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/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.

/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. .

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on Tuesday night, the govern © j/iVIEGAPHONE 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 fJIALKS between • Britain able, proved groundless yester ^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. “ But nobody *-s2 >, ra ‘-5 >? H

McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone. 01-930 6935 ft TIMES 29 9 83 / \ /Antarctic Treaty Thatcher able to nations oppose UN involvement From a Correspondent cash in on Canberra The Antarctic Treaty nations have decided to oppose UN involvement in the area. Malaysia vast fund of US with the backing of many Third World countries, already has UN approval to have the matter debated during the current admiration General Assembly session. The 14 full members of the From Nicholas Ashford, Washington Antarctic Treaty and the 12 associated members concluded a The visit by Mrs Thatcher to with Mr Donald Regan, the two-week meeting in Canberra on Washington, which began last Treasury Secretary, and Mr Paul Tuesday and their decision to night, takes place at a time when Volkcr. chairman of the Federal - UN involvement in the Britain’s relations with the United Reserve Board. oposc Britain, like other European area was announced yesterday by States are as close as at any lime the since the Second World War. nations, remains worried by chairman of the meeting Mr J Although there are a number of continuing high US interest rates, Rowland, an Australian diplomat. differences over issues such as the over-valued dollar and (Britain is one of the 14 full steel, unitary taxation and Ameri- burgeoning US budget deficits, Trcaty members). can attempts to restrict trade with She will tell her American hosts A brave public face has been the Soviet block, these pale that, if US interest rates remain at pul on by the treaty partners, who almost into insignificance com- their present high levels, they have been accused by non-mem pared bers of being an exclusive club with the overall warmth could abort the mild upswing the attempting to reserve the Antarc rts which exists between London and British economy has been experi Washington. encing in recent months. tic resources for themselves. Part of the reason lies in the She will also want to find out esteem which Mrs Thatcher and whether America's own buoyant President Reagan hold for each recovery will be sustained, other. They are ideological allies. President Reagan and Mr Regan both on matters political and will assure her it will, but there economic. But they also enjoy a are a number of voices in friendship closer than that nor- Washington and on Wall Street mally estabished between heads warning that it will be short-lived, of government. Mrs Thatcher is also certain to V British prestige stands high_ in raise some of the divisive issues Passing worry American eyes since the ^alk^. which have caused tempers to At the WAPOR meeting in Barcelona, l Thc ^r*t*s*1 viclory not f]arc jn ministries on both sides of was shown a copy of a report of an IPSA only added to the strong sense of i)lc Atlantic. These include survey conducted in the main cities oj anglophilia that lurks in the American restrictions of steel Argentina on public opinion during the American psyche, but has also imports, differences on farm Falklands conflict. But even more helped to dispel the belief, once CXp0rt subsidies, the Export interesting were the results of a poll widely held, that Britain had Administration Act now going among 1,700 Argentinians in face-to- become an ailing, class-ridden through Congress, the practice by face random interviews in the spring oj nation of work-shy trade union- American states of taxing the 19S3, nearly a year after the war. ists and inefficient managers. world profits of foreign-owned ' 'Sovereignty over the Falklands “ was Mrs Thatcher s election land- multinational corporations (uni- in sixth place in a list of issues which slide has shown Americans that tary laxation), and more people found "worrying”. Lack oj the British are prepared to back a broadly - the growing trend ability to make ends to meet was oj strong leader though they may not towards protectionism in the US. greatest concern (58 per cent), followed always like the policies she On the global scene, there is by unemployment (46 per cent), presribes. Many Americans feel little that divides the two inflation (30 per cent), political there arc important lessons in the governments. Britain and the US instability (14 per cent), medical service British experience for the United arc as one in their condemnation (12 per cent), all came before States as it prepares itself for next of the Soviet Union's shooting sovereignty over the Malvinas (9 per year's presidential elections. down of the Korean airliner, on cent). The main purpose of Mrs the need for deployment of new Thatcher’s visit is simply to medium-range missiles as reaffirm the “special relationship’’ planned, and in their hope that that exists between the two the Geneva arms talks will leading English-speaking nations, succeed in reducing nuclear This is also the main theme of arsenals, the many other ministerial visits Paradoxically, it is only over taking place at this time of year, the Falklands_ (which the US Between the beginning of this helpccTErrtain"recapture last year month and the ending of the by providing military support) parliamentary recess, official that there are significant differ- visils to Washington will have ences. The US favours renewed been made by Mr Michael negotiations with Argentina; Hcscltine, the Defence Secretary, Britain does not, at least not at Mr Nigel Lawson, the Chancellor, present. Mr James Prior, the Minister for Such a difference is but a small Northern Ireland, and Mr Cecil worry in the overall relationship Parkinson. Minister for Trade between the two nations which, and Industry. although no longer the rclation- However, there are points of ship between two equals that it substance which Mrs Thatcher was during the Second World will raise during her talks with Mr War, still remains at the core of Reagan as well as in her meetings the Western alliance.

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1 A SPECIAL meeting of the In ternational Wool Secretariat’s FINANCIAL TIMES 29 9 83 top research directors Is to be “The global plan,” he says, held in Melbourne in November “ looks at what we should be such as flame-resistant cloth up^^am,6 whiTh mfght^a™ to discuss the route they should doing over the next five years, take over the next five years. Its core is that we should be (for aircraft seats, for example) members from several labora- and improve machine wash- tories.” They will have before them going to our branches (IWS ability. a document called the Strategy has branches in over 30 coun Finance has not been a major tries), to industry and to the In a word, the buyer of the factor in the thinking behind Plan for Global Research and finished item will become much Development for Wool, which marketing people to see what •tQ the global plan, though it is a their requirements are. more important than factor which has had to be taken has evolved from discussions producer. over the past two years. The tt j i. into account “ Financial strin- document suggests, and it is Hard pilSh Mr Graham admits that this gency is not really the driving likely to be accepted, that if “We have in the past pushed switch could not have been set force. The sponsors have always the IWS is to meet the chal very hard at the spinning and in train at a more difficult time, been keen on R and D and will- lenges of the next decade, its machinery level and while this In the depth of the recession ing to support our work in the Technical Centre at Ilkley, the undoubtedly helps sell wool in industry is highly unwilling to knowledge that it would help front-line interface with indus commit itself, or to think, five sell more of their wool and the due course we now think we we have is adequate for try. must make a radical shift in should be much more closely years ahead. money policy and strengthen its links involved with the market’s The switch at Ilkley ■will not what we do.” with industry. needs for wool as a fibre. affect the work of the other Even so, financial stringency “ IWS is now marketing wool main research bodies, Austra has played a part The IWS is Interests as a fibre, showing'what it can lia’s Commonwealth Scientific carefully watching the pennies and Industrial Research Organi following the New Zealand The IWS was set up in 1937 do, in a campaign called Cool Wool and to link with this we sation. the Wool Research decision, the second most to further the interests of the Organisation of New Zealand important paymaster, to cut its woollen farmers in Australia, must show how you can sell the fibre, not the machinery.” and the South African Wool contribution to IWS. New Zealand and South Africa and Textile Research Institute. ' (Uruguay joined later). Each In a, sense,, ... this is Ttaking* — They will pick up the process- Research activities are allo has traditionally had its own Tlkley back to its basics. It was development work previously cated a budget of about A$20m, research centre or centres— set up to be a link with industry undertaken at Ilklev and thev of which Ilkley receives about Australia, by far the world’s but Mr Graham admits that will also attempt to specialise A$7m (around £4.1m), and largest wool producer, has three rather more in order to Geelong the next major share. (i —but the founder members also over the years it has rather eliminate unnecessary overlap But that A$20m is not likely established a central Technical meandered into pure develop ping. to rise and so in real terms Centre in 1968 at Ilkley, outside ments. there must be fewer resources Bradford, traditional home of “We feel now that Ilkley has Casuaj available as inflation takes its the world’s wool users. the same chance to provide a _ toll. Ilkley has always concen service to industry, its “The global plan postulates The major factor Influencing trated heavily on process-based original intention, without be- that the whole research and do the switch has been a big change developments, that is work with ing0 too encumbered with new velopment undertaking must be in consumer demand over the a high scientific content and processes. We are going to be co-ordinated and that ilkley can pa^ decade. The standard wool based on fundamental research much more concerned with what get out of some areas in the clothes, men’s suits and women’s and development. One of its first can be done with wool.” knowledge that the other three coats, can no longer be taken cah take over. [investigations concerned shrink- Two years ago process for granted as everyday resistance and subsequent development accounted for “ What we shall then do is purchases. work has been done on scouring agree with the branches what and effluent treatment, dyeing, is necessary, decide which Co-ordinate printing and bleaching and on laboratory should take on the the refinement of Sirospun, a “ The global plan postu- initial study, a very time- Men are increasingly wearing process developed in Australia casual clothes even on relatively to improve spinning. lates that the whole formal occasions, and women I Product and technological research and develop are into separates and, they are developments were not ignored increasingly wearing them made and in fact grew lo the point ment undertaking must from other fibres. There is where they accounted for the 1 larger 0share of . Ukley’s re- be co-ordinated ” pressure on wool as a fibre i sources. But there was a despite its acceptability and its i certain amount of overlap be- share of the fibre market is ] (V . * tween the work at Ilkley and likely to decline. 'eD’ research centres in Australia, about 20 per cent of Ukley’s New Zealand and South Africa resources, with another 20 per Ilkley therefore has to under 1 were at one time simultaneously cent going towards product take work that will prepare it, working on scouring processes development and 40 per cent and wool, for the ’90s and the —and a feeling arose that the towards technology transfer, next century. centres were getting rather too This year, process development far from industry and its needs, will get about 13 per cent of “We shall continue to keep the resources and if the global a finger in the process pie,” Mr The November meeting, and plan is accepted it will be down the global plan, is all about Graham says, “but we want reversing this trend. Resources to 7 per cent in 1988. industry to know we are acutely are to be switched increasingly This major shift will take conscious of their needs. into product and technical Ilkley increasingly into areas work, and away from process such as methods of producing “We want people to get away from looking at us as a bunch studies. Such a change of fancy yarns, developing apparel V - fabrics, embellishing knitwear, of pure scientasts. We want emphasis will have enormous developing new clothes such as them to see us as a bunch of thermal underwear, carpet hard technologists.” implications, not least because yarns and home textiles. It will Ilkley is full of highly-trained also exploit new technologies scientists. Some intimation of the way Ilkley ought to go might have been gleaned two years ago when Mr Ian Graham took over as direotor of research, a title which hides his role as head of the 260-strong organisation. Previous heads of Ilkley had i all been scientists. 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L SIR JOHN NOTT was plant ing his field with daffodils. He Falklands build-up is not just growing the early flowers, which are expected from Cornwall, but has pulled fears ‘nonsense’ off a coals-to-Newcastle deal UNITED NATIONS, Thursday. that augurs as well for his BRITAIN has rejected as “lurid nonsense” Argentine future in the City as on the charges that a British military build-up in the Falkland. farm: selling bulbs to Holland. Islands threatens Latin American security. Since he left politics at the The Foreign Secretary, Sir fo™nerlnDefence MhUster,"’whose stro^ntha^W4V%er,TtoteS Geoffrey Howe, vowed before the UN General Assembly that \ al^ays be llnked with tarian, so that there is no real Britain “will defend the Falk the Falklands war. has been political check on the military- land Islands and their inhabi busy. He spends weekdays as an scientific complex, as in the West, tants against the possibility executive director of Lazards fc Is, dangerous—-particularly so of renewed attack.” the merchant bankers, living in ,1s facing massive The statement in the a new house in London, and „r al problems> Assembly on Monday by weekends helping his wife run worn?s their favm nt liini. There is & tendency to Argentinian Foreign Minister end of Cornwall 1 the f£U neutralism in the richer countries Juan Aguirre Lanari “consis , , of Europe. It is very worrying that ted of rhetoric which is as i16 ^ seldPm out of work- liberal opinion feels that somehow unhelpful as it is tenden ,?„■??, +? and wellingtons, keeping the risks ads being exaggerated. If tious,’ Sir Geoffrey said. HP "A11th® endless cycle of plant- anything we are understating them. harvesting 12 acres of I am still pretty well-informed and “To accuse us of threaten SSSSS?8 ♦?nd*,601 01 c ?'er®al crops. know that from neutralism to ing the security of the Latin looking after the beef herd and the domination by the Soviet Union is American region is lurid sheep which produce lambs in a very short step." nonsense," Sir Geoffrey said. fjpycj, ,In London, he. smartly The key to future security, he is suited, advises some of the biggest convinced, is the continuing presence “We have done and will do businesses in the country on their of American armed forces in Europe. ' no more than is necessary to foi ward planning. But he himself is “ Of course I would have liked to protect the islands and their no longer taking the decisions. reduce our commitment on the ^ -1 111185 that.’he admits. "I had Continent: theoretically, it's non- population against a threat made up mv mind that it was going sense to keep three divisions in which recent history has t le a difficult transition but it Germany. shown to be all too real.” 1 been easier than I imagined. << a mobile reserve for NATO all5 ?efeny^Sthe bi4iTleusfnils kepfc at home w^d be the hi the countr!?—it 1.: role for us. But if we withdrew

“I was unlikely to have such an , _ .The British position should, he interesting job again. But I would thinks, be to some extent that of have given it up anyway Quite “an outsider ” to both Europe and apart from the Falklands. I had had the Unlted States but linking the my controversies over forward pro- two. “ We would be crazy to back gramming and come up against the away frora this unique position to London STANDARD naval lobby. An uncontroversial become ‘ better Europeans’,’’ he adds. Defence Secretary was needed before “You see, I'm a Gaullist at heart." 29 9 83 a general election." Over the future of a semi He may no longer be part of detached Britain, Sir John is opti what he calls “ the political club " mistic. “ We may see ourselves as and rarely sees his former fellow- poor and, in statistics, we are way members but he keeps a sharp eve down the list of rich countries. But on world news, remembering how foreigners see us as wealthy. he reacted to it and considering what should be done now. “ We possess half the energy Despite the Falklands war. he resources of Europe, the strongest remains convinced that Britain can economic block in the world, we no longer afford a global, peace have huge economic investments keeping role. “ You see now a prime and, as a result of the abolition of example of where our influence has overseas exchange controls, we have been unsuccessful—the Lebanon. I been able to invest widely abroad. was totally against sending one We are really a rich country." British soldier there. The problems of the recession “ It was a nonsense because there and unemployment he believes to be wr 10 hope of influencing events. temporary. “These are problems of Fi . .dy, there is no role for'a peace transition. There will be five or 10 keeping force there. We have been years of severe social problems while drawn in to support our American we make the change to the new allies.” industrial society. But. in 20 to 30 . takes an equally cold-eved years’ time there will be plenty of view of the future of the Falklarids. jobs. Of course negotiations with Argen tina are not practicable at ‘the present time. But the notion of a Shooting large base in the Falklands I regard with absolute horror, if we need to maintain a presence anywhere in “ We have to get rid of the that part of the world, we should baggage of the Industrial Revolu set up a small base on South tion, which has trapped people in Georgia." declining industries. Perhaps the last Government went a little too fast in making the change but the Danger industries were going to go anyway and the decline was accelerated." “ Unless we can get out of these Switching targets, he adds: “ Why old industries, we will continue to the hell are we in Belize ? The grow at half the rate of our com Chiefs of Staff sit around their map petitors. Three-quarters of the popu of the world . .. lation is too old to make the change “Anyway, they can't recruit —electronic industries are a new young men just to sit about in world to me—so we must give every Aldershot or Portsmouth. incentive to the educational system." “No, we must concentrate our Meanwhile he is living, by bra' efforts on the over-riding priority and brawn, two lives, cither of v* of binding together Europe and the would seem full to most mer United States and that means con Here in Cornwall, lie centrating on the Atlantic Alliance.” absorbed by his farm, + Sir John does not think there is a little time for tro’ •' imminent danger of war but that shooting. the situation in Eastern Europe During the v and the structure of Soviet.v society away dealing w: is immensely dangerous." He fears and oil comp- that the defence cutbacks by Presi- of such p pent Carter's administration gave the Russians a chance to overtake McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs the West in some areas of defence technology. 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-lJ30 6935

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\ \ goes abroad By Michael Baily, Transport Editor Cunard infuriated Britain’s coffin of the British ship repair work-starved shipyars again yes- workers”, Mr Murray said, terday by taking yet another “Cunard were quite satisfied to passenger ship contract abroad. take all the government aid they THE TIMES Just a week after agreeing to can get and then bleed us to death send the Queen Elizabeth 2 to and forget patriotism.” Germany for a £4.5m winter refit, Mrs Thatcher was silent on the 28.9.83 the line confirmed that the latest Cunard move last night, 25,000-ton Vistafjord is to have a after her extensive comments on £3m overhaul in Malta, and her the previous deals sister the Sagafjord in San In the case of the Aitantic Francisco. Conveyor she pulled out all the Malta Dry Docks is the yard stops to make Cunard order'in which caused a furore earlier in Britain. But she said it was “not rs the year by winning a £3m unreasonable” for Cunard to have contract for a post-Falklands refit of the 17,000-ton Cunard Count ess after British yards said they could not do it in time. And a year ago Cunard proposed to build a replacement for the container-ship Atlantic Conveyor, sunk in the Falklands, in South Korea - an order eventually placed at Swan Hunt er’s yard on the Tyne after a £15m grant from the Government. The Vistafjord is one of two cruise ships bought by Cunard from Norwegian America Line for £46m in May, and Cunard said last night that she was being dry- docked in Malta because that was where the Norwegian line had Mr Murray: “Bleeding us planned to refit her and were to death.” ! delivering her. The Sagafjord, 24,000 tons, will the Countess refitted in Malta if be dry-docked in San Francisco British yards could not meet the about the same time for exactly line’s essential deadlines, the same reason, Cunard added. The VistaQord, built in Britain Unlike the first three ships, in 1973, and the Sagafjord, built British yards were not asked to in France in 1965, bring Cunard’s quote for the two latest contracts cruise fleet to five - the QE2, and were not surprised. “Nat- Princess, and Countess, Vista and urally our salesmen were watch- Sagafjord. ing these ships in case the change The two ships were bought to of ownership brought work our extend Cunard’s interest in way, but we were not asked to cruising without adding new quote and were not expecting to tonnage to a market already in be”, a British Shipbuilders danger of over-capacity. The spokesman said. company said in May that it But the shipyard unions reacted expected to make record profits with predictable fury. Mr James from cruising this year Murray, leader of the boilermak- Its policy of buying and ers’ section of the General, repairing cheaply is in sharp Municipal, Boilermakers and contrast to P & O, for whom Allied Trades Union, accused Cunard’s parent, Trafalgar House, Cunard of “putting greed and made a recent takeover bid. P & profit as a higher motive than O is spending £100m on a new their interest in the British cruise ship, to be named the shipbuilding industry.” Royal Princess by the Princess of Placing the Vistafjord order in Wales, in Finland. Malta was “the final nail in the Flag transfer fears, back page

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I books ban b /TECHNOLOGY y lifted $ SITE MANAGEMENT THE Government yesterday lifted its ban on the import of books to Britain from Argen Satellites to link tina. All books being held by Customs and Excise after reaching Britain will now be released to their customers. Falklands computers The ban had affected univer sities, copyright libraries, pro fessional institutions, and BY ELAINE WILLIAMS business firms. CONSTRUCTION OF the £250m moved from the jetty head Mount Pleasant airport on the vessel at East Cove to the air Falkland Islands is to be con strip. Also communications trolled by a sophisticated com will be routed over a UHF THE GUARDIAN puter system linked by satellite link and then via the Intelsat to the UK. communications satellite to This will keep track of all Surbiton. 28.9.83 the materials needed to build A telephone link to the the runway and cost the job, Borehamwood offices of Elstree transmit progress reports, Computing, a subsidiary of memos, personnel records, ship John Laing Construction will ping schedules and take care then handle the computing . of payrolls and accounts. services for the project. The computers, supplied by On the Falklands, the micro Datapoint, left Avonmouth for computers, which have 128k of East Falkland on Monday and memory and lOmb of fixed will take four weeks to reach storage, will be employed by the their destination. The equip site management initially as a ment was ordered by the Laing/ message system to prepare Mowlem/ARC joint venture. letters and reports, later it will Datapoint’s two 1560 micro maintain personnel records, computers will be installed shipping schedules and pre aboard a ship at East Cove and pare requisitions. linked to the consortium’s head As up to 1,400 workmen will quarters at Surbiton in the UK be used during the peak build via thfc Inmarsat satellite. Once ing period, the computer will construction has begun and the also be used for critical path site headquarters has been analysis to provide manpower built, the computers will be estimates. How the computers communicate D

THE FINANCIAL TIMES McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 i / There is little doubt that Argentina will win a resounding Hongkong finance official majority in the assembly for its stand, but it was clear from Seflor hurries home from IMF Falklands Aguirre’s remarks that European support Is the most prized. Last From Richard Hughes, Hongkong year a majority of the European As Hongkong’s Financial Sec- government will be replaced by Community abstained in the vote retary, Sir John Bremridge, Communist authoritarian govem- on negotiations while the United hurried back five days early from ment, without any assurances that States sided with Argentina. the IMF-World Bank conference civic rights will be protected”, he In a right of reply, Mr in Washington, the Hongkong said. launched Nicholas Barrington, Britain's dollar welcomed him with a However, there has been representative, said that the many and varied accusations substantial recovery. ' widespread satisfaction over the •J1 fon"dent mo°d> Sir John promotion of the retiring British by junta made by Argentina were without said that his presence in Hong- Ambassador in Peking, Sir Peter From Zoriana Pysariwsky foundation. He said that Argen kong “could be more important Cradock, to two high-level posts tina had attempted to airbrush than sipping cocktails in in the Foreign Office, with New York out the fact that it had broken of! Washington”. continuing responsibility for the Argentina is urging Britain’s from the negotiating process with He emphasized that the with- negotiations over the future of allies to persuade it to discon the deliberate and unprovoked holding tax on Hongkong dollar Hongkong, tinue its “Fortress Falklands” invasion of the islands last year. deposits would not be abolished “i only wish lhal on lh policy, and has initiated its Seilor Aguirre discounted and gave warning that “those Chinese side they had someone campaign in the UN General Britain’s contention that Agenti- people selling Hongkong dollars who is equally knowledgabie and Assembly this year to attain na’s failure to declare a formal at this juncture are going to get who enjoys the same degree of coveted European support for end of hostilities was the source negotiations over the sovereignty of continued tension. He said his Con- of the islands. country’s attitude was in full sumer Council has urged shop Sertor Juan Aguirre Lanari, conformity with the provisions of pers to stop panic buying, which the Argentine Foreign Minister, the UN Charter relating to the would only aggravate profiteering. said on Monday that the West peaceful settlement of disputes. The Consumer Council has should dissociate itself from He noted that the fourteen and received complaints of increases Britain’s “dangerous adventure”. a half months that had elapsed of up to 50 per cent in sale prices He cited the decision by Britain since the cessation of fighting for many market commodities. to establish what he called a was confirmation of Argentina’s Australian rice - the most widely strategic airbase in the Falklands good will and its compliance with consumed in Hongkong - has as an escalation of its military internatipnal law. been virtually sold out. expansionist policy in the South The Government has also had Atlantic. to withdraw three lots of Crown It was clear, he said, that the land from sale by public auction base would be designed to allow because not a single buyer was Britain to extend its global ;nterested in the normal opening strategic interests, and he gave rices. warning of the dangers of On the political front, Mr John transforming the South Atlantic Walden, former Director of Sir Percy Cradock: New into a new source of conflict Home Affairs, blamed both the appointment praised. between East and West. British and Chinese Governments He also accused Britain of for the collapse of the Hongkong leaders”, said a Hongkong com- thwarting all attempts at peace do"ar- mentator. Mr T. L. Tsin. making, including its refusal to He said that the British and An influential local group the accept the mandate of the Chinese were treating Hongkong’s Hongkong Christian Industrial Secretary-General, SeAor Javier five million people as mute Committee, has appealed directly Perez de Cuellar, to renew pawns” and did not care what to Chinese and British authorities negotiations between the two damage they did to local living to prevent the collapse of the sides. Argentina is expected with standards. . dollar and has warned Hongkong j its Latin allies to table a motion There is increasing certainty against “committing collective calling for the resumption of that colonial authoritarian suicide”. negotiations when the assembly debates the issue later this year.

