I f dictator? Fran Abrams ogised for using excessive force. Political Correspondent Campaigners against the arms trade have repeatedly claimed that Close encounter A woman hi Cathedral dose, SaHsbury, eyes Running Man, a bronze statue by the late sculptor Elisabeth Frink, one ola collection of her works In the Salisbury The Government’s ethical foreign Hawk jets have been used to attack Festival. Before Frink died In 1983, one of her final requests was that an open-air retrospective exhibition of her work be staged hi a public area after her death. Photograph: John Voos policy will not prevent ongoing sales civilians in occupied East Timor- re- of armoured vehicles and water ports which have been strongly de- cannon to Indonesia. The Indepen- nied. Officials have hinted that the dent has learnL manufacturer, British Aerospace Yet yesterday in a Parliamentary might be well advised not to apply written answer, Robin Cook, the for an export licence for the jets Fatherwins appeal to halt abortion Foreign Secretary, said: “We have until ministers have decided what made a firm commitment not to per: line to take on the sale. mil the sale of arms to regimes that It is believed that while Foreign Patricia Wynn Davies court she could not reveal the rea- stop the abortion and give him cus- where the House of Lords has re- born child’s “right" to life. An in- might use them for internal repres- Office ministers might hope to pre- Legal Affairs Editor sons because It would break her tody ofthe unborn baby and the cou- solved the issue in favour ofwomen terpretation in favour of fathers sion or international aggression.” vent new exports of Hawks to In- client’s confidentiality. pled 18-month-old daughter Hazel. - that the foetus has no legal rights would be tantamount to treating Sources within his department donesia. the Department of Trade The legal tussle over a lather’s at- Yesterday s ruling by the Lord Jus- He is believed to be the first father of its own and that neither fathers pregnant women as mere receptacles confirmed that export licences issued and Industry could argue that valu- tempt to stop hs wfe having an abor- tice Gerk, Lord Cullen, and Lords in Britain to be granted a temporary nor courts have the power to over- for child-bearing and could open the last December would not be revoked. able jobs in the defence industry tion will go back to court today after Sutherland and Wylie, prevents doc- court order delaying a termination. ride the opinions of doctors under way for litigation questioning the One of those licences allowed the would be lost if the licence was re- a day of high drama during which a tors from carrying out the procedure The couple, from Inverkeithing, the abortion legislation. opinions of doctors. export of seven armoured water fused. The order is worth £300m. court re-instated a ban on Lynn Kel- before a full appeal by Mr Kelly is Fife, married in 1995 but separated Mis Kelly insists that no one can Jane Roe, of the Abortion Law cannon identical to ones used to put Another Cabinet minister, David ly aborting the foetus. heard today. a few weeks ago. each claiming the force her to have a child. But anti- Reform Association, said: “The in- down protests in Indonesia, and 17 Clark, Chancellor of the Duchy of There was added tension in the al- Mrs Kelly, who is 12 weeks preg- other was violent and neglected abortion groups condemned junction should never have been armoured vehicles. Lancaster, has supported the export ready highly-charged case yesterday nant, has been walking a legal their daughter. Both sides have giv- Wednesday's derision as a “traves- granted in the first place. Tb delay a There are also strong doubts of Hawk jets to Indonesia. In No- morning tightrope like tins intolerable." when Anne Smith QC, for since Mr Kelly learnedof en extensive and opposing views of ty ofjustice” and a denial of the un- woman is about whether ministers will block vember 1992, when he was Labour’s Mrs Kelly, stunned Edinburgh High the planned termination. The ban their situation to the tabloid press. defence spokesman, he told the Court by saying that a termination was first granted on 15 May, a day The legal wrangle has provoked New Statesman : “I’d like What Cook said a world might be being carried out at an un- before she was scheduled to have the extremes ofopinion on both rides of ACADEMY AWARD WINNER.; where there was no war and no known hospital at the same time as abortion, lifted by the same judge on the debates on abortion and fathers’ A weapons. But I find it difficult to take the hearing. But in the afternoon, Wednesday then reinstated by the rights. Lord Eassie’s ruling on \\f . w:,w \i\ “We have made a firm a purely moral or moralistic stance. Wendy Sheehan, solicitor for Mrs three appeal judges yesterday. Wednesday confirmed what most le- The Indonesian Minister of De- Kelly's husband, James, said it had Mr KeQy is trying to make legal gal commentators understood to be commitment not to per- fence and Security. Edi Sudradjat, not takeo place. She said outside the history by persuading the court to the law, at least south of the border THRILLING, DAZZLING, AMAZING said this week that he did mit the sale of arms to not believe .