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Macmillan at 100: Alistair Home, pl4 [| Marcus Binney, Arts page 33 Two terms at Oxford, page 15 THE TIMES No. 64,874 Party morale hit as macabre death overshadows Major campaign Britain backs ultimatum to Tories fìght to lift Serb siege of Sarajevo limit damage BY PHIUP WEBSTER, GEORGE BROCK AND OUR FOREICN STAFF signalled last said that Boutros Boutros night that Britain wouid sup- ' Ghali, the UN Secretary-Gen- port a Nato ultimatum to the - eral, had exceeded his powers Bosnian Serbs to pulì back in asking Nato to seek their siege guns from around authonsahon for air strikes. over Milligan Sarajevo. "Nato's readiness. for air Despite strong opposition to stnkes is one thing but mak- BY PHIUP WEBSTER, POLITICAI, EDITOR, AND STEWART TENDLER air stnkes from the Russians, ìng a politicai decision to Nato's cruciai North Atlantic launch them is quite another." JOHN Major led a desperate Counal meeting in Brussels he said. atteir.pt by the Tory high today is expected to issue a In the Commons. Mr Major command last night to limit one-week deadline for Serb said the UN might need force, the politicai fallout from the withdrawal. Nato sources said includmg air power, to carry death of Stephen Milligan as , draft plans required both Serb out ìts mandate. But he said morale among Conservative and Muslim militias to with- air power should be used only MPs plummeted. draw mortars and field guns for clear objectìves. Continued The Prime Ministeri first outside a "security zone" mortar and artillery attacks session of his widely trumpet- around the city within seven on Sarajevo could not await an ed campaign to take the Tory days. The safe area wouid overall peaue settlemenL and esse to the party and country extend fòr about 20 miles and the UN. with support from began last night against a prevent shelling from the hills • background of sadness at the which last Saturday killed 68 loss of a rìsing star, and : people with a single mortar France rejects bewilderment and embarrass-: round. ment at the apparent circum- The Governmenrs position no-action line stances of his death. »•* on air stnkes was agreed at a Mr Major «travelled 'to meeting of the Cabinet's over- Alain Juppe. the French For­ Leicester for a meeting behind seas and defence policy com- eign Minister. said last night closed doors with senior party • mittee. Malcolm Rifkind. the that France wouid not asso­ workers as bis backbenchers . Defence Secretary, briefed the ciate itsdf with any failure to bemoaned .the return of ili committee > after returnuig decide on action in Bosnia. fortune.that has plagued the from his three-day trip to > France wouid have nothing to Government since the begin- Bosnia during which he spoke do with yet another empty ning of the year. An unexpect- to United Nabons military waraing to the Serbs. he said. ed cut of 0.2S of a percentage commanders about air strikes. point in interest rates passed The Government is deter- Nato, must apply immediate almost unnoticed as Mr Ma- mined , that the air- strike and strong pressure to halt the jor's back-to-basìcs crusade Milligan: may nave been Kirkbrìde: rélationship option should be "forward- attacks. he said. < suffered another blow. dead for up to 48 hours ended two years ago looking". to prevent any repe- John Smith, the Labour As MPs pondered the conse- tition of the shelling. Leader. said if nothing was quences. it emerged that Mr the MPs fiat at the rime. As with a view to getting the bad Foreign Office officials said done to protect Sarajevo from Milligan could have lain dead the Conservative Party await- news out of the way al once. that despite apparent public the shelling. the Serbs wouid for nearly 48 hours in his west ed details of the maruìer of Mr There were calls yesterday differences. British and conclude that no action wouid Milligan's death. Sir Norman for the back-to-basics cam­ French positions over Bosnia . be taken against them. - Fowler. the Conservative Par­ paign to be jettisoned. Emma were very dose. Both believe In Brussels, British. Amen- ty chairman, headcd a chorus Nicholson. Conservative MP - some form of ultimatum must can and French officials spent of ministerial claims that the for West Devon and Torridge, • be given to the Serbs. How- • yesterday trying to assuage Detaihtauialysis. • Z3 affair, however tragic. wouid said that it was f>ken orìginal- ever. the Government remains thtf'objections voiced by the Ubby Piìrvcs ...15 not knock the Government off ly to mean heightened stan- concemed about the impact of Canadian government which Matthew Parris.. ...16 course. or stand in the way of dards of private and public air strikes on British troops in fears that air stnkes will Peter Brookes...... 