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ticianHe,iLin tnunaereatSe?LG l™awas^'t Chervr»’s choice of Michaelrt.s,K Heseltine as Thisgssra&gg is the first generationi for whojr ington dinner party last week. Defence Minister Is being applauded knowing about Europe is not r “Wplmut Kohl is the leader of in Washington. One official called it natural as the air you breathe. the future *' a brilliant stroke.” Americans like «In the debate over the bud^t the West. He s shaping t F e the way so much brain power at the Capitol Hill, EurpPe is not see of the Affiance. Western Europ. mod is thinking out-of-Europe the solution, but .„pajJ. * is changing and the U.S. has to thoughts. problem. People there are^ understand that if Europe pulls Heseltine himself is vastly appreci- a close look at all the mone awav America becomes No 2 in ated as a man who "keeps his priori- to defend a part of the wo SA nomlc‘cower ”,Cr N° 3 of %" ff SSM Sw« 'it™His Speech SfSffXaSMlX KhourS raoarbT«dbyg^ ft! Destructr TiSS brumStiousgson0rof audience WSSS But in the Oval o « said1 afterward. "I have to listen to stuff like that, -But we i0ved it. The guy is really able sources he ■•-iv a U.S. foreign policy planner saia. very good. He is able to reach across year a new fr ^ “Europeans saying Margaret That- the spectrum of British politics, and in which talk cher or Kohl is the strongest leader he has the kind of worldly serious- weapons and in the free world, or Kohl is pulling . ness ê look for. He can quell the in Europe^ the levers in the Alliance. uneasiness we feel about the diver- come toge Pentagon let “You can imagine how that sort sion of British resources to the will come of thing plays in Peoria, .Êalklands, at least for the time whole r? “Ordinary Americans are getting ---- ations. down by MoD a little angry at being told by Euro- Reading newspaper headlines, the ‘ Th WORRIED EXPRESSIONS neans that U.S. leadership is second average American would certainly expected in both the rate Lower class people are begin- get the jmpression that the Western are ning to resent the met that they are Alliance is held together by nothing Ministry of Defence and navlng for the defence of middle and stronger than artifice and prose, the Pentagon when the UDPer class Europeans and Jap- While underneath deep forces are latest addition to the ever anese.” .. . „ ' breaking it asunder. U.S. and Euro- growing literature on the That sentiment is something to Falklands War appears bear in mind as Margaret Thatcher next month. arrives in Washington today fpr a % Using their extensive White House meeting not entirely 4 free of tension and competing network of contacts, avia national interests. Americans are at tion specialists Jeffrey a loss to understand why West Ethell and Alfred Price ' minster politicians like Roy Hatters- ’ ■ ■ talked to servicemen on ley and Enoch Powell are clamouring both sides to build up a for more British assertiveness. In , I complete, and they claim their view the Europeans have now gained partial veto power over sanc more accurate, picture of tions against the Soviet Union, effec the conflict. tively bringing to an end U.S. domi Their book, Air War nance across the board in the Alli- .-South Atlantic, out soon aIMrs Thatcher Is regarded as being Michael Heseltine: from Sidgwick and Jackson iust as Gaullist on matters of East- reaching across the spectrum casts serious doubt on the $£t tSSe and West-West com accuracy of British figures mercial issues as any one else. It pean views---- of the Soviets seem for the number of Argen 3% is not forgotten here that Britain fatally incompatible. tinian aircraft shot down. refused to boycott the Moscow The reality is a good deal more ?ahceS»SuVMoPObSerM While the lethal 01“Tl?e1Careamof' agreement between efficiency of the Sea Britain and America is really quite someiCStatePDepartment o& are Harrier may actually have narrow," a U.S. source said. Mrs Thatcher has been as adamant as half ashamed of it. been underrated, Ethell only she can be in obstructing any Secretary of State George Shultz and Price suggest the sanctions that might really hurt the raked over his staff when he took “ kills ” attributed to Soviets. . .. office, admonishing them to thins surface-to-air missiles such “She is a loyal cheerleader for the mButg British diplomats here are as the Rapier, Sea Dart American position on nuciear cosilv aware that Lawrence Eagle and Sea Wolf are exagger weapons in Europe. We realise tne burger. Under Secretary of State rated by 250 per cent. present fixation on. nukes luthe for Political Affairs and one of the Alliance suits her nicely because it most effective operators in roggy This certainly won’t takes people’s minds off the tremen dous drain on Britain's conventional Bottom has Anglophilia programmed please the Pentagon who forces in the JÔan^That may inFrom tfmeeto time weighty articles have just spent. $1| million explain her fervenHupport for de are published stating that a n e w on a study of the opera ployment of cruise and Pershing breed has taken over at the State tional effectiveness of Department, entirely poking in various weapons in the ml‘3utS"such a fixation won’t last sentimental attachment to Europe conflict—based exclusively Indefinitely. If a Democrat Is elected The terse answer to that, m tne on British figures. 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Mrs Thatcher’s knight swop WHEN Mrs Thatcher broke appointment reveal more lass Wass, and other man government reflects an appar with tradition—and hurt the about Mrs Thatcher and her darins who preferred Mr ent contradiction that has pride of the Foreign Office— use of advisers than the David Hancock. frustrated her advisers. Un by appointing Sir Anthony announcement that he is re Mr Hancock was sent to like her immediate predeces Parsons as her special for tiring. After all, he had head the Department of Edu sor, Mr James Callaghan, she eign policy adviser, one offi made it clear after Lord Car cation. That decision also is impatient with detail, pre cial said the success of the rington resigned as Foreign provoked one of the few ferring to adopt a broad and move would depend on Secretary that he, too, would rows she has had with the confident approach to the “ whether Parsons becomes a like to go as soon as the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Robert problems of policy, for ex wheel on Boadicea’s chariot Falklands crisis permitted. Armstrong. ample — to the economy, the or merely a spare wheel.” He was already planning to She recently asked Mr Soviet Union, defence and The announcement yester write a book comparing Nicholas Owen, an assistant law and order. Her rhetoric day from 10 Downing Street Joseph Conrad and T. S. secretary at the Department reflects that. that Sir Anthony is to retire Eliot. of Industry, to join her But, according to her in December—barely a year The Argentine invasion policy unit at No 10 when a advisers, she will also sud after taking on the job—has had confirmed Mrs Thatcher’s brief he had written that was denly get interested in a par left many in Whitehall con- prejudices against the For sceptical of conventional de ticular problem, want to ! eluding that he became the eign Office. She had no hesi partmental wisdom was know all about it and will I latter, unsure about what his tation in embarrassing Mr brought to her attention. Mr want to master its intricacies. role really was. Mrs Thatcher Francis Pym, whom she re Owen is the only civil ser The matter of Britain’s EEC has appointed Sir Percy Crad- luctantly appointed as For vant in a unit of seven out contributions is a case in ock, ambassador to Peking, eign Secretary after siders headed by Mr point. And for this, she as her new foreign policy Carrington’s resignation. She Ferdinand Mount. needs the support, not of out adviser but only on a part- was attracted to Sir Anthony A more appropriate charge siders, but of civil servants time basis. Sir Percy will by his success in getting a against Mrs Thatcher’s use of who have all the detail and mandatory UN security coun advisers and the Whitehall spend most of his time in the cil resolution condemning information at their finger new Foreign Office unit re machine is that she is erratic tips. Argentina’s invasion within — there is no pattern. She sponsible for negotiations on 48 hours. She is impatient with Whi the future of Hong Kong. brought Mr Roger Jackling, tehall’s cumbersome Cabinet But she was also attracted an assistant secretary at the The circumstances sur by his refusal, in matters of committee structure, prefer Ministry of Defence who im ring, instead, to set up ad rounding Sir Anthony’s style, to defer to the non- pressed her during the Falk combative ethos that per hoc committees on a particu lands war, into No 10. He lar issue, preferably with vades the Civil Service—what has now returned to his Min Mrs Thatcher would describe herself in the chair. In short, istry and has not been re she is not interested to as “ wet.” He was reported, placed. during a meeting at Cheq the great disappointment of The Peruvian Government academics looking for tidy uers during the Falklands has revealed that they dis solutions — in the machinery War, to have said : “ Prime cussed Falklands peace pro Minister, will you please not of government and constitu posals not with the Foreign tional theory. interrupt me until I have Office but with Lord Thomas, finished and, in the mean the historian and chairman So it is unlikely that Mrs while, will you please stop of tlu right-wing Centre for Thatcher will set up a Prime scowling at me.” Policy Studies. Minister's Department, an in It is not true to say, as Like her predecessors, Mrs itiative that would, in any some Whitehall mandarins Thatcher has her own policy case, provoke unnecessary complain, that Mrs Thatcher unit under Mr Mount who is hostility in the Cabinet and has a bias against all civil himself expected to go back the rest of Whitehall. servants. Sir Anthony was a to journalism (he came from Instead, she will appoint career diplomat, so is Sir the Spectator) when his con Ministers who, in general, Percy. What makes her dif tract expires in April next agree with her. ferent is her mixture of per year. Apart from Mr Owen, Equally, by using career ' sonal whim and keen the other members of the civil servants, she can defend personal interest in senior unit are Mr Christopher herself against the charge appointments in the Civil Monckton, Peter Shipley, that she is seeking to “ politi Service. Robert Young, David Pascall, cise ” the Civil Service. She For example, she appointed John Redwood and Oliver will simply ensure that Whi Mr Peter Middleton, a parti Letwyn. Political “ chief of tehall priorities will change, cularly articulate official who staff ” is Mr David Wolfson, by appointing a different had caught her eye, to be and the Prime Minister has a breed of officials, accountants permanent secretary of the part time economics adviser and managers, for instance, Treasury against the advice in Sir Alan Walters. rather than Oxbridge intellec of his predecessor, Sir Doug But Mrs Thatcher’s style of tuals.

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L ! /BIGGER EEC LOAN FOR WESTERN ISLES By Our Transport Correspondent The Common Market’s bank is to lend another £2 million, making a total of 5 million, to help improve roads and other communications in the western islands off Scotland. Main roads will be upgraded from single to double-lane standard; there will be a 1,000 yard causeway across South Ford: a small vehicle ferry and terminals at North Uist and Berneray; a small industrial zone in Stornoway and an expansion of the water system on the island. Total cost of the work will be £11 million. The £5 million loan from the European Investment Rank is for 15 years at 10-75 per cent, interest.

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Eight crucial issues on Gibraltar From Richard Wigg in Madrid and Jonathan Searle in Gibraltar Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Foreign estimates that it loses £100,000 a Secretary, and Sefior Fernando week all round as Gibraltarian Moran, the Spanish Foreign cross via La Linea into cheaper Minister, both in New York for Andalucia to shop. They discover ! the UN General Assembly, are to a democatic Spain, very different meet today to examine once again from Franco’s day, which in the Gibraltar problem. many ways enjoys a more modem They have to find fresh ways of life thab the Rock. tackling the following issues: • Tourism: Unless the frontier • Lisbon agreement: When it restrictions are dismantled or was signed by Britain and Spain circumvented Gibraltar’s only in April, 1980, it was intended to potential alternative source of provide the framework for prosperity, tourism, can not be negotiations “to resolve in a spirit tapped. But even then the initial of friendship the Gibraltar advantages are more likely to go problem”. But because of differ ing interpretations in Madrid and London it has itself become one of the elements in dispute. Britain and the Gibraltar authorities maintain that there should be full implementation of the agreement with Spain, lifting all the restrictions imposed by the Franco regime when it decided to blockade the Btitish colony in 1969, in pursuit of Spain’s long standing sovereignty claim. • Joint economic development: One of he first acts of Spain’s This is one of the possible Socialist Government last Dec- elements for future collaboration ember was a partial suspension of which .officials may be charged the restrictions, permitting ped- with examining if today’s talks go estrian traffic between Spain and well. the Rock for Spanish passport- • Gibraltar airport: There is holders and' Gibraltar residents potential for development, but only. No tourist movement is the Spanish Prime Minister said allowed. last December that Gibraltar’s • Reciprocity and rights: Agreed fare structure would mean unfair by both governments as the basis competition for Malaga, Spain’s for future cooperation, but Spain busiest tourist airport. The return 0 now refuses to lift the remaining fare from Britain to Malaga is t restrictions unless Britain: agrees £340, to Gibraltar £250. to make immediate provision, • Nationality: Senor Moran said through the Gibraltar administ- for the first time last week that he ration, to permit Spaniards to was not trying to convert own property and work on the Gibraltarians into Spaniards. The Rock, like EEC nationals. Rock has 20,000 inhabitants, • Economic problems: Britain’s living in two and a half square decision to privatize Gibraltar's miles of territory. , Royal Naval dockyard - a one- Spain has begun to understand year extension was granted last- that it needs to woo the July and the sale is to be carried Gibraltarians, even though sover- out by December 31, 1984, with eignty remains Madrid’s fijflda- the loss of at least 1,000 jobs - mental goal, aggravates the economic conse- • Hongkong: Spain is watching quenccs for Gibraltar of Spain’s the Anglo-Chinese talks closely, partial frontier opening. and Sehor Mon: is to visit China I Gibraltar’s trading community towards the end of next month.

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Joint defence policy deadline By John Winder Dr David Owen, leader of the had promised in the election, the though they were, but to set their Social Democratic Party, on negotiating stance of the Soviet sights on the future, starting to Saturday set a deadline of early Union and the United States, the forge a security policy which fitted 1987 for an agreed defence policy attitude of Nato partners in the needs of the 1990s. remember to be established by the Alliance. Europe and whether arrange ing that Mrs Margaret Thatcher He was addressing the closing ments for a double safety-catch had shown less interest in session of the Liberal Party system had been agreed. disarmament issues than any Assembly in Harrogate. “I hope we can reach an agreed Prime Minister since the Second He said that it was impossible position but if we do not, at least I World War. to continue with the long-term know we will respect each other’s “In this task we face a thicket of folly of “Fortress Falklands” and viewpoint”, Dr Owen said. political, strategic and economic with Trident and strengthen They would disagree as friends, dilemmas, the key to which lies in conventional forces as well. The as they did from time to lime our internationalism". sums did not add up. within their own families. If they In both parlies, a deep seated Dr Owen said that the agreed honestly differed, the manner in and long-standing commitment to defence policy must be “capable which they differed was crucial to the EEC and Nato was central to of withstanding the critical the way the electorate saw the their political objectives. scrutiny and buffeting of the Alliance. It was imperative to develop a hustings.” “It is the rancour, the backbit European identity within Nato. to At the next election the ing and the bitterness of the cover conventional and nuclear Alliance could not have a disagreements inside the Labour defence and disarmament policy. substantial number of candidates Party that people find so It was no longer credible to argue doing their own thing, distancing destructive. We will have none of that such a development would themselves from or contradicting that.” weaken the American commit the Alliance programme for Their task was not just to look ment or create strains within government. at short-term issues, important Nalo. The nature, if not the Dr Owen said that in the June content, of the American commit election, although the Alliance ment had been changing and had accepted the need for a strains already existed. Dr Owen nuclear component in the Nato said. deterrent while the Soviet Union Dr Owen said that if the | had nuclear weapons, far too Liberals and Social Democrats many disillusioned Labour voters were to develop a defence and had switched, on the issue of disarmament policy for the 1990s defence, straight to the Conserva between their parties, they must tives and did not vote for the do it in cooperation with like- Alliance. minded European Liberal and “There is every reason for Social Democratic parties. believing that once again it could One did not have to be. anti- be-in 1987 or 1988 - a crucial American or anti-Reagan to say, swing vote issue. We have an sadly, that total European confi immediate decision which will dence in the American President test our two parties over the had long since gone away. Many parliamentary vote on whether to Liberals and Social Democrats oppose the deployment of cruise totally convinced of Nato’s value missiles in Britain.” now openly expressed their The public would judge how Dr Owen: No room for anxiety about US decision-mak they took into account, as they contradictions. ing, he said.

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A married couple from By WILLIAM CHISHOLM Falklanders and immigrants the Falkland Islands who from this country. We under have been learning the skills shopping list of machinery and stand moves are afoot to deve of knitwear production at equipment before returning lop Fox Bay quite quickly and 1 the Scottish College of Tex home. College staff will follow that should help us.” tiles in Galashiels have been to help with the construction of Sweaters produced at the Fox the mill and the installation of Bay factory will be sold to told the islands’ Government machinery. islanders and British troops for are prepared to provide Dr Ray Harwood, head of the between £18 and £25 eacn. But fmancial support for their college’s technology depart with enquiries already coming plan to set up a mill at Fox ment, said: “We are now pro in from the USA, an export Bay on West Falkland. posing there should be a com market will be created in the Mr Richard Cockwell (44) and plete evaluation of the Falk early stages of the venture. his wife Grizelda (34) are to iands wool clip, which amounts Knitwear producers In the UK pioneer the first industrial to two million kilos each year. are so impressed by the quality 1 development project in the Lf the wool was evaluated syste of the yam from the Falkland's Falklands, using a special y:nara matically and marketed for sheep that they have asked the 1 production system designed for particular end uses, its value Cockwells for supplies. them at the college. The inten could be considerably higher The college’s close ties with tion is to have the mill In than at present.” the proiiiect could lead to other production, using the wool from Mrs Cockwell estimates the research proeramraes for Dr • the island sheep, by next April. mill will cost £100,000 to build Harwood and his staff. For The Cockwells returned to and equip, and In the early example, they are keen to In Galashiels yesterday after a stages will employ ten people. vestigate the potential of peat ten-day visit to mills in Shet- She said: ‘‘We hope the work as an energy source for In land and are now preparing a force will be a mixture of dustry on the Falklands. 1

Tinning their hopes to wool i John Ezard talks to the Falklanders who hope their mill will safeguard the future A COUPLE with a sample especially South America and box of pure wool sweaters the United Nations — of our travelled home to the Falk right to exist” lands at the weekend to start The farms are at Port the first new farm export pro Howard, the main settlement ject to be mounted there for in West Falkland, and at Fox more than a quarter of a cen Bay and Dunnose Head. They tury. If fully developed, it were bought for £500,000 will boost the islands’ gross earlier this year. The British national product by some 50 Government paid £450,000 of per cent within six or seven this and the local island gov years. ernment £50,000. The land has now been sold to two The project — a wool mill former farm managers, a and knitwear factory in a de farm handyman, a tractor pendency where wool has driver and a shepherd. always been shipped to Bri The new owners will be tain for processing — begins helped to buy the farms with the implementation of l ord low interest loans from the Shackleton’s official post-con £31 million development fund flict report which last year set up iby Britain. But they called for urgent develop are being allowed to begin ment to reverse years of neg working the land as “home lect and under-investment. steaders ” this autumn — the The development could also Falklands spring — before include an inshore fishery cash details are finalised. and the creation of the first When the sheep are British-style village com sheared next April the Cock- Richard and Grizelda Cockivell: on their way hack to munity in the Falklands wells’ mill will begin turning the Falklands countryside. the wool into the first en The mill will be set up by tirely home - produced Falk maximum realistic w'orld A two-month course in Richard and Grizelda Cock- lands knitwear. The Cock- market for wool products yarn and knitwear production well on rural West Falkland, wells estimate that, conver direct from the Falklands is at the Scottish College of where new owners have just ted into knitwear or yarn, about 100,000 kilos a year. Textiles, Galashiels, this sum started farming 150,000 acres this wool will fetch the This would bring about £21 mer enabled them to produce of sheep-grazing land, which equivalent of about £25 a kilo. million a year. The present their first sample batch of has been bought by the Bri That contrasts with the £2-£3 total Falklands gross national sweaters. They are taking a tish Government and redistri a kilo at present paid for product from all sources, in lecturer and a technician buted to islanders under unprocessed, uncleaned wool cluding the highly lucrative from the college back to the Lord Shackleton’s farm re by foreign importers who sales of stamps, is £4.3 mil islands with them to help set form plan. turn it into Falklands knit lion. up the mill. “ We feel it’s absolutely wear. The Cockwells have wanted The islands government, essential to develop the Falk “ We believe that the char to start the wool mill for under the Civil Commis lands in order to secure its acteristics and properties of years but in the economically sioner, Sir Rex Hunt, wants future,” said Richard Cock- our wool are such that these declining pre-conflict state of well. “If we just maintain products will sell with very the Falldauds were unable to to use the mill site to build the status quo, the whole little difficulty,” said the raise the money. Now they houses for retired farm sending of the task force Cockwells. ft We have had a expect a £130,000 develop workers, which would create becomes an absolute non lot of interest already from ment grant and are putting in the first all-age village com sense. The more development High Street shops in Britain, £40,000 of their own savings, munity in the Falklands there is in the short-term, and quite a lot from the including the redundancy countryside. There are also the better our chances are of United States.” money Mr Cockwell received plans to set up a pioneering persuading the world — They calculate that the as farm manager. inshore fishery at Fox Bay.

JSL wins £3m Falklands order I THE GUARDIAN BL’s truck plant at Bathgate, 26.9.83 Lothian, has won a £3 million contract to supply construction vehicles for the building of the Falkland Islands airstrip. The factory, which is under threat of closure, will supply 51 heavy construction trucks. A BL spokesman said: “ Though it is very welcome business, it will make no difference in the long term.”

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armada Falkland fe- sets sail millions By Kenneth Gosling •y HARVEY ELLIOTT THE Cabinet is shaping In one of the most remarkable transfers of men and machinery up for an internal fight ever undertaken for a single over the cost of defend construction job, the transporter ing the, Falklands. vessel Merchant Providence Over„ the next three years, leaves Avonmouth today for the the Government will spend three-week, 8,000-mile voyage to ! £2-6 billion on ships, aircraft the Falkland Islands and the first j and soldiers to guard the stage in the £215m development j islands. i This is paid by the Trea of a new long-range airport. sury, but the Chancellor, Mr Only 22 people will be on this Nigel Lawson, wants it to be first of several sailings; but with ! shared with the Ministry of them will be a quarter of the ! Defence. ft eventual total of about 250,000 However the Defence Secre tonnes of building materials and tary, Mr Michael Heseltlne, machinery: earthmovers and j already faced with big cuts in excavators, trailers and tractors. ; his budget from 1986, is There was no shortage of j equally determined that the applications, 11,000, for the 1,400 ' bill must be paid out of central funds and not from his jobs with the airport consortium, own budget. Laing, Mowlem and Amey This year the Falklands will Roadstone Corporation. cost £624 million, rising to The consortium said: The first £684 million next year and team of people going out will be then dropping to £552 mil predominantly those who have lion in 1985/86. worked for our companies, people | who have a track record, and with ’ Squadron them will be two catering staff. “Eventually we will be sending Mr Lawson argues that the 4,000 troops, the squadron of out sufficient food supplies for Phantoms and the ships 1.200 man months as well as bars would have to be used on and sports facilities and entertain I other duties anyway, and : ment centres, water treatment and ; should be paid for by the sewage plants, everything, in fact, ' three Services. to make the construction camp : Britain is committed to completely self-sufficient and self- NATO to increase defence supporting.” spending by. three per cent, each year in real terms until The first task will be to set up 1986. But this would be Im temporary accommodation; possible if the budget was permanent quarters will be suddenly forced to accommo v shipped at the end of the year. A date the Falklands costs. : road will be built to cover the five i After that, swingeing cuts miles from East Cove, where the are almost inevitable, al first ship will remain as a floating though NATO will fight hard to force Britain to continue jetty, to Mount Pleasant, the to increase-its- defences spend-" airport site. ing. A Bailey bridge will be built to i. take ashore plant from sub sequent vessels as they dock. Fifty-four more men will be shipped out in a few days; then recruitment to fill the rest of the DAILY MAIL 1.400 vacancies will go ahead 26.9.83 throughout Britain. Conditions for the workforce may be arduous but the financial compensations could be consider able: all will get a quarter off their tax bills for working more than 30 consecutive days outside Britain. It has been reported that senior staff on the project will earn salaries of £30.000 to £35,000.

