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I FEAR that new Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley may be heading for the railway buffers. He is so far to the right that he is in danger of falling over the edge. And what is largely forgotten is that when he was a junior Trade and Industry Minister in Mr Heath’s Government he resigned com plaining civil servants were the masters, not the Ministers. Mr Ridley has proved that he c is going to be the master at the Transport Department. For in just one week he has appar ently learned all there is to know about our railway system and announced his conclusions to the Commons. Is he running rings round his civil servants — or are they letting him think so?
Daily Mail 1st November 1983
DEEP in the heart of th§ Foreign Office lies the ultra-secret cables and communications room, handling messages from throughout the ivorld. Th$ core of the team handling these sensitive missives is, J can reveal, composed of, 'deaf mutes. The official explanation It that the FO, in common with other employers, must employ a number of disabled persons. But the security advantages can surely not have been overlooked by the Ministry which controls MI5 .. .
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The Standard 31st October 1983
Peronists suffer first election defeat in 40 years
Argentinians
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the Radicals BUENOS AIRES, Luder had 3,674,281 votes (38 per cent). Monday Alfonsdn’s pledges to rein in RADICAL PARTY leader the military and end human rights abuses attracted Argen Raul Alfonsin, an out tinians tired of a history of spoken critic of human revolving door military and rights abuses, is the new civilian regimes. President of Argentina. Several minutes after his televised victory speech, a He triumphed in the general Falklands Peronist spokesman acknow elections to return the country ledged the Peronists had lost. to democracy after 10 years ‘ arrogance ’ Luder was meeting with top of military rule. advisers inside the party head The Peronist party, suffer ARGENTINIAN Foreign quarters. ing its first loss in nearly 40 Minister Juan Ramon Aguirre Peronist vice - president years, conceded defeat early Lanari said today remarks by Lorenzo Miguel, 67, said that today. Mrs Thatcher on the • information fraud,” or incom Falklands issue showed plete release of vote results, “ I want you to understand Britain’s arrogance. was causing panic among r>. that we are beginning a new Asked if she would be Peronists and called on all era in Argentina, a long period prepared to negotiate with Argentinians to remain calm. of peace and prosperity and whatever government was respect for the dignity of man elected in Argentina’s elections Raped in Argentina,” said in a vic today, she replied: “ If you tory speech from the balcony mean the sovereignty of the As the official results were of his election headquarters. Falklands or the future of the being announced, some 2000 cont.. people the answer is no." Radical 'party supporters holding an early victory cele Pledge bration at the Plaza of the Thousands of supporters “ contribute to the strengthen Republic in Downtown Buenos below roared with approval. ing of democracy.” Aires clashed with Peronist Alfondin said he would party supporters. The 56-year-old Lawyer, form a party of national in Buenos Aires, three who begin his run for the shootouts were reported in presidency a year ago when U1 WUh two thirds of the vote cluding one incident in which Argetina's defeat in the counted Alfonsin had 5,147,258 shots were fired from a speed Falklands forced the military ing car government to promise elec votes (54 per cent). In San Miguel, just outside tions, urged the Peronists to The Peronist candidate Italo r
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RAUL ALFONSIN . . . “ a new era.”
the capital, several Peronist internal divisions following groups attack a Radical party the death in 1974 of its office, injuring four Radical founder. General Juan party volunteers with gunfire. Domingo Peron. Radical sources said a The Peronists’ most power young girl was raped at its ful leader, first vice-president San Miguel offices. Lorenzo Miguel, had accused The radicals’ results ex the government of manipulat ceeded the party's most opti ing official results in order to cause clashes between rival mistic expectations. militants. Stunned Peronist leaders accused the government of -manipulating results to cause Handover clashes between rival sup Miguel, who effectively porters. heads the parly in the absence of its exiled president. Peron’s The Radicals won the widow Maria Estela Martinez federal capital and the four de Peron. told reporters most populated provinces, earlier: "I urge all Argen including Cordoba, the tinians to be quiet until the country's second largest city. true results of the polls arc The Peronist partv had won known.” all free elections in the past 48 years but was weakened by The military government 1* to hand over power to the elected government on January 30. but President Reynaldo Bignone has said he would consider bringing the Handover date forward. Voters also chose 254 members of the lower House of Congress and new provin cial and municipal authorities. A high turn-out was reported among the country's 18 million registered voters, but no official figures were available. r
Daily Mail 31st October 1983
Maggie
and the ' household s MRS THATCHER told radio listeners last night how she made time for household chores while coping with international crises. And she told them that after the show she was off home to cook supper for her husband Denis. The Prime Minister spoke to callers from all over the world in a BBC international phone-in programme. A Far East listener asked her how she managed to suc cessfully combine being a wife, mother and political leader. ‘I've Just been very fortunate in the way things have bounced for me all my life,’ said Mrs Thatcher. Her children were grown up before she went into politics, she told the caller. She said she liked to get away to the privacy of her flat on the top floor at 10, Downing Street, where she could go to the kitchen and make something herself. Mrs Thatcher told Falklands housewife Mrs Betty Miller, speaking from Port Stanley, that she would be pleased to help the islanders gain inde pendence if they wished. But it would mean Britain eventually pulling out the troops. ‘I don’t think we would , stay indefinitely in an inde pendent country,' she said.
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Daily Mail Reporter OUTRAGED families of British Servicemen killed in the Falklands war protested bitterly last night when they learned that they will not get more than £2 million donated by the public. Instead the money—unspent donations to the South Atlantic Fund — will go to the general funds of three Service charities. In spite of the large amount of unspent money in the fund — and donations are still coming in — some relatives of Faulklands victims have received as little as £2,500. Mrs Marcia McKay, widow of VC ; Sergeant Ian McKay, said : ‘It's dis- ; gusting. This is not helping the widows to get back to a normal way of life — it has just caused tremen dous upset and bitterness. We are not satisfied with the way the fund has been administered, when some widows receive £30,000 and others £70,000. while those with sons killed get £2.500. ‘This was a public fund given for the Falklands victims and their relatives, and it was not meant to be distributed in this general way.’ Demand MPs plan to protest to junior De fence Minister Mr Geoffrey Pattie, and they will demand public account ability of the way the total of £15 Mrs McKay and children at the Palace with her husband's VC. She says : million collected by the fund has been 'It has caused tremendous upset and bitterness.' spent. The Association of Parents of Un Raymond, who were self-emploved, Mrs Anita Flanagan lost her hus married Sons Killed In The Falk have been unable to work because of band, Chief Petty Officer Flanagan, lands said they were taking legal ad emotional strain since their son’s on the Atlantic Conveyor, and vice to prevent the fund closing in death. They received the minimum received a total of £36,000 for herself the New Year £2,500, and despite applying three and her four children. It is supposed to have finished pro times for more they were turned She had to give up her job as a cessing the claims from relatives of down. nurse at a psychiatric hospital to look 256 men who died, and the hundreds Mrs Stuart said: ‘We feel the fund after her children and has already who were injured. has given a worthwhile helping hand had to re-apply for more money. But many families spoke bitterly of to some, but not to others. The She said: ‘My eldest son used to look outstanding claims and inadequate widow of the man my son was killed after the children while I did night payments that have left them in alongside got £40,000. and we lust duty, but since my husband's death cont.. need. got the £2,500. My son was absolutely he has left home and I had to give up Mrs Janet Stuart and her husband priceless to me.” work to look after them myself. 1
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‘What makes me mad is that some of the widows with no children have got up to £70,000 because their hus bands had a long time to serve in the Navy, but because my husband was a chief petty officer with only a short time to serve, I was told his worth to the Navy was niL’ Colonel John Ansell, secretary of the South Atlantic Fund said that the unspent £2 million plus will go to the Army Benevolent Fund, the RAF Benevolent Fund and the King George V Fund for Sailors. Senior officials for those charities want to put the money into a general pool where it will be available for all servicemen, not just those who served in the Falklands. Constitution Next of kin of the Falklands men have been sent letters by the fund saying that no additional giants can be paid out. General Sir John Mogg. president of the Army Benevolent Fund, said : ‘It was in the constitution of the South Atlantic Fund that if there was anv residual money then it would go to the Service charities. ‘Naturally. much of this additional monev will be set aside for the Falk lands widows. But we were rather hoping that most of the Falklands relations’ claims would have been settled bv the time the money reached us. ‘However, if there is hardship, then i widows or relations will have to make 1 their applications for help to us.’
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Daily Mail 31st October 1983 election
AT THE end of a week in which Buenos Aires was not so much a capital city, more a gigantic Kop, as uncount able millions exulted in the streets, the only significant sound at midnight was the whirr of computers. Argentina was electronically ix©m counting the votes in the first elec tion for ten years and thus using 20th century techniques to judge mmm a contest filled with the old primi tive passions of tribal war. The army that has murderously JAMES ruled the land and led it into mad. impossible war with Britain BUENOS AIRES is back in barracks : the thugs in dark glasses who were their hire kilos of sugar to attend his rally— lings and slaughtered 20,000 of he can still command the mass. their own countrymen no longer So the dynasty of the demagogues sit in their unmarked cars on that began with Juan Peron in crucial corners. ' 1945, grew more theatrically garish Who wins power in the return with his wives Evita and Isabel, has to a democratic rule is not cer its heir. The thunder of their tain. Who loses is surely already drums, the menace of their march known—the 28 million betrayed ing, the scowling surrounding of people of this volatile nation. The anyone not joining the slogans at same people who have filled their full voice, proved that tho party capital’s streets with displays of and the fear and loathing that total belief that seem to contain surrounds it is still intact. not a vestige of genuine hope. What are they for, this incredible amalgam of Fascist base and militant union organisation ? It is Triumph easier, by deciphering the graffiti which smothers Buenos Aires like First came the literate middle bunting, to list what they are classes, wearing their whitest col against . . . generals and Jews, lars to gather at the obelisk in Yanks and Soviets, most other the Avenida de Julio, symbolic nations, all other creeds, every centre of their nation to greet other politician. Raul Alfonsin, the Radical leader. Before beginning his final How many were there ? Maybe a speech. Italo Luder, a lawyer and million. intellectual, took off his jacket and This crowd/ was unimaginable tie, the better to blend with these in size. Unbelievable in mood. I his people 'The Shirtless Ones-’ said the Kop, but no football •team heard triumph like this before the game was played. No Vesseer pop star ever drew such devotion, no Pope had a congregation His appeal to the working and declaring that on Earth, at least, workless classes, many if not most deliverance was here. with the high-cheeked faces of the Looking down on those seeth mixed-blood peasant, is simple — ing columns it was suddenly he promises most. possible to believe in a middle That night there was scarcely way for Argentina, a way chosen a diner in a decent Buenos Aires by neither the mob nor the mili restaurant, though the beer halls tary. Until that same street, that were bursting with noise. That same statue, was chosen as the night the veneer that Buenos rally point for the Peronists. Aires, sophisticated home of a If there had been a million cultured people, is the true Argen before, there were two million now. tina crumpled before our eyes. Their leader had made his point. All Saturday buses and trains Bringing them in by buses and left besieged stations carrying bribes—in Cordoba they got two millions to the remote comers of
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Daily Mail 31st October 1983 Cont../ the country—free travel suddenly offered made It possible for every one to get home and vote. Out there in the dusty provinces Peronistas rule. Argentina’s elections are diffi cult to comprehend, Involving the choice of a President, 254 Deputies, every municipal dogcatcher. Only if there is a landslide for the Pre sidency can even a computer give a quick answer . . . otherwise an electoral college goes into days of horse-trading with minor parties to establish the majority. The only thing that is certain is that the army has gone. And the onJy thing nearly as sure is that if the Peronists win, soldiers will be taking the covers off their cannon for another coup within months. 1 Scapeg®ats For Luder can’t keep his promises. Not with Argentina’s problems. Within days the IMF will be asking about the debt ex pected to reach 60,000 million dollars by the end of the decade. In simpler terms that's like every single British family owing foreign banks £25,000. No Argentine worker worries about such colossal sums. He's got more personal problems. Example : A journalist friend calculated that the salary he was earning in 1973 is worth precisely 27 centavos today . . . that’s a shade under two pence. The new President’s options are few. To buy off the military he must stick to the deals believed to have been made—to settle for a few lower-echelon scapegoats instead of tracing the blame for the missing thousands, whose fate and graves will never be known, right up to the heights to which it belongs. Yet the loudest roar of all at the obelisk came when Luder and Alfonsin each promised no escape for the criminals in uniform. No embattled Argentine Presi dent will even have a chance to play the Galtieri gambit ... in vading the Falklands. Never mind about the Royal Marine garrison, there’s no appetite anywhere for a repeat of that madness. Almost the oddest thing of all in Buenos Aires this week, a city where antipathies are aerosoled down every inch of blank wall, la the total lack of obvious dislike of the British. The customs man who shook my hand did indeed say ‘The Malvinas are ours,’ but ho was smiling and the tone was like being told ‘We’ll beat you in the next round of the FA Cup’. The British accent, the passport, they’re welcome everywhere. Pure deceit ? No, according to Jim Neil- son, brave editor of the Buenos nrotAnn tn bp Norwegian or with a five-year plan. It is in the Aires Herald. For 17 years he’s been slagging off the weirdest and wickedest of Argentine politicians, oldSti friendship withsk Britain& eas The car the killers always used, cont.. ignoring death threats as casually thmiph nothing ever happened. the Ford Falcon, became a syrn as you and I ignore all but the ?They deS7rve a Ee mm of Argentina’s oppression The final demand for the rates. optimistic that I can pretend to Falcon, bird He did take his family briefly to believe The riches every Argentine migrated from this lost, lovable Uruguay during the -Falklands believes in are there. Underground, land. It’s perched out of sight . • i fighting. T thought I-might have Unexploited. They might make It balefully waiting. a:■ r
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Behind the thunder of the drums and the
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Centre: Election fever In Buenos Aires as a million-strong crowd hails Radical leader Raul Alfonsin. Left: Alfonsin meets the workers. Right: Pero?iist candidate Italo Luder, heir to the dynasty of the demagioguet* rallies the faithfuU daily telegraph ‘BETRAYAL’ AS FALKLANDS 31. 10.83 ffioney to the three Service charities was clearly laid down FUND IS WOUND UP in a Deed of Trust when the fund was set up, though no time limit was set. The Association of Parents of Unmarried Sons Killed in the Argentina WITH £2m UNSPENT Falklands, set up along with the Falklands Families Association By A. J. MctLROY ' to examine the methods of pay ments to relatives, protested BARENTS of many of the single men killed yesterday that the giving public votes in had been “ betrayed.” in the Falklands protested angrily “ The public gave out of com 5 yesterday on being told that the South Atlantic passion for the victims of the Falklands campaign so that 6new era Fund is to be wound up and £2 million in their dependants and those others they left behind could By TONY ALLEN-MILLS unspent donations handed on to other receive help,” said ’ Mr Leslie in Buenos Aires Stockwell, the parents associa Servicemen’s charities. tion chairman. ^^RGENTINA opened a Letters telling them that the fund is to be closed new chapter in its tur Proof of need bulent history yesterday in the New Year contain a paragraph stating: “The “ Of course nothing can re when 18 million people trustees have looked again at your case but after the place the loss we have suffered. went to the polls to choose most concerned and careful But the parents of about 60 of a civilian government for unspent money will carry on the ]21 single Servicemen bhe first time in a decade. consideration they have the work of caring for those killed in the Falklands had to concluded that they are who suffered as a result of the get together out of concern for \ measure of popular conflict.” he said. the way the fund was being ad- msiasm for the return to unable to make any addi The fund, which has received ministered by men and women aemocracy after seven years of tional grant to you.” more than £15 million, was standing between the bereaved military dictatorship was the opened in July 1982. and the public’s compassion. size of the queues outside The bulk of more than £2 “ They cleverly made it a 70,000 voting stations hours I million still unspent, and £38,000 average charity and said money could before the polls opened at 8 money still coming into the In its latest statement the be paid out only on proof of am. Ministry of Defence said that need. But there are sons who fund, will go to the main payments ranged from £50.000 would have wanted to do more “Today is the day we regain Service charities: the Army to £70,000 in the £15 million than just provide for essential our rights and begin a new Benevolent Fund, the RAr paid out so far and that the needs of parents in their era,” said Senor Raul Alfonsin, Benevolent Fund and the average was £58.000 per claim, twilight years. 56, the Radical party leader who is challenging the working King George V Fund for As a charitabie trust; the “ Because it is a charity we1 class-based Peronists for vic Sailors. fund had to make payments are told we have paid nc tory. Col John Ansell, the fund’s based on need and on the income tax on what has beer secretary, rejected the critic- assessment of the amount of paid out. But most -or us Both Senor Alfonsin and ism from Barents. The fund the financial loss suffered by, parents of single Servicemen Senor Italo Luder, 66. the doing its work well. It had for example, a husband's death, have received no more tnan Peronist presidential candidate, was just doingfinished us processingworK wen. claims Experience gained in Northern £2,500 which was the initial voted early in their home Ireland had helped these deci- lump sura payment. towns in Buenos Aires from relatives of the 256 men ...... Province. who died and the hundreds sions to be made fairly, the Mr Stockwell. whose son was wounded. Ministry said. Petty Officer Geoffrey Stockwell. “ The charities receiving the The transfer of residual killed aboard the destroyer Siege lifted ______i H MS Coventry, 3,500 tons, The military junta marked said the association intended to the election by lifting, for the renew its protests through M Ps first time since. 1976, the state and public protest. of siege that suspended many Staff at the three Service individual rights and gave the charities which have already : rity forces wide powers of received £250.000 each from the a..^st and imprisonment. South Atlantic Fund, said that More than 130,000 soldiers they hoped the money received and policemen were on security on the closing of the fund duty but no serious incidents would not have to he accoun- were reported. The Govern ted for separately, but placed ment banned the sale of alcohol into the- general pool of money. during the day, public meetings were forbidden and theatres stayed closed. POPPY DAY PLEA Apart from the presidential race, Argentines were choosing a new Parliament, provincial BY LEGION governors and city mayors. The The Royal British Legion has presidential election is expected launched its 1983 Poppy Appeal to be closee and, if no clear with a plea tor the public not winner emerges, it could be to make it an anti-climax after several weeks before the identity the record £6 million raised last of the country’s new leader is year following the Falklands known. conflict. A spokesman said: “ Inflation continues to erode the real value of our income, and a suc cessful appeal is vital for the continuation and expansion of our services for the disabled and the widowed.”
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Atlanti SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 30.10.83 * fund 22m ‘unspent’
By CATHERINE STEVEN JTVH'E South Atlantic Fund, JL set up to receive money from the public for Falk- lands war victims, is to be wound up in the New Year. Over £2 million of unspent donations will go to three FINANCIAL TIMES Servicemen s charities which want to use it for general 29.10.83 purposes. • for 18 scientists of the British scientists safe and snug for the S Families of the war victims Antarctic Survey and a key next 15 years, have expressed concern at the part of our national presence All 648 tonnes were first decision. Fn the South Atlantic. erected in Britain, dismantled f The fund, which has received Royal Engineers erected and taken by sea to the £ over £15 million since it opened these tubes at top speed in the Antarctic, transported across in July 1982, has just finished teeth of icy gales last spring, to li miles of ice iast winter (mid- I processing claims from rela tives of 256 men who died and the evident delight of Sir Her- summer at Halley) and from hundreds of injured mann Bondi, chairman of the re-erected. ‘ Sir LleriHanri says . Natural Environment Research the best hopes of his scientists ! servicemen. A total of £13 mil were “brilliantly achieved” by lion has been paid out. Council, owners of the Halley Station. . Shortly a tfie soldiers. Interconnected, The transfer of residual research vessel will sail fromn the tubes will provide two- money to the three charities Britain laden with instruments storey living and working was clearly laid down in a Deed space for a team of 18. of Trust when the Fund was set and supplies to fit out the new laboratories. Sir Hermann regards this up, though no time limit was Next summer the scientists ^search .^up^and^ts admini- set for the move. This week letters are being will emerge from their present |xtraordinariIy cost - effective sent to next of kin informing burrow, 16 metres deep, past • ®rganisatfon” He claims that it them that the trustees of the the London Underground sign generates more scientific papers fund have “ looked again at at the mouth, to occupy the new than any 0^ier scientific team your case but after the most Halley Station. By then the operating *n the Antarctic, concerned and careful considera wooden tubes will be well en- * . , . tion they have concluded that crusted with ice and already Halley lies beneath a scienti- thrv arc unable to make any beginning to disappear into the fically fascinating boundary additional grant to you.” snowscape. By the end of the between two atmospheric century thev will have sunk phenomena, called the plasma- This is despite the Fact that about 19 metres below the pause, where electrically hot money is continuing to pou- into barren surface. and c°ld conditions interact. A the fund’s London offices daily. Thpse scientists have lived computer-controlled radar at Colonel John Ansel 1, secret with the impermanence of their Halley is used to explore this ary of the fund, said the money Quarters ever since Halley was ^"ilt^ear—bearing and the £2 million left over octahiishpri in 1958 balloons—55 last yeai—Dealing from the general fund would originally at the expense of the instruments to an altitude of 30 be channeled into the three The Government main Service charities; the S^anfWCehomTeheeyveryTo h“uy recognised ntor.e Army Benevolent Fund, the BAF Benevolent Fund and the years before ice crushed then, Ring George V Fund for Sailors. nai* presence of such a hardy band , This is their, , , fourth;n„u a novel„ of explorers and authorised an He said: "The charities would Four giant be^enretheeBriHsf"ti= increase in iast year's budget of carry on the work of caring for those who suffered as a Survey and Structaply, special £5.7 m. result of the conflict.” Wooden igloos ists in plywood construction. Was it possible that the Last week, senior staff at the The four tubes, each 120 metres scientists could also .show three charities— which have long and over nine metres eskimos how to make a better, already received £250.000 each for Antarctica diameter, are formed of inter- igloo? Sir Hermann took the from the South Atlantic Fund Four large wooden tubes, each locking plywood panels which question seriously. If not —expressed the hope that the longer than a .football pitch, give the structure both strength eskimos, he believed that other fund’s money would not have squat in the snow on the float- and flexibility in facing the -inhabitants of Antarctica wonlcl to be accounted for separately, ing Brunt ice shelf at Halley in crushing burden of ice. Its • be _keenly ^f^sted m the but placed into the general Antarctica, 75 degrees south, designers say their model tests performance of the new Halley pool of money. They are about to become home show they will keep the Station. . 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THE TIMES 29.10.83
Peter Hennessy talks to the Foreign Office officials with Grenada on their minds
Bright young things of the FO
In Mrs Thatcher’s Whitehall some things are at a discount, diplomats and think tanks among them. It is mildly surpris ing, therefore, to find in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office a flourishing team of bright young officials licensed to think the unthinkable. What is more, ■ Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Foreign Secretary, seems to relish their output. The Prime Minister uses their material for her speeches and has just appointed one of their former heads, Sir Percy Cradock, to be her personal adviser on foreign affairs in Number 10. The Cabinet’s Think Tank, the Central Policy Review Staff, has lain dead since July. But the FO's planning staff continues to pour out stuff on movements in the price of oil, instability in Central America, East-West economic relations, Poland, Hongkong, Gibralter, the Falklands, Belize and. since last Wednesday when it became their number one priority, Grenada. Once a month, Sir Anthony Acland, head of the Diplomatic Service, calls a meeting of his deputy secretaries to plunder their product. There is a constant two-way flow of information with the Joint Intelligence Committee, the engine room of Whitehall’s secret world, which the planning staff carefully avoid mentioning (the JIC and its works littered the pages of the Franks report on the Falklands in January, but the mist has descended once more; nobody will admit that it exists). If Mrs Thatcher, the slaughterer of think tanks, did cross Downing Street to pay the planning staff a visit in their ground floor billet, next to Sir planning staff sooner than to be cut off from Antony Acland’s office, with its grand view of St information. The FO does understand the value James’s Park, she would probably like what she of licensed devil’s advocates.” saw. Its small staff do not fit the fashionable but They use a number of ploys to make an impact unfair stereotype of the FO as a citadel of on potential customers. They try to invent polished smoothies forever talking down the snappy titles for their papers. Miss Neville-Jones national interest and endlessly seeking one group did not want to give away scoops by mentioning of foreigners or another to sell out to. recent examples. But The End of the Rainbow, an F°r 3 bpyaau.rn°em^Seas sMS fit any in public life. Miss Pauline Neville-Jones, headline the idea is to keep it short who has a knack of being in the nght capita at and relevant ft he,ps [f you have prepared the ihe right time Salisbury, Rhod pnBUifed market in advance by engaging the customers in was declared, Washington as Watergate engulfed Think h unythin6ka^le by all means but he Nixon presidency - has her own view why dQ ^ ^ iMo [he realms of the politicaUy daft the planning staff have survived. like suggesting half-a-dozen ways of ceding the “Why have we been spared? For a number of sovereignty of the Falklands to Argentina. This reasons. We don’t attempt to be inter-departmen- week their energies will be concentrated on tal. We are not involved in the inter-departmen- possible practical solutions for Grenada in the tal power game. We have been established for a post military intervention phase, very long time [since 1964]. People do not let us The planning staff have proved adaptable, see the papers. They can’t stop us seeing the They usually have an outsider on their strength - telegrams. But they could stop us seeing the though they are all insiders at the moment. Mr policy submissions. * Nothing could kill a Colin Jennings is on secondment from the
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By TONY ALLEN-MILLS messages sent from Gren birthday greetings for the Senior army officers have Queen from Peru and conigraty- I in Buenos Aires ada to London warning of lations to the Foreign Secretary said that they consider the an imminent invasion by Ministry’s censorship rules gENOR Raoul Alfonsin from Malta. “ impracticable ” in the age of and his underdog American troops went " But obviously this was dif modern communications and Radical party have boosted astray. ferent so we immediately got instant television pictures. their chances of beating The messages arrived at the on to the Foreign Office. Bjit headquarters of a $mall we were amazed by the The Ministry’s provisional the Peronists in next Scandinavian plastics company sponse. No one seemed at all regulations—themselves meant Sunday’s General Election instead of the Foreign Office, interested in them. We were to be “ secret ”—include a list in Argentina by staging Two separate telexes arrived f°ld put them in an envelope of “ don’ts ” in reporting that one of the biggest political bans everything from approach a the offices of Scan Plast, iri and post them on. rallies seen in South the West End, on the day of “ When I persisted, one of ing senior officers for inter- America. to naming units or ships the invasion. the girls said she would take a t. . even, absurdly, writing A spectacular crush of more The telexes gave a warning note of the contents to pass it pc-sonal criticism of officers than 750,000 jubilant Radical that the invasion was imminent on. But then it turned, , out. she. „ and “ attached civilians ”—the j supporters thronged a central and appealed To Britain, as could. not even do shorthand* Ministry officials themselves. j Buenos Aires avenue on head of the Commonwealth, to he said. . J | Wednesday night to fete the bring the plight of Grenada to The Foreign Office refused Instead of this rigid control man who has brought them to the attention of the United yesterday to discuss the con of the media, the Army wants the brink of victory in the first Nations. tents of the telexes or whether a realationship based on trust democratic poll in Argentina for Foreign Office officials, no the information contained jn and a “ gentleman’s agree 10 years. doubt mindful of severe criti- them was of any significant*, ment ” backed by the free flow It was an evening of stun cism they received for their But it is known that the first of news direct to the reporters’ ning personal triumph for the handling of thet Falklandsk . inva-. news of the invasion came from newspapers. In the Falklands, tubby 56-year-old lawyer who sion, were yesterday trying to news agency reports, which first all news was sent through the .by his own admission has play down the significance ot informed Mrs Thatcher of the Ministry for a second tier of worked 35 years in politics to the telexes, saying there were jnvasion. The Foreign Office censorshio become an overnight success. doubts about their authenticity. was on]y a5ie confirm the When Senor Alfonsin But directors at Scan Plast reports later, // Privately admitted mounted the scaffolding plat who tried to pass on the infor- « YVe are rather mystified ISs Lt-Gen. Sir Martin Farndale. form to greet the crowd there mation to the Foreign Office to why the informant used this Commanding Officer of the was a great roar of joy. nevertheless found the official telex number, which is out t \ • ^ Small department Mr Bullard’s daily file on the situation in the Caribbean would have been sent, probably Falklands gliosts in code, to the Foreign Office and eventually found its way to a desk in the West Indian and Atlantic Department. The department is run jointly in corridors of with the Overseas Development Agency and is one of the smal lest of its kind in the Foreign Office. The deskman dealing with Grenada also “looks after” Foreign Office several other small Caribbean countries. The department is headed by By JOHN MILLER Diplomatic Staff Mr John Edwards, an 0 D A man, but is effectively the re nHHE Foreign Office came in for anotfier sponsibility of Mr John Ure, 52, a superintending under battering yesterday over its handling of secretary, a former Ambassador the Grenada crisis, and the so-called Falklands to Havana, who was also in control of the South American syndrome reappeared. Department before and during the Falklands crisis. During and after the Mr Ure on reading all his Falklands conflict in 1982, Incoming cables from Barbados, the Foreign Office came and digesting the input from Washington involving his area, under withering criticism DAILY would make brief recommenda for allegedly failing to TELEGRAPH tions for action to be taken in memoranda to Sir Antony inform Mrs Thatcher about Acland, 53, the Permanent Argentine intentions. 28.10.83 Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office and Head of the Although “ cleared ” by Diplomatic Service. the Franks Report after a Sir Antony, who took over six-month inquiry, the For after the Falklands war and a eign Office image has never sharp slump in the morale of been fully repaired. And a the Foreign Office, reports to Sir familiar question was being Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secre asked—who are the guilty tary, but day-to-day decisions men? affecting the area would be taken by Lady Young, Minister The Foreign Office is unable of State, and Mr Raymond to answer the question be Whitney, Under-Secretary of cause it does not know. In any State. case like all big organisations, and Government departments, MI 6 reports it is unable to accept that it Intelligence about the situa could possibly be at fault. tion in Grenada, United States’ The key charge is that the intentions, and the position of Foreign Office was told last the Organisation of Eastern Friday or certainly during the Caribbean States, would at some weekend, that Caribbean coun time or another also have tries wanted to use military reached the Foreign Office from action to restore Jaw and order M I 6 “ stations.” in Grenada and sought Ameri Summaries would have ulti can and British aid, and that it mately landed on the desk of Sir failed to tell No 10. Anthony Parsons. 61, the special It is the Falklands affair all foreign affairs adviser to No. 10 over again. Who failed to tell Downing Street. whom about an invasion? Or Sir Anthony, who works a if the message was passed up i three-day week, is retiring in the line, at what point was it December. His appointment in ignored? November, 1982, was widely in terpreted as reflecting Mrs Regular reports Thatcher’s concern that she was The British diplomat “ in the. not receiving prompt and field ” throughout the crisis accurate information from the has been Mr John Kelly, 43. a Foreign Office. second secretary who recently One other body, the Joint switched to Grenada after Intelligence Organisation based being on loan from the Foreign in the Cabinet Office, also Office to the Department of exists to make assessments for Trade and Industry. He sent ministers and officials of a wide regular reports about the tur range of external situations and moil in Grenada to Bridgetown developments such as Grenada. Barbados. 1 These are considered before Because of cutbacks in the ] circulation by the Joint Intelli Foreign Service over the past gence Committee, headed by few years the British presence Sir Anthony Duff, 63, who after in the Caribbean is concentrated retirement from the Foreign on Barbados. 1 Office became the Cabinet The High Commissioner, Mr 1 security and intelligence co Giles Bullard, 57, took up his ordinator. post in August. He is also High \J Commissioner (non-resident) to ' Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, St Vin cent and St Christopher and McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs Nevis. He has a staff of about 15 including military and naval 41 Whitehall London SWlA 211Z Telephone: 01-930 6935 advisers, and immigration officers. SCf»»C6*l():aut,Mdala.L ZH3 VI/WSuoPu C/5 | s c •| 0/ DC J|.SiS .S'd'B'oSJS^ SioS^ ‘S S “-o 2-- "8C . Sta1’'" 1 !fr,te|Ut sfii l!:iy|!!!!^! 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Crown Agents, which manage The Agents acknowledge the 28.10.83 investment and other services damage done by the loss of the for foreign governments, yester- Bruneil contract, which is day highlighted their “special linked with the Sultanate’s function in maintaining and imminent independence from developing trading links with Britain, but say they still man- developing countries ” as one of age more than 200 funds with the major arguments why they an aggregate value of £800m. must remain “ an important part This results in invisible earn- of Britain’s international ings worth over £lm. business life.” They also claim to be import- The statement came in answer ant as a monitoring service pf to suggestions in parliament and the orders being placed by Whitehall that the Crown government bodies abroad; as Agents should be broken up or a partner in multilateral pro- abolished. It comes at a time grammes, and in training per- of financial difficulty following sonnel in developing countries, the loss of a fund-management Trade union leaders at the contract with the Sultan of Crown Agents also warned the Brunei which accounted for over Government yesterday that 70 per cent of the Agent’s fund- British industry would lose management earnigs. millions of pounds’ worth of Claiming that the organisa- contracts if the Agents were tion remains viable- the disbanded. Rival parties Agents say that over 80 per cent Mr Keith Knox, chairman of of their orders in 3983 which the trade union side of the may amount to over £160m— Crown Agents’ London Whitley will be placed in Britain, and Council, said: “Reports of the that many of these orders go to iminent death of the Crown smaller British companies which Agents are greatly exag- poll dashes would otherwise have no access gerated.” By Robert Graham in Buenos Aires VILOENT clashes between sup porters of the two main political parlies, the Peronists and Radicals, hiive marred the closing stages of Argentina's election campaign. There is concern that in the run-up to Sunday’s poll, the violence might intensify. Over the weekend the state of seige, in force since 1974, is due to be lifted. The clashes, involving mili tant Peronist youths, broke o”4 after up to lm supporter-' Sr Raul Alfonsin, leader o' Radical Party, held a ral' central Buenos Aires. It was the biggest rally sec*’ in seven vears of military ru'-' and confirmed Sr Alfonsin’s emergence as a major alterna tive to the Peronists who have dominated Argentine politics since the end of the Second World War. After the rally. Peronist youths burned flags with Radical Party banners and attacked people leaving the demonstration. Police inter vened but there were no arrests. The main Peronist rally is due to be held in. the capital today. Yesterday, Peronist' supporters were driving through the streets of Buenos Aires in vans with loudspeakers urging people to attend the rally in a major show of the party’s strength. Party organisers said the rally would only be addressed by Sr Italo Luder, the Peron ists’ leader. McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWLA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930(>935 Daily Mail FALKLAND ISLANDS 28th October 1983 'Because, instead of defending nubile, sun-kissed West Indian girls against Marxist oppression, he's here defending you. That's why.' Daily Mail 27th October 1983 WORLD WIDE in brief - Mass crowds greet Argentine freedom From BRIAN JAMES in Buenos Aires EVEN the greatest election a u d 1 e n c e crowd scenes of the era stretched for a mile down of Evita Peron were the capital’s main surpassed by Argen thoroughfare, the Aveni- tinians last night. da de Mayo, More than 1,800,000 There has not been a took to the streets in a civilian government elec triumphant salute to the ted in Argentina for ten end of seven years of years. Last night’s scenes military rule. may well swing undecided The final election voters to Alfonsin. a 56- meeting of presidential year-old radical lawyer, candidate Raul Alfonsin to beat the Peronists produced the scene—his whose rule began in 1944. : THE TIMES 27.10.83 War reporting regulations ‘unobeyable’ By Richard Evans Strict regulations issued by off for a war-reporting exercise Reporters will get a chance to Ministry during the Falklands the Ministry of Defence that in Germany. comment on the regulations crisis, “in trying to use the could control the way British It is the first time since the after the exercise and Colonel media to put over a deception journalists report any future Suez crisis that a group of Powell, who recently served on story” war or conflict of the Falklands reporters has been issued full the staff of Supreme Allied In stark contrast to the type are “unobeyable and combat clothing and been fully Command in Europe, told regulations, the colonel said he unenforceable”, according to a accredited in order to acorn- them: “If you don’t get it right was all in favour of personal senior amy officer. pany a front line division. this time it is no use complain- contact with reporters in order Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Each reporter has had to sign ing in two years’ time. If you to establish a trusting relation- Powell, aged 40, Commanding a copy of the controversial think they are over restrictive ship. Officer of the 1st Battalion, the regulations which have been you must say so now Referring to a “catch all” rule Welsh Guards, explicitly criti criticized, as draconian and The ministry will always try that' a journalist must not do r' cized the ministry at a question open to very wide interpret- to blot everything out. I think anything to prejudice or damage and answer session with re ation. No censorship, however, you are bound to be opposite the morale of British forces, porters on Tuesday and encour will be imposed during this each other, the ministry and the Colonel Powell said: “A respon- aged them to act now if they week s three-day trip. press. sible journalist has to look at wanted to get the regulations The ministry insists that the The Government, and minis- that and wonder whether the changed. regulations, which are based on ters in particular, do not want morale of troops is being those used in the Second World egg on their faces. They want to undermined by something not His frank comments, which War and cover accreditation, present a perfect picture to the being told, highlight the gulf between legal status, and reporting House [of Commons]. That is “You have to think it official ministry thinking and restrictions, are only in draft what it really comes to.” through on a security basis and that of senior army officers in form and may be. amended. or He described as “rubbish” ask: ‘Am I hazarding the lives of the field, came a few hours improved. But it is sensitive the action of Sir Frank Cooper, men and women by saying this before 50 British reporters set about them being published. Permanent Secretary at the now?’”. Army acknowledges needs for journalism The essence of successful dents, he said that there was: row over press freedom”. warfare is secrecy and the No absolute right to know, but He hoped that the exercise recipe for successful journalism no absolute right to supress; an would enable journalists to see is publicity, but the two absolute right to ask questions, “the imperatives that operate concepts need not be mutually but an absolute right to refuse on us in trying to protect the exclusive, according to the to answer provided a reason is security of our operations and Army’s top public relations given. the people involved and why official. Brigadier Ramsbotham bit they are necessary”. “We acknowledge these terly criticized a report that war The Ministry of Defence imperatives exist, but we also reporting involves a clash over believed an operational com acknowledge this gap has to be press freedom. He said he had mander had the right to ask for bridged”, Brigadier David remonstrated with the defence protection of his operation and Ramsbotham told journalists. correspondent of The Guardian the people involved by control Brigadier Ramsbotham: Outlining his ideas about the for making the suggestion. “We ling the time of release of Criticized report treatment of war correspon- are not at all concerned with a operational information. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall LondonSWlA 21V/ l.l.-ph.m.- (ll-'Mo I* 1 FINANCIAL TIMES 27.10.83 ^ Jimmy Burns in Buenos Aires on the Peronists’ electoral rivals rs Radicals give Argentines a choke EVEN IF the pundits are explore even enemy country managed to emerge as undis proved right and he loses in with the confidence of someone ■SHHtiS puted leader. Not so the the Argentine elections on Sun- who has lived there all his life, Peronists who continue to be day. Sr Raul Alfonsin. the can- rpjie Radicals undoubtedly wracked by internal faction didate of the Radical Party, will owe much of the growth in fighting. For those looking for almost certainly be able to claim their popularity to the stability as a basis for economic a historic victory. personality of their leader. prosperity—a notion dear to the The paradox is explained by pjVer Sjnce ]ie won the party heart of the Ar/lentine middle undisputed evidence suggesting convention last June the class—the Peronists now repre that the Radical Party, thanks “Alfonsinazo as the Alfonsin sent uncertainty and potential to Sr Alfonsin. has emerged as phenomenon has been billed— duos. a viable political alternative in jias j)een widely viewed as Many Argentines have Argentina after nearly half a SOmething fundamentally new warmed to Sr Alfonsin’s out century of political dominance in jocal politics. Here is a man spoken approach to military by the party of General Juan wRb r»h*iir,jc,ma ;v]-,0 }-,?><; never and union reform as the best Peron. theless insisted on empha*is>nv chance the country has of Yesterday nearly half. . a mil- policies over the cult nf breaking the cycle of ineffective lion people gathered in the personality, civilian government followed by centre of Buenos Aires in the The cynics claim that Sr military conn which has dogg°d most impressive rally in Radi Alfonsin is a master of elec the country for most of its cal memory and one of the toral trickery. His campaign has recent hisKry. IIus defence of iargest street demonstrations in certainly borne a striking re human rights—he has promised seven years of military rule. Sr semblance to a U.S. Primary, an investigation into nast vio Alfonsin’s last public rally in complete with balloons, fire lations—has attracted the youth the city in December—when he vote. officially announced that he was works. pretty women and general razzamatazz. But Sr Alfonsin . . . leading Radical The Radical economic pro running for the presidency— candidate drew a crowd of only 30.000 Alfonsin has distinguished him gramme, in its commitment to people. During the country’s self in one important respect stream of politics until last a mixed economy with a greater last election campaign in 1973 from his rivals. He has not year. He was never given a vole for the state in planning, the then Radical candidate. Sr embodied what certainlv has party post nor elected to parlia- is virtually indistinguishable Ricardo Balbin, drew crowds of clung to the Pemnists: an ob ment. More recently this has from that of the Peronists. The sessive and some would sav proved an asset, as the bulk of Radicals have a moderate, not more than 17.000 before faattachment to the oast. losing by a humiliating 24.4 per political establishment figures pnnroach to the foreign debt cent against the Peronists’ 61.8 This js arguably a point in has been discredited in the nu?s*>nn. although thev do insist per cent. bis favour after .seven years public eye as collaborators of on better terms from the It used to be said that the during which Argentines have the military regime. bankers. Pe'ronists were the only ones boon ruled hv the sheer jnstitn- For the past seven years, Sv Sr AIfon,in a,s0 snnk,n capable of manipulating the «"npi "f th* Alfonsin has worked behind he hn„sine education scenes masses and that the Radicals forces and escapism of the as a lawyer interceding . ___ . . , were a somewhat nebulous Pemnist mystioue. for people arrested by the nromets. of creating ioh opnor- middle of the road party, strong Sr Alfonsin has nQ real nnli- authorities and signing several t'in'heJ an<1 inflation on rhetoric but poor in their tical past. The left of centre documents accusing the Govern- through a Prices and incornes ment of human rights viola- "obey. Hut his problem remains capacity to stir popular faction which he formed in 1972 that of covering the enormous emotions and to apply practical in protest against what he saw tions. programmes as the woolly policies of the Among the middle class Sr emotional distance which has But during the campaign St party leadership effectively Alfonsin has been consolidating traditionally separated his party Alfonsin has managed to exiled him from the mam- his support by default and has from the working class. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs -II While-hall London S\VI.\ 21V/. o|.‘i fctii'i.VS 1 THE TIMES ? Peronist drums 27.10.83 try to drown Radical rivals From Andrew Thompson, Buenos Aires GUARDIAN Argentina’s two main parties, cars in an attempt to catch up the Radicals and the Peronists, with the fast-moving candidate, 27.10.83 have organized last-minute rallies in Buenos Aires before About 60,000 people turned Sunday’s general election. The out that night to listen to Sefior Radical rally was due last night Luder speak from an impro and organizers were predicting a vised podium in the centre of turn-out of more than 200,000. town. The next day there were The Peronists had planned to more than 100,000 people out hold their rally on the outskirts to hear him in Rosario, the of the city in Avellaneda, the provincial capital, also on the stronghold of Senor Herminio banks of the Paran&. Iglesias, the gubernatorial can- The crowds chanted slogans, I didate for Buenos Aires prov- beat drums, and devoured I ince. But party leaders decided chorizos (a tasty sausage) at the last minute that “we roasted on smoky fires. The cannot leave the centre of the most popular slogan at the city to the Radicals’’ and the moment is “Olele, Olara, we are venue has been changed. Peronists, we will win”. Entire Campaign managers of both families, of predominantly - parties believe a big turn-out is working-class origin, turned out essential to cause a “bandwagon and spent hours standing in the effect” among the large number throng and dancing. A group of DIARY of undecided voters. first-aid workers carried off the The Peronist rally will be people who fainted in the crush, / THE magnificent obsession tomorrow, the last day of sometimes as many as 20 in one continues. Mr Tam Dalyell is campaigning. The Radicals will meeting, | back at the Commons a'fter a close their campaign with a discreet flying visit to Peru, meeting in Rasario, the coun- ______during which he spent 75 minutes with President try’s largest city. ARGENTINE Belaunde Terry discussing — On the campaign trail, the " I1”," '"'IT well, what else ? The Bel- Peronists arc exuberant, storm- El EQTIQMC grano. ing through their whistle-stop m Mr Dalyell flew out last meetings in a kind of organized lV ^ week after receiving an invi chaos. mMmmm tation from the President to Senor Italo Luder, the party's meet him at 4.30 pm on presidential candidate, arrived jSg October 21 in his palace. The in the town of Santa Fe two men had been corre (population 350,000) in the V' ~ i mm sponding since mid-August. province of the same name last - - ■ " In that sense,” says Mr week. This is strong Peronist Dalyell, “ It was they who territory, on the banks of the In Santa Fe the crowds offered. But I paid for it. I Parana river, 210 miles north- roared approval when the Stars got a £516 return academic’s west from Buenos Aires. and Stripes, carrying a picture ticket because I’m involved A crowd of supporters waited of Senor Raul Alfonsin, the in academic research in the issue.” at the airport, banging drums rival candidate from the Rad- Mr Dalyell is keeping mum and chanting slogans. It turned ical Party, was burnt. The for the time being on the re out that most of the crowd were Peronists are trying to fix the sults of his meeting, which members of the “62 organiza- image of Senor Alfonsin as the will have centred on the cru tions”, the political wing of the “Coca-Cola candidate”. cial details of the Peruvian Peronist trade union movement Nationalist and anti-United Peace Plan negotiations and in charge of security. They States sentiment is a powerful their scuppering when news surrounded a reception com- force, but seems to be more a of the Belgrano sinking miltee, including local Peronist rhetorical device for the candi- reached Lima on May 2 last dignitarics and the party’s dates than something which will year. “I don’t want to say candidate for the governorship. lead to any concrete measures. anything until I’ve had a chance to see Neil and the But when Senor Luder’s jet Se6or Luder has to make an Foreign Affairs Group.” says touched down, carefully laid cffort t0 tailor his slyle t0 the Mr Dalyell. He evidently has plans went awry. Officials and spirit of these meetings. A soft- interesting news? “I think television crews intent on spoken lawyer, given to wearing you can legitimately draw that getting there first comman- discreet suits and ties, who is conclusion.” deered, . , cars, , and rushed4. off 4at said to find the continual drum- But the four-day trip was, high speed down the runway to beating a bit tiring, he has for Mr Dalyeil, overshadowed meet Senor Luder. In the end begun to develop the right type by a greater torment. “If the candidate bypassed the ftfY,ratnrv you’re as keen on the Incas airport building completely, as I am, to go so far and not heading a caravan of cars and The Peronists are almost to go to Cuzco is agony. I lorries into the town. certain to win in Santa Fe, have had the fortune to go The dwindling reception which is Senor Luder’s province to many of the other ancient committee stood on the tarmac of birth. But all the signs are sites of the world and when I in front of the airport, against a that it will be a close battle in got to the airport to come other key areas, such as the back there was a plane leav setting sun, amid voices shout ing for Cuzco. Oh, it was ing “He’s gone” or “wait here federal capital and the province absolute agony! ” because he is coming”. Finally, of Cordoba, where the Radicals i they had to rush off in more are front runners. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA ill/. T*,K*phi»ne Progress made on CONSTRUCTION Falklands NEWS ■ Two vie for 27.10.83 work talks ■ £10m work SOME progress was made at Monday’s meeting between the unions and the Falklands airport on airport consortium. TWO firms. Ward Brothers In talks with George Mender- ( (Sherburn) and Redpath Dor son, TGWU construction secret- | man Long, are understood to ary, the Laing/Mowlem/ARC | be vying for the estimated £10 group agreed to carry out the | million plus structural steel £215 million airport contract | works contract for the Falk under the provisions of the | land Island airport being built Health and Safety at Work Act. \ by the Laing Mowlem ARC It has also agreed to set up | consortium. joint consultative committees to | Industry sources put Ward deal with workers’ grievances. | Brothers as favourite for the But these measures fall short of | work but spokesman for both an active trade union presence or | contractors declined to com structure on the site. | ment on this. The consortium has also | An award is expected early agreed to provide insurance to | next month and will call for the value of £50.000 per em- | work on several structures in ployee. I cluding a passenger building The meeting was adjourned so and aircraft maintenance han that both parties could consult j gers. their colleagues. Mr Henderson | ■ said the consortium had agreed j to consider maintaining the | DALIY TELEGRAPH holiday-with-pay. death benefit j and lumpsum retirement benefit j 27. 10.83 stamp scheme of the industry lor ( those workers already in the system. try again by anomer route. A Two main areas of contention Mark 5 Wessex helicopter flew remain. Mr Henderson is still ’COPTER in through a total white-out to dissatisfied with the level of recover them — but crashed payments - annual salaries arc within seconds of take off. A believed to be between £10.000 second helicopter flew in, sur and £12,000. This could be re CREW vivors clambered aboard—but a solved with the consortium's few minutes later, that too had agreement to consider bonus crashed. payments. HONOURED Lt. Cmdr Stanley and his The other area of contention , crew suoceeded in a third Wessex. is the consortium’s decision to Daily Telegraph Reporter use South Africa as a staging post. ^HE Fleet Air Arm Shared honours The consortium argued that Wessex 3 helicopter Once again this year Guild South Africa was the shortest . crew, which rescued Special honours are shared between practical route to the Falklands , Air Service troops from military and civilian pilots. and it promised that there would I behind enemy lines during Mr Dick Smith, an electronics be no discrimination. But Mr I marketing man from Sydney, Henderson is still concerned ab the Falklands campaign, Australia, who as a private pilot I was awarded the Prince out black employees. I made the first round the world • The government was keen Philip Helicopter Rescue solo flight by helicopter was to keep out of the TGWU and Award for outstanding awarded the Guild Sword of Laing Mowlem ARC debate on courage by the Guild of Honour. wage rates and employment terms Air Pilots and Air Navi The whole of 846 Naval Air for workers on the airport project gators last night. Squadron was honoured for when the matter was raised in the exceptionally accurate naviga House of Commons this week. It was presented bv the Duke tion over water and land in total Replying to a question about of Edinburgh, Grand Master of the Guild, to Lt Cmdr Ian darkness and at a very low level the rates of pay and conditions of during the Falklands campaign. service offered to construction Stanley, 36, H M S Antrim Flight Commander at the time of the Its award, the Johnston workers. Junior Environment Memorial Trophy, was received Minister Sir George Young said action, but now Commanding Officer of 706 Squadron, by Cmdr Simon Thomewill. he was satisfied the terms were Culdrose. Mr Roy Bradford, a British generally fair and reasonable. He Aerospace test pilot, won the added that the precise terms and Two of the four-man crew are still serving aboard HMS Derry and Richards Memorial wage rates were a commercial Medal for outstanding flying for matter for the consortium. , Antrim which last night stood off Grenada. his test flying work on B A C In response to further ques 111, V C10 and Concorde air tions. Sir George said that, up On the night of April 21 last craft. until October 20. a total of 166 year, with the bulk of Britain’s The Guild’s Award of Merit workers had been recruited. Task Force still many thousands was presented to Mr Robert I He went on to detail time of miles away, 15 S A S soldiers Pooley. a private fixed wing table and subcontractors for the were taken by helicopter to and helicopter pilot (more project. The main runway should Fortuna Glacier, South Georgia, recently a balloon pilot) who be usable from April 1985 with to observe the Argentine combines flying with publishing the complex due for completion garrison. and other business activities by February 1986. In winds of 1 OOmph, bivouacs and has devoted special Five main subcontracts have were swept away and movement efforts to the work of the been let so far: Balfour Kirkpat was unthinkable. Guild. rick for power generation ser Next morning they reluct vices, Capper Neill International antly asked to be withdrawn to for the bulk fuel installation. camp^Haiiam Group^RAF McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs living accommodation and Kel vin Catering for the camp ser- -it Whitehall LondonSWIA 2lt'/. r.,l< |>hntv oi-'Muii'j.t.s vices. * Falklands ships to receive battle honours THE TIMES By Rodney Cowton, Defence Correspondent 26.20.83 The Queen has approved the force and supporting elements” awarding of battle honours for have not qualified the Falklands campaign. Of the Royal Marines, Mr This means that all the Heseltine told the Commons: Falklands task force ships and “in accordance with a long- units which meet the qualifying standing tradition which dates conditions will be able to back more than 150 years the inscribe the honour on their Royal Marines do not receive colours, scrolls of honour or battle honours for any indivi plaques. dual operation or campaign in The precise conditions for the which they have been engaged. / award vary between the three instead the corps motif of the Crown Agents expect services, but the general globe surrounded by a laurel is requirement is that the ships or the symbol of their outstanding units were active between April service throughout the world.” surplus by 1986 2 and June 14 last year in the Royal Air Force: Squadrons South Atlantic between the which saw service within the By Jonathan Davis, tj latitude 35 deg south, marginally latitudes and period laid down, Financial Correspondent V south of Buenos Aires, and 60 or took part in an operational ! deg south, encompassing South sortie south of Ascension The Government will be t'i Georgia. Island, will be awarded the making a mistake if it allows the 11? Details of the honours were battle honour ‘‘South Atlantic Crown Agents to be broken up given yesterday in the House of 1982”. or abolished because of their m Commons by Mr Michael Fourteen RAF squadrons and present financial difficulties, Mr Hcscltinc, Secretary of State for one raF regiment squadron Peter Graham, the Senior :f' v$ Defence. qualify. Seven squadrons listed j Crown Agent, claimed yester- Royal Navy: The award of in the White Paper as being part day. the battle honour ‘‘Falkland Qf the task force are considered He declared: “This is a Ilf Islands 1982” is to be made to not to have qualified. , unique British institution which - if ;>.£ ■# :7.i •V— - all ships, submarines and Fleet Army: The theatre honour helps small businesses in this Air Arm Squadrons of the “Falkland Islands 1982” to- 1 country, shows the flag abroad, Royal Navy which meet the gether with honours for the has a very positive diplomatic I requirements. Royal Fleet engagements at Goose Green, role and gives invaluable Auxiliaries and Royal Maritime Mount Longdon, Tumbledown assistance to the international Mr Graham: defending the Auxiliary Service vessels and Mountain and Wireless Ridge aid agencies. It would be short- Crown Agents merchant ships will also have been approved for the sighted to take a decision to lose by reports that the Government qualify. Army. Individual regiments will all those benefits”. Was considering dismantling the This means that 44 Royal now have to claim entitlement Mr Graham acknowledged agents or privatising parts of Navy ships, 15 Fleet Air Arm to the honours. that the loss of the agents thejr operations. "It would be a Squadrons, 22 Royal Fleet The Army only awards lucrative fund-management role mistake for the Government to Auxiliaries, one Royal Mari- honours to infantry and cavalry for the Sultan of Brunei in July reach any negative decision of time Auxiliary Service vessel regjments which have guedons had pushed the organzation into this kind»< he said> and 32 merchant ships qualify. or colours. deficit.------But he ,said the „survival , The agents plan is based on Included among them are the It also only awards them to plan which the agents have saving$ in administrative costs, submitted to the Government cuts Jn overheads and a six vessels whichttwc were o, lost«- ,inA regiments that have been the conflict: HMS Sheffield jnvoived in close quarter battle (below). Ardent, Antelope, «‘jn the face Qf the enemy” and Coventry, the container ship where at leadt half of the meeting interest payments and carry out for foreign govem- Atlantic Conveyor and the regiment was involved. all other obligations by 1986. ments. Civil service unions Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Sir por th0se which do qualify, Mr Graham, who has only have been told between 300 and Galahad. the theatre honour will be just taken over from Sir Sidney 400 of the 1,200 permanent staff About 14 ships which were emblazoned on the regimental Eburne as senior agent, is may have to go, though a final listed in the White Paper, “The c0i0urs and the engagements expected to meet Sir Geoffrey decision will rest with the Falklands Campaign: The Les- honours will merely be recorded Howe, the Foreign Secretary, Government, I sons”, as being part of “the task jn the Army List. shortly to discuss the agent’s Mr Graham said that the proposals for coping with the agents have always been aware crisis promted by the loss of the that they would have to Brunei business. contract in order to survive m . He said that he was worried the 1980s. I McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A2HZ 'IH' ph* me THE TIMES The Falklands factor 26.10.83 Sovereignty issue unites all parties THE GUARDIAN With Argentina s first general move by signing a cessation ol election for 10 years due on hostilities, it was up to Britain Sunday, Andrew Thompson, in to fulfil UN resolutions calling 26.10.83 the last of three articles from on both countries to negotiate Buenos Aires, predicts the likely “I think it is appropriate for changes in foreign policy under your influential newspaper to / civilian rule. ask the British Government Almost all the politicians whc.n il wi!1 accept the United Falklands involved in the election cam- Rations resolutions, and when paign agree that foreign policy !l wil1 sit down at the negotiat- undcr the military regime has table for a definitive honours for been unpredictable and even d,scussion of sovereignty in the schizophrenic. Malvinas.” Senor Luder also The same generals who said he wanted to send his proclaimed their “Western rc8ards to “all those progressive task force Christian” credentials in inter- scclors in Britain who rejected national forums (while ignoring and stifl reject the policy of By Susan Tinbutt constitutional safeguards of col?,nialist war in the Malvi- FALKLANDS battle honours civil liberties at home) later nas'• are to be awarded to the task turned to the non-aligned Aware of the strength of force, including the four war movement which they had nationalist sentiment, both ships sunk in the conflict, the previously scorned. main candidates avoid too Defence Secretary. Mr The politicians now stress mucb comment on the Falk- Michael Heseltine, announced thal Argentina must follow an *ands question. In private, yesterday. independent and nationalist how9v9f. their foreign policy The honour “ Falkland course, which at the same time specialists are prepared to go Islands 1982 ” will be in is clear and coherent. further. scribed on the scrolls of the ships and squadrons and The Falklands dispute with emblazoned on regimental Britain is, in many senses, not , colours. The honour will re i an election issue because the ARGENTINE main with the names of the main candidates have such _ _ — ______sunk ships, the Sheffield, similar positions. ELECTIONS Coventry, Ardent and Ante- | Schor Raul Alfonsin. the ■ lope. Radical Party’s presidential || Royal Fleet Auxiliary, candidate, told The Times that Royal Maritine Auxiliary Ser “for our party, the recovery of vice and merchant ships such Argentine sovereignty over the as the QE2 and the Canberra Malvinas. Georgias and South Sandwich Islands will be an will qualify. Xv • • v mu ! Army regiments can claim undeniable objective of our | “ theatre honours ” for the foreign policy”. He added that, One source in the Radical battles at Goose Green. if he became president, Argenti Party emphasized that there was Mount Longdon, Tumbledown na would seek a solution to the no question of Argentina using Mountain and Wireless Ridge dispute based on United force again in the dispute. A but, in a long standing tradi Nations resolutions. Pcronist took a similar line. tion, the Royal Marines will Schor, Alfonsin. is not Prc" Another specialist from the not receive battle honours pared to sign a formal cessation Pcronist Party stressed that Their motif of the globe sur ol hostilities unilaterally both countries should gradually rounded by laurel is their without any concessions from remove “factors of irritation” “symbol of their outstanding Britain He says both govern- ancj start negotiations with the service throughout the world,” said Mr Heselline. ments should agree a number of help of a “contact group” of mutual and simultaneous steps countries, which would also be The Defence Secretary cited 44 warships, 15 Royal beforehand. These should in- called upon at a later stage to Navy air squadrons, 23 Royal elude a joint commitment not provide a framework for nego- Fleet auxiliaries and Royal to use force to resolve the tiations and an interim admin- Maritime Auxiliary Service dispule; British troop with- istration on the islands, vessels and 32 Merchant drawals and the removal of the Navy vessels for .the award. exclusion zone; and an agree Senor Oscar Camilion, of the ment to negotiate sovereignty Movement for Integration and i 0 A naval rating who within the UN framework. Development, argues that Ar started a potentially catastro gentina should sign a cessation phic fire on a warship at Seiior Italo Luder of the of hostilities. “The candidates : Devonport was dismissed the Pcronist Party said the pursuit of the two main parties have service yesterday and senten of sovereignty in the South ced to 15 months’ military married themselves to the idea Atlantic “rwill be the first, of not signing a cessation. But detention. priority of my government s vve musl reducc tension in the Air Engineering Mechanic foreign policy . Criticizing Bn- $oulb Atlantic, just as we must Graham Patching, aged 21, tain s punitive colonialist s0|ve ihc Beagle Channel who caused £900 worth of expedition during last years dispute with Chile.” damage on the £100 JTll?J crisis, he added that rather than frigate Penelope, admitted Argentina making the first two arson offences at a Deven- Concluded port court-martial. Lt Hugh Wolfensohn, de 1 fending, said that Patching, of Portland, Dorset, was de 1 pressed at the possibility of McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs returning to the South Atlan tic after spending six months 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2HZ Telephone Ol-'M. there. DAILY TELEGRAPH 26.10.83 Queen approves Falkland Islands battle honours By Maj.-Gen. EDWARD FURSDOy Defence Correspondent 'THE Queen’s approval was published yesterday for the award of the battle honour “ Falkland Islands 1982 ” to 44 Royal Navy ships and submarines and to 15 Fleet Air Arm squadrons. These had passed or were below 34deg South and north of 60deg South between April 2 and June 14 last year. Twenty-three Royal Fleet Future generations Auxiliaries and Royal Mari Battle honours are an official acknowledgement of the part time Auxiliary Service plaved by a ship, unit, or vessels, as well as 32 ships squadron in a successful cam taken up from trade, such paign or engagement, and are something of which future as the Q E 2, the Uganda, and Service generations can be the Atlantic Conveyor, to proud. support the operation, will Honours for Royal Navy ships also qualify. and Fleet Air Arm squadrons are inscribed on the ships’ or The Royal Marines, in squadrons’ scroll. accordance with long-standing tradition, do not receive battle Army regiments have their honours for any individual honours emblasoned on their operation or campaign in which colours. they participate. The Corps RAF squadrons’ honours are Globe motif, surrounded by added to official records, but laurel, suffices by itself. may in certain circumstances be emblasoned on their Separate honours standards. For the Army the theatre honour “Falkland Islands 1982,” together with separate honours for the engagements at Goose Green, Mount Longdon, Tumbledown Mountain, and Wireless Ridge, has also been approved. Regiments which took part in these battles are now entitled to claim these separate honours. After initial examination by the Army Board, those agreed will be submitted for the Queen’s final approval. Details will be announced in due course. Fifteen RAF squadrons, in cluding No. 63 Rapier Sqdn, all of which saw service south of 35deg South and north of 60deg South, or which took part in operational sorties, south of Ascension Island, will similarly be awarded the battle honour “ South Atlantic 1982. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A2H7. Telephone I Daily Mail 26th October 1983 i Award for mother of burned Falkland hero : THE mother of a terri gan, dismissed her role bly injured Falklands’ with the words: ‘It was soldier was voted my privilege to be with Woman of Achievement Simon. He is my son.’ for 1984 yesterday. Simon Weston, now 22, Mrs Pauline Hatfield featured in a TV docu collected it for the care mentary about the horrors and love she had given to of his injury. her son Simon, a Welsh Mrs Hatfield won the Guardsman very badly award after votes were burned in the Argentine sent in by readers of attack on Bluff Cove. Woman’s Own magazine But as she clutched her who sponsored the cere trophy Mrs Hatfield, 43, mony held at a London from Nelson, Mid Glamor hotel. r THE TIMES 25.10.83 Galloping inflation, crippling debt Victory may prove pyrrhic for the soldiers’ successors Andrew Thompson reports from reckless way debts were in- Senor Camilion, however, Buenos Aires on the economic curred during military rule. No believes that no one has yet crisis facing the victors of one knows exactly how much understood the full impact of Sunday's elections in Argentina, the country owes. The Central the Latin American debt crisis: This is the second of three Bank’s latest estimate is slightly “Some people say we should articles. over $406bn (£266bn), but the not pay the foreign debt, and With inflation running at an bank’s president admits this default. Others say we should annual rate of 381.8 per cent, excludes the “secret debts” pay it at all costs. The first unemployment in the region of incurred to buy arms. course of action is foolish. But 15 per cent, and delays and The Peronists and the Radi- the second, at present interest complications piling up in the cals, the electoral front-runners, rates, and barring major im- complex renegotiation of the believe that it is possible to provements in the international country’s heavy foreign debt, create economic breathing prices of our exports, is the party which wins next space. Both are promising to impossible.” Sunday’s elections in Argentina increase real wages, which, they. It - is clear that the next will inherit a difficult challenge say, will boost consumption. government will have to rencgo- on the economic front. It is believed continued tiate the foreign debt agree- The essential problem is inflation can be controlled by ments with the International political. After seven years of cutting back the military bud- Monetary Fund and the creditor military rule real wages remain get, watching state spending, banks. The Peronists and the below 1974 levels, as do other Radicals believe that this can be economic indicators such as ' "mmjl." done on accePla^e terms and industrial production and gross 1 BNE l^at t*rie international corn- Ministry backs domestic product per capita. H munity will be well disposed to To seek constitutional stab- ELECTIONS helping a democratic Argentina, ‘fortress ility, the election winners will if the Peronists win, a clash need to offer at least some , may well emerge between the Falklands’ improvements in living stan- Peronist union rank and file dards. Indeed there is already a and its leaders, as has happened By Our Own Correspondent danger that campaign promises before when the Peronists were The Government yesterday are leading to rising popular . in power. reaffirmed its commitment to a expectations which will be s/■ If the Radicals win, a direct “fortress Falklands” policy. difficult to satisfy. clash with the Peronist unions In response to a report by the “For the first time in Latin "~ . , may be unavoidable. The Commons defence committee, America, Argentina and other and setting up a social pact Radicals point out, however, the Ministry of Defence said: countries are returning to between labour and capital to that if they win they will do so “Until such time as Argentina democracy in the midst of a cover prices and incomes, wih many working-class votes. renounces the use of force in major economic crisis. This is The parties point out with They have made the democrati- r \ pursuit of its claim to the historically unprecedented”, some reason that the funda- zation of the unions a key Falklands Islands, and is seen says Senor Oscar Camilion of mentals of the Argentine econ- electoral issue. genuinely to have done so, it ! the Movement for Integration omy arc promising. The coun- But even assuming that the will be necessary to maintain an and Development. try is self-sufficient in oil and debt crisis is overcome, it is appropriate garrison to defend The dilemma is whether it is rich in other natural resources, clear that whatever the com the islands against the military possible to generate domestic particularly wheat and cereals plexion of the next government, threat posed by Argentina”. economic recovery and at the (hence the old saying “a good same time the type of surplus harvest solves this country’s it will be unable to meet wage • The Future of the Falklands: on the trade balance capable of problems”), demands in full. Observations by the Secretary oj covering the heavy debt servic- The paradox of the past 40 Whoever forms the next State for Defence on the Third government, it will find its Report from the Defence Committee, ing burden. years is precisely that the The dramatic nature of economy has stagnated repeat- crisis management skills 1982-83. (Cmmnd No K 9070, stretched to the limit. Stationery Office £1.75.) Argentina’s foreign debt prob- edly despite its natural advan- lcm is underlined by the tages. Tomorrow: Foreign policy McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A 21V/. dl-'Kul/l.VS v . ARMS FOR ARGENTINA ; Satellite aids WASHINGTON’S APPARENT determination to DAILY TELEGRAPH resume arms sales to Argentina must be seen as an imprudent act. The Reagan Administration believes Falklands that such a step will strengthen the democratic forces 25.10.83 when the country casts off military rule following the weekend elections. Nobody should object phone link to any action that will foster civilian Government, but Argentina is still in a state of war with By PATRICK WATTS Britain following the Falklands conflict. There is no I In Port Stanley indication that either the Peronists or the Radicals, SERVICEMEN in the who are likely to emerge victorious, are in favour Falklands should ex of ending hostilities. perience no difficulties tele One can understand some of the reasons why phoning home this Christ mas unlike last year when the United States wants to strengthen ties with many were unlucky. Argentina. The Falklands war was an embarrassment for it meant Washington had to choose sides, coming A new £2 million Earth satel lite station financed by Cable down firmly in the end by backing Britain and and Wireless should be in op rendering us valuable help. Now Washington sees a eration by the beginning of new chapter emerging and an urgent need to repair December and Servicemen will relations. Undoubtedly there is a recurrent fear that then be able to dial direct to their homes from Stanley, 24 Argentina might turn to Russia for arms, hours a day. particularly if Senor Italo Luder, the Peronist Phone booths will be installed leader, is elected President. in the company’s offices for this All these factors may appear reasonable and purpose as the Falklands tele valid in Washington; but Britain has every right to phone magneto system is pro bably one of the few remaining object in the strongest terms, especially as there is anywhere in the world and does no Argentine readiness to end the state of war as hot offer dialing facilities. the necessary first step towards a gradual resumption At the moment just two chan of Anglo-Argentine relations. The United States is nels are available daily on high our closest ally and friend. Today there is world frequency radio from 9 a.m. to I 6 p.m. and this often leads to wide collaboration—Europe, the Middle East and a congestion of calls. The new elsewhere—a sharing of common responsibilities satellite station will have five and dangers. Therefore, is it too much to ask channels and more could be Washington to remember the sacrifices Britain paid provided. to defeat Argentine aggression on the Falklands? Argentina possible Arms sales can divide friends. “It will even be possible to dial direct to Argentina should anyone wish to do so," said Mr John Buchanan, Cable and Wire less installation manager who is supervising his eighth Earth station. Heseltine defends the cost of Intalsat 5 which lies 22,300 miles above the Equator is the satellite which will serve the Falklands. Locally a dish aerial maintaining Falklands garrison supplied by Marconi now stands prominently and will receive the By Richard Norton-Taylor Falkland Islands and is seen about £220 million over three signals. Cable and Wireless has long considered installing an Earth satellite station in the Falk lands. defend the islands and to deter additional cost of negotiations in the future. For ns§gan Argentine attack, Mr Sts, cost oi mmHeseltine the decision Is a Michael Heseltine the Defence the FaManda inc uding rep1^ the Govern3 Secretary, said yesterday. nwrl? £2 000 million the menfs commitment to safe- In response to a report by next three years, according to guarding the islanders’ future, the Commons defence commit- official estimates. The Ministry He also appears to reject the tee he also implicitly acknow- 0f Defence says that, of this, committee’s view that rents ledges that the scale of - levied by the Falkland Islands Britain’s military involvement Trnmmpnt naee 10- Company for army use of its GUARDIAN in the South Atlantic is weak- TSule page15 property were too high. The ening its commitment to Nato Legacies of misrule, page K> £harges pajd by tRe ministry t0 inEurope' the cost of maintaining the r#“eCted ^ ^ 25.10.83 The defence committee in its garrison will be about £250 n~lKet r™ , ssr.sys jbm -ss-ii-s™ „lEssS be spent in the Falklands with a«s.rwho argue 1that'as it does“ isnot in- s}**?.®desa *M?%c1?olasRidleyi,. restraints on expenditure for dude the full cost of the J^ude Mr‘ Wfsec;retarv to other parts of the defence forces deployed In the Falk- fthe Treasurv who was elevated budget designed to meet lands, including about a last week as “equally important political quarter of the navy’s destroyer Minister for Transport obligations.” and frigate fleet, which cannot Minister for iranspori. But Mr Heseltine states: be used for other defence pur- Ministry of Defence Future P°The decision to construct a «fe pursuit of its claim to the new airfield—estimated to cost £l.75p. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall LondonSWlA 211/ TA-phonf ni-'Min,1) 1 GUARDIAN 25.10.83 possible. The situation on the ground is one that binds the islanders ever closer as civi A tide of lian base support workers. The diplomatic formula for eventual settlement, meanwhile, grows ever more ethereal since no one, sur veying the profound, ratcheting instability cash, going of Argentinian politics over centuries, would dare say that a particular regime at a parti cular moment could be relied upon to be South around and say the same thing a couple of weeks later. “ Genuinely,” in such circum Time lends bleak perspectives. Last stances, is an all-time stopper: and Mr Law- year, when Jarliament resumed, the glow of son may not be alone if he scents yet Falklands’ victory still lingered. This year another MoD gambit to keep its budgets the days of San Carlos Bay seem far away. sheltered. Mr Nigel Lawson is struggling to bite lumps The trouble, of course, is that the Falk- out of Michael Heseltine’s budget. Mr Nor lands is more than a purely British battle. man Fowler endures trial by Walden, fenc It floats on a sea of international calcula ing over sums of money roughly the same tion. Argentina is about to hold a free elec as 12 calendar months of Falklands’ costs. tion, and next month the generals (for a And still the South Atlantic bills come in. time) will go back to barracks. If we could r- In the broad sweep of rhetoric, of course, not deal, last year, with a “ fascist dictator the five or six billion pounds heading South ship,” can we deal this year with a new this decade can be made to seem only a tri democratic government? Alas, neither of the vial sum. But there is nothing like the major contending parties seem to possess a agony of the Treasury on the warpath again Falklands’ policy anywhere at odds with to put such triviality in context. Is it 64 General Bignone’s. They, too, will bang hospitals for closure, Norman : or only 48 ? away at the UN, to our profound embarrass And does Falklands spending count in with ment. whilst hastening to seek fresh supplies a 3 per cent extra commitment to Nato, of American armaments. And Mr Reagan has Michael ? Or is1 it on top ? already signalled that, whether “ Angry By chance, yesterday, the Secretary for Thatcher chews carpet ” or no, he will be Defence produced a half answer to that last selling those arms at the first possible question. “ Forces deployed in the South opportunity. Which, full circle, brings us Atlantic remain committed to Nato,” he back to Mr Heseltine’s little document, wrote. “ Inevitably, though, the distances in explicitly linking future spending levels to volved mean that they are not as readily “ any changes in the threat posed by the available to Europe or the Eastern Atlantic Argentine Armed Forces.” That, of course, as would otherwise be the case.” Gosh. is a one-way escalator. Who’d have thought it? The quotation It really is the most senseless, nerveless comes from a formal Heseltine response to drift; and one the Government must finally last summer’s defence committee report: a address. Unless they do, a new Argentinian blandly evasive document, bereft of hard government will make matters worse rather figures. (It is, for example, “ HMG’s objective than better and the people who will suffer to maintain a garrison of the minimum size in the end — the islanders — will be the Q and cost compatible with providing an effec people we first set out to help. Both the tive deterrent and defensive capability”). Labour Party and the Alliance, this summer, Everything, in such responses, is always said the fortress was potty and could not under active review. Nothing is given away. endure. That sets a constrained political Yet, perhaps by accident, a couple of separ span to garrison-mongering in the South ate sentences do strike fresh chords. On the Atlantic. Meanwhile Mrs Thatcher’s pledge one hand, the fortress will be necessary of last year formally to consult the until Argentina “ renounces the use of force islanders about their future within twelve in pursuit of its claim, and is genuinely months lies mushily abandoned. We can’t seen to have done so.” On the other hand, consult anyone over there, until we can the civilian and military infrastructure openly debate the options and the costs at grows determinedly more interwoven. Joint Westminster. And so we limp forward, hospitals; joint laundries and catering; ploughing billions into the sodden turf and squash and tennis courts to keep as many privatising the army laundries bn the quiet of the people happy as much of the time as for want of anything we could call a policy. l McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall LondonSWlA 21V/. l.-leph*uu- ttl-'i.Mil/j.VS 1 1 N ‘Minimum cost’ garrison THE FALKLANDS garrison is The committee expressed con “ of the minimum size and cost ” cern at both the expense and necessary for the defence of the likely duration of the military islands, Mr Michael. Heseltine, commitment in the South the Defence Secretary, said Atlantic. Mr Heseltine said the yesterday. “ current mix of forces ” was But he says the garrison is the smallest and cheapest pos being maintained at some cost sible garrison both to act as a to Britain’s commitment to deterrent and to defend the Nato’s forces. islands. His comments are in a White He said that, although the FINANCIAL TIMES Paper published yesterday on garrison was still committed to the future defence of the Falk Nato, distance was a problem. land Islands, in reply to the © The Future Defence of the 25.10.83 report of the Commons Defence Falkland Islands: Command Committee in June. 9070, HMSO: £1.75. y/ Caribbean obligations are a useful lever, Robert Graham reports G Britain plays its Belize card THE DESPATCH of the British Nicaragua. This is recognised destroyer HMS Antrim, accom Anguilla by the Foreign Office as unsatis panied by a support tanker, to - • Anligue factory, Britain relying very stand off the troubled former much on U.S. assessments and colony of Grenada has high information on those two coun Sl.Vinc«Tt-~t *Qarfcj±a lighted Britain’s continued resi Jamaica tries. Of all members of the GRENADA".* dual interest in the Caribbean. *Tnbigo EEC, Britain agrees most closely Caribbean Bet Although the decolonisation BELIZE ^Trir.ided with U.S. Central American process is virtually complete, policy. strong obligations remain in the > An inspection team from the area — nowhere more so than Foreign Office recently toured in Belize on the Central Ameri the region and is understood to can continent with a strategic , . _ .. . have favoured introducing a Caribbean coastline. Britain moves, such as mobilising forces presence in Belize and agrees g^tish diplomatic presence in currently has a garrison of on the border. British diplo- with Guatemala on the need for b0th Ej Salvador and Nicaragua, 1.600 troops and airmen in this mats have little doubt that the Britain to say on. wjtli the latter a priority. A former colony. It is not widely British military presence has i\ So while the original reason decision in early summer was known that this is the largest served as a deterrent. f0r the British presence has reportedly shelved because of permanent military presence of Although Britain has no faded the pressures from other Mrs Thatcher’s reluctance to be an external military power in diplomatic relations with interested parties for Britain to associated with a gesture which Central America. Guatemala, only a represents- stay on have grown. This has the left-wing Sandinista govem- Four Harriers, helicopters tive of British interests in the provoked suggestions that Mrs ment might exploit as a sign of and RAF support personnel plus Swiss Embassy, the Guatemalan Thatcher has taken advantage British friendship. It was then army units are there by agree authorities have recently of her leverage to ensure the decided that if a move was to ment with the Belize Govern become more friendly, and a U.S. holds back from significant be made it had to coincide with ment. staying on after this reasonable working relationship rearming of Argentina. While the opening of an embassy in nation of 150,000 inhabitants has been established with the any sort of “ blackmail ” is war torn El Salvador Since gained independence in 1981. right-wing military regime in denied by British officials, the then arguments over funds and The commitment, at least in Guatemala. British undoubtedly have made budget restraint have stalled a public, is an open-ended one, This stems from the fact that the point that Britain is doing decision. despite recent reports that the British troops have been actively the U.S. and its allies a favour T, tJ0ten«ai destabilising British Prime Minister. Mrs co-operating with Guatemala in in Central America and expects effect o(Pa British pullout ^ Margaret Thatcher, is anxious to patrolling the border and recognition m the way the U.S. the rp£.jon ^ imnlicitlv pull them back soon, there is monitoring tire Belize coastline behaves over Argentina and the 6 P recog no evidence that policy has nised by other states there, in changed. Both the Belize to prevent infiltration by left Falklands. . particular the Contadora group. Government and Britain recog wing guerrilla movements and Behind all this is an unpub- which is trying to mediate in nise that the military presence impede seaborne supplies of based debate within the Govern- £1 Salvador and Nicaragua This is a potential embarrassment weapons from Cuba. ment over Britain’s policy grouPt comprising Costa Rica, and has little long-term rele As guerrilla activity inside towards Central America. The Mexico, Panama and Venezuela vance for Britain’s defence or Guatemala continues, the big military commitment in — has produced a peace formula diplomatic needs in the regions. authorities there have come to Belize contrasts starkly with the calling for the withdrawal of all The question all along has been place considerable reliance on paucity of British diplomatic foreign troops and advisers only when it was appropriate to British co-operation. Thus, far representation in Central from the region, withdraw. from exerting pressure on the America. But it has made no mention The principal reason for the British forces to leave, the Britain has no permanent of Britain and Belize, and the presence of the British garrison Guatemalans are keen that they representative in El Salvador or group's public statements is Guatemala’s claim to a large should stay—or, at second best, Nicaragua, the two principal appear mainly aimed at the chunk of Belize’s coast line. that they should be replaced areas of current tension. A Cuban military advisers in Guatemala has never recognised by U.S. troops. The U.S. Adminis- small embassy in Honduras Nicaragua, Americans and independent Belize and from tration, for its part, is reluctant deals with El Salvador while Argentines in Honduras and time to time has made war-like to contemplate a military one in Costa Rica handles Americans in El Salvador McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall rinulonSW1A JIV/. li-lephom- Ml-'MiiijO.VS L 4 Significant role ARGENTINES FIRM But Britain will continue to First move is Britain’s GARRISON ‘MUST review its force levels regularly in the light of any changing Frank Taylor in Washington threat assessments and improve writes: Senor Italo Luder and ments in its Armed Forces capa benor Raul Alfonson. the two bility. Argentine politicians fighting it BE MAINTAINED out for the Presidency in Sun The White Paper comments days elections, have both in detail on all the Commons dec ared that they would not Committee's main points of con declare an end to hotilitics cern. the commitment to Nato over the Falklands once in of forces deployed in the South power. IN FALKLANDS ’ Atlantic; the significant role of the new strategic airfield in 'n interviews with American By Maj.-Gen. EDWARD FIRS DO V reducing the garrison’s recur- newspaper correspondents, both rent running costs; the defence e. it plain claim to the Defence Correspondent of South Georgia; and, looking islands must be pursued with to the future, the effective co- vigour. Both say Britain must JHIIE Defence Ministry’s response to the ordination of the many planned make the first move ” towards Commons Defence Committee’s Report military and civilian infrastruc- negotiations on the dispute. projecis’^ Thf'.oiTSK 'pXf & of May this year on the Falklands. published as a White Paper yesterday, accepts that d7ciopederencc Force ls be,ng s >7;efero;'ns 0°nn ,h« Falk- During the coming Antarctic he declared thorp 1 wa™16'*’ ■' conditions in the Falkland Islands are far i summer, the Royal Engineers’ question of ApinKn s. no construction and other workload a •• unilateral from comfortable, and repeated tours may will necessitate an increase in -n„ the hnSliH^C 3■'l0*! end* the number of Field Squadrons! vYhlch.beS'aii pi ove unattractive to Servicemen.” deployed up to six. fhe Pro- j MIfdsTn1,,i5fl,“^*,on The White Paper’s main conclusion is that the . perty Services Agency is to take year. I over responsibility for the Falk- “ Britain must first take some Armed Forces garrison must be able to deter further ; lands Military Works Area from s eps such as starting talks and Argentine aggression, protect Port Stanley airfield ; the R E as Irom April 1, 1984. abolishing the exclusion zone they have around the islands,” enforce the 150-mile Protection Zone, and to respond More helicopters he said. “ In a word, they must discuss -the matter of sover quickly to Argentine harass The maritime reconnaissance eignty. 1 ment or raids. task “ does not warrant ” the j | j deployment of R A F Nimrod i Senor Luder, a former The Government's intention 1 aircraft the White Paper says senator who has inherited the I is to perform Lhcse tasks at ' ‘j*l^.0USh thcy could be mantle of Juan Peron and now minimum cost rnmnTsiA deployed if necessary, as “ this leads the Peronist party said i( compatible ; task is being carried out quite I that although “in a ScSl f|pFonc^CtlVe d.e.t^rrence ancl ! adequately by Falklands-bascd sense” hostilities hadPceascd defensive capability. Hercules aircraft as an addi- “as long as England maintafns I he opportunity is taken to llonal funchon to their primary its rigid attitude of not accept- pa.v tribute “to all those Ser- rolc as tanker aircrall. mg negotiations, Argentina vicemen who have served in the Three S-61 helicopters from cannot change its position.” Falklands, and who continue to commercial sources are, how- Editorial Comment pig do so under difficult conditions.” ever, to be leased in order to b Topically relevant to yester- supplement a likely shortfall in day’s reports from Argentina j helicopter assets at the peak of regarding the unlikelihood of I the R.E. building programme an end being declared to hos- this autumn, tilities, the British message is Regarding the emotive ques as hard as that of the Argentine. tion of troop accomodation. “ Until such time as Argen “ ship-type coaslels and hutted tina renounces the use of force camps are now used almost m pursuit of its claim toi the exclusively to accomodate ou r Falkland Islands, and is seen forces.” The report states: ; genuinely to have done so. it “Only a very small number of I wil Jbe necessary to maintain troops who need to be close to i «an appropriate garrison to their posts for operational defend the Islands against the reasons are accomodated in j military threat posed bv Argen- tents, and no troops are using I tina,” it says. accomodation ships in Stanley harbour.” Recreational and entertain ment facilities are being sub stantially improved, but the new' 'Combat High Boot’—although said to be an advantage on the old pattern—is having under standable teething troubles which the Report says, should DAILY TELEGRAPH be reduced by an appropriate period of ‘ wearing in.’ 25.10.83 McMilJan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 215/ L-lephone- (H•').<( Daily Mail, Tuesday/October 25, 1983 Falklands pay deal shelved HARDSHIP pay for British troops on ‘Fortress’ Falklands has been ruled out — for the moment. A decision on the proposed extra allowances has been shelved by Defence Secretary Michael Heseltlne — but now the Services’ pay body is to study the Commons' Select Committee's report. L i / / / Forty years of military coups THE TIMES Caught in a vicious 24.10.83 circle of instability ARGENTINE general elect ions for 10 years. awi AMO Andrew Thompson, in the first ELEvTIwIlw of three articles, reports from Buenos Aires on the difficulties s ,, facing the politicians. . Perhaps the key issue in Argentina's elections is x£/ whether the victorious presi- § dential candidate will last the , ^ ^ H six-year term in office. Success, in simple terms, will racy must be questjoned. Sefior be an historic feat. In the past Qs*ar Camili6n, a former 40 years, Argentina has had l? foreicn minister and member of presidents, and the number is tbe Movement for Integration still higher if one counts the ^ Deve|opmcnt js cautious, frequent caretaker presidents tijhe ejectjons 0pen up the who lasted only a few weeks in ibility of a stable Govern- the midst of political crises. Ul . only a constitutional the 19, 11 were army generals Government can be stable. We who reached power through haye the chance to pull military coups. The average Argentina 0ut of the category of term in office was just under unpre(]ictable countries”, he three years. Only one president s gut he also gives warning lasted the full constitutional ^ tbe opportunity can be term: General Juan Domingo turned int0 a reality only if the Peron from 1946 to 1952. next Government starts solving The vicious circle of insta- country's essential prob- bility is widely recognized as Jems being central to Argentina s Sefior J()sfe Miguens, a postwar decline. M Alam pcronist sociologist who has Rouquie, a French political s(udied militarism, insists that scientist specializing in contem- ^ k , question is whether a pory Argentine history, said Government can generate recently at a seminar in Buenos powcrfu| popular support, and Aires:“The problem is not so use it t0 enforce “the subordi- much the politicization of the nation of military power to the military, more the militarize- decisions 0f elected authorities, tion of the civilians. {be political power.” While Argentines are wary The pr0grammes of the two of the opinions of foreign mj|.n part ies? the Peronists and specialists, there is agreement Padjcais? offer few clues to that almost all the coups have ^ success of the next effort at been requested, instigated, or democratic rufe. supported by different political ^ reai tcs^ observers parties at different stages in the agree< w\\\ be the pragmatic past. . steps’ taken by the next Seiior Raul Alfonsin, he Governemt in its first 100 days Radical Party's presidential in officc> candidate, has used the popular Argentine version of M Rou- quie’s observation: “We have all knocked on the doors of the barracks in the past", he has said. Like Senor Italo Luder | j the Pcronist candidate, and all the other parties, Senor Alfon- fg sin holds that times have J|f changed now. The optimistic argument is based on the theory that the last cycle of military ments,* starting with the 1976 . coup, has been so disastrous for the country that a deep change ^ in attitudes has taken place. The last seven years have certainly been rich in catas trophes.' Economic policy under *4 the military failed to control Nfejfjp three figure inflation and led to bank and company faij^esand Genera, per6n in 1973, the .morecedented unemployment year before his death. The method chosen to fight guerrilla movements, the so- “The next Government will called “dirty war”, led to have t0 take four or five deaths and “disappearances’ dramatic measures immedi- variously estimated at between ately, capable of capturing the 1*5 000 and 30,000. The popular imagination and con- majority of those were peaceful solidating its position. In those opponents of the regime. first 100 days popular power Having failed on the dom- wjr be at a peak and no one estic front, the generals wm dare launch a coup. But if brought the country to the tbe Government wastes its brink of war with Chile in 1978 opportunity and starts hesi- to 1979, and then threw it into tantly, it will be laying the the disastrous Falklands war seeds for its eventual down- With Britain last year. fall.” n,it the view that tne catastrophes on their own will Tomorrow: cause a regeneration of democ- The economic dilemma I f>. GUARDIAN 24.10.83 / ' I Lieutenant Tony Mead with his patrol ship JIMS Guardian, 1,700 tons, a tornier North ! Sea support vessel, which was commissioned on Saturday at Itosyth naval dockyard. The | 'ship — the third in the navy’s history to be named Guardian — will serve in the Falklands. * ‘ Picture by Ian Southern McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-030 (MS J EX-TUGS TO FALKLANDS TRIBUTES A stone memorial to six PATROL Cardiff Servicemen killed in the Falklands was dedicated at a civic ceremony in the city's FALRLANDS Cathays Park yesterday. Rela tives of the men, five Welsh . By DESMOND WETTERN Guards and a sailor, later Naval Correspondent planted six Atlantic cedar trees rpHE first two of three I close to the Welsh National ■ new patrol ships for War Memorial. the Falklands are to sail for the South Atlantic early an December to allow the Navy to reduce the present force there of five or six destroyers or ; frigates. The two ships, the 1,600-ton Protector and Guardian, were formerly the oil rig tugs and supply ships Seaforth Saga and DAILY TELEGRAPH Seaforth Champion, completed in the 1970s. 24.10.83 The task of converting them began shortly after their pur chase bythe Ministry of Defence in March, and the initial work was done by Commercial Dry Dock Enterprises of Cardiff. Later they went to the naval dockyard at Rossyth where they were formally commissioned as warships at the weekend at a ceremony attended by Maior- Gen. Sir Jeremy Moore, who commanded the ground forces in the Falklands conflict. During their conversmn they have been equipped with two 40mm guns; mountings for n?chine*guns; and fitted with radar, radio communications and damage control systems. Marines on board Each of the ships will have a crew of. 20 officers and men, and seven Royal Marines. Their primary task will be local security patrols in coastal waters around the Falklands to prevent any Argentine attempt to land special forces, saboteurs. This might mean putting patrols ashore using two rigid inflatable craft. Maintaining six destroyers or frigates at all times in the Falk lands means that the Navy at present has to allocate 18 out of the total of 55 in commis sion to allow for transit time between Britain and the islands, as well as refits and crew leave. It is intended that the new patrol craft should be able to operate in the Falklands for three years without refitting, but there has been disappoint ment in the Navy over the time that has been needed to carry out a fairlv simple conversion. The third ship, the Sentinel, formerly the Seaforth Warrior, has been sent to the Tyne Snip Repair company for conversion and it is expected the work will be completed by early next year. The three ships will form a Falklands local squadron which will be commanded by Lt-Cdr David Irvine, who is also captain of the Protector. No details of the price paid by the Defence Ministry for the three ships have been given, but it is known that it was sub stantially less than the cost of chartering them for three years. 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Alfonsin is evidence of the torture and one of several politicians who murder of thousands of civi have promised a sweeping Falkland officer lians because of the possibil reform of the armed forces ity that the incoming civilian Military officers are convin By PAUL WILLIAMS ced that if the Peronists recover authorities may order a tho NAVAL officer, Lt-Cdr days until a diving team rough investigation into ground this week and win next Sunday they will be unlikely to A Peter Eberle who had a managed to get it out of the human rights violations. miraculous escape during the shJPr . . . take any major initiative on Falklands camnnimi starts 1 ue decision to appoint an A senior military officer told human rights. Many senior The Observer that in recent party officials have close ties 'ce°sk r°w0,w>VfiaS/he Prin* the °incre'asin ™*demmi dsUing months key files on some of the with the armed forces. cess of Wales first equerry, made on the Princess’s time by estimated 15,000 desaparecidos Alfonsm, however, made a Lieu ten- ncncii public engagements. —the men, women, and child name for himself as one of the Eberle was warfare officer on Lt/Cdr Eberle is the son of ren who were kidnapped by the few lawyers in the country who HALS Argonaut, which was hit Admiral Sir James Eberle, who twice by Argentine bombs as takes oer in January as director security forces during the ‘ dirty probed cases of ‘ missing * she covered the invasion at San of Chatham House, the Royal war ’ against left-wing guerrillas people. He-has promised to Carlos Bay. Institute of International — had been taken from the repeal a recently approved One bomb severely damaged Affairs, Ministry of the Interior to the amnesty for officers accused of the engine room, crippling the sir James said yesterday his Army headquarters * for safe human rights violations. ship, while the second lodged in son is “rather more percep- keeping.’ The Peronists and their can thc ships magazine killing two five than me,” and described didate, Italo Luder, have been crew members. But like so many him as “a very priviledged Other files held by the First other of the Argentine bombs youn« man 6 Army Corps based in Buenos concentrating on their natural they failed to explode. & A keen tennis player, Lieu- Aires, which is allegedly res working class supporters stir “ We were one of the luckiest ponsible for the arrest and ring nationalist emotions with subsequent execution without cries against US and British trial of many political suspects imperialism and promises of - fsSHi S'lFSii major income redistribution. gone on does not bear thinking prince between 1976 — when the about.” Charles on HMS Army seized power—and 1981, Although both major parties Jupiter and before the Falk- had already been shredded or have made the ‘ recovery of the The crippled ship was towed land campaign he commanded Malvinas ’ by diplomatic means to shore, where it remained a HMS Cygnet, a patrol vessel burnt. a key point of foreign policy and helpless target for several days keeping a close watch on the Human rights has become one ruled out an early cessation of while the damage was repaired, west coast of Scotland for of the key issues of the electoral hostilities unless Mrs Thatcher “ To begin with we had hardly illegal fishing or gun-running, campaign which winds up on any guns operational and we Yesterday, as he relaxed at agrees to discuss sovereignty. were a bit of a sitting duck but his parents farm in the remote Thursday before polling next The Peronists have gone one it was just part of the job, he Devonshire village of Holne, he Sunday. Latest opinion polls step further by refusing to rule sa,d- said: “ It is a great honour and indicate that the Peronist party out the renewed use of force ‘ as One bomb was defused bu the a great challenge. I am looking may be heading for an historic a last resort.’ second remained live for several forward to it immensely.” McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2152 Telephone: O1-03O f>0 35 5 SUNDAY PEOPLE, October 23, 1983 'VZ s Sgiscial til ||1 Iff If || pill ropopt m || m m m toy Tony lsm¥wm0 I Purnell • i From Port Stanley, Saturday Is ESSfBHE 6,000 or so service men defending the 1 Falklands ore not the i only "troops" Mrs, if: Thatcher has banished to m the South Atlantic. i Maggie’s other i army is made up of W the labourers and JAKE construction workers ?0LWY& Bhi who are helping to :■ ■ - $ ■ ■?/•'Hr m * i} mm m rebuild this largely I forgotten outpost of it; m>%53 |W1 MV¥Mf| Im the British Empire. K i I s I “Like the soldiers we % i jftiVBtP'MJL Br94 Bf really have no choice ? .8 ». »■ & ■n w* ® r * 5$ but to be here,” said 34- l < m i year-old labourer Terry | M®i« I AS chief of the Falklands bomb disposal squad Major Leslie Smallman I Greeny, hom Chorley,' | u : -ilflil, I | dices with death every day. His two predecessors in the nightmare job i Lancs. ' It of clearing up the thousands of mines left behind by the Argentinians "It's hell so far away from | I It each lost a leg. % home but the only aitema- > V 1 h * ' : v “l count my feel every morning,” 38-year-old Major Smallman told me with a S3 Live is the dole—and that's \ | twinkle in his eye. It’s hardly a joking matter, but the major points out: ‘‘I can't no alternative.” : .■ alford to dwell on it, I would go nuts—and so would my wife back home. Terry is among an adv l 1 S A “I appreciate that CLEARING UP: Major Smallman I ance party of over 100 men i < -\ ■ -> ^ ’i ; v, V 1* , ^ something could happen currently in Stanley earning 5 s. '3: *5 to me as well. But there mtmm mm I between £200 and £>500 a I- ..... again, you can get killed » m week building new houses £ crossing the road.” Ig l and roads. ; The close friend he took 8§8 i over from as officer com- Another 3.400 will follow \ in a n cl m g the 30-slror.g shortly to work on the £220 ‘...... 3 1 bomb disposal dctach- million strategic airport* h meat of the Royal _, mm Engineers based in Stan m So e©Ed . :K I® ley was just days from 1 {. the end of bis tour of fc# Wk duty when lie became Don’t believe it when / alll 11 another casualty of the *11* 0 m war. :'r ■ - ssr6 * politicians say men like 1 ^ MS * *' Wn being on U^e dole,” said I I 'art* L> a Terry. I r “There were 300 applic :&• m ants chasing 30 Jobs here AFTERMATH: Island family dodge traffic on Fortress Falklands. Major Smallman & and it's the last place on IMMiL.— . A • v-vu <• '43 pointed to the spot where # f??-: ?a rlh. the Isolation that hits you "I hate bring here hut skirts or Stanley for the IK \ 1 “I was here in the worst hardest. Its like Alcatraz, there is nothing else open Faircloueh construction :«iapgiill r'c ''as bi°"" up- - u» company’s road building 7'3s/ © 4 ‘‘It shouldn’t have liap- m o' the weather. There nere There's no escape. I’m only to me, ’ said John, m ’''%pened,” he said. "That blizzards and the place was teams—better known ac here because there's no "I got depressed on the Falrclough’s Fusiliers.* » path liad been walked a £2 like a quagmire, work back home.” di-le. it's demoralising and l;: hundred times and was rnmih jg “It gets bitter cold and As 23-year-old labourer shaming sitting about the "We were up to our ever «:•* mmm In mud when \\c arrived,” considered safe, lie lost a ^ g the weather can change so John Eccfes from Wigan put house doing nothing, i WfKk l *ifl 4 teg. The same thing hap- sw i 5 a suddenly. It can be sunny it: "It has taken a war and said Tony. "We had to start Hfi m\ "At least here I can sup , , L,w. s;f4 pened to the commanding ^ 1 g in the morning and snowing * the loss of all those lives to port my family, but It's a from scratch and the winter i officer before him.” i 3 ■ was terrible. & n a before lunch. put us in work. It’s terrible strain being so far ..: asaim, s 1-kwSSK ill >•v mt | "It's a depressing place ludicrous.” away with nothing to do "There were no rordr mmmm -stSl In the early days after %E m g but at least the money's Only the prospect of a Job but. booze and work.” here to speak of and If you r. : ■ : w 3 m : mm the end of the war a | good. I've done one s:x- and decent money made Electrican Tony Russell, fell Into a pothole you r mm Uiil Ms? | month stint and now7 1 m him up and leave his wife 39. from Manchester, needed a ladder to get out. XimtWK | back for another four, Lorraine and son Brent for worked on the Hillside "I'm only here for the mmeticlds around Stan- 1 mu 4 g "When you get here it's a six-month stint. Camp erected on the out- money so that I can look ley and the outlying set after my wife and two kids. tlements. H\ The dole is no good to me. w>> rN pipprl I "It's bloody hard but I've We are very careful ;r- i Ai k no choice. I pet boo/ed h and do things by the 3 i 9 every night but Its not m book, but there is always V:i 11 i t-sm enjoyable. It's just a hablt-- u * ^ something that can go i wrong.” said the major. i something to beat the bore 6 kirn *r' dom. I'd rather be back, £> % That’s why at the ;A fl home taking the wife out »• . -- moment we are concen % for a nice meal.’’ - trating on locating the •m r-ri^k rm^m * The loneliness of the long ■ minefields and simply f ^ tr. «* 14 distance labourer Is illus t.>* -V sealing them off. ' \v mm A: ) trated by the monument TAHAIVAY PLACES: Exllo Tony Russell and signposts to homo mmm ‘ Falrclouch's Fusiliers. ' Patterns 'kv^.------— .... have constructed at their »SS3$S8£KSS$S$SS88 IT’S not only the biting year’s conflict—all over the Lack of female company, are on It all the time for camp site. periods ranging from four "It is a slow7, l lainstak- MORE CHOICE cold that sends shivers P1®0®* . ... odds to the tension. There .icrifc A tremendout range from warm natural wood to co’ourful fiH g In my tire so few women around months to a year. The list Is lug process. We do it with Wm m through JOU In the eyes1 Ml as tears I stoodvrell.n by the displayed everywhere where ten men In a line. The laminatei. Individually planned lor you. Built with car* they can virtually be dis Am and inttalled by highly trained filters. fob Falklands. makeshift mound of stones counted drink Is sold and landlords '—m minefields were cun i Z The chill wind of death Is marking the spot where It’s a mock signpost with and storekeepers face heavy ningly laid and some So much so that the hard fines If they supply anyone A/Ol*J'mnE FEATURES all around vou in the Colonel H. Jones, comman w.ace names like Liverpool, core available Is not lust can’t be seen on the sur You get more with Monaco y on it with doozc. i: Mffy, graves of the 255 men wl der of 2 Para, was shot in ■i Colwyn Bay and Ilooh- confined to the roads. In a face. You have to get •Plumbing •Electnci *Round oi tiood edge worktop! Wt. Tost their lives to liberate a the back and won a post ti dale—and the 8,000 mile8 private room I found Fair- At the "social club" for down on your hands and • Holl-i glide moulded drawer* •Ssde out ■ . 1 *2 place most hardly knew humous \C. i they are away. clout’.h s Fusiliers watching men working for Brewsters, knees. larder •Round edge dooit *Eaiy rejeb P existed. the mound someone It's a hell oi a long way to the hardest of hard-porn the firm building 54 new “Minefields follow cer carouiel *Slidf Out ironing board *Pull out breaVlau table •Choice ol S #ffr ■:A 'Back home the bovs were has placed a tiny red china 4 go for a job. videos from Sweden. homes In Stanley, Peter tain patterns blit some K told time and lime again Bower unaffected by the b The "Olficcrr,’ T.hrs” for Bui scenes of explicit sex Kearney, 30. married with ^ fj devices can’t be located appliance* / s- ■::'4 that their comrades died ravages of the weather. But ■* .the hard-drinking Fnlie- do little to ease the frustra three children back In with metal detectors. An for a principle. 2 wild daffodil, the real FALLEN HERO: Col. H lough men is a cniipJe o' tion. Stevenagr, Herts, told me: innocent-looking piece of 4, Here they can see for thing, lies drooping in the Forlacabins v.i'.ii a l.ai u.ui "There Is nothing to do but plastic can be a deto I fivay / i *i iiii- i>iipi»* n..w jf.’ui j "It’s a big tum-ofT,” said trjV Mi-nj,.’ Ji. |.|. l-l.lu n the two settlements of Dar- .0 pool table, drink. s!$p I OH i;_yj themselves they gave their biting wind. one worker. Peter Elliott/ •mmmM" -: nator.” • MONACO KIICIIHNS. -Jour? * i •/'A all for a hurje chunk of .win and Goose Green. They prefer !* -o m’xln^ 59, from Merseyside. "It Just "But at least this Is one. J;RKI:POS r. t > nothing the size of Wales I made a pilgrimage v/llh the lm: 1 ■ u ihL makes you feel even worse. place a wife can safely send As well as wines, the LONDON NW9.4VA 9 wen ooiis and equlymeut m' y/a with a population no hig- v» •«* * •///.*// • w.**/ < *4| there dodging the cow pits, snuaddles in the Ihfeo . "And once you've seen her husband because there • The Falklands received unexpected publicity thanks to General Galtieri, but as Judith Stares reports, its inhabitants are taking the presence of their military saviours in their naturally hospitable stride T. . 5 ' r - ■ ■ : /. ■Kal 5 A J i r. [ > ml: ■: s /• s a V7, Vi Robson, an equally indomitable 84-year-old. who must miss the morning preparations since she is playing the organ in the cathedral - her weekly task for 60 years. A crowd lor lunch is not unusual at Jubilee Villas, for Vi has a reputa tion for open house. ‘Even before wv the war 1 had the Marines here, = 'v‘ «?:: - r &f . y;kjTe and the sailors., then there were A - U.V. . -/••--•...... -■ : .JaL: always the youngsters doing VSO and the visiting teachers. But I've V/ gon/ifr a//rf VV flofoon h/7/i mo of ‘our boys’ on Stanley quayside /^>Jathered around Vi Bonner s got a soft spot for the soldiers now f( cosy kitchen, there is the about old times whilst stirring, bast- - it’s only natural, isn’t it?’ persuasive atmosphere of difficult to describe Stanley as a city. ins and whipping up the items she Since her husband died 20 years Home Sweet Home. British-style. Vi and her grandson. Maurice, live in a solid, red-brick Victorian has carefully chosen to represent as ago, Vi has had to abandon her with familiar roasting smells and isolated life as a shepherd's wife in terrace. reassuringly named Jubilee a typical menu for the benefit of splutters from the Rayburn stove, readers 'back home'. Since she has the wild and remote settlements plus the soporific sound of the BBC Villas, with a view overlooking the harbour. Until last year there was no never received daily papers, never which are the essence of a Falkland's World Sen'ice playing their inimi existence. Sheep farming is the reason to suppose that their lives mind Sunday colour supplements, table Sunday morning selection of inevitable career for a male islander, would have ticked along in anything such consideration is doubly charm golden oldies. who takes a wife from among the other than the predictable pattern ing. and the welcome given to stran- It takes a great will to remember local belles and establishes his own that we have travelled a tortuous set by previous generations. But gers is as warm as that extended to her other guests, whom she lovingly family base in the camp, a word 8.000 miles to join this remarkable thanks to General Galtieri. Vi and derived from the Spanish ‘campos’. lady for her Sunday lunch, which she her compatriots have had greatness describes as ‘our boys’. Temporary lodger for a four- meaning countryside, and used to has been preparing the same way, thrust upon them. It is a tribute to month tour is Colin Young, a ser describe the entire Falklands1 area with the same ingredients, for the their stoicism that they have adap- outside Stanley itself. oreater part of her 76 vears. ted to the limelight so ungrudgingly. geant major in the Royal Military Vi looks back fondlv on r We are in the centre of Port Our hostess, an indomitable. Police, and it says something for the Staniev. capital of the Falklands. cheery widow, is bemused that her informalitv of Vi's household that amazingly primitive pleasures, even P\-»n with t'nf* nresence of a lifcstvle. not to mention her cook- she has also invited his boss. Major i now beine enioved with similar I cathedral whose clock can be heard I ine. is the subject of such curiosity. I Ken Greenland. RMP. Making up I enthusiasm by her own daughter chiming in the distance.would be i but she gamely agrees to chatter ! the party is her inseparable budote. \ona. and her tamtly. 56 J Mi" 'Ki u "t " ■i ; : i (m?it I 3 MSP' “* N 5h :>.:■■ o # •;Y< mm J-i m V '^aa'fl|frjfc vj»■t ■ «g. V: & —in m J mmi■: :• %:j- * m t.‘: 5 0-2 JsJWWm V WM fpJ % ‘ g«8; m- 4 . •* • »««*&• '■ £: .*•> -rr; .-'• ; -’:- - ; f. * '■syrwrn ■ r: . if?i • n r • ■ ■?"l- rt f. •\Lj ; I — u I :; i : ••'V&. <» > -• *:•* « \ i i ': s I «* < "5. A-:--->VT' '^3i li? •**-■■« 7 ! -..V4- l g 1pp$- l ‘ ' *3f • • V ,5J I Above: sauce for the goose? ' -j Yona has provided the main ! lb course for today's luncheon - two : fits I s$y* upland geese which have been j ^nji U ot tucked into Vi's deep freeze await * -izmgMi-® Jr c y." ing a special occasion. These birds j r-; ■; L;,;c ^fcreed wild and the locals are free to | --..#r.v T" - ^^>ot their requirements during the designated shooting season. nmMj Neighbours and families in the "-rJ camp keep the older generation allSlii i supplied with vegetables, so Vi doesn't miss out on garden produce. Whatever else she requires can be obtained from the West Store - the Harrods of Stanley, providing j everything from a washing machine J to the tinned apple sauce which is to j "V"- accompany our goose. 1 Every islander has a peat bank which provides free fuel, though | teeding lhe stove with peat, the & BM they must cut and transport it them- ; lsianders' free fuel. RIGHT: the two Vis selves. The younger members stock | before jubilee Villas, a touch of England up for the elderly there is no sheltered ; s.000 miles away in the South Atlantic ML accommodation for senior citizens. and without such a support-system pricking the skin because it lets the survival would be impossible. juices out,’ she explains. Deep-fat Vi has been care taking the two roasted turnips, carrots and geese in her peat-lired oven for over potatoes sizzled on the rack above, four hours - it isn't a fuel which is and a traditional British gravy was compatible with either recipes or made from the juices in the pan. regulo numbers. T just cover them Vi Robson s arrival was greeted . Vrp - v. V: \xfg in mutton fat and don't believe in I with starters - large gin and tonics .1* i lust my lust job because of the supplies arc another compensa i... Argies.' he complains. I used to tion), and Vi dexterously places drive a small bus around Stanley, enormous portions of succulent picking up the old folk and the goose on to a dinner service young children, but they confiscated provided by her last grateful guests. it. For the rest of the war I did odd We arc instructed to lake our jobs and kept my head down. What laden platters into the front room, upset me was that I had been at where we spread napkins on our school with a couple of the Argen knees and tuck in. West Store has tine soldiers, but it didn’t make any turned up trumps with Matcus Rose difference to them - they still stuck and Liebfraumilch, though Maurice a gun in my buck.' is inexplicably absent. Ken is exhor Maurice has elected to live with ted to tackle the spare helping and his grandmother rather than stay in provides proof that an army major's the camp with his parents and resistance is no match for Vi’s mas brother. ‘There is more going on terly maternal insistence. He grace here. I'm a garage mechanic now, fully and manfully ploughed through but I can change my job tomorrow another joint of goose, and it if I want.’ He refers to the chronic seemed unkind to ask him to labour shortage which enables contribute to the conversation too. Shopping in H esf Store, Port Stanley, the Harrods of the Falklands many islanders to hold down two or We try to steer the talk to food, more jobs simultaneously. At the and learn that we could well have all round, with lodger Colin acting assorted tinned fruit, combined with age of 22 he has already owned been served whale meat, penguins’ as bar-tender. The elder Vi lives on egg custard. ‘1 can only get fresh several Land Rovers, tinkering with eggs or oxtail, thereby demolishing her own. but shares all the delight in cream from Yona, and even that is each and selling at a profit. His one prediction that we would be \>ur boys'. ‘We were just so pleased scarce now because the Argies shot current model is worth £4,000 and offered mutton, for sure, though at i see them that we were deter most of the cows.' she apologises. every purchase has been cash down. 18p per pound it's a good way to mined to do everything we could t. Reference to the war is without HP is non-existent in the Falklands. feed a crowd. make them feel at home.' bitterness, and the influx of ‘our The same goes for mortgages. Lunch-time ends at tea-time, By this time, the kitchen is too boys’ has obviously been a great Wages are low, but tidy bulk sums since Vi Robson must make ready cramped for the cat. w-ho has fled to compensation to these dear ladies. can be earned by healthy lads at for her duties at the evening service. the peat shed. The photographer is More resentful memories arc held sheep-shearing time. It seems un We thank our hostess with the hug standing on the back of a chair and by Maurice, who has made a fleeting likely that Maurice will ever know she deserves and waddle, penguin- Vi junior is really getting into the appearance after an all-night party poverty if he remains in his own style, back to our hotel (co swing of things, whipping up Roselle called the Grand Slam - an annual environment. Ken Greenland is incidentally called the Upland Complete Instant Topping for the knees-up held to celebrate the end greeted with another round of Goose), just in time to cancel our pudding - two pastry flans filled with of winter. double gins (duty-free NAAFI evening meal. vagi DAILY TELEGRAPH 22 10 83 i C i I ! c I ! iMr John Stanley, Armed Forces Minister, visiting the monument on iMount Longdon in the Falklands ! commemorating men of the 3rd 'Bn Parachute Regt who fell there during the conflict. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs II Whiu-hiill l,.n«lonS\\ I \ .!!!•'» 'i L DAILY TELEGRAPH 22 10 83 ARGENTINA Ceremony advanced The new government in Argentina was originally due to be inaugurated in January, but ARMS ‘SNUB’ reports from Buenos Aires sug ARMS ‘SNUB gest that the ceremony may be By FRANK TAYLOR ' moved forward to December. Continued from Page One The Pentagon is already pre announced the lifting of condi paring for the first requests tional liberty restrictions on from the Argentine armed forces for military hardware. 113 former detainees living at home. FOR BRITAIN’ Informants maintain, how By all accounts, the embargo ever, that “ the Argentines won’t be able to just walk in decision has not caused any with a credit card and get what serious divisions of opinion they want.” within the upper echelons .of the Reagan administration. Requests would be considered on a case-by-case basis, I was One informant said that it Reagan is ready told. was well known that Mrs Jcane With. Britain's objection. STVbasLdorX^he wnY°not,y a1”this^stage^contem- Unitcd NationS' had l0n& adV°' plate large-scale sales of cated such a move. offensive weapons systems. But it appeared also to have! to lift embargo the support of such “ moder- 1 ates ” as Mr Shultz. Secretary i Russia a rival of State, and most of his key ! But it is assumed in Wash- advisers, By FRAMC TA YLOR in Washington ington that the Argentines are Mr Weinberger, the Defence certain to press for such systems Secretary, is also reportedly in THE Reagan administration is preparing the at a later date and there seems favour. little prospect that the United ground for a swift resumption of arms States would be able to turn them down. Opposition cools sales to Argentina once the October 30 One reason for this is that The Reagan administration the Soviet Union, which offered has also sensed a dramatic elections there have taken place and a civilian a wide range of armaments to dwindling of opposition in government is in power in Buenos Aires, it Argentina during the Falklands Congress to lifting the arrqs crisis, has recently secretly re- embargo by way of the human was learned yesterday. stated its willingness to become rights certification. a main supplier. White House advisers are President Reagan will formally notify And senior officers of the , confident that the move will get Argentine air force are under-! the necessary backing of both Congress “ within days ” of the new govern stood to be raising the possi- Houses. ment's inauguration that Argentina has bility of taking Moscow up on a good indication of this its offer. came yesterday from the office returned to internationally-accepted norms 44 The air force desperately of Mr Michael Barnes, the wants to gear up again after Maryland Democrat who is regarding human rights. head of a key Inter-American its losses in the Falklands Affairs Sub-Committee, and one He will propose that, on these grounds, war.” I was told. who had been one of the “It seems obvious the US strongest critics of the Argen the arms embargo imposed by the Carter will have to consider fulfilling tine military’s rule. administration in the mid-seventies will be orders at some stage.” One of his staff aides told me that Mr Barnes would accept ____ _ lifted forthwith. Cases closed certification “ once a civilian The move will fly in the It seems clear from the way government takes over.” in which the U S administra Administration officials have face of strong pressure tion is preparing for certifying also been persuading members from Britain for a continu Argentina’s return, to the of Congress that there would be no sense in maintaining an human rights fold that it con i ation of the embargo—at siders the cases of the thou arms embargo on a democratic least until Argentina for sands of “ desaparecidos (dis ally-elected government in mally declares an end to the appeared ones) during the I Argentina while continuing to military junta’s rule as closed. supply arms to the military in El Salvador. state of hostilities over the The American view is that Falklands. while the issue has not really The final argument is that, been settled to anyone’s satis | Falklands or no Falklands, the Mrs Thatcher raised the faction — except, perhaps the I United States must make moves issue .during her brief visit Argentine military’s — there is itowards normalising relations to Washington last month. little justification for delaying with a key strategic and tradi One report of that meeting a return to normal relations tional ally in the western said that Mrs Thatcher tried once a civilian government is in hemisphere. to “ blackmail ” President power. - Air base delay — P5 Reagan into maintaining the The other obstacle in the wav embargo by threatening to pull of declaring Argentina “ clean ” British troops out of Belize in again — the continued deten Central America. tion without trial of political A knowledgeable source told prisoners — has also dropped me yesterday that there was no away with the release last Tues truth in the report, although day of what were believed to Mrs Thatcher did raise both have been the last 66 detainees. issues, without linking them • directly. At the Same time, the Interior The same source added: Ministry in Buenos Aires . “ You ctn expect arms sales Continued on Back P, Col 3 negotiations between the U.S. and Argentina by February at the latest.” McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs II W hm-hiill I.imuIiiii SWl.N .!b/. -n. "i-'*" Falklands mobile air base delay „ desmond vrengm Naval Correspondent ^ part of the reason for the and possibly Hamer TkELIVERY of the Navy s delay was a five week strike by fl£?hlers while retaining much ot new Falklands mobile shipyard welders in June and their carg0 carrying capacity, air base, which is also to July follow^ by a week lon„ The sections of fight deck are tASSsriers, is already behind*5 ™atingM out the ship had also had to form a r.bid structu schedule and wall now be simp]y parked here awaiting Long-term value SS, M.S, «« St » ” ’ Although ■>« Astronomer-- flrmed- . iafkrofSbuifdVnTbohoshta0Vmatch DeioDolf Ministry-owned Boyal The 28,000 ton Harrison Line tas oM>u id ng intern.ation?1 Fleet Auxiliary and has been container ship Astronomer, ^ard carog containers in renamed Reliant—is to pro chartered by the Ministry for sta.ch will be st0wed workshops, improved overhaul facilities and two years, arrived at Cammeu $ ammuniton, spares, accommodation ™.r Laird’s shipyard at Birkenhead c ’modation. and fresh water Air Arin Sea King anti-su - in May for work to start on the embarked helicopters marine helicopter squadron nov converting her to operate arjd flying and mainten- based ashore m pnnutive cond - maintain a number of Sea King S crews tions in the Falklands it is anti-submarine helicopters . us- an^ cre vs she Wll be of much ing the leased American '“fed for longer term value. “ Arapaho system. containers and over them If the task of converting con- Though the Ministry took the thc steel landing deck and tainer ships to operate modern If precaution of avoiding giving a hangar forming the “ Arapaho naval would ‘ date for her completion, it had system have been laid. simple and inexpensive it wo been hoped she would be ready Thi system, produced by the do much t0 .. ircraft , ,gr,- - e-s-^-fas SfcVSftSe a s^wsswi® s army harbour for the i falklands DAILY TELEGRAPH i By Our Transport i Correspondent 22 10 83 A military harbour is to be ; built in the Falklands, close to the airport being built at a cost of more than £200 million. In vitations to tender are expec ted soon. . , Ch 1 it will be in addition to the h? , new harbour at Stanley, which is to be provded by ITM Off shore of Middlesbrough at a 3 cost of £23 millon. This is being prefabricated in Britain and will he based on giant barges being conver ted at Harland and Wolff in Belfast to link together as a 1 causeway and jetty with warehouses. / patrol ships FOR FALKLANDS Two specially-converted ships will be commissioned at Rosyth dockyard in the Firth of Forth today as part of a new Falkland Islands patrol squadron. Protector and Guardian, for merly 1,100-ton commercial oil rig supply ships, will carry high speed raiding craft for the Marine detachments on board. The third ship of the squadron, Sentinel, will join them in the Falklands after trials. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Ajjavs •II Whitehall 1 SWU\ >Vi/. l»-l.-|.».» VS h guardian 22 10 83 TIMES 22 10 83 i Britain accused ARGENTINA has alleged at t Letter from the UN the UN that British warships t last vear were carrying nuc lear 'weapons to intimidate Argentina during the Falk W land* war. The accusation ■ Slaking a voracious was made by its ambassador, Mr Julio Cesar Carasales, dur- ing a disarmament debate. — } Crown Reuters. thirst for power l To say that food and drink written the ministers’ speeches has been the lifeblood of themselves, using the right diplomacy is not to exaggerate blend of knights of the Round unduly. But this year at the Table and chicken in every Galtieri United Nations General pot. Diplomats have the Assembly opening, the cornu misfortune of sharing the end in copia overflowed, and even cynicism of politicians the lowliest of third secretaries without the luxury of power. off the could , produce stacks of For our own revenge, long- engraved invitations. suffering journalists drew up a The feasts ranged from one list of informal accolades for where Mrs Indira Gandhi, the the three weeks of whirlwind By Maggie Brown Indian Prime Minister, sat diplomacy that sent the The future of the Crown down with a handful of New champagne corks popping Agents, in the balance since it York philosophers to discuss while moves were made on the lost a £3 billion share of Determinism in European international chessboard. Brunei’s investment manage Writf1 Politics, to a reception given President Mitterrand was ment business in July, is about by Prince Norodom Sihanouk cited for liis capacity to say to be decided, but the indi were the presence of Pol Pot nothing in the most serpentine cations are that it will be abol way during the longest press ished, and some of its key officials provoked journalists functions privatised. into thinking up clever open conference given by a visiting The Crown Agents, headed . ing lines. “What is it like to be dignitary. His thrusts in by new chairman, Mr Peter a mass murderer?” one of the translation sounded like bad Graham, former chairman of Khmer Rouge was asked. Shakespeare: “Your question Standard Chartered Bank are ■ President Reagan gave an starts with poison and ends figting a strong rearguard intimate luncheon for Senor with a dagger”, he said. action, and have presented I Javier Perez de Cuellar, the Another award went to all several options for continued UN Secretary-General, which those British officials who existence at a reduced level. General Galtieri was billed as an occasion for a tried terribly hard to persuade Civil service unions have From Jeremy Morgan tour d’horizon of world reporters that Mrs Thatcher’s already been told 300-400 jobs affairs. failure during her stopover in will have to go. in Buenos Aires Instead, Mr Reagan But much of the advice General Galtieri has been told jokes the whole time, and New York to comply with being received by the agent’s “ admonished for a light convinced everyone present protocol and call on Senor sponsoring department, the offence ” by the head of the that he was a most beguiling Jorge Illueca of Panama, the Overseas Development Admin Argentine army for remarks he host. President of the Assembly, istration, favours abolition. The made in a newspaper interview One of the theories on the was not a snub. Senor Illueca Foreign Office and Treasury published last April on the Falklands War is that it was is most famous for his are arguing for its disband anniversary of the Falklands largely the result of an episode remarks last year on Mrs ment. occupation. Thatcher’s glandular system, After the official reprimand, where the British had Mr Timothy Raison, Minister trampled on the Argentine’s which he claimed was respon for Overseas Development, in the commander-in-chief of the army, General Nicolaides, is gastronomic sensibilities. sible for her behaviour during charge of the Crown Agents the Falklands conflict. has not yet formed a view of not expected to take further During the little-noticed talks the matter, but the outcome is action against the former war that preceded the invasion by The debate in the assembly probably outside the ODA’s leader and President. Until six weeks, the Argentine had taken one of its control. now, General Galtieri faced the negotiators entertained their labyrinthine paths, and The Crown Agents are a prospect of being brought British counterparts at La the philosopher-diplomats relic from the British Empire, before a military tribunal. Cote Basque, New York’s decided this was their cue. “Is and employ 1,200 people carry He served a 45-day sentence premier restaurant, while the it duty that brings the world ing out a range of services, earlier this year after the in British reciprocated far more leaders or is it for their own largely for former colonies and terview, in which he criticised glory and gratification?” asked his subordinates and accused modestly. developing nations. These in Fop the diplomats who give one sage, sipping a clude procurement, project Argentina’s Falklands military cappuccino. management, technical assist commander and governor, the UN its more deliberate General Menendez, of “ sinking pace during the rest of the “Margaret Mead once wrote ance and arranging stamps and that the United Nations was currency. five centimetres a day” during year, the glitter and flurry of But its largest single fee the conflict. activity was looked upon with an attempt to fulfil a primor earner is fund management, Argentina’s quarrelsome great disdain. When they were dial need for ritual that was and the loss of the Brunei con officers have meanwhile not carrying around their absent in modem society”, tract wiped out 70 per cent of brought charges against foreign ministers’ briefcases answered a younger student. the capital it manages. Since General Lanusse, the last mili and dinner jackets, they sat “Are we better off with the then two of its important re tary president to hand power over to an elected civilian gov around speaking of angels and UN or without it?” the sage maining funds, those of Abu pinheads, on the grounds that continued, as he scanned the Dhabi and Hong Kong have ernment 10 years ago. He has been ordered to such discussions were far catalogue of meetings that been reviewing their position. relevant than the The Brunei decision was a appear before a tribunal de more would be everyone’s labour bitter blow for the Crown manded by General Videla, the speeches made by their mas for the next three months. Agents, which had been put on first President of the Process ters in the General Assembly. a much more efficient footing of National Reorganisation im The irony is that these UN Zoriana Pysariwsky after running up losses of posed by the armed forces regulars had for the most part more than £200 million in the after they overthrew the Per- 1970s onist government McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs -I j WhiU'hiill I.'unit ill S\\ l.\ .11V/. Irli'jiiv .nr iiI-'MIJIi'i.W ■ Daily Mail 22nd October 1983 Andrew the 6 TV natural ’ PRINCE Andrew faced his first big television test yesterday—and was called 'a natural’ by interviewer David Frost. Relaxed and confident, the 23-year-old Prince was in front of the cameras at TVam for 20 minutes. A jubilant Frost, who scooped his BBC breakfast rivals with the interview to be screened on November 13 said : ‘I think people will be really delighted by the quality of the man.’ , t The Prince had agreed to be interviewed about the SS Great Britain Trust, of which he is patron. The Great Britain, designed by Brunei, was one of Britain’s greatest steamships and was salvaged from the Falklands. The Prince also discussed his role in the Falklands cam- paign as a naval officer, and his public life in general. THE TIMES FRIDAY OCTOBER 21 1983 ‘•i Belize, part 2; Poverty spread equally Balancing on the US-Cuba tightrope In this second of two articles " ’ f. ' ^ on Belize. John Carlin inter views the Prime Minister. The door of the office of Mr George Price, the Prime Minis ter of Belize, is always open. “That way a draught can run through,” he explains. “We have no air conditioning or electTic fans here.” The temperature in Belmopan, the 4,000-— population capital of Belize, is never too far from the 100°F ■- mark. But Mr Price, at 64 ft unmarried, in his youth a ^ Jesuit seminarian, refuses to q * allow himself the frills many Vi i C-W -A I.atin American leaders seem to view as their right. ■ The floor in his office is ||| covered with linoleum; the jgp furniture is metallic; the noise « of his secretary’s typewriter, jggj ; : ?a ;•**' inw '■ deafening. i'.'O vi #*** ***** With an annual budget of k ,y?**sl 61 US$100m (about £65m), an DL i f vi «a*v. almost total dependence on the fluctuating world price of sugar Mr Price receives constitutional instruments from Prince Michael of Kent on (Belize’s main export) to make Independence Day foreign exchange, and a need to his small country of financial import anything remotely re opposition in Belize because, to troops who, as he pult it, ‘‘are a sembling manufactured goods, paraphrase Mr Price, it is factor of security and stability aid from the Americans. For Belize is a poor country even by that reason he has rejected Central American standards. Cuban aid, and its accompany “We have no high-rise steel ing ideological strings. or glass buildings here,” says Notwithstanding his shrewd internal target on which to pal aim of Mr Price', foreign foreign policy, and the British Mr Price, “we believe in focus social resentment. policy. Under Ws >«adership spreading the wealth around.” military presence, Mr Price southern neighbour, On the second anniversary of (he is also head of the Peop believes that his country’s best His independence from British rule, United Party) Belize has Guatemala, which has the same September 21, become a member of the Non- safeguard against the turbu claim to Belize as Argentina to celebrated on Aligned Group. Yet Mr Price lence so close by is provided by the Falklands, has a visibly happy crowds paraded _ and offence this government policies founded on more powerful economy than danced around the streets of has ^^hinKton by social justice. this British colony of 150,000 Belize the countr3r distancing himself from Cuba, With British help Belize has peopie High-rise buildings CwrMgn port. feftJlds While 8the American • Em- been able to place budgetary abound in Guatemala City and * but n 88 ong drew bassy in Belize is growing emphasis on education at the government affairs are conduct moJJhip.f winging hand-clap- dramatically in size, there arc expense of defence. An inscrip tion, in bold red letters, on the cd with customary ping enthusiasm among the no diplomatic ties with Cuba, American pomp. side of a white Ministry of But while the literacy rate in blacks, Asians, hispanics and Asked whether he wished for a Education van in Belize City Belize is 92 per cent - a figure occasional whites in the racial- closer relationship JJth thc expresses this remiu’kable ly diverse city, than the local Castro Government, Mr Price American anomaly matched only by Argentina in favourite, Tell them Guatema- typically biblical in his al- Central Latin America - in Guatemala with eloquence, at the same it is 37 per cent. While the lans to leave Belize alone. lusions, replied: Given the time drawing attention, with Mr Price, very conscious of reality of history and geogra- unconscious Irony, to Britain s average per capita income in his country’s atypical Central phy . . . we know that at this the Belizean countryside is in the world s develop- reluctant military commitment: US$1,000, in Guatemala 70 per tcntr t^Th^nmuiisTmonth ment we can’t be all things to “A nation’s might - not on cent of the population, mostly how well Its army can fight, but (published September 9) in all men”. on how well it people can rural Indians, receive an annual which he thanked the British At a time of worldwide income of only $42. Government and people for the recession, Mr Price is only too write.” Unlike Guatemala, there is [conclnded] presence of the 1,800 British well aware of the importance to not even a hint of armed McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs llWhilt h.il! I .i tnil'iii S\\ l \ -'H/ It’li'i>lvit t l) .• 1 v I II i , ^ th o 3 W S 1/1 * Wt® flap! i pniimm MfW„ s »iif -I!?1! **: OdOCJOO^p, d «-s gg0 ^ CJ ™ o - c ^ i ^ <1> J: J: 2 fiw“j503Cw'oS^.^ :|sS a < m M 00 u Z CO o < W «H 2 2 • I—II—I I—I U* E^ CN 0 ♦- FINANCIAL TIMES 21.10.83 UK and China end Hong Kong talks on optimistic note BY ALAIN CASS IN HONG KONG BRITAIN AND China ended over the entire territory before tsmiAUN ainu the two sides discuss practical their fifth round of talks over the future of Hong Kong yes- arrangements for its adminis- terdav on an optimistic note tration after 19m. after^ weeks of deadlock and That is when the lease on the iSSrstress— ff was building in Peking described ^ Y the talks m “useful and nervous financial constructive. markets hardly reacted to the The only other time the n which dealers said had sessions have been descubed been discounted in trading in this fashion was after the eadier this week. The Hang two sides first met last July. S(?ng index closed at 790.11, On the last two occasions, as down 4 23 points following two the two sides wrangled ever successive days of gains, the issue of sovereignty, no Yesterday’s fall reflected official comment was made. anxiety over sharp rises in Yesterday’s talks, which were led oh the British side by ^ int[,eelbinland5lor^Hong Sir Percy Cradock, the British K dollars created by last ambassador to Peking, and on Saturdav’s measures to shore the Chinese side by vice- up lhe currency. Foreign Minister Yao Guang, rphe pjong Kong dollar ended also lasted half an hour longer thg day at around HK$7.80 to than previously. uS$l, {he rate set for new note Officials in Hong Kong issues by the government in its Argentina bomb team 6got cautioned against undue rescue package, optimism and gave a warning But> \n a move which that the negotiations had a apparently reversed its earlier pa§t Gibraltar defences9 long way to go. But the atmos- support for the measures and BY OUR MADRID CORRESPONDENT phere seemed more cheerful, indicated a growing tendency to and one official conceded that make itseif felt in the territory, THE ARGENTINIAN sabotage that the “ things may be looking up.’ an official 0f the Bank pf China squad which is now known to suicide squad ” initially aimed It was pointed out that com- was quoted calling for the new have been plotting a raid “ . pared with previous occasions, measures to be scrapped, against Gibraltar at the height to blow up a destroyer and a this session of talks was not # Hong Kong’s export recovery of the Falklands war managed support vessel in Gibraltar har- preceded by the usual barrage received a major boost in the to make several incursions past bour. These ships had however of propaganda from Peking. third quarter of this year British defences while prepar- been replaced by a frigate, HMb The two sides said they prompting the government to ing the operation, a Spanish Ariadne, and a sea-going • tug, would meet again on November revise upwards its overall magazine claimed yesterday. it said. 14 and 15. growth forecasts. . The weekly Cambio 16 cited The men were reported to Officials refused to comment According to provisional a confidential government have obtained four magnetic on reports that Sir Percy figures yet to 'be released by report and said that the four mines through the army and handed a letter from Mrs the government, exports to men, ,all attached to the Argen* naval attaches of the Argen- Margaret Thatcher, the British Hong Kong’s major trading tinian Navy, were caught within tinian embassy in Madrid. Prime Minister, to the Chinese partners rose by a weighted fiours of launching their attack. Equipment including oxygen rurne average of 29 per cent over the . Madrid has confirmed that a cylinders and an inflatable China has been insisting that group of Argentinians was inter- dinghy were found in a car they Britain concede sovereignty l-IK$72.8f9bn (about MUDn/j^ cepted by Spanish police near had rented, according to the the Gibraltar border and excel- report. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ lelephnne. Ol-'J.lUhU.LS PEKING TALKS DAILY TELEGRAPH ON HONGKONG 21.10.83 ‘ USEFUL’ By GRAHAM EARNSHAW in Peking Sino-British talks on the future of Hongkong finished in Peking yesterdav with the release of a soothing statement 1 saving the discussions had been GurEEas on “ useful . and constructive.. , Following the last meeting in guard in desire to retain a role in Hon0 kong after 1997, the date the British are .due to . return the territory to China. Belize Senior Hongkong leaders flew to London two weeks ago for By Maj-Geu Edward Fursdon talks with Mrs Thatcher. She was said to have sent a letter Defence Correspondent to the Chinese leadership con rpHE 10th Princess ceding sovereignty, but stress A Mary’s Own Gurkha Tough training ing Britain’s wish to have .a role , in Hongkong’s administration Rifles, commanded by r Any reinforcement increase | into the next century. I Lieut Col Mark Look, . ^ strength, especially if associ- have taken over as the > ated with being drawn into any Army’s resident battalion - new type of long term require- in Belize - ment, would however definitely • cause the Army difficulty. They relieved 2nd Bn the . ., Parachute Regiment com- , A tour m Belize provides a Tories abandon raanded by Lieut Col David ■ commanding officer with mvalu- Chaundler and famous for their • able tough training and live Goose Green Battle of last year, • firing opportunities m a differ- who now revert to being part of ent and challenging enyiron- Brig. Tony Jeape’s 5th Infantry ment not readily available Falklands tribute Brigade at Aldershot. elsewhere. Battalions do a six-months Many soldiers enjoy the job unaccompanied tour in Belize satisfaction of a real outlet for By R. BARRY O’BRIEN and already in the Army’s long:- their training. For instance, it term forecast “plot” of unit is quite common for a private PROPOSAL to name streets in a new moves—failing some future soldier to ead a two-week A Cabinet decision to the contrary JunSle PatroL housing development after battles in the —another infantry battalion is They also appreciate the wide Falklands campaign has been rejected by the currently earmarked to take variety of aquatic and other over from the Gurkhas in April sporting facilities and the Conservative - controlled St Edmundsbury next year. chances to travel on leave^ to Mexico, Costa Rica or America. district council in San Carlos Drive, Goose Green, 2,000 troops The Belize garrison is not an Pebble Island, Longdon Road It is of course very much in unacceptable current strain on Suffolk. (after Mount Longdon), and Britain’s, Belize’s and America’s the defence budget. The esti The council, which has Mount Tumbledown Close. current interests that British mated extra budgetary costs of 30 Conservative, nine Lab- But the names were opposed its presence for 1982-63 was £5 armed forces should remain in our and five Independent by Gerry Kiernan, elected in Belize. million which is only 0-04 per members, decided the pro- May as Labour' the Nearly 2,000 troops — com cent, of the £14,091 million de manded by Brig. Tony Pollard fence budgetary total. posal was too controver- avaesult of hjs objections, the —are stationed there under a sial ” after objections from councii has chosen local names bilateral British-Belizean Gov Constant review a Labour member. proposed by a historical group. ernment agreement to deter any Whitehall sources say that the aggressive Guatemalan military Cahinet’s Defence and Overseas The decision brought an ‘‘There was no local connec- moves m support of its long Policy Committee will shortly ,angrv response last night tion in the Falklands names outstanding territorial claims discuss the future of Belize. taa ’conservative council- against Belize. They say that there is no par- lor for the ward where the j£ea, ss worker, said last British forces would be with- ticular significance in this and private development ot lbz . drawn only after prior consulta- it gives an opportunity for Mrs houses at Haverhill, , . i is located. °“I think local names are a tion and agreement between the Thatdher to update her col- “ I am absolutely disgusted better. It is an excellent two governments. Currently leagues on the subject follow- by this decision. I thought it idea and enc0Urage people Britain is not considering any jng her recent talks with Mr was a wonderful idea and a . .. hack at Haverhill’s bis- unilateral withdrawal and there Reagan. splendid way to celebrate part „ are no outstanding . requests They point out that the sub- nf our country’s history,” said lu‘-y- from either party for joint deci- ject of ^ Belize garrison, by Councillor Geoff Rushbrook. The J^lamls ^mes were sions involving any immediate ^ very an0madous nature, is or premature moves towards somethk* kept under constant withdrawal. review. was As far as the British! Army is It is hoped, however, that new achieved victory and the people of Witham, Essex, concerned it is happy for the talks will be arranged with of this country don’t want to He has been informed in a Belize commitment to continue Guatemala next year and that celebrate it. letter from the council that his at its present level. Thanks to at Jong last some acceptable “Can vou think of any other proposal has been rejected be- the reduction of the Northern progress can be made towards a countrv where people would not cause of the council s policy Ireland commitment, maintain peaceful settlement of this long- want to name streets after a 0f avoiding street names ing an infantry battalion and victory?” “which could create contio- other units in Belize is not, a running dispute and thus to strain on its resources despite wards Britain’s long-tenn aim of Strcet names proposed. for versy in local and national the added Falklands Islands the elimination of Britain’s the Boyton Hall Estate included circles.” garrison commitment. troop presence. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone' DI-'J.IO (»‘M5 Daily Telegraph 21.10.83 CorBias on Ml Belize y Maj-Gen Edward Fursdon Defence Correspondent rp he 10 th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Tough training Rifles, commanded by Anv reinforcement increase Lieut Col Mark Cook, in strength, especially if associ ated with being drawn into any have taken over as the new type of long tenn require Army’s resident battalion ment. would however definitely in Belize. cause the Army difficulty. They relieved 2nd Bn the A tour in Belize provides a Parachute Regiment com- commanding officer with invalu manded by Lieut Col David able tough training and live Chaundler and famous for their firing opportunities in a diner- Goose Green Battle of last year, ent and challenging enyiron- who now revert to being part of ment not readily available Brig. Tony Jeape’s 5th Infantry elsewhere. Brigade at Aldershot. Many soldiers enjoy the job Battalions do a six-months satisfaction of a real outlet for unaccompanied tour in Belize iheir training. For instance, it and already in the Army’s long is quite common for a private term forecast “plot” of unit soldier to lead a two-week moves—failing some future jungle patrol. Cabinet decision to the contrary They also appreciate the wide —another infantry battalion is variety of aquatic and other currently earmarked to take sporting facilities and the over from the Gurkhas in April chances to travel on leave_ to next year. Mexico, Costa Rica or America. 2,000 troops The Belize garrison is not an unacceptable current strain on It is of course very much in the defence budget. The esti Britain’s, Belize’s and America’s mated extra budgetary costs of current interests that British its presence for 1982-83 was £5 armed forces should remain in million which is only 0*04 per Belize. cent, of the £14,091 million de Nearly 2,000 troops — com fence budgetary total. manded by Brig. Tony Pollard —are stationed there under a Constant review bilateral British-Belizean Gov ernment agreement to deter any Whitehall sources say that the aggressive. Guatemalan military Cabinet’s Defence and Overseas moves in support of its long Policy Committee will shortly outstanding territorial claims discuss the future of Belize. against Belize. They say that there# is no par British forces would be with ticular significance in this and drawn only after prior consulta it gives an opportunity for Mrs tion and agreement between the Thatcher to update her col two governments. Currently eagues on the subject follow Britain is not considering any ing her recent talks with Mr unilateral withdrawal and there Reagan. are no outstanding requests They point out that th« sub from either party for joint deci ject of the Belize garrison, by sions involving any immediate its very anomalous nature, is or premature moves towards something kept under constant withdrawal. review. As far as the British Army is It is hoped, however, that new concerned it is happy for the talks will be arranged with Belize commitment to continue Guatemala next year and that at its present level. 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SSfo ' ®8=-iSZ|: § 2g-g»?o1siS' S-af-SS-f* 2 3 o ? 1* S i (» b 5 7'® (» ci3 r McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2HZ Telephone: ()l-lJ30 6lJ35 Signals for the Falklands rebuff Argentina A claim by a ferry crew Falklands war TIMES returning home that two out of frees 180 From Lord Buxton of A Isa 20.10.83 three ships in the Falkland Sir, On February 22, 1982,1 had my Islands were non-British was private talk with the Argentine rejected yesterday by the Minis prisoners Foreign Minister, Nicanor Costa try of Defence. It said of 17 Mendez, in his apartment in Buenos tankers on charter for the From Andrew Thompson Buenos Aires Aires, which was recorded in the Falklands 13 were British. report of the Franks committee. I The Argentine Government reported to the British Embassy after has ordered the release of 180 the discussion, and subsequently to political prisoners in a pre-elec the Minister, Richard Luce, that I Talks resume tion gesture. Detention orders had gained the impression from weFe withdrawn against 243 what Costa Mendez said that there Peking (Reuter) - Talks on people held’ under state of siege would not be an invasion of the Hongkong resumed after a regulations. Of this total, only Falkland Islands, but that there month-long break amid reports 180 will efectively regain their that Britain planned to present might be sporadic “Condor-type” freedom, as the remainder still raids, probably in South Georgia. new proposals to China to try to face court sentences. break the deadlock. Ever since then I have wondered . Among those benefiting from if, through ineptitude or inexperi the measure are Senor Oscar ence, I contributed to the trouble by Ciarlotti, who helped to kidnap conveying the wrong impression. his uncle, a rear admiral, in The report today (feature. Octob 1972; Sefior Juan Dante Gullo, er 18) of your correspondent’s a left-wing Peronist youth interview with Costa Mendez, in leader, and a retired colonel, which he states that “he was Luis Perlinger. informed of the decision to invade Also benefiting from the the islands on March 26. 1982", measure is Senor Jorge Fonte- more than four weeks after my vecchia, editor of the weekly meeting, is naturally fascinating to magazine La Semana, who is in me and to some extent relieves my year after the Government mind, if what Costa Mendez says is objected to an article on true. But above all it proves Captain Alfredo Astiz, the conclusively that there is no possible notorious commander of the alternative to the present policy of Argentine garrison on South the British Government on the Georgia during the war with sovereignty issue. Britain. Argentina has its full share of delightful, friendly and cultivated Meanwhile, a local journalist people and many of us have close has claimed that Sehor Raul friends there. But the trouble is that Alfonsin, this Radical Party most distance themselves from presidential candidate, faces a Government, and the country has possible assassination attempt - an unfortunate tendency of acquir by sectors of the Army. ing the most frightful regimes. How could Britain or any free country negotiate with a state where the Foreign Minister, himself in charge of current diplomatic nego tiations, does not know that his country is about to embark upon unprovoked aggression against a friendly neighbour until seven days before it takes place? 1 am. Sir. yours faithfully. BUXTON. House of Lords. October 18. o FINANCIAL TIMES Argentina frees 66 prisoners 20.10.83 BY JIMMY BURNS IN BUENOS AIRES THE ARGENTINE Government security forces and subse- appease Argentines ^mam. has released 66 pohlical quenlly ..f'^PPXrament says prisoners include Sr Dante prisoners and revoked house The nnlit 7 g„ Y®* recidos” Gullo, a former leader of the arrest or parole orders on a fur- the bulk of th M several Peronist Party's militant youth ther 113 Argentines S?n(?r McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs *11 Whitehall London SWlA 2HZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 i GUARDIAN 20.10.83 DAILY TELEGRAPH 20.10.83 IT DOES not seem to have caused much of a splash as yet, but a new campaign to sell Great Britain has been CHRISTMAS SPIRIT launched by Mr John Fenton, Artificial Christmas trees are who bills himself as the Billy being sent to troops in the Graham of selling. Coinciden Falklands by a firm in Newport, tally. he is Chief Executive Gwent. of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management, and has addressed 50,000 business people during the past year. Mr Fenton chose to launch his new campaign at the Speech Day of Myton High School, Warwick, on October 4, which may explain the Our Nicanor campaign’s low profile. Mr L S Argentine Foreign Minl- Fenton advocates boasting f\ ster during the Falklands about the Falklands War by -LM- War, Senor Nicanor Costa way of selling Great Britain. Mendez became a familiar and This is how you do it: even well-loved figure for many 11 Liken Argentina to the people in this country. His . school bully who grabs your H activities at the United Nations sandwiches and stamps on alone suggested that the His- them. If you do not stand up panic-American world had at and fight him, you know he "O fast produced a knockabout will flatten you, as well as comedian of the first rank. your sandwich'es. All the rest So there was some disappoint of the school will know you ment when he decided to “quit are a soft touch and your the boards.” An interview he sandwiches will be stamped has just given to The Times on for the rest of your life. new;spaper suggests that he may So it was with the Falklands. be thinking of staging a come- Nobody stamps on Great back. Britain's sandwiches.” He says that the original Argentine conception was a peaceful occupation of the islands, “ a move to stun Britain into negotiating. The project was conceived as an occupation to negotiate, in Detainees freed by cluding provision for the with drawal of our troops. “ In no way did we plan to go to the Malvinas and stay there. Argentine Junta That came as the result of a By Jeremy Morgan security services or police held decision by the military junta in Buenos Aires responsible for the illegal de- . . . It was caused by Britain’s . . tention. torture, disappearance. intransigent response and the The military government has r death 0f thousands of fact that the British Government freed 179 people held without peopie during the “ dirty war ” left us no room to manoeuvre. trial in an evident attempt to of the 197os< There is great talent there bolster the recent amnesty for Human rights campaigners and we can only hope to hear crimes during the “ dirty war - conservatively estimate that more of it. Senor Costa Mendez against alleged subversion. g.000 to 15,000 people dis- might have got more of a laugh The regime lifted detention appeared during the conflict out of the fact that the original orders imposed under the nine- between the authorities and Argentine plan — to go to the year-old state of seige on 242 mainly leftwing opponents, al- Falklands and not stay there — people, but kept 63 of them in though some estimates range was in fact carried out. But he custody pending charges and up to 30,000. is not one to overdo things. possible trial. Many of those leaving Villa There is a mystical side to Of the rest, 113 were re- Devoto prison in Buenos Aires his nature. Elsewhere m the interview he savs that Dora SSld^ f ££. Carrington, a fellow ex-Foreign held “at the disposition of the sources said, indicating that Minister, told his predecessor executive power,power ”n nominally they \irorowere tirctfirst nprainpndetained linrtfcrunder at the United Nations that for president Gignone, but in rea- the Peronist Government British foreign policy the islands lity the ruling three-man Junta One was Mr Juan Carlos nuestion was priority number made up of the heads of the Dante Gullo, who led the 242 ” armed forces. Young Peronist branch of the Kabbalists will be working on The Interior Ministry said populist movement when he the mystical significance of this the releases had been ordered was detained in April, 1975, number, which with a little under the “ law of national almost a year before the coup, trouble can he made to vieia pacification ” announced last He nevertheless felt “more 666. the Number of the Beast. month. Peronist than before, and said Others might be interested to The regime hopes to use the yesterday that he was con- know what were the> 9A\ higher new law to pardon military vinced the movement would nriorities of Lord Carrington s personnel and members of the win the October 30 elections. Foreign Office. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9300935 1 | WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN : Seamen on board the ferry Rangattra, the longest serv ing ship in the Falklands, give vent to fears about the future on arriving back at Devon- port yesterday. Report, page 3 GUARDIAN 19.10.83 McMiilan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 t Falkland GUARDIAN 19.10.83 veterans fire salvo Atiscellany at Maggie Sir, —Apropos Mr Alder- DISGRUNTLED seamen on son’s letter (October 15) about the availability of the longest serving ship in Argentine books in this coun the Falklands sailed home try, readers may be inter yesterday with a blunt mes- ested to learn that A sage for the Prime Minister. message from the Falklands The roll-on, roll-off ferry Death^f David Ti£ker° lie? Rangatira, berthed at Devon- “bW..,1" port M “d over the siae emoiazonca vinas> 1S currentIy avaj]abie with such slogans as “ Mag throughout Argentina. gie welcomes us back to the Ross Gilhome. dole,” “ Margaret Thatcher — »> Windsor, ' i 20th century vampire," Berkshire. “ Welcome home to (he ( giro.” The Rangatira, 9,400 tons, was chartered by the Minis try of Defence on May 24 1982, at the height of the Falklands war, for use as a troopship, and sailed for the South Atlantic on June 19. Hostilities had by then ended and the ferry served as a “ floating hotel ” for ser vicemen. A showpiece reception was m planned on her return after 486 days at sea. A Marine band played, escorting tugs sounded hooters and sent plumes of water skywards from their fire-hoses, and dockyard workers and rela tives of the crew lined the jetty. But the crew fear the Ran gatira will be laid up. Garry THE TIMES Rimmer, aged 25, from Liver 19.10.83. pool, said: “ We* have nothing against the company. It’s a change of Government policy we want. “There are 1,600 British seamen without jobs and Document dear to Gandhi when we were in the Falk lands there were 13 foreign From Michael Hamlyn, Delhi ships,” Mr Rimmer said, standing near a huge banner proclaiming : “ 13 foreign ships unlucky for us.” “ We work hard, keep our noses clean, and all we have o to look forward to is the dole.” heads of government, which held last month in Trinidad. . ^ p * wmwmwill be held in Delhi next Despite reservations expressed mThe notion mof a world Captain Pat Liddell, of Preston, Weymouth, who has month. by the British, Canadian and, to monetary conference has been been in command through “These meeting are not a lesser extent, the Australian very much on the minds of the out, said the future of the meant to achieve any kind of representatives, the document Third World nations recently, Rangatira was uncertain. dramatic result. They are get- sees the need for an inter- The non-aligned meeting in togethers in a friendly, informal national monetary conference Delhi earlier this year made He added: “ This makes a me very sad because I have atmosphere, where we can talk to provide a new order for similar call for a meeting, and been with the ship for seven about things”, she said. world financial and economic Mrs Gandhi, as chairman of the years. I think she will prob “At such meetings we discuss dealings, movement, urged its consider- ably be laid up, at least until matters which are of special The document was drawn up ation at both Unctad and at the there is another suitable concern to us. There are many by a number of economists at Williamsburg summit. The job.” matters which do concern the the suggestions of Mr Robert developed world powers, how- Lord Geddes, chairman of Commonwealth as a whole ter "Mulddori, the New Zealand ever, have so far resisted the the owners, the Union Steam discuss them and to arrive at a Prime Minister. Despite the call. ship Company, admitted it consensus is a worth-while differences of initial response to “One of the situations that is was a possibility that the achievement.. . , ... , pap«r at Trindad, the threatening peace, apart from Rangatira may be laid up. The principal matter likely to finance ministers agreed to the arms race, is the widening She is due for a refit at Har- be discussed at the November. ..“commend its thrust to-Delhi”, gap between the rich nations land and Wolff in Belfast, meeting, and one that is dear to according to the Common- and the ooor nation*" after which it was hoped she jj16 Indian Prime Minister’s wealth Secretary-General, Mr Gandhi Jd.%e ver^ much might play an offshore sup heart, as chairman of the non- Shndath .Ramphal. hope that it will be one of the port rdle for the oil or gas aligned movement, is a docu- According to Mr Ramphal: items on the agenda here.” ■ exploration industry. • Two RAF men who died when their Phantom jet crashed into a mountainside in the Falklands were named McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs yesterday as Flight Lieu tenant John Gostick, and •11 Whitehall l.omliin.SVVl.\ i\S/. I*-U-|»!»• uu- lll-*l.U» 1,'lAjV Flight Lieutenant Jeffrey Bell who was married with two children. DAILY TELEGRAPH Navy orders new 19.10.83 i generation of I Dole demo by Falkland anti-sub frigates By Rodney Cowton, Defence Correspondent veterans The Royal Navy has adopted its prey and its noise will not rJ£ WELCOME - HOME TYPE 23 FRIGATE a new class of frigate - the Type obstruct its own sonar systems ceremony for the 23 - to be the backbone of its Length on waterline, 123 metres as they listen for enemy anti-submarine surface force Beam, 15 metres Merchant Navy ship which submarines. holds ‘the Falklands record until the end of the century. It Standard displacement, 3,000 It has been carefully designed has been designed to operate !?nnes , , for long service was soured with exceptional quiet and be pi?2tn aH°i72i?k?ots to produce a low profile and the at Devonport yesterday by minimum possible radar echo. a jobs protest from the The Navy hopes it will prove crew. mS inViSible 10 attackin8 virtually undetectable by at The first frigate is expected to ARMAMENTS tacking missiles. The roll-on roll-off ferry Ranga* be ordered next year at a cost of 0ne 4-5in 9un: vertical launch Sea T ... , , tira berthed with cotton sheets about £100 million from Yar- Wolf miss,le system; surface-to- It will carry a large helicopter, draped over the side carrying row Shipbuilders on Clvdcside surface weapon; eight sea-skim- such as the Sea King, or its slogans like “ Maggie welcomes From about the end of iqbs' Tin9 missiles of a type still to be eventual successor, the EH101, up back to the dole,” “ Margaret fuV7erTy0pUL3sewUldbe0ofrde9r8ed f0Ur Xf °f Thatcher — 20th century vam from British shipyards on the P b S'______attacks on submarines using the pire,” and “ Welcome home to basis of competitive tendering. new Stingray torpedo. the Giro.” From then on the Navy Economic Secretary to the Wnlf^Nsil^win S°a The crew fear the 9,587-ton expects to be ordering Type 23s Treasury. I0 nf^css, e Wl1 .be defence vessel will be laid up, putting many of them out of work. at the rate of about three a year. The Type 23 programme will ™h S wilhkS'. miSS’ She was chartered by the There are expected ultimately to be a big boost to jobs in the i ch? eilS0'In Ministry of Defence on May 24 be between eight and 12 ships of shipbuilding areas, with each main ^'Tannn last year at the height of the this design built, but they will ship requiring about 3,500,000 a 8? ?-1 th®r Falklands war for use as a be followed by a so-called man/hours of work, providing t r ch T ? troopship, and sailed for the Batch 2”, a development of the employment for about 400 to mpn, e bombard" South Atlantic on June J9. Type 23 in the 1990s. 500 men for at least four years. n-_' • n , Since the Argentine surren The decision to go ahead with Although capable of other bv°tu‘811 mflu?nced der she has been used as a Type 23 was announced yester- tasks. Type 23’s main role will Am/Inf k 3ndS expenen9f- floating hotel for thousands of day by Mr Ian Stewart, Under- be in anti-submarine warfare in neTd fnr defpnr^aaln^^rf^ British Servicemen. Secretary of State for Defence the North Atlantic. It has been skfmmer? fand 8fnr Procurement, before moving to designed to operate very quietly, * d / greatly Pomp and bitterness take up his new appointment as so that it will not be detected by smPke from Spread,ngT lhe The Royal Navy planned a showpiece reception on her MaSMMpMpi ship is hit. return after 486 days at sea. The frigates will have a A Royal Marines band thun standard displacement of 3,000 dered out patriotic tunes. Tugs tonnes, a length of 123 metres at sounded their hooters and sent the waterline, and a beam of 15 plumes of water skywards from metres. their fire-hoses in scenes remin The £100m cost compares iscent of the receptions for ^ with more than £130m for the returning warships during the .. — — ^ Type 22 frigates being built at summer of 1982. present. It will also be cheaper, But the crew were bitter. with a crew of about 143, to Searman Gary Rimmer, 25 > operate than Type 22, which from Liverpool, said; “We have ^ < has roughly 100 more. nothing against the company. Its a change of Government f The decision to go ahead with policy we want. iwSSI Type 23 constitutes final defeat “ There are 1,600 British sea for a small firm of naval men without jobs, yet when Artist’s impression of Navy’s new submarine killer we were in the Falklands there were 13 foreign ships there. We (architects based at Bembridge .//alklander of work hard, keep our noses in the Isle of Wight, Thomyc- ^ clean, and all we have to look roft Giles and Associates, who 85 TO RETURN forward t0 * the dole.” challenged the entire naval The Oldest resident of the o^ner^Union SteaSin^ 7 (establishment with claims that THE TIMES jits short fat design - the S-90 - Falkland Islands, who has beenmitted there is a DossihiHiv3^ in Britain since the outbreak the Rangatira b&Vuii* °f (would meet the Navy’s needs 19.10.83 (better than Type 23. | But Mr Stewart said yester- »sac sms-sas i si iday that the S-90 would not have achieved the reduced glter srwsiqaaaffiB noise levels needed, lacked Mr Archie Short, 85 a retired or gas. But” hl“ m^ld® Lf/e m! sufficient space, and did not shepherd, was one of the last assurances. ° meet requirements on speed to leave when Argentine troops and endurance. invaded in April, 1982. Since # Freeze rejected; A mass then he has been staving with meeting of 1,300 shipyard men his daughter, Mrs Mary Ursell, in Southampton yesterday over at her home in Stoke Lane, whelmingly rejected a wage Gcdling, Nottinghamshire. ! freeze plan by British ship builders. The men, who work for Vosper Thomycroft, also McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs rejected demands for 2,000 redundancies in the industry 41 Whitehall London SWlA 21iZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 I and change in working practic- es. It’s an ill wind. However wretched on steel rail technology. There is, the circumstances of last weekend’s however, a rival proposition pro- Cabinet reshuffle - and they don’t moted by a consortium headed by Jock Bruce-Gardyne come much more wretched in my Lord Plummer, the former Tory book - there’s one aspect of it which leader of the GLC. This would be gives me unalloyed pleasure: the based on the technology developed elevation of Nicholas Ridley to the by the French group Matra for the Cabinet as Transport Secretary. city of Lille, involving a specially- Put us on the right It was long overdue, and goes to c0?4'™ct'th^'kh'Can7 10 prove that in the fickle world of Paljs on rubber wheels. rts, “ioTair rewarded* ‘ta Although he comes from one of the swifter' cheaPer and more economi' 1 track, minister great Tory families of the north of cal while vastly reducing noise England, Ridley has had to fight nuisance. Since it would be entirely every inch of the way. computerized to eliminate the need „ „ , . , . .for drivers and manpower to couple THE TIMES Before the 1970 election he played on addili0nal units in the rush hour, a key role in shaping the Tory ^ could be operated to produce a party’s approach to industrial policy; commercial rate of return as it does 19.10.83 yet within two years, when the jn Lj|je either by the consortium as climate changed, he was dispatched agenl for London Transport, or in without ceremony to the back parlnership with London Transport; benches. In the later 1970s he and hence could be financed from conducted a series of brilliant and private capital (which has been lined entertaining one-man parliamentary up). Furthermore, they claim, the forays to expose the follies of the Callaghan government’s so-called “industrial strategy”. Yet when the 1979 government was formed he was appointed - to the surprise of some of us - to the Foreign Office and given charge of the apparent backwater of Latin America. Had a handful of loudmouths on the backbenches not succeeded in ditching his plans for a Hongkong solution for the Falklands, there might have been no Falklands war: but they did. "As Financial Secretary to the Treasury he then carried perhaps the heaviest workload of the hardest- worked of all departmental teams (I write with feeling). And throughout it all he has consistently demon strated that ministers can be more than Jim Hackers if they have the character for the task. He would be an asset to any Cabinet. Having got that - deserved - panegyric off my chest, I have a little task for him. One of the early acts of the first Thatcher government was Nicholas Ridley: an early task to set up a London Docklands , , . . . . ,, Development Corporation under the Matra technology (which would chairmanship of Mr Nigel Broackes 80 per cent built in the UK) has, of Trafalgar fame, to bring life back un ike the traditional to a part of the East End which the nology, worldwide export potential, dockers (with judicious late assist- well, they would say all that, ance from the likes of Mr Jack Jones wouldn’t they? There is, however, and Lord Aldington) had turned one aspect 0f their case which into something of a desert. And one Nici10]as Ridley might care to have of the early conclusions of Mr a i00k at \ say, London Broackes and his corporation was jransp0rt has throughout backed that you could not develop the the steei wheel concept. So back in docklands unless first you could get Junc Lord Plummer wrote to the to the docks. Which, by existing lDDC to ask whether it was in fact public transport, on the whole you prcpared l0 consider tenders involv- could not. ing a different technology. The So it was decided that the lDDC replied that it had agreed docklands must have a railway of wilh the GLC that “the system one sort or another. What emerged Performancc specification should be eventually was a plan for a light rail drawn up 0n the basis of the concept transit system to connect the Isle of 0f sleej wheel on steel rail”. Lord Dogs to Tower Hill in one direction piummer wrote back in August to and Stratford in the other, at a cost asj^ why tender conditions should be of£77m. drafted to exclude alternative London TransptDrt duly promoted technology. He has had no reply, a private Bill, which is now before Yet it seems a pertinent question, the House of Lords, and which - all . being well - should get the royal Could it be that Aslef and the assent before Christmas. Thereafter NUR and their friends on the GLC the LDDC will be going out to are afraid that if the Matra tender. And this is where the plot computerized technology were once thickens used ^or dockland someone might London Transport has set its think of developing it to meet the heart on a scheme to use existing needs of commuters more generally? railway track linked up where And what would become of the train necessary by specially-built street drivers then, tramway track, and there are a Lord Bruce-Gardyne was Economic number of contenders to supply Secretary to the Treasury in Mrs McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs such a system, involving steel wheel Thatcher’s last government. 