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ministers ODAY IN turnon 1pTJHE TIMES Delors OPEN DAY From George Brock rm IN LUXEMBOURG
EC FINANCE ministers Iasi night fired a relentless bar- rage of criticism and com- - plaint at Jacques Delors proposals to boosr the Euro- pean Community’s budget by 30 per cent — at a time when most of Europe's treasuries are tightening their bells. The ministers enjoyed their first opportunity to lay into the ambitious plans laid earli- er this year by rhe French The Duke of Kent president of the European leads Britain's Commission. The Danish ref- Freemasons who are erendum has altered the com- doing their bit for plexion of every one of the hundreds of weekly Commu- glasnost nity meetings. An embold- Life <& Times ened Danish fishing minister Page I yesterday asked for a larger quota of sole for his country's fishermen. In another pan of OPEN the building, the finance min- isters scented blood. The DOOR blood belongs to M Delors.
i ’ in KiHfttinier " 1 The discussion, one of his aides admitted, was *'a little Summit guard: Brazilian troops looking out for trouble from the cable car station on top of the Sugar Loaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro rough". M Delors is bound by the Community’s hasty consensus that the Danes' re- jection of the Maastricht trea- Watchdog ty can safely be ignored. Yesterday, adjusting only a isolated few Heseltine figures Bush as UK to take account of orders BT a recent deal to reform the backs mines common agricultural policy. to cut M Delors repeated his re- Michael Heseltine signalled quest for an additional £14 a more interventionist ap- billion between next year and trade to proach at the and agrees Rio treaty phone bills 1995. The increases would industry department by pay for the integrated foreign, The door to equal suggesting electricity com- By RossTieman industrial and research poli- opportunities may From Michael McCarthy, environment correspondent, in rio de Janeiro panies should not turn their INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT cies framed by Maastricht. have been pushed too ' on villages in backs mining will sign the not The next few hours made vigorously, BRITAIN the amount the Third Mr Howard’s announce- much money they would have the industry says a their negotiations with Brit- OFTEL. phone brutally dear that a large world treaty on wildlife at World countries say the in- ment in Rio is likely to shore to provide. The government startling report ish Coal on future energy watchdog, demanded yester- majority of governments the Earth summit in Rio dustrialised world must give. up Britain's reputation. “The would make a declaration prices and demand. day that BT should cut its think that Delors has over- Life& Times Britain's that M de Janeiro, the environ- decision means biodiversity convention is the when it signed the treaty that bills reg- Speaking at the confer- phone and proposed reached himself on the Com- Page 4 most of the 19 aid donor first international that it did not accept that interpre- ence of the Union of Demo* ment secretary announ- treaty ulations that are the first ex- munity’s future finances. nations of the OECD, the wfll protect the earth’s ani- tation- Mr Howard said that plicitly designed to control crane Mineworkere In ced yesterday. The entire budget bartle Organisation for Economic mals and plants and their this view was shared by all the the costs for domestic con- Weymouth, the president of The decision to sign the turns on Germany, whose net OPEN Co-operation and Develop- hahitats," said. European Community states. the board of trade also biodiversity convention effect- he “The UK sumers. ment, are likely to sign. The contribution to Brussels of £6 ively government wholeheartedly He added that the rules of the Sir Bryan Carsberg, the di- ROAD warned the companies that leaves the Bush adminis- billion a year is three times group's members had ex- supports this objective. conference of the parties had rector-general of telecom- they risked losing a national, tration isolated in its deter- larger than Britain's, the next pressed serious reservations “But when you sign a con- to be decided by consensus, so munications at OfteJ, put resource by switching for rmi nation not to agree the highest payer. Horst Kohler, when the text was adopted in vention you are doing more that “they could reflect Brit- forward proposals for BT to economic reasons to other proposals. the German finance Nairobi two weeks ago. view”. deputy envi- than making a statement of ain's fix prices at an average of 7.5 energy sources r..: . Page 8 -Midiad HowanL the minister, said the new budget Japan, which is still formally prindple; you are committing per cent below the rate of ronment secretary, said John Washington has been the undecided, indicated yester- was not bill for Maas- yourself to a binding obliga- sharply criticised for its refus- inflation during the next four Major will sign the conven- tricht and immediately raised Petrol at that it also sign. day may tion. That is why we have had al to sign the summit treaty. It years. The changes would tion on Friday, but be will the subject of the Communi- to take our time over this fears that the provisions take effect from August next record price attach to it a declaration The government has dearly ty’s little Danish difficulty. position,’’ preferred to risk the important Mr would constrain the growth of year and are expected to cost which makes dear how Brit- treaty’s Kohler said the Petrol prices will hit record Howard added. than million Herr bud- ambiguous language on fi- the its biotechnology indus- BT more £100 a ain interprets the disputed get debate was an opportuni- levels today as the cost of a we first looked at year. if finandal clause. Aitide 21 nance, potentially commit- “When try. Mr Howard said that he However, the com- ty for the Community to gallon of four star rises by the text identified some rejects covers new aid for devdoping ting aid donors to signing a we hoped President Bush could pany the package. Sir E2.45p. Oil com- demonstrate its finandal pru- 4.Sp to of blank cheque, to the oppro- points of difficulty. We have find a way to sign at a later Bryan said he would refer the countries the Third World to to rhe panies face the prospect of been working very hard to to the dence and respond and the prime minister had brium that a refusal to sign date. oomparty Monopolies as fears of ordinary people. De- strong criticism recom- would provoke among envi- overcome them and we have After the announcement and Mergers Commission. France at half-price: insisted that Britain should cisions were made too far mended pump prices over- now succeeded in finding sol- The present control is infla- tokens towards not be forced to make any ronmental pressure groups at Andrew Lees, campaigns di- ' cheap previous record of from ordinary citizens, who take the “open-ended commitment". home and for Mr Major utions to these difficulties.” rector for Friends of the tion minus 6.25 per oent, but accommodation and at the start of Oftel do not understand why Brus- £2.40, reached while he is in Rio. Environ- Mr Howard explained that Earth, said: “The British gov- hopes that the tighter The declaration will not be sels should be richer while travel plus a review of a . Page 2 will the Gulf war — mentalists at the conference the disputed treaty clause im- ernment will now come under regime force the com- legally binding, but it will national treasuries had to cut surreal exhibition pany to provide better value that Britain re- were already saying yesterday plied that aid donor countries increased pressure to protect make dear Continued on page 20. col 1 ' for erode Life & Times No sex please gards the “amount needed” they were considering enter- could be fold by the recipi- wildlife habitats in the UK. money and to barri- ers to competition. Sir Bryan Page 5 as the sum the developing ing Britain in their list of the ents, in the conference of tile Its record to dale is utterly A quarter of schools have no Hurd dears way, page 14 five parties to the treaty, how dismal” said he also expected the pro- sex education policy in spite -countries say they want and summit's worst nations. posals to stimulate economic of statutory requirement Jeremy Leggett, scientific a growth by reducing business since September 1987, ac- director of Greenpeace, said: costs. cording to a survey of educ- “We are disappointed they backs attack He defended his decision ation authorities in Eng- Government couldn’t have signed at the WHICHOFTHESE not to limit profits at BT. land and Wales Page 3 opening of the Earth summit, which last year amounted to instead of getting things off to £3.07 billion, or E97 a second. LANGUAGESWOULD YOU cine on royal press coverage a bad start by havering." Everest He said the price cap gave the Paddy Ashdown welcomed company an incentive to im- UKE TOSPEAK? A diary found high on the political correspondent By Sheila Gunn, the announcement “In the prove efficiency, and would northeast ridge of Everest Patrick Cor- before her marriage, was re- final days of the summit, the near the body of a climber THE government formally speaking after Continued on page 20. col 3 British government must now its the Conservative MP, ported as saying that she may yield, dues to the disap- declared backing yester- mack, said: “There can few less agreed to talk to Morton put added pressure on Presi- pearance ten years ago of day for the Press Complaints be Mr Man in the news, page 2 Bush," the leader of the Commission’s condemnation agreeable sights than that of because she believed it was dent the _ British .mountaineers Leading article, page 17 tr important suffer- Liberal Democrats said. “His Peier Board man and Joe of media speculation on the a pack of greedy voyeurs on that aityone Business benefits, page 21 refusal to sign up In Rio marriage of the Prince and the make." But yesterday the ing from bulimia nervosa, the has Tasker-..-, Page 4 i great to the Princess of Wales- media pack was oui in force slimming disease, should done damage country at Richmond sports ground, seek professional advice. reputation of his and Salary secrets Tony Newton, the Leader southwest London, where the Sir Geoffrey Johnson- to the world’s environment." of the Commons, standing in , . I An end to secrecy surround- princess attended Prince Smith. a member of the Tory Earlier, Baroness Chalker. fw for the prime minister at >6^ ing merit awards, under Harry’s school sports day. backbench 1922 committee the overseas development Z question time, reiterated the which hospital consultants executive and former broad- minister, returned to the . warning from David Mellor, The Prince of Wales flew to can double their National caster, said later that the question of Britain's overseas the national heritage secre- Denmark for a formal dinner bJtfvu-l Health Service salaries, is coverage should not provoke aid budget. She said ihat she tary, that the commission's to celebrate the 25 th wedding being sought by the a government witchhunt was angry that in 1990 it had views' could affect next anniversary of Queen Mar- o BMA... - Page 7 against the press. “I hope the fallen to 0.27 per cent of gross month's review of press self- grethe II. missing his son's PCC will bear in mind the domestic product, the lowest regulation. He said: "1 would sports day for the first time. distinction between stories figure for a long time. She How often have could speak another Under fire not wish to be drawn into Last night, another of the you wished you where rhere is a legitimate statistics to be re- said that language? Now is the trite to do something about it mili- commenting on the stories prioress’s dose friends con- Fighting between Serb interest and cases of C public leased shortly would show forces which have been appearing firmed that she had spoken to With Lnguaphone youll team easily, enp/ably. naturally tiamen and Muslim sensationalist presentation." that the 1991 budget had press. But there will Andrew Morton, author of continual across Bosnia- in the be •** The Linguaphone method gives you the freedom to learn si gone up to 0.32 per cent of I: I AvT very support in all the book Diana : Her- True Herzegovina as domestic widespread ( your own pace. You study wherever and whenever cv Tabloid attack, page 2 GDP. ; parts of the House for the Story that has caused the * pressure mounted on Presi- iW n > choose And it works. Learning another language can take you comments made by the Press latest outburst of reporting Simon Jenkins, page 16 dent. Milosevic of Serbia, as little as half an hour a day. After 12 weeks with your Complaints Commission yes- Carolyn Bartholomew, who Letters, page 17 Summit viDams, page 12 with demands for his ”0 Linguaphone course, /out be speaking corJidertfy and correctly. terday." Mr Nqwton was shared a flat with the princess Paris visit, page 20 Letters, page 17 resignation Page 14 Find out more today. Send for vour free cassette and
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2 HOME NEWS THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992
Tabloids shout defiance at attack on royal marriage coverage JULIAN HERBERT TABLOID editors yesterday mons on Monday attacking hit back Popular papers at the Press Com- both The Sunday Times and plaints Commission's con* hit back in the The Daily Mail for "intrud- demnation of newspaper royal war as their ing on privacy for profit". coverage of the Prince and His addition to the motion Princess of Wales’ marriage views drew new “strongly commends the ac- with more screaming front- critics. Melinda tion of the Press Complaints page headlines, extensive in- Wfttstock Commission" and “urges all side reports and in some newspapers and periodicals cases, leading articles reports at- to adhere strictly to the com- tacking the commission. face direct government mission's code of practice in the future as the only means The Sun, which dismissed control. of avoiding statutory the commission's judgment Yesterday the commission said that it could not com- regulation". as nonsense and accused it of “confusing ment on whether it believed the message Some of the harshest criti- with that any newspaper had yes- the messenger*, head- cism of the commission’s terday flouted its Monday lined its front page “‘Suitid- statement came from An- judgment- But it is under- al’ Di Poured Out Her drew Neil, editor of 77je Sun- stood that the commission Heart To Me" and devoted day Times, which is had expected a far more three inside pages to the serialising Andrew Morton's angry reaction to its judg- controversy. Both The Daily book, Mr- Neil said in a ment than it was presented Star and Today proclaimed statement “It’s hard to work with in yesterday’s papers. “It’s All True” in big block out what the commission is However, it will be closely letters, while The Daily Ex- really ' saying because the monitoring all coverage of press said the press was statement does so much the royal marriage in the “merely doing its job in a damage to the English lan- coming days. Should news- free and open society". guage that it is almost paper editors continue to unintelligible. The commission gave a breach the industry’s code of warning on Monday that practice despite the self- reg- “Every hour that goes by press speculation about the ulatory body's warning, the we get more factual back-up royal marriage, which it commission would have no for what we have printed. I described as odious, intru- choice but to ask all news- cannot believe that the press sive and prurient, threat- paper proprietors to instruct commission, would want me ened the continuance of their editors to tone down as an editor to sit on a story newspaper self-regulation. their royal coverage. which incolves the Princess Lord McGregor of Durris, Yesterday Peter of Wales making a suicide the commission's chairman, Mandelson. the Labour MP bid." has said several times in the for Hartlepool, declared his past year that if newspapers support for the commis- Queen in Paris, page 20 repeated errors for which sion’s judgment by adding Public lives and they had already been cen- to an early day motion al- Diary, page 16 sured, the industry would ready tabled in the Com- Letters, page 17 Royal watchers: a battery of cameras focusing hopefully at Prince Harry’s school sports day at Richmond upon Thames yesterday
Man in the news Complaints against water NEWS IN BRIEF Business wolves admit they to Libyans companies double 10,000 supported the IRA by Michael Horsnell should beware A formal confession of Libya's long-term state-sponsored A TIDE of anger against the services, up an average of 20 than 70 per cent of the indus- pay should not have to make By Robin Young support for the I RA was provided yesterday for the first time high-profit privatised water per cent in real terms since try’s profits. Water meters are up for those who do not SIR Bryan Carsberg, who nationalised industry. He in an extraordinary meeting between Libyan and British companies was reported yes- privatisation. Salaries for the the “only satisfactory way" in Mr Byan said hosepipe yesterday dashed BTs hopes was subsequently influential officials. In a two-hour session at the United Nations’ terday by Ofwat, the indus- chairmen of the 10 big water the long term to achieve pay- bans and other restrictive that he might go quietly from in determining the form reg- European headquarters in Geneva, the Libyans answered a try's watchdog, which companies have surged by up ment charges related to water measures were a betterway of his role as OfteTs director ulation was to take for elec- long list of questions drawn up by British security and recorded a 130 per cent leap to 290 per cent since the use. he said. A rapid installa- dealing with water shortages acknowledged general of telecommunica- tricity. gas and water. intelligence services — although nothing was in consumer complaints to industry sell-off, and next tion programmne to put a in another dry summer than unex- Sir Bryan topped his year in writing. The list of questions had been handed to the more than 10,000 in the past January some chairmen and every would moving quantities of tions when he made meter in home be large Colonel Gaddafi said he was fierce demands for in his final accountancy ex- Libyans through the UN after year. top executives could collect uneconomic, but the use of water by road. However, he pectedly aminations. When he started renouncing support for terrorism. £250.000 extra in share op- meters should spread. was concerned that as much cuts in telephone charges, Libyan leader wrote to Boutros Boutros Ghali, the UN The report, by Ian Byatt, moves this weekend to be- his own practice, he likes to The tions. Mr Byatt told a press con- as 24 per cent of water leaks secretary-general, 11 offering to meet Britain’s director-general of water ser- most pow- recall, he was lold that it on May Last week, an Ofwat survpy ference he wanted to see the from mains pipes before come the counay's vices, to Michael Howard, would take six months to in- request for information on the IRA. Provided the answers showed millions of people be- water companies’ sharehold- reaching the customer. With erful public servant, the direc- the are sufficiently detailed, with names of IRA gunmen trained environment secretary, tor genera] fair trading. stal a telephone. He went on lieved water charges were too ers question high pay rises programmes in place to re- of follows in Libya as well as dates and sizes of arms shipments, the a rise in water and his to become professor of ac- high and many worried and share options for top duce the loss, he hoped for an No sooner was appoint- sewerage bills of between 35 countancy at the LSE. information will be a breakthrough for Britain's counter- about the puriiy of tap water executives. He said: “My job improvement. ment announced last January and terrorist agencies. Edward Chaplin, British charg6 d’affaires 56 per cent since privati- than warn in the Office of As one who lists road run- despite assurances of safety. is to set price levels in a tough Liana Stupples, spokes- would sation in 1989 and coincides ning as a pastime. Sir Bryan at the British mission to the UN in Europe, not say Four in every 10,000 homes and tight way. Having said man for Friends of the Earth, Fair Trading had posted no- with the offer of perks afterwards whether they had discussed the Lockerbie worth tices saying. “Carsberg — still pounds the streets of in England and Wales have that, it is for the companies to said: "At a time when rivers suspected of nearly E20 million to the men Guildford. Surrey, in the ear- bombing. Two Libyan intelligence officers are complained to Ofwat about deliver as best they can. If are being sucked dry and probably the best diraaor- who run the industry. Ofwat ly mornings, humming pas- being behind the bombing and Libya is currently suffering water companies. Nearly 40 they,consider their executives customers are facing hose- general in the world". also confirmed that over sages from Die Walkiire. His an international air and arms embargo for failing to hand percent concerned the cost of are worth a lot of money, that pipe bans, water companies The pioneer of utility regu- them over to the British or American authorities. 21.000 consumers were cut govern- stamina and tenacity will be water and a further 25 per is a matter for the sharehold- are getting away with sloppy lation. he advised the off last year for non-payment, called upon in his newjob. in cent challenged their bills. er and not the regulator to and wasteful management ment on BTs flotation in a 177 per cent jump over the which he responsi- Compensation and rebates challenge.” practice. Ofwat must aban- 1984. and when Norman becomes Drivers cut insurance previous year. Tebbit appointed him to ble for regulating everything paid out by the water com- Mr Byatt said he was “very don its softly-softly approach The rising cost of car insurance could be leading young In Oftel he was the first regula- from timeshares to estate spite of complaints over panies was £841,000. concerned” about the high and immediately set tough drivers to cut the level ofcover they buy, according to a survey costs, billing, water tor to oversee a former agents, from loan sharks to quality Mr Byatt said water com- level of disconnections. He targets for leakage control.’’ by the Mintel research group. It found one in five motorists concrete cartels, and for ad- and pressure, and metering, panies were undertaking a said companies should make are concerned that rapidly increasing premiums are vising ministers competi- Byatt defended profits. on Mr £28 billion investment pro- payment by instalment an Consumers to gain, page 23 preventing them from taking out policies which cover all tion policy generally. He said companies should be gramme funded by more easy option, and those who Comment page 25 Mercury potential disasters on the road. Two thirds of 1.000 drivers Sometimes suspected of profitable if investors were to questioned said they were “super cautious" when taking out provide funds essential WHO COMPLAINS TO OFWAT? being too dose to the govern- for the WATERS THE PAY, car insurance because they wanted the maximum cover. April 1991 Mach 1992 completion of the industry's to rebuked ment, or criticised for having THE PRICE AND THE PROFIT Mintel says these motorists are worried by the increased risk too little to contain £28 billion investment pro* done BTs vigorous of road accidents and theft. Transport department figures gramme. But returns to profits growth. Sir adverts show that more than 330.000 cars were involved in shareholders should not be on Bryan has sworn to maintain accidents in 1990 compared with almost 270.000 in 19S0. excessive given the “low risk the independent stance vocif- ByMEUNDA WlTTSTOCK while car crime has increased per cent and now costs erously maintained by his 30 nature" of the industry. MEDIA CORRESPONDENT insurers £500 million a year. 'Commercial predecessor, Sir Gordon He said a rise in complaints \ BufcJe*/ B% Agrfcdtura THREE advertisements Bonie, who held the fair trad- was expected as more people Industrial developer 1 % 1 % claiming that Mercury Com- ing job for 16 years. “The Of- learnt about Ofwat. There 4% Printer discharged munications' telephone fice of FairTrading cannot be was no evidence the trend was A printer avoided a jail sentence yesterday in charges were lower than BTs much use to ministers, unless Britain's first caused by a decline in stan- U II u u II II II II I) II II ~[F trial under anti-hacking legislation. Richard a were criticised by the Adver- it is independent,” he says. Goulden, dards. “Many customers crit- freelance typesetter, helped Chairman Salary Average % price Share pric tising Standards Authority Some former colleagues put his employers out of business icise the profits made by 1991 bill 1992-3 increase June 8‘ with a pirate computer programme because he said they yesterday. BT had com- suggest that Sir Bryan is not (Water & Sewerage) since 1989 water companies and com- owed him £2.275 in back pay. Mr Goulden. 35, of west plained that the advertise- the best of delegators. He is a plain about large price Thames Roy Watts £160,000 £138 +38% 443.5 London, was conditionally discharged ments were inaccurate and technocrat used to taking de- for two years after increases.” Severn Trent John Beliak £149,500 £151 +42% 406 changing his plea to guilty on the misleading. cisions without a lot of public second day of die (North West Dennis Grove £144,000 £156 +41% 423 Profits have been led by authority Southwark Crown Court hearing. He was ordered to pay Welsh John Bfed Jones £143,000 £212 +44% 477 The criticised one consultation. £1,200 prosecution costs and £1,250 compensation to the Thames Water, which last Southern William Courtney £142,000 £174 +39% 415 Mercury national press ad- Corporate wolves who lick company’s liquidators. Warwick McKinnon, for the week announced an 11.3 per Wessex Nicholas Hood £128,000 £192 +39% 511 vertisement for not making a their lips at the prospea of Sir prosecution, told thejury that Goulden cent rise in pre-tax profit to Yorkshire Sir Gordon Jones £119,000 £166 +35% 468 fair comparison with BT Gordon's departure may well added a programme to a belonging E236 million and North West Anglian Bernard Henderson £91,000 £227 +46% 439 charges. The advertisement find that they have celebrated computer to Ampersand Typesetters, of Camden, northwest Water, whose profits jumped South West Kieth Court ESS,000 £226 +56% 415 claimed that “pressing the the change too soon. London, last year which prevented the Northumbrian Sir Michael Straker £51.000 £158 +48% retrieval of information without a special password. 7.3 per cent to £230 million. 468 little blue Mercury button . . typical •nountan pro 1989- C2«Q A household is paying can save you an average of 35 Cut demanded, page I £169 for water and sewerage per cent on long distance calls Leading artide. page 17 Scientists to strike (over 35 miles) and up to 20 Prices cap, page 21 per cent on international Nudear scientists working on a revolutionary experiment Investors given value calls". will strike on Friday because they receive less pay than poor for scientists money from other countries. Scientists the In all three advertisements European on Mercury had compared its Joint European Torus (Jet) project at Culham, Oxfordshire, By Lindsay Cook, money editor prices with BTs basic rates voted overwhelming for the one-day strike last week. Their union, the Institute INVESTORS are being giv- to comment on how much that there were dangers of count to another. The rarher than the true price of of Professionals, Managers and Specialists, said en poor value for money by information should be given “substantial over-switching to investor compensation and BT calls, the authority said. more one-day strikes will follow. The scientists will sales teams wanting to earn to consumers in the coming personal pensions". Some deposit guarantee schemes On long distance calls. BT mount a picket at the gate of the laboratories. more commission, according months before new rules on sales teams have been using varied in the amount they charges vary according to the The nuclear scientists hate fought a 1 3-year battle to achieve to two Office of Fair Trading how investments are sold can the news about the Maxwell would pay out without rhyme number and length of calls. pay parity with their counterparts from other European reports. come into operation. pension hinds to persuade or reason. The authority criticised Community countries, who they say are paid twice as much. The reports from two inde- The high number of insur- company scheme members to The complaints and regula- Mercuiy for omitting the an- The Jet project aims to produce’ energy by fusing light pendent consultants. Jeremy ance-linked products which switch to personal pensions. tory systems were complicat- nual subscription fee in an hydrogen isotopes, which would provide a cheap and safe Mitchell and Helena Wies- are discontinued or surren- There were the first signs ed for investors to find their advertisement for its alternative to nudear power. ner, were commissioned by dered in the early years indi- that deposit-based products way around. The representa- Dialatron Designer Mercury the OFT to find out whether cated that some consumers offered by banks and build- tion of public interests on the that was headlined “Talk Security there were practices in the were being sold “unnecessary ing societies were being de- boards of regulatory bodies more, spend less!”. BT said guard checks savings and investments In- or inappropriate products". signed with concealed costs, was insufficient. that the fee would detract Independent regulation of the private security industry is dus tiy harmful to consumers. As a result there were sub- such as the penalties suffered from any saving, which Mer- expected to be on the agenda of a new police and Home They separately identified stantial consumer losses, the on transfer from one tax- 'Investors not served'. cury claimed would be 35 per Sir Bryan: probably best Office working party set up to examine the industry’s recent many of the same problems. reports said. They also said exempt special savings ac- Business Times, page 21 cent on long distance calls. regulator in the world? expansion. Details of the working party were given yesterday They found that the struc- by Brian Johnson, chief constable of Lancashire and ture and level of remunera- president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, tion of the direct sales forces speaking as delegates gathered for a national police of insurance companies, tied increase reaches record £2.45 a conference in Eastbourne. He said that chief constables were agents and independent bro- Petrol gallon anxious to see regulations for curbing the excesses of cowboy kers could influents the ad- firms and had been pressing for action for more than a year. spending £1 million a week in subsi- are expected to increase prices over petitive. vice given to consumers so By Kevin Eason Mr Dobson remains Mr Johnson said that he believed the staff of security firms dies to forecourts so that they could the next few days. sceptical and was on that those products or com- MOTORING CORRESPONDENT the offensive would be checked for criminal records. A report by the offer prices cheaper than the recom- Oil companies were sensitive yes- yesterday. He said: “The panies paying most commis- petrol com- association several years ago highlighted cases where PETROL prices will hit record levels mended levels. A spokesman said: terday to the prospect of ftirther dam- panies may claim they are competing sion were recommended. securiiy men used their jobs lo commit crimes. today as the cost of a gallon of four “We get to the point where the pain aging accusations over their pricing but when it comes to rising prices Mr Mitchell said that inde- star rises by 4.5p to E2.45. is too great, but nobody likes to go policies less than two years after they just swap the lead like runners pendent financial advisers OQ companies face the prospect of first with increases." being put through rigorous inspec- in a long-distance race." Teenage pressed to rapists jailed would be hard say Shell petrol is up today by a tion the Office of Fair Trading. Motoring a barrage of criticism as recommend- 4.5p by organizations, previous- Three to investors “You don’t want youths who repeatedly raped a I6-ycar-old girl. were ed pump prices overtake the previous gallon (a penny a litre) taking maxi- Criticism reached its height as pet- ly tough in their criticism of petrol selling". The jailed at the Old Bailey yesterday. Jurden. of anything I am record of £2.40 reached at the start of mum prices to £2.45 a gallon (53.9pa rol jumped by 36p in two months to price rises, were surprisingly muted. Curtis Hammersmith, west London of drive to secure sales outlets the Gulf war. Frank Dobson, the litre) for 4-star, £2.25 a gallon (49.5p £2.40 a gallon on fears over the out- The RAC said the price increases and Simon Suleyman, Shepherds Bush, west London, to has increased the amount of shadow energy secretary, called for a a litre) for unleaded, and £234 a come of the Gulf conflict- MPs were disappointing, but added that boih 17, were sentenced eight years in a young offenders' Brown- commission paid on insur- price regulator to ensure that future gallon (51.5p a litre) for super un- claimed the oil companies were profi- oil companies lowered prices just as institution. Delroy 16, of Shepherds Bush, ance-related products, which price rises were controlled. leaded. Shell said that intense com- teering and the government was quickly as they raised them. The AA was given eight years’ detention. The victim was raped seven are paid for by the consum- Oil companies said that the in- petition meant that not all service forced to call in the OFT. Sir Gordon said the rise was understandable in times and forced to perform oral sex seven times. Brown ers. These charges are ob- creasing cost of bulk supplies on stations would be charging the full Borne, the director general of Fair view of international price increases. threatened her with a gun to force her to submit, and the other scured from investors in spite world markets was forcing them to recommended retail price. Trading, found no case to answer, The organization's advice was to two watched as he raped her on the. that floor. The court was told of their significant effects on raise prices. ShelL which moved first Esso announced it would fol- and cleared the oil companies of ac- shop around because there would that despite counseling she had no*. ShelTs lead. Other oil companies cusations that anti-com- still wide recovered from the ordeal. payout levels. The OFT is due to raise pump prices, said that it was low they were be a spread of prices.
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 HOME NEWS 3 reaffirms One in four Police had BBC questioned commitment schools has gunmen at kv roadside to public service no policy on By Paul Wilkinson BY MELINDA WlTTSTOCK, MEDIA CORRESPONDENT TWO police officers shot by Cheekland. the vice radio television, and ‘ SIR Michael and ViV- Irish gunmen on Sunday BBC director-general, has international business activi- had spent 20 minutes ques- sought to quell uncertainty ties. tioning the two mea it sex education and boost morale among the The outgoing director-gen- emerged yesterday. corporation's 20.000 employ- eral, who will be replaced in Glenn Goodmaa 37. a By Alison Roberts setting out the BBCs April next year by his deputy. special constable, was fatal- ees by to public service John Bin. said the BBC ly injured and Sandy Kelly, commitment of schools have well beyond the board of governors and board A QUARTER four per cent of secondary 32, a regular police consta- broadcasting education royal charier in of management had agreed no sex policy in schools have a policy and 67 ble. was seriously hurt as renewal Of its spile of a statutory require- per cent of primary schools. they checked the occupants 1996. the four principles after con- Sir siderable research the ment since September 1987, Six per cent of schools with of a car near Tadcaster. In a letter to employees. into according to a survey of ah a polity had decided against Det ChieF Supi Robin Michael made clear that the likely shape of the broadcast- srfeWi;. -- .r^r local education authorities in including sex education in Cooper of North Yorkshire BBC governors and manage- ing industry by 1997 and England and Wales. the curriculum although police, who is leading the ment believe the corpora- beyond The implementation of sex parts of the national curricu- murder investigation, said: tion's role is to inform, He said there will not be r.7^ education policies in schools lum for 11 to 14-year-olds “PC Kelly had not been sat- educate and entertain its sufficient advertising or other . isfied either the vehicle a revenues to sustain' the wide is causing confusion and require an “understanding of with viewers and listeners as anxiety among teachers and the healthy functioning of the or the occupants. He was distinctive but popular broad- range of radio and television local education authorities, human body” which would making checks outside the caster catering to all secto rs of services that the public de- the survey says. Only 46 per include an element of sex area." population. Those princi- mands. The BBC would a the . Mr Cooper said thar the cent of authorities know how education. ples were the bedrock on make a strong case for the officers had first seen the many of .their schools have The report concludes that which Lord Reith founded continuation of the licence red Sierra car shortly after - .... it will agree on its strate- such policies. teacher anxiety, particularly . v the BBC. Sir Michael prom- fee. 3.15am. parked in an area f The Sex Education Forum relating to the discussion of ised that the B BC s case to the gy for fuiure funding, struc- of Tadcaster which had been survqr. published today, said homosexuality. Aids and sex- - government would be “robust ture and accountability after . . empty shortly before. They that the three most important ual abuse, is “overriding re- strong”. a series of three governors' went to check the vehicle but and problems identified by LEAs sponses to the needs of the The BBC. which will not be meetings over the summer. it was driven off at “quite a staff: iXi'M with regard to sex education young people receiving the its own blueprint Sir Michael wrote to high speed”. They followed publishing V • “Clearly the BBC is going tfr. IL were embarrassment and un- education”. and stopped the Sierra two until David Mellor. the nat- ffc v. through considerable inter- Ml certainty among teachers; Margaret Morrissey, chair " miles away. The gunmen ional heritage secretary, re- £3" “ V. at the moment, pressures of the national cur- of the National Confedera- tried to talk their way out of leases the government green nal change riculum; and confusion over a tion of Parent Teacher Asso- paper in September, will fo- coupled with the uncertainty i i§- the situation but after 20 cross-curricular approach to ciations, said that the results minutes shots were fired. ots on “Four key objectives” associated with the forthcom- sex education. of the survey were very worry- Yesterday police began into the next century- accord- ing debate about our future, AD school governing bodies ing. “1 am absolutely stag- house-to-house enquiries. ing to the letter. lnt^'iiably it will be a difficult staff are required to draw up a gered and I think this is a They believe that the gun- impartial, acotrate news time for all but we can- policy document on sex edu- major concern. Many par- men have escaped from the and current affairs and infor- not expect these issues to be cation and make it available ents rely on teachers in this area which has been mation programming: resolved early . . . We know police for the brief to parents. The report shows area. If 1 was a governor I searched by a wide range of British already that questions will be past two days. that, where information is would want to make sure that emenainment and cultural asked about the BBCs size, its Surgeons began an at- available, a quarter of schools sex education was taught programming that meets the efficiency, its funding and tempt to remove a bullet have failed to do so. Eighty- alongside the moral issues highest standards: about the range and scope of from PC Kelly's pelvis but services. The in- Tilt i \ involved.” formal and informal edu- our BBC lev decided to postpone the op- ‘ The report recommends cational programming: tends to put up a vigorous eration. Earlier in the week thorough monitoring of sex international programme and clearly argued case for its r School test Tribute: a woman police constable places flowers where Glenn Goodman died four bullets were removed he [ education policies as part of services through World Ser- future.” school inspaftion and the spe- rankings cific marking of funds for teacher training. Young Rescuer i » * people should also be consult- challenged ed when planning a sex edu- cation programme. drowns The moral issues behind By John O’Leary sex education will be debated EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT tomorrow when the House of in river Lords considers amending an 6.1 GO TO THE THE first official rankings of order establishing national national curriculum test re- curriculum science teaching. by Peter Victor sults gave a misleading im- Lord Stallard is proposing a pression of local authorities' conscience clause for teachers A MAN drowned with his performance, according to re- allowing them to opt out of would-be rescuer in the river search published yesterday. lessons on HIV and Aids, Tone at Taunton. Somerset, Ministers insisted, that last currently part of the curricu- yesterday. The bodies of the year’s results by seven year- lum which covers viruses. two men were recovered by a olds owed little to social fac- Ceri Hutton, of the Nat- police diving team after a six tors or spending policies. ional Aids Trust, said: “This hour search. Weighting the results accord- sort of amendment ofthe core Witnesses reported hearing backgrounds, ing to pupils' _ curriculum is unprecedented. cries for help after a man Re- however, the London It is a kind of Trojan horse. aged around 50 fell into the dra- search Centre produced Under the aegis of protecting river. Four people attempted the league matic changes in young people, this may mean to rescue him and initially it table. actually withholding infor- had been thought that three nsuifemce Richmond upon Thames, mation that could save their men drowned. which headed the govern- lives.” She said that more The first victim was seen in ment's rankings, dropped to funds for teacher training the water at around lOara 14th, while Rotherham went were necessary. near the Somerset cricket from 41st to top of the 105 The Sex Education Forum dub ground in Taunton. authorities. said that teachers received Another man in his forties The centre took account of inadequate training before went to bis rescue but was the social structure, ethnic giving lessons on Aids and heard to shout: “I can’t swim breakdown, parents' qualifi- were often learning from text very well.” He tried to drag cations and population densi- books themselves. the older man ashore but ty. The results were also The education department both disappeared below the adjusted to give credit for said that parents who were surface of the slow-flowing pupils reaching the highest unhappy about sex education river. Two efectritity workers levelsof performance. provision should discuss the also went to the rescue, as did matter with head teachers The alternative ranking an 18-year-oW youth, but to and governors. top ten authorities (official no avail. placing in brackets) were: 1 Police, including an under- Rotherham (41); 2 Kirklees ars: ^ water search unit from Bris- 111): 3 Haringey (56): 4 Isle tol. recovered the two bodies of Wight (19); 5 St Helens in 10ft of water near Priory (J4); 6 Hertfordshire (5); 7 Bridge. They were taken to Harrow S South Tyneside (4); Musgrove Park Hospital (44); 9 Wirral (24): 10 Brom- mortuary in Taunton. ley (3). Bottom ten: 96 Bolton Tim Jones, a police spokes- (88): 97 Rochdale (97): 98 man, said: “We are not sure Sandwell (103); 99 Stafford- at this stage how the first man shire (66): 100 Birmingham came to be in the river. It is (1021; 101 Dudley (94); 102 dear the second man was Bexley (79); 103 Walsall trying to save him when he (101): 104 Newham (104): got into difficulties. It was a 105 Bradford (105). brave attempt which went Pupil attainments and social tragically wrong. We have status (London Research Centre. found a bag containing per- Parliament 81 Black House, Stallard: wants teacher sonal papers relating to at Prince RuacL 7SZ, v-.C London SE1 least two different people." Sl Fi free) conscience clause Fraudsters and thieves join forces in art trade crime but had won money A CLOSE relationship be- money Impressionist the horses and Felt flusK tween fraud and theft is on Sometimes the culprits making the art market more paintings sold by off more than they can unpredictable than ever, bite their thief turned chew. Thieves who made off delegates to the Interna- out to be fakes, with old master paintings tional Art Theft Conference worth £7 million from the in London were told Sarah Jane dealers Colnaghi in New yesterday. K> ChecKland writes York were specialists in op- ch^‘ Constance LowenthaJ. di- j portunist break-ins through rector o! the New York- replaced by a photo- were horri- based International been skylights, and graph. Mrs Keck's butler fied to discover the value of Foundation for Art Re- tried for stealing the their haul when they read search. an art retrieval was painting, but acquitted. The the newspapers the next agency, outlined many re- painting subse- day. These paintings have cent cases in which theft original sold for £328.000 to been recovered. and faking were combined. quently Swedish corporation Dr Lowenthal warned the JAPANESE YEN TO She said that Henri Runs, a FOR EVERYTHING FROM title by buy- public against believing ABBEY NATIONAL TO BE PRECISE. a Canadian, spent the which got good under Swedish false provenances. Fake CHEQUES. 1980s stealing French im- ing publicly, TO TRAVELLER’S Faberge eggs were being SAUDI RIVALS. FROM TRAVEL INSURANCE pressionist watercolours jgny case of mistaken marketed by the whispered and taking them to Tou- Another a paint- promise that they have been louse where he had them identity concerned vampire by Edvard “smuggled from Russia.” reproduced. He then re- ing of a disappeared she said. In fact they are ^ABBEY lumed the fakes to North Munch, which Museum being made in America. America Tor sale. "He was from the Munch NATIONAL thought they Trouble was being stored- -j 'k’i getting close to his Ell miL in Oslo. Police j f * future the < 4. painting in a up for the by S | lion profit goal was had found the of a lifetime when he Imaginario of The habit it turned Museo del arrested last spring.” she train carriage, but Itaiy. which I l<»\ \l *11111 \ Cremona in • MMMUill Utl-' a prop used by ,- Lir-'i i M I V said, adding that he had out to be til \RI f II' t M Hf » •.,th sai works of art for It JcFIvN il'rTMt M revellers in a stag produces T r.M now been jailed. drunken liiillM M is F K iTP.M UM“ collectors, she said. Al- Howard Keck, widow of a night stunt. though the company marks Los Angeles millionaire, The actual painting was stretchers and canvas- was astonished one day returned by the thief him- the "falso”, these warnings when she noticed her An- self who walked Into a ses could easily be removed by ders Zorn painting “looked police station with it. saying future generations. surprisingly flat.” It had he had stolen it to make " . I " . , . , *
4 HOME NEWS the times Wednesday june i q 1992
| — Russian mountaineer’s discovery expected to throw light on ten-year-old mystery of two Britons Everest body and diaiy offer dues to vanished climbers A DIARY found high on the trace of the earlier attempt. A northeast ridge of Everest Ronald Faux photograph of the ridge tak- near the body of a climber examines the latest en in 1985 by American may yield dues to the disap- development in dimbers on the north col pearance ten years ago of the showed patches of colour, the tragedy of British mountaineers Peter possibly a tent, among the Boardman and Joe Tasker. Peter Boardman pinnades. As Valery Khrichtchaty, a and Joe Tasker The route along the ridge Russian climber, was cross- is complex and swept by ing the difficult pinnacled two men were the leading storms that constantly ' section of the ridge, he found climbers of their day and change the snow cover. “It is the body at 27.200ft, by the talented writers. The Board- not surprising that the earlier remains of a tent containing man-Tasker literary award expeditions found no sign of two sleeping bags. From his was founded ten years ago in the British attempt,” Mr description and the equip- their honour. Unsworth said. “Fust there is ment and dothing that he The discovery answers one the concentration that would found, the body could be that question but poses another, be needed to find the route of Mr Boardman. who was Walt Unsworth, author of a and then the constantly last seen with Mr Tasker in history of Everest, said. Why changing nature of the that area- was only one body found ground.” The families of the two outside a tent with two sleep- Mr Khrichtchaty was with climbers are trying to contact ing bags? Mr Boaidman’s a combined Japanese-Ka- Mr Khrichtchaty to secure widowed mother. Dorothy, zakhstan expedition trying to the diary and learn any other said at her home in Stock- make the first continuous as- details of his discovery. It is port: “We can only wait to see cent of the 29,028 ft moun- understood that the Russian what the Russian climber tain by the northeast and dimber intended to hand the tells us. I hope the diary will north ridges. When he diary to Chris Bonington, give some due as to what reached the junction of the leader of the northeast ridge happened.” ridges he descended to the
attempt in 1982, who is The northeast ridge was north col. but a Japanese dimbing in the Himalayas. first crossed to its junction dimber, Manabu Hoshi. It was thought at the time with the north ridge by a continued alone and was last that Mr Boardman. 32, and British expedition in the seen on May 23 at a camp at Mr Tasker, 34, may have summer of 1988. Harry Tay- 25,200ft. He is presumed to fallen to their deaths down lor. a former SAS soldier, have perished in the area Cold and aloof: more than a hundred have died on Everest, viewed here at 20,000ft, and many bodies have not been recovered the Kangshung face, on the and Russell Brice reached where George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared Chinese side of Everest, as the junction with the north less costly to "book". Since in May on Kangchenjunga, they climbed the mountain’s ridge and in 1924. the first of the mys- descended to the Reinhold Messner and Peter the third highest mountain Mick Burke last unconquered ridge. teries surrounding the The north coL They found no Habeler became the first in die world. disappeared world’s highest summit LOST ON EVEREST climbers to reach the summit One of the most poignant between Unburied body This spring has brought without, oxygen sets, in 1978. inddents on Everest itself summit and ; of Hannetora the number of Everest as- many dimbers have dis- was the death of Hanndore south summit Schmatz cents to 453 by 399 dimbers. pensed with the cumbersome Schmatz of west Germany, some of whom have climbed equipment. Even with oxy- who in 1979 died of exhaus- the mountain more than gen, thesummit is a formida- tion above the south col with Last once. The pressure of expedi- : -gijjy-- ble place to reach. Thin air her American companion. otMjjJonr |%29,028ft . : tions, which led to people 32 • " ‘ ;t reduces the body's resistance Genet Her husband, Tent with body wh-i* - arriving on the summit on Ray to odd, making it prone to a Gerhard. 50. had earlier suc- believed to be May 12, may have robbed fount • variety of high altitude ceeded in becoming the old- Boardman 0* coin:!’ . Everest of some of its lofty Alnesses. est to climb isolation. More mountain- man the ; ::- Since Mallory and Irvine mountain. The ground is fro- ft NORTH, t eers seek to "tick ofT the wsa A: disappeared in 1924. 103 zen hard and there are no EAST .. world's 8,000 metre - Marty Hoey, J dimbers and Sherpas have crevasses where she died, so 'I* RIDGE (26,246ft) summits, in the American guide ! **' lr.if same way that hill walkers died on Everest from falls, foryears afterwards her body Manabu Hoshi Xm disappears after --*3? falling 1800 fast KiWWfey.- seek to coiled "Munros" — exhaustion or oedema, the remained where she fell. of Japan ^ : vn . Scottish mountains over accumulation of fluid in tis- One British dimber on his disappears 3,000ft — and commercial sue spaces. Many bodies way to the summit retains a 23 May 1992 . ' • * Last sighting -.v : ! 1 : tfe V.1 expeditions will guide diems have not been recovered. vivid memory of seeing her. /'/ lhc%
I of Boardman to the top for $40,000. Thirty-eight mountaineers apparently asleep in the snow and Tasker 1 • •* «»*! Everest remains the most who have stood on the with the wind blowing her „ iSNOW TERRACE i popular goal of high altitude summit have perished on hair, a reminder that howev- expeditions, even though other expeditions. Wanda er many people gasp their NORTH 1 ' ... «:!• ihi'Ui many mountains which are Rufidewftz of Poland, the way to its summit Everest RIDGE W Boardman: the body Is Tasker like Boardman. slightjy Iowerprovide a better third woman to climb Ever- may still exact a terrible the >.»w»* • -i • believed to be his a talented writer technical challenge and are est is feared to have perished price.
Tiu*i :u" thrift Courts set higher fines NEWS »» BRIEF Pi.ti.Ti- - il W Firm must cnax* 1 for wealthy offenders <** K tax be IF YOU’VE MADE YOUR pay on fori.- : for By Frances Gibb, legal correspondent free coffee '*« WEALTHY offenders will said * A ORGANISATION SAFER the guidelines were the motorway in a Rolls- A AND pay far heftier fines than being brought in as of Royce, he or she would pan be sent a ills! A Wiltshire company re- .. poorer offenders under new considerably the Criminal Justice Act fined more than £1.577 bill by the Inland national guidelines for mag- 1991. The system was “much someone of lower means. Revenue for giving staff a free .t-.i istrates’ courts that link fines - Magistrates always HEALTHIER PLACE, DON’T fairer”, she said, in that if had been cup of coffee twice a day was with an offender’s means. someone was speeding down able to lower a fine because of ordered by the Tax Commis- The guidelines, published income, she said. Now for the sioners yesterday to imm- m pay - - ?• i. f.l yesterday with the approval of first time they can YOU DESERVE A PLACE IN increase it ediately. The free perk had the Lord Chancellor and Lord This might seem inconsis- been noticed in the compa- ^ Jil.Tr ... Chief Justice, will be aimed at tent, she said but the courts ny's books by a tax inspector. creating a more fair and con- will be starting from the same The commissioners' deri- hrn. • . r- THE HISTORY sistent system of fines from point whereas present guide- sion could have ramifications October. The range of fines lines and starting points vary. for thousands of companies. e'*n .t 1 . for any one offence is likely to She emphasised that the The Salisbury Printing Com- 1 . 3 « be far greater than at present guidelines were not a tariff. pany appealed to the commis- h;i For house burglary, for in- “Courts will still have consid- sioners after receiving the r t: , . stance. the poorest offender erable discretion and will Inland Revenue demand. To mark the European Year of Safety, Hygiene and could be fined £120 while have to take into account the Stephen Tilley, who runs or Health Protection at Work 1992, the Health and Safety someone with a weekly dis- circumstances of each indi- the firm, had provided £1 a posable income of G00 or viduaJ case, which can vary each of if Commission (HSC) is sponsoring a Special Award in the week in lOp pieces for tlir more could be fined £3,000. enormously, before imposing his 18 staff to have ten cups of 1992 National Training Awards Competition (NTA). Joyce Rose, chairman of the Rose: aiming for a sentence," she said. coffee from the vending ®asy . t r? . . ; The NTA Competitions recognise excellence in Magistrates' Association. fairer fines system Under the new scheme, machine as a goodwill ges- training development and practice. which is already in force in a ture. The Revenue went back number of courts after suc- six years and taxed every This Special Award is open to employers and training cessful pilot trials in four cen- employee’s cup of coffee paid Cnj»j providers including Trade Unions Sentences differ , tres, courts must first for by the firm and Local Authorities who win an consider the gravity of the NTA. The Special Award will be offence. The most common England win Qe;. ... for similar crime sentences have all been rated three given excellence in health England won the first to mark in terms of seriousness and games of their second round and safety training. Entries in By Richard Ford, home correspondent given a of number ‘’units’’, so match against Finland in the respect of training for managers that handling stolen gobds, different sentences Magistrates’ Chess Olympics in Manila, THE Court the aver- for example, carries 18 units, or for owner-managers of small handed out to Andrew Tol- age was £29 the Philippines, yesterday. compared with general theft 15 units -'rM rv* and There is still game unfin- y would be particularly stoy and Alden Reid indicate El 09 at Atherstone and one firms obstructing a police officer the anomalies in sentencing Coleshfil magistrates ished but it looks likely that it welcome. in the eight units. the will end in an England vic- N I N L that magistrates and ju- West Midlands, according to AT O A Magistrates will not be NTA winners will receive a diciary have been attempting the 1989 survey. tory as well. England is likely allowed to consider T R A. t N' l N previous to have seven pressing G trophy, a wall plaque and use of to overcome by producing a Since then, little additional points, convictions; they must con- lead- A- A W A R D series of guidelines. research has been undertak- Russia, the tournament the NTA logo for three years. sider only the seriousness of out Mr Tolstoy, a first time of- en but the penalties deliv- ers, who have 7 h points the offence -1 The Health and Safety Special before them. To of S after Switzer- I for M C M X C I fender. was jailed a week ered as part of last year’s defeating ^ a!- . arrive at a fine, the units are Award winner will also receive a after driving when just under effort to curb drinking and land by 3*2 points to ‘2 point. multiplied by the offender's twice the legal alcohol limit driving at Christmas brought specially commissioned trophy. weekly d isposable income in a for drivers. Yet in another renewed pressure for greater Cyclists halted For your free entry pack please call NTA Hotline formula similar to that for courtroom at Horseferry consistency in sentencing. legal aid means testing. Two cyclists face prosecution 0800 - 616400 or use the coupon below. Road Magistrates' Court, Although consistency is diffi- after police enforced a ban on London, in the same week cult to measure The disposable income The dosing date for entries is 1992. without 17 July range is from £12 up to a cycling in the centre of Cun- last December, another sti- knowing factors such as a bridge. Since new restrictions pendiary magistrate fined person's criminal maximum of £300. Anyone record and were L £400 for his second income exceeding that income will be imposed on June To: The Nationil Trailing Standards Office, Room W824, Moorfoot, Mr Reid plus the circum- offence. assessed as having GOO. The police and traffic wardens Sheffield SI44P!Q- drink driving He, stances of the offence, some too. been just under magistrates fine for theft from a shop or have been warning offenders, Please send me.ny National Training Award entry pack. had and MPs recog- from a vehicle but officers arc now under * twice the legal limit. nise the need for greater con- (15 units) Name; orders No Not only stipendiary mag- sistency to reassure a more could therefore range from to take a firm tine. £60-£ 1,500: for handling cyclists are allowed in a istrates but many of the questioning public that jus- sto- . 28.000 lay magistrates also tice is fair. len goods (18 units) from £72- central triangle in Cam- bridge and deliver inconsistent sen- The difficulty feeing those £1 .800; or for grievous bodily between 10am Arldrr-v; harm unic) except tences nationally and even attempting to achieve great- (40 from £160- 4pm on Sundays. within a particular area. A er consistency E4.000, although with HSC is that guide- the ,M- Consumers’ Association sur- lines such most serious offences Health & Safety as those published courts Sword found vey found that the average yesterday are are more likely to consider Commission advisory and a A 3,000-year-old Bronze Age fine for ignoring traffic sig- have no legal commmunity or backing. What- custodial sword has been found in nals was £26 at Highbury ever the Court of Appeal and penalty. Jane Gummer, bucket of an earth-shifter!* Comer, north London, but Magistrates’ Association chairman of the sentencing ’ 1 Yorkshire as archaeology® 1 tMi** was £68 at Brentford, west may propose, magistrates’ committee, said that in plac- were ending an unsuccessful London. The average fine for and local benches ing 1 - dispense offences in order of seri- i ( search for remains- ; a speed limit offence was £57 justice in the Roman light of all the ousness, violent and sexual of® Sts,/ nationally but at Lincoln was unearthed on the site circumstances before them. offences had been unpraded fnm* - ‘ Dnmnii n — l
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6 HOME NEWS THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 Firm’s chiefs deny stealing £13. 5 m By Craig Seton
A FORMER chief executive southeast London, former shares were worth over 5Op and his deputy stole £13.5 chairman of Connect Parcels, and it had over 35.000 million of a public company’s an Eagle Trust company, de- shareholders. money to buy shares in the nies three charges of theft and Mr Rogers said that in firm after the stock market furnishing false information. September 1987, Eagle Trust crashed in 1987. Wolver- John Rogers. QC, For the bid for the Samuelson Group, hampton Crown Court was prosecution, said that Stock which supplied film equip- told yesterday. Market dealings in Eagle ment. It offered six new Eagle John Ferriday, 47, former Trust shares were suspended Trust shares Tor each head of Eagle Trust and in May 1989 over suspected S amuelson share worth Richard Smith, 40, an execu- baud that had made the com- El.SOpor cash. tive director, were alleged to pany insolvent He said that Mr Rogers said that when have paid for millions of over 12 months there had the stock market crashed. Ea- shares in the company by been substantial thefts of gle Trust shares fell to 20p transferring its money and money and other assets of the and Samuelson shareholders laundering it through the ac- company by senior employ- wanted cash for their shares. counts of firms they set up ees. Mr Ferriday and Mr Millions of Eagle Trust overseas. Smith stole £13.5 million to shares were left to be disposed Mr Ferriday. of Sutton buy Eagle Trust shares for of by underwriters. Mr Coldfield, West Midlands, their own use, helped by Mr Ferriday. as a sub-underwrit- denies 11 charges of theft, Baker and Mr Goodwin. er. eventually had responsi- obtaining a E4 million over- Mr Rogers said that in the bility for a total of 50 million draft by deception, furnish- early 1980s. Mr Ferriday shares worth E15 million. ing false information and owned two Midlands com- 'Mr Rogers said that he false accounting. Mr Smith, panies while Mr Smith ran a paid £13-5 million for the from Telford, Shropshire, de- plumbers' merchants. Their shares using money that he nies four charges of theft and businesses merged into a and Mr Smith transferred obtaining a £4 million over- company supplying the build- out of Eagle Trust and into draft by deception. ing industry and in 1986 it Connect Parcels. From there Martin Baker, 37, former was involved in a share ex- it went to a Jersey firm and Eagle Trust finance director, change with Audiotronics. then into the accounts of a of Sunon Coldfield, denies six Hie two men joined the "dormant” company they charges of theft, false Audiotronics board: it had earlier registered in Pan- accounting It then paid the and furnishing changed its name to Eagle ama. was to Al fresco art; the cartoonist Bill Tidy puts the finishing touches to a poster announcing BTs new £1 million sponsorship of the false information. Leslie Trust and underwriters. began acquiring South Bank Centre’s touring exhibitions programmme. The money will support 108 exhibitions to be seen by 1.5 million people Goodwin, 42. of Eltham. other companies. By 1987. its The trial continues today. Teenage inmate ‘seemed happy5
. By Richard Ford, home correspondent
*• - A YOUNG prisoner who named inmate told John Bur- , : - -y hanged himself was not con- ton. the coroner, that Mr sidered a suicide risk in spite Cash, from Acton, west of two earlier attempts to kill London, had hanged himself himself, an inquest was told accidentally to avoid bring 4 . yesterday. sent to Rochester prison. Hie • ' * The doctor who examined inmate said he did not think - the youth when he arrived at it was on Mr Cash’s mind to a young offenders’ institution kill himself but he was trying said that from medical to find away of not being sent
records the inmate did not to Rochester and it had gone seem suicidal. Dr Nahil wrong.
’ Candappa told the inquest Mr Cash was found dead a ;S 3 r. into the death of Johnny few days after members of a --r Cash: ”1 thought he was not gang of nine had bloodied his
suicidal despite being told nose because he had told that n , t ' I « ^ 1 about an earlier attempt the gang was stealing from H[j[u i? 2 when his brother died. From his cell mate. The inmate
the medical records it didn’t said: “Other inmates on the seem that he was suicidal. He unit were ganging round and seemed a happy boy.” taking things and they The jury at Hammersmith started on Johnny's cell Coroners' Court has been told that medical staff at the Once Mr Cash reported Young Offender^ Institution. the incident to the authori- Feltham. west London, were ties, he started to get “has- - • not told that Mr Cash. 18. sled”. The inmate added: - had tried to slash his wrists at "On a couple of occasions he : a police station only weeks got jumped near the visiting before he hanged himself box.” from a sheet from his up- Earlier, the court was toU turned bed. that Ashford hospital ignored - Mr Cash, on remand for an emergency call from an • - burglary, was terrified after ambulance driver as he tried - being told he was to be trans- to resuscitate Mr Cash- Tint ferred to another prison with Wingham said that the hospi- members of a gang who had tal had had several hoax calls - * beaten him for being a in the casually department. “grass”, the inquest was told. He said: “As far as I was - - He had been transferred to aware they did receive the call • - a strip cell in the segregated but they treated it as a hoax. , wing of the prison for his own It was a lapse of time that -'.i i n ill’ safety after telling staff that should not have happened, his cellmate had been beaten thought the outcome may not by a gang of bullies. An un- have been any different”. vnnfl
S a n Witness to crash saw no warning
A MOTORIST who saw a motorway crash in which sue people died told a court yes- terday that he had seen no NU signs warning of queuing * C; traffic or roadworks ahead. John Lane said die first he knew of a traffic build-up was Yarwood: took care of when he saw a lorry driven by distressed tourists Vincent Parsons plough into the tailback ai 65mph. Mr Lane was giving evi- The Queen AT LAST, A CAMERA THAT dence on the second KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE day of a trial at Birmingham Crown Court, where M r Parsons. 26. praises BETWEEN A LOAD OF RUBBISH AND A GREAT SHOT. a forty driver, is facing six charges of causing death by reckless driving. He denies kindly PC The Dynax 3xi is one SLR camera that doesn’t behind it. composed and exposed photograph. need an expert Or, as your own experience develops, the charges. By robin Young The court has told It already has it. been one inside you can make your own manual decisions on aoy or ail aspects of the shot. that r Parsons M drove POLICE Consrabte Simon straight into a line of station- Built into the camera, you see, is a micro-chip containing years of For this reason, the Dynax 3xi is the ideal camera to help you make Yarwood was yesterday cele- ary traffic on the south M42 brating receiving a letter of photographic of Birmingham expertise, technical knowledge and creative experience. the move from mere snaps to real photography. at 65mph in thanks from the Queen, who November leaving 1990. a had a senior member of her When you put the camera up to your eye, automatically call Complete with a 28-80mm xi lens trail of carnage. Even though sensors zoom and built-in expert, the Dynax staff write to him. after the day was dear and visibili- learning how he helped two upon this ‘expert’ to assess what you see 3xi costs under £330. k through the lens. ty good, he did not even take elderly American women for Pei!*!-. his foot off the accelerator or after a road accident Based on what the camera's advanced light sensors pick-up, the micro- Not a lot for a camera that can automatically tell rubbish from a swerve to avoid the traffic jam After the tourists’ crash at the sliproad ofjunction six, on his rural Warwickshire chip than makes a few split-second decisions. And automatically sets up the great shot. And help you learn to as well. NOTHING MATCHES MINOLTA Christopher Horten, for the beat in March. PC Yarwood, prosecution, said. He said 43. told the car hire firm, camera’s zoom system, the aperture, the speed and, if necessary, the built- that Mr Parsons ignored sorted out insurance details,, For full details of the Minolta Dynax 3xi. please post to: Minolta Brochure Despatch. signs along the motorway 10 in flash to compose and expose what It sees as the perfect shot. ferried the ladies' luggage warning of roadworks. Shipston on Stour police I, Aylesbury. Bucks. HP20 2NQ. Mr Lane, a van driver had Above, for example, it might have chosen to compose the picture of station in his panda car. Northampton, said he had a lorn case mended at not seen any j} around the strongest foreground subject. (Presumably, it's a male ‘expert’) now* signs. saddlery shop, entertained The court was also told that the ladies to tea and bis- And not around the whole landscape. (Which it would presumably think Mr Parsons, of Newport. cuits. and escorted them to a V Postcode Gwent, was seen running local hotel, was a load of rnbbish.) Once set up like this, the Dynax 3xi offers you from Lhe scene. Kim Bryan, He then drove them at his own a lony driver, said that he own expense and in his superbly a choice. You can merely press the button and be guaranteed a MINCLTA was travelling southbound on car to Gatwick airport and the motorway in November stayed with them until they Sam* 1990 when he saw the colli- boarded their flight at I® sion on the opposite carriage- The Queen learnt of way. He said that Mr gentlemanly conduct wftG® Parsons, dressed in jeans and one of the women, safety home in Indiana, wrote ™ a denim shin, fled from the scene after the crash. Buckingham Palace in praise. The trial continues today. “ . .A ' • I . 1
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' ! 1 seeks to BMA end spurn t secrecy over merit May Ball
By Matthew d’ancona pay for consultants EDUCATION REPORTER ONE of Cambridge Universi- ty’s most gilded traditions ByJeremy Iaurance, health services correspondent has suffered a blow with the cancellation of Pembroke AN END to secrecy sur- al distinction and meritorious eral managers have been in- College’s May BalL which rounding merit awards, und- service, has been growing cluded cn the committees this year failed to attract er which hospital consultants among consultants. They since 1989 but there is still "a enough custom after more can doable their NHS sala- were introduced when the perception among consul- than a century of success. afflicted ried is being sought by the NHS was set up to ensure tants that sheer hard work for Undergraduates, British Medical Association. that the earnings of top doc- the health service does not by the recession or the creep- ing influence of political cor- For the first time since the tors kept pace with compara- qualify for an award”. Dr rectness. turned their backs scheme was introduced more ble professions — and to Chawner said. “If that is so on the white-tie baU. due to than 40 years ago. the change compensate them for the loss there is room for change.” be held on Tuesday, which wpold give patients the right of lucrative private practices. A better system would allow - needed to sell at least 400 to" know which consultants Without them, a doctor aged all consultants In a region to tickets. The organisers are were receiving the awards, 40 appointed to a consul- put names forward for instead mounting a less made for distinguished ser- tant's post would hit an earn- awards, he said. Lists of those grandiose “event", and will to the S and worth ings after five of one would be vice NH up plateau years of in receipt refund those few members of a year. increments public libraries ur£46,500 and that would available in the Cambridge jeunesse do- Nexr week’s annual consul- last until retirement. and from health authorities. rite who have already paid conference tants’ of the BMA But the distribution of the But critics believe the sys- £143 for a double ticket. will debate calls for a fairer awards is unequal. High pro- tem is outdated. The Trea- Colin Gilbraith, college and more effective system file specialties such as cardio sury described it 30 years ago bursar, said; “It’s a shame, with clearer criteria for mak- thoraric medicine are fav- as “a blot on the landscape of but the support, while enthu- ing the awards. Critics com- oured over less glamorous public finance", a criticism siastic, was not sufficient to plain that the awards are ones such as psychogeriatrics. since echoed by MPs. Private make it financially viable. It - made by secret cabals of se- Academics who publish re- practice is growing — the is the first time 1 can remem- nior doctors operating on an search papers are favoured 12.000 consultants who do ber where organisers have old boy network over workhorses who cut some work in the private sec- had to cancel a May BalL Just overa third of consul- waiting lists and men are tor already earn an average which have been running in tants hold an award, worth a favoured over women. Of the £40,000 a year on top of their Cambridge since the last r. y\ minimum of £9,970 on lop of 270 consultants holding the NHS salaries — and NHS er of last century. I k, many colleges are hav- a fuD time NHS salary of top A-plus award, given to trusts are making moves to S -I**';? ' adapt the May Balls io .il £48,950. Many also have those with an international negotiate salaries locally, so Trunk route: campaigners in London yesterday launching the World Wide Fund for Nature's “Pedal for ing to |(|j, changing tastes and ‘ substantial private earnings. reputation, more than 100 consultants' earnings are the Planet” money-raising cycle ride from London to Cambridge I’V.-pk fashions." Senior figures within the are held fcy academics in a being boosted in other ways. BMA fear controversy if in- few specialist hospitals. formation about the awards The awards are recom- mended commit- 1 Ilf is made public. Patients by regional 1 H might be misled into de- tees of consultants and gener- manding to be seen by con- al managers and approved by
» —r. sultants with the highest a central committee chaired h£ O’. awards in the belief that they by Sir Cordon Robson. Gen- would get better treatment
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• I tee, said: “A consultant might award for treating ' have an ’ A Consultants earn **c between could that do liver disease but may not Is there more you £37,905 and £48,945 plus be any guide to his compe- merit awards disease. I tence in coronary Merit No. of believe in open government Grade award awards argu- but 1 want to hear the C £9.790 4.102 ments on both sides." B £19.580 1,789 to keep your customers your Dissatisfaction with the A £34.260 802 A+ £46,500 232 awards,' made for profession-
w.ji V'-Z customers? —5 Butterfly CUSTOMER LOYALTY DEPENDS on good of course, they appreciate the fact that an 0800 call is absolutely free." -VI deaths customer service. That’s the firm view of the • * examined business people on this page. Who are they? Some of the 2,000 people we’ve interviewed to Gaims that up to 1,000 exotic butterflies have been probe how communications can help with the killed by agro-chemical sprays are bang investigated issues businesses face today. by government wildlife advis- they have in common? A real Dental Linkline. Phillip Isherwood, ers. The butterflies, from What do Managing Director. Thailand, the Philippines commitment to service that goes far beyond the and other tropical countries, “I think we've always bad a caring were found dead in glass- is king’ platitudes, and a creative, ‘customer to customers, which is houses at Butterfly World at approach Fraddam. in Cornwall. open-minded view of the ways that modern quite natural for a small family Mark Wiles, owner of But- business, and we've always been terfly World, blames pesticide Affronted: outside the communications can help. and herbicide spraying of Hyde Park Hotel keen to please. So when 0800 came daffo- Balloons, Balloons. Balloons. fields of broccoli and along it fitted that philosophy. dils near by for the deaths. He Carl Christensen, Owner. Here was a tool that was good for says he has lost nearly 1.000 Protesters butterflies this year and be- customers, that said we want to spray could have "In a small business, where you lieves die speak to you and we will pay for drifted into the glasshouses confront can't man the phones 24 hours a through ventilators and gaps the calL 0800 IS LIKE A PRE- day. an answering machine is between overlapping panes. PAID ENVELOPE OVER Gordon Flint, a director of Tarmac essential. It is a friendly voice THE PHONE isn't it? It en- Winchester' Bulb Growers, rather than just an endlessly ring- which rents a block of daffodil By Nicholas Watt courages response and at the ing phone. I try to MAKE THE fields, said there was no same time says you care." evidence that spraying failed DRESSED in black bin-lin- MESSAGES BRIGHT AND
;jc. the butterflies. All its sprays . . ers and waving brightly col- Canadian Airlines. Jason Peacock, CHEERFUL, and change them * were applied by skilled opera- oured banners, the disgust- Reservations Supervisor. to keep them topical - and judging tors. Butterfly World was ed of Trent Valley protested warned in advance of any outside Tarmac’s annual from the messages my customers spraying to give time for meeting yesterday against “Even in this age of mobile com- Radio Taxicabs (London) Ltd. leave me. they seem to appreciate ventilators to be closed. the company's plans to munications there are times when dump waste near their vil- Maurice Joel, Sales Director. that extra carer Concert switch lage. As the faithful brigade one of our sales people needs to of shareholders arrived at "Some of our large customers make a call from a customer's Guns 'N* Roses, the rock the Hyde Park Hotel they group, cancelled its concert in were greeted by placards are ordering up to 200 cabs a day. office. A BT CHARGECARD Manchester last night after warning of dire pollution to To make this easier and quicker for MEANS WE FOOT THE its lead singer, Axl Rose, the valley if the plans are CUS- collapsed from exhaustion. allowed to go ahead. them, they access oar MAIN BILL, NOT THE 4* '*• • • All 30,000 tickets were sold Tarmac fas been extract- DIRECTLY and TOMER. It's a small thing, but 5 COMPUTER about these 1 and the concert will now be ing gravel from around the Discover more instructions using a it shows our customers they're not on Sunday. village of Hoveringham near tap in their and other ideas in this new Nottingham since 1946. that connects taken for granted, and that we care BT line and modem BT information pack ‘MAKE he Under its planning agree- down to the Murder charge our system to their PC. It's tremen- about their business ment, it has to return the COMMUNICATIONS MAKE charged detaiL" >e$ Four men have been land to agricultural use and dously efficient? last A DIFFERENCE*. For your with the murder of Ronnie does that by filling the land P' - Penrose at his home in with fuel ash pumped from a copy post the coupon. Or simpler, Penrhys. Mid Glamorgan, coal-burning power station - ; quicker and cheaper call us free kin on Sunday. With a woman, near by and laying new top on 0800 800 800 anytime. they have also been charged SOiL But the Suppfy will run with kidnapping Mr out in the next five years and Top Joiners. Michael Goldman, Penrose’s 15-year-old son Tarmac is planning to use Proprietor. and win appear before Ponty- industrial or domestic pridd magistrates today. waste. 1 a Ji Gabrielle Fawcett, "When you need a locksmith, founder member of Hover- CALL 1® FREE ON 0800 800 800 carpenter or joiner urgently - may- Help for police ingharo Against Local Tip- “““ lives l A witness has forward ping (Hah) who in the it’s 3 in the morning - you want like a copy of BT’s ‘Make come be i Yea. I would after a 20-year-old Oxford village, is appalled by the comm uni cations make a difference: I am to a person at the other end. I to talk (please ticki: student appealed for help in plan. “The area round the BR&M Holmes. Barry Holmes, specifically interested in at the staff 24 hours I catching her rapisL The wit- village looks ghastly So we have on duty Modems Training Partner. | ’ will ness was in moment and Tarmac switchboard. They take 0800 V... a car parked dose a day at a I O BT Chargecards D to Hoveringham into an ) the lavatory turn where the of what the AniwcrinK Machines Pagers right “Not everyone’s a natural the exact details ! student was attacked and has island by .Quarrying over the sales call from BT in the said. send 1 would like a given round the village," she phone. People Silver Skidd Screens Ltd. customer requires and then O police the names of need TRAINING week "They don't need to fill the next other people in die area. Director. a BT MESSAGE they IN COMMUNICATIONS, tak- John Oliver, Managing them out to land with waste and I Name: sanctuar- MASTER pager; all our workers could create bird ing enquiries, handling complaints Surname: Salmon return instead. ies or make lakes “In our business we’re often carry one, wherever they are. and so on. It’s given our people lob Title' Saimon.have returned to the Tarmac stand to make hand- j providing a sendee to somebody means the whole message burying confidence, This I Company Name: Trent after a break of nearly a some profits from more and made them for century be distressed at the side on the pager s screen I caused by pollution waste." more efficient in being able to sort who may comes up Address: told Mawdsley. chief ex- I weir-building. The Nat- Jack of road or in a car park because operative on duty; the details, out exactly what the customer is the the tonal Rivets Authority might ecutive of Tarmac Quarry the of vandalism. BT's 0800 service the address, everything, so he’s Postcode: restock the river. Products Division, said getting at. Most of all it’s made company was keen to create enables us to publish JUST ONE completely prepared for the job. Our I Davtime Phone Np: tCodei • i them more positive. Be positive, be I -i lakes and wildlife parks on for them flourished, the secret Number: Marsh CENTRAL NUMBER business has J rescue old quarries. “Our primary' happy, smile down the telephone. A 1 teenage girl trapped knee- is in extracting to contact, no matter where they been communications, and Please send to: BT. Dept. CKDi FREEPOST Interest That’s what we encourage, and has 4..«- •! deep 1 (BS Bristol- BS1 in mud was lifted to gravel we are intensely 800 3333 J. 6GZ. No shun and are. Much less fuss than looking up told this time and time again? J ! we're I : safety required. gki>kg N- by a helicopter from keen on being kind to the it works." lr'. number. And I Marshes near Leieh-on-Sea, environment,” he said. the appropriate local • Essex. ,
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8 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 Heseltine pleads for Clarke Fowler overhauls attacks party machine welfare of miners race bias By Nicholas wood
By However, insiders are Nicholas Wood, political correspondent By Arthur Leath ley INDEPENDENT manage- figures. ment consultants are to be portraying it as a shrewd PRIVATISED power bosses Sir Norman, who is speech, but sources at the KENNETH Clarke, the called in by Sir Norman move by must not ignore the welfare of Fowler Conser- said to be well aware that he is nationalised indusny. which borne secretary, yesterday to reorganise Britain's miners in their ne- vative part treading on sensitive ground is scheduled for privatisation underlined his commitment Central Office as gotiations with British Coal, to monitor- of a overhaul of by seeking to prune his head before the next election, pri- extending ethnic widespread Michael Heseltine said yes- vately welcomed his ing to reduce racial discrimi- the Tory party machine. office empire. terday as he gave applications. his senior a further intervention. nation in job An announcement by the Sir Norman and sign of a more interventionist He insisted, however, that he newly appointed party chair- managers are understood to Mr Heseltine welcomed j approach at the trade depart- opposed quotas. man is expected within a have concluded that the sys- moves by the UDM to put ment under Mr Clarke repeated his S his leadership. together a management and week. The. review by a team of tem of free-standing depart- opposition to eri can-style He reminded National Am outside experts is expected to ments needs to be fused into a employee buyout team to bid “contract compliance”, un- Power. PowerGen far smaller number of teams and the for the coal indusny and lead to a drastic streamlining der which local or central regional electricity compan- of the intricate internal struc- working more closely togeth- promised that, although the government would refuse to ies that they risked throwing ture of Smith Square. It is er. Objective evidence that precise formula of the sell-off give contracts to companies away a national resource likely to accelerate die pace of managerial efficiency would by was not yet decided, workers whose workforce did not re- switching for short-term job losses at Central Office, be enhanced by such a shake- eco- would be able to enjoy a stake flect the ethnic make-up of nomic reasons would make it easier for to gas and ofl. in the future of their industry. the local population. Speak- which is already struggling to up “Remember push when you are Heseltine: taking an “Coal must be competitive: ing in an opposition debate cope with a post-election cut- the chairman to negotiating these back of per cent in its through changes. contracts interventionist stance in a fast-developing energy on ethnic interests. Mr 30 that you are determining budget consul- the market there is no escaping Clarke said that he had intro- in an attempt to dear The management future take 65 million tonnes or 80 availability of a nat- that reality," he said. “I will duced ethnic monitoring an overdraft of about £10 tants will be expected to re- per cent of British Coal's out- ional resource for which you not try to hide from you that while he was employment million. port quickly, in time for the will have put They are thought to be minister then as health Central party to a longer-term need. the final outcome is likely to and Office has about 25 chairman announce Remember intern on cutting that figure .” secretary. Pledging to contin- departments, ostensibly changes ahead of the confer- also that you are be a smaller coal industry . . to around million tonnes. ue the practice as home talking about communities of 40 Mr Heseltine also promised under the control of three full- ence in October. Industry secretary. men and women whose lives sources estimate there would be “no compro- time directors. Sir Norman It is understood that Cen- that Rpy Hattersley, die shad- will be affected," Mr for every million tonnes mises” over safety, pensions and his team of senior politi- tral Office, which remains ow home secretary, accused Heseltine told the Union of in lost sales, l.OOOjobswillgo and concessionary coal. cians and directors are under- short of cash, will be paying the government of “petty tyr- Democratic Mineworkers* and a colliery will dose. This Frank Dobson, Labour's stood to want to establish only a nominal sum for inde- anny" in leading immigra- conference in Weymouth. would suggest deep cuts in energy said: simpler lines of communica- pendent advice. The economy spokesman, tion officials to discriminate Mr Hesdtine's the current tally of pits tion and management drive launched is intended to comments 50 “Without government action against those seeking asylum came at and 58,000 supply Some are likely to produce jobs cuts of about 60 a crucial stage in the men. The to guarantee that coal mining by enforcing the primary pur- MPs tough bargaining talks have view the decision to call in among the head office full- between to be concluded by has a future, for Mr Heseltine pose rule. Under the rule, British Coal and power next April when the current to propose that miners get asylum applicants have to outsiders as a delaying tactic time staff complement of 175. outside review is bosses in the generators and agreements end. shares in their collieries is like prove that they have not mar- by Sir Norman, who has a The the regional distributors. The British Coal declined to offering the crew of the ried primarily in order to reputation as one of White- expected to contribute to- power generators currently comment on Mr Heseltine’s Titanic shares in their ship." gain entry into Britain. hall's most cautious senior wards achieving this target.