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-Galtieri’s | I panic at surrender -ARGENTINA GENERAL Galtieri pan icked at the end of the Faiklands war because he thought his army was surrendering the whole of Argentina to the British. He despairingly sought out his Foreign Minister, » Costa Mendez, and de manded: 'Does this mean all of Argentina will be in British hands?' Costa Mendez quickly calmed him. The bizarre incident is related in Malvinas: The Secret Plot, the first book circulated inside Argentina giving the truth about the defeat. It also tells how Costa Mendez ordered seven of his top assistants to look silently at a crucifix in his office. The diplomats thought he was joking until he said: 'After 112 years, Argentina is about to enter a war' and demanded that they swear an oath of silence. The book reveals that Admiral Isaac Anaya backed the 1981 coup which brought Galtieri to power only on condition that the Falklands would V.. / be invaded.

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r plongkong’s Argentine i dollar at amnesty all-time low announced I Peking (Reuter) - British and By Peter Bains In Buenos Aires Chinese officials agreed yesterday I to resume talks on the future of THE Argentine Government Hongkong next month but yesterday announced its long- declined to give details of the expected amnesty law, which latest round of negotiations. was immediately condemned by They ended the fourth round of the political parties and human talks to be held since July, when rights organisations. negotiations entered a more The final text of the law ex detailed phase and the Hongkong tends the benefits of the Govemer, Sir Edward Youde, amnesty to the security services, joined the British Team. former guerrillas and other poli Both sides have pledged to keep tical dissidents, between May 25 the talks secret and few details 1973 and June 17 1982. have leaked out since they started But the opposition says its last autumn. main intention is primarily..to The secrecy surrounding the benefit the security sendees who talks, as well as tough Chinese have been accused of 15,000 to statements in the past few days, 30.000 deaths and disappear have caused a nervous reaction ances. on Hongkong financial markets. The dates cover almost 10 n The Hongkong dollar yesterday years of political violence in the plunged to a record low of 8.8450 country during which a Peronist against the US dollar while the and later a military administra stock market Hang Seng index fell tion were in office. The cut-off 63.58 points to ts lowest daily date is set after General close since January 6. Leopoldo Galtieri was deposed Chinese and British officials from the presidency. said in a terse statement the talks Former guerrillas living would resume on October 19 and abroad or in hiding within 20. i Argentina are specifically ex China plans to regain sover cluded. from the amnesty. So eignty over Hongkong in 1997, too are those guilty of “ econo when a lease on most of the mic subversion,” an ambiguous territory expires, and although category introduced by the mili both sides have said they wish to tary regime. ensure its prosperity and stability Put on the state books only they disagree as to how this is to 37 days before the general elec-, be achieved. tions, the law is likely to have Most Westerners believe that if only a brief life. Both major communists play a direct role in political parties, the Radicals the running of the territory, living and the Peronists, have pro standards will fall drastically. mised to repeal it. Peking disagrees and has said it plans to play an active rather than a purely symbolic part in administering the territory after 1997.

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1 \ ; Mrs Thatcher will also have a % meeting in New York next Friday "Thatcher to with Mrs Gandhi, the Indian ! Prime Minister, and with Seiior I lobby over Javier Perez du Cuellar, UN Secretary-General, before flying 1 home. Falklands She will make several major speeches during her trip, includ l By Henry Stanhope Diplomatic Correspondent ing one next Thursday evening Mrs Margaret Thatcher and Sir when she is to receive the [ Geoffery Howe, the Foreign Churchill Award. Secretary, are expected to carry The award was to have been a out some intensive lobbying in presented at a ceremony preced i ing the Williamsburg summit in North America next week in the summer, but had to be i advance of a “highly prejudicial” draft resolution on the Falklands postponed because of the general issue reaching the UN General election in Britain. Mr Pierre Trudeau, Prime i Assembly. Winning support for the British Minister of Canada will ac position while Argentina has still company Mrs Thatcher during ; most of her Canadian tour, which not .officially declared an end to will include visits to Toronto, hostilities, has been described as a prominent part of Sir Geoffery’s Edmonton and Ottawa. brief during bilateral meetings with at least 27 foreign ministers in New York. The Foreign Secretary will point out that the Government is THE TIMES not willing to talk, but that conversation is difficult with a 24.9.83 country which would still seem to be technically a belligerent. Britain made an offer on commercial relations with Argen- ! tina nine months ago, but is still awaiting a response. Officials are confident that Britain will not be in a minority of one during any debate on the Falklands, and are equally happy that Sir Geoffrey’s legal mind will be able to expose the defects in any Argentine arguments. The swiftly changing pattern of events in Lebanon cannot fail to arise during discussions which . Mrs Thatcher and Sir Geoffrey will have in Washington next Thursday, or during the four-day visit by Mrs Thatcher to Canada which begins tomorrow. But sources point out that East- West relations after the shooting down of the South Korean airliner by Soviet fighters, the Geneva talks on intermediate-range nu clear forces and the economic situation look like being the biggest items on the agenda in s . both Canada and the United States. Mrs Thatcher will make clear to President Reagan over lunch on Thursday, as she will to Mr Donald Reagan, US Treasury Secretary, Britain’s anxiety to see , interest rates come down. She will | also seek confirmation of Ameri can opposition to protectionism. The problems raised by Ameri can financial legislation, the, situation in central America and in Northern Ireland could in theory be difficult areas, and subjects on which she will be well briefed before her departure. But Whitehall says the outcome of next week’s visit by both the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary is likely to be a “strong identity of views” on most if not all major issues.

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lis group, the Alianza Revolucionaria of statements that did little to clarify the ARGENTINA:The total number of people out of situation. nocratica (ARDE), claimed responsibi- work or without a steady job Speaking at Albrook Field, at the inaugu- for the air attacks on Managua and has reached 1.067,514. a iniiiiiii into earlier this month. The raids had ration of the National Guard s second civic figure which represents rely political value’, Alfonso Robelo of action’ seminar, he said, ’It is necessary to 11.4% of the population • DE told the New York Times in San Jose. be aware that wherever votes [for a certain which is economically :y were intended, he said, to let Nicara- candidate] are imposed, bullets tend to active, and an increase of ns and the world know that ‘we are reproduce. We the armed forces of this 0.6% in the level of s/nen iting * country, are not going to impose votes unemployment, reaching a 'he spectacular nature of the attacks because we wish to live in peace.’ rate of 5.2%. The rate of nediately raised questions about who The ‘civic action’ programme of the underemployment rose to tural plied the planes and bombs, particularly National Guard is carried out in conjunction 6.2%. Unemployment rose significantly in the country's ause they also served to quieten those in with elements of the US Southern Com- )ods interior, such as in the igress and the administration who had mand’s 193rd brigade and of the US Navy, industrial region of Gran lest led to grumble that the guerrilla war Paredes’ withdrawal from the presidential Cordoba, in Resistencia. inst the Sandinistas was not making race has, in the meantime, thrown Panama- Comodoro Rivadavia, lest iugh progress It must be remembered, nian politics into utter confusion □ Parana. Posadas and nal ugh, that plane attacks were more than Santiago del Estero on e a f^ure of the long struggle by the of ARGENTINA:From January aragi ^opposition against the Somoza CARIBBEAN BASIN > ge to July of this year. 230,000 lasty. iiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimmiiiiiii^fii tonnes of fish were caught, a •). 'he administration is reported to be figure representing a fall of b king congressional approval for US$50m CB0 beneficiaries 10.5% compared to the ;overt funds for the guerrilla war. □ same period last year This >r to be named by US was due to the fall in the numbers of hake caught starting in ) \NAMA ^ . and the shortage of squid in ...... jf^©V©§TSoer their regular fishing grounds Exports between The first beneficiaries of the Caribbean January and August oriega emerges Basin Initiative will be announced by the reached 116.000 tonnes, a Reagan administration in November, accor fall of 11 4% compared to s new strongman ding to two top US trade officials who the same period last year. fter Paredes goes returned from the area last week. More Nigeria bought the most fish beneficiaries will be designated in stages, (30 636 tonnes), which is predictably (RM-83-07) the new with ail designations expected to be in by 29% of the total volume ute exported The EEC bought mmandcr of Panama's National Guard, January 1984 when the CBI programme ,s 15%. Spam 10%. Japan neral Manuel Antonio Noriega, has scheduled to begin, the officials said 10%. the US 8% and Brazil ierg„ the new strongman. Within a Qualifying for the programme, however. 5% At the moment there are ays amid rumours that a coup may mean accepting some conditions that itter v. more than 20.000 tonnes of ,s brewing against both President Ricardo carry unsavoury political and commercial fish stored in refrigerators, la Espriella and General Noriega, the implications. As a scheme designed to processed for export but ,ourite candidate in the race for the promote free trade and the tree flow o with the likelihood of being ■sidency Noriega's predecessor Ruben investment, its beneficiaries will be required put on sale on the domestic irio Paredes, announced his withdrawal. to open their arms to foreign investors. market The move was apparently intended to revise nationalistic laws on expropriation. XRGENT|NA During July, oil Dvoke wi despread expressions of support, clamp down on the drug trade and illicit/ procjuction increased by th within the National Guard and from the commercial traffic (such as the trans/ 1 56%. although extraction shipment of counterfeit textiles and elec- earned out by contractors der political community, which would goods from the Far East), and strike a fell by 9 3% in comparison »d Paredes ‘reluctantly’ to accept re- tronic deal with the US Treasury on disclosure of to the same period last year Instead, General Noriega sent rnination. banking information where US tax evasion ln Ju'V '°la'P'°.d,,L1Ct'°n redes a telegramme approving his de- , reached 2.3/9,b41 cu m. non. Hours later. President de la Espriella “ Sffiy. i—r "* SSSr nounced a major cabinet reshuffle, repla- benefits of the plan until it settles its dispute contrac(ors 71 7 551 cu m with the US Motion Picture Association j0(aj 0|| production over the ig all ministers known to be close to the illegal broadcasting of US films by f|rst seven m0nths of this iredes’ overtly pro-US line, Political over mour mills instantly began to spread the a Jamaican state company. Negotiations year reached 16.372,200 cu between the MPA and the Seaga gover- m. a fall of 0.7% against the jry that de la Espriella might be the nment are said to be well under way. Some same period last year. placement candidate for the ruling PRD observers are sniggering that it may mean id the host of smaller parties who had shed to back Paredes as a ‘national unity’ Seaga will have to remove the satellite disk installed in his backyard. lurc- 1 . US embassies and consular staff are now While Paredes fumed, charging that he id been ‘betrayed’, Noriega made a series also assisting potential beneficiaries in *.• l mm®: v. GUARDIAN

m wW& 23.9.83 •> Mlm *r ; : :: . V--. P v ' IP! m m * 1 I®! M ‘Scrap m m mm ii racist ■ flSJirdr 1111i Act’ MSI RESTORING the right of “ The confusion of the I Si ^1 children born in Britain to automatic British citizenship Nationality Act has led to 1 i would be the most significant the most embarrassing situ step in repairing the damage ation where our black m done by the British Nationa- citizens visiting France re lity Act, the Liberal cently were treated as state SB m Assembly declared yesterday. less people. This is ft In a debate In which disgusting and we should not speakers unanimously con tolerate it. Unless the British WM demned the 1981 Act as Government take immediate action to remedy this situ t &, racialist and called for its re M \ peal, Mr Keith Jenkins ation, black schoolchildren or (Brent North) described the adults visiting any of our m legislation as an insult to European partners will be re £B jected because they are I 5* those people wishing to come m black, where white British 11 mm to Britain and the black com m munity already resident here. children or adults are y m mm Moving the motion calling allowed to go freely without * If®® for its repeal and replace restriction,” he said. mrn&mSm ments bv legislation granting Mr Paul Nicholls, secretary : a British citizenship to all of the party’s community re children; born in Britain of lations panel said the Act mm exposed the total hypocrisy mm m parents normally resident here, Mr Jenkins said the of the Conservative Govern PHHpfllmm | Tories were trying to pretend ment. “ Mrs Thatcher was v- • Wm that it was no longer an very proud of her commit f II issue because they were ment to the Falkland k $ -frightened of their own islanders. But do you seri 1m “ raucous rightwing, which ously believe that if the ■ wanted repatriation.” Falkland islanders had been By contrast, he went on, black she w'ould ever have sent the Task Force over $ i Sgiill the Liberals have a past record of standing out there ? Do you believe that against such trends. “ We the arrangements that have been made to give the Falk '6-: must now turn our attention land Islanders full British ' ' ':V to insuring that the families § which have been divided by nationality would have been ':A British governments, both made ? Of course you don’t.” !;X;‘ •: ; Conservative and Labour, are Mr Alex Carlisle. MP for able to be reunited as soon Montgomery, said the Tories’ -<• - Nationality Act had intro V as possible.” IS “ For 20 years the pressure duced a real terror among has been for more discri the black community in Bri mination. Now is the time tain about this country’s atti CATTLE being loaded onto being used, and some animal for Liberals to press for poli tude towards immigration. It a Danish ship at Poole, lovers say that the long cies that are rational, just was something which Dorset (above) yesterday, voyage will be cruel. Major- and unDre.ludiccd,” he urged. Liberals could not tolerate. for the voyage to the General Alan Mills, director Gus Williams, a member of Falkland Islands, where of the Falklands Appeal, the party’s community rela they will replace livestock said the ship met standards tions panel and the prospec killed during the war last set by the Ministry of tive Liberal parliamentary year. Agriculture and the RSPCA. candidate for Perry-Barr, Birmingham, said that if a The 224 animals, includ Two vets are travelling single piece of legislation ing horses, ponies, cattle, with the ship, and one of had confused and driven fear sheep, pigs and goats were them, Mr Graham Joss, who into the hearts of the black driven in tricks and horse often accompanies animals community it was the 1981 buses for the trip up the abroad, said he was agree Act. 1 gangway of the Dina Khalaf ably surprised by con for their 30-day voyage ditions. The trip was delayed The total cost of the twice by bad weather, but exercise is £200,000, just yesterday’s loading took over half being the cost of place in bright sunshine. the ship. Many of the The National Union of animals have been given by Seamen has complained British farmers and breed . that a British ship is not societies. 4cMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 i A FINANCIAL Latin America TIMES talks welcomed Air force attacks 23.9.83 By Hugh CShgughnessy THE EEC has given a cautious welcome to the decision by the 26 nation Latin American Econ Argentine airline omic System (Sela) to seek a resumption of the talks between Latin America and the Euro pean Community. At the end of a three-d*y debt agreement ministerial meeting of Sela in Caracas on Wednesday the Latin American grouping expressed BY PETER BAINS IN BUENOS AIRES “the political will” to resume the dialogue broken off last year after the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. In Aoril this year Sela laid j down stiff conditions for the as-*?agreement covenng“ SsaS280m JrAsresr**unions, say the annual in- resumption of talks. (£187m) foreign debt of t PWneits, including Latin American central banks Aerolineas Argentmas, the state terest wiu total chiefs meeting in Venezuela airline. 14 per cent, and object to . yesterday chose Sr Jesus Silva The agreement, with a group choice of New York state Herzog, the Mexican Finance of foreign banks led by Mar* rts t0 resoive any disputes Minister, as the spokesman for gam Guaranty Trust, provides over payment, Latin America at the forthcom for re-scheduling over seven cities also say the various ing meeting of the IMF years, with three years grace, at ^lic sector company re spreads of two points over u.b. £chedulings are interrelated, so prime rate or 2* points over ^ a default by one would per- Libor. mit creditors to take legal action The contract will be used as agajnst others, a “model” for the remaining Bef0re departing Sr Weh&e public sector companies, which defended the Aerolineas con- together need to re-schedule ^act, saying: “It has been DAILY ILLEGAL approximately $7.5bn this year, bitten in convenient terms and TELEGRAPH An unsigned air force state- in accordance with many prece- raent said a meeting of briga- dents that go bade 20yeal?u diers had “unanimously He insisted that the clauses 23.9.83 ARMS IN expressed their dissatisfaction n0rw objected to were alfea^ with the way the debt was re- in the origiinal loan contrsacts negotiated. The navy also lndn before rescheduling and all we FALKLANDS cated it had not taken any part have done is included mem in the decisions. again in the renegotiated agree- By PATRICK WATTS in Port Stanley STRINGENT rules are in force in the Falklands Gonzalez del Solar, the central a°yaS-before the general elec- bank presiden for ^011St none of the main presiden- to prevent unauthorised Sr Gonzalez del Solar eft for candidaites have suggested taking-away of, ex-Argen the U.S. on^Vednesd^M ^ should be repudlated. tine war souvenirs. lowed by Sr But Major Ken Greenland, who heads the Royal Military \ Police in the islands, has no doubt that somewhere in Stanley 4* there are still illegal stockpiles DAILY TELEGRAPH of munitions, including Argen £460 FOR tine pistols. British authorities are 23.9.83 alterted if his unit becomes aware of something having LETTER TO slipped through the net. Recent reports in Stanley FALKLAND ‘ CHIPPIE ’ suggested nearly one-and-a-haif David and Pauline Hawks- tons of munitions were re EXPLORER worth-u, from Barnsley, flew to covered from one contingent of the Falklands last night with British servicemen leaving by By ALISON BECKETT their children Jeanette, nine, ship. Art Sales Corespondent and Christopher, seven, to set envelope addressed up a fish and chip shop. Bayonets, shell cases to Sir Ernest Shackle- Major Greenland said this was ton, the explorer, which an exaggeration although he was postmarked “ South acknowledged that “ several Georgia Dec. 1G, 1911 ” sackfuls of war remnants ” were recovered on one occasion — and arrived in England 36 “ mostly bayonets and shell days later was sold at cases.” Sotheby’s in London yester He insisted that now, some 15 day for £460. months after the Falklands con It was sent to Sir Ernest’s flict, incidents were decreasing, exploration offices in London by and the civil police officer, Bill Dr Wilhelm Filohner, who was i Richards, said that for anyone leader of the German Antarctic found trying to get away with Expedition of 1911-13 which an Argentine weapon the con was shortly to become trapped sequences would be “ drastic.” !n the ice for nine months. The most coveted possessions 1 are shell cases, and i't is per mitted to take out two, pro vided a certificate has been McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs obtained from the military administration and the shell is not less than 40 mm. 41 Whitehall London SWLA 2BZ Telephone. 01-930 6935 Falklands-bound—Cattle being loaded aboard the Change of bedding S “ Noah’s Ark M at Poole Harbour yesterday. The sailing has twice been delayed 'by the sort of bad weather which Noah’s original mobile home was designed to Falkland Ark animals survive. But yesterday’s loading took place in bright sunshine. The 357-ton vessel is loaded on top with bales of hay and go on, moo by moo wood shavings so the animals can get a change of bedding on their 30-day voyage. T was all a bit haphazard as 224 animals trotted Two vets are travelling on the Falklands Ark in Poole harbour board. One, Mr Graham Joss, i aboard who often accompanies animals yesterday, sometimes singly, sometimes in mini- abroad, said he was agreeably herds. No two-by-two stuff manded: “No, keep them all surprised with conditions. coming.” t _ . here. The result was a traffic jam When they arrived in a of Ayrshires at the top of the swarm of trucks and horse gangway, mooing in confusion. The animals, including horses, boxes, some latter-day Noah ponies, cattle, _ sheep, pigs and DAILY TELEGRAPH on board the Danish-owned goats, are being sent by the. live-stock oamer Dma Rhailat Falklaends Appeal to the islands 23.9.83 tried to maintain a sense of to replace livestock killed in the historical perspective. war. « Two by two M came an order. But it was quickly counter-