16 Mr Major's recovery. At the morality. "It has become a Bosnia and on the humarutar- expose its 200 soldiers in the Diaiy ...16 same time. the Defence Minis- self-destructive slogati. I think tan aid operation. eastem Bosnian town of Leading aride...... 17 try moved to crash the most we should drop it." > Russian officials in Moscow Srebrenica to retaliation. Obituary ...... 19 sensitive allegation, that as an Mr Milligan, discovered by said any attack on Serb posit­ Nato diplomats were also Media ..23 aide to . the his secretary on Monday with ions besieging the Bosnian hopeful that Greece wouid not Defence Minister. Mr a ligature round his neck and capital wouid severely test block an air. strikes decision. London house before his body Milligan was a securìty risk. • a plastic bag over his head, relations with the West ' was discovered. ' A spokesman said: "There is may have dieci accidenlally as - Mikhail Demurin, a For­ US potsed. page 12 Scotland Yard sources said no security angle to Stephen a result of an autoerotic prac-' eign Ministry spokesman. Lettere, page 17 the possibility that the death Milligan's death. He had no- lice, although police have stili was murder had begun to look access to classifìed informa- not ruled out the possibility mcreasingly remote. Detec- tion and he did not have an there may have been some- tives yesterday began piecing office in the Ministry of body else present. He was together the detaijs of Mr Defence." naked apart from a pair of Police scientists taking equipment yesterday into Stephen Milligan's home Parties stake out Milligan's • last hours and Sir Norman said that the stockings and was reported to spealung to friends. tragedy wouid not affect Mr have an orange in his mouth.. nitrates family, known as friend. After seahng the MPs It was said that Mr Officially. police jare treat- Major's position as a strong • Yesterday Dr West complet- "poppers". are easily available home ovemight they also Milligan's parents had leamt ing the death as suspidous leader, nor wouid it affect the ed a post-mortem examination and are sometimes used in began to examine papers and of the news from telcvision. • the European and waiting for the conclu- Government. "Most people on Mr Milfigan, after which sexual practices. . dianes. Sir Norman and Gerry Ma- sions of Dr lain West, the most will take it for what it is, a he ordered toxicology tests. At the MPs house, a cup- Ms Kirkbrìde tells in her Ione, his deputy, went to senior pathologist in London. * personal tragedy. They will Asphyxiation has not been board door and a table on ncwspaper The Daily Tele- Hamnmersmith police station battleground Police nave yet to find any also take the view that it could ruled out. which the MP was found were graph today of how she en- after-Mr Milligan's secretary, evidence that anybody was in happen in any politicai party, No drugs have been found. removed. Scientists will check joyed - a normal loving ' who discovered the body, tele- he main parties are edges the bclief of many or in any organisation." However. the tests will exam- them against any marks on rélationship with Mr Milligan phoned. The two party chiefs now manoeuvring for Liberal Democrats in closer Tory strategists accept, how­ ìne whether Mr Milligan the body. that ended two years ago. were told by senior police Tadvantage ahead of ~ integration. It reaffirms the ever, that the by-election in Mr ' might have taken' a drug. Yesterday police inter- Conservative Party officiate officers that they could not the European elections. party's opposition to keep- Order The Milligan's > Eastleigh seat. is possibly injected imo the or­ viewed Julie Kirkbrìde , a voiced anger yesterday at the confimi the death while at the rather than as generals did 1 mg foreign. defence and almost certain to be lost. and ange. which heightened the politicai journalist who had manner in which the police same time junior officers were before the agc of the tank home affairs as matters for Times and are planning tohold it on May experience but killed him in been a girl friend of the dead had leaked details abotit the leaking the news, party and the aircraft Each is inter-governmental co-oper- Fra 4 giorni, grazie a Top English in regalo con L'Espresso, imparerai a leggere questa pagina dalla prima all'ultima parola, Top English Zanichelli: il corso d'inglese di livello avanzato che comincia dove gli altri corsi finiscono. 6 audiocassette e 12 lezioni in regalo con L'Espresso: