whereabouts. Express customers choose their carrier on the basis of SUCH A HIGH three criteria: price, speed and reliability .Of those, reliability is probably the most im¬ portant Prices tend lo level out Speed becomes less im¬ portant if one is choosing between, say, a 12-hour and a 24-hour delivery, but reliabil¬ SUCCESS RATE ity, particularly in the era of just-in-time manufacturing systems, is of the essence. So, increasingly, customers dispatching express packages want the reassurance of know¬ ing their consignments have FOR DELIVERING reached their destination on time. Their reputation as suppliers depends on it So, of course, does that of the couriers. “The real point”, says Mr Christopher Kaila-Bishop, the PARCELS commercial manager of the Post Office’s Parcelforce. “is to ensure that any carrier does what he promises to do. That 99-9% is a benefit to the customer.” If there is a delay — even Called by the ban TRAC gives constant updates express couriers cannot leg¬ Once the parcel has been vehicle, which makes the final islate against traffic jams on collected, bar code readers delivery, and the central com¬ OVERNIGHT: the M25 or fog-bound aircraft monitor its progress at key puter is regarded as particu¬ — tracking and tracing systems transfer points, such as rail¬ larly importanL usually enable the customer to way stations. Parcelforce, for example, is discover the reason for the One of the obvious advan¬ investing more than £2 mil¬ hold-up and what the new tages of an on-line system such lion in a system called delivery time will be. as this is that if the user Cabcora as a . back-up for its Under most systems the company gets a query from its time-guaranteed services. client telephones a central customer, the company to As soon as a driver has customer services office, which the parcel has been delivered his consignment, the where a dedicated computer dispatched, it can produce delivery details of time, holds all the information on answers straight away without consignment number, recipi¬ pick-up, transporting, delivery having to make more tele¬ ent’s name and exact delivery and delays. phone calls or search through location are entered into a One of the most advanced paperwork. hand-held terminal, which is tracking systems, TRAC (Ter¬ plugged into a cellular phone minals for Red Star Account dam Harris, the man¬ in the cab. The information is Over the past few weeks, since Elan came people. Every employee is trained to handle Elan only operates a next-day service, so Customers), allows the cus¬ aging director of a mic- transmitted immediately into under new ownership, the success rate for customers the same way parcels are handled. it really is the overnight specialist, delivering tomer to key directly into Red —A — rocompuier manufact¬ the Parcelforce computer. Star’s central computer from a urer, Opus Technology, in delivering parcels overnight has averaged With the greatest of care. from company to company ail over the UK, The sender of the parcel can personal computer in his own Redhill, Surrey, which uses then obtain confirmation of bub* On occasion this figure has been Whenever possible, business is conducted Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands by office. The system, introduced TRAC, has been able to use delivery by telephoning the last year and now used by the system to his company’s recorded as high as 99.9%. through a single point of contact who. like all Elans three specified times! company's enquiry centre. *•= H»l more than 30 large customers, advantage. “We have had a The Cabcom system is under That’s a staggering track record when you stal^ is always referred to on a first name basis Special requirements can also be arranged, including the BBC. IBM, Sie¬ number of occasions on which test at 16 depots and should be mens and BT. not only gives customers have complained to in use at the remaining 60 consider the thousands of parcels Elan carries And in the unlikely event of a parcel being from out of hours deliveries to placing Elan the customer direct access to ■t*—i-‘i us that the machines have not depots by next spring. the parcels computer, but also every day. mis-routed. the slightest hint of a problem will personnel and equipment on customers' got to them within the seven- Another of the market lead¬ cuts out a great deal of the day period from when they ers, Securicor Omega Express, All consignments are tended not by have the Customer Service Centre making every premises. Elan will even act as consultants to administration and paper¬ place their order," he says. has found there is a demand work. machine, but by hand. Elan believes there is no effort to call the customer with an accurate solu plan a company's entire distribution operation. “We actually have got it to from many customers for a First. it works out the best their warehouse, but in¬ comprehensive list of parcel substitute for the human touch. So parcels not tion before he’s even ihoughr he might need one. Overnight success is but a phone call away. route for the parcel, in a IX-’1-: •? ternally it has not reached delivery times and a record of combination of trains and them.” only arrive on time and at the right place, If it all sounds too good to be true, you can who signed for them. The vans that will get the parcel to Other express companies company is therefore using a Si/1--; they arrive in the same condition they were put Elan’s efficiency to the test right now. Just its destination most ef¬ * are now considering similar scanner that reads more than despatched. dial 0345 21 21 20 and a friendly voice will be ficiently. Then it prints a on-line systems for their big¬ 25,000 delivery manifests into manifest and a bar-coded V. gest customers.--- MillionsirillUUll) ofOf an optical storage and re¬ V. Elan s success is due to the quality of its helping you out within four seconds. label. Because the customer is pounds are being spent on trieval system overnight. Cus¬ making contact electronically ensuring that all available tomer companies have access infnmiotiAn ah __ ELBA/ with Red Star every time he information on consignments to that information by calling uses TRAC, the system does getsa-M.iuiai back to the central V.UIU-com- a special telephone number St- OVEAN/Gffr SUCCESS EVERY DAY- away with the need for purer as soon as possible. The and can get a hand copy by fax t43 hxui Htwc lo 5fO»liih Highlands jnd KLmdi 4ldcmsv arid Salt consignment notes. -Nc»l drLuTt nianl performance. nwmlo*c^ horn Jfc'S-VI lo 20 °l link between the courier’s the same day. D \Vt: I . \ ’ Bristol’s Why children must still be tested Testing and assessment are in the public domain. 1 am. sights set central to the learning How would Labour treat the key issue of pupil assessment? Jack Straw, the however, opposed to the dangerous process. Every time a league-table mentality of current teacher checks a piece of senior opposition spokesman on education, sets out the party’s policy in detail ministers. on £100m written work by a child arid offers By themselves, league tables of praise or a suggestion for improve¬ SAULY SOAMES BRISTOL University is crude test and examination results ment, testing and assessment are opening a £100 million may not only give a wholly fand-raising campaign so taking place. misleading indication of how good Few issues, however, have gen¬ tbat it can take a third or bad a school may be, but ihe\ erated more hear than light, with more students and double may also imply that the success of apparent adversaries often unwill¬ one school has to be built on the its research capacity. Dur¬ ing to agree on definitions, let alone ing the next ten years, the failure or relegation of another. medical school, the law on method. What we want to see is schools’ Let me set out some principles and engineering depart¬ effectiveness measured — or to use a that would inform Labour’s ap¬ fashionable market analogy, the ments. and student facil¬ proach to testing at a national level. ities wiU be expanded. Last “education value added”, which a year Bristol found it had a The argument about testing school creates. The paradox of this comes down to whether, for what deficit of more thaw £4 approach is that it requires purpose, and to what extent, the information on the attainment of minion. This year, how¬ testing should be subject to ex¬ ever. the Universities the children on entry to a school, ternal regulation by Parliament which can come only from rela¬ Funding Council was suf¬ and local authorities, or whether ficiently reassured to aw¬ tively objective test and assessment testing up to the age of 15 or so procedures. ard it the second largest should be left to the judgment of increase in funded places. Only with this kind of informa¬ individual teachers, schools and tion can we begin to solve one of £n spite of this, the univer¬ local education authorities. sity does not expect to the central problems of English I think that testing does have a education, the variation in the achieve its intended expan¬ role, from infants' school on. There sion without private funds. performance of otherwise similar is no serious argument about the schools. If we do not have this principle of testingat 16 —these are information, schools in inner-city Japanese tips known as public examinations. areas may be unfairly pilloried by a SCHOOLS keen on in¬ Comprehensive and consistent crude league table, while an under¬ records should be kept on the troducing Japanese studies performing school in a prosperous but daunted by such a attainment of all children, and of area may escape attention. difficult task were invited to a day-long seminar at Westminster School in Tew issues hove *Between now and centra] London last week. generated more heal the general election About 80 schools already run Japanese courses. than light. People are we shall continue Teachers and heads from unwilling to agree our dialogue with nearly SO schoools at¬ 'U? * tended the workshop called even on definitions' teachers and parents' Don’t be Scared of Japa¬ nese to listen to experts from Wales, where Japa¬ the progress they make from year We have not made final decis¬ nese factories have opened, to year. Parents and teachers need ions on how, within these prin¬ and from Sheffield and to know the level their children ciples. testing would operate under London Universities. have reached, and whether there a Labour government We shall use are strengths that should be the period between now and the developed, or weaknesses identi¬ general election to continue di¬ Art of gold fied and remedied. alogue with teachers’ and parents* TWO thousand years after Some argue that the assessment organisations. the Romans discovered that would form the bads of these If the government had done the gold in west Wales, vil¬ records could be done in an same, it might have avoided some lagers are bracing them¬ entirely informal way by class embarrassing reversals in this area. selves for a mini-Klondike. teachers alone. The proposals from the National In a Panorama report about Association of Head Teachers for The Dolaucothi gold mine Testing time: “There is no single truth about testing, no Holy Grail” Jack Straw says. '‘Politicians most recognise they are learning too” has become a history re¬ standard assessment tests (SatsX greater teacher assessment but with source centre for schools, one primary teacher encapsulated tise. Ministers have done them¬ to have meaning beyond political individual schools and teachers. from ethnic minorities and of girls, externally validated moderation, and has introduced a new this view by saying: “We know selves no favours in terms of rhetoric, the term must convey an However, the judgment about what is a serious problem. External mod¬ and with the facility to allow primary curriculum that what our children need. We have teacher confidence by constantly idea literally of levels of attain¬ level a child has reached is itself, in eration may belp to raise these exp¬ brighter children to move at their been trained to assess them in our implying that they do not trust ment Those levels must be laid almost every area, one requiring ectations. own pace, merit careful consid¬ college days, and we have done it teachers. down externally to the school and professional skill. It is necessary The second argument for exter¬ eration. every day of our lives since we have For me, however, the case for be comparable across the country. that these judgments should be nally regulated testing is so that There is no single truth about been teachers.” some externally regulated testing Some say that though the checked externally for the same there is a flow of data to measure testing, no Holy Grail. Politicians -• For this teacher, and many like rests not on any isSue of teacher curriculum and levels' of attain¬ reasons that assessed course work schools' effectiveness. Unques¬ have to recognise that they are her, the “Sats saga” of the past competence, but on the quite ment may be laid down nationally, in GCSE is moderated — to help to tionably. parents should be told all involved in a learning experience three years has seemed, with some separate questions of consistency, as they are now, the assessment of maintain a consistent standard. about their child’s progress, and as 100, and should have been taught justification, like an assault on her and of teadier expectation. children, within the national cur¬ Low expectation by teachers of a matter of open government, in¬ some humility by the past three professional integrity and exper- If “standards of education” are riculum, should be left entirely to pupils in inner-city schools, those formation about a school should be years’ experience. A housing storm EDUCATION links the history of Roman Britain with science, art and maths. The term-long project, which has been UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS devised by the National among the spires Trust, the University of Wales and Gwent College, gives an insight into Ro¬ Oxford’s spires and Students reply to all, and visiting professors are PROFESSOR OF man social, military and quads were more of a considered to be even less technological life. nightmare than a urgent cases. MEDICINE dream for Rose Johnstone. the visiting Bruno Paulson, a post¬ Still waiting After one week the visiting professor who graduate research student in Applications are invited from persons professor of biochemistry politics at Nuffield College, with wide research interests in any from McGill University, says: “There is a distinct limit INDEPENDENT schools University aspect of metSane and wide experience may have to wait until well Montreal, fled back to Canada complained about to the number of rooms vowing never to return. available and the competition School of Biological Sciences of teaching, at both undergraduate and into 1992 for better times, postgraduate level. Following the death says Noble Hanlon, finan¬ The problem was in the her ‘bordello’ room is enormous. If students had Departments of Botany and Zoology cial adviser to the indepen¬ accommodation. Professor to give up their rooms to of Professor R Wright and the retirment dent schools’ main organis¬ Johnstone had expected to fine.” There are 25 students in visiting professors who were CHAIR OF of Professor J B L Howell. An academic ations. He writes in Prep forgo some luxuries when she the house. “We have one there for only a few weeks unit in Medicine has been formed which School, the magazine for came to Britain to carry on her telephone, which nobody ever there would be carnage." ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY combines existing groups in respiratory parents and teachers, that research into the function of answers, four loos, three All the colleges are making Applications are invited for a Chair of Environmental Biology medicine, gastroenterology and to be held as ajoint appointment in the Departments of Botany schools must have a clear human blood but she bad not showers and two bathrooms,” enormous efforts to improve endocrinology. expected to be given a “red she says. “You might have to and extend their accommoda¬ and Zoology. The appointee will be expected to direct the plan to cut costs. Fees wfll development of the teaching programme in environmental continue to rise, he says, bordello”. wait a few minutes but there tion, says Sir Roger Bannister, Further particulars may be obtained Master of Pembroke College, biology and ecology and to conduct research in an appropriate but schools must look for She vented her disappoint¬ are not queues an round the field. It is expected tbat the Chair holder will take a normal from the Director of Personnel Services, other ways to raise income ment in Oxford Magazine, the bouse every morning.” since 1985. Pembroke has just share of undergraduate teaching, but will initially be free of University of Southampton, Higtifteld, If students want to use an opened a new building for 100 and cut costs. university’s organ for debating major administrative responsibilities. Candidates should be Southampton, 509 5NH, England, The schools point out academic and other issues: oven they have to go to the undergraduates and is putting willing to interact productively with existing research groups, telephone (0703) 593353 to whom ihat costs published in the “Was it too much to expect a main building across the road op more central accommoda¬ and the successful candidate will be expected to provide amrfpmii* leadership to the Environmental Biology Group applications 110 copies from UK 1990-1 guidebook of the WC shared by fewer than four as the house has only grills and tion for postgraduates in others? A shower shared by hotplates. Some of the stu¬ Brewer Street. Sir Roger says: which already exists in the SchooL The group consists of those applicants, 1 from overseas applicants) Independent Schools members of the School of Biological Sciences with teaching including a full curriculum vitae and Information Service and fewer than seven others? A dents are not too fastidious “Oxford is lucky in that we do about the two refrigerators but and/or research interests in ecology or environmental biology. details of three referees should be sent used in The Times report carpet on a floor without the have extensive accommoda¬ It is expected also that the work in Environmental Biology will Miss Williams says she has on school fee rises last grubby stains of years of use? tion. Most of our students can relate to other cognate disciplines throughout the University. by 2 December 1991. Please quote week referred to the pre¬ A few coathangers? A lamp to not come across any escaping live in college for at least two The field of scholarship of die appointee is not restricted, but it reference P/70/T. vious year. In comparison read by? The possibility to boil vegetables yet “I suppose of their years and can have is hoped that the Chair will bring field-based or theoretical single rooms unlike some Working for Equal Opportunities with current figures, they a cup of water? Clearly, yes! foreign students might balk at expertise to strengthen and extend current activities. other universities. But many indicated a rise well above None of the above were the spartan nature of it all but Salary will be negotiated within the Professorial Range, current I do not know anybody who of the colleges have 16th- University the average of 10.6 per cent available. minimum £28,364 pA in day schools and 9.6 per “The beautiful marble fire¬ century buildings that just Farther particulars may be obtained from the Staffing Office of Southampton cannot be compared to Amer¬ cent in boarding schools. place boasted an electric (Academic Appointments), University of Leicester. University Road. Leicester LEI 7RH. Del: (0533) 522439. UK candidates All rises were in line with beater and the marble bad ica or Canada. It is not that accumulated several decades easy to make substantial should submit sixteen copies of their application. (Overseas * the national figures. of grime. The main and only improvements when walls are candidate* may submit one copy). The University FAX number caning light was muted by a a metre thick.” is (0533)522200. New chief decorative shade—in deep red Mr Paulson spent his sum¬ Closing dote for applications: 16 December 1991. — which when lit provided a mer teaching American stu¬ SCHOLARSHIPS warm bordello-like glow but dents. He says: “The Ameri¬ not much light for reading.” can kids were horrified tbat Professor Johnstone ac¬ there were no showers but if cused Oxford of having you want to live in a tra¬ B AIGLON COLLEGE accommodation that failed to ditional building, you have to meet even 19th-century put up with the plumbing The Queen’s University of Belfast SSL SWITZERLAND standards. system. You do not come to Oxford students and facul¬ Oxford for the mod cons, you LECTURESHIP IN SCHOLARSHIPS ties disagree. Polly Williams Bannister: “lucky Oxford” come for the atmosphere.” SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY The British international (HMC1 boarding school in the has a wok, virgin olive oil, a Adam Roberts, Montague This post is available from I April 1992 or such other date as French Swiss Alps for 280 boys and girls inrites IS Woodhead, above, kettle and rugs scattered does not really like their own Burton professor of inter¬ may be arranged, to complement the teaching and research applications from candidates with excellem academic [jeen appointed the room. Most students prefer around her room. She is a national relations at Balliol interests of the department. credentials for scholarships to be awarded in September executive of the Nat- third-year undergraduate at St living in college. Although it College, says: “I am singularly Applicants must hold a good first degree or a postgraduate 1992 for Junior (11-12 years). Middle School (13-14 years) Cuniculum Council Hugh's and lives in college means you do not have a unfussy about my surround¬ qualification in social anthropology, and have fieldwork >rk alongside David accommodation on tire Ban¬ sitting room or proper kit¬ ings. 1 have stayed in the worst experience. A PhD or a PhD nearing completion, teaching and Sixth form entry. experience and/or a record of publication is desirable, n, a senior BP man- bury Road, a ten-minute cycle chen, it is cheaper, you do not student accommodation in One scholarship will be awarded 10 a boy or girl who as the new part-time have to worry about heating Czechoslovakia, where it was The University is committed 10 selection on merit, but as ride from the Bodleian library. well as meeting ihe school's academic requirements shows nan. Mr Woodhead, and we have a scout to impossible to get breakfast. there is an undcr-neprescniaiion of women in academic posts, “When I first saw my room particular promise in skiing. ner English teacher, it had a large brown patch on vacuum and empty the bins.” One just has to get accus¬ applications from women arc particularly welcome. d lecturer and edu- the celling and a bare light Rents in Oxford are among tomed to different places.” Salary scale Lecturer Grade A: £12.660 - £17.827 (minimum Far deiails write to: t officer, has been the bulb, and there was a really the highest in Britain and He feels there are other at age 27 Or over £ 14.369) or for suitably qualified applicants. chief executive since colleges feel pressed to find Grade B: £18.572 - £23.739 per annum, with eligibility for Head of Admissions dodgy stain on die carpet,” she more pressing issues for visit¬ USS. Assistance with relocation as appropriate. Pih Clarke, the edu- says. “Without all die trap¬ accommodation for as many ing such as what to Alglon College, Dept. E i secretary, decided to students as possible. One aca¬ Further particulars (please quote ref 91/T) are available from 1885 Chesieres-Vflhre. Switzerland pings it looked fairly grim but do with your spouse and the Personnel Officer. The Queen's University of Belfast. BT7 he two roles. once you have filled it up with demic says It is not un¬ securing a telephone. INN. Northern Ireland (telephone ICC32)245133 wxt 3044 or •Tet 4125-35 27 21 Fax: 41 25-35 28 11 all your clutter and disguised common for resident profes¬ FAX (0232) 324994). dosing date. 22 November 1991. Telex 456211 ACOLCH David Tytler the stains with drapes, it’s sors to be offered no room at ALICE THOMSON '''\ . _ '. ___ .. _l*’v .aSSw**wn »CT> M'_.jAft1 THE TIMES MOftDAY OCTOBER"21 1991. 071-481 1066 EDUCATION POSTS MARY HARE \Pil| t0vvi« 0F *««k GRAMMAR SCHOOL t •_ tmk. DEPUTY PRINCIPAL FOR THE DEAF SECONDARY TEACHERS OF Arlington Manor, Snehmore Cannon, NEWBURY, Berkshire, RG16 9BQ Telephone: 0635 248303 ENGLISH, SCIENCE & MATHS ||4 ■ Applications are invited by the Governors for the post of k (Corporate, Financial and . C**Dd a DR**1* Administrative Affairs) BURSAR Ti V' r'T—"""" "♦ :’A': to this coeducational boarding school. The person appointed will 'be the chief Principal Edmond Fivet.MA. FRCM. FRSA administrative officer on the staff of the l FfT U i M i ! ! Principal and the responsibilities will be in tbe and a challenge . following respects: From April 1992 the College will become an independent VSO has a number of urgent requests for Secondary institution, as a Higher Education Corporation. One result of fa) Finance (b) Personnel (non-teaching staff) Teachers in English, Maths and Science ip fill jobs in . * this change is that the College wish to appoint a Deputy (c) Estate Management Principal for Corporate, Financial and Administrative Affairs (d) Gerk to the Governors Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, with effect from January 1992. Salary: N.A.LG.O. Point 46-49. £23,910 - Malawi,The Caribbean, Papua New Guinea, £25,339. (Could be .more for an exceptionally Guyana and The Pacific. Salary £31.,902 - £34,917 qualified or experienced applicant). Duties include classroom teaching and a variety of . Further particulars are obtainable from the Details of this important and influential post can be obtained Principal. Dr. 1. Tucker. extra-curricular activities. from — Dosing date for applications: 2Sth October 1991. Positions are available for graduates as weflas newly trained and experienced teachers. VSO alsp welcomes Mrs Morag Redman applications from teachers who plan to take/have taken PA Principal early retirement. Welsh College of Music and Drama Cathays Park, Cardiff Heathficld School, Relevant teaching experience is an advantage — but Ascot, Tel:- Cardiff (0222) 342854 not essential. Berkshire. SL5 8BQ For more details please complete and return the CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS 15TH NOVEMBER, 1991. ' HEATHFIELD SCHOOL, coupon below to: Enquiries Unit, ASCOT Conditions of work: VSO, 317 Putney Bridge Road, seeks a ■ Pay based on local mas ■ EqupmentEqufoment and re- London SW152PN. BURSAR equkxnent grants provided and Clerk to the governing Council for this ■SSS’ISSS. Rent-free acconsnodstion Or telephone 081.780J331 flourishing independent girls’ boarding school u^provkted.wrtonjusuafy provided ■ National (24hr. ansaphone). Insurance and medical Candidates should have wide administrative and insurance paid ■ Language financial experience and be computer literate; the trainfog provided where liffilPK past is resident, an unfurnished house being necessary ■ Return flight paid J 0k M provided in the school grounds. ■ Posts (always approved by our field staff) are for a Further details may be obtained from the Clerk to minimum of two years the Council at foe school to whom application forms should be returned before 17 November. VSO is working in COLLEGES Angutta Antigua/Barbuda Bangladesh Befize Bhutan Canboda China Dominica The Council of this fad tarief Colleges known worW-wlde for its training Egypt Fiji The Gambia courses for aduHs in a ^professional, educational, religious and Ghana Granada Guinea- It’s a working experience. community service, is i jhg to appoints Bissau Guyana Indonesia PH*—— Selwyn College, Kenya Kmbati Laos Liberia BUSINESS MANAGER Malawi Malaysia Makfves Cambridge, Mongolia Montserrat Salary in the range £23,000 - £26,000 intends to appoint a priest in the Church of Namixa Nepal Kgeria England as Fellow and Chaplain, primarily to Pakistan Papua New Guinea This is a new senior post accountable to the President, and working alongside Telephor the Heads of the teaching Departments. exercise a pastoral ministry but with PhSppvies SaoTome St. Kitts/Nevis St Lucia The assets of the Colleges are their staff and students, the buSdlngs on the opportunity for teaching and scholarship, St Vincent/Grenadines Siena campus and funds held by the Trustees. The mafri task is to maxjmba use and income from these assets within the poOcy guidelines of the Council. The Job from or before October 1991 It is anticipated Leone Solomon islands Sri holder wil be responses for and have proven skills in Finance, Marketing and that the person appointed will be under 35. Lanka Tanzania Thailand Personnel and be a person of energy and vision able to motivate people m Tonga Turks & Caicos TLivaiu effective teamwork. Applications, with curriculum vitae and the Uganda Vanuatu Vietnam Applications are invited from women or men with relevant experience and names of two or three referees (who should be Zambia Zimbabwe sympathy with the College's aims. They should be made by letter enclosing a asked to write directly to The Master), should Charity NO.313757 fuB C.V., by November 11th to Martin Conway, President, Sefly Oak CoHsgas, Birmteghani B29 6LQ, telephone: 021472 4231, from whom further details are reach The Master, Selwyn College, available. 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WHICH CAREER ! developing the philosophy of the department WHICH DEGREE? SUITS BEST? i and building on,^ current strengths. WHICH CAREER? | At present there aft six full-time teachers. . Close links are being forged with the Design Parents and students seeking personal, expert adnee mij contact us at: MBA I Technology department and the new Head of h snotvnn suomox n ta- on 734 flisi rut on THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 RK Education 33 Money job A lingering race issue resurfaces goes to the Though the right to a white school has legal backing, few are expected to demand it FRIDAY'S High Court judgment race is back on the educational confirming the right of parents to agenda. Mr Justice Macpherson's persuader demand places for their children in statement that parental choice predominantly white schools rep¬ must be “supreme" even if racism resented a controversy that has is behind a transfer demand, has Universities and polytechnics are to be been waiting to resurface, John revived the spectre of a flight from O’Leary writes. multi-racial schools. answerable to one official. John O’Leary The conflict between race rela¬ There is no way of telling how tions legislation and the parental great a port race plays in the initial meets the man in charge. Sir Ron Dealing rights enshrined in the Education selection of schools, but relatively Reform Act was a source of few parents ask for their children 1 concern in multiracial schools 10 be moved, even when they are new era in higher edu¬ married with two adult daughters, from the outset. dissatisfied with the outcome. Feu- cation begins next week he remains a man of compar¬ Kenneth Baker, who piloted the in education expect that to change when the government atively modest tastes, dabbling in act through Parliament as edu¬ as a result of the Geveland case. A announces its plans to photography and gardening. A cation secretary, conceded four Nigel de Gnichy, the general put universities and polytechnics preference for persuasion over years ago that it could lead to secretary of the National .Associ¬ under one funding council. Sir confrontation, which made him a segregated schools in some areas. ation of Schoolmasters and Union Ron Deanng, at present chairman popular Post Office chairman, has Mr Baker was speaking in the of Women Teachers, says he does of the Polytechnics and Colleges carried over into the educational midst of a dispute that not expect more than Funding Council, will add the phase of his career. made headlines for a few similar cases. “It universities to his brief and will Contemplating his role in the more than a year, as 22 7 think we does make educa¬ almost certainly oversee the dev¬ coundTs high-technology offices families refused to tional planning that elopment of both sets of institu¬ on the Bristol Polytechnic cam¬ send their children to tamper with much more difficult." tions on a council that will be pus, Sir Ron is eager not to alarm a school in Dewsbury, he says. “Some regarded as an embryonic higher a university community that is on West Yorkshire, parental schools could be faced education ministry. the defensive in its relations with where 85 per cent of choice at with having to take At present, the education central authorities. He is touring the pupils were Asian. large classes if there department sets budgets and in¬ campuses, familiarising himself Qasses were arranged our peril are moves on racial dicates national priorities but may with new territory, and calming in a room above a pub mmmmmmmm gTOUndS, but 1 WOUld not interfere in grants made to fears of a managerial revolution. when the local au¬ hope tbat it will not be institutions by the university or His guiding principles, which he Answering needs on the campus: “We should respond to what students want," Sir Ron Dealing says thority refused to offer places at too common.” David Hart, the polytechnic funding councils. likes to describe as prejudices, the predominantly white school of general secretary of the National Under the system to be announced include a belief that in a big have been making,” he says. management His credentials there obvious clashes with ministers, the parents' choice. Association of Head Teachers, by Kenneth Clarke, the education organisation, change cannot be “Sometimes 1 have felt that if include a Sloan fellowship at the who have been happy to use the Thai dispute, too. went all the says: “1 think that parents can be secretary, an unprecedented con¬ introduced quickly. some bits of British industry and London Business School, a spell at expansionist polytechnics to put way to the High Court before the trusted to exercise their choice the smaller centration of power will be in Sir Sir Ron foresees the gradual commerce had been as innovative the Harvard Business School and pressure on the universities. Sir Kirklees authority backed down after careful thought and for very Ron's hands when he is made creation of regional university and proactive, they would have a siring of directorships. Ron admits to few misgivings and acceded to the parents' wishes. good reasons. They realise that chairman of the Universities networks, for example, as research done a good deal better." Although his career has been in about government policy, even Perhaps the real surprise is that it there are attendant dangers to a Funding Council next month. funds are distributed more selec¬ However, he does not take the nationalised industry or the public though he understands the strains has taken three years for the child's education in switching ilors can still Leaving school at 16 to work as tively. Centres of excellence would fashionable view of the univer¬ services, some leading private that lower binding will bring. principle 10 be tested in law. schools. 1 think we tamper with a clerk in a labour exchange in be developed in the conurbations sities as an unresponsive black companies have valued his exper¬ He does not accept that high .As in the Dewsbury case, the parental choice at our peril." Hull is an unconventional pedi¬ and regions to ensure that none hole for taxpayers* money. He was tise. Whitbread, Prudential and quality means high cost. He Carney family insisted last week The Commission for Racial gree for the post, so it is a mark of lacked the research base to interact to have chaired Durham Univer¬ British Coal are among the boards believes new leaching technology that they had not acted out of Equality, which had brought the cr the goods his success that his appointment with industry. sity council until his appointment he has left as his higher education and better use of time and space racism in askiog to move five year- case challenging the education has been welcomed on most He is likely to steer universities created a clash of interests, and be commitment has increased. will help higher education to cope old Katricc from a Middlesbrough authority's decision to move the ' '• 31- campuses. Although university towards the regime that has ex¬ has maintained contact with Hull with further growth. “I do not primary school, where 60 per cent child, is less sanguine, but has yet staff worry about the changes in isted in the polytechnics for three University, where he took his own That began with the Coun¬ underestimate the difficulties, nor of the pupils were Asian, to to decide whether to appeal to the funding over which he has pre¬ years, but there will be a transition degree as a mature student cil for National Academic what has been achieved,” he says, another that was 98 per cent white. House of Lords. A £100.000 bill sided in the polytechnics, most period Proposals for a common He aims 10 encourage greater Awards, which be chaired “but perhaps the reason things are Their concern was for her English. for costs and a judgment that detect a clearer sense of direction funding system are expected by diversity within higher education, after leaving the chair¬ better than SO years ago is that we Jenny Carney, whose husband appears to leave little hope for a than their own council has shown. next spring, but some aspects of cutting out the stereotypes and manship of the Post Office in have all found ways of doing the Stephen is half African, was successful action will weigh Sir Ron, slightly built and self- present practice may be left in possibly offering universities more 1987. He had to look up what the same things more effectively.” alarmed to hear her daughter against persevering, but the issue effacing. remains a little known place temporarily. Polytechnics flexible funding to allow them to initials CNAA stood for when be Change will follow student de¬ singing a nursery rhyme in Hindi. will not be allowed to die. public figure. Those who have and colleges may continue to concentrate on their strengths. was approached but staff at the mand as far as possible, within a In a leuer to the Geveland The Association of Metropoli¬ worked with him testify to a sharp receive extra money for depart¬ Another of his “prejudices” is council remember the skill with framework set by ministers. “I do education authority she said she tan Authorities is already commit¬ mind and a prodigious work rate. ments with high-quality ratings, that the most effective form of which he cut the bureaucracy not claim the right to interpret the believed Abingdon primary was a ted to seeking a change in the law He had to be dissuaded from for example, although there are no management is to deliver a clear while defending the organisation national interest,” Sir Ron says. good school but did not think it to allow its members to reject coming to work at the funding means for doing the same for brief and stand well back. from government critics. “Government in Parliament has was right that her daughter should transfer requests that are racially council on Boxing Day. universities. As one who insists that he is no Different qualities were required that role, and local and regional come home singing in an Indian motivated. The education depart¬ A childhood in straitened Sir Ron is a genuine enthusiast intellectual. Sir Ron will not at the Polytechnics and Colleges interests may also be strong. We language. “I just don't want her to ment. which has noted with circumstances as a wartime evao for the polytechnics. “In four lecture universities or polytechnics Funding Council, which had to should respond to what students learn this language," she wrote. satisfaction that its view of the law uee in a miners* home has had a years. I have been mightily im¬ on academic matters, but he sees guide 100 newly independent in¬ want, not what institutions think Whatever the Carneys' motives, has been supported in court, will lasting influence. At 61 and pressed with the contribution they scope for improvements in stitutions. 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RECEPTIONIST TO UQ RUGBY LEAGUE SNOOKER Authority Steadman inspires missing sharp Castleford in Davis’s By Philip Yates STEVE Davit, whose last tri¬ to Yorkshire Cup umph In a worid-raiUdng tour¬ nament came at the 1989 revelling in his positional to be enough- During one Rothmans grand prix. gave no Bradford Northern.6 switch from stand-off half, second-half spell, Bradford at¬ indication that his barren run is Castleford.28 was in irresistible form. tacked the Castleford line for □earing in end with a staccato performance in the fifth round Steadman put the holders of nearly 10 minutes, but failed By Keith Macklin of this year's event at the the trophy in front at 4-2 with to breach the defence. Castle¬ Hexagon Theatre, Reading, a spectacular 60-metre solo ford came away from this yesterday. PETER Fox now knows the try, later scored a second, and abortive Northern onslaught, A relatively comfortable 5-1 extent of the problems he will completed a record 16 points and Smith sold a dummy to victory over Jim Chambers, the inherit on his return to OdsaL in this final with four goals. coast over an unattended line. world No. 62, in which- be Fox, who becomes Bradford's Castleford's speed and Bradford had a few brief compiled breaks ;of 61, .46, 41 tpfim manager on October 27, sharpness exposed Northern first-half minutes of hope and 36, disguised a level of vulnerabiliiy in Davis's game was at Elland Road yesterday and only one Bradford player, when they levelled the scores the elusive full back, Simpson, not- present when he white¬ charged with the belief that at 6-6 with a superb try, their washed Dean Reynolds 10-0 in Northern’s powerful pack seemed capable of breaking only moment of inspiration. the final two years ago. would provide a solid plat¬ tackles and launching attacks. When a Castleford attack Chambers, a snooker and form for an unexpected York¬ In the forwards, Fairbank, broke down, the elusive Simp¬ tenpin bowling dub manager, shire Cup final success. captain for the day, Hobbs son set off on a weaving run. from Walsall, committed a In the event, the Northern and Hamer worked like Tro¬ Medley and Shelfoni carried it suing of errors in the first three forwards were outflanked and jans and could not be fruited on, and Shclford’s beautifully- frames and Davis was able to outpaced by Castleford, whose for determination and spirit, timed pass round the back of a establish a flattering 3-0 lead by full back, Graham Steadman, but hard work was never going defender, sent Powell on a ran playing only marginally better to the corner. However, with the last A ran of 48, Chambers's only significant contribution, ap¬ move before half time Black- peared to have secured the P W D L F A Pts more, of Castleford, sent Ford JOHN SMITHS YORKSHIRE CUP; Final: Outran_ 7 4 2 1 181 115 10 fourth frame, until he missed BradtoKl 6. Casttaford 26. CarSala- 7 4 1 2 150 112 9 racing under the posts, and the green into a middle pocket. GREENALLS LANCASHIRE CUP: Ftnah Sheffield- 6 4 1 1 140 110 9 Steadman iim^ thy goal Over and out: Gerg Olson, the Atlanta catcher, is upended while running out Dan Gladden, of Minnesota Davis cleared to pink, but an Rochdale 14. Si Helens 34. Leigh- 7 4 0 3 135 127 8 appalling positional shot from STONES BITTER CHAMPIONSHIP: Flrat Rochdale__ 6 3 1 2 194 109 7 In the second half, London Ctua_ 7 3 0 4 122 145 6 pink to black left him too much (flvtatoiK Swfmon 14, Wigan 26, WakefiaJd Wcrttagton_ 7 2 1 4 101 157 5 Castleford scored tries 22, Leeds 2t>. Waniiigton 0. Castfefoid 0: RyedaJa YoA— 7 0 07 88 256 0 through Smith, Steadman to do. With the cue ball tucked Widnee 34. FfeaVwsione 20. Does not Twins pitchers shut out the Braves awkwardly under the side cush¬ toduto: HaWax * HuR KR. THIRD DIVISION: Bailey 28, Huddersfield again and Battye, a forward ion, he missed the black from its 12 Bran** 52. Charley O. Keighley 6, first baseman flied harmlessly to P W □ L F A Pts Barrow 12; Scartxxoudi Pirates 36. Notting¬ whose career once seemed Minneapolis — Jack Morris of55,108 at the Meirodome into homer over the fence in left gave spoL Widnsa_ 7 B 0 1 172 104 12 ham CHy 10: Trafford Borough 13. Dewsbury over with a knee injury. provided the pitching and Greg a frenzy. Moms went seven Minnesota a 4-0 lead. centre. Aguilera posted 42 saves SlHsiera.. 6 5 0 1 135 94 10 Chambers eventually potted 48; Whitehaven 12, Doncaater 16. innings for the win and Rick Atlanta, broke through against in the regular season and three Leeds.. 7 4 0 3 170 100 8 Gagne and Kent Hrbek supplied it, and briefly threatened to Wigan.. 6 4 0 2 166 97 S P W D L F A Pts SCORERS: Cwsttefont Trte* Stndnan the punch on Saturday night as Aguilera, the reliever, finished Morris in the sixth, Ron Gant in the play-offs against Toronto. Waningion.. 0 4 0 2 134 109 B apply further pressure when he Devnbury- 7 8 0 1 252 84 12 P). Fold. Smith, Battye. OooIk Steadman up for the save. lining a two-out single to score The Braves, the object of a WakfiMd.. 7 4 0 3 113 131 8 Doncaster_ 7 5 1 1 210 69 11 W.’Bradford Northern: Try: Poim* Goat the Minnesota Twins beat the led 43-10 in the fifth. However, pre-game protest led by the CastWord_ B 3 0 3 120 110 B Battay_ 7 6 1 1 17B 74 11 Hobos. Atlanta Braves 5-2 in the open¬ Minnesota collected nine hits Jeff Treadway, but Hrbek he missed a Mack when poised HulKR- 6 3 0 3 88 B2 B Brarmey_ 7 5 0 2 212 74 10 American Indian Movement Feethorstone. _ 7 3 0 4 150 208 8 Scarborough_ 7 5 0 2 188 100 10 BRADFORD NORTHERN: R Stamm; □ ing game of baseball's best-of- off four Atlanta pitchers. Charlie neutralised the Braves' run next for 2-3 and Davis, showing his Salford- 6 2 0 4 122 132 4 Hkrotat_ 8 5 0 1 172 123 10 Pmwl. D Stated. 8 McGowan. Tlfoiteit seven World Series. Lcibrandt, the National League time up when he smashed a shot against Atlanta's use of Indian first glimpse of the authority of Hun- 6 2 0 4 106 131 4 Huddersfield_ 7 5 0 2 149 109 10 Gagne scored a three-run champions' starter, was charged to the upper deck in right-centre. names and symbols, will return HaMax. S 2 0 3 96 122 4 Barrow- 7 4 0 3 149 100 8 old, constructed a 4] clearance Bradfoid. 6 1 0 5 110 164 2 Katahtoy- 7 2 2 3 132 120 6 home run in the fifth inning, with the defeat, giving up four Atlanta mounted one Iasi to the friendlier confines of to pink to lead 4-1. Swtnton_... 7 1 0 6 89 179 2 Whitehaven .. 7 2 0 5 144 134 4 CASTLEFORD: O Steadman: 1 SI John EH*. and Hrbek put another run on runs in four innings. threat in the eighth. Bream laced Allan la-FuIion County Stadium Ofhis fell from grace since the Htahfletd_Htahfield_ 86 2 0 4 ill 142 4 G Bmdtey. R Bteekmoro, D Nafeon: T Smith, for the third game of ihe series TraffordBor._ 7 0 the board with a huge, 440-foot With Scon Lei us on first base Aguilera as the potential lying trouncing of Reynolds, Davis SECOND DIVISION: Cert* 10. OUam Tntfford Bor...... 7 0 0 7 82 2S3 0 M Fart; D Sampson. G Southernwood, K tomorrow. (Renter) 30; Latah 10. WtaUngion 5: London Cmsad- Chortey- 7 0 0 7 60 338 0 England, N Battye, S Irwin, T Nfcau. hit in the sixth to send the crowd and Hrbek on third. Gagne's run, but the long-hall hitting said: “One moment you’re the m 20. Ryedale York 10. Nottingham-Nottingham..._ 7 0 0 7 43 356 0 Rotate J Hoidworth (Kjppn) best thing since sliced bread, the next moment you're the bread and everybody’s taking a slice. St Helens lift Lancashire Cup It’s my job to stop people passing the plate around.'' He ROCHDALE Hornets threat¬ was the dismissal of Bishop, the sent in Kuiti to bring Rochdale frees Alain Robidoux, the ened to spring a surprise in the St Helens half back, for stamp¬ back into the game. French Canadian, in the last 16- Lancashire Cup final at ing on an opponent seconds But Mann’s second touch¬ Steve James, the world No. 7, Warrington yesterday when after the final hooter. down clinched ft for a St Helens whose fitness regime of swim¬ they led 10-8 after 47 minutes Duane and Abram scored the side team who were given a ming and regular visits to the (Keith Macklin writes). fixst-half tries for Hornets, much harder fight than anyone gymnasium seems to be produc¬ But St Helens eventually Whitfield kidring a goal, against could have envisaged. tive, made breaks of 46, 66, 65 raised their game and took full St Helens tries by Bishop and Widnes stay on top of the first and 64 during a 5-2 fifth-round advantage of Rochdale errors to Veivers. division, Devereux getting three win over Jason Prince, ofNorth- win 24-14, In the second half; St Helens tries against Feathers tone em Irdland, a second-season Nevertheless, Hornets were forged in front with another try Rovers, and Wigan’s injury-hit professional. given a great ovation by both from Veivers and the first of two side came from 8-0 down to win sets of supporters at the end of a tries by the New Zealand for¬ at Swfnton. RESULTS: HBh round (Eng untow stated): SFronctecoCSA) MDRoynakte,&2;N Band match which was much more ward, Mann. Maraden, who was □ Jonathan Davies has agreed bt 8 Morgan, 54; S Hendry {Soot} bt □ fiercely contested than had been man of the tnaigh de¬ to sign a new three-year contract Harold. 50-A flobfctaux (pm) bt P Daubney. anticipated. The only blade spot spite being on the losing side. with Widnes. Si; S Davie btJ Chamber* 5-1; S James bt J Prince (N Ire). 5Z. ■ Law Report October 21 1991 European Law Report Luxembourg; P Exception cannot be extended Copyright instrument of abuse Mercury Publicity Ltd v Wolf¬ dispute arising out of the opera¬ payment was to be made in lished at the least, that he had a Radio Tdefis Eireann ▼ Com¬ 28. 1986 of an issue of the they wished to follow and consequent adaptation to the gang Loerke GmbH tions of a branch, agency or London, or whether the place good arguable case on which to mission of the European Magill TV Guide containing all arrange any leisure activities for requirements of the market, Before Lord Justice Purchas, other establishment, in the for the performance of the base the following propositions: Communities, supported by the weekly listings for all the the week accordingly. could impede the attainment of courts for the place where the Lord Justice Stocker and Lord. obligation was Germany 1 That the relationship between television channels available in ITP, BBC and RTE enjoyed, the public service objective for branch, agency or other Magill TV Guide Ltd, Justice Russell because German law was the Mercury and Loerke established Ireland an Irish Court, in re¬ as a consequence of their copy¬ which the applicant referred, in establishment is situated;..." intervener [Judgment October 16] proper law of the contract in by the contract was an indepen¬ sponse to an application from right in their programme list¬ particular the promotion of Mr Michael Burton, QC and which case under that law the Cast T-69/89 RTE, the BBC and ITP had ings, a monopoly over the programmes with a high cultural The exceptional rule in Roger dent relationship wholly dif¬ Mr Raymond Cox for Mercury, creditor must seek out the British Broadcasting Corpora¬ issued an interim injunction publication of their weekly list¬ content, of minority appeal or in Irene! v Helmut Schwab ([1982] ferent from that of employer Mr Nicholas Green for Loerke. debtor, or alternatively because tion v Same, supported by restraining Magill from publish¬ ings of their own programmes Irish. ECR L891), whereby the defen¬ and employee in the Ivend the terms of the contract sense. Same, intervener ing weekly listings for those and dearly held a dominant On the contrary, the reserva¬ dant had to be sued in the place LORD JUSTICE PURCHAS amounted to employment organisations’ programmes. position both on the market 2 Thai the principle in the Irene! Case T-70/89 tion of publication of informa¬ where the characteristic obliga¬ said that Mercury, exclusive within the Irene! exception and Following a complaint by represented by their weekly tion of the contract was to be worldwide authorised repre¬ case in Community law should Independent Television tion on weekly programmes the general charterisiic involved be restricted, and was restricted Publication Ltd v Same, sop- Magfl] the Commission decided a®1, °nfo* :“a*** seemed to be justified only on performed or where he had his sentatives of the French news¬ performance in Germany rather to those cases of a personal to initiate a proceeding, at the magazines in which they were commercial grounds and there¬ habitual residence, could not be paper Le Figaro and its than England. ported by Same, intervener conclusion of which on Decem¬ published. nature in the relationship of fore in no way contributed to the extended to cover relationships magazine, entered into a con¬ Case T-76/89 ber 21, 1988 ft adopted the The geographical market other than those of employer tract in London on June 20, Mercury having exercised master and servant where in¬ performance of the cultural. Before A. Saggio, President of disputed dedsion. reprreented by Ireland and soda! and educational tasks and employee. 1984, granting Loerke the sole their option to found jurisdic¬ equality of bargaining power tion upon article 5(1) did not might well become critical, and the Second Chamber and Judges In that decision the Com¬ Northern Ireland, that was to assign^ to RTE. The Court of Appeal so held advertising agency in Germany. say by the territory of one in a reserved judgment allowing Mercury submitted that Mr have to establish finally or in which to allow a jurisdiction C Yeraris, C P. Brief, D. mission found that the policies Regolation No 17 and foe Berne Barrington and J. Biaacaidli and practices of the broadcast¬ member state and a pan of that an appeal from an order of Mr Justice Hidden had fallen into absolutely that the place for the in a court other than the place in Convention ing organisations, at the ma¬ in another member state, was Justice Hidden, on February 26, error in bis treatment of the performance of the obligation to which the main execution of the [Judgment July 10] The power conferred upon the terial time, in relation to0 undeniably a substantial part of _ ‘ comerrea upon me 1490. dismissing an action by contract as being one subject to pay them was in London but work was to take place, might ■ Although the exercise of the publication of their advancee the common market. Common by art.de 3 of a special rule relating to con¬ only that there was a good well deprive the employee or Mercury Publicity Ltd, a com¬ exclusive right to reproduce a weekly listings for televisionn While ft was plain that the R3^oaN/>}L- not in itself an abuse, that did 2F incorporated in Germany, on tracts of employment the rule in the details of each individual s not apply when, in the light of *^9- article 5(1) that the plaintiffbad wider than contracts of employ¬ his benefit That rationale was ments of article 86 in so fer as the ground that the court had no case, it was apparent that that they prevented the publicationi the details of each individual P®7)10 re9*Vire .undcr‘ jurisdiction. the option of suing in the courts ment in the master and servant of course, wholly absent from right was exercised in such ways and sale of comprehensivee case, it was apparent that that con“rned bring. ™ Article 5 of the Convention for the place for the perfor¬ sense and extended to embrace the present case. and circumstances as in fret to weekly television guides in Ire¬ on Jurisdiction and the Enforce¬ mance of the obligation, for contracts of employment of a - right was exercised in such ways ^nK^i?plied' 3 That taking the context and pursue an aim manifestly con¬ land and Northern Ireland. and circumstances as in fret to ®ccor^hg to established case- ment of Judgments in Civil and example, payment, did not commercial agent, not¬ purpose of the contract and its trary to the objectives of article In the decision the Com¬. pursue an aim manifestly con- **w: a, lo , ott*cr such Commercial Matters signed at apply but that in such cases the withstanding that the latter was execution into account the law 86 of the EEC Treaty. mission stated that ITP, the. trary to article 86. undertakings to take or refrain Brussels on September 27, 1968 place where the defendant had an incorporated entity. His Lordship considered the most closely connected with the Such conduct dearly went BBC and RTE used copyright ass Ln that event, the copyright "P™ mkingcertain action with a and imported into United King¬ to be sued was the place where performance of the contract was frets of Irene!: Hassan Shenevai beyond what was necessary to an instrument of abuse in ai was no longer exercised m a view.to hna^a& mfrrnge- dom law by section 2 of the Civil the party was to perform the English law. v Klaus Kreishcher Q1987] 3 fulfil the essentia] function of manner which fell outside the. manner which corresponded to mcnl 10 M end* Jurisdiction and Judgments Act characteristic obligation of the His Lordship would allow the CMLR 782) and Six Consiruc¬ the copyright as permitted in scope of the specific matter off its essential function, within the The requirement that the 19S2. provides: “A person contract or where he had his appeal and order that the anion habitual residence. tions v Paul Humbert ([1989] Community law. that intellectual property right. meaning of article 36, which was applicants supply third parties domiciled in a contracting state could proceed. to protect the moral rights in the constituted the _ only means of The central issue on the ECR 34). The Court of First Instance of The dedsion further provided may. in another contracting work and ensure a reward for ending that infringement, state, be sued: (I) in matters appeal was whether the place for After giving careful consid¬ Lord Justice Stocker and Lord the European Communities that ITP, the BBC and RTE relating to a contract, in the performance of the obligation eration to the submissions of Justice Russell agreed. (Second Chamber) so held in were to supply, subject to cer¬ the creative effort, while respect- The applicants maintained courts for the place of perfor¬ within the meaning of article counsel his Lordship had come Solicitors: Osborne Clarke, rejecting applications for the tain conditions, each other and mg the aims of m particular, that, even if article 3 of Regula- mance of the obligation in 5(1) was in London since under firmly to the conclusion that Bristol; Eking Manning, annulment of Commission De¬ third parties on request and on a arude 86. tion No_ 17 authorised the question: ... (5) as regards a English law the place for the counsel for Mercury had estab¬ Nottingham. cision 89/205/EEC of December non-discriminatory basis, with Conduct of that type dearly Commission to prescribe the 21,1988 relating to proceedings their individual advance weekly went beyond what was nec- granting of compulsory licences, under article 86 (QJ 1989 No programme listings and to per¬ cssary to fulfil the essential such a solution was in com pat- L78 p43). mit reproduction of those list¬ function of the copyright as *ble wfth the Berne Convention, Reporting ban was Most homes in Ireland and ings by such parties. permitted Ln Community law. They considered that, since all DSS decision between 30 and 40 per cent of In its judgment the Court of The applicants had not only the member Slates of the homes in Northern Ireland First Instance of the European eliminated a competing under- Community were parties to the could receive at least six tele¬ Communities (Second Cham¬ taking from the market for Berne Convention, that not justified binds council vision channels: RTE 1 and 2, ber) held as follows: television guides but had also Convention must be regarded as BBC 1 and 2, ffV and Channel Breach of article 86 exduded any potential com- forming pan of Community law Regina t Dover Justices, Ex before the determination of the Regina t Pen with District the Queen's Bench Division on proceedings and second, pre¬ October 11 in granting an 4. No comprehensive weekly ITP had submitted that the petition from that market thus reflecting the relevant prin- parte Dover District Council Council, Ex parte Menear in effect maintaining the ciples thereof. vented any publicity at any time application by Mis Marjorie television guide was available relevant products were TV Before Lord Justice Neill and of charges of which he was When the Department of Social Menear for judicial review of a on the market in Ireland or guides in general while the BBC partitioning of the markets The Court of Justice had held Mr Justice McCullough acquitted. Security had determined that an decision of the Pen with District Northern Ireland. considered that the products to represented by Ireland and that agreements concluded prior [Judgment October 14] His Lordship could not imag¬ elderly couple were living to¬ Council housing benefit review RTE published the weekly be taken Into consideration in Northern Ireland respectively, to the entry into force of the ine any circumstances in which gether for mutual support and board. television magazine, the RTE assessing its position in the The conduct in question was Treaty might not be relied upon Financial damage or damage to not cohabiting and that the therefore undeniably capable of in relation® between member reputation or goodwill which there could be justifiable restric¬ HIS LORDSHIP said that it Guide. BBC published the market, for the purposes of tions on reporting charges of woman was therefore entitled to was true that such a conclusion Radio Times and FTP, the TV article 86. were not its weekly affecting trade between member states in order to justify res trie- resulted from the institution of receive income support, she states. court proceedings concerning a which a person had been meant that a local authority was Times, none of which contained listings and the television guides uons on Community trade. acquitted. automatically fulfilled the in¬ fettered by the DSS decision on information on programmes but broadcasting services. dear evidence of the appre- In incra-Comm unity rela- person's business did not come requirement, under sec¬ amount to the special circum¬ There was greater force in the income support However, there broadcast by channels other RTE maintained that the riable effect which the policy at tions, therefore, the provisions submission that publicity before tion 20(7XcXi) of the Social was a sophisticated procedure than those of publishing body. geographical market repre¬ issue had on potential trade of the Berne Convention, rati- stances envisaged as entitling Security Act 1986, for receiving ihe court to restrict or prevent the matter had been folly venti¬ for determining eligibility for The applicants provided duly sented by Ireland and Northern flows between Ireland and the fied by Ireland and the United lated and the defendant had had housing benefit. The council United Kingdom might be Kingdom before January 1, press reporting. income support, housing benefit and periodica] newspapers with Ireland did not constitute a a chance to develop his case could not conclude that die was was heavily subsidised by the their programme schedules free substantial part of the common found in the specific demand for 1973, coukl not affect the pro- The Queen's Bench Di¬ would be damaging to his cohabiting and not entitled to DSS and it would be a curious on request, accompanied by a market within article 86. a general television