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THE TIMES Argentine boost for Turner show ! By Oar Arts Correspondent S * 23.9.83 The largest exhibition of the seum of American Art in New watercolour - vyhich are the sum work of the English artist JMW York. The Argentinian buyer,' a of Turner’s representation at the Turner dyer to be held abroad newcomer to the aft market, was Louvre. opens in Paris on October 15 with known as “the mysterious woman It is likely to be the last big an oil painting loaned from in white” as she made her record Turner exhibition to be shown Argentina as one of the main purchase. abroad in the foreseeable future, attractions. Mr Julian Andrews, director of because the new Turner gallery at The exhibition is organized the British Council’s fine arts the Tate is due to open in 1985. jointly by the British Council and department, said yesterday, that Mr Andrews said it illustrated a the Reunion des Musees Natio- the painting had been included on growinginterest in British art. He ! naux, and although the Argcnine a list of desirable exhibits by the said: “It will' be the second of a painting was suggested as an . selectors, more than two. years series of major exhibitions at the exhibit by the JBritish selectors, its ago, before the FalKlands.conflict. Grand Palais-honouriiig British in preence at the exhibition has and that it was the responsibility 1981: The,. French . asked for beeen organized entirely from the of the French organizers to Turner several.years ago.and-they French end. arrange the loan of all overseas' have been actively involved ita the It is a work rarely, seen -in works for the exhibition. ‘ organization ever since.” ' • • THE GUARDIAN Europe, Juliet and her nurse. The British Council has co’n- The exhibition, which willbe which was sold to and anony- tributed £95,000 towards the cost opened by Lord 'Gowrie, Minister 23.9.83 mous Argentine lady at auction at of the exhibition, while the rest of ( for the Arts, on Ôctober 14,' will Sotheby .Parke Bemet in New the £300,000 cost has been borne run until January 1 ft 1984,,and/is York in May 1980 for $6.4m by the French. “We certainly expected to beat the attendance of (2.7m), then a world record at could not have afforded it all 281,279 at the .Gainsborough auction for a single painting. ourselves”, Mr Andrews said. exhibition. Discussions art al- . The painting had been in the There are 257 works in the ready under way" about future United States since before the exhibition, including 79 oils (40 exhibitions of British painters, turn of the century and was sold from the Tate Gallery) and 155 with Reynolds,’ Stubbs .arid by Mrs Flora Whitney Miller, watercolours, and on show will be> Wright : of .Derby as • possible chairman of the Whitney Mu- the works - one oil and one subjects. unnerves The Mothers, who have, de monstrated in the square every. MEACHER DAILY Thursday for more than six TELEGRAPH Junta years, drew sunport from FOCUS ON 23.9.83 fnTu »rf;L0rSim A “ hour human rights Prudential candidate, Dr Raul JOBLESS demonstration, in which more 10 Danger in Belize than 1,000 relatives of missing unnoH1 hv thny=rmIa1^tyo lntr°" By JAMES WIGHTMAN people maintained an overnight du,£?d by „, Another challenger, Mr Denzil hm^f'yester- to rS^fands ^ Political Correspondent Davies, attacked Mrs Thatcher and the Government last night jy[R MEACHER, a chal over their foreign policy record, lenger for Labour’s which he described as “ as inept and incompetent as their waTTheshcal.ed “marcharhy tSeof resistance"Mo’tSôf aPPeared since the militaryp?i deputy leadership, declared last night that the party record on domestic policy, sation'3 groupingJ'°re!ativesSa of gf r “ The was failing to explain its Government has amazingly undertaken by treaty “alternative economic to commit British troops to the strategy ” to combat defence of Belize should it be SrSof^^Slarmpd ruthless cam- whichSrip all humanh£ rightsdS uahm Jafnst eueuillal in The ofEenders in the security forces unemployment. invaded by Guatamala, so in addition to the “ Fortress Falk- E ln lne would get an amnesty before “There is no more iprsidious lands” policy we could be Demonstrators carrying eleAc“°“ ™ °ôbenrr„3.°p , a weapon in Thatcher’s hands dragged into^ a local war i posier size PhoUjjgptaJjf than the belief that high un- Central America.” '5 people who employment is inevitable; that marched slowly round the it is beyond our or anyone Mr Davies added: “ In the police backed up by 10. riot else’s capacity to control; and Lebanon. .. less _ thant 100 British square to a steady stream of trucks, a water cannon and that there is no alternative to soldiers are left without any chants and slogans. Some had several squadrons of the Infan current policy. real protection while a civil war been on their feet for more try Guard, a feared para rages in that country, and while than 17 hours. Others were “That is the politics of de the military force used to quell there is considerable danger sleeping on lawns in demonstrations. moralisation and we must break that the war could become a square. The heavy-handed response it,” he told a meeting in Hamp confrontation between the Young students plastered evidently reflected official dis stead. United States and Syria, a close poster silhouettes representing comfort at the sensitive issue Mr Meacher, who is in a close ally of the Soviet Union, individual desaparecidos on the of the “ dirty war,” and fears contest with Mr Hattersley for A11 T u walls of buildings round the the deputy post, said that per- ' rece'1vedL b letter from 3Mr square. Those on the cathedral that it could dominate campai walls were to remind the Cath gning for the elections. haps the most important smgle shore wh , challenging fo? olic Church of its “equivocal The armed forces still hope task for Labour over the next j the ieadershiP but who looks position” towards the govern that the civilian government five years was to break through ]j|-e coming a ooor fourth ment’s amnesty plan, a girl scheduled to take power within the credibility gap that exists | be h j n d Mr Kinnock. the protester said. three months of the polls will over Uclding mass unemploy- expected winner, Mr Hattersley accept the amnesty as a fait ment. and Mr Heffer. accompli, but are divided over But he warned that the how this might best be achieved. mem" fountain”6 waTô . The army wants to push the guarantee that more people “This is a crucial election, measure through as quickly as would vote Labour at the next possible, political sources say. General Election. “ If we continue on the down But' the navy is reluctant, and ward path of 197.9-83, we will the air force,1 until recently not win the next General Elec very much the junior partner tion. and we could easily be in the military Government, overtaken by the Alliance as would rather wait until the the main Opposition party.” election result is known. McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 Junta likely to delay war report action From Andrew Thompson Buenos Aires The military commission set up to investigate the conduct of dccision-makcrs in the Falklands conflict was expected to hand in its report and recommendations today to the ruling military junta in a private ceremony. The report, said to consist of no less than 17 volumes, remains officially secret but has been widely leaked. According to the leaks, which have not been denied, it recommends court martials for General Leopoldo Galticri, Admiral Jorge Isaac Ananya and Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo, the three members of the junta which ordered the invasion of the islands. It also suggests that the civil courts could bring charges against Scnor Nicanor Costa Mendez, the former Foreign Minister and Scnor Roberto Alcmann, the former Economy Minister. However, a military source claimed earlier this week that Sefior Alemann was not condemned. • Human rights march: A 24- hour “resistance march” by human rights groups was due to culminate yesterday in central Buenos Aires. Organized by the “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo”, demon strators chanted slogans against the military Government and demanded information on the fate of “the disappeared”, the estimated 15.000 to 30,000 people who were killed or kidnapped during political violence in the oast decade.

\ Falklands bound: An Arab colt ready to embark at Poole harbour yesterday.

THE TIMES Falklands animals go in one by one 23.9.83 To the disappointment of horses, ponies, cattle, sheep, pigs director of the Falklands Appeal, everyone, they did not go in two and goats, are being sent by the said the ship met standards set by two. It was singly, sometimes Falklands Appeal to replace by the Ministry of Agriculture rather disorderly, that the livestock killed during last year’s and the Royal Society for the animals filed into “Noah’s Ark” conflict, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. yesterday. The sailing has twice been Mr Marshall Watson, of the Driven in trucks to the delayed by bad weather but Rare Breeds Survival Trust, said dockside, at ,Poole, Dorset, , they yesterday in bright sunshine, the that the conditions were the best trotted up the gangway of the fjrst animals arrived and up the possible, and preferable to the Danish cattle carrier Dina Khalaf gangway walked a two-year-old animals being tossed about in a to begin their 30-day voyage to Arab colt called Mirific and a larger ship. Two veterinary the Falkland Islands. Welsh cob called Rhftyd Ifanho. surgeons are travelling with the The 224 animals, including Major-General Alan Mills, animals.

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mittee for refusing amend ments the leadership had wanted — we've been duped by people in the background. Janice Turner, the National League of Young Liberals shock chairman who moved the motion, said afterwards : It is Stephen Ross’s duty to Interpret Liberal policy in Parliament. If he doesn’t, you will hear a lot more from us. In the debate, she had de @1 clared : ‘The time has come for the Government to announce plans to bring our boys home.’ . The motion, criticised by manv speakers as emotional and simplistic, is particularly annoying for Mr Steel because he is in the process of setting SDP leader David Owen to look at the Ulster problem. I Mr Johnston asked for the Falklands motion to be dropped but delegates re Ulster fused, preferring to listen to the mover, George Ferguson By ROBIN OAKLEY from Bristol, who said: ‘Nationalism is the refuge of and JOHN HARRISON the insecure. _ .. ‘It is the refuge of the Argentine junta. Now it’s the THE Liberal refuge of a Prime Minister who has failed her people and Assembly yesterday covers her embarrassment doubly embarrassed with the Union Jack.’ David Steel and the party leadership. Delegates passed maverick motions on Ulster and the Falklands. They voted for the reunifi cation of Ireland and for Common Market countries to be asked to provide a peace Financial Times 22 9 83 keeping force to replace British troops in the north. And there was near- \ unanimous backing for a motion saying the Govern Setback for leadership ment’s Fortress Falklands policy was ‘unsuitable’ and calling for talks to begin on Falklands policy over future sovereignty. In each case the delegates BY KEVIN BROWN went against the urgings of the MP who is the appro priate party spokesman— Stephen Ross on Ulster and Russell Johnston on Foreign Affairs. wst -Assrw a .at swwsgj The Irish motion came and an appeal for negotiations American .States, of which from the Young Liberals, on sovereignty. Argentina is a member. whose delegates were hugging The vote was another setback It went on to urge the and kissing each other at the for the party leadership in a Government to investigate ways result. week in which grassroots of handing over responsibility Liberals have been heavily for the security of Britain s onto! of the parliamentary Delegates heavily rejected an Commonwealth, attempt by Mr Russell Johnston, Mr George Ferguson, parliamentarv spokesman on proposing the motion, said foreign affairs and defence, to Britain had won the war but have the issue referred back to was in danger of losing the the assembly steering com- peace. “We will not win the mittee on the grounds that it peace with . ridiculous was incoherent and impractical. Churchillian rhetoric about the The resolution said the rediscovery of Britain in the Government’s policy of main- Falkland Islands,” he said.

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Peacekeeper afflicted with paralysis For the second year in a row vately several limes to discuss gg§g§ Seiior Javier Perez de Cuellar, the ways of improving its effective- ppj United Nations Secretary-General, ness. HH1 has issued a report bemoaning the This year the Secretary-General international community’s ten- has issued a report perhaps even W§,1 dency to ignore and defy the UN in more negative than the first. The & % pursuit of short-term national world, he notes, has adopted an iP~ interests. In the first of two articles almost medieval role, where | 9 on issues before the General rivalries rule diplomacy and i Assembly, ZORIANA PYSA- vendettas overshadow cooper- l|S|i RIWSKY, United Nations Corre- alion. ; spondent, reports on the UN's For Sehor Perez de Cuellar the search for its lost role as single most important factor, peacemaker. leading to what he calls “the The United Nations often likes partial paralysis of the United t to do things for the sake of Nations as the guardian of appearances. It adopts declar- international peace and security”, ations and resolutions not so is the weakening of the commit- much in the expectation that they ment of all nations, especially the will be observed, but to appease five permanent members of the its collective conscience that it Security Council - Britain, the ought to be seen to be doing United States, France, China and something, at least in the form of the Soviet Union - to cooperate words, about conflicts as they witjiin the UN framework, i spring up or smoulder beneath the The permanent members, ! surface. especially the United States and the Soviet Union, compete for I influence and each sees the other’s diplomatic successes as a loss of face for itself. The Secretary- General claims that his staff is constantly offering blueprints of plans for solving particular problems, be they Lebanon, Central America or Chad; but . they are useless as long as oenor Perez de Cuellar: Arch-realist. UN GENERAL ACCEMSI Seizing on the theme that the that Seftor Perez de Cuellar is reflects the desire by the five AvvBIVIDkT council must regain its impar- promoting a utopia while he permanent members to keep the p.-o, a tiality, the Secretary-General remains the arch-realist. Feeling it council as a politically useful but * I offers two suggestions on how the useless, he has not, for example, practically ineffective instrument council could make itself more pressed the Falklands issue this that will not interfere with or useful if it were to reach the point year simply'Because Mrs Thatcher supersede their own national So when the Secretary-General of being a collegial body unmoved does not want to negotiate. interests. Some members of the last year more or less proclaimed by special interests. These include Meanwhile the Security Coun- five will claim that the reverse is the emperor to be without clothes, the development of a capacity for cji has issued its own report on its true, and so there are suspicions the United Nations embarked on fact-finding in areas of potential attempts to adapt some of the that the council’s efforts to change an introspective inquiry into the conflict and a common approach Secretary General’s ideas. The might be continued for the sake of original reasons for its existence, to control of conflicts report will be considered at this keeping up appearances. The Security Council met pri- Although his report is seen as a 38th General Assembly. It is an Tomorrow: The agenda

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Flood strands Ark Cable & Wireless From Craig Seton, Poole Fern and Bracken, leading them to the Falklands Appeal in £26m US deal members of the Howard Herd of because I thought it would be a Happy Hogs, and 222 other patriotic gesture. Fern and By Andrew Cornelius animals were still ashore in Bracken are very rare and I hope Cable & Wireless, the British Dorset yesterday, instead of being it will promote the breed.” telecommunications group, yes on their way to the Falkland She dismissed fears raised by terday announced details of a Islands in a modern day Noah's animal rights and welfare groups £26m deal to set up a new Ark. The “flood” had been too who had said the voyage would be telecommunications company in great to set sail. cruel to the animals and said: “If I a joint venture with the Missouri- Driving rain meant that hay thought that was the case I would Kansas-Texas Railroad Com being loaded for the animals on not send them”, pany. their 30-day voyage to Port The 224 animals which will The new corporation has been Stanley could not be kept dry and board the 521 ton Danish carrier, set up as part of Cable & the exercise, organized by the Dina Khalaf, are valued at about Wireless’s ambitious plans to take Falklands Appeal to replenish £42,000; 120 of them were a stake in US long-distance animal stocks on the islands, will donated by British farmers and telecommunications market go ahead at Poole Harbour today, breed societies after last year’s which is worth about $35bn a Fern and Bracken are pigs, fighting, in which horses, sheep, year. Oxford Sandy and Black gills in cattle and poultry were killed by Mr Eric Sharp, chairman of fact. Their owner Mrs Nancy artillery fire and landmines. Cable & Wireless, said that he had Howard has depleted her stock of The Falklands Appeal is paying been working for some time to apparently idyllically happy hogs for the animals which are obtain this breakthrough into the at her farm near Axminstcr, replacing those killed on the US market, where she raises rare breeds, to island and the voyage is likely to He said that the group has donate them to Falklands farm- cost about £200,000, more than' earmarked substantial cash re Sharp: working for US ers. half of it to hire the Dina Khalaf sources for broadening its busi- breakthrough. Mrs Howard said: "I donated for the journey. I acss in the US. & Wireless with the rights-of-way The deal with the rail company between cities which the railroad is hkely to be the first of a number company owns. The proposed S; ~ ^.ea^s which could give communications system will also Cable & Wireless an inroad into be used by the railroad company The Times 22 9 83 seven areas of high density to supplement its existing com- telecommunications traffic in the munications facilities, with sur- plus capacity made available to Under the_ terms of the other users who need a high agreement, Cable & Wireless will quality, low-cost digital system. I take a 20 to 30 per cent equity The proposed system will link St?k

A-bomb But they express concern over what they see as a greater danger fears grow Argentina’s progress in building, $ openly and legally, a range of From Philip M. Boffey nuclear installations that are not New York Times, Washington subject to international inspec tions and safeguards. These Intelligence specialists and installations could be used nuclear experts are increasingly eventually to produce bomb concerned that Argentina is materials without violating a developing the ability to build single international law or treaty. nuclear weapons and may be Argentina has refused to sign planning to build a nuclear bomb. the Nuclear Non-Proliferation An intelligence report now Treaty, under which nations agree circulating among Reagan Ad not to build nuclear arms. While ministration officails contends it has reluctantly agreed to allow that Argentine nuclear officials some of its nuclear instalations to have a “secret plan” to divert a be inspected and monitored by ton of uranium from under the the International Atomic Energy noses of international inspectors Agency, it has steadfastly refused and use the material to make to allow all of them to be nuclear fuel elements. monitored. Such fuel elements could The intelligence estimate now presumably be irradiated through circulating, prepared by the further clandestine steps to Central Intelligence Agency and produce plutonium for an atomic first distributed within the weapon, or they could be Government in May, contends stockpiled and saved to build a that there is a secret plan to divert bigger arsenal in the future. processed uranium from a West Many nuclear experts consider German-built plant that converts the intelligence estimate implaus yellowcake, partly treated ura ible and doubt that Argentina is nium ore, to uranium dioxide, a really planning such a secret and step in the fabrication of nuclear illegal diversion. fuel. I

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41 Whitehall London SW1A2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 GUARDIAN 22.9.83 As a genetic exercise, the Rare Breeds Survival Trust place under the Antarctic Animals, has organised introduction to Treaty, Councillor Robin -• the Fallands of breeds like Fortress Ashby (Middlesbrough) said rn Q V It" Belted Galloway cattle. elections in Hampshire for UlClJ. XV Several Shetland cows are that the islands would make in calf and will be producing an excellent staging post for milk early next year for the Falklands the signatories to the treaty islands, where the product is governing exploration in the time two scarce. Three female goats Antarctic. In that way British are intended to produce milk troops could be withdrawn for those islanders allergic to and the islanders could re cows’ milk. policy trieve their former way of by two life. Mr Paul Tyler, the former By Andrew Stevenson MP for Bodmin, spoke ______* ...... under against the motion, saying SWOLLEN with biblical that the only way to achieve overtones, the heavens a lasting settlement was one opened over Poole harbour which was agreed inter- in Dorset yesterday and pre- nationally. He was frightened vented the ship loaded with Galtieri that the motion proposed a animals for the Falklands, THE Government’s ‘Fortress “ superpower carve - up.” the so-called Noah s Ark. Instead, Liberals should from sailing, Falklands ’ policy was unsus tainable and should be re recognise the proper role in As rain lashed the 521-ton on war placed by an initiative aimed this question of the United Danish ship, Dna Khalef, at securing an internationally Nations. only an act of God seemed recognised diplomatic solu Mr Russell Johnston, MP . to be preventing actual flood- tion to the problem, Liberals for Inverness, Nairn and jngt report’s agreed at their Assembly yes Lochaber and the Liberal terday. spokesman on foreign affairs With the 224 animals, from Moving the motion, which and defence, pleaded without Arab ponies to Romney rams, was carried virtually unani success for the referral back aboard for the 30-day voyage, trial list mously Mr George Ferguson of the motion on the grounds the master, Captain Klaus (Bristol West) said that its that it was incoherent. He Kalkmann, decided to post' pone sailing. From Jeremy Morgan purpose was not to look back argued that the expectation in Buenos Aires on the rights or wrongs of that Argentinians would However, the Falklands the armed conflict but to enter into talks in which it spirit was kept alive when •Ait least 14 officers from look forward to the real pros was was made clear that they local units of the Royal Mar Argentina’s armed forces will pects for the Falklands and could have no say over the ines exercised their freedom be recommended for trial by their 1,800 inhabitants. islanders’ future was unrea of the borough and paraded the special military commission “We won the war, but are listic. through the town with investigating last year’s Falk we winning the peace ? We But replying to the debate bayonets and swords drawn. lands war, according to reports will not win the peace by re in support of the motion. Mr Stormbound animals were here. The list includes General sorting to ridiculous pseudo- Michael Steed (Burnley), a probably not uppermost in Leopoldo Galtieri, who was Churchiilian rhetoric about former president of the the minds of the bedraggled President at the time of the the rediscovery of Britain in party, said that if Britain men, marching three by war. the South Atlantic,” he said. was not prepared to start three past the saluting base. After several unexplained It was clear, Mr Ferguson talking it would put itself at delays, the commission, headed went on, that any lasting odds with the rest of world Major-General Julian by octogenarian retired solution had to give the The Argentinians did not Thompson, leader of Marine General Benjamin Rattenbach, islanders firm guarantees have any special or exclusive Commandos at the San is expected to deliver its against any further Argen role, but they had to be in Carlos Water landing, had report to the ruling military tine interference in their volved in the talks managed belatedly to escape Junta tomorrow. way of life. But that meant the Cornish fog to help to Even then,, there is little that the British would have take the salute. hope the report will be re leased to the public. Only 11 to come to some modus Rain also apparently vivendi with the Argentines. affected the expected animal copies are believed to exist “ This will have to be soon liberationists, who failed to and the Junta has set up an If we are not to be trapped appear at the quayside. Their other tribunal to study the into even greater commit objections have largely been commission’s findings. ments, a cat and mouse game to the conditions in which Independent observers designed to lead us into the animals will travel, al believe that the reason for the submission,” he argued. though the organisers have further delay is official fear Moving an unsuccessful pointed out that two vets that the contents of the report amendment to have the ques- might damage Argentina’s case will travel with them. at the United Nations General The animal many of Assembly, them donated by British Although the commission is farmers and breed societies not thought to have criticised MP banned for to compensate for the horses, the original decision to occupy sheep, cattle and poultry the islands, the list is appar killed by artillery fire and ently headed by the Junta then drink-driving landmines—seemed content in power, and concentrates on to spend another non-nautical top officers directly involved in Mr George Foulkes, aged 41, night around Poole, with the war, including General MP for the West of Scotland police protection provided. Mario Menendez, Argentina’s constituency of Carrick, Falklands commander and mili Cumnock and Doon Valley, has Each day of Inclement tary governor. The list report been fined £80 and disqualified weather is costing the Falk edly names only one civilian from driving for a year. He lands Appeal £375 in lairage Dr Nicanor Costa Mendez, then admitted driving his car with a fees. That is in addition to ! Foreign Minister. blood alcohol count which was the £150,000 spent on buying Among the lesser names are 32 milligrams above the per animals and shipping them. Brigadier Wilson Pedroza, re mitted maximum of 80 after Major-General Alan Mills, portedly held responsible for attending the Scottish Labour the appeal’s director, was the surrender at Port Darwin Party cdnference in Perth. said to be upset at the post in the early stages of the fight ponement. “ He likes things ing, and Captain Adolfo Astiz, to go like clockwork and this who is accused of major crimes time they didn’t,” a colleague during the armed forces’ said. “ dirty war ” against left-winf opponents during the 1970s. Mr Tyler : 4 carve-up ’ /ear tion of the Falklands’ future included in current inter national negotiations taking McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ telephone: 01-0306933 /Call for Falklands sovereignty talks THE TIMES The conference passed by an her embarrassment with the Union 22.9.83 overwhelming vote a resolution Flag- urging the Government to initiate Delegates cheered again when Mr negotiations on the future of the Ferguson declared: “The time has Falkland Islands. They would be come when the Government ignores held with the Organization of clear messages from the Liberal American States (OAS) under the assembly at their peril. United Nations charter. “I did not rejoice at our success in The resolution, by Bristol West, the Falklands. I was sickened by the stated that the negotiations should slaughter on both sides. I am include the sovereignty issue and determined that that victory and should aim to reach a peaceful sacrifice is used to secure peace and settlement with Argentina guaran- not to increase tension." teeing individual freedom and the Mr Robin Ashby, moving the long-term security of Falkland Langbaurgh amendment, said the islanders. Antarctic treaty was the most It also said that such small island successful international treaty of communities should have their modern limes. The Organization of security and autonomy guaranteed American Slates and the UN were internationally. It called on the not suitable avenues for reaching a Government to raise this proposal settlement. Already the battle lines within the Commonwealth and the had been drawn. UN. There must be a mechanism The motion recognized that the whereby Britian and Argentina I Government’s policy of maintain- could sustain their territorial ing a permanent garrison on the interest, and the Antarctic Treaty ' Falklands could not be sustained in was just such a mechanism. It was terms of military commitment and due for review in 1991, a timescale cost, and was not in the interests of conducive to an unemotional the Falkland islanders of the UK. approach. Delegates defeated an amend- Mr John Matthews, European ment by the Langbaurgh Assoc- candidatc for Hampshire at the last anon suggesting that negotiations Euro-election, said that the issue should take place with the co- ought l0 be made internationa!. signatories of tne Antarctic Treaty. There should be talks with i Th!S h*V?L ,thc °bjC^I.Ve„0f Argentina, with the OAS, with the including the Falklands within the UN and with lhe Commonwealth, area co vend by the Treaty at the The Faik|and Islands cou!d aiso time of its 1991 review. This, said bc made a part 0f the Antarctic for the amendment, would ensure the purposes of the Antarctic Treaty, as 1 long-term security of the islands, an arca for rcsearch and diSCOvery. free of military activity. Aggression should not be allowed Mr George Ferguson, parliamcn- to replace the rule of law, Mr Paul tary candidate for Bristol West, at Tyler (North Cornwall) said. Any the general election, moved the permanent solution must be an motion. He said the question that agreed one. Liberals must ask themselves now He feared that the cost of Fortress I was: “We have won the war, but arc Falklands was going to raise I we winning the peace?" They would inflation so high on the islands that 1 not win the peace by resorting to the indigenous islanders would not ridiculous pseudo-Churchillian be able to afford to live there in a rhetoric about the rediscovery of few years. Britain in the South Atlantic. ------— Mrs Margaret Thatcher had also claimed that there was a new mood of realism in Britain. But the Government could do with a modicum of that realism in considering this issue, otherwise it would be in danger of sacrificing the future of the islanders on the altar of Thatcherism. 3 He was no apologist for the Argentine junta which had violated human rights in its own country. He was hardly surprised at the deep distrust the islanders felt about the Argentines and clearly any solution must give firm international guarantees against any Argentine control of the islanders of their way oflife. But there was a general realiza tion by everyone concerned, except the Prime Minister, that we had to come to some sort of modus vivendi with Argentina if we were to secure the best long-term interests of the Falklanders, he said. This would have to be soon if we were not to be trapped into an even greater commitment by a cat-and-mouse game designed to drive us into economic submission. Nato had a serious shortfall in the North Atlantic. Fortress Falklands was distorting Britain’s defences badly. The cost, about £250,000 a year for each islander was out of proportion, he said to applause. It was a delusion to believe that Britain was the same nation that i-1 built an empire. No amount of strident ranting could make it so. Nationalism was the refuge of the McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs insecure. 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by Argentine By KEITH NURSE Arts Correspondent J^ TURNER masterpiece, bought by an Argen tine for a world record auction price of almost i £3 million in 1980. is I among works in a British ! Council - sponsored exhibi tion devoted to the artist in Paris next month. The picture, an illustration from Romeo and Juliet, “Juliet and her Nurse,” was acquired by Amelia de Fortabat, widow of an Argentine cement million aire, and is one of the most beautiful Turner works in pri vate hands. Mr Evelyn Joll, one of the selectors, said in London yes terday: “In view of last year’s events we left it to the French to do the negotiating to bor row it for the exhibition.” But a British Council official said: “We did not keep out of it on political grounds, because the joint organisers of the show, the Reunion des Musees Nationaux, have been respon Mr Ferguson said there was sible for requesting the loans a general realisation by from foreign countries. Falkland’s garrison IS virtually everyone except Mrs “ We have heard of no prob Thatcher that a modus videndi lems at all involved in securing would have to be reached with i the picture for the exhibition.” r> Argentina. The picture, described as the not in isle’s interest He was applauded when he most splendid of all Turner’s said: “ Nationalism is the paintings of the 1930s, was exhi By ANTHONY LOOCH I refuge of the insecure. It was bited at the Royal Academy in the refuge .of the Argentine 1836, though its style was the nnHE “ staggering cost ” of Fortress Falklands i junta,' and now of a Prime subject of some criticism at the Minister who has failed her time. A now exceeded the total cost of the entire United country and her peopla and who . It has rarely been seen in Kingdom air defences, and was having a wholly covers her embarrassment with Europe and went to America distorting effect on our defences, the conference the Union Jack. shortly before 1900. It was pre Mr Robert Ashby (Lang- viously in the hands of a New was told yesterday. baurgh) moved an amendment vYork private collector. The claim was made by deleting the reference to the The Queen . and President Mr George Ferguson, Parlia- the long-term security of the Organisation of American States Mitterrand are patrons of the and the United Nations Charter. exhibition, the largest ever mentary candidate for islanders. It substituted a call for the Turner show held abroad. It Bristol West. The resolution also expres negotiations to take place in will run at the refurbished and sed the belief that such small stead with the. co-signatories • redecorated Grand Palais, Paris, n&YX? island —ities, which of the Antarctic Treaty, with I until January next year. present policy of maintaining a were too small the object of including the 1 permanent garrison on the meaningful independei“ Laorinst to Falklands within the area Falklands was “ unsustainable defend . th^ejves g.. - • covered by the Treaty at the. time of its 1991 review. “ thereby securing . the long . NN it.SK -.swtans»Is term security of the islands, rain delays \ SE, K free of military activity.” dom. The amendment was defeated NOAH’S ARK The' resolution urged the and the original resolution Heavy rain and strong witids I Government to initiate negotia- carried by an overwhelming majority. on the south coast delayed the 1 tions, which would include the loading of animals bound for issue of sovereignty, with the the Falklands on to the 357-ton Organisation of American ship i Dina Khalaf at Poole States, "under the United - Yesterday. Nations Charter. Port officials said they could The aim must be to reach a not load hty and animal fodder peaceful settlement with DAILY TELEGRAPH in the rain because it would rot. Argentina, which guaranteed So the loading was postponed both individual freedom and | until the weather clears. 22.9.83 i