Ministers at play (1): David Mellor, the national heritage secretary, joins in a kickabout yesterday at Covent Garden to launch the Reebok Fives Street Soccer competition
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SOwewerere jokingtaking on Monday MjOimCAL > - night that they could not £NOTEBOOK assemble on the floor of the Senate fora bill as so many By Robin Oakley of their number were gath- ered at the British embas- ready buttoning down their sy. A fifth of the Senate had wallets. accepted an invitation to Mr Bush has failed to get dine with John Major. Congress to approve a $12 In a way that few had billion (£6.5 billion) in- expected, Mr Major has be- crease in the US account come political big box of- with the IMF to help pay fice. At every meeting, from for the $24 billion aid pack- the President down, the age for the former Soviet papers on bilateral affairs Union before Mr Yeltsin's have been pushed away at arrival in Washington on some point and he and his June 16. American host have got The Bush administration down to what officials call and the well dined senators "a political discussion”. all had the same message Which means that the for Mr Major when he American leaned forward urged that America should and asked: “But John, how press on with the Freedom did you do it?” Support bill to help keep The allure of an election Mr Veltsin on his political winner is a powerful one in reform programme: “It's Mr Bush's beleaguered ad- just not going to happen in fev ministration. Italy has no an election year." government. Chancellor Kohl and President Mitter- here was clear nervous- rand are struggling, and Tness in the British dele- Mr Major has become the gation this time around man to be consulted for the about the stability of the European view. American administration and the apparent readiness here Margaret of the American people to W"t Thatcher used to visit buy a pig in a poke from a America for an ideological Texan billionaire. battery recharge and turn Mr Major believes that the occasion into a media President Bush will be re- fesL Mr Major comes more elected and that Ross Perot like a senior executive will fade away to a footnote snapping open his brief- of history. But that is partly case for a six-monthly because he and other Euro- board meeting. Quiet prac- pean leaders regard any tically is his style. prospect of a Perot victory British officials are as an unmitigated disaster delighted with the results for what Mr Major likes to of nis fourth visit. There call "the only superpower had been real fears in left in the world". London that the Americans Doing business with would go too far in sharing America, they fear, would their star wars technology become almost impossible. Ns;,. with Boris Yeltsin, so un- And foreign affairs every- dermining the efficacy of where would be in the melt- the British deterrent. ing pot if America were led The prime minister has by a man who has said that been promised it will not the bii! for keeping the happen. There were firm peace of the world can be pledges, too. from Mr Bush passed over to Germany that any attempt by Mr and Japan, without any ex- will Yeltsin to involve the Uni- planation of how they , ted States in pressing Brit- be persuaded to accept it. ain and France to put their Mr Major has- not en- nuclear deterrents into the dorsed the president as next arms reduction talks openly as Mr Bush en- would be referred straight dorsed him, and would to back to Paris and London. think it presumptuous The medium term furore do so. But there is Hide for Trident has been as- doubt he is praying fervent- sured and. with a little ly for the return to office of more reluctance, the Uni- a man who now says that he ted States has accepted docs not merely shake hi* that Britain will continue hand as an ally but em- its nuclear testing pro- braces him as a friend. gramme too. irp f*. r Major's breakfast - *ti he sticky bits came on Mmeeting with Dan ii TJL money. Mr MaiorMajor Quaylc. the man who scerns senst* sought to enlist the presi- to be putting what oomph dent in Herr Kohl's cam- there is in the Bush cam* paign to get the G7 summit paign, overran by an hOW. next month to commit putting the rest of the day ^ funds to update and make schedule in jeopardy. Thai safe Eastern Europe's ram- is what happens when ymj shackle nuclear power sta- let politicians meet without tions. More lhan 20 use the their civil servants, gnim* same technology as bled officials. ... Chernobyl. However. Mr Major dm Mr Major was talking manage to make up enough billions of dollars. The time schedule for 1* on his ® Americans, further from and Norma to go off the potential fall-out area Tower Records to boost tw 1 of any nuclear mdidown in Downing Si Tver roflKb® Eastern Europe, are al- of opera CDs. Britannia Building Society, N«w1*n House, Leek. Staff*. ST13 5RG, tWHfiaui Minimum £2.500. U K. Income To* deducted ‘Foe balances below CIO, 000, instant acent u o*aitoW« with 30 days' toss of mter«t. r i
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TONY WHITE Maastricht legislation threatened 48-hour Labour hardens treaty stance week under fire By Phiup Webster, chief political correspondent By Sheila Gunn THE Labour leadership yes- government by abstaining on prehensrveand indudes those menr in which the German POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT terday appeared to harden its the treaty bill. “It is ourjob id parts of the treaties most of mark moved up against other reintraduc- oppose. If we to the British people— opposition to the can defeat the benefit European currencies, which GILLIAN Shephard, the Maastricht treaty government with the help and that specifically indudes could lead to reduction in tion of the of a employment secretary, is underlining the the Tory rebels chapter,** he said. interest legislation, we should do the serial German rates lead- prepared to challenge EC difficulties in it,” one said. Smith's speech in ing to government's Mr similar reductions moves to impose a 4S-hour getting the ratification bill Mr Hattersley spoke in the Strasbourg was the strongest throughout the community. working week in the Euro- through Parliament Commons after Tony New- pro-European statement by a Mr Smith said the uncer- pean Court unless a com- Shephard: prepared to As John Smith, who is al- ton. standing in for John Ma- Labour leader since the Dan- tainty about the future of promise is reached this challenge the EC most certain to take over the jor. confirmed that the ish referendum result It Maastricht in no way invali- month. Mrs Labour leadership next government was considering pleased Labour MPs who dated the approach Labour With little prospect of the Shephard's hand in taking a stand against the month, underlined the par- die addition of a protocol fear that the party’s increas- had developed. “There is ab- commission dropping its directive in the final negoti- ty’s commitment to European setting out curbs on the Euro- ingly hardline stance on the solutely no reason to change proposal she is examining ations at the June 24 economic union in a speech pean Commission as a way to Maastricht bill will foster the our support for the goal of the basis for a legal chall- EC social affairs council. Min- to Labour MEPs in Stras- rescue the treaty. Govern- impression that Labour gen- economic and monetary enge against the EC’s at- isters argue that the restric- bourg. Roy H anersiey, the ment sources had earlier giv- erally is moving towards a union subject to adequate lev- tempt to push through the tion would cost Britain £3.5 deputy leader, made it dear en warning of a long haul Eurosceptic position. Mr els of convergence and ac- time limit as a health and billion and cut the overtime that Labour could only sup- ahead to find ways of saving Smith's rival Biyan Gould countability. Whatever safety issue. She embarks on a rwo-week payments of more than nvo port a bill that included the the meaty. It was said that it has taken increasingly hostile happens to the treaty the Lab- tomorrow talks with social million workers. social chapter. might not be possible to reach line to Brussels. our party and our sister par- round of affairs ministers through- In the Commons yester- The government, which an agreement before the Ed- Mr Smith said Britain was ries in Europe must continue out the community to make day. Mrs Shephard told now accepts that it may be the inburgh summit at the end more economically integrat- to argue for art economic clear that she has hardened MPs: “We have made clear end of the year before it is in a the year. ed with Europe than ever strategy based on sustainable her stance against a blan- that the damaging working position to bring back the The Labour deputy leader before and it was a “mirage” growth and the highest pos- ker ban on working more time directive is unneces- Maastricht bfl], has no inten- swiftly indicated that the pro- to believe there was an alter- sible levels of employment.'' than 48 hours a week. A sary- unjustified and tion of supporting the social tocol was unlikely to be native go-it-alone policy. In a Mr Smith attacked the meeting with her French brought forward on a total- chapter. enough to satisfy Labour. sideswipe at Mr Gould he He government's “sweat shop counterpart. Martine ly unjustifiable grounds of Labour MPs believe that said the rime had gone when said critics of the European mentality" in opposing EC Aubry. in Paris is pencilled a health and safety mea- the is edging to a pos- progress could be on exchange rate party made mechanism measures extending workers' in for tomorrow evening, sure.” The decision of ition where it can eventually the Maastricht bill by “con- overlooked “the fact that in- rights. He called for Labour followed by talks in Ger- Vasso Papandreou. the EC vote against the Maastricht trivance and manipulation. terest rate levels in Europe are to make the social dimension many and Luxembourg. social affaire commission- bill without compromising There are many of us on both effectively determined by the of the community a cam- ! Confusion over the fate of er. to bring in the directive the pro-European stance with sides of the House, long- German Bundesbank re- paigning priority during the the Maastricht treaty, and under the heading of health which Mr Smith is so dosely standing enthusiasts for Eu- gardless of whether we are forthcoming British presi- more vocal scepticism with- and safety removes Brit- identified. Senior Labour fig- ropean unity, who will only part of the ERM or nOL“ dency of the EC and in the in Conservative ranks, app- ain's right to veto the ures believe that it should not support progress of a bill Mr Smith floated the possi- run-up to the next European ears to have strengthened legislation. be their task to prop up the which is dear, honest com- bility of a general rekign- parliament elections in 1994. [
Ministers at play (2): Kenneth Clarke, the home secretary, warms up for a Radio 2 broadcast on National Music Day, June 28. with other members of the Parliamentarians Jazz Group
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mm-. . codv 'LOBBY find red Disabled tape in quota a tangle by Sheila Gunn r.-w POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT - -•.'in missed The BBC and 10 A WOMAN caring for a dis- Downing Street were criti- abled person waited nearly cised at question time yes- two years while her claim for terday for failing reach the invalid care allowance passed quota of 3 per cent of dis- slowly along a bureacratic abled employees. Peter chain, according to the Nat- (Bolton North Thumham ional Audit Office. East, Q said the BBC had Auditors at the public only 71 disabled people in spending watchdog discov- a workforce of 29,000. MPs ered that the woman’s claim, also heard that no dis- first made on December 7, were employed abled people 1988, went through 29 at 10 Downing Street. stages before it was finally Michael Forsyth, the paid on September 5. 1990. employment minister, said The allowance, set at a ba- he hoped the message sic a rate of £31.25 a week, is would be received the by paid to about 135,000 carers. B BC. He said the situa- The National Audit Office tion at Downing Street examined 200 case files would be mentioned to which rook between 18 and the prime minister. 436 working days. It found that delays in processing the Advice fails claims were often caused by officers contact- Ministers are giving fresh adjudication the wrong local office, thought on how to advise im- ing about the migrants. Eari Ferrers. and confusion a form about Home Office minister, said wording on in the in a written reply. He said residency UK. for war pensions the government was dissatis- Claims taking an average fied with the way the im- were also migrants' advisoiy sendee's in 1990/91 of eighi or nine executive committee and months to settle. the auditors’ general council had overseen report said. ap- the organ isation. The high number of peals also worried the audi- Sunday trade tors who reported that some 30 per cent of cases which go The government hopes to to tribunal are decided in the of the publish before the end claimants’ favour. year its plans to reform Michael Meacher, the Sunday shopping laws. Peter shadow social security secre- Lloyd, Office min- Home tary. said: “For a government ister, said in a written reply. that purports to be the enemy A ruling from the Europe- of bureaucracy, it is really an Court is expected in the disgraceful that war pension- early autumn. ers who fought for this coun- try can have their applica- Coal subsidy tions shuffled through 30 According to the latest fig- different in and out trays and ures, Britain does not subsi- take up to two years for a dise its coal mining derision." industry, while Belgium does He criticised ministers for so at £55. 19 a tonne and spending millions of pounds
Germany at £39 . 23 a tonne. on recent advertising cam- Tim Eggar. the energy paigns when so many claims minister, said. were wrongly rejected. “It is the fourth consecutive year Parliament today that the department’s pay- not passed the Commons (2.301: Ques- ments have tions: Trade anti Industry- auditors' scrutiny.” Mr Finance bill, committee. Meacher said. Northern Ireland ami-terror- ism order. National Audit Office report: Lords (2.30)-. Debates on pensions; mobility, atten- the export of works of an and dance and invalid can allow- on energy. ances (Stationery Office. £7.80}- discover some radical new thinking when you take-off drinks, vour favourite newspaper ami
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The coroner’s inquest into the Cannon Street accident lacked vital evidence about the driven Michael Dynes reports
BRITISH Rail is expecting After the coronet's ruling. to Face heavy criticism for its BR announced that it would failure to cany out a medical introduce routine drug and examination immediately alcohol testing for applicants after a driver crashed his for safety-related jobs “as an train into the buffers at Can- essential first step to avoid non Street station when the employing people who are Health and Safety Executive drug abusers”. Subsequent publishes its report on the changes in the law made it accident later this year. mandatory for BR to cany A three-day delay after the out medical examinations accident on January 8. 1991, after all train accidents, in which two people died and while procedures designed to
542 were injured, meant that ensure staff were fit for work potentially vital information were tightened. on die physical condition of BR is also expected to be the driver could not be used sharply criticised for its fail- in evidence during last year's ure to protect vital evidence coroner's inquest into the by sealing the driver's cab causes of the two deaths. Immediately after the acci- During the inquest. Dr dent. During the Health and Alex Onmerod, the medical Safety Executive's investiga- officer for BR’s Southern Re- tion. conflicting evidence was gion. said that a urine sam- given about the position of Crash aftermath: design flaws on the Sevenoaks train might have contributed to the injuries ple from Maurice Graham, the driver's controls, raising the train driver, had been the possibility that someone math of the crash, induding though that theory was dis- Verdicts of accidental rolling stock before the new tested by the poisons depart- might have entered the cab the age and design of the missal by Malcolm Rifkind. death were recorded on Mar- fleet of Networker trains is ment at Guy's Hospital, and tampered with the 1950s slam door rolling Strivens. a delivered. first of the new south London, and had indi- evidence. the former transport tin aged 24. com- The stock, the speed of train secretary. trains is expected to come cated "an active use of can- Had the antiquated Net- the puter programmer from as it crashed buffers, nabis'’. Because of the delay work SouthEast rolling stock into the However, the interior de- Pens Wood in Kent, and into operation in October, in carrying out the examina- been fined with blade box and how these factors con- sign of the carriages, particu- Patrida McCay, aged 59. a although the entire fleet is tributed to the extraordinari- larly lateral in service tion. however, it was not pos- data recorders, accident in- the luggage shop assistant from Forest not expected to be sible to say whether the drug vestigators would have been ly high number of injuries. racks, which are perched dir- Hill in south London, both of until the mid-1990s. was present at the time of the able to identify whether and During the investigation, ectly above passengers’ seats whom died from injuries sus- Finally, although the coro- accident. when the brakes were app- it was disdosed that when rather than along the car- tained in the crash. ner calculated that the There was no evidence to lied. The data recorders, the Sevenoaks commuter riage walls, is expected to be Despite widespread criti- Sevenoaks train hit the Can- suggest that Mr Graham which are fitted as standard train was built in the 1950s. singled out as the main cause cism over the use of such non Street buffers at approxi- avoided submitting to a med- to all new trains, are now some of the subframes used of the high number of fadal antiquated rolling stock, the rnatefy four miles per hour, it ical examination. He did not being put in older rolling might have dated from the injuries. Of the 841 passen- executive's report is unlikely is thought that the Cannon keep the first two appoint- stock. 1920s. The age and weight gers on the train, 542 were to call on BR to accelerate the Street report will vindicate ments made for January S The report will also pass of the subframes was seen by injured, of whom 277 were withdrawal of the 1950s car- BR’s calculation that the and 9 because BR failed to judgment on a series of issues some observers as a factor treated in hospital, with 33 riages. Such a recommenda- train was actually travelling notify him of them, the in- which attracted widespread contributing to the high detained for one night or tion would effectively force at somewhere between eight Maurice Graham: not told of test appointments quest was told. press comment in the after- number of casualties, al- more. BR to withdraw antiquated and 13mph.
Hurd stops guard’s Four years job appeal for Idller
DOUGLAS Hurd, the for- eign secretary, has halted a of father claim of unfair dismissal by a diplomatic guard. Stephen A son who shot dead his Richards, counsel for the For- bullying father was jailed for eign Office, told a west four years yesterday. Clifford London industrial tribunal Newton. 45, killed his father yesterday that the case could Bernard at a meeting to not go ahead because Mr discuss the running of the Hurd had signed a certificate family's casino and nightclub under the national security empire. Nottingham Crown provisions of the Employe Court was told. ment Protection Act Newton was terrified of his Mr Richards said that Mr 67-year-old father and Hurd had done so because thought he had a handgun the guard was dismissed “in and was going to kin him the interests of national sec- when he arrived at his house urity. Therefore there is a in Irby. Humberside. The jurisdictional baron this mat- defence said that Newton had ter being tried and therefore suffered at the hands of his father since childhood and the tribunal are bound to , dismiss the application.” that his first wife had commit- David Vidler. 50. who lost ted suicide because of harass- his job in January after his ment from him. security clearance was with- Newton pleaded guilty to drawn. was told by a panel manslaughteron the grounds of responsibility member. “The iron fist has diminished come down.” and his plea of not guilty to After the hearing, Mr murder was accepted. Mr Vidler, of Hastings, east Sus- Justice Judge said that he sex, accused the government accepted the father was a of being scared of losing the tyrannical sadist. case. He said that he had lost his security clearance after a Silent protest minor incident at work. Four Welsh Language Soci- Keith Wylie, negotiations ety members refused to plead officer for the National Union at Llandudno magistrates’ of Civil and Public Servants, court to charges of causing representing Mr Vidler, told criminal damage by daubing the tribunal that he was slogans on A55 tunnels. The “quite disturbed”, not only cases were adjourned until because the certificate had dates in July and August. been issued but also because it had been produced at such Gold deposit a late stage. A Norwich shopper short Giles Flint, the tribunal of cash had to hand over a chairman, said: “The certifi- watch and a gold tooth as cate says it is mandatory to collateral with a £50 dismiss without further en- cheque before National Parking Con- quiry. We just have to accept trol, a whedclamping firm, the minister has seen the allowed her to drive away. papers and decided for rea- sons of national security that the case cannot be heard. Island death '' J ’V “If you wish to complain Geoff Lyons. 32. a BBC about this, there may be other sound engineer from Cardiff, channels, parliamentary died in a nit and run accident questions or something like on the Greek island of that, as to why this certificate Rhodes. Police have ques- has been issued.” tioned a local man.
Child care enquiry condemned as farce By Kerry Gill
THE longest enquiry to be iff Brian Kearney behind held in Britain was dosed doors, except that it YET ANOTHER 6 DAYS! described as a multi-million was ordered to look into al- pound “ludicrous farce" legations that children re- yesterday when it emerged mained in danger because that publication had over- of Fife's policy to let child- OFFER run government deadline EXTENDED a ren at risk be looked BY after and that the results may within the community rath- never be made public. er than be placed into care. POPULAR DEMAND The enquiry into social Yesterday Henry ATB&Q work policy in Fife was McLeish, Labour MP for ordered by Malcolm Fife Central, called the en- Rifkind. then Scottish sec- quiry the “longest running SHOPPERS ONLY retary, early in 1 989. It was farce'’ and said it stiff expected to have been ready sbowed little sign ofcoining after about three months. to a conclusion. He was at a More than three years lat- loss to describe the “confu- er the report said to ran to sion and incompetence” in 1.500 pages, has yet to be the Scottish Office. published despite final evi- Having cost so much and dence being heard in the taken so long it is believed fc*& rfi® spring of last year. It has that publication may be an taken longer than enquiries embarrassment. It is lERS and reports into the AND THE Piper thought that few, if any, S- de- 8 Alpha and Hillsborough ficiencies were found in the 'GAUD disasters. running of Fife’s social Little is known about the work department to justify
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It’s the least we can do to reduce the levels - is farce In Italy, we already produce 40 different of harmful poisons and pollutants. petrol models with And anyway, why should a green car cost catalytic converters more than a black car? 1 I’- - ,iv . . , i- : " ' it . .. I.l" ’....-a DESIGNED FOR LIFE amaa . ' w . : ' 1 12 RIO SUMMIT/OVERSEAS NEWS THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE K) 4992 Green lobby Tropical r CENTRO i prepares to RIO felling mcreasi I cast Rio de Janeiro: Th°lL UK in tion of tropical' s£' -5. creased by SO percent dutine the past decade, according TMO •..'OW” to a United Nations study MJTOD re- villain’s role leased yesterday. The Food and Agriculture From Organisation report Michael McCarthy in riode Janeiro savs that about 41.7 million acres BRITAIN may u [ appear today forest were destroyed Lw on an accusatory list of the year, compared with 27 q five worst countries at the million acres in 198Q. About - Earth - • — summit in Rio de Ja- Atomic Energy Agency fol- 70 per cent of deforestation neiro. compiled by the hun- lowing. The final fist will be takes place in rainTbrcststlBt dreds of environmental pres- announced this afternoon. world has 12.25 bUion&Sfe sure groups attending the America has been chosen as of forests, but the conference as observers. chief villain — "unanimously destroyed annually The United Kingdom’s al- and without debate" — for its the amount that is legedly obstructive destructive role in the sum- stance in "The latest statistics con- mit's two important treaties, the negotiations over new aid firm the alarmimg tendency for on wildlife and climate theThird World, and fora of recent years.” said Hollis change, the first of which new body to monitor world Murphy- of die FAO. “(There America has refused to sign environmental progress after is an] urgent need for im- and the second of which it has Rio, makes Britain a strong proved conservation, man- candidate watered down. to appear in the agement and sustainable use list, two of its organisers. Dag Saudi Arabia is char- of foresi resources." :r Hareide, acterised as a villain for trying of Friends of Earth. The United States has pro- Norway, Clift Curtis, to remove references to re- rrn and of posed increasing its aid for f energy Greenpeace, said. newable from the saving rainforests by $150 summit agenda. Japan is ac- “Britain has been one of the million (£82 million), the ini- cused of hiding behind the most obstructive nations in tiative has been slowed as back of the United States. poorer nations want iit o to con- ’ Malaysia is charged with CUm trol how the money is spent [f y jeopardising agreement on Half of Latin America is world forests and the Interna- Environmental protection: armed Brazilian soldiers stand guard near the entrance to the Rio de Janeiro convention centre, where covered by forests, as is 33 per tional Atomic Energy Agen- cent of Asia and 27 Of 4 f more than 100 world leaders will gather for the Earth summit this week, as part of stepped-up security in the city per cent cy. whose director. Hans Blix of Africa. (AP) spoke to the conference prais- ing atomic energy as the sol- Coral threat ution to global warming. '" ' s C t “ l : vC y\\ s • Boston: Nuclear power ;gi Women’s touch saves Himalayas forest ; should be high on the list of lead to widespread coral potential solutions to global ago the land bleaching in the Florida Keys A DECADE nda valley there is evidence of - warming being considered at CHINA and the Caribbean, accord- r W0 around Tangsa village was success. •-> the summit, delegates at a Women in northern India are applying 1 Atakr^nda the movement's ing to a University of South stripped bare for miles government’s sole nuclear conference here said Where the Florida marine sdemist, it is Gandhian concepts of self-help to plant around. Today surround- conservation department has on Monday (AP reports). Gopeslwmr Pamela Hallock-Muiler, (AP) by forest, result of the ed a bare slopes with new trees, writes planted trees the hills are still “We have to do something most success- 5 ' EARTH world’s biggest, barren: where Chipko activ- 0oiu r Christopher Thomas from Tangsa die to phase out the burning of ful reforestation movement Moi makes plea-; ists have done the job. almost S U M M I T coal and petroleum," Caro- huge area of the central A INDIA. all the saplings have survived, Nairobi: President Moi is- line Heising, professor of en- Himalayas is being returned first-ever Broader issues are now in- said. “What we need is for the watered regularly by village sued Kenya's appeal gineering at Northeastern to forest by village women UTTAR government to supply the re- women. Cattle grazing, one of for aid to feed drought vie-. [J$£C University, cluded, such as women's PRADESH trying to find a compromise said. She was whose lives depend on trees. with the rights, caste prejudice and sources and leave the rest to the most destructive practices tims and cope influx* with the developing countries among hundreds of scien- Twice a year hundreds of birth control. This has us. They always like to impose in the Himalayan foothills, is of about 460.000 refugees over finance.” Mr Hareide tists, including a delegation brought something of a social themselves on us. which does controlled in villages where from Somalia. Ethiopia and said. M r Curtis said that Brit- from Russia, at the annual 4 ft* Thousands .a revolution. In Tangsa. the not work. Our aim is to re- Chipko is active. One of the the Sudan. more ain had been at the "obstruc- meeting of the American ' ' ' Dalits (Untouchables) eat establish die link between of the hills are dense with oak. most expensive aspects of re- are arriving daily. (Reuter) tive end of the spectrum" in Nuclear Society to discuss women plant huge numbers with Brahmins, much to the man and nature.” ash. mulberry and chestnut forestation is construction of talks on a UN sustainable nuclear energy’s future. of saplings on barren slopes, shock Of visitors from other Mr Tiwari added: “We trees, as well as fruit orchards. protective walls to keep cattle development commission Paul Tsongas, the former helping to reverse the ravages areas of die country. Women plant trees which multiply The movement began in out. Prize winners a proposed as a follow-up to the Massachusetts senator, told of decades of felling. are treated more as equals themselves into forests, and 1973 when loggers moved in Villages like Tangsa punish Tokyo: A Japanese-bom U: Rio conference. the meeting that nuclearpow- Sateshwar Tiwari, 43. a and are largely responsible they in mm keep us alive.” to remove the Mandal forest people who do not look after scientist and the Intemaiion er may be the most environ- Tangsa villager, said she used A preliminary list of Earth taking wood for control ofofthethe forests. Chipko has a loose central in the valley. The slogan of trees. "Anybody al Institute for Environmen . .. to most of her time summit ‘Villains” had al- mentally sound source of spend 1 Chakradhar Tiwari, head- structure, so that its main "Hugging the Himalayas” or chopping trees without and Development in Lontta W h alL’ . COIti ready been published, headed energy. walking to find trees for fod- man of Tangsa and four ad- thrust remains at local level. was bom out of the protest, permission is given a warn- won Asahi Glass Foundation by the United States, with der and fuel. Now the trees joining villages, said govern- It has won a string of awards, which saved all but 10 per ing,” Mr Tiwari said. “If they awards for their contributioi Saudi Arabia. Japan, Malay- Major signs, page 1 are growing in the village ment tree-wanting projects providing much of the fund- cent of the forest Between persist, they are socially to solving environmenta . sia and the International Letters, page 17 itself. “We decide among our- v r* initially .. r-r usually failed because they ing for its work. Hie move- 1975 and 1980 the move- ostracised, for a problems. (AP) i ! . ttiTit selves which trees can be cut fifiid W not involve the local ment operates three nurseries ment planted 1.2 million month. That means nobody for firewood and which can did people. “When trees are and buys saplings from out- trees. After that it stopped will talk to them, eat with be used for fodder." she said. planted by die villagers they side. Around Gopeshwar in counting. them, or work with them. Rhino appeal “There is constant replant- are roperly maintained.” he die Alaknanda valley, many Throughout the Alakna- That usually does the trick.” Wildlife aplwfl S vrr Lack of checks leaves ing. We are able to keep more p Harare: groups 0 ? p O cattle because it is easier to pealed for 000.000 to he| feed them.” them save rhinos from cxtinc 'meaningless’ sawing off their treaty The sdf-hdp movement is tkm by horn before poachers kill themSfl YOU 11 1 . called Chipko, which means the road r*?i« British mechanic keeps Major on The horn is put into high By Nigel Hawkes, science editor “hug” ana takes its name from a village protest when price alleged aphrodisiacs h the Far East. (Reuter) .. THE dimate convention due cheating by nations that fail people hugged trees to stop From Mac Margous in rio deJaneiro , to be signed in Rio de Janeiro to meet their commitments. idling. It extends directly into if, nowov your Ci this week will be meaningless “Without effective verifica- about 70 villages, but the ONE day early this year Bri- jor was flying down to Rio for green Daimler Jaguar Sover- scales at 2,600 kilograms. Thinking twice because it lacks any means of tion measures or structures, philosophy has spread an Brown decided he had had the Earth summit and he eign with bad windscreens 100 more than the capacity of Malaysia L verification, according to a any commitments agreed to through a large area of the enough of Brazil The British needed safe transport and squeaky brakes rolled up his lift “Had the bloody thing Kuala Lumpur. report published today by the are essentially meaningless,” Himalayas and several re- marine-engmeer4uroed-car- That posed a problem. In to Mr Brown's garage. Mr up and down four times.” Mr reconsidering its earlier refuri Or v 0 U J Hitvr biodivetsil University of Bradford. the report says. “Their imple- gions of India, it is based on mechank was fed up with placid Brazil, where terrorism Brown rolled up the garage Brown grumbled. al to sign the at protectini The convention is an at- mentation will depend entire- Gandhian concepts of village inflation and erratic supplies, is mostly an item on the eve- door again, called back the Two crates of parts came treaty aimed but ha tempt to reduce the amounts ly on the good will of the state sdf-hdp. and especially with paying off ning news, diplomats long mechanics and put off his with the Jaguar, containing plants and animals, final dedswr|W3Y. worst of the devasta- drive into the sunset new windscreens and made no rio > of global warming gases. in question.” Without help, “The the Umg queue of inspectors ago dispensed with rolling “God sundry i -r lh unhi some states will lack, the abili- tion of the Himalayas has who live off the work ofhonest fortresses. Then again, prime and the Union Jack, and all accessories. Mr Brown and Mahathir MohamedL (Rente. ty even to monitor their pro- stopped,” says Chandtprasad working people here. ministers do not ride in just that,” he muttered. his crew fitted the new wind- prime minister, said. duction of gases contributing Bhaft. a leading Chipko activ- So he and his wife, Patrida. any vehicle. So the consulate It was a rash job bur might screens and repaired a faulty ;ran such as carbon dioxide, re- to the greenhouse effect. ist “We are confident that decided to roll down the steel cast about for an import not have been so bad had Mr bomb dectector. He also re- Owls guarded s* o: leased by industry, power sta- The authors suggest a vari- where the soil still exists we doors of their garage, pile into They found a Jaguar — V-12 Brown not fallen off a step placed the flagpole that Portland: Sales of limbe tions, forestry, agriculture ety of verification methods, can return the land to forest their aging beige Ford engine, inch-thick bulletproof ladder days earlier, fractur- “some bright soul” had stuck from some or Oregon’s M and other sources. But the including measuring the There is great awareness Bdina, and say goodbye to windows, and electronic ing his left wrist Fine tuning on with superglue. growth forests could be de It sling “I hope Major appreci- Alteon village people that their detectors. came fay a Jag while in a and cast Mr ' authors of the report, Julian shrinkage of forests by satel- among Brazil, home for the past bomb ‘ ' “ 1 •• layed for a year after a judfs 'V. Salt. Owen Greene and John lite imagery. They say that what happened in the past eight and a half years. Bui ship from Georgetown, the is no joke. The next problem ates this.” Mr Brown said as call i ordered the US Bureau a Lanchbery, say that without unless such provisions are was wrong.” one day late last month the capital of the former British was getting the car up on his he watched his four mechan- Land Management to study effective methods for policing written into the convention Chipko organises regular telephone rang. It was a man territory of Guyana, where lift A Jaguar, without ar- ics lovingly massage a third the effect of logging on th the convention it will remain now it may prove difficult to “camps” at which villagers from the British consulate. pofitks are more bracing. mour, weighs a little over a can of polish on to the racing All jn northern spotted owl. (AP) ‘ 1 a hollow framework, allowing incorporate them later. are educated on conservation. He was desperate. John Ma- On May 25, die racing tonne. Mr Major's tipped the green Jaguar. n* -Suine r- D Strategic o via 1 Big hunt starts for running mates Morally straight Boy Scouts arms cuts ^irofiir.t ,, WITH the primaries over, the Pelosi. a Californian con- A n ti “veepsiakes” have begun. gress* jm an, Patricia shrug off Levi’s dollar boycott Washington's ponrificaiors The race is on Schroeder, Colorado cong- look likely have launched into a riot of j£s9^******S>S resswoman, or Ann Richards, What , , for the ‘ US From Ben Macintyre in newyork -• - !> speculation about presiden- the Texas governor. Given * of candidates to From Martin Fletcher tial running mates. One sce- Mr Clinton’s dubious person- r IN WASHINGTON he issue of homosexual- to the scouts. Weils Fargo Methodist minister and nario has Ross Perot picking choose their al history, however, Ms Rich- TJL ityicy has set at odds two and the Bank of America head of the American Fam- Norman Schwarzkopr and :o ards’ past alcoholism would AMERICA and Russia ap- political & of America's most powerful have also stopped dona- ily Association, called for a panicking President Bush count against her. peared dose to agreeing deep institutions: Levi Strauss, tions to the scouts in oppo- boycott of all Levi produtfr into swapping Dan Quayte partners, Raymond Flynn, the mayor new cuts in their suategic manufacturers of the sition to its discriminatory “The fact that they wtwM ** lor the Gulf war's other Fletcher of Boston, is possible. The nudear arsenals yesterday 6 i hero. Martin world's most popular jeans, policies. penalise the Boy Scouts for Colin Powell. That would as- more Bill Bradley, New Jer- after two days of talks be- writes from and America's four million The scouting movement refusing to accept openly sume General Powell sey’s thoughful senator and tween James Baker, the had not "morally straight” Boy responded last week by at- practising homosexuals a* been collared by Bill Washington former basketball star, rales American Secretary of State, Clinton, Scouts. tacking its former corporate scoutmasters shows they nj »*l, US ELECTION pundits Kozyrev, the Democratic candidate. himself out, the more and Andrei his Rus- Last month Levi Strauss sponsors and emphasising longer want the business « Realistically. General rule him in. sian counterpart. and Co announced that it its continued adherence to the majority of Americans. Schwarzkopf is too busy cash- Bush's innovative housing Luwell Weicker. Connecti- Umpteen senators have Mr Kozyrev expressed con- had decided to end its finan- basic American beliefs. The scouts have called on ing in on Operation Desert secretary, whose defection cut's independent governor, been suggested, including fidence that an accord would cial support for the Boy “Our values are not for their supporters to notify Storm — although the Perot would stun his party. Public- Peter Ueberroth, the Los An- West Virginia’s Jay Rockefel- be ready in time for President Scouts of America because sale," Blake Lewis, national them, or Levi Strauss, o» — Al Gore. Col- camp has approached him ly. Mr Kemp dismisses the geles Olympics supremo now ler, Tennessee’s Bush's first official summit of the organisation's deci- spokesman for the scouts. their feelings. Letters hart while General Powell, sus- idea, but one of his policy heading the post-riots “Re- orado's Tim Wirth. Florida's with President Yeltsin in sion to ban gay scouts and been appearing in newspa- pected of being a covert Dem- advisers has just switched and build LA" effort, and Ann Bob Graham. Paul Simon of Washington next week. Both scoutmasters. The exclusion pers decrying what is seen ocrat. will bide his time at the his “empowerment” agenda McLaughlin. President Rea- Illinois and. intriguingiy. the leaders are faring severe of homosexuals and athe- • Many decry what as the latest assault ofl Pentagon until 199b. The has been ignored by Mr Bush gan’s labour secretary. Mr Harris Wofford, the rank out- domestic problems and. warn ists, the company said, was American family values a fl contrary is seen to be • choices of Mr Perot and Mr — "everything I say goes Perot's wife. Margot, wants a sider whose Pennsylvania by- to boost their standings with to its values which an calling on readers to boyc° * nevertheless last "cannot fund any organis- jeans Clinton will have down a black hole”. woman but has limited influ- election victory autumn a new initiative on attack on American “the traditional 501 f !#***». " j ation that discriminates 1 a critical impact on voter per- The Texas tycoon has been ence. She has admitted her started the White House rot. disarmament. on for the company's boyto* the basis of sexual orienta- family values 9 ceptions in the most volatile interested in Jeane Kirkpat- husband failed to tell her of Richmond: About 17,000 ing of traditional values"' Mr Baker said that there tion or religious belieF*. presidential election of mod- rick. President Reagan's out- his presidential ambitions. names of Ross Perot’s backers was ’"substantial common This represents a loss em times. spoken United Nations am- In a normal year Mr Clin- from computer of his emotive issuffcj] disappeared a a second ground" on initia- between $40,000 and said. The scout oath re- entirely hypo*®*’ A Washington Post poll bassador. but her boasrfu] ton, a provincial state gover- file weekend, but Tmost over the two tive which the presidents S80.000 (£21.800 and quires members to keep cal because the scoota/tr yesterday showed the Texas angling may have deterred nor, would plump for a Wash- officials said yesterday it was hope to advance next week £43,600) a year to the themselves ’’physically mit billionaire leading Mr Bush him; "I agree with whoever ington politician with foreign an apparent lapse tv a volun- that there te'iWCT-J including Russian participa- scouts — a comparatively strong, mentally awake and corded case of'a-dSWP* by 3b per cent to 30, with Mr thinks Perot and I can be a policy expertise able to deliver teer and not foul play. tion in an international early- small sum, but a worrying morally straight" as part oin Bush's great team ... I definitely a key state or region where he of homosexual applym?wi Clinton on 26. Mr Campaign officials said precedent warning system against for the national their duty to God and the their ranks. approval rating was just 35 know more than he does was weak. This year the Ar- names of Perot supporters ballistic missiles. Britain and organisation. The Boy United States. Further, although. per cent. A record S3 per cent about foreign affairs.” kansas governor requires a were wiped out from a com- WJJ France have expressed con- Scouts receive about $300 The action H> eye-catching choice by Levi Strauss has pointed- said America was “on the Warren Rudman. the New bold, to puter in Mr Perot's Virginia million cern that this could under- annually from a va- Strauss, the largest clothing own values as the Bass'®* wrong track”. Hampshire Republican who win bade media attention and headquarters, but the names mine their nudear deterrents. riety of corporate and indi- manufacturer in the claim to world the decision, its oppOP*|j{' Mr Perot needs a running is leaving the Senate in dis- bolster his be the were not lost since they were vidual donors. with sales last year of $4.9 argue that more cynfcjw to gust at Washington’s legisla- candidate of change. a back-up sys- Mr Baker said both sides mate of national stature also stored on Levi Strauss's action billion, was fouowed fully agreed imm- commercial motives u*»5 not tive paralysis, would have His team has contemplated tern. At first, Perot officials were on the need enhance his credibility, tem. At came after a decision by the ediately by a defence of reef*; non-politician to more extensive cuts stra- ly the move. A "empty for funerals”. been .perfect, but ruled him- either a like suspected there had been a in an suit United Way of San Francis- scouting morality and merketing survey in CP**- selFout when he learned Mr General Powell or, with fe- break-in and police were tegic nudear weapons than Ed Rollins, the Republican co (one arm of America’s clean-living American fam- that th/w® was envisaged by the Strate- go concluded strategist Perot had a private investiga- male congressional candi- notified. 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Subsequent atmospheric pol- domestic pressure mounted Fighting also affected lution would spread as far as sharply on President Milo- Tuzla, a Muslim enclave in Romania. Hungary and even sevic of Serbia, with demands northeastern Bosnia now en- Austria.” for his resignation. circled by Serb artillery. * In Belgrade yesterday, Serbs said they had beaten There is alarm that a giant Depos, an association made off a fierce offensive by Sara- chemical plant in die town up of opposition parties, aca- jevo's defenders, but Muslim may soon be hit by a stray demics and trade unionists. spokesmen insisted that they shell. The factory complex called on President Milosevic had captured three gun em- produces a number of toxic to resign. The group, which placements above the city. chemicals which, if mixed, has already formed a govern- The Serbs said they had lost could release a deadly cloud ment-in-waiting, announced 18 men in Monday's fighting of fumes. The American State a mass protest rally for later while the Muslims had suf- Department is said to be “ex- in the month if die Serbian fered "hundreds of fatalities". tremely worried” over the leader failed to go now. For their part, the Muslims possibility of a environmental An open letter to President said Serb losses had been disaster which would also af- Milosevic said: “Your time is “yeiy heavy” and their own fect other Balkan countries. up. and it is up to you to go. “light”. The shelling of Sara- Adem Tucakovic, manag- along with your counsellors jevo continued yesterday, al- ing director of the plant, said: and your generals. Not only though with less intensity “If we are hit there will be foryou personally, but for the than on Monday. another Bhopal. There is whole of Serbia and for all While the clashes continue, chlorine in store along with Serbs, it is best that you step the people of Sarajevo are sulphuric add. mercury and down and leave with as much slowly starving to death. With nitrites.” He added: “A direct dignity as possible.” little electricity, less water and hit would release a doud that Professors at Belgrade Uni- versity have added their weight to the campaign. The dons, who until several COMMENTARY months ago slavishly support- ed the Serb leadership, have been joined by their students Hurd clears way to who today are beginning a boycott of lectures in protest at Mr Milosevics unwilling- ness to step down. . rewrite Maastricht However, Vladislav Jovan- ovic, the Yugoslav foreign minister, told an Italian treaty’s sacred text newspaper that there would chari Yusuf Islam, the former pop singer Cat Stevens who converted to Islam and is chairman of a Muslim aid organisation. be no bargaining with the Fruits of ty: sharing with defenders near Derventa in Bosnia-Herzegovina yesterday. He is reportedly intending to assist local children From George brock in Luxembourg opposition. Should the cam- cherries Muslim paign against the president s Jacques Delots trotted out the prindple of sub- escalate, the government A into yesterda/s meeting sidiarity. No minister of any would “show its teeth”, he of EC finance ministers here, government can have much added. Italian police f he was asked his opinion of idea about whether the words As sanctions against the Envoys hit the Foreign Office’s latest will have any effect EC treaty lump of Yugoslavia continue, Money matters dominate thinking on salvaging the clauses on sodal and environ- petrol rationing was intro- hold 700 in Maastricht treaty. Would he mental policy regularly prom- duced yesterday. to the anger the road favour returning Brussels' ise that no measure will harm and despair of drivers. Taxi Mafia raids powers to nation states? "I the interests of small and drivers in Belgrade went on Czech-Slovak divorce have always believed in sub- medium-size companies. No strike in protest. One said: to nowhere Rome Police raided Mafia > that hurt Slovaks more than - sidiarity,” the EC Commis- small company has yet found “We are entitled to just a IF Czechs and Slovaks gc strongholds across southern j sion president replied. a way of making that protec- couple of hundred litres a From Mary DE1EV5KY ahead with their divorce, how A split could Czechs. Italy and detained moreen £. IN MOSCOW companies have That claim is half true but tion work. month now. private can get will the economy be divided? leave Slovakia Many 700 people only hours lifter k in Slovakia tax ; meaningless. M Delors has If the British government just 30 litres. Soon there will THE silver-tongued “privile- That question is at the heart plants but pay the approval of a tough new a poor and in the Czech republic indeed been talking for sever- while holding the EC presi- be nothing left on the streets gentsia” of the former Soviet of negotiations between only anti-crime decree. ! 1 al months about Brussels dency this autumn, attaches a except army vehicles.” Union’s diplomatic corps are Prague and Bratislava. lonely heart in The Slovaks are selling raw Vincenzo Scotti. the inten- shedding some of the Com- subsidiarity “declaration” to Hundreds of lorries are not having an easy time. Vladimir Meriar. leader of Europe, writes material to the Czechs at be- or minister, announced the the treaty, it would be shot stalled low world prices. Yet even if raids in Rome where the .de- mission's most outlandish a at Bulgarian and Ro- Some of those who accom- the Movement for Democrat- Roger Boyes probings into the lifestyles of in the dark and probably manian border crossings over plished the transition to the ic Slovakia, wans complete the Czechs redress the eco- cree was approved by the individual countries. But this ineffectual. A treaty declara- the Danube as a result of Russian foreign ministry are control over the Slovak econo- nomic balance. Slovakia cabinet as a result of the force. would remain a poor country attempt to off-load time-wast- tion has no binding To having to leant a new role. my. Vadav Klaus of the Civic assassination of the anti- M a- . ing administration has two override what is alreuiyin the These are Moscow’s newly Democratic party is con- and independence would fia campaigner. Giovanni objects. The first is to soothe treaty, new wording would appointed ambassadors to vinced. however, that there make it even poorer. Falcone. Signor Scotti said economy was geared to have into The . the bitterest conflicts that to be inserted the the former Soviet republics. cannot be two-speed market 151 people were detained in ; the Soviet market which has have erupted over Commis- body of the text More used to international reforms. The logical outcome Sicily. The rest were held in \ r ’ ‘ sion legislation on condoms airports arid Western office is either that the federation largely collapsed. As an inde- the southern mainland re- and carrots, and the second is n the dich£ on every pair of buildings, and telephones splits up. or one of the politi- pendent state, it will have to gions of Campania. Calabria Brussels, seek a new trading triangle to leave Eurocrats freer to I lips here and in that wore, this group is learn- cians backs down. and Puglia, where local ver- . with It concentrate on the larger new that would open a “Pandora’s ing the hard way about the Slovaks are sure that they Austria and Hungary. • sions of the Mafia are based. j responsibilities in monetary box” of other requests for Soviet legacy to its republics. are being bled by Prague; will compete with Prague for Signor Scotti said the de- and foreign affairs that the renegotiation. In Douglas With the division of the Czechs regard Slovakia as a German investment and lob- tainees were mafiosi "respon- Maastricht treaty plans to Hurd’s more elegant words, former empire have come 14 prisoner’s ball and chain. In of Martin. Until then, most of by separately for European sible for serious crimes". give them. Power would not the Community would be new ambassadorial posts for Bratislava they talk not so the workers considered them- aid. Most had been on bail or be surrendered. “back in the maelstrom” of Russia. Yesterday, the foreign much about the end of histoiy selves Czechoslovaks. Almost But the Slovaks, sooner under house arrest. (Reuter) the sanctions. Bulgarian cus- “Subsidiarity” is supposed treaty talks. Nobody as expe- ministry presented recent ap- as the rebirth of geography. overnight, they became Slo- rather than later, will have to toms officials said. War in the to be about the distribution of rienced as Mr Hurd could pointees: the ambassadors to The Slovak capital is only a vak separatists and voted for make the choice. Together republic of Croatia had al- Polls delayed power M Delors can endorse believe that appending a few Moldavia. Uzbekistan. Arme- 45-minute drive from Vien- Mr Medar. with the Czechs (in a renegoti- ready forced traffic that nor- the word safely since nobody new sentences to the treaty nia. Azerbaijan, and Ukraine. na, but a two-hour bumpy Czech economists argue ated arrangement) they can Bucharest Romanian legis- mally used Yugoslav routes to lators voted after a bitter agrees what it means in prac- could change the Danish re- “There is just nothing there,” flight from Prague. As Aus- with some justice that the move more quickly, but more the Middle East to go via debate against holding presi- tice. No ministers or officials jection. He must have a deep- said Filip Sidovslty (destina- tria joins the EC. so Slovakia Slovaks are getting a good painfully, towards integra- Hungary. Now the embargo legislative elec- here yesterday thought that a er purpose. He is firing the tion Uzbekistan) plaintively. can benefit. deal from the federation. Slo- tion with the European 'Com- dential and . on Serbia is diverting the flow few sentences on subsidiarity opening shots of a barrage of There followed much waffled Slovaks cross the border to vakia contributes dispropor- munity. As an independent tions at the end of next month further east, via Romania national would rescue the treaty. “We ideas designed to soften up goodwill, but Tashkent came shop and trade, while the tionately litde to the federal state, they will gain all con- as proposed by the and Bulgaria. assembly. elections are cannot change the results of resistance to altering the trea- across as a poor second to more penny-pinching Vien- budget. According to popula- trols over their economic dev- The Police said that lorry driv- already overdue. (AFP) the referendum by a declara- ty more drastically. Kabul, a previous posting. nese bravely come to get their tion size, it should finance elopment, but the way ers at Russe and Vidin were tion,” Anders Fogh Rasmus- That solution may look What of salaries? Would teeth fixed by Slovak dentists. about one-third of the federal forward will be very slow. waiting for two or three days sen. the Danish finance min- glaringly obvious at West- they be paid in roubles or Since Prague airport is fre- budget but in 1992 the figure Opinion polls reflect this Madrid blast to cross the bonier. They fore- is far from plain ister. said. minster. but foreign currency? The ques- quently fogbound, an air link will be nearer 14 per cent Slovak dilemma. Well over 30 Madrid: 551b car bomb cast delays of up to ten days as A One of M Ddors's aides on the Continent In Brussels tion was faced with the look of between Vienna and Bratisla- The division of common per cent voted for Mr Medar the bottleneck gets worse. containing nuts and bolts it is still not politically correct separatist explained recently to me how forbearance that meets ques- va seems a logical step. revenues favours the Slovak and his rhetoric. exploded here as a naval to argue for altering die sa- • Cairo: Amr Moussa, the than the Commission president tions about Yugoslavia. How- That is the bright new republic. The revenues are But more 60 per cent minibus passed by. Eight the treaty. Egyptian foreign minister, might interpret his new en- cred text of Most ever, Vladimir Klichko. the future presented by Slovak split 35 per cent to the federa- still say they do not want a servicemen, policeman and sard Islamic countries a thusiasm for subsidiarity. governments are committed would it complete divorce the ambassador to Moldavia, politicians. Yet concen- tion, 43 per cent to the from four pedestrians were injured, consider military to pretending that the Danish intervention said that taken the the Czechs. The betting is that the no one had on trates almost entirely on Czechs, and 22 per cent to three seriously. Basque sepa- ases alleging breaches of referendum never happened. in Bosnia-Herzegovina if the the job for Slovaks voted for the money. stretch of Slovakia that bor- Slovaks. Again, according to Mr Medar ratists were blamed. United Nations failed to end C EC environmental laws But Mr Hurd must assume Another problem is lan- ders Austria. For the rest of a population count, the Slo- because they wanted a strong the bloodshed. have multiplied by ten since that by early autumn that guage. The Soviet foreign the republic there really is no vaks should receive less. negotiator with the Czechs, Mr Moussa said he and his Writer killed 1985. she said. Many of the pretence will have worn thin. ministry, it emerged, never answer. It is good agricultur- Slovakia consumes more not because he was going to colleagues would discuss defendants in these cases are The treaty will be dead be- the trained is diplomas in the al land onto which an ineffi- chan one-third of federal ex- lead them to independence. resolutions not national governments but yond recall unless ratification UN intended to languages of the other repub- cient industrial complex of penditure. Yet Bratislava Mr Medal's strategy over bring peace at die two-day lesser public authorities or is restarted in Britain. Mr lics. The ambassador-desig- arms factories, forges and makes a powerful case that it the next month of negotia- meeting of the Islamic public companies. Could not Hurd knows that the threats Con- nate to Azerbaijan, Valter rolling mills has been grafted. is being disadvantaged in the tions will therefore be to vilify ference in Turkey, starting this enforcement work be of a smaller, purer federalist a Shony. offered the nearest to Eighty percent of the Czecho- federation. It consumes a big Prague and try to boost sup- week today. Mr Moussa said transferred to the national community are empty. His local language skills — a de- slovak arms industry is on chunk of the federal budget port for separation. Once tire that if UN efforts failed to authorities? This is subsid- early moves suggest that he gree in Turkish. Slovak territory. only because it has the bulk of Czechs appear willing to con- forge a ceasefire, “some coun- iarity, Delors style. knows what he is not yet Mr Sidovsky said he was When Prague announced unemployment (12 per cent cede wide economic powers to tries will request taking mili- Each new EC treaty is an ready to say — that the treaty Dying to learn Uzbek. "But it that it would scale down compared to 4 per cent of the the Slovaks, he may well stop tary procedures to end the experiment. The Maastricht text is not sacrosanct and will is a very difficult language. weapons trading, something workforce in the Czech repub- the secessionist movement in aggression”. text indudes a clause setting have to be rewritten. I’m doing my best.” broke in the Slovak tank city lic) caused bymaiket reforms its tracks. Bronze-winning French turn their backs on the sun’s dangers Cairo: Farag Foda. an Egyp- From Philip Jacobson in Paris tian writer who mocked Mus- lim fundamentalism, died WHEN it comes to the pur- are not allowed out in public under an (undoubtedly styl- up the ultra-violet rays, but after being shot by two men. suit of a suntan, the French until they are sufficiently ish) hat. many of those questioned One was held and identified are in a class apart, devoted bronzed to uphold national Much the same goes for confessed to passing up to as a member of Jihad, which to bronzing evety inch of honour. In extremis, bottle the aging effect too much five hours immobile be- killed Anwar Sadat (Reuter) skin that may be bared re- bronzing or several days on sun has on the skin: however neath the sun. Throw in a Obituary, page 19 spectably. and often some the sun bed is acceptable if assiduously French women leisurely breakfast — they more besides. it avoids the indignity of ap- may their guard complex- are not the type to rise be- Baboon donors Looking good is the name pearing as white as the Eng- ions. about half of those, fore dawn and bag the best Rome: Italian doctors wel- of the game, and a golden lish: a tan is a tan is a tan. questioned acknowledged deckchairs — some serious comed a decision by a nat- glow is considered an essen- The French are not igno- that they would still want a shopping for lunch and the ional medical ethics commit- tial component of la bonne rant of the potential risks tan even if it was scientifi- three hours or so required to tee which approved the use of mine: the recent succession involved in son worship: one cally demonstrated that that appreciate the meal proper- baboons’ hearts for trans- of sunny spring bank holi- recent poll found that over could damage facial tissues. ly and the days slip by agree- plants on children. The days has worked out perfect- 80 per cent of respondents A somewhat paradoxical re- ably enough. Roman Catholic Church gave ly for those who would never were aware of scientific re- sponse given, as Le Figaro When the real world can preliminary approval. dream of embarking on search into the link between observed yesterday, that no longer be held at bay and France's long summer break tanning and skin cancer. surveys in France suggest France trickles reluctantly without at the very least the However, almost exactly that women are more likely back to work, the bronzage Belly flop sorr of tan dial Britons only the same proportion an- to respond to being told is to be paraded at every Malaybaky: The Filipino, dream of bringing home at nounced that they always smoking can cause lines and opportunity and topped up male nurse who daimed to be the end of their fortnight on worked on their holiday tan. wrinkles than to warnings whenever possible. In a few ts the beach. and than a thud a pregnant hermaphrodite more of about the link between to- month's time, after aU. the a fake, his lawyer said after French holidaymakers at them claimed never to use bacco and lung cancer. ski will season be upon the elabo- one’s never burn, form of protection, doctors uncovered an own hotel any ap- The average French holi- French, and one could not roast a never rate hoax by the homosexual Cannes tan: health warnings forgotten, French holidaymakers turn lobster pink, nev- parently preferring to re- daymaker appears to spend be seen on the slopes with- who dreamt of becoming a the beaches of the Mediterranean resort er peeL- pale French people treat from the midday sun 135 minutes a day soaking out the right depth of deeper shade of brown on (an. woman and marrying. (AFP) . ; THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 OVERSEAS NEWS 15 Walesa tries Yeltsin goes to Marcos gives judge to outflank ground the silent treatment The former Philippines first vision soap opera Knots lady, Izndda Marcos, refused Landing, has died in Los An- from Mary Dejevsky to answer charges offailing to geles of complications from IN MOSCOW earnings abroad army’s move report dollar Aids, his publicist said. and a judge entered a not PRESIDENT Yeltsin staged a guilty plea on her behalf. M rs acts one of his disappearing silent before Marcos stood The former Peruvian presi- yesterday, postponing until Judge Demetrio Batario in dent, Alan Garda, an oppo- today his meeting with the into politics Manila in protest at alleged nent of President Fujimori of high command the newly presidential elec- fraud in the granted political asylum in formed Russian army. tions last month. Colombia last week, has been From Roger Boyes, east Europe correspondent The meeting had been an- reunited with his wife and nounced only a day in ad- children in Bogota. on the THE 'htrriy-buriy of Polish but the effect has been to vance, and Mr Yeltsin had The Pope, speaking pities that has already top- politicise the army. returned in good time from last day of a six-day visit to -the .third Solidarity- to the Urals. Angola, praised those Ango- pled Janusz Onyskiewicz. ap- his two-day trip President Bush will meet the govern men t is offered lans who, he said, had kept based' danger- pointed deputy defence min- No ocplanation was Albanian president. Sali unsettling the Catholic faith ; for his absence: the ously army ister to replace Radek Sik- Roman Berisha, at the White House according alive during 16 years of so- and, to many de- orski. the Polish-British The high command began on June 15, the first meeting fenc&exjperts, propelling gen- cialism and civil war, com- journalist, has the job of its two-day meeting in Mos- between the leaders of the two into the political game. paring them to the first countries since erals calming the generals and su- cow on schedule, but bad to the fall of use last week of secret Christian martyrs. in The pervising the reform that will alter the order of business. communism Albania. police files to discredit polit- change the communist struc- Among the items on the agen- opponents have ical may been ture of the army rather than da is the appointment of four desperate Japan’s foreign minister, Mi- the find, act of the its personnel. deputy defence ministers. Lesotho said it would not let As he admitted Wafanahe. in government of Jan Olszewski. ch jo 68, was yesterday, it will be King Moshoeshoe II back an uphill Mr Yeltsin has appealed to highly satisfactory condition Thai certainly is the view of task. "the on the throne when he re- peoples of Georgia and after gallstone surgery. the optimists; but the indica- turns from exile For one thing, some officers South Ossetia” for an end to in London tions are that it signals a new later this year. have been organising secret the “senseless bloodshed" in phase in which previously associations. An organisation the region. The statement, Mali's new president. Alpha neutral institutions — notably called Viritim provides a net- reported by the Interfax news Omnar Konare, has named the foreign ministiy and the Zimbabwe’s information and work for disgruntled middle- agency, said that Russia was the banker Younoussi Toure array ~ become political telecommunications minis- ranking officers who are un- prepared to take any joint as prime minister in the West battlefields. ter. Victoria Chitcpo. 65, says happy with the communist- measures to reduce the ten- African country's first freely former she will retire this month, the Many communists trained top brass. sion. Ten people were report- elected government. stQl work as both diplomats ed killed and at least 40 first cabinet member to quit The chief problem is a lack Picking their way; two Muslim women voting in Jakarta yesterday in the and army officers. That was a injured after a night of shell- voluntarily since indepen- of trust between senior offi- Indonesian general election. Preliminary counts necessary compromise struck ing in Tskhinvali, the capital showed President Suharto's The actor Lanry Riley, 39. dence 12 years ago, to con- cers and their political con- Golkar after the first Solidarity gov- of South Ossetia. party, which has ruled for almost 27 years, set for certain victoiy who appeared on the tele- centrate on her family. trollers. The army feefc that it ernment came to power in has already undergone huge 1989. But the Olszewski gov- changes in the past two years. ernment, wanting a more PRIVATE RESERVE: Private Reserve allow, immediate perulrv-trcc withdi await balance, over £10.000 rwo pcnalrv-trrr Some 2,500 communist pol- on and withdrawal* of up to £2,000 cadi per yen on balance below £10.000. Ollier immediate withdrawal* on balance! below £10.000 are tub^cr t.i 10 da»\' confident reorientation, a less notice ot loss of 90 days’ Interne on the amount withdrawn. THE OFFER-. 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He also takes ilk 1 •• p> •• .. un ,t: • *•„ . . -rtf : i.io«e PRAGUE NOTEBOOK by Roger Boyes • . v i -Mins' • . ir :«r •' Where ‘Long live ..•••; i\tf . i .> .1'. 'tf- work!’ is a crime . • lit- • !» ii.: been forged- Both Pres- •„V lfred Jandusik walked had ident Havel President .T.TC A into the council offices and •. l\ii of the Czech township of Walesa have had to defend Si* Hava the other day and themselves publicly, detail- shouted ‘‘Long live work!” ing their brief brushes with at the clerks. Then he ad- the secret police. Many Pol- >I?S Jt’fayri dressed an official as “com- ish deputies have just been ...T'P ^ told that they have a secret hair*.: rade”. The police were J K called, he was arrested and police record, but on closer given a stiff fine. examination some are find- - date and . The magistrate raled that ing that the birth IV ,;*S to call somebody “com- addresses given are wrong, even that the files belonged ,ed njt' rade" in the new political the climate was improper and to somebody else with a way that it fuelled pro-commu- similar name. In Helsinki group that keen** nist sentiment. Citizen The Jandusik — he refused to be used to defend dissidents blast adc-ici called Mr — pointed out against communists now 8 hr Ustom that communists Uni he had never been a have to protect ers •>.: Communist, unlike the of& against the new order. 1 r- .1 rial he had supposedly in- There is a serious human upuH j ••1 t* sulted. The court would not rights issue at stake, since to budge. “Long live world" there is no real appeal date. was a subversive slogan. against such revelations. The idea Of political cor- The witch-hunters in rectness; fashionable in the Czechoslovakia and Poland America and brutally im- shrug off such criticism. plemented in the commu- After all they say, nobody is -iu-r nsfr nist bloc is enjoying a new suggesting that these lease of life in the liberated people are being put on sr~ East, In Czechoslovakia it trial, only that they should is predictably taking on the make a dignified withdraw- tones and upside-down log- al from public life. “Such ic of The Good Soldier people are whining about a Svgk- right to justice, while Since Communists and trampling on the right to secret .police collaborators life,” an angry right-wing CM cannot hold high state of- Polish deputy said. This Year we’ve helped 2 6 6 0 1 People choose a Better savings account fice, it is almost libellous to caJJsomebody comrade. To hat, too, is part of the ^pwindOB^cleaners lArch- T new political correct- bishop Miloslav VDcj, lorry ness. There is still no anti- loaders (foreign minister abortion law in Roman JM Dienstbiez) and jail- Catholic Poland, but doc- birds -/President Havel) tors have submitted them- who are now the backbone selves voluntarily to a code trf the new elite, that seems of ethics that bars them ™acufoo& Tor one thing, from performing abortions. police bosses have Women are bemg turned become social arbiters away from all the main hos- again. Only former case of- pitals, and even gynae- ficers are qualified to say cologists in private practice INTEREST wiethri- police dossiers are are thinking twice before genuine operate on • • = or doctored. The agreeing to ^ termi- exPerience of Poland is that women who want to many fifes have been made nate their pregnancy. up. Zie- FOR and indeed are in some Professor Tadeusz * way great works of fiction. linski, the Polish ombuds- Agents were paid bonuses man, says that that is a J nr , ?