magazine visions of the Treaty. visional Court so held when position but the instant frets did receive housing benefit. result if the same person was not licence for which no fee was Essentially, the applicants had Mjeeialising in the programmes Member states might not set granting the application of Do¬ not begin to justify- the order Mr Justice Kennedy so held in entitled to both benefits. charged setting out the terms on claimed that they were merely of a nngle television channel in aside the rules arising out of the ver District Council for judicial made or to discharge the prin¬ which that information might protecting the specific subject- the absence ora comprehensive Treaty by concluding an inter- review of the order of Dover ciple that only in exceptional be reproduced. Daily news¬ matter of their copyright in their Klevision guide. national agreement or conven- Justices made at the request of1 circumstances would hearings papers could thus publish die own programme listings, which Breach of article 90(2) Xion. If they wished to do so they Mr Eddie Wong, a restaurant not be in public with the press Benefit of doubt daily listings or. if the following could not constitute an abuse RTE had claimed that by had to use the procedure pro¬ owner, preventing Ihe reporting free to report. Triolacan Ltd v Medway day was a public holiday, list¬ within article 86. virtue of its position as an vided for in article 236. of court proceedings brought by so held on October 15 when There was no foundation in ings for two days. Weekly and RTE also considered that the undertaking entrusted with the it followed that the Berne the council environmental Power Drives Ltd and Another allowing the appeal of Triolacan law for the order made but his Ltd against the dismissal by Sunday newspapers were also contested conduct was not liable operation of services of general Convention might not be relied health officer in relation to Mr In approaching an application Lordship said he was not Judge Lownie in Medway permitted to publish highlights to have an appreciable effect on economic interest within the upon in limitation of the powers Wong's premises except allega¬ to dismiss an action on the basts thereby ruling that an order County Court on December 21, of the following week's tele¬ trade between the member meaning of article 90(2) of the conferred on the Community by tions which were in due course could not be made restraining of non-compliance with an vision programmes. sums if the sales of the RTE Treaty, article 86 might not be the Treaty for the impiementa- order for specific discovery, a 1990 of its appeal from the order proven. reporting of evidence which was The publisher, Magill TV Guide in another member state apptied to ft since to do so would lion of the competition rules court could give the benefit of of Mr Registrar Munro who. on Mr Anthony Callaway for the in due course ruled to be not Guide Ltd, had been established were less than 5 per cent of the seriously Obstruct its perfor¬ laid down therein. any doubt in the construction of May 2, 1990, had dismissed its council: Mr Paul Garlick for Mr admissible. in order to publish in Ireland sales in Ireland. mance of the task assigned to it On those grounds, the Court the order to the plaintiff whose claim against the defendants. Wong. and Northern Ireland a weekly The Onirt of First Instance especially as regards the Irish of First Instance . (Second Mr Justice McCullough action was facing the prospect of Medway Power Drives Ltd and argecd. Uniroyal Ltd, for non-compli¬ magazine containing informa¬ observed that only weekly tele¬ language and culture. Chamber): LORD JUSTICE NEILL said being dismissed. tion on the television pro¬ vision guides containing' com¬ that the order first, prevented Solicitors: Sharpe Pritchard ance with the order of Judge It was difficult to discern how 1 Dismissed the applications; The Court of Appeal (Lord grammes available to viewers in prehensive listings for the week any publicity or identification of for Miss M. L. Cumberland, Batterbury on January 16. 1989 the. publication of general tele- ioSe^sTpay Justice Nourse, Lord Justice that area, the Magill 71'’ Guide. ahead enabled users to decide in the defendant or his business Dover, Giriings, Broads Lairs. for the specific discovery of vision magazines by third par- foe costs including those of the Stocker and Lord Justice Woolf) relevant documents. After the publication on May advance which programme ties, and the applicants' intervener. . Mox,,., v $ t/A/- THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Rugby Union 35 lu,‘ Samoans bring credibility to a global concept There is something about the been a ritual procession until we you a game at international level. they play rugby. 1 wonder if rugby quarters, in the understanding notion of a Rugby Worid reached the quarters. But it was When Australia played them at can stand it. that this achievement would gi\c Cup that makes me think of not And. in the process, the Pontypool, it was the first lime The Samoans have brought to them automatic qualification for baseball's World Series. The changed all that in a fortnight of Samoans have forced the world to they had ever done so. rugby a level of commitment and the next World Cup. as a seeded tumultuous rugby. It was expected team. Now the International *4 -tti* . _ -• v Worid Series this year is being recognise that rugby is more a But the Samoans have learnt fearlessness that you normally - . ft s contested between Atlanta and that the eight seeds would stroll global game than it ever has been Rugby Football Board has said - i s^ their stuff in New Zealand domes¬ only find in boxers and other •=•**.,* .... ""x Minnesota. Hardly a journey into the quarter-finals. Tnct^ari, before. tic rugby, rather as African ath¬ sportsmen who have nothing to this ain't necessarily so. They ma> from one end of the earth to the the Samoans disrupted everything Rugby is not a good game for letes learn how to maximise their lose. This is a quality you tend not come up with a different format other. In the same way, we can by disposing of Wales, whose underdogs, in the way football is. skills at American colleges. They to find too often in more affluent for the next tournament. have the snooker worid champ¬ performance in defeat looked Football is an open game made for combined immigrant ambition circles. Samoan tackling has the I hope not. Western Samoa *■> •« : * - ionship, in which practically all better and better as the Samoans have given worid rugby an ab¬ *• * -.Va» '■ :■: ‘ . sl upsets. It is a hard game to with a host nation's know-how. uncompromising nature of rugby the contestants are Brits. Or even marched on. Western Samoa were control; it i$ hard to keep pos¬ The results of this have given league. This is legal all right, but >1 solutely massive favour. They the dans world championship, if within a touch of beating Austra¬ session for more than a minute or great delight to us alL is very serious stuff indeed. have brought life to this tour¬ ■'■■ZZr. you like, where the same thing is lia in a magnificent match at so at a time. But rugby is a closed Tbey gave their farewell lap As iugby union moves on. one nament. They have brought fire to true. The word “world” is some¬ Pontypool, -and they turned over what would have been a largely *%4 , game, where tactical and physical around Murrayfield on Saturday wonders if it can accommodate times used as a mere deooration. Argentina to reach the quarter- pressure can squeeze out a mark¬ and then told us that the past commitment on the level of the dreary' two weeks without them. Football is the worid game, not final against Scotland on edly inferior side. fortnight had been the experience Samoans. Thai tottering Heath What is more, they have given the rugby. The game is played by the Saturday. The point is that Western of a lifetime. They said their Robinson device that is the union Worid Cup a genuinely global air. home nations and by English- Alas, this was a match too far. Samoa were not underdogs. They thank-yous to everybody for their law-book looks incapable of The international board owes a TT > speaking former colonies. France The Samoans, their fingers dulled had tactical nous, and perhaps hospitality, “especially the hos¬ supporting further escalation in very great deal to Western Samoa. is there as a delightful anomaly. and their hands over-anxious, more importantly, they were pitality of the ladies,” the captain. intensity. ! would hate to see them — if you And that's about iL went down. But they have lit up streetwise. These are hard things Peter Fatialofa, said. Every one The Samoans came here with will pardon the expression - Fatiaiofa: happy captain But Western Samoa have this tournament. It should have to acquire when no one will give will retain memories of the way the target of qualifying for the welsh on the deal. r^:r- --^22ss^ Blanco makes sad farewell appearance ri.r **•* ■’ ?■» .■; v Lynagh’s late try - os. /- —■ . - <■ "W^T, denies Ireland *« — 1%... England capitalise a glorious victory k * c ~p i(." ■; ij j ■’ on French fear to Ireland.18 MATCH FACTS Australia.19 Tentorial advantage Ireland 35mm. Auslraln 46 From Bryan Stiles Possession A- t*. , _ reach semi-finals IN DUBLIN iretmd 42min. Australia 39 Scrums France. .10 Webb had already been AFTER watching what would Award Won Ag hd Void given two priceless kicks at have been a glorious upset Ireland England. -19 Aus Iraki Territorial advantage goal — the first from Blanco's victory snatched from Ireland's From David Hands Franca 4Sndn. England 37 indiscretion, foe second after a grasp with two minutes to spare, a seasoned observer said as he >’••»■* ... Possession dangerous challenge by RUGBY CORRESPONDENT trudged from Lansdownc Road Ireland 15 I? 4 IN PARIS France 39(1*1, England 40 Cecifloa on Teague. The early yesterday: “I could weep for Australia . . 27 22 4 points allowed England to i'Uot'LP*> Scrums them.” PenaMes/tree kicks Award won Aqua void settle, though they twice fell It is a sentiment that will be Award Tap Goal Mas FRANCE’S fear of the Eng¬ Francs_16 14 1 4 offside in front of their own echoed throughout rugby after bNond ID 0 3 2 England—.. 21 19 1 0 Australia ID 0 < i land lineout returned to haunt posts and Lacroix secured foe this pulsating World Cup quar¬ Llneouts them at Parc des Princes on simplest of penalty kicks. ter-final in which Ireland had Stand-off halves Award Won Void An interval lead of 10-6 was the favourites on the rack for Run Kick Pass Saturday. But we were not to France.. 13 9 4 long periods. Keyes .074 England-24 21 3 a distinct relief but France Lynagh .077 - - r * n. know that this World Cup It looked as ifGordon Hamil¬ • V -Hr » c . quarter-final would hinge, too, PenaMes/trea kicks drew level when a high kick ton, the flanker, bad written his • Kicks at goal on the disastrous tactical de¬ Award Tap Goal Mas from Lacroix rebounded off a name into the annals of Irish Total Con Mas cision to play an English-style Franco_7 2 2 0 shoulder and foe hail fen to rugby when he burst dear to Keyes .6 4 2 Lynagh 4 3 i game against, of all people, England-10 1 3 2 Galfoie, who gave Lafond score a wonderful try six min¬ Stand-off halves room to skip round Heslop utes from the end to give Ireland Keyes succeeded with his one England. dropped goal attempt Run Kick Pass a three-point lead. Will Carling's side may and into foe comer. □ Statistics uppted Py Unisys Lacroix_ 2 2 3 But Australia are nothing if have its weaknesses but hard Andrew_..... 0 16 8 That, though, was when stalemate and foe fear of not resourceful, and when their work at close quarters is not Kicks at goal acting captain. Michael Lynagh. of opportunity right through the failure entered foe game. Nei¬ one of them. When Fiance Total Con Mss won them an attacking position Irish defence, his 30-metre dash took the game into the vast Lacrofc..3 2 0 ther side was prepared to play IS metres out they spurned foe carrying him over behind the Webb-6 4 2 risk rugby and it favoured chance of kicking an easy pen¬ posts without a hand being laid open spaces of the Parc, the Andrew_10 1 threat was obvious; bnt a lack England, who dominated foe alty goal and went instead for on him. Lacroix Med with ilia on® dropped This try opened the scoring. of primary possession, and a goal attempt ball. the risky option of calling a Lynagh converted but two pen¬ macho desire to maul England □ Statistics suppled by Unlays Webb and Andrew were scrum. They won the strike, quickly ally goals from Ralph Keyes put out of the match once the short with 40-metre penalties Ireland on level terms by the we gave France no opportu¬ and barely five minutes re¬ fed the ball wide and when score had been levelled at 10- Campese was held, in darted interval. A penalty goal from 10, made it the saddest of nity to run at us in^ midfield,” mained when Webb lined up Lynagh to score foe winning try Lynagh was answered by a international farewells for Roger Uttley, the England another penalty, hit it straight with two minutes left. dropped goal from Keyes before Serge Blanco.- - ■ - » coach, said. His players re¬ and narrowly cleared. Roumat , This, victory by; two goals, one Campese collected his second Affronted by a late_charge sponded to the letter. and foe crossbar. try. and a penalty goal to a goal, try. This was a result of a neat loop by Little. from Heslop, after he had There were untidy elements Carling's try in injury time three penalties and a dropped goal, earned Australia a semi¬ The six-point margin never called a mark, in the opening to England's game, notably in proved superfluous but none looked a large enough buffer and kicking from the hand — a foe less satisfactory. France final on the same ground against minutes — though it was New Zealand next Sunday. then Keyes kicked another pen¬ difficult in the cacophony of fault to which the French were were forced to yield pos¬ The game had exploded in alty goaL Staples began foe sound to know if the whistle prey, too. But if ft was session, after trying to make fury almost as soon as the first move which led to Hamilton had gone before the England character you were seeking, headway through running foe whistle blew, with players haring over the line. Keyes wing came flying in — Blanco then England oozed it. ball, and a ludicrous offside by hammering at each other with added the conversion. And it punched Heslop twice before A quite magnificent tackle Roumat gave England a scrum their fists in a blaze of un¬ looked all over until Lynagh. who had taken over the cap¬ Champ, his pack leader, added by Skinner on CedHon, early 20 metres out. HUTs box lack controlled aggression. There was dearly safety in numbers taincy when Farr-Jones went off a further dose. in the second half offered the was perfect and Lafond was injured in the 18th minute, best example but foe ability to hit by a white wave that however. After warning every¬ It cost his team three points one in sight, Jim Fleming, the produced his match-winner. If and might have cost Blanco force lineouts and occupy carried him and foe predatory referee, told the captains that ever there was a famous defeat his place on the field had not French territory imposed an Carling over foe line. luckily for them there were too this was iL David Bishop been in a nota¬ unaccustomed second-half in¬ Now, the wave must try to many players involved for him SCORERS: IraUnflb Try: HamJton. Convar- stotuKoyea Droppod goat Keyes Penalty bly tolerant mood. hibition on foe home side. wash over foe blue Scottish Help wanted: Farr-Jones, of Australia, seeks support after a tackle by Saunders to send anyone off. goals: Keyes (31. Australia: Trios: Campesa The New Zealand referee The guiding hand of Didier rock. The tension of foe occasion (2), lynagh Conversions: Lynagh (2) Penalty qool: Lynagh did well to keep the number of Cambers bero, who was absent held the crowd and the players SCORERS: Enriand: Trias: Undwwood. in its grip right to the dying IRELAND: J Staples (London Irony. S penalties to an acceptable through injury, would surely Geoghegon (London tosh). D Curtis Carfcfl. Comroratan: Webb. Penalty goals: Campese fears a fractured ankle seconds and produced the most level - 11-9 in England's have made more of possession WBbb (3L Mas Try: Lafond. Penalty (London tosh). B MuOn (Btachrock CoOegcl, NICK Farr-Jones and David confirmed he is most unlikely to trmism for the five nations' exciting game in the com¬ J Cisrks (Dofehin), R Kayss (Cork Constitu¬ favour — in a taut, sometimes than Galfoie and Lacroix were FRANCE: S . captain}: P Campese were both left nursing play in the semi-final championship. ** petition so far. Here was raw tion), R Saunders (London boh), N Popplewall (Grayslonas), S Smith explosive, game that made up able. little was seen of two of Saint-Andre Salattesfl). injuries as foe Australian play¬ passion welded to fine skills F Mesne! J-B Lafond “I am not going to play a Bob Dwyer, Australia's coach, (Baflymenat. D FttzgaraM (Da La Sale in suspense what it lacked in foe world's best centres, T Lacroix xLFGMMa ers spoke of their “rdief* at the match of that importance know¬ said that his initial feeling was producing heart-pounding mo¬ tabneraion), P Matthews (Wanderers, cap- Laacuba (Agon).P Msrocco ments of rugby glories. tam). D Lenlhan (Cork Const ; jinn), N spectacle. though midfield defence on □arrow victory over Ireland. ing I am half fit. There are “one of relief. Dwyer said: “It Franco (Biaeluock Conogel. G HamBton P Ondans fflaurta), E Farr-Jones, the captain, in¬ plenty of others who would do a was a magnificent game and we Bob Dwyer, the Australian Jean Triilo, the coach to the both sides was of a high order -^,-... J-M Csdtouftodousa). O (Boflymena). B Robinson iBaOymena) coach, was wise to be wary of the AUSTRALIA: M C Roebuck (Eastwood France backs, who is retiring, — save once, when Under¬ Roumat (Oax), L Csbennes (Radng CM3), sists that be will be fii for next good job. You cannot go out and just could not shake off the Irish M CacBcn (Bourooln), Sunday’s semi-final against New face the All Blacks when you are team. We always thought we Irish. He knew the underdogs NSW), R H Egorun (Sydney University). J S spoke of the “death of wood scored his 32nd inter¬ LMe (South Bretnne). T J Horan (South ENGLAND: J M Waob (Bath): N J Hsalop Zealand, despite limping off for less than 100 per cent.” were in control, but then sud¬ could bite and at times they romanticism". But he national try midway through fOrra*}, WDC CarQng ()-k* 36 SPORT/R.ACING THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 2 Mansell’s challenge for the world motor racing championship ends in a sand pit racing Elsworth favours Senna moves closer to Fangio’s record Tokyo mission From Norman Howell in suzuka AYRTON Senna became Riccardo Patrese are ready world champion again yes¬ and willing to battle with the for In The Groove terday. By the time Senna McLarens in the final grand By Michael Seely allowed Gerhard Berger, his prix in Adelaide on November DAVID Elsworth yesterday ened } McLaren team-mate, to win 3. Senna welcomed the chall¬ S ve the Japan Cup in Tokyo on was sommwy betand wbcn l the Japanese grand prix here, enge. “Yes, now we can go to ovember23 marginal pref- had. rf£L™ L i.fJ-1” • #•*' the drivers* championship had Adelaide and have some fun, erencc over the Breeders’ Cup in £01? That s when I bumped into already been deadcd, Nigel right?” he said to Berger and Kentucky on November 2 as a Mansell having spun off the Patrese, who finished in third recovery mission for Saturday’s Glity* unlucky Dubai Champion “Then, sbe look half a furlong track at the start of the tenth place. to get her stride going on the Stakes third In The Groove. s rlfll lap. Senna explained how “We're keeping our options firm ground. Sbe had too much The Brazilian joins a select Suzuka was the first time open,” said the trainer, "but to do after hesitating when McLaren had been up to the Tokyo is an odds-on favourite- corri^e off the bridle on the S«>up of drivers - Brabham, going. We’d have won it two Lauda, Prost Stewart and standard set by the Williams She’s not finished yet, she’s still going strong. As the Japanese times out of three.” Piquet - who have won the all season. “Right from the might buy her, we don’t want to What the five-times cham¬ world title three times, and he start of the season, they were kill the goose that lays the pion . French jockey says is will now be aiming for Juan ahead,” he said. “But their golden eggs.” correct, but surely be would r Manuel Fangio's total of five. unreliability hid that and However, Elsworth will this have been wiser to have lain morning nominate the filly at closer to the pace early on. As he is the youngest driver to allowed us to win races and get Asmussen is an acknowledged points. the midday entrance stage for win three, it is easily within both the 52 million Breeders’ master of his craft but waiting his grasp. “Gerhard and I said over Cop Turf and the S3 million tactics which succeed in fest-nm Mansell was looking good and over again that we were Breeders’ Cup Clastic, run on races at Longchamp are not until he spun off as he tailed not good enough but people din. The respective costs of always as effective in felsdy-run second-placed Senna, who was would not believe us. Finally. entry are 520,000 and 530,000. affitirs over a straight ten for- Honda and Shell did, and they Guy Harwood was also longs at Newmarket. quietly going about the busi¬ To a lesser degree, the same ness of holding up the English¬ worked fantastically hard. considering nominating Cruachan, Saturday's half- criticism applies to Piggott on man as much as possible while Honda built a completely new length runner-up to Tel Quel, Risma, who finished fourth, letting Berger soar away to a engine after the Canadian for the 12-furlong Turf, the race only a short head behind In The nine-second lead by the eighth race. That is an extraordinary in which the trainer saddled Groove. But John Gosden's lap. achievement.” Dancine Brave to finish fourth excitable filly, who had been As Mansell decided to at¬ Mansell claimed it was the to Manila in 1986. taken down early to the start to fault of a “soft” brake pedal Strongly fancied for the Derby avoid the parade, had been tack. both cars screamed down until chipping a bone in his on- fighting for her head in the early the start-finish straight clock¬ which caused him to spin. fore in May, Cruachan did his stages. So the maestro probably ing 303kpb, then went into the “It's a bit like driving at connections proud as he fought had no alternative. first right-hander. It is a hard- 40m pb and having a car pull his heart out m the lead until Nothing, however, should be breaking comer and Mansell's out suddenly and the brakes caught dose home by the win¬ allowed to detract either from ner. Jarnet’s enterprising jockeyship car shuddered right and left, just not happening at all," he on Tel Quel or from a fine feat of said. The engineers respon¬ “We’ve got two alternatives,” then veered left — one rear said the trainer. “We can either training by Andre Fabre. wheel into the sand pit then sible for the brakes, from the run him in a listed race and then Remarkably, this victory gave the whole car. Senna saw it French company. Carbon put him away for the season. Or Sheikh Mohammed, Britain's and immediately started lap¬ Industrie, denied there was we can go for the Breeders* Cup. leading owner for five years up ping much faster as he chased anything wrong with the pads The idea of going to Kentucky is to 1989, his first group one Berger. or brakes. very tempting, as he’s a fresh winner of the season in Britain. horse.” The Tote Cesarewitch pro¬ Suddenly, there was a race. “But I am not dis¬ The moment of truth arrived duced a shock for backers when “As soon as 1 saw Nigel had appointed,” Mansell said. “I when Ray Cochrane dashed Nicky Carlisle and Go South spun off I decided to go out did my best; the team did, too. Cruachan into the lead four came storming up the hill and have some fun," Senna What else could we ask for?" furlongs from home. At this between Bardolph and Farsi to said. “It's four or five races Luck, of course, which he has point, Thierry Jamet was. al¬ land a 33-1 victory for John now that I have had to race always fSund in short supply. ready on terms on Td Quel. But Jenkins. Of the three market leaders, conservatively, looking after Senna emerged from the both Cash Asmussen ami Lester A job well done: Mansell, left, congratulates Senna after the Brazilian had secured the world drivers’ title Piggott were some way back on Tamarpour and Star Player Lhe championship. But that is pits three hours after the race In The Groove and Ristna. were never were seen with a not why I am a Formula One to greet the thousands of Asmussen, as skilful with chance but Hieroglyphic ran on fakenh driver. I am a racer, so Japanese supporters who had words as he is in the saddle, said well to finish fourth despite Gerhard and I had ourselves a stayed on in the gathering afterwards: “It wasn’t an even in the closing stages as if v&\' race.” gloom. The stands were awash Time runs out on Mansell pace and they suddenly quick- the firm ground. He also explained why, with the green and yellow of Suzuka reference to the spin. He had opposition had begun to think having overtaken Berger and # the Brazilian flag and Senna, come in fast behind Senna, he they could be intimidated. with the chequered flag in still in his driving suit, bathed French sweep board NIGEL Mansell ran out of said, and could not slow Ron Dennis, the McLaren flirt'’-5 view, he let Berger through. in the aedaim. He deserved iL PASSING Sale rounded off an Saron, trained in France by 11 track and out of the drivers’ tried to go, the car slewed off sufficiently. It seems odd there chief executive, said before¬ outstanding international week¬ Maurice Zilber and ridden by “That was the first time in my “This is the sweetest of championship here, to the the curve at the end of the had been no forewarning dur¬ hand: “The message from our end for French trainers by Eric Legrix. The winner now iv- ■ life I have backed off. It really victories,” he said. “In 1988, it dismay of tens of thousands of main straight after the start of ing the first nine laps. What drivers has been that we are no winning the £223,633 Gran goes for the Breeders’ Cup hurt; believe me, it did. But I was my first, and you can Prentio del Jockey Club in Juvenile Fillies. Japanese supporters. The file tenth lap. In that instant. was apparent was that, for the had to give Gerhard a little never forget it Then, in 1989, longer in a position to get out Milan yesterday. The French completed a dean 150,000 crowd was thick with Senna was champion again in previous lap and a half, - help after all he has done for I was robbed; that was shame¬ of the way, which is quite Trained by Bernard Sedy, sweep In the $750,000 Union flags bearing Mansell’s the two-car confrontation that Mansefl had been pressing me in the second half of the ful What happened the year different to the interpretation Passing Sale was produced with Budwtiser Internationa] when name, never mind that this is boxing promoters would have Senna and getting nowhere. a well-timed run by Alain Lenin, trained fay David --»AI season.” after was a direct consequence by some that we’re ready to 2,18*uv>«i the home of Honda, the power catchlined “Slaughter at “Coming out of the corners, induce an accident Lequeux to foil the Lord Smaga, beat etiquette Head's KK£. • The Williams challenge, at of the politics of the year behind Ayrton Senna. Suzuka". Huntingdon-trained Drum Sillery and the John HnmmnmL least for the constructors’ I was dead and gone,” Mansell “We will hold our line. We f i v- before. And, this year, I won Although Mansell put on a It is an unusual allegiance Taps by a neck with Snuige trained Goofrlflc. championship, is still alive reflected, referring to the su¬ have an incredibly strong will three-ancka-balf lengths away Fours tars Allstar, the Ameri¬ deanly. This is a victory for brave face, saying he was not between the British driver and and both Mansell and sport.” perior Honda acceleration. He to win the championship in a tfaiiti and Marcus Thorpe sixth. can-trained winner of the Irish disappointed and that Wil¬ the Japanese, whose favourite had no objection, he said, lo .fair and non-controvernal Britain’s sole challctifeier at the- 2,00Gb Guineas; finished last. liams Renault deeded to be be is. Perhaps they'see in him Senna’s tactics of slowing in way — not at all costs.” Laurel Turf Festival, Ian Eric Legrix, who rode Ken De f given'credit for making it an a flamboyance, a touch of the comers to allow Berger to Before and after Mansell’s Balding’s Saratoga Source, fin¬ Saron at Laurel, also won the exciting championship, he Bulldog Drummond absent ished sixth of nine in Saturday’s Prix du Conseil de Paris at FASTEST LAP: Senna. Imin 41S32sec build a lead. involuntary capitulation. RESULTS: 1. G Bator (Austria). McLaran- also ran out of song yesterday from their own restrained 5200,000 Setima Stakes. Der- Longchamp yesterday on the Honda, Ihr 32mki 106P5soc (125 7D2rnph)- (129.19Smph). “I can smile after all the Senna had controlled the race. mot Weld’s Misako-Togo was Pascal Bary-trained Sleeping 2. A Senna (BO. McLaren-Honda. at FINAL PRACTICE'TTME& 1. Berger, Imin — at least until next season. psyche. stupidity of what he [Senna] 0344aec; 3, R Patrese (11). WHamaflanault, 34.700aec; Z Senna. 1:34388; 3. Mantel. Almost monk-like in his intro¬ seventh. Car. John Dunlop’s Azaam at 56731sec. 4. A Prost (Fr), Ferrari, a| irnn 134522. 4. Prost, 1:36.070; 5. PBtrose. During practice before the The question to foe an¬ has been doing to bolster spection, he knew his reput¬ Victory went to Ken De finished fourth. 20.761*00. S. M Bnndta (GB). Brabham 136582 6. Ales. 137.140; 7, Marttai. previous race in Spain, the swered is how much Mansell Yamaha, at 1 lap: 6, S Modena (it). TyrraE- 136.154; 8. MofWda*. 1:30248; 9. himself ... I am surprised ation was on the Hue. For the Honda. atl lap; 7, N Piquet (Br), Benetton- Sctamacher. 138383.10. Rquat, 138.814. Benetton team, accidentally lost brake-power and how how relaxed I am,” he said. I first time in four races, he had Font at 1 bp: B. M GiQelmin (Br). Layton- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POSmONS overhearing the Williams much he lost patience. He is ftnor. ai 1 Bp: 9. T Boutsen (Bel), Lfeter- (alter 15 rounds); Drivers; 1. Senna. 91ptK was asking myself why he was not led the grid. Desert Orchid may Umfiorytilnt. ai 1 lap; 10, A Caffi (It). 2. Mansefl, 89; S.Patroae. 52:4, Berger. 41; short-wave radio, had listened supported by a history of relaxed if it was the car's fruit He knew, and Dennis knew, Footwork-Ford, al 2 tapir. II, G Torquin (tn, 5. Prost. 34; 6, Pkusl, 25; 7. Atari. 21; a in to Mansell singing at the Fondmotal-Ford. at 3 tap*. Did not flraen Modana. 1ft 9. do Casarls. 9.10. R Moreno braking problems this season From where I have been that his commitment at the dumber of taps campkaad) 12, E Comas (Br). Benetton Ford. 6; 11. Martini. 6; 12. wfaeeL Was this a man feeling which, at one time, Renault sitting these past few weeks, top, SO bard to maintain^ miss his own race LehM, 4, equal 13. B Gachot (Bel) and (Fr). bgar^JunborghM. 41; 13. P-L Martini events turning his way who, seemed to have solved. They .... (It). lAnartFFenari. 39. 14. M Schumacher SdMnacher. 4; IS, HaMdnen. Brenda and the wind-up of words has occasionally fallen short this By Michael Seely (Gert- BenettorvFord. 34.15, J Herbert (GB), Mriiaima. 2; 18. J Bnflay (GB). Lotus Judd, I after Barcelona, would have reappeared during the warm¬ come half from Mansefl. If season. His self-discipline de¬ Lotus-Judd. 31; 16. S Nakapna (Japan). Capcn (It), Layton House bim, Suzuki E IF THE ground continues to marginally at a time,” the Bernard (Fr), Cob Fort. Plmo. M BJundefl five wins in eight races? up yesterday. Was Mansell you ask the McLaren camp, TyreB+tonda. 30.17, A SuziAl (Japan), Lota- manded that yestoday he put ride firm. Desert Orchid may trainer added. “And when the Ford. 26. i&GMwbidofc(n).Mran*-Fetrart, (GB). Brabham Yamaha. 1 Constructors: 1, “It was,” Juan VUdepraL, pushing too hard, too early, they will tell you that with 15.19. N Mansefl (GB). WMonaflenauft, 3. McLaren Hondo, 132: Z WHama Renault, things right He did. His focus miss the first running of the race time comes, I hope we'll be able 20. A Zanardi (H). JortarvFort. 7; 21. M 12V. a Ferrari. 55.4. Benetton Fort, 37; a the Benetton manager, said, even in a race he had to win to everything to lose and little to was absolute. named in his honour at to retire him gracefully.” HaUunen (Fin). LohifrJudd, 4. 22, A de Jordan Fort, 13; 6. Tymal Honda, 12; 7, “the sound of someone who stay in contention? gain by becoming involved in Senna is a vain man but in Wincanton on Thursday. Seagram, who mimed Sat¬ C«aris (It). Jordan-Fqrd, 1; 23. J J Lehto Mtaartl Ferrari, 6; 0. BMS Debra Judd. 5; (Fin). DaDareOudd. 1; 24. E Pno (It). DoHara- equal 9. Lotus Judd. Brabham Yamaha; 3; felt he was riding a peak, Asked when the failure had skirmishes, Senna and Berger such a quiet, positive way it “Of coarse we want to run urday's Charisma Gold Cup at Judd. 1. 25, K WondVnpor (Gar). Leyton- It. Lota Ford. 2; 12. Leyton House Imor. 1. him in lhe Desert Orchid South saying to himself: ‘Let’s go!’-” become apparent, he an¬ bad been getting out of the can be quite chilling. Now, he Kempton because of the firm ; ■ . Itmor. 1: 26. J Atari (Ft). Ferrari, did not REMAINING GRAND PROb Nov 3: Ausua- West Pattern Chase,” David ground, will now make his compWo i tap ta (Adelaide). Yesterday, when Mansell swered: “About then!” — a way, and that, maybe, the was happy with himself again. Elsworth said. “But we won’t seasonal debut at Chehewhqm -:• • • ■•-* v «»i risk him if it’s firm. I'll probably on November 9. BOXING walk the track on Tuesday to see Victory in the Kempton cha«w ... SQUASH RACKETS what it’s like.” went to Major Match, whose • ' . An alternative for the nation's trainer Tim Forster had wanted 1 ' v" ' . !»'. most popular racehorse is the to run him at Stratford but was Boxing Day Trial Chase over overruled by the gtidingTs four Martin brothers make history Holyfield must wait until January three miles at Kempton on owners. New York — The Manin broth¬ 11, 15-9 in a 57-minute semi¬ play together. Once, when we MUCE Tyson's delayed world attorneys to delay the trial date. November 20. Stratford Ponds, winner of the SATURDAY’S ers from Australia — Rodney, final. Rodney, the day after his trained together for a major heavyweight title challenge may “Mike will fight before that Richard Dun woody went to Lanzarote Hurdle over the the world champion, and Brett, 26tb birthday, outplayed Jahan¬ tournament, we were so beat up Whitsbury yesterday to renew course last winter, died instantly. take place a week before he court date comes up,” Don his partnership with Desert when breaking his neck in a fell the world No. 6 — created gir Khan by a remarkably by the time it came around that fights for his freedom in court. King, the promoter said. Dan professional squash history with we could not play properly at Orchid for the first time ibis three flights from home in the similar margin, winning 15-13, Promoters are considering Sat¬ Dirva, who is putting on the season. Captain Qnist Hurdle. Jimmy tor the first family final on the 15-11.15-8 in 44 minutes. alL" urday. January 20, as the new contest, said the January 20 date “He felt great,” said the Fitzgerald's Sybiflin was never world tour at the United States In the decider, Rodney won As the enraptured New York date for his contest with the was “a possibility” but that jockey. “We jumped five fences out of a canter, cruising ahead at Open here on Saturday (Colin 15-11. 15-11, 13-15, 15-6 in 50 audience will testify, they played champion, Evander Holyfield, details had not been fianlised. and did a gallop over the straight the last flight to beat Royal McQuillan writes). minutes. Cracking cross-court wdl enough this time. It was after the postponement caused Holyfield, meanwhile, said he mile. If anything, he's more DerbL Not since Hashim and Azam nicks, astounding flick drives, Rodney, however, who played by Tyson’s rib injury. would like a bout against forward than when I rode him Bradbury Star, sixth to Mor- Khan ruled the amateur gome overhead kills and outrageous the better. Tyson is scheduled to go on another heavyweight contender on the equivalent Sunday last ley Street in the Champion more than 30 years ago have two drops were the bread and butler trial on rape charges on January next month.“rm in shape,” he year.” Hurdle, gave notice he will be a blood brothers met in a leading of their rallies. RESULTS: SetnMktais: R Martin (Aus) bt On Boxing Day, the 12-year- force in novice chasing ranks JaiwnfP Khan (Pak). 15-13. 15-11. 15-9; B 27 in Indianapolis, where he said. “I'll fight anybody." But it final. “It is always like that,” Rod¬ feces a possible 63 years in seems unlikely that he will be old will attempt to win the King this season when outclassing his Martin (Aua) be P Marahrt (Eng). 15-13,15- George VI Chase for the fifth rivals in the Steel Plate and Brett, aged 28, defeated Peter ney said. “We only seem to be 11,1*8- Fmat R Moron w 8 Manat i5-n. prison if convicted. A judge has allowed to take such a risk with time. “Of course; he's going to Marshall, of England. IS-13. 15- isil, 13-15. i&C Sections Young Chasers' capable of full-out head-to-head Tyson: a double date rejected a request by Tyson’s so much money at stake. deteriorate, but hopefully only Qualifier. t. HOCKEY CRICKET Trojans defences overrun British women qualify West Indies fall to leg spin Sharjah — Manoj Prabbakar, Eastleigh yesterday. In the Martin Aspin and Ellis in after colourless draw the second wicket between if Pakistan, who are scheduled Trojans.0 defence were impressive; but with his medium pace, and the Sidbu (98) and Maqjtekar (56) process, the champions earned leg spinner. Anil Kumble, com¬ to play the first of five one-day Havant.6 11 short comers, scoring directly honest endeavour was not laid the foundations of the matches in India there on c«*tu By a Correspondent bined to bowl India to a 19-run useful Indian total from only one of them. Having enough. October 28. are allowed to {day. By Sydney Frjsktn victory over West Indies in the Although Lambert, who mmi- Madhavrao Scdndia, president worn the opposition down, how¬ The start looked promising GREAT Britain’s women ground out the Olympic objec¬ Wills Trophy here on Saturday. ever, they tore them apart in the for Trojans, who forced the first 66, and Lara, with 45 off 44 of the Indian bond, said there achieved their expected place in tive of their coach, Dennis Hay. Prabhakar took his second four- balls, batted well for West last ten minutes. short corner right at the start of would be no change of venues in HAVANT achieved their big¬ Barcelona next July with a wicket haul in two days and Indies, fittle came from the 1 w Several young players distin¬ the match and held Havant at South Korea, who play China the itinerary. colourless 0-0 draw against Kumble, brought in to exploit middle order and the last five gest win in the first division of bay for 26 minutes before in the fifth-eighth place cross¬ INDIA guished themselves, notably China in the Olympic qualifying over matches, are joined by West Indies' known weakness wickets feu for SO nuts. the Pizza Express National Cuntiffe, Giles and Snell, a conceding the first goaL R J Shostri st Dufon b Hooper 6 tournament in Auckland on against leg spin, justified his Prabhakar swept through the N S Mui« Dujor b Hw ™.“ZT98 League with this smooth perfor¬ Havant were successful with Japan, who take on Argentina, substitute, for Havant In the Saturday. It took them to top the Pan-American champions. inclusion, with four for 50. SVManjrekarc Hooper bBtatap 86 mance against Trojans at their fourth short comer, but tail to finish with four for 30. 4-y Trojans side. Archer in attack. pjoce in Group B on goal The last round matches turned Chasing India’s 240 for six in (Reuter). only after Greenwood had saved S R Tendulkar iun out_ 22 r I difference over Panada Ger¬ the form book upside down with 50 overs. West Indies were VKarnbf notout.. 23 from Giles. Williams scored on □ Delhi — A Hindu militant many, Canada and New Zea¬ Argentina, Group B leaders ax dismissed for 221 with seven group threatened yesterdav to u&S^!!!r!2?bBiihop ‘1 7 the follow-up. Three minutes land joined them, a shock 4-2 KoTTc A 17ft_nin cranH fnr hum RAmK»iV __ / » ._... * the time, losing 2-0 to bans left- A 128-run stand for bum Bombay’s cricket stadium E*tra« (lb 2, w 7. l*B~.7IZ„”'l4 Knapp steals show later, Coleman increased the win by New Zealand over South and moving down to third place lrar! with a reverse hit from Total (6 wfcta, 50 oum) - ~ 240 Korea leaving the 1988 Olympic on fewer goals scored. ON A day of high scoring, from Hacker to clinch a 2-1 win. Garcia's through-pass. Akumbte, S L V Rafcj andfK S Mon dW not silver medal winners with an Ireland, with a goal from David Knapp stole the honours Grimley’s goal in the eighteenth Trqjans threatened early in uphill battle to secure the fifth by getting all six goals for Glenda McKee, gained their minute from a short comer was the second half but Rowlands and last qualifying place. first points, moving off the Counties concerned Guildford, the hut from a answered by Knott for saved a shot from Martin Aspin Britain’s progress has been KMUNG: Ambran 102324: Btatop i£M> bottom place over their oppo¬ FOUR English counties hope to finned yesterday that the penalty stroke, in the 6-2 victory Stourport three minutes before at a short corner. Earlier, Hill hard won, with the defender, nents. Italy. In Group A, Ger¬ had lofted the ban over the top learn this week whether they are Australian visit must start by Smww WH&-1: Arihunon 20-154 over Cheltenham in the second the end. Southgate go top of the Lisa Bayliss, unable to start many, their qualifying achieved, _ WESTtNOIES division of the Pizza Express from a similar award to HavanL likely to lose their Australian mid-August to avoid the onset table in the first division on goal against China and Vickey gained a semi-final maiHi with Test players early next August as P V ammottt ft* b StasM 20 • i % national league on Saturday difference, ahead of Hounslow The landslide started in the Dixon, the sweeper, lasting just of the monsoon. C B Lambert c and bKumtts __66 Britain on Wednesday when the domestic Season approaches ■RBRScfurdson cAztwukBnb&astif 28 (Sydney Friskio writes). and Havant 53id minute, with Williams 22 minutes before collapsing for Essex recently sent Waugh a - * v they tamely surrendered to a 3-0 its climax (Richard Streeton contract, which included the BC Lara b Prabhakar__45 Slough and Southgate hit the Welt on, from Hull, had no scoring from Garcia's dose pass. the second match in succession. defeat by Japan, which gave writes). A L Logie tow t> KuentKa_;___4 target eight limes without reply answer to the two goals scored in Further goals by Hill, from a Karen Brown carried on despite them second place. inoviso that he was available for CL Hooper tow bKunbte___it Craig McDermott, York¬ the whole summer. But the KLTArttiurtonstMoreb Kilobit_2 in the first division, with Barber the first half for East Grinstead short comer, Coleman and Wil¬ two teeth wired and six stitches shire's first overseas pro¬ tPJLOuion tow b Prabhakar __0 liams completed the roui- in her gums. RESULTS: Mm Pool A: Now Zetrirax! 1, other three counties are already CEL Ambrose tow b Prabhakar_0 and Cox, of Slough, sharing four by Head and Lee. Neston, Italy 1; Soviet Union 0, Canada ft Ireland 2, fessional, Mark Waugh, of committed. 1 Britain's workmanlike display £pen 2. Pool B: Swfemtand 3. United I RBbhopc Snout b Prabhakar_23 goals from short corners against another northern club, settled TROJANS: c Greenwood; M Bb. G Haled. Essex, Dean Jones, of Durham, BP Patterson notout... •_ 3 Indian Gymkhana. A treble by for a 1-1 draw with Bromley, M Watte. M Aspin. O U#w6milh(capt). M against the Chinese produced Stans 2: Mateytaa 3. India 2. Wbnwic Pool Though Richie Richaitiaon’s Etdrea (b 2. to 7. nb 4)... .^..„.lir'l3 Baker, ft Aspin. CWotton. J Aiehar.CRcrm. A: Naw Zealand 4, South Koras 3t m. ’ «ii THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Racing 37 3.30 WOODBOROUGH MAIDEN GUARANTEED SWEEPSTAKES (Div B: 2-Y-O: £2.070:1m If 213yd) (9 runners) mandarin ip) 0 BIG PAT 33 (R Patrick) J Ptarea 96--—----• J Urtla — Promising Kajaani THUNDERER RICHARD EVANS 2 (3) 50 CASEY OSCAR 18 (W Gradtoy) C Britatt M----—. 8 CMta — 2.00 Kirby Opportunity. 2.00 Kirby Opportunity. 5.00 Desen Ditry. 3 (2) 3 KAJAANI 58 (BF) (SiaWi Uatammed) P Cote 90.- T (Um 82 2.30 Grand Master. 2J0 Grand Master. 4 (1) 05 LAST CONO(«ST 12 Home draw keeps Manchester United seven points clear of Leagae champions but Leeds close the gap with an away win Frank speaking Rocastle stakes claim for England as McAvennie ENGLAND'S landscape may departure was greeted with not be as barren as Graham jeers from the biggest crowd of Taylor supposes. Two days the season so fear, but Alex airs a grievance Ferguson explained that he after the national manager had The supreme highlight of needed Webb to be fresh for asked where he might find Rocastie’s contribution was Wednesday's Cup Winners' Peter Ball suitable replacements, his spectacular goal. To score, By Cup tie against Atl&ico Ma¬ particularly in midfield, a he used tenacity (to gain last season’s extraordinary drid because he had a squad of FRANK McAvennie has had a couple of internationals who possession), sleight of foot and difficult time with West Ham recovery somewhat later m the only IS fit Englishmen, year, things are getting tight at once played there illustrated acceleration (to escape three since his return from Celtic, but Whitworth, a youngster pro¬ the bottom, where disaffection their qualities in circum¬ pursuers), awareness (to see his goal at Boundary Park on moted for such occasions, was is already beginning to surfoce stances far more arduous than that Schmeichel was off his Saturday recalled lus vibrant injured on Saturday morning first spdl at Upton Park when among the stragglers. at Wembley in midweek. line) and precision (to chip Southampton supporters dis¬ and Parker, though yet to his 26 goals helped to take the over a 6ft 4in goalkeeper from David Rocastle and Neil recover fully from his ailment, London dub to third in 1986, mayed at the route ^ap¬ 35 yards). proach are voting with their feet, Webb, two of the central may have to be included as a their highest Twngin* placing. only 12,516 turning up for the figures in Old Trafford's phys¬ He illuminated the after¬ substitute. Coming on as substitute, McAvennie struck eight min¬ visit of Norwich. Some of those ical warfare, were exceptional noon with other flashes of In view of the state of utes from time, just when it who did come stayed toboo during this 1-1 draw between brilliance, which prompted his health, the maintaining of appeared that West Ham were after a disappointing 0-0 draw. Manchester United and manager, George Graham, to Manchester United's un¬ going to return home with Luton supporters protested be¬ Arsenal on Saturday. Al¬ describe him as the man of the beaten record in all com¬ nothing to show for a splendid fore the game at the dub's asset- though they were inevitably match. “He showed good petitions this season was second-half display. Since strippfog which had seen engaged in the raw aggression touches in tight positions,” psychologically important breaking a leg two seasons ago, Matthew Jackson follow Kings¬ which has become the Graham said, “and that ran McAvennie has been in and out ley Mac*- and Ian Dowie out of So was the timing of the of the side, but afterwards he the chib, and then suffered a predominant feature of the was magical Who says you equaliser, seconds before the insisted that he was ready to disappointing end as John Sher¬ first division's most meaning¬ can't score great goals under interval. Claimed by Bruce reclaim a regular place, if BDly idan's brilliant last-minute goal ful fixtures, they introduced pressure?” with the deftest of glancing Bonds, his manager, would give for Sheffield Wednesday denied another dimension. They were hfm a chance. Moreover, Rocastle did not headers, it was fashioned by them a rare victory. The point inventive. “It's not a question of fit¬ allow Robson, who has been Giggs. The young Welshman keeps Wednesday fifth, behind ness,” he mstetoH **J think I’ve Arsenal on goal difference. In the absence of Gascoigne, in such commanding form for was also ultimately respon¬ been fit for a year. I’ll bide my MiaTl Quinn, another Irish his dub if not for his country, Rocastle and Webb are a sible for failing to convert time — hot I’ve got to get a international who missed the to dominate the event. breed apart amid the com¬ United's superiority, which chance. I couldn't say anything trjp to Poland, scored the goal pressed space and relentless “I prefer it in central mid- was more marked during the when Stuart Slater was .scoring, which gave Manchester City a but bis goals seem to have dried ferocity of the modern game. field,” Rocastle said, “because second half. He struck a post, deserved win at White Hart up- . . Capable of instant apprecia¬ you are not as isolated. As the as did McClair, and also t jitw[ moving Manchester's McAvennie showed a poise in tion and graceful execution, game goes on. you also gel missed the dearest chance in a front of goal West Ham had other team up to third. But one even when surrounded and more time than on the wing,” contest featuring few previously lacked, Moricy miss¬ of the most inspiring perfor¬ mances of thw day eft*"*5 from hounded, they can still offer Time was a particularly openings. ing tWO flhirrng rhnnrw as someone who was on the plane the odd glimpse of an art precious commodity in a rug¬ Oldham's defence, with two “It was a twist of fete,” to Poznan. which is in alarming decline. ged first half, during which members of last week’s England Ferguson bemoaned. “We hit squad, folded alarmingly. “1 CyriUe Regis and Tony Daley Automatic choices for Eng¬ several names might have the woodwork twice and when thought individually Jobson scored the goals as Aetna Villa land two years ago, they are been taken by a stricter referee they did, from that wonderful and Barrett both played well,” rhaifced up a notable success ax both making a timely re- and Wright might have been chip, it went in off our Joe Royle said. “And the full Goodison Park, but McGrath's emergence from prolonged ab¬ dismissed for excessively exu¬ goalkeeper." backs did OK. Bntwe can't keep nam^ Hnwiimtud the pOSt- sences through injury. Instead berant challenges. a dean sheet, so we must be match inquests. “He was ab¬ of retaining comparatively Webb, though, refused to be MANCHESTER UNITED: P ScHmoctx* C doing something wrong.” solutely unbelievable,” Howard EBactononi, □ tram, S BruOe. N Wtabb {sub: A Kendall said. Critics who doubt limited players, such as Geoff rushed. “There are a few of us Oldham's survival to become KenchoferidsL G Rattuto. B Robson. P Ince, founder members of the Pre¬ Graham Taylor’s judgement of Thomas, Batty and Stewart, who can bring the ball down B McClair, M Hughes. R Giggs mier League could depend on players win recall that it was Taylor would be advised to re¬ and pass it around,” be said. ARSENAL; □ Seaman L Doran. N Wmtortaum, P Daws. C Piles, A Adams. 0 Royle finding the answer to that Taylor who rescued McGrath's examine the more creative His first appearance for Rocastle. I Whght, A Smith. P Meson, K question. With the bottom dub career when Manchester United instincts at Manchester almost a month was fore¬ Campdel. Sheffield United thrashing Not¬ wanted him to retire a little over United and Arsenal. shortened. His premature Referee: D Holbrook. Tenacity and acceleration: Rocastle, right, shows his qualities against Hughes tingham Forest 4-2, recalling two years ago. Barnet learn how Progressive Leeds should Gabbiadini warming to role to plug the leaks be shown more respect in new Palace double act By Keith Blackmore selves more consistent in the By touching in Shutt’s header was much deserved. Rosario Terry Butcher, his Coven by Notts County.2 months ahead. in the nineteenth minute. Chap¬ Coventry City. BARNET are becoming serious supplied the typical forward's counterpart, poured cold water Leeds United.4 After his side's fourth home man wrenched open the flood¬ Crystal Palace_ on an mflamatt finale. “One or challengers for promotion from clearance — high in the air, no League defeat of the season, Neal gates and, by the 55 th minute, distance — and Gabbiadini two words were exchanged in the fourth division. On Sat¬ By Ian Ross Leeds had added three more Waraock, the County manager, By Russell Kempson Stooped low to nod past the tunneL That was aD,” he urday, they beat Blackpool, the players had as off-day together. goals to settle the outcome. was in typically philosophical Qgrizovic. said. “I was pleased with tire leaders, fair and square. Normally we can carry two, but Hodge, with a fine header mood, MiMsting that another Bright’s contribution was way my players kept their heads In Barnet's 3-0 win at today we had nine.” HOWARD Wilkinson, the from a Sterland cross, and MARK Bright »"d Ian Wright grim afternoon was nothing equally lively and valuable, and under extreme provocation.” Underhill, the flat-out attacking Gary Bull, the Barnet for¬ Leeds United manager, must he Whyte, with an equally deft Aide formed the perfect partnership perplexed by the foci that his more than another lesson in showed he has lost none of his A touch of misplaced loyalty, style which brought them — and ward, thought it was his dub's at the near post, exposed the at Selhurst Park. Plenty of pace, professionalism. enthusiasm since Wright’s maybe, as Coventry were rather their opponents — so many goals best result so far. team is only occasionally men¬ deficiencies Waraock had a gift for goals and snappy in their first weeks in the tioned when the destiny of this “In a year’s time, I would like departure. He scored the open- •provocative, too. McGrath was Mansfield Town, who beat to think this was the kind of outlined. names for the headline writers— cautioned for felling Football League gave way to season's League championship fog goal Tr ip the fomath.mipute Cardiff City, moved to the top, * McAllister, a second-half sub¬ •“Bright sparks Palace”, “Palace McGoldrick and it was only the pragmatism, relying on solid is raised. match we would have won,” be of first-half - injury ?time" — but lead Barnet only on goal said. “Leeds' greater experience stitute for tire injured Chapman, get it Wright” etc. .reasoned tolerance of Gerald defence and swift breakaways. This is something of a mys¬ won a standing ovation from the following Mariya’s huge punt difference. carried them through and we Marco Gabbiadini, a £1.8 Ashby, the referee, which main¬ They took the lead after only six tery. A quarter of the season has supporters of both clubs with a million investment from Sun¬ Gabbiadini created the di¬ West Bromwich AUriOH took can’t stop making elementary tained a 22-man presence. minutes when Willis, having already elapsed and Leeds con¬ quite remarkable drive from 35 derland, will never please the version, hiring Atherton and over the leadership of the third mistakes in defence.” Coventry’s equaliser came been played onside by some tinue to make solid progress. yards. . Greenmail into an unsightly division, beating Brentford with After an encouraging opening, punsters by name alone. Yet he courtesy of Ashby’s vigilance, in dozy defending by Briggs, fired a The quality of their perfor¬ Johnson reduced the arrears and Bright are already showing collision, and Bright neatly a goal by Goodman in the 87th which reached its peak in the the 69th minute. He spotted fine 15-yard shot past McH- mance, against an admittedly in the 68th minute with a fine signs of a fruitful coalition in the lobbed Qgrizovic for his tenth minute. A last-minute equaliser thirteenth minute, when Lund Young’s elbow in dose proxim¬ hargey, and let Blackpool come poor Notts County team, served opportunist goal but, in many wake of Wright’s £2.5 million goal in as many matches. It was by Rodgerson gave Birmingham splendidly volleyed in a John¬ ity to Greenmail’s bead and to them until half-time. to further discredit the sugges¬ respects, the final scoreline was move to ArsenaL the only chink of light in a dire Oty a 3-3 draw with Wigan son cross from the right. County Gynn convened the penalty. Forays in the 51st and 61st tion that the title is sure to be the misleading. The gulf in class Gabbiadini lacks Wright’s first period punctuated by inju¬ Athletic and kept them in succumbed to the prodigious Gabbiadini — “Goalden Gabbi” minutes brought further goals. property of either Manchester between the sides was pure ability and agility. His ries and petty squabbling. First. Showier burst down the second place. workrate of the Leeds midfield. perhaps, to the tabloids - then United or ArsenaL cavernous. chunky frame is a legacy from a Bright was no saint in a sour Johnson, a genuine talent settled iL left before delivering a cross so BARNET: A Papr. G Poole, 0 Naylor. M On their return to the first NOTTS OOUNTY: S Own* C Palmar. A debilitating groin injury at struggle. He was booked for a accurate that Poole's header was Ekxfloy, □ Howefl (tub: F Murphy), R Wife, P division last season, Leeds won among honest journeymen, al¬ CJOVBITRY OTY; S Ogrtzovta B Bcnowa. VWaon. Payne (sub: D Horton). G Bui. K Paris, Grata Short (sub: R Drydan). D Yates. Roker Park and, while the foul on Emerson and also got C Graanman, S Robson, a Paaroe, P no more than a formality, then □ M Draper, 0 Thomas. P Turner, G Lund (air. Lowe, P Showier plaudits not only for the quali¬ ways matched the Leeds defend¬ excess flesh fades, he relies more involved when Pearce dipped Atherton (autx □ Emerson), L McGrath. M Showier went one better, scoring D Regia), K Battatt, T Johnson. Gwn. R Roeario, K Qsfacher. P Ndkwu (sub: BLACKPOOL:3L: S31 McSnmey; M Davies (sub: fied success they achieved but ers for ingenuity and often LEEDS UNITED: J UMc; M Stertand, A on instinct and fleetness of McGoldrick’s heels as tire final direct from a corner on the right. PStonemanJ.AWi), A Wright, PGrovee, G Briggs. I also for the fluidity and purpose¬ embarrassed them for pace but Dorigo. D Battv. C Fakdough. C Whyte, G thought. whistle sounded. CRYSTAL PALACE: N Martyn; G South- Billy Ayres, the Blackpool Gore, A Rodwel,steal, P Homer, Barnbar. T Stachan. C Stnstt, L Chapman (sub; G □ ful style of their football. It is it was simply a matter of time His first League goal for Steve Coppell, the Palace gate, L SSmotL A Gray, E YcwnA Thom. P manager, said: “We got what we Stoetek (autr. M Taylor), D Eyres. McAUater; aub:' C“ Kamara). S HHodge. G Mortimer tofl* fl Sfanri, G Thomas. M now becoming increasingly clear before superior technique was Palace, which decided a niggly manager, swiftly intervened to deserved: nothing. Too many Reform: J Makes. Bright, MGabtindW, E McGcriddak. that few sides will prove them¬ met with tangible reward. BWL encounter in the 81st minute. calm the macho posturing, while Referee: GAaitoy. • f *•";*. ,y ->-‘y lays Second division Third division Fourth division GM Vauxhail Conference B and Q Scottish League First division Statistics First division Premier division CHELSEA (1) LIVERPOOL (1) BARNSLEY (0) 1 BRISTOL C BIRMNGHAMn) 3 WIGAN 0 3 BARNET (1) 3 BLACKPOOL (0) 0 ALTRNCHM (ft 3 SLOUGH (ft AIRDRIE ST MIRREN (ft 1 CLYDEBANK (ft 3 AYR UTD MANCHESTER UNTIED versus Arsenal Jones 9 Myere 5Z MeMsnaman4 Currie 7B May 24 Sheltonft Sdondge13 Jones 5 W»s7Poote51 S(wr; AndaraceiZZ RuckrosaSBO Boyle 35 Coyte Martin 79 Eta»ey48 Henry 60 Smith 25 Shawl attracted the htoheat attendance of the BSott 58 («j) 6.560 CteghoniSZ Daley 40 63 Showier 61 McKenna 3G 73 ThoriQjson 615 94 Watson 86 2L500 1,200 season at 46j594, while Maidstone COVENTRY TO FORFAR (ft 0 CPALACfc (1) BRISTOL R (0) 0 PLYMOUTH TO 0 BodbuwnBB 9.662 BURNLEY p) 2 WALSALL TO D at McKinnon 5658 Kirkwood 90 RAtTHR TO wereus-Ftodhdtte was Vie lowest 0T the Gjgaxw, BritfH44 5.040 too FULHAM (II 3 □avis 20 (pen) 7JS9 BOSTON (Q) Z WYCOMBE (11 2 DUNDEEU 0) 1 STJOHM3TN (ft 2 589 Bnmater54 season with 1,016. Aldrfdge has ctearty Gafabaoniei CHARLTON (2) Moon 81 Nesbitt 79 French 11 TraanorBI (pen) KHJAARNCK (ft 2 PARHCK (1) EVtmuN nj) Z BRIGHTON (ft 0 BrazF 33 70 Cote 72 LancastriraZA Stapleton 31 84 become leadtog scorer although only ttx A VILLA 111 Netoonl Walsh21 6598 BRADFORD (0) 2 TORQUAY (in 0 CREW (Z) 8 SCAR BORO (01 3 1,709 B2Q2 85 WSam3on2Z Irena 3 Law 45 27.688 DERBY (0) OUNFRLNE 135 Shew 63 of his goals have been in the League. It Regis 32 Daley Z PORTSMTH (0) 0 Dmdxjty 51 Babb 77 4543 McKeamey 19 JUoa 85 Meyer 8u CHELTNHM TO 1 NOHTHWICH (ft 0 TO 0 (ft 0 was a quieter weekend ter dtamosals. LUTON (1) SHEFFWEO (1)2 McMbm52 13,190 HRBNTFORD (0) 1 WBA (I) 2 HignettSO Mooney 80 WHetts 77 (pari) 518 5,157 ar-5 Harford 28 NoQ«n 80 Hm 44 Sheridan 88 W*am»89 80 Ampedu 16 CMcoon67 ftfiSB MA^SRtoTO 1 FARNBORO (2) 2 EALKJRK (ft 4 CELTIC (D a MEADWBNK (ft 1 DUNDEE CD 2 with Just three. Scunthorpe have sup¬ 9.401 GRIMSBY 1 MIDOLS8RO TO o Goodman 87 DONCASTER (0) 1 GILLINGHAM (p) 1 OewaonTS Doherty 15 Read 22 Gram 20 og May 38 CoiteS 9 Cain 70 Bramnerll planted Southampton at the top of the MAN UTD (D 1 ARSB4AL (1) 1 Woods B2 10.265 DARUNGTN (Q) 3 SHRWSSRY (2) 3 Limber 88 Lowrii 50 75Z Stalnrad4T Duffy 63 McStey5384 750 Dodds 89 Foul Play table. Bruce 44 Schmetohei 39 (og) IPSWICH (0) 0 M1LLWAU. (ft 0 □bon 65 69 (pen) WELLING 11JB00 MONTHOSE (ft 4 STIRLING A (1) 1 46 594 Grtfmha15 66 1<468 MERTHYR TO 2 TO 1 11,175 HamBton 72 Henry 38 HALIFAX TO 2 CHESTRFLD (0) 0 D'Aurta 60 Abbott 89 HIBERNIAN (ft 0 MOTHRWLL (ft 0 McGscMe6467 76 Walters 45 iauH NOTTS CO (1) 2 LEEDS t/TD (ft 4 LEICESTER (2) 3 WOLVES (0) a 2,188 Norris 52 (pen) 62 1,506 WHamsSO 428 6.000 Dan Homan 90 589 hnafflTOTO^l.