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Ministers lead drive for increased business n mSHmm ' V.x- ■_ "• c ;.\>: c 1. More trade urged 'Ta^.YZ w ill ‘:fV <0: with Latin America By Peter Rodgers, railway project. Colombia is her favour at the moment, Financial Correspondent. one of only two countries in with exports last year only |8fi rpu. rnvpmmpnt u cnwinp Latin America which have not £162 million or 1.3 per cent of : J seed co?n /o“at it hope! rescheduled their debts and it the market, >iW< will be a future Latin Amer- will soon get a $225 million Mr Lamont said : "Too often "" s=SiS S ■■i i m SSSS Sr “ rs .•snrusjs ilian Chamber of Commerce in sul® from industiial country Britain is the fifth largestin- t nnHnn • “ Thprc is a risk that central banks and governments. “ma.m is tne nrtn largest an- wp win'allow our nre-occupa- Mr Channon is also visiting vestor in Brazil and m Novem- tinnRrazil’s cu?rent econ- Trinidad and Tobago to ber the British Chamber of tion with brazil s current econ , fh nrnonpr1 for i0;nt Commerce in Brazil is to visit omic weaknesses to detract explore me prospect ior joint R • tn oamr)flign for invpst- sBi from our view of her enormous vetoeswi th ocal manu:f.• ^ ■ \ ?n \1ift foneer tom”'"8 P dad & will be accompanied by Mr Channon's visit to Vene- mii 1“nScnifi T atin American dif- two teams of British business- zuela is described as informal, : _ D,eJ?E ti p men. but it comes at a time of Mil Minister for Trade, Mr Paul He said : “ Latin America is brinkmanship between the Channon, will be visiting Vene- an enormous market in which cmmtry and its bankers over I ■ \ zuela, where he will meet the the British in recent years unpaid aeDts. m finance minister, Mr Arturo have had too small a share.” Yesterday, Mr Sosa, the Sosa and open a conference of Exports to Latin America have finance minister, confirmed m rnmmprrial officers from Bri- slumped in the first seven that Venezuela had asked credi- y tish embassies in Latin Amer- months of this year to £384 tor banks for a third 90-day ica which will look at export million from £609 million a postponement on payments of i nrosnects year earlier, while imports principal on public sector for- He will also visit Colombia, have risen to £823 million eign debt, to follow a previous Nonnan Lamont (top) and to back British company bids from £609 million. Brazil has a postponement which expires at Paul Channon: long-term for the Medellin mass transit four-to-one trade balance in the end of the month. view

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about Isabel Peron Ry TONY ALLEN-MILLS in Buenos Aires rpHE will she, won’t she, saga of Isabel Peron’s Stormy congress ; “*■ long-awaited return to Argentina is showing - - no The Peronist party has in sign of reaching a climax as the former Argentine recent months been severely President remains com divided over its efforts to select a Presidential candidate fortably in exile in Spain. and organise an election cam i With elections due on paign. Oct. 30, Argentina’s Peronist At a stormy party congress ! they finally papered over the masses are still in the dark cracks by selecting as candidate about the intentions of the Senor Italo Luder, a constitu woman who succeeded the tional lawyer and former Peron legendary Eva as wife to the ist acting President. founder of their party, the Senor Luder is a moderate. late dictator, Gen. Juan who was practically the only I Peron. senior figure in the party that the diverse factions of Peron- There is no longer any official ism could agree upon. His barrier to Senora Peron’s re- 1 nomination as Presidential can turn. The military junta has didate stopped some of the cleared the path by pardoning bickering that had spoiled pre her for offences committed parations for the congress, but during her short-lived Presi supporters of Isabel Peron still dency which ended with the complain bitterly that the for military coup of 1976. mer President was pushed But from Spain come only i aside. conflicting rumours, either that ' “They are just using her Senora Peron has one foot on as a bunch of flowers to the plane, or that she has no decorate the party," said Dr intention of ever returning to Juan Labake, a former ambas Argentina again. sador under Senora Peron’s It is generally accepted in Government. Buenos Aires that if Senora “ The Congress failed to Peron, 53, was to end her exile, recognise that Isabel is the head she would be greeted in of our movement." Argentina by crowds of a Wijih the election next month million or more Peronists. widely expected to be an un- But influential sections of the usuallv close battle between the party leadership are known to Peronists and their traditional be concerned that her arrival rivals, the centre-left Radical might do their cause more party, Senora Peron’s where harm than good. abouts could be critical. But “ If Isabel came back, she since she was allowed by the would quickly become one of junta to go into exile in 1981, the biggest issues in the the former President has not campaign," a political analyst been inclined to discuss her commented. “ Many people plans in public. ) would recall the chaos of her------Presidency — and vote for the other side."

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~~THE TIMES 21.9.83 i !~~

~~Peking onslaught~~

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Hongkong talks From David Bona via, Peking China has accused Britain of the people of Hongkong” by wanting to impose another preventing the inflation which “unequal treaty” to replace those will be fuelled by the dollar’s of the nineteenth century which decline. They blame the terri- ceded sovereignty over Hong- lory’s economic problems on the kong. British administration. In a long commentary, the The People’s Daily said that if Among a wealth of stamps to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in People’s Daily rejected Britain’s China accepted a prolonged London tomorrow and on Friday are a pair of Id proposal for a period of adminis- British administration it would be trative responsibility in the “equivalent to accepting a new Rhodesian stamps with no joining perforations which are colony after the New Territories unequal treaty”. Sovereignty and expected to fetch up to £10,000, and a 1933 Falkland lease expires in 1997, coupled the exercise of administrative Islands centenary stamp. with British recognition of power were indivisible. China’s sovereignty over Hong- The British viewpoint is that kong, in law. while China has unofficially Sir Edward Youde, the Gover- published some proposals for the nor of Hongkong, arrived here future of a “Hongkong special yesterday for another round of autonomous region”, Peking is Anglo-Chinese talks on the not helping to set up the Argentine police colony’s future. mechanisms and institutions by The article in the party organ, which such a region could be run step up protest signed with a literary pseudonym after 1997, and is instead Buenos Aires - Police officers only, attacked Mrs Margaret expecting Britain to make all in the Argentine province of Thatcher’s assertion a year ago arrangements on its behalf, Cordoba, who had been gradually that the treaties of Nanking, Britain considers that unless returning to normal duties since Tianjin and Peking regarding China collaborates more actively Saturday, have stepped up their Hongkong were “valid in inter- in this changeover, instead of ; Strike action again (Andrew national law.” simply coining anti-British slo- ..Thompson writes). It said the international laws gans, a British presence after 1997 The sudden hardening in devised by the European powers will be inevitable to ensure a attitudes came after an increasing themselves since the seventeenth smooth transition, number of policemen, who had century laid it down that treaties • HONGKONG: Mr Jimmy agreed to end the strike and await signed under threat of military McGregor, director of the Hong- the findings of a special com- force were invalid. It adduced kong General Chamber of Com- mission on wages, changed their histoncal evidence to show that merce, has blamed Peking auth- minds. The strike leaders, many the treaties of 1842, 1860 and orities for the continuing drastic . of whom are occupying a car park 1898 were signed under duress, fall in the value of the Hongkong in the provincial capital, now say which can hardly be denied. dollar (Richard Hughes writes). -Alley will not stop the protest until The Chinese leaders are be- “The Chinese are fuelling V the commission announces a '-decision. lieved to be rattled by the latest Hongkong fears by issuing state- slide of the Hongkong dollar, ment after statement about which threatens their big foreign arrangements for the future of currency earnings from the Hongkong after 1997”, Mr territory. McGregor said, “while there is a «... .. , lack of balancing statements from Chinese official media have the British side. " called on the Hongkong autho Trumping China cards page 12 rities to “protect the livelihood of Dollar slide halted, page 17

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~~The Journal 20th September 1983~~

~~FALKLAND Islander Glenn Ross~~

~~Islander Glenn~~

meets up with British reserve FALKLAND® new boy , Glenn Ross is finding the vou< but here no one British a very reserved lot. ** thing unless 1 speak to The 19-year-old, from Port J£“!P,n k Stanley, has been loing in 'i'hat comes hard for a lad Durham City for three weeks t0 knowing every single and still hasn’t made a friend. . his home town. Glenn will have plenty of iaiguJ G|cnn, a kcen squash company when he starts a 10- and f()0tball player, is looking month City and Guilds clectn rorwar(| to plenty ot corn eal installation course at New when he starts at College. Durham, next week, Co„^c next week, but until then he could do with • Hjj. course js being paid tor some companionship. . British Council. Yesterday found him play- Now that Falklands | ing squash on his own at is|anf|crs have been granted Durham Squash Club near his Brjtish citizenship there are home in Lindale, Chevclcy Ijkclv tQ bc manv more attend- Park, Belmont, and he broke *co||eges in the mother off to talk about his first K in future, momentous, if lonely days in * Britain. . „ .4. . He has met his Scottish father and a sister and brother he had not seen since his parent’s marriage broke up when he was aged two. Engineer “Mv father is an engineer and now lives in Inverness with mv older brother. I have an older sister who is married and living in Crajnl.ngton, Northumberland, sa,d ^“YVc have had a reunion, but of course I couldn t remember any of them. Still it is good having a sister nearby. I think the people here are more reserved than we are. i i 1 GUARDIAN 20.9.83

~~Joint administration seems~~

~~to be ruled out by Peking~~

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Diplomatic Correspondent of the talks, when the British There was deepening gloom Ambassador, Sir Percy Cra in London and Hong Kong last dock, sits down with the Navy to night about the diminishing Chinese side, prospects of any compromise The news item was based on Jeal with China emerging from an interview with one Huane the next round of talks in Dingchen, described as leader Peking, which get under way of “a democratic party com- on Thursday. posed of overseas Chinese.” He ♦v,T^eu- rd lme c?ramS from obligingly ticked off the whole the Chinese was pointed up by catalogue of China’s policy to Chile the decision of Xinhua, the points. national news agency, to carry In the colony itself, the dir- BRITAIN is preparing to sell a main item stressing China’s ector of the Chamber of Corn- Chile’s military dictatorship determination to recover sov- merce, Mr James McGregor the 5,400-ton destroyer, ?J2S?ty over Hong Kong in ?poke frankly about “increas- Antrim, which took part in iy?7- . ing gloom at the prospects for In London, where the Minis- the future ” at the end of a last year’s Falklands war, ter of State for Asian Affairs, day that saw the Hong Kong writes Jonathan Steele. The Mr Richard Luce, was setting dollar slide to its lowest point head of the Chilean navy and out on a two-week mission that in history on the foreign member of the ruling Junta, takes him to Brunei, Singa- exchanges, Rear-Admiral Jose Toribio pore; and Hong Kong, there Share prices shed 8 per cent Merino, announced the im were no longer any real hopes of their value. The local cur- pending sale yesterday. The that the itinerary might be rency has now lost 30 per cent ship will be delivered early extended to include Peking. Mr of its value compared with a next year, and is estimated Luce’s timetable has been year ago. to be costing Chile £5 mil arranged so that he arrives in Mr McGregor, interviewed by lion. Hong Kong on Saturday this the BBC’s World at One, said • Under a new name, OTIig- week the day after the end of “Hong Kong’s entire future is gins, the ship will join the tne Pekmg talfcs, now at stake. People here are slightly less modern Norfolk, If the talks went well, it had realising that a way of life which Britain sold last year. been thought, this would per- that they have been used to for Chile was sympathetic to Bri mit the Chinese to extend an 140 years is now specifically tain during the Falklands impromptu invitation to the under negotiation. A very large British minister to rearrange number of people here are be- conflict, and the latest sale is his schedule and fly home via coming more and more wor- certain to anger Argentina. Peking. ried, and therefore despondent The Antrim will consider But last night as the mission about the possibility of retain- ably increase the Chilean went off from London, this ing the present system.” navy’s firepower. It is armed scenario seemed increasingly This was reinforced by the with Exocet anti-ship mis unlikely, particularly when Mr editor of the Far Eastern Eco- siles, Seacat close-range, anti Luce’s advisers had studied the nomic Review, Mr Derek aircraft missiles, and a Lynx text of the Xinhua item. Davies, who said : “The know- antisubmarine helicopter. Such bulletins do not appear ledge that its fate is being de- Last night, a Royal Navy by chance, which suggests that cided by others has brought an spokesman said the Chileans Xinhua was being used to air of gloom to Hong Kong had “expressed an interest underline this tough negotiat- which is new to me.” in acquiring Antrim, but no sale has been concluded ".

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I 1 invincible6in near miss f TWO-EDGED HONGKONG A FURTHER ROUND of negotiations on Hongkong’s future are being held in Peking this week at a time with Channel dredger’ when confidence in the colony has been badly shaken by China’s tough attitude. In a stream of statements, /i SEALINK dredger was dredger and also flashed an China has underlined her determination to regain involved in a near international warning signal by miss with the aircraft niorse code, sovereignty once the lease on the New Territories carrier Invincible, 16.000 . But the Llanguard did noth- runs out in 1997. Peking’s tactics are designed to tons, Ohelmsford Crown ln* ll. w?f t,ar,t°0 late give the impression that if sovereignty is granted, Court was told yesterday. and the Invincible had to alter Hongkong need have no fear about the future. The its course. capitalist system would be preserved, there would Mr William. W. hitehodse- Lt-Cdr Peter Cunningham, Vaux prosecuting, sard that the invincible’s officer of the watch, be a-free port, existing privileges would be kept and 677ft long carrier had to change said the dredger came within there would be a local administration under Chinese course to avoid a collision with 300 yards of his ship and if control. By contrast there has been silence on the the dredger Llangard 6^0 the two vessels had maintained British side—the Foreign Office maintaining a stiff tons, in June 1981. their respective courses they upper lip in face of Chinese statements on the Capt. Sidney Davies, 52, of would have come into contact. Ashley Road, Dovercourt, grounds it was agreed the talks should be Essex, pleads not guilty to fail ‘ Emergency action * confidential. ing to keep ta proper, look-out, - He had to take emergency So far however the business community both and fading to keep clear of actioil t0 avoid a collision. “It British and Chinese have not been impressed. How. Invincible. vvas a horrendous situation,” he it is being asked, can a capitalist Hongkong be Mr Whitehouse-Vaux said the said, grafted on to a Communist State system? What incident happened in the Cross - examined, Lt - Cdr English Channel off Portland Cunningham disagreed with a worries people in the colony is we do not know who Bill as the Invincible was return suggestion by Mr Robert Neill, will be ruling Ohina in 1997. Will the present ing from sea trials. defending, that if the two vessels pragmatic Communist leadership hand-picked by Mr had maintained their courses Teng Hsiaoping be in control, or could there be a Whistle blasts the Llangard would have passed ahead of Invincible return to Maoism? Teng wants to be the man who in The warship, , was, , heading “ with a mile to spare and there Chinese history books brought about the south and the dredger was was n0 risU of a collision.” termination of the 19-century unequal treaties. travelling westwards. Under the u_cdr Cunningham said lhat collision regulations it was the jf firm positive action had not That is one reason why China wants an early duty of the dredger to gi\e ^ecil ta|

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Two women who Service history - Wendy Hinton ship's complement on a warship. (above) becomes the first Wren Despite her unusual posting full member of a warship's crew, alongside 170 officers and men and Corporal Charmaine Taylor on the 2,800-ton warship, (right) is the first Wrac to serve Wendy, from Olccmont Drive, on the Falkland Islands. Wedncsfield, must return to her Wren Wendy, aged 21, a radar shore quarters every night. specialist from Wolverhampton, Captain Christopher Pile said: is on a three-week posting for sea “We do not have the facilities for trials with the frigate HMS women crew members." Arrow. She admitted yesterday Captain Pile said he would not that she would not like a fulltime like to see women serving full warship posting. time on warships at sea. “It is an “It is not for me", she said. “I ; all-male society”, he said. havc a quite feminine attitude. I At a press conference yester- like to have doors opened for me day on board the Arrow anchored .. . when it comes to seamanship off Plymouth, Wendy said she I have not got the muscles for it. had enjoyed the posting, but and frankly do not want to added: “There is no privacy at all develop them." for women on board.” She works on the bridge as a She is to marry next April. navigator's yeoman, maintaining Her fiance, Michael. Niven, aged the ship's log and updating the 24, from Saltfleet, near Louth, charts. Lincolnshire, is on a petty She gained her unusual job officer's radar course at HMS because of a manpower shortage Dryad, the school of maritime requiring a temporary posting. operations near Portsmouth. The Type 21 frigate is undergo Corporal Charmaine Taylor, ing sea trials on a daily basis aged 24, from Telford, Shrop from Plymouth after a £l2m refit. shire, has served on the Falk- She was damaged during the lands since May. She is a Falklands campaign. member of the Wrac Provost of Wrens have been attached to the Royal Military Police, naval vessels before in specialist patrolling the streets and helping capacities, but none has been to maintain law and order.

McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWIA21JZ Telephone 01-030 6935 THE TIMES 20.9.83 / / Argentine guns sold as Thatcher says arms Falklands war souvenirs A judge at the Central Criminal Ranson, a former soldier and talks must go on Court yesterday expressed con- mercenary in Angola, was ob- cern that Argentine guns were sessed with the Army. He had The Hague (AP) - Mrs • Health doubts dispelled: Mrs being sold by soldiers as souvenirs pointed a gun at two workmen on Margaret Thatcher said yesterday Thatcher last night shrugged off from the Falklands war and could a roof and forced them to drive that there should be no interrup- reports suggesting that she is not fall into criminal hands. him along the A3 in their van. lion in the Geneva arms re- fully recovered from her eye After sentencing Roger Keith Police officers found him 500 duction talks with the Soviet operation last month (Philip Ranson to two years imprison yards from a police station, where Union, despite the destVuction of Webster writes). Interviewed by ment, suspended for two years, he said he was going to give the South Korean airliner, which BBC Television in The Hague, at for robbery, falsely imprisoning himself up. At first, Ranson told she called “an atrocity against the start of a busy fortnight of. three men. and having firearms them he had four pistols and a humanity”. travel, she said: It may be too without certificates, the Common bullet, Mr Wright said. On a visit to The Netherlands, much for a normal person who Serjeant of London, Judge Tudor Mr Anthony Brigden, for the Mrs Thatcher asserted that the has had an operation but. after all. Price said: “I am concerned about defence, said that his client had West was “concerned about the it is me. I shall just dash around this, from the public point of bought the guns from soldiers and nuclear arms race and genuinely as 1 always do.” view. Weapons with bullets in after keeping one for himself had sincere" about disarmament • Summit possibility: Mrs That unauthorized hands can easily fall given the others to friends who moves. cher may attend unofficial sum- into the hands of criminals to be wanted souvenirs. Evcn if Nato began a scheduled mit meetings at the UN next week i used in armed robberies to maim “It is common knowledge that deployment of cruise and Pcrsh- aimed at casing tension . over or kill.” soldiers in army camps around ing 2 missiles in December, the Lebanon and the airliner disaster Ranson, aged 42, a building site Guildford arc selling guns belong Geneva negotiations mpst go on. (the Press Association reports). foreman, of Hamilton Gordon ing to Argentine soldiers brought Deployment could be halted later India is organizing the talks, Court, Guildford, Surrey, had back from the Falklands." Mr if there were progress in the talks, expected to involve President obtained guns from soldiers who Brigden said, she told a news conference. Mitterrand of France, President had brought them back from the The judge said that it was only Earlier she met for 3'A hours Mr Mubarak of Egypt, President Falklands. in the most exceptional circum- Ruud Lubbers, the Prime Minis- Nycrere of Tanzania and possibly Mr Dcrmott Wright, for the stances that he would not grant ter and Mr Hans van den Brock, President Castro of Cuba. prosecution, said that something immediate imprisonment ^for Foreign Minister. The Dutch A Downing Street spokesman snapped when Ranson heard a such offences. He added that “by have yet to decide whether the said details of the Prime Minis- burglar alarm at a social club. He reason of your distress”, the new missiles will be accepted. ter’s visit to North America have took the gun and demanded drink unexpected death of two good Mr Thatcher vigorously nod- vet to be completed, leaving open from the manager. When the friends had made Ranson behave ded agreement when Mr Lubbers the possibility she may attend at police arrived he escaped through in a way which was completely said ultimate responsibility for least one of the two summits a back entrance. out of character. deployment rested with each Nato ncd. country. He . announced last Army cuts: The strength of the Friday that The Netherlands wilr 55,000-sirong British Army of the wait until the second quarter of Rhine (BAOR) should be halved, next year before making * its according to a report published decision on stationing the wea- today (Henry Stanhope writes), pons. r’___ *:------j An all-British rapid-deploy ment force should be formed instead to help to meet the worldwide threat posed by the DAILY TELEGRAPH Soviet Union, it says. The Omega Defence Policy is the work of the Adam Smith 20.9.83 Institute, an independent think- tank which argues that Britain's slender defence resources are loo heavily concentrated on the central front in Europe. / “Limited budgets and rising Suffering animals costs mean that with present methods we can no longer afford SIR—The Falklands Fund (report, Sept. to support Nato. to defend our 15) maintains “no cruelty-” will be overseas dependencies and to involved to animals in the journey to the protect our home base”. Falkland Islands. But for the 220 farm animals and horses on this 28-dav Unless sweeping changes arc voyage in a 557-ton boat nobody can introduced, the strength of the deny that adverse weather is likely armed forces will have declined to which will involve great suffering and fewer than 300,000 by 1986. probably some deaths. The report, said to be the From first-hand knowledge of shorter product of 12 months’ work by 20 crossings in similar boats I know that the panels of experts, urges a change stability factor causes unbearable condi in emphasis from small, expens tions for the animals penned below even ive regular forces to larger when a moderate sea is running. reserves of part-time volunteers. EILEEN BEZET The authors’ proposal to cut Vice-chairman, the size of BAOR by 50 per cent Dartmoor Livestock Protection Soc., comes on the day the Prime Horsham, Sussex. Minister is paying her first visit to front-line units in West Germany. It will also revive speculation over the long-term strength of Rhine Army.

McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 s FIRE ON SUB ^THAT SANK Daily Telegraph 19 9 83 ->■ N I THE BELGRANO Sailors aboard the Conqueror —the nuclear submarine that Britain sends sank the General Bclgrano in the Falklands war—fought a fire on the vessel yesterday. The fire, which was started accidentally at Devonport dock ; yard where the 4,900-ton Con three carriers queror is being refitted, did i little damage and no-one was hurt. ■ Mh Plymouth fire brigade arrived .. shortly after the vessel’s skele- i ton-crew had brought the fire to Med 1 under control.

By DESMOND WETTERN Naval Correspondent "VyiTHIN the next 10 days a more powerful ARGENTINA Royal Navy task force than that formed at the start of the Falklands conflict will be ‘PLANNING assembled in the eastern. Mediterranean. It will include all three of the Navy’s operational

carriers—the Invincible, Illustrious and Hermes—witfc A-BOMB’ 9/;’ five escorting frigates, a diesel - electric powered’ By FRANK TAYLOR sub marine, and Royal Fleet Auxiliary tankers anil in Washington I stores ships. § fpHE Reagan Adm-injstra" Ostensibly, the Illustrious and the submarine Opossum in. tion is studying closely I the next few days, while the intelligence reports sug § and Hermes, which has on frigates Rothesay, Aurora and board 20 helicopters and Achilles are already in company gesting that Argentina is 1,000 men of 40 Commando, with the Invincible. moving steadily towards Royal Marines, together with American Sixth Fleet ships the production of a nuclear supporting units, are to take already in the eastern Mediter bomb. part in the Nato amphibious ranean include the earner The reports, which have led exercise, Display Determina Dwight D. Eisenhower, with 90 to heated controversy within tion in the Aegean. But aircraft embarked; - the administration, speak, of a obviously they could readily A Russian Krivak class frigate plan by Argentina’s nuclear is off Beirut with a Mayak energy experts to- “ divert ” up be called upon in, the event class spy trawler to monitor to a ton of uranium from one of a marked deterioration in Western and Lebanese forces of their nuclear fuel process the situation in the Lebanon. communications. ing plants that is supposedly The Invincible, with three Our Diplomatic correspW- subject to international inspec frigates and auxiliaries, sailed Mr Luce, Foreign Office Minis tion. from Britain at the beginning ter, said yesterday on his reutrn According to the Central In of the month at the start of a from Lebanon that the small telligence Agency,, the plant seven-month deployment to the British Force in Beirut would converts yellowcake, partly Far East and Australasia. This hit back if attacked. No would treated uranium ore, to uran force is already in the eastern British government ium dioxide, one of the stages Mediterranean. deploy troops to any part ot in producing nuclear fuel. the world without giving them Falklands veterans the ripht to self-defence,’ he About 150 tons is turned out said. every year by the plant; which Ten Sea Harrier fighters was supplied by West Germany. many piloted by officers with many hours flying in last year’s ‘ Book-keeping error * Falklands conflict^ are em The Argentines are said to

■ barked in the Invincible and f Pr {V'9 have devised a plan for divert ! Illustrious, and both ships also ing up to a ton, making it have nine anti-submarine heli- f FALKLAND'S CLOCK appear to be a “book-keeping copters which could be used as Families of British Service- error ” so that inspectors of the additional troop carriers if smen killed in the Falklands war International Atomic Energy needed. have raised £1,225 for an orna Agency would not be alerted. The ground force for the mental clock for Port Stanley Argentina has steadfastly re Nato exercise is commanded by Town Hall. Brig. Martin Garrod, who is in _ fused to sign the Nuclear Non the Hermes with Headquarters proliferation Treaty, designed 3 Commando Brigade, while the to prevent the spread of nuclear senior naval officer in any joint weapons and the technology to force would be Rear Adml. build them. Jeremy Black, who commands State Department officials dis- the Invincible’s group of eight Daily Telegraph f pute the latest intelligence re ships. 17 9 83 ports, contending that the The Hermes sails from Ply Argentines would not risk such mouth today and will ren a schejne being ^revealed. dezvous with the Illustrious, the However. American nuclear frigates Leander and Ariadne experts concede that Argentina now has one of the most advanced nuclear energy pro grammes among those countries that have not yet, exploded a nuclear device.

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His stolid Welsh face was lmPass^’® al^ unrevealing as the steel-grey skies and cold, hard stretched all "round him. But his thmights were be sea which ing as fast as the clouds which ploughed past the little ship and over the horizon. Harrison knew that 19 years as a Royal Navy diver had been leading VERMUCH blueprint in the Naval up to this — a dive for which there was no textbooks. It was deeper and more dangerous than anything he had ILLUSTRATION: Dai’id Case done. By PAUL What the 33-year-old sailor did i EXCLUSIVE: One of the great Siena Seaspread diving vessel irrospEiP not know was that it would later be VALLEIY keeps conslanl position by described as 'possibly the most computer controlled propellers dangerous task ever undertaken by tore and att a Royal Navy diving team' get was the destroyer Coventry, That is what the citation said with 20 hands when untold stories of the Falklands war lost when the Queen presented him Argentine bombers hit her amid — and X,Yven It- Only the waist now SPEND dark well. He inched his way SOME ships at the height of the British with a medal for gallantry. But deep. 4k „ the edge of Clegg’s 8ft. was more than an hour happened. . , . that was months away down. It Task Force’s liberation of the ^ôquare opening and peered into found the first bundle of His umbilical line got fucX.A Pettv Officer Harrison turned before he Falkland Islands. the blncic notlilngn cold si v eat tingled all over his Uis collar against a wind -which documents, in a drawer. For the first eight days every Suckling took up his position on no room to turn as he realised he could move chilled the marrow of his bones. the outside. Harrison, with trep But there was down. He radioed Behind him he could see Pebble thing went like clockwork It was around. He edged upwards to neither up nor SlTtm £/!■ hard work [ idation. entered and picked his wards the sliding door, walking for help. Island disappearing into the waves but nothing they hadn’t expected. way cautiously through the hang- backwards with the hefty bundle Back in the diving complex the as the Stena Seaspread held her debris of pipes and battle course. They dived in three teams of ing of papers clasped in both arms. helium in his voice made Ham- damage. He handed them to Ray Suckling son’s message sound like an lmita- The stocky little sailor brought two men for eight-hour shifts His experience taught him that his thoughts to more immediate round the clock. Day and night and then plunged inside once tion of Donald Duck, but there softly-softly was the technique He comic about its matters. It was to be a saturation siondGnfintH a continuous succes- more. was nothing dive. needed to memorise every move so were Umbilical cable carrying gas si°n of diving, resting, and he could feel his The other set of papers content. . , ...... __ He would be under pressure for controlling the diving from that, if necessary. farther off. Harrison moved like a A diver's umbilical is his lifeline. communications and the way back blind. p m three or four weeks to ensure the compression complex’s instrument spider back down the narrow It carries his gas supply, com most efficient use of his body board. He half swam, half climbed, tunnel and past the now-empty munications and the hot water once kiwn to the i«terior wall of the it was saturated with the gases he ,But 0T* Friday, November drawer. Battle-damage debris which keeps his suit warm. With- 19, ship, which to him formed a floor. blocked his path. But Harrison out the water, hypothermia would would have to breathe under deep t,lings started to go wrona Harri Somewhere he knew there ought sea compression. He was going s°n ^ resting in tlie comvler estimated there was a gap in it set in within minutes. to be a sliding door. Inside the The gas and radio link enter the Counterweight too deep for the usual oxygen- wflen received a wireless call wreck visibility was not as bad as and guide wires nitrogen mixture. He would have ‘There’s been a blow-haU diver’s helmet, but the part of the ;.v outside. There was the door. to breath oxy-heUum. Cleggie's had his helmet b,own THIS is what the citation for umbilical which carries the water The silt in the ops room’ was loops down to his waist. It was off. Stand by with medical aid ’ undisturbed and he could se« Michael Harrison's Queen's fast on the £21-93 Race so feeas Gallantry Medal said: this loop which was J A MONTH IEXXj.?-V .. - > Harrison sprang to his feet A well. He sat perfectly still b ow-back That meant that some quite . , hanging debris. Harrison enters snip here and memorised the scene before - /C Though working in ex- could not try to exert the Russians of the methane gas had lingered Harrison in slow motion, he lowered himself tremely unpleasant, haz too much force on the life-giving thHe Ube?an' menta'Jy. to go lagging of the0mshm-srew^ V® and his light inside. ardous and dark conditions, umbilical in case he damaged it. thH C0ntent5 of his wash- mixed with oxygen from' had A cloud of fine sediment ob- and despite becoming entan- attempt to he moved. ''IS8 did “t ease the g and shaving kit. He knew cutting gear, ignited causing the He^had ttK* “ ‘ gled on two separate occa co?J?fn^PTenCe that such sma11 miderwater explosion.’ g &n sions with hanging debris, problem, and. as the minut« budt Resetvedive recover two Harrison persevered in the up into an hour. Petty Officer cal dimensions^r^few dlys" be^fatTlûtnP * W°U,d have documents, and retrieve or task, putting himself at Harrison’s anxiety turned to a piece of highly- risk. warn underpressure * been fatal But the special unit’s destroy grave personal naked fear. STEREO YKS 8942. classified equipment. Throughout the operation he There was nothing scientific a showed the very finest about the way he was eventually down into the boweis of the shin him 1C? cord connecting example of skill and cour released. Diver Suckling came just right And, however much you want to His Steam feeat age to his colleagues, which his aid. feeling his complex6 hyperbaric compression nothing butêtemporaiêparalysised Very ^memorising the route as du want ftfaiafiflgSeiP inspired a notable success in way . pay lor your recorder we'll throw in / what was possibly the most )u'd like, 26H=nbrrgh°tnetog°efthaer^mt,?ef dangerous task ever under- several things for free. Tt was an eerie sensation to Hr:“—wê closing days of the Falkland? war Cleoa^nccf^ ?°* help feeling that a Royal Navy mailable, \ U around in a room which lay taken by as big as a TV set in his arr A. blank video tape to aet you SuUVSgL-Wa5 * tS %£9wa*n?nT ““ a" U*COm/0rt- move diving team, His outstand- dfLnoUsee hi? comradeLntil he to return. There- n its side The floor was an the safest man ing professionalism, bravery we apon him. Suckling’s foot fore I should like to volunteer to umbilical became entangiea sr your started. Membership of our Video-at- redictable surface made up of Again he managed to tree of Nato. m dn the whole He stepped out of the bell unp and total disregard for his struck Harrison's head with some return for the final job. ling the Home tape library And the reassuring 300 of different pieces of and return safely to the They were to recover or destmv vkihSfW the wild Atlantic waves, the own safety were in the Harrison's C.O., Lt.-Cmdr. Mike accompli furniture and equipment, some of with his mission back-up of Britain's largest most experi the top secret codeh^w 1 X wa5 not good- Millions of - moved around when highest traditions of the ^For a split second the Petty Kooner. looked carefully at the cryptographic equipment a-Jlny shnmPlike creatures, which had Service. 9 document. Harrison had nearly Last month he was aware ivfce, if enced service network. went down. Officer feared the worst. Then he lay deep in thp ^hich made the water like a hazv Tv the ship ^ like thunder as realised that the blow had loosened died, yet what he was now Queen’s Gallantry Medal f up to So whether you're looking for ocean in the ops' rMms of RriVh fVT' ‘The^ might be a deboacy His hea1^, waited for the silt to his umbilical. suggesting was perfect operational the citation read: Throug h warships sunk durina thP^n^Jr15!1 in .Japan, but they’re a bloody tood and waitea i time he just wide enough for him to slip To Commander operation he showed tn your first video, or gs he s Back in the hyperbaric complex, common sense. a fW, settle. He though °f Worid War through. Harrison worked on the written Kooner it was one of the bravest finest example of sUU ant >oper- perhaps thinking j|| , ..S “«■;£ ‘S“ He went down feet first. At the gestures he had ever seen. He told to his colleagues, wh : * • « had had “iked into the belly of and sketched debriefing document age video of changing to B II bombs suckea and he knew other side he found what he was which his commanding officer Harrison to sleep on it. spired a notable sa“dss ‘ a North Sea dredg now was looking for. The papers were not required before anyone else could was possibly the most da 4 To,s/r gs^srssrsaare The next day Petty Officer task ever undertaken by ; icated a newer model. I » so bulky as before, but they put re-enter the Coventry for the Michael Harrison went down thaLWmore dangerous. hand out of operation for the Navy diving team. s most look in at your L______much m to tne w»u one third vital job. again. In an eight-hour dive he i i r*! ' “is No 'l l' ?lher divers - Cut in the side of destroyer return journey. . th_ His brief ended with these found the vital piece of electronic •His outstanding prof< ■ for All local Radio Rentals WE GOT TO B£ BIGGEST He He poked his head through the words: ‘The situation in there is equipment and managed to and total c eao in the debris. Everything ism. bravery snowroom. BY GIVING OUR BEST. ; rrcfeTên%hTJ D^LTr. IZ- fZtr\%Z ^ seemed*to be going wU- A sense: of very tricky, and knowing your release it from its setting. for his own safety were around it vital. As I am the highest traditions of the J rev* :e.—u ?/ur_-rr. rerjcl peroa 2 rr.^r„'ri w* c c nJ SuiaV tmw SSf e»"*“ relief crept over him as his heaa way On the way back, with the box - ûc.c tinrj. cvj;-.fsyzt. a | . tenant Charles Edwards. The tar- little power at that depth 'S one who has been in. I am axec,. .9%-/2 for.*u6 z 53doiavez jn. cy Ho-ae rorvy Saw. Swir/xr.2u They and then shoulders went through. only the .'PJ- sn r

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an unfriendly atmosphere was by Michael Jones, created”, said one. One of London, and David Luce’s tasks will be to rested Bonavia, Peking confidence in Britain’s pos ition after the Heath row. CONCERN over China’s The Chinese response to intentions yesterday hit the calls to preserve Hong Kong’s Hong Kong dollar, an inter capitalists life-style has been nationally-traded currency, to float the idea of some form following growing fears about of local autonomy with the course of secret Sino-Brit- continued free port status and Daily Telegraph 19 9 83 ish negotiations on the a free-enterprise economy. colony’s future, which resume An assistant Chinese in Peking this week. foreign minister Zhou Nan, The Hong Kong dollar, gave the Financial Times traditionally one of the Peking correspondent a forth 77’~ sn (Jn strongest freely convertible right interview last week, currencies in the world, slid stating that the British side below the pyschologically should lake “a realistic and y Coming-of-age for critical level of eight HK co-operative” attitude and dollars to one US dollar. that China was “determined The fall, blamed entirely on to recover complete sover political fears, leaves the HK eignty and administration of St Kitts and Nevis dollar nearly 33 per cent Hong Kong”. down from its level a year China’s position, he said, By DAVID ADAMSON Diplomatic Correspondent ago, when Mrs Thatcher went to Peking to start the was “unshakeable and firm”. ■RPvlTAlN’s first colony independence. The Opposition negotiations on Hong Kong* Ruling out any British share ' the Caribbean leader, Mr Lee Moore, has in the colony’s future admin in Richard Luce, foreign of istration, he warned against became fully impendent on tb** ifd™ "dence fice minister of state, will visit approaching China “from the at midnight last ui»ht ceiebrations. Hong Kong next Saturday for colonial perceptions of the when Princess Margaiet jhe ncw constitution is a | a first hand report on the 19th century”. handed St Kitts and Nevis “sell-out to British interests” | negotiations with the Chinese, B who made it known publicly British officials in Peking its new constitution which will lead to internal are braced for a hostile The ceremony in Basseterre, strife, he claims, I last week, that they expect to | take complete control when Chinese response this week to capital of the two islands, will British proposals for a con : mark the coming-of-age of the Coalition control | the British lease on nine- | tenths of the colony’s land tinued official presence in the last of the six associated His Labour party won the colony, where more than two States which Britain | area, the New Territories. estab- highest number of votes in the I expires in 1997. million people have the right lished in the West Indies in jggo elections, but a coalition to British-Hong Kong, pass I 1967. of the People’s Action party | Business interests in Hong I Kong are urging the British ports classifying them, as I All were given internal self- and the Nevis Reformation citizens of a British dependent 1 ■ government while Britain re- party gained control of the B side, led by our ambassador | in Peking, Sir Percy Cradock, territory. e | tained responsibility for foreign assembly. So the hand that Confidence inside Hong 1 ! affairs and external defence, will steer the islands into full | to “put some blood on the | carpet”, as an informed Kong was yesterday reported ii The only British possession independence will be that of to be at a low ebb. British and d lefl in the' region atter inday the present Prime Minister, Dr I Peking source put it yester day. Hong Kong government Ii will be the former problem- Kennedv Simmonds. officials have consistently v island of Anguilla, once part Dr Simmonds was largely This, it is argued, would «•> of St Kitts-Nevis. now a British responsible for drafting the leave the Chinese in no doubt refused to answer Chinese r Dependent Territory. new constitution agreed in Lon about the economic dangers reports about the Peking I don in December 1982. Under . they face if business confi negotiations. i 45,000 population it, Nevis gets its own legisla- dence collapses in Hong “People here want re-assur „ ... . c tive assembly and a larger Kong, where Communist ance”, Tim Eggar, Conserva i St Kitts, the largest of the sjiare 0f seats in the federal China earns one third of its tive MP for Enfield North, I two islands, was discovered by parliament than it would if Mr said in Hong Kong yesterday. Columbus in 149o and colonised Moore had had his way. annual overseas earnings in \ trading financed by the local Despite Peking’s increa c by the British 30 years later The 1980 eiecti0n ended ?o singly forceful line, Mrs The occupation was challenged vears 0f Labour domination dollar. c by the French, but the British :,nd Mr Moore fears things An unexpected blow to Thatcher has not conceded s established their rule and have j^ay stav that way. Hong Kong confidence was British sovereignty over Hong i delivered by the former prime Kong island and the Kowloon remained there since. With sugar prices poor, the peninsula, which Together, the two islands island is likely to face con- minister Edward Heath, who were cover just over 100 square tinned economic problems. But paid a stopover visit last week Granted to Britain in per miles and have a population of Britain is supplying £10 mil- after meeting the Chinese petuity under a treaty the about 45,000. Sugar lias always lion in aid and there are hopes leader, Deng Xiaoping in Chinese have long ceased to been the main industry. that the Americans will pro- Peking. accept. Not everyone is happy with vide help. Heath stormed out of a Hong Kong passports have private dinner with members recently been stamped with a of the colony’s executive and new warning that the colony’s legislative councils, leaving residents have no automatic his food untouched. Council right to settle in Britain. A members said Heath lacked loophole exists in the new any understanding of the British Nationality Act giving feeling of Hong Kong people the home secretary power to about their future. issue United Kingdom pass “He appeared to pay no ports to public servants - heed to what we were saying estimated at about 250,000 and sounded so pompous that people with dependents.