«onling to the number of violation of the constitu- by formerswho were recruit- tional right to treatment To find out call into your nearest branch, or call us now on 0800 44 66 00, ed info a network, and the health service. more there was no way of check- Even so. the ethics code jpg whether they were real- is probably better than the ly Collaborators. bill working its way throunigh parliament. Jf 8mes of sources were passedss it would jail doctors N even made up. much for two years for perform- as f rt' Fleet Street print- ing abortions and could be rllv ^°«ers used to add Mick- used to imprison for up to Mouse orAdam Smith ten years anybody who L»* le to night-shift rota. forces a woman to undergo President Walesa was the operation. The latter flowed io study his file on category could include par- Monday and found that ents of under-aged preg- pfcny of his alleged signa- nant girls, husbands and tures on police documents friends. No-one’s busier on your behalf 16 THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 IQQ2 become a national treasure, says Philip Howard The John Osborne, still rasing away at 62, has greying from the mildness of Apart of hs is back in town immy Porter expression, that could be Osborne after 36 years, and there is speaking. oppressive closeness in the air, J partly, his apparent chronic bad as before a storm. Dijdvu. son of codgers old temper may come from pop culture Angiy rhe Look in Anger, opens Back at the chippiness of the lowcr-middle- Comedy Theatre tonight. The made good who error lous tabloid hackery, fantasy and become more at ease with the dass boy expected sequel to one of the most influen- is a primitive sympathetic wurid. Ibsen turned from his to change the world entirely and Biyan Appleyard war, which this author would be the lazy typecasting about the "angry on the golden tial plays since the which disappointed in his recluse". Deplorable, works of shocking social realism to was absurd changed the agenda of the theatre first to denounce with a furious old no expectation, like all such visionar- remarkable how doubt, but not really a moral heavy symbolism as he grew- older. oldies who for its generation and introduced squib, but it is are still ies. Perhaps it is just something top of the as final as the stabbing of Shakespeare gave up raging tra- ta pops to public consciousness the vulgar Osborne, like Jimmy Porter, has outrage gedy for the elegiac tragicomedies do with his genes or champagne. shorthand labels of angiy young failed to mellow in his sixties. Christopher Marlowe. i is now were not sent into this more than respectable rage scribble anything in public of his last plays, such as The We world arbitrary superficiality of being man and kitchen-sink drama, is in He has been trumpeting To to list Abba as a formative Winter's Tale. In extreme old age entirely for pleasure, and not young and naughty. What you see any event an important theatrical and grief in the public prints for or private about John Osborne is a I influence on one’s world Sophocles produced Oedipus everything about growing old is a view is what you get and what you are. occasion. The uproar and public the past fortnight, the paragraphs high-risk undertaking- For some- Cultured of fun. 40-year-olds fondly rel to carry honest Coloneus, which is not really a bundle And being what you are is the polemics that accompany its au- exploding as they- mean body who is so dangerously call a late is 3 rave success, flowering, post-adoles- tragedy all. more a celebration 1 hope Dtfdvu ultimate, unquestionable good. thor John Osborne in everything on. with such phrases as “I do find >n print about his nearest and at cent spinal shiver at the of gloiy. and I look forward impatiently to sound of So pop becomes autonomous he does — as pilot fish swim increasingly irksome" and “an- dearest {who often turn out to be of the achievement Dancing of it. But whether the critics Queen”. And dearest is morbid- Osborne shows no signs seeing teenagers and self-justifying. Its more am- a shark — make it a noisy other victory for the lumpenoc- his enemies), he around trumpets are currently bopping to a serene plateau of blow their or heave the respect- bitious practitioners need no news story. racf. His Spectator diary a wed; ly thin-skinned at the faintest whiff reaching this njl, chart-topping for the old harpoon in their disobliging version by the longer derive their energy from Jimmy Porter now has grey hair, ago erupted: “My relations with of criticism. But it seems a pity that contentment or resignation band Erasure of four dramatist. He ticks way. Osborne has plenty to be of the Swed- opposition to the Vietnam war. the but he is as angry and abusive as the popular press have been biner the angry young man of rhe long-distance furiously as he grows older. pleased about, if only pleasure from the late capitalist system or even the poetic ever. Alison, his wife in LookBack, and hostile for almost 40 years. 1950s, who skewered the national more 19 /Os. Abba came more easily 10 him. He has are now the latest anguish of adolescence. They need has been transmuted into his Papers like the Mail, Express and mood precisely with his fury at the Partly this may be the contempt of episaie of pop for the masses, changed the face of the theatre, history to be encul- only the stubborn commitment to daughter. She walks out on him. Daily Telegraph have traduced complacent establishment, has the intellectual tured, written into Eliot. Lcavis. and and is one of the most influential the officially- be pop. to party on. There is no saying that she never liked him, and vilified me consistently. It’s no turned into a grumpy old codger, expressed by endorsed canon wrote: rabble writer of his generation. His of significant. longer the old division between even as a little girl: “No wonder he particular surprise. But recently I who seems to be crass about Nietzsche, who “The Zeitgeisf-affimiing cal! it a works will live far longer than trash. earnest, student rock and trashy, prefers dogs to people He came have come across moral corrup- everything to do with the modem vomit their bile and This imagined enemies process of transforming teeny pop. into this world bitching and he’ll tion so bland and remorseless ihat world, from its music fo ils mores. newspaper. We fed contemptuous those of his and pop into a culture that is critics. It will infuriate him to serious, self-sustaining It is not strictly necessaiy. but go out the same way. Unloved, it’s like confronting an advanced This is an unusual pattern for of every kind of parallel culture to read this, but he is a much-loved is, first, a function there is a heavyweight intellectual unlovable and unloving.” To con- form of madness.” He then un- playwrights, who tend to calm compatible with reading, not of the treasure. passage of time- Despite justification for all this. The fuse authors with their characters folds an everyday tale ofunscrupu- down as they grow older and speak of writing, for newspapers.” national promising excesses in the 1960s. brightest devotees and impresa- Pete Townshend and Keith Rich- rios of this new pop for pop’s sake ards have stubbornly refused to die spring from a quite different before growing old. Mick Jagger educational culture from that of is about to become a grandfather, their 40-plus parents. At college Paul McCartney is turning 50, they were introduced to exotic and both Radio growths like struc- Public lives, private pain One and Sergeant turalism and cross- Pepper's Lonely cultural studies. Hearts Mick Jagger The same view was separately Club Band They learned to scant help to are 25 this year. study signs and The press code gives taken by The Daily Telegraph. Even Joe Cocker is soon to be systems rather The Independent and The Finan- has just been re- than hierarchies editors when intimate royal secrets cial Tint's. None mentioned the the born. Given the a grandad, and values. High Princess' : health or Prince's paucity of career culture and low or reaction The Guardian took a are published, writes Simon Jenkins extensively prospects for re- while Paul pop culture were more liberal view, re- revelations, tired rock stars, it is united as adjacent porting the while only to be expected McCartney is regions of inter- hat reply can the reduced to prefixing public inter- grandly deploring such disclo- editorial. that they should locking systems. It press possibly give est with the undefined qualifier sures in a separate The seek out some way. turning 50 was no more “seri- to Lord McGregor’s “legitimate". tabloids showed no apparent however embarras- ous” to study the damnation of the With such flimsy armour did restraint. sing to rock on. and Radio great tradition of Wroyal stories of the past few days? most serious newspapers confront But there is more the English novel His lordship admits that the royal last weekend’s revelations about o where stand Calcutt and is to it than this. One 25 than the lyrics of marriage has been put “in the the royal marriage. Most did so the PCC code? In the first Frank Sinatra and Abba or the clothes public domain" by the spouses' with deliberation and hesitation place, the intrusion must this year recent behaviour. It is rather than glee, hard though it Mel Tonne still of Madonna. thus “legiti- S be mitigated by the have their follow- This ideal of cul- mate within the public interest" may be for readers to believe. Princess's involvement. There is ers. but their tural unification is for report and comment. Yet the The liberal doses of humbug were no doubt that she knew of the book reputations are sustained neither currently being realised, honour- manner and tone of this reporting, noi surprising. and agreed to the donation of by this enthusiastic recycling nor ably and with some success, by the he says, is “dabbling fingers in the The Times supports the royal photographs. She also knew that by the formidable body of high- magazine Modem Review. It looks stuff of other people’s souls”. Of family constitutionally. It regards close friends were talking to the brow justification that enfolds like the 71S. but its subject matter public interest perhaps, but no its members as entitled to the same author, Andrew Morton. Had she rock’n' roll For rock as culture is is pop in all its manifestations, longer “legitimate”. privacy in their personal lives as asked them not to co-operate, she now about more than music, it is from music to American wrestling Most readers, even those hypo- any other dtizen — and subject to would have stripped the book of about symbolism, imagery and the and computer games. It defends critically rushing out to buy the the same scrutiny when it is any authenticity. Had there been a art of distilling fantasies. The face pop as the self-justifying truth of relevant newspapers, may give a relevant to their public duties. law of privacy, these actions or of the young Elvis Presley is now the age. cheer. But editors will find little The paper does not normally cover inactions — “leave and licence" to on a US stamp because Americans And Modem Review has de- guidance from Lord McGregor on the intimate tribulations of any- lawyers — would at least have accept that all his flashy sexiness is fined the new bad faith: the the boundary between his legiti- body’s marriage, except when muddied the waters. Lord Mc- pan of what they are. abandonment of pop. The novelist mate and illegitimate “public in- relevant to the reporting of court Gregor makes no mention of this. in this detri- Surprisingly, the young accept Martin Amis — on the face of it a terest” story. In 1990 the cases, however much to the What has so far been published committee its circulation. this institutionalisation. The old literary master of the language of Calcutt was specific in ment of is indeed a great intrusion into the role of pop as overthrower of the pop and trash — is now an its draft code of practice on lives of the royal family, and hurt- privacy. parental order is now a minor pan apostate. He has stood outside the It rejected the American ast Friday a dassic Fleet ful to the Prince and (he children. of its appeal. There are terrifying system of pop and taken on the media defence: that public figures Street war broke out be- But codes governing these matters rap bands extolling the virtues of tone of a moralist. The one crime are assumed to have “put them- tween rival bidders (The do not extend to books. Once a selves forward” for scrutiny and so Sunday Times and the killing whites, but, overall, the in pop, the one thing you cannot L book is in the public domain, the sacrificed the right to privacy. Daily fora book purporting young are happy to be pan of a do. however good it feels, is to look Mail) intrusion has occurred. This miti- Calcutfs view was that everybody, to give the Princess of Wales's tradition that must, to them, verge judgmentally down on pop. gates. although it cannot wholly ever version on the palaeolithic. In the infantile Whether Modem Review and all be they so mighty, has the of what ails her marriage. excuse, further dissemination. So same right Intrusions without (Editorially. Times is wholly film Wayne’s World, the these other manifestations of pop The newspapers are left to rely on taste consent are not permissible, ex- distinct Times.) cultivatedly gormless heroes listen culture as self-justifying, respect- from The Sunday when considering what to reveal. in specific circumstances, in bliss to Queen’s “Bohemian able and truly democratic amount cept The appeal of the book lies in its The Times derided not to cany the investigation Rhapsody", a very ancient piece of do something new or just another such as ofcrimes and well-sourced and intimate details allegations. Further dissemination seriously antisocial behaviour. Pri- of the Princess's health, and in the nonsense, and are overcome by fashion remains to be seen: but it of such intimacies was not relevant vate life was defined to indude Prince Wales's apparently cold meeting that amiable old prince of can hardly now be denied that the of to the family’s public duties. “health, home and personal rela- responses. Various papejs have darkness, Alice Cooper. The film's sytems of technology and global But more to the point, the tionships". There was deliberately tried to portray this as having con- regularly repeated injunction is to culture have created their own allegations patently infringed no reference to public interest, stitutional significance. The reality “party on”, to preserve the ven- language and imagery, and it is another person’s privacy, that of since the phrase is open to too wide is far more sensational: one of the erable continuity of living up to the language and imagery of pap. the Prince himself. That anybody, a range of interpretation. world's most widely publicised one’s responsibility to be the Merely revelling in the flashy public figure or not. should be When Lord McGregor’s Press romances gone tragically sour, teenagers their parents once were. intricacies of those systems, as expected to defend his reputation told in to strike with youth is no longer the termi- most of the old structuralists and Complaints Commission (PCQ a way a chord Pop as husband and father by divulg- was set up after Calcutt, it pre- troubled couples anywhere. Such nal condition it was in the 1 960s; cultural pundits now acknowl- ing yet more details of his family ferred to use the material it is a rite of passage. edge, is not good enough. It offers vague “public would have tested the life is grossly unfair. The “Prince's only passive interest” defence in cases of intru- discretion of a Trappist abbot, let This riiual aspect explains the self-immolation. party”, not surprisingly, has a sion. Calcutt's specific cases were alone a Fleet Street editor. It was publishing battle on eveiy news- sides, but within the spirit of henomenon of Madonna. With Equally, it is a fairly Canute-like wholly different view of the past used merely as illustrations. News- bound, in Cobbett’s phrase, "to stand. The battle was widely the code. Reference had to be rilliant calculation, she has re- activity to dismiss the whole show conduct and present state of his Pop is papers have employed the “antiso- loose every tongue and pen in noticed — and thus further hyped made to the basis of the newspaper alised the need for pop to be about as a bad thing. here and marriage. Dignity requires that he everywhere forever. cial behaviour” dause as a coach England”. Palace-watchers have — by the BBC that same evening. war. but there should be no dis- dressing up and being naughty, and probably keep his peace even in the face of than about music. It must be better to apply cul- and horses, to justify any intrusion long known that the story would There cannot have been any place semination of the intrusion under far more She distortion. His privacy is his right. celebrated tivated, critical intelligence the in anybody’s marital affairs. No test press self-regulation well be- of public resort in Britain where cover of reporting the detailed has adopted and the to To such matters this splenetic sullen, pouting wilfulness of the phenomenon, however tempting definition of private fife appeared yond the point of destruction. it was not discussed. The Times allegations from other papers. The PCC should have addressed itself. in the code. I view, the is view pubescent girl, and justified it as a frozen disapproval may be. n my code Should any of this be reported? took the that readers needed paper had no evidence for the virtually useless, that the facts in feminist gesture. There is no Anyway, to be painfully honest, I so much so On Friday only dearly to be told something of what they intrusions, which seemed prima The author was a member of the message other than to endorse the think Abba were pretty good. Lord McGregor was yesterday the public domain were of a fierce were seeing and hearing on all facie unwarranted. Calcutt comm ittee, / 989-90. States. I even had a call from of one of England's finest while Calcutt Australia asking for a copy." wines, when as the guest of the ...and moreover Meanwhile. Waterstone’s in Queen at a banquet at the British corners Kensington High Street, which embassy, he will be served ihe best AS THE press watchdog's stric- initially announced that it would Pinot Noir '89 from Chidding- tures over coverage of the Royal not sell the book out of respect stone in Kent. The dry white will Alan Coren marriage were widely ignored yes- for its royal customers, yesterday be served to the French president terday. there were strong signs changed its mind. "They didn’t along with a menu of Scotch sal- that rhe council of the Press Com- understand how big a sale it is mon and English cheeses. of the past miliion ll history invites specu- major doings now roll up their sleeves and get plaints Commission is riven by going to be.” said a spokesman for "The best vintage since ‘76." lative empathy. It has years, but it probably has some- stuck into the huge implica- internal dissent over the statement W.H. Smith, the parent company. says Dudley Quirk, who owns the always seemed to me to thing to do with wanting to tions with which this 6.000- A issued by its chairman. Lord 65-acre vineyard. "1 think the be the best reason for studying believe in the commonwealth of year-old missile-launcher is un- McGregor. Although the com- DIARY • The dubious honour ofauction- French will be quite pleasantly sur- It. History is. after afl, merely ordinary folk who, despite the doubtedly fraught mission initially implied that its ing rhe world's most collectible prised to find it is pas mat." news, while 1 am extraordinariness of the public But 1 shall leave to iL old and them condemnation of “journalists dab- condom falls to Christie's next content to leave others to mull events of their various times, since I have minor fish to fry. bling their fingers in the stuff of secret, at least private. It is known, month. The rare French example time's cuttings in the attempt to form a continuum. And the For me, the heart fin every Given the slipper other people's souls" was unani- however, that the emergency meet- dates from 1810. and is expected winkle out why this happened conviction that this is exactly sense) of the story ties here: mous. at least one of the three ing was poorly attended, although IF Ronnie Biggs docs meet John rather than that and thus get as what they do cheers me no end. "The bow is made from a single national newspaper editors' on the all but one of the absent members Major in Rio. then Jack Slipper, close as possible to the manifold partly because I feel closer to piece of yew and two thirds of self-regulatory body has disowned were later comacred. In addition the great train robber's old ad- bottoms of wars, revolutions, porters and gravediggers than it survives, including the grip. the statement, and a second, when to Lord McGregor, only three are versary, advice for the edicts, treaties, policies, move- to kings and archbishops, but The fact that it was discovered, has some given the opportunity to endorse understood to have been present ments and the like, none of this mainly because it enables me broken, on a remote hilltop prime minister do not befooled by it, pointedly declined to comment. during the drafting of the conten- the is my own primary concern. I also to believe that this is the suggests that its owner threw his easygoing charm. Slipper, Patsy Chapman, editor of the tious statement: Sir Edward Pick- want to know only what it was way it will always be. it away in disgust when it former Flying Squad chief whose News the World, said: “I think ering, Sir David Chipp jail like to be there. And whenever something snapped.” of and 1 974 bid to haul Biggs back to this story has got 10 be covered. It former royal lady-in-waiting. Where? Anywhere. Cut his- comes along to support that In a flash, I am there. I have Lady was thwarted by red tape, says: Cavendish. tory's pack how you wilL f shall conviction, it makes me feel very been there often. I may not have is an historic story and one which Elizabeth “I hope that the prime minister muster what imagination 1 can good indeed. It makes me feel so been there with a snapped bow. is in the public interest ... I can- would not give a wanted criminal I want the not to immerse myself in what turns good that to spread but I have been there with see any other way this could Unwarranted a second of his lime" Biggs hopes up. Offer me Ihat moment when feeling around, which is why you a busted fan-belt, a dead phone., have been reported." A second tu meet Major in Rio to ask if he today, as the critical chip is finally chis- are being buttonholed a hot fridge, a jammed cog, a editor on the commission, Brian WHILE Harrods has banned An- can return to Britain a free man if rather small piece elled and the rock rolls downhill the result of a burst pipe, and, across 60 centu- Hitchen, of the Daily Star, would drew Morton's book. Hatchards. the Brazilians kick him out. Slip- of news I found buried among ries. I feel the while the furrowed Neander- vibration of his not confirm whether he had sup- bookseller to the Prince of Wales, per concedes that Biggs is a re- fallout of a rather big piece disgust, because it t haler wonders what to do with the resonates ported the statement. Callers to was yesterday happily taking ad- formed character, but insists; “We to of news. Yesterday, most papers with mine. While 1 do not his it now, invite me wade ashore know office were told he was “in vance orders for the title from all can't afford tu let somebody off retreat carried a report of the discovery whether language was as yet behind Caesar or up the meetings all day". His front page, over the world. to fetch up to £800 when it comes scot free for one of the most auda- William, buy of the oldest longbow ever found sophisticated enough to provide shingle before me however, made his view transpar- Terry Maher, chairman of Pen- under the hammer on July 2. The cious crimes of the century." ticket to gawp at Anne in Britain: this was a large yew him with the wherewithal to ently a dear. “It's all true", tos. which bought Hatchards last device is made of sheep's intes- Since rehabilitated. Biggs is impermanent neck or number, buried and thus pre- swear. I know exactly how he Boleyn’s screamed the headline. year and also owns Lhe Dillons tine. and is tied with a silk ribbon. now giving tips Earth Summit Dumfriesshire peat to first crack at Hamlet, served in a would have sworn if he could. Max Hastings, nat- chain, says: Burbage’s the third “ft is not something It also bears what is called delegates — on how to avoid pick- in the public gallery as stack, and it was described by a So let the historians speculate stick me ional editor on the commission, we had to think hard about. We "a satirical ecclesiastical illustra- pockets. with his bot- spokesperson for the National upon whether, had her clans- Jenkins bursts in who is believed to have been the came under pressure over the Sal- tion". Patrick Grant of Christie’s the Victory's Museums of Scotland as a sen- men only been able to fashion tled ear or in driving force behind the state- man Rushdie book, bur our shops sa.vs: "It depicts a nun, was internationally im- better longbows, two monks • The new intake ofToryMPs tattered rigging as Hardy bends sational and Dumfriesshire ment. refused to comment on his without exception continued to and a bishop. She appears to be last night celebrating entiy to the it has one to Nelson’s portant find, now that would have taken Agincourt his unbottled colleagues’ position. He. however, stock that. It wasn’t a case of choosing between them.’’ style, carton-dated by Oxford as 5,000 years earlier, the Romans Commons in true English lip. and I shall burst a nostril been has just announced his resigna- defending the book, we simply do with a supper. But contem- having been whittled some time would never have got a Gallic fish and chip seeking that authentic tion from the council, though this not believe in censorship.” for all I know, instead of the traditional wrap- porary whiff which was the between 4040 and 3640 BC. It look-in. or, the Wine lessons is unconnected with the furore Geoffrey Bailey, customer rela- was is a sensationally and inter- first man on the moon would ping of newsprint, the meat common bystander’s. over story. the royal tions manager at Hatchards, says 1 F there is anything more inappro- Censer- nationally important, of course, have been an Aztec AD I hear is served in copies of the I do not clearly know. mind, commission, The which drew up he does not expect the policy to af- priate than coals to Newcastle, it who histoiy of man is the howl echoing from glen to votive manifesto. Ian Greer, why I want to know this, because the the statement at an emergency fect its four royal warrants. ‘There must be shipping bonles his inextricably finked with the his- len as my hapless forebear of Eng- hosted the dinner on behalfof especially as it deserves to be meeting on Monday, fended off afl has been tremendous interest in lish pinot nuir to Paris. tory of weapons, since that is the iscovers that the maker’s war- President public affairs company, is plan- construed as a lowbrow, vulgar enquiries yesterday will out yesterday. by dedaring the book from Americans asking Mitterrand’s finely-honed French ning a similar event later this and novelettish approach to the way man is. and historians ranty ran that its proceedings were, if not for the book to be posred to the palate will get a taste tonight month for the new Labour intake. 1 : . . . v 9rd THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 17 V 'Hiffc. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . V* I Pennington Street. London El 9XN Telephone 071-782 5000 > ill 'll'. • ;!!>< ' ',B ,• W- THE DANGERS OF PEROT Ross Perot could become American presi- sounding aspirations but they generally European bank Rio quest for a sustainable future Sharp encounter V> dent next January. He is still a long shot But small practice without the Director government '» produce savings in From of Oxfam required of the British a serious for Edinburgh? with he has become contender for the much more specific action to cut spending political statesman- Palace % Sir, According to the Unced (UN in Rio is an aci of White House rather than simply a From Mr Michael part- From Mr Anthony symbol of programmes. He would also get Germany Brandon Conference on Environment and ship to persuade its northern Holden popular frustration with die political and Japan to pay die costs of stationing Sir, 1 am anxious that the UK Development) secretariat, develop- nets of this simple fan. Sir, it is nonsense to suggest thar the establishment As support for his presidency countries undeclared American troops overseas, a reasonable aim. of the ec should be a ing will need an additional Yours sincerely, royal family is incapable of defend- rises, success. 1 billion in new ing itself when it % candidacy so too has the scrutiny of his though as expressed by Mr Perot it largely consider, however, that the $125 resources by the DAVID BRYER, Director. chooses. views. government of 1988 biography record and The emerging picture is ignores what these countries already contrib- needs to re-focus its end this century to meet the Oxfam, My of the Prince worrying, both for voters and for policy towards Scotland in order to environmental standards and obli- Banbury Road. Oxford. of Wales — serialised, like Andrew r-li America’s ute. A crude confrontation on troop costs Z74 fir ensure overseas. such success. Fortunately, an gations called for at the Earth June Morton’s book about the Princess, in allies would probably lead to a big cutback in S. 77te Sunday Times — ' «? opportunity has just arisen, which summit in Rio de Janeiro. This huge contained 1 Three recent opinion polls have Mr Perot American military in Europe '•"I involvement the government investment can only be From Mr Stuart Sexton passages of which the ' fc’ should immediately made if the prince did not i!h in front of both President George Bush and a and Asia. * grasp. North undertakes commitments in Sir, If money promised at the Earth approve. nailing Governor Bin Clinton, though For all his championing of free-enterprise Wisely, the heads of governments three areas. summit to alleviate global warming Via a public relations consultant. independent candidates like Mr Perot have values, is protectionist at heart. meeting will just ; '“'‘S' Mr Perot a be held in Edinburgh in ]. Governments must undertake to is to be truly effective; and not a Belinda Harley, now a member of tended to fade between the summer and December. to be private staff, He supports managed trade, reaching deals But we do not want to see increase their aid budgets to the UN sop to poorer nations, it has his he arranged for a n '; November’s elections. then is the Palace spokesman to denounce ’>r Experienced cam- with Japan on quotas of imports and exports, the prime minister embarrassed target of 0.7 per cent by the end of spent on nuclear energy. That my paigners such as Hamilton Jordan, a dose and he opposes the desirable free trade and the summit itself disturbed by the decade. Those furthest from only long-term effective way to re- book in his name on the front page of anti-government demonstrations. of COj. Observer — which did not see fit. aide to Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. and Ed agreement now bang negotiated with Mex- achieving this goal (such as the US. duce world productions The Current Tory policies of ignoring the believed to be the single greatest given its source, to offer me any right Rollins, who ran Ronald Reagan's re- ico. Mr Perot talks like opposition politicians UK and Japan) should set an genuine Scottish aspirations could example by agreeing to “catch cause of global warming. of reply. election drive in 1984, are now backing Mr often do about a form of industrial policy. up" certainly lead to street troubles in with more generous donors, rather That extra C02 in the atmosphere There followed two weeks of trial PeroL On Monday, some Democratic and This would involve a dose partnership December, discrediting Britain’s than seeking "when resources allow” comes mainly from burning coal, oil by tabloid, and loss of earnings as independent mayors who met Mr Perot to between government manufacturing and prestige abroad and further reduc- opt-out clauses. and gas in order to generate electric- editors grew anxious about their discuss urban issues said th^ were consid- industry to create strategic plans for each ing Conservative influence north of dectric power — knighthoods. 2. Debt reform commitments are ity. Other sources of ering whether to endorse him. sector. 'the border. never the charges againsi He favours changes in anti-trust laws vital. Last year, developing countries hydro, wind, wave, sun — are Among me So far Mr Perot has succeeded because than per that 1 had not attempted to he to remove restraints on large companies The Chancellor, speaking in the transferred $31 billion more to the likely to produce more 20 was The spokesman question. is neither of the main party candidates. from competing with foreign rivals. Commons last month, acknowledged North in debt repayments than they cent of the world’s needs. interview the in per cent required That night. 12.93 million Britons Roughly half his supporters say they back Like many businessmen, Mr Perot believes that Britain — meaning more than received in new loans. Britain has remaining 80 north and south, both in the devel- saw me interviewing him in an 1TY ; -itt him because they dislike the other contend- that only poli- one centre and not just London alone taken the lead in addressing the ' the weakness of Washington 1 — will be the strongest candidate to oped and developing world, can only documentary 1 had made to mark ers. He has benefited from public anger with tics stands in the way of obvious solutions. problem of official debt through the • ::w fossil fads, with the prince's 4Uth birthday. Much Htef. become the headquarters of the Euro- Paris Club. What is needed now is an be met by burning the failure of both the Bush White House He talks as if the checks and balances in the n,ir pollution, or by did it do in the face of a nnn^ pean Central Bank (ECB). Yet. when equally far-reaching initiative aimed attendant C0 2 good me and the Democratic-controlled Congress to American constitution can be brushed aside " Ihr its candidat- nuclear power with no such pollution royally- authorised tabloid onslaught. ft. Edinburgh announced at reducing commercial bank debr to take decisive action to tackle the soaring by such devices as the “electronic town hafl”, radi- advice, with ure on May 25 (report, later editions. levels compatible with sustainable (and, properly managed, no On seeking legal a • budget deficit, falling standards in schools, for • Minr^ an instant referendum in every home. This May 26) there was reportedly not a development. ation pollution either). view to suing the Prince of Wales costly health services, crime and declining ignores even of The USA, Britain and others defamation. 1 was told that I had a the differences of interest in any single Conservative MP— one 3. The North must act to improve the <(»•?> competitiveness. Conventional the 11 Scottish ones present. should spend the money on co- prima facie case — but that the • 1 operative research to produce the process would be ruinously expen- -llllugg are seen as self-seeking and weak. Mr Perot ethnically mixed as America. These dif- The concept of splitting the activities countries. As the environment sec- next generation of nuclear fission sive. and that no jury in the land is the ideal candidate for such an anti- ferences politicians exist to represent and of the ECB between London and retary, Michael Howard, has repeat- attractive one. power plants: to make such plants would take my side againsi the politician mood A self-made billionaire with reconcile. Nothing in Perot’s Edinburgh is an The edly argued, foreign exchange Mr record world at Wales. government should strongly support it available to the developing Prince of a reputation as a decisive executive in the suggests that he understands these con- earned through trade is far more prices they can afford; and to fund So 1 derided to suffer in silence, ’• actively represented at the »*1 ‘ and be important to the South than aid. Yet Sli’Jg can-do Texan spirit, he promises to shake straints. He has been sensitive to criticism, longer-term research towards replac- and henceforth write biographies of "•)> I- forthcoming conference in Brussels lanff and non-tariff barriers deprive Washington to its foundations. authoritarian as a manager, intolerant of Europa. ing nudear fission with nuclear people with less power to inflict • organised Scotland 'I’ll -l>q| • by Third World exporters of an esti- Mr Perot has been widely criticised as opponents, a believer in conspiracy theories fusion power generation within the unjust damage on my reputation. site the — equiva- ft Since the derision on the of mated $75 bQlion a year fuzzy on policy. This is misleading. He has and obsessed with secrecy. next 50 years. My only consolation, like Monon. *i ;| . »; ',}£ ECB is due to be taken at the Dec- lent to 3 per cent of their GNP. was that my book sold out next day. many views, most of them either naive or If Mr Perot confounds the sceptics and ember summit, what a coup for the Of course, such reforms will im- Yours faithfully. damaging. rightly, identifies the im- wins in Yours etc.. •i-HUr He November, he might for a short time reigning EC president to be able to pose costs on the developed world. STUART SEXTON of cutting (Director, Education Unit). !'••• Vn,v portance the budget deficit But he be able to lead Congress and break the announce in Edinburgh that Edin- But these pale into insignificance ANTHONY HOLDEN. resorts to those traditional evasions of current deadlock. But his short-term burgh was to be a host city to the ECB. against the price which will be paid Warlingham Park School. 5 Ravenscoun Square. W6. "j'kris i are ' by future generations, in the North Chelsham Common. June 9. •'"•'li H* eliminating wasteful government spending palliatives. His candidacy is a warning Yours very truly. and South alike, for failing to invest Warlingham, Surrey. and improving tax collection. These are fine rather than a solution. MICHAEL BRANDON. now in a sustainable future. What is June 8. : ii-c !v Malta’s Siege Bell 1291 Commugny, PO Box 1. Geneva. From the Chairman of the ;!l: : JAi* School admissions children to whom places had been RINGING THE CHANGES June 6. Arts Council •E ' !ki*S offered. : RFir. From MrB. W. Sherrott The suggestion that GM schools Sir. I had the privilege at the end of outgoing director could obviously forestall all competition were Sir Bryan Carsberg, range last month to be at the dedication *! i will unable to organise the ii'iii '. be general of telecommunications, has deliv- it allowed to set its own prices and terms for Call for increase In Sir. Your editorial. “Opting for m- nimnut of services currently supplied by their ceremony performed by the Queen what?" (May 28). having made the ered a parting shot at BT that has sorely interconnection. It is Oftd’s job to ensure LEA is absurd: there is plenty of for the Siege Bell of Malta. This . r. mbV museum grants happen. point that over-subscribed schools extraordinary and massive • , Britain's Call that this does not current evidence to the contrary, and monu- i-i» i nt. grazed biggest company. From the Chairman ofthe National will have to ration their admissions • at have ment, created by Michael Sandie. is •• charges, he says, should rise for the next four Sir Bryan proposes that BT makes its Great Barr we not only jRu" Art Collections Fund by some objective method, then its replaced but also improved upon sited at the entrance to the Grand ^ .-hir years at a rate of no more than inflation less accountancy more transparent so that debare in the Lords makes a quantum leap with the ass- those services. Harbour of Valletta. • * competitors Oftel can see how much Sir. Tomorrow’s T£ 7.5 per cent, which at the moment would and ertion thar “for schools this means on the funding of museum acquis- Finally, as head of a comprehen- Not only is it a contemporary . i>». imply a cut in charges. This squeeze on prices different BT businesses currently charge testing” as a means to “an insidious itions is well timed. We warmly sive taking the (almost) fall ability ••• memorial to the bravery and endur- .Mills' has been tightened with each turn ofThe each other for interconnection. To ensure piecemeal re-introduction of selec- welcome the Secretary of State for range (Birmingham has its gram- ance of the Maltese who suffered . .i i h': i regulatory since privatised in fairness, a competitor should be charged the tion". One would have hoped that screw BT was National Heritage’s decision to mar schools), I must object to your greatly in the three-year siege, and of , .in.' »i more. editorials would be more tightly 1984. same rate and no abandon a proscribed list as a assertion that services to children the Royal Navy and Merchant argued. Telephone users might still be justified in Meanwhile, Oftel will speed up the possible solution to the thorny ques- with special needs will suffer. Marine seamen who brought sup- this asking whether this is enough to offset the negotiating process between BT and its rivals tion of an exports. But along with The admissions polity for In their published proposals for plies; it is also a universal memorial 1 « ! i :m I*. find real solution grant-maintained school — an urban status, schools of all are still enjoys. Eight on interconnection. BT has been accused of this goes a need to a GM types to the dead. :...jip near-monopoly that BT the continuing problem of in- comprehensive of more than 2,000 required to state their intended still excessive delay, as has Oftd in its arbitration. to Today we find it hard to create . . "Wtt years after privatisation BT handles 93 sufficient resources. pupils with a standard number of provision for pupils with special bring out liw. per cent of afl telephone calls. Mercury has Oftel will now step in after three months and memorials: They may is for realistic 406 (for September, 1992 there were needs. Most will wish to demonstrate its recommendations will be applied One of the needs confusing and sometimes conflicting i.: ..ii f made inroads into sections of the market, purchase grants. They have been 630 choices) — is taken word for that with GM status they will be able sentiments, but the sheer scale and >i.n: it retrospectively to the date at which it began •i. such as firms in the City, and is starting to that of education frozen since 1985 at a level which word from the to provide such pupils with a much brilliance of what Michael Sandie .... •n:n. sign up small numbers of domestic con- to arbitrate. authority. Rationing of admissions improved service, both in terms of even then bore little relation to the and the people of Malta have >iu still marginal Speedy and fair interconnection wiD be the sumers. But It is only market The 18 national museums’ in most GM schools will be deter- staffing and resources. created, through the work of the - •. i i.r. best way of ensuring real competition into mined by the as-the-aow-fiies dis- competition to BT, nothing like enough to and galleries’ annual purchase Yours faithfully. George Cross Island Association, 'i.-j'J , tance the school principle, the make BT behave like an ordinary, price- telecommunications. There is no shortage of grants amount to £13 million. This from BRIAN SHERRATT (Headmaster). should remind us that perhaps wc • ... sibling principle, and not by testing. sensitive firm. new candidates for entry and advances in sum needs to be at least doubled Great Barr Grant-Maintained need them more than ever. As Donne •*;. if- In trying to change this Sir Bryan faces a technology should make competition easier immediately and regularly reviewed. In our case, places for September. School. put it “No man is an Island, entire of • hi- :/ to - . wants to introduce to introduce. The trade and industry This would probably be enough 1992 were allocated on October 5. Aldridge Road. itself . Any man’s death dimin- 1 dilemma. He rightly I’ * cover the minor to mid-range ac- 1991, at which stage the school had Barr, Birmingham 44. ishes me.” into the telecommunica- department is sitting on about 30 applica- Great ,i U more competition lL quisitions necessary to ensure the no details regarding the ability of June 4. have Mercury and new tions for licences from potential rivals to BT That the British press should „ ,.| "iii tions market and to help quality of collections. largely ignored the dedication cere- ...•i> >* telephone carriers. But he must respect BTs and Mercury. Beyond this, we need an ad hoc of Browne’s comment upon the mony and this important and beauti- reasonable call for investment money, not To the extent that a telephone service is a Outside the normal provision for the truly major works of human capacity for self-delusion: ful memorial is a sad refleaion of our . ii- least the is in fierce social good, a regulator mil always be overseas where company which rarety appear on the From Dr Nicholas Humphrey cany within us the wonders that times, an injustice, and one that does '* an “We ... • Ill* and effective competition for new business. needed A telephone company needs to be .market. Holbein's Lady with a Sir, Having written that "There is we seek without us. All Africa and her it no credit ... -infs Also he cannoi cap BTs prices without forced to maintain uneconomic telephone is an Squirrel, happily bought much evidence for the existence of prodigies are within us." Yours faithfully. competitors. must boxes on the Shetland Islands. It must be affecting these of its He example: the Badminton Cabinet telepathy”, Bernard Levin (June 4) Yours sincerely. PALUMBO. Chairman, lowcost packages to if * not so distort the market through capping encouraged to offer sadly lost, is another. And what proceeds to provide a living NICHOLAS HUMPHREY. Arts Council. a telephone purely for another work of such wonderful that he prices existing and potential compet- those who want demonstration of it How else can we 33a Chalcot Square. N 1 14 Great Peter Street, SW 1 quality appears in the near future? itors out of contention. emergency use and to help subsidise text explain his amazing ability to June 4. June 5. characterise (and caricature) the Yesterday’s formula was designed both to terminals for the deaf. We estimate that the total sum needed is around £30 million per opinions of Nicholas Humphrey — a meet outrage at what some consumer bodies But the more competition Oftel and the From MrSeweryn Chomet from man he has never met or corre- Old flame introduce into this exciting market the annum. Finding this sum a see as BTs “excessive" profits, while allowing DTI Sir, it is odd that a distinguished r national lotieiy appears to be both a sponded with? Richard Coleman wifi have to do. The market From Mr ,..;l« enough headroom for newcomers to see a less a regulator student of human nature such as Mr i realistic and attractive solution. We I am sorry to spoil his fan. But I profit in entering the market. More signifi- wfil wave the stick that has so far been Bernard Levin should expea sci- Sir. Later editions of your issue of i that the minister will grasp this may as well say for the record that I hope June 6 cany an excellent photo of a 1,'ii wielded the director general of Oftd. The entists to be less opinionated, less cant if less headline-catching were Sir by opportunity to provide for the future do not “behave as though ail mys- that prejudiced and indeed less human Greek “priestess" carrying a flame, Bryan’s proposals for interconnection: the best epitaph for Sir Bryan will be he health of our national collections. teries. large and small, are either than anyone else. kindled you say on Mount Olympus. terms which competitors enabled his successor to regulate himself out already solved or very shortly wfl] and conditions on faithfully, kindled on wild Yours There is. however, one difference: Surely not that and tt> BT can piggyback on its network. BT of a job. be”. The “impertinence" is surely not NICHOLAS GOODiSON. scientists measure things. And if Mr remote mountain, but in the sanc- mine in making such a silly daim. Chairman. Levin can supply a single verifiable tuary of Zeus at Olympia, in south- but his in ever supposing I might National Ait Collections Fund, measurement in support of the ern Greece, where the games were want to. 20 John Islip Street SW 1 eat. held for so many centuries. FISH PAST paranormal. 1 shall be glad to in I recognise, at least as well as Levin June 9. public, the pink tie 1 saw him sport- A classical sleuth would note in the (possibly better), how far we are from Marylebone High Street the background columns of the temple of The origin of the species has been pushed conodont was actually a vertebrate. Man’s understanding the workings of the ing in day (or replace it at my own ex- Hera which is in that sanctuary. All- back another 40 million years. Human- earliest ancestors can therefore now be human mind. But. when faced by other ,r Safe car windows with more fetching). seeing Zeus and jealous Hera would 4 kind’s to back far million pense something ; ipP oldest ancestors mm out have been traced as as 530 years. evidence of paranormal powers, 1, , From Mrs Judith A. White not be amused. neither Adam and Eve. nor an ape, but a The current surge in scientific discovery unlike Levin, am inclined to be more Yours hopefully, are driv- Sincerely yours, predatory eel-fish with razor-sharp teeth and about the remote past is as exciting as the Sir, For many women who curious about their natural meaning SEWERYN CHOMET. alone; often on COLEMAN. • ing long distances than reverent about their super- King’s College. RICHARD a shellfish instinct for self-preservation. first wave a century ago, ridden by Darwin unlii in Physics. 52 Falstaff Avenue. • deserted and roads or natural one. Department of *. Cynics evolution has run and Huxley. It suits the modem obsession might argue that Reading. Berkshire. questionable areas, the fact that all Since he and 1 both admire Sir Strand, WC2. Earley, downhill fishy forefather with roots and the old environment, from v thereafter. But the 6. the car windows can be quickly and Thomas Browne, may I remind him June 4. June • Ji of man in this instance embraces crowds trooping round historic buildings io ' ; (who simultaneously dosed is greatly re- respectively woman) does the excitement about whether mankind and • foremother assuring. From Councillor David Howanh 1642 and all that • emerged on dry land in one place 18 THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 DES JEWSON I Forthcoming marriages Mr D.W.N. Aston asd Miss S4». Potter The engagement is announced between David, younger son ol die late Mr John Aston. FRCS. ami of Mis Asiun. of Nonhwwxl. COURT CIRCULAR Middlesex, and Susan, only daughter of Mr Waller Potter and the law Mis Potter, of Stamford WINDSOR CASTLE man Lincolnshire. . British Rail Board (Sir Bob June 9: The Queen and The Duke Reid). Mr H.W. Betfey of Edinburgh left Heathrow and Miss S.C. Fdstcad Air- Lieutenant Colonel Peter Gibbs port. London The engagement is this morning for a was in attendance. announced State Visit to France. between Hugh, only son of Mr CLARENCE HOUSE and George Her Majesty and His Royal Mn Becky, oi June 9 : Queen Elizabeth The Highness were received at the Hanford. Cheshire, and Sarah, Queen Mother this morning vis- Airport by the Ear! of Airtie KT daughter of Gerald and Joanna ited Queens' College. Cambridge. (Lord Chamberlain), the Manag- Fdstcad, of Leicester. In the afternoon Her Majesty ing Director. Heathrow Airport visited the Shaftesbury Mr CD. Brant (Mr Michael Roberts). Her Maj- Bridget's, Society's hostel in Cambridge. and Miss S-M. Potter esty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Greater engagement is The Hon Mrs Rhodes and Sir The announced London (Field Maishal the Lord Alastair Aird were in attendance. between Christopher David, son Bram all KG), the Minister-Coun- of Mr and Mrs C-T. Brant, of the sellor. French The Lady Angela Oswald has Embassy (Mon- Old School House. sieur Patrick succeeded Ruth. Lady Fermoy as Horcutt, ViDemtn) and the Gloucestershire, Udy-tn-WaMng to Queen Eliza- Fairford, and Chief Executive. British Airports beth. The Queen Mother. Sarah Margaret, daughter of the Authority (Sir John Egan). late Lieutenant Cotond BJ. The following are in atten- KENSINGTON PALACE Potter and of Mis BJ. Potter, of dance: The Secretary June 9: 1116 Prince of Wales of State for Heathdene Road. WaUington. Foreign and departed from Royal Air Force Commonwealth Af- Surrey. faire (the Rt Hon Douglas Hurd Northolt this afternoon for a visit MP) and the Hon Mrs Hunt the to Denmark. Mr NJLT. Gethln Robert Countess of Airlie, the Lady Susan lieutenant Commander and MissT.C. Pardoc-Jones Fraser. was in attendance. Hussey, the Ri Hon Sir Robert RN The engagement is announced Felkjwes, Rear Admiral Sir Paul KENSINGTON PALACE between Tristram, eldest sun of Greening. Mr Robin Janvrin. June 9: The Princess Margaret. Mr and Mrs A.M. Gethin. of Wing Commander David Countess of Snowdon. President, Loose. Kent, and Tavia. daughter Walker. Brigadier Miles Hunt- the National Society for the of Mr Ronald Jones, of Evander, Davis and Mr Richard Gomey. Prevention of Cruelty io Children, Transvaal. South Africa, and Mis The Lady Susan Hussey has was present this evening ax a Gillian Jones, of Caetieon. succeeded the Hon Mary Morri- Reception to mark the Fiftieth Gwent. son as Lady in Waiting to The Anniversary of the Society's West- Mr J- Hopkins Queen. minster Brandi, held in the M and Miss R.L. Ford College Gardens of the Dean's The engagement is announced Yard. Westminster Abbey. BUCKINGHAM PALACE between Mark Julian, youngest Mrs Jane Stevens was in June 9: The Princess Royal. son of the late Mr Wflliara attendance. Patron. SENSE, the National Hopkins and of Mrs Gwendolen Deaf-Blind and Rubella Associ- YORK HOUSE Hopkins, of Battle. Sussex, and ation. this morning attended the ST JAMES'S PALACE Rebecca Louise, only daughter of launch of “the Lincolnshire June 9: Tire Duchess of Kent this Mr and Mrs Jack Elmfc Ford, of Project" Report, the Lawn. Union afternoon visited Glaxo Manufac- Pembridge Court, Cheltenham. Road. Lincoln and was received turing Services. Ware. Hertford- MitcheU-Heggs Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant shire. Mr R.C by Skirl of the pipes: the massed bands of the Royal Air Force rehearsing beating retreat in Horseguards Parade, central London. for Lincolnshire [Captain Henry Mis Julian Tomkins was in and Miss CA North Nettie). attendance. Over 400 men including 1 60 musicians from four RAF bands took part The ceremony continues tonight and tomorrow night The engagement is announced Her Royal Highness. Patron. between Raymond, son of the late The Duke of Kent. President of •- SENSE, the National Deaf-Blind Dr and Mrs Gordon MiicheD- the All England Lawn Tennis and and Rubella Association, opened Heggs. of Henley-on-Thames, Croquet Club, this evening at- Dinners g* the Clare Sensory Support Centre Marriages Oxon. and Carole Ann. daughter tended a dinner in honour of Mr and the Clare Therapy Centre this Memorial service of the late Mr John North and of Dan Maskdi in the Debenture PaialerStainers' Company afternoon at Clare School. South The Marquis of Granby Mis John North, of Monks Lounge at the AH England Club. Mr Carl Fisher, Master of the Risborough. Buckinghamshire. Park Avenue. Norwich and was Lord Havers Frances Binier-stoss. Mr Roden Barter' the Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn. the and Miss E.L. Watkins Church Road. Wimbledon. Painter-S tamers’ Company, was slow. Mr william Butler-Sloss. Mr Treasurer of tbe Middle Temple, the received by Her Majesty’s Lord- The Queen was represented The marriage took place on London SW19. host at a dinner held last night at by Christopher Haven. Mr David Haven. Sub Treasurer at the inner Temple, the Dr M. Paiires lieutenant for Norfolk (Mr Timo- Viscount St Davids at a service of Miss Caroline Haven Leader of the South Eastern amill the Saturday. June 6, at Belvoir Commander Roger Walker. Painters’ Hall to celebrate “colour of the Western Circuit, the and Mrs R-A- Turner thy Colman). thanksgiving for the life of Lord viscount Castle Chapel, of the Marquis of RN was in attendance. and its place in the arts". The The Duchess of st Albans, Leader of the Midland and Oxford The engagement is announced The Princess Royal then Havers held on Monday at the whhetaw. kt. CH. Lord shawcross. QC OralIt Granby, eldest son of the Duke other speakers were Baroness lord crtckhowell. Lord Wlgoder, QC between Giles, widower of Jenny, opened the new buildings at THATCHED HOUSE LODGE Temple Church. Prince and Duchess of Rutland, of f O’Cathain. the principal guest, The and Lord and Lady Carr or Hadley. Lord Mr T L T Lewis and Councillor and Rosemary Anne, widow of Banham Marshalls College. MOl RICHMOND PARK Princess Wales were Alexander of Weedon. QC and Lady Alexandra Lewis (Wimbledon Borough Belvoir Castle Grantham, and and Mr Peter Lusoombe. Others of repre- Brigadier Bill Turner. June 9: Princess Alexandra. Presi- Alexander. Lord Graves, lard Board- Council). Councillor John Watson Watkins, daughter Road. Banham. - sented by Lord Hailsham of St Miss Emma present included: man. Lady Griffiths. Lord Campbell of (London Borough Merton). Mr Piers dent of the Royal Humane Soci- of Watkins, of ' Her Royal Highness sub- Maiylebone, KG. CH. Princess Allowav. QC Lord Oliver of Aytmenon. Pressdee (Society of Conservative Law- of Mr and Mrs John Mr B.D. Scon The Director of me National Portrait ety. this afternoon presented the Lord Lowry. Lord anti Lady Bridge of yers). Mr David Gandy (Deputy Director Heartsease; Knighton, Powys. sequently opened Banham Com- Gallery, the Director at National Michael of Kent by Colonel and Miss Barrett Uw An Harwich, lady FlcUUtoiue. lord and of Public Prosecution, also representing KA Centre. KenninghaQ 1991 Stanhope Gold Medal to Collection Fund, the president of the The Rev a. Gaytonand the Rev P. munity Michael Fanner and Princess Lady Prior. Lord Irvtne of Lairg. QC the dlrectoil. Mr A J Wheeler-Boom The engagement is announced New English An Quo. the Presided at M Banham. WPC Lesley Moore. Metropolitan lord Rees. QC Lord Mishcon. QQ, (Oak of the Parliaments. House of Walton officiated. Road. the Royal watercolour Society and the Alexandra by the Hon Sir Angus between Bamaby David, third (representing tbe Official Opposition. Lords}, mt Gareth Williams, QC (chair- Mrs Andrew Feilden was in Police, at St James’s Palace. President of the National Federation of The bride who was given away Ogflvy. House of Lords). Lord Mutton of man. General Council of Ute Ban, Mr son of Mr and Mis Douglas palndoe and Decorating Conttactore. Undlsfkrnt lord tyre. Geoffrey attendance. London SW1. Sir Nunc Wtlicox (chairman, Garrick Club). by her father, was attended by Scott, of Wdls FoUy. Moreton-m- The Master of the Temple Howe, qc Mr Cedi Parkinson. Robert williams (The Low The Princess Royal this evening Her Royal Highness. Patron, United and CecO Cfoh Mr mety Miss Victoria Powcll-Bianche. Report and The Timer Law Report). Mr Marsft. Gloucestershire, and Ogilvy evening MP. was officiated. The Hon Philip Ha- Lord Justice and Lady piumxs. Lord attended the TRANSAID (Trans- and SirAngus this Mr Sydney Chapman. Christopher Frazer fCoaaicA. Mn Lucy Ramsay. Louisa Marshall. Kathryn elder daughter of Justice Farqukanon. Lord Justice Ann. in aid host to the United Cedi Club vers, son. read the lesson and die Nancy Livingston (chairman. Crime portation Expertise for Save the attended a Musical Soirfe and Balcooibe. Lord Justice Beldam. Lard Zinia Welby, Sophie Russell, Jeanette Enfield, of Nigel son. gave Writers* Association), Professor Brenda Mrs dinner at the House of Com-' Hon Haven, a Justice Stocker. Lord Justice McCDwan. Children) Board Dinner at the of the Mental Health Foundation at Hoggen. QC (National Family Concili- Stephanie Sweeny and Masters Bridgend. Mid-Glamorgan. reading. Lord Griffiths, Trea- Lord Justice Neill. Lord Justice Watidns, British Rail- at St James's Palace. London mons last nighL Sir Marcus Fox. ation council) with Mrs Thelma Fisher Edward and Liam Davies. Headquarters of the vc Lord Justice and Lady wool/. Lord Owns surer of the Inner Temple, gave Mn Wendy Foreman (Special Equip- SWl. MP, chairman, presided and the Justice sir John try (also Charles Welby was best man. ways Board. Euston House, Scon, La ment and Aids for Living). Mr Mr DA Snow an address. representing the Dr Bushy TnaieesJ. Mr Eversholt Street. London NW1 The Lady Mary Mumford was others speakers were the principal A reception was held at Belvoir and Miss A-A. Hu] eatt-J antes Nicholas Scon. MP. Sir Michael Kerr. Archer. Nlnuno. and was received by the Chair- in attendance. guest. Mr Simon Jenkins. Editor Mr John Morris. QC MP. Sir Ian Mr Jetlrey Mr Derek Castle mid the honeymoon is The engagement is announced The Lord Chancellor and Lady Mr Alexander Milne. Mr and Mrs S of The Times, and the Earl of perdvai qc me Hon Francis Maude. being spent abroad. between David, younger son of Mackay of Clashfem attended. Sir Patrick O'Connor, sir Michael S carle. Mr and Mrs Edward 5tremor. Mr Stockton. Theo Plan. Mr Peter carter-Ruck. Mr Mr and Mrs Frank Snow, o! The Prime Minister was repre- PalUser, sir John and Lady May- Lady N.G.P.S. Rickards Juliet de Chair, the Hon Mary Hogg. and Mr G Maitland-Smith. Mr and Mr Cities Dining Chib Newmarket, and Averina, only Two sented by Lord Wakeham, Leader QC the Hon John Berwick, the Hon MR Jan Hildreth. Dr Charles Goodson- and Signoxina CMA. Faggrab wicfces. MP. Mr Richard Sunon. Mr and Mrs Thomas The Hon Peter Brooke, CH, MP. of tbe House of Lords. The Nicholas vuuen. daughter of Mr Today’s birthdays Lord map AShcreft. Mr John vuiuntan. The marriage took place on June accompanied by Brooke, Hufean-James. of Woofferton. Mrs was Chief Justice, the Lord Chief Sir Jeremy Child. Sir Harold and Lady Mr Douglas Crtumiey. Mr Michael 6. 1992. in Switzerland, of Nicho- guest of honour at dinner Cassel. sir John Stokes, Sir John Saunders. Mr Stephen Howard. Mr and Shropshire. the a of Justice of Northern Ireland, the las. youngest son of the The Duke of Edinburgh cele- Mr Graham Caiteton Greene, Cockney, sir James Nnrsaw. QC Sir Mr Gerald Howard. Mias J Richardson. late Mr the Two Cities Dining Club held Master of the Rolls, the Attorney- Philip wootUMUL sir Trevor Reeve, sir Pnttvu. Steve brates his birthday today. publisher. 56; Mr R.P. Halward. Mr Robert Mr Terry, Mr and Mis Edward Rickards, and last night at the St Ermln's Hotel. Denis Dobson. QC Sir Alex Alexander. Joy Campbell Mr joy Coote. General and Lady LyelL Mrs Clio, only daughter of the late governor. Leeds Prison. 41; Sir Sir David Cmurn. Sir Gordon Borrie. Service dinner Mr Kenneth Dibben. chairman, Margaret Thatcher. OM. and the QC Sir Thomas Hetheringioo. QC Sir Faggioli of Mr Leonard Badham, former William Harris, rivfl engineer. Mr Ivan Lawrence. MP. Mr John Don. Wilson and presided. Robin Day. str Maldwyn Thomas. Sir QC 9ih;i2ih Remembrancer of the City of MP. Professor Rosalyn Signora Tina Faggioli. Royal Lancers vice-chairman. J. Lyons and Com- 80; Mr Guy Harwood, racehorse Derek Spencer. QC MP. and Lady Morris. QC Higgins: Mr Patrick Ground. QC. Major-General London attended. The Secretary Spencer. Sir Ian Sinclair. QC Sir QC G.M.G. pany. 69; Mr W.G. Barr, former trainer. 53; Sir Arthur Hawkins, Mr Pen* Crowder, qc Mr Evan Stone. Donald Gosling. Sir Colin Cole, sir Paul Swindells. Colonel of iftt of State for Northern Ireland was Mr Chris MccaU, Mr Bernard rector. Exeter College. Oxford. former chairman. CEGB. 79; Luncheon Wright, sir Charles FTether-Cooke. QC QC QC represented Rlx. QC. Mr Robert Seabrook QC Mr w 9th/ 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of 75: Saul Bellow, writer, 77: HetzeL former presi- by Lady Mayhew and Sir John Drtnkwaier. QC Sir Barry Mr Mis Phyllis B Harris. Mr David Pemy-Davty. Cranfield Institute Overseas Bankers Club the of Shew, qc and Lady Shaw. Sir Michael QC Wales's) presided at the annual Rev Brown, for- Cavendish College, Ambassador Panama by Paul Focite. Hudson. the Right LW. dent. Lucy Davies, Sir Michael Ogden. Sir Max QC Mr QC Mr w The Lord Mayor, accompanied EA. QC Hudson. Unda Stem. dinner held last night at the mer Bishop of St Edmundsbury Cambridge, 74; Dr Polly HOL Mr Morales, accompanied and lady Williams. Dame Jane Gaw. QC and MR Mr of Technology John Archer. Anthony by Mr Sheriff John Perring. was by Mrs Morales. Among others Lady Tomkins. Lady (Gerald) Howard. QC Mr QC Mr Cavalry and Guards Club. and Ipswich. SO; Sir Bryan anthropologist. 78; Mr Lionel Butcher. Mr 1 In Price. Rodney Lady (Raymond) Brown). QC Leo QC Mr Honorary Degrees of Doctor of entertained by Mr present were: Paul Purnell. Mr Edward Noger, Cardedge. principal, Linacre Jeffries, actor. 66; Sir Geoffrey QC Science are being conferred in Galpin. President of the Overseas Mr Justice Blofeid. Mr Justice Mum- QC Mr Peter Hon n eld. QC Mr James College. Oxford. 61: Sir Chris- Orton, rivfl servant. 65; Mr Phil mery. Mr Justice and Lady Laws. Mr Goodie. Mr Stephen MtrehelL 1992 on: General Sir Peter de la Bankers Club, at luncheon held Haven (widow], die Hon Mn QC QC Appointment a Justice AUkro. Mr Justice French. Mr Mr Stephen Hockman. Mr Michael topher CoQeo. former Lord Tuck, jockey, 36; Major-General p Haven and the Hon Mn Nigel QC Billi£re, professor R.F. Coleman. yesterday at the dub. Among Haven (daugUen-tn-lawl, Holly Ha- Justice Sheen. Mr Justice Waterhouse. Hill QC and Mn HIM. Mr Michael Sir Chief The Rev Paul Fcrpison. chaplain Mayor of London, 61; Michael Walsh, former ven. Daniel Haven and Kate Haves Judge Coltan. Judge Monler-williams. Gale. QC Mr Michael Brem. QC Mr Mr R.B. Horton. Mr Y. Kume. those present were and sacrist of Westminster Abbey Brinsley Ford, former chairman. Scout. 65; the Ven C. Wftton- (grandchildren}, Mr and Mrs Anthony Judge O'Brien. Judge Beaumont. QC Richard Southwood. QC mt Henry Sir Arthur Marshall. Sir Peter The Governor of the Bank of England. and David Judge Rogers, qc HJs Honour A E Green, Mr Hubert Dunn. QC and National Art-Colleaions Fund. Davies. Archdeacon Emeritus of Haves Councillor and Mn QC has been appointed precentor. He Sir Terence Bum* and Mr Eddie Haves (brathes and sisters-ln-law). HoWswonn, QC His Honour Edgar Mrs Dunn and Mr Anthony Aril age. Thompson, and Sir Crispin will be installed on July 20. 84: Mr Justice Peter Gibson. 58: Oxford. 79. George. Lord Justice Butler-Sloss (slstep. Miss Fay. QC His Honour t o unlock. QC QC Tickell- Telephone 071 481 4000 ANNOUNCEMENTS Telefax 071 782 7827 BIRTHS DEATHS DEATHS DEATHS NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES ] ] LEGAL i 1 Those who have put their trust OLD On May 28th. to THOR FOSTER - On June 8lh. al HOLROYD - On Friday June ARROWAXE LIMIT HD in God wiu understand that MURRAY - On May 3Isl TOOSEY - On June 7th. Huto - June 7th Elizabeth >nee Cruiekshank) home. Reginald Henry »R.H. WILSON On 1992. tin UoUldatloul MULTIPOINT LOCKINU he b true, and the IMUifui Bth. suddenly but peacefully 1 992. al St Theresa convent. Mary, widow of Arthur. LTD P R. ROOSTER LIMITED and John, a son Guy and a peacefully tn Kuala Lumpur. TAKE NOTICE THAT l. Ninel IN lav*, Foster Lld.J. Funeral Service at 36 years of age. Nicholas AND THE MATTER Or IN THE OF win attend upon him tn daughter Alexandra. London SW7. Kathleen, Memorial Service al St David Clemen! Loubet. John Hamilton -Smith of Morton THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986 AND MATTER at Alderehol Crematorium Alfred. MA lOxonl. MSC of 1 THE INSOLVENCY’ RULES l«8e they are his chosen, and formerly of Bexhlll -on^ea. Bartholomew’s Church. Thomlon & Co . Tomngioa - formerly of Ihe Malayan NOTICE K HEREBY GIVEN 4 icit WALBRIDGE On June 8 Ui. on Friday June 12th al Drive Tooting and 47 Hill. In accordance wim Ride grace and mercy win he Abbey aged 91 years. Sister of toe Great Barrow. Cheshire, on Civil House. Holywell St punnanl lo Section 9B of the lo Karen and Shaun, a son. 10am. Family flowers only Service. Greatly missed Albans. Hertfordshire of The Insolvency Rule* 19W (Mrs. Lloyds Bank London. Iate Murray AL1 1HD Insolvency Art I486. IhJI J nwi WUUam of June 12th al 3 pm. Afl by hh beloved wife Tahrah, was notice Is hei eby nlv cn lhal l.Kriir James Nathan. please, donations to The beloved son of Robert and appointed Liquidator of inn of Ihe creditors of Multipoint wisdom or Salomon a : 9 Onslow Square. London enquiries lo 1 0829 1 733808. David Goodman a Ucemrt and all his family and Arrowaxe Limited by a Raolu- Ucnucd will FCA. YOUNG - On June 7ih. to Josa Kingston Trust or Ihe Patricia Helroyd of Locking be held at tosoivency Pramltonrc or HEB SW7. Funeral al 10 am on friends. Messages lo 29 Jalan non of a Meeang or the comPH Cromwell House. Fuiwooj Place. nee Keymi and Thoby. a R.N L.I. c/o Alexander & Tunbridge welb and brother Messrs- Leonard Cunts A Co- x June 12th at toe Servile 2/73. Taman Sa Bandaraya. ny*s creditors held on 28Ui May Grays Inn. London, vvci V 6H2. BARKER - On June 2 nd 1992. aon. Dry. 1 Scat Rd.. Basingstoke. of Robert. Angela and 1992 Eastbourne Terrace- London Church. Fulham Road. Malaysia. Ml Thursday, inc 18U1 dny of to Nicola BlrlwtsUet and KJ— Ihls ws «SLF. w.ts oppoinied LHUOda Stephanie. Unde to Sophie London SW10. Enquiries to DATED 4th day June 1992 al 3.00 o'clock in Ihe a of June lor of the above Company by Tint. son. Georoe Patrick. Betuna. Sara. Louise Ballard 1^92 afternoon, for Uw purpose* pro- DIAMOND Funerals. 308 Old YORK - On June 8to. at Nloct Hamilton.Smith. members and credltora tm 6® Frederick WADDY - ’June 1. John vided lor in Sections os. too and Samuel. W« shall ail Brompion Road. On 6U and June 1992. ANNIVERSARIES London Natalie Christchurch HaspltaL Liquidator tot. BOOKER - June 5th. al Ih* H ALU DAY - On June 7U>. miss him \ery dearly. Dora, dearly loved by Dated filh day On SW6 . tel: 1 071) 370-6271. of mn her family and friends Dorset, after an Uiness A IM Uw- names and of June. 1992 Humana Hospital suddenly at home In Funeral Service al Tonbridge addresses of Uve company's credi- BELL:REEKIE . June ICKh - Funeral on June bravely borne. Doreen, Keith David Goodman, FCA. Wellington, lo Michelle and On Beaconsfleld. Percy, aged 85. School. Kent. Quad Chapel at NIXON On June 8lh 17to tors will he available for inspec- al Hill. dearly beloved wife of Liquidator. Leonard Curtis 9 Co. Adam, a son. Ariel Hayden. 1932 Broken Cremation, no flowers. 1 am on Tuesday June suddenly al home. Anne, 2.15pm. Si .Mary’s. Mo niake CXUB RIVIERA TRAVEL LTD tion. free of charge, dialog 30 Alfred. Funeral al Bourne- Chartered Arcounlonls P.O BP Northern Rhodesia mow beloved wife Lt. High Street. Family flowers THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1906 business hours on Ihe 10U1 ana BROCKLEBANK-FOWLER - 16to followed by committal of Col. John mouth Crematorium seta 30 East bourne Terrace.. Kabwt* Zambia). Christopher Wells Nbcon. M.C. DL.of Donations if desired io St NOTICE IS HEREBY OXVEN 17m days or June 1992 al Ihe On June 6Ut 1992 lo Victoria at Tunbridge Hutton London W2 Orih N THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 19 niaO Z : 8e*' Obituaries .. s, J.S 1, I.’..* CDR JOHN LORD FERRIER BARRY ERCOLANI BROMAGE David Barry Ercolani. individual stamp on a mass- Lord Ferrier, a former formerjoint manag- to his home city of Edin- OBE. market product by taking the it Speaker of the Ercol Furni- Deputy burgh; Scotland provided no ing director of traditional “Windsor'’ chair, lr\ I V House of Lords who was died in London on Commander John Henry nean, which is where he was retirement, however. Almost ture. which had been made in the lr one of the first life peers, 71 . He was Bromage, DSO, DSC and serving when the second at once he took on new posts. June 2 aged Chiliem beech-woods for cen- leading submarine has died aged 92. He was in High Wycombe on bar, a world war broke out. He was He was appointed chairman bom turies. and using its function- the Royal bora on January 29. 1900. April 22, 1921. captain in Navy then moved back to this coun- of several companies, includ- al lines as the basis for a during thesecond world try. serving in the S-boats ing Edinburgh Pharmaceuti- whole family of furniture was an old belief in war. died on May 29 aged Snapper and Sealion before LORD Ferrier cal Industries, and director of BARRY Ercolani's Barry Ercolani was educat- India whose robust the furniture industry in the 76. He was bom on August passing his captain's course hand two leading insurance com- ed at Oundle and in 1938 he 18,1915. views, frequently expressed in Kingdom was and taking over an old first panies. He was to become a United joined his brother. Lucian ju- the upper house, could be matched only by his convio nior, in 'I world war boat, H33. After member of the Royal Com- the furniture business !v traced to his life under the Raj British furniture JOHN Brnmage was award- several months gaining expe- pany of Archers and Deputy non that that their father had founded and upbringing in the abroad. Almost ed the DSO after his S-dass rience he commissioned the his Lieutenant of the county of could be sold in 1920. During the war Bar- Church of Scotland. He was singlehandedly in the 1950s submarine Sahib attacked a newly built P212 — later Lanark. But just when it ry Ercolani joined the RAF. against Rhode- sell U-boar at long range near christened Sahib when Chur- pornography. seemed chat he would spend he started a crusade to He flew in the Burma cam- sian rights Corsica in January chill sanctions, voting the rest of his life Enrol Furniture throughout paign in . 