^?In..Snr^!nagZ3 Lund 12 ran 19 Gordon 5 48 EXETER O) s RANGERS (1) Z HEARTS MORTON (ft -1 HAMILTON 14.428 BURY TO 2 MAIDSTONE TO 1 ROCHDALE TO 1 RHDBROGE (ft Z BARROW (1) 2 (ft 0 TO 0 Johnson 62 29 Whyte 48 Wright 39 WBy 12 (pan) 56 Robinson 83 (pen) Sendaman48 Browne 50 Cherry 11 WsHs19 Brown 39 McCois144 36*481 McArthur 82 1,723 Lfl»Cup OBi Tot 12.964 _0*55 NEWCASTLE (2) 4 OXFORO (1) Z Criepraan 2945 1.016 332 MBthsBcbenka 90 12 - OLDHAM 2 WEST HAM (1) 2 Huit 14 HOME AWAY (2) Danin 3 Ford 47 Moran 83 1 MANSFIHJ3 (1) 3 CARDIFF TO 0 RUNCORN (1) 4 TO 1 P W 0 L F A McDonald 6 STMI35 Peeooch 33 48 90 Lews 72 HARTLPOOL (1) 2 sr Howel 77 uuv W 0 L F A Pb HULL (2) 8 Fee 3B WEfcraaon 50 3.180 Withers BBrabto 51 HOME Duke 13 5 0 117 6 Bmadier 40(00) MsAMmolS 16.454 SheuQhneaey 62 PW S 1 112 9 21 Dehon 41 SauBial 50 PByton 25 30 Charles 89 544 D L F A W D L F A PW PMk* 13 4 0 211 7 5 1 114 7 19 14365 PORT VALE m 3wra3ora73 SmaB (West Hard) SHEET UTD (2) 3 SUNDRLANDTO 3 Covert B4 NOHTWPfN (CR 0 SCUNTHRPE (1) Rren 13 1 119 S 5 0 113 4 13 3 3 011 -3 3 2 21212 17 8 4 NOTTMFOR (1) 2 Swan 2 Foyle 52 Brady 59 71 BariTO BOURNMTH (1) 1 ftS75 STAFFORD (ft 1 GATESHEAD (ft 3 13 2 0 6 1 5 0 21211 Beardsley jEvanon; 7 Whttetausa 14 P«s1ter2a Van dor Loan 56 Hx -- HeflwaB3 Hams 13 4 1 21314 3 2 Til 7 17 Quinn 33 WREXHAM (1) 3 CARLISLE TO Boom 66 Chsmbera21Z Abentan 13 ■1 113 5 4 2 16 2 Ayr Uld 13 4 0 217 5 3 1 31518 15 Fashenu nMmbkki) 7 Aosna 27 Bryson 48 Chortle BO SWINDON (0) 3J7B 707 Emson 84 Johnson (Nolls Co) 2 BLACKBURN (ft 1 Watkki i7Praece48 1.368 Mbanrim 13 3 013 5 2 3 18 6 13 2 3 2 0 8 3 t 2 0 8 14 6 Hoytaid“ 23JQ80 Write 65 Speeds 72 PRKTON (ft T HUOORSFLD (01 0 Thomas B4 WTTTON (1) 2 BATH (ft 2 curie 13 I 1HI 3 1 31311 SOTON TO 0 NORWICH (0) 0 Catdervioad 89 10.717 James 82 RMtlR 13 2 2 2 8 8 3 0 4 8 9 12 LgeCup 00. Tot 6,866 YORK (0) 1 LINCOLN McNeSsK) Randal 32 BoytaS 13 12 9 8 2 3 2 5 7 Oydriank 13 2 12516 WATFORD (0) 1 SOUTHEND (I) 2 TO t 2 31010 2 1 31110 11 Aldridge fTraranere) 10 READING (D) 1 PETSTBORO(I) 1 McCarthy BS Smith 54 Connor 61 13 3 213 9 1 3 2 8 8 13 2 2 31214 0 3 3 410 9 6 16 TOTTENHAM (0) 0 MAN CITY Porter 80 (pen) Submxx3 D*gnBS(pen) Shearer (Swindon) B 3 11 TO 1 CharioyX 1893 YEOVIL (0) 0 KETTBTING (1) 1 13 2 1 4 915 2 2 21212 11 13 1 2 4IU 1 3 2 818 9 30-502 Quran 76 6862 DuMn8l[og) ft9S4 Who* (Swfndon) 6 11 1.829 Graham 45 13 1 14 6 9 3 2 2 812 11 SMng A 13 0 2 4 613 2 1 4 5 9 7 WIMBLEDON TO 0 OPR TO 1 SWANSEA (2) 2 STOKE 13 1 0 6 814 2 1 3 811 7 Bull (tfrotvea) 7 a 4.630 BwtoySi HOME TO 0 HOME AWAY Mrirta Forte 13 1 0 6 717 I 1 4 413 B AWAY Harris 9 Davies 14 3J63 HOME AWAY aifimn 13 0 2 4 5 9 I 1 5 618 6 Speeds (Bwum) 8 a PW D L F A W D L F A Pis PW 0 L F A W D L F A PB PW 0 L F A WD L FAPB 2 5 415 0 0 6 017 2 Wldnaon (MBddbro) 7 8 HOME AWAY 14 a 11 3 1 110 3 5 1 011 3 26 13 0 Second dvlsion PWDIFAWD L FAPB 1 012 1 2 1 4 710 26 13 2 1 2 7 7 8 0 014 5 31 Peacock (Nawca&fle) 5 8 CsmMdBi 12 HOME AWAY 12 6 0 11710 2 2 112 7 26 Oufrm (Newcastle) kteilRd 12 4 3 013 2 4 i 062 1 113 5 4 0 211 W 25 PW nyeamte 12 4 D 214 7 5 1 013 6 28 5 a a Mdi 13 D L F A W D L F A FtS 12 5 1 014 2 2 2 2 8 7 24 JEWSON EASTERN COUNTIES Foyfe (Port VSie) Leads UU 13 4 2 012 6 112 8 26 1 112 9 2 3 1 10 9 B WMBroai 12 5 12 4 1 113 7 3 3 013 7 25 TO 0 E STIRLING (1) 1 5 8 3 3 Ssdndai 12 1 115 8 2 1 213 B 23 1 015 4 3 1 2 5 7 a 11 B 0 014 2 1 2 2 2 5 23 Tetord 14 4 1 31715 2 1 3 BIS 20 LEAGUE: Planrier dtvfekm: Canard & Dlw22 Mm tty 13 3 0 3 fl S 4 1 2 8 7 22 CMtsn 12 0 211 7 12 2 017 9 2 2 1 5 4 25 11 2 3 1 5 3 3 2 0 8 4 20 ThetfordO; HavmMft Brighttigsaa ft HiMtMaion LgeCup Otoi Tot Anar* 12 4 1 114 S 2 2 21310 21 2 2 t 7 5 23 run mg 10 3 2 0 9 4 2 2 1 5 8 19 (ft 0 STRANRAER (ft 0 Derby Co 13 1 213 7 2 3 1 7 6 22 21712 3 0 2 3 4 24 12 3 1 1 9 2 3 1 3 912 20 Wtaai 12 3 2 112 9 1 3 2 8 9 17 Btogkra (Stoke). 11 2 13 SfeAWel 13 5 0 116 7 1 3 3 7 B 21 12 1 Huddsnfld 0 4 0 3 2 21210 22 IT 4 1 110 2 2 0 31210 19 BASS NORTH WEST COUNTIES Hotosworth (BTord) 7 CMrtty 13 4 1 311 5 _2 1. 2 5 7 20 Q U a 1 1 4 414 13 12 2 D 3 8 8 3 2 21011 17 BRECHIN 5 12 Bristol C 13 2 19 7 1 2 3 813 IB 116 B 1 2 2 714 21 Crane 12 2 3 212 9 3 t 113 6 19 10 2 2 21110 2 2 0 7 4 18 -LEAGUE: Fteab Karchar Cup: Arfiton Town 1homeon80 Memgirrnghm) 5 4 9 C Piises 1! 3 1 21112 3 I 21112 20 Stadvort >15 0 4 2 112 B 19 a St Helena 4; Backpoal Mechanics 1, Moran (Eyter) Blattum 12 2 19 4 2 I 3 7 8 IB L Onset 1 2 3 912 20 11 1 2 1 0 6 SkMgk 10 3 0 2 7 3 2 1 210 7 10 lorimer 90 8 - 8 AVaa 13 3 1 210 4 2 2 3 810 18 12 12 7 7 3 2 210 S IB 0 9 6 2 0 3 9 9 19 tamtarpa 12 3 2 0 8 4 2 1 4 613 18 12 2 2 3 9 B 2 2 1 3 3 16 Kttta Road (Man) 1; Boode 2, Ashton Uld ft CLYOC (ft Trraran r 7 1 8 CMtaa 13 2 4 11410 2 2 2 910 IB Sarihond 12 2 5 3 2 2 21110 IB ChestelU 12 2 t 3 ft H 3 1 2 5 7 17 Chaddarton 0.- Gteaop ft Cheedte ft 13 8 0 3 2 1 0 4 IB State WMno 14 0 5 Z 9T3 3 2 213T3 16 rnp8on4751 5 3 8 Uwrpod II 3 2 0 8 4 1 3 2 5 6 17 Portsmouth 12 10 8 1 1 2 4 411 18 011 7 1 3 2 4 6 18 CuiSH 11 3 0 210 5 0 4 2 510 13 Weatfxughton 1; CMhenre 0. 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Bradford Park 30 McBride® Fourth dvWon 12 0 3 9 9 2 3 21110 15 2 2 5 1 5 0 5 4 16 11 I 4 I I 7 1 2 2 5 6 12 KtekmBtr 13 3 Z 114 9 1 0 6 816 M Sudden 73 Evsm 13 3 3 112 7 1 1 4 711 Timm 12 2 Shnurtuy 12 3 2 0 9 4 511 16 Scartno 12 3 1 2 8 7 0 2 4 716 12 Avenue 1; Penrith 1, Bomber Bridge 3; 8u0 (Barnet] 11110 1 3 2 6 6 1$ Baton CUteriam 11 2 2 2 3 9 1 3 11013 14 ON Of STH (1) 2 Wndcti 13 2 3 1 7 8 1 4 2 BIT Sunferlted 13 2 1 9 8 2 1 51519 15 12 3 2 1 7 31114 10 Hrifat II 1 2 4 412 2 1 I 4 4 12 13_3 Z 111 5 0 3 4 816 12 Staimeredale 0. Boacough ft Squires Gate Thomson 42 IS 3 3 11410 1 0 4 5 9 Monm 13 2 21110 2 1 4 813 13 12 2 3 1 13 4 913 15 York 11 2 3 1 9 fl 0 2 3 2 6 11 2, Bteekpool ft ViuM&0,^Maghiil 1. 13 2 1 4 918 2 2 2 8 7 12 4 12 I 3 2 9 9 1 2 3 8 9 11 Templeton 46 nos cb Snaky 14 3 5 813 1 2 3 6 9 14 a 212 3 611 15 Uncoil 11 0 T 3 110 3 1 3 7 B 11 SNffod 12 1 2 3 5 9 1 2 3 410 10 ARTHURIAN LEAGUE: Premier iSvtskn VMttm 13 1 2 3 5 7 1 » 2 911 4 7 9 2 1 3 7 7 13 12 1 < 7 2 8 7 14 12 2 3 2 7 8 0 1 4 313 10 OW Anftriens 0. Old AMenhetiriens ft Old 13 0 4 2 5 9 2 2 3 BID 12 12 1 Yaoril 11 2 0 3 3 4 0 2 4 411 6 OPR Kasiasdi 11411 f 0 5 714 13 2 3 6 6 13 Aldenfnt 11 1 2 2 7 7 1 1 4 3 9 9 CWthuefett 4, ad Brertwoods 1; Od 13 1 2 4 413 12 2 9 1 2 2 7 5 0 1 3 4 It 6 Sow 1 2 3 6 6 ID OdM 1 2'0 8 0 0 6 615 ID 2 1 1 51012 11 GtoUo 12 0 2 4 812 I 2 3 710 7 9 0 12 14 1 2 31012 6 Chigweians 5. Lenong Qd Boys ft Cad Luttn 13 2 3 1 7 6 D 1 6 123 16 Bristol fl 2 21010 12 I 1 1 2 4 513 11 OoncRsar 12 1 1 4 614 0 2 4 611 6 0 I 5 310 S ferffeflttfi Etorriera ft OW Foresters ft Old Reptanisns saM 13 2 2 3 BIO 0 1 51018 S nyeHuoi I 2 610 D 2 5 718 S II 1 4 2 0 3 5 9 10 OLD BOYS LEAGUE Premier dMston: ft Otd Mttvemians 1. First dMston: CM 11 2 1 0 1 4 011 10 Barclays Bank 1, C Mewing 4: EnBeld 4. Hafleyburtans 3, Old BradtlekSana 3: OH FAIR PLAY WSfim PONTINS CENTRAL LEAGUE: First c&- West Bran FA TROPHY: Second tjuafitying rwnfc ftHeaUngs 1, Bury 2; Havant T. Burnham 1; 12 I 4 0 4 2 810 6 Liverpool IfictortaVfctoria fta oiynGtyn_2. z. ChoteoyT:uiernoy WaCngburtans 7. OH wyhahanriste 1. T«W 12 2 4 VWoru Aston VHb ft Everton ft Souitoort 4, North Shields 1: Accrington 0. Newport toW & Sudbury 1. 0 0 6 213 6 Latymer 1. Southgate Olympic 1: COH Sheffield Wed 6 GREATMILLS LEAGUE: FramtardMtion: Aknatana ll.Tarariay 1;0ldBtaaitoniaEdmontonians SOUTHERN OLYMPIAN LEAGUE; Rrst Chariton Stanley 5. SMdon 2: tferthetarton ft Whdtey ft Weymouth Z Hythe 1; Chard ft anor* ft Dawflrtl ft Oovodon ft 8 Witney 0, Bridntres 1. Midland dhrtokm: I, Old Meadorriara ft Old Lyontens 1, COld dMstorc Ootposa 1. RarWwtd 3; OU Yak 6 SSSfe1' i ThW dMatoft Exmouth 3. Wtttofi ft PauNon i, Mtoehaadft Beatontons t, Wian T; OH Owens ft Ftortsmouth Bridgnorth ft RC Wa*w* 4; Grantham 4. SSSSm e ***** ft Eastbourne 2. Danes 1:i: OldOH SaNataronsSatuatorans 4, COH 1 5 RusMsn 1; HncHey 3, Stroud ft King's Tormgton 0, MenaotefMd 3; Wanton super tsteworttriarw 0: OH SouOnHans ft OU Nottsborough 1; OH Pamriterians & St Bristol Rov RftteraMd ft Epeom and Ewei 1, Cow 1 Mere £ Uskeeid brittle T. 7 utwsnne 3: Dudtay 2. Shecohed 1; Lym 0. Bfeton ft SoBsril Batumi 4. Yea 1. HyiaflansS. Mate’s CoAteJe ft Grimsby 7 NORTHERN LEAGUE: Fbat dvtebrt: Btytti ABACUS WELSH LEAGUE Natural dF Huddersfield Eastwood Town 1. Rhyl 2: Droytoden 1. NFS LOANS LEAGUE Premier (fvtotorc Spartans 3. BSngham Syrrihonia 2 7 Mnstard 1. Wfenhel 2. Matlock 3. Leicester Oty Z Enriey 0: Chaney 1, rtslore Cwmbran 3, Ebtw Vale 3; RsmcMe SCHOOLS MATCHS: Englah Schools FOUL PLAY SMoff Booked Did 1, Gainsborough 9, Buxton 1. Moor ,.r Ouitaorough 0. Loraley Perk Welfae 1; 1. HavartadwoM 3; (near Cardtt 3, Briton Brttsh Gas Trophy: Second round: Kkkby Pateriee Newtown ft Newcastle Bbe Star 1; Fteiy ft Pembroke i. Brecon 1; Ton Pantre 0. and Knowsleyl. Manchester 1:MrosfieHft Seuithorpe 24 3reen 3. Chesham T. Leyton Wingate & 4. Bishop Auckland ft Leek 3. Howtoti 1; iSSftJ. Stuff Utd 9aridng 0. ChaUont SI Peter £ Sims 0. Mossfay ft Sutybndga 1. First (Bristarc Soaham Fled Star 0, Consort 1: Tow Law 1. Abergavenny ft South Notts 1; Medway 1. Worthing ft wen 23 Farrytrii Atttsta ft WhWdwni ft Brandon S. SuftaAftHoriow I.En^bh Schools Adldaa Southampton «ybnd» Swifts 1. Sutton Coldfield & Caernarfon 1. Worksop 3: Cohwi Bay Z NORTHeiN COUNTIES EAST LEAGUE Lincoln 23 -wyes & Bishop's Stafford 1, Borehotn Congteton 1;(xrisetoy 2. RossandatoZ; Mam SOUTHERN AMATEUR LEAGUE: Old Trophy Under-1ft Lancashire 1. South IS a«RNOFF IRISH LEAGUE: Aide 4. P*tanlans T, Net West Bor* ft Old YmriMM 1. Under 1& Lancashire 0, South ARrianR Sunderland mod 1: HtaNna St Afaans 3; Wonbley 0. Z Fonrioy Cette ft Knowrtey 2. BridSngton B8?*8?4- ^Ppb^Cowtadea 1. Bangor S: Coventry 20 rtgctoH 0. DcxWnQ 2. YeoAna t; Bromley 2. Town 1;t. NemunsothetOeld 1.i. Curaonuurxan AsMonww ft fahametofts 1, Old Bronrieians ft OU Yorkshire 0. Caffetky Under 19 23 Coteraina 0. Newy v, ojndere ft Ssvwjbury 0, Chester tt London Rangers ITALIAN LEAGUE Certain 1, Inter ha*, 1; Maidenhead ft Beatfey 5. Aahfbid 1: Warrington 1, Newtown I; Watiatinngtagle i 1. Seasons 1. South Bank POr ft »» ft EccieeM ft Ossett Town 1. LNoraadge i; at aaitoraift Lameft Gtemwen ft UnfMd 4, E?|7tecfiftc 4; Royal Bank Scodand 4. Afeyn Cup Wtogton 3. South London 5. Oomcneso 3, Verona ft Ffcraniina ft Bvl ft NottaCo RadeBre Borough ft ChaBengetge Cup: IRrat CamdrftOmjgh l.CaftonvtteftPwtedmm PonWraet C811, ShellWd Z: Sutton Twm 5. 20 round: Lancaster City 0. H] Igllllerroeto^gfe 3 ft BaOymeno ft Old Bays ft Cuaca ft Merton 1; Brentham 0, Atmthoroe weflara 1; TTMCkley 1. Maftby Goorteend Trophy: SouOi East Urefsey ft ~ ' 1, Ascqfi ft Lazio 1. Genoa I: AC RalgateRnoryO. Unooin ft Woriaop 3. Skeston 1. Pteirra ft Napka 0. Juventus 1: DtADORA LEAGUE: Premier erivtaton: MW I. Sampdots 0, Atateitoft Tortio l AS Roma tridgend ft Newport AFC 4, SaKsnh T: Basingstoke 1, Enfield 2; Cerahaltan 3, 1 LetefingpdSttortKt.ACkaan. played 6. mdl.DorchesterftSefebuiy^ Taunton T. WokfcighanZ; Grays 4, Whenhoa 1; Hendon tOpto; ft AMrttua, 7, tft 3, Naples. 7,0. (Moot 'A VASE: PreBrnteery round replay*: 3, Bogna 1; Kfengtarien ft AyladMry 1; BORO GAIS LEAGUE OF IftBJWD: games) iwaatown 2, Btaxwicri ft First Tower 1, Windsor end Eton 2. Sutton Uld ft Woking 2 — • otd ow i nil 2a MrtxmeZ. ft Rrst (Makar Croydon 1, »alia in CAZER HOMES LEAGUE: Premier <*- LMxfdge Z Abingdon Town 4, Stevenage Dh»3(12j S UfeK Cambridge Oty2, Dartord ft Coitoy Borourti a Second dMater Berktismstad Oh 4 (ift | , Chelmsford ft Cremey 3, Poole 3; Flsfwr T«»m Z. WHham ft BBorieay 0, PurflMt ft Patrick's Alhlntfc 1 Egham ft Leothertieed i: Hemal Henpetead Wgheat ot wet , Broun 1; Gloucester 0, Dow 4; WOAABfS FA: Premier dMston: Don¬ Araenai) Lower mvesend Z VS Rugby 3; Trowbridge 1. ft Baton 1; Maiden Veto 4, Han&rid ft ateoowon i. Worcester 1, Waoldarona 0- MetrtipcriKan Poke* 2. Saltan Walden ft caster Betas 4, Red Star SouttemHon ft 8tert8vRochdal outtwm OMstorr Canterbury Qty 1. Bonham ft Wans 1; RusSp Mom 3. TewnO, Kncwafay Utd 1: Mridstone 'AnanoaneM Hutgeriord ft Souths! ft WorOing ft w 1, Wtabtodon4; Notts Rmgen 0. anrtam I.Erffliarrt BehredereO. Bafckck PORECASTs DMdmds w« t» tow w!ih 13 boot* drew* and *re nrweere^draw. No rtafens required. Lionesses ft D " ", : THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER 21 1991 Sport 39 V .y ; *j FOOTBALL IAN STEWART SWIMMING ' * vj* • ■■y Gillingham ' . / iv'i Options narrow for powers ■■■ wk i t ^ W*M Souness as injury to world vTaJyf(.. record By Craig Lord recovery takes time NICK Gillingham received a five-minute standing ovation from his home crowd at Chelsea.2 it was having, too, on the Souness will have to do Slcchford, Birmingham, last Liverpool.2 national team. something more inspired if night after recording 2min In Bill Shankly*s day, Liver¬ Liverpool are to keep the 07.93sec to set the first world By Olive White pool would not even admit to leaders in their sights. Even he short-course record ai 200 me¬ injuries, let alone complain conceded that be could not ask tres breaststroke since 1955. about them. And as for there for any more from the players *;■* ’ * Gillingham, aged 24. from IAN Rush's dot in the 59th being too much football, he had available, though that 4 ;• rTJ v # % “'f • r* '■ prepare for the Barcelona Olym¬ Sri* nl«*ra5u.’L*i2- fingers and Calderwood forced college-created automaton won twice on the US Tour this body else produce a brilliant like the gent he is. pic Games. AS A kit container was wheeled the winner across the line. out of the County Ground on Saturday, speculation grew that An astute close season free second half when White tapped transfer from Bury, Aidan Kenny Dalglish was hidden in. YACHTING inside it Instead, the new Davison, die MUhrall goal¬ Blackburn scored from their keeper, produced the latest in a Dassu picks ideal time manager of Blackburn Royers first- threatening attack. JJam- emerged to face reporters,^ but ' string • of -' anpressive - perfor¬ OLYMPIC GAMES: The com¬ mond dived to his left to repel mances to earn his side a point Warden Owen said so little abom the 2-1 defeat Livingstone's shot, but the re¬ mittee hoping to bring the in the 0-0 draw at Ipswich Town. to end a six-year wait Attempt is Olympic Games to Manchester to Swindon Town that he might bound fell conveniently for that forced to as well have been secreted away arch opportunist, Speedie, to One of the brightest young in 2000 was one of four leading in that skip. equalise. outfield talents in the division is From Patricia Davies in carimate, solan candidates who outlined their Dalglish retains the wary Swindon could have won Kieron Brady, Sunderland's battle breeze thwarted cases 3t the congress of the THErHE Italians have a reputation highly trained athletes, the Scot, General .Assembly of Inter¬ attitude towards the media comfortably had it not been for teenage winger who eased the Bermuda — Eddie Warden ANKE Huber, of Germany, foror the theatrical and Federica a self-confessed keep-fat fanatic, national Sports Federations which characterised his days at Mimms, who conjured a series pressure on Denis Smith, his Owen and his British crew aged 16, prevented Martina Dassu,Dassu, without a victory for the admitted she had run out of pnff (GAJSF) in Sydney. Triathlon’s Anfield. So it was that a of defiant saves. Sadly for the manager, by scoring twice in a 3- fought back from being two Navratilova equalling Chris lastast six years, upstaged first even before her morning match ruling body was granted question about his priorities in Rovers’ goalkeeper, the after¬ 3 thriller at Port Vale. down in the finals of the Omega Evert’s record of 157 tennis TrishIrish Johnson and then, in the against Pam Wright, which she tournament wins when she beat membership of GAISF. training was greeted with con¬ noon was marred by an error SWINDON TOWN: N Hammond; 0 Gold Cup match race champ¬ final.inal. Dale Reid to win the won by one hole. tempt “None of your business, reminiscent of those which blot¬ Komtota, N Suwnmboa. T Janos. C ionship against Rod Davis, of the American in the Filderstadl TRIATHLON: Mark Allen, of Woolmark matchplay champ¬ Grand Prix final yesterday. that is private," be said. ted his time at Tottenham CMttnnadl S Taylor, M Hazard, D Shaorar, New Zealand, to level the series Reid had little left to offer the United States, won the F Sfenpaon, R MacLvan, S WNte. ionship, and a cheque for It was tbe second lime Presumably, Rovers will work Hotspur. against Dassu and lost the 9th. Gatorade Hawaii Iron Man for BLAWWJRN ROVERS: 8 Mown*: M at the halfway stage here yes¬ £12,000, here yesterday. Navratilova had foiled. She lost on defending corners. Both A minute from tune, Swindon Oudxay. MAflam.N Raid, KH9.K Moran. J terday (Barry Pidcthall writes). 10th and 11th to pais to go five the third time and the VMqok (art: A (rvtw). L Rfclwdaon. O The only Italian in the orig¬ down. Even holing a 30-foot to Monica Seles, of Yugoslavia, Zimbabwean, Paula Newby Swindon's goals arrived via gained another comer and al¬ Racing in a light, fickle in the Milan final last week. Spaotfw, S Urtnostone (art S Gamer). S inal field of 64, Dassu could not putt for a birdie-three at tbe 12th Fraser, look her fourth title. slack marking at such set pieces, though Mimms got both hands Sorts. breeze, the eariy results in this Jo Durie, tbe British No. 1, have managed things better. Her did her no good, for Dassu, who □ the first midway through the to White’s header, he permitted Rateraa: R Groves. best-of-seven final did not re¬ has withdrawn from the Euro¬ RUGBY UNION: John Liley. previous two wins were in the made few mistakes, holed from flect the run of play but the pean women’s team champ¬ tbe Leicester full back, kicked 14 dim distant days of 1984 and 15 feel fora half Two boles laier degree of luck associated with ionship in Nantes from points as the Midlands beat 1985 and she rated this for racing inside the narrow con¬ it was all over. November 28 to December 1. London 24-15 at Northampton Rangers regain Scottish summit fines of Hamilton harbour. “It’s above them. “The competition to take their first divisional RESULTS (GB and Ire unless anted* CYCLING: Sean Kelly, of Ire¬ like a crap-shoot out there" is so much more serious now," championship title since 1985. RANGERS returned to the top within 40 seconds, the contest permitted McCoist*s pass to run Second round: H Wadsworth bt G Stewart, land, produced a storming finish Davis admitted. she said. at 26tfi Third roinxt F Derail It) bl X At Gloucester, Gerry of the premier division on was remarkably one-sided on to Mikhaffichcnko, who to win the Giro di Lombardia For Warden Owen, who beat Dassu, whose putting was it) Wwuch (Sp). 2 and 1: P Gonzalez JCoQ bt 5 Ainscough, ofOrrell, steered the Saturday as all of the other thereafter. scored his fim goal in Scotland. Sbvdwck, at 20th. S Gronberg (Sam) bt J for the third time on Saturday. the top-ranked Chris Dickson, good order all week, dem¬ Germs [SAJ. 2 and I; T Johnson bt H MOTOR RALLYING: David North to a 34-9 victory over the challengers faltered in the chase. Rangers* goals were closely Elsewhere, Aberdeen and South and South West. Japan's America's Cup skipper, onstrated its quality by holing Dobson. 3 and 2; M Gamer bt M Limn (Aua), Liewellin, of Wales, yesterday spaced either ride of the inter¬ Hibernian both dropped a point 4 and 3t P Wngm bt C Dully. 3 an) 1. S (Roddy Forsyth writes). 4-2 in Saturday’s semi-finals, from 20 feet for a half, in par, at won the 166-mile Audi Sport val, the first arriving when while Celtic went down 4-3 IfefcUn bt K Iterated. 2 and 1; D Real bt H EQUESTRIANISM: Mary The champions began the day the wildly oscillating breeze the 18th to stay one up on Wadsworth, 7 and 6. Quarter-Urate: Dassu International rally but Colin Stevens reached the byline be¬ against Falkirk, despite the Thomson, one of Britain's win¬ in second place behind Heart of made it impossible to cover his Johnson in the semi-final, and bt Gonzalez, 5 and 4; Johnson bt Gronberg, McRae, of Scotland, who came ning team at the European fore cutting the ball back for encouragement of an eariy goal 1 against Reid she went out in 33, 2 and 1; Wright bt Gamer, 3 and ft Bet) bt Midlothian, their visitors at rival after winning all four starts NMdbt, at Zlst Sammnata: Dassu bt third, claimed the Shell British Championship, yesterday won Ibrox, and although the Edin¬ McCoist to beat Smith. Five from CoHms and two more from decisively. Russell Courts beat three under par, to be three up. Johnson. 1 hole; Rod bt Wight. 1 note. Open championship title io the the French three-day event at Le burgh team alarmed Goram minutes alter the break. Hateley McStay. Dickson 3-1 for third place: Not one of tbe game's most Float Dassu bt Reid. & and A. one-day Telford-based event. Lion d’Angers on King Samuel. TORTNEftECORD NtfWoot Bunk 1:B0dng«tfta l.M I; Cttvos RUGBY UNION BASKETBALL CYCLING HOCKEY fWtanouth 3. Wtean ft Epnri ft bid ORIENTEERING TABLE TENNIS ATHLETICS Edwanfcra «; FM 3. Morton 1; Mat Polo 0. AQT DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Uslende Souttmrawi Uw 1; OW WNcouttara 4, PIAS-Y-BRENIN: Senior tamo Mamottonal: L£Ep& intornotlanaf maidc Man England bt 24. London ift Saute ana Soutfi west 9. Oaeral: 1, EnplBrd.2S1pt»: 2.8cotlantf.343 NEW VOUKHVii AJWJ* U? rtrttte OB ft Oaten Z. Gran ft Cbted Z OB M (Enatond nernee tel C Proan M A Nwtnem34. MMuarao. 21-7 2117. M Send tost to W vaea (GB). Smln WTSoec 2. F OTten pat WWgHona 4. Kant-Suoaotc 9CC 3. Tharao P W D L F A Pt« 3S7.2T; 1 « K»*or ftet i- V PtW ft Z StewmoAo JL Mttend , RUGBY LEAGUE Meteurte. 1221. 1621; Chen XrtvA M h Uctende.— 3 3 0 0 75 34 6 WrtA 1621.21-12.21-15, Preen end Cnen Q‘Su*Mn OnO. M7.43; 5, M Grtbere (Den). Bonk ft aweaml ft «A*Susmb 1. Norm- ... 3 1 1 1 56 36 3 ALLIANCE: Finn dMstore WorWnjjton 10. Croutwou^i ft GW Boesatwrten* ft Homo toot to artoMiara oral KMatteMa 1S21.13-01. London- 3 1 » 1 35 36 3 Wftao"35._ 9yMMeUatouaraa.19ft1.21-19.2MI Own aay&CteHotcorttenaaO»dWtearnaonian«2 , Scum West. -.. 3 0 0 3 19 78 0 43625. 3. E van Hrtt CtetstrO. 7 Mddnax. Barta. Bucks teal Owjrc 1 bi Y Usiatevto. SftO. 21-7. Preen pi SteMani AimfSham ft MB Hi 1; Goranft Oom 3. ADT COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP: Sorter First _SHOOTING_ 21-1621-19) Woman: Engtand toet to Jraen. 4 BOXING_ Windsor 1. I Imran 1, Sutoxy ft Uertom ft , (Motor: Comwol 37. HerttordsHre 6. Hamp- 1 (England nenws H A Gordon too) to W Ware 30, Mdraeses 0 ®SLEY. Tratatgor Trophy; 1. Roy* Monroe, Ha*Hra.l34f. 1fi21.AHoftloaiionStop.S2i. Mttpte (E MfcDonald lSaUz. ROyM Nay,. 