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WINDS FUN HEN the boat comes in the Folk- lands1 prettiest recruits know that party-time is over. The recruits are 19 girls from the Women’s Royal Army Corps on duty in the South Atlantic. They are stationed on From JUDITH STARES S board a ship moored in Stanley harbour. in Port Stanley Nearly every night they are invited by the troops to pin all the invitations on ashore for a get-together. a notice-board so that they Just like Cinderella the fun can each choose which to comes to an end at mid accept.” night — and woe betide Lance Corporal Dawn anyone who misses the boat Parker, 22, warned: “We are which takes them back to used to being outnumbered their floating base. by men ... and we are used The girls — all in their to looking after each other. twenties were chosen “So far there have beer; from over 100 volunteers. no serious romances.” As Di They are working as clerks, put it: “Four months is cooks, couriers, and mail hardly long enough to form sorters on a four-month a steady relationship.” tour of duty. Their arrival has been a Naturally enough, their mammoth morale booster arrival has delighted the for the lads. 4,500 lads stationed on the Falklands govemer, Sir Islands. Rex Hunt, said: “Send The WRAC’s command more girls over as soon as ing oflicer, Captain Di Fos possible—it’s lovely to see ter, 29, said: “I have started them around.” Fun timi the girls set off on o night out

- -Vl*| ms truth on VsV- Belggano attack Ffcfei HHS-S «Wch werein the rrSddte of forts to the Peru- MftKeeM t?ne «uiser After refuelling, the ships Pu“<= Wiy headed by an above right BeIs:ran0' set off in a westerly direc- JudSe- -Tam Daly. rir.IT. tlon towards their home ell> MP, House of Commons > Lewlrl was. totaUy R°rt- Conqueror spent BTHIS reader could not misleading when he said the rest of Saturday trailing disagree more. of the force discreetly at nWould it have bepn S^ay May 2 the British 10,000 yards. All this was tir hour carrtem Scible' juUs“rteS0Thave got E™ *° L°nd0n at the Hermes had SSSk

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~~Six guilty men blamed~~

for Falklands invasion ARGENTINA’S top inves Port Stanley, the focal target of tigating general says political ARTHUR#J GAVSHON, . mt examines... . the>.. .. any landing force, was said to be misjudgments, strategic evidence of Argentine blunders that understandable. Beyond Port Stanley, however, Menendez blunders and operational ______led to a costly military defeat was wrong in spreading his incompetence cost his coun- g-sas fcX1:; sszysgssi

bach, president of a six-memb«r sKsffis-aathe importance Washington Falklands venture with forces ssj&upswherever it might appear, military commission which attached to Argentine friend- equipped, trained and armed to Menendez is also attacked tor examined the origins and con- ship, as compared to that of fight only an extremely limited a fadure to keep in close touch duct of the war with Britain, Britain local conflict, not to take on the ™th his forces, a failure l|p names four military men and Costa Mendez’s starting- forces of a leadingpower. leiimfa two Ministers as the culprits point had ^ that Argentine Another miscalculation was to that he needed greater air and o mainly responsible for the inya- fandings would compe) Britain believe that the islands could be ” ?lSi° sion of 2 April 1982 and the t0 begin negotiating seriously defended primarily with the ensure better logistical back military defeat. over sovereignty, but he was land forces committed to them. UP- , . A He does so in a signed report, wrong. He failed to warn the With the fleet confined to hame In the economic sector, Ale- yet to be endorsed by other junta, after the final decision to waters and mainland-based mann was condemned tor members of his commission who invade on or about 23 March, combat planes at the limit of clamping down too slowly on represent each arm of the three that London was not interested their range, it became inevitable the release of funds from Argen- services, and he recommends in negotiating and the situation the initiative would belong to tma and on frying too late to military and civilian trials for ^ bound to worsen, and he the British. secure the release of Argentine those on whom he fastens continued to disregard the flexi- Complicating this strategic funds m London. Alemann nad blame. bihty of modem concepts of error were the lack of co- no warning of the mvasion until The men Rattenbach finds sovereignty. ordination, the tactical dif- it happened and needed tone to guilty include former President The criticisms against Costa ferences and political rivalries of arrange for proper control of the Leopoldo Galtieri, who was also Mendez were applicable equally the three Argentine services. country's economic weii-oeing. Army Commander-in-Chief; to the junta itself, which bore Operationally, Admiral Anaya Turning to psychological war- Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya; the final responsibility for and the Navy High Command fare> the reP°*L„c^?,!fi?* Brigadier-General Basilio Lami foreign policy. The advice of the are criticised for assuming that Dozo; General Mario Menden- Foreign Minister need not have the bombardment of Argentine .e n^n^’tinn nf dez, briefly ‘ Governor ’ of the been accepted. positions on the islands by the f.^daeUN Malvinas; former Foreign As to strategy, a cardinal British Task Force was a L^^Scilded?ionfora Mimster Nicanor Costa Men- blunder was the junta’s failure prelude to a full-scale counter- ^thcWval from the islands or dez; and Minister for Economic to realise it could not carry on invasion. That was the only prevent the media from Affairs Roberto Alemann. running the country’s day-to- time the Argentine fleet was pub}ishing exaggerated versions The commission’s report is day affairs and the war simul- deployed to attack. Argentine military successes due to go to each branch of the taneously. It should have turned When it became clear the or failures, V armed services for possible over its functions as Task Force operation was only a -pbe military men identified action by courts martial. commander-in-cHief to a special ploy or test, the Argentine fleet ^ Rattenbacn as ‘guilty’ of The catalogue of complaints War Cabinet under its own withdrew to home waters for the Argentina are recom- a-gainst the Argentine leadership overall command; in that way rest of the war, transforming mencjed for trial by courts set forth by Rattenbach begins much of the disorder and lack of profoundly the Argentine martial or other ways. In the with the period preceding the co-ordination could have been capacity to counter-attack. cases 0f Costa Mendez, Ale- invasion. He breaks down his avoided. This withdrawal affected mann and other civilians, civil criticisms into five main fields: Initially the assault on the Argentine Air Force operations trials are recommended, political, strategic, operational, Falklands had the limited aim of because, coming on top of inter- Whether or not the Ratten-; economic and psychological. forcing the British to negotiate force rivalries, it meant the bach recommendations will be In the political field, he says seriously; when it failed to airmen went on fighting the war accepted by a junta about to Costa Mendez failed to alert the achieve that objective, the as if it was their own. Defence of yield power to the first elected iunta to the probable interna- three-man junta found itself the islands was thus seriously Argentine government since the tional consequences of the use of without any coherent defensive compromised. 1976 coup hasyet to be decided, force to capture the Falklands. strategy. While the offensive General Menendez is cnti- Early trials could influence the According to Rattenbach, Costa phase of the campaign had been cised by Rattenbadi for his electoral outcome and later ones Mendez was ill-infomed about relatively well planned, the defence of the islands. His could embarrass an in-coming the likely nature of British and more difficult defensive phase concentration on the defence of government.

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I Daily Telegraph 17 9 83 HIGH WAGES ^ FALKLANDS ‘GAVE J..,; ■- 1 FOR AIRPORT THATCHER EXTRA ‘TASK’ FORCE By GERALD BARTLETT ^pHE first construction VIGOUR TO EXCEL’ gangs recruited to build the Government’s By COLIi\ RANDALL h// £215 million long-range strategic airport in the TAEMANDS of the Falklands crisis gave Mrs Falklands, sail from Avon- ^ Thatcher extra reserves of strength cmouth a week on Monday on board the transporter which let her excel herself, the Prime Minister :• ship Merchant Providence, 14,000 tons. tells Viscount Tonypandy, the former Speaker, r Together with plant, mater in a television interview to be screened on v ials. equipment and prefabric ated cabivs, they are expected Monday. to reach East Falkland in mid- S October. “ it was the most concentrated period ot my life,” More construction teams are she says in the Harlech TV programme to be screened expected to sail several days later, aboard the Cunard pas in Wales. “ I can only say you are given strength senger ferry England, 8,000 ______sufficient for the hour. f. tons. do better than youri OPERATION CLEAN UP you A spokesman for the con- best.” l struction consortium, Laing, Carpet slippers * Mowlem and Amey Roadstone Mrs Thatcher says that Corporation, said last night Patrick Watts in Port Stanley that most of the men will be on writes: Another attempt will be she never expected to 14-month contracs. made this weekend to bring the encounter such an expe civilian and military populations Bubble wages of Stanley together to clean up rience. the town. Previous planned She adds: “ I could not think The consortium regarded the missions have not proved as the Argentines would invade men’s wages “ as strictlv con successful as the organisers the Falklands, such an absurd fidential ” but union officials and totally wrong thing to do. expect them to be earning would have liked. ‘‘bubble wages” which could The remains of the war. stil “ But then it happened and be anything up to three or four evident in some areas, and huge every single cell in one’s body, times the usual rate for crafts quantities of mud, will be the every single fibre of one’s men and labourers. priorities during the clean up. , being, became concentrated on Quantity surveyors and With the frost and snow giving the problems that arose and senior civil engineers are likely way to drier weather, it is getting decisions right and in to command salaries of about hoped that once again Stanley’s the right order.” streets will be clean enough to £30,000 to £35.000. Their " pack walk “ in carpet slippers,” as She recalls the time of the age deal ” will include accom San Carlos landing when, in modation and meals, and free was die boast in pre-conflict the interests of preserving dom from tax if they spend a secrecy, She conducted a full year abroad. day of constituency and other Craftsmen, like bricklayers PENSIONS PLEA engagements rather than arouse and carpenters, whose guaran suspicion by cancelling at the teed minimum wage at home is last minute. £07-50 will earn nearer £300 a „ FOR SERVICE week, with food and accommodation found. Serious note They will all get a 25 per WIDOWS Mrs Thatcher’s recollections * cent .tax reduction for working By Our Health Services strike the most serious notes of outside Britain for more than Correspondent an otherwise light and relaxed 30 consecutive days. The first Better pensions for the interview, the first of a series 100 workers have been drawn widows of Servicemen killed ojV entitled “ George Thomas in exclusively from within the active service have been urged Conversation." ranks of the three-company by the Royal British Legion at consortium. a meeting with Lord Glenarthur, An average of 1,000 men are Parliamentary Secretary at the expected to be on site in the Department of Health and SURRENDER PACT Falklands at any one time, with Social Security. a maximum of 1,400 workers The legion is seeking par STILL MISSING in June next year. ticularly more help for 1939-45 War widows who receive only . A search by the Ministry of r the DHSS pension of £42*70 Defence has still failed to find a week. Mr Michael Day. pen the Falklands war surrender GALE (DELAYS ‘ ARK ’ sions secretary, said: “There document signed in Port Stanley By Our Shipping Correspondent are some 2,000 war widows on June 14 last year. claiming supplementary bene- i 4 ' A force 12 gale in the Bay of The Ministry has declined to fit. 1 say where the flimsy typed Biscay has delayed the Dina “They are the wives of men Khalef so her sailing date as who gave their lives in the ser document is normally kept or “the Falklands ark,” carrying vice of their country and. we when it was last seen. A spokes- livestock from Poole to Port have told the Minister that it man said yesterday that the Stanley next week, will have to was not good enough that their “ appropriate department ” was be postponed. still trying to fii:d it. incomes are so low that they M ______have to depend on supplemen tary benefit.” T

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~~Dalyell 19.9.83 \ ‘making Om -i poses new nuclear~~

Belgrano bomb’ From GEORGE GORDON In New York question A CIA report contends that Argentina is about to divert a ton of processed uranium to build a nuclear bomb. by chris McLaughlin Even more alarming, says the report, is that Argentina A FURTHER contradiction in of is openly and legally building ficial statements over the sinking of a range of nuclear installa tions that are not subject to the Argentine cruiser the General international safeguards and Belgrano has been uncovered by Inspections. Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP for Earlier this year there were Linlithgow. reports that Argentina would Dalyell cites “reliable”, firsthand be ready to explode a nuclear device in October. Argentina British sources who have told him denied it had any military that the submarine HMS Conqueror nuclear programme. watched the cruiser refuelling at sea »'*a 'i at a distance of only 4,000 yards Tighten 24 hours before it was sunk. The latest report says there Both the government’s initial is a plan to divert treated ura statement and i!s white paper on the nium from a West German- Fsikiands conflict stated that the built plant that carries out one of the processes for making cruiser was first sighted on May 2 — nuclear fuel. statements contradicted by the Con The diversion, say the spy queror’s commander, who is on agencies, could be buried as a record as admitting he had shad book-keeping error. owed the cruiser for 30 hours before Now there are calls for the United States to tighten con receiving orders to sink it. ditions under which Argentina' In a speech in Sunderland this is supplied with heavy water. week Dalyell asked why the govern Argentina is one of the most ment had waited a day, until May 2, advanced nuclear energy pro to sink the Belgrano after it had been ducers which does not have the bomb. It mines uranium steaming for some time in the direc from, its own reserves. tion of its home port. Dalyell repeated his persistent claim that the sinking was ordered Falkknds anger by premier Margaret Thatcher to A MEETING with Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine scupper the Peruvian peace initia is being sought by the tive which would, if agreed, have re 28,000-strong Merchant Navy quired the recall of the task force. and Airline Officers Associa tion to discuss policies for contracts to the Falklands— there is anger over charters Guardian 17 9 83 going to foreign ships.

~~Argentinian is refused citizenship~~

refusediiSli naturalisation bv the saidllsi that no one would be re- iii®have kept clear of the courts. Home Office and denied an fused naturalisation because In 1S81 218 people were explanation they were Argentinian and denied citizenship on the Dr Ronaldo Munck, a lec- that six Argentinians had been grounds that they were not of r^rttMS SW-tSSMStt & according to {naynborbbecauesehheiwa1rfus: l°n™ “ inSU“al ^ ^further elf were rejected pended from Essex University Successive governments have for failing residence or English q month in 1975 for help- argued against an objective language tests, or becase the ' fna tn organise a student rent public test for naturalisation. Home Office thought they i strike. organise a sluaent reru ^e green paper which pre- might not continue living here.

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Falklands TV disclaimer Argentina will By John Ezard The company’s defence was Thames Television has that the atrocity was not pre bowed to pressure and agreed sented as genuine to insert a disclaimer in a con- But the Falkland office was clear the way troversial play for school- worried that the programme’s children which features a expected audience of 250,000 claim that Falklands civilians children would be given the committed an atrocity by kill- impression it was true when ing captured Argentine cons- the play is shown, to secure loan cripts during last year’s Mr John Stanley, Minister of conflict. State for the Armed Forces, is From Jeremy Morgan earlier this week asked for a The disclaimer will stress to still due to consider a corn- in Buenos Aires delay of “ at least 30 days ” on children that all events re- plaint from Ministry of De ferred to in the play, A Game fence officials about teachers’ Of Soldiers, are fictitious. This notes for the programme which promise has been made in a refer to the Army’s presence Jl^anutbeanchangebsy iTcontrc5- talking about. declaring Argen- letter from Mr Bryan Cowgill, in Northern Ireland as “a .1 versial bankruptcy laws that Pna- in default, Thames managing director. war.’’ have blocked further funds The consequences of that from creditors. The changes would have been big penalty announced by the Commission payments and accumulating m- for Assessment of Legislation terest on the foreign debt total came as Argentina wobbled on and perhaps later, moves to the brink of default on a cru- freeze Argentina’s overseas cial step in rescheduling for- assets in lieu of payment, eign debts now estimated at An unexpected delay by the Post for Salt almost S40 billion. International Monetary Fund a But even then, the commis- in disbursing a S324.5 million Captain Sam Salt, aged 43, sion an appointed body that “standby” tranche due after who commanded the destroyer fine-tunes legislation in the the second quarter of this year HMS Sheffield, which was sunk absence of an elected Congress prompted speculation that the in the Falklands last year, has under military rule, did not world agency was also bringing been appointed an assistant issue details of its decision. pressure on the regime tor chief of staff to the Com Although it was thought a changes in the law. mander in Chief Fleet at decree from President Re- The government had resisted Northwood, Middlesex. ynaldo Bignone putting the months of pressure from over- new regulations into force seas creditors, who said that would be a formality, local Article Four of the Bankruptcy bankers said they were not code effectively discriminated sure the modifications met all against them in favour of their demands. domestic creditors. A group of over 300 overseas with official reserves dwindl- banks had held up payment of jng rapidjy as grain export re- tb'* first $500 million install- venues go into seasonal n^^ of the five-year syndi- the government faced cated $1.5 billion loan agreed a deteriorating external econ- last month until the bank- omy couid only add to a ruptcy code was modified. mounting crisis at home. The new credit was needed . . for a $300 million repayment Although the government Hup vMterdav on the $11 bil- claims that wages rose in real lion “bridge loan” secured by terms during the past. year, a the Argentines from more or crippling inflation rate offi- less the same banks late last daily estimated at 335 per cent ■vear has Provlded a mountlinS wave The Argentine government of strikes.

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~~■ THE TIMES FINANCIAL TIMES 16.9.83 16.9.83~~

dockyard that has principally en Future of Gibraltar abled Gibraltar to survive the economic blockade, because it is a Argentine junta From Mr Robert J. Peliza, MHA large part of the economic base with Sir, It is gratifying to read m your whjch Spanish Government editorial, “Friendship with Spain cannot interfere. (September 8): that “Britain cannot naval dockyard is to be ('• and should not transfer sovereignty replaced by a commercial ship repair attempts to end in Gibraltar against the will of its yard< Ominously, no suitable oper- people”. ators have been found who are France initiated and the sub- prepared to invest one penny in the ‘ sequent governments of Spain have venture. This is not surprising in the 3 • continued an economic war on the depressed state of the ship-repair * debt deadlock 20,000 Gibraltarians on the Rock industry and the obvious likelihood with the application of damaging cf fierce Spanish competition, fair or R BY JAME5 BURNS IN BUENOS AIRES restrictions at the land frontier, unfair, from severely under-em- ARGENTINA’S military legisla- Under the old bankruptcy airspace and bay, which no British pi0yed yards near by to ensure nve commission has approved law Celulosa’s foreign creditors : government has deterred by taking failure. the draft of a new bankruptcy could wait up to 15 years before similar retaliatory actions. It is on this apparently commer- modifies existing dis- retrieving the $100m in debts The last and most damaging has dally unsound and certainly politi- criminations against foreign owed to them, been the partial opemng of the insecure venture that the creditors, The new law is understood border. These economic sanctions defence of the will of the British The move, made under to accept in broad terms that are intended to force the Gibralta- pe0ple of Gibraltar now much intense pressure... from .the discrimination should end, rians to renounce British sover- depends. It would be ironical if Mrs Economy Ministry, and against although the commission has cif ■>% Thatcher, the proud defender of the the wishes of military hard- refused to give any details. the biggest blow so far to Falkland Islands, should, no doubt Gibraltar is the closure of the naval unintentionally, pave the way for te Foreign bankers' reactions to icks’>°q'^r rclfiml the move were mixecl- Some dockyard by the end of 1984, as the British surrender of the Rock of $ <£26m> described it as “positive” but finally decided last July by Mrs Gibraltar. Thatcher herself, against the unam- . . : Linto eHnu the majority were cautious as rAvmrinlSi they waited for clarification and mous view of the Gibraltar House of Yours faithfully. > afternoon Argentina remained th * , , signature bv Assembly, expressed in a motion ROBERT J. PEL1ZA, technically in breach of its loan Argentine President Renaldo passed in February this year. House of Assembly’ obligation. Some foreign banks Bi|none- In theory; President It is the income derived from Gibraltar, ™re 'U|jva!Urlg fo!' ?. dfnl; Bilnone must consult with the employment provided by the naval September 9. tion of the law and its final mjmg military junta and has up • signature before agreeing fo a t0 10b d before taking the 3May extension of a waiver on fina, decisl0n the repayment of $300m. ‘"We've seen draft laws The deadline for the repay- approved by the commission meat expired yesterday morn- before and in the end nothing ing after Argentina told foreign happened.” commented an banks it was unable to repay official of the Royal Bank of the first tranche of a $l.lbn Canada, one of Celulosa’s main bridging loan because re- creditors, scheduling arrangements had He said the last amendment been delayed by the test case of the bankruptcy law in June of the bankrupt private sector had been approved by the paper manufacturer Celulosa commission but had eventually Argentina. never been signed. THE TIMES

DIARY DAILY TELEGRAPH Mag-nificat 16.9.83 Any thought that the Conservatives intend eschewing Falklands victories at their centenary gathering in Blackpool, incidentally, are firmly dispelled by the choice of hymn for the NAVY APPOINTMENT religious service at its inception. The Capt Sam Salt, 43, who com hymn is Rejoice, The Lord is King. manded the destroyer SheTaeld, This is the one that has the lines: “Lift sunk by an Argentine Exocet up your heart, lift up your voice; missile in the Falkland* war, Rejoice, again I say, rejoice”, at the has been appointed an assistant end of every verse. chief of staff to the Commander- in-Chief Fleet at Northwood, Middx.

McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Adairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 the elections in October and then go on to new elections Bittel as acting party leader playing a similar game. Miguel with la senora Per6n as our candidate.’ Menem, one of the was able to engineer the outcome of the party congress in few who would make every move dependent on Isabel such a way as to leave little doubt in anyone’s mind that the Peron’s decisions, clearly represented a minority. Peronist party is run by the union leaders. The selection of the Luder-Bittel ticket gives the The balance sheet with little more than amonth to go Peronists the most acceptable candidates it could have before polling day reads as follows: wished for. Moderate non-Peronist sectors heaved a sigh of □ The Luder-Bittel ticket holds together the Peronist vote relief at the nomination, underlining the candidates’ and might even gain non-Peronist support.* non-sectarian approach and the measured tone of their □ The ticket is the best Peronism could offer the military. statements in the lead-up to the congress. the industrialists and even the bankers: Luder has a good Yet beyond the personalities of the candidates a ‘presidential’ image and Bittel has proved his ability to moreimportant question has begun to emerge. Who wields reconcile the many divergent interests of a mass party. real power within the Peronist party? Luder’s strategy has while maintaining excellent relations with the multiparti- been one on avoiding confrontations by not aligning himself daria. Unlike Luder, he does not have a union background, with any of the internal factions. Bittel was equally careful so he ‘balances out’ the ticket in his dual capacity as a in his handling of the party’s internal affairs. But the true representative of ‘political’ Peronism and a man from the architect of the party’s pre-election campaign was Lorenzo interior (he hails from the northeastern province of Chaco). i Miguel, shielded behind his oft-made statement that ‘the 62 □ The advantages of these devlopments have one Organizaciones do not support any candidate; it is up to the drawback: growing unease about the rise ot union power, party congress to decide.’ both among so-called ‘independents’ and among the parties Miguel frequently underlined his loyalty to Isabel Peron and groups of the left. This disquiet was heightened by the and made a public show of leaving it up to her to decide way the unions rode roughshod over Antonio Cafiero’s whether and when she would return to Argentina. This previously agreed nomination as gubernatorial candidate in * approach disarmed the verticalistas. who appeared as trying Buenos Aires province, to put their own man. Herminio to manipulate Isabel Peron for their own purposes. With Iglesias, on the ticket. □

~~dukJe to the October elections~~

Elections in Argentina Will be held on 30 October. □ Alianza Federal: Membership uncertain as There are 17!9m registered voters,'48% of whorrv alliances, are still'being sorted out. Francisco are conceriirhted^hrihe/'dapital’arTd the1 Greater Maririque-Guillermo Belgrano Rawson. Buenos Aires- area::'The'largestvsingle electoral Q Movimlento de Integracibn y Desarrollo: district is the province;of. Buenos; Aires, with 6.4m; 145,000 members. Rogelio Frigerio-Antonio Sa- voters, followed by4be.capital.:With 2,3m,.Santa Fe Ionia. .; province with. 1:.7m.vand;vG^rdob3..province with □.Partido Intransigente: 81,000 members. Oscar 1.6m. Some 5.6 mwriters:(31%' of the total) are., ^Alende-Lisandro Viale. registered members of political parties: over 3m □ Rente, de Izquierda Democratica: (Alliance of are Peronists and 1:5m are Radicals (in the the'Partidd.’Sodialista Democrritico, with 39.000 province- of Corrientes: .286! 103’ peopfe; 64% of - members,; arid the Partido' Dembcrata Progre- the electorate, rare :vregistered;:party )members).'* sista^'with 53,000). Rafael Martinez Raymonda- v*: .•: One unknown quarJtity:;isithe:b.ehaviouf:Of'th.a2m Renb Balestra. Argentines, wriodeft,itheFederal),.-Apart from □ Partido Socialists Popular: 60,500 members the two top jobs, the electorate will also select Guillermo Estevez Boero-Edgardo Rossi, people to cover some 3,000 executive and Party membership is correct for the 30 April legislative jobs. deadline established by the electoral law for party An updated line-up) Jfor the elections (indicating registration. Many have continued their member- • party strength and ticket)'Tollows: M ship drives since then. The Communists, for □ Peronists: Over 3m registered'party members. example, now claim a membership of 200.000. Italo Argentino •Luder-Deolindb Bitte'l. :' Totals for the two largest parties have not varied □ Radicalsr-I^Sm-'memb'ers^Raui' Alforisiri-Vfctor- much, as they conducted massive affiliation Martfnez. .'•■•• W • - drives very early. □ ■>: /fi’j -V‘:

~~LATIN AMERICA WEEKLY REPORT WR-83-36, 16 September 1983 11 Daily Express 15.9.83~~

I 1 LIFE In th© Falk- —1 lands is hardly a bed of roses for our stout* hearted Civil Cominls-_ ___ sioner, SIE REX HUNT. First, someone stole the heraldic crown off th© London taxi which Is his official transport. Now I learn poor old Rex has gone down with gout. He Is taking pills. “At least I’m not as bad as GEN ERAL MENENDEZ,” sav: Rex. “ He left behind hundreds of pills. The man was obviously a hypocondriac.”