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01*930 *3999 0) 3 • aFM 'H a o V • F»N £ © ®w CM © 3 £ QD © oM • rt U cu 4-a 3 u o s ■OIHWU 4» QJ |IMasg33§g as|tgs.s|855 >• 0) Q ftni&li >ili; PB ffi 4- ;2tglf=li:s= 3:?^fl|S|« 111|;| a &> tel) °F“I a © !filiii:i5| !ii!=5!J!ii w a 3 SJ S .2 a 1-1 ^ § to W ^ o’O 'w ^ « S o "a N >> -ffi .J2 c ^ ^ a 3 l'lil°li jl| I-®IsllaJs|^ o ®fN 4? 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The war ships, four of which can be built for the price of three existing frigates, will be constructed by Yarrow ship builders, Glasgow, and pro vide work for thousands of The frigates, code-named the Type 23, are designed to remove all right angles radar’s favourite homing angle. At the same time they :o will be able to trail sophisti cated decoys. Another lesson from the v in the South Atlantic is ? war jJXwA the provision of air-tight doors. I \ qVM- Demo as Falklands ship docks MILITANT seamen staged a demo yesterday when the 9,400-ton Rangatira returned after 486 days of Falklands duty as a floating hotel tor servicemen. _ As she berthed at Devon- port some of the crew none of whom has spent more than four months aboard- hung out banners saVirJ8 ‘Maggie welcomes us back to the dole'. The crew fear the ship will now be laid up. The Standard 18.10.83 Silence over Andrew ‘plot’ BUENOS AIRES. Tuesday THE Argentinian navy has declined to comment on a report that it plotted to kill Prince Andrew last year on the Caribbean island of Mustique. “ We are not going to say anything. These are just un official reports and we never comment on this type of in formation,’ 'a navy spokesman said yesterday when asked to comment about the Sunday Times report. The Standard 18.10.83 A dirty business for Falkland police chief to spend half my life climbing LONDON’S farthest - flung up Jacob's Ladders to ships, policeman has an abiding getting on to harbour ferries regret . . . he can’t keep his and clambering in and out of uniform clean. helicopters. But for Bill Richards, a “Working in London. I Metropolitan Police Chief wrj» ild not be seen dead in the Superintendent, it is only one uniform in the state it s in of Ins problems and not one here,” he said as he tended likely to earn him a reprimand the police station garden in from the Yard. Port Stanley on his first day Mr Richards. 54, is head of off since taking on the post the tiny civilian police force in March. in the Falkland Islands. Mr Richards was born in He maintains the rule of the Falklands, and is law in a 1900-strong com sympathetic to the islanders munity still recovering from problems. But when his two- last year's invasion — and year stint ends, he will which now has to share the probably retire with his wife, islands with more than 4000 Thora, *51, to live in Welling. British troops. Kent. Mr Richards said: "I seem Two die in Falkland Daily Mail 18.10.83 air crash AN RAF Phantom crashed on a desolate mountainside in East Falkland yesterday, kil- i ling the crew of two. ! The Phantom, on a l routine training mission from Port Stanley, was flying low over the 2,264- feet-high Mount Osborne. 10 miles, north-east of Goose Green, when it suddenly disappeared from radar screens. A search was launched immediately to find the wreckage, but both the pilot and navigator were dead. The crew were Flight- Lieutenants John Gostick and Jeffrey Bell. Both were married but neither had children. Daily Mail 18.10.83 Reagan rages over Maggie’s blackmail bid PRESIDENT Reagan is said to be ‘furious’ over an attempt by Mrs Thatcher to trade the continued presence of British troops in Belize for an American ban on arms sales to Argentina. Reports from Washington said the ‘obvious blackmail’ attempt was made during the Prime Minister’s recent visit to the American capital. Britain’s presence in Belize is to prevent an invasion by Guatemala From GEORGE GORDON in New York which separates the country from Mexico. The small garrison also ful fils an Important role for the United to subdue the Marxist revolution in States. Central America. The British troops have effectively According to columnist Jack blocked shipments of arms from Anderson British officials ‘coyly in Cuba to Marxist guerillas in Belize formed their U.S. hosts that Britain who are plotting to overthrow the was willing to keep troops in Belize,’ Mexico Government. as long as the arms embargo on Argentina stayed in effect. Implica tion : ‘The British would pull out if Slaughter Thatcher didn’t get her way.’ The CIA has warned the Gaute- White House sources said the mala would invade if the British U.S. sent the British millions of pulled out and the resulting carnage dollars worth of arms during the would be on ‘an appalling scale.’ — Falklands War particularly among the black popu Anderson quotes a White House lation. source as saying : ‘And now they President Reagan doesn’t want the threaten to pull out of Belize which slaughter, nor does he want to lose would risk another war. It’s damned the good will of Gautemala in efforts ungrateful.' THE TIMES 18.10.83 INfo Kirkpatrick rejects offer of ^consolation prize’ From Nicholas Ashford, Washington Mrs Jcane Kirkpatrick, the Administration and to have her controversial US Representa continue to play an important tive at the United Nations, has role in forming foreign policy. rejected a specially created foreign policy post offered by But The New York Times President Reagan to assuage her quoted a senior adviser of Mrs disappointment at failing to be Kirkpatrick as saying: “What chosen to succeed Mr William position could they give her? Clark as National Security She is in the Cabinet. She is in Adviser. He has instead selected the National Security Council. Mr Robert McFarlane, his There is no way that she could special envoy to the Middle be guarenteed access.” East. The choice of Mr McFarlane According to reliable sources was due to announced the President wanted to set up a formally last night, means that new senior post, but Mrs the President must also decide Kirkpatrick is reported to have w*)0 should take over the job of rejected the offer because the Middle East trouble-shooter? scope of the job was undefined The question is likely to be and it was unclear how much considered at a top level influence it would carry. strategy session on the Middle She has told the President she East at the White House today, wishes to leave her UN post at Mr McFarlane, who will the end of the present session, attend the meeting, has rec- Mr Reagan is known to place ommended that the US must great value on her opinions and now widen the scope of its is anxious to keep her in his activity in the Middle East McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-0300935 Falklands: we never meant to stay Buenos Aires Visiting Nicanor Costa Mendez, Argentina’s former foreign minister Argentina's foreign minister during the Falklands conflict with Britain reveals his country’s thoughts at the last year, has its paradoxes. His study at home in a residential time of the invasion and its hopes now district of Buenos Aires lias a certain British flavour to it. The Encyclo pedia Britannica, Shakespeare, and Locke arc visible on the book shelves. He says that he has always recognized the value of British culture and tradition. He was, he said, informed of the decision to invade the islands on March 26, 1982. Was it true that the president. General Leopoldo Galtieri, had told him of the plan when offering him the ministry in December 1981? “No. When the president offered me the ministry' he told me he wanted me to activate sovereignty negotiations and achieve concrete results, results which had not been obtained in the previous 16 or 17 years. He said nothing of a disembarkation on the 0 islands then" ^ Costa Mendez argues that the JStSP* original Argentine conception was a w peaceful occupation of the islands, a -c mm, move to stun Britain into negotiat ing. “The project was conceived as fill an occupation to negotiate, includ ing provision for the withdrawal of our troops. In no way did we plan to Hifliifc: go to the Malvinas and stay there. That came as a result of a decision by the military junta.” But how did the game-plan I change? “As a result of a long process which cannot be condensed into a single answer,” Costa Mendez replies. “It was caused by Britain's intransigent response and the fact that the British Government left us no room to manoeuvre.” With the benefit of hindsight, would the foreign minister have acted dif ferently? “Answering that question is difficult, because it is always difficult to reconstruct events which have occurred in the past. If I were ^ ack in April 2 or 3, I think we Nicanor Costa Mendez: “Britain should make concessions” ^should have made more immediate use of Resolution 502, inviting the qviestion you should direct to the cher’s government. There was a very Security Council of the United three commandcrs-in-chief, or to the difficult economic situation, an Nations to intervene directly to president at that time. But no, in austerity programme and extremely implement it.” reality we always acted on the basis high unemployment. In the new of 502 Argentina’s proposals on situation, she saw the possibility of Although passed as a result of a April 19 were based on 502. The reviving the powers of empire and British initiative, Costa Mendez Haig and Belaunde proposals also giving the Conservative Party a new insists it was satisfactory from mentioned 502.” ideological make-up and profile. The Argentina’s point of view. “The Costa Mendez believes that peace powerful lobbies of the Falkland resolution did not condemn Argenti was closest when the Peruvian Islands Company, the Royal Navy, na as an aggressor country, neither president. Fernando Belaunde Terry, and the British Antarctic Survey also directly nor indirectly, explicitly or intervened. General Galtieri had played a role.” implicitly. All it said was that the agreed in principle to the Peruvian But surely internal reasons played peace had been broken, without peace plan, subject to the ratifi a part in Argentina’s original saying who was responsible. It called cation of the rest of the junta, decision? “The situations are com for a cessation of hostilities, which which was due to meet on the pletely different. For us affirming, was acceptable to Argentina. It afternoon of May 2. But as the sustaining and recovering our called for the withdrawal of troops, meeting took place Admiral Jorge sovereignty over the Malvinas was which, if they were replaced by a Isaac Anaya, the navy commander, always our first priority. Lord United Nations force, was acccpt- received news of the sinking of the Carrington told my predecessor, ible to us. And it called for serious Belgrano, and the possibility of Oscar Camilion, in the United negotiations on sovereignty, which agreement was killed. Nations that for British foreign satisfied our basic objectives.” Why did Britain react in a much policy, the islands question was Could it have been that Argentina stronger fashion to the Argentine priority number 242.” did not want to appear to be taking a invasion than Costa Mendez had Looking to the future, Costa ;lep backwards in the eyes of imagined? “Because of the internal Mendez is confident that his domestic public opinion? “It is a political situation under Mrs That- country’s case will progress. The THE TIMES 18.10.83 McMiUan-Scott Associate I Cont... The Times 18.10.83 advent of democracy in Argentina is one of the factors he mentions. “Argentina has been attacked a lot in Europe, and it has a very bad image as a result of being governed by a military junta and as a result ol the problem of the disappeared ones. “Well, you can see that the elections here arc going to be completely clean and correct. Many of the countries who attack Argen tina will be left without that type of argument against us. Secondly, I believe that there is no British national interest in the islands capable of justifying the expenditure now being made on them. Nato has no strategic interest in the islands and has no money to take up an interest in this area, which does not have the strategic importance of, say, the missile problem." He added: “The islands are distant from any communications route apart from those which interest Argentina, Brazil and eventually the United States: there arc no proved oil reserves capable of justifying the investment; there arc no fishing resources capable of justifying the investment, and finally, as I understand it. there is no T British interest in siting their armed forces in places which arc distant from the likely points of confron tation or friction in today’s world.” He also holds that Argentina should not sign a formal cessation of hostilities with Britain until London is prepared to make some con cessions of its own “such as sitting down around the negotiating table with us". What docs Costa Mendez now think of the British Prime Minister? “I can tell you that, apart from a reflex reaction which I cannot hide which is very negative - the feeling % of irritation at the way she conducted the war - I cannot deny that she conducted it in a manner favourable to her political interest. She discovered, 1 don’t know if she had discovered it before or if it came only as a result of the war, the possibility of a remodernization of Conservative ideology. “Mrs Thatcher, who is a middle class woman, discovered the possi bility of reinserting into Conserva tive Party ideology a series of elements which are similar to those brought by Disraeli. In other words non-economic elements, which are unrelated to concrete material values but have to do with the idea of a great United Kingdom, a Britannia ruling the waves, some thing which is close to a nostalgic sentiment which, I suppose, all Britons carry inside them. So she was able to revitalize a series of non economic values, a series of ideals.” And does Costa Mendez share those ideals? “I share the need to affirm spiritual values, national dignity, and the dignity of man - even though a compatriot of yours, Samuel Johnson, said that patriot ism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Andrew Thompson THE TIMES 18.lo.83 Two killed ^ in Falklands GUARDIAN Argentine’s fear 18.10.83 Aigle (Reuter) A Swiss jet crash court acquitted Jose Lopez An RAF Phantom jet crashed in Rega, an Argentine Welfare the Falkland Islands killing its Minister during the Isabel crew of two. The accident Falkland Peron regime from charges of happened while the aircraft was falsification of documents. The 0n a routine training flight over judge found he had been living east Falkland. It crashed on to in Switzerland under an as- the south side of the 2,600 ft air crash sumed name out of fear for his Mount Usborne, the highest An RAF Phantom jet life. mountain on the island. crashed in the Falklands yes terday killing its two-man crew. It was on a routine train ing flight over East Falklands when it crashed on a moun Tory MPs fear loss tainside- , _ The British Armed Forces Minister, Mr John Stanley, was touring army units in West of committee lobs Falklands at the time. Helicopters and ground By Our Political Reporter teams located the wreckage of Conservative MPs who ser that the majority of former # the Phantom soon after the members should not be re crash. ved during the last Parliament “ We are taking action to in on the Commons foreign affairs appointed to the new com form next-of-kin and a full ^in select committee fear that they mittees and a largely new quiry is to be carried out. a may not be reappointed becase membership should be com I spokesman said. of the Prime Minister’s dis posed and the views of senior pleasure over the findings of backbenchers who believe that their reporting the future of the such a change would destroy Falkland Islands. any prospect of continuity in The position of Sir Anthony the committee’s work. They Kershaw, MP for Stroud, who is believe that the chairmen, keen to carry on as the certainly, and at least some of committee’s chairman, is the existing members should be thought to be under threat. reappointed. DAILY TELEGRAPH The appointment of the new The concern of some Tories 18.10.83 membership of the select who served on the Foreign committees has been held up by Affairs Committee arises from the Labour leadership and their knowledge that their shadow cabinet elections, a reports on the Falklands, which delay which has not dismayed cast doubt on the long-term the Government. But the viability of the Fortress Falk ^hantom crew Commons Committee of Selec lands policy and said the tion will be meeting when Government should not turn its KILLED IN Parliament reassembles next back on future talks with week to draw up recommeded Argentina, caused considerable FALKLANDS lists of backbenchers from both irritation to the Government. sides for the departmental The report was never offi * By Our Port Stanley committees. cially published because at the Correspondent There is a conflict already time of the dissolution of An RAF Phantom aircraft between the view of the Parliament in May its drafting crashed in the Falklands yester Committee of Selection, which had not been completed. day killing both members of its is chaired by Sir Philip Holland, crew. The committee’s initial con The accident occurred while clusions, incorporated in Sir the aircraft was on a routine Antony’s draft chairman’s re training flight over East Falk port, were however disclosed in land. It crashed on to the south The Times. side of Mt Usborne (2.600ft), Now, Conservative MP’s the highest mountain on the believe, Mrs Thatcher may island. want a Foreign Affairs Com Mr John Stanley, Armed mittee on which the Conserva Forces Minister, was touring tive contingent would be more army units in West Falkland at likely to reflect her own line on the time. A military spokesman said in Port Stanley that the foreign policy issues, especially crash happened “ several if, as expected, the Falklands miles ” from the Minister. report is reconsidered. They believe that she may be trying, through the whips’ office, to ensure that the FINANCIAL TIMES Sir Anthony Kershaw: Conservatives appointed this 18.10.83 Under threat time are more sympathetic. Falklands crash \ An RAF Phantom jet c/i a routine training flight over East Falkland crashed killing its two-man crew. Armed McMillan-Scott Associates Public Adairs Forces Minister John Stanley is on a ' week’s visit to the 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: OI-OJOWUS islands. FINANCIAL TIMES 17,.10.83 « Ridley: a tong time in the background BY IVOR OWEN ^MEONE with such ah to get his first ministerial post. Mr Ridley was not among arrangement, archetypal Conseivative back- It began a period of mixed them as he left his post as Mr Ridley was driven into a taken Mr Nicholas political fortunes for Mr Ridley. Under-Secretary for Trade and corner in the Commons defend- Ridley, 54, a surprisingly long His strong advocacy of the Industry in 1972. ing his conduct of the nepotia time to get a department of his market economy, now fully in In 1979 Mrs Thatcher made ttonf S hie “ISc =s*:r ”: T .... i. A expectfd s:“ Searixs>sdon" ima« srthe bla-,s Britain's "possession of thes ssj't?commfn“ on sjtiie -Stocksk * . ? } a foot rapidly on t.ie tantly interventionist policies Falkland Islands by sounding Exchange’s need to deal with : eV>fnt which resul!edJn 50 “any sdluUon thHBR&Sm of mMmiS ’ Heath formed a Government1 2*2 d°f the tl°-y J™?1 based on transfer of sovereignty commissions did not endear Mr Heath formed a Government, bench standing on their heads, to Argentina under a leaseback him to some Tory backbenchers. *■ McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2 HZ Telephone: 01-93116035 L 1 DAILY TELEGRAPH 17.10.83 I A Union invited to ^Hongkong talks Falkland initiative © expected By Henry Stanhope ©grievances Diplomatic Correspondent A British initiative is ex ^jpALKS are to be held between the THE TIMES pected at the new round of Hongkong talks which opens in consortium responsible for the new 17.10.83 Peking on Wednesday, after the Falklands Airport and union representatives recent consultations at Down ing Street between the Prime following allegations of “ exploitation ” of Minister and Sir Percy Cradock,, Britain’s Ambassador to China. workers in the South But neither British nor Atlantic. Chinese sources would confirm last night that it constituted a Union- officials are press surrender of British sovereignty ing for substantially more in return for concessions on cash, better medical facili future administration. It has always been assumed ties and a more effective Storms delay that Britain would lose its grievance procedure for the Falklands ship sovereignly over Hongkong 1,400 men who will work when the lease on the New Storms have delayed the Territories expired in 1997, if on the £215 million Port return home of the longest only because China would Stanley airport contract. serving ship in the Falklands. accept nothing less. Mr George Hinderson, The ferry, Rangatira, was due But the Government has national construction secre to reach Devonport today, 485 been reluctant to cede this point tary of the Transport and days after sailing for the South in the year-old-talks without Atlantic. But the Royal Navy winning a hand in the future General Workers Union, said said yesterday that bad weather day-to-day administration of he had been invited to meet in the Bay of Biscay meant the the colony, which would help to with the consortium, .Laing- vessel would not arrive until maintain businesss confidence Mowlem - Amey Roadstone 1 tomorrow. and keep it stable. next Monday. Mr Hinderson said yesterday that action had been threatened “after fears of exploitation” by dockers, transport workers and airport services workers who arc members of his union. He said: "The area we are particularly concerned about is the safety, health and welfare of the workers. “ This is a high risk business and they need adequate medical FINANCIAL TIMES ^^facilities. We are not satisfied ^Bthat these exist at the moment.” 17.10.83 At present the men earn be- tween £10,000 and £12,000 a year. \J ‘ Pay too low * Mr Hinderson said: “This is Talks on claim of Falkland exploitation poor in comparison with other overseas projects and even two FINANCIAL TIMES REPORTER projects in the U K, Sullom Voe in the Shetlands and the Thames TALKS will be held between Workers Union, said he has that union representatives are Barrier, where people got more the consortium responsible for been invited to meet the Laing- allowed out to the Falklands. money for less hours.” the new Falklands airport and Mowlem-Amey Roadstone con- An gdvance guard of workers He added: “There is also a union representatives, following sortium, on October 24. He said left for the South Atlantic on question about procedures. allegations of “ exploitation ” of action had been threatened September 29, and the work- These workers can be sacked workers in the South Atlantic. “ after fears of exploitation ” force will gradually build up to immediately. There is no pro Union officials are pressing by dockers, transport workers 1,400. vision for them to be able to for more cash, better medical and airport sendees workers The Property Services deal with grievances and be facilities and a more effective who are members of the TGWU. Agency, which handles the con- represented. grievance procedure for the At present the men earn be- tract for the £215m airport on Mr Hinderson will demand 1,400 men who will work on the twfeen £10,000 and £12,000 a behalf of the Ministry of that union representatives are Port Stanley Airport contract, year. Mr Hinderson said: “This Defence, said: “We are aware allowed out to the I’alklands. Mr George Hinderson, is poor in comparison with other that there are problems but we An advance guard of workers national construction secretary overseas projedts.” left for the South Atlantic on don’t have anything to say on Sept. 29, and the workforce, will of the Transport and General Mr Hinderson will demand it. gradually build up to .1,400. Nobody from the consortium was available for comment yesterday. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 !l GUARDIAN 17.10.83 \ All-party groups face row The Commons committee of selection, chaired by the Tory over new MP Mr Philip Holland, will draw up a list of recommended backbenchers soon after Parlia ment returns next week follow Tories ing the long summer recess. How much this list will be i By Richard Norton-Taylor determined by the Tory whips A struggle is developing — the Government’s managers over membership of Commons — will depend to a great select committees, the all-party extent on the determination of groups which are at a crucial those senior backbenchers who stage in their development. believe that the committees’ The committees, set up in 1979 chief tasTc is to scrutinise the by Mr Norman St John-Stevas, executive, not merely Tecite then leader of the Commons, the views of -party leaders. began to show before the Whitehall is anxiously wait general election that they wrere ing to see if there are enough not afraid of embarrassing of these backbenchers to force ministers or Whitehall offi an early debate criticising de cials. partments and ministers for failing in the past to give the Labour’s leadership contest committees adequate inform prevented the party choosing ation. its select committee MPs as The Commons is likely to be the shadow cabinet’s composi faced with a number of speci tion awaited the new leader fic demands from back and, by convention, front benchers, including proposals bench spokesmen do not serve that committee proceedings on the committees. should be televised, This delay has been ? Two key committee posts are welcomed by the Government ] vacant. One is chairmanship of as it took the steam out of the the Treasury select committee committees’ work; notably the as Mr Edward du Cann, a lead- foreign affairs committee’s in I ing Tory backbencher, no quiry into the future of the ' longer wants the job. The _ Falklands. and the Treasury other is chairmanship of the comrniilee’s investigation of , foreign affairs committee, for- Government economic policy. | merly held by Sir Anthony The delay has also prevented Kershaw, Tory MP for Stroud, an argument within the Con who is not standing again for servative Party from breaking Parliament. out into the open. The Prime Mr Cranley Onslow, who was Minister’s office has suggested brought in as a minister of that it would be a good idea if state at the Foreign Office new Tory MPs joined the after the Argentine invasion of select committees rather than ( the Falklands last year but did being left on the back benches. not keep his place after the Independent-minded MPs general election, is a leading from both main parties are ! candidate for the foreign worried that this could have a ! affairs job. Mr Terence Hig profound affect on the com gins, former Treasury minister, mittees, since new Tory MPs is a Treasury committee post could perceive their duty as ( candidate. merely to protect the Govern ment. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 L SUNDAY TIMES 16.10.83 a Did Argentina hunt Andrew? by Robin Morgan and Isabel Hilton ARGENTINA hatched an to be the naval dockyards in extraordinary plot to assassinate Portsmouth, and the vital Task Prince Andrew last summer as Force staging post at Ascension he rested on the island of Island were singled out. Mustique after serving as a More details have emerged helicopter pilot during the about the unsuccessful attempt Falldands war to penetrate British defences on It was one of a number of Gibraltar in May of last year, at undercover operations planned the height of the war in the by the Argentinian navy, in South Atlantic, addition to the abortive raid on The Argentinian navy was, Gibraltar which was revealed by according to the Spanish news- The Sunday Times last week paper Pueblo, training former and later confirmed by the members of the Escuadron de Spanish government. Buzos Tacticos - the Argenti- The team detailed to attack nian equivalent of the Special Prince Andrew’s holiday retreat Boat Service - for the under- would have been landed on the cover missions at a military Caribbean island by submarine base near Puerto Belgrano. in July of last year. But it was . Only the Gibraltar team was never sent, probably because of dispatched before the sujrcnder the shift in power within the of Port Stanley. Posing as Argentinian junta following the tourists they flew mto Madrid Falklands defeat in June. individually, drove south and The prince, a Sea King hired a boat at the Spanish port helicopter pilot aboard the of Algeciras, just a few miles aircraft carrier Invincible, was along the coast from Gibraltar guarded by detectives during his Pueblo claims to have talked stay on Mustique. to the commanding officer of Michael Shea, the Queen’s the Argentinian sabotage squad press secretary, was amused by identified only as JL, aged 38 news of the plot. He said: “If and now back in Buenos Aires, those intrepid explorers from He told the newspaper that the The Sun and The Star couldn’t hired boat was used m rendez- get to Prince Andrew then I vous with another vessel in doubt if the Argentinians would international waters to collect have succeeded. The reporters arms and explosives to be used were probably more resourceful against British ships, in any case ” “We lost the war but we left The threat of raids on the British with bloody noses " military bases was taken JL is reported to have said. If seriously however. In addition my compantons and I had come to the planned attack on underwater to the ships in Gibraltar, in which four under- Gibraltar, they would have bled water saboteurs were arrested a little more, five miles short of the border, The team was arrested by two other raids were planned, Spanish civil guards at the according1 ° to sources in Buenos border town of San Roque and Aires and London. deported. A target in Britain, believed Additional reporting by Tim Brown. McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWl/N 21JZ Telephone: 01*930(>933 r Canada’s l I No on Belize t OBSERVER 16.10.83 by IAN MATHER AN ATTEMPT by Britain to organise a multi-national force to take over from British troops in Belize has collapsed after Canada’s refusal to take part. The Canadians, who have a large aid programme in Belize, have told the British Govern ment they are willing to continue helping to train the locally recruited Belize Defence Force, but will not agree to sending their own troops to protect the former British colony against agression from neighbouring Guatemala. In an attempt to free itself of the financial burden of a ‘ Fortress Belize ’ policy which involves keeping 1,700 troops there, Britain has approached a number of countries with the aim of setting up a Common wealth or ‘ hemispheric ’ force fpr Belize, led by Canada. Argentine threat from HUGH O’SHAUGHNESSY in Buenos Aires ITALO ARGENTINO LUDER, the tigate Argentina’s foreign debt is the strong Peronist presidential candidate tipped to suspicion that much of it has been piled up win the elections to be held here on 30 m .b°°k transactions by the country’s highly October, raised the spectre of a long agile speculators, with a view to getting their assets out of the country in an emergency. drawn. out and acrimonious fight with * Other Latin American governments j : foreign creditors over the $40 billion borrowed abroad in order to develop their i they are owed if he were returned to economies. During the last seven years of what was a true debt and what was not— power. military rule the Argentine economy could .leave creditor banks in a nightmare. of tmi IBS ina; ped short of saymg that his government who used to work for foreign financial the military goverment’s economic would declare a moratorium on payments to institutions, and who would doubtless work __jorge Wehbe, the economics foreign creditors. for them again. Luder also declared that he minister, and Julio Gonzalez del Solar, Luder also said that differences among the would not allow the debts to be repaid at the g0vern0r of the central bank, are grimly various Latin American countries made it cost of even greater sacrifices by his hanging on until the election, which is difficult, if not impossible, for them to form countrymen. scheduled to return a civilian government to an effective debtors’ club. Any financial inquiry set up by the power in early December. They will hand Behind the Peronists’ decision to inves- Peronists — with the government ruling over their jobs with little regret. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: Ol-'I.M) (W.V> k GUARDIAN Falklands folly: latest edition 15.10.83 Sir,—Despite protests— 'Argentine occupation last from MPs of all parties, and year, has been given 60 days’ imprisonment in 'Buenos others—about the embargo Aires for publishing his Clark becomes Secretary oN* on books from Argentina, the highly critical account of the British Government has only handling of the Falklands partly relented by granting war by the junta; his book permission for British may be freely purchased in Interior ‘at his own request’ libraries and institutions to Argentina, but not in Britain. receive Argentine books. How sad that the central However, it is still not per figure of A Message from the mitted for Argentine books Falklands : the Life and Gal to be imported for sale in lant Death of David Tinker Kirkpatrick British bookshops. Lieut, R. N. is no longer The continuing absurdity with us to pass on his com of this position was high ments to the Government he lighted by a Guardian report served.—Yours faithfully, (October 8) that General Stanley Alderson tipped as MenSndez, governor of the 7 Highfield Avenue, Falkland Islands during the Cambridge. US adviser © on se ini Nato expected N From Harold Jackson a more productive debate on in Washington foreign policy and not generate There was speculation In the tensions whichand existed in to offer top Carter Washington last night fjjal administralions between the President Reagan will choose Nalional Security Council and Mrs Jeane Kiikpatrick, the US thc State Department, ambassador to the Umted Th arrivai 0f Mrs Kirkpa- Nalions. as his new National ick the post would Cer- civilian post Security Adviser. But it was tainlv |)rjng new tensions into accompanied by considerable tho fif of^Mr shultz. The Sec- caution after the completely relary 0f state was said to unforeseen nomination of the have renewed his earlier dis- to Carrington previous incumbent, Mr wii- gruntiement with Mr Clark in liam Clark, as the new Secre- weeks after the tary of the Interior. National Security adviser had By Rafiq Mughal outside the Iberian peninsular, The White House said last made a trip to Rome for talks and David Fairhall and the Belgian Foreign Minis night that Mr Clark’s transfer on the Middle East without in- ter Mr Leo Tindemans has did not signal any dissatisfac- forming the State Department The former Foreign Secre- been mentioned as a compro tion with his performance as The two men have been at log- tary, Lord Carrington, who re- mise candidate if Lord Carr- the President’s closest foreign gerheads over policy in the signed when Argentina seized inglon is rejected by Spain affairs adviser. According to region almost throughout Mr the Falklands, is expected to because of the dispute over these officials, the initiative for Shultz’s tenure, be offered the post of Nato Gibraltar, the move had come from Mr Mr McFarlane has had long secretary general after the If Lord Carrington does take Clark himself. experience as a foreign policy Alliance’s ministerial meeting the job and one close There had been several expert and increased his repu- in December. business colleague said yester- rumours in recent weeks that tation as Mr Clark’s deputy, Ycsterday Lord Carrington, day that he had always wanted he wanted to end his term at The work at the NSC is re- who was also Defence Secre- it, even if it did disrupt h s the National Security Council ported to have suffered notice- tary in the Heath Government, career with GEC — lus recent and that he was planning to ably since he was removed to said that reports that he would criticism of the Reagan ^ Return to California. With one take over the Middle East job accent the iob were no more administration s megaphone candidate after another pub- from Mr Philip Habib. How- ?“anP speculation InU Brussels diplomacy " will take on a new liclv ruling himself out as Mr ever, he does not enjoy close diplomats described him as the significance, James Watt’s replacement, Mr ties with Mr Reagan and frontrunner. As secretary general he Clm-k apparently put his own given the highly personalised In London, colleagues in the would be the Westenr Allian- name forward. His close rela- nature of senior jobs in the City were already discussing ces main public spokesman ♦ ir>n<;hin with Mr Reagan made White House this must in- chairman of and its lop permanent official. tlonship Certain that Ids wish evitably demote his influence his replacement as He would be ex officio pres it almost as an adviser. the General Electric Company. ident of the North Atlantic would be met. Mrs Kirkpatrick’s appoint- Nato’s, ^ present- T u T secretary Council, the political body of lakeheovereatPSe0NS(?Pfs Mr ment, on the other hand, could general. Dr Joseph Luns, aged naHonal representatives that is park’s dermtv Mr Robert mean a rise in temperature 72, has said that he will SUpp0Sed to control the inte- MrFarlane now acting as well beyond the White House. announce his departure at the grated military structure, and America’s’special Middle East Given her known attitudes and December meeting, and his staff is headed bv a US general, envoy The job, however, interests, it would almost cer- expect him finally to hand over He would aiso chair the woulci undergo a significant tainly bring Central America in April next year. twice yearly meetings of de- change if he is chosen by the back to the top of the Amen- Dr Luns mentioned Lord fence and foreign ministers ! President, reverting to the pat- can agenda. It seems likely Carrington as a possible succes- that initiate Nato policy, ' tern set at the beginning of Mr that she would also prove as sor and there is little doubt endorse its military strategy Tt paean’s term irritating to Mr Shultz as Mr that he would have the support and agree its budget, Mr Richard Allen was chosen Clark did. There have been re of the British and American He would be leaving ps a deliberately low-key peated accounts of tensions be- governments. Britain’s largest, and in some adviser in contrast to Mr tween them m her job at the Portugal has put forward its ways most successful company, 7bieniew Brzezinski and earlier United Nations, even though former Foreign Minister, Mr which has wide interests in the holders of the job. The initial the Secretary is nominally her Vasco Futscher Perreira but he military, electronics and nuc- idea was that this would allow boss. appears to have no support lear fields. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 (>935 j Daily Mail 14th October 1983 Shipyard boost The Harland and Wolf ship yard in Belfast, was last night awarded the £4 million Falk- !ands’ barge contract lost bv Sunderland Ship-builders be cause of an unofficial strike. Mail on Sunday 16th October 1983 Stanley in port DEPUTY Defence Minister John Stanley flew into the Falklands last night to begin a week-long fact-find ing tour. He is the first minister to visit kbQ islands since the election, V- i THE TIMES DAILY TELEGRAPH 15.10.83 15.10.83 Banks proceed with $500m Argentine loan, By ASS'SVE SEG-ALL to go ahead withShelfirst $500 sevpneleCti°nS ArSentina for million loan instalment prom- SJT’ .hostility to the jsed to Argentina last Decern- k°Untry s /0Ile,£n creditors has ber in spite of the country’s u„sed for P°Htical ends, deteriorating economic situat- ing fears .among bankers ion and a scries of an inc.°ming government confrontations with creditor - repudiate debts incurred banks. ' during the period of military The surprise decision was p’ reached in the early hours or he9e"1 m(>ves by an Argen- yesterday morning after a f-n5 Judge to block debt nego- marathon session of talks fl?ns and arrest the governor between Argentina’s leading thec central bank added to creditor banks in New York tliese fears but have since been Officials from the International re^crsed. j Monetary Fund are understood Kank!n§ sources in New York ' to have participated in the ,?la, ,l , ,ear' yesterday that' attempt to find a solution to banks would be keeping a tight I Argentina cash needs. fl,p ,on their money following The decision by banks to go !Pe dec,s,on to go ahead with ahead with the controversial theMoan, loan was made after IMF .3500 million, roughly assurances v; e ^°?a N,aI? sLWl,kiI,son sword of peace being presented by that Argentina * 0 m“1,ou has been reserved ‘ce-Admira, D. R Reffell (left) to Captain Colin MacGrego/ would be allowed to draw its • pay,n2 back part of a bridg- next instalment of I M F money mVoan made by major banks ,ha'f °f this ship' HMS Endurance, which in November. earlier this year to see Argen- was commended for its service to the Falkland islands last year. Earlier this week, there were Jma. trough until longer-term The ceremony was held after the ice patrol ship was rededicated reports from Washington that f“nds could be negotiated. And at Portsmouth yesterday. the I M F was planning to ,the remaining $150 million is to withhold the $210 million in- be set aside in a special account stalment because Argentina 'or paym& bank interest, had strayed so far from its The major preblem for agreed IM F targets since the Argentina’s leading creditor summer. banks is persuading smaller 'epourts,als° suggested banks to go along with their 1 cr • ,b°th banks and IM F decision to proceed with the \T'e PPeparin* t0 sus- S500 million loan. Smaller ?fte? [hpthn^tnhan Sov?s Hntil banks did not participate in the ?n b '30. electl0ns bridging loan and will thus be Tn , r reaching into their pockets to clecUiohneerin^SPt^^ °f lnten*e provide Argentina with funds electioneering leading to the for the first time. ■ 1 EXPOSURE CASES ! IN FALKLANDS By Our Port Stanley Correspondent A review of the first half of a four-month Falklands tour by the 2nd Light Infantry Battal ion reveals one case of hypo thermia with the soldier requir ing urgent evacuation to Stanley Hospital, one of immersion (trench) foot, aud minor cases of exposure. Lack of roads and limited use ot helicopters means that much movement is on foot, carrying mads sometimes in excess of 1001b, which puts considerable strain on soldiers’ knees. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306035 1 r Brendan Keenan on Harland and Wolff’s record FINANCIAL TIMES A reputation for delivering 14.10.83 WORK-STARVED Belfast may nave difficulty understanding HARLAND AND WOLFF is However, it wants to avoid the caution of Harland and expected to decide by the jeopardising the delivery Wolff over whether to accept weekend whether it will take schedule for the existing part further work on the floating over a £4m slice of a Falk of the order. It has put pro dock for the Falklands. lands contract lost by Sunder posals to ITM Offshore, the But Mr John Parker, Har- land Shipbuilders because of Middlesbrough - based main land’s chairman and chief a strike. contractor, and awaits a executive who took over the The Belfast yard has reply. loss-making yard a month ago. already been awarded a £3m share of the defence ministry Sunderland missed the is determined to build a repu deadline for agreement on tation for delivering on time contract for a floating harbour as a flrst step to returning to in Port Stanley. The com the contract because of the profitability. pany said it was “keen for strike by 1,600 men over The yard’s recent record has more.” crane drivers’ pay. been good. Two 110,000-tonne *annke™ fi!r, BP TrP,delivered gest in Europe, is important involved in the task of keeping on schedule. A £30m ore- because of the specialised coal- to schedule. p construction for ings required by modern oil and British Steel is three weeks gas tankers, Mr Parker dislikes the a heart of schedule apH the vard -r< .1 , . , description of shipping as a pltemptin^ toTiring "a late -^Yen s?’ ^ie yard a shadow traditional indusrrj'. He order fmm the Blue Star line ^ormer self, Fifteen believes the Belfast yard is on on fn ^h^ule hundred workers lost their jobs a par with those in bcanda- Mr ParW. aVed 40 is in the in l,h,e past year’ reducinS the navia in computer-aided design position of the man given a t0 5’500: Ninety acres but must catch up in the use .«]odgehamm«r to m-^k n nut- jn of the 330-acre site are to be of computers. -this r*se. the swimmer is relinquished and a cost-cutting He jfees >0 possibility of a tim CTjaontie yard, dpsioned to ProSlamme is 60 per cent return to profitability in the bnitd im-tonne tpnke^s of n kind completed, next four years, however, whi^h m»v not ho jn demand Hope for the future lies in because of depressed prices for a fro in this century. changes in management struc- new ships. Harland’s lost more Mr Parker and his nrederns- lures and practice. A key cle than £30m in 1980 and recent ars havo hod to adont the ment is the appointment of a orders have had to be sub tins to brn'id the s^ins thoV ihi^-k project manager for each ship sidised by the Government. will b« in demand. Tn wariand’s under construction. The vessel “ We can only improve the caso this means moono-tonne is divided into zones and a things under our control,” he lmik carriers and oil product manager is charged with keep- says and warns that he will be tankers of about 7onno tonnes ing each one on time and within prepared to look outside Britain to service the ^rowing concen- budget, for suppliers if their costs are tratjnn of refining capacity in more competitive. “ I believe in making man the Middle East. “The next two years will be Some of the facilities are agers accountable,” says Mr Parker. One effect is that fore very tough,” says Mr Parker, valuable. Whole sections of who is the first Ulster man to ships can be built indoors and men and even rank-and-file head the Belfast yard for 20 the paint cell, which is the big- workers find themselves years. Hong Kong and citizenship i From Mr P. Fergusson. Sir,—In your leader (October 7) on Hong Kong residents, you said that “The 1982 Nationality ; Act has dispossessed them of the right to settle in Britain.” In fact, for most Hong Kong resi dents. the British Nationality Act 1981 (which came into force on January 1. 1983) has no effect on the right to settle here. This right had been removed by previous Immigration Acts over 10 years ago. What the Act did was to replace the anomaly of Hong Kong born people being citizens of the UK and colonies without any right 0! entry into the UK with a new citizenship (that of the British dependent territories). ! P. Fergusson. ; Wayfarers, Greenhill Close, Godaiming, Surrey. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: (ll-M) THE TIMES 14.10.83 Hongkong rights DAILY TELEGRAPH and freedoms 14.8.83 From Mr John Walden Sir, The letters from Sir William The vacuum in political leader Keswick- ship that an unimaginative attitude (October 1) and Mr Jack to public participation by the Perry (October 11) about Hong Hongkong Government in the kong s future reflect a point of view running of Hongkong has helped to rather widely held amongst those create has left the Hongkong people who trade into Hongkong and China uniquely ill-prepared to help them but actually live somewhere else. selves in this predicament. It has EARLY ARRIVALS This is that all that is needed to keep Johnny Chinaman happy is to keep increased the weight of responsi By Our Falklands bility falling on the British Govern the coins jingling in his pocket. ment to protect their interest in the Correspondent Of course, everyone likes to make current negotiations. Two of the 19 heifers «t>qui(? buck’ and Sir Wiliam’s travelling from Britain to the The most important of these is British merchant adventurers and the inviolability of their freedoms. It Falklands on board the Danish nimble-witted Chinese” are no freighter Dana Khalaf have is simply not good enough to say, as different. But to keep harping on Mr Edward Heath did, when visiting D unexpectedly given birth to maintaining Hongkong’s prosperity calves. The vessel is due in the and stability as if money and civil Hongkong recently, that Hongkong Falklands towards the end of order were the only things that they people should have no say in their this month, having just crossed future. Neither he nor any law-abid the Equator. care about is seriously to misjudge ing British citizen has ever spent a Hongkong people’s concerns about night wondering if the Special their long-term future. Branch will knock at his door. No For a full year spokesmen of the one has the right to deny that same Chinese, British and Hongkong peace of mind to the citizens of governments have been publicly Hongkong. avowing their determination to Yours sincerely, harland wins maintain Hongkong’s prosperity and stability up to and beyond 1997. JOHN WALDEN, falklands job Like Mr Jack Perry, most Hongkong St John’s College, University of Hong Kong, Belfast’s Harland and Wolff people probably think that the 82 Pokfulam Road, i f4Pm’irWaS yesterday awarded Chinese can do it, even without Hongkong. a £4 million contract to convert British help. Yet they are still deeply October 12. a floating offshore barge for apprehensive about 1997. use m the Falklands. The con- In fact, it seems to me that it is h,a-n Was uSt by British ship not the uncertainty about a prosper builders subsidiary Sunderland ous and stable future that is causing Shipbuilders because of an unofficial strike. 1 confidence, money and people to But desert Hongkong. It is a feeling of it was being towed certainty, growing day by day in to the Belfast yard yesterday, the barge broke free and people’s minds, that in 1997, or even drifted for eight hours. After before, authoritarian British colonial ? day-long rescue operation rule is going to be replaced by Q involving coastguards and the authoritarian Chinese Communist Royal Navy, the 1.500-tonne rule. vessel was last night at anchor Hongkong people well know in the inner Hebrides. which they prefer, because more than a million of them have voluntarily left China to live in Hongkong since 1949. Many have died, or risked death, to get there. Neither_ the British nor the Chinese Government has yet made any explicit statement indicating the position they propose to take in regard to the freedoms and civil rights now enjoyed by Hongkong, citizens. Furthermore, the Hong kong Government has officially rejected a proposal that a refer endum be eventually held to test the official assurances ‘‘that the out come of the negotiations will be acceptable to the people of Hong kong”. Such obtuseness over a matter of such fundamental human import ! ance cruelly serves to deepen Hongkong people’s worries about their future and the future of their young children. McMiilan-Scott Associates Public Adairs -II Whitehall London SW1A 2HZ Telephone- Ol-U.tMU'i.LS L ! The uncertainty is compounded by misgivings, particularly among the middle Peronists class voters Dr Luder was selected to attract, about the guardian disastrous record of the Peron losing ists before the military coup in 14.10.83 1976. The start of Dr Luder’s cam paign seems to have been de election layed by an internal dispute over election tactics. The argument centres on whether the Peronists should energy maintain their traditional and recognisable vote-winning way which no opponent is spared, From Jeremy Morgan to ensure its support in the in Buenos Aires working class, or broaden its appeal to attract other voters. Argentina’s first election The issue was supposed to campaign in a decade has got have been settled when the re under way after an uncertain spectable Dr Luder was pro start from the Peronisls, who claimed at the Peronists’ con-; only months ago seemed confi vention in early September. dent of strolling to victory. Political sources say a three- Only in the last few days has cornered fight has broken out a sense of purpose entered the that does not augur well for Peronists’ attempt to reassert Dr Luder should he assume their hold on Argentina’s poli the presidency. r tical scene. Ranged against Dr Luder’s The campaign has been over moderates are the supporters shadowed by the debt crisis of Mr Herminio Igl'esias, a clear signs of serious divisions metal workers union chief within the military regime, and who’s the Peronist candidate rumours of a coup to prevent for governor of Buenos Aires the polls scheduled for October province. 30. Dr Luder denies " differ In the absence of initiatives ences ” between the two men, from Argentina’s biggest politi but Mr Iglesias has yet to cal movement, the run-up to show enthusiasm for the presi the dential candidate. When Dr , . election has been Luder spoke in the province dominated by Dr Raul Alfon- recently, Mr Iglesias was sin, presidential candidate for absent. the Union Civica Radical, tradi Mr Iglesias also seems tionally the Peronists’ biggest rival. locked in battle with Mr Lor enzo Miguel, a rightwing Dr Alfonsin has been on the labour chief who is the party campaign trail for months, vice-president. drawing large .crowds all The unions have always pro around the country. In con vided Peronism’s power base, trast, the response to the and Mr Miguel was a prime former senate leader picked by mover in Dr Luder’s selection. the Peronists, Dr Halo Luder, But the candidate is under was mixed. almost constant pressure from The contrast has prompted the labour leader. Sources say the suggestion that the Radical that Dr Luder’s aides have sug e Party leader might assume the gested union figures adopt a populist role normally reserved lower profile, only to be re for the Peronist candidate in minded of the union’s tradi Argentina’s electoral contests tional role in the movement. Big crowds matter in Argen The discomfort is motivated tine politics, the voters like a by fear that too close an iden winner, and since there are tification with the unions few policy differences between might undermine floating the two big parties, the choice votes, and also centres on the may be decided by the elector likely impact of Mr Miguel’s ate’s feelings about the candi past in a violent labour move dates. ment and his role in the Per onist administration up to Dr Luder now has some re 1976. spectable crowd estimates to A key date In Peronist his his credit, but nothing yet to tory is approaching — October come near matching the esti 17, when protesting workers mated 100,000 'that went to see secured the release of the then Dr Alfonsin on his only Colonel Peron from a military appearance in the capital so gaol in 1945, one year before far. he went on to win election as Although the Peronists re- President. main favourites to win power, It is suggested that Dr Luder, Dr Luder’s failure to capture who concedes his meetings crowds has cast doubt on the have lacked “ Peronist fer movement’s hopes of winning vour,” might Hold his rally on an absolute majority. that anniversary several The doubts partly stem from hundred miles away from a his. , bland, and lacklustre meeting planned by union style, which has done little to leaders. ; dispell suspicions that he is a vehicle for the Peronist power- brokers and labour barons who thrust him into the candidacy less than six weeks ago. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs •ll Whitehall LondonSWlA1WY. Telephone. (Mi SAS Captain John Hamilton died heroic all y XK the Falklands. ------„ „-^r-r -- Brian--- Harris--- ^ His wife recalls the happy times - and the sad ones The big softie who fought f to the last A half smile flickers across the face in fits of laughter after something of Victoria Hamilton as she sorts funny happened at work. He would through the few precious photo creep into the kitchen pretending to graphs of her life with Captain John be the Pink Panther after food, but Hamilton, MC of the Special Air always letting me know he was Service, who died a hero in the last there.” days of the Falkands war. “We both Bom in Harrogate, Yorkshire, knew he was going to die, that he Hamilton was educated at the Royal wasr"”' oming back”, she says. Masonic Schools: motto Aude, Vide, “Jonn just would not let go of my Tace - Hear, See and Be Silent. Above: Captain Hamilton, and hand when it was time finally to go. Close friends at school were right, his grave in the Falk He said he might be going to war surprised he had become an SAS lands. He was buried by the and might not be coming back, and man. They knew a very quiet boy islanders ‘Thank you for being such a super who wanted to become a doctor but wife’. He said ‘I can go knowing whose A levels were not good you’re behind me all the way’. His enough. should have got the VC, but viewed badge would have meant so much to men had to say ‘Come on Boss’ to After a year off, he finally drifted at a distance it was a rather him. His life and death have a get him to let go. Then they drove perplexing “sacrifice”, which is how meaning. We loved each other so away.” into the Green Howards, mostly because of his fascination with the even official reports refer to it. much it does not matter if that was Captain Hamilton was concerned lonely sport of climbing: “He used A senior Falklands official, who what he wanted.” But there is an about the effect his career in the SAS to try to get me climbing moun- had close contact with the SAS, said unspoken tension between being had on his wife: “He only joined tains”, says his wife. ‘“If I am killed that the Argentines who surrounded proud of her husband “dying well” j knowing I would be happy letting on a mountain, he would say, ‘I the two men waited for one of them and wondering why he chose to die him go and I realized all the dangers want you to know why I had to do to go to the latrine before shooting at all. but I also know how much he it’. One day the only way I could get Hamilton in the back in the hills In his personal diary Hamilton enjoyed it. John could appreciate him to come down was to take my near Port Howard. “There is some often wrote a few words of love for how in some ways being in the SAS boots off and throw them down the truth in that story”, said Mr Robin his wife; He also carefully listed the is a very selfish thing. But he mountain. Then he had to carry Lee, of Port Howard, who helped numbers and types of aircraft he cancelled once and was so miserable. blew to pieces on Pebble Island. But me.” bury Hamilton. “It was the reason there is no clue as to what he felt. “After he was killed it upset me why the radio was not being The colonel who commanded the very much that people came up to manned. Argentine troops later said of him: me and said it was a good thing he I owe it to him to “We discovered that there were “He is without doubt the most was dead as he was just a trained four SAS, two that went to observe courageous man I have ever seen”, kille ~ even stopped having my hair carry on. I don’t the Argies and two who stayed back. and asked for a flag to bury him. The 1 done, //hen people find out your want to let him down That was Hamilton and a Fijian truculent locals wouldn’t give him husband is in the SAS they think sergeant. They were surrounded and one and later reburied Hamilton you’re not human.” taken by surprise. The Argies told us themselves. They met in Berlin at a Green later of how John fought to the last.” The Argentines gave back Hamil A favourite photograph shows her ton’s belongings. “It all came with a next to a Valentine bouquet sent Howards curry lunch while Victo- -He was medically minded and long list in Spanish”, said Victoria. while he was climbing Mount Kenya ™_ther was a diplomat there: probably realized he was not going “They even spelt his name right. and she was staying with her Our honeymoon was m Austria, t0 come through”, said Victoria, Trinidad. They sent back a picture of us taken diplomat parents in climbing of course. He was a terribly “The only possible way out would on Ilkley Moor which was in a Members of Hamilton’s SAS moun physical person. He used to make have been the water. I have seen it; plastic wallet with some of my hair. tain troop, all now dead, clown in a his men at the Green Howards run was very ancj they wouldn’t They were not really meant to carry mountain top snap. Had they with sand-weighted belts and when jiave survived.” So in the knowledge rings and things. They even gave survived the Falklands they would he left they gave him one for his dog 0f almost certain death he fought on. back his watch. have attempted to climb Everest Marcus. Not surprisingly Marcus victoria has a picture of this other “When the really dreadful heli next year. Hamilton, she says, was has remained at the SAS barracks m Hamilton, a stem warrior with an copter crash occurred at sea I went never happier than when his yellow Hereford; probably the only place on automatic rifle, to see other wives. In a way it Renault 4 was loaded with climbing earth he can get the exercise he is prepared me for what happened. gear heading for an exacting used to. “I worry about the time between One has to accept people being mountain. Hamilton regarded his military -- when he was shot in the back and the shot that killed him. Did he killed. John and I sat down and “But he was a big softie. He liked career very seriously and it took him worry about me and the dog before talked about what I would do if he nothing better than curling up in to Cyprus, South Armagh, Belize were killed doing so and so. You and even the French Commando he was killed? I hope not. He did not have to, but you never really know front of the television with his go out there to be killed, but if he sweetie jar, me and his English setter School at Trier: “But he never broke had to die he would have preferred what will you do. For six months I Marcus. He always found things a bone, he was so careful”, his to die properly as he did, fighting the was numb. But John died so bravely funny wherever he was, and John widow says. enemy”, she says. I owe it to him to carry on. I don’t was the giggliest person I have ever He is unique in being the first of want to let him down.” known. more than 30 SAS troopers to die a “To go down in history as one of Paul Pickering “Sometimes he would come home “soldier’s death”. Many think he the best officers to wear the SAS McMillan-Scott Associates Public Ajjans •II Whitehall LondonSWlA 2UZ li lophom- W-'J.tOfM.t.S TIMES 12.10.83 Shipyard strikers ‘gave up contract British Shipbuilders claimed Leaders of the union*’ Qhin. /Bister yard Sunderland Shipyard coulddt BritishtrxvgfiHB Sh'iDbuilder*’ phairmn? seeks ‘lost’ Mrt,GrahhatUDdar todhay,rraarne J?ain if called off an unoffi- under fire from all sides fc the dial pay dispute before the Sunderland row for failing to £4m contract contract deadline. intervene. From Our Correspondent a Jw Hd VVonv*ert three The yard’s managing direo Belfast Port Sb,nbia/vg ic n0. 1° tor’ uMr Eric Welsh appealed Harland & Wolff, the Belfast llkfly t0 t0 thera on Monday to “come shipbuilders are likely to make a go to another British yard. off the fence ” and stewards at bid today to take over the £4m A BS spokesman said: “ We the yard have passed a vote of find it hard to believe when 00 confidence in their leaders, share of a Ministry of Defence the industry is searching des- The chairman of the nego- order for the Falkland Islands perately for work that the men tiating committee, Mr Jim Mur- which Sunderland Shipbuilders, have turned aside the oppor- ray was not available foi the Weirside subsidiary of tumty of this Falklands con- comment yesterday British Shipbuilders has surren tract which would have Sir Terence Beckett, direc dered because of a three-week provided them with good work tor-general of the Confedera unofficial strike. O and good money for some tion of British Industry Only last week H & W months to come. described the loss of the con announced that they had a “There is an agreed proce tract as a great pity. separate share of the project to dure in theindutsry for settl build a floating harbour for Port ing disputes. The men could Sir Terence, who was at a have put their grievance into Gateshead.. .. T .business lunch, Stanley. The entire “flexiport” this procedure, continued work- sai? • . n°‘ properly is due for delivery in only 14 ing, and had the benefits of understand why an issue as im- weeks. this Falklands order while it P°rtant a? this has arisen from Yesterday, Harland & Wolff was sorted out. apparently such a small cause.” chairman Mr John Parker said: “ Instead they have taken un Bob Rodwell adds: Belfast “We have already been asked official action and possibly put shipbuilder Harland and Wolf whether we could take on jobs in jeopardy.” is likely to make a bid today Sunderland Shipbuilders’ share. The order was part of a £23 to take over the £4 million Clearly, it is something we will million floating port contract. work. have to decide within 24 hours. The Sunderland men are on Harland and Wolff My main concern is whether we stnke because of a complex announced last week that it could complete it within 14 dispute over crane drivers’ had a £3 million share in the pay. The drivers’ traditional Port Stanley floating harbour weeks without prejudicing work overtime allowances have been contract, on the part of the project we partly consolidated into their The company’s chairman, Mr already have. pay and manual workers are John Parker said yesterday: “Public memories are short demanding similar increases. “ We have already been asked and if we missed the delivery The 15-day old dispute is an whether we could take on Sun- date people would not recall embarrassment to shipyard derland Shipbuilders’ share, that it was because Sunderland union leaders as it deflects My main concern is whether Shipbuilders had a strike, it attention from their main tar- we could complete it within 14 would simply be, noted as gets — the corporation’s pay- weeks without prejudicing part i Harland & Wolff falling down”, freeze and continuing large of the project, we already I said Mr Parker. o scale redundancies. have." He said he was to spend the afternoon seeing whether a local Northern Ireland consortium could be put together • Jobs at the Pallion yard in Sunderland are certain to be lost when the strike ends. Mr Eric Welsh, the managing director of the company, said yesterday. Three initiatives by the Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Unions to end the deadlock have failed and the 2,000 strikers, angry about a productivity payment made to 40 crane drivers at the yard, have ignored pleas to return to work. | McMillan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone 01-930 6935 FINANCIAL TIMES 1 12.10.83 / . Argentina creditors meet to set drawdown date BY PETER MONTAGNON, EUROMARKETS CORRESPONDENT ARGENTINA’S leading credi- discussed at yesterday’s meet- which Argentina must eliminate tor banks were meeting in New ing. The changes basically interest arrears on its public York last night in an effort to involve altering the schedule sector debt before drawing the set a new date for the country for completion of related finan- $500m. to draw the first instalment of cial transactions between the The arrears are now thought the $1.5bn (£lbn) loan it has banks and Argentina. to stand at less than 5100m been promised as part of its Specifically, creditor banks with payments due UP tul the debt rescue package. have to agree to a further delay end of September b™?dly com- Drawdown of the first $500m in repayment of $350m which plete. Some bankeis argue instalment had been set for next Argentina owes them on a that September 30 could count Monday, but was postponed Sl.lbn bridging loan arranged as a cut-off date for computation because of last week’s mini- earlier this year. Argenlina of the arrears .and that the crisis, which saw the arrest of cannot pay this money before country should be aliowed to Sr Julio Gonzalez del Solar, it has received the $500m loan draw (fu ^n Ss onlf Governor of the Central Bank, instalment now under discus- interest outstanding on tha ,‘SM.g‘S hm».«.... tWi-. Rankers said yesterday they timetable for completion of re- settling an ears and for sjghjng o Sill hope to complete arrange- scheduling agreements covering 1 nctfonthe ments before the end of the thejebts^of^aboul^pubhc f^ m This will however require previousfv due to be completed which has been monitoring a dumber ’of administrative by mid-October. Also, they have Argentina s financial penorm- changes which were due to be to decide on the extent to ance very closely: .1 Fuetfii tlie ashes • • t DAILY TELEGRAPH A SIGNIFICANT event was cele brated at the weekend at the 12.10.83 Medical Centre of R A F Stanley in the Falkland Islands when “ The Shed,” the first solid post-war struc ture to be built at the base and re nowned hitherto as a most uncom fortable medical evacuation station, was rc-opcned after extensive re- O furbishment. The “ new shed ” represents a considerable effort by the doctors, dentists and medical staff at the centre and its most important boast, apart from Tudor-stylc decor, is the only flushing lavatory for miles around. The flusher, a cesspool and all the necessary piping was, I am assured, obtained locally in a complex barter involving two bottles of vitamin tablets. “This represents the RAF medical sendee’s finest hour at RAF Stanley,” I was told yesterday in an exhilarated message from the base. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone. 01-9306935 > J West Germany and Poland in addition to ECONOMIST the countries already named, is not a closed circle.' The Antarctic Treaty’s 12 8-14 October 1983 original 1959 signatories agreed to extend full voting rights in their organisation to later adherents who qualified by mount ing substantial research activity in Ant arctica, The Poles qualified in 1977, the Germans in 1981. Brazil and India are already standing on the club’s threshold; the past year has seen India’s second and Brazil’s first expedition arrive in'the Antarctic. Hov/ever, the research qualification has come to be regarded as a stiff en trance fee designed to preserve the club’s exclusiveness. The Poles and Germans decided to pay the fee, by establishing expensive shore stations whose work seemed to have little connection with their own interests in the region, which •t then mainly concerned its fishery poten tial. Poorer countries do not see why they should have to pay so much to obtain a Uninhabited? Who says? voice in the affairs of an uninhabited region which, they contend, ought to be able to express general satisfaction with treated as the common property of all the working of this regime, as between mankind. , themselves. But non-members challenge Against this, the dub members pre- the cIub.s right to im its rules =n vailing view « that-as Australia s for- areas of sea in which its members have n0 eign minister, Mr Bill Hayden, argued at recognised jurisdiction. Neither existing ftlitarctica______last month s Canberra meet,ng-the pro- sea law_ nor the s,m in0perative new UN posed new regime would introduce un- code, provides a c|ear basjs for reso,vi certainty and instability in a region where tbjs qUestjon & Icebox hotting up the treaty set-up has worked well for Last ‘ the club members also more than 20 years, eliminating previous opened fo-rmal negotiations for the cre_ Beneath its prodigious icecap, the frozen frictions and permitting research to pro- ation of a regime covering the exploita- continent is becoming a hot potato. Dur- ceed in peace. And it is true that the club tion of Antarctic mineral resources They ing the -current session of the^ United members have not selfishly exploited the have already held meeli on this pro5. Nations assembly in New York, the 14 Antarctic continent Nobody has-yet. It ,em jn WeI|ington and B probabl to governments that are full members of the is still a gigantic locked icebox; and it may be fo|lowed 5y more next jn Wash_ Antarctic Treaty club will face new pres- be many years before anybody gets at ington and Tok Unljke the fjs sure from many of the “outsiders”. At whatever goodies it may prove ^ regime, the proposed mineral one cannot their meeting in Canberra in late Septem- contain. dodge the tricky question Qf seven club bej, the club members did not seem to However, the pace is getting hotter, members'claims to sovereignty over sec- make any great progress towards rein- Last year the club members established a tors of Antarctica—including the over- forcing their joint hold on Antarctica. fishery regime which covers a huge sea iappjng British, Argentine and Chilean This is getting to be another “north- area around Antarctica. At the review daims These claims^ which are not fe_ - south--issue;-but it could be more accu-. conference that they held a few weeks cognjsed even by the other seven cjub rately described as a case of both north ago at Hobart in Tasmania, they were members, let alone by outsiders , were and. (far) .south .confronting the middle. “frozen” in the original 1959 treaty. But CHILEWfRGENTINA ATLANTIC Those club1 members whose Antarctic OCEAN during discussion of the mineral regime ? interests stem from propinquity (Argenti- NS GEORGIA (80 they have begun to show signs of thawing • SOrkney la .,S SANDWICH IS ■ McMillan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone. 01-930 6935 id a ECONOMIST 8-14 October 1983 -Why some Argentines want to leave the Solar system BUENOS AIRES You are Mr Paul Volcker. You step off He pointed out that a court investigation an aircraft at Kennedy airport to visit is under way into potential irregularities your family for the weekend. A man in a in the way much of Argentina’s foreign blue uniform steps up to the ’■amp. “Mr debt was incurred during the military Volcker”, he says, “I have a warrant for government. The Aerolineas reschedul your arrest”. Fantasy? Of course, but ing agreement, he claimed, threatened to something very like it happened this curtail these investigations, because it week in Buenos Aires. The (brief) arrest included a clause on “extraneous jurisdic of Mr Julio Gonzalez del Solar, governor tion”: any disputes on non-payment of the Argentine central bank, gave a come under the jurisdiction of New York bizarre new twist to the country’s political courts. and debt crisis. When Mr Gonzalez del In other words, the rescheduling agree- Solar and the economy minister. Mr mem prevents Argentine courts from Jorge Wehbe, set out for the IMF/World getting to the bottom of any fraudulent Central banker gets thebird Bank annual meeting in Washington last activities in foreign borrowing. Thus offi- month, they thought they were turning cials who signed the contract, such as Mr emergency priority system, to establish the corner in the long process of renego- Gonzalez del Solar, were to be potential- which payments can be authorised when, tiating part of Argentina’s $39 billion Iy guilty of acting against the national The arrest of Mr Gonzalez del Solar on foreign debt. interest. Hence the arrest. By Wednes- Monday, October 3rd, followed by a 24- ! A $1.5 billion medium-term loan from day, common sense had prevailed and Mr hour general strike, threw all Argentina’s a syndicate of foreign banks had been Gonzalez del Solar was released without financial markets into disorder. The signed in August, despite a last-minute being charged, while the case was re- black-market dollar rate started climbing flurry of opposition from the British moved from the jurisdiction of Judge rapidly, but turnover was down as any- prime minister, Mrs Thatcher. The banks Pinto Kramer. body with dollars was holding on to them, had agreed to a 30-day postponement on The last time a similar ignominy befell Politics loom large. The airforce was repayment of a $300m tranche of a one- the head of a central bank was in 1979. strongly sympathetic to Judge Pinto year bridging loan received at the begin- Then, charges were trumped up against Kramer. The army leadership is opposed mng of the year. The IMF was delaying the Italian governor, Mr Paolo Baffi, to to him, but some middle-ranking officers payment of the third instalment of its confuse early investigations of the Banco are not. The navy is clearly opposed, and stand-by facility, also worth about Ambrosiano scandal. Only Mr Baffi’s its commander has issued warnings about $300m, because of doubts about the advanced age (67) saved him from deten- the imminent “catastrophe” of a default, country’s economic performance in the tion. Mr Gonzalez del Solar is 66. Although Mr Gonzalez del Solar’s case third quarter of 1983. The repercussions from Judge Pinto has now been removed from the judge’s All in all, however, the problem Kramer’s ruling were swifrand massive, jurisdiction, there are serious doubts that seemed manageable. The next step was Foreign creditors responded by postpon- the country can get its financial act to- to reach agreement on rescheduling the ing disbursement of the first tranche of gether by October 17th. Foreign bankers $7.5 billion debts of 32 state companies. the medium-term loan, worth $500m, dealing with Argentina are used to dead- The first in the queue was Aerolineas until October 17th. At the same time, the lines being “notional”, but this time they Argentinas, the state airline, with foreign $300m repayment on the bridging loan are showing signs of losing patience, debts of $220m. This contract was duly will fall due. October 17th has therefore The political parties, caught in the last signed, and was meant to act as a “mo effectively become the deadline for Ar- lap of the election campaign (polling is to del” for the remaining 31 state gentina to get its financial house in order. take place on October 30th), started out enterprises. The central bank, with the negotiations by criticising what they saw as the harsh Then came the thunderbolt, from the frozen, had no option but to stop remit- terms of the Aerolineas contract, but unlikely quarter of Rio Gallegos, the tances of foreign currency as a stop-gap began to moderate their stance as the full capital of the province of Santa Cruz in measure to safeguard dwindling foreign implications of Judge Pinto Kramer's ac- Patagonia, where Judge Federico Pinto currency reserves. Argentine citizens tions became clear. Nobody is sure Kramer issued a court order forcing the hoping to travel abroad can no longer buy whether the outgoing military govern government to “freeze” all renegoti- dollars. Importers with requests for for- ment has enough unity left to handle the ations. The judge, known for his links eign currency pending have had to re- problems coherently. The power vacuum with ultra-nationalists, used a strange submit their applications. A central bank in Argentina makes the next few weeks interpretation of existing Argentine laws, official said work was progressing on an 1 look very dangerous. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 Daily Mail 11th October 1983 Jeopardy Management could not then guarantee completion of the order for floating barges and withdrew from the deal. WILDCAT shipyard The danger now is that the ! strikers yesterday order could go abroad to meet the March deadline. sank a £5 million Last night, the company Government con handling the Defence Ministry order warned the stubborn tract for work on a strikers : ‘You have put your future in jeoparay. new port for the The deal, part of a £23 Falklands. million contract, is being Now the order, which handled by ITM Offshore Ltd. Managing director Mr would have guaranteed Alf Duffield said: ‘It is abso four months’ work for lutely ridiculous. ‘The whole industry will 400 men on hard-pressed think very hard before placing Wearside, may go any contracts with this yard abroad. in future after this episode. Bosses at Sunderland Ship 'Quite frankly, I think they builders, part of the British are just giving up their jobs.’ Shipbuilders group, had to Sunderland Shiobuilders’ managing director Eric Welsh pull out of a midnight dead said the firm was ‘extremely line on the contract because disappointed.’ the strikers refused to end ‘We’ve been chasing every their dispute. little bit of work we could lay Almost l.liOO men at the ; our hands on. This would Wearside yard have been on I have kept us going fine for unofficial strike for two weeks four months.’ over a separate £13-60-a-week Shop stewards at the yard pay award to 28 crane drivers. were unrepentant. Chairman They want the same deal Cedric Morse said : We are for manual workers—and have not cutting our own throats. resisted fierce pressure to re Management are using the turn to work so the crucial Falklands contract as Falklands contract could be blackmail. clinched. ‘We are sorry to lose the At three mass meetings they order but there is nothing were asked to go back. Three we can do.’ times they refused L FINANCIAL TIMES 11.10.83 ! Argentine junta may hand over In December Bv Jimmy Burns in Buenos Aires ARGENTINA’S military gov- eminent is now seriously con templating bringing forward the date for the handover of power to the new civilian auth orities following the elections on October 30. According to a draft proposal understood to be under review at the Interior Ministry, the new government would take charge in the first two weeks of December this year An influential sector of the i military regime and the bulk of the political parties are now believed to be convinced that an excessively lengthy transi tion period could further aggra vate the general climate of political and economic instability. / Argentine crash Brig Gen Sigfrido Plessl. who r) ran Argentina’s air force opera tions in the Falklands war. was one of 12 people — including five brigadier generals -—killed in an air crash in Argentina. i : , ; McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs •41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 y 1 Strike may give DAILY TELEGRAPH 11.10.83 Falkland job to foreign firm By JOHN PETTY Shipping Correspondent T INOFFICIAL strikers last night lost British Shipbuilders a £6 million contract to help provide a floating port for the Falklands. Now I there are fears the work may go abroad. Converting three North Sea barges would have provided work for four months for 400 men at the Pallion yard of Sunderland Shipbuilders on YVearside. Overtime would have boosted Christinas earnings. But about J,700 men have SPAIN CONFIRMS r, been on strike lor two weeks, so the shipyard had to tell • ITM Offshore, the Middles- I brough firm with a £25 million j Defence Ministry contract to ARGENTINE PLOT provide a floating port for the I Falklands, that it would be : i unable to meet the deadline. Other yards owned by AGAINST GIBRALTAR British Shipbuilders could lake j on the work, but the Pallion I men arc likely to urge union By TIM BROWN in Madrid members elsewhere to refuse the job. Now the strike is likely SPANISH secret service agents foiled a plot to end in lay-offs. ^ by Argentine saboteurs to cross into Pay claim Gibraltar to attack British military installa The stoppage began when Pallion workers claimed that tions during the Falklands war, it was they should receive a rise which they said was being confirmed in Madrid yesterday. given to men working on The four or five man team was arrested near the cranes. British Shipbuilders ; said the crane men had not; frontier with Gibraltar after being shadowed by received a rise but overtime security agents. They were detained for several days payments had been consoli dated into weekly earnings. and sent back to Buenos the group of Argentines had British Shipbuilders say the Aires. been planning to enter Gibral O men could have followed tar from Spain with the inten official procedures for dealing It was thought that Royal tion of carrying out sabotage with their complaint. This would Navy ships might have been acts. have meant continuing work among their projected “ They were detained and while union leaders sorted out targets. sent back to their own coun the problem. Confirmation of the sabotage try,” it added. plot came in an official state i Mr Frederick Morse, chair 4 man of shoo stewards at the ment from the Foreign Minis Malvinas ’ backing i yard, said they had passed a try in Madrid yesterday after The communique went on: vote of no confidence in the officials„ . . in both London and the « The Argentine government shipbuilding negotiating com Spanish capital had earlier was informed of the incident mittee of the Confederation of denied the incident occurred, -which constituted the use of Shipbuilding and Engineering or claimed they had no know- Spanish territory for a warlike Unions. ledge of the affair. action. The strikers wanted the Although Spain supported «jt was noj- sufficiently clear same average weekly increase "Aether those who made up of £15-60 as well as the crane lands, Madrid s statement made the group were acting under drivers. it clear that it was not prepared g0vernraent orders or on their Mr Morse said they were all to allow military action to be - “deeply worried ” that the launched from its territory. « Spanish government at Falklands contract had been the time did not leave in doubt lost but it was not the men’s May arrival its policy of supporting the fault. The Foreign Ministry gave judicial and historic claims of no date of the sabotage attempt Argentina over the Malvinas other than saying that it was (Falklands) but considered, cor- during. the South Atlantic con- rectly in the opinion of the flict, but reports in London present government, that it had said the group flew to Madrid to stop illegal action and those on a scheduled flight from whose political and diplomatic Buenos Aires in May last year, consequences could be far- The Ministry note says that reaching.” McMiilan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall lx>ndon SWlA 2I1Z IVlophnnc: 1 GUARDIAN l.n 1n.83 11.10.83 / Unofficial pay row loses Argentines top - firm four months’ work ‘ planned to attack Stoppage costs Gibraltar’ shipyard £6m By Susan Tirbutt Whitehall spokesmen would not confirm or deny yesterday a report that an Argentinian Falklands order sabotage team had sought to sink British warships at Gibral By Paul Keel rise which has been made to A shipyard in the North-east crane drivers, but not extended tar at the height of the Falk has had'to pull out of a £6 to manual workers. Last night lands conflict. million Ministry of Defence no one from the union was According to a report in the contract to improve dock facili- available for comment, Sunday Times, the four-strong ! ties in the Falkland Islands Mr Alf Duffield, managing team because of a two-week unoffi- director of ITM Offshore, the underwater sabotage cial strike. company contracting out the r entered Spain secretly, aiming ; Sunderland Shipbuilders had work on behalf of the MoD, to blow up vital ammunition: been offered the opportunity to said he could not understand assist in the completion of the workers’ refusal to at least and fuel dumps on Gibraltar three loading barges which will keep working while the local and sink any British warships in form part of a £23 million dispute was negotiated, the harbour. scheme to install a floating .. Quite frankly. I think they arrested bv dock at Port Stanley. are just giving up their jobs. The four were But yesterday it was forced [.lcre we are engaged in a ridi- to withdraw from the project puIous argument while there after a meeting of the yard s arc thousands of guys out border and deported back to •1,600 members of the Con fed- ^ere wj10 are working under Buenos Aires. The newspapers oration of Shipbuilding and tremencious hardships and says the information came Engineering Union voted to urgently need these facilities,” from senior British militaiy continue their stoppage. The sajtj and intelligence officials. i1hPvacnnl1dn.io fonder1 Guarantee But Mr Driffield stressed that The report said the decision they could no longer guaiantee ld try t0 transfer the to deport the four Argen artr^h. the com- corf£ to/other British ship- tinians caused a serious diplo matic rift between Spam and pany’s managing director, said sterdav Britain’s largest the then military junta in Argentina. Spain was osten sibly giving moral support to since hMdarchbeeD voM haTe Association, ^g^to^uppo^t' the Buenos Aires regime. The raid would have caused months^work116 shipyaid f0UF British interests over its choice havoc to the Falklands task “We have been chasing of ships j^fupplyin* the force supply lines, The team, every little bit of work we Falkland Islands, under the control of the could lay our hands on, and The association is angered Argentinian Navy, is said to this would have kept us going by the Ministry decision to use have arrived at Barajas air fine,” he said. Mr Welsh added a Danish ship, the Herta a port, Madrid, early last May, that there was a very real Maersk, to carry water planning to buy arms, limpet danger that some of the men's supplies to the Falklands on mines, plastic explosives and jobs could be in jeopardy. four occasions. divine equipment. They were He appealed to national offi- The association claimed yes 1 then to travel south to the cials of the union, who have terday that a British ship border town of La Linea. not backed the dispute, to in- could provide the service more struct their local members to cheaply and should, in any The aim was to swim the go back to work. The shipyard • case, be givenfavourable con- mile from La Linea docks to workers are disputing a pay sideration by the MoD. the Gibraltar dockyard and i attack the oil storage depot, the Admiralty magazine and shipping including HMS Ariadne, the Gibraltar frigate, regularly berthed in the dock. But the four were inter cepted by the Spanish author ities, probably by the army in San Roque, says the report. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: Ul-'J.Vl (>*D5 L I Spain foiled Argentine raid on Gibraltar Madrid (Reuter, AP) - Spain which wasbrought to light at the supported .Argentina’a claim to yesterday confirmed that a weekend by The Sunday Times the Falklarid Islands. commando of four or five in London, had been deliber- Confirmation of the Gibral Argentines was caught on ately suppressed by the previous tar incident came at a time Spanish soil while apparently Spanish Government to avoid when Madrid has again begun planning an attack on Gibraltar embarrassment, talks with London over the during the Falklands war last A Foreign Ministry corn- future of the colony. Senor year. munique later said that the Moran has met Sir Geoffry The Foreign Minister, Senor Argentine Government was Howe, the British Foreign Moran, said: “A group of informed of the incident Secretary, twich in recent Argentines attempted to cross The , Sunday Times report months to discuss the issue. into Gibraltar presumably with saic* Argentines were ar- He said yesterday that he had the intention of carrying out re?tec* at San Roque, near come away “empty handed” some acts of war. Gibraltar, and has apparently and that the British had to “They were intercepted by planned to swim across Algect- understand that talks could not the Spanish security services ras Bay to blow up fuel depots Seftor Moran: Act of war always end that way. and sent back to Argentina 0ILth5 Rock. could not be allowed. because the outgoing Govern- Senor described the news- • London welcome: The ment, correctly, considered that paper’s report as “very incon- Spain, which has a long- Foreign Office immediately it could not allow the use of venient”. He said that at the standing claim to Gibraltar, was welcomed the Spanish action Spanish territory for the launch- time the incident had provoked caught in an awkward position (Henry Stanhope writes). “It is ing of an act of war.” a demarche between Buenos during the war between Britain what we would expect from an He said news of the incident, Aires and Madrid. and Argentina. Madrid has ally”, a spokesman said. /r \ / n Telecom faces blow to business income By Bill Johnstone private sector beginning in Mondale, Stage Lane and Wood aerials in Goonhilly pick up autumn of next year. Since the Street, where the signals are signals from the Intelsat satel- Electronics Correspondent Govemment is determined to routed to the customers. lites over the Atlantic and \ A substantial proportion of seI1 the dispute could easily The international telephone Indian Oceans, plus maritime British Telecom’s business traf- escalate. calls, .telex, data and television communications. Madley’s fic and its income would be About eight of every ten signals use a combination of three aerials arc pointed toward seriously affected if the Post telephone calls made in Britain satellite and cable. The union the Intelsat satellites and the Office Engineering Union car- arc business calls. More than could step up its action by new European Communi- ried out its threat to disrupt 322 million a year are inter- disrupting any of those services cations Satellite, ECSI. international telccommuni- national and they are growing at at source since it- represents At least 90 countries : are cations. about 12 per cent a year. About most of the technical and served by the Goonhilly and four million business customers engineering staff in British Madley satellite links, including The union which represents, are responsible for most of Telecom. the United States, Canada, more than hall of the employees those calls, and for abut 60 per Many telecommunication Australia, India, Pakistan and of British Telecom, is engaged cent of the corporation’s profits, signals are carried by satellite Argentina, in industrial action in three despite residential subscribers and received at the two earth in the last financial year London international exchang- outnumbering them four to one. station complexes operated and British Telecom International cs, protesting about the Govern- The present industrial action maintained by British Telecom contributed £208m profit to the ment s intention to sell 51 per IS centred on the three inter- at Goonhilly, Cornwall and £365m made by the corporation cent of the corporation to the national London exchanges, Madley near Hereford. Five as a whole. Sword of peace for HMS Endurance By Henry Stanhope, Diplomatic Correspondent The Royal Navy's Antarctic commanding officer, will re- patrol ship HMS Endurance, ccivc it as a re-dedication which became a household ceremony in Portsmouth before name during the Falklands War, Endurance sails back to the has been awarded a Wilkinson Antarctic after a long refit, sword of peace. She was built in 1956 as a c . , Danish vessel and then bought Endurance won the navy s by thc Royal Navy for scientific 1982 sword for long-standmg and hyd/ographi' work. she ?n? irC0(-'!hnUm8 h Se,-VIC- ,?n was due to be scrapped because £<*af J^ h,0SVVh?J1VCjn the of the 1981 defence review, a Falkland Islands their depen- dccision which js belicved danctcs and South Gcogta . A bave cncouraged the Argentines THE TIMES f L ■ annU y ° t° ^ade ‘he Falklands. The each of the services. subsequent war led to thc 11.10.83 Captain Colin MacGregor, decision to grant her a reprieve. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ telephone: 01-9A0 1 FINANCIAL TIMES 8.10.83 10.10.83 HaMam obtains Menendez Mo Falkiands order Britain THE HALLAM GROUP of Not arrested P tingham has won a £6.5m con tract to supply permanent ‘interested’ accommodation at the service by army airfield under construction in By Peter Bains in Buenos Aires the Falklands. in talks The contract, has been GENERAL Mario Menendez, awarded by Laing-liowlem-ARC who was governor of the Falk which is constructing the air land Islands during Argen on Belize field. Units will be built and tina’s occupation during 1982, By David Buchan internally finished in the fac has been placed under 60 tory, shipped in the fwn of days’ arrest by the army High BRITAIN is “interested” In pre-stressed modules and placed Command. renewed talks between Belize on prepared foundations. Military officials said (he and Guatemala facilitating Mr John Holloway, chief retired general had been sen early withdrawal of the 1,600- executive of Hallam System tenced for giving an un strong British garrison from Building, said that the type of authorised interview on his Belize, Foreign Office officials construction was suited to the experiences during the con said yesterday. i rigours of the South Atlantic flict with Britain. Under the Any new talks over Guate weather army code, retired officers mala’s territorial claim to must seek permission from the Belize would probalby follow High Command before mak the same format as those held ing public statements on con at the United Nations last troversial subjects. January, which the UK The interview, by a local attended as an observer. I writer, has been published in Falklands book form under the title Britain “ has set no specific 7.10.83 “ Malvinas: the Governor’s date ” for its troop pull-out, Testimony.” It has been freely officials said, but now wants it ship hke available in book shops for understood clearly that Belize the last month, and there was an independence (since 1981) some confusion over why the cannot remain indefinitely criticised army had taken so long to dependent on the UK forces. Financial Times Reporter act against General Menendez. Belizean security, and the The book gives a highly faint possibility that BRITAIN’S LARGEST sea critical account of the war. Guatemala will finally re faring union will question the General Menendez claimed nounce its 150-year-old claim, Government today about the the the original intention of will be a factor in, but not use of a Danish ship in place the Argentine military junta a precondition to, the timing of a British vessel for a was to put him at the com of a British withdrawal, Falkland Islands supply mand of a “ symbolic ” garri officials in London stressed. j charter. son. ‘‘The Junta was not, Concern over the 1,600 The Merchant Navy and apparently, expecting an troops in Belize is not as Airline Officers’ Association important military response immediately acute as that will question Ministry of from Great Britain,” he said over the fate of the much Defence officials over the in the book. smaller British contingent in charter of the Herta Maersk, His view is that there was the multinational force in n to replenish the Falklands considerable improvisation the Lebanon. But there are garrison water supplies. The during the conflict and that fears the Belize garrison union feels taxpayers’ money his forces were hopelessly in might get sucked into the may have been wasted. ferior to the British Task conflict in Central America, where Mrs Thatcher’s Govern The association says the Force. He says he did not have the necessary long-range ment believes the call by the British ship, Fort Edmonton, Contadora group of central available for their work artillery and helicopters to I was mount a counter-attack after I. and South American leaders at cheaper rates. British forces landed at San for withdrawal of all foreign Leaders of the 28,000-strong Carlos. advisers is the right policy. association will meet Lord ' General Menendez is also There is the subsidiary Trefgarne, Under-Secretary of extremely critical of General motive of easing the new State for the Armed Forces. Leopolda Galtieri, president strain caused by the British This follows a letter of pro and army commander during forces’ deployment in the test sent by the union last the conflict. When British Falklands. month to Mr Michael Hesel- forces surrounded Port Mrs Thatcher told Presi tinc, Defence Secretary. Stanley, General Menendez dent Reagan in Washington Mr Eric Nevin, general says he asked General Gal earlier this month that secretary of the association, tieri to accept Resolution 52 Britain “ wanted out ” of said explanations of the of the United Nations Security Belize, and officials in Lon decision had proved in- Council while there was still don are hopeful that the U.S. sufficient. time, but that this was re- could use its influence to I The association wants to fused. check any intemperate ask why the Government will General Galtieri was him Guatemalan move against not discriminate in favour of self arrested for two months Belize. the use of British ships. It in April after giving a similar will also raise what it sees as unauthorised interview. important security implica tions involved in the use of foreign flag ships. McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9.V) 69.V> 1 Mail on Sunday Daily Mail 9.10.83 10.10.83 Argentines Argentine tried to commando T blast Gib raids A TEAM of four Argentine saboteurs tried to blow up vital military installations in Gibraltar during the are foiled Falklands crisis it was MILITARY Intelligent reported last night. smashed an Argentine plot But Spanish authori to launch a commando ties arrested them just raid on the Ascension short of the border and is.and base during the deported them. Falklands war. A Ministry of Defence British agents In Buenos spokesman said last Aires and Argentine military night: 'There is nothing bases sent details of the plans, we can say about this, it and as a result security at happened on Spanish Ascension was stepped up> soil/ anti - submarine patrols The report claimed ordered around the coast and that the team intended a British nuclear submarine kept a round-the-clock watch to blow up ammunition on the Argentine coast. and fuel dumps, and The Argentine plan was to sink British warships. put heavily-armed men into a When arrested they destroyer which would then were equipped with lim rendezvous with a submarine pet mines and In the South Atlantic. explosives. Swift This would then shuttle them to a remote spot on r Ascension, returning to pick up more until the whole squad was ashore. But while the planning went ahead, military chiefs in London acted swiftly to bols ter the defences and track the ship and the submarine. The Argentines were forced to abandon the plan and fall back on a small group or saboteurs with instructions to attack Gibraltar from Spain, and destroy fuel dumps and ammunition stores. But even this was known about in advance and the Spanish authorities were warned to watch for the arrival of four men. Thev were picked up near Gibraltar as they bought extra equipment and were sent back to Buenos Aires. Military officials in Gibral tar were convinced that they could have prevented the raid from succeeding, and even if It had been successfully launched they believed that It would have had little effect on the tack force. 1 OBSERVER 9.10.83 £ NEWS Union may stop the IFalklands airport by PETER DURISCH PLANS to transport a been a strong opponent of week that the plan by the labour force of construction South Africa’s apartheid Bristol-based Cunard Crusader workers to the Falklands to policies. travel agency is for the workers build the new airport at Port ‘About 80 per cent of the to be divided equally between closureferwvr that workers are ssapvsBrequest to them not to fly on £rom mere tney would all tiy closure mat worKers are SAA T „llrp thfk.T _.ni fSAA to Cape Town, because having to travel by the South _ri • , BA does not the route- The African national airline. ^ Eva“ said' travel contract is believed to be £2™emX“ “gtries tot Sr^To^h JfiS* more *“ £1 mauon t0 ged a deal to fly'half theMOO wS0Ut ‘Both British Airways and British workers to Johannes- g0 ? South, Africa. There South African Airways are burg on South African ^obvious problems with non- involved but nobody has flown Airways. The entire workforce whlte ,workers g°mg by this out yet,’ said Catherine would use SAA to fly from route- Meredith, a spokeswoman for there to Cape Town, where The airport project is being the consortium. ‘But we don’t they would board a ship organised by the Property want to talk about it at this Transport and General* Wor- Services Agency on behalf of stage because we haven’t yet kers Union general secretary Ministry of Defence. The signed the final contracts with Mr Moss Evans immediately PSA m turn gave the contract to f said that his members would a consortium of John Laing, , ^ ^ a ^(cre^ary of sabotage the arrangement.‘We John Mowlem and Amey ! rvT'a- , C.A angry about the original scheme indeed to this and will be m British Airways and SAA to use South Africaasa staging contact with the relevant auth- have a pooling ’ arrangement post, and are are even more orities and companies.’ Mr to share air traffic to South disturbed to discover that SAA Evans’s union has traditionally Africa. Airline sources said last will profit from this.’ o SUNDAY Fewer ships TELEGRAPH ;■ ? for Falklands 9.10.83 By Our Naval Correspondent The Royal Navy is expected to cut its forces in the Falklands by half early next year, leaving Iust two or three destroyers or frigates on permanent station. Although there are 56 of these ships in the active fleet, a quarter are having to be ear marked for service in the South Atlantic to allow for time in { transit between Britain and the Falklands. i With the number of active fleet destroyers and frigates expected to drop to 50 next year as ships given temporary re prieves last year are finally paid off, McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A2I1Z Telephone: k 1 SUNDAY TIMES 9.10.83 contd. I . I OB Phil Green .•*>. tJ**2Z**7' '■ .yvatf'^ay.-^sa».. - • HERCULES TRANSPORT 4' REFUELLING STOPS I Planned route C/j of Argentine H o Hercules transport ■ GIBRALTAR v^“' saboteurs k at Airfield • . |Ai | i \/ 0, Williams Way ’ . . underground v: fuel dump :; N v, 0 / * J ASCEHSIOH J r ••• . • 1000 I miles sw .i' ♦ FALKLAMOS 0 SPAIN Son Roque / © S Algeciras La Linea ©s Gibraltar Tarifa \o STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR : 0 miles 5 o The targets: Gibraltar installations the Argentinian squad could have attacked McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2liZ Telephone. l)l*‘).M)bU33 wnniii— ■■ 1 SUNDAY TIMES 9.10.83 { Rock ‘raid’ How Argentina tried CONTINUED FROM P.1 intelligence became aware of the arrival of the team almost as soon as the men disembarked from their scheduled Aerolineas to How up the Rock Argentinas flight at Madrid. Messages were flashed from London both to the governor of by Simon Winchester, Robin Morgan and Isobel Hilton Gibraltar, General William Jackson, and to the governors and commanders-in-chief of \T THE heieht of the Falklands HMS Conqueror received the were fully equipped for their other overseas military bases war, a well-equipped6 Argentine Mark Eight torpedoes that sank expedition, and were stripped of thought vulnerable to attack. underwater sabotage team the Argentinian cruiser. General arms and equipment that Precautions had already been slipped secretly into Spain and Belgrano. included the limpet mines and taken in Gibraltar, largely made its way towards Gibraltar. Secondary targets identified high explosives. because the colonial authorities Its aim was to blow up vital by the team of saboteurs were They were detained for a few had been warned - ironically, in ! ammunition and fuel dumps in any warships in Gibraltar and ^ an(j therij despite protests the circumstances of a the colony and sink any British t|ie airfield, which was an from Buenos Aires, were de possible Spanish attack aimed warships in the harbour. important'bridge between Bri- ported back to the Argentine at recovering the penninsula tain and Ascension Island. RAF caojtal during the confusion of the But according to senior Falklands operations. General British militarv and intelligence Hercules planes flew ..daily „ .to It is clear that British signal officials,' the Spanish authorities refuel and pick up supplies to be Jackson had arranged for day arrested the team of four men in dropped by parachute to the continued on page 2 and night guards by men of the then Gibraltar garrison - the 1st n • some five miles task torce. Battalion the Staffordshire from the border. And in a Details of the raid have come Regiment - and for naval “anti- hitherto undisclosed gesture of from a variety of highly-placed swimmer” teams to be on goodwill to the British govern- sources. They include a senior constant alert. Patrol boats ment, Madrid ordered the four army officer in another British operated by the RAF Regiment to be deported back to Buenos colony who was ordered to were also on duty. Aires. increase security when the After the emergency message The decision caused a serious planned raid on Gibraltar was about the arrival of the diplomatic rift between Spain discovered. A high-ranking Argentine sabotage team, and the then military junta in officer with access to intelli- “every inch” of the Rock was Argentina at a time when Spain gence information on the affair placed under guard, a military was ostensibly giving moral independently confirmed to us source said. support to the Buenos Aires the Argentinian team’s plans, There was considerable confi regime Members of the intelligence dence that the colony could be The planned raid on the community itself have given us defended against a Spanish strategically vital colony would further information. Ihe attack and equal assurance that, have caused havoc to the Foreign Office, however, says it as the same officer put it, “we Falklands task force supply knows nothing of the incident, would have fished any sab lines. Many lives among the But according to our sources oteurs out of the water before 13.000-strong civilian and mili- in London and others in Buenos i they could get within sniffing tary population of the Rock Aires, the team of four civilians distance of a ship.” would have been lost. acting under the control of the In other colonies and over A prime target was the fuel Argentine Navy, arrived at seas army bases - particularly dump which task force ships Madrid’s Barajas airport early Cyprus and Hong Kong - the used to top up en route for the last May. Their mission was to news of the team’s arrival in South Atlantic. Huge storage purchase arms, limpet mines, Spain triggered a series of tanks carved out of the rock lie plastic explosives and under- 1 security operations. Officers in just a few yards off Williams water swimming gear - all freely Hong Kong were briefed secret Way - one of 32 miles of roads available off the shelf from ly, within hours of the detection and tunnels driven through the arms dealer’s in Spain. Then of the team’s arrival in Madrid, mountain by miners during the they were to make their way by the local representative of Second World War. They are south to the border town of La the Joint Services Intelligence guarded normally by just one Linea. Staff. For the next two weeks all man. They were to penetrate the available manpower was put on The more heavily-guarded colony’s defences - preferably the lookout for possible arrivals Admiralty magazine, connected by swimming the one mile from from Argentina. by one of those tunnels to the the La Linea docks to the “It would have been quite dockyard, contains a vast Gibraltar dockyard - and attack simple for them to have come stockpile of ammunition in- the oil storage depot, the in here while our backs were eluding missiles, torpedoes and Admiralty magazine, shipping, turned,” commented one Hong naval nuclear weapons. That including the Gibraltar guar- Kong staff officer. “But after the stockpile became a vital source dship, the frigate HMS Ariadne, attempt in Spain we made sure during the conflict as arsenals in which was known to be we were well battened down.” Britain emptied fast. Royal regularly berthed in the dock. Because of a reluctance by the Fleet Auxiliary ships called in But the four were intercepted intelligence community to at Gibraltar almost daily to take by the Spanish authorities - comment on the incident, some ammunition and fuel on board, probably the army in the town aspects remain a mystery. It was there, early in April, that of San Roque. According to the nuclear-powered submarine British sources, the four men McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall LondonSWlA 2BZ Telephone:(U-O.MlWJJ.i L 1 THE TIMES 8.10.83 Falklands airfield called Britain may ask US a threat to peace 1 g|,° to garrison Belize !//o From Our Correspondent, New York By Henry Stanhope, Diplomatic Correspondent The airfield is referred to as . „ . J r. n •• fr\r Foreign Ministers of coun- Britain is anxious to see talks independence of Belize, tor- non-aligned move- “a strategic military base that reopened between Belize and merly British Honduras, could t havc reached agreement is a cause of concern to the Guatemala, with a view to not continue indefinitely to rely nn a text that would define the maintenance of peace in the settling once and for all on the 1,800-strong Bnt.sh °"nst"”ion of a new airfield in Latin American region. Guatemala’s claim to its tiny force. ; lhc pa^and Islands as an The text also reiterates the neighbour. One reason is that Britain action adversely affecting the firm support of the non-aligned Whitehall is also understood does not want to run any risk of j 1 stability of the region, to Argentina’s rights to have its to be exploring the possibility of bejng drawn into the political Thc pronouncement on the sovereignty over the islands replacing the Belize gamson turmoil in Central America. i Falklands is part of an all- restored through negotiations with troops from elsewhere, rncomoassine communique with the British Government. including the US. Another ,s that the troops t0 ^ releaqsed Mrs Thatcher made clear to and the fo“r djfence ia,e yesterday which sets out the • PORT STANLEY: British President Reagan in Washing- impose a non-aligned view and objectives forces in the Falklands have ton a week ago that the resources. on international issues. It is the completed a four-day military result of consensus and morally exercise involving Army, Navy binds those in the movement to and Air Force, officials said. Junta falls uphold the policies it contains. (Reuter reports). out over DAILY TELEGRAPH foreign debt From Andrew Thompson 8.10.83 Buenos Aires The postponement of a meeting of the ruling military junta has been taken as a sign of continuing disagreement among FOUR-DAY ALERT the three commanders on the ARMY JAILS handling of the country’s IN FALKLANDS foreign debt crisis, MENENDEZ By Our Port Stanley Both the Army and Navy Correspondent leadership have issued state A four-day full-scale Falk ments emphasizing the need to FOR 60 DAYS lands military exercise involving continue renegotiating on all forces including the islands’ payment of the $7.5bn (£5bn) in By MARY SPECK defence organisation, has just public sector company foreign in Buenos Aires ended. Merchant ships left Stanley debts, which has been held up (JEN MARIO MENENDEZ, harbour, soldiers guarded key since late last month by legal the Argentine military | positions, the air-raid siren was I action in Argentina. The Air governor who lost the sounded in full for the first Force has remained signifi Falklands, was jailed yes time since the end of the con cantly silent. flict, and the Air Force was terday for 60 days over active. Sources in the Government’s an unauthorised book economic team played down anu ui uci. the significance of the delay in about the war. the Junta’s meeting, however. He was arrested by officers [At) r ’r They said that the special at h'is home, taken to Army £6*5m FALKLANDS “inter-forces compatibilization headquarters In Buenos Aires, team’* set up to draft a report on and driven to the military base CONTRACT at Magdalena. the debt crisis had not conclud Fifty workers will be taken ed its work. It was likely that The punishment was ordered on by the Hallam group, of the junta would meet when the by Gen. Crista-no Nicolaides, the Langley Mill, Derbyshire, report was ready, sometime army C-in-C. Last April the which yesterday announced a during the next week. former President, Gen. Gal fieri, £6,500,000 order to supply server 45 days in custody for prefabricated housing and Economy Ministry and Cen criticising the army. offices for the airport being tral Bank officials meanwhile Menendez. 53, was forced to built on the Falklands. kept tiding to unravel the legal retire from the army after being In November last year, the complications. An appeals court repatriated. company had to declare 80 was due to rule on whether to His book, “ Malvinas testi redundancies after its £3 million lift the freeze on renegotiated mony of the Governor,” came tender for 56 homes to replace agreements. out 20 days ago. Written by ones lost in the fighting around But the officials said that the Carlos Tufolo, it consists of Port Stanley was rejected by legal process could take some questions and answers. the Crown Agents. time, with three different courts involved and the possibility of further appeals all the way to the Supreme Court. Economists in the political parties, in the midst of the electoral campaign which ends on October 30, have been suggesting an agreed 60 or 90- day moratorium on debt pay ments, so that the foreign banks can conduct the full nego tiations with the next civilian Government. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ lelophone (H-’j.V) (M.VS fe 1 GUARDIAN - 8.10.83 i i i Whitehall fears wrong word could sabotage negotiations Thatcher gags Hong Kong i administration By Patrick Kcatley, posed on the theory, strongly Diplomatic Correspondent held by Mrs Thatcher, that one The Government, rigidly inept word by one of the adhering to a policy of secrecy, visitors could bring the current yesterday refused to respond negotiations with Peking to a to a charge from China that, halt. That, it is feared, would negotiations on the future of cause a fresh run on the Hong Hong Kong had made no pro Kong dollar. gress. Sources in financial circles say differing views have developed The colony has grown in in the ranks of the Executive creasingly nervous in recent Council after inconclusive talks days as a stream of Chinese in Peking a fortnight ago. The statements criticised the Bri consequent slide in the cur tish attitude to negotiations on rency rate and the share levels the colony, which mainly com on the stock exchange in Hong prises territory administered Kong has raised questions under treaties with China end about the strategy of insisting ing in 1997. on a Chinese undertaking in The allegation that negotia advance, to continue a British tions had made no progress so administrative presence after far cante from the Chinese 1997. Foreign Minister, Wu Xueqian, Some members feel that the during a visit to Ottawa this the Chinese leadership cannot week. afford to give such an advance Strategy talks in London, be commitment and will never do C tween the British Government so. and the Governor of Hong AP adds from Taipei: : Kong and his aides, ended yes Taiwan will admit for resettle terday with a session chaired ment all Hong Kong residents by Mrs Thatcher. A statement who pledge loyalty to the issued afterwards declared that Nationalist Chinese Govern the discussions took place in a ment and invest in the coun “ positive atmosphere ” and try. Premier Sun Yung-Suan ended with L* complete under said yesterday. standing on the issues In Mr Sun said the Natonalists volved.” will offer “ any necessary But Mrs Thatcher and her assistance ” to the people of ministers have ordered the Hong Kong because Taiwan is Governor, Sir Edward Youde, China’s legitimate government. and the 11 members of his Ex He said Taiwan will not recog ecutive Council, to refuse all nise any agreement which Bri news interviews. tain and China negotiate on The blackout has been im- I-Iong Kong’s future. McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6933 l Private Eye Private Eye 23ra September 1983 7th October 1983 Hospitals Hospitals Chiswick Silver fishy RITISH construction workers setting out to build the proposed Fly-by Falkland Islands “strategic airport” will doubtless have been delighted to learn in The Times last week that a 10-bed hospital will be on hand to night treat any injuries. They may even have been impressed to learn of the way the GHASTLY silence has descended on £ 100.000 unit is being shipped out. parts of Whitehall following our reve ready-equipped, and just for them. But A lations (Eye 568) of die seemingly they might like to know more about the less-than-sccurc financial position of Mr “Long” pioneering “entrepreneur” behind this John Silver, supplier of a hospital to serve breakthrough, and about his company, workers at the proposed Queen Maggie I Medco International. International Airport, East Falkland. The Ministry of Defence admit that they “Long" John Silver, the managing director of Medco and king-pin of several other. . awarded die contract to Mcdco International companies, seems to suffer from an always but add in mitigation that it is being supervised for diem by die Department of Trade. Switch fashionable cash-flow problem - a speedy How towards him and a stately pace in the reverse ing its musical chair, die Department of Trade in turn points out diat, aldiough they arc hand direction. ling die contract, it remains die responsibility More might already have been known on of die MoD. this score, and on several others, were it not tor Silver's undoubted speed in dashing to the High The initial facts concerning Silver’s business Court, where last month he sought to obtain a acumen were related by an cx-employee to her “gagging" injunction against a disaflected and. trade union. We understand diat Silver regards as she claimed, partly unpaid former secretary. diis as good grounds for legal proceedings I orlunatcly, however, a fascinating fragment ol against die union concerned, APEX. The union’s London office has said diat it will make a fight the lady’s thoughts had been made public by of iL her union. APLX, before the injunction cut her Fortunately, ex-friends and cx-busincss con off in full flow. The Silver Empire site described to union tacts of Silver - die two groups are oddly iden officials consisted of a fraction of his Chiswick tical - as well as current neighbours of the home and a trail of debts. In the course of a eminent entrepreneur are queuing up to talk. few days in July, site alleged, the telex was cut Silver’s home address, from which he con off for non-payment and VATmen were ducts his business operations, is 40 Ibis Lane, threatening a distress warrant to enforce London W4 - in die exclusive riverside enclave of Chiswick Quay. This residential estate is | payment of some £4,000, and life on the administered by a management association company credit card front was looking . comprising its well-heeled inhabitants. The distinctly litigious. . Not even in the relaxed world ol defence . quantity of allegations against Silver emanating contracting could Long John claim un from diis indignant body is impressive. qualified success. A participant last year in Firstly. Silver has faded to pay management “Floater ’82” - a defence trade fain - he still charges amounting to £1,000 for tiirec years owed itspromolcrs. the Defence Manufacturers’ running, and die association was driven to Association, almost £4,000 for obtain a court judgement against him for die accommodation, the company's stall and its amount. Silver also manages die neighbouring catalogue entry more than halfway through '83. 38 Ibis Lane, whose mysterious itinerant tenants are high-ranking Nigerian diplomats. Neighbours Silver’s competence in two areas should, arc concerned not so much to still die raucous however, bring solid comfort to the noises of die jungle night as to fadiom die construction workers concerned that “their” mystery behind Long John’s oversight in not hospital is in the hands of a man whose paying the rates to die London Borough of bank manager would not extend credit for a Hounslow. mere £735.65 just two months ago. Equally disturbing claims are made by mem Thus it was, if his momentarily silenced ex- bers of die Quentin Hogg Club, an assembly of secretary is to be believed, that he sensibly rowing hearties based a few yards from Silver’s spent those difficult July days in hi* Marbella front door. They allege diat Silver effectively second home - and left orders that a much- double-charged dicir vice-captain over some needed American Express Gold Card be ‘sky- accountancy work, taking die job on and only packed’ to him the moment it turned up in dien revealing diat he was acting as agent for a beleaguered Chiswick. genuine accountant. He also took a member’s wife into his employ and then failed to pay her, and even defaulted on some odd-jobbery under taken by die club caretaker’s son. Another centre of uncase isa local off-licence diat has ceased service to “Quick” Silver as a result of his over-due “slate”, while local motoring circles say that his present Lancia is a replacement for one re-possessed by bailiffs. But what is most worrying the good citizens of Chiswick Quay is a claim that Silver was owing Gilt Edged Travel some £ 1,500 a few months back and may still not have paid up. This could delay the financial wizard’s hoped- for departure.. . I ~1 I Union's bid CONSTRUCTION NEWS 1 6 10 83 to halt Falklands workforce \ vC THE Transport Union wants to halt recruitment £,iod that u might prevent full nf a labour force for the mobilisation of the project by massive Falklands Island * »— " * “ Airfield project because it George Henderson national believes j°b_SeeklJ'|; inggroup°has sought an “urgent workers are likely to be meeting of all unions concerned “exploited”. leav^ng'the'filCfor'the FalMands! He is also due to meet repre sentatives of the consortium con tracted to build the £215 million airport — namely Laing/ Mowlem/ARC. i He and his committee now wish to try and institute an agree ment which bearssome relation to previous UK-based large sites arrangements. At Sullom Voe and on the Thames Barrier, for examiple, a three-shift system was intro duced_ - which allowed com- pletion on time and gave opera tives a good chance of earning Men on the Falklands project will only earn flat-rate wages o under the present arrangements; there is a host of factors which could lead to instant dismissal and employment may be termin ated at a month’s notice. The T&G warned in its state ment that its lorry drivers’ section would be “heavily involved in the project, that its docks mem Guatemala to seek bership would be responsible for FINANCIAL TIMES the loading and unloading of any new Belize talks shipping and that 6 10 83 CITY would depend on the activity of GuateniaL^is^o seek new talks baggage nandlers — also T&O members. . The construction group Be lieves that projects “more impor Minister Sr Federico Fahsen tant’’ than the airport could be Ortega said yesterday. Reutei instituted here in Britain. reports. The consortium — and its i Belize became independent client the Property Services from Britain two years ago but Agency — could run into further I London has kept some 1,800 trouble with another union, the troops there to guard against T&G implied in its statement. It any invasion bv Guatemala said that the National Union of which has long . claimed Seamen had contacted the T&O ; sovereignty over Belize. about the Falklands project. John Laing acts as official spokesman for the three-party consortium, but nobody was available to put its case as ON went to press. McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A 2UZ Telephone: Ol-'LV) (M5 I 1 % THF TIMES THURSDAY OCTOBER 6 1983 Nicholas Shakespeare welcomes Jorge Luis Borges as he returns to his literary roots Dreaming tricks and paradoxes Anthony Burgess tells how he once met Borges at a reception in the United States. The South American well. I hale politics. I’m a mild, stay- writer was being shadowed by a man l?amfo^rdhonmhlstst7c“aasyturdy at-home anarchist and pacifist, a from the Argentine Embassy, and so disciple of Herbert they communicated in Old English. ££ EMthe war and the militat, The idea of two men with common names talking in a dead language fighting. These haven t. regime subjects worthy of his could be the stuff of a short story- by The Falklands dispute touched a flclion? Borges smiled. “I don’t go in Borges, who so often enters his own temler nerveT^Wars are either tor forrealism.” fiction. It also reveals how complete \7 the epic and the elegy, or Ic£ u is a Borgesian paradox that is his grasp of our literature, a oblivion.” It was evident to which Qther Soulh American writers / iterature in which he has quarried he consigned the latter. To an ^ and do SQ undcr his njfluencc. ill his life. The influence of this interviewer in Buenos Aires he had Garcia Marquez kept 14 volumes of / literature on Argentine writers was complained how victory' was cele hi§ wofk permanenliy beside him in lo be the subject of a lecture he brated before the battle had begun exjle while Carlos Fuentes has j. delivered last night at the Royal how there was talk of anti-colonial wriUen of BorgCs that without his Socv‘y of Arts to inaugurate the ism to justify the most colonial1 ac e there wouid be no modern An /^ Argentine Society’s Jorge Luis in “recorded history ; and - with novcl in South America today. Borges Lecture. “In a sense I’ve always been here", he told me on his first visit to this country since the Falklands conflict. When deciphering the »invasion: someone,BzHs for instance, like m ^ ^ writeras i$ dreammg« Encyclopaedia Britanriica in my Costa Mcndes. sincerely, that’s all that matters. I father’s library, when reading Pil Being the great patriot that he is, neVer reread my own stuff. I don t grim's Progress, The Time Machine to me he was naturally more likc whal i write. The whole thing s and Chesterton, I’ve been home- reticent. “1 had a nightmare kind of a kind 0f superstition. I prefer other coming all the time. I’ve read so many English books.” (An eternal feeling. The people were so easily peopie’s works. I think of what i candidate for the Nobel Prize, were taken in by propaganda, by tele- wrjle as rough drafts.” he ever to win it, the first thing he vision, by loud politicians, an Everything Borges has written is a would buy would be a complete set made into a shouting mob. No dislinat'ion of the same themes, of of Stevenson. “Not a first edition, they have other fish to fry with the duai ducl and the flesh made but the last, because there would be elections, which will give a sem- y/ord - “and not only the flesh, but fewer mistakes.”) Of bones, nail, hair". Borges is not only returning to his Over the years he has condensed literary origins, but also lo the land the Peronists. They’re not too bright his fictional world, a world which of his ancestors. In fact his but they’re honest and they mean grandmother, Fanny Haslam, who was born in Hanley of Northumb has been variously contained in a rian Quaker stock, became the library, an encyclopaedia, an infinite subject of a recent hoax reported as book, a line - even a word. What true in this very newspaper. The line of his would he like lo be remembered? ston nt that in her honour Borges moment. bur(v_ die head of a Celtic saint, St He nodded for a Penkct. in a Staffordshire garden. sightless in thought before chanting “The past is always being changed", “Solo una cosa no hay, es el olvido. he chuckled. “Good for me if I did (There’s only one thing that there that." isn’t - and that’s oblivion). It’s a When she married Colonel Fran verbal trick, you see. All writing is a cisco Borges, after meeting him at a bag of tricks. But it’s quite bad that ball in Parana, Fanny brought to the line”, he reconsidered after repeat family the congenital blindness of ing it. “It’s the worst line I ever the Haslams. “A small amount of English blood goes a long way. My I reminded him of his observation great-grandfather died blind. My that each writer is his own least grandmother died blind. My father intelligent disciple. “Did I write died blind with a smile on his face that? It’s quite good, even though I and I hope I will do the same. I have wrote it. But it’s true.” . outlived my span. Reaching the age Of few is it truer that the style is of 84 is a mistake really. My advice the man. Borges is full of contradic is three-score years and ten.’’ tions. In his work, as in his Borges forebears were not only conversation, he is a metaphysical Quakers; they were also military prankster. Every nation, he argues, men who fought against the Indians, chooses as its spokesman someone the Paraguayans - and each other. In different from itself, as a kind of 1874, “during one of our civil wars”, counterpoint. “Goethe is hardly Colonel Borges rode out on horse German. Cervantes is hardly Spa back in a white poncho following his nish. Shakespeare is hardly English - defeat at the battle of La Verde. He the English go in for understate was shot by two Remington bullets. ment.” What about Argentina?, I “A fine fate”, exults his grandson, ask. There is a definite twinkle in his who is amused to think that the firm eye. “Ah, we are a young nation. We which killed Fanny’s husband bears have only just landed.” the same name as that which shaves © Times Newspapers Limited, 1983 him every morning. “Better for a man to die a violent death than to die bedridden.” . Borges’s work has been informed McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs by a “homesickness” for the violence of these ancestors. Would A\ Whitehall LondonSWlA 2UZ Telephone; they, I wondered, have made better The Times 6 10 83- U\-0Ot){L CPNfet&XCZ / Arms race ‘at most ■itcPofZr them. She tries to justify torpedoing the talks by making a number or dangerous point’ statements she must know to be false. I do not accuse her of lying. The survival of the human race She simply suffers from what could not be left to a shouting One lesson to be drawn from the psychologists call selective ara- match between Washington and shooting down of the Korean Moscow with Mrs Thatcher airliner was that computers could One was her claim that Polaris shrieking on the sidelines,Mr Denis not be relied upon, otherwise the was in place before intermediate Healey,retiring deputy leader of the airliner would not have been more missiles. The Russians had hun party, and spokesman on foreign dreds by 1963 and Polaris was and commonwealth affairs, said introduced in 1968. . when he opened the defence debate. ‘Risk of repeating She constantly said that Polaris In a strong attack on Mrs was a strategic weapon outside Margaret Thatcher’s defence pos Falklands blunder’ Nato. The Best evidence for the ture, Mr Healey was cheered as he falsity of that statement came from the American Secretary of State for told the conference: “The whole than 300 miles off course, and a basis on which she is torpedoing Defence that Polaris was part of second lesson was that the military Nato, and not part of the Wests the (disarmament) talks is a tissue could not be trusted with those of lies and she tries to distract strategic force. All British defence decisions, as the Soviet pilot had minsiters had also said that up to attention from her dishonesty by a not recognized that the aircraft was shrill barrage of anti-Soviet a civil airliner until after he shot it . the present. . „ , demagogy, which makes President Mrs Thatcher said that Russia down. had made no concessions in the Reagan look like a fellow travel Communications inside the ler”. arms talks but that also was false. rr American and Soviet systems were Mr Andropov’s first offer months He invited the conference to defective and neither Washington approve unanimously, as the ago had been to cut Russian land- nor Moscow knew what was based missiles by 162, the same as national executive committee had, a happening until the aircraft had passage on peace and disarmament exisiting British and French been shot down. in the NEC statement ‘ Campaign All the present conflicts in the missiles. ing for a fairer Britain ”. It duly did world risked drawing in the super so. powers but. there was no system by That set out key issues in which they could consult each ‘Liberals decided Labour’s campaign on disarmament other. and defence: siting of cruise The priorities in the document not to have a policy’ missiles should be stopped: the represented a major step forward decision to purchase Trident should for peace and ending the arms race. be cancelled: Britain’s Polaris They could start by opposing The Liberals had decided not to submarines should be included in have a policy until Dr David Owen current arms negotiations: that the had agreed it. Dr Owen, who during party must fight for a freeze on the Tory plans to increase defence the election was shared, now said testing, producition and deployment spending in the Falklands as a that it should be embraced of nuclear weapons: Tory plans to dangerous waste of money. He was whatever happened. He was the increase defence spending must be nBThe Conservatives were commit leading quick-change ..artise in opposed: and they must work for a British politics. Tiis latest-role was nuclear-free Europe and for the ted to spending £l,000m mainly on as Mrs Thatcher in a trotner suit. ; dismantling of foreign nuclear a military, naval and air base in the bases in Britain. Falklands, which everybody with a “We have in this- document1 the y1 knowledge of history knew would defence and disarmament policy the be handed over before it was whole world is hungering for. We c Survival handed completed. ... *' had it in the manifesto. Why did we The Government risked repeat-, not win the election on it?” over to computers’ ing the blunder which had produced The polls had told them that all the unnecessary Falklands war by their propositions had majority support among the electorate. “There is no issue in our “You may not all agree, but I campaign on which unity and ‘Thatcher torpedoing cannot help feeling that we added to unanimity is more necessary than those policies on which we are defence and disarmament, because totally united and for which we had the arms race is at by far the most disarmament talks public support, longer-term com dangerous point it has reached mitments on which the party was since the Second World War”. , divided, some of which were Even the fiercest hawks in the profoundly unpopular with our Reagan administration admitted planed working-class supporters, some of that Russia and the United States of Belize to save £lm or so. Could which separated us from many at were broadly equivalent in nuclear {0Wdocument home and abroad who shared all power all over the world. Yet both our immediate objectives and worse had enough nuclear weapons to had been part of the election still, some of those proposals were destroy the world 10 times over and manifesto, Labour had lost the too easily represented as indicating both sides were planning new that the Labour Party is against weapons which would make war Nato, although we supported Nato more likely and disarmament more by five to one at conference only difficult. last year, and that we were against One of the disturbing things torpedoing all hope of agreement n defending our own country. about the new weapons was that the arms, talks by., refusing to “Both lies, but we cannot afford they acted so quickly that there was include our own Polaris system in to give any hint that we might be only a split second left to the other moving in that direction again”. side to decide where and how to react. “The super powers are handing over the decision of whether humanity survives to computers run by military men”. McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone 01-930 (>933 fe /Cabinet to rule on spending cuts THE TIMES 6 10 83 By Frances Williams, Economics Correspondent The full Cabinet will meet in two weeks time to settle the i outstanding differences between the Treasury and individual Hongkong dollar slides departments over spending plans for next year. Mr Peter Rees, the Chief : Secretary to the Treasury, is in despite Youde appeal the throes of a hectic round of meetings with ministers in an attempt to secure agreement on Hongkong, (AFP, Rentes) - dally Peking’s “consulate” cuts before the Conservative Sir Edward Youde, the Gover (Richard Hughes writes). Party Conference opens next nor of Hongkong, yesterday, The full strength of the staff week. called for “an atmosphere of has never been disclosed but it He and his officials will draw calm and deliberation” in the now has at least eight vice-dir up a progress report for Sino-British talks on the future ectors and its staff is at least as consideration by the Cabinet on of the colony. big as those of the United States October 20. He said this would be “to the and Japanese consulates. j Mr Rees, who is battling to benefit of all” in a double A new vice-director is Mr < reduce departmental bids by pronged warning directed at the Chen Bojian, who is officially /'--12,500m to keep spending down anxious Hongkong people and designated Deputy Director- ' to the planned total of the Peking negotiators who General of the NCNA. He has 126,400m, has already made have recently accused Britain of served in Peking with the some headway with a number being too “rigid” and seeking to NCNA for several years, and is of smaller departments. He will maintain “colunial domi expected to take over the duties be hoping to reach final nation” over the territory. of information and propaganda agreement with them by the end “Patience, calm and resol- g;r Edward: Cali for atmos. at the Hongkong “consulate”. of he week. ution were the qualities that The Chinese “Consul-Gen But the big spending minis would required for all, Sir phere of calm eral” in Hongkong_ _ is now Mr tries - defence, environment, Edward said, adding that the siump 0f the local currency Xu Jiatun, former Governor of and health and social security - talks could reach quick results. because of the effect on “a Jiangsu province, a member of have fiercely reisisted the cuts The Governor was speaking sensitive market” but empha- the central committee of the in his annual address to the sized that “the erratic fluctu- Chinese Communist Party and hCMrRees has already seen the Legislative Council after weeks ations” of the Hongkong dollar a deputy of the National ministers involved at least twice | of financial problems and a fall did not reflect “the political and People’s Congress, in an unsuccessful effort to in the value of the Hongkong economical realities of the r . w secure greater agreement. dollar due to political uncer- situation” nor the “strengths • PEKING: enma nas has been minty oh the future of the of Hongkong’s economy and Sober fm her “remarks full CabinetJEW-*;' rather than to a The Hongkong dollar The Hongkong dollar has lost on Hongkong (David Bonavia small group of ministers declined abruptly yesterday m0re than 30 per cent of its wtjjes). dubbed the ‘star chamber - after Sir Edward’s speech, which value in less than a year. The official news_ agency i which it feared from experience disappointed foreign exchange The Governor and a Legislat- accused her of trying to apply in 1980 and 1981 would be too dealers. They described it as too ive Council delegation were due nineteenth century policies m soft on spending ministers. passive and saying too little. to leave here later for a three- the twentieth ' The local currency stood at day visit to London for talks referred to herrecx«t “JtCTvww Some of the issues involved r ' 8.83 to the US dollar when he with Mrs Thatcher and Sir wlth Amencan corresjwndents have important policy impli began speaking, dropped to 8.74 Geoffrey Howe, the Foreign “ wouM hlve b^n cations which only the Cabinet at one point and then edged Secretary. t J^ LrTit can sensibly decide. The Trea- back to 8.65 as he concluded the The Sino-British talks on the the lease surey wants an agreement not to 70-minute address. It had future of Hongkong will resume notTor the existence °I the lease extend the pledge to Nato to expand defence spending by 3 started the day at 8.30. The their fifth round in Peking on on ^long in per cent a year in real terms CH0ld0n^sedUrbvSt0tChe timeT Is is also seeking to break the Governor began speaking. The • China’s “Consulate”: colonies, and sovereignty there link between certain social market index gained 27.62 Peking is continuing steadily to must be returned to China since security benefits, including points to close at 717.68 after increase the strength of the New there is no question of any unemployment benefit, and six. days of steep decline. China news agency (NCNA) in independence for it, the agency inflation. And it wants big cuts Avoided comments on the Hongkong, which is now unoffi- said in a commentary. in the £450m urban aid programme which channels support to poor inner city areas. Argentine central bank president freed /f*-' . f fhe Amen- led to confusion over the / TbP Argentine central bank duling agreement for the 8 country’s debt problems. Argen- 7 v£5£E£j2S Gonzalez tine S total debts are estimated '»*• 1r»ndin“ngednati0Bal **Sent Reynaldo Bignone ; i„g to sources In the Economy swwtej*^ was inte„ded said on Agg** 1 ^Wsota ‘o TZn« o^tata «en°d«: ™°mmi "an^t^t a defardt 5 was arrested on Monday on the ^entrS bank would have severe consequences i °wrhdoehe.