1943 and insisted that submarines as a member 159 Squadron as a for 18 year olds, homosexual Europe, and as far afield as sank it. after firing a salvo of should be given names as well of the Edinburgh establish- rear gunner in liberators be- aspects a consider- three torpedoes. His own free- as numbers. law reform and many ment the Life Peerages Act Japan. This was fore becoming chief gunnery of the BBC. He was a vigor- dom, however, was shortly to In August 1942 Bromage was passed and Macmillan able undertaking for a medi- instructor for the RAF in In- ous supporter of the poll tax, at a time be curtailed. He subsequently returned to the Mediterra- nominated him for a seat in um sized family firm dia. After the war the two sporting links with South Af- spent two years from 1943 to nean with his new boat, to the Lords. Perrier's life now when exporting was still con- brothers rejoined their father rica. field sports in Britain exception- "'h 1945 as a prisoner-of-war. cany out a highly successful entered its third phase. sidered a risky and in the furniture business in and big game hunting al venrure. .. ending up in a camp, at L0- sequence of patrols, first from He was a great success in High Wycombe and Barrv ** abroad. beck in North Germany, near Malta and subsequently from the Lords. He served as Dep- In 1965 Ercolani led a took charge of the company’s His dubs were the Beef- -J. the yard where his U-boat Algiers. These were not with- uty Speaker and chairman of Board of Trade delegation to export drive. He travelled fre- • **i steak and the Guards and ^ victim had been built. out their share of depressing committees. He spoke on a Tokyo. The visit became a quently to maintain comaci 1 Cavalry in London and, in Bromage was captured by setbacks. In November stream of subjects. He was a landmark in Errol's trading with customers and was quick ' Edinburgh, • of course, the f.' Italian navy with Japan which last year . the when Sahib Bromage attacked an enemy regularaaender for nearly 30 to see the value of equipping New Club. It was while he ' was sunk by depth charges in transport first with gunfire years. celebrated 25 years with the Errol's sales representatives was standing outside his dub v late April 1943 after target- then with several torpedoes — He was a notable defender store group Takashimaya. with films, the better to dis- in Princes Street that a load ing an enemy convoy near one of which struck the of field sports while aggres- These achievements earned play the virtues of the compa- fell from a lorry and narrowly T'"‘ Sicily. The incident brought blacked-out vessel in the hold. sive animal rights campaign- Ercolam an OBE for service ny’s products. missed him, converting to an end a profitable part- Only when the crew saw the him ers were the subjects of his to export in 1976. He had Following in the footsteps in an instant into a formida- nership between Bromage number of survivors and particular scorn. He thought advanced theories on market- of his father and brother, he ble campaigner for the Edin- [' ». and his boat which had ha- started picking up English- some forms of homosexual ing and began to develop became Master of the Wor- burgh relief ! rased enemy shipping in the Speaking sailors, did they ap- road. law reform would be a charter “talking circles” with retailers shipful Company of Furni- Victor Ferrier Noel-Paton. • Mediterranean for nine preciate fully what had for male prostitutes. He sug- throughout the country and ture Makers in I9S5. Ill- who later became one of Har- abroad in endeavour to ••m. V months. happened. The 1 , 500-ton gested young people should an health forced his retirement old initial batch • freighter Macmillan’s turn spread his beliefs. i M,; After being hdd in Italy had been carrying to snuff instead of drugs From Ercol Furniture in of life • • peers created under the commercial and industrial tries. was appointed presi- Furniture was never simply i-.rct following his capture. British prisoners, who had He if they wanted stimulation. 1988. He is survived by his ‘ 1958 Act. was the son of the firm of Kdlick. Nixon and Co dent of the Bombay a in Ercolani’s ... he,,.,, Bromage was moved to the been confined to the hold Chamber But it was a mistake to commodity wife and his three daughters. secretary of the Bombay in Bombay. This city was to of Commerce, the organis- eyes. His life was devoted to \ \,vnh Malag (naval camp) near which Sahib had hit Not think of him as an automatic Chamber of Commerce and a be his base for more than 30 ation of which his father the idea that it was designed j. Bremen, where he was in- only that but the subsequent had right-winger. He was a stout subsequent director • • general years. He served on its legisla- secretary for to the life •• voNed in the drama of “AT rescue operation had to be been more than defender of the National enhance quality of of commercial intelligence to tive council, became trustee • bert RN“. This was among suspended when Sahib itself a 40 years, and later he was Health Service and voted and he took this message to the was threatened. Bromage government of India. of the Port of Bombay and vice-president of the Associat- against his party to protest hundreds of retailers from Ferrier was sent to and his crew, however, were Scotland was a prominent figure in the ed Chambers of Commerce in against charges for eye tests. 1945 through to his retire- to be educated at Cargflfidd Bombay Caledonian Society. India. later cleared of all blame by He had previously He was in favour of electoral ment in 1988. and the Admiralty. the Edinburgh Academy During the second world been a director of the old reform and a long-term cru- Barry Ercolani's father. and in time for volun- Bromage commanded the him to war he was commanding of- Imperial Bank of India and sader for manipulative Lucian, was born in a Floren- r • teer for the Royal Engineers ficer of the V submarine Thule in the late Bombay Light chairman of the Federation of therapy. tine village, the son of an * •it ; towards the end of the first Horse, 1940s, based mainly in and by then a semi- Electricity Undertakings of Ferrier was married in Italian picture-frame maker world war. around Londonderry, then mechanised regiment operat- India and the Indian Roads 1932 to Joane Mary, daugh- who was converted by the His father had died in ing was posted to Sydney on as the Bombay Light and Transport Development ter of Sir Gilbert Wiles, Salvation Army. The family 1914 but he was what was to be his favourite determined Patrol. Association. another leading figure of the was taken to London by evan- follow tour after the war. Britain to him and make his He stayed on after indepen- But in 1951 he derided to Raj. She died in 1984 and he gelists in 1898 when Lucian in India had lent the Australians the name and by 1920 dence in 1947. becoming end his long association with is survived by their son and was ten years old and after he was established in the chairman of Kellick . Indus- the studying v. 4th submarine flotilla, con- city of Bombay and return three daughters. furniture design in sisting of four boats — one London Lucian founded the based in Singapore and three Ercol company which suc- in Sydney. Although an Aus- ceeded in putting a highly - tralian captain was in com- FARAG FODA mand, Bromage acted as his professional adviser, as to- Appreciations gether they trained the Aus- Farag Foda, the Egyptian secularist Mubarak. The party, which won 57 the more daring escape plans tralians in underwater commentator, was assassinated in seats in parliament and became the 1 : !> . which were mentioned in of its kind, subsequently warfare. Cairo on June 8 aged 47. He was official opposition, had struck an infor- Stephen Carden • Halite; made famous by a post-war He then returned to Ports- born in the village of Zirqa to the mal electoral deal with the Muslim your obituary of Stephen film. mouth. where he worked with northeast of Cairo in 1945. Brotherhood, which Foda could not Carden. Fairbridge. and the obituary The naval officers built a the navy's reserve fleet for stand. YOUR of Stephen London Goodenough Trust ' Carden (June states that for dummy sailor who literacy three years, selling surplus FARAG Foda belonged to that rare dass He subsequently wrote three books on 9) he Overseas Graduates, are dangers of state identified with was the principal architect of not merged but quite sepa- . V!. stood in for an escaping pris- warships to friendly powers of social reformers in the Islamic world the a a the merger of the Fairbridge rate. As direaor the latter. I .. as they who are inspired by modern secularism particular faith, and became a commen- of , oner marched back in around the world. After that Society and the Fe!-' columns of fives after bath he went to Singapore, in and dare to speaktheir mind. They know tator in October magazine, a periodical Drake would pay tribute to Stephen lowship. This is indeed true. Carden's remarkable dedica- _ parades. With a papier mft- charge of naval salvage oper- that they have little chance of surviving named after the Arab-Israeli war of The merged organisation is tion ro the well-being of .. che head and an overcoat ations, before moving to a to die of old age and yet persevere, 1973 which enabled Egypt to make our 't*:^ =v • iiinntr draped over a coathanger, similar posting on the Clyde. constantly aware of the fate of predeces- peace with Israel Foda believed that any now known simply as 750 graduates and families 1 . * Fairbridge. its role being to (mainJy from the Common- • • civilian good Egyptian government should be • either the impulseof . • ' i .inriti “Albert managed somehow That was to be his swansong sors slain by impartial between Islam Christian- train and motivate disadvan- wealth). He was always keen- • to deceive the German before he left the navy in fanatics or by the decrees of govern- and taged inner city young ly interested in all aspects guands as they counted the 1965. ments- Foda was a particularly coura- ity. the other major religion of the of ‘ people. Fairbridge is quite theirwelfare, not least their PoWs before them. Mean- Bromage worked for the geous example of the dass and is likely to Egyptians. In addition, he regularly — in separate from the London sporting activities - while the sailor he was under- next 15 years for the Ministry become more influential after his death. used strong words of condemnation a great l in against the violent Goodenough Trust for Over- feature of the year was our .,‘ studying was effecting his of Defence, carrying out “pos- Bom in the village of Zirqa the wing of Islamic fun- . _, seas Graduates, commonly cricket match against his pianneinned getaway via the bath itive vetting” checks on per- province of Domyat to the northeast of damentalism which had siain so many own known as London House. village XI at Wakes house. sonnel, mainly on entrants to Cairo into a relatively affluent family. other reformers, including Rifat al Colne. We at Fairbridge have lost * rttc'nl to school there and later Mahgoub, the parliamentary speaker in His commanding presence \r>i' : ! Bromage himself, however. the submarine service in the Foda went won a leader with vitality, panache and glorious sense of never made it He spent southwest a place at Ein Shams University in the 1991 who had also been bom in his humour r native village of and humour. are acutely missed by our c' much .of his time digging A tail, athletic, humorous capital to study agriculture. After obtain- Zirqa In his regularly referred residents and staff, and by his • • doctorate in agro-economics, he set column, Foda . - tunnels towards the wire (bed man, he was at his happiest at ing a Lady Dodds Parker. the fundamentalists "the fellow governors. boards were used to help rein- the “sharp end" of the fleet up an agricultural consultancy business to as forces of president, the Fairbridge world and later until it been darkness”, accused wanting force the roofe in the sandy He detested ail bureaucracy and a travel agency, which enabled him war had and them of Drake Soeiety to involved in politics. made illegal by President Nasser. He to restrict the rights of women because mil) but most of these were and “bull” and had few ambi- become David Emms, director, His party of choice was the New Wafd quickly became one of the most promi- they suffered from sexual complexes. He -o‘: defected all too soon. tions to reach flag rank. Off I SHOULD like to confirm the London Goodenough (Representative) a nationalist par- nent thinkers of the party, but broke accused them of being obsessed with sex, •) s: 0* John Bromage was bom in duty, he was a good cricketer Party, that the two organisations Trust the away in protest when it was allowed to Foda leaves a wife and four school-age — Calcutta where his father was and tennis player and. after ty which had hdd power under children. —' an inspector of police. But his finally retiring in 1980, monarchy in the years of the second contest elections in 1984 by President family soon moved to Britain launched himself into village June 10 On This Day 1882 where his mother died in the life in Devon. singer poet wrote division of Cargill Inc. one of Spanish ’flu epidemic of He married his first wife and more were unable to gee back Atahualpa than 100 songs, many cele- Leonard the world's largest commod- jnt. to their 1919. 1939 Britain , He went to prep school Av* in when **> * ships, and had io remain on brating the life and struggle ity rraders. In 1985 he be- in Kent, thence to Dartmouth was preparing for war — they Yupanqui Alderson the island of Caprera alj night. of peasanr farmers in the came head of Cargill in 1929 — not because of any spent the first night of their The weather looked un- Argentine plains and hills. Alderson. chair- International, the subsidiary ambition to go to sea but honeymoon on board a war- ATAHUALPA Yupanqui. an LEONARD Giuseppe Garibaldi f!807- promising as we steamed in man of Cargill International, which oversees the company’s S2J, patriot and popular hero yesterday. At the because it seemed a sensible ship. Argentine singer-composer Born Hector Roberto nonn wind died in Geneva aged trading outside North Ameri- of Italians, was a soldier of rose, and the deputations had a solution to the problem of She died in 1983, however, beloved in France and across Chavero, north of Buenos SA, has 62. ca. He also supervised fortune. Following ten years of rough pull to reach Caprera. what to do with him. and he is survived by their son Latin-America as the “voice Aires, the son of an Tndian Cargill's businesses in the for- fightingfor liberal causes in When the procession was ready He joined three daughters mother, Alderson, who was bom in the submarine and and by of the Pampas", died in father and a Basque Brazil and in Uruguay he to stan. ihe flags displayed service Britain and graduated from mer Soviet Union. Eastern eight years later and his second wife, Barbara, Nunes, France, on May 30 he was a friend of artists such relumed to Italy. His greatest along (he route had been was Cambridge University, be- Europe, the Middle East and promptly posted to the whom he married two years aged 83. as Picasso. Edith Piaf and the achievement was the raising blown from their staffs, and it came a trainee in the grain parts of Africa. 1st flotilla in the Mediterra- ago. The hoarse-voiced folk French poei Paul Eluard. and leadership ofThe was wiih difficulty that one Thousand — volunteers whose could keep one's few. The conquest of Sicily and Naples procession left the house in the Today’s led to the unification ofItaly following order- A company of royal Cambridge Tripos results under Victor Emmanuel. In the Line, with its band playing 1864 wasgiven funeral engagements Carey seeks charities’ aid he the a march : the sailors of freedom ofthe city London. the ironclads : the bier, carried Music Tripos, Part I TA Hughes (CU: Lachmann (PCTh of Queen Elizabeth Queen MA The D.H. Lewis ig»: e_h. Mamey Ml: A.L and accompanied by the survi- I: D.W. Goodr EW.M. Mother w£H attend a luncheon at nw no. Moody (CLj: P.K. Rhoden (PET): LL By ruth Gledhilu religion correspondent ftnshion iKj. BT. waiton (K). R.C. THE LATE vors of ihe Thousand of Mar- Kutter (NX AC. Sharman (CU: JJ The Queen's House, Greenwich, woodward iqi; Slogged (CHU): D.R. Start: (FEM): CLP. sala : the other veterans of at GENERAL 12.30 given by the Victoria cun U: (Dk I): LT Appleby I CL). Strong IN): DM. Tompkins (Q); MJ. THE Archbishop of Canter- part and parcel of being a ain's political culture also re- Garibaldi's battles : Prince Crass and George Cross AJ.D. Bannermwi (CU: Nj Bell (SEl: Wortham (CO T.E. CtioHr iMl: H.E. cordlngley (CAl): GARIBALDI. Thomas. Duke of Genoa, with bury last nightcalled on char- good Christian, not an op- flected a spiritual Class I (Die z): E.R. Bayes iCai): ja Association. B.N. Earle (CHU): D M. Grtmley (K): S R. Coppell (CQ; T-L. Coward (Gl: E-E. Dla his suite ; (he Minister of War. ities to use their spiritual and tional extra." uncertainty. “One goi the im- HawRw (JO; j.m M- Honley 07: A.X The Perkin (SEl: j.g. Evans (SID): RJ. Gale LA MADDAlENA. JUNE 9. Princess Royal, as President Mcuuenian ichri. Saj Nonneon with the Generals and other moral strengths as a force for of today's at ICHim R.E. GoMstetn UNk A.L Henson Many most suc- pression some stages dur- v. ParVJn (EM); N.P. Pickard (SEl: Those on the island of the British Knitting and Cloth- (EMI: (Nt M.G. McCabe iCHin; vj. Moore were officers of the Italian Army charities a. Rename (01: 1A Rouse rej: MJ. trend good m an increasingly secu- cessful emerged ing the recent general (CTHk D J. Pearl HI); J.E. PriicharO (EM* yesterday admitted id see risen from Garibaldi's ranks “je Export Council will a sabben-dare uni. KS Sl/lvic (Kl: A.N. : world. v.Ea Simpson INH). Lne annual meeting and luncheon lar Dr George Carey from Christian organisations election campaign that the Strange iCTH): LR.R Shmard [tML Garibaldi's body, lying, as ii the deputations from the Sen- W.H. Su OCK M. Williams (TEM). at the Berkeley hotel al 11.45: criticised a fragmentation of founded in the lak centujy. purpose of life was Natural Sciences Tripos - Part II were, in state, on a simple iron ate. Chamber of Deputies, the Class (CHvjn 5 D. Barr (Mt: K.V. and. l( Genetics bedstead hung wiih cloth, in Municipality, as President of the British spiritual beliefs in society and Dr Carey said that each char- shopping." Birehail (TH): H.G. cole iCU: DA-E Roman and I: which Olympic Costello UN): R.EJL Demery n»i. I.C. cuss aj. Bench (DOW): c L Bcvan that apanmem was his the : the Association, will attend spoke of a society suffering ity must make its own deci- from Army and Navy charity is Gibson iCTHx MJ). LfilgD (JE7: C.L !». habitual sitting-room, we Derbyshire British Olympic “shallow materialism sion about The spirit of faring Syndics of La Maddaiena and from whether to shed ir- Mentally (F): T.C Marshall (EM): M.E. cuss II (Dtv ]); n.le, Canntm (K>: s. appeal dinner Ilkeston enormously important" in a Moore iCTH), HAL. Phillips (CA.ll; NJ. the sea. He lay as if asleep, from many other towns and at the and spiritual bewilderment". religious image in an attempt Danes UNh J.P.C Dixon (CO: RJ. Cray Phil lips (Gi: PJL Bedford (CCh P.C. (SEl; S.S. (SID); dressed in famous red shin, Regency Rooms at 7.25. ioriety confused about its col- Guest E.M. Harman UL the cities; a deputation from the Dr Carey said: "It is widely to adjust to a secular society. Rushfonh m: N.C Todd IK): J C J Hayward iCHR): RJ. Kirby (0): P.w. waiters (SEl. aJ. with a gold-embroidered velvet Press, followed by deputations Jhe lective purpose, he said. If the Tomalln uEi. s H Lord CT). I.Y. Millwood UN); J.M Duke or Kent. Grand Master to talk about “But I do say this. If too embarrassing many welch (CL). Shepherd ipet): Ca stark ipemi cap on his head. The face was from numerous associations, o! United charitable sector ceased to be Grand lodge of Eng- charities 111: J Aloszewsta IF): va God, spirituality or even ethi- opt for reticence and CUSS cuss II (Div ik NR. Alcock (T): C.L very pale, bui scarcely altered, their flags banners land. with and will attend a special meeting a moral force, it would lose its Aiunson (SEl. K.E. Maftson If). Hamilton (pem). R.M. Harbord (DOW); cal values in polite society. secularisation, the cumulative except that the lips were closely wrapped round the at Earis Court 3.30: and. KA Jones (M); TJ. Staion (Gj: PA at justification and relevance. Natural Sciences Tripos Part II and that a faint purpose of life, in many effect will be, in my view, to whficsfde m slightly open . staffs' in consequence of ihe 3a»mpanied by the Duchess of The Zoology discoloration was visible on the ; and. finally, a number kern, is topic banished to a reinforce the spiritual malaise storm win attend a dinner at 7.05. circles, a Commenting on the deci- Natural Sciences Tripos- K1 dass v.w.T Chiu 20 THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 Cabinet shows Majestic Political sketch strains over Paris Deft effect of rises to a woman’s touch Maastricht vie with a royal ith the Queen's birth- would each other Wday honours onlydays over the number of starving By Phi up Webster and Nicholas Wood away and Patrick Carmack babies each had personalty (C. Staffs S), to the bewil- viewed in the calamity occasion which TENSIONS within derment of maw. not least zones to one would the cabi- anger at the disclosure in The himself, stiU purin "Mr*, race the other before you net over the government's ap- Times Fromaian Hamilton yesterday that Peter time could say Save the proach to the PARIS runs short. At 3.26 pm Child- Maastricht Lilley, the in social security sec- yesterday, be rose. His plan ren. Cries of beri-beri would treaty surfaced yesterday with retary. and Michael Portillo, was to sound upon the fill the air as severed limbs. allegations of an attempt to the WITH all the pomp that Par- Treasury chief secretary, Cormack trumpet so clari- hungry mouths and un- undermine Douglas Hurd’s is can muster, which is a great had attended a private meet- on a blast in support of the dressed wounds flew across standing. deal when the occasion de- ing of Eurosceptic ministers monarchy that the call the dispatch box in a son of As John Major visited mands, the Queen began a Co- that readied the conclusion would be heard at theother “wept there, kissed that” lombia, Toty four-day state visit to France MPS who sup- that the treaty was dead. end of St James’s park. competition. Disasterrelief port the line he yesterday with a majestic and his One MP said: “What has Heard, he hoped, and is an ideal specialist topic foreign secretary drive up the Champs-Elys&s, have taken happened to collective re- appreciated. for women MPs. Feminini- since the a privilege reserved for only Danish referendum sponsibility? They know the “Madam Speaker," he ty and political ambition result spoke the greatest sons of the repub- out at what they cabinet line is eventually to expostulated, jowls all a- meet harmoniously upon a saw as lic and the most select of concerted efforts to bring the bill back.” quiver, "there can be few happy, if narrow, cusp, foreign dignitaries. ensure that the ratification less agreeable sights ...” from which the aspiring There is continuing aston- bill never returns to parlia- Accompanied by President supressed giggles suggest- woman can move to child ishment at Westminster over ment. There were growing Mitterrand and flanked by ed that MPs were reminded abuse, zebra-crossings, the detailed leaking of re- recriminations over at least 100 mounted troops of the of at least one less agree- health and fif she is lucky) marks ax last Thursday’s cab- three incidents involving Republican Guard, the able sight ... “few less education. Later she may inet meeting by Douglas Eurosceptic ministers. Queen, a small peach hat in agreeable sights than a venture into male preserves Hogg. Mr Hurd’s deputy. the centre of an immense pack of greedy voyeurs, on like electricity. Senior ministers expressed Mr Hogg was reported as boulevard lined with Union the make . . There were That is why Gillian having read out the official flags and tricolours, rode in isps from the press gal- Shephard is taking a risk Foreign Office brief that the an open-topped Citroen gry. An astonishing attack, moving straight from ob- government should continue Ministers stretch limousine commis- surely, for a Tory MP to scurity to the top job at the with the ratification process employment department. sioned fry Georges Pompidou make upon his own party? and put the bill through the for her last state visit in 1972. Apparently not. It was us Yesterday was her first day At that point he round on Commons. For a city normally indiffer- Mr Cormack had in mind fielding questions. said: "But I don’t believe a ent to the passage of foreign the newspapers, that is. not She did well. Mrs word of it" potentates, a surprisingly our readers. Readers in- Shephard's previous more .then gave personal Delors He a large crowd lined the route, clude Mr Cormack’s con- junior posts have required view of the tactics the govern- and at one stage of her stituents. Or used to: now her to answer the simplest Continued I ment should adopt in the questions, but is from page progress an enthusiastic voice that their MP has made the now she u light of the Danish rejection. moral position clear, no secretary of state her job is back. have watch from the pavement shouted: We to how Senior Foreign Office sources not to answer them, “Vive la reine France”. doubt sales of the Sunday which our taxpayers' money is spent de yesterday described his be- Times will plummet in is harder. She showed in Brussels.” he said. haviour as “presumptuous”. At the Arc de Triomphe the Staffordshire. promise. To test her powers Norman Laraont, freed The incident has been con- Queen and M Mitterrand Tony Newton, the leader of non-communication, from the requirement to be stepped forward together to firmed by cabinet ministers. of rhe House, did his best to fate supplied David Evans polite to Europe’s federalists The general view appears to lay wreaths on the tomb of the reply. Mr Newton is stand- (C. Welwyn Hatfield) who while Maastricht was being be that Mr Hogg’s initial Unknown Soldier, to the ac- ing in for John Major, as he asked her whether many of negotiated, swung the axe remark was a joke. But the companiment of a doleful had explained before an- the so-called long-term un- with equal relish. He cheekily drum roll, the “Last Post”, employed not leaking of the incident is seen a swering question 1 to the were just recalled that the Maastricht by some MPs as part of an moment’s silence, then a full Presidential welcome: Francois Mitterrand greeting the Queen yesterday at Oriy prime minister, from Dale “layabouts”. Mrs Shephard summit had praised sustain- attempt to damage Mr Hurd. blooded burst of the “Mar- Campbell-Savours (Lab. smiled sweetly and chat- able economic growth, bud- tered about something else. seillaise" from the attendant town’s name among Bona- tied to that of Europe. Bui In return. M Mitterrand pre- Workington). A competent getary prudence There were claims from but and knocked military band. parte's campaign successes. only in close collaboration sented her with two French and thoughtful man industrial interventionism. some MPs last night that new to tins job. Newton ext. Labour's Derek As the Queen met war vet- Earlier, the Queen and the with France will Britain be 18th-century watercolours by Delors* arithmetic, he con- ministers had been openly rose, perhaps a little tenta- Fatchett, and back- M erans drawn up around the Duke had been greeted at able to make the most of the Georges Wflle, but no decora- N cluded. was not in that spirit critical of Mr Major and Mr tively, and said "I have bencher Biyan Davies (Old- eternal flame, the Duke of Oriy airport by M and Ma- opportunities that Europe tion: she already holds the Delon’ own country. Hurd in the Commons tea- been asked to reply”. ham Central & Royton). M Edinburgh allowed his to Mitterrand. presi- has to over the past days. eye dame The offer." Grand Cross of the Legion France, then turned the knife. room few "Why?" came a cheerful asked how government wander beyond the vast tri- dent told the Queen in a At her official guest house, d'Honncur. and they have Pausing to open his most One MP said he had over- interruption from the could guarantee the young colour hanging limply from welcoming speech: “You are the Hfrel de Marigny, the nothing higher to give her. aggressive interventions with heard a senior minister idl- Opposition benches. The unemployed a YTS place, the roof to the upper reaches the living example of what Queen conferred on M Mit- Last night, afro- a state personal apologies to ing young Tory Euro-rebels PM was away in South when many were told no M of the Arc, whereon are chis- can be accomplished between terrand the Royal Victorian banquet at the £lys£e — at Delors. that M r Major and Mr Hurd America. Newton's reply place was available. Ah, Michel Charasse. the elled the of Britain names Napoleon's and France.” Chain, an honour in her per- which they dined on French apparently artless budget minister, queried the should stop “prevaricating” continued, “inspecting an said an battle victories. in sonal Si over 172 “They’ve Replying French, the gift which has only 17 lamb — the royal visitors were training Shephard, young commission's calculations, the treaty and seize the anti-narcotics Mrs already managed to get a Queen said* “Britain's place holders. The last French neck taken to see the reconstruc- people were guaranteed a said that there was plenty of opportunity to ditch it school” in Columbia. memorial to Maastricht up is at the heart of Europe and io be decorated by it was that tion of the TuOeries gardens “Follow that” shouted a place! But not necessarily existing Tory MPs were becoming room in the budget said, there.” he spotting that Britain's future is inseparably of Charles de Gaulle in 1960. in front of the Louvre. voice in the peanut gallery. straight away. "There is and moved his government alarmed at the outbreak of Mr Campbell-Savours some waiting”. Readers firmly into the camp of the inter-party feuding over did. He wanted to tell par- may care to remember offi- budget sceptics. Europe.lt came as Labour cial that it liament about “a major ar- thinking here, next Several other states are ar- indicated was harden- gument" the previous night time they receive a tax guing that the new budget ing its opposition to the ratifi- BT ordered to hold down phone costs m Rio. MPs were agog. demand. should not started until cation bill returning. be Campell-Savours paused to Kenneth Clarke is at 1994 or 1995. which the MPs who support Mr posals raised serious by Continued from page I calls. However, Sir Bryan mestic customers, about 4.5 “some enjoy the suspense. The least direct. Yesterday he time the Maastricht issue will Hurd said yesterday they million households. business issues which will provide the best deal for the said increases in bills for the The max- bust-up. he said, was be- explained the immigration found it extraordinary that be resolved. consumer in the long run. median domestic customer, imum connection charge will take time for us to evaluate”. tween Ann Clwyd (Labour's rules on arranged mar- cabinet ministers should have Businesses will continue to paying about £40 a quarter, also be reduced from £152.75 The Consumers’ Associ- overseas development riages. These were not, he Brussels: The Community attended a rebel meeting. be the main beneficiaiy, as should now be pegged ax 3 to £99, and future increases ation said the proposed pack- spokesman) and the Baron- said meant to discriminate uncoveted more than £127 They pointed out dial they the new controls will mean per cent below inflation with will be kept in line with age was “mostly good news” ess Chalker (our minister). against “people from other million in fraud involving had instant access to Mr Mar that their charges will be ad- effect from next year. inflation. but it was also disappointed Suspense turned to hilar- curries”. His correction, funds in 1991. mostly to do jor and Mr Hurd and could justed to 10 or 11 per cent BT’s special low-user BT said the tightening of at “the Mure to recoup BTs ity. Rows between the dev- “countries." came fast with import duties and farm express their concerns with- below the rate of inflation. In scheme, available to about the regulatory regime, the excess profits”. elopment women were a enough (I suspect) for Han- payments, the European out fear of disclosure. But \ the past, BT claims to have one million families who keep third since the company was familiar occurrence in the sard- But not The Times. Commission said. Countries Eurosceptic ministers ap- subsidised the high cost ofthe their phone principally for privatised in 1984. was Man in the news, page 2 last pariiament, where Mrs reported 574 cases of fraudu- peared unabashed that re- household telephone network emergencies, will be extended "harsher than expected”. A Leading article, page 17 Chalker and Ms Clwyd Matthew Parris lent export subsidies or other ports of their dissent had with profits from business to embrace a quarter of do- spokesman said that the pro- Business benefits, page 21 payments for farm goods. become public. 1 After a misty start, most places CROSSWORD 18,941 THE TIMES NO iJ win brighten up and have sunny spells. The east coast is likety to stay rather dull for much of the day, although the northeast might brighten up later. Showers are possible anywhere but are most likely in the southern counties, Wales and Northern Ireland. Some wfll be heavy with thunder. Most parts will fed quite warm. Outlook: sunny spells and showers in the south: longer outbreaks of rain in the north. - '4 * . ABOUND fitttTAm Sun Rain Max MIDDAY: l-tti under d-drizzte; tg-fog: s-nun: hrs m C F st-ofeel: sn-snow; Main e-cloud: r-rain Aberdeen 55 17 63 sunny C F C F Anglesey 2U 15 59 cloudy Ajaccio 22 72 17 63 Aviemora 33 21 70 bright Akrattri 25 77 23 73 Belfast 49 19 66 bright Alex'drta 31 88 23 73 Birmingham 23 002 20 68 Ihtfidr Algiers 24 75 23 73 Bournemouth 10 4 18 64 si«iy E3S Amst'dm 20 68 12 54 Cardiff 1.8 Oil 19 66 ram Athens 29 B4 19 66 Cofwyn Bay 22 012 7b 61 ran Bahrain 39 ICE 24 75 Douglas 1.1 16 61 dauby Bangkok 31 88 23 73 133 001 19 66 sunny A daily safari through the Bartjads* 29 84 25 77 Edinburgh 02 001 1b bb shower language jungle. Which definitions Barca Ina 21 70 10 50 Eskdalemutr 22 0(12 1/ 63 cloudy are correct? Babul 2* 75 IB 64 Exmouth 16 61 flurry 20 68 21 70 Falmouth 2.8 1b 59 bright By Philip Howard 25 77 22 72 Folkestone 113 19 66 sunny Bermuda- 27 BT 35 95 Glasgow 32 19 bb doudy Biarritz 14 57 29 84 KSSuDQS 134 18 64 sunny QUILLER 4.44 Budapst 17 63 21 70 Jersey 11 5 22 sunny Temperalures at midday yesterday: C, cloud, f. London 9.17 pm to am a. A Oedgfmg B Aires* 12 54 27 81 Kin kiss 93 22 72 sunny Mr. r. ram. s. sun. Bristol 8 28 pm to 4.54 am 4 b. A penman or writer Cairo 33 01 18 84 Leeds 18 19 66 bright C F C F Edinburgh B.57 pm lo 27 am c. A goose Cape Tn 28 79 17 63 Lerwick 12-4 10 06 sunny Belfast 20 6B 1 Guernsey 18 64 Manchester 9 37 pm to 4 40 am Penzance 9.31 pm to 5.12 am HOUSAGE CtllcaQO* 23 73 7 45 Liverpool 33 20 68 ttrindr B'rmgham 19 86 f Inverness 21 70 Ch’church B 43 29 84 London bb 21 /U bright Blackpool £2 72 f Jersey 19 66 a. The age of a bouse 17 63 Bunny Bristol 20 68 21 70 Cologne 20 88 Riyadh 43 109 Lowestoft HO 9 London Sun rises; Sunsets: , b. 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Sun: 24hr to 6pm. 8 ihr 6am. 12C f54Fj. lo 4 Ihr v (6). 28 For ages artist holds back in the Irwsorck 15 50 Tokyo 25 77 Scarborough 07 009 16 bl doudy 6pm. 0.4 tm Sun. 24 hr lo 6pm. - . Istanbul 26 79 Toronto* 21 70 Sc*y Istos 46 77 63 doudy 4 Put in fellow with high voice (8). matter (8). Answers on page 18 Jeddah 34 S3 Tunis 27 81 ShankSn 12 7 19 06 sunny high tides 10 Substitute for one quitting free 29 Frenchman backed right in (6). w Jo'burg* 19 66 Vaianaa 15 59 Stornoway 129 22 n sunny enterprise (9). L Palmas 23 73 Vanc'ver* 18 64 TODAY AM HT TODAY AM HT PM HT Lb Tquet 19 66 Venice 21 70 821 81 It The comeback of actor Peter DOWN HIGHEST & LOWEST. London Bridge 10.21 65 Liverpool 741 8 2 Lisbon 18 64 Vienna 16 81 Aberdeen 10 03 37 Lowestoft 620 2.1 601 2 < Flynn (5). 1 You said the judge in father’s For the latest AA traffic and road- Locarno 22 72 Warsaw 16 61 Mondayidey lemp' Aullbea. Highland. 24C Avorunouth 3.19 112 Margate 834 42 844 4£ London 21 70 Wash'ton' 32 90 12 Side effects of quarrel (7j. case is infallible (4-4). ncur? (75F). lowest day mas. Tynemouth, Tyne and Belfast 734 32 MMord Haven 230 59 309 51 works information. 24 a day, L Angels' 20 68 Worn ton 13 55 Wea/, i3C (55F); highest rainlaH. Shawbury. Cardiff 304 10 4 130 208 5f 13 After sunset — say round about 2 Stuck a dimple in the wrong dial 0638 401 fottoweci by the LiMambg 15 59 Zurich 17 63 Newquay 28 near Shrewsbury. 0 47m: highest sunshine: Davenport 1 51 47 Oban 2 41 32 320 3C. five position (7). appropriate code. Luxor 38100 Dover 7 41 57 past nine (7). 4t, 1 * Hastings. East Sussex. I3.4hr. Penzance 108 47 150 denotes figures are latest available Falmouth 1.21 45 bit missing — a crest 3 Some remarkable people gave Portland 2.40 1.8 33* If. 14 Bird with London 6 SE ' Glasgpw 4.5 •- '{ 839 4* rise to flower power ... (9). l'~ WEATHEfeCAU, Portsmouth 743 4.1 820 (5). 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Frescot Merseyside.10.U4LI4 qky.iky. telephone 05OSl1-546 2000 Wednesday. ]unc • at an other times. Registered as a Life & Times section 1.000 miffibars“29.53in. newspaper at the Post Office * . : . . i-h i -BUSINESS 21-26 BUSINESS TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 BUSINESS EDITOR JOHN BELL - , '::^S Factory gate inflation slows to 3.6% • Nationwide ” M:,.l;n*5!/ TODAY IN makes 1 r L ‘ <-., .*;'; >ft BI ST NESS 5,1! record loss \ '•' ELECTRIC in n::uu STORM Rise output 1 • C. !j n provisions 1 i *'.n^ BY LINDSAY COOK MONEY EDITOR prices at THE Nationwide Building Sodeiy reported yesterday that it made loss provisions of £236 million in the year " " Jr ending April 4. The largest provisions ever made by a ^ Higher than expected 25-year low building society knocked its *>' profits from PowerGen !" pre-tax profits back by 29 per -'I.T parked a political ,l/* cent to £202 million. •’ ,'** 111 |, row as the reporting By Colin Narbrough. economics correspondent The second largest , Wt*. society, season of the which has a strung South remaining electricity PRICE inflation at Brit- progress on inflation comes compared with the annual East bias since its merger companies continues ain’s factory gates slowed amid persistent if uncon- peak of 6,4 readied early last with the Anglia Building "v” m Tempos, page 24 to an annual 3.6 per cent firmed reports, that the Trea- year. Society, made £205 million of sury has downgraded its Keith Skeoch, chief econo- provisions on its ; t** in May, its lowest since residential forecast per cent growth mist at — V'HJUt April of 1 James Capet hailed mortgages five rimes the 1 1987, according to ,Vr tir* in the gross domestic product die figures as the “first signs previous year's total of £42.3 LUCKY THIRD? provisional government this year. This would be in of the collapse of core infla- million. figures. " 7 •• percent in April, before start- 2.8 per cent in April to 2.7 forecast of 2 per cent in the ning to get firmer in the last ••"l’ • (I,. ing to slow again in June. per cent last month, die low- final quarter this year. two months. There was in- Ni.: .. Fresh promise of further est since June 1967. This The prices manufacturers creased activity in the soci- in t •• ;• Emap. the publishing ' • ‘-’'•‘-Hi pay for foe! and raw materials ety’s network of estate \y. ; is * fcif; group, paying 7.5p • rose by an unadjusted 0.1 per agencies in the South, said k«- : ; (6.9p) for theyear aruJ nine cent in May for a provisional Mr Melville-Ross, who urged t>V. •. •• :,v ihr in- seeking £77.9 million for annual decline of 0.9 per the government to “do every- i» lii. .. Sterling •: knocked \\sfr acquisitions unchanged from thing in its not to •1'*S :••. • cent April power allow Tempos, page 24 Robert Lind, economist at the tentative signs of improve- Jl« ... rut* i UBS Phillips & Drew, said ment in the housing market kl by EMU worries prices likely i •. input are to stage to disappear.” .* i ,1 mn a recovery in the second half Nationwide •«»p; CHINA CLASH By Our Economics Correspondent The had 6.000 - j:-.- • of this year. But he expects properties in possession at the • nvnro As shareholders approve manufacturers to be able to end of its financial year '•••• THE pound spent roost of realignment of ihe ERM cur- filnT the increased bid for control output prices, despite compared with 4.200 the •m. Hr* yesterday pinned to the floor rencies before the final move Midland Bank. China has of the exchange-rate mecha- to the prospective rise in raw previous year. Mr Mdvflle- ;t> i EMU. Conditionally discharged: Catherine Rowlands outside die Old Bailey yesterday materials prices, thanks to the Ross expected the number to i: launched an attack on nism after dropping sharply Sterling fell sharply during in response to comments morning, favourable trends in labour fall during 1992. In the first • by the dipping below sir j t HSBC Holdings costs. half of 1992 he expected that •r% * i , Page 23 Helmut Schlesinger, the pres- DM2.9050 at one point, its City quartet convicted At the retail level, petrol members of the Council of <• K. • ijl’si I'. ident of the Bundesbank , weakest since mid-April. like Market ‘is prices are today set to dimb to FOUR City highflyers were Wood Green, north London Mongage 1 Lenders would re- s .. • which fuelled market fears other European currencies, I UtJh : — offences new peaks following a 4.5p yesterday convicted of insider at the time of the a possess in • • 32.000 properties ’ • about the fate of European the poind came under pres- liSHCCfc NO CREAM at the of seven- fund manager at Lazards — per gallon price hike by Esso not serving dealing end a the first half of the year and a !«• It economic and monetary sure from the mark, the main and Shell week Old Bailey trial. was fined £5.000 and ordered total of 65.000 for the whole ii.-i • i-.rtM: union (EMU). beneficiary of the uncertainty The move, which reflects They had been charged to pay £5.000 costs. year. This compares with umit Although the pound was about EMU. The Italian and higher prices on the Rotter- investors’ after an investigation by the Catherine Rowlands, 32, a 76.000 last year. However, • . : • n. .mot* still well above above the low Danish central banks inter-, dam market, will push 4-star Department of Trade and In- vicar's daughter of Finsbury Mr MeMUe-Ross said the • • • is not IT' .'Trciic point it slumped to before the vened to prop up their curren- COMPETITION to 245p a gallon. dustry into insider dealing Park, north London, was giv- figure would have been ' 1 !*• i r" la’ working to the benefit of » . ..Mr genera] election, renewed cies, but the Bank of England 1: among young City prefer en a 12-month conditional Environment department Fair 120.000 without the mea- . Ii-rllr investors, an Office of . weakening will reduce the stayed on the sidelines. figures showed a provisional sionals. discharge and ordered to pay sures being taken to keep .'jmn Trading report by Helena . i. government’s scope for a At the official London dose former- 2 per cent rise, after seasonal David Gray, 32, of Mus- £2 .000 costs. S he was people in their homes. fresh cut in base rate. The at 4pm, sterling was second Wiesner dairas. It says that in the number of well Hill, north London, for- ly an investment analyst with Nationwide’s •• adjustment, in financial advisers operating . Y\tt: from the bottom of trust w uncompromising tone adopt- the ERM, merly a stockbroker with Samuel Montagu UK, the housing starts in the three be misplaced because of profits increased by 15.4 per Ross Buddand, Unigate ed by Schlesinger indicat- with the lira, the worst hit may Dr months to April to give a 3 Morgan Grenfell Securities, court heard. cent to £437.8 million during currency, below it Against the commission-based remu- chiefexecutive, delivered ed no hope of any eariy easing received a six-month jafl sen- Mark Riding. 27. of Chori- per cent increase year on and the lack the year and gross assets rose the Bundesbank. the mark, sterling stood ai neration system 2 higher profits, but there is by year- tence. suspended for two ton-cum-Hardy, Manches- by 9.6 per cent to £34 billion. . . . of adequate training of last week’s DM2.9154. slightly below its no cream yet on the Unnerved by Housing association starts years. He was fined £10.000. ter, formerly a fond manager Non-interest income in- previous finish. salesmen. Danish “No” to the Maas- sharply, starts ordered to pay a further with the Co-operative Insur- creased -'I- . dividend were up but by Product providers compet- from £!95 million to tricht Treaty on European Avinash Persaud, a curren- given 12- ance Society, was fined a total Tempos, page 24 private enterprise were down distribution £10.000 costs and a £256 million. Mortgage ad- «'' cy analyst at UBS Phillips & ed to buy union, the currency markets conditional discharge of £10.000 and ordered to fell A 3 percent through increased commis- month vances from £3.5 billion to saw Dr Schlesinge/s remarks Drew, said the market was William Liggins, of pay £5,000 costs. ‘V. Concern about the slowing sion payments rather than on 33. £2.6 billion. % sr.i reinforcing fears about worried that die pound would German economy was the services they provide, she ’ '£-;a necessarily be member ' EMU. In an interview in the not a heightened fresh is- by data says. > International Herald Tri- of the hard-core group sued in Bonn yesterday. report also argues that dollar around in the event of the The US bune, he stressed the prob- Provisional figures showed while life insurance products 1.8330 (-0.0010) lems he foresees in transfer- Maastricht Treaty unra- a fafl of 1 .9 per cent in indus- have a dominant position in ring the German mark to velling. German mark a trial orders in the western half personal sector savings, they single European currency. of the country in April, after C T £9154 (-0.0016) a were not in many cases the \': He said there could be a Common, page 25 2.5 per cent drop in March. S Exchange index most suitable form of invest- ment. a “There is strong evidence telephone changes in BT prices pro- private telephone circuits FT 30 share SHARP cuts in BT that these conflicts are not • i TlH*. , f charges for business users posed by Sir Bryan yesterday rented by business users will 2056.6 (-0.7) being overcome. For exam- to inflation minus be restricted in line with infla- should help industry to con- amount ple. the preponderance of will tion. The present cap is infla- FT-SE100 tain costs and promote eco- 7.5 per cent, the benefits (higher commission-paying) plus per cent 2635.4 (-10.4) nomic recovery. Sir Bryan remain heavily weighted to- tion 2 endowment mortgages de- BT must either accept Sir New York Dow Jones Carsberg. director-general of wards business users. spite the advantages of the telecom nucarions. said. Their bills should, on aver- Bryan’s proposals, or face a (-23.58)* mu repayment route, the low 3380.55 reference to the Monopolies They will go hand in hand age. change by inflation mi- penetration of unit trusts or Mergers Commission. Tokyo Nikkei Avge with measures to accelerate nus 10 or 11 per cent each and investment mists as an often Most observers believe it will 17845.04 (+18958) the emergence of competition year during the four years better alternative to life prod- accept, under protest. in Britain’s telecommuni- beginning August 1, 1993. ucts, the encouragement to The department of industry cations market. Almost a de- Sir Bryan said. The changes many to opt out of the state mmsmstripes- is considering more than 30 cade after the creation of would accelerate the trend to eamings-related pension sch- level applications from other com- London: Bank Base: 10% Mercury Communications to increase the or standing eme and/or occupational panies for licences to operate 3*nonth Interbank 10-9%% challenge BTs monopoly.’ it charges, while making dis- pension schemes into person- 3-month etabld bfcfl»»9»% telephone networks. stiD handles only 7 percent of proportionately large oris in al pension plans and the over- US: Prime Rate 6V4% United Kingdom traffic. call charges. 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Britain’s recession and in"*'*** * IS**®* Cadel arm group, shrugged off the ,0 cnd-Mareh by - * JOBS are being saved at profits for the year to however, that its propen* By Jon Ashworth Vosper Thomycroft. the ship- miUion. The croup disclosed, more than 9 per cent m value to builder. despite the end of the portfolio has slumped by slashed net assets per dure by 26 per MEYER International, the profits falling to £18.1 million cold war. £874 million, which has the group is hoklmg «s final building products group, is (£26.9 million). The forest Peter Usher, chairman, cent to 212p. Nevertheless, for an unchanged 1 Op the year. selling its loss-making Cade! products division saw operat- saw: "We suffer from the dividend at 6.6p ro make said annuateed rental healing and plumbing busi- ing profits slip to £8.5 million feeling that defence is neces- Richard Peskin. the chairman, at million a year. He said die ness to BSS for £19.1 miUion (£133 million). Subsidiaries sarily a deteriorating market, income was now running ES2 worst conditions in the market as the UK building slump in The Netherlands, Germany but there are many countries figures were robust despite the that he expected to pay a lOp continues to take its toll. and America were hit by the who want vessels to protect for nearly half a century, and Profits before tax fell 32 per recession. their economic exclusion cent to £24.6 million in the Richard Jewson, chairman, zones." year to March 3 i : the previous sees little sign of recovery. “We Mr Usher has allowed E3.3 year they were down 49 per remain cautious on the imme- million for redundancy pay- Hopes grow at Stakis cent Turnover was un- diate future.” he said. "De- ments to 350 staff and 100 doctor breathing life into changed ai £1.1 million. An mand has been flat for sons workers have gone already-, SIR Lewis Robertson, the company group, has boosted hopes of unchanged final dividend of months and although die but he is now hoping that no Stakis. the Scottish leisure a £3.39 million pre-tax 12.3p a share leaves the total atmosphere after the election more than a further 50 win be return to profits this year. Stakis lost in 1 million toss swollen by dividend for the year at 16.5p. is brighter, there is little evi- departing out of a workforce of the six months to March 29. (£45. a company is passing Meyer has provided £19.2 dence of increased activity.” 1.900. £43.7 million exceptional item). The the paid last time. Sir Lewis million as an extraordinary The Cadel disposal is sub- He believes that if one or dividend payment - 0.4 5p was said likely to improve in the coming item to cover the expected loss ject to the approval of BSS two small orders can be won to business opportunities were Suikis's changing fortunes. on the disposal of Cadel. A shareholders. Under the deal. fin in the next 1 2 to 1 5 months months, matching further £2 1 .9 million has been BSS wOl buy 37 of the 50 he can keep his existing staff charged to reflea goodwill Cadd branches; the rest will until work starts on two cor- previously written off on be dosed down. The company vettes for Oman and four fast Match deal struck acquisition. is seeking to raise £16-2 mil- anad: craft for Qatar. food and drugs group, has The sale to BSS, an industri- lion through a one for four At that point he will be PROCORDIA. the Swedish owner of Bryant & al healers and plumbing com- rights issue to fond the recruiting again. The Qatar agreed to buy Swedish Match, May and undisclosed sum. The pany. marks the end of a acquisition. order, won last week, is for Swan Vesta in Britain, for an company Proconlia's United Brands disastrous spell for Meyer. BSS saw profits before tax in delivery in 1996 and 1997. will be integrated with unit, slip Usher hopes that an which makes tobacco products and confectionery. Swedish The company' bought Cadel the year to March 31 by a Going up: Shay McKeown, chief executive, is confident about the future Mr £1 90 million as part of die UBM builders' quarter to £10.02 million order for three corvettes from Match, which has annual sales of about and for matches merchant chain in 1988. in a (£13.34 million)- A final divi- Brunei pur on ice three years daims 75 per cent of the British market and back if Oman, lighters, was sold to management for £338 miUion in 1990. package worth about £55 mil- dend of 1 1.5p gives a total Powerscreen pushes ahead ago. will come lion. Cade! made an operating payout of 1 7.25p, both which has cultural tics with loss of £5.3 million last year, unchanged. POWERSCREEN Interna- stated £15.8 million to £18.8 It says its European network Brunei, is happy. despite a sales increase from Marshalls, a building ma- tional. maker of crushing and snOioa on turnover 2 1.9 per was expanded during the year Drug running in Europe Healthy rise at Seton £62.8 million id £95.3 million. terials manufacturer, is rais- screening equipment, be- cent higher at £88.1 million. and that in the last quarter and piracy in the Far East has Healthcare, the health products and sports Faced with “continuing sub- ing £20 million through a lieves that it will benefit from The group made two acqui- there were encouraging produced interest in simple SETON raised profits before tax by stantial losses”. Meyer derid- rights issue to fund acquisi- the recovery in markets that sitions during the year, and trends in America, with an but fast patrol boats. equipment group, has hs 60 per million £4 .S million for the year to the end of ed to sell. It has knocked £6 tions and reduce gearing. Pre- have been weak for the past now consists of seven inde- increased number of ma- Vosper saw pre-tax profits cent from £3 to million off Cad el’s asset value tax profits in the year to three years and is confident pendent engineering com- chines sold. rise 12 percent to £16 million February. The profit was achieved on turnover up 1 9 per cent dividend 5. for as a sweetener for BSS. March 3 1 were unchanged at that the current financial year panies. Powerscreen. headed The final dividend is in- in the year to March, despite at £36.2 million. A 3. bp final makes Ip the dividend lt> per Job cuts at the Jewson £12.5 million (£12.7 miUion). will be another profitable one by Shay McKeown. serves creased from 5.95p to 4.3 p a die redundancy provision. year, 38 per cent up on the actual and cent the company’s builders' merchant chain and A final dividend of 3.75p a (Colin Campbell writes). industries such as waste man- share, making 6p (535p) a The final dividend is 9p. up on the notional dividend payable had year. aimin year. shares 1 3 . compared shares been listed for the whole of the previous tighter cost controls were not share makes 5p for the year, Pre-tax profits in the year agement, g- quarrying, share for the The making 1 p. enough to prevent operating both unchanged. ended March rose from a re- construction and agriculture. rose Ip to282p. with I I.375p last time. THE TIMES UNIT TRUST INFORMATION SERVICE YU Yld YM Yld Yld YM IU +/- M Offer */- Bid Offer +;- % Bad Offer Bd Offer N Bd OSfer % Bd Oder BhI % Rd Oder • *- s *T* - ABBEY IT TRUST MANAGERS CAPELOAMEStUNITTRUST ' II? 4 - * 71 TRUST <1 Vt 40) 1 .11 UN EQUITY & LAW Girerth Equzt* 2*9 10 287.501 - ONI 2*5 ; LASUNITTRLST MANAGERS d>> Acc III Ml H 0 U» PROLIFIC UNIT (Atallrc* 75 . S) Hokfenhura fid. Bouroawsnh MANAGEMKST ' 1990 . il 4 tv lra> THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 BUSINESS NEWS 23 Surging PowerGen Vodafone ready to expand as signals a deal profits advance Pi-, •s. t-? By Coun Campbell " . •'•t on price contracts VODAFONE Group, the mo- group spent £21 million in bile telephone company for- raising its stake in NordicTel : - n I • By Martin Waller merly part of Racal Elec- Holdings in Scandinavia to *1 I,-.. 'IK.' , tronics, ended its first year as a 18.9 per certL THE coal and dectridty in- windfall from the use of two prices of a similar decision to fully demerged entity with net— In consortium, Vodafone dustries are close to signing now-dosed power stations keep running a plant owned cash balances of £65 million expects to bid for mobile contracts that will determine while upgrading work wa£ by PoweiGen's only effective up £34 million from previous communication opportunities in V ' the price of power to the taking place on the national competitor. National Power, year-end balances. the Far East and Europe in I, 1| X consumer over the next five grid. amid claims that this led to a The company intends the year ahead. Last Decem- further years, Ed Wallis, chief execu- A final dividend of 6.2p rise in prices, but die latter is spending its money on ber, the group opened Brit- tive of PowerGen, the electric- makes a total increased by 1 not expected to announce such expansion of operations and ain’s first digital mobile Stakis ity generator, said. Firm deals per cent to 9.25p. PowerGen windfall figures when the believes group profits ran con- telephone service, which forms were expected within weeks. says it expects to have to cut a company reports interim fig- tinue to grow despite the pan of a system being imple- contracts mented |.!( ll.- .. The relate to the further few hundred jobs ures next week. recessioa throughout Europe. * prices al which the generators' because of encroaching com- Offset against the extra £88 Gerry When, chief execu- Mr Whent ruled out any buy coal and sell electricity to petition from independent million was the cost of dosing tive. said despite the fits and suggestion that cash balances would V ‘"I'-M,,.: the regional distributors, who generators. an additional 2.000MW of starts in Britain's economy, again be used to pay a provide it to the consumer. Mr The profit figure sparked an plant, over and above the pre-tax profits in the year special dividend. To facilitate Wallis said the only remaining immediate political row. at the massive restructuring envis- ended March 31 rose from September's demerger from :: • huitfle was the agreement of start of an electridty sector aged at privatisation, because £244.7 million to £271.8 mil- Racal, Vodafone paid a special distributors. ‘The ball is -“ft* the in reporting season that prom- of increased fears of competi- lion, on turnover 9 per eenr 5p-a-sharc dividend. their court** He claimed. ises many more such. Frank tion which the generators' higher at £585.3 million. For the year ended March, PowerGen was reporting Dobson. Labour’s shadow en- older, least profitable plant Interest received on cash the company has declared a profits sharply ahead of Cily ergy minister, said the num- cannot match on cost. John balances jumped to £8.26 final dividend of 2.04p. mak- lek expectations at £359 million bers were a scandal. ‘These Rennocks. the finance direc- million (£2.42 million), and ing 5.8p (5.27p). Vodafone before tax for the year to profits would have been unac- tor. said: “It’s now fairly bur for the recession, results shares rose lp to 370p. March 29, a 32 per cent ceptable from anyone at any obvious to us thar during the would have been 25 per cent advance on the £272 million time. But they have been course of the next four to five higher, he said. After an initial reported last time. The profits made post-election buret, the surge -, ' in the middle of a years we're going to dose n:,va < I , . advance disguises an addi- recession by a near-monopoly more stations than we envis- in economic activity had Abu Dhabi tional £88 million one-off setting an essential service." stopped. Mr Whent said there Sir Graham Day, the ^PowerGerrias set aside £94 would be no fast economic ‘seeks deal PowerGen chairman, was in million to cover these closures, recovery in Britain, but '«v = Ji:? optimistic mood over the con- even though Mr Rennocks Vodafone still expected a fur- • !"* Consumer tracts with British Coal and concedes they have yet to be ther profits improvement this on BCCI’ the distributors. “Uncertain- folly identified. About 60 per financial year. Seton to gain ties related to these contract cent of this cost will go on The number of subscribers BvOtfRCrrv Staff replacements seem now to be redundancy payments. had risen fry a net 45,000 to 1 pi i. , less than was thought at Professor Stephen 715.000. even though the ABU Dhabi, majority share- l " i: privatisation," he said. LidJechildL the director-gener- “chum rate” (customers leav- holder of Bank of Credit and !' • 4 "iipf from water Mr Wallis said the company al of dectridty supply, has ing the network) had risen to a Commerce international, tuc, peak in which was dosed last July, .! *i had had a good year of solid accepted that by no later than 24 per cent September : -i ‘irs efficiency steady progress, during which 1995 he should make a deci- — equivalent to nearly one in wants to buy “peace and tile markets it served had sion on whether the genera- four subscribers cancelling. quiet” from creditors' claims, Ul nt. . 1 1- 1'. rota The review of water price stabilised. The extra £88 mil- tors, including the state- Average revenue per sub- the High Court heard yester- fallen £730 day. ;t». limits after 1994 will be used lion of profit had come horn owned Nudear Electric, scriber had from to to transfer efficiency gains so-called “constrained run- should be referred to the £700 a year, bur since year-end Counsel for Touche Ross. made sinoe privatisation to the ning" of the two plants, and as Monopolies and Mergers had improved to £711. BCCI liquidators, said on the consumer, Ian Byatt, the di- this windfall would not be Commission, given that they Vodafone had retained its 56 second day of a hearing into a rector-general of water ser- repeated in the current year it could expect to retain “a very per cent share of the UK plan to compensate world wide vices, warned the companies had been treated as an excep- significant share ofthe market market. creditors, that Abu Dhabi yesterday. ‘This is not a cost- tional item. There was sur- for some years to come". Mr Whent said the net wanted creditors to drop plus system" he said. prise in the industry at die He was agreeing with a subscription rate could rise by daims against it. in return for Introducing Ofwafs annual amount PowerGen had man- similar view contained in the between 70.000 and 90,000 a $1.7 billion contribution report, Mr Byatt said that to earn from keeping the Energy Select Committee's this year. towards global compensation. efficiency league tables would its open. The industry Report on the Consequences He said the long-term pros- This stance has provoked criti- be published from next year, regulator, the Office of Elec- of Electricity Privatisation. pects remained good and all cism among creditors who to show how much could be tricity Regulation, is investi- group businesses had im- want claims for a bigger saved, and would be used for gating the effects on electridty Tempos, page proved profitability last year. dividend pursued. 24 closer to contracts: Sir Graham Day. chairman (left), and Ed Wallis, chief executive the periodic review. The for- Since year-end, net cash Some $3 billion of promis- mula must be tight, he said, balanoes had risen further. sory notes and guarantees for given Dhabi in sup- Wi based on “a 'return which I Cash funds are earmarked by Abu .1 %»! »• ; central to consider is no more than China says further capital expenditure, port of BCCI are 0 levy plan Lloyd’s backs £5 insistence group is a 00m which likely to be £120 creditors’ on absolutely necessary . 30- Mr Byatt has already sug- is million annually for the next higher dividend than the gested a cut in the assumed ByJonathan Prynn HSBC two years, and for further 40 per cent offered by the proposed by real cost of capital from 7 per domestic and international compensation cent to between 5 and 6 per THE Association of Lloyd’s and prudential response” and losses. It is likely to oome considered the options for a expansion of operations. Abu Dhabi and Touche Ross. fading out creditors these cent. Profits had been 20 per Members, a body represent- added: “I don*t see that they under pressure at the end of possible rescue scheme for the Last November, Vodafone Some want cent higher than assumed ing more than 9,000 names, had any alternative." the month, when a £2 billion worst-hit names. Mr Powell paid $75 million for a 30 per notes to be honoured. Counsel Dhabi said any at- before nine of the privatised expressed support for the £500 The levy is in the form of a loss will be announced for the said the situation was "fright- of colony cent stake in Pacific Link for Abu enforce the groups forwent part of their million levy that has been 1.66 per cent charge on the 1 989 year of account fully complicated” and the Communications of Hong tempt to notes • • in the “would resisted to the hilt". Bi it. iu -i permitted price increase for imposed on the market’s underwriting of all names Mr Powell said that Lloyd's association had not been able From Luw Yu Kong, and January be 1992-3 and absorbed more members. during the 1990, 1991 and should not be tempted to use to form a view. IN HONG KONG levy is investigating the than £1 billion of capital However, Val Powell, the 1 992 underwriting years. The the money raised from the Llcyd’s spending not allowed for in association’s chief executive, charge will be deducted from as “a back-door way of possibility of a rescue fond to CHINA has launched a blis- tering attack Hold- the original price calculations. gave warning that the funds names' funds held at Lloyd’s mutualising Lloyd's losses". limit the exposure of names on HSBC Companies would be ex- raised should not be used as and will be reflected in their Although Lloyd’s had the with the worst losses. Howev- ings. parent of the Hongkong better-off Corp. pecting to finance the cost of part of a rescue package for personal accounts for each of right under a 1 986 by-Jaw to er. many names are and Shanghai Banking metering, reckoned by Ofwat destitute names without the those years. The levy will boost the central fond through known to have told their for offering to take over Mid- agents that they object to land Bank. Through China to be around £24 a year per permission ofthe membership increase the sire of the Lloyd's a compulsory levy, it was not meter, or 14 per cent on as a whole. central fund from £500 mil- entitled to use the money for paying for other names’ losses. News Service (CNS] Peking average combined water and Speaking after a meeting of lion to £1 billion. The central other purposes, such as a A scheme involving contribu- said Hongkong Bank was without ex- tions agency firms and "fading our of the colony sewerage bills, without a rise the association’s committee fond is used to meet policy- rescue fond, the from by claims when names press permission of the mem- brokers is thought to stand the shifting assets abroad and in overall price limits, Mr yesterday, Mr Powell holders’ SILK chance of success. diminishing its role as a quasi AS their bership. The committee also greatest TO Byatt said. Anglian Water said described the levy as "a proper wiD not or cannot pay central bank. last week that it would have to “HSBC is buying banks stop programmes to introduce overseas as if if were part of its metering in existing houses business expansion due to the unless a means of paying for TI on course to win Buyers make contact was agreed with Ofwat saturation of the Hong Kong FAR them THE EAST Comment, page 25 market. A more important battle for Dowty over Marston stake reason seems to be thai it wants to gradually fade out of Brent venture Hong Kong," said CNS. By Colin Campbell By Michael Tate Brent Walker’s Pubmaster re- At an extraordinary meet- Hurdle, chair- being forced to divest under ing yesterday. Hongkong AND tail operation and Labatt the TI Group's £509.4 million Dowry’s profits record and has MICHAEL Bank's offer Canadian brewer, have creat- hostile takeover bid for Dowty argued that Dowty sharehold- man of Marston. Thompson the “beer orders" legislation, Midland was a majority of ed Maple Leaf Inns, a joint Group doses at 1pm today, ers would be better served in & Evershed, the brewer of intensified recently after the approved by Bur- sale of more than per cent of the venture that will buy and Tun a and last night it looked in- the long-term in the TI group. Pedigree, Low "C" and investment company's 75 total of 1.000 pubs in Britain creasingly likely that TI will Dowty belatedly counter- ton Best Bitter, confirmed that part of its stake in Morland to shareholders present HSBC in The agree- last week pro- the Burton on Trent group a hostile bidder. Greene King. last week raised the offer from AUSTRALASIA coming months. win. attacked, and sweet- ment also gives Labatt access TI made what turned out to duced better-than-expecred had received approaches in Mr Hurdle said: “We are £3.3 to £3.9 billion and to estate year recent months from “a num- committed to pursuing our ened the deal with cash to fend TAIPEl Pubmaster's existing be its first and final offer on pre-tax profits for the OSAKA HONG KONG potential own declared strategy as an off a potential offer from of almost 2.000 outlets for its April 23 when it bid eight-for- ended March. It has consis- ber of supposedly Whitbread In- independent vertically inte- Uoyds Bank. Lloyds withdrew beer brands Maple Leaf will 1 5. with a cash alternative of tently said there is no purchasers" of be Labatt vestment 31.4 per grated brewer and retailer." and HSBC shares have been jointly operated by 1 74.7 6p a share. commerical logic for a merger Company's plan Includes pulling tumbling. Brewing UK and Pubmaster, The trade and industiy sec- with TI. cent share stake. It had, how- The and the distribution deal in- retary yesterday said that there TI, through a share pur- ever. received “no firm propos- the plug on lower-selling CNS said HSBC's im- creases Laban's business in would be no reference to the chase in the stock market last als” and no discussions were brands such as the group's proved bid for Midland would Britain by 25 per cent. Monopolies and Mergers week, holds a shade under 10 currently taking place. Pilsener lager and its Border harm the interests of Hong- Commission of TI’s bid for per cent of Dowty. Mr Hurdle’s comments ac- beers, and concentrating on kong Bank shareholders. It products. expressed concern that the VIENTIANE Greencore up 1 3% Dowty. On a successful takeover of companied annual results its 6ve key / dilute Dowty shares dosed at Dowty, TI is poised to be from Marston showing an 18 Marston's pre-tax profit merger would HSBC's controversial Greencore, the cent fall in pre-tax profit to was struck after E5.4 million of assets per share by 7.4 percent -at I75p, down I. included in the Fr-SE 1 00 per "*$: Irish and foods group, HANOI sugar TI shares were also lp index. £15.1 million for the year to exceptional items, relating to compared with 2 per cent has reported pre-tax profits up lower, dosing at 352p, valu- An announcement of the last March after some hefty bad debts and lower property under the old bid, and that 13 percent to lr£l 6.2 million final is earnings per share would be BANGKOK ing its share offer at 1 87.8p a outcome of the bid is expected bad debt and property provi- values. The dividend ^5 (E14.6 million} on sales of Dowty share. by late afternoon today. sions. Concern over the future 3.5 7p, giving shareholders diluted by 1 8 per cent 1 14 per million for the six HO CHI MINH CITY 1H189.3 TI has consistently attacked of WICs holding, which is 4.9 lp for the year (4.46p). cent). is SINGAPORE months to March 27. There PENANC an interim dividend of 3p. KLIAIA LUMPUR Bemifi Cahill, the chairman, said: "A satisfactory outcome for the year as a whole is to be Drawbacks of being a director in Denmark Everyday we can fly you to 33 expected.*’ The privatisation of Greencore was subject of via the By Rodney Hobson Dane to the bottom of the list, relating pay to performance. destinations around the region an Irish government investi- ’PAY with more than 60 per cent of Just under half ine managing gation earlier this year. BE A managing director in salary going to the govern- directors receive a bonus, com- Bangkok, without changing airlines. a finance director in ment “Danish executives are pared with 94 per cent in Spain, Managing directors, aged 45+ of manufacturing , and per cent in change, when Strong advance Switzerland or a marketing companies with turnover of £75 mRfion leaving the country to work for France 87 And who would want to director in France. Above all, Gross Net pay multinational companies else- Germany. Britain instead Scott PickfbrtL the oil industry pay £000 those in top jobs in industiy Rank £000 Rank where in Europe," says Mr gives its executives share op- have wide bodied comfort, service company, almost dou- you can should stay dear of Denmark. Spain 125 1 69.1 2 Smith. tion schemes, a practice that is bled pre-tax profits in the year Switzerland 123 2 78.4 1 continent, al- While the harmonisation 'of Britain still has the lead in limited on the generous legroom and friendly service to end Match, to £403,717 Germany 110 3 633 4 is cars. Only three out though it is begining to European markets dosing Italy company •• '• *' 105 61.5 6 II (E2 1 2,848) on turnover up 1 4 • between pay in Austria of 100 managing directors appear in Spain. V« per the gaps 102 5 84.4 3 that owes much to centuries-old Thai cent at £2.43 million France do have one or different countries, changes 98 B 61.6 5 and one in ten executive The Danes £2.15 million). Denmark Earnings per 93 7 35.3 12 to their perks to themselves. Use of are coming only slowly, ac- directors have buy own two share increased to Netherlands 92 8 43.7 9 traditions? There's no-one closer to the 3,79p vehicles. At middle and senior a summer residence and pro- cording to this year's annual Britain 87 9 57.0 7 I2.4p). There is a dividend of programmes countries P£- Portugal 87 9 483 8 management level. 70 per vision of fitness O.Sp survey of 12 by of the Orient and Australasia. (0.5p). Belgium 83 11 403 10 unheard of south heart Intemational, the manage- cent of Britons have a com- are virtually Ireland 65 12 37.3 11 canal. »>" pany car. of the Kiel I ment consultant Storage Sotncac P-E inttmaMonal and Portugal, The sharp fall in pay sale The surprise nation is In Ireland the D nearest rivals for this status awards to managers in the UK Herny Barrett, the steel Spain, which has displaced fabri- end, according personnel research. However, tax rate of 40 per cent, symbol, the middle manage- has come to an cation and stockholding Switzerland at the top of the Data executive stiD has the ment figure is only 46 per to figures from Incomes group, has sold Barrett Stor- league in terms of gross pay. the Swiss lowest among the coun- French, however, Services, an employment re- age Systems expansion of the Spanish fattest bank account, despite tries surveyed, means that the cent. The (BSS) to Wagon The company. paying more than a third of British manager comes sev- are becoming more car con- search •V . Storage Products for an initial economy since its release from »• ' ‘ in the three : .1 despite a hostile tax Increases £920,000. has meant that total salary ro the government enth in terms of take-home scious BSS designs, man- dictatorship April averaged just ninth, level in regime and 93 per cent of months to ufactures are hard to find Britain is only pay. The opposite number and installs storage top managers per only marginal- the better in gross managing directors now have over 5 cent For further information contact your Travel Agent ur systems. During arc having to be imported with Portugal, taking pay Denmark fares call Thai direct on the year to and than in the previous managing di- but high taxes and social one. ly lower ti.ondonj 071 -49y 91 13 or IMantht-aeri August 31 h made a loss of according ro Michael Smith, of comparable pay 061-831 7861, mar- payments take the Where Britain lags is in quarter. £601,987. manager of PE's salary and rectors. However, the top security irr; 0 1 s. . 1 V V 1. 1 » 1 . 1 1 . 1 24 BUSINESS NEWS THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 TEMPUS WALLSTREET — chips New York Blue Nasdaq shares were little slipped in lacklustre morning changed at 582. 12, trading, reflecting a lack of O Tokyo — Shares rose after interest among investors be- ’ three days of losses. The gain fore the release of the signifi- Consumers loss is PowerGen’ Nikkei index gained 159 % price and sales cant May points to 17.S45.04. Turn- statistics this week. The Dow over was 170 million IN THE curious world that is PowerGen shares have ad- taurants are making a bigger more than 100 titles over the shares, in- Jones industrial average re- compared with 169 the privatised power vanced sharply since May on contribution. past three years. It paid out million for the treated 4.14 points to 3.400. on Monday. dustry. good news hopes of a favourable coal At the same time, the £59 million lost year alone, fReurcrt tends to be ted deal generators as earlier fears, flat the rationalisation programme and (he benefit of these Juor o ItattM Juik-w Ja»\ June 4 Jhtws regional distrib- nakLn dw rukta dm- raakta rare news for the government might seek to has had limited impact on acquisitions and launches rice versa, but no AVF Inf M1V 00*. Lmenon rkv 4itV 44V lTrade Muara I5v 14*. utors, and favour British Coal at the the balance sheet, where will stan to flow through to 4MK...... Wi 6V, Uiprihanl Cwp 38V •Vji Fncn> C" ilVi 2nv to be good ji, 43 V news ever seems generators’ expense before gearing has been kept down the bottom line this year. The *Hwa Ufa, :S j lamirt CW 47V PM' nnaiuai «2v 51V Amu life 4; «V. rtp PBi tndn«m mv bTv for the consumer. privatisation, have balance sheet will 74'. Paaai faded. to 15.1 percent revamped AlMUffiWI IHH 1 7’l i:*« fS5^i S45 Ilk MV, N-i The tripartite negotiations They sell Air Fiul & inn 4?s 45'* run b-'V b2- Part trap 22V »«V on a prospective The temptation to raise the give the flexibility needed to in. ASbcnvns 40 JW- I MC crap w- W. Par Erarmset 20 British Coal, the yield of .'1 Px lira; K between 5.5 per cent, pro- dividend has been resisted, continue the spree. Robin Alan Akirimm '. .•r. i?i lamp Mi 55 Etel 32 32 V Aim SumfanJ 4H\ *«*. rakrai 4I'« 4l'a P*c Tries? 41 41*. generators and the distrib- jected from last executive, is year's pay- despite a 5p improvement in Miller, chief Altai S renal 54 w. Fed Migf « M- Pad crap 24- 24'. utors are apparently nearing ment that the Abas lb at Am MS 79 Fa« ObncK 34 V MV Paflluallr Cad mv li>- was covered earnings per share, at 273p. convinced that with - l Anui 2J- :s l ira Immjja 4ii". 4 is Parmra oram *b*. *b' British looks set Parker an end. Coal almost three-and-a-half in favour of increasing cover recession showing no signs Amerada He* 45 46 lira Drarai Rh 9 tlanmOs »7V 32- Aukt Bauds 46'- 40'. IVa l iM Cap 24 V 30 PflWm UO Mi bn*. to sell its product at above times. to a more reassuring l.S of ending, more titles will AmerCwMBuJ St'. ITBnr Cmp 43V 43V Ptrmafl ora- 4*1-. Pnuicu world market prices to the The benefits Amur El ftmer .12 12*. Tiid Mttr 47V 4,V 35V ». of huge cost- times. come on to the market 7|i', Am Eipip, 24 J4 HIT C.wp 3f. .11V PTorr 71V who will only Phelp* generators, cutting cannot go on for ever, The move way well have Amcr Carp 47V 48V ItaftfMI 45V 4 • Ualpe 4 Tv ‘HV Cost control has allowed 1 ‘3- , Hap Inc IVI Y'v Ptnbakt Elw 24V 28V sign up if given assurances but the Ann Home Pi TP » earnings will accounted 1 t 24 24V rtuhp Mwp-. 75V ,'h-i keep for a little of the to push operating Amcr Ind SB , kn Cmemj the group PMfip< IM 26' that the distributors will take flowing and that dividend market’s Amcr Suit* 34'» lien Dyiurws 7i>'« 7 2n*, disappointment profits for the year to March Amcr T S T 42V «r. Den ElrcDv TbV 7n*i Pmcv B"* ;>-.#:£ t- A *4*. : 3-V\ .S m .^4 MONEY MARKETS New York (midday) Brussels: Abbey Nall 2.200 Coats Vyia 291 Llcrvds Bk 2_!00 RylBkScot 2.400 ...... (-23.58) Period Open Volume Cardn 1.600 Sainsbuiy 4JHH) Dow Jones 3380.55 General 5959.68 (*9.84) H»efc Law Close Alld-Lvons 1.900 Umon 1.000 MB i Cm Exchange index ! FT-SE 100 Jun 42 26S2.0 26604) with 1985 was same at 92.6 882 Courtaulds 921 MEPC 274 Sax & New 1.000 S&P Composite ....41 1.61 t— 1.75) — 2638.0 2643.0 8729 Paris: CAC 539.65 (-2.85) Previous open interest 41772 ’’s range 92.4*92.6). Marks Spr 3.600 Power JJOO Sep 92 2688.0 2698.0 26770 2681.0 2195 Argril Gp 3.100 Enp China 2^00 Sax Tokyo: n 1.100 Enierpr Oil 433 Midlnd Bk 144)00 Scars J.JOO Zurich: SKA Gen 485.6 (-3.5) Three Month Steriing Jun 92 99.04 9000 89.93 89 99 8048 AB Fotl| 130 Eurotnnl U 81 NFC 735 Svm Trent lJXM Nikkei Av'ge 17845.04 (*189.98) Previous open interest: 219377 Sep 02 _ 90.15 90.23 90.12 90J2 21093 London: Dec 92 90.40 90.46 90J8 90.46 2956 STERUNG SPOT 3AA 4.900 Foots 3J00 NatWsi Bk 3.800 Shdl Trans 1. IM Hong _ AND FORWARD RATES Power Kong: SAT tnds 1.900 Forte S95 Nai 2.100 Siebc 688 FT A All-Share _ 1278.56 (-4.76) Three Mlh Eurodollar Jun 92 — 960C 96 03 9601 96.02 595 Hang Seng 5940. 1 (-38.56) NthWstW — 9 Mitt Rwcs for June 9 Range I BET 32)00 GRE 2.900 IJOO SmKI Bch IJOO FT 500 1439.85 (-6.54) Previous open iniewt 40535 Sep 92 — 95.74 05.76 95.74 95.76 490 Close month 3 nHunb BOC 1.400 GUS A 406 Nihm Fds 80b Smith Nph 2.400 Amsterdam 3.2718-3.2842 3.2811-3.2842 spr-Mls ftpr-par FT-SE Euro 100 1 174.96 (-2.52) FT Gold Mines 104.7 (-0.8) Three Mtfa Euro DM Jun 92 90.26 90.28 90.25 90.28 4478 SP 8.600 Gen Acc 799 P A O 4)2 Smith (WH) 327 Brussels 59 75-00 04 59.92-60 03 b-tpr 7-2pr Previous open inirres: 2963bb Sep 92 — 90 50 90.55 90 49 90 54 13226 8TR 2.600 Gen Elec 7.600 Pearson 882 Sun Alince 1.800 Amsterdam; FT Fixed interest . 104.53 (-0.10) Copenhagen ll.2375-ll.2S7l 11-2375-11.2509 vivas lV’Sds of Glaxo 24100 Pilkingion 1.400 TSB 2.400 Govt Secs l/S Tmeasuiy Bond Jun 92 — 100-25 100-27 100-24 100-31 31 Dublin...... 1.0911-1.0938 1.0917-'.0927 par-4 ds Ipr-Sds 3k Scot 322 CBS Tendency 1 30.4 (-0.1) FT 88.60 (-0.10) Previous open interest 92 99-19 99-28 99-18 Frankfurt 2.9058-2.9177 2.9147-2.9177 Barclays 2J00 Grand Met 2.900 - PowerGen 4.900 Taiefi Lyie 1.800 Bargains 22902 1944 Sep _ 99-26 693 >«pMiid< '"pr-ftiU Lisbon ...... 242. IS- Sass Guinness 2.100 Prudential 6.600 Tesco 4 Jl)0 Sydney: 1674.5 (-*0.1) ®2 97-05 244.US 242.56-243.57 )0tf-l96ds 42«M97ds 4S5 AO — Long GQl Jun — . 97-17 97-03 97-18 1423 SEAQ Volume 488.3m Madrid 1 R3.73- 184.27 183.73-183.98 I15-I36ds Shie Curie 1.700 9.100 RMC 442 Thames W IJiOU Previous open mietes: b8628 Sep 92 . 97-16 97-27 97-07 97-25 55570 38-83 ds Frankfort: 1786.26 . 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Unofficially, however, spokes- a lot in common. Herr Schlesinger’s comments fund managers to use men say they are ’’not about the theoretical possibility of “one last” ERM their international unsympathetic” to the fond manag- realignment some time before the end ofthe century, ers’ care, and that their chances are were innocuous when read in their context He electronic network. “looking good reiterated a longstanding Bundesbank formula that The banks are sounding more ERM parities were satisfactory at present but that David Rudnick reports relaxed about the danger of their sustainability would depend on governments disintermediation. Terry Pearson, head of development meeting the convergence tests set at Maastricht At a at The Royal bevy of bankers will assem- Bank of Scotland, voices a growing time life this, however, did he realty expect currency ble today in the spacious sentiment: “We have dealers to worry about context? no fear of fond grounds of Chateau La managers cutting into our business; Since Herr Schlesinger is presumably less naive Hulpe. outside Brussels, to custodian banks do a lot of things about the ways of the world than Mrs Bartholomew, Acast a vote which wQl either defuse or apart from sending messages on natural the suspicion was that the Bundesbank ignite a dispute between bankets and Swift, like tax reclaims, stock lending president was deliberately aiming a kids at Germa- fond managers that has smouldered and general portfolio administra- ny’s ERM partners while they were down. The for almost two years. tion.” Mr Pearson sees overwhelm- Bundesbank has never made a secret of its distaste for The bankers will be voting at the ing advantages to fond managers monetary union. Like Euro-sceptics in the House of annual meeting of the Society for partiripating in Swift. “If all our Commons, Herr Schlesinger must have been Worldwide Interbank Financial Tele- customers used it. our interfaces with communications, Swift, on whether them would be enormously simpli- tempted by the Danish vote to try to kill the to let fond managers into the dub. fied, since we'd have a standardised Maastricht Treaty once and for all. Analysts with a Swift was founded in 1973 by 239 format of messages from them all. bent for conspiracy theory have been suggesting since banks that were desperate to improve rather than a variety of messages last week that the Bundesbank council would vote to the chaotic international interbank coming at us from a variety of raise interest rates just before the French referendum, payments system. Previously, pay- sources." in the hope of encouraging a vote of “non”. ment messages had travelled by telex, Such speculation is far-fetched, as is the idea of any and through a host of smaller enderson’s Mr Solway ERM realignment in the foreseeable future. The computer systems. Lack of standard- offers a convergent fond isation and security precautions manager’s view: “We Bundesbank may have its own political agenda but it meant that mistakes were common don't want to get into is not going to play Machiavellian political games and fraud an ever-present threat SwiftHto disintermediate but to inte- with German interest rates and the future of Europe. In the past 20 years. Swift has grate our operations more efficiently possibility of a realignment entirely The depends on grown to become a powerful global with our custodian bankers. We can the Irish and French votes. If either country votes no, network, with 2.000 banks as share- leverage better deals by using bigger all bets are off. If the votes are positive, the EMU holders and more than 3,700 users, operations like Chase and Morgan process should get back on course and capital will including stockbrokers, stock ex- Stanley to represent us. Their net- how back into high-yielding currencies. In the changes and even issuers of travellers’ work management ensures that meantime, even the combined might of the markets cheques. It is used for almost all large agents worldwide are operationally international transactions and pro- reliable and finandally stable. and the Bundesbank will not fprce a devaluation on We cesses 1.5 million messages, or have no wish to compete in these either the lira or sterling. Realignments are settled by Open minded: Robert Binney says Chase Manhattan “never needed persuading” to come out in favour payments, a day at a cost of onty 16 areas.” Swift would offer significant governments, not central banks. Britain has the Belgian francs (27p) each. category of member. The fund man- any new members until all existing bied. “We’ve not threatened, but cost advantages to fond managers, strongest government in Europe, while Italy has an The encrypted messages pass from agers were outraged. They want to ones are using Swift properly, and he persuaded them to change their Mr Solway adds. Instead of messages even better insurance against a realignment — no terminals in each bank to national use Swift’s electronic network to trade doubts that smaller fund managers mind ” One such big gun. Robert being sent our by 20 different phones government at all. processing centres. (The British directly in securities, rather than have could afford the high membership Binney. senior vice-president at or fox machines, one operation would centre is in Edgware, north London.) to use custodian banks’ payments charges anyway. Mr Palmer suspects Chase Manhattan, says Chase never suffice anywhere. From there they go to one of two systems. Forthe pastyear, arguments that the real reason why some needed persuading to vote yes. “We Going over to Swift could be more international operating centres, in have been tossed back and forth. bankers want to exclude fond man- don'r warn fund managers to go off of a challenge than some enthusiasts Water pressure Culpeper, Virginia and Zoeterwoude. A spokesman for one American agers is their fear of — use of Swift by and make their own money transfer imagine. Fund managers with bank- in Holland. Then they are sent to bank derides any suggestion of a plot institutional clients to cut out custodi- arrangements; it would be nonsensi- ing connections, such as Morgan he role of utility regulators is changing, in the ; their destinations, where they can be to exclude fund managers. "Any an banks as middlemen and mess- cal given Swift’s success as an inter- GrenfeD (owned by Deutsche Bank) deared efficiently. other would have age clients (a new populist climate, from watchdog to ! category got the agents and themselves. bank transfer system." Binney is also or Mercury Asset Management : International make positive T bulldog, harrying and baiting their charges. banks substan- same response. These guys have no confident of a outcome division of S.G. Warburg) might tial profits by charging corporate idea how much capital we've put into aradoxically, that might tomorrow. “Swift management don't have a certain advantage in being This looks bad news for privatised water groups. Low customers to use Swift The network Swift to enhance its operational have been brought nearer by want another embarrassment like able to link up with — and maybe construction inflation and capital savings have is a rock on which die banks' entire capacity. We don't want to admit Swift’s “no" vote last June. A last year, when we thought we were even conduct tests on — their parent allowed all but South West to appease both investors global custody service for fund man- people whose electronic messaging is P powerful group, led for Fi- home. They wouldn't let it go to banks' Swift networks. “Cocktail the director general of water services, by taking and agers is /ounded. not up to par.” Small banks just delity Investments, chaired by Mor- another vote if they expected it to be pany rumour has it,” confided one on more commitments without needing higher price Swift grew rapidly. As it did so. it coming on to Swift, he adds, have gan GrenfeD Asset Management — negative." insider, “that some bank-owned fond limits. With peace out of fashion, however, the last expanded its core banking member- sometimes failed to meet its stan- and including L&G — has been Barclays is reported to have soft- management firms have had unauth- ship include participants such as dards. and the difficulties they have promoting its own Electronic Trade ened its stance, and Citibank, tradi- orised use of Swift through regularly thing Tan Byatt needs for his tabloid image is to agree . to new price formulas amicably in his live-year review. stock exchanges and broker-dealers, caused would be compounded if Confirmation (ETC) initiative as a tionally a stronghold of resistance to accessing messages via their parent becoming less of a bank-owned small fond managers were let into the rival to Swift Christopher Smith, the fund managers' lobby, might also bank’s network." Complaints shot up .at South West after he agreed GES cooperative and more a commercially system. Big. highly-capitalised play- transactions support manager at be reappraising its position. "Noth- An unexpected upset tomorrow, price rises to accommodate the accelerated beach based service forfinancial institutions ers would be acceptable but the Fidelity, says: “So many fund manag- ing is forever.*’ hinted John Morris, barring fond managers for a third clean-up and are disproportionately high at the generally. The process was resisted by organisation's rules allow in only ers jumped on the ETC bandwagon head of Citibank's investor services. time from Swift, would almost cer- Frepdi-owned South East Water, which has the many banks and persistence and whole institutional categories. after their exclusion from Swift that it Chase, Barclays and Citibank are key tainly mean a final parting of the highest water charges. diplomacy were needed by Bessel A large fond manager such as has become a potential alternative.'' players; since voting rights in Swift ways. No one expects that they would Pressure will be heavy on the least efficient Mr Kok, the organisation’s chief execu- Legal & General for instance, would Tony Solway, a director of Hender- are allocated according to a share- seek entry again. It would be a defeat, Byatt will also be tempted to impose his suggested tive, to push it through. pose no problems, but — to quote the son, another fond management firm, holder's volume of traffic, the three too, for Swift’s aspirations to emerge lower rates of return and dividend growth. A more Two years ago, an even bigger American banker— "it’s only one fish has a similar message. “ETC is currently account on some estimates, as the dominant, if not toe sold sea.” fish creating a network between brokers for as as tenth of the poll. financial electronic network. chall- sensible change, in terms of keeping down bills, furore erupted over extending mem- in the That has been much a A bership to investment fond manag- malting waves lately. Andrew Palm- and fond managers and the banks The strongest residual opposition is enge from Reuters seems to have would be to increase the proportion of capital .. ers. Member banks voted the er. L&G’s finance director, accepts are worried that if it gets off the said to come from Japanese banks, fallen by the wayside but national i Page£ spending funded borrowing. Gearing could rise by proposal down. They did so again at that in the past new players have ground well both have an alternative with the French also anti, the telecommunications networks such substantially if returns remain reasonable, though last year's annual meeting. Only a forced unwelcome modifications to to Swift” Germans mixed, the Swiss discreetly as British Telecom and AT&T are this would cramp the companies’ penchant for JES _ third of the membership, led ty big Swift’s software and “perhaps the The smart money is increasingly pro and the British and Americans waiting. Electronic chaos could ensue buying other businesses on borrowed money. Mr American money-centre banks, voted volumes generated by these members on the fond managers being voted coming around. But since the vote is if networks were to proliferate. What ’ * i might also question whether his metering to the fund managers but did not warrant the expense and into Swift today. Mr Palmer is by secret ballot, any declarations of happens at La k'ii i. v l> Byatt exdude Hulpe today could campaign is worth the cost under Swift's rules a three-quarters disruption they caused”. But he does “quietly confident": he says several support from banks should perhaps have more ramifications than meet majority is required to admit a new not see why entry should be denied to big guns have been diligently lob- be taken sceptically. Last year, Mr the eye. Compensation Lloyd’s levy on names to replenish its central fund Engineers .ETS DIARY for investors From MrSimon Reynolds wffl cost us, over and above our to oontribure the money need- to Japan CITY I THE TIMES Sir, My wife and are both past and future losses, with the ed to top up the funds that members of Lloyd's, having ever increasing number of their bankrupt brethren are no From Miss P. £. Whitlock joined through separate open years, a farther £1 1 .620 longer able to provide? From Ms Anne Kensell I 'I? Sir, Now thar there is a move agents and on separate syndi- per yean others will suffer This decision appears to Sir, M. Bright in his letter i rt outsells British Telecom, has afoot to reimburse unfortu- cates in the mid-1 980s. This is much more. Why did Lloyd’s have been taken without pre- (Business Letters. May 29) sates .. On safari for hwz-.c demonstrated marketing fi- nate Lloyd’s “names” for their the second year that we are not bolster their reserves in the consultation with Members' suggests that Mr Heseltine ' * to with a good years indeed do Agents, not to mention the should invest in Japanese abuyer. nesse to hard-pressed British losses, could someone please attempting cope and how estate agents. He has. single- tell me who wfll reimburse me steady attrition, insufficient to they justify their recent expen- names and their so-called officials to boost the DTI. Had INSTITUTIONAL investors handedly, managed to sell his for my unfortunate losses in trigger expensive stop-loss pol- diture on their “white ele- "rights”. Agents should fully he thought that it might be who backed Themes Intema- house in Chester Square. stocks/shares which have been icies but enough to wreck the phant” of a premises? advise their names as to what more useful to send UK engi- tional. the Windsor safari park London, complete with garage due to fraud or mismanage- fin an rial harmony of family In these times of trial we this directive entails and surely neers to learn about Japanese 1 garden — and next ment within the company. life. As names who have names have to have recourse the ALM must rally to the industry? The Fellowship of . leisure group that went into and roof I will to “stay to bankers to loan funds to support of their members and Engineering runs a scheme to . receivership in January, have door to Baroness Thatcher’s could, but not. quote hitherto attempted been amazed to learn that new abode — for £2 million, names of companies. Or is it with" Lloyd’s we are horrified meet our losses, why does oppose this directive. Such second young engineers to will cer- Japanese companies peri- Cork Gully, its receiver, is £500,000 less than his origi- the old story of “one law for the at the Council’s arbitrary Lloyd’s “good name" prohibit treatment of names for considering an offer for the nal asking price. LaJvani, frus- rich and another for the charge of a farther 1,66 per the same course of refuge? tainly neither encourage loyal- ods of up to a year. The DTf safari park from John Rigby, trated by a dearth of UK poor”? cent levy on the premium Has it taken the Council so ty nor attract membership. pays half the costs. Since former chairman and chief purchasers for the property, If successful “names” have underwritten of all names, many months onlyto work out Yours faithfully. I99J, when the scheme was established, than executive.. Rigby is one of which had been on the market to contribute to the unsuccess- retrospectively over the years how "they can force their legally SIMON REYNOLDS. more 20 several for last year, the ful "names" losses, would 1990. 1991 and 1992. This bound, long suffering names 64 Lonsdale Road, SW1. engineers have taken advan- . „ interested buyers since August put JI.L ^ p ' the Berkshire park and while word around at a recent cock- successful investors in tage and another 80 are Chris the receiver, tail party hosted in Hong stocks/shares like to send me a expected to do so over the next Bartow, “Bang goes our he least, scheme is - • where he is donation for losses? that the Directors of Charset ing that for this year at three years. The refuses to confirm Rigby’s Oftel reduction” Konf>. now based. my No cuckoos so far interest, he says Cork Gully Within hours, three potential Yours faithfully. were but mere amateurs. Ap- Chatset had understated the open to qualified engineers will be “duty-bound to accept aid, 29, a former fund manag- purchasers from the recession- P. E. WHITLOCK, parently. Mr Archard then case, and that he had been who are destined for manage- hopelessly said that, positions in their own .the highest offer, no matter er with Martin Currie, has bee colony were vying for the Meadow Cottage, From MrTBenyon busied himself with a poll of wrong, ment *• living in return where it comes from, so long since taken over all three of its residence, but despite an at- Station Road, Sir, Sir James Goldsmith once the agents to see if what he “Chatset are doud companies. When they con- said was in fact right cuckoo land". After to the UK they are expected to as the offer is concluded”. In competitors and has 200 cli- tempted last minute £500,000 Kingham. said that people who were had Mr present report give talks 1990,' Rigby spent millions ents — against an earlier stal- mp. Lalvani sold it to the Oxford. sistently wrong were of imm- 1992 has not been a good year Archard has polled his agents a and tenting' Windsor into an Afri- ed target of 100. The latest comer, on the grounds ense value: fortunes could be for pollsters. Jn March, the again, perhaps he might pon- on their experience, thus wid- people who csuMi^e Disney theme park product to be launched by that he was the most suitable made by trading against agents said the losses would be der that many Names think ening the circle of — billion El .6 billion. that if there be April fools and benefit from knowledge of and any successful offer will Direaus a monthly com- neighbour for Britain’s former Men of straw? them. In Januaiy, Chatset, the £1.1 to Japanese best practice, f am need to be £15 million or pendium of the forecasts pub- prime minister. Lalvani, an ar- Lloyd’s analysts who have an This result was used by the cuckoos around they are not to provide more details. more. Seine City backers who lished by stockbrokers. — is dent fan of Mrs Thatcher, says enviable record for gening Association of Lloyd's Mem- employed by Chatset, and. by happy wrong, yet Yours sincerely. were part of a £15 million proving equally successful. he is unable to disclose the From C-Stdpleton their sums right, forecast that bers who attributed its source 199). if he is might be in ANNE KENSAIL, financing by the company two About 90 per cenrof all funds identity of the purchaser, but Sir, Almost daily we read of Lloyd’s overall would lose over to the LUAA. On April 1, in again. Sir James (Manager. Engineers to years management now pay describes him as one of die top for They your columns. Paul Archard touch with him. i ago, are, however, ex- under the losses of the Names at £135 billion 1989. sincerely. Japan Scheme), pressing doubt that Rigby £275 a year to subscribe to it three businessmen in Hong Lloyd's and how many are added that this was. in their wrote that this forecast was an Youis The Fellowship of would be able to raise that MacDonald says: "In re- Kong. facing bankruptcy. We sympa- view, a conservative estimate. April Fool's joke. TOM BENYON. Engineering. much cash. sponse to demand from our thise, particularly as friends Mr Paul Archard, Chairman Yesterday Chatset forecast The Society of Names, 2 little Smith Street, shortly be losses 1989 in The Old Rectory, clients, we will Flying the flag are involved. However, we of the LUAA. the representa- revised for com- then £1 Adstock. Bucks SWI. Diredus launching a Far Eastern have the majority of our assets tive body to 100 agents, excess of £2 billion; success pendium and a European OBSERVANT commuters insured through this market instantly pronounced that billion for 1990 and £0-75 prize who spotted the 1991. cue, Mr SMALL is beautiful in Scot- one.” As for the £10.000 Danish flag and renewal is approaching. Charset were hopelessly wrong billion for On over conced- foncL Direetus, the Edinburgh money, MacDonald reveals flying H umbras head of- But how we can be sure that and rumours were circulated Archard. presumably Jin that has caused more that half will be donated to fice at Tower HflJ on Friday in the event of a dafrn, the should to its fair share of red faces charity and the other half not jump conclu- syndicate® will be able to pay? in sions about the is the case. It is Britain’s boardrooms by spent on the staff. “We will be Euro-affili- The insurer takes preat care in Post Office policy tbat this THE TIMES policy, which we publicly charting the number buying a microwave oven and ations of either Charles getting all required details government Office of choice Hambro, chairman, or Chips get nothing follow, that the Post . shares bought and sold by we have offered them a from us but we in Keswick, chief executive. Ac- the Chairman should not emsssubsidise individual directors, employs of gifts. Several have already return and could well be From of its non- bikes — cording to a spokeswoman, “covered” by men of straw. An The Post Office from its monopoly to ACCOUNTANCY , . . M people but has, never- opted for mountain b 1 family has Scan- grateful for activities. We wish cpoE-i » Jefess. bear voted Scottish since we cant yet afford com- the Hambros authoritative reply, preferably Sir. I am TNTs monopoly of the improve- compete with others on a AND FINANCE Business of the Year. The pany cars." dinavian origins and has been from an informed third party, recognition to :rt flag Mail has achieved fair basis. APPEARS M THE BUSINESS MEWS PAGES EVERY THURSDAY " award of El glass flying the Danish on would be very welcome. ment Royal . 0,000 and a TO ADVERTISE PHONE in tiie letter service. I share Sir Yours faithfully, tn>phy was presented last Danish Constitution Day, Yeans sincerely. sale Lygo’s concern that SIR BRYAN NICHOLSON. MARY COLLINS 071-481 4481 teght by co-sponsors, Scottish Solo June 5, “for as long as anyone C. STAPLETON, Raymond investments made by Parcel- Chairman & Chief Executive, F *? Television and Scottish Enter- GULU Lalvani, the marketing can remember”. Ramsey Road, use commercial The Post Office Headquarters. •71-7*2 7*2? *07l-4n KtU Phse. 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David Harrison who rides GEOFF Wragg, whose hors- es the Predominate Stakes, will ed a gallop at ChanriQy yes- ning on El Vobffor (8.35) to Top Royal on his only Michael Phillips As far as the Strutt & Duty Roxanne in the Not- are in outstanding form, is VII terday planning of biggest run in the King Edward . but there was still no and Avonuxio (9.05). subsequent start that form Parker Handicap is con- tinghamshire Coal Maiden one his assaults Stakes on the opening day of decision on whether the Those present at also looks reliable so El Earlier in the programme. cerned. I like none better Stakes on the alFweatber on Raya! Ascot next meeting, while Young French colt will run in the St Goodwood last month could Volador gets my vote in pref- f-nrhranp would also have a than the ‘Julie CeoJ-trained track at SouthwelL Harrison week (Richard Evans writes). the to Buster is pencilled in for the James’s Palce Stakes at Royal have only admired his sang erence to Snow Blizzard, who good chance of winning the Aramef even though he is rode this fiDy when she was Up 13 of his 60-strong 1 string race of Wales’s Stakes after Ascot next Tuesday. ftoid when he extricated El has been penalised for win Faiidough Maiden FSIlies* burdened with top weight. beaten just half-a-length by could over the four Prince ergoing regular swim* The Francois Boutin- Volador from a tricky pos- rung at Folkestone last week. Stakes on Raven Runner if The selection stuck to his task Venture Capitalist over six days, headed by Mailing, the und Irish 1 exerase. trained colt, partnered by ition before going on to cap- While form students will be she could reproduce last in a a most determined fash- furlongs at Salisbury first ,000 Guineas winner. ming Petardia will go for the Steve Cauthen, worked over a ture the Chichester Festival choosing between Fieldridge, year's form when she was ion at Newbury last time out time out this year. The daughter of Lomond, Stakes or Norfolk mile with two stable compan- Theatre Handicap. Milzig. Reflecting. Guilty placed on today’s trade and at when he finished a close Judged on the way that she successful in the Queen Maiy Coventry ions and appeared tc be Now the combination app- Secret and Pippin Park for Ascot fourth behind Bdgraa finished that day, today's Stakes at last year's meeting, Stakes. runs in the Arcadian Heights has the going well in the final stages. eals to have an equally good the Richard Ellis Maiden However, as her only out- For those in the non-radng slightly longer distance will Coronation Stakes on Wednesday, the Gold Cup as his target on Cauthen described Arazi as chance of winning the Kier Stakes. I am reliably in- ing this terra was a bit disap- equine world the highlight of be right up her street Also, same day while Nuryandra. “really relaxed” but Shaikh Handicap since Monarda formed that Cochrane can pointing, she may be beaten This meeting will be the the third horse. Desert Dag- as Dorset Duke lines up for Thursday the Royal for the Cheshara Mohammed’s stud manager and MahfU. two of those who expect a profitable ride on the this time by Goodmteout Gouidens Olympic Riders In- ger. has won since. Hunt Cup. heads Fireis a possibil- Robert Acton said: “I will finished behind at Guy Harwood-trained new-, who was only balf-a-length vitation Stakes for which Goldsmiths' Hall goes for Stakes. Wild first time life for the King George now discuss the situation with Goodwood, have come out comer Amoructio. who is re- behind Raven Runner last Bengal Tiger, the mount of Blinkered Queen’s Vase and ity Dreams is likely Handicap and Gai Bulga Shaikh Mohammed and the and scored since. puted to be a promising son year when they finished sec- John Whitaker, is my tenta- SOUTHWELL: 2.45 NeBs'ti Gamble. 3.45 End to make in the trainer before any decision is Prior to winning that race of the American triple crown respectively be- tive choice. awefiTime. BEVERLEY: ZOO Oaad Cakn. his seasonal debut in the may take his chance ond and third Hyde. HAMILTON PARK: 3.00 Master Bessborough Haidwicke Stakes on Friday. made." El Volador had bran runner- winner Affirmed. hind Perfect Cii The task of landing my 730 Salvele. 9.00 Barter. Handicap. 3.30 GELDER & KITCHEN CENTENARY SPRINT HANDICAP 3- 1 5 GALA CLUBS MAIDEN STAKES (£2.774: 5f) (12 runners) (2-Y-O: £2,422:61) (11) APOLLO DE ORB5NTE 30 JWatownght 90 1 12 541030 DRUM SERGEANT 19 (B.D.S) (W Steers) J Parfcae 5810 Ale. Greaves 83 0 MANDARIN THUNDERER ( ) — W Newness RICHARD EVANS 5-80844 SAMMY SLEW B (B) (E Brook) S Norton 388 O Pears (7) 82 MANDARIN 0 BIG 8 hi Chapman 80 SD WflBamj (7) 7 CRAIL Hasten GEM 2.00 Coconut Johnny. 2.00 Coconut Johnny. 4.00 NASEER (nap). 030540 HARBOUR 12 (BAG) (S Dinsmora) P 584 Daon McKaOwn 90 2.15 Coastal Express. 2.45 Oangold. 3.15 Zflfi- 3-45 DESERT LAUGtfTBt R Hodtoteead 80 Paul Eddary 5 2.30 Al Ramis. 2.30 HadaacL 043022 MORPICK 5 (V) (H Pickering) J Leah 582 Stephan Davtoe (7) 92 4.45 GREEN SWORD W O'Gorman 90 Emma CGorman 2 STAR LADY ROXANNE (nap). 4.15 Modesto. 3.00 Thewaari. 3.00 Kateb. 068050 HERE COMES A 16 (D.F) (Mrs J Goodrldge) J Carr 481 - S Monts 83 0 LUC4YAN TREASURE 53 JBeny 80 G Carter 1 Hinari Video. GDuTflaM9 Morpick. 44-1523 SPRING HIGH 8 (B.DJF) fit Ivory) K Ivory 590 G Brethren 87 NOBLE MEASURE M Prescott 90 3 JO 3.30 Yes. Norton NConnorton4 084301 YES 7 (0.3) (W Coiaman) D Thom 4813— P Bowe (7) *99 2 Nirm BROWN 14 S SO — 4.00 Grey Commander. 4.00 Naseer. THUNDERER . A Monroll B (11) 0200-00 JOHANNA THYME 12 (CQ.F) (J Zm) R Baatbnan 584 J Otarei 87 ZILFI PCoto 90 0 DON’T JUMP32 MTompklna 89 P Robinson 3 4J0 Traders Dream. 4.30 MUSIC IN MY 9 (7) 404000 MINIZBN MUSIC 4 fCD.F) (D Metcalf) M Bttts*) 481 J Lowe 88 2.15 Nest. 2.45 Toff Sundae. 3.15 Zilfi. 3.45 Lady ,u MAJOR TRIUMPH G Bravery 89-.. NON4UINNER 6 5.00 Beidgeuse. LIFE (nap). 10 (IQ 00-5600 DON'T RUN ME OVER 16 (G WMatar) B Morgan 37-13 M Roberts 88 Roxanne. 4.15 Mizyan.4.45 Barbezieux. 10 11 2543 STORMY HEIGHTS 19 J Jankma 8® - G Baxter (D.G) 5.00 Shennmuir. 11 (6) 684050 JIVE MUSIC 4 (N Bycroft) N Bycroft 87-10 S Maloney (5) 88 7-2 92 Stormy HaWfe. 81 LuojyanTraasua. 12 800052 MISS BRIGHTSIDE (A Grant) A Smith 478 Haaftstay 88 Richard Evans: 3.45 Lady Roxanne. 94 ZK). Nutty Brown. TO 9 C (7) Don't Jmnp. 12-1 othare. limes Private Haadicapper’s 81 Green 5*cro, ID-1 Noble Mnaarra. The top rating: 3.30 YES. BETTING: 7-2 Yec. 81 Spring High, 81 Cml Harbour. Morpick. 81 Sammy Slew, 181 Johanna Thyme. Drum Sergeant, 12-1 Mneen Music, Mini Brightede, 141 others. GOING: STANDARD SIS GOING: GOOD TO FIRM DRAW: 5F. HIGH NUMBERS BEST SIS 1991: JOHANNA THYME 47-8 J Ounn (331) R Bastlnren 8 ran DRAW: 5F-1M, LOW NUMBERS BEST FORM FOCUS 3.45 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COAL MAIDEN 2.00 EUROPEAN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT SELLING STAKES STAKES (£2,284: 7f) (15) SERGEANT dead-beating 3rd ol 10 hancficap with better off) DRUM 9U to i* JIVE MUSIC (3b 2.15 SHOPPACHECK HANDICAP 6-9-10 (2-Y-O: £2,402: 5f) (7 runners) good 1 8 HIRAM B BIRDBATH 68J J Oovor Tongue Tied In Newmarket (51. to firm) hanfi- 1 W 5th and DON'T RUN ME OVER (3b better off) (3-Y-O: £2.623: Im) (16 runners) SD WHlunaj7)9 cap with YES (21b better oil) 9 9A. SAMMY SLEW 2W 7th. SPRING HIGH II 3rd ot 14 lo Hotfoot TO K Fafion to 99 2 008 RUBBERS FAVOURITE 195 Mrs N Macaulay 5m 4th ol 9 to Denebon In Redcar (61, good to firm) Hannah ei Foltoatone fit, good to firm), YES beet 1 0631 COASTAL EXPRESS 16 (CJ3) E Wrymes 87 TO 92 N Day 10 hancficap on penultimate start with HERE COMES Furled. 1VH in 7-namar Yarmouth (61. good) aepran- L Dettori 3 (i) LUNAGAAPHE 22 Bob Jonas 485 V Smith 5 A STAR 5V4I 7th and UINtZEK MUSIC 31 8th. ffca Jockey* hancficap. MISS BRtQHrSlDE promot- 2 4)00 MOLTEN COPPER 43 (tW?M WE*«arti^84 00 (<) ^ ^ 4 008 SWELL TIME 232 (B) C Alan 4-85 MORPICK II Brid ol 8 to FuneUa In Celtenck (8f. ed a ptern attar flniahfog 2W 3rd ol IS to Eternal 805 37 Loro Huntngdon Harrison (5) 4 5 TINA'S GAME A Sbtoger 485 TO 80 good) hancfica : previously 21 2nd erf 12 to Cather- flame at Radear (71. good to firm). 3 NEST 90 D p ARK3HI 5 J Banks 3-80^ ines Wefl in Doncaater (9. good to firm} apprentice Selection: YES (nap) 4 -060 LEONADIS POLK 9 (RW Pearce 90 DMteOfiaB 6 6 BOY 5 3000 GRAND rcLLOW 16 (8)JBetiicfl 811 A Munro 14 7 QUANTITY SURVEYOR M Prescott 880 7 TO 6 SAMANTHAS JOY 60 (Mrs D Katoe) T Fsktaret 86 _ J Farming (3) Fortune 12 6 0013 SIE AMATO 16 (CD) J H WSson 89 B Carter 9 B -552 TURTLE BEACH 18 A Scott 380 J BETTING: 445 Coconut Johnny, 82 Dead Calm, 13-2 Very Risky, 181 Zto/aal, IB-1 BfcjobeDa Never to Touch. 7 6541 ROXY MUSIC 18 (FJGfttahato-Ganton 89 8 04 WHITEHALL 8 C Neton 3-90 M HUto 15 2£M Samantha's Joy. 4.00 WIN WITH THE TOTE HANDICAP (E2.880: 1 m 31 21 6yd) (9 runners) G0uffMd7 ID DROP A CURTSEY J Bartel 389 A Munro 1 8-11 11 KAY LARGO 216 J Watownght 389.— W Newnas 13 1991: SENSE OF PRIORITY K Dertey (2-9 taw) M H Easterly 10 ran (2) 415238 TROJAN LANCER 222 (D.F) (A Graham) Screglfl 6810 87 6 554) DAILY SPORT GIRL 23 fqPBtoddey M 8 J W Ryan rainttogdon 3-8-9 G Parkin (7) 13 12 82 LADY ROXANNE 35 Lord (5) 568625 FLOATING LINE 33 (F) (Mrs J Wfgharri) P M0am 498 M VWghren 96 FORM FOCUS 9 800 TRAINEE 28 W Haggas 87 N Day 16 D Harrison (5) 14 (7) 04005- IWAN 11J (V) (P Dobaon) K Morgan 494 Dean McKsown 84 4 10 380 KATE ROYALE 8 (^G Bravery 87. iHM»5 13 00 M1LLEF10R1 B5 K 388 N Adame (1) 1302-40 SARSTA ORAL (CD.F) (T Kktocm) Earterby UStorrey COCONUT JOHNNT SHI 3rd of 4 to MgM Melody BLUEBSLLA 191 12tfi of 14 to SM Expreaa at 8 M H 4813 S (5) 63 11 3005 MILL BURN 25lCan)bel85 0 jaTOtO 14 4-00 MNT ADDITION 43 K (B) Gome) ai Newcastle (St. good to Him) atakaa race: previous. Rlpon (5*. firm). NEVER IN TOUCH 141 14th ol 15 to- 600050 TAUSH 4 p.G) (A T Barron 488 V HaBday (7) 98 12 080 ROSTANDS_ . HERO 6/ H CCoteigtegB 84— N Howe 2 .... - I, beat Ctangrtd nil in 11-runner Thrjk (St, firm) Crested Wave at Pontefract rsr, good to firm). (6) 080218 NASEER 13 (G) (N CUaghcm) N Cstoghan 386 M Roberta • 88 13 2-54 SPRAY OF ORCHIDS 7 JElhenngton 83 15 802 MSSY-S 9 G Prttchsiti-Gordon 889 “5BS! safer write DEAD CALM (seme terms) Z 3rd. SAMANTHAS JOY 121 5th ol 6 to Sober Led at 0) 044232 GREY COMMANDER 18 (D.G) (R Bromtoy) M Britten 486 J Lows 91 P Robinson 15 54 Lady Rootarre, 82 Turtia Beech. 81 Maay-S. 7-1 WMetal, 81 Far DEAD CALM 1*1 3rd oMO to A Bridge Too at cost (4) 4000/40 RBOAW 19 (A WalXsr) u Hammond 5-7-12 J Qtete 96 14 084 SPECIALIST OREAM 15 LCodd 82 VSmBhll Quantity Suuayor. 181 hem Addton, 12-1 Kay Largo, 141 others. Nontagtam (61, good). Z1NJAAL 71 8th otlO to Toff winner. 15 2200 HIGH 16 CGorman 82 (8) 053884 DRINKS PARTY 18 (D.F.8) (D Edge) J VWurtan 47-11 W Carson *69 SUCCESS W Sundae at Wcwettampton (51. good to aott). Emm* O'Gorman 6 BETTING: 81 Sates Qrai, 9-2 Naseer. Drinks Party, 81 Commander, 81 Boating Line. Grey 181 Talbh. 16 0000 GRUBBY 18 R HoOnsheed 7-13 A Garth (7)1 Trojan Lancer. 12-1 tear, Rsidaw. 41 Coastal Express, 82 Neat. 81 Sto Amato. 81 Spray Ol 4.15 THORNTONS HANDICAP 1991: 87-9 Carlisle Pericea rwi SMOKE N (33-1) J 11 Orcrtds, 8-1 Bum, Specials! Dream, 181 others. 2.30 UNIVERSITY OF HUMBERSIDE HANDICAP MB (£2.324: 1m4f) (8) (3-Y-O: E3J52: 1m If 207yd) (10 runners) FORM FOCUS 1 0014 MODESTO 11 (D.G.S) K CUnntoghanvBrown 4100 D Biggs (3) 3 1 421-510 HADAAD 18 (CJ=) (Maktoum Al Maktoum) A Scott 9-7 R Swlnbum 95 TO W TROJAN LANCER beat Azubah 2W in Akura si Carfste (Im 41, firm) hancficap. NASEER 9mw 2.45 BASS LEISURE S1A SELUNG 2 -000 MIDDAY SHOW 25 IF) J Jenkins 584— Q Baxter B 2 W 54)202 PYARE SQUARE 18 (B) (P Mellon) I Balding 90 S ©"Gorman (3) 94 CadIsle (Im 4f, good to firm) handicap last season. awarded the race attar Mahing a rk 2nd to Adml- (2-Y-O: £2,441: 6f) 3 044 M1ZYAN 9 J Banka 493 LNtotoon(5)6 4-421 MILANESE 28 (F) (8k MeAiptoa) D Moriey 90 M EBrch 87 FLOATING UNE ah hd 2nd at 12 to Sctoartop to rab Secret In 18runnar Laloastar (Im 2f, good) STAKES (16) a (id) W 4 0052 MR WISHING WELL 25 (CJ3.5) R WBiflms 8811 hancfica 21. ultimata atari. penultimate (tart 0201-05 AL RAMIS 15 (S) (M Otwttte) C Brittain 8-13 M Roberta 91 p hare (Im good) on pan handhwp on GREY COMMAND- 1 3201 TOFF SUNDAE 11 28 SPORT THE TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 v ^ MARC UPLAND TENNIS Odds against Somerset in cup semi-final Grunfeld Kent seek restart keeps to their run as a steady nerve one-day wonders By Barry Wood rri AMANDA Grunfeld showed commendable resilience in By Alan Lee. cricket correspondent surviving a match point 10 defeat Agnes Blumberga 4 -6 KENT were the acknowl- Somerset. Following a week- shire have now played in. and , 7-6. 6-4 and reach the second edged masters of one-day end off to attend the birth of won, two in the past fouryears. round of the Dow Classic at cricket in the late 1 970s. a title his first child, he returns to The unexpected common de- Edgbaston yesterday. they grudgingly bequeathed lead them today against a nominator is that both finals Grunfeld. aged 25. from to Somerset For the past nine team who are arguably the occurred in West Indies tour- Lancashire, has always years, however, a hiatus in the most confident and versatile in ing seasons, a fact which exhib- ited fighting qualities and affairs of both counties has the country. leaves Malcolm Marshall yesterday she also showed extended to the point where Hampshire beat both Lan- among the most frustrated of intelligence in identifying why their supporters can barely cashire. the holders, and Es- overseas players. she was struggling against • recall success, and no longer sex. the favourites, at the This void in His wonderful an opponent who produced expect iL The renaissance group stage, and never had id career was one motivation for some superb attacks and short could begin today. engage top gear in swamping Marshall signing a new con- vol- leys that kept low on the While Kent should start as Middlesex in the quarter- tract with Hampshire and, grass. realised 1 was backing favourites to reach the final of final. As they are also top of despite suffering recently with tiff the ball, and thought that if the Benson and Hedges Cup the county championship, both ankle and back strains, J was going to lose I'd ar by beating Surrey at Canter- their position at 6-4 favourites he wfi] be operating at full kaa lose going forward and doing bury. Somerset are disrina for the cup is hard to dispute. throttle today against a Som- right thing.” underdogs against Hamp- Three of today's semi-final- erset batting order in which the Grunfekl said. shire at Southampton. This, ists have failed to win any of Mark Lathwell’s precocious Jo Duric also enjoyed however, has been their role the three leading one-day talent receives another big- a good day. defeating Jessica since the cup programme competitions since 1983. In occasion test Emmons, of the United States. began and their relish for it is the interim, Hampshire have Hampshire also hope to b-3. 6-1. Durie dropped evident won them all and form indi- have Paul Terry back, follow- only point in the first Nobody can claim that Kent cates they will be increasing ing a dislocated thumb, to one three and a solid serve, are back to the strength of their new-found familiarity resume his opening pairing games combined with cxcellem cover- their palmy days, when with cup finals at Lord's on with the prolific Tony Middle- ing at the net. ensured that she Luckhurst, Asif Iqbal. Knott July 1 1. ton. Richard Snell and Neil and Underwood were the Having failed to reach a M aliender, key bowlers for was always in control. Other Britons were not so central characters in the single final in the first 25 years Somerset, have been passed fit successful. Sarah Loose capture of seven oneday tro- of knockout cricket. Hamp- to play. more 6-4 phies between 1972 and Both Kent and Surrey, how- was beaten 6-3. by Kris- 1978. Equally, when Somer- ever, will be without front-line tine Radford, the Australian, Clare Wood lost 6-2. set won five competitions in TEAMS seam bowlers. Chris Penn has and b-7. 6-1 Swardt the succeeding five years, already been ruled out by to Mariaan de ol Richards, Botham and Gar- At Canterbuiy Kent, for whom Alan South Africa. Tennis ner gave them a charismatic KENT [tram) M R Benson (captain). Igglesden is doubtful, and The Women’s Asso- Ward, Twtar. Hooper. T R N R C L ciation is planning to enny oui power the present side cannot G R Cowdrey. M V Herring. S A Marsh. Surrey's South African pace hope to approach. M A Eaffoam. R M EVocn. R P Davis. bowler. Rudi Bryson, will be a survey of its members ova P M J McCague. A Iggtesdsn. C drug resting. Following Steffi The transitional years have Penn absent with sore shins. been long and, in each case, On the slow Canterbuiy Grafs recent assertion that sht SURREY (Iromi A J Slav/an (captain). knows of nobody who has rebirth has been painfoL Som- D J Bcfcnoll. A D Brawn. M A Lynch. pitch, however, the most influ- Slicing his way through the showers: Edberg on his way to victory over Curren at Queen's Club yesterday G P Thorpe. M Ward. M A Retham. M P been checked. Twenty' per cen erset still bear the scars of the ential bowlers are likely to be a Bcknel, N M Kendrick. J Being, J E seeded turmoil at Taunton that Benpmn. R E Bryson. J D Robinson good bit slower than Biyson of both and unseedec players should be random!) preceded the exit of all three and both teams plan to At Southampton at all tournaments aiu. luminaries, while Kent’s last include two spinners. Kern, Edberg displays perfect timing rested HAMPSHIRE (Irani: Mchoias two captains have both been M C J who have played with such penalties for those guilty o (captain). V P Terry, T C Middleton. K D drug misuse arc severe. controversially removed. James. D l Gcw«. R A Smtti. M D Marshall conviction throughout the JR r^ta^A N Aymea. S 0 UdaC R J Mara. Steroid users are suspender Oddly enough, the first of competition, should win again By Alix Ramsay don, he showed he had lost Looking towards Wimble- are running well for him. months, with lift them. Chris Tavarfi. who but, though logic insists that none of his guile or power. don. Edberg has put the There are not many guys who for nine a SOMERSET (from). C J Tavart. M N be- can at the moment ban for a second offence played in Kent's last Benson LatfweV. A N HaytusL R J Harden. R J Hampshire wflT* prevail at STEFAN Edberg may not be Both men seemed to enjoy the disappointments of Paris beat him Bartlett. K H MacLeay, Rose. R P Snell. to give a sampk and Hedges Cup final win 14 G D Southampton, beware tire the most flamboyant character chance to get back on their hind him and is relishing the bur I think I’m one of them." Refusal H R J Trump . A R Caddick. NA Malender. N - carries a nine-month suspen years ago, is now in charge of 0 Bums. A P van TrtOSl rampant underdogs. on the tennis circuit, but he favourite surface, and both coming weeks. Only Gve matches were has a sense of timing most paraded their repertoire of “I’m feeling fresh. I know completed yesterday, but it sion and the use of stimulant showmen would die for. touch and style at the net. I'm playing well and I love was one too many for Danny leads to counselling with u six As he served his fifth ace It was onjy in the tie-break playing on grass," he said. Sapsford, who double-faulted month suspension for a fourtl sees Sussex to final out 6- offence. Lenham reach the that the break- “Kerin is a good grass-court his way to defeat, going past Kerin Curren to Edberg made third round ofthe Stella Aitois through. finally taking the set player and r knew 1 had to 1. 6-4 to Amos Monsoorf. The survey may also sed on whether all semi - By Our Sports Staff tournament, winning 7-6. 6- with a simple volley as Curren play pretty well to beat him, so It was not a good day for the decisions 2. the thunderstorm that had lost his footing. As the I am satisfied. You always foe! British player. A break down finalists and finalists shouk- NJ Lenham c Hughes b Graveney . .. g (Durham won progress until tea, when they been threatening all afternoon thunder rumbled ominously. better when you've played in the second set. the rain be tested and whether the lit HARROGATE F D Stephenson b Smith 0 toss): Sussex beat Durham by were 95 for two after 25 M P Speight c Parker b Hughes 71 hit the Queen's Club, sending Edberg managed to keep his your first match." started, but not even the delay of banned drugs should b fP Mooras c Brwrs b Smrth 3 runs overs. the occupants of the packed grip on the match while While Edberg is hard at could save him. He played a extended to match that of th ... 37 -A P Weto ibw b Smitti 43 But they collapsed to the B T P Donelan run out - 0 stands flying for cover. Curren was having trouble work in rain-sodden Earis little better on the resumption International Olympic Core IDKSadBbuy - took four wick- pace of and notout 22 With the question being keeping his balance on the Court Jim Courier is taking a but Mansdorf, the former mittee. NEIL Lenham medium Lenham Jones not out 10 AN RESULTS: First round: h Radford (Austl 1 inspire hostility of Ste- EMras(b5,lb6 w5,nb2) 18 whether he could beat both his turf. But serving for the well-earned rest at home in the Israeli soldier, wasted little ets for 32 in 1 overs to the Franklyn 1 S Loosenwre (GB). B-3. 64,.jrx*N?|GBU Sussex to a 37-ran win over phenson, who mopped up the Total (8 wkK, 55 ovarn) - 214 opponent and the weather. match, Edberg found himself United States. But the thought time in giving him his march- J Emmons (US). 6-3. 6-1. L Allen iUSI DT 6-J FALL OF WICKETS: 1-38, 2-50, 3-53. 4-53. Burqin (US). . 64. SSamprass (US) lx in the first semi-final innings to finish with three for Edberg kept everyone — in- two break points down, with ofa rejuvenated and refreshed ing orders. Durham 5-57. B-1 S3, 7-154.8-189. Dcvhos (Bef). 6-7. 6-1 6-4 K Po (US) a I for |lsr) 7-6, 6-4. Savchenko- Nbfcn of the TOcon Trophy at the 20. BOWUNG: Hughas M-21-2. Wood 10-0- cluding Curren — on tenter- the rain spotting the court and Courier holds no fear RESULTS: RfM round: A Mansdnrt W LudtoU (US). L 48-0: 11 -2-34-3: Qawnay 11-2-41-2; D Sapsford (GB). 6-1. 6-4. T Woodbndgc (Latvia) bl C Benjamin (USl 6-i. 6-2 Harrogate festival. Smith was left stranded with Smtti hooks. Curren proved a time running out Edberg. r Balnbndge 841-25-0: Jones 7-0-34-0. (Aus) b» D Mjrcekno [Bi]. 6-7. 6-3. 6-1. F temesvau (Hunt bi A Henr«A£aon (USl. 6- Sussex were put in and 35 not out as Durham, miss- DURHAM difficult challenge, and while He seemed to take an age to "He’s on doud nine right Montana (US) M D Nestor iCanj. 4-6. 7-6. 6, 6-4. 6*2 J Samrock (USi Dt K Adam . 6- 6- 0: T Martin (USi bl D Pate (US). 36. 63. (USI . 7-6. 1 . J Byme lAusl w L FkM iAd to 57 for five from ing Botham, who is nursing a W Laridng c Jones b Donetan 20 it may be seven years since he reach match point but when it now.” he said. “But he’s reduced 1 Second round: Edberg 7257 2 Washn Akram . 19 216 10 21.00 — '32 . 6 10 3 508 121 2 784 4-4t» who won the title in 1931, nail-bitingly dose match at foiled to make the best use of when Carl Hogg broke off s ' G A Good) 4 4 0 286 160 7150 i 1 MD Manna* 1003 2b 283 13 21 /b 8-58 I — U '33. said. I last compet- steady supply possession picket i 4 7-105 — and saw a young Hoyiake week are the of scrum and Chris Gray D 1 Gower 6 7 1 4E6 155 71 Ol SJ E Brawn 1983 33 729 33 22.09 3 M ACrawlev 6 11 4 492 160* 7028 2 2 JHCMds 221.1 81 554 25 22.16 582 2 — cuckoo and there was a lot of ing, along with Judy Oliver, from a pack in which Chris up to score. N Taytar 4 — 6 SDUdal ... 234 83 533 24 22^0 8-50 2 — R 13 m 90 6355 SCORERS: New South Wales County 470 159* 67.14 2 2 A SnWh 104.4 ^{ 2AJ 12 2250 3-53 — — wildlife and wild flowers." their captain. Seven of the Gray and Damian Cronin at 6 g 2 M Tries: Hearty. Biert Conversion: Mrodff 1 — 343 4-20 — — 1 153* 75 30 15 Javed Mfondad . .. . 4 5 267 66 K M Curran 1223 2256 in is playing, last performed Saunton. north Devon, home side are with welL Scotland: Trias: wan. MJUtfd Townsend PA Coney fi 7 3 255 112* 63.75 1 — PCamck. 195 53 441 19 2321 b-58 1 — — still renowned for its wild only Elaine Farquharson de- Cronin in particular ad- Gray Conversions, Dock 3). Pure*) M R RanpraKash. .. 7 8 1 503 233 8287 RDStemp 1183 22 351 lb 23.40 6437 2 1 goal: Dods Dropped god: Townsend. 1 151.3 25 486 24 8-66 1 G R ContlrBy . . 8 9 3 377 127 6283 3 ROB Crolt 20 30 J flowers and this is the time of ciding it was too much of a vanced his case for a recall to C i 11 24 4-70 — — NEW SOUTH WALES COUNTRY: AJSiewai .. 6 9 1 49H 190 6225 2 1 R &shop 109.5 26 36 year to see them at their best strain so soon after the Curtis the full Scotland side. The Munday: D Earp. G Thompson. P OBr*? _ PWG P&VET a 12 1 666 124 6054 3 2 D JCapd 131.4 28 34b 14 24.71 5-61 1 — M Crawford. J Lancaster. A Etoert (rep: V 1 . 324 13 24 — .. . 7 13 710 117 59 16 1 6 C WTayiw 105 .X) 32 450 lists The club handbook the Cup. London Scot together with f 41 1 Dataware). C CouWtart. P Palmer, . B C Broad . a 1 414 117 59 14 2 NAMaHender ... 115 22 374 IE 24*1 WW varieties of orchid to seen with Gray and, towards Whiteman. Whyte CobcroW.* N J Lenham 4 7 1 353 3ZT 5853 1 1 M Davies. - 167.4 50 409 lb 2556 4-75 — be Less exhausted, and a the end of S (rep N Nowtan. S Jones. S Hearty. 5 Tafool N Shahid 5 4 0 2.33 IS? 5825 1 1 T A Mumon 203.1 tiU 490 19 25 78 5-44 1 — and recommends keeping an point to prove, will be the three the game, Andy Macdonald, 11 140* 4-31 — SCOTLAND: (Gala, captain!. K J Bamon 7 3 4«4 58.00 1 3 N F WSSams 186.4 31 548 21 36 09 — P Dods \ Ripley 24 52.' 6-91 eye out for goat's beard, wild Curtis reserves who won helped Scotland win a massive Melrose, rap- 1 . . . Cup 6 a 3 287 104 57 40 1 PASmnh .. 146 20 3835 2 — Stanger (Hawick). D Bain f . . . 13 3-9 (MeWMj DMJoras .. U J 57* 157 57 40 1 3 DGCort .. .. 1023 17 320 12 26 66 — — mignonette, fumitory, moon- their national titles last month: amount of ball at the lineout Logan. SWng County). G ShM • T m Moody . . .. 5 9 1 458 1 1B 5725 3 1 83 23 28H 10 38 BO 5-15 1 — D Stark (Ayd. G Townsend iGatUf wort and red bartsia, Janice of Scotland. Macdonald, N V Areghi 7 10 4 334 104* 55.66 1 2 PJ Newport 216.1 50 608 22 27 63 5-22 3 — among Moodie, who joined the MWard (London Scottshr. P Jon* M A Aihertcn . 7 12 4 440 140* 55 00 1 3 OJ Mi»r«s 2062 47 703 25 2812 5439 1 others. Julie Foster, of Wales and touring party only on Sunday, (Gloucester). I Corcoran (Gaiai. A W; KDJaitea . 7 y 1 440 116 55 00 1 3 MAEatvam 1B8.1 38 480 17 2823 4-67 — — iGtegaw High/Krtwitldet. C ornithologists Power, Ireland. looked P JPncharo - b 0 a 436 133 5*50 2 2 Mwaninson 2085 37 878 ?4 2825 5-16 1 The and bota- Eileen Rose of impressively mobile, . i 101 17 5-18 AJ Lamb 5 a 360 5428 i 2 P J Hartley 1572 JU 481 3829 1 nists will be in their element, They will be joined by Maiy and may have prompted the M E Wajqh . . . 8 H 2 324 120 54 00 1 2 PJ Martin 1023 33 397 14 28 35 2-26 — 4 1 134* i — 5-74 though possibly a mite too the Irishwoman. selectors to C C Lews 5 aw 5225 C C Lena . . . 147.4 24 426 15 20 40 1 McKenna, consider him for Cronin: back to his best Retarea: F Van Westhutsen (Sydney! 1 1 RfcracR^a 6 9 41B 172 5225 1 M V Rwmng . . 103 73 ?86 10 2850 3-50 — i J E Emtxrev 7 b 0 260 1U2 52.00 2 NV Radford . . 166 34 534 18 29.66 688 2 GFowtec .. 4 r 1 310 10b 51.66 1 2 ARGacMk* .. 192 5 33 610 20 30.50 6-73 1 GDUoytJ B 13 4 452 132 5022 2 2 iDKSanstwy.. 1831 35 709 23 3052 569 1 R R MonUmrrwne 6 9 2 350 103* 50JO 1 1 WKM Benjamin 131.3 30 374 12 31.16 3-29 92* — PBatnbnube . . 8 12 b 345 4928 2 JP Taylor 183 4 32 627 20 31 35 4-75 — 1 . . All J 1215 31 31.70 4-47 for J £ Moms ... K H 0 391 120 4887 MCJBal. 317 10 systems go Sunday launch at Doncaster DLHaynes 5 7 1 385 114 47 50 1 2 ITBottiem . 123 35 351 11 31.90 3-47 — 61* — . bcamam-ii-Haq .... 5 8 4 1HB 47.00 2 J A Afford 1032 25 353 11 32.09 6-68 1 I — 14 1 46 71 3 A P van Traoffl ...... 33 11 54 1 MP Maynard. ... . 6 8 32 HH 356 32 b-48 SUNDAY racing with legal government poured cold wat- an for racegoers reject the excuses 4 46.50 1 1 Mutaify 202.5 51 16 3251 3-29 — opportunity regular i V A Richards... .. 3 0 186 127 AD 525 betting, the crock of gold at Racing er A J Moles - .6 12 1 S10 122 4636 T 5 C A Cora .. 180 40 532 16 33.23 5-58 T — Richard Evans, on a recommendation from and racing enthusiasts to trotted out by his officials ta Britain's Ccrrun/ea Oy Lochnoixl 53UTCE. TCmSuB the end of racing Correspondent, reports on the home affairs select com- send a dear and powerful not changing the law. rainbow, moved a step nearer Jockey Club plans for Brit- mittee suggesting reform to message to Parliament." he Coral will be offering prices yesterday when the Jockey ain's first Sunday meeting betting legislation. said. on the Sunday races the First blood to Brown Gub announced plans for a The Jockey Gub, a bastion “We want the government previous day. On the Sunday rjmpioi seven-race card Doncaster at of conservatism and reaction- to be fully aware of die all bets will be taken at Tote shire. whom he left last SIMON Brown, the Durham season on July 26. positive view in contrast to ary forces down the years, publicity which this event has odds and passed to Tote CRICKETLINE fast bowler, won the summer’s to return to his native Although on and off-course Ladbrokes — and the Doncas- therefore decided THE ONLY SERVICE PUTTING to opt for generated, and for them to Credit’s Wigan headquarter? INTO CRICKET crick- northeast. be MONEY BACK first Whittingdale young cash betting will not ter executive. direct action — normally the recognise and understand the for inclusion in the respective- eter award yesterday. From Brown took the award — allowed at the Sunday meet- The Betting. Gaming and tactics and [EXCLUSIVE LIVE language of the reason behind it. We want pools. the season to the eligible to England-qualified ing. punters will able to prevents the start of be Lotteries Act, which revolutionary and radical ministers to be left in no Five of the races will I COMMENTARY claimed players who were under telephone bets or end of May, Brown 23 from home cash betting on Sundays, eff- The product is to be ap- doubt that the discrimination televised by Channel 4. whBe wickets at and had not played at interna- the track — using or ectively racing is 28 championship mobile means plauded although Nigel which horse racing now suf- seven sponsors — Coral B & H CUP 21.89 each and played a big tional level when the season conventional phones — to barred from attracting the Clark chairman of the club's fers cannot be allowed to Cheveley Park Stud. theMff" part in Durham's first four- began — from Shuan UdaL of bookmakers, or bet the previ- public on a day that is Sunday 0891 - 567+ racing campaign continue.” On Sunday. Tripleprint. [ day victory — overGlamorgan Hampshire, and Ian Salis- ous day. focreasingh' the fevourite lei- committee, was ra 311 HANTS quick warn Kenneth Clarke, the home gin Atlantic, the Europe | bury, Sussex. After being continually sure day of the week. Britain at Cardiff — with match of yesterday that the Doncaster secretary, has been invited to Breeders’ Fund and Weather- KENT. Chris Lewis, the England thwarted by Westminster and is the only leading racing could figures of eight for 1 36. meeting not be a mirror attend the Sunday meeting. bys — are helping to provide this period, BrtrttaL all-rounder, who sustained a government, the Coral 1st nation in the world without image of a normal day’s wiD During Whether he accepts or not, he £B 1 ,000 prize-money that toe injury during the first Test Sunday race meeting is a Sunday racing. racing. aged 22. dismissed more bats- would be wise to note the be added to stakes. The Dw*. has declared himself fit for triumph for the progressive Three private members’ “The fact men in five matches for Dur- that there can be ground swell of support for caster executive is going^” Nottinghamshire’s match thinking of the Jockey Gub. bills have foiled to change the no proper ham than he had in four on-course betting Sunday racing — lucked up of its way to make tne Sunday Pakistanis today. Coral — which has taken a law more recently, this. seasons with Northampton- with the and. the ensures The meeting is by statistical research — and a family day out. - f n U TIMES THE WEDNESDAY JUNE 1 0 1992 SPORT 29 Real are left reeling OLYMPIC GAMES Swedish Manchester's bid Barcelona police s to crack committee aims ,st^ double down to attract the best From John Goodbody "erv, in MALMO By Ian Ross THE Malmd police will MANY of the worid’s most Manchester has moved from ecstatically stop any of convict- celebrated architects are ex- delivering proposals to the the 200 ed English troublemakers pected to submit designs for government to being in a Grom entering Sweden for the proposed Manchester position where we are build- the European football Olympic stadium complex ing and creating the great championship. Per Swartz, following the announcement core facilities to stage the received the assistant chief consta- ofan international marketing Otyrnpic Games" ble for said public order, competition yesterday. The competition will place 4 yesterday From Rupert that the police The competition, launched emphasis on architectural ex- Widdicombe inBarcelona had received names and de- jointly by Manchester City cellence, and a design panel is tails . of hooligans from night Council and the Manchester 10 be appointed under the ON SUNDAY the the international respect de- police in London. “Under J " will -V*. of Barcelona erupted Olympic bid committee, chairmanship of David .. -streets nied to Franco's regime. The our legislation, we do have Manchester will Plowright, the former chair- in celebration for the second rivalry did not die with Fran- the power to stop people ensure that start buildmg on a man of Granada Television A.' -ame in three weeks. Perhaps co in 1975. ReaTs dominance who are likely to cause trem- be able to east of the and a member of the .50.000 people descended, as of the league in recent years ble.’’ be said. 121-acre site to the Otyrnpic within days of the bid committee. i* tradition demands, on the has clinching the tide However, the supporters city centre made | i">4 drinking International Otyrnpic Com- “Manchester has a determ- Canaletas fountain of national champions the who are expected here for I !| Septem- ination to be a leading Euro- / o i ‘ on the Ramblas, the city’s ultimate prize. Barcelona’s the match against Den- mittee’s derision in • pean city of the 21 st century." .famous tree-lined avenue, to dearvictory in the league last mark tomorrow will have a ber of next year on the host ' * celebrate a Spanish league year made victory in the Eu- more friendly reception city for the Games in the year Plowright said. Mr “It has a :fo. .,'•>#/ AJi over the city, as loud as the Since 1978. Barcelona um. an indoor training centre to an Olympic centre that wilt 1 : today begin festivities to iV /victory songs and ritual deri- have won the league three and a commercial and leisure carry forward Britain’s reput- entertain supporters. Three sion for haled Madrid, came times, the cup on four occa- complex. ation to attract the best de- marquees selling only > in world to - chants of Tenerife, Tenerife, sions and the league cup & “We are issuing a challenge signers the !i cheap beer on the day of the Tenerife. twice. Their record in Europe \-m •r rg S to the world’s best designers produce buildings of flair and 1 match, have been erected. • grace.” r. f Barcelona have a lot to is also impressive, it jf and builders to create the ^. the dub Discos and food counters : i facilities Redwood MP. the thank the Canary Island's taking part in European com- tngtaif«L world’s best sports in John ,** *** have also been - *t| responsible for inner : warn for. Just of the context of what will be- minister V out rde- petitions every season since it Mrs Gunn Hanell, who the zone, Tenerife of Europe’s major cities, said: “Rarely has there > gation were began in 1957-58. But de- chairs the Malmd sport and come one *• 2J ' commercial been such an opportunity for v two down at home with 23 spite winning the European recreation committee, said: leisure and ' - minutes gone in the last game Cup Winners’ Cup once and “We are going to have a big centrepieces," Bob Scott, the private sector to use its of the season and Real’s 23rd the Uefa Cup three times, the party and ajumbo time.” chairman of Manchester flair to transform an area of dereliction into a world :>1(.. title seemed a certainty. European Cup had until re- OBe MoDer, an official of 2000. said. i win the focus the showpiece." ), ^ At the same time at the cently eluded them. Real Ma- the local organising com- “It be of ,. Nou stadium, drid's mittee. added: believe world during the 2000 The government has :s Camp with success in the com- hS 4? “We • i their hopes of the league petition this event wfll create a good Games and will transform agreed to contribute a £55 <„ i„ and Barcelona’s •* seemingly forgotten, Barcelo- defeat atmosphere. When there is both the international stand- million package towards the -.v!,,-'; in two finals, once on I y" a good atmosphere, you do the regeneration programme in- . .• na were relaxed. They were penalties, made winning the ing of Manchester and j - not have violence. It full of confidence against Ath- European Cup of supreme is lives of millions of people who cluding help with the cost of when supporters have live the purchasing and preparing •, i, , laic Bilbao, having won the importance. in and around city. 1|L nothing to that prob- European Cup at Wembley Repression and Catalan do “In a few short months. the Olympic stadium site. lems arise.” * • r and having scored ten goals nous have turned Barcelona £ It is a new approach, the :in the two games since. into one of the world’s largest effectiveness of which win , Hopes of the double returned football dubs, turning over POLO On the road to Olympic success: Wallace has had a change of heart be scrutinised by English with Tenerife's first goal and more than £30 minion a year. ; observers who are optimis- . . when they scored a second It has a membership of over tic but not complacent that ' third in . and a the space of a 110,000, including Pope , n the incidents of the 1988 the celebrations Azzurra hold off I minute John Paul II. and some five Wallace sets tough target championship — when 800 ‘ began. The dry's authorities that . ; limes number are said to people, including 394 Brit- have to deride where and be wanting to join. There ons, — . ^ By David Powell athletics correspondent were arrested win when to present the trophy. were, at the last count, I over not be repeated. 1 » Art Scene surge Around a million people took 500 supporters groups ANDREA Wallace, the team manager, has assured I have got a lot of hard work This liberal policy is en- ’ . » the streets to celebrate the worldwide. dorsed by the tocal police, mother of two who is not her that she can arrive two to do.” By John Watson ' “ European Cup triumph. The Barcelona is not just a foot- which has 1.159 officers on . \ t v impressed by the thought of days before her event There are six weeks before ' traditional venue, the square ball dub; it has one of the standby. Their principal competing in the Olympics, is ABison said yesterday that the Olympics begin and the THE tournament for the me- In the Archie David Cup at where the local and regional country's best basketball concern is the transport of '''!: to give them a try. After win- all prospective team members International Amateur Ath- dium-goal Royal Windsor Smith's Lawn. Windsor. J ". govmment buildings face teams, a handball team of about 4.000 England fol- ~' ning tiie British 10,000 me- had been written to and given letic Federation’s (1AAF) Cup. for which 20 teams are Black Bears beat the special- each other, could not cope international standing and lowers who are staying in t tres trial in Sheffield on the option to arrive in Barce- technical department will not phis the deployed in six leagues, ists (received 2) 8-7, and with the crush of more than many other squads, inducting Copenhagen, same Friday, Wallace was not sure lonajust before their competi- have time to rewrite its rule number of Danish support- opened yesterday at Smith’s Travis Dale (received b) beat 10.000 people and the pres- ice hockey and even roller that she wanted to go. Her tion. “We are giving them limiting to 11 the number of ers across the 1 1-mile wide ikwn, Windsor, with a league Junko Koshino. 5b-l. Hill , sure from the 50.000 that hockey. coach and bey friend, John flexibility, but have suggested spikes on each shoe. But clari- Oresund. six encounter between Art Samuel beat Magna Carta Futbol Barcelona . 'filled the surrounding street Club is _ Hambty. has persuaded her the dates we think they should fication is needed. Colin Jack- After the game, the pres- Scene (received and (received lb). 7-6 b and ' For Barcelona, in Olympic also a “democratic dictator- .'V travel out,” Allison saicL son and Kriss Akabusi have sure on the ferries wffi be Azzurra, who won 8-6h. EUerston beat Glengarriff 9- : that she should. ' j‘ year, nothing could be sweet- ship'’ of impressive propor- , details are This game, played on slug- 7. * J Wallace’s decision to join WaBace’s 32min 21.61 sec been using an Adidas shoe immense and er their footballing dou- tions. The president. than dub stfll gish turf, progressed in a K Liz McColgan and Jill Hunt- in Sheffield, a personal best with what the company des- being finalised because Archie David Cup SPECIALISTS: , hie and the humiliation of Josep Nunez, shocked Catalo- late THE 1. M Emerson (R): 2. D , the strongest is still 84 seconds slower than cribes as “22 protrusions but Denmark was a re- somewhat follow-my-leader er completes Dswnsy (1 3, S Estrada (3); back. C Real Madrid. The rivalry nia on the eve of the Europe- J; . placement for Yugoslavia. fashion. Azzurra’s , ^ central Walton Maatais(1). * ' " British trio in any event McColgan’s quickest “She not spikes". ‘with Real and the reasons for an Cup final by tearfully However, it is planned for combination. Juan Jose BLACK BEARS: 1. U Sdwmsnbach (it Wallace contest- was not excited about her M ike Gee, the IAAF techni- Diaz Though has 2. M Mftw (3): 3. S Barnard (2): back. 6 Barcelona’s massive follow- announcing he would not be the Danes to travel by train Alberdi and William Lucas, ed world cross-country and performance,” Hambty said. cal officer, said yesterday that t in standing for re-election next TR?V1S 1, tagiam (D): Z. ing are both rooted Spam’s • up to Helsingbord and then put their side into a prompt DALE: 1*1 P C “She feels she has to be in his recommendation to the road race championships, Matthews (2J; 3. C Hcrto (ST. back. J recent history. year. across the two-mile wide first chukfca lead. and was a silver medal win- shape to run 31:30. otherwise chairman of the technical togram(l). During the 39 years of Appointing his successor channel to Helsingor in Art Scene’s five-handicap JUNKO KOSHINO: 1. P Stevenson (1): 2. V for ner in the latter last year, this she is wasting her time at ihe committee would be a A Bomtod A Buchanan (4); bach, General Franco’s dictator- does not. as it would in Eng- Denmark, the setting for (3h 3 G pivot man, Rodolfo Ducos, Bartered). win be her first international Olympics.” The job of con- meeting with all leading Shakespeare's play. ship, regional autonomy was land, mean merety convening Ham- opened their account with MAGNA CARTA: 1, R Laauas l-ffc Z. M track championship. vincing her has been done. “I manufacturers. “There is still Webb (2): 3. J Hornwol back. J ' Catalonia and die board. Only Catalonia’s leu The English will go dir- (ft stripped from two fine galloping goals in the Kawnaoh (0t She declined selection for think I can knock a minute uncertainty on the interpreta- ect by ferry and hydrofoil its language banned. In those president and the mayor of third chukka but by half-time HILL SAMtfeL: 1. L TcmBnaon (ft 2. R tion of the rule the last R t w back. votes the 1990 European champi- off what I did in Sheffield,” and from Malmo to Theme (4); 3 Mat he * (ft J days, when El Barca beat Barcelona require more the scoreboard showed Lancaster •onships, did not try for the Wallace, aged 25, said. thing we want is a big scene at Copenhagen. (ft. -Real Madrid, Franco's fa- to cany an dection than the Azzurra up 5-3 b. BLERSTOht 1, M Renting (ft 2.BWabb world championships last Her reaction to the Otym- a major event,” Gee said. Only about 2,500 Eng- d>: 3. 1 Goiid S); back. J Gaunt (2). voured team, it was as much a president of the football dub. However, in the fourth, the SLBfeARRIff: 1. D Fernanda* (1); 2, T year, and spumed an Olym- pic dream was unusual, to say “It may be an advantage to land supporters have victory against dictatorship And no other city in Catalo- match brightened up and Art Roach (ft 3 P Mcfldowia back, J Berjy pic marathon place. One con- the least Excited? “No, not athletes, but if certain config- bought tickets for their and hated centralisation as nia has a voting population Scene went ahead for the first Royal Windsor Cup cern relating to Barcelona really. I don’t know why,” she urations ruin a trade we team’s opening European .league points. greater than the membership time. The last chukka opened AZZURRA: 1, S MaraagRa (ft 2. W Lucas chivvy- championship game 3 J Diaz Afcerd back, Lad Mfbrd was the length of time she said. “I think I will get more would not want them 7-6 in Azzurra’s favour (ft (ft - Rears frre successive wins of the dub. the at h Hawenff). £t*/l excited when the Olympics ing them up for one-hun- against Denmark, FA might be away from home, and ended with them in a I b- ART SCENE 1 . 8 Hooka (1): & C AOdnaon H [ Bin the European Cup in the said yesterday. t get nearer, but at the moment dredth of a second.” (4): 3 R Ducoo (ft back, W Crtsp (4). CO 1950s leant Spain some of European results, page 29 but Joan Allison, the British goal advantage. BOWLS ROWING • ~ — . -V'-'Vi=rv. . — SPANISH LEAGUE: Red Soctodad 1. •, BASEBALL CYCUNG 1 : Zaragoza 1 Real Mafiorca Downing shock Espeflo: Real . Cyclists may record Real Ovtedo 3. Raal Burgos 1; Atttueo Argentina 2; NATIONAL MontrealI Expos 6. LEAGUE: Madrid 4. Albacete 1; Osaateia 0. New York Meta 0; PNtodetofea PWffles 7. Deporth® Corofla 1: Valencto 1. LopnVtes chasing Pittsburgh Prates 0; Cindnnaii Reds 4. i* Ten Brits 3. Rea) Madrid cldiz 1. appeal 1; Z San Francisco Grants 1; San Dtsgo victoiy over England Sporting GQ6n 1; Raal VaOadofid 1 . SevtSe Padres Houston Astros 2; Adams (Banane-MET): 4, J Cloy Britain’s hopes of gaining two a ft Barcelona 2. Athletic Bilbao 0. Hnal i Breuss 4, Los Angelas Oodgsrs Z G Cottman (Rale^jh): 6, B Bwns (PCA). ad third win South Africa appear more positions (38 matches): 1. Barcelona, 55; additional places for their COUNTRIES such as Argen- Chicago Cubs 5, St Louis Csrdtoais 2 (13 same time. Ovorat: 1, Lttywhlte. I2ftns; 1 2. Raal Madrid. 54: 3. AihtoUco Madrid. Ora), and 6-4. 2, Cottman, 118. 3. LucfcweO. 89; f. B lit Olympic track cycling team .V>TX)WN1NG their tina. which has only five dubs likely to head the section B $#*1 53. go for Smith (Banms-MET), 82; 5. N Hoban LEAGUE: Toronto Btos Joy* may be the subject of an . third successive win in this and 150 bowlers, should not table. AMBUCAN (PCA). BO; 6. Sutton. 78 16, Now York Yankees 3, Baltimore with New Zealand, who have GIRO ITALIA: 17th stags (203km - HANG GLIDING appeal to the British Olympic ^ year’s Cambridge May races, be able to hold its own Orioles 5. Boston Rad Sax £ Detroit Sondrio to Veree*): 1. M Ctpolinijn Shr which set lost once, narrowly avert- Tigers 9. Ctoratond tndtane 2. Milwaukee Association, has v which start today while Lady the likes of England, which only 15min 36cac; 2. A Beffi (rt); 3, G Flctenza Brewers 6. Oakland Athletes £ Chicago down firm qualifying stan- defeat when they (H); 4. S MortineDo (H). soma: 5. G Strezzer Margaret wfll be hoping to has 1,756 dubs and more ed a second tNWs See S, CaWomte Angato 1: Ka nsas (tt); B, J Sworads (CZ). si same time. dards for Barcelona next ' -hold last aty Royals 9. Mrmesota Twins 6: Texas „ on to the women’s to give than 50,000 players (David scored three on the end to British: 25, M Eton, same time. Overall: Rangers 14, Seettls Msrtnsre 3. ' I. M Indurein a0hr56nvn 24sec; 2. month. the Lents-Mays double Rhys Jones writes). beat Namibia 20-18. while (8p), C Chteppued (II). 2:14 behind: 3, R Conti Dave le Grys, ihe British 'for hopes the first time (a Corres- But. surprises have South Africa’s were (It). 3*7: 4. F Vona 0). 3:10: 5. A track coach, is pressing for pondent writes). abounded in the women's dented by Hong Kong, who Hamprtan (US). 326. 6. F Ctwcdoti 0). BOWLS 327. British: 39. H Lodge. Ihr 01 min the inclusion of Stewart . Starting order world championships at Ayr, won 27-14 after dropping 4SB8C bsritnd. 86. S Yales (GB). 1^6-03; Brydon and Anthony StirraL • Man the Argentinians were seven shots on the 18th end. AYR: Women's world ctamptonahtp: 111. M ElkotL 22724. and Pairs: Section A: Shah round: Ireland fat 1-WST both of whom were unplaced DIVISION: Downing. TrWty Haft, behind another in the triples Val Howell. Mary Dairies Swaziland. 25-23: New Zealand bt South HOCKEY Jww. lady Margaret, 1 at and 3rd TrWIy, African, 37-8. Zimbabwe bt Australia. 23- FOOTBALL John Pendry: leading in the last major pre-Olympic • -Ftonbrata, MnUn, Emmanuel Ca- yesterday. Cuella Abelle. and Rita Jones, of WaJes, are Kong, 20-16: Amaria GIBRALTAR: European Cup B dub 12: Canada bt Hong BRAZILIAN CHAMPIONSHIP: Semi- meetingintcuiigaiat Hyeres, iFrance..o-.. )». Church*, Sotwyn. Ftawifiam, bt Kenya, 23-20. European hang gliding championships:>s: Fired:Final: KelbumeKelburrie (Sco) 1,t, Gradela Bozzano de Ed- being dosely challenged in bl India. 26-12; Guernsey finals; Group A: Vasco da Gama 3 'OWi, St Catharine's, Robinson, Lady 19- Grammanans (Gib)(Gto) 1 (KaSxxno(Katoume won 3-2 . . Seventh round: Guernsey bl Canada. Paulo — Z Vac-Samsung, 41: 3. (Ospesi Honved. , section Scotland’s Joyce Santos 1 Ftemerao v SAo penalties). Third phry-ofhptay-oH: wards and Susana Ruiz de A by Argentina. 26-14; Zlrnbe- on i Truro place 14. America bt postponed. Group B: Botelogo 2, Cruzei- 38. Pirates plunder 4 1 . SBfono DIVISION: Demina «. Cteia, 30-10. Hong Kong India. Cardiff . Espoo Martinez, who had lost their Lindores, Janice Maxwell bwe bt Kenya. M to 1; Bragantino Corinthians 1. POLISH LEAGUE: Stask Wroclaw 1. Trinity 2. ftwM'. Ptenbrofca ft, i*< a«f3rd 26-11: Swaziland bl New Zealand. 16-14. Gomik Rugby league: Scarborough round, leg: Wiata Krakow Ch Ruch Chorzow 1. '. CMea, Jesus d. Sidney Suieex. first seven matches, held Eng- and Frances Whyte. 23-14. CAP CUP: Second second I-S"!** Ireland bt South Africa. Section B: Zabrze 0: Zawtss Bydgoszcz 4, Igloopor RUGBY UNION Pirates, are trying to •SjJnyn B. Una's, Retarttouse. Churchil H 22- VGsumu Postal (Ken) 0. Nskrvubo Vta who land for the first nine ends, In the pairs, the prospect of Sixth round: Botswana di England, 2; Zagtobie So&nowiec 0. Stal (Uga) 1 (am: 0-2); Shooting Stars Debica 13; torael bt Norte* island. 24-10: Zambia Motor Lutdn TAMWORTH. AustraBa: Tour match : raise £50.000 to retain their (Ngsna) 3. (ButWna Faso) Mieiec 0: Ofimpa Poznan 0. cut loose to record a an all-Channel Islands final USC8 0 (agg. Country XV 10, then bt Papua New Gustee, 20-16: Rfi bi Spain, ft Hub* Krakow 2. IKS Lsdr I; VWdzew New South Wales 4-i I. EtoKe (Congo) Gagnoe (Ivory place in the third division, «L Queens' D, Ctere I. Trinity 23-19, Scot- 0. SC 21-14 victory. when Guernsey 20-18; Ssmapore bt Jersey. 1. Zagtobie Lubin 0: Stal Stalowa Scotland 26. deserved ended lost Coast) 1 (egg: Oiamoni Yaounde Lodz 1, Qatari B. Trinity Hall RtzwMbam 0-3); , . land bt Namibia. 3S6. Seventh round: 1. Lech Poznan Leota Wsrezawa have sold Gary Pearce, a (Cam) l.Mbm^o Sports (Zaire] 1 (sgg 1- Wote Z Msroarat |v. Addenbrooka'a, Till. Bessdl both section A matches, but . Barbara Edna Watts bt England. 22-16. Norton islands poaitions goals 0. GKS Katowice Z Leadttg SPEEDWAY stand-off half, to Ryedale- ’•v 1; Mbwgo Quaify on away rote); O**11 * Church* , Si bt New bl RS, 22-13: Scotland Papua tetter 32 matches): 1 , Loch Poznan, 46; Z and Norma Shaw still hopeto Mavis Le Marquand and ASMO Gabon 3. Dregom Oueme (Benin) Catoa *. Dan*!. Gufeisa. 30-8: (areal bt Batsmans. 20-13; Widzew Lodz, 40. CHAMPIONSHIP: York for £7.000. ' (agg. 34)). Buerte (Tun) 4. Gomik Zabrze. 41; 3. HEAT FOUR-TEAM • roUTOU DIVISION: 3rd TrWty Sheila Syvret. of Jersey, still 0 AC 1st and quality for the gold medal Zambia bt Spam. 26-9; Smgapore bt Bistnta First leg: Exeter 42, House 21; M9ton Ndambour (Senegal) i (egg: 4-2); Sagre- ROMANIAN LEAGUE; Gloria 2. Rye -’teMMUM B, Magdalene B. Pembroke Section A: Sixth head section B. Namibia. 31-9. Triple* Constants 3. Brasov 1. Keynes 17. Mltdenhal IB. ' ^Ouaana' play-off. but New Zealand or da Esperanca (Ang) 3. Ferrowano Maputo Becwi 0: Parol », Sttwy Sussex M. Wolfson. round; Scotland IB. Kenyill. Wales 20, 5-4 Sportul StudenlBSC 0, Dacia Urarea Brslto HOMEFIRE LEAGUE: First division: “mjrifl B, Gfrton VI. (Mcc) 2 (agg &-S, FenOvano wm on D. Lady Margaret Ireland 6: Jersey 18. Stain 16. Australia Wolves Coventry 49. penalties); AMVahda (Libya) 3. ASM Oran 1: tiller Sfbto 3. Rapid Bueharesl 1; 41. THE^SfflfcTIMES 21. Botswana 18. America 22. Fiji 17 Corvintrt (Alfl) 1 I egg. 3-4, Ptointi Z ASA Electromures 0: Seventh round: Watos 16. Australia 15: Htfwdoara 3. Oteiul Galau i: Dinamo Swaziland 17, F* 13: Spam 21. Zamta TENNIS RIFLE SHOOTING HUNGARIAN LEAGUE: Ferencvaroa Z Bucharest 1. EJeetroputere Craiova 0; 13; America IS. Jersey 19: Botswana 24, Pecs MSC 0: BV5C 0. Raba Gyor 0. Vec 3. Politefnca Tmsoara 2, Argos Pwestl 1; FLORENCE: ATP man's tournament Kenya 13 Section B: Scflh round: Soulh MTK 0. Halados 2. Videoton-Waftham 4; Unlversitatea Craiova 5. Stesua Bucha- First round: L Matter (Br) bf C MazzatM L* k fitzw*am n. Emmanuel IV. Africa 38. Incha 6; England 23. Namibia 1 1; Vasas 1. Ufpest 1; Sotok 4. Vsszprwn &. rest 4. Leading positions (31 matches): (Swttz). 64, 7-6: M Koevormana (Noth) bt braal 23, Argentina IS, New ZeeUfld 20, Zataegerezeg 0. Kispesl-Honved 3; 1. Dinamo Bucharest. 51; 2. Stesua JF Alton (Sp). 64. 63. RACING IK Papua Now Guinea 11. Zxribabwe 24. Allan aims for double Dxwgvor 0. Tatacenya 2. Leading posit- Bucharest. 44: 3. 'UnwersHslea Craiova, ROSMALEN. Netherlands: Conttoental Guernsey 18: Hong Kong 29. Singapora Commentary ions (28 maichas)- 1. Ferancvares. 42pts. 35. eftamptoredtip*: Bret ' King's ff. Jssu* V. fa grass-court 7-5. F Witter ffr) bt P Baur (G^. 1 VI, Qinon H, tat and 3rd round: P**) BRITAIN'S Otyrnpic ream, prone rifle, which is his stron- Chesnokov (CIS). & Call 0891 500123 V. 8-4; Btoom 8s) bt A .Sff . TrWty Had IV, Ctere V. Seventh rowat Zsnbabwe 17. Argentine G 1 bl Laurendeeu 1 * lB yesterday, is the gest discipline. He has the 4. T-B. R Rensbsra (US) M Results I- fw,IV, St Edmunds, Homerton. announced 14; Canada Zealand 14; England , J*2" 16. Now 29*®* Halt (Can). 7-Q. &4; R»eberg (US)Wl ,1a- , Jesus VL Corpus Christt tV, six background for task, 16. Guernsey 14. Souin Afnca 26, smallest yet, with only the hav- Laumndeau (Can). 7-6. 64; J Aemerfnk Call 0891 Robhaon *. St Catha- Smgapore 9; Namibia 33. Ind« 6: Hong Old 100123 '** * Kent v GlDueaaiBtshire Shelton (US). 7-5. frl: M :>’. V, 0CAT 8. Ctere VI. woman, one ing shot internationally for Kong CRICKET (Noth) bt B men and one 17, Papua New Gunee 17. Nonrrareitonsnire v 3B. 7-6. ' Norttwreitonians: 2oecHe (GeO bl J Eitmgh (Neth). ' more than 20 years, includ- Bgth round: Seaton A: Pairs: Kenya bt Somerset v 6- iT' Women fewer than the group that Tour match Lercestorahne. Glastonbury: 7-6. H Hofcn pm) bt HJ Davids (tiWh). Argentina. 17-14; South Africa bl Guern- Surrey v Sresex (SA). four Der&yshrt. BanstoaCi 3, 64; S Yota (Aus) bt M Ondrusks 6 OIWSIOH; to and far from ing Otyrnpic Gaines. sey U NiceSe and A Simon 19-12; II 0. 104 overa rmvrtvm CRICKET Lady Margaret. Jesus, went Seoul J. Warwickshire v Essex. Bamt bt Lmdgren NtetMton: 3, 6-2; J McEnroe (US) P • RACING 27, 28 • CRICKET 28 • ATHLETICS 29 SPORT WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 France need Papin to convert the creativity it remains England an easier - fence and midfield now give pected tonight and opener from David Miller than stopping others doing scoring genius for the big the three up front enough of to be seen whether the Swedes than would have the Yugo. IN STOCKHOLM so: Holland, die holders — occasion as did Gerd Muller, produce same fanati- Slavs — or should one say does Gary Lineker. the ball? will the the though they can be ruggedly as and low I am. reluctantly, prepared cism in support that they did Serbs Montenegrins, THE opening march of the defensive if they wish — and Papin has Muller's for disappointment. Al- 34 years ago. helping to carry who were all that was left of European championship, be- France and Denmark. Ex- centre of gravity, enabling Sweden have lost their men to a memorable the once united (Yugo) Slavs. tween Sweden, the hosts, and cluding the best of the Afri- him to turn like a rabbit and though with little Hysen and Stromburg from final against Brazil. This could prove to have been France, should tell us many cans, whose cynicism up to strike die bad hard that OHe Nordin's team that It is strange, to anyone who a lucky break for England, things. Whether Sweden's now is confined to kicking backiift. It is likely but too often the instinct. like in World watched Jan Molby domi- who in the matter of injuries young, changed team can people rather than tactics, the France's chance of repeating slumped the 1990 Yugoslavia’s. has wilted on finals, side nate the last hour of the FA have seen their luck in the raise echoes of die 1958 only other team in which a their victory of 1984 depends Cup the young more than anyone. the day. managed by Tommy Sven- Cup final for Liverpool at qualifying tournament re- World Cup, when it stormed joie de vtvre survives is. of on Papin Platini said yesterday: perceptive hard Wembley, to find him exclud- cently turned sour. to die final. Whether France's course. Brazil Yerh will depend, too. on how sson has is a need for disci- from the Danish squad. If SWEDEN (probfttoiT l T Rni pfk unbeaten qualifying perfor- We will find out in Malmo much belief the French have There workers of experience, such as ed Gatrwrtwg* 2 A Mtoon {StaTefc instinct: the pline.” He has named a 5-2-3 from Bcnfica. in mid- they can do better without mance was no more than a tomorrow against England in their creative Them, Woctendoy). 3 J Eitason (JFK Nor be good 4 p Andaman (Malno Ff). mirage. Whether the Europe- whether Denmark — ap- instinct that Michel Hidalgo formation, the Tahitian. field and Brolin up front. him they must still Wiping). 5 j BjflriUund (SK Bnmn). 7 K Ingnsan the nurtured in the early Eighties Vahirua. from Auxerre. being Brolin has scored nine goals indeed. Certainly they arc no an event will once more be pointed to die finals by (Mochefcnk 9 J Thom (Hwhcaj, G & for Yu- closer than the World Cup to Unicoi Nations more than by and which Platini helped ful- preferred rp Perez alongside in 16 internationals and mugs as replacements Scmwnr (Qcnfecn). 10 A Umpsr (Araemft goslavia. for their qualify- 1G K AnCMtson (MecMm). tl T Broun UefcL, worrying precedent fil, first as a player, now as Papin and Cantona. Tm in helped to take Parma to the in the kind of football that spec- a (Parma) final. the they won in (Amtnoj. tators really want — are seriously past their manager. favour of attacking football, Italian cup I can see ing group FRANCE: 1 B Mini 20 j Angioma (**»»««). 13 B Bo* [m*. There are three nations in peak or whether, ironically, France have been one of the so we have three forwards.” Swedes stifling France's style Belgrade, having lost to the and soak). G B Casern (MarsoiUes). S L Sane this competition whose teams they could be substitute Aladdins of Europe, ever Platini said, “and I preferred in the same way moderate Yugoslavs at home (NapiM). 2 M Amo*Ds (MaraoBesJ: 7 q out since the days of and Vahirua’s speed to the techni- England did in the match at drawn one other match. Oasctwnpa (Manedcs). 0 F Sauna consistently believe, thank- champions. We wfll find Kopa (MancSoa). 9 J-P Papin (Marsakn) in defence 18 E fully, that the game is more tonight if Jean-Pierre Papin Rheims, and the brilliant side cal skills of Perez.” Can the Wembley in February. Their fallability Cantona (Leeds United! 16 P Vanin* (Auninc) Brolin: hard worker about playing with the ball truly has the same goal- of 1958 with Juste Fontaine; Marseilles elements in de- A crowd of 28.000 is ex- is such that they may give Graham Taylor finds there is a consolation as the Wright saga rumbles on Fowler’s future England look to Walker for security put in doubt IAN STEWART From StuartJones by heavy fine FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT IN MALMd. SWEDEN By Peter Ball ONLY on the eve of En- gland’s entry into the Europe- THE fallout from last sum- short-pitched bowling and an championship has mer's Wasim Akram affair swearing. It was widely be- Graham Taylor been able to continues to reverberate lieved at the time that the end his unnecessary public through Lancashire County severity of the punishment preoccupation with Mark Cricket Club. Graeme Fowler reflected the desire of the Wright Although the sorry was last night considering his chairman. Bob Bennett, to saga will doubtless resume future after being fined “a impress lord's with his disci- after the Liverpool captain's substantial amount” by the plinary credentials in antici- fitness test at the weekend, his club for "derogatory state- pation of his appointment as attention has, at last, turned ments". England tour manager last to the remnants of his squad. Fowler, looking white and winter. in yester- One member of it in partic- shaken, refused to comment The discrepancy ular has become even more when he left Old Trafford day’s treatment of the players important If Wright has after a meeting lasting nearly appeals hard to justify from earned the right to be likened three hours yesterday morn- the text of the book, and it was to a sandcastie, perhaps men- ing. In a statement, the dub suggested by sources dose to tally as well as physically, said he had been found guilty the dub that the complaint then Des Walker has been a of a breach of contract, and as against Fowler centred on a towering rock at the back ever well as being fined he was passage taken from the book since he was first introduced “reprimanded” and warned before it was published. in 1988. about his future conduct. The fine imposed on seven Wasim soured the atmo- Taylor yesterday described Fowler, aged 35, has ’ the Nottingham Forest centre days in which to appeal. In sphere at Old Trafford last back as “priceless”- The most view of the swingeing nature season. Since then it has been consistent selection in incon- of the fine, reported to be widely suggested that Wasim sistent line-ups. Walker's considerably in excess of would not be returning next presence amid a defence £1,000, he may also wonder season to fulfil the last year of which has steadily been fall- whether, with his contract ex- his six-year contract and the ing apart (Rob Jones. Lee piring in September, his dub’s decision to let him off Dixon. Gary Stevens, Paul future now lies elsewhere. If with a reprimand on this Parker. Gary Pailister and die fine is as large as believed, occasion may be an attempt Gary Mabbutt are all casual- it suggests that Fowler may to heal the breach. ties as well as Wright) is espe- have had other offences taken If Fowler's career at Lanca- cially comforting. into consideration, as the Test shire is nearing an end, he **We don’t need to lose play- and County Cricket Board and many of the county's ers to appreciate his value,” (TCCB) limit on fines is one membership wfll be upset in Taylor said. "He is a first twenty-sixth of a player’s sala- equal measure. Born in Ac- class defender with exception- ry per offence. crington. he is Lancastrian al pace. He has improved The club’s disciplinary through and through and is immeasurably over the last committee — consisting of averaging over 50 this sea- three years and is still doing four committee members. son. He played 21 Tests for so. I am sure his move to Rose Fitzgibbon. the cricket England. Having a party: England players celebrate David Platt’s 26th birthday at the team's headquarters. Back row. from left: Steven. Sampdoria will be a success, secretary. Alan Ormrod. the Clough, Smith. Pearce, Martyn. Front row: Platt Roger the chef, Crane, the doctor for him and the dub." Narbett team and John team manager, Neil Fairbrother. A measure of Walker's sus- the captain, and Paul Allot!, tained excellence can be He explained that in the last the senior professional — also gleaned bom England’s se- four months he has been discussed the cases of Cehan new attack- quence of results since he learning to add a Roxburgh ignores the jibes Mendis and Wasim. who made his debut as a substi- ing dimension to his game were both reprimanded and warned tute. poignantly against Den- Brian Gough, whom he as to their future here From Roddy Forsyth in gothenburg conduct. mark, the opposition recognises as the biggest in- In appear- The trio were all quoted as tomorrow. 44 fluence on his career, taught SCOTLAND’S European removed. The jaw is calming completely healed in, say, five like us to do is go out and have ances, he has experienced de- criticising Lancashire in a to the game simple him keep championship squad touched down but he has lost strength or six weeks. Nevin was then a real go". McCoist said. feat on only three occasions new book, Wasim and that if he at Forest "He said down here yesterday after- and I think he could be a offered a short added and one of those was on cut by means He a self-depreca- Waqar, Imrans Inheritors by wanted me to go forward, he last for Friday." in the noon, the of the finalists problem of an injection treatment that tory rider when he said: “I Crace. penalties World Cup put a eleven John would number to arrive. In the opinion of It would reinforce would suitable semi-final againsi Germany Rox- not have been can see Ronald Koeman The trouble originated last on my back.” Taylor's in- in Turin. most observers it will also be burgh’s belief that his players for a professional footballer shaking in his shoes right July when Wasim was fined structions are more been absent for only the first to leave but Andy can surprise The Netherlands and which he refused, butjust now. Still, you never know, we £1,000 by Lancashire after He has adventurous. two of Taylor's 21 fixtures, Roxburgh, the coach, was not if he should be able to call as he was bracing himself to m|y have our moments and being reported by umpire Starting with the game Nevin, once because of his involve- to be drawn into making any upon Malpas and pull out of the squad the ankle my hope is that one or two Nigel Plews for excessive Fowler, shaken against France in February, statements ment in last year’s FA Cup rash to contradict both of whom appeared to be abruptly improved. might be mine.” Walker has been urged to Final. The only time he has the detractors. doubtful travellers last Roxburgh, however, will The Scottish supporters leave his duties occasionally been injured, for the game “We don’t go around de- weekend. not gamble and ioda/s work- would be gratified if they and use his speed to launch against Germany in Septem- meaning other sides and if Malpas sustained damage out will be scrutinised in thought that McCoist might Disabled sailors attack. If he had done so at are ber. coincided with the lone an other people want to do it to to a recurrent Achilles ten- order to avoid any possibility be the focus of an aggressive he admits that he blemish on the manager's Forest, us, that suits us fine. Our don problem in the 0-0 draw of Scotland being visited by Scottish strategy against the would instinctively have been record so far. concern now is to approach with Norway in Oslo but has the kind of nasty surprise Dutch and there have been possible given Elm funding about the Walker has habitually wondering our opening fixture in the said that he is happy with his sprung on the England man- signs that Roxburgh may in- should the allowed his flawless perfor- consequences proper state of mind and that progress. ager, Graham Taylor, by late tend a more adventurous down. mances to speak for them- move break means that we must know Likewise, Nevin insists that news of the injury to Mark game plan than has been By Barry Pickthall selves but yesterday he was Nevertheless, he finds that everyone- who lines up he has overcome the untimely WrighL anticipated. willing to answer questions. going forward “an enjoyable against the Dutch on Friday ankle injury received in the I- Psychologically, the squad He has made several JAM ES Hatfield, the solo cir- squad the opportunity to de- experience,” even though the is 100 per cent fit. 0 win over the United Stares seems in excellent shape, as oblique references to Scot- cumnavigator who under- velop their sailing skills, ’ ’ went well • sense of freedom will not dis- “Tomorrow’s training will in Denver, the in which personified the pragma- land’s I- 1 open-hean surgery 17 teamwork and oust, as ; FIXTURES -Vr i game by draw against Bul- tract him from his prime re- be vital to all those who have he scored his first goal for tism of Ally McCoist when the garia in Sofia last year, a years ago. was handed £i as give additional people at- Cir- Today sponsibility. “I don’t mind had problems but l am opti- Scotland. So anxious was the ebullient Rangers forward game which was notable for million by the Foundation for tracted to our Dolphin Group one which job 1 do as long as I’m mistic about their prospects, player to keep his place in the was asked to rate the team’s the fact that Scotland Sports and the Arts yesterday cum navigation project the Sweden v France defending,” he declares. except for Duncan Ferguson, squad that he consulted a chances of success in Sweden. unexepectedly carried the to fond a 60-foot British entry opportunity to become (Stockholm. 7 . 15) Tomorrow "Whether you play with two, who suffered a nasty tooth private specialist last week. “I think that people in Scot- contest to their fancied oppo- in next year's Whitbread involved.” three or four at the back, you abscess Round the Race. of Group one and wbo is worn out The consultant promised land are realistic enough to nents and went ahead within World "The present members still try to take the ban off the through lack of sleep, al- that the injuiy could be going to The sponsorship is the sec- and Denmark v England ...... him know that we are not ten minutes: McCoist was the the squad consist of men (Malmo, IS) forward running at you." 7 though he has had the tooth repaired easily and would be win it but what they would scorer. ond-largest sum ever paid out women who have a disability by the Foundation, which is that they have conquered. funded by the pools com- They have, as individuals, panies. The money goes to- fought not only the inner bat- wards building a yacht and of Wild card secured by Cash Norman misses US tle. but also the social battle Open like training a crew who. Hat- acceptance. They must have field. have overcome their courage, stamina and a sense PAT Cash, the former cham- Beckenham last week and Shirii-Ann Siddall, aged Columbus, Ohio: Greg Nor- He was not the only lead- disabilities. of humour, in addition w pion. and Henri Leconte, winning his first-round 17. Cram Bournemouth, is man has missed out on the ing player to miss the event Construction of the yacht, sailing skills." who reached the semi-finals match at the Stella Artois one of eight British women US Open golf tournament at Johnny Miller, the 1973 win- designed by Rob Hum- train* of the French Open, head the tournament at Queen’s could awarded wild cards. Pebble Beach next week after ner, and a former Masters Their programme of phreys, has already started in several list of wild cards for Wimble- not be ignored. ing this year includes WXD CAROS: Mfcu (G8 unless stated): failing to qualify here. “I’m champion, Ben Crenshaw, C Cowes. The yacht will be 2,000- handed out yesterday by Jeremy Bates is the only Ba8«y. P Cmjtfi (Ao«). A CaaUo. A Foster. H disappointed, at least 1 races, including the don but had shot 145s and foiled to at the of Leconte (Ft). M Pfltahey. A Rcftanfton, launched end Nov- All England committee. British player ranked high C tried,” former British mile Hartlepool Renaissance the WHdracn. Woman: 3 BenOey. A GfuiteW, the qualify for the second year in ember ready for a shake- event in The pair, firm favourites enough, at No. 106, to gain CHAV HumahnayfrDawiaa, V Lato. S Open champion said after a row. round- Britain Lnnoman. S* Sadat, Wood. down transatlantic crossing with Wimbledon crowds, are automatic entry to the main C seeing Peter Jacobsen, Brian ”1 didn’t August. play well and I to Florida at the end of the players to draw. Chris Wilkinson, of selection the only overseas Jo Dune will lead the Claar. Kirk Triplett and Larry didn’t putt well" Crenshaw, year. “Our final crew the draw, Southampton, who is ranked their passage. Fastnet be given places in British team in the Federa- Mize book considered one of the game’s Hatfield, who was named will be made after the with going to No. 152, gets the first of the He refused to complain 1993." Hat* the other 14 tion Cup challenge in Frank- best putters, said. “I just nev- yachtsman of the year in race in August women. domestic wild cards. about having to qualify, er got things goal is ® British men and furt from July 12 10 19. She going.” 1987 and awarded an MBE field said. "My the tourna- Andrew Castle. Mark “That’s ibe conditions to get Michael the Wnti* Cash, who won will, be joined by Monique Walton shot a the following year for his ser- present the crew on that his Petchey and Chris Bailey are in their tournament. You’ve course-record equipped ment in 1987. feared Javer. Sara Gomer. if she seven-under- vices to sailing and charity, bread start line, expected, but got what they t0 decision to play tennis part- given others, as to do say you par 65 at the Golf Club of will physically and mentally. recovers from injuiy. and be the skipper. "Our [ on by Andrew Foster and Andrew have to." he said. Georgia course, agai^ 1 time would be frowned Clare Wood. and was five training programme begins the race and to win - pros- Norman, though, is on the Wimbledon hierarchy, Richardson, the teenage the shots in front when rain sus- later this month aboard a the world's finest tire Brit- reserve list to fill in for any play but his performances in pects, jump ahead of pended midway through charter yacht," he said yester- rankings. Edberg wins, page 29 Norman: misses US Open player who withdraws. qualifying. reaching the semi-finals at ish (Agencies) day. ’This wfll offer our initial 5 " . TOE TIMES Your Can you ( PASSTORTTO ) application afford to trade form for half- up? Now’s the price hotels LIFE & TIMES time to do it WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 ...... ft*. ewruBES ’> '-Jt,. r- ’“MS They are Rotarians with ritual . . h. * M -’•I ; >- • i “‘Uk. ' *• Masonry hand-me-down mystics whose arcane. •‘1 l! Heath Robinson theology is an ornate shows key to an empty room’ ‘"t ‘ l. circumstances require. Thus. others' interests". He mentions its cracks Jahbulon, foe dread and, quite property scandals, bullying and literally, unmentionable name for even foe fixing of wills and divorce the Masonic supreme being, was settlements to favour Masonic in- "" The Freemasons are holding altered to foe equally unmention- terests. The clearing banks and foe i & an open day able (certainly unpronounceable) City are riddled with Freemasonry, at Earls Court Why has this secretive and JHVH following a damaging re- he says. port by the Church of England in But even Mr Short concedes that mysterious organisation resolved 1987. many people who have lost out on to bare Most ordinary members would business deals because of their own have been entirely unaware of this bad hick or ineptitude have a its soul? Walter Ellis investigates as only members of the exclusive tendency to blame it on foe fact that Hofy Royal Arch, the organ- they are not “on foe square". He isation’s “supreme degree", were also believes that, to an extent, the t seems like a contradiction in more recent times adherents of all ever let into the secret of Jahbulon orthodox Establishment has begun terms. A Freemasons' religions Open are theoretically welcome. in the first place. Rank and file to turn hostile. The Church, for Day. The and post- KGB — What the average estate agent craftsmen are taught secrets which example, has more or less aban- humously — the East I Ger- salesman or solicitor makes of his level (there at the higher are denounced as doned Freemasonry are no Stasi pioneered man the trend various rites of passage, from the incomplete and bogus. members in the current House of Next, perhaps, it will be the Mafia. to first the third degree, can readily How much any of this matters is Bishops), and so has Parliament. But today, at Earls Court it is the be imagined. Opponents are quick a moot point After all. people are The tide, ft seems, may be turning. turn of “the craft" to do its bit for to characterise the breed; over- entitled to their beliefs, even if to Does this explain the open day? glasnost and the men with arthritic whelmingly conventional, with no outsiders they do not add up to a Not at all. Mr Hamill says. “Our handshakes, who say “Boaz” to obvious spiritual dimension or row of beans. As for aim today is to get each other, will be in out force, pronounced charitable impulse. All the conspiracy theory ourselves back ro foe seeking to persuade observers that that would mark them out in the — wefl, if the Masons position we once oc- being “on the square" is a fitting eyes of most of their fellow citizens were not tied to each cupied of being seen for even activity the politest of is that they like belonging to things other by their apron as a part of British circles. and hope to get on. strings, they would ' society that is trying ' * 1 -VTli £ Should we believe them? Are They are probably happiest and soon fold some other to do some good. > nap- they, in fact on the level? Is it not most relaxed when attending focus for their Until foe 1930s, wc •••-'ire the truth that they are a prolix “functions", especially hotel din- networking needs. were very public. The ’ hst conspiracy of would-be warlocks ners. where toasts are offered to the Golf dubs. Rotary local press reported ’ ‘ " ’{» jt, and mystagogues, building up Great Architect but there is little International Ox- on lodge meetings, 1 > •••MMJ; business contacts while claiming, else to tax their somewhat earnest ford and Cambridge, and we even had ‘ • 'I'JVl'JE primarily, to be engaged in good spirituality. This is where they can public schools; MCC. St James's weekly Masonic newspapers that sum* works? Alternatively, as they dress discuss a bit of business and catch and Pall Mall, the Manchester explained what we were seeking to like themselves up Fred and Barney up on who is in line to devdqp the Unity of Oddfellows: the list is achieve. But then, for some reason i ' ir,f from The Flintstones all set for a former launderette site in the High endless, and all confer advantage which weYe never been able to r. !:! •'! with at ihff night out the beys the Street Ladies’ nights are also on their members. If this is corrup- understand, we turned, in on our- ll> Il!<3 Bedrock Buffaloes Gub. is there popular. For many Masons, it is tion. then every locker room, every selves and became intensely pri- '* > *• rest 4 JnJ. any way the of us frankly embarrassing public house and every vate. But in 1984 (after the ".ir. :*.j can avoid a smile? having to keep an Tupperware party in Britain is a publication of Knight’s book), foe .• V! 'V If we imagine a embossed apron, col- nest of vipers. Duke of Kent derided it was time > .'i niNi typical town in rural lar and “jewels” (as Mr Hamill insists that foe level of for a change, and the open day is a <*• :• •in ilk Britain, we should badges are called) mutual backscratching is very part of that process." imagine also that concealed in a draw- slight “If a Freemason has to For women, it must be said, such •• ,nir-».t somewhere dose to er below the ties and choose whom to give a contract to, change as there is has yet to blow in •» .. . r- :nc its heart — perhaps socks, and it is nice then, all other things being equal their direction. The Masonic Trust 1 ' -i I'jlfc* just around the cor- now and again to be he might choose another Mason. for Giris and Boys, whidh funds foe - able show the bet- . ner the to . .'ii 1 lit* from church But that is all — and if he did ir education of some 1,500 children . ’ halves it is all ili.-. oT the magistrates’ ter that would be on the basis that it would ofdead or impoverished Masons, is •• -.MW court — is the local perfectly normal real- be someone he would know he wholly non-discriminatory. but at Masonic Lodge. There are, after ly and nothing to worry about could trust If we that level life : !'ir\i£i. find out adult the of foe lodge • all, 8,488 such assemblies in this Charity events have a similar 'iii ,.i“ V- somebody has abused his position remains exclusively male. the appeal. at this," they pro- •. ill c country, ministering to needs of “Look for personal gain, foe person The only reason for this seems to 1 in claim. queer of Apron strings: the Duke of Kent, Grand Master (left) ' ’ 1 iC 320.000 Masons England and "Nothing about any of the United Grand Lodge of England, with responsible will be subject to sanc- be tradition and a feeling that ritual j ; 1 u Wales, 100,000 in Scotland and it you see. Not a bared breast or a Brother Philip Kaye (centre) and DeputyGrand Master Edward Latham Baillieu tion. He could be suspended for six and spiritual questing — to say . j;i£ between us. • in Ireland. seeks to rolled trouser leg or even i. h 55,000 Each be up months thrown out alto- nothing of bared breasts — are a powerful, if indirect, influence on We’re trying to help the needy. (Within reason) as the necessary levy cravat before oidering a stiff gin at an assembly of dons, or a City of gether. We regard it as an especially somehow inimical to the female • . J!L- its community. The lodge itself may That’s all. Nothing else." they must pay if they are to strike a the nineteenth hole. For though no London guild. There will be no hint nasty offence." cast of that or. : J‘l <* mind. Either as well resemble a Methodist or Commander Michael Higbam. few insider deals and still fed good Mason is deemed superior to any thar here is a body of men some of Short, foe of •; A' Martin author Commander Higham implies, . I.-' Baptist chapel, with the emblemat- the grand secretary of the United about themselves. A few may even other, rank hypocrisy continues to whom are gripped by the patholog- Inside the Brotherhood, takes a women derive their own peculiar N if' ic addition of a set square and Grand Lodge of England, would be seekers after truth, however thrive. Egalitarianism only goes so ical preoccupations of foe Pharaohs very different view. A friend of the satisfactions from jam and • 1'i‘Tl f this ij-Xf compasses above the door. Inside, certainly not demur from such a absurd its guise. Almost aD would far in particular brotherhood. and a possibly gnostic belief in post- late Stephen Knight, whose own Jerusalem. is basically rather have a couple of pints in Royalty been with .• -•••i'.r there will be a chequerboard Door, portrayal. Masonry the has associated Christian revelation. expose of the Masons. The Brother- :h! square, dubabflity, he said recently. Masons’ Aims than cross compass- Freemasonry almost from its mod- According to a echoing the and a temple, about John HamflJ. the hood, caused sensation when it TOMORROW overlooked by an “all-seeing eye", “Men like to be together, just like es with the Great Architect em beginnings, and it had been librarian and curator at Free- was published in 198-1, he believes in which the rituals are performed women like to be together. Nobody • Needless to say, no such prosaic hoped that Prince Philip, and even masons’ Hall, foe order’s world that abuse of the rules of member- Here it is that initiates are “led forth thinks the Women’s Institute is interpretation of the Masonic life- the Queen, might attend. But it was headquarters in Great Queen ship within the order is epidemic. A magisterial German from darkness into light", attended sinister.” style will be permitted this week ai not to be. The Duke of Edinburgh Street, London, the duty of a He points to the existence of police- exhibition about by more esoteric imagery than you The truth, in fact, is that Masons Earls Court. Instead, what will be has long since given up any Mason is "to believe in God, only lodges. lodges within the .. -.F- w could shake a stick at and — at least are the very antithesis of the W.I. on view will be a specially staged pretence of interest, while none of respect foe law and give of his time defence industry linking procure- London at its zenith until very recent times — threat- They are Rotarians with ritual; they rally, in front of 1 2.000 members his three sons has ever joined In and talents to charily”. He goes on: ened with death and mutilation are a mutual support organisation and guests, to edebrate the 275th the 1990s, as for the past 25 years, “ Basically, what Freemasonry does should they reveal the “secrets" with a year-book that reads like anniversary of the foundation of it has been left to the Duke of Kent is to make better citizens out of rV?i imparted by the Master.. Yellow Pages; they are hand-me- the United Grand Lodge of Eng- to provide a regal presence. good people." The Freemasons in their modem down mystics whose arcane. Heath land, the oldest governing body in It sounds too good to be true — PLEASE DON’T LOOK AWAY form were formed in England in Robinson theology is an ornate key world Masonry and die one from s Grand Master, he will and ir is. Most Masons are much 1717. They hark back to philoso- to an empty room. which most others take their lead. deliver .Wednesday’s more worldly, and more flawed, phies and religions as disparate as Mostly, however, in the experi- Mysticism and miimbo-jumbo mam speech, no doubt than that, and a few are downright the morbid beliefs of Ancient ence of anyone who has encoun- will wisely be kept to a minimum. stressing how normal the corrupt Movements to dominate Egypt. Pythagorean theory, and tered them (which is almost Allegory and symbol — otherwise organisatiomis and how devoted to certain professions, like foe law and the Knights Templar. There is everyone), they are people who integral to the craft — are to be charity. Previously, he wifi have the police, are well documented, as great emphasis on allegory and appreciate having friends and allies confined largely to the internal dedicated the foundation stone of a is foe attitude, where possible, of symbolism, centring on the square, in uselul places and are prepared to arrangement of the haft and the home for. mentally handicapped contracts for the boys. Yet it would which derives from medieval build- dress up and pay for the privilege. It regalia worn by participants. children. to : be built in Wiltshire be equally false to suppose that ing practice, which is supposed to does not matter whether they are 'Officials in charge of the proceed- with El. 25 milljon of Masons’ devotees of the craft are. to a man, control and shape our lives. They policemen, lawyers and judges or ings will. Inevitably, be prosperous money, and presided over a busi- sinister and selfish. Morally, they see themselves primarily as a estate agents, car salesmen or sons of the middle classes, with a ness meeting of the Grand Charity, are probably no better and no charitable institution which explic- council officers. What they have in suitable leavening of aristocrats; with minutes read out and motions worse than most others outside 1 itly prohibits abuse of Masonic common is that in nine cases out of lesser brethren, making up the bulk and amendments. their particular cabal, just better aik'rsai membership for commercial gain. ten they are traffickers in goods and of the attendance, will by contrast By the time the procession moves organised and. as it happens, There has traditionally been an services. Many will give readily to come mainly from the ranks of out to dinner, literally by degrees, it constitutionally enjoined to charity. emphasis on Christianity, but in charity: others will see beneficence those who like to don a blazer and will resemble nothing more than As to foe deeper purpose of ti£- Jungle law obliterates the Magic Roundabout omewhere along foe line. I dead snails and empty shells into a SINGLE LIFE pick them up, “I couldn't do that. Grove Story) where a huge snail got foe wrong idea about sort of garden-pmh Golgotha (pour No. no. 1 couldn’t do thar." The called Boozy is shown nipping foe S snails. Influenced by my encourager les autreS). “Your gam- idea of handling snails gave me the froth off a print before suddenly fondness for Brian in 77ie Magic bols? Your songs? Your flashes of Lynne Truss discovers same species of abrdabsas foe falling off stone dead with a thump. WITHOUT YOUR HELP I WONT HAVE A HOME Roundabout, I thought of snails as merriment that were apt to set — er, thought of being encased in poly- It makes me laugh every time. rather Dougal and Zebedee in a roar?" a killer instinct 30- could never love a snail. larky characters wearing with styrene. or forced to listen to a 1 The Ptnipa is a link girt who lives in an orphanage in Thailand- The Dealing with pests is of those writer Patricia comical hats and mufflers who one minute concerto for fingernail and great crime Pattaya Orphanage was founded 15 years ago by Father Brennan to deliver wry put-downs. 1 know this problems that women prefer not to slimy garden bests .blackboard. Watching brave Highsmifo keeps snails, I believe, my care for children without a home, without tight, without hearing, R tiQy. but you cant legislate for the face alone. In fact, when discussing chap pulling foe little suckers off at her home in Switzerland, but I j... or who are severiy handicapped in other ways. The orphanage I •\- power of The Magic Roundabout separation, have known women foe pots and plants and hurling am not sure this is evidence of better doesn't fox give these little ones a home, it also gives them 8 ower a young person’s imagination:' suddenly struckby the thought “but them over foe wall into an over- affection. She once wrote a terrify- chance in life. dispose of the spiders?" and if 1 grew up expecting sarcasm who would grown garden next door (with an ing short story in which a foolhardy the instant that the importantly, love have saved from molluscs, at least I know decide on encouraging shout of “WheeeTjT zoology professor encounters gi- A home, an education, and, most called could stop these being taken where I got the idea. Brian also had calling-off must be off Zt is would huddle in the doorway and gantic snails on a remote island, Penipa from an awful foie. Your hdp a that a jaunty manner of locomotion, as 1 sad bur true when man is gaze admiringly at his prowess, all and has his shoulder bitten dean away from her again. Ktalk reversing hack forth around, one automatically crouch- foe while thinking that left to me. off (munch, munch) by a snail in and these children. Every Please help Father Brennan in his fight for Continually, as .though engaged in es on top of a wardrobe saying the garden would consist entirely in search of fresh protein. It wasn’t £15.12 to provide for a child for a a does link bit counts. It costs only compulsive seven-point mm. So I “Eek” while the chap foe talk bare, ravaged stalks and enor- funny, but it hdped to get foe month, £181.44 for a whole year. fluher got the impression that — business with the coal shoveL It all mous. menacing, over-stuffed mol- enemy in perspective. I mean. I 'wat with the put-downs and the happens so quickly, you see, that luscs blocking the path to the shed. think she was saying they'd kill us if THANKYOU for caring enough to send a donation bidding about — snails were the you don't have time to explore foe But in fact, of course, I kill them. they had the chance. Bruce Forsyths of the natural sexual politics. “Cat’s got a frog!” I don’t shout “Wheee" and lob Pafriria Highsmifo is probably JATHffi RATWHffi BRENNAN, C&X, PATTAYA ORPHANAGE World. you shout, and before you know it them over foe wall: I patrol foe intrigued by their homicidal ten- TRCSr, DEPT THV6/K2 FREEPOST, LONDON WM OBR So it was a bit of a shock to the man has taken charge, and you garden with a special killing-bucket dencies. and takes the more dan- lllscov evil for a OR CALL 971 «B 3*23 POR ACCESS & VISA CREDIT CARD er. when I finally took re- are scaling foe curtains. and a pair of tongs, making gerous specimens into town DONATIONS asked a board Don’t worry cooing pub-crawl, see how they'll act sponabilityfora garden, that snails I have never actually r your head, “snap-snap” noises and to “ At give these children a dunce in life, please accept my gift ofi if is good with little missy, I think Mister Worm Daddy's home". 1 used to think all with a few beers inside them. To jjj* w feet rather stupid organisms man outright he any foot matter of and J understand one another”), a creatures petals in God’s which point, — of course.1 — they Other mechanically chomp through worms, but it is only a were £15.12 ( ) £30-24 ( ) £60.48 ( ) £181.44 ( ) hats and mangolds and delphiniums, and time. There we will be; him, me. lone woman simply does it herself. daisy-chain — but that was before 1 probably put on the are looks saying “Nice to Name — — -—— so blindly partial to a drop of moonlight, foe heady seem of She up, sees a worm, thinks joined foe Marigold Liberation mufflers and start catch see you, nice" while rig^ Thfiaksion’s Old Pearlier that they honeysuckle, the flesh trembling, “Why do cats worms? What Army, and learned not to fed to see you Address — - across the bar in foe snails' can actually be lured into drowning pushing towards foe overwhelming do they think it proves?” and then compassion. After a successful zagging hofeey-cokey. I jn a. I spoil it picks it up on a copy of Hello! and snail-raid, ! even add insult to equivalent of the Brian’s razor-sharp wit and question, and shall have to .Postcode. never it before. AH that “Bntness of foot were dearly unrep- by mentioning worms. The funny flings it back on foe garden. injury by watching my favourite realised resentative this year, ler piece archive footage from skidding about and sarcasm foal Reg. Charity No. 286000 of his gastropod friends thing is. of course, that when no Up until you see»*J of m deal with the "snails. Nationwide (shown last year in Brian used to do perhaps he was general. “Where be your gibes spouse is present to stride manfully foe man — tiddly. nowr card- "Ugh," I said, as I watched him BBC2's extravaganza The Lime simply I say. as 1 gruesbmely pile worm-wards with a piece of 1 . ) 1 - 3 7 5 2 ARTS LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 THE KSe ATS3 ”AL!_ Cf 'JiTie ROCK supported tr/ emouue ungei- VOICE: t hi.-icc :c.i« '.r&*i:er TODAY’S EVENTS sOAgwnter Martyn loseph tockecimt 4 ..? c -?* Oty Hall. Sheffield (0742 722885). ouefstedCft.'S - 1"- :r :: v; : i . ^ tonight, 7J0pm, Symphony Hall. •Seawate ~ ”Jv- : iaC-jn, A daily guide to arts Broad Street. Bucrwigham (021-212 ^''I’vcir-e’' 3333), tomorrow. 7.30cm Regant *=.• and entertainment futurfc. Tr.15 ^ i Ipswich (0473 23I4SQI, Fn, compiled by Kari Knight Theatre. Gary . the rr gets autfi^r s ':;7.c ;ecirc 7.30pm. Mayflower Thaatre, -.- of his sii,: :? Tut-- s.: :c? Southampton 10703 333001 1. Sun. Na.'ior.ai jar . iVf ;i : o 7 30pm National (CottMloe) So'-2-BarV. Riverside Studios. Crnp Road. London 1500*1600. London S?1 ;t7'.$i£iii2.. craae«. •V6 1081 -742 3354), tonight, tomorrow. DRAWING IN BOLOGNA Tor.fcht-Sa; "-iiif-i' SaL 7 453m. 5u.. Sprrr Almost all the 61 drawings on show private credit DOrrowed from last have been at RKHAR& THOMPSON; A rr.e u MARY MCGOVERN: Armed with a colleCTions. many on show for Lhe first e supsriaii-c sc-*?.. •::=.• arc 3! a mdn-ocave range, the Ameficdn singer nme. and some being recent handle - *;. - ilia eHorrtesly sryusS. from pop to sat easy cbscovenes The- ra ncu so surprising THE mamte of musical respectability Richaia .;-ig a*'- i\6 c! listening to musical theatre Her despite the of the Gary Moore since presage has only lately, and grudgingly, been the CrjalJCi : j :'=rc„'«of interpretations of Gertfwin and Porter Carracd lamily in particular. BoL^nese rcct Ns/ :v°ra.e TAirjre have iwn nor enormous praise ait in the I6th century has been largely bestowed on Belfast-born Moore. A Hammersmith Odeon •' ol wrcv;: •• : .-.i/rrj'a.ui Fofloiwng her jeU-out season at the neglected. These works show the guitar prodigy who joined his first alBu:r -ji -:ir >r :f .*e Piza on the Farf. las; year, she gives a emergence distinct gradual of a to *<:l. -•*<» ctw-off professional band at 16 and came fic<« '•ji.'pcr Sjrtsicar. concert .nth net Bolognese style, and point gut where it Cor .er;.-' c;r=.-uMa3«iSs.- CumteL perfonrnng songs from a new ongmaied from with four drawings by popular attention as a member first of him such belated respect as a master of Sines Falrfiata rians, r£’> Lara Cx'.djr recording of fifues and earty Dicmyi Calvaen. a Flemish a ms: who Skid Row and then Thin Lizzy, he has the blues guitar that a pair of October 1081 -€d sor.gs, Babyi'm Yours settled locally and had a decisive his career staring the Albert Hail have been Barbican, Silk- Street, London £C2 the oty s younger artists spent the bulk of dates at MADAMj 8 L.TTSCT.Y: Grated »ia. s mlluence on 1071-633 SS9U. 7 45pm Institute Galleries. elegar.I cf j opera Courtauld glumly from the from covers of required to absorb the overspill from - -: - Somerset House. Spand, London VvC2 with -iiia : 1 ^'T.V: rr-.ua -imftniul STARS FROM THE BOLSHOI BALLET: assorted "metal” magazines while these two Hammersmith appearances. 1071-673 25261. Mon-5al. lOam-fipm. twnimaii; ae5"'paa3Cor the use:! Eoth'a kaOerma Haalya Bessmermova 2-oprn, until 31. being comprehensively ignored by But while an efficient, no-frills and • 1 Sun, August sliding .v: fe j J-jisfc Waaoral leads a company cf 30 Osk&j cnta Opera »sr rc...:* ia-.«* CeT-i as extensive Ennsti tour Under rhe NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO: The mosfother sectors of the rock press. energetic set based mainly on this Butteal). i: Zzr.ija Festival presents rhe :> rcr.Ler.ur SirecMnof Bolshoi drrecor tun Greenwich A series of solo albums did little to album and its recent successor After arid Kotr"i". ra-ia" ai 5ra.”lesi. r*j«i GriGorovf±. the group wilt perform two outstanding virtuoso pianist playing : base. harnessed Hours showed this renaissance to be Da/ies c:'.c^cc . programmes, including Ire second acts pieces by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich. change his fan Most Collseun:. .V«rf-.n>i.2.-a S' jjf.oan of jjan Lake and G'se/Ie presented with. Ptot otar, jcnabm. Rubenstem, his playing skills to an uneasy alliance well-deserved, it also left one wishing ‘ WC2 IG? 1 -«<: : “ i :;r.ignt. and Medmer. \ Sat, i selection at cfiirertEsemijnE. The tour Mussorgsky of blues and cliche-laden heavy rock, that Moore himself could be as 73Qprr is designed to bring a taste of the Blackheath Concert Halls, 23 Lee 3oisfc« to venues too small 10 Rood. London 5E3 tOS I -463 0100) while the characteristic belligerence of eloquent as his guitar. BIKO: Var-tve arc tr.c 1 Ne^r 7.30pm. Birmir-^ jr Lender. a:i:omrr. Hfc 1 of 1 THE MADNESS OF GEORGE ghost Q THE FAS E“ CLSGS iiv Trie WC2 (071-867 1 16). Mon-Sat. 8pm. for fear of alienating the metalhead direction-changing album, may echo pyrotechnics, lyrical world-weariness himself was forced to raise the UNIVERSE: i.ics: ?:ci.ric Diao farce Nigel Hawthorne is wry fine as the mats Wed. 3pm, Sat. 5pm I30rnms conclusion. sector of his following), it went on to the earlier hit sin ale. "Parisian Walk- and melodic pop provided the perfect a grin at its triumphant by Philip nidle:. i-j-.jrscseis -^.-^d stricken ling in Alan Bennett's US PRY SHE'S WHORE: With ftuma: DarS-'s jcdSte.-aertiira.-el intriguing, sliphltv puzzling play. A dismantle the stereotype of Moore as ways". in its compositional structure, evolutionary link between old and new SasLia Reeves a passionate heroine. Hare psleap rs- ^cv.sje Centre. National (Lyttehon) South Bank, 3E1 an unsubtle axe warrior. It also won but its careful balance of guitar era Moore. Even the singer and player Alan Jackson ' Ford's tragedy of incest and revenge NW3 1071-722 9iC Mu.' -sat. apm. (071-923 2252) Tonight-SdL 7.30pm, bums with a fierce glory. mat ia; 4p.m ‘ICr.'r.i mat comonow, SaLZ.lSpm I70mins The Pit Barbican Centre. SiB. Street MIDSUMMER THE SriOaT SOHA7A; T>:revJbc>' g's A NIGHTS DREAM: <07 1 -6?e 889 ). Tomghi-Sau 7 30pm. is lan || full of The Sultans of Ping F.C. a male vvetre -is*v- C : iu.ma-i reses se Ztmti a Talbot's to y production, mat tomorrow, SaL 2pm ISOmins. ONLY snapshot impressions are pos- ROCK lascir^-.r.g ? ;n ! ng o‘g'c:e;cue‘e in rough and tumble ana evergreen fronted by a singer in LONG RUNNERS: Aspects Of Love: sible of this, the third annual gathering Curk quanei comedy. Dmsdale Lan den plays Bottom this Jiurc-, Beggais'jr'j'Jur or. tights hass- - Prince of Wales (071-839 5972) in north of Irish. Celtic (or shiny hoipanrs and and a New end. 27 Nwr 5rd, !vV:3 0T 1-794 Open Air, Regent's Pari. NW1 f 07 1 London E Blood Brothers: Phoenn (07 1-867 dress. Pop nut of 0022.1 Tues-Su.-i. rjOp.m. .—is: Tat. 4prr. 486 2431 ). Tonight- Sat. 8pm. mat simply sympathetic) musicians. There guitarist in a By lgg\ 30pm. 165mns 1044) Buddy: Vicuna Palace 120 > today, 2 Madness and Wreckless line, singer <071-834 1317) B Carmen Jones: were three dozen billed acts, on three Bigger, but not better DfGC: A girls' school puts on Old 1071-928 7616). . . Cats: insulted E nEASTKlSAK HOUSE: P; •.» O MOBY Vk E separate stages, over about ten hours. Niall O'Flaherty' studiuusly a lund-ra&nq show Tony Monopoly New London (071 -405 Scoiield ani ‘.'inessa Sadg-av? taad 0072) audience I saw; took the Stage Two and danced plays a headmistress playing Captain The Cotton Outr. A/dwydi (071- Of the 1 3 Christy Moore Trevor 1 Ijnn'i ST'^rditJ «« m Sr.fcv's Q Ahab Beached musical 836 6404) Dancing at tracing the sound. like a hyperactive Marc Almond, but limeieo;, sta;“-cf-£ngler.d drmc. the solo honours. Wearing the usual Pausing briefly by Fleadh 1992 T ;- Piccadilly. Denman Street. Wl «J71- Lughnasa: GantcL 1071-494 5085) Thea.-m r c:re'. 5*1, : ? black T-shirt, playing acoustic guitar such fringe Irish at- The electrified Black rhe music failed to match the misbe- 930631''; i.lpn-Tat. TJGcrr r-za S67 1 1 18). Mon- Sat. 8pm. mats TueS. Don't Dress for Dinner: Apofio spoke tractions as the Finsbury Park 47. as much jazz haviour. These boys need help (and a We-j. 2.2Cpm. 225rrr.r Sat, 4pm 1 35m ns 1071-494 5070) .. An Evening and the bodhran hand-drum, he Mex- With GaryUneken Duchess 1071-494 feet with fusion as rock, were sympathetic producer). t r^ RECRUITING OFFICER: directly to the heart and the ican Hammock M HE*-!' 7/. 7ART3 Adran THE 50751 U Five Guys Named Moe: r’.-rimphant. nr>-c;-c.aLage Nicholas Hytner's good-natured such favourites as Tre- Company and Lulu's Cafe, i paddled too loud here and could be heard over The Saw Doctors, on the other hand, Nopie Lyric (07 1-494 5045). Good "Delirium progc'Clic:*' 're attnp fryn .u.iar- production, rather too good to be true Rockin' Ton ire. Playhouse (071 -839 mens", "Holy Ground", “Lisdoon- over to S tage Two for The Stunning, a Christy Moore on the main stage. need no further assistance. Riding a Glo^r's •• nj, SVosr i:»;ker.yr Fjl-sf; to the play's darker conieni 440li. E Joseph and the that. wave popularity of unstoppable National (Olivier). Bank, S£ t vama", "Welcome to the Cabaret” and Galway quintet with a neat line in But before Bob Geldof unveiled of and Nii :i 5:> Mil;r.ev; ?n-:; South Amazing Technicolor Dream coot Barbfcar.T-'; Street, SEt C71-:-: i071-92S 22521 Today. 2pm and 2pm Finer Sixties retro-rock, a lead singer resem- his Happy- Clubsters (imagine the momentum, they swept out onto die F'aKadium 1071-4-34 5037) . . B Me Jem and Shane MacGowan's - 8891- at 1 : nrigr t. 7 33c.“*. “Ct I65mlns. and My Girl: Adelph 1071 -836 761 1) “Fairytale of York”; but the best bling Marc Bolan and (a touch of the Boomtown Rats combined with the main stage and swung through a set ipm. 2C4jnm: Far New tomo.-c-v TaL 2 THE RULES OF THE GAME: Richard Les Misi rabies: Palace (071 -434 Neit tomc.irc.v-5n, 7 30pm. I'Omins moments of his set were the compelling showband. this) a congas and trumpet FaceS). a revolting suit and a renewed which confirmed them as The Gntfnhs and Niccta Paqett in Pirandello's 0909) . B Mbs Saigon: Theatre -494 work, rock rousing sci Big Thing. The Pogues, who followed, O LOVE T2 A BSTTTx: iy.cudy :*e, sardonic study of man cal rewnge; not Royal. Drury lane (071 5400) ballad “Ride On" and a majestic “After player. They enjoy their and such appetite for His adipLi icn a: rsrqiihar's first play, ic'.ec as sulphurous as a could be but sun a The Mousetrap: St Marun's<07l- the Deluge". songs as “Be Around" and “Love" included several Rats oldies. In the are now without Shane MacGowan with pa-vchpciy Dublm-basc-c; r.ouj!- gripping drami 336 1443)... The Phantom of the Most of the other acts fell short of indicate that larger stages await Their tong pause after the line “The lesson and floundering in his wake. They Mage remrarv. Almeida. Almeda Street. Nl (071-359 Opera: Her Manly's (07 1 -194 5400) "1 Trkycie, 25“ Filbutr. High Fcad. NV.'O 4404). Mon-Sac 8pm. mat Sat 4pm Return to the Forbidden Planet Moore's commanding, unpretentious elan was all the brighter in contrast to today is how to die”, during Don’t must be considered The Last Big (071-323 1000! h-o.n-sat. Spm. ma: 120m ms. Cambridge (071 -379 5299) . . . B Snr- dignity. The Chieftains never plsty a the Cranberries, whose singer Dolores like’ Mondays", we all practised Thing, for all rhe enthusiasm with Express: Apoflo Wctona i07 1- Sat. 4pm 130mms A SLIP OF THE TONGUE: A wolfish light 8288665) Woman In Blade bad set but their fires were banked O’Riordain alternated between sullen pundiing-your-fist-in-the-air. which their anthems and singalongs MAD, 3A0 AND DANGBCU2 "O John Malkwch m a lighcwaght drama .. The fortune (071-836 2238) KNOW: Dr Jk Jaortji pte^-.r wuns. that seems to equate East-Eumpean down in mid-afternoon; Les Negresses and indignant during their deter- This came in handy during Andrew are still greeted. sanrased 3;con. Only f.yr ded*ca lid dissdence with getting gels into bed. Tidit informabon supplied by So-aety Vertes put on a mini-camival. swarm- minedly dirge-like songs. Strong's soul-revue. There was no As for Fleadh itself, its success has lollcwe” 5: Jacofci. Shaftesbury. Shaftesbury Avenue. ol West End Theatre ing colourfullyacross the big stage, but Meanwhile, the dark and densely- mistaking Strong’s Commitment or made it a monster, too many hands the flavour of their world-music stew- crowded “Acoustic Tent" was throb- willingness to destroy his vocal cords in loo high a ticket price (£25 at the gate), seemed to evaporate very quickly. A bing with barely suppressed jigging as the cause of “Take Me to the River" too much to take in and not enough RELEASES hour digest ot Jacques Rwtte's epic NEW defeated Shannon friends and the Midnight Hour", but toilets. It is a friendly creature, to be CINEMA GUIDE about the painter, hn model and an dozen muddyyards out it was Sharon and poured “In DOUduE X list- Return oi xe t»a unfinished canvas. With IWchel PkcoIi. by the hamburger stalls, the music out accordion and concertina music. “Soul Conspiracy” and “Save My sure, but nonetheless a monster. Time me.:; 01 Emmanuel te Bead. Bmish c a sfcma! laie leaking from the other stages and the Apart from the heat this was the most Soul" are thin stuff and his repeated for a rethink. dishiiiO-.r tmong im; res WiinaT • j:i. Geoff Brown's assessment of Minema (071-2354225). vUMom (pievfng straign:'' ceaseless shuffling of the queues for congenial of the three performance punches and kicks to signal the end of Norms': films in London and (where THE HAND THAT ROCKSTHE duecc-, 5i3m5. C-?.val. disgusting roof the tiresome. indicated with the symbol CRADLE (15). Psychotic, nanny (Rebecca beer and the toilets. areas, its containing and concen- songs became Tony Patrick MGM Fulha-. ?ead <07 1-2'0 2636) on release across the country De Momayi wreaks revenge on a Haynarito:'07:-Sa& l52Ti MGM squealy-clean family. Formula thnHer MGM 0 scrip:. Froir. 1 With Anthony Hopkins, Emma low by a muddled a • TURTLE BEACH 1 5k Joumahsi shows: Britten’s Neve's Fludde with Veint and Helen C rayford. Siepne.i -'irtg story, dirercr. ere." mvestigares the /ale of Viemamese Oaar Thompson. Helena Bonharo-Carw what seemed like 500 children and the Ann Crumb (long- range of costumes. But the highlight for me was the Leona.'d. people in MalavsHu Dull adapwti'ar of a Director. James Ivory Music for Life Camden PcrttvaiMOTJ-Io. 70341 popular Austiakar novel Greta Scecchi. Cur* on Mayfair (071-465 8365; European premiere of the Maury suffering wife), Meg Britten’s setting of premiere of The Small Moments (in Cn-ivrc IC'7i-;-52 S0961 joan «2hen. dneoci, Siephen Wallace Curzon Phoenix (071-240 9661) MGM Yeston-Arthur Kopit musical Nine. It Johnson (the chief South Bank Centre the Chester miracle life), a collaboration between Judith Odeon." K?r?;-.5;Bn04;6 3 -4666* MGM Fulham Road <071-3702636) THE LONG DAY CLOSES ( I2r Terence Letc«sier5qLrcr2<9-.2-: r!5663i MGM Haymuriret (071 -839 1527) was a wonder that either got on. and chambermaid), and play caused some Weir and Martin Duncan, high priest Davies's powerful evocaiMnot Marble Arm i042i 9 1 450 1 - UO MGM Oxford Street <0718360310) though it might have to hear Norman (mistress) were far uncomfortable vibrations in this partic- of art. Lasting 1 •dvklhood's lost wraefise With Leigh odd been Becky not performance barely Whiteieys iO’ 1-792 MGM Trocadero (071-434 0031 1 'JO McComiad . Maijone Yat«. and a the Dunkirk Spirit invoked so regular- behind, and Anita Dobson enjoyed ular context. The destruction by a minutes (and repeated intervals), Whheleys <071-792 3332) at PlAVrOVS'l?). Lore ard wonderful aural collage of Fifties THE ly in high theatrical circles, it was herself enormously playing the critic as vengeful God of his people “sette full this was in effect ten mini-operas by jealousy :n an Irish 'allege ir. 1957 CURRENT Britain certainly it there. fairy. sent chill the Strung per.'omwnce:. 'Albert raine>. Curzon West End (071-439 480S). needed, and was a pantomime widted It would fowle in sinne" a up spine Weir, with such titles as Emily Punk- Robir. wnnht, Aldan vuir.n'. bu: 100 Nine, adapted from Fellini’s 5 112 have been nice if Jonathan Piyce had on which the casting in this particular hunt Hypnotises Her Sister and Don BASIC INSTINCT <131 San Franaxo THE MAMBO KINGS (15)' Smartly much biarnoy Dirsr.cr. 1jilhes mourned but sunpfehc verson of Oscar into a wholesome, sentimental hymn had time to learn the Mastroianni role: production of that God as a) a woman Giovanni a Ladder sim- Mac) innon detective Michael Douglas and ice-pic* up performed murder suspect Sh»on Slone nde a HnuekK's novel about Cuban musicians Odeor Ka»nbr^3l (OJ26 5 i 5553). to luwiedom. fined the occasion per- there's nothing like a score in hand to and b) black — the magnificent ultaneously. while the peripatetic aud- jorcbd psych o-secuaJ lollercoaster m New York. Armand Assante. Antonio fectly: standing ovations, not a dry eye, put a damper on proceedings, but Wilhelmenia Fernandez — shed • RUSH MSI; TJarcKics ag*r.is become Dncux. Raul Verhoeven Banderas, dneciw. Air»Gfimch«. not ience was prodded from one to the next Forcelul treaitreni Fulham Rood (071-370 26361 addiiT-ed. -J Barbican (07 1 -638 S89 1 1 MGM Baker MGM etcetera. As is so often the case with when he hurled it into the audience at quite enough warmth. And how about by aculyies with their heads in paper unpromising maien.31 iron mt-iime (071 -935 9772) Chelsea MGM Tottenham Court Rood <071 - Street MGM composer-lyricists from Wagner to the end. Albert Herring-style, all was that expendable raven? Or the unmar- bags. 1 (071-134 director Lili Fim lanucl Pa me. <071 -352 50961 MGM Panton Street 636 6 48) MGM Trocadero ler.nilor Ja’-on Lagh. <071-930 06311 MGM Trocadero 107 1- OOJtiUa Whheleys <071 -792 33 32). Sondheim. Yeston’s music may not sit forgiven. ried unicorn? Despite God's assurance This was a little miracle of wit, yet at Empire *971 -497 9999' MGM Fulham Netting <071- 434 003 1) Hill Coronet RUBY US' Danny Aiello as the small up and wag its tail at you. but he knows The heroes of the performance (ap- at the end that “suche vengeance shall the same time something rather more .2"1 -37i3 263t?> 67i35l Roaa 727 Odeon Kensington <0426 lime gangster who shot Lee Harvey .7' how to build up a number to the point art from those who managed to set it cease", I still find this piece even harder than that, a happening infinite Tottenham test 5z:d 1 -636 914666) Plaza 1071-197 9999) Screen of Oswald A ;ame him compared 10 JW. 6148) UCJ Wnr;eioys-C~ -732 3352) 3520' where thunderous applause is the only and light it) were the excellent con- to sit through without protest on the Green (071-226 but good performances Dire«no<. John up than mystery and substance, it must be SPLIT SECOND (13> S-r.as: Hauer LA BELLE NOI5EU5E — Madwizie answer, a fact of which LDiane Monte- ductor Timothy Higgs and the mem- BiUy Budd . especially when as power- repeated, somehow, somewhere. occult zeeijl Liter DIVERTIMENTO: IS;. urtg West End <0126 9(5574). starts an -enhepceL.' Fextru lw> Odeon vecchi took full advantage in recreating bers of the huge chorus, who sang fully performed as here by the Finchley her Broadway role of the producer. lustily and as one in an astounding Children's Music Group. - Rodney Milnes COMEDY WO 071 9*7 1045 rc GARRICK 494 .feel Drury Lone BO/CC SOBB LYRIC, Shafts Aw Bol n 071 NEW LONDON BO PICCADILLY BO 071 8to7 9ft 379 4444 >no DUO 1091 4444/497 9977/793 071 405 0072 404 4079 VAUDEVILLE 071 83o n 7 i.c /J79 ioOO 494 504 5 {e 379 4444 411 rel cc 071 1118/071 80.7 111 1/071 379 4444 i3«hn)iin l.i-i 049 Croup. 370 4444 i ^4 hr mi Ma Hvi/497 407 9977/793 IOCO line* ttikq loci 24hr 379 4444 Grir, 9M to!23 4444/071 497 9977 I.U 071 24hrj7 dA}* I 24tVr/no 494 8454/930 612 3 9977 .24hift Hha le.'1 JIMMY PORTER IS BACK BEST PLAY CC 497 071 9SO 6{ This trem Pie k)onIs Trairi n»i OTi ALL 4 1891 9977 Gn» 23 wa Croum 930 0123 WE GREATEST EXPLOSION OF (JERALD MILU1M PETER EQAN in MAJOR AWARDS The Joint Never Steps Jumpin THE 4NDREW LLOYD tiTHBEH "SHEER BRILLI ANCE AFRICAN "UNMISSABLE" lndet>endei.l ELIOT LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 ARTS 3 Opera: Rodney Millies on the new Royal Opera production of Wagner’s Derfliegende Hollander at Covent Garden ARTS BRIEF Fallen Singers who are worth the journey ang* TREADING in Marlene anniversary he 21st season principals of The Flying Dutchman. Dietrich’s footsteps is a chancy -of .Midland Bank Proms Haying got that off my chest I business, espedafiy in Berlin. opened on Monday at submit that the production team’s Less chan two weeks after it with new T Govern Garden a chief task is to paper over the opened to a chorus of boos. production olI>er fliegende JHol- multiple cracks as best they can, and Berlin's huge new production ISnderby Ian Judge, his first for the in this they were only partially of The Blue Angel may be Royal Opera. As always, one sat sucoessfuL Christoph von Dohn- taken off this week, thus down sl the hope that it might at dnyi, while securing spirited if depriving 65 actors and a last be made plain just why this occasionally undisciplined playing dancing bear of their liveli- overrated piece maintains its place from the orchestra, seemed content hood. The musical’s misfor- in the. rcpertoiy (were ft not by to give the portentousness of the tunes started with the abrupt Wagner it would have been dropped score its head, almost emphasising departure of choreographer years; ago) and as always one the compositional hiatuses as they Alan Johnson, two weeks into emerged as bewildered as before. came arid, all too slowly, went But rehearsal and the withdrawal There are about 20 minutes of at least he conducted the good music of director Peter Zadek. due to the illness, good music in seme, most of for all its considerable worth. . before the show them in the virtuoso nautical double Judge, rightly sensing that with opened. chorus of the third act, which is such wafer-thin pasteboard protago- The latest crisis concerns notoriously difficult to balance in the nists there is precious lithe actually Lite Lemper, Germany’s lead- theatre (here the ghosts' voices were to direct, prudently concentrated on ing singing star, who plays the relayed through the auditorium the supporting roles (the quiricDy “Dietrich" role of Lola. AH dome, which is to avoid the prob- characterful Daland of Gwynne performances were cancelled leroLTbe listener is confronted with Howell and NeiD Archer’s charm- for a week when Lemper lost many a quart d'heure of demonstra- ingly athletic Steersman) and on her voice two days after open- bly bad music, in particular that for visual effects, leaving the leads to get ing nighL The illness followed Erik, who suffers some of the most on with being singing-machines. scathing reviews in the Ger- graceless vocal writing given to a John Gunter's set is based on a man press. A from page article tenor in aU 19th-century opera. swivelling, rearing platform very in one of Berlin’s popular pa- Elsewhere, the composer's appar- much after the manner of Sean pers attacked Lemper for sing- ent, inability to move from one Kenny (Covent Garden, 1966), ing “Falling in Love Again” in musical paragraph to the next, even which allowed for neat transitions English, something which, ac- in the Dutchman’s monologue and between the ads: the work was cording to the paper, “even the low duet, is cause for continuous played, as Wagner intended, with- Dietrich never attempted”. embarrassment: he just .stops, out breaks. The sudden appearance . shamefacedly, and starts again. Tlie of a whole Norwegian village street Last chance . banality of the much-repeated Re- was quite beautifully contrived, and ALTHOUGH her career has demption theme grows more obvi- the arrival of the ghost ship just stalled in America. Diana ous at each hearing. and the general about passed muster — nothing in Ross has enjoyed such a hysteria of so much of the writing (if my experience has approached Stentorian chorus: the Norwegian villagers are gathered on the quayside, watching the Dutchman's ghost ship substantial renaissance in in doubt repeat a phrase a semitone Timothy O'Brien's spectacular sol- Europe thanks to the success higher) is as wearisome as the sheer ution in Dennis ArundelTs Sadler's tion in part, some excellent singing, is incisive, and she has found many upon? Because he was created by I can only assume that Thomas of last year’s album. The Force selfimportance of it alL Wells production of 1958. not least from the chorus on a clever way of getting round those Wagner, that’s why). James Morris Surmegirdh (Erik), the Swedish Behind The Power, that de- Simply at the level of technique, Deirdre Clancy’s costumes are stentorian form under the joint passages that are in truth a touch too looked no more menacing than tenor winning fame in Europe as mand for tickets for her shows Wagner at this stage of his career folksy-traditional with not quite leadership of Terry Edwards and heavy for her. She is a notably one’s favourite unde dressed up as Lohengrin and Parsifal and here here last November prompted (1843) had not learnt nearly enough enough -contrast between the nor- Norbert Balatscfa. Their diction, in generous performer, and while the Captain Hook, but he sang extreme- making his Royal Opera debut was foDow-up dates this summer. from Weber, or from Marschner mal and the paranormal. Jn gener- particular, was exemplary. character may be pasteboard. ly beautifully. How often does one off-form. Or he was defeated by Her assured delivery and im- even. Not only musically but dra- al. die Gothick was in short supply, Julia Varady won all hearts, even Varady painted that board in hear a genuine pianissimo in Wag- Wagner’s virtually unsin gable vocal maculate sense of timing still maticaDy as vKRDerFreischutz and and if you are not going to purvey mine, as Senta. Her silvery, mettle- strong, primary colours. ner. or the long phrases sung with lines, in which case he deserves every provide flashes of her former Hans Haling are inSnMy more the occasional frisson of terror, why some soprano, firmly disciplined In the deeply unsympathetic title such musical sensibility? Each time sympathy: but the top of his voice brilliance For lovers of that successful Gothick-honor operas, — the question that keeps on coming and with a useful but sparingly used role (how dare he demand total the character suddenly moves from sounded worryingl)' unsteady. old Motown magic, her final with characters that develop — in back — bother to do the piece at aD? chest register, is an enormously subservience to the point of self- minor into major key. he made an Forget Wagner: this production is British date is at SECC. Glas- stark contrast to the blatantly static There was, to answer that ques- attractive instrument, as warm as it sacrifice from every woman he fights especially eloquent point of it. u-orrh iTsiring for Varady. gow (04 1 24S 3000} tonight. THEATRE Desperation is never out of fashion hat happens to a Athol Fugard is having his first new play ously: huge stumbling blocks, protest artist when huge diversions. There could the thing he is pro- staged in South Africa for several years. be an appalling price to pay W for an eventual emergence testing about disappears? Athol Fugard poses the ques- Michael Hamfyn spoke to the playwright into a truly decent and open tion himself. People think it democratic society. But I do might apply to him, he sug- bade 25 yeans in my “One of the things I would say believe we will get there." gests. now that apartheid Is notebooks. without any hesitation,” his And when South Africa gets being dismantled, and be gets "Then there are recent voice rises as he says ft, “for as there Fugard expects still to be asked it a lot events which added momen- long as he doesn’t say — he writing. “I have got to face the “It is a question which is tum to foe writing. It is about being F.W. de Klerk — for as fact that I am 60. that the amazing for the ignorance it foe karma of violence. I stum- long as he doesn't say ’I’m major part — maybe not foe displays about South Africa," bled on that phrase yesterday, sorry. Forgive me,' 1 can't best part — of my writing he says fiercely- “People and 1 realised it was a perfect believe him. Because nobody, career lies behind me. I cer- seemed to think initially that description for foe play I have nobody, least of all him can tainly have plans for plays there was going to be a very written. ever be in ignorance of what beyond the one I am just easy ride into foe new South "Both characters have per- apartheid did to people. And staging. 1 am impatient to be Africa foal everybody has been sonal histories of violence. In to think it can be reduced to a back in my line as a writer talking about Now we realise the course of their meeting few bland utterances about a Fugard: now optimistic again because a great new that isn’t true. and the confrontation that it misguided policy which we urgency has come to me. bom “Implicit in asking me that leads to, they have to confront finally realised wasn’t He is in any case now out of foe extraordinary ener- question was foe definition of the consequences of the vio- working . . . that is something moderately optimistic about gy of this moment in the •"•.iKIi myself as some sort of anti- lence that lies behind them, we haven’t cleared yet.” the future of his country. country’s history. apartheid activist in the liter- and foe consequences in their But looking backwards is “With as much honesty as I “Most probably, my strategy S^- — ... , *.::&> :$8r ary field. That is a label and a lives; what it has done to them. not the most productive way of am capable of, when I exam- in what remains of my writing Lelio (Crispin Redman, left) and the Countess (Christabelle Dflks) pigeon hole that I find very Violence is a doublfredged seeing South Africa today. ine myself, l end up with a time is going to be the same as irksome. sword. When you kfll a man Fugard agrees. “There is still a residue — and it's the bottom my strategy has always been: I "Politics as such has never you do something to yourselt tendency to hang on to what is fine — of optimism. Never am going to follow the trivial pursuit been ray first concern when 1 That is what my play is about behind us. instead of slough- during foe darkest period of promptings of my heart and and it Tedious like sit down to write a play or — to One image that Fugard ing off a dead skin. That apartheid was I ever capable of respond not to ideas but to the use a phrase I prefer — to tefl a plucked from his memory is is something I have tried to do handing myself over to a stories, the images and foe Trivelm pretends occ- story. I am essentially a story used to illustrate the tender- in new play, a certain pessimistic scenario. I can see people, to the people that come arivaux finds few The False Servant foe one my admirers on our urred between foe Chevalier teller, and I like telling stories ness for life that characterises exorcism, a purging.” Things going wrong, very seri- my way.” people. Afrikaner, the Afrikaner side erf the Channel Gate and foe Countess in a comer about desperate God foe M of foe garden. Neither what he knows, there were plenty of that the world might some- and this play will do nothing to woo the unconverted to his imagines nor the way he those in the old days of times see as a harsh, unthink- It is a c*f a slimy morality. He gives us foe the Countess, nobody here conveys it has any interest It’s apartheid, and 1 think there ing brute. memory an usual character disguised as sincerely feels any love. Their unendurable. are going to be plenty in the fishing trip in company of DON’T LEAVE PLANET TO THE POLITICIANS someone else, here an heiress passionate declarations are Two of the characters and new South Africa as weiL" Afrikaner boy. is boy had dressed up as a bold chevalier lies. The Chevalier (Christa- their performances hold the At present Fugard re- The home-made small in order to suss out the honesty befle Dflks) hurls endear- attention. The bumpkin hearsing his latest play. P/qy- equipment but caught a first its fish and was disembowelling it While ...That’s an of Lelio, the man she expects to ments, demands replies, in Ariequin of Gary Whitaker lan± not foe to have catch a marry. Like everyone else in order to drag foe Countess makes no secret of his longing world premiere in South Afri- to put on his hook to larger one. fish of the is (Susannah Morley) even fur- for coins and a kiss, and this ca, but foe first for some years. The was a (day he governed fry a delegates awful lot of frenzy for mono', conducting ther out on an emotional limb, refreshing honesty nicely part- It is set in a travelling funfair species that gives birth to its a an affair with a Countess, but and since this is one woman ners the foppish self-aware- on New Year's Eve 1-989. a young faDy-formed, and as pool tiny fish fell only to rid himself of debt, and humfliating another, the effect ness of Crispin Redman’s month before President crystalline of talk for hot air rock foe now keen to .dump her and is peculiarly nasty. “I have a Lelio, whose cupidity may be F.W.de Klerk made his as- to the boy became he concentrate on foe heiress’s respect for you that is invio- what gets the play going, but is tounding speech in parlia- distressed. “Oh my God." It'll take more than empty promises ment announcing foe death of said, “1 have sinned." 1 2 hours larger fortune. The supposed late," tiie Chevalier snaps. untainted with smarminess or to curb the threat of climate this reverence for life Chevalier pretends to aid him Nasty little hypocrite. pretended virtue. apartheid- Like others of “It is change halt the destruction Fbgarrf’s it has only two foaf foe Afrikaner has deep or of by paying court to the Count- Jonathan Guy Martin's di- Redman's stuttering amaze- plays, about global ess and succeeds only too well, rection encourages his cast to ment at Whitaker’s dippiness characters: a black man and a within his psyche,” says the tropical rainforests. That’s why affec- is entertaining but hardly en- white man. Fugard. “That innocence I causing her to stammer posture. William Hope's Friends of the Earth is also at the tionate responses and flutter TriveHn, the servant no falser ough to explain why foe Gate “The play is about violence,” lodge in one of my characters.” »» arming, Summit - pressuring Governments her fan. than his employer, is played as chose this slight, diragreeable he says. “Like aD my plays, at Though Fugard disclaims Admirers of Marivaux a fawning Irish rogue who play. At least one can hope the foe core of it He a handfol of being an anti-apartheid po- another for firm commitments and speak of foe elegant style his overestimates the charm of characters will be guillotined images which have gone lemicist, he has. as he ap- concrete timetables to give our characters employ when dis- blarney. When not inventing once the Bastifle falls. through long gestation. Some proaches his sixtieth birthday, Earth the protection ft. so coursing on love. The their own feelings, the charac- of the earliest Images which not lost any of the bristling 38 million objection is that, apart from ters invent encounters, such as Jeremy Kingston led to foe writing of foe play go anger that characterises him. desperately needs. tonnes of The planet is running out of time — nothing par- “cabalistic machinations of here was TELEVISION REVIEW but it’s not too late money" that have given us a ticularly original about CO_, nil! be T the format of last tpytewn Docklands that does Please give £10 to Friends of the night's Rear Window, called not work. And Boyce talked! of Earth today - £10 that will help us “Running Down foe Moun- The night the talking heads her dilemma as a black artist: released should the pressure for real tain" (Channel 4). Half a whether her colour keep up doom talking-heads expressed itself be the main motor of her change. Together we can make their views on foe state of decided to spill art into the the beans a difference. modem ait and the camera The message from all this occasionally cut away to show This "crisis in judgement" television consistently trnti- value judgements, quite was dear. Artists cannot al- atmosphere. . the planet examples of their own art Yet was made worse by the com- alises arts coverage by de- another to agree on thejudge- ways be taking foe easy, "ac- So don’t leave the manding television wifi broadcast no mercial zeal prevailing in “se>ty" presentation. ments themselves. Rear Win- cessible" or commerda) path. politicians evidence, to the More important arts pro- Thatcher years. True, arts As the programme dow at least made a start on Audiences must sometimes gramme this year. Here was administrators badly needed dug up some truly ludicrous the thorny mailer of roestab- work bard to understand; their business footage; of art GIVE YOUR £10 NOW Jbe Zeitgeist of British artistic their crash courses in eminent histori- fishing criteria, by asking reward is a rich and varied that ans, for instance, agreeing trol- nfecajmired in a 45-minute management But did all to three creative figures — com- artistic fife. Supermarket RING 0272 244700 their backs “Ktusaan of cogent and grip- go too far? lie on and stare at poser Sir Harrison Birtwistle, leys and Cost do not inhabit Visa or Access. Lines are open 24 hours. 7 days a week. ping quality. In the arts world, said foe the clouds in order to discuss artist Soma Boyce and novelist the same bland world of critic how Constable Donations of any amount will be accepted Cheerful It wasn’t The Guardian's theatre painted the Iain Sinclair — to put their "modem culture". To think 1980s were dismissed as the Midiad Biflington. “the kind slty. own an in a context that they do is to accept too fight for did such rubbish ever the views ofthe world I want to help Friends of the Earth Ha when we became afraid to of people who were sanctified How passively get passed? The answer is that, image-makers - the our planet with my £10. ®jaluate art lest we be thought were the most popular and irtwistle's acidic disso- thai the eunst at the time, nobody dared advertising agencies, design Specialist critics who moneymaking”. Whai should nances make no com- counter the view that style promises whatever gurus, style and fashion maga- know their stuff" were passed we make of an erainwhich the B to should come first and ideas a the zines — concoct for us. in favour of shamelessly only Big Idea that arts people anti-elitists, and he offered JJf poor second. As an amusing a typically blunt non-justifica- do not want us to think Saf-promoting “style gurus" in felt worth talking about was They or dig beneath Pn&gy jackets, were as marketing? Or decade in side-show. Rear Window also tion: “If people find what I do overmuch, who a Postcode plausible surfaces: h | —- —— at the we happy pontificating about which more newsprint seemed took a swipe “powerful difficult well I did not come their say. cotene" that is said to 1 might twig how ephemera] I jwchecpjes or PI ro fee evolution of foe super- to be devoted to foe auctioneer little from foe moon; came out of ;; Sena Os Friends of the Earth. arts programming on the of now." their visions are. 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Indeed, theywould have themselves. dent networks. would-be Dickens Dalston Of course, it is one thing to — placed his bleak novels of “H^dered both to be equally Courageously, Rear Win- Richard again changing East End life in the Friends of of serious artistic dow also took apart its own say that we should the Earth make context of what he saw as the Morrison medium, for the way that muster foe nerve to ! s 4 MODERN TIMES: WOMEN LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1092 AND BRIEFLY Taking a fallacy seriously Hen House PfTCS TKISYNOR training Caroline Quest is rather surprised at the reaction to the report THE Hen House offers intensive on equal opportunities she has edited, Libby Purves says weekend and week4ong courses for women on everything from writing et us not. and painting to ballroom dancing above all, be personal initiative. It is reassuring scornful “We do have a welfare and t’ai chi. The Women’s Educa- politically correct Let us to know that even in institutes of state, you know. And family credit, not tional Trust administers bursaries become overheated, economic affairs, the occasional and all sorts of measures. If a for women who cannot afford the Ljust because the Institute of rush of maternal hormones can woman is working she can pay for Economic Affairs has £1 10-plus fees. The mist is current- brought out a make its mark. Ms Quest’s mess- her own childcare. / do." a startling report entitled ly sponsoring Short Stotv Compe- Equal Op- age is. above all. an impassioned But the real enemy, targeted tition to raise money for its bursary portunities:A Feminist Fallacy. Let defence of traditional nuclear fam- throughout the report is the idea us listen, fond. Stories of up to 5.500 word's and nod with the courtesy ilies, majoring on hands-on moth- that any minute now Europe,- or on any subject should be sent - we would accord an elderly aunt, erhood and the evils of state some“profligate" Citizen’s Charter, while together with a £5 entry fee - to ihe institute confidently states childcare. A lot of us have felt that will force quotas of women on that sex The Women’s Educational Trust, roles are genetically deter- way. m the first eight months. employers. Never mind that so far The Hen House. Hawerby Hall. mined (all to do with differences Ms Quest did not. she says, mean in Britain only 1 per cent of chief North Thoresbv. Lincolnshire between men’s and women’s “cere- to be provocative. “Absolutely not. executives are women and that DN36 5QL by October 1 . Two will bral hemispheres" and other bits, had been following the American fewer than 5 percenrof women are be chosen fur publication in Writ- dead and that men’s dominance in literature on the disadvantages of members of the Institute of Direc- ing Women, a journal for women's the workplace and women's domes- equal opportunities policies and sex tors, Ms Quest sees a conspiracy at creative writing edited from ticity are the natural order. discrimination for a long time. 1 work. 'These women — when will Newcastle upon Tyne. The author There is no point foaming at the drew on that But I didn't expea it they be satisfied? 25 per cent? 40 of the best entry will also be offered mouth just because a New York to create so much interest ft must per cent? At 50 per cent, or more? free weekend course of her choice professor is given 17 pages of a have touched a nerve" OK, we don’t have quotas in this a at The I len House, and winners report subsidised by British taxpay- Her views, entirely in harmony country, but there are ways employ- will be announced by November. ers (the I EA is a charity) in which to with even the most extreme state- ers can positively discriminate in josh about howmuch more suitable ments in the report are of a kind training programmes, or target Cheap thrills it is for a woman to be “a keyboard which will arouse strong feelings. their advertising at women." laiesi in a growing band of operator” than a “vice-president for One interesting daim is that "in THE guides which have appeared purchasing” and that unequal lushing to appear unbiased, em- thrift since the start of the Nineties is 77ie achievement at work is parallel to ployers will promote women pre- ‘It is Directory. Available for women's failure to be professional reassuring to maturely into jobs they are not Good Deai the first time this month, and to be baseball players because of their prepared to handle . . . When these smaller muscles. know that even in women cannot perform or perform published ten times a year (not and January — the big safe Let us read, with a true effort to in a mediocre manner, it will be August the new formed Value understand, when David Conway institutes of seen as confirmation that women months) by ly (the head of Middlesex University cannot handle high-level positions. For Money Company, it lists the designer sales, gives advice school of philosophy and religious affairs, The effect on women would be dates of economic to get secondhand baby studies) presents us with a, touching devastating.” on where clothes explains how to clean pastoral parable about “Adam and This is not a new argument. For and the occasional with Eve" who run a wheat farm, and a decades women breaking new muddy boots by rubbing the kindly explanation or why Eve ground at the top of male-dominat- inside of a banana skin. There is Shop" for readers to ought to stay indoors and raise the rush of maternal ed professions have felt an extra also a "Swap or gifts. children while Adam raises the responsibility not to let the side exchange garments hether it will save subscribers the wheat, because they’re bound to hormones can down lest anybody mutter “woman W it costs each year is anybody's produce more wheat that way than driver!". But is it happening, as the £15 — but dtrifiy readers can if thqy share both jobs, and that make its mark’ report seems to fear, in the business guess even if they split up Adam will pay world? Are politically correct com- obtain the first issue free by sending her compensation, won’t he? panies promoting women intojobs an SAE to June Elson. The Good Let us accept that, as the authors Women with children, she believes, they cannot handle? Deal Directory, Freepost (SW unanimously daim, equal opportu- display a “fundamental and in- Ask a headhunter. I asked Dr 6037). London SW1U9YY. nities legislation is expensive and eradicable biological assymmetry” Anna Mann, who founded the Creditable cause often counterproductive, and which employers are well within highly successful London agency should be curbed rather than their rights to consider. Women Whitehead Mann after being told BECOM E a patron of the arts and credit annual allowed to run amok. Above all. should be subject to questions about that women could never get far in save yourself card stay calm. Practise breathing evenly their intentions of future childbear- headhunting because companies fees by applying for an "Arts Card" through such statements as: “Biolo- ing and childcare, and yes. rejected wouldn't trust them. Now she from the Midland Bank. The card — other “affinity- cards" as they gy exonerates men by explaining if they are likely to take maternity hunts down both men and women like male economic success in terms of leave that would disadvantage the for the highest-flying jobs. Are the are known (the Midland also docs innate differences in ability": employer. women being appointed over their a “Care Card" for charities and u "People encourage girls to be Women without children “can ability? National Trust Card which benefits dainty because daintiness is useful easily compete on equal terms, and "I can think of no situations,” she the Trust! — works like a normal in activities which, as a matter of should not be subjected to the says, “in which any such thing has credit card and can he ordered in fact, most girls will elect"; “There baneful effects of anti-discrimina- happened. None at all. Although 1 Visa or MasterCard form. But are couples who need (Le. wanq two tion legislation, which only preju- don't really believe in the glass instead of you paving £12 for the incomes” and “It is in the divorce dices employers against women ceiling now. either." So what does privilege of hairing one. this credit courts and family courts and not in anyway. We aren’t saying women happen underour equal opportuni- card will pay £5 to the nominated the workplace that the law should shouldn’t achieve powerful posit- ty legislation? "Companies are now arts organisation of your choice be used to achieve equity between ions in society. I myself would like more anxious to search properly, (from a list of participating bodies) the sexes". After an hour of reading to achieve one. But I want to do it and they all like to see women on the first time you use it. and 25p this stuff, it was necessary for this under my own steam and receive the shortlist. They put pressure on thereafter for each £100 spent. So reporter sternly to adjure herself due recognition. 1 don’t want to agencies like mine to conduct a it’s a way of patronising the arts that carpet-chewing and immoder- have got there through special proper search, without prejudice. Promoring nuclear families: David Conway, Caroline Quest and their eight-month-old son Julian and saving yourself money at the ate laughter are no answer. This is measures. It doesn't make sense for But 1 have honestly never known a same time. Further details from a report with enough gravims and society to help women to get where woman get a job because she was a Dr Mann is herself a mother of a day a month to spare, I go home. Dr Mann quite liked the idea of local branches of the Midland .“ footnotes to get noticed, and there they wouldn’t be otherwise. Let the woman: Companies wouldn’t risk four (the youngest still only eight) Men are perhaps less balanced the report although she had not yet Bank or telephone 0702 436137. are those who will be only too glad free market sort it all out” it" and sits on the Opportunity 2000 So perhaps that aspect of the seen a copy. “Curiously. I think it help to back it So we should know State childcare, as sought by the 'I put this to Ms Quest who said committee, but she has never been report is right, and "men's domi- could be helpful. American society Home where and why it all originated. European Commission, is her “So they ask for women on the doctrinaire about what women nance in the workplace is the does take things too far. legislation THE family home built between The editor is Caroline Quest greatest bete noire. a "conspiracy" shortlist do they? There you are!" should do. "It is very important not aggregate effect of the sexes’ differ- shouldn't ran amok over things like 1 750 and 1939 has suffered most formerly an assistant director at the arte ranks with the worst evils of But she admitted that "the report is to make women at home feel ent choices”? “Perhaps. But people this, and perhaps it’s useful to stand from insensitive "improvements", Health and Welfare unit of die Eastern European socialism. Even largely based on American data". inadequate. The role of mother, are individuals. And really, the bad; and look at ourselves now and claims the Collins Complete Home institute of Economic Affairs. She if you argue for it as a form of And Dr Mann mused: “Americans hostess, and housekeeper is fine if prejudice is dying out: I meet old again.” Restoration Manual by Albert is now an associate editor of their welfare, talking about mothers on do go a bit over the top on these you want and can afford iL But men who’ve grown up with old Another page of the report rolls Jackson and David Day. £24.99. publications, working a three-day the poverty level without whose things. 1 suppose." there is no point in making ideas of women, and they some- off the inexorable fax. another This book is designed to help week. The reason for this step- earnings the family would be out As for the biological difference, sweeping statements about women times have a hard time but even breath front the 1950s. “Passing owners renovate period fittings and — down is that she has, at 30. just had on the street, Ms Quest is angrily that tender womanly predisposi- being designed by nature to bake they make an effort now to see over Jim to hire Jane harms Jim’s fixtures in an appropriate way her first baby, now eight months adamant "Where is the father in tion to bash keyboards and nurture bread. It’s typecasting. What does women as equal colleagues. And wife by as much as it helps Jane. replacing them with authentic al- old. Her husband David Conway is this hypothetical family?" she says people and enjoy "routine algorith- happen, 1 think, is just that women young men who’ve been through Helping one woman by harming ternatives — and advises on when one of the main contributors to the immediately, and when told he is mic tasks" described with such do more balancing: 1 get asked to education and training ride by side another can hardly compensate to call in specialists. report (the Adam and Eve man) out of work, or low-earning, or relish by Professor Levin: what sit on a lot of boards and commit- with women don’t have any women as a whole..." Breathe and the report is Ms Quest’s own dead, or has run off, she returns a about that? tees, but frankly if I happen to have problem.'' deeply, and count ten. Victoria McKee Blast for the Commons man A new magazine, Bitch, aims to freshen up satire for women e have not seen the like of will be joking about periods. Bitch magazine before. right According to Christie Davis, a Bridget Prentice en- advantage of having a woman in shall again The hen Who will support Bryan Gould's plea W Whether we professor of sociology specialising tered the House of Com- the leadership team. depends not only on how funny foe in humour at the University of for the first There are now women is also mons bar for to politics”? 60 among magazine bui on whether Reading. Bifcfc would best rely on Wafter o’clock vote, tomorrow an end “macho the 651 MPs, compared with are interested satirical attract time the 10 she 44 in women in kind of anecdote! humour to was struck with how much it ApriL This, together with the magazines which have, up till now, women. “Men like rale breakers reminded her of dosing time in her appointment of a' woman Speaker, been a largely male preserve. they laugh, when some one evades home town of Glasgow. “The men has, according to some MPs, Bitch, a monthly magazine them [hence Viz. which, according rushed in and ordered about 17 already created a sea change. which launches in August with foe funny? to its editor, Chris Donald, is read pints each in ten minutes." says the However. Teresa Gorman. Con- boast “world's first monthly wom- by men ‘because men are child ish’[. new MP for Lewisham East. servative MP for Billericay and en's humour magazine”, is the Women take things more seriously. Liz Lynne, the Liberal Democrat veteran campaigner for women in brainchild of Anne Harrison, a 3 1- If you look at joking behaviour, MP who replaced Sir Cyril Smith the Commons, is not so sure, “Our year-old comedy writer. It aims to men are the tellers and the inven- at Rochdale, remembers that dur- backbenchers are still at their be “strong, original and hilarious, a tors. Women are the narrators. ing her first vote, she was told by a favourite spectator sport — eyeing real challenge to the concept of Male jokes are efficient, everything male MP that there were far too up the new female recruits on the women's magazines — the biggest leads up to foe punchline. Women many women MPs, was addressed opposite benches, sniggering about launch since Cosmopolitan”. have humour along the way, al- by him as “my dear" and to/d she how attractive or not they are,” she The launch budget for magazine most incidentally." would be better off making a cup of says. and poster advertising is actually Maureen Upman. an award tea for him. Clare Short. Labour MP for pretty small in magazine terms at winning columnist on She maga- Both women. M Ps of six weeks’ Birmingham Ladywood. who is £100,000. The initial print run will zine, disagrees. “Most thinking standing, have been taken aback by also supporting Mr Gould tomor- be 500.000 copies of foe 48-page people prefer observational hum- the macho and chauvinistic atti- row, says the Commons tends to magazine of which h is expected our. most people do not want to be tudes of some of their male col- show politicians at their worst that six or seven pages on average confronted with the rabbi and wo leagues in the Commons. The “Prime minister's question time is will be advertising. nuns jokes." Impressive building and the sense both hysterical and ridiculous, bur The publishers. Bitch Publica- The publisher's of Bitch are worst of power are both intoxicating, they the time is when MPs return tions. are backed by Humour aiming for sales of 350,000 (at a say. It is the overgrown schoolboys after dinner pissed and noisy for Publications, who produce Zit. the cover price of £1.20) which would irritate. the ten o’clock vote and rival to Viz. Statistics show that the wind-up that put it second only to Cosmopolitan They are still struggling to come speeches." women do not read Viz and Private among women’s monthly maga- critic: Clare Short sees MPs at their worst While to terms with the barracking youn- Commons most of her comments are Eye. The magazines fail, it seems, Bitch: first run of 500.000 zines. Ms Harrison’s says she can who straddle the directed at her male colleagues in a similar way to the ger M Ps Mrs woman in see no reason why it could not sell backbenches calling each other fied. “Macho politics means push- abuse at his opposite number. “If Short concedes that some of them Woody Allen’s Manhattan who ber" of potential contributors (if more than a million — Viz territory. to score points. ing an aggressive image, using we are to attract the electoral would welcome more civilised says: “1 finally an orgasm names and trying ex- had and only three full time staff on the One problem is that Viz' in- in the chamber is very aggressive vocabulary and aggres- support of women, there is a need changes in the chamber and sever- doctor told it was the “Getting up my me wrong editorial side) among them Jo crease was gradual. So it kept its sive Mrs Prentice for a more constructive and consen- al have been supportive of women. kind." Viz is the wrong intimidating. It is a very adversaria body language," bind of Brand. Ruby Wax, French and cult status. Even though it was Prentice, says. pauses, toying with a sual approach, in which we try to She also points out that for the place." says Mrs whose She women can funny girls. Saunders, but no one has actually selling nearly as many copies as the entered the spoon in the Commons cafeteria, as build on the common ground be as bad. Mrs Thatcher “There is nothing for husband Gordon also women at signed up yet. Among the regular Radio Times, everyone still thought at the next between us and other groups," epitomised Commons for the first time in a large man sits down Mr macho politics and the moment.” Ms Harrison features will be spoofs of teenage they were enjoying a private joke. his newspaper Gould says. promoted it in the Commons, says.The monthlies April, as MP for Pendle. table and spreads Mrs glossy present photo strips, ’it liappened to me' Marcella D'Argy Smith, foe edi- into all part of the "Bryan is a very good listener." Short says. unattainable “Even people standing up asking her face. “It is highly images. Maga- stories and sex features of the ’Find tor of Cosmopolitan was scathing: competitiveness which is so preva- Mrs Prentioe says. “He doesn't put “NeO Kin nock remodelled zines like questions can get themselves totally him- Cosmo are getting in- that G-Spot' kind. "Cosmopolitan wouldn’t exist if we system in is lent here," she argues. people down. Many women relate self to fight Mrs Thatcher. He cut creasingly neurotic. They tongue-tied. The there are Ms Harrison has comic creden- weren't funny, but I don'r know way to that" his hair, stopped telling jokes preaching to look at some way of pulling the She is also dismissive of the and feminism and careers tials. As well as starting foe Comedy that women want humour relent- politicians, particularly men. dis- While progressive parties in oth- tried to be as tough as she was," when the underlying rug from under each other's feet message is Cavern, an alternative comedy dub lessly. ] can’t stick people who ate interests, which she er parts of Europe are attracting Mis Short says. The original how to get a and if you make a mistake you get miss women’s Mr man. They are 20 in Liverpool, she wrote for the pilot funny all the time." should integral part of women. Labour's share of foe Kinnock would probably years out of the whole public-school bit thrown argues be an have date. Bitch will be on series of Spitting Image, has writ- True, the idea of Frank Carson social policies. "It's female vote, particularly among foe fared better against John Major, the shelves next to foe at you — yah boohs included. We economic and glossies and ten for Radio 4's Week Ending and living in the front room would not little where over-35s. fell in the last election. she argues. women will always try to be in when other as if there is a box you say ‘What foe Hell is The News Huddtines, in fact for. appeal to many, but then a maga- issue, play Mr Gould, who is also standing "Mr Major succeeded because of that?* and by then be women are speaking. When you can pick out a women’s half way to foe "anybody who would pay me and u zine can always be put away. New it it away and for the deputy leadership against the contrast with the strident domi- cash ail." get into the rough and tumble you with and then put lot that didn’t”. Her own experi- concepts are rarely treated with Margaret Beckett and John Pres- neering manner of his predecessor. Ms Harrison trying need a bit of support." forget about iL" is desperate- ence has shown her the problems anything but scepticism. Ms Ham- preFer con- cott, has been nominated for that Replacing Mrs Thatcher with a ly hard to get it right She will Tomorrow Mrs Prentice, aged Arguing that women be. facing female wits. Like the humor- son now has to prove herself. But at beside sensual confrontational politics, post by nine of foe 14 new Labour soft-spoken man was the deverest she says, outrageous, but not tacky ous magazines, radio's 39, will be sitting Btyan to hack door least she will spare us tire "male has pledged to trans- MPs. While not wishing to deni- thing the Conservatives ha-re ever — “we won't slip into smutland". entries into "1 Gould in his leadership bid to woo Mr Gould mainstream comedy jokes that she loathes, grate Beckett’s qualities. done,” Short says. She Gould is form party politics into a reason- Mrs Mr Mrs now This, she enthuses, is foe magazine were mainly used by men. she says. heard, the female vote. Mr remember the worst I ever exchange views between Gould’s supporters ar^ue that she wants the Commons' rifle range that women have been crying out division convinced that women are turned able of The was dear — men were she says, “but the punchline wis groups. He will is rather belatedly playing foe replaced by a crtche. for. No liberation, attitudes, just off by what he describes as “macho Labour and other no funny and women wrote about tuna fish." the dispatch box, female card. As part of her cam- foe print equivalent of Victoria politics", with which the Labour be softly spoken at periods. She is not going to yell paign she has highlighted foe Jill Sherman Wood. She an “infinite mim- I'hnlliimio rv.iriitti'i.* fi.,. *i. - Ci r- * * oartv in particular has been identi- declining to beat his toiso or has — A C 7 11 LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 EUROPEAN ARTS 5 ARTS AND Camera ENTERTAINMENT • PARMA: An absorbing exhibi- tion celebrating the life and times uf the Duchess Marie Louise, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, daughter in of the Austrian emperor Franz 1 mad and from IS 15 to 1S47 ruler of thr Italian kingdom of Parma. Piacen- za and Guastalfa. The Palazzo Ducale. Cofomo (on the outskirts of Parma). Tel: {Old Cahors 30 521) B 14 1 90. Until July 26. • MILAN: German film director Werner Herzog aims to opera in a Alison Beckett goes south to the Lot, new production of the Rossini opera. La donna del /ago. which and finds a medieval town that has receives its world premiere on June 27 under the baron v«f Riccartio been transformed by a surreal cascade Mini. The easi includes top colora- tura soprano June Anderson (alter- of nating with Cecilia Gasdiai in the modem photographic images pan of Elena, with supporting cast including Alanine Dupuy. Jenni- hen photographers interchangeable. A pink and tat- fer Larmure and the American announce they are not tered sofa abandoned in a “no Rossini tenor Chris Merritt. actually photogra- parking" zone is as vibrant as Van Teairo alia Scuta. Via Filo- phers but arrises. I Gogh's wicker chair, a group of drammaiiri 2. Tel: iOIO 5924 help sceptical. Wcant fading After all. dustbins as attractive as any Ce- 7200374-5. 27. 1- June 29.30.Jul anyone who picks up a camera and zanne still life. 4. presses the button enough times But Stateside urban living bolds • PARIS; Jerome Suva can eventually end up with a good no allure for Frenchman Bernard tv's anar- chic pnxliiciion of Shakespeare's shot Bur in a medieval town in the Plossu. Though hailed in Paris as a play La Kuii des Hois Clwlfth Lot in south-west France, photogra- top photographer, he uses the Sight) swamps Shakespeare's deli- phy has surreally come of age as art medium solely for art and, after a cate comedy with his *wr brand of A major new festival. Le Printemps lengthy stay iri America, has turned burlesque even ro the de la Photo, has taken over Cahors miniaturist in protest at big being extent ol writing in the odd belly with exhibitions everywhere, from a equated with good. His desert dancer, striptease and Adonis in a watermill to the cathedral cloisters, wastes of Arizona, captured as if -string. and a mass of images projected so moonspped, contrast dramatically G Theatre National de Chaillot. 1 disorientatingly across the narrow with his misty, seductive pictures of place du ITucadero Tel: 10 1 0 33 1 streets as to make one suspect the the woodlands of France. The only 472781 15. Until June 20. influence of the JocaUy-acdaimed trouble is you may need a magnify- vin rouge. ing glass to detect the exhaustive • AMSTERDAM: Tniciltg An- “What you see is photographic detail of pebbles and foliage. Sky — Jewish Life in Russia 1 72- plasddenne explains director Nature also fascinates Bavarian- Mysterious universe; Control by John Hilliard, one of the most haunting photographic artists showing in LePrintemps de la Photo 1917 is a vvdi researched videos. blown or washed away. His pic- Foundation for Contemporary Art, any moment to defy death and two "people outside straight life*’, sense of humour that resulted in Daniel Mcijerplein 2-4. (0 1 0 3 In Cahors the festival is devoted tures are appropriately sited in an together with Champagne Demoi- dimensions by getting up and whom he spends weeks gening to shots of a young god bouncing, 20) ii2bW45. Until Nov 20. exdusiveiy to photography which old watermill with the river swirling selle. Cr&iit Fonder de France and walking. know. They are hung in a council apparently, from an invisible tram- • ANTWERP: Gotz Friedrichs artistic purpose. that pool full of serves an Having in foil torrent below. local supporters. meeting house dates from the poline: a swimming new production uf the Richard “evidence'' Rauschenberg, one of this century's Cahors is renowned for the lofty Sadly the giant images of Polish he only Briton in Le 1 2th centuiy. one of several budd- blow-up crocodiles; and Strauss opera DcrRoscnkawtiier is artists Krzystof Hilliard, dereliction that still smile sweetly greatest among the 20 or so towers of its 14th-century Pont artist Wodiczko which he Printemps. John ings rescued from by the a woman can set in the years before the first world is Valentre is being in half. participants, undoubtedly a help. and the remains of usualfy displays on buildings to a Lisson Gallery prote- festival organisers. Reine, a maid after sawn war. Willi scenery and costumes by their ge. is at artist Weber is definitely Rauschenberg has been experi- Roman baths, so water is a natural disguise normal function can T He a past master who “couldn't read or write or As an Jurgen Rose. Mari Anne with his since of the festival. only be seen here inside a gallery experimenting with the mechanics telephone, but really knew how to borderline. But then, so was War- menting camera he theme By night Haggander is the Marschallin: started painting over 40 years ago. unexpected storms permitting, the projected on the walls. More imm- of photography to create a dynam- booze”, was his first inspiration. hol and he pulled ihe crowds. If Artur Korn. Baron Ochs: and character oozes the it is the very although his photographs are rare- riverside streets are transformed ediately dramatic are the creations ic, imaginary universe which is Her from the Weber does same, Elzbicfa Sznnlka is Sophie. Sihio ly seen. In hu recent snapshots of with a medley of scenes from of two Toulouse sculptors. Maria aggressive, mysterious and intense- portraiL least the festival deserves. Varvtso conducts. the fringes of American life, ugli- Antarctic ice floes to Hamburg Barthelfrmy. one of only two ly emotional, from his finger- Bruce Weber is most famous as a • Le Primemps de la Phnm. Cohort. De Vlaamse Opera. Van festival, his commercial photographer. Never- Lot, France, until June /-1. ness and beauty are astonishingly quayside bistros, thanks to the women involved in the and pointing Impiratff to vision Enbumsrraur S. Tel: J32) 3 2322661. June 11. 14. IS. 21. 27. 30. July 3. THEATRE IN GERMANY OPERA IN ITALY • HANOVER: Hellmuth Matiasek's production of the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me Kate has two different casts headed by Well-schooled in scandal Not ready for the ball Gerrraud Wagner and Elisabeth Werres as Lilli' Vanessi. and with Helmut Guhl and Johannes Mar- ver since Rolf Hochhuth Germans have been making mon- “for that you will be executed” ecilia Bartoll is still in her up technique that prevents the Claudio Desderi puts his faultless tin Kranzle alternating as Fred wrote The Representative in ey at the expense of their feflow The scandal came when twenties but already we have individual notes from blossoming timing and wonderful relish for Graham. The sets and costumes 1963, in which he attacked citizens in the East Hochhuth gave an interview to C been assaulted on her ac- and sparkling, which in this reper- words fo full use as Don Magnifies E have been designed Olaf by Pope Pius XII for his passivity in The scandal has centred on the manager magazin, in which, al- count by the heaviest promotional toire is no small defect Pietro Spagnoli is a refined, soft- Zornbeck. the face of the Holocaust, his plays first of the play's twelve scenes (of though he denied that his play artiDery an international record Second, and not unrelated, she grained Alidoro. and Lurio Gallo's Niedersachsisches Staaistheater, have caused scandal. Soldiers which three have so far been justified Rohwedderis murder, he company can mobilise. By the time produces so little volume in fast camp Dandini goes .several Opemplaiz 1. Tel (49511) (1967) accused Churchill of doing revealed). It deals with the murder said he understood why it took I went to Bologna to hear her sing music that even in a voice-friendly kilometres over the top. They are all 1681711. June 12. 16. 17,20.23. away with the politically awkward last year by the Red Army Fraction place "Someone who behaves like foe title role in Rossini’s theatre like Bologna’s Comunale co-ordinated in ensemble with ex- 25. 2$. July J.5. Polish exile leader Stkorsld. leading of Dedev Karsten Rohwedder. Rohwedder towards a defenceless Cenerentola I was expecting con- she is sometimes barely audible in emplary precision by Riccardo the then German Chancellor to head of the all-powerful Treuhand. population, which was never even summate vocal artistry ignited by a ensembles. And in order to negoti- Chailly, who keeps the orchestra on • NANTES: An exhibition of o\vr apologise to the British: Juriston responsible for privatisation in asked about its view of the process searing dramatic temperament ate her final joyful rondo she the boil. 100 drawings by Sir Edward (1979) attacked the presence of Eastern Germany. ofunify, can’t be surprised ifhe gets In the event rapture was not grimaces wildly. The complete Magic plays no part in the Burne-Jones belonging to the former Nazi judges in Germany’s Rohwedder is confronted by an shot" quite boundless. Bartoli has a Rossinian of the future, perhaps. operatic version of the fairy tale, but Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge Roberto Simone’s production the first showing of the Pre- political life, and led to the resigna- East German pastor's daughter, Germany’s political and business lovely, dark-hued voice which she Her Ramiro. William Matteuzzi, De marks tion of Hans Karl Filbinger as who accuses him of exploiting the leaders reacted angrily, with Chan- inflects to richly expressive effect: is another singer of very mixed introduces it »n twilit transforma- Raphaelite artist's work in France. Prime Minister of the state of people. He’s even worse than cellor Kohl accusing Hochhuth of she comes as dose to musical appeal: it may seem ungrateful to tion scenes between Magnifico's As well as drawings, it includes Baden-Wurttemberg. Gebler in Schiller's William TelL defaming a German patriot and perfection as one could reasonably carp about a tenor who can crumbling dwelling and the designs for tiles, decorated furni- Now Hodiuth has created a she says. Gebler took only ten per providing a kind of licence to his ask: and she is a vivid actress. 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The claims, in Sci- 6 ^million-year-old tooth Patagonia, southern Argentina, platypus belongs, the monotremes. two known members or the mono- S’cks, are by two an Argentinian other being the ence re- in swamp about 850km southwest of Buenos Initially it sounded like an outra- treme family, the searcher at the University of has provided the first firm Aires. The area had yielded other geous piece of imagination," Profes- spiny an tester, which fives in Aus- T Chicago, one of whose fathers evidence that South America and unidentified teeth in the past sor Pascual says. tralia and New Guinea. treated himself successfully Australia were once joined together. Professor Pascual remembers that However by comparing the tooth The monotremes, the most primi- eating a quarter of a pound of The discovery may confirm a long- one of the students called him over with examples of Australian mono- tive of modem mammals, which the vegetable every dav for a held theory that all the continents of to look at the tooth, “ft was quite treme fossils. Professor Pascual suckle their young bur lay eggs, are week. world first evolved during the are the offspring of a different io anything 1 had seen found it was almost identical to the thought to have Celery contains 5-n-butyl single mother continent before," he says. teeth of a creature called the obdur- the age of the dinosaurs, more than phihalide which relaxes The tooth, a molar 12mm long, Back in Buenos Aires Professor odon. a giant, toothed, plant-eating 200 million years ago sntiiorh muscle lining blood comes from a monotreme, a primi- Pascual and other palaeontologists relative or ancestor of the platypus Their history has also been a vessels, the scientists have tive egg-laying mammal though to tried to march the find with the which lived 20 to 25 million years puzzle, with the first fossils not teeth Tests on mis showed inter- found. be a distant evolutionary relative of of known to avail. in South, Australia and south- discovered until 1975 and no animals but no ago blwxl the spiny tin: chemical reduced the platypus. But the platypus is “One afternoon a student asked west Queensland. mediate version between pressure bv probably lowering to the platypus ever unique Australia, so how did the me, almost as a joke, if it could be a Until the discoveiy of the tooth the anteater and stress hormones in the blood tooth appear in South America? found. by acting on an enzyme which Although the two comments The platypus is also an enigmatic are makes them. Quanc Le and today separated by thousands of relic of the distant past. Of all known William Elliott hope to devel- miles of ocean, scientists believe they mammals h has changed least over op a new hypertensiun drug were once connected via Antarctica. evolutionary time. but caution people against In fact the theory goes further: in the Platypus teeth, which in modem gorging on celery which can far distant past, possibly during the animals are shed by adulthood and contain large amounts of salt. Jale Precambrian times. 750 to 700 replaced by homy fiat structures on million years ago, a supercontinent which food is crushed, are unlike Acid from air broke up, leading to a loose configu- those of any other creature and NEARLY H .000 of Sweden's ration of southern continents known feature a double-crested. V-shaped 55.000 lakes have suffered as Gondwanaland, blade system. The tooth found in appreciable acidification from Gondwanaland itself eventually Patagonia has the same charac- air pollution, according io a broke up, leaving Australia connect- teristics. survey by tire Swedish Lih> ed to South America through Ant- “The finding goes against every- runmemhl Protection Agency. arctica, which was then much thing we know," Professor Pascual A .000 of these are being warmer than now. This grouping argues. Some classed as severely acidified eventually seperated, leaving the “The next question we have to ask with their PI 1 having fallen hv globe's continents organised as we ourselves is why this species survived more than 0.6 since preindus- see them today. in Australia while disappearing in mat times. Although this theory is supported Patagonia. Perhaps the cold climate The agency fears that nearly by evidence from geology and plate and immigration of other species 34.000 lakes will be acidified tectonics, it has remained a theory. from the north gave rise to its within a few decades unless air There was no direct evidence link- disappearance here, while Austra- pollution, which contains tire ing today's continents to Gond- lia's warm dimate and isolation is almost principle acid-causing pollut- wanaland or South America to allowed this little animal to survive," Dental record: the Argentinian monorreme tooth platypus ants of sulphur d to vide ;uui Australia, until the discoveiy of the he says. identical to the teeth in the jaw of a young Australian nitrogen oxides, is cut. monotreme tooth. Professor Pascual is hopeful that will on mure The discovery has been made by a Patagonia will provide further evi- the rest of South America. For animals be found Friendly engine team led by Rosendo Pascual. a dence of animal groups once be- example, the region shares many continents, southern Africa for ex- weight NEARLY all-plastic engine palaeontologist at the National lieved unique to Australia. plants with Australia ample, thus adding further A theoiy a superconiinent designed by universities and University of La Plata. Buenos Aires. United world: a computer-generated image showing how the He believes that southern Argenti- The disoneiy of the monotreme to the that component makers and led by Argentina, who took a group of continents were once joined, with Antarctica providing a land na has more in common with “missing link" has also raised hope was the mother of all the continents Ford has received a special students on a field trip to a bridge between present-day South America and Australia Australia and Antarctica than with that fossil ancestors of Australian in today’s world. European Community award under the community's Brile- 2b. Eurom II collaborative re- strange and potentially mice alive on April 19S6. Increased cancer in mice in northern England maybe caused by radioactivity' from Chernobyl search programme. worrying finding has the number of subsequent award, to a team in- been made by a British cancers in female mice rose by The A Nottingham Univer- what 1 per cent and in male mice duding cancer scientist more than six developinglevel oping a range of malig- U — — — B — I 5 M E too early to say the 00 1 when compared sity. the National Engineering years after the Chernobyl nantlam cancers when compared B — B fllBfl 1Af IT B| mW^W | BC 1 1 Vfl I B| E* implications might be for hu- by 9 per cent WIVUUB ”*« health but notes that the with 200 mice that died one Laboratory in Glasgow and nuclear disaster in the Ukraine withvith mice living before the man Ford's research anil engineer- which spewed radioactive nudear explosion. mouse is a good indicator of month prior to the acrident. ing centre in Dunum. Essex, is douds over large parts of Furthermore, many of the honorary research fellow in noticed a rise in radioactivity. 1 Dr Hemsworth. who is damage humans can expect The level of leukaemias 1 Europe induding the north of cancers developed by the univ- Durham’s biological sciences think this should have been funded by the International Dr Hemsworth has also similar to those seen in fora 1.04 litre engine. prize recognises the England. Wales and southern ersity mice are of a land department and a fellow of the reported at the time," he said. Agency for Cancer Research in found that the transmission of humans living near Cherno- The after disaster rose by potential environmental bene- Scotland. observed by Soviet officials in institute of biology. “I cannot “Heavy rainfall occurred Lyons. France, which is pan of carcinogenic problems app- byl the 24 IS fits of the pack which Mice at Durham Univer- people living near the devas- think of any obvious explana- over the university during the the World Health Organis- ears to be passed down over at per cent in males and per power the tests indicate is less noisy, sity, alive during and in the tated power station in the tion other than the link with two weeks after the accident, ation, is urging other research- least three generations of mice. cent in females among more foe! efficient and pro- weeks following the accident, years after the acrident. Chernobyl. 1 have since on the Mqy 4. 5 and 6, ers to reexamine their records The findings, published in Durham mice. 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Tel: 071 228 3466. Mt. Utn ron. 8 beds. 2 baths, cel lugh tn ChUtern Hinj. 1 7th Cen- •li-'imur mi i»f- CuuU K- mfey lar. 2 tower rna, ante ggc. gons tury country Residence. win ruins A gatehouse. Pad- PARK LANE Ben addm m Ranancdc views - 4 acres iimif nn-lish ham; dock it orchard about 1 jfluitT id London. Luxury three-room Beautiful setting 6 recep. 6 bed. E . acres CITY & WEST onto £378.000. Tel: Strut! 4tti near apartmau. orafooh- 3 bam. £420.000 further A j'.**1111 land Pgter^OZZYi 461123. jnJ iih.i'tTL'. ORO U ma Hyde Park. UfL parking, and stabling available If reo'd Ref recency ised. 68 modern A/C. 0844 42284 or 0836 334426 T«-!i»"‘N jsVS yr lease, oners £22dk. Tel: BIUXTON HILL, bnumiul del 4 €743 73598 (ptlvala), 0743 WATBtSlM property apodal bed house. 2 hath. 2 iwejml BARBICAN 248518 (bUSlnctH). bis. 1-4 OodrooTTi houses/ anart- urge ML COL nr tube. DEVON & CORNWALL ments wHh/wtthoui noortngs £139.000. TR 071 274 9683 Properties avaflebte from from £100,000. TeL Holland approx. £86.000 Mncfiell (07031 330041. Daytime call HAMPSTEAD* HERTFORDSHIRE com- CENTRAL LONDON Om- 071-628 4848 or -- - . PORCHE5TB) TERRACE HIGHGATE wsed ptoa 0 rate «obm paw wfflnad you any Property London WZ. Modem 4 bed 071-6284341 m UM area Jdr IO*. under house Vh baths 2 recap rma, access to IfilErit 2fi) and Britati Rd NEW valuation, Evening caB BARNET Lge than sue. lamani market gdn. 2 lerTaces-F.C-H.. (2»«tnPBEfinpij.t hafeHi Propardea mod ML with lge annex, suit prof pnena Lutyens Lid two care, inundc Ma- 071-6284372 garage for tete3wap:laj»radaTssK} working from Mm. 3 dbic gn Q7l _37I S7d6 prl* sale- £319.960 dman. FH. beds, itn botnrtn. V lichen, din cno 071 402 9064 week ends/ fattlHi/diner. 3 offices btf 475 a It n»L lounge, oatserr 4668 cloaks. 2*0 ft s foe Gvm. or Day. mam Inm tee \Aery tap oarage. ina gdn. veranda, sun terrace, tened SBfimon n/tts no tOrarj entooi oil si parfetng. £147.000 NfiBOM NW* next IO Brant Tel: day 091 449 0418 eves 2 bsun QUEENS CLUB CdM W14 da Croa/Mi. named sale, bar m CHUW 091 441 3246 own 2 bad Oat lit nr. C1 ULOOO Mill detached house wtm an amanl- 7B2 3241. LAKE BtSTRICT. CKeflPaking 071 381 1146/ Inc. 5 bed. 2 bam. dUeggs Tel: 0392 881420 dD Lake Windermere. In o acres, drive. Eadustva ALBANS plus Scar prvl T mrosZbed topQoor magnificent house. 4 reeewteg. esL SdlEMbasay/Exec/lge ttm nwl4«te«s, modern kttdien 10 bedrooms, stuff ucmxtv. prat*. Private aate. £280.060. /hnumjoni. B mins stenoti/ M35 ten nla/h copter rir, OA H TN 081 302 3905. £79.300. 0727 869232. C89&000 Tel 09394 88195 n • 1 7 N LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 HOMES BESTBUY Court of peace and quiet ALL house prices have fallen in recent \ears. but few as much as writes. Grander houses have fallen more than modest ones Tormahon Court, near Bath. Avon. It was valued at £1.25 million two years ago. and the s any holidaymaker you can afford to trade up. do so. house with its miniature park has agents are now asking £750.000 knows, there are advan- Prices have dropped across the also gone down in price, by more fur this Grade II listed manor. tages to going to the Alps board, but they have fallen further than the farmhouse. Its value has The main house has five recep- from £1 . 1 million in summer and the Midi on grander houses. fallen 4 1 per cent, tion rooms, 1 bedrooms four A and steering dear of Rupert Sweeting, £650.000. and in winter of Knight to bathrooms. Across the counyard is museums on bank holiday Mon- Frank & Rutley*s country house Instead of moping about the fall a traditional stune ham. which has days in short, being counter- department, estimates that a in price ofyour farmhouse, concen- been converted into a library. cyclical. For those with the nerve £650.000 farmhouse in Kent has trate on the price differential be- There are two self-contained flats in and the cash, today's property dropped by 23 per cent in four tween the house you own and the the coach house and stables, and market is full of such opportunities years to £500.000. as the diagram one you have always wanted. nearly five acres of gardens and buck the trend. shows. During the same period, “In 1988. tile farmhouse owner io paddocks. Most people are trading down. If that long-coveted Georgian manor would have had to find an extra Tormanon Court is on a quiet £450.000 to move from his farm- road, leading into the village of house (value £650,000) to a manor Tormanon. which is a conserva- PRICE COMPARISON house (value £1.1 million)." Mr 1982-Peak- 1992 tion area. The house is two mtler. Sweeting says. “Today the same from the M4. eight miles front move would cost only £150.000." Bath, and t*5 minutes bv train from Trading up makes most sense in up from a village house Paddington. tiie Home Counties, where manor- Aston House: a seven-bedroom Georgian mansion, the fruits of trading house prices soared and then • Agents: Siiwlls. tl?J5 -f-r 4n2J: f/i/in- Trad- Ivrif. 0'4\> -#-r-»555 crashed more violently than else- They were never as over-inflated as taken nn enormous amount of were able to move quickly." of where. Christopher Wilson, from in the South and, as a result, the courage." sa\ s M r Toogood. who is ing up can also take the form London. Mr the firm Wilson & Wilson, which falls have been less steep. Trading a retail director ufWoohvonh. “but trading closer to houses advises buyers, says; "Fairiy grown- up makes less sense. we knew that there is no rime like Wilson says clients ask to see Hereford- up houses in Oxfordshire, Glouces- Martin Tongood has been brave the present to trade up because of in Somerset. Devon and need no tershire and Berkshire haw fallen enough to rake the irading-up ihe way house prices have fallen." shire. until they realise they the most, by up to 50 per cent" plunge. He has swapped his Mr Toogood and his wire, who is longer go so far afield. Knight Mr Wilson gives the example of £225.000 four-bedroom house in expecting their first child next Maybe not for long. in the former cookery school, Hertfordshire for a seven-bedroom week, would have have been unable Frank believes that house prices out. so Winkfield Place, near Windsor. £345.000 Georgian manor, Aston to make the same leap two or three most regions have bottomed a small and Berkshire, which first went on the House, in Cold Aston, near Stow- years ago. the differential betw een market more than a year ago for on-the-Wold. Gloucestershire. leap- “You need cash and nerve." he a large home is now at its best for reinrroduc- about £4 million. Offers of £1.8 ing up several rungs of the housing says. "We managed to sell our those trading up. The less million are now being considered. ladder in the process. At the height house, we had cash in the bank, we tion of stamp duty on houses at incentive House prices further North have of the boom. Aston House would employed Christopher Wilson to titan £250.000 is further Tormarton Court; £7 50.000 fared better during the recession. have cost at least £450.000. "It has help us to find the house, and we to act now. NEW HOMES RENTALS WE URGENTLY REQUIRE PROPERTY E. Hugh Henry 6* co . IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS RESIDENTIAL LETTINGS Chelsea. Kensington. Knightsbridge & Surrounding areas WE HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF FLATS/HOUSES lor waiting corporate tenants IN THE CLAPKAM AREA PRICES FROM 1 BED - £130 PER WEEK 2 BEDS • £160 PER WEEK PLEASE CAii US NOW 3 BEDS - £210- PER WEEK 4 BEDS - £280 PB3 WEEK FOR A POLISHED OTHER PROPSmES AVAILABLE ft PROFESSIONALSS1GNAL BROWNS CHELSEA Stunning 2 Ml bod flat central toe wed furnished E2S0pw LETTING SERVICEservice RESIDENTIAL 1 1 PUTtEV Spacious and attractive ttmnhouM In good location. 2 LETTINGS . ROYSTON | PALACE GARDENS recepts, 3 beds, 2 baths. kh/braakfasL garden, garage E330pw (SOUTH KENSINGTON) PUTNEY Excetont tamfly house in dewatopmant dose to Rich- mond Parle. 4/S beds, 2/3 recepts. 2 baths, sain & shovuer. 1 mialitv hixurv homes Unfurnished £42Spsf A hiah dpvdnntnent of 4 & S bedroom kitchen, garden, dodtle garage. PREMIER LEIGH KELL ROAD 071 1208 Ironside 071 978 1880 720 LOCATION rrsirfeniia/ renra/s Cobham, Surrey 5L0ANE AVENUE SW3 ‘FOR LUXURY Full) serviced spadoo ift Bus. ftcconnodsaoB includes EXECUTIVE HOMES ~ from A superior dcwJopmcm of Pros final C40 per aerk mduatr of Htciiiui), central H.W-U substantial houses of Five/six bedrooms each Knight Frank ON THE OTHER HAND, MauwA bo) water, maid service. FLATS’ differing type* set in one of with tmhroow en suite. STUDIO Rutlev Best lettings service of the year' £185,000 Cobban's prestigious Four excellent reception E & BENHAM midemul m*L These rooms, phis a playroom 071-581 5877/2470 ABLA impressive new homes iff (FtinnUe type). &REEVES w 3 year Redundancy twirl, IO Mil Tim and Superb luxury fully fined 9 offer impressive dt—att sod finkB/hesttB room. SrSIDfiNT'lAl. LETTINGS •Si - M Protection Scheme which features suck ss mpt-""** Conservatory (Eaton type). COUNTRY RENTALS fireplaces, winged miirfi Full sixe billiards room. H includes £200 per month Mut plkricd landing. Leisure suite Fines area, CORNWALL GDNS SW7 spectacular 1/2 beefcoom sauna, spa nd shower raining res nt mot tenaca. On A rS^gfl Rlowardi running cost for Bte hear tar. 2 laeapdon mams. 4 properly offered tumfahed or NATIONWIDE batrooma S bfltnoms, UtcOnaJ unfumtehed on the ground EWGAPP RESIDENTIAL ROY bnaktsat vdohl Access to na floor of a prestigious biffdng . up to 12 months front al nans Bnfent LETTINGS ftwbswstSwrhwespeaWedSinmWeWin tanaoe - original features. Futy Road pfc] JAMES tavdap. Putt*. Partaas PERIOD COUNTRY HOUSE kitchen 1/2 reception A Situated in Warubam. alUBrfalQi met ai7i W FANCY private terrace. £50080 p/w Susacta Dtboeminy Superb location dose to “*•**1230-SJIpo. (0372) 468636 tDcdirva) driatchnl OTinnj CASCADES ARUNDEL GDNS W11 borne. 4 bed* ’ Keep* «udy. ,, and centre Spacious lower ground flat kitchen. tamhrooni 5^0 town information or a brochure contact: L0RD0HE14 For further with private patio and £1.200 PCM FURNISHED £275 PER VEER communal garden. Large The Property Managers TEL 0903 776305 open plan kitchen ft OR 0403 271630 1 quality specification High It? I -243 0964 ELMBRIDGE ESTATES PLC recaption. 2 double Tet (04865) 5888 or (0932) 334628 Fix: (048(5) S66S oedrooms. Modern furnishings. 000p/w Sales Centre open 5 days a week, Thur to £25 Humberts ELVASTON PLACE SW7 Mon 1030 to 530pm Tel: 0763 248507 4th ft 5th floor mafconans M A J-E-N DIE with private lift ft 2 x aj bafeonys. 