-WHATEVER SUPERLATIVE YOU CHOOSE TO the Labour government would stop DESCRIBE THIS FILM WILL DO IT AN INJUSTICE’ regimes that might use the country from buying the extra jets WHfTTA - it wants. “The political change in GAKY TOTAL HIM for repression or them Britain will not affect our negotia- U k A A A A n u A A A A A » for Blair aggression.” tions an additional purchase," he bags a press baron said at the official handover of eight DAVID KEENAN - MELODY MAKER Hawk-100 trainers and 16 Hawk-200 CLARK COUJS- NEON What is happening all-weather attack fighters exported from Britain before the election. as Rothermere switches The United Stales, historically the he will not DAVID FARWNSON - EMPIRE JOHN WXATHAll - FHM Sources say largest supplier of military equip- Indonesia, has Paul block the sale of ment to recently McCann about Mr Dacre’s future. Lord :V : V stopped sales of fighter planes and Media Correspondent Rothermere said in a statement: m. -• vehicles to a • armoured armoured personnel carriers to the “Paul Dacre is a great editor and 1 y, , regime which has one country, though it is still allowing the Lord Rothermere, the Conserva- have very good relationships with him export of other weapons. tive press baron who owns the Dai- but we do not always share exactly worst of the world's The Liberal Democrats’ defence ly Mail, the Mail on Sunday and the the same views on politics." * . Menzies Campbell, said London Evening Standard, shocked Rothermere thinks human rights records. spokesman, “Basically he believed strongly that no more senior executives at the newspapers Blair is the man,’' said a Mail source. • arms should be sold to Indonesia'and yesterday tty taking up a seat on the "There is definitely a feeling upstairs ' % - the planned sale of 16 new Hawk that existing licences should be re- Labour Party’s benches in the House that Dacre screwed up and should j voked. “There was no justification of Lords. have backed Blair.” ; •-*•-**> ' fighter jets to the Suharto regime, worst for these export licences being grant- The hereditary peer said yesterday The public announcement ofLord : which has one of the world’s gov- that the defection made in v human rights records. ed in the first instance and a he was prompted to make Rothermere’s was w-rAC. source said the ernment which puts human rights at move by his admiration for Tony a. diary item in yesterday’s London I A Foreign Office having to pay the centre of its foreign policy Blair, adding: "They [Labour] are- Evening Standard. A source said the i Government feared carrying L0M> mysteriously into compensation to manufacturers if it should hardly need to think for a mor out so many policies I story “dropped I cancelling these believe in” the paper from upstairs”. The j \ •• pulled the plug on the deal with GKN ment before ‘*+r -W his decision to Evening Standard supported Labour I Defence, a Hampshire-based arms licences," he said. He announced stunned silence colleagues at a at the election. manufacturer. “We are not going to Harriet Lamb, head of campaigns from TuRwco/rr of arms administration’s for the’World Development Move- party held on Wednesday night to Tbny Blair began wooing the Mai] : pay for the previous With tension ment, welcomed Mr Cook's state- mark the 30th anniversary at the Mail papers two years ago when he had a ; mistakes," he said. 1 but said that be should now of its veteran columnist Lynda Lee for his own abolition. He is a hered- one-to-one lunch whh Lord Rother- buildin in the run-up to Indonesia's ment, g L I Thctiea ar- back it with action: “The news that Potter. itary peer and Labour has made a mere. In the end the Daily Mail pul MUHAMMAD A general election, British be revoked is Lord Rothermere’s cousin, Vivian manifesto commitment to remove the Union Jack on its from page the moured personnel carriers and wa-‘ no export licences will very disappointing and we would Harmsworth, said yesterday that the hereditary peers’ voting rights.