/falklands beat /A SOLDIERS HURT SCOTLAND YARD is sending a sergeant and a squad of IN FALKLANDS constables to the Falklands for six months as more By Our Port Stanley workers arrive to help with Correspondent major building projects. Four soldiers serving in the Falklands were injured during Fearless and live firing on a range yesterday. The men, three from D/ ANKER COLLIDE DAILY MAIL ' Company, 2nd Light Infantry and one from the King’s Own The assault ship Fearless, 30.9.83 Border Regiment, were taken 11,400 tons, collided with a from the Hornby Mountain German tanker in thick fog off range to. Port Stanley by the Dorset coast yesterday. helicopter. ' Fearless, which served in the Falklands campaign, was on her way to Casablanca from Rosyth in Scotland, The Hamburg- registered Gerhard, with 400 NEW ARGENTINE tons of light diesel on board, was holed on the port bow, but DEFENCE CHIEF a Defence Ministry spokesman President Bignone of the said there was no threat of a Argentine yesterday named major oil slick. Gen. Juan Carlos Camblor, 56, as Defence Minister to replace Julio Martinez Vivot, who has been appointed a Supreme o Court judge. DAILY TELEGRAPH Neither man is likely to hold his new job for long as elec­ 30.9.83 tions are due on Oct. 30 to return the country to democracy after eight years of —ailitary rule.—Reuter. 7 / Emigrating to Falklands Falklands war ‘hurt Mrs Ann Green, of Rhyl, North Wales, whose son, a Welsh guardsman, died in the US cause’ Bluff Cove action, is to emigrate to the Falklands. From Ian Murray Mrs Green, aged 41, has got a Brussels job as a cook at the Upland Relations between the Goose Hotel, Port Stanley. Her United States and Latin Ameri­ reasons for going are not can countries were strained by sentimental, she said. “What the Falklands crisis more attracts me is the simple life and severely than was ever im­ the friendship and community agined Mr Luigi Einaudi, the spirit.” director for policy planning and coordination in Latin America at the United State Depart­ THE TIMES ment, said in Brussels yester­ day. 30.9.83 The conflict had undermined American relationships, he said, and had hurt the predis- postion of Latin American countries to cooperate and to value the inter-American sys­ tem. Latin American countries had assumed, that Britain would have shown a much higher degree of restraint. American support for Britain had produced a varied re­ sponse. “It reduced contacts in some cases and we have not had the kind of conversations which we might have been expected.” Mr Einaudi was at Nato for a regular meeting of the alliance’s Latin American specialists. L /Troops ‘must leave Falklands 'J bomb blast Falklands’before By a Staff Reporter t r V Four British soldiers were injured in what is thought to talks can start have been a bomb explosion during an Army excercise on From Jeremy Morgan the Falkland Islands yester­ in Buenos Aires day. H The accident happened dur­ The Radical Party presiden- | v ing manoeuvres involving in­ tial candidate, Dr Raul Alfon- | fantry and artillery on Jthe sin, yesterday warned that | Hornby firing range bn West Falkland. Britain would have to remove | m Three of the men hurt are most of its military forces m m members of D Company of the from the Falkland Islands liMi HSSI 2nd Battalion of the Light before a government led by Infantry and the fourth a sol­ him would enter formal nego­ dier serving with the 1st Bat­ tiations over their future. m talion the King’s Own Border In the first conference for p Regiment. the foreign press by a candi- gj m It is believed that only one date for the presidency in m of them was seriously hurt, al­ Argentina’s elections on Octo­ though all are now in hospital ber 30, Dr Alfonsin reiterated • Sir John Nott, who was de­ that his government could not fence secretary during the O agree to a “unilateral” cease Falklands crisis, said in a fire by Argentina as a “prior i newspaper interview that he condition ” of any talks. regards with absolute horror Dr Alfonsin: ‘ No prior the notion of a large base in He said that any such end of condition ’ the Falklands. hostilities would have to be by Sir John, who left politics both- - . , countries, implyingne attitude of the world towards earlier this year to become an Britain s demilitarisation of Argentina once a democratic executive director of Lazards, the Falklands, which would in- g0vernment took power, the City merchant bank, said volve removing most of its 6 ; that if a presence needed to be troops and arms. Britain’s Foreign Secretary, maintained anywhere in that Dr Alfonsin indicated mat part of the world, we should set up a small base on South ^/evefif^tain still had “t^^K & Georgia. a small token force on the of ignoring British initiatives islands. When Argentina’s mili­ aimed at restoring a better re­ tary regime occupied the lationship. islands on April 2 last year , ... TTM Britain had such a force of In his speech to the UN under 100 soldiers and officers General Assembly on Wednes- THE GUARDIAN on the Falklands. day night, Sir Geoffrey said r™. that the Argentine authorities 30.9.83 The candidate, who is given continued t0 see negotiations a slightly less-than-even chance «• pUre]y as a means for trans- of assuming power within ferrjng sovereignty without re- three months of the elections, „ard for ^he wishes of the said his government would fslanders/. seek a permanent definition of . _ .. the long-running dispute be- But he declared that Britain D tween Britain and Argentina in would continue to defend the all international forums, parti- “inalienable right’’ of the cularly under the United islanders to self-determination,. Nations resolutions on the a right to which they were no issue< less entitled than other small island peoples. Asked what might be the i “ new ingredient ” of a Radical Britain would carry forward government’s attempt to regain economic and constitutional de­ sovereignty over the islands velopment in close consultation after 150 years of British rule, with the islanders, while con- Dr Alfonsin commented that tinuing to seek a more normal ] what would change was the relationship with Argentina. i I i ! i k 9 83 FINANCIAL TIMES 29 9 83 TIMES 29 j/iVIEGAPHONE on Tuesday night, the govern­ © ment was forced to step mwth W 11=1111 l;s!|l emergency legislation to take " DIPLOMACY’ over the locally owned Hang s Lung Bank which was on the £°-g .SgSSgSg sSli^s point of collapse. Q< ■Ssf&s■CSS!:| Fears that this might trigger in WARNING a further decline of the cur­ • V*4 §-|“e = o|.«|§ e.sgs|e rency, or even runs on other a’Sfsg~JU=.2 By IAN WARD in Hongkong banks rumoured to be vulner­ able, proved groundless yester­ fJIALKS between • Britain ^fgp day. m C-SiOJjB and China over the In fact, the currency firmed .2 I c ^ * « g sT~ S •§ £ c § £ ft . long-term future of Hong­ slightly in moderate trading m kong could be jeopardised and bankers praised the gov­ SISg‘illllll°!;!ii| by “ megaphone diplo­ ernment’s prompt action. S3 macy,” Mr Richard Luce, ffl CtJ ffl i o 0> ni S3 5 oti |S|| " Foreign Office Minister of State, said yesterday. sis egg Mzs ill- i “You cannot negotiate in public,” he told a news con- General strike si fercnce in Hongkong at the close of a four-day fact-finding S3 visit to the colony. ^ CALLED IN Mr Luce, who has responsi­ m §5 ™20 ~ o fe “ oSS~ bility for Hongkong, said that ARGENTINA ||oo|co!»°gS in broad terms there was a good & ft c C.O Su framework for Anglo-Chinese Argentina’s trade union move­ © relations. ment called yesterday for a 24- “ But equally, I would have to hour general strike for Monday • $ 6~ez ^■§ say that it is unhelpful and sad To protest at the military § ggja §lfl|Pg«.Ss5< that public comments on the • government’s failure to meet part of the Chinese Government wage demands. S3 on the British position are not Within minutes of the S5 JEBJISg-S tlfcis helpful to the common aim of announcement bv the moderate © finding a solution.” “ Azopardo ” wing of the The Minister is due to return General Confederation of ^ i to Britain today and will re­ Labour, the hard-line “ Brasil gal: -gSel o&nf® |S„2S port back to Sir Geoffrey Howe, faction said it would call a Foreign Secretary. national stoppage on a date to ft* "alii Looking at the type of solu­ be agreed bv labour leaders. 3 „6 s as S'g u g % § tion that could result from the Trade union sources said the •£.c >> £ h « ’0-0 two factions were almost certain S3 s^So g<3S I S c g Peking negotiations, Mr Luce said: “ We are not only trying to make their national strikes © to preserve all that has been coincide, as on previous occa­ built up so successfully in sions over the past year. The Hongkong, we are trying to strike call followed an unsuc­ £.1 build further on that success cessful meeting on Tuesdav © II*|lif so that Hongkong can flourish between President Bignone and still further in the longer union leaders to discuss wage term.” demands.—Reuter. © Of course there would be A “HI ;m iiiti turbulence and the talks be­ tween Britain and China could © |s§ts f"ii I|"fl 1 take some time.