2 double bed- RcAidrnti.il letting rooms ft 1 single. 2 bath- in central London rooms (1 en-sulte) - 2 jnd the country receptions, tufly fitted tttaa HAMPSHIRE Preston Urtumished £48&ogpfw 102 DruM'.iitt AvcnuL- Candover. An exceptional a Lnmlnn SWT TAD beautUUDy appointed house In MatBStHRMARLA emir* of vlllapr . HalL Z 071-225 0433 reception* lor Ml/b*M. 4 bed- SW1 Wwtmiraur. Maunsd Si room* 2 bathrooms. shower. OlvWon Belt area B minute* Carootno. heabno. "u acre gar- from Common* St Jarnes and den. To let unfurn £1-000 pan victoria Station. Ground floor Lone Fox. 12 Cron SI. flat wtm two bedrooms £300 Okie 0266 474647 pw and tst Door flat wim one bedroom £250 aw. Each flat wun bauiraom: kitchen: thing room etc. Period House: one of the prettiest streets In Wmlmln- «ler. TB 0861 522009 OVERSEAS PROPERTY TRe South of frmu "Oae of the test protected beaches on the Cote d'Azor." [ yet only 5 mmuies to the sandy Set among the mimosas and umbrella pines, Perood-Ricard Group. an outstanding development by the prestigious a lovely bay and this project tits in a The coastal village of Cavaline is so on nles and colour washed wills, S^encaUtyte archiicctnrc with wnacona roof blends harawaiousJy whfa the sunoundings- restaurants, shopping course and minutes to excellent Adjacmt to ft spectacular golf and beaches. airpon.....20 mins. St Tmpe£~.J0 mi«- Toulon Irom apartments, all with gardens or terraces dsoose Rom sped** immbouses or £49,000 to £78.000. For infortnalion 0JC A^mts: *THEAMERICAN ^ Agency; , f# ^orrwoged. W Kiwmtsarottw.uwitMSw? iftfl Gc™ vUH T* 071*581 S3S8 Rue 071-584 SP7B french propertynews MONTHLY THE ESTABLISHED MARKET LEADER sunet sho«« SWr- more people read 1 4 recent independent other French propertv pubUcauon) Frenc.b Propem V"- than am FOR YOL'R FREE COPY TELEPHONE 081-942 0301 NOW Published b> M'actjr Unird la Limteon ILud. London SUM OLB SOUTH of France Renamed country house iNr Lucmm. 2 1 st nr beds, amna/dtolin. gur- aoo. garden l-OOo metres «i Offers around 400.000FF. Con- tact Mar. Pona BeMepud 010 li 61429897 128 Avenue at Lardenne 31 Toulouse France. — . : . J 8 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 Bidding for a world record MARKET MOVES Christopher jiiis; million of the previous quarter. The number of properties on offer also VVarman reports decreased, from 535 io 367. on Introdudne Aras, its auction re- sults analysis system. Richard a super-auction Aurerac. a JLW auctioneer, says the srare of 1 992 has seen confidence in planned in LA £5513? the property market wane because of difficulties in obtaining bank finance, commercial property auc- and uncertainties over the general Ashdown Park: IS5 acres and buildings for E3.5 million tion. belieTr^d to Se the GDH'Mh-GOltfG... election. most economical biggest of hs land, is io be LOS ANGLES Despite the election result, Mr DaiiAldUC ic office spur?space DmILICIJ9 19 in this prime A held jointly by Jones Lang GONE! Auterac says, “confidence in the West End loca- Wootton (jl.VV), secondary market has been affected tion. the international oj. fr;v property consultant, and Kennedy- by the continuing plight of some calling lin Bernard Thome,Thorne, the agent,agent. Wilson. ^^bbb,b a leading American real propertv- companies and banks". O quotes a rent of E25 a sq ft.ft, estate auction-marketing firm. Finance is now available for most while the next-door building, size The properties in the auction — to investors only in the secondary mar- ASHDOWN Park in East of similar and specifica- take place ai ihe Century- Plaza Hotel, ket. where the tenant covenant is Sussex, a leading manage- tion. is on the market ai Century City. Los Angeles, on August good and the length of lease is at least ment training centre, is for almost £40 a sq ft. Un- 13 — hav* a potential value of more ten years. sale since Barclays Bank's building dates from 1726. than $500 million (about £273 “We are not expecting a significant decision to decentralise its Canary boost million}. Seventy income-producing increase in the number of auction lots training functions. Acting for properties, all in America, will go until the general business confidence Barclay's Property Holdings. TOWER Hamlets council u under the hammer, with reserve and economy recovers, which may be Knight Frank & Rutley is the latest body to look to- prices of between $1 million and $22 L* m 1993.*' Mr Auterac says. seeking £3.5 million. wards Canary Wharf in million. Property yields in all three sectors The 1 9th-ccntmy. Grade II London Docklands. Hicctxin- The event will be publicised — office, industrial and retail — have listed Ashdown Park, origi- cil is considering moving up through JLW's 63 offices in 23 improved, however, in the first part of nally the home of Rear Admi- to 1,000 of its headquarter* countries and throughout the United properties on offer range from offices, been stimulated by an “imperfect two years, the auction wQl help to re- the year, and Mr Auterac predicts ral Jacob Hcnniker. has staff to the tower. Stales jointly with Kennedy-Wilson. industrial and retail centres io apart- market". Mr Milde explains: “With establish market pricing. "As with that there will be much investor conference and training facili- Peter Hughes, the council News of the super-auction, intended ment buildings and hotels, and the so many properties now in the hands fine an. the real-estate market is interest in properties with strong ties. office and residential leader, says there arc sound tn stimulate rfte market info recovery, vendors indude banks, insurance of lending institutions or government becoming international and an auc- covenants. Sale and leasebacks could accommodation, as vveD as commercial and financial rea- came as JLW announced this week companies, pension funds, corporate bodies, it is otherwise difficult for tion is the best way to attraa be a feature of the auction market as seven cottages, in i S5 acres. sons for the potential irane. the results of its auction results survey. owners and private individuals. Most foreign and local buyers to gain worldwide buyers.” companies aim to take advantage of along with a need to returns: The survey showed that the volume properties are being sold with financ- access to the wide range of properties, In London, the results of com- the improvements in yields, particu- Space bargain its core central services under of sales in London auctions fell ing provided by the vendor. in terms of property type, capital size mercial property auctions from six larly in the retail sector. The analysis THE Irary Group has begun one roof. sharply in the first quarter of the year Explaining the background to the and geographical spread, which London firms indicate a depressed covers the auction results of JLW, the refurbishment of its The move could save the compared with the last quarter oF auction. Simon Miid£, JLW USA's appear in this auction." market. The volume of sales in the Allsop & Co., Healey & Baker. 26,500 sq ft Grosvenor Street councif £3 millton a year in 1991. managing director, says the resur- He says that because there have auction room fell in the first quarter Edward Erdman, Sail man Harman office building in Mayfair, running costs, and could For the Los Angeles auction, the gence in real estate auction sales has been so few transactions over the past to £32.24 million from the £77.34 Healy and Conrad Ritblat & Co. which it believes will offer the begin by Christmas. COMMERCIAL PROPERTY SPAIN CREME DE LA CREME PRIVATE CLUB Bond Street Bureau jjEnmzHmsa. ROME £20K Package SPAIN’S PREMIER LOCATION Exclusive Leisure Club in West London needs a EXECUTIVE RECEPTIONISTS This breathtaking resort, established hr ewer yean 25 team leader for its Membership Department which £15,000 - £21,000 Via Veneto on the shores of the Mediterranean, is one of Europe's Blue Star Europe has assembled a deals with 9.000 member*. Rcceptiaaist/TcteplMnBts b required for wtl ewabllshed most sought after developments. well group of nine petrol station sites W.l. organisation. Mutt be ntremdy well presented, Exceptional facilities include a marina, polo, two As the local point for all member’s correspondence spoken and folly eonreraru with a Monarch switchboard. along the busiest roads on the PRESTIGIOUS championship golf courses, and beach dubs — off and enquiries, excellent interpersonal skills are preC a«e 30-35- French Riviera in the South of lifestyle. - BUILDING combining to ensure a special required. A comprehensive knowledge and Eatcumg Receptkmiil/PA to Chairman £18.200+ An Gibraltar, 2l9 hours flying lime horn ekgus and experienced professions! ii required m France. The sites all have current London « o mere experience ofcomputers is also essential. represent the Chairman's office of dm bolding company Planning Permission for 20 minute drive From Sotogrando. LOCATION will managing Responsible AND Your role include a switchboard and rccapoon area and department of for busy Afull choice of marina apartments and, for the first time. redevelopment into modem, oil providing fall secretarial service lo Quitman and vbhntg 3 bedreamed viHas from £138,000. ForfuB detail cofl: four staff compiling budgets, attending and company-style filling OFFICES O/S daemon (SO/Wwpm) petrol TO LET servicing regular Committee meetings. A solid work (Rat Com) stations. Many of the sites are PIERRE &VACANCES record showing previous management experience 22 Sands Molten Staef W.L ***** rv ..T-.-TTrSr suitable for alternate uses, being Over 4000 sq.m. Telephone: 071 495 2414(24 his) and die commitment ofan individual to become 071 429 3492 071 *29 SSS0 MV far too large to support a single to be restored. fully involved, including some weekends, is petrol filling station. essentiaL Ideal site also for The sites are for sale either as a PORTUGAL Skills: 60wpm Typing Age: 35+ whole or individually bank offices. CaD os now on 071 287 7788 ALGA8VE. Luxury villa near MARKETING Viewing is strongly recommended La«ol S Mdl/4 taOnoot Highly confidential. 5-000*3 cote, panoramic views. swimmiDft pool md xniMi ANGELA MORTIMER Principals only BBQ ana. Fully AnnbM toe xx Secretarial Recruitment Consultancy XV CITY -To £17,000 pooMde acc orto- £276.000. Please contact m 081 620 6233 or 0831 670910. You mad an investment management Mr Peter Britten (London) on Rnandal/mariteBng background Io become the right 081-789 SI 1 1 or Mr David Britten Tel +39-6-6874240 tart to tta high powered, demandng but supportive (Antibes) on OIO 3393 343560 PA/SECRETARY Marketing Director of an expanding International Oral. Based at that auperb new City offices wMhbeiiutifU CREME DE LA CREME A presentable PA to be based in Bruxelles who has views, you are keen to use your Htiatfva and abtbty to worked or lived in more than one European dty think ahead and priorttbe. French, to a lesser extent and whose role will indude working with the German would be useful, wps.i and audio essential. Age 24 -sire. Charrman’s Secretariat and his household staff. He or she will be flexible, be prepared to work Cab Nan Myers on 071 377 2666 Rio . . , demanding hours and is free to traodfrom time to GLENROTHES time. Excell nt knowledge £14,000 + bonus e of English is essential with some knowledge of French and Spanish. SECRETARIES Our cfenfs business spans the mid - and provides PLUSl Practice ofWP 5.2 version is a requirement as well in? Secretarial Cor.sullBris MODERN INDUSTRIAL UNITS aunhiueservkxblheWhsmesstm^er.Aspart as a driving licence. a young, extremely lively team you will enjoy of Please send CV to Bax No. 8943 SOUTHFIELD - 10,000 sq ft ike pace {and Ihe wismd&ij while lending a hand College across every aspect- MD's PA to tern support New Job from Leaver and general admin. Versatility and energy ere £15,000 + PA. £11,000 + essential qualities. So too accurate banking shills and excellent retard £24,000 Exc Bens 180/60) bens Call today on 071-409 1231 This is a fantastic oppor- Our client - a well known and successful tunity for a college leaver Expending Equities division UtmUmal Caadltuts entrepreneur - needs an executive secretary to work in xhc grriring of blue chip City Mock- broken to Ike Commaiuitkms industry world aC Filin Distribu- requires a flexible, (graduate level with French) whose experience well presented tion. As secretary to the sccmiry. Your eKcilcni in an international environment win provide the Publicity Manager you admin sad seoeurial skill* {WI/M/wp) will be in the frontline as skills to co-ordinate his ever-changing will be uved u the full pre- ROYAL NORWEGIAN EMBASSY you field International paring presents i oos, programme, liaise with his telephone associates and call*, provide organising complex trsvel Industry and Technology Office foil secretarial support oxrangeroena, manage his many interests at home and setting upsy» and organise traveL You tans and meeting deadlines, EXPERIENCED SECRETARY abroad. Age 35-40. must have an nurgning Abfluy to do overtime essen- tial working personality, the ability to for this fabutom is required by this office whose role it is to promote and team. Age 25-30. banking work on your own Initia- develop technology experience and Microsoft industry and cooperation between DIRECTORS' SECRETARIES tive and skills of 80/40. Word 5 essential. Please can- Norway and the UK. Some office experience mcr Victoria Herrington on i 071 629 9323 preferred. 18-24. You should have excellent secretarial skills (including Age 071-377 9919 for tether Please tall Caroline WPJ, lots of initiative and be able to work very Tuck on 871-437 6832. LOCATION ACCOMMODATION independently. We can offer interesting • you an opportunity in a newly TRADING PLACES • Fast access to M90 and national Uninterrupted production area established and dedicated team. ffigSTOMg motorway network. of 720 square metres (7,750 sq ft). Please apply with fall details to: £ 18,000 e Edinburgh 40 minutes; • Two storey south facing office/ ROYAL NORWEGIAN EMBASSY This successful firm of commodity traders are Industry and Technology Office Dundee 30 minutes. ancillary area of 288 square metres continuing beat the OFFICE Charles House to recession and expand their SECRETARIAL activities throughout the world. ADMINISTRATION (3,100 sq ft). 5-11 Lower Regent Street They are looking for • Located in established, modem & OFFICE London SW2Y 4LR an intdtigent, proactive PA to provide secretarial SECRETARY + £15,000 low-density estate. • Eaves height of 5.5 metres. support Ait Mr G L Solberg in one of their busiest areas. For smalt head office of Your role will encompass everything from booking upmarket European Required for well • Pleasant, south-facing outlook. • Generous yard and service area Telephone 071-973 0188 and ask for Mr G L Solberg cargo on ships to assisting with the paperwork on GtothinaGo.JtothinaCa. inWI.in INI. or Mrs Englander. known Ski Company V Experienced In all to rear. trades. For the right person this postion offers a job aspects of running a El 4,500 + Perks with autonomy and possibility of occasional traveL kterara W FEATURES • Individual car parking. small office essential and M you are computer Any European I.-mguagcs useful. Apiemac & French words tor Wkvtows and wouk! toe m • Modem, low profile insulated steel If you enjoy a fast-moving environment and relish the preferable. A fun & Database and flexible attitude organise mis small tun mam opportunity to develop a career, call us now on 071 a must cladding. Min 55wpm. Age 25+ then ptoau contact Jufisoe 287 7788 MB on 071 223 0601. • Prominent office frontage with tinted LEASING TERMS SECRETARY Can Vanessa 071 636 *A‘ Levels Age 20-35 Skills SH Useful/60 double-glazed windows. Leases are available at competitive CLERKENWELL 1433 BEAVERS LTD (Rec Cons) rental levels and are generally offive years DESIGN 0 Adaptable ground floor office area We are a progressive friendh' firm of ANGELA MORTIMER INTERIOR xX Secretarial Recruitment Constd^tcy Consulting Engineers. 3Qt- strong. Our JLV or more. However; the Corporation is ARCHITECTURE with option for production use. work indudes design of dty willing discuss lease less to a of than this developments, hospitals, renovating Administrative Assistant An experienced • Gas fired heating in production area. historic buUngs and studies ranging from ski resorts to re- epdonta/secoway * in certain circumstances. Telephone now City, ECl <£17.000 rac use of deretet land. We require a Secretary to look after a required for this busy practice Are you a eftammattr. amfkkat • Electrically operated 4 metre high on 0592 610714 and ask for the team of engineers. The post requires fast accurate auefia In SW1. A Wendy efficient education, Curtain Call Mephom manner and production dooc Marketing Dept typing (WordPerfect 5.1), good mature approadh, humour, management iMty and above d commitment to £17,500 accurate typing era essential helping tun a happy efficient practice. Preferable ego 20-25. Salary negotiable, depending an age and experience, 4 The Chief Executive of a West End Apply In writing to: weeks leave p.ay A STL based Theatre Company needs a team- GLENROTHES, FIFE Ti!sh Flood, David La«> spirited secretary with poise and Partnership, 22 Qntncoot Apply vritfi CV le Mr £M. Dimy. SJL T£«*i X hrtHa, 14 confidence. Raco, Lcnden SW1P 1ECL GOOD FOR BUSINESS. GREAT FOR LIFE. Ctaheawefl Close, Ctaffcanrefi, London ECU OPQ Teh Responsibilities will include 071-490 071-490 (No Agencies) liaising 5050 Fes 2160 with high profile personalities; No Agencies ^ co-ordinating travel arranging, attending FOR FURTHER B*fisO»WT10N CALL and minuting meetings and generally 0592 610714 FAX 0592 754035) OH POST COUPON TO ( assist in the smooth running of the office MARKETING DEPX FREEPOST, GLENROTHES DEVELOPMENT susfln tmmiiron - NEW COW, BALGOWE RD-, MABWNCH, CLBWCTHES, REE KY7 6BR. PERSONNEL he is keen for your to be totally LEARN PA to Chief Exec. involved. Sound secretarial skills SKILLS 100/60/audio and a solid work back- (£19,000 and ground essential. Age 25-35. PR OLD POSITION. Well estaMsh at. based near Baker Street rfaqures a SECRETARY REFRESH - Cuj based GLASGOW PA for tiller Chief Executive. Previous senior level oxp. Please call Samantha Brandcr on (nor Bank] hands! ONES plus exceflerrt organisational skills needed for (He andtapanwa PRawttancy (Ml)\ Involved & rewarding position. Would Mdt Someone with m 071-434 4512. Hpeni}) teuuv Secretary to St- James’! Collep in jBifl a juug and coot** A74 a flexible attitude & sense of humour. Speeds S/H 100 gmraa Raaingwn ttftei shen required. Age 30+. Cal Carat compny. in Word PnrcBmK. b wpm. Typ + WP expl _ . •Breaks ad 071 629 9157 Susan Hsmtton Pet sound Fkew Wisheaa Babotea Keytaerdlhg, Sbeniundwi h*Jd (Agy) lor an hnwMHMito huentiew. B Bn-eOBIffX mlentire or part-tune a%TAXREUCTFpRAjL V Crone Corkill Fax year CV ta 07I4M U*S SELF-FUNDED TBAW™0 ®o»™«irecoM«aiuc» 071 373 5SS2/3t«/J»° ' . V I _ ' l n M , LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 071-481 4481 071-481 9313 CREME DE LA CREME 071-782 7828 SoifEh West Water has a turnover of £1 7Qm and employs over 2000 people. With Secret Ingredient our headquarters on the outskirts of Exeter, we have an enviable reputation as a place fl 100 wpm shorthand, 60 wpm typing W Seasoned WP skills PA TO MD W Sizeable pinch of professionalism C. £19,000 -FULHAM M Good measure of fun & initiative Salary negotiable + benefits EXETER Fold in a friendly, positive approach, add a dash of zest and The Company Severin Monties are the worldwide manufacturers you’ll find it’s a proven recipe for success. and distributors of Gucci Watches. The UK operation is a very This is an exciting opportunity offering all the challenges of a major employer but high growth company run small team of 40 without the pressures of inner city working. Ring us now to see what's cooking! successful, by a As a “top flight' Secretary/PA you will have 1 MD/Director people located in Fulham. several yearn experience at West End City’ level, probably in a large blue chip organisation. 071-434 4512 071-377 8827 Timepieces are designed and manufactured Your role as Personal Assistant will also include comprehensive secretarial and The Product Gucci administrative support to the Managing Director of the Company. to the highest possible standards of style and quality in This Is an exerting and highly responsible role calling for tact and diplomacy, when Switzerland. The company leads the market in supplying the handling a range of important internal and external contacts, and initiative to Crone Corkill finest watch and jewellery retailers in both multiple and effectively organise a pressurised diary. independent sectors. You will have a good standard of education, preferably to 'A' level, and of course BECRUTTMENT Temps CONSULTANTS excellent typing and shorthand skills. A flexible approach to your working hours is essential. The Task To support the Managing Director in a full secretarial in return we offer a benefits package as expected of a major employer. Relocation The Toast ofLondon and administrative role. Fast shorthand, W.P.. good organisational assistance will be provided where necessary. skills and common sense are pre-requisites. Joyce Guides Temps - supportive, experienced, If you are looking for challenging, a rewarding position within an organisation efficient with PA Secretarial expertise, tnduding committed to customer care please write with CV to Gerry Dixon, MSL Advertising, ail aspects of Hi-icch and wide-ranging office The Person A minimum of 5 years secretarial experience, 3 of Broad Quay House, Broad Bristol tilte Quay, BSl 4DJ, quoting reference number 79176 by which at a senior level, preferable in a marketing and sales 19th June 1992. Wheneveryour business needs us, environment. You will need to be pro-active, highly communicative we're here! and comfortable in an international environment. The ability to JOYCE GLTNESS RECRVTTMEST U.O. 072-589 880" CITY Ort-823 prrj ‘Make It Happen' is key. % Bt-Ungual 071-584 9501 SOUTH WEST WATER The Rewards £19, OfX), plus Pension Scheme, BUPA, etc. This is a real career opportunity to develop within a dynamic environment where initiative and enthusiasm are valued and RECRUITMENT rewarded. Write with full career details to: Valerie Simpson TELEVISION ACCOMPLISHED PA Severin Montres UK £14.500 £17.000 -+- PKGE Immediate Vacancy for a 14/15 Hurlingham Business Park m Sulivan Road, Fulham London SW6 3DU PERSONAL AGENCIES This is splendid opportunity fix you to enter the A young dynamic Partner of a well known DEFINITELY NO wold of television at a senior level supporting a firm of Management Consultants seeks an busy director with varied and interesting articulate «nd professional Secretary to responsibilities. You must have experience of totally organise his busness life. You will be ASSISTANT dealing with confidential and «nmetim« complex a strong administrator with experience of CEI'TIOXiyn matters, in etLKring to organising rfwriw and juggling your work load and co-ordinating c. £16,000 pa A huge national company. meetings at a senior level meetings. i : i.ooo mail - to The successful candidates will be an excefient From opening and responding to Tax Free in Saudi Arabia A small, dedicated team. role communicator and a strong organiser who likes greeting and entertaining clients, your minimum of 4 dealing with a wide range of issues and has plenty wOl be varied. If you have a International Hospitals Group, the British Healthcare Management SECRETARY/PA '*- -• •_ experience, excellent of common sense and inrtiaiive. You must have years secretarial Company have an immediate vacancyfora qualifiedandexperienced skill* good fist audio typing drills and an energetic approach secretarial (pref S/H) and EUSTON TO £17,285 ' ' ' PersonalAssistant to theProjectDirectorin oneofSaifiArabia'sbest '? • "W skills, Victoria . to your work. Please call on 071-225 to wp/graphics then please call l V, s r,d 1888 hear ^ hospitals. Superbly equippedwith all the latestfacilities, and working The Privatisation Studies Group is working on Government ' more about this exciting opportunity. Wall immediately on 071-225 1888. alongsidepredominantlyBritish staff, this is an idealopportunity tosee proposals for privatising the railways. As Secretary/PA to the 1CTORIA. WALL ASSOCIATE! V I c t o a WALL ASSOCIATE • -t — some ofthe world and save money too. Director, you will be using your sound secretarial and audio “ ft . I . . . skills to the full and will be involved in a variety of day-to-day Aooeartwo yearcontract is availablewith seven weeks paid leaveeach administration matters, A flexible and enthusiastic approach EXCEPTIONAL CHALLENGE year, flights to the UK every six months, free accommodation, free with the ability to work under pressure is essential. £20-25.000 Ace at Admin! medical treatment, end of service award and excellent recreational neg - facilities. In return, you'll receive a starting salary of £14,580 £17,285 Demanding, Influential and high pro(3e boss is £18,000 Victoria (including London Allowance) depending on qualifications and Ifyou are experiencedwith wordprocessing, using WordPerfect and looking for an equally impressive PA/Sec. in order Energetic PA/Administrator needed to experience, rising to £19,990 by annual performance review. to cope wftfi the challenge you should have top successful executive Word(60 wpm), shorthand(lOOwpm), audiotypingandtranscription organise young and Benefits include free and reduced rate travel for you and your banking/finance experience and be used to search firm. Your service industry back- skills have previous organisational experience, preferably in a and family, on and Continental Railways, generous holidays and «Hllt BR working at the highest level end handling VIP's. ground and secretarial will enable healthcare environment, and are interested in working in one ofthe an exceHent contributory pension scheme. should also highly Intelligent enjoy you to effortlessly oversee document pro- You be the Middle East with British company please duction, arranging meetings and travel and leafing hospitals in a pressure, have superb organisational dolls and a To apply, please send details of your age, qualifications and take on advoc projects. You will be respon- contact Phil Davies, International Recruitment Manager, at the keen social awareness, together with exceHent experience to Caroline lining. Resources Manager, British sible for the computer system, so thorough address below quotingRef. No. 5143T. personal presentation. Euston House. Eversholt Street, knowledge of Word Perfect 5.1 is vitaL 654- Railways Board. Room 627, 24 The rewards are high but so is the challenge. typing and ATevds essential. Age 24-30. P.O. Box 100. London NW1 1DZ. Closing date for receipt of Please telephone ]oaana Banlgatte on applications: 26th June 1992. SJdfc: Agr.28-38 J 100/60 '.irk. • 071-4344512. I TiTvphnnc 11753 573222 Sl.nift'n. Hvi 'I 2 4N> Please cal us on l\->. British Rail - working towards equal opportunities. 071 726 8491 ANGELA MORTIMER Crone Corkill Secretarial RecniftniemConsiAancy XX XX —toMCmiBUPUBtUMni Training Administrator - £20,000 1 — A highly rhaflrrnim role fix the ritimale adminnovtor. If you Hkt ottwaiiig people’t >rtirtfak« then yon wiB tow tin. A dynamic iw—I company a St Jame^ need* aomrenc to cryrtmatr thdr iniiiial IT tzamiai. Yoo will be proiftifin* a icrriee to ova 200 um, Ml of Maine - Tucker Wtoa have itxfiridnal mtiitnwmiid pactad ffarin Voo win need to have a real nitrxejt zq Famous Names IT and racdknt inKtpcnaaal «viH« to hdp yon understand and react comedy to peopWi teqncsa. The umdardi at thh company are exceptionally bt(fa ao you win need to be very to mtfOitrat. Ihorongb and be aMc to peAcm cpnddy end cfficicctfy under a lot of pctawire. ‘A’ £18,000 level and mutentaia of the Windows mrimuiuati are cawaniaL RECEPTIONISTS s as Bng Two appointed directors HAPPY newly of a firm of Team Secretary - £20,000 Lloyd’s Underwriters need a polished and Circa £12,000 Thi* is a lot ofmoney fiir Team Secretary, bm yon wffl certainly cant tL You wiH be wrekint efficient secretary. Working cm the Agency the came company aa above is their IT cl parwsrm. yon win need lo support five uumagr ry If you are sitting there, reading this advertise- q side, you will, in time, build up a relation- thoosh there are ten or more who may caD on yon to waist . Yon wiB need excellent shorthand ment it stands to reason that -you must be well a good working knowledge of Word far Windows v2. Yon must have ship with the Names using your charm and and audio ikifla as as unhappy where you are. Why? Perhaps it's wotted far a team hdbre and have a genuine isteresi in eomptnen. diplomacy to provide a first raze service for Rir more information an other of these vgoeaaes ring Erf^rtiCbod ofAadrony Cbok Bnteau time for a change^. Perhaps you are a bubbly these high net worth individuals. Secre- on busy-bee trapped in a quiet dun place.- Per- tarial duties for die Directors will include haps Its just not fun anymore... Perhaps it's 071-628 3355. screening calls, arranging travel, running just that the people around you are just not their diaries and general audio typing on Bke you? If these are your thoughts - please die WP. A background in insurance, par- take one minute's break - and caB us about ticularly Lloyd's, is essential. Age: 22-35. two super Reception jobs we've got, where 60 wpm typing. Please telephone Melanie the people are young, unaffected & fun, and Hffl on 071-377 9919. you'll be truly appreciated for your efforts. RECRUfTMENT CONSULTANTS You will need to type (but not aU day!) 25-30 wpm. So If you are 18+, and have some experience, here are two chances that could make you happy again!. 20K PACKAGE A quick-thinking well presented young secretary with good skills is 18-21 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6HP required by this major International Bank. Working mainly for a Director Telephone 971-734 7341 Facsimile 071-734 3269 whilst helping to support his small, lively team, this position wiH best suit PA TO THE CHAIRMAN someone who enjoys variety, involvement and responsibility. Duties Westminster include: Diary, Travel arrangements and client liaison. Stunning offices, a busy environment & the very best banking benefits (inc. M.Sub) are offered in return for hard work and at least years' solid secretarial The Chairman ofan International Holding Group, with Super Secretary 2 preatfgkiua HQ offices in Weetzamster, nqoiree a experience. dedicated senior PA for his Private Office. The position faraqhreg management and tiaiaon in respect of nia to £16,000 Call Cross Selection 071 283 0799. (fimse interests, both borinm and personal, as well as the day of hia office. The working boms to day naming Super aecret&i y with a bubbly personality an 9.15 am to 5.45 pm. required for a Director of a friendly firm at CROSS An andtent presentation and manner, m well as a high Tower Hill. Working on specialist projects SELECTION standard secretarial alrilla (120/70 wpm), are pn of such as the St Mary Axe bomb, your boss will TMywwfo gmlitias tor this important appointment. need an accurate and self-motivated person to stating current Pfaaw write, in strictest confidsnee, back up his pressurised role. Department ralmy enclosing full cv ta MARKETING md administration $»wh as petty nn^ ryp-rw* Annette Whittaker aad holiday charts will abo came under your 2-^6 Catherine Place, London SWl 6HF wing so team spirit in this lively organisation £ 15,000 tea pre-requisite. Skills 80/60/wp. Age 25-35- A bright proactive team player is needed by tbe Finan rial experience prefared. Please tele- Marketing Director of this leading City invest- phone Victoria Herrington on 071-377 9919 ment department for their new business for farther details. programme. Yon will want to build on your financial and marketing experience in a fast KNIGHTSBRIDGE moving and lively division. As well as secre- SOFAMAKERS tarial support you will be a first rate organiser who can maintain and develop the marketing INTERIOR DESIGNERS database and produce mailshots, yon will help pot together new business resentation mate- AnttBous 23-35 jw old wHft M/tawtalge & fabrics and p rial, arrange the travel and itineraries for visit raw design sought ugentiy tor our Kntghbbridgfi shomroom programmes and eqjjoy working on the Corpo- tap hand-made sotas/ametate. rate Entertainment Programme. TEAM SECRETARY Age 21 + ffAMPTONS Speeds: 80 wpm shorthand. 60wpm typing Mdent product Rued French essential kitin wi fashion cd. offers 071 726 8491. Salary £14000 + decent axnrrassbn. KajuiiciD Hpninwd g Can negotiator fwilb kxal EXCELLENT OJTORTUNITY Contact Hugh Qariorth-Ott 071-589 0322 knowledge) brew boy Head FOR A CONFIDENT AND VERSATILE2ND JOBBER. fetor Dudgeon LBL, Brampton Piece, office covering Kiugtinbridp, A NGELA MORTIMER London SW3 1QE. Bdgreria and MayWc FULL SECRETARIAL BACKUP .LX Secretarial Recruitment Consuitancy 1\ Anij wfcti CV to M«y Wkat TO PRODUCTION TEAM, WTIH DUTIES RANGING Hamptons Rcadeatai lamp and Management require and eBtlmiMPC tnwcrty ihm Central PERSONNEL London pgrtfotia Some npencncc m properry i«*rrol. Appfr "I* CV to Dwt Loflfflfl International LtojSs insurance Brater requires , SECRETARY/PA to Personnel Director. Hamptons 24+. bright teubte and dscrplined, the successful 8 Homton Street, candidate win haw stalls excellent communication/secretariaJ Kensington, and be eAxated id 'A' level standard - no shorthand rap/ired. Excdlert player. London W8 4NW „ opportunity tor team For further information telephone Sail L waliworfc, Tet 071 937 9371 Pmoonei officer, 071-480 7200. ext 3373. Fas 071 376 2605 U 1 : ! * 10 LAW LIFE & TIMES WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 1992 Courts Martial Appeal Court Law Report June 10 1992 Court of Appeal Rules need to be amended Minister might owe duty to Lonrho difficulties Regina v Aitken share capital Mr Richards argued that it was considera^ and others peals. for the appellants; Mr unlawfully and maliciously by the in part because the court was not Lonrho pic v Tefcbit and per cent of the equity plain and obvious tint tire defen- might arise on the fads as the Regina v Barnett Michael Hucker for the appellants. bound to accept die advice of the Another of House of Fraser. dants owed no duty to Lonrbo in evidence emerged at trial and the Regina v Batson prosecution. advocate having advocate. Afrer further events, a further The judge re- judge Before Lend Justice Dfflan. Laid matters nature of any private law duty February 14. private law. that all tire tha Lord Justice Farqnftaison, quested that matters of law be Notwithstanding that, it ap- MMC report dared Before MR JUSTICE CAZALET, giv- Justice Stocker and Six' Michael arising were ofpublic law and that was hdd mens would have to be whole that the concluded drat an ac- Mr Justice AHiott and Mr Justice ing the judgment of the argued before the court, peared to their Lordships Kerr 1985 defined. Lonrho court, said of the release of the undertaking was carefully had an skeleton arguments on behalf of wonting of rule 80(2) did permit quisition by Lonrho of House Cazalet that the facts of case, [Judgment arguable case since ft could the . which June 5) contrary a matter for the discretion of the not be the appellants were handed in. the judge advocate, with the leave Fraser watid not operate (Judgment May 22] were not in dispute, were unu&iaL It was arguable that the Secretary secretary of stale. said tint its claim was "obviously Defending counsel told the of the president, to hear sub- to the public interest In June 1989 there was a party of State for Trade and industry, that there was no doomed to fad”, in the words of if was undfisirabte thata fiili court- absence been press- He also urged advocate that if those missions on the law in the Lonrho had already at RAF, Chivenor to celebrate judge sub- having the plaintiff that Lord Bridgeof HarwkSi in Lonrho martial should hear deoiled required from release precedent for holding a min- argu- law were not to of the president and other mem- ing the defendants for a various postings. A considerable missions on die to section private pic v Faxed (The Times July i ment on the law bdore advice company pusuam 88 of contin- ister owed a duty of care in ” was form die basis of his direction on bers of the court from tire undertaking, and quantity of alcohol was consumed. the Fair Trading Aa 1973 an as result of the exercise of 1991:11992} 1 AC 44S. 470). tendered to it by the judge but by March 1 1* law a There the law, then they wished to Their Lordships considered it io ued to do so. Vice-Otancenor was advocate. was a fair amount of undertaking no; to obtain more public law powers, or for bedding a The accord- advance further legal arguments to be undesirable that the full court- 198S a company controlled by the horseplay in which all participated. than a certain proportion the department stare ingly right in not striking out the It was of minister or a of recommended that, as a him. martial should hear detailed argu- Fayed brothers had acquired more That included trying to set Arc to share capital of another company, liable in damages because in good daim. matter of expedition, rule 81(1) of the law before advice was than per cent of the House of The judge advocate did not take ment on 50 There was then .tire the fire-resistant trouser of the on the basis of a Monopolies ami faith they had misconstrued their question the Rules of Procedure (Air Force) tendered to it by the judge ad- Fraser shares, and Lonrho was flying suits of two flight lieutenants formal issue with the submissions Mergers report whether Lonrho's daim ought (SI 1972 Commission that a only legal position, if indeed they had to No 419. as amended by avail vocate. There was much to be said released from its undertaking by pouring brandy on the suit and did not thereafter him- bid the plaintiff for control be struck out as an abuse SI 1984 and % of misconstrued ft. of No 1669) made under opportunity of further for the same procedure being on .March B. igniting it It only burned for a self of the the other company might be process, on the ground that section 104 of die Air occurred a tiuir once the Bui the fields of law concerned Force Act argument, notwithstanding that followed os when judge Lonrho's was Lonrho should be required short period. The two officers against the public mrerest. was and developing. to get a 1 9S5, should bewidened with a jury. undertaking was gone, were difficult to permit he was not to direct die court in was sitting basis of the ruling by way of judicial made written statements that they under a private law duty to the considering various review the judge advocate to sit alone, In order to avoid confusion as to the secretary of state had no power After joke. accordance with certain of the plaintiff release the underraking before ft starred any took all that as a to authorities, his Lordship said that proceedings subject to die direction of die law. the correct procedure to be fol- to continue it and had a duty to defence submissions on the immediately after farther by way of writ and dvfl action. But later in the evening the three a MMC of tire undertaking president of tire court-martial, lowed it was recommended that release it forthwith because, in die the imposition appellants made a collective de- The appellants criticised the report stated char the proposed Mr Richards, retying an Cocfa v when ur- on Lonrho was a matter of public dealing with legal advocate that was a course which should be particular circumstances, the rision to attempt to set light to coarse that thejudge saw merger would not be contrary to Thane! District Council 81983] 2 submissions. free to (aw in the public interest, tut the that in made a rule of procedure for use by gency to Lonrho of being white spirit poured on tire flying fit to follow and contended the public interest. AC 286). said that ft was a matter court-martial. bid was abundantly public interest in having the The Courts-Martial Appeal summing up he misdirected the the president 3t a make a rival suit of another officer, who resisted Since the plaintiff was asserting the of public law for Lonrho to Court so held in allowing In the instant case, had the dear to him. undertaking released once appeals of court, interalia, as to the meaning a private law right, alben establish the necessary public only weakly because the amount M one Lonrho of the law by Thomas Adam Aitken. judge advocate availed himself of It was said that that duty was a acquisition by Simon he had drunk. The tod was ignited of the word unlawfully". arising out of a background of bass on which ft could ground a Christopher Bennett owed direedy id House of Fraser shares was no and Alan Courts-Martial Appeal the opportunity of hearing further public law. private law one law right and flared up rapidly. The appel- The the right was properly operate against private Robert Barson against argument on the law, his misdirec- Lonrho and not merely a general longer expected io their lants took immediate action to pur Court was told by Mr Hucker. who asserted in an action by writ His Lordship said Lonrho was law. the public interest was consid- convictions in December 1 989 at a tion an the meaning of the the duty under public and that by out the flames but the officer was had considerable experience of without tile need far a prior remote asserting a private law right albeit General Court word "unlawfully*’ might wen not secretary of stare's dftatoriness erably more and Martial at Royal severely court-martial proceedings, that application for judicial review. the out of a background burned. sophisticated. arising of Air Force Chivenor, Devon, of hove occurred. and breach of duty in fluting to At the trial it was accepted by die apart from the riraimstances set The Court of Appeal so held public law. That could be asserted inflicting grievous bodily Had he given a proper direction grant the release until too late, However, tire private interest of harm appellants that they bad inflicted out in rule 8 1(1) and when matters when dismissing an appeal the by an action by writ, as in Roy v by the undertaking contrary to section of it would have been open ?o die Lonrho had lost what might hove Lonrho in having 20 the grievous bodily harm on the officer of corroboration were argued, it defendants, Norman Beresford Kensington ami Chelsea and Offences against die court, in the light of all the proved to be a highly profitable released as soon as it was no longer Person Act and the prosecution accepted that was the practice for the full court to Tebbir. the secretary of state at the Westminster FPC (The Times Feb- 1861. evidence, reach a verdict in opportunity. Lonrho claimed for needed in tire public interest, was none of the appellants had in- hear all submissions on the law. to material time, and die Depart- ruary 10:1199212 WLR 239). favour of the appellants. damages. obvious. Mr Neil Butterfield, QC and Mr tended to cause any harm. The He contended thai rule 81(1) os ment of Trade and Industry, from if Lonrho foiled to establish the On the defendants’ application, It therefore did not appal his Michael Brabia assigned by the issue was whether the grievous it stood did not permit the presi- Solicitors: Director of Legal Ser- the dismissal by Sir Nicolas private law right claimed, the the Vice-Chancellor decided that as Lordship that it should be sug- Registrar of Court-Martial Ap- bodily harm had been inflicted dent to direct otherwise. That was. vices, RAF. Browne-Wilkinson. Vice-Chan- action would fail but it was not principal points arising were in gested that if the secretary of stare cellor (The Times September 24. tire necessary to apply for judicial fields of law involving imposed the restrictions of the 1991: (1991)4 All ER 973). of an developing review before bringing the action. new and uncertain principles of undertaking on Lonrho in the application by the defendants to Lord Justice Stocker agreed and Review discouraged Electricity theft law and public policy, tire issues public interest, be should thereby strikeout the claim of the plaintiff, Sir Michad Kerr ddncrcd a should be determined on the lull assume a private law duly to Lonrho pk. on the ground that the concurring judgment Regina v Watford Justices, protect their identity. Regina v McCreadie on June 4 when dismissing ap- release the undertaking Ex daizn disclosed no reasonable facts as they were found at the trial Lonrho to peals by Malcolm McCreadie. alienors: Treasury Solid parte Lenman and Others view that every exercise of Regina vTnme not in a striking-out when it was no fonger needed. S ton The cause of actum or was an abuse trf and aged 30. of Upton Park. East Thus, although Lonrho faced Denton Hall Burgin & Warrens. The view that every decision of discretion by justices at prepara- It was quite wrong to suggest that, the process of the court application. Ham. and William John Tume. justices at reparator hearings tory hearings should be subjected in order to constitute the offence of p y aged 42, of Loughborough Road. Mr Stephen Richards and Mr to judicial review should be dis- should be subjected to judicial dishonestly using electricity with- Michael Patchett-Joyce for the couraged. Such applications Stockwril, squatters in a shop at review should be discouraged, out authority contrary to section 13 defendants; Mr John Beveridge. Clapham. who were convicted at Hearsay evidence inadmissible particularly where the discretion of caused delays. of the Theft Act 1968, the meter Kingston upon Thames Crown QC Sir William Wade. QC and justices was at issue. In such circumstances, where had to be tampered with in some Mr David Pannick. QC, for Com (Judge Wakeley and a jury). The Queen’s Bench Divisional proceedings would be served on way. Lonrho. They were conditionally dis- case Court (Lord Justice Beldam and justices, it would help to haw The Court of Appeal (Lord in summaiy contempt charged for 12 months and LORD JUSTICE DILLON said Mr Justice Laws) so hdd on 7 affidavits or statements from them Taylor of Gosforth, Lord Chief May ordered to pay £120 compensation that the case was yet another action when refusing the application of giving details of the basis on which Justice, Mr Justice Mocpherson to London Ekaricity Board. arising out of the attempts by launched against a man charged otherwitnesses of tire new date and Paul Lenman. Glenn Issitt. Steven derisions were made. and Mr Justice Turned so stated Regma v Shofeoya THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE Lonrho to obtain control of with a serious offence of wound- she had confirmed that tire had Taylor, Martin Taylor and Barry A finding of contempt of court in said that their Lordships agreed Hamids. It was impo rtant to ing. The appellant, one of the told the appellant of that How- Diewitt for judicial review of the nummary proceedings had to be with a passage in Smith, The Law emphasise at the outset that the victims, was a fully bound prosecu- ever. tiie was not called to give decision of Watford Justices quashed on the ground that tire to edition case came before the court on a Lonyis machine of Theft (6th (1989) pi 56) tion witness at the uiaL The trial evidence. allow witnesses for the prosecution finding was based upon hearsay that "use implies some consump- striking-out application: only the date was fixed and the appellant In the view of the court the in committal proceedings to evidence given by a police officer Robinson v R. Durham and the employment or pay of the tion of electricity which would not abuse of process point called for a notified but because of admin- judge had referred to evidence and relating to whai he had been told withold their names addresses conclusive derision on a Ltd Another owner or hirer, be deemed to be occur but for tire accused's act If point of istrative difficulties the date had to which was inadmissible in reach- and to give evidence from behind Sons and bysomeone who was not a witness. the occupier of the factory.” squatters switch on the elearidty, law at the present stage. be altered. • mg hscondusfon, namely that the screens and through voice distorter A heavy goods vehicle was a The Court of Appeal (Lord Judge Strayan. sitting as a judge not intending to pay for it. they In 1979 Lonrho acquired 29.99 appellant was aware of the dare of machinery. machine moved by mechanical Justice RusselL Mr Justice On that and a later date fixed of the Queen's Bench Division of appear to use it dishonestly.” per cent of the issued ordinary the trial and had nevertheless not power for the purposes of section Schfcmami and Mis Justice neither the appellant nor two other LORD JUSTICE BELDAM the High Court in Leeds, so held That was the way the prosecu- shorts of House of Fraser pk. put in on appearance. of the Factories Act 1961. Ebsworth) so hdd on May 19 witnesses appeared, and the ac- said that the applicants had been 163 on February 28 in deriding a tion had pur the cose. The appel- Hanuds" owner, and subsequently when quashing the finding on cused had to be discharged. charged in connection with a Section 1 63 provides: “Where in preliminary issue in a daira alleg- lants had not apprised tire made a bid for aD the House of March 25. 1992 at Snaresbrook Two days later tire appellant serious public disorder in which a factory the owner or hirer of a ing a contravention of section 29 of electricity board of their arrival nor Fraser shares. A merger situation, Crown CourtbyJudge Brooks that surrendered to the crown court v innocent bystanders entirely un- machine or implement moved by the 1961 Act and giving judgment where they could be found, they within section 64 of the 1973 AO. In Barclays Bank pk O’Brien in Adewola Shokoya was contempt and was kept in custody for six June it was not connected with a group of youths mechanical power is some person for the second defendants. Mabey had used electricity and were on arose, and die MMC reported that (The Times 3) mode of court, on which he was sen- days, until the enquiry into his court set aside the had been die subject of brutal and other than the occupier of the and Johnson Ltd. die occupiers of the point of leaving when the proposed merger might be dear drat the tenced to 14 days in a young absence when he was required as a as against Mrs O'Brien's unprovoked attacks causing seri- factory, the owner or hirer shall, so a factory where the plaintiff, apprehended. expecred to operate against the charge offender institution. witness. ous injuiy. far as respects any offence under Kenneth Robinson, had sustained The jury were correcdy directed public interest mteresT in the property, leaving the as The prosecution had apprehen- this Act committed in relation to a personal injuries after an accident about dishonesty. It was open to Accordingly, tile secretary of LORD JUSTICE RUSSELL, At tire enquiry tire judge heard security enforceable against die interest in the property sions as to toe willingness of the person who is employed in or involving a lorry owned or hired by them to find that the appellants state, under section 88 of the Act, giving die judgment of die court, evidence from tire police officer in husband's the payment witnesses to give evidence and the about or in connection with that the first defendants. R. Durham were acting dishonestly and to obtained from Lonrho an under- said that the appellant gave evi- charge of the proceedings that he partly satisfied by of justices agreed to proposals to machine or implement and is in and Sons Ltd. convia. taking not to acquire more than 30 dence at committal proceedings had told the mother of one of the the £60.000. MULTI-UNGUAL OPPORTUNITIES TEMPTING TIMES SPRECHEN SIE French In LINGUISTS THEVIBYBBSTM DEUTSCH? 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S/Red or Tel: 071 938 1011 Jack son Roxcne. Springsteen JUNE 10 Scot 10 Lux fUl SQi ASIA Ken SWT. Fern anna PRIVATE ADVERTISERS Prince ft sports 1071 1 480 6183 orad. ten- L.X.M— nts gwg 071 689 4750 i OB Scalp PraUxB? 071 ALL TICKETS Sought fr Sold for PRIVATE ADVERTISERS AND BlRTRS, MARRIAGES A DEATHS 481 4000 smTxMH M poamwe KENSINGTON for TTOATbDIT to Qadinad Wimbledon. Pnanlem. Saigon, Oral mjt n/s > bpecjaust. Our cmtnl Lex Ml* etc.. Pop & any evanta. lovely 2 tied rial An mod nn ! , Anytime Odn sa. nr tube pw tnrt. CttnK abb b 071 209 6310 CC Acc cioo Tonlhjn bUn Tel: KMtiy 071 244 7601 lansaJ S: worldwide ratal Mrvtca of AU WIMBLEOOM TICKETS Trade advertisers mcuDioocw- RTOducm- bought J Sold Ptrase ring: 072 KENSINGTON Female wonted dam tab 071 071 071 481 1986 I.: nr wenMMXi 636 8264. Tor vers- large room, excellent APPOINTMENTS 481 4481 Property 730 7188. Tb* 7B0 8280 location. Eaopw. 071 s8i Sd27 ALL WIMBLEDON Ttckets. Debs Business to business 071 481 1982 Public appointments 07) 481 1066 Tickets bought & sold. Tap KNldHTSBRlOOE Lennox •"• WANTED prices paid. 071 497 2636 Odn. Own dMe rm £i29ow. INTERNATIONAL 071 481 3024 EDUCATION APPOINTME 071 481 1066 <-m *> S 182S Share Mila. Td. 071 S8I MOTORS 071 481 4422 Travel 071 481 1989 (ill CROCODILE Arnctea. Ok) tickets boagnt/xold. Wtmbte- NEAR don. crick m. Ascot Grand Prlx. CITY Lin room In modem bather lugpwe. itimiKx otc: house, garden, garage avltabte Personal 071 481 1920 U.k. Holidays 071 488 3698 Euro Champs. Jackson. Prince. “ r Bomdlt 071 229 9618. £59 aw TeL 071 252 2707 'i i S/Red. Cuns A Room. Qcneela. ‘ tamale Strotts. ,: M/S profoertonal with Dire Springsteen. Eric & PUTNEY Etrof m/i n/s ige rm. •?: nigh standards requires double Ellon. JcaeplL Phantom. Lo* Mod cons + gdn. £300 pan * 1 fr Alternatively Fax Your advertisement to Ht-V m/uttatn in central London Mb. «c. An CC Kept. Free Pius. Eves oei Tea a 160. area Tef.OTl 262 9344 delfvery. 071 621 9S93 fCttyc 071 481 RICHMOND - Use not Prof M NT 071 782 7826 071 782 7827 071 782 7828 9313 UTRCD SOLIC7TOH / Bame- JO*fi Uvreras Urtceu - Royal Tubs/ BA Odn MMcemOmv icr needed, part-time by victim Crescent Bate. Toi 0226 .. . gCMCWUndCgl 74* IBM of -divorce end agitation, with 482771. - clever raMrthmM/ unquoUOed SHEPHERDS BUSH Own rm In advertising • PHONE US LAST for beat prtem Court and Social U ’*» .rrhuwi. Please contact NCT 2 bed flat. M/F. N/S. w/mactv 7877 on an seats Wimbledon Dace. 1 on 071-262 £220 pm and. MHHg 7740 "1** ta* Tel: 071 267 6898. TELEPHONE 071 782 7347 Fax 071 481 9313 ROVAL ASCOT return Olgbti tn ST JOHNS WOOD NWS Newly (Advertisements accepted only in writing FOR SALE | a twin ewauied Iwliawnr (ram decoralsd Bedroom A tsatnnxmt London £360. Cali dies Clark Mi off street parUna tn elegant at LEAST 48 HOURS PRIOR TO PUBLICATION) S;.: Hellcopurs. Tel: 006074 64 3a AM with large garden. PM M/F. Non smoker C120ow Inc *55j. - ••••-'. ^ THE TIMES 1791-1990 otMer of cleaner 071 2B6 6108 I :i-ni GLOUCESTERSHIRE ttUca avbllaUo. Ready for pre sentouon - also “ Sunday*-. SWTO. Rm io ram tn lax 4 bed WAGONS £1 760. Remember Whan. 081- house, an mod cons. gdn. M or ' • J:. :•;;;..... f ,” 688 6323. F. £319pcm. Comae! 071 361 u 2 ftndUanaf Qtoaswrareftlre 7670 law^AnrSU. PAST... HAY WAGONS TtCKETRON for Pnanlom of the TIMES Opera. Best teats for all imii«. SWT Space, ttghl h orkdral and sound OOP 6 Snort Tel: 071 724 4444. Own room In magnWCetit man- eontfloon (sonm rapatr WIMBLEDON DEBS Ascot sion am. duitna large lUM AMILY HOTEL and Boarding-house, on the Bea- madsd), In a tnoBow anads of Boxee. Sprfngolcan. Phantom. ku/ nreakAni room & huge nissible drawing room/ dining room. F con, Exmouth, commanding views not enrpasmd in the kingdom for pictureaque Ons tamly owner shea Saigon. OickoL All other sold bkw: BOH makl inemded. £1«6 scenery, embracing noble t-rpamm over with its celebrated beautiful IMXHOOOt oul events. 071 B39 6363 and a of ocean, the Bxe, PW 071 689 0910 banks, studded with gentlemen’s Bents, the city of Exeter, sad surrounding rich end WIMBLEDON 4 Debs together. n^OOawb cultivated Lacfies and Gentlemen frequenting Centre Court Stair 8. Row H. SW17 very lame room In large country.—R. MARE respectfully acqowna 2 woodan whostsd appta- tease For rortmgnL 0243 672292. house, sep both A ktt. C260pcm (he Devonshire coast, that be baa fitted up and ready to open on a liberal exieasiw scale, . l choractor. emts. fufl o In UK 0111a OBI 7C. 7 4706 an estabfiafament of the above description, which has long been a desideratum at that swslsnt ordsr «9BQ web. had 15 place; be trusts by imiwmjtriwg aasiauity to merit public support end patronage. MUSICAL I VICTORIA/ L. Bridge Tat 0831 445908. mins, lovely room far f In lot 6469 'iunwfc. INSTRUMENTS J lMC£2S3pcnHnc 081688 ' i‘ Thursday 22nd, 1815. If would ; ‘An WANDSWORTH COMMON An advertisement taken from The Times Personal Column June you Large double room in aitractive •• ri *•' makf contact classified advertising sales department GALLERY like to advertise or your own announcement, our ROY MILES fe t ABSOLUTELY HOW'S THAT FOR house Close to all -l,, l >lilkv! transport- N/S. M/F £290pan Iff Inc. Tel 071 685 lOCMtevesi ALL SERVICE! TELEPHONE 07 1 48 1 4000 You can hire o Menun Plano 29 Bruton Street W1 •' I'll .•.«-. WIMBELDON this summer from as utile as WIMBLEDON Furnished house. per month ... and *1111 have Professional gin lo share with l ” 1 DEBENTURES £20 on option lo buy later. other. Own bedroom. Carden, .071-495 4747 V"-" BOUGHT AND SOLD UNDER THE CLOCK NOTICES " •'I’ll fjr. near Tube/BR £300 pan Tel: LEGAL CASH COLLECT 061 643 5126 • • ".in***-. MARKSON PIANOS 10am-6pm Saturday 9am-lpm OR C.O.D. Monday-Friday 19 IN THE MATTER OF 071 838 0084 Established 10 0064 1992 828 6837 GENERAL OVERSEAS THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986 No. of • • and 071 BC THE HIGH COURT •n'l'ntv'a- 071 935 8682 (NW1) - and - Eves 071 582 8466 IN THE MATTER OF OF JUSTICE 854 (SE18) FRAMPTONS CHANCERY DIVISION ANNOtNCEMENTS 081 4517 ‘ NURSERIES LIMITED IN THE MATTER OF 071 381 4132 (SW6) * ITS ALL AT FRAMPTONS NURSERIES ACTIVE INVESTMENTS PLC OVERSEAS) LIMITED AND IN THE MATTER OF A VERY SPECIAL. ALL TICKETS * OATEWHrre limited THE COMPANIES ACT 1986 NOTICE 6 HEREBY GIVEN ‘ •"••* TRA1LF7NDERS CANARY FLOWER YOUR WILL - ••••; WIMBLEDON 92 PERSONAL KIND iflr PIANOS. Exceptional reductions PRODUCTS LIMITED I hat a PollIron was on We 3rd : ' BOUGHT dr SOLD ted lo Her It Dfc.^J- •’ ilights via more January 1992 presen ynj Jr nuu- Uhl- ail ‘ •' on our extensive range of new More low rad for CLPRIMSA FLOWERS LIMITED j i... V.t jii OF CARE Ena v Pakteun. AscoL Adimmslratli-e Receivership) Max-tty's High Court of Justice ll..rw pi BlfSMA (Ye cjr»- toi >’ •• S/H and Digital Pianos. Free routes lo mot e desllnaltons tin REVOLUTIONARY new nul •• ••• ;n *» air Roses lor the confirmation of the reduc- e, (**<•<« men *-• «onw- Grand mix. Guns fr analogue The Plano Work- Unattached NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN nlov. Patent Pi-fitling 6tai‘- put For ridBfly and tnenoky than any other agency. tion of capital of Uie above navr irai wotr. n :"c if ute o' *4 On «• RO. pursuant Section 48i2) of the we gate force winds Ittk-r •••• •• • Simply Red. Springsteen. shop. 30A HKlhgjtC NWS. to aiuunsl Mr. ilfc named Company from ceiniir t” our homes and contras. on 267 7671 Insolvency Ad 1986. that a meet- hv«v esu-d pus-ante A in Phantom. Saloon. Joseph. Cl.000.000 lo £130.000 -n fr-j^ Professionals ing of UNSECURED CREDITORS The Chairman produclion/marketlnn di-ie|op- BSZ CM*' ALL TICKETS OBTAINED. AND NOTICE IS FURTHER T.. PLEASE HOP by PLUS wiU be held at The Quay. 30 British Limbless Ex-Service menl. Tel 0206 YrrtDaa Fav ;U •'••• 1 that Ihe said Petition Is • * j-aanK- Channel Way. Ocean Village. GIVEN 761270. UNDER THE CLOCK • Up to 60% dfecmuil on hotels Men'* Association. 0206 • | directed to be heard before ihe • - To our rxchuian social introduction wrier. Southampton. Hauls SOl IXF on kaSg'^togwy krtkaMn. :-j rr : .-: iV A71 IOI rf/IQn Join 4 Midland Bank Pic. pm / 1 and car hire* Honourable Mr Justice MUIefl at C/o U D2.J ^H-OU certainty tha largest top people. Tuesday 30 June 1992 ai 1030 :•• almost UK’s for the Royal Courts of Justice 60. Won SmnhfwJd. • ••. . .!. for Ihc purpose of receiving a • world's am The besl deals on the report covering Ihe background Strand. London WC2A 2LL on London EC1A9DX. SARAEDEN of June finest airlines • Stk, Nth of Birmimmka to and progress of Uie rrcelver- Monday We 22nd day Qare* WIMBLEDON khlps tooNhrr with other matters 1992. ALL DWtl«rajwrle*olfe 071 4B7S08824krt 0532 683252 Creditor Shareholder 42 - 60 Earis Court Road. stipulated by Section 4fe2i Of Ihe ANY' or IbcfaaacelL Executive of said desiring lo FRENCH yoUBBttrr* age* 13-19 SEATS The Club Insolvency Act 1986. We Company 13 ttnood Rmft. Loadon. SW «P London. W86EJ onpoae We maidno of an Order from profcvatonal families you're snraclive, jaccotfol tod CREDITORS SHOULD NOTE seek Brilttn lor 1*071-3710118. For these i ipriq the serf fimett Smite far We confirmation of We said urgentiy home* imrfliggg and you care ahcxa Long Haul FUghts 071938 3366 THE FOLLOWING: Bought and Sold reduction of capital should appear Wort tuy* (2 week* July or HeQ ClUffV Ho 37893 sAsAJnmUJOO tea HtwthOSU 683252- 11 THE MEETING IS NOT FOR ibe type of people rou meet. U&A/EldW FWUsOTl 9J7 6400 VIP al of hearing tn person or Auaralv Keen to match age* (Of GRAND PRIX THE PURPOSE OF APPOINT we timr WOULD Deanna Blandford Fanoolr IM SD5 Sacaiy 3444 Sseth 081 763 1788 by Counsel for that purpose. children I and Interests. £85 pw SPRINGSTEEN CHOKE not CHANCE it oo 1st & Bustnes dass071 938 ING A LIQUIDATOR TO THE Pfna*r phone Mr R Roger' Boat! the Pentloti will paid lo cacn h« family Tcf 'tmiar tie jM Hope hr COMPANY. A cany of said Sorry about Hoo Mariner Tel ROVAL ASCOT offer n SARA EDEN— Come Manchester Office 0618396969 furnished lo such pe Anne Ager av4P 071 386 9196 NxiHaa ST1 Please note Uial a person Is be any mi 0474 7C254Q. Anytime Les and lee for jouneiC- the by PhanlonL Miss Saloon. Govern menl Licensed/ Bonded entitled to vole at ihe meeting requiring same We + PUBLIC NOTICES undcrmenllonea Solicitor* on MIL. Joseph's Dream CoaL WINDSOR TURKEY only If the provisions of Rule a hues ATM. 1468IATA ABTA 69701 3 1H1I tnoolvency Rules 1986 payment of Die regulated charge TEL: 071 489 0573 (0753) 830350 ALLEN. CLIFFORD OEOROE have been compiled with, namely lor Die same Uib I Xl Economy. TURKEY. Prtv villas. late ot 4 Robin Row. DATED day •Booa^sl frioutdapi mn htn! ALL DISCOUNTED SIMPLY ALLAN war 1992 F/dass w/wkSe. Europe. •fieri l>of*H. friendly pensions Turners HIM. West Sussex died Ji a he has often to the Join! of June Qut>. Messrs. Carter Lemon 1 DxfljMxiL USA. Far Earn. Australia A 4k bum CTuttne all off the east Grtmlead. west Sussex on receiver not taler Won 12 00 TIMES I I Breams Buildmg*. THE beaten track Sunday 6et>. April 1991 hours on Uie business day before ALL WIMBLEDON ItenbcT A 81 many more. Ealing Travel. 06 25»h EG*A IHB. 9111. ABTA 77869/IATA. British Midland Ir Healhrow (Eatele about £11.5601 We das fixed for the meeting London 679 Soltcllor* BEST EM DEBENTURES Acccaa/VIsa June avail. 1*2 wks fr £199 BERNSTEIN. LEAH BERNSTEIN details In writing of the debt that Bonded. for Ute above named Company RANGE BOL>GHT AND SOLD »U QIC. 081 747 IQH ABTA. otherwise LUJAN BERNSTEIN. he claims to be due lo him Iron CROSSWORD i ttspjmc BARGAINS galore for June, tad Scanner laic of The Jewish Home Ihe Company, and We claim has U2, U2, U2 Hols and AlgWs at unbeHevabje and HTOPIlaL 296 Hkd Road. been duly admitted under We pro- •...•• .y* Ltd. Notice of spoatntuienl BOOKS . .. nr Eno v Pakistan. AscoL prices. Mario Travel Oo Tottenham. London NXS died vtsfons ot Rule 3.11(2x7! fmol- GERMANY Of Liquidator ..... Price Grand Pits. Sprtnastcen- ABTA agent 42636. Open 7 three oo 7th February 1992 irncy Rules 198b and The First Book of The Sunday Times CondseCrosswords NEW £4.50 w* days Sunday iaam-4pm- Tel (Estate about £27.000) b were has been lodged wtw the Voluntary wmmna up Creditor* Gum & Roses. Prince. Pursuant lo section 109 of The Sunday Times Crosswords Book Tenby Barbara Hall NEW ... Price £4.99 •. ".jr. 0924 276344. NORAH- W1NN1FRED admlnlstraUvr receiver any 'i^f SERBIAN TRAVEL CENTRE BUDGE. Insolvency ACI Phantom. Saloon. Los Mte. BUDGE. Spinster laic Of 104 proxy which the creditor Intends The 1906 of Crosswords Dally scheduled fUgnts 071 Number: 1729428. The Fourteenth Book The Times c « •-'« v Otymptcs. European Cup BARGAIN HOLS /m«eus Cyans Montgomery Street Hove. East lo be used on im behalf Company * 836-4444 ABTA 9Q6S5/IATA Pains Price £4.50 Crencc Spain Malta Morocco. ftiusmr died at Pears haven. East We have enclosed a prow lor Name of company: Com- by John Grant (Tunes Books) NEW — • • «• • «' TEL: 071 247 7366 or 0268 m.fl- . Orcekorama Til Lid. 071-734 Suuer on 23rd September 1989 your completion and return puter Insinuation Lid. Nature of 045725 eves installers. The Tunes Book ofJumbo Crosswords (Cryptic only) Price £5.50 t»1 « 2602 ABTA 32900 ATOL 1430 Estate aboul £7.260> accordingly. business: Compuler LONDON FRANK CYRIL The motions to be pul before Ute Address of registered office: The Second Book of The Times Jumbo Crosswords (second edition) USA. Africa. Ai» CLARKE. Herts CANADA. S. CLARKE Ute of 36 Reading meeting are We appointment and Boulton Rood. Stevenage. Europe. dis- Akenhead -- Price £5.50 CORPORATE BUYER iralla. N JL & Good anoe. Warmer. Deal. Kent died conoWuuon of the receivership SGI 4QX. Type of UquidaUon: by Edmund terra. Lnnamere BUI. Richard count KENSINGTON. HtmWnd. Lux then on 3rd December 1990 cteditors- commlUre to 6.49 Creditor*. Uauldalor BO& REQUIRES 1101. 081-461 The Third Book of The Times Concise Crosswords 081-666 ABTA 73195 him apartments. Trt. (Estate about £il.3ooi Insolvency Act 1986 Andrew Segal Sogal Davis Rose 081-459 186-192 High Price £4.50 WIMBLEDON 92 THE lady love* champagne, cud- 3094 Fax: 4422 COOKE ROGER T1N1EY COOKE Dated this 5th day Trevioi House by Margaret Webb (Times Books} NEW CANADA SPECIALIST. USA. tJQ. DEBS dly very bubbly bcunnle. 49. late of 27 Marine IR*ve£aw. Bar of June 1992 Road. word. Essex KU Europe. Caribbean- S-America. Office Holder Nor 002685 Date ... A • V'-~- sotvenL own rarocr. loves to l Sea. New Milton. Hamp P S Padmorc Concise Crosswords - - Price £4.99 TOP CASH PRICES 071^134 4S64. IATA. on-on- appointment 1992 By The First Book of The Times travel Me enlcrtoln. Seeks lh» PUBLIC NOTICES shire died at Bournemouth. Joint AdminIMralive Receiver of 29 May •-.. , | put whom appointed The Creditor*. The Second Book of The Times Concise Crosswords Collection Service special person. 6060 to COSTCUTTERS on IllghU 8 hola Dorset on 18lh December 1990 Frairplons Nurseries Limited in her enom- £12.480) Date. 29 May 1992 *»•••" more smrMr to Europe. USA most destine (Estate about Framptoftt Nurseries Margaret Webb (Penguin Books).... - Price E4.99 Cheshire /staOS- A R.A SegaL Liquidator. by pagm. hosed Hons. Dtrtotnal Travel Services COLEY. EDITH COLEY. Spins!cr DCNWOODtE otherwHe • overscan UmUcd 071 262 4076/7 Ptiota * repty to Box No 8870 Late of AU Saints Hoarttol. Lodge DUNWOODY. ROBERT JANIES CalewhJle Umnrd Lid: 071-730 2201 . ABTA SOFTWARE 2S7Q3 1ATA/ATOL 1365 Road. Birmingham. Wed Mid- DUNWOOUIE otherwise ROB- Canary Flower Products untiled Ask for John or Andy lands alca there on tout Fenny ERT JAMES DLNWOODV tale of CUprfmsa Flowers Umlied RE; GRAINGER PUBLICITY * From Akom Limited, The Times Comparer Crosswords by David .Akenhead PRINT iL'k'i LTD DUE to rccraskm 100s of unsold ary 1989 1 1 March am House. Merry hill Anytime 0850 803893 cats at give away prices. Sun- (Estate aboul £36.6201 Road. Prtesiwood. Bracknell. and the Crossword range IN THE MATTER OF Insolvency Act 1986 AU NEW titles listed above have been added to Computer rwe Tvt 071 A95 3473 ABTA Mr Joseph c Figures and Ihe Berkshire died at Windsor. Berk- HARPOON FILM6 LIMITED The kin of Ihc above-named are shire on 16*n December 1991 NOTICE IS HEREBY' GIVEN, with inbuilt help levels, markets and spelling checks designed for beginners and AND IN THE MATTER OF lo Section 98 at ihe EUROPEAN Scheduled and lo atmly K> Uie Trea- i Estate about £560001 pursuant reouewed THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986 alike, time facility and team option — for BBC Acom DFS 40/80 071 Insolvency ACL 1986 I hat a Meet experts plus Charier fBghta TcL 630 sury Solid I or IB.V.I. Queen HOWTTT. MABEL ELIZABETH NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ing the Cretin or* of We above Hunt TICKETS FOR S672. ABTA 69974 Annc-s Qvamhen. 28 Broadway. HOWITT. Spinster late of 17 of above ot track. ADFS. Archimedes. A3000. A5000. IBM PC. Atari ST and Commodore h Wot we Creditors the named Company wit) be held al rafting which London SWT H 9JS. Station Road. Scredlngton. Sfea which Is being - named company, 186-192 LOW Fares Worldwide USA. the Treasury SoUctlor may lake ford. Lincolnshire died there on Trevioi Horae. High Amiga on 3.S and 5.25 disks SALE Far voluntarily wound up. are IJO. N/S America. Australia. Reps lo admBUsiee the estate 12th October I99t Road, nrofti. Essex. ICI on mm reauired.cn or before the 6W day al to East. Africa. Airline Apt'd Acs Tuesday We 23 June 1992. The Sunday Computer Crosswords volumes 1 & 2 When responding Estate about £7A<»i of August 1992 lo send In Weir And introducing NEW. Times Trayvulr. 36 East Casiie Street PASTORAL MEASURE 1963 MORIN. Spfnuer 10.00 o-ctock In the forenoon, far readers MORIN MARY lull Christian and surnames. Ihelr advertisements, 1 071 680 2928 (Vlaa Aocepl Church CommteMnere lire purposes mentioned in Sec- in above Times Crosswords per volume) and for W The late of Abigail House. West Ave- deocnpUon*. lull Also ALL the formats — (60 draft redun- addresses and too ioi of the said art advised to establish Uie hove prvaared a nue. Newcastle-upon-Tyne died Weir debts or tion* 99. and 3” — GIFTS scheme provtdlbg for the particulars of Art. Amstrad CPC & PCW 1 1 dancy at Newcastle-utxwvTyne on 2nd claims, and we names and face value and full details danouoan of the redundant ust of uie names and SELF-CATERING January 1991 soUdlarv Ilf A with Mat- addresses of weir addressee of We Company's Cred- The Times Computer Crosswords Volumes I.2.3.4.5 & ti- of rickets before entering church at st Peter SI (Estate about £11.6«0> undersigned to Ihe SURJTT - thew. Birkenhead 'Cheater dio- aiiyi itors win be available for mspec REED. SPENCER ALFRED KL MAP SINGLA. FCA of Jubilee Puzzles 1932- 1987 (56 original Times crosswords). Into any commitment. PORTUGAL All areas villas, ms cese* and for Uio sale, lease or gm otherwtso SPEN lion free of charge at the offices of The Times rr iM R£ED ALFRED S1KOLA i- COMPANY. Char hotels. Golf holidays, pgusadas. Ihe sue annexed land. Copies of Segal Davis Rose. Trcvkn Horae. of CER REED late of 14 Christ lercd Accountants. 49 Queen Vk- Fo manor houses. fUghl*. car hire. the draft scheme may be obtained church Road. Reading. Berkshire 186 192 High Road, iHord Essex ed 081- lona Street. London. EC4N ASA. 10.00 ro EXCLUSIVE SOFTWARE OFFER Canaries. Longmcre inU ihe Comitusstonem. ICI 1 between a and FLATSHARE from Church died at Reading on 16th Decem- Luuddalor of the said com- JQ | 73196 3JZ lo Ihe 4 p.m. as from Friday 1 9 June 666 2112. ABTA I MUIbank, London SWIP ber 1989 required notice 00 single WIMBLEDON representations may pany. and if so by 1992 We are offering any two of the above titles for £15.50. or any title for uT whom ini’ Estate about C9.630> wnniig from the said Liquida- Ho made by Wednesday 8 July in Dated this am day there two consecutive ’cr be WATSON. ALAN HERBERT are personally oc weir £8.95. Please note that for Commodore Amiga alone are tor. by of jane 1992. >J* DEBENTURE FR.WMCE 1992. WATSON late ot Weslwgod. In prove ;o soticlior,. to come and H Mlddlemtse. Director volumes on each disk except for the NEW tides and the Jubilee collection. The Paimeraon w.u.. aaaper V n Ihelr deots or cUurre, at such Utne ‘ " PASTORAL MEASURE 1983 .<,•' * fl® TICKETS WANTED lage. Gateshead. Tyne A Wear of combination disk is £15.50. M BRITTANY hear Concarneau. The Church CPmmtsskHiers and place os shall be specified tn price the Amiga ‘ ' died these on 3rd October 19B9 nouce. or in default thereof a,! ’ V for 6. Nr sea. Carden have prepared a dran Redun- xurh PRINT LTD *J« Top Prices paid. House (Estate about E7.COOI excluded from Ihe RE. LAZER Alt prices Include postage and packing tor UK only. Additional postage charges tar E£ ''"J; July onwards 0405 822176 dancy Scheme providing for ihe they wlu be and We colled Nationwide. The kin of the abuse-named are bcnefll of any etanbuHon made member states. Intiatling Irish RrpubUc add 75p per Im. For rest ot world add a lunhs a .. \t demolition ot Ihe nrodomaood Trea- The Insolvency Art 1986 reounted to apply to Ihe before such debts are proved. (first uem only) •• CANNES Coir D'Azur 2 opu redundant church of Si Andrew. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN •>' >’ sury Solicitor iB.V.i. Queen f • 1 bed apt slpa-1. bed apt tSouthwark DATED thn bin day , 15 Far distant past (9) 18 Wire enclosure (4) 19 Shipwredted sailor Write vouradveiusaiitSB brio* lapprournandy 28 daraekn per line inchuhng spaces sod 1 (8) puicntarioo). Minimum 3 Sno. £5.50 po tine plus VAT. or£&2$ per hoe plus VAT for 2 weeks. 22 Pooerer(7) 23 Assert (5) 1 I 1 I I I I I I I I I I l-M I I I I l-l-J Cautious DIARY OF H J-J M 24 (4) 25 Sexual urge (6) LJ__L_LL_L_L-L_i—J— J L LJ I L—L-LJ—LJ—LJ—LJ i I I I I I i i l l I 1 1 I I -l l l l I -I »-l DOWN TIMES CLASSIFIED 1—1—1—1 1. i I i 1 1 J_l l_ l._l_I_.l_l I 2 Spread (5) 071 481 4000 Mil , ,1. 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