°df.h“ pres Went .tanned hankers .red for,he economy. t McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A 2BZ Telephone. Ol-W) WJ35 E 3 The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, October 5, 1983 / Argentina hit : Anti-aircraft claims ‘were by general the aircrew it lost during the 5 conflict. Tn every case where the bodies of Argentine airmen exaggerated in were found and identified by i strike British forces on the Falklands, their names had been given to By MARY SPECK the authors. , ~\ in Buenos Aires This, say the authors, points Falkland fighting to their lists being complete or ) ARGENTINA’S trade nearly complete. unions staged a 24- Q hour general strike yester By Air ('.Are G. COODl.R Air Correspondent Heat of battle day to demand immediate The authors’ case is that TyrORE than 30 Argentine fighters claimed history has shown that the pay increases to protect accurate confirmation of victory wages from the country’s to have been destroyed by British claims, especially bv surface-to- triple-digit inflation rate. surface weapons in the Falklands war, were air weapons, is extremely diffi cult. In the heat of action it Labour leaders arc demand not in fact shot down, according to a new will frequently happen that ing 17 per cent, monthly wage men will report seeing aircraft increases as well as an imme book. books on the Battle .of Britain appear to crash when in fact diate increase in half-yearly and electronic warfare have lhcy did not. bonuses. Over the past 12 The White Paper on the earned him a sound reputation A British Aerospace spokes- month.. Argentina has had an lessons 0f the campaign as an aviation historian. man said the company had no inflation rale ol o75 per cent. . , . . .. reason to doubt the official said o2 Argentine aircraft The largest discrepancy in figures published bv the Minis- The two sectors of I he r , , - the claims appears in those tor |fv 0f Defence, General Labour Confederation were confirmed as being the British Aerospace Rapier Claims by British surface weapons were joined in the strike by s|10t down by missiles and air defence missile. The White White Air War all of Argentina's other major Q. c l shios and Paper confirmed 14 Rapier kills Taper S. Atlantic unions, including workers in ^unnre rrom Sflipb u and 6 probables, whereas the Sea Dart 8 5 transport, education, power and ground units. authors say Rapier *hot down Sea Wolf r> 3 telecommunications. Train and .... . nniv nn*> aim-ifi Sea Cat 8 1 bus services were halted. Air War South Atlantic only onc auciatt. Rapier 14 1 9 2 to be published next week They do. however, attribute Blowpipe Leaders of the Azopardo 4 kills to multiple weapons, Stinger 1 1 sections of the confederation claims the Task Force sur- Guns which include Rapier. line small arms! 7 3 said that if the Government did face-to-air and gun systems Multiple weapons not agree to union demands Wrecks not counted (inc Rapier) — 4 they would stage a 48-hour brought down only 20 general strike within the next Argentine aircraft. Over - claiming by surface 52 20 ...... , , weapon crews is not new, say Air war south Atlantic, by Jeffrey 10 days. A presidential election Price, to be published is due on Oct. 30. 1 he books claim is based on |fic authors. During the 1.939- w,.hecLan?{ A1frtH Jackson on Oct. 13. information from official and 45 War, coastal anti-aircraft bat- £9-95.*" c i'n unofficial British and Argentine jeries appeared to be shooting BANKER HELD sources. down many more enemy air- Claims by the Sea Harrier craft than inland batteries. SPAIN MAY BUILD Night in jail pilots are not disputed. There which had to point to wrecked nn ... . L r „ , were 20 confirmed kills in the aircraft on the ground to con- ARGENTINE SHIP I he president of the Central air and three more planes were firm their claims. r afthe Probably destroyed. Nineteen Tn the Falklands. between By Our Madrid Correspondent ? vvS- 10 Bucnos Aircs from were destroyed by the Harriers Mav 21 and 27. 1982, missile Spain is to examine the feasi- ?n»lVnSat!nni?n ng °r h,e during 23 Sidewinder missile and gun crews defending forces bility of building an aircraft cnln, fhi ?¥",?• engagements. in San Carlos Water had 31 carrier for the Argentine Navy, -..A,,*.iIn JUI ’ • ( -v Forces on the ground over- enemy fighter kills confirmed, t was reported in Madrid yes- ft ,nY.e*11- claimed destruction of 31 Sky- The authors understand no terday. fn Fnrpiin !llc^alltics hawks and Mirages, and one official count of wrecks had The possibility of construct- in lo ei&n debt negotiations. Macchi 339. according to been made, and believe the ing the £445 million warship The Argentine government Jeffrey Ethell, a Spanish- true figure for Argentine was discussed during a recent 4vas forced to freeze almost all speaking American writer who fighter-bomber losses in this official visit to Argentina by the imports over the weekend to discussed the fighting in detail action was six. head of the Spanish Navy. Adml prevent a further drain on with Argentine pilots at their Each Argentine Naval and Saturnino Suances de la | foreign exchange.—UPI. bases, and Alfred Price, whose Air Force unit provided lists of Hidalga. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2B2 Telephone.01-930 6935 ■ 1 THE TIMES WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5 1983 /General strike paralyses Argentina on brink of foreign debt disaster From Andrew Thompson, Buenos Aires Argentina was brought to a ment was unable to meet the have issued a new deadline of standstill yesterday by the 24- demands, October 17 for Argentina to hour general strike called by the Transport in the main cities, resolve its financial chaos. The two union confederations, the key to the success of the Central Bank has put a stop to Coming hard on the heels of the strike, ground to a halt at almost all foreign currency arrest of Schor Julio Ganzalez midnight on Monday. First remittances, and the country is n del Solar, the president of the indications yesterday were that on the brink of defaulting. Central Bank, and during a the strike was 90 per cent ) Judge Pinto Kramer is known foreign payments crisis, the effective, with only a few retail to have the support of the \ strike has increased concern at a outlets open. Traffic in Buenos nationalist sector of the Air 1 growing power vacuum just Aires was comparable with that Force. Ranged against him are over three weeks before the on holidays or Sundays. the Army and Navy leadership. October 30 general election. The Government, mean- Admiral Ruben Franco, the he trade unions had been while, has a big political and Navy commander, made his threatening to call a strike since foreign debt crisis on its hands, position clear bv saying that ihc midcHe of last month, but Schor Gonzalez del Solar was cessation of payments could be with the top leaders closely arrested on the orders of Judge catastrophic. A meeting of the associated with the Pcronist Federico Pinto Kramer, from a military junta is due tomorrow. Party s electoral campaign, they federal court in the provincial and there is likely to be a heated did not want to rock the boat so city of Rio Gallegos, in dispute over the crisis, soon before the polls. Patagonia. Their hand was finally forced The judge held that Argentine Pimo' Krame^ccus^^ him^f by a spectator spread of I unofficial and partial strikes late If™,™5 br°kc" by an agree- laking an open|y politiea, last month. Worried that they t ’r ^Ol!1 stance. His objections to the would loose the initiative, the / ?7m ?iet>tS ^eiro cxlrancous jurisdiction clause union leaders pressed for the ^rSmas> h16 SImC a,^,n(:' in the debt renegotiation con- promised monthly wage in hv ihp r!nStr89|eR ,n Ncw York lracls is considered a mistaken crease of 12 per cent to be and other officials * prCSldent interpretation of Argentine law. increased to 17 per cent, and for nnjw ,u;c „|0,1Crt two earlier bonuses paid by the The Aerolincas agreement accents the lurisdictinnof Government to be consolidated was intended as “pilot” for the New York^sta e ioum in Lv into the basic wage rate. renegotiation of the debts of 31 if:*™,,!01* ^!?le courts in any They also wanted wage olher state companies, totalling i;V ‘No invasion /zSinking feelings / of Belize’ Tam “Belgrano” Dalycll, the MP for General Mejia (right) denied West Lothian who has vigorously that Guatemala might have campaigned against the sinking of any intention of invading the Argentine warship since the Belize. “There is no need if Falklands campaign, heads the list there are negotiations”, he of keep-fit fanatics at the Labour said. The prevailing view Party conference. In a manner reminiscent of his erstwhile col here is that Guatemala is too league John Stonehouse, Dalyell, 51, stretched by its war against enjoys plunging into the sea at the guerrillas to make a Brighton, though he stays well in decisive move. But if British sight of the beach on account of the troops withdrew that would strong ebb tide. Some observers he a different matter. The suspect however that he remains claim to Belize is as inshore for fear of submarines fundamental as Argentina’s lurking within the local Sussex claims to the Falklands. exclusion zone and plotting his course. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9^06935 i 1 Financial Times Wednesday October 5 1983 Call to ‘black’ Falklands airport project By Ivo Dawnay, Labour Staff THE TRANSPORT union will today urge its members to “black” the transportation of all building materials, equip The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, October 5, 1983 7 ment and personnel for the £215m Falkland Islands’ airport project. The- action, called by Mr George Henderson, the Trans- port and General Workers’ SOUTH PACIFIC Union construction group secre tary, is in protest at the terms SHIPPING AID and conditions being offered to By Our Shipping construction workers. 1 o Correspondent / So far, over 9,000 building workers have applied for work 1 o The Common Market’s invest on the scheme, which at any - ment bank is to make loans at one time will employ no more an interest rale of 1 per cent, .1 for the first nine years and 2 than 1,400 and will take per cent, afterwards to help , 30 months to complete. develop container shipping in l Details of contracts offered the South Pacific. \ have not been released, but it is The money is going to Fiji, .A understood that they include Tonga. Papua New Guinea. annual salaries of between Tuvalu. Western Samoa and £10.000 and £12,000 paid tax free, Kiribati. It will be used as extra a termination bonus, 36 days’ capital for Pacific Forum Line, annual holiday and food and the regional shipping companv accommodation paid by the in which New Zealand, the company. Cook Islands and Nauru are the The men will be required to i other shareholders. 1 work 60-hour, six-day weeks and, 1 on occasion, perform seven-day weeks when required for no extra payment. Mr Henderson last night said these terms were “grossly inade- —jate” and not nearly compar able to rates paid on other overseas contracts. O THE GUARDI AN Wednesday October 5 1983 U S eyes on Belize vacuum By Greg Chamberlain George Price, faced with pos- any US troops is likely to be The Reagan Administration sible invasion by neighbouring warmly welcomed. k likelv to ouicklv fill anv Guatemala over a territorial But some local journalists is likely to quickly nil any ^as long urged Washing- have accused the US Ambassa- drawarof Britain’s 1 800-strong ton to provide military guaran- dor Mr Malcoim Barnebey of parHsnn in Belize a Dossibih tees if .Britain pulls out. He meddling in the country^ ?tv ™?Jd bv the aDoarent readily accepted US offers of affairs and have suggested that snuabble between the FS?efgn military aid made when Belize the US had a hand ma split Offi?eandbthe Ministry of De- became independent two years which has neutraiised tiie Office ana tne .Ministry oi ue Although weapons and country s biggest trade union, onTthenfo“uld stay h°W equipment arfstiU supplied by the lJfMed United General ThpTTq wmfld iain a new Britain, officers of the coun- Workers Union. . The US would gain a new fledgling 1,000-strong US pressure has certainly so fe^ing^e^illahoperation^n army and small navy are being far blocked efforts by the “lg|“ bS? ft1 would, panama US KdVartWPUP)8 Wen gelbe^dayTas" almost the last “mere are 22 accredited US trade and diplomatic links with area of peace in the region, diplomats in Belize, including ^UD“- Already, the former British three military attaches, com- # More than 700 Gurkhas colony is grappling with the pared with only five before in- arrived in Belize yesterdayfor problem of thousands of refu- dependence. Because of constant a six-month tour of duty, iney gees. public anxiety about the Guate- replace the Second Battalion of Its Prime Minister, Mr malan threat, the arrival of the Parachute Regiment, McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 ____ -■—1 I 1 defence budget and undermine the commitment to NATO. There is no question of deal Falkland ing with the present military DAILY EXPRESS Wednesday OctoBer 5 1983 junta, but the Foreign Office Is actively supporting the idea of talks with new civilian 6 sell-out’ rulers. From Page One Friendship Officials believe negotiations New Year, could depend on could be based on the Lisbon a British deal. Declaration, a formula agreed Mrs Thatcher’s “ Fortress between Britain and Spain as Falklands” policy is costing a framework for talks on the up to £1,000 million a year, future status of Gibraltar. and some of her Ministers If this was applied to the EXCLUSIVE are urging that any chance Falklands, each side would of solving the deaillock make a commitment to re should be seized. solve the problem " in a The cost could prove to be spirit of friendship,’” which a political albatross at the would mean Argentina ending next General Election, when the present “ slate of war.” euphoria over the South Whitehall believe that a Atlantic victory might have new civilian Government in worn thin. Buenos Aires might be more There arc also fears in both ready to agree to a rational London and Washington that settlement than the military, such a massive military com which is still smarting from mitment in t h c Southern defeat. Atlantic will place an unbear- able strain on Brilain’s the FaBBtlands WHENEVER the Foreign Office poke:s Its W noSe into affairs there is trouble. For Britain. Now there is talk ofj doing a^ealj wim Argentina over th „ymocratic” Argentina But how iong would that‘‘democracy” last? By JOHN ELLISON in London A week ? A month ? A year t. and ROSS MARK in Washington The Foreign Office: helpedi to create the . BRITISH officials are secretly wh'ingeing, ^eS-^eef atUtude encouraged preparing the groundwork for a deal with Argentina over the the Argentines to attack. Falklands. and courage of our A new initiative is planned as The superb skill Ana soon as a civilian regime takes over servicemen rescued the Falklanders. from the military junta in Buenos Reversed 1 monstrous nnnn "< «'“• Aires. Any attempt to solve tne Falklands conflict, which cost■ B“tain ™“rr.T!STi“ okg dead will cause a rumpus in the Tory Party and bring allegations of t “ a sell-out.” ”r. pp^anolhe^lanmit'hcr Govem- a watched carefully. This Department has ft oF^the FO has too often been the OF. uie OPINION: PAGE 8 •pie Office for Foreigners. ment is under intense pressure from Washington. White House officials would not confirm lastlist mgnight thatlhe Falklandsshe was directly taxed over in Washington issue when she was last week. But a senior Presidential aide • j . « rye have made our concern about the situation very plain to her adV Washington is insisting that the very existence of Argentine's to* McMillan-Scott Associates Public Adairs years 41 Whitehall London SW1A 2BZ Telephone. 01-930 6935 1 GUARDIAN 3 10 83 Study claims, that garrison will DAILY TELEGRAPH cost far more than estimated 3 10 83 !. BRITAIN ‘PLANS N Nott ‘horrified’ at Falklands TO WITHDRAW defence policy FROM BELIZE’ By Richard Norton-Taylor Dr Paul Rogers, a senior lec- Maintaining a large garrison Vjrer_ at Bradford, says that By JOHi\ MILLER Diplomatic Staff on the Falklands was a non- the figure of about £250 mil- I sense, Sir John Nott, the R°n a year used by the Gov- jgRITAIN appears set to phase out next year former Defence Secretary, said ernment is based purely on at the weekend. marginal costs — that is the Q its 1,800-man garrison in Belize, the He told the Guardian : extra cost, notably for fuel, of • r " What I deplore so much is keeping troops and equipment former British colony in Central America that we simply cannot afford the South Atlantic, as yet another peripheral defence opposed to their normal bases claimed by neighbouring Guatemala. commitment.” Though he con- Europe, The decision to withdraw from Belize was relayed templated the prospect with The true cost of running the horror, he could not see a way garrison, he says, as close to to President Reagan by Mrs Thatcher in Washington out of it. £1,000 million a year. This last week when they discussed problems in Central Britain’s military presence in does not include the cost of America. the area should ideally be about £1,100 million a year 1 limited to a minimal base on over the next three years of South Georgia which might be replacing ships lost in the war Reports from Washington p'.,me Minister of Belize, earlier useful in view of potential and new capital equipment, sumsaifl i\nMr itcaganRpsoan was; toldtnlrl Mrsth,s Thatcherv"3r that tohe maintainwould urgethe economic interests in Antarc- such as radar and an airfield. Bntain wanted to withdraw garrjson. and thus the stability tica. invested in the islands. 1 Lhe garrison as it was an British officials in London Britain’s °enthifs\asm Qfof he*- denloved anomaly and m any case were declining to name the ing the US in its role as a •„ rces Sed British forces had become date of the withdrawal, and it world policeman. When in ahm!t anTti!? Illw? overstretched because of the may be that it has not yet been Cabinet he opposed sending a t j destrover an? frffSte Falklands war. fixed. They pointed out that any British troops to Lebanon. l°3l % The anomalv arises because London said at the time of But it is Sir John’s view on ** +Aa*en , mt0 Belize is a fully independent Belize independence in Septem the Falklands which will A thSsennl??rc1fs country and the British pre ber 1081 that the troops would attract most attention because ^af1JJ°t ^ f °nlyfll)y remain “ for an appropriate of his participation in the ”“°ftn * CelJ0TA ?ther sence is due solely to threats period.” of regression by Guatemala Falklands war cabinet and the L defen?.e which claims sovereignty over Territorial dispute criticism he faced by his deci- Brita'ms commit- the whole of the territory. sion when in office to cut down ment t0 Nato. One Washington report said the navy’s surface fleet. . Sir John said it was not poli- 0 Jets and tanks that Mrs Thatcher had assured His remarks also come at a tically realistic for any govern- Mr Reagan that there would time when the Government’s nient to negotiate with The British force numbers be be no withdrawal before the official estimates of the cost of Argentina in the foreseeable tween MOO and 1.800 service end of this year. maintaining the Falklands gar- future over the issue of sover- men and is backed bv Harrier Britain and Guatemala have rison are being challenged by eignty. jum.pjets, Puma helicopters, argued for a century over ter Bradford University’s school of But he added that he had scorpion tanks and Rapier ritorial rights to Belize, form peace studies as being far too always taken the view, and he missiles. erly British Honduras, with the low. had done so during the con- Any British withdrawal would dispute revolving originally ...... ,v flict, that the only realistic give rise to some concern in over a road. C solution had to be faced within Washington because of the Last year Guatemala said the framework of an inter- Reagan Administration’s fears several times that it would em- < ... national arrangement protect of Left-wing subversion, especi plov “peaceful means” to ing the interests of the ally from Cuba, in the com settle the dispute. Talks in Jan y- 0 islanders and at the same time bustible Central American uary broke down after the Bel recognising that there was an region. izeans rejected Guatemala’s Argentine interest. Mr Reagan was reported to proposal that they should cede Sir John drew a distinction have told Mr George Price, the southern part of the coun- ipii between an objective analysis try. and critique of Britain’s ?; present commitment in the ■ South Atlantic and what was politically possible for the Gov ernment to do in the short term. i It is known that he had doubts about the plan to build a large airfield on the Falk ,::x lands, though he recognises now that an airport ¥ , 1.. .. „; equipped to take wide-bodied Sir John Nott: We cannot jets could lead to a reduction afford such a commitment ” to the garrison there. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A 2BZ Telephone: 01*930 MJ 35 * J 1 SUNDAY TIMES October 3 1983 mteher tells U S nit Belize L- by Stephen Fay, Washington RRITAIN is to withdraw its withdrawn from ?.800-strongSgarrison in Belize small country ot 150 000 poop e m spile of the desire of in a land area of 8.800 square !’r,?’den',h^CaM"s M?™™. miles, could become yet another Thatcher should commit troops battleground in the struggle or ^l0ncig^^n/r Guatemala; of the Bntish departure has nm fngVC-erc^VCohr Bci£ mmis.er^ould be ijnpat|n« if since ' the middle of the las, Than a'year^om century. now. The only comlort Mrs n u A c>»n in mm Thatcher offered the President Where the troops are has iiliil iSgl i §mm £*£§£not to have British troops drawn into the Central Ameri can quagmire. ®5swsSs 3Sss Mrs Thatcher assured presi- S—rs s= jssjstx in*.*-- ■ «■ i Guatamala has recently son's commitment to remain in SCk STmVSSS fhe period.” ^The ^ oVso "'brntere trcno ""British “timteriKr look- illusions about.the difficulty of mg «». ™ah9ffV|. f’f “ reaching a binding agreement. MayB dv;|isation. in 1638. For Some soldiers and RAF men near|y 200 years it administered who have served in Belize are as lhe C0i0ny of British less enthusiastic about with- Honduras. The British garrison drawal than the British govern- acts as a back-up for the small, ment. It is useful for training, lightly armed local forces. British officers have found Guatemala’s claim has little many of the local people Qr nQ iegaj basis, and has never sympathetic, and Belize is been recognised by any other warmer than northern Germany government. On several occ- and less vicious than Northern a$ions in recent years though, Ireland. there have been aggressive den, Reagan tha, the British In London the foreign and “"'"oi government does not wish to commonwealth o j • More recently officials behave irresponsibly, but that terday that Mrs Ihatcner invaa right-wing British policy will not be natural!,'would ta«d«wd g^emalan government has governed by an open-ended Be^lze a spokesman said been expressing fears that Belize commitment to support United Washington. A spokesman sa ^ & Cuban brjdgc. States policy in Central America ^r ^ d been head with troops on the ground. concerning McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A2BZ Telephone: 014)3069)5 k •A - xviiinvcA uym UK looks for U.S. support Argentina stops foreign 7 over Belize By Stewart Fleming In currency for trips abroad Washington BY PETER BAINS IN BUENOS AIRES ■ THE BRITISH Government is seeking U.S. support for a ARGENTINA’S central bank has the banks. None has been appeal the authorities will try • political settlement of Guata- stopped selling foreign currency opening new letters of credit to take the matter to higher ''inala’s claims on Belize, the to citizens travelling abroad, to finance imports for the last courts, ■ Central American enclave and has tightened regulations week. Before the deadline expires where a British garrison is for all other foreign payments. There are also growing fears Argentina must repay $300m to still posted even though the The measures, announced at that the Government would be the syndicate of banks which .. , country is now independent. the weekend, are seen as an unable to resume renegotiation put up a $l.lbn bridging loan In her meetings with Presi emergency move to safeguard of public-sector company at the beginning of this year, dent Ronald Reagan in Wash* dwindling foreign currency re foreign debts, worth approxi- It is unable to do this without c::L ington last week, Mrs serves. They have led to wide mately $7.5bn, before the disbursement by creditor banks . Margaret Thatcher, the British spread fears that domestic October 17 deadline set by the of the first tranche of the $1.5bn 7; Prime Minister, is understood industry will be starved of creditor banks. medium-term credit, worth to have emphasised that the essential imports less than a Negotiations on these debts, S500m, signed last month, or UK does not want to keep the month before the general elec- a vital part of the rescheduling disbursement of the third garrison there indefinitely al- tion. of the. country’s total S39bn tranche of the IMF stand-by though she did not put any time* • The Economy Ministry said (£2fibn) debt, were frozen last credit, worth $300m. table forward. that all operations involving re week as a result of a court Both these disbursements are Guatemala has territorial orJ,er- being held up. The $500m pav- mittance of foreign currency federal Judge Federico Pinto ment has been made conditional claims on Belize and it is feared abroad, whether to pay for im that it might be tempted to Kramer, who objects to the on renegotiation of the public- ports or for other reasons, must terms of the agreement to sector company debts, now held 6tep up pressure following a j,e re-submitted for authorisa- reschedule the $220m debt of Up jn the courts. The third British withdrawal. The issue tion. is a delicate one for President Aerolineas Argentinas, the tranche of the IMF facility is The Union Industrial Argen state airline, has forced the also delayed as fund officials Reagan in view of the hostilities tina, the main industrial in Central America and the authorities to stop talks. investigate Argentina’s ihird- problems the Administration is chamber, gave warning that the The Aerolineas contract was quarter economic performance, having in following the policies foreign debt crisis could quickly to have been a model for The severity of the debt crisis it favours in its efforts to try lead to major raw material renegotiation of the debts of was underlined by figures which and restore regional stability. shortages and a collapse in ihe 31 other state concerns. showed that Argentina’s total A Foreign and Commonwealth tenuous recovery in manufactur The Government has appealed currency reserves had fallen by Office spokesman in London ing output registered in recent against the judge’s decision, but $678m in the past seven weeks, confirmed last night that Mrs months. legal experts do not expect a Overdue and unpaid interest on Thatcher had discussed the The latest measures were pre quick resolution. If Judge, foreign debt is now estimated Belize garrison with President ceded by growing caution among Pinto Kramer turns down the at $l.lbn. Reagan. The spokesman said, however, that there was no change in the position estab lished after Belize became in FINANCIAL TIMES 3 10 83 dependent in 1981. As the British Government said then, the garrison would remain for “ an appropriate period.” The SDokesman declined to specify / US fears British commitment to main- I how long such a period might tain the garrison for “an appropriate period”. I be. TIMES Further clarification of the 3 10 83 over British position is likely to be i sought by Mr Richard Stone, defence of President Reagan’s Special Envoy to Central America who. will see Sir Geoffrey Howe the Belize Foreign Secretary, in Whitehall By Henry Stanhope this week at the start of a tour to Diplomatic Correspondent explain American policy in the region. Fresh doubts over the future of Britain maintains the Belize Britain’s garrison in Belize have ^Afgentine quits garrison because of a continuing been raised following last threat to the tiny Republic from week’s Washington talks over amnesty neighbouring Guatemala which between Mrs Margaret Thatcher has laid claim to all or part of it Buenos Aires-Senor Luis and President Reagan. for more than a century. Carlos Cabral, Argentina’s At The Prime Minister is torney General, has resigned in reported to have worried the Attempts to reach a political protest at the military Govern United States Administration settlement have failed and the ment’s amnesty law (Andrew by threatening to pull out the latest official negotiations broke Thompson writes). 1,800 troops and four Harrier down early this year as soon as The law, which grants im strike aircraft within a year. they started. munity from prosecution to The Foreign Office last night There is little doubt that the those involved in political agreed that the two heads of Government would like to I crimes over the last 10 years, government would naturally withdraw, particularly now that has been rejected by the have discussed the former the need to maintain a 4,000- political parties and questioned British colony “in the context of strong garrison in the Falkland. by many judges, opposition Central America and recent Islands is straining defence leaders and human rights events in Guatemala”. But resources. groups. there was no change in the McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 MJ5 I THE TIMES 1 10 83 ■ ISteel joins protest ^Argentina’s creditors are at Thatcher speech hit by court order From Andrew Thompson, Buenos Aires By Our Foreign Staff A court order imposing a The Government is expected Mr David Steel, the Liberal order to assure the deployment “freeze” on the renegotiation of to appeal against the order, but leader, last night joined Mr of cruise missiles in Britain. Argentina’s public sector has been forced to honour it in Denis Healey, the shadow Mr Matthew Paris, Conserva- foreign debt has brought the the meantime. As a result the Forcign Secretary, in condemn- live MP for West Derbyshire, country into deadlock with Central Bank has had to stop ing Mrs Margaret Thatcher’s was the first to cnticizc M foreign creditor banks, led to authorizing foreign payments, blistering attack on Soviet Thatchers speech from the serious disagreements within The iudee s initiative the military junta and forced sabotaged the whole debt r rix1 “ "*** ssKsasspeys the authorities to deny rumours renegotiating strategy carried Speaking in The Hague at a heard her speech with disquiet, of the resignation of Sehor Jorge out by Senor Wehbe and Scnor meeting of European Liberals, “We are used to the mtem- Wehbe, the Economy Minister. Julio Gonzalez del Solar, the Mr Steel bluntly denounced perate rhetoric of the Kremlin The order was issued by Central Bank President. Mrs Thatcher’s “ridiculous and discount it. The world is Senor Federico Pinto Kramer, a posturings” in Washington. less used to hearing aggressive While one should not be bind language from Britain and will to the true nature of the Soviet not discount it. There is a regime, he said, “a stream of danger that both sides will talK Cold War rhetoric is a positive themselves into believing that foreign debt of Aerolineas Jflve vears in jah. hindrance at this crucial stage in conflict is inevitable,” he added. pftiArgentinas, the state airline, usmAdrnirai Massera was ar- the ^ Geneva disarmament Meanwhile, Mrs Thatcher which was signed earlier this rested ear]ier this year and talks”. , . „ r ,,.... ended her North American tour m°2lh* , . , , charged with involvement in He told his European fellcn wdh a brjef stop-over in New The agreement was intended “disappearance” of a Liberals that Mrs Thatchers Yofk yesterdav during which as a model for the renegotiation businessman in 1977. The approach was Destructive ^ ^ ta,ks wilh Mrs Indira of remaining public sector rosecu,0r asked a federal judge rather than constructive. Her Gandhi lhe lndian Prime foreign debt, which totals £ ja;i him for “withholding apparent fervour for a new Mini and Seiior jaVier approximately $7.5 billion a evidence” and failing to report a generation of American and p6rez de Cu6uar> the United large portion of the country s , British nuclear missiles regard- ^ b Secretary-General, total debts of $40 billion. Judge Human rights groups accuse less - with no acceptance that Pinto Kramer s decision effecti- b retired admiral, who was Britain herself might play some Mrs Gandhif tookT .the , oppor-. vely freezes any further renego- Qne Qf the leaders of lhe 1976 part in the disarmament process tumty to brief Mrs Thatcher on tiations. . military coup, of responsibility .<• a mean and dismal the informal discussions among As a result, foreign creditor lbe torlure and deaths of contribution. the 20 heads of state and banks have decided to postpone political opponents. “By inciting President Rea- government during a two-day i payment of $500m, the first can’s prejudices, by seeking session at the United Nations, tranche of a $1.5 billion discord and disharmony, she which was chaired by her medium-term, credit signed in undermines the cautious opti- Mrs Thatcher’s talks with August. Also delayed is pay mism felt by other Europeans Seflor Perez de Cuellar focused ment of the third tranche of the for a satisfactory outcome to the on Lebanon, Afghanistan and International Monetary Fund’s Geneva talks”, he concluded. Namibia issues. stand-by credit, worth approxi The Secretary-General also mately $ 300m. Earlier, Mr Healey described raised the Falklands issue and The banks have set October Mrs Thatcher in London as “an reminded the Prime Minister 17 as the new deadline for ignorant and opinionated that he had a mandate from the Argentina to sort out its internal demagogue” whose speech he UN General Assembly to bring legal problems. In the interim, found “deeply disturbing and the two sides to the negotiating Argentina is close to a technical indeed dangerous”. table. default. , . He accused the Prime Minis UN summit, page 5 Judge Pinto Kramers initia ter of deliberately seeking to Leading article, page 9 tive is supported by the Air “torpedo ” the Geneva talks in Force and criticized by the Army and Navy High Com mand, who complain that it is Senor Wehbe: Economic /Jobs to go putting the country’s inter strategy sabotaged. /Falklands national payments at risk. at Crown troops hit ^ ■ . The AgentsCrown Agents arc plan- An inquiry started yesterday lQ shcd al least a quarter of in the Falkland Islands into the . . j 200 permanent staffa in woundings of four soldiers, two attempt to survive a seriously, by a shell during.joint * ial crisis which is threat- inStf Til!“eC' unions have in Port Stanley said last night it lold lhal 30o to 400 jobs was not known whether the | ^ after the sudden loss. in shell fell short or the soldiers ™Y 0 f lhe agents’ long-standing were ahead of their correct as investment managers to position. . . the Sultan of Brunei. The two seriously injured The agents, who were estab men are Sergeant Stephen lished 150 years ago, provide a Kelly, of the 1st Battalion, range of procurment, engineer King’s Own Border Regiment, ing and contractual services for who suffered blast injuries to foreign governments. Managing the thigh and shrapnel wounds the Sultan of Brunei s £3,000 in the hand, and Private investment portfolio was their Anthony Brown, of the 2nd single most profitable activity. McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs Battalion, Light Infantry, who Last year they had a deficit broke a leg and suffered after tax and interest payments 41 Whitehall London SW1A2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 shrapnel wounds. of £640,000 . GUARDIAN 1 10 83 OBSERVER 2 10 83 /Move on Falklands ships UK squeezes »v a ctn(T Renorter the Government’s attitude. fa The Government yesterday ;;Ts^iof^sctcot^detrhae,i'onWdoef1iVn- aid to Brazil National Union °1 Seamen for seamen who are unemployed to from HUGH O’SHAUGHNESSY in Washington an end to the chartering ot „ he said Falkland?'garrison'1'51' y'nS “ The NUS is concerned that BRITAINisresistingintense expressed ^r determination to The announcement followed an increasing number of for- a meetfng between t^e NUS eign vessels, particularly Dutch £SSS» and Lord Trefgarne, junior and Danish, are being used as pressed Brazilian Govern- According to banking sources, SifS°fu^.5™fed« ment in a bid to acquire Britain is seeking a commitment > ?'iklahndserChant SCrViCe " ,he UK?nflie,600,SseamenUPoname m°er- landing rights for aircraft fly- from Brazil that it will grant ing to the Falklands, accord- landing rights for British aircraft ing to senior bankers in flying to and from the Falklands t.«s»s^p,ng reg,ster Washington. before the British Government Alarmed by Brazil’s deterior- will change its mind and loosen ating financial position and the its pursestrings, MAIL ON SUNDAY 2 10 83 prospect of a severe shock to the Until the new airport at Man- world banking system if the ley comes into operation m country cannot, or will not, pay aircraft on the leg between its international debts, US offi- Ascension Island and Port Stan- cials have for months been ley have to be refuelled twice m . Islands pay battle pressing Western governments the air because of the lack of any and international bodies like the refuelling stop on the South | A BITTER pay row H FALKLANDS S3£s threatening the annual World Bank to lend big sums to American mainland. sheep shearing in the whom uve in Britain, say Brazil. Under urgent prompting from Falklands. there is not enough profit in Their efforts were crowned Argentina, Brazil has consis- The island’s General Em- sheep farming to pay the with success last Monday when tently refused to give Britain ployees’ Union may strike to COst-of-living rise in full, it was announced here that the landing rights, except in cases ot force farm owners to restore T\ rescue. has several out operation for Argentina . OBSERVER 2 10 83 Mrs Thatcher times this year privately Debts freeze call, page 17 Falkiands port ifiplomacy A MULTI-million pound modation and storage will abo FINANCIAL ' From Mr J. Dodicell ‘instant port ’ contract for the be created. All die construction Sir,—Why is it that Malcolm FaSandThas been awarded to will be done in Britain, pnncip- TIMES , Rutherford (September 22) ITM (Offshore) by the Ministry ally m Belfast and Tyne an again argues that Britain should of Defence. Six large flat- Wear, with ^meas^mbly 1 10 83 cede sovereignty over the Falk toDDed barges will be moored in work on site at Port Stanley. lands? Has he not considered Shallow Port Stanley har- The McD claims that the c^tM the possibility of Argentina piving up its spurious claim to bour providing a new jetty to the project will ** recouped land which it has never &Pthe heavy cargo expec- within three years by freeing peopled? Has he so little regard ted as work begins on the new charter storage ships and for the principle of self- airfield. Additional accom- easing cargo transfers. determination or does he believe that principles have no role in international politics. His comments about the DAILY TELEGRAPH 1 10 83 5SSOSJSWSSS ford's lack of understanding Sgt Stephen Kelly, of the about those negotiations. Over Kings’ Own Border Regt;> was the last ten years before the i SHELL DROPPED “ very seriously injured.’ outbreak of war, the concessions Pte Anthony Brown. from were all one-sided from Britain. i Washington, Tyne and Wear Does he not consider that for / SHORT IN sustained a broken leg and multiple shrapnel wounds. Two negotiations to be successfully other members of the 2nd Light concluded requires some give FALKLANDS Infantry. Pte Hugh Collombe, from Argentina — which has been signally unforthcoming. The Ministry of Defence yes from Hereford, and Cpl Kevin terday confirmed that the four Bulmer, from Weeton, Lan John Dodwell. soldiers injured on Thursday on cashire, sustained minor in- 8 Burnside, a Falklands firing' range were juries. Hertford, Herts. the victims of a shell-blast. 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