1.461 i Bftt. Oonfem rad Hell loetto Hoatore rad Stop ATLANTIC COY. ERNST ANO YOUNG LEAGUE: Promlar P W D L F A Pis CornmL -- 3 2 0 1 71 32 4 (PDaral 191) Team maten (Cteon'a ft 1.RAF !6ft1, iBfti, HM loto to Hosiww. 14-21. 17 21: _ . _ . . 1; Bofcw 1. HewpWe — . - 3 2 0 l 60 ZB « TRC. 2016 (J Hotoee 1 OS 1ft; 2. Sumy HA. GotkwMSaiPL Ififtl,21-lft21-17)_ Edrtmon >; Bomteti 1. Coventry and Nortf! 1399 (J HBnan 104.13)_ saima iSSteteMn 1 Lfltoataf WratUgh ft anon Mdraeemi. 3 2 0 1 50 5* 4 sr*j wan npauftras i. Hens -- 3 0 0 3 34 91 o _VOLLEYBALL_ SECOND DWIBOW Dawn ift Kan 23. Sarey SQUASH RACKETS njssm. znr tSmi ZZaac, Z VMaEBwotassw/. NORTH PREMIER LEAGUE: AkteNy Eifee f. ROYAL BANK SCOTTISH NATIONAL Durrani UnN l; Ben KiMteig ft (Won ft 34. Etorksrae lB. 77*0 Ortolan: Dorset vto VWWrW 1ft GtoucestanOwe 1ft Sussex 14. LEAGUE: Women: Rrw dMstotr Prpvmcdl Broattenra ft NDflMai 1; Daley ft rauroncs M Adaoeen Kyle. 9-15. 1612.1612. RaragwMs ft SnaAwi 1. Boodbn 1; TJmponay Semeraetfi Fount rBrtrtn: Buckmohemsiwe 16, Eeeicrn Cbutoos IS SIS. 17-16; Gtoegow mwamouan or Join. iSft. ft SmM ft Yortt 4. Liverpool Snhon 1: 168.1M DtetteraO, Norton ft NORTH: FM OMStolE Contone 1ft Vterwtdr- stare 1ft LencssNro 1ft Yodamae ft , IE WWWW Mwe W“ P W D L F A PW YACHTING SotSodl (Innjljnte 3a89soc-1 LencrtOm_ 3 2 1 0 64 47 5 yorttetoe- 3 2 0 < 67 4S 4 CANNES: Star ctora wold cramptonehto* CtSim...... 3 1 0 2 S (I 2 Fourtn top: 1. T Onte and U Fantea (at Z R WorwrekaWe- 3 0 1 2 S3 66 i Fornresto and G Artnee R). 3. h Roudoactol SECOND DIVISION: North Urtoto 27. ennx Gntoer (Auaowl Ftfoilere 1. P Benornui Leceatondm 6; HaOtoteted 3ft Nods. jndMSelaraitf)ftPcTAtendAVepetiiraj 3.M Lines and Dertry 6. TTtfrfl ctrtston: CrasNre 29. neynokto and H Hoenel (US) i Sodkodam ift Durham 4ft Em Urfienra 0 Xu Owner (Chaut. 588* _ CLUB MATCHES: B3b* VUe 1ft Newport tft- BoroughmraAft Swrata/MeMe FP T; weei ol MTBWAT10NAL MATCH: Unted SMss 1. Scotland 16 Gtaegow AcademcalB 25. BADMINTON Mota Korea Z (In WraNnQfaft Bndoena 14, Gtout»Bn Wenoerera 1ft Bote ft NORTH EAST LEAGUE: Brat dMskxc London Scottah ft Afaemat 36. Moaetey ft GtencrtnftWHiarawn 1; Carte 4. Dortmo- ftistoi 2ft Gedtord 3; Brougmrm Mr ID. OrreR _TENNIS_ ■n £ Norton CL SsxWon ft South Starts i. 7: CnmOndge Urtv 26. CertHi ift Loaester 12. &xm$ SERVICE ORLANDO. PkaWK Man's townwraant Und- Tynemouth 1; Sunrartend ft Uorpetft I; i Ooucastor 2ft London Water ft), Uma 3ft LYONS: Man's uumomenc TtM round: B teeth 52. Coventry ID. Newbridge 33, Cron taa final Kont (US utfaw ttttedl: 26ft M Tynetete 1. Hodcar i. _ Graert PJ8) bt A UancH [Aral &Z. ftz. Soml- Kays 12: Newcastle Gaidorth ift Roaotyn Preli 7: OMaon. Gft 0ft M. 64.0ft DPaaptas, 6ft 67. flnoic 0 Detetro (Fr) bt 3 Bruguare (SH, 6-*, ft CaleraatarS, BsxtBuma 1; faswefi 4. Mmrari Noangram 23, Maeneg IS; ftmtygaol 38, 6ft 66. 26ft P Adnoar. 7ft 65. £r5?27ft S CW 0; Palana ft Soda Eagfaa ft Puatxmup _ICE HOCKEY_| 4; p Sampras (US) M Glbert. 6-1. 6-2 Fwat BteJDlon (AoO). BS. 71,87.67.271; J Cook. SB. VWeriao 17: atMtrtgoft Exeter 34: Smud7, ft Croatyx ft WooloW ft Wlabnch I; Wart Harta Eamnebt Oaten. &1. ft i ». An Gravi rt. 67.66.67; PLOW ftn. NATIONAL LEAGUE (Wftft Pridoy. BuRlto Trodogar 1ft WOUUtd 1ft Ecktough Acads s ftrteMm Monte* ft 36. London Mh 2ft MeOopctten Patou 7 m FLDBtSTADT, Germany: Women * tour- Seoree a Mornreel Conartne i nemenC Quansr-flnale: j Wtaenar lAustrie) bi J PBtOM SOUTH LEAGUE: Procter dhteten: knber Corel). Rwanond 13, weeps ift imtD W Coptete ft New Jersey Dart S. 8o&u«ay: tevoino (Cz). 7ft 6ft SomMHfc A HuDer TOKYO: Men's Kwimrant: LaocSnQ final Soanor 1. Frttam 7; EaantaftAncratera ft BKfchert tft LAigK»ttwgit Students 21. oaraa (Japwi moatt aateen.2» H teas, HertfordtStfotd wMn «.*. ButetoBufteiD Srtra 1. Wash-'Vjtan- (Get) M H Srtwo (CZ). 63. 7ft U tevruStWa ■ Wycereba A UferMnp ft CW BenSmt 1. m. fift rt. tezr*uobU.bji, et. ® 27ft haton CtetfMi ft New Jaraey Oert f; SCHWS’PK CUP: Second raxtt AOertam (US) M Wearer. 62, 7-fl Rnet Huber W Cairtocrtey 0; Old IkMn 4. QteMta 1: EJnornoo Oters 4. New Yak Uenders 2 New 27. PstoyrcK ft Abetaevo ft Cowerten 6 N Yitfm. 71, Bft 8ft 74.Z7B; N teftraa.69,7ft fterraate 1. Qrtd ttetet & YftUng i, NavraUova. 2ft ft2.74 70.66. York Ftanrara 5. PBWnaon Pengrte 4; Deoat (Oowenra war on try nAngl Abagtvtmy Ift Msttei R ft Hanfshke-Suray; Bane* 1, Rad Mtog* ft arte NonfcyiesJ: Montreal BSC rial Trtat & Abmarayai 4. Uandsfio 17. Cantfcna t. PhiadllpNi Ryere ft Winnipeg Anaranhrt 1 ft Sevan Stoleis ft Banax Ua* 9, Jets 4, Toronto Uafte Loafs ft Pontyetas iftBraweniftTnysytwri 10 Seddeu ift CovrtfUge ft Dlaarau Cwete 0, Oooryceftog Tft CsniR H80B 3*. WatHdam sssSsgsS?1® ~ MOTORCYCLING ~~ 1ft Cerdfl netArie 11. GarndRaKh 19. Cetn g-^MSE5S5Sl.“«-M‘ NORTHSW LEAGUE: Brat dtettorel Cntowr 7, Hendy 17: Cotoyn Bay IS. Abaraman FOOTBALL BRANDS HATCH: Motor Cyte News TT BOTSWANA- Men's aotoftto (Dumerosw 1S-7 __ Niracastte Btie Star» Whitby. 3. Cwmaven 3L fryncccn 22. Cwntorai 1ft New aupetofta toiBanga: Firs leg. 1. J Rwnrt# Dock Stars 13: Fleur dsLyo 39, NeatfiAttOetto 7, Slates: Hnet D taaak (US) bt C Bteey (GB). ft 7.30 unfera stated BARCLAYS COMMERCIAL SERVICES: Qtawartl). Ilitei 5D.0»oc. ft J Wnaram Otfach Goch 1ft Meld 4, Hwertardwoot 22. Paflanpe Ope ttenealon Borough »Cbtfcy. ft s MeOva lYjrnht). BASEBALL__ FA CUP: IMd quafifyng te»M. Bfieond arewenft HootyCyw \Z Pyto ift LgrePwra 6. 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THE TIMES MONDAY OCTOBER RUGBY LEAGUE 34 RACING 36, 37 FOOTBALL 38, 39 SPORT France make undignified departure from Rugby World Cup as allegations fly of assault on referee after Paris quarter-final Dubroca in the clear over tunnel incidc MARCASPbWD From David Hands RUGBY CORRESPONDENT INULLE THERE was a sour taste to the Rugby World Cup last night after Russ Thomas, its chair¬ man. had decided that no further action was being taken against Daniel Dubroca, the French coach, following E3 I? rn allegations that he had called ; ■ .I-'* the referee “a cheat” and manhandled him after En¬ Dubroca, captain when gland's 19-10 win in the France were runners-up in the quarter-final in Paris on 1987 World Cup and also Saturday. responsible for introducing France, the 1987 World Cup greater discipline to the finalists, departed amid ac¬ French team, was said to have rimony: their retreat un¬ grabbed Bishop by the lapels. dignified and sullied by the Dubroca’s version was: “I accusations of assault on the simply congratulated the ref¬ referee, David Bishop, and a eree after the match. I said, media campaign suggesting 'Bravo'. If I touched him, it that his “one-eyed” approach was a fraternal gesture, as I had been a contributory factor know him so well" to their defeat. Thomas said: "There is no Thomas, of New Zealand, question of the truth not said yesterday that he was coming out, this being a aware of “an incident” but no whitewash or things being official complaint had been swept under the carpet.” made and no further action The match constituted a sad was intended — which leaves departure after 93 inter¬ the impression of a game not nationals for Serge Blanco. prepared to acknowledge its The great French full back, own faults and punish offend¬ whose 38 tries make him the ers within its own ranks. second highest international It was alleged by Jeff try-scorer after David Cam¬ Herdman, a former Swansea pese, ended his career a for¬ player and a radio reporter for lorn, limping figure, an BBC Wales — and substan¬ insignificant presence offering tiated elsewhere — that as the histrionics rather than inspira¬ teams trooped back to the tion or an example of leader¬ dressing-rooms, Dubroca ship to his team. grabbed Bishop in the tunnel Exposed to an unforgiving and called him a cheat English presence under the Pascal Ondarts, the French high ball, Blanco indulged in prop, who conceded the pen¬ physical fisticuffs on the field alty which restored England’s and verbal ones off it though, lead with only five minutes to his credit, his first thoughts remaining, was said to have were for his colleagues: “As a aimed a punch at Bishop, former captain of France, I whose touch judges ushered would like to assemble the mfrss. him away.Ondarts’s temper French team next weekend to had already got the better of watch the games together, him on the field when, after knowing that although several Signs of relief: Skinner, fire England forward, raises a salute to the decisive try by his captain, Carling, in die quarter-final against France in Paris on Saturday going offside, he swung a players may have finished sent off after he and Eric backhander at the referee's their career there are several Champ had appeared to floor restraining arm. others, young men, who have Nigel Heslop, the England Tickets are scarce It was the culmination of an a brilliant future.” 'winger, with a punch in the Dwyer writes off England ill-disciplined French perfor¬ Blanco gave credit to a second minute. Blanco said: By Peter Boxs mance — in the face, it should “well-organised” England side “The referee warned me that 1 for Murrayfield be said, of an extremely which had learned from defeat would go for another punch, BOB Dwyer, the Australian with England's philosophy. need to play much better physical English display de¬ against New Zealand at the but he said that he was a good coach, said last night that They just restrict their than against Ireland to reach By Alan Lorimer - signed to put them under beginning of the tournament England could not win the game, but it is up to them. -die • final. He was dis¬ friend of mine and it was his available Charlie Ritchie, the team's pressure from the very start. But he added: “I have tried to duty to see that I did not leave Rugby World Cup with They have more capability appointed at their lack of THE demand for ^variable id Cup liaison officer, said: “We are At least twice Bishop appeared show throughout my career the field in that way.” theh: present tactical ap¬ than they show and it seems control, especially from the tickets for the World Cup Scotland delighted to have England as ready to award penalties to that rugby is a game that can However, Blanco was very proach. Dwyer, whose team a shame not to utilise that lineouts. He said: “My heart semi-final between Scotland France, only to reverse his be played without artifice. critical of the referee, saying: beat Ireland 19-18 in Dublin potential But then I sup¬ sank when Hamilton scored and England at Murrayfieklnrayfield our opponents, ected to “We realise that after the decision because of acts of This time England had the “For the first time in my yesterday to join England, pose they are not here to that try. The blokes on the next Saturday is expected to for the 1990 grand slam decider Eng- violence. first shots and we reacted.” career, which goes back more Scotland and New Zealand entertain the Australian bench said there was still be even greater than for the Bishop maintained a dip¬ Blanco said he had been than ten years, a referee came in the semi-finals, said the coach." time for us to score again 1990 grand slam deciderler when land will be coming up here changed with something to prove but lomatic silence when asked for told by Bishop that he was into the dressing-room to give constraints of England's Dwyer recognised the but my legs were like jelly.” four-figure sums changed ie Mack there is a feeling that England his version of events. within one incident of being us instructions. He told us game would be exposed. great physical commitment But the Wallabies will hands for tickets on the Made about scrums and lineouts, Dwyer made Scotland made by England in Paris. have no mental difficulties market. are less strong than when thay Rugby World Cup (RWQ last played at MurrayfiekL" but he forgot to apply the narrow favourites for the “That was a very tough about feeing New Zealand. has allocated only. 5,00000 tick-tick¬ The Scots are expected to lineout instructions. semi-final in Edinburgh match and England played a “We are confident we can Language barrier ets to each of the participatingci pa ting have Sean lineen bade in their “On my first touch of the next Saturday. He said: “It well-controlled game. They win every time we meet ALBERT Fenrasse, the presi- things in moments of irrita- countries. Apart from another ride to face England. The ball, I was used as a foot-mat is hard to imagine England gave France no hope and the them, even though they're a 10,000 tickets whicha have centre is still receiving treat- dent of the French rugby tion, but I am sure that The second time, when I made winning the tournament. In England back row tackled so very, very difficult side to been taken up by RWCWC for ment oh his damaged knee but federation, said yesterday: Daniel's English is not good a mark, Heslop crashed into the crunch, I don't believe well. England stopped beat. But you would have to “We have to find out exactly enough for him to abuse the me, hoping to hurt me. I they can dominate 7suf¬ hospitality and sponsors,ors, the should resume training either France getting a roll on and say both semi-finals will be remainder of the tickets, tomorrow or Wednesday. reacted, unfortunately, out¬ ficiently to win the World what was said. People do say referee seriously." they might do the same to desperately dose.” approximately 30,000,), have Craig Chalmers, who was side the rules of rugby. There Cup playing that way. The the Scots.” Phillip Matthews, the been presold to Scottishish dub nursed through the game was another bizarre situation French forwards were very Dwyer had words of Irish captain, revealed that when I took a stiff-arm tackle members. * against Western Samoa by bis short on the basics against warning for his own team as the referee, Jim Fleming, The Scotland playersrs have half-back partner. Gary Arm- and the decision was only a England, but the Scottish it prepared to meet New did not send anyone off - - scrum.” moved fromEdinburghfa to the strong, should also be fully fit © pack will be much stronger Zealand in the other semi¬ after the first-minute fight relative tranquillity of'St St An-An¬ by Saturday. in basic skills. final in Dublin next Sunday. because he said too many THE France's error, page 35 drews and w£Q resume hard “1 am a little disappointed He said Australia would players were involved. training tomorrow. Yesterday GROlis£ Ireland denied, page 35 Supercharged Scots, page-35 finest Scotch whisky Ballesteros matches Player’s record I Senna is -P RESENT S- By Mitchell Platts Ballesteros produced. He did incident. At the 13th, and relegate Price to second. Ballesteros regained his three- angry at GOLF CORRESPONDENT not drop a shot in 34 riveting Ballesteros, who was eating a Even so. Price had every hole advantage. holes, an achievement that slice of fruit cake, choked and reason to believe that he could Price's putting again dis¬ SEVERIANO Ballesteros yes¬ only Player, when he beat Jack coughed during Price's back- overcome Ballesteros, as long obeyed him as be missed five Balestre terday won his fifth — and Rugby Nicklaus 5 and 4 in 1971, had swing. It was clearly uninten¬ as he remained in touch times from inside 12 feet from From Norman Howell most important — World accomplished in a final. tional, and the good-natured during the afternoon. The the 8th onwards in the after¬ INSUZUKA Curious fact No^ Match Play Championship, Ballesteros played excep¬ competitiveness of the match problem for Price was that he noon, and then from six feet at beating Nick Price, of Zim¬ AYRTON . Senna, who re¬ final was underlined when lost the ability to hole out the 16th, when he needed to -♦- babwe, 3 and 2 in the final on tional golf as he parried Price's tained his Formula One world early thrust with a spectacular Ballesteros asked the referee if when h was absolutely nec¬ hole to keep the match alive. the West Course at drivers' championship after run of eight birdies in 14 holes. Price might be allowed to play essary. and Ballesteros began Ballesteros earned £150,000 coming second in the Japa¬ Wentworth. to sense that he was on the for his success, with which he Ballesteros not only The Spaniard threw caution to the shot again. nese grand prix here yes¬ “I was told that was not threshold of matching his wins established a European career equalled Gary Player’s record the wind as he counter-at¬ terday, made a vitriolic attack tacked with the swashbuckling allowed,” Ballesteros said. in 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1985. record of £2,715.341. His against Jean Marie Balestre of five wins in this champ¬ “I had waited for six years worldwide earnings are ionship, but he transformed a aggression for which he is “So, as Nick's ball had gone and Alain ProsL to equal Gary's record, and I £4,862,275, and this season good year into a vintage one. famous. into a bunker, I offered him a He accused Balestre, the was determined to do h.” he alone he has won £732,000, (t completed his rehabilitation Three successive birdies half. Bui he said that it was a recently deposed president of following a year in which he from the second hole had bad swing and I wasn't to said. more than any other player. Fisa, the sport's governing Price strayed with his ap¬ However, Ballesteros craves lost his confidence and his enabled Price to move three worry. He eventually halved body, of having “robbed” him desire. up on a cool calm morning the hole from nine feet but if proach shots at the 2nd and not money, but to increase his of his world title in 1989:.“In “It has been a fantastic year and, out in 31, he bad that he had missed I was probably 3rd, and Ballesteros went haul of five major champion¬ 1989, 1 was cruelly robbed by for me,” he said. “It was a advantage as he stood .on the guilty.” three up when he struck a ships (three Opens, two Mas¬ the system,” Senna said. miracle to win here, because 1 10th tee. Price has enormous respect glorious five-iron to two feet ters). It is a cause which will “Balestre prevented me from felt so unwell but my putting Then Ballesteros, who had for Ballesteros, although be at the 5th. drive him forward in 1991 going onto the podium. I had was the key. 1 also know this never lost in the final of this has reason to rue his mis¬ Price now needed to bring Nick Faldo won the play-off won that race and be look it course as well as I know my championship, holed from fortune of facing the Spaniard some momentum to his chall¬ for third place, beating Billy away. Today, I still struggle to home course of Pedrena. I saw nine feel for a two. That at critical limes in his own enge, but he foiled to do so, Andrade, 5 and 3. cope with iL" from the start that Nick launched him on a wonderful career. Ballesteros played with even after bitting a nine-iron Ian Woosnam has with¬ .In 1989, Seana and Prost looked very confident and I spell which saw him home in similar gusto in 1988 at Royal to four feet for a winning drawn from the Volvo Mas¬ crashed late in the race in- knew it would need something 31, by which time he was all Lylham and St A ones, where birdie at the 8th. His drive at ters at Valderrama, saying he Suzuka. Although Senna special.” square. he had a final round of 65 to the next left the baD deep in needs a holiday. recovered to win, he. was 1937 match between Frame and Romania, witnessed Something special is what Not that it was without win the Open Championship the undergrowth, and Price's rise, page 39 disqualified for reentering the a fascinating battle between two immensely powerful men. trade at the wrong point - handing the world title to Jacques Chaban Detmas and ion Rapa They squared __ ■ HOLE"OT7HpLJE GUIDE AT WENTWORTH ProsL At the same venue in up to each other again years later, in circumstances 1990, the pair were involved in another incident when they considerably less dv*sed, as Prime Ministers of their West Course, Wentworth: Par 72 (6,945 yards): Outward nine - 36 (3561 yards): inward nine - 36 (3584 yards} collided seconds after the start as Senna tried to squeeze by respective countries. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2021 2223 24 252627282930 31 3233343536 Result ProsL It gave the drivers’ 471 155 452 501 191 344 399 398 450 186 376 483 441 179 466 380 571 502 471 155 452 501 101 W 399 398 450 iffi 376 483 441 179 468 380 57r 502 OFFICIAL crown to Senna. 434534444345434455 434534444345434455 Senna claimed that -what, Final happened in 1990 was a direct S BaResteros <5p) |4) - .434524444235423444 4344244443444344 result of the previous year's N Prxse (Znn) (7).. 423434344344435444 4- 4 5 4 3 4---4- 3 5—3 -4 -4_-A_3 4 4 events and of Balestre’* sup- pon-for Prost Sarra-finals Race report, page 3d W Andrade (US) .. 335535444444335554 4344444450344444 David Milter, page 36 S Baflesleros (Spl (4). 435523344435434354 Sup 4 4 4 4- 2 44543354 3 44 N Ftfdo (Eng) (3).- 435534545444335453 3 3 4 N Price (Znn) (7). 434434344345534554 Zup 3 3 5 The Guardian's wom¬ 1950s, and though Harmer ap¬ criticism likely to come his way the chairman of the Independent Cleveland and Middlesbrough proved of that he thinks things done for tittle-tattle what Perrier In many ways, Mrs Thatcher's en’s page in deciding its response from the nationalist movement Television Commission, which general hospitals in the NHS. career has been a textbook have gone too far. “You may say did for water. 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