~~» Daily Mail 16.9.83~~

By Defence Correspondent on firing ranges In Cyprus only always ready for any eventuality. and will then be used as a train a short flight from trouble-torn There are no plans to send them ing ship before being sold for NEARLY 1,000 Royal Lebanon. to the Lebanon at the moment. wrap or to a foreign navy. And although there Is no In ‘But their presence in Cyprus In Beirut, Lebanese Air Force Marines were on their way will leave another option open fighters flew low over the city in to the Mediterranean last tention of using the Marines or Hermes to Increase Britain's to the politicians.’ a display of strength aimed at night aboard the aircraft Involvement In the area, their Hermes will have a full com driving rebel militiamen from carrier Hermes, flagship of presence on the Island will pliment of helicopters and their mountain stronghold. clearly bo a factor in pushing ammunition but no Harriers. Five Hawker Hunters swept In the Falklands Task Force. She will anchor off Cyprus In Just before dawn. the warring faotions towards a screamed on The Marines will take part In settlement. about ten days after taking part The planes a major NATO exercise called Last night a Navy spokesman In the NATO operation. towards the nearby Chouf moun Display Determination, Involv In Plymouth said the carrier’s It will be the last cruise for the tains, from where Leftist Moslem ing 250,000 troops and dozens of visit to Cyprus was purely a co Navy’s largest ship. The 23,900- Druze guerillas have been shell ships. incidence. ton carrier will put Into Devon- ing Beirut for two weeks. But they will spend some days He addedi ‘Royal Marines are port for a refit when she returns Rest for CO—Page FOUR

~~Daily Mail Daily Mail 16.9.83 16.9.83~~

Army to Captain’s move CAPTAIN Sam Salt, 43, Who commanded the destroyer Sheffield which was sunk* In march the Falklands conflict, last year, has been appointed an Assistant Chief of Staff to the Commander in C/iief Fleet at Northwood, Middle sex. hoots THE Army has ordered new waterproof boots for its long-suffering foot soldiers. The footwear is being rushed into service following complaints during the .Fal£: lands campaign about the old leather boots. And Army chiefs— have called for special aerated inner soles to help prevent trench and athletes foot Meanwhile the first issue of new socks—described as warm and comfortable — will bo made to the Queens Own Highlanders next week. THE GUARDIAN Thursday September 15 19S3

~~| Advance guard of Falkland~~

~~airport builders all set~~

By John Ezard workers when they reach the There, the construction has brought charges that Mrs Falklands next month will be workers—numbering 1,000 on Thatcher’s Government is The. first, 100, construction. , . to moor a jetty ship and build average and 1,400 at peak— merely creating a white ele- workers out of an eventual in- a gaêy bridge to get equip- many of them Scots, Geordie phant which will eventually vasion force of 1,400 leave Bri- ment ashore without proper and Irish—will live in relative have to be given away to tain later this month to start harbours. Then they will have isolation for up to two and a Argentina, The Labour Party thp nioneer Dhase of building to lay an eight-kilometre road half years until they have has protested bitterly about the Government’s £215 million to reach the airport site, where created an airport with an the contractors plan to use long-ran°e airport on the Falk- thev will set up an prefabri- 8,500-ft main runway. This will Cape Town as a staging point land Iânds.1^011 cated town in the wilds, de- be capable of rapidly reinforc- for men and materials. rnU - /HcoirtcoH \n signed for a popultion only ing the Falklands garrison by Salt was lubbed into this tT Jhf6nrPri°hr^tSCtimP vester- slightly smaller than that of wide-bodied jets in emergen- gru®''afnhc® Q amhj? tail for the first time yester , p,aib-ianf]c pine anri nf nrnvidin^ a regular when the South African ambas- day, emerges as one of the the Falklands. c es and °tfr0Po«sVlshStfe toS sador to Argentina, Mr David biggest, most arduous and The township will include a (VnmRritain P Tothill. told journalists that costly ever undertaken abroad, hospital, a 3,000 square metre irr“ D ‘ v ... . two airport contracts had gone It involves not only shipping a recreation unit, a chapel, a In lê latest r aiKiana t0 goutb African firms. But minimum of 250,000 tonnes of library, restaurants and bars, Islands Association newsletter, was categorically denied t building material and and insulated, double-glazed the project has aroused hopes yesterday by the Property Ser- machinery 8,000 miles from walkways to repel what the of air links with Australia and vjces Agency, which is manag- ! Britain but quarrying 600,000 construction consortium of New Zealand, of tourism, and jng the project for the 5 tonnes of rock and sand in dif- Laing, Mowlem and ARC call of an improved economic Ministry of Defence. The ; ficult conditions on the Falk- “the notorious Falklands future stretching well into the agency said that contractors lands. weather ” from the site south- next century. had carried out to the letter The first task of the pioneer west of Port Stanley. From British left-wingers it an order not to handle con-

tracts with South Africa. ject’s cargo from ships to land. IS “ operatives ” ; eight blocks Most of the workforce will The scale of the operation is each housing 16 “junior execu be flown to Cape Town, then shown by the equipment tives ”: seven blocks each shipped to the Falklands on bought from one company housing eight “senior execu the Cunard passenger ferry, alone, British Leyland 52 tives”; 10 i{family villas”; England. The urgency with trucks, a “ Landtrain ” truck and two “ management villas.” which the Government is in capable of carrying 65 tonnes, The airport terminal will, in sisting that the project remains and an even heavier truck with itially at least, be “ basic and on schedule is demonstrated by a 100-ton capacity. unsophisticated ” with some the fact that the England was Britain’s depressed construc housing for permanent staff. chartered only this week but, tion industry has so far gener The workforce’s last job will has been told to sail before ated more than 9,000 be to build a 45-kilometre road October 1. applications for the project from the airport site at Mount Simultaneously, the 14.000- workforce, who are called Pleasant into Port Stanley. ton transporter ship, Merchant “ operatives ” in consortium Until this is finished the Providence, will leave Avon- documents. Most are on 14- workforce will face a mouth, carrying the first of the month contracts, with paid discouragingly long yomp if materials and equipment, as leave in Britain halfway they wish to relax and carouse well as prefabricated cabins through. Few will be allowed among the 900 residents of for the pioneer camp. At her to bring wives. Port Stanley. It is in these cir destination, Mare Harbour on A social pecking order cumstances of isolation in a re East Falkland, she will be used among the workforce has mote place for months at a as a floating, roll-on roll-off ter emerged in blueprints for their time that the pecking order for minal with a 130-tonne derrick township. They will be 40 acco accomodation is likely to be for transferring all the pro- modation blocks each housing come important.

~~McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 THE TIMES THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1983~~

Hongkong: a scrap of paper in the making? Peking It is also possible that Peking would Chinars latest and most detailed Peking’s proposals look reasonable enough want the fiiture Hongkong to have a proposals for the future of Hongkong more rigorous censorship, if only to/ should help the colony’s present today, writes David Bonavia, but clamp down on the influence of the economy recovery - but there are West and Taiwan, especially on young grounds for worry that Peking’s liberal there can be no guarantee it will stick to people in China. approach may not last long once it has them after sovereignty is transferred Particularly questionable is the issue regained sovereignty. The 10-point of nationality. Many Hongkong proposals, leaked to pro-Peking for complacency. Tibet, Inner Mongo- assembly are guaranteed already by the residents are in effect stateless, newspapers in Hongkong despite Mrs lia and Xinjiang have never expert- Chinese constitution, but in practice travelling abroad on government- Thatcher’s insistence on “confidentia enced the autonomy promised them in do not exist in China. Nor does the issued certificates of identity. Others lity”, envisage Hongkong carrying on the constitution, and important right to strike, have “British dependent territory” as usual after the transfer date - matters concerning their administ- The future mayor or administative citizenship, but this does not entail the probably 1997 - while formal matters ration are still decided primarily in head of Hongkong, should be a right to work or reside in the UK. Only concerning the constitutional frame Peking. local person and “a patriot who is for a small number, perhaps 10,000, have work, defence and foreign affairs In Hongkong, of course, the China’s reunification and the recovery full UK citizenship. The others will would be controlled by Peking. situation is different, in the sense that of China’s sovereignty over Hongkong, presumably become citizens of the Astonishingly enough, it is reliably a large degree of liberal government, if and enjoys high prestige among the People’s Republic automatically in understood that this proposal has not no longer actually laissez - faire, is people, but not necessarily one on the 1997, because there would no longer even been raised yet at the Anglo- needed to keep generating the foreign left or who advocates socialism”, be a dependent territory of Hongkong. Chinese talks here, which have focused currency for whose sake China has Persistent reports have told of China Social reform, the Chinese proposal on starting positions and procedure. tolerated a British colony on its wanting to appoint a mainland official states, would be left to Hongkong However, its official nature from the doorstep for so long. as deputy mayor of Hongkong, people to implement, and Chinese Chinese point of view is beyond doubt. To look on the bright side, China is although this also has apparently not officials would not be sent in to It seems a generous offer, consider- offering Hongkong almost complete been put before the British delegation exercise authority. ing the difficulties China could still internal autonomy, continuation of its at the talks in Peking, However, it does seem likely that make for Britain and Hongkong if it capitalist system and way of life, Those who choose to stay in units of the People’s Liberation Army chose. Closer analysis shows that none freedom of expression and the issue of Hongkong after 1997, or who have no will be stationed in Hongkong after of the present freedoms enjoyed by travel documents. other place to go, would have to take reversion of sovereignty and the Hongtoce people would be exempt Nevertheless, the mechanisms for China’s good intentions on trust, departure of the British garrison. The from ^Jolilion by the Chinese Peking to make changes in Hongkong although nobody today can have the highly modem police force may be re- government once the handover took would still be there. For instance, faintest idea what the membership and recruited - at any rate those of the place. Agreements with Britain over Hongkong would be allowed to keep policies of the Chinese government force not by then granted permission Hongkong can effectively cover only “all its. present laws except those parts will be 14 years from now. to live in Britain. A few British the transfer, because no British which are in contradiction with Trends in China point towards a officials and experts may be retained government would be able to raise a Chinese sovereignty over the region." continuation of right-leaning econ- on individual contracts. But the finger if understandings about Hong- This is a big loophole, for sophistry omic reform, bringing industrial renewal of the New Territories lease, kong’s future status were disregarded can usually prove any capitalist management and agricultural pro- with an invitation to Britain to by China at any time after reversion of country's laws to be in contradiction duction closer to those of non-socialist continue ruling Hongkong on a sovereignty. with those of a socialist country, if that countries. caretaker basis, or a joint administ China’-s handling of its own should seem desirable. Cultural and political liberalization, ration, has been firmly ruled out by “autonomous regions” gives no cause Freedoms of press, speech and however, are advancing more slowly. Peking.

~~The Daily Telegraph, Thursday, September 15, 19S5~~

Although under an Arab separate snips next month. It flag, the ship is actually Danish- was feared that their yapping CRUELTY’ owned and designed for world might upset the other animals. wide trading. She was selected by the Crown Agents for the 'IN ARK FOR voyage and approved by ex FIVE CATS ARRIVE perts from the Ministry of Budgerigars, too Agriculture. Fisheries and I FALKLANDS Food as suitable for the Jour Our Port Stanley Correspc ney. dent writes: Five cats and 2‘ By JOHN PETTY budgerigars are the first arrivals Shipping Correspondent Yapping fear in the Falklands from several hundred animals and birds from ORGANISERS of the The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani Britain to replace those lost v Falklands Fund are mals is also satisfied that the during last year’s conflict. having problems convin Dina Khalef (formerly the Iris The cats and budgerigars cing animal lovers that no Clausen) is suitable. arrived in Stanley in the cruelty will be involved Opposition to use of the ship Andalucia Star (7,618 tons) in using the Qatari ship has been led by the Dartmoor having been cared for on the Livestock Protection Society. 8,000-mile journey from Britain Dina Khalef on a 28-day by members of the crew. voyage from Poole to Port Dartmoor. Exmoor, Shetland and Welsh ponies are to be in Stanley with sheep, cattle, cluded in the cargo. horses, goats and pigs. The ark is also expected to Protestors say the ship is carry Welsh cobs, Arab horses. much too small for such a long Jacob and Romney sheen, two ocean journey. The 26-year-old kinds of goat, and saddleback West German-built cattle car and Oxford sandy-and-black rier is 357 gross tons or 521 pigs. The cattle will be Shet deadweight tons. land, belted Galloway, Jersey, In shipping terms, a gross South Devon and Ayrshire. ton is 100 cubic feet of per Plans to take working dogs manently enclosed space and on the ship have been dropped. deadweight indicates the carry Instead, Welsh and Scottish ing capacity. collie puppies will go out on

~~McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 THE TIMES 14,9.83~~

~~/ Defending the Falklands: 3 \J~~

Counter-offensive by the Treasury The cost to the British taxpayer ———————— Treasury’s desire to do what it can of reasserting and defending Sir John Nott (left), as Secretary of to contain the growth of defence national honour in the Falkland State for Defence, gained several spending up to 1986, given the Islands will have been about victories over the Treasury in twin Nato and Falklands commit £3,000m even if a diplomatic making it foot the bill for ments. But it would also hope to solution to the rival claims of defending the Falkland Islands. get a much tighter grip from 1986 Britain and Argentina were to But, Rodney Cowton, Defence when it hopes that the Nato emerge with unexpected speed. Correspondent, says, Mr Michael growth target will have lapsed, This is equivalent to more than Heseltine (right). Sir Johns and when Falklands costs are £l.5m for every member of the successor, may be facing a tougher likely to be progressively sub population of the Falklands. fight. The Treasury's campaign on sumed within the ordinary The total is made up of mote S/gfjfIT defence budget. than £800m incurred in 1982/83 for the forces successes last year. ,n ^ ^ ^ may ^ be ^ in recapturing the islands and the clement of personal political initial garrison costs; about jsiands, had abandoned his ambitious enough in a period of motivation. Mr Michael Hesel- £ 1,000m in garrison costs in the political career, though these minimal economic growth, but tine became Secretary of State for three financial years up to April, cvents may not have been put the 3 per cent and the Defence in January after nearly all 1986; and more than £ 1.000m in connected. Falklands costs together and the lhc main post-Falklands policy replacing ships, aircraft and other months Sir increasing demands of defence on decisions had been taken, equipment lost °r expended J ^ public spending become very He is widely seen as having unng backing, gained major victories sevcre- been one of the major successes The surprising thing is that the over the Treasury. It was agreed Thc extcm 0f lhe problem is on thc Conservative side in the Government has gained large (hat the costs of garrisoning thc sh0wn in the Government’s general election campaign, and political advantages at negligible Falklands and of replacing lost public expenditure White Paper Tory backbenchers are already cost for incurring this burden. equipment should be met from published in February, though speculating that thc very public It bathed for months in post- resources additional to the those plans have been marginally nature of the Treasury’s campaign Falklands euphoria before romp- defence budget. When replace- modified by the Chancellor’s a8ainsl defence spending may be ing home at the polls; Britain’s ment ships were needed, it was emergency move in July to reduce part of an effort to cut him down standing was enhanced in import- the most expensive Type 22 public spending by £500m. to size as ambitious men begin to ant parts of the world; and, frigates at £ 130m each which were Under last February’s plans, manoeuvre for the eventual although the Latin American ordered. defence spending, which had for succession to Mrs Thatcher as nations indulge in ritual abuse at There was not much of this that several years been hovering at leader of the Conservative Party, the United Nations, like football the Treasury was happy about, about 12 per cent of total planned » T , Hefpnre haH tn hPar fans, they generally prove to be and it may be that it is now public expenditure, would rise . half nf thp nf more agreeable as individual seeking to recover lost ground. from 12.7 per cent in 1982-83 to £

~~McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SW1A2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 Evening Standard s,~~

~~14.9.83~~

~~MEANWHILE DOWN IN THE FALKLANDS~~

Sir Rex sends a party night SOS SIR REX HUNT, Civil Government House at Port There are still 30 places left said the Falklands war had Commissioner of the Falk Stanley, said more than 300 for the 18-day “Summer in created more interest in lands. is asking a favour people were being invited to the Antartic ” cruise which Britain for the islands. “It's of the tourists who will be the New Year's Eve party costs from £4000 excluding a lot of money to pay for a including people from the the £700 airfare to the Chilean cruise,” he said, "But we've joining him for a gala Lindblad who are due to embark port of Punta Arenas. party—will they help with arrive on December 13. got about half a dozen British the clearing up. “ The difficulty is that The company who have bookings so far.” Government House staff have offices in New York has been He added that the annual The request was telexed to the day off the following running the cruise for 16 New Year’s Eve gala party at the London office of the morning. Which means my years with mainly American Government House was a Swedish cruise company, wife and I and other willing tourists, scientists and orni sumptuous event not to be Salen Lindblad, whose ship, hands have to muck In and thologists, who want to ex missed. “ I’m sure people from the 2500 ton Lindblad clean up. plore some of the world’s the Lindblad. after a great Explorer will be taking 92 finest wildlife. night, won’t mind helping “Last year the Lindblad with the washing-up.” passengers and crew to the sailed early in the morning London representative Mr islands in time for Christmas. leaving us with an awful Sir Rex' is also requesting Sir Rex, speaking from Nigeli Lingard, based at some brandy and fruit which amount of clearing up to do." Shepherd Street, Mayfair, are scarce on the islands. THE GUARDIAN 14.9.83

Australians defend Antarctic Treaty Canberra : Australia yester- of the treaty’s 16 consultative include the United States, the have the treaty renegotiated, day defended the 24-year-old countries, said that the pact Soviet Union and South Africa, He said: “ My Government has Antarctic Treaty against an ini- had been “ a uniquely success- froze all claims and counter- made no secret of its concern ! tiative led by Malaysia to ful cooperative international claims in the name of inter- about the current proposal to secure a more international instrument.” national cooperation and raise Antartica in the UN body to govern the vast ice- Most important of all, it has scientific research, General Assembly. bound land mass. guaranteed peace in the Malaysia, which wants the “We.believe any attempt to »nv sftammt « region. Antarctic made accessible to ..negotiate a, new international npw intprnattnnfi “ Its prohibitions on nuclear all countries as a common heri- agreement ‘or to renegotiate on Antarctica nr rcnlloHnS explosions and thp dumping of tage, is expected to raise the parts of the treaty would be nartc tSSSir1nuclear waste and its forbid- matter at the forthcoming likely to introduce uncertainty lit-plv in nmwfaivSw dinS of military measures in United Nations General and instability into a region i am? Antarctica, all verifiable Assembly, having obtained the hitherto unparalleled inter- the Australian Foreign M?nis- throu§h a mutual system of in- support of the Nonaligned national cooperation.” spection, have made Antarctica Movement at its summit in Meanwhile, Brazil and India ter, Mr Bill Hayden, said. arguably the world’s most March. yesterday became full consulta- Mr Hayden, speaking at the effective zone of peace.” Mr Hayden toy Inference hit tive members of the Antarctic opening of a two-week meeting The treaty, whose signatories out at Malaysia's desire to Treaty. — Reuter.

DAILY HERMES ‘ MAKESN TELEGRAPH LAST VOYAGE’ 14.9.83 The airfcraft carrier Hermes left Portsmouth yesterday for what could be the last -time on active service. Hermes, now 30 years old, headed for the Mditerranean on exercises to face an uncertain future when she returns. Britain’s newest aircraft car rier, the Ark Royal, will be ready to join the force in 198$ and the Ministry of Defence have only guaranteed HermCs’ future until next year.

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McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 FINANCIAL TIMES 14.9.83 /Hayden cautions against THE changing Antarctic pact TIMES From Tony Duboudin, Melbourne 14.9.83 Argentina Any attempt to establish a new continent, the largest single agreement or changes to the territorial claim, has a vested existing treaty governing the interest in maintaining the status asks for Antarctic would introduce uncer- quo. Although the treaty does not tainty and instability to a region recognize claims to the Antarctic, which had seen unprecedented it provides some protection by $30®m international cooperation, Mr Bill recognizing that there are “claim- Hayden, the Australian Foreign ants” to sections of the territory. Minister, told the opening session ^ny attempt to revise the treaty debt delay of the Antarctic Treaty consulta- couId draw allention to Austra- By Jimmy Burns in Buenos Aires tive meeting which opened in ]ja-s ]arge territorial claim on the Canberra yesterday. region. It could also lead to ARGENTINA has asked its Mr Hayden’s comments were charges, already voiced in some foreign bank creditors for a seen as part of an overall attempt quarters inside the country, that j 30-day extension of a waiver on by Australia and other treaty Australia does not spend enough ' $300m due to be repaid this partners to head off any moves, on Antarctic research and is not Thursday, amid a continuing possibly in the United Nations, to committing enough resources to hold-up in the rescheduling of have the treaty renegotiated. scientific research in the region to justify such a large claim. its $39bn debt. Malaysia has already proposed The sum is the first tranche that the UN discusses the The meeting, which will last for of a $l.lbn short-term bridging Antarctic and this has been two weeks, will also discuss loan agreed last December to interpreted by observers as the communications and meteoro- help Argentina bring interest first step towards placing the logical information in the area, payments up to date. Repay region under international control man’s impact on the Antarctic ment of the first, tranche has at the expense of the treaty. environment, the effects of ben held up because of delays tourism, scientific cooperation, in the disbursement of the Australia, which claims sover- and the continued operation of $1.5bn medium-term loan and cignty over 40 per cent of the the Antarctic Treaty. the refinancing of $6bn of state and state-guaranteed debt in / tended to complete the package. Reserves have dropped in Books as a ‘danger’ to public order recent weeks because of the From Mr Graham C. Greene While Argentina is not a party to under-invoicing of exports — a Sir, A number of reports has the Florence Agreement and Britain speculative reaction to the appeared in the press during the past is therefore presumably under no widening gap between the offi few days of books sent to this obligation to grant ready access to its cial and the “ black ” rate of country from Argentina - destined, intellectual products, nevertheless the dollar on the local foreign in the main, for libraries, univer one may assume that Her Majesty’s exchange market. An estimated sities and research institutes - being Government will be guided gener $800m. in trade flows has been impounded by HM Customs and ally by the spirit of the agreement in either lost or delayed. Excise since such imports are, it its attitude to exchanges of the Citibank, which is head of appears, an infringement of a printed word. the committee of banks renego general ban on imports from and If the criteria quoted above are tiating Argentina’s debt, said in exports to that country. applied to the books currently Buenos Aires yesterday that it My own company, moreover, has impounded, thefe is no evidence had passed on the Central recently had impounded one of our that they would produce a state of Bank’s request for an extension own books which was being returned moral deterioration in their poten in a telex to foreign creditors by an Argentine publisher, who had tial British readers, or endanger the last week. The general response been considering it for publication. safety of the state; nor can it be was described as positive, but Incidentally, it had no difficulty in supposed that even any which made there are still some unnamed getting into Argentina earlier this inflated claims for the universal banks that are linking the ex year. superiority of Argentina’s footballers tension to an acceptable solu We should recall that when would cause riots on the terraces tion to the problems of Celulosa Rhodesia declared UDI and a which would not otherwise occur. Argentina, similar ban was imposed on trade The situation is rendered even A local court decision has ex with that country, books were more Gilbertian by the fact that the cluded foreign creditors from a nevertheless exempted from its ban does not cover newspapers and refinancing plan expected to be provisions, the Government of the magazines. Are books, composed in put to a creditors’ meeting this day recognizing that nothing can be the calm atmosphere of the author’s Friday. Celulosa has total gained and much can be lost by study or garret, to be regarded as so debts of about $300m, of Which denying the citizens of one country much more dangerous than reports $100m is owed abroad. Foreign access to the culture, learning and in the press, compiled in the heat of bank creditors have been look views of those of another, however the moment? ing for ways to put pressure on inimical those views may be on If HM Government recognises the the Argentine Government to certain subjects to the majority of • iniquity of what would amount to ensure they are fairly treated one’s own compatriots. censorship were British readers not ! In a related development The Florence Agreement on the to be allowed access to the Argentine yesterday, Sr Julio Gonzalez de importation of educational, scien press, surely it must also recognise Solar. Central Bank Governor, tific and cultural materials, which that the repulsion from our borders urged politicians to participate aims to further the “free exchange of of books emanating from Argentina in preliminary talks on the re ideas and knowledge” and to which constitutes no less serious an scheduling of some $10bn in Great Britain is a party, lays down intellectual deprivation. debt falling due next year. The that a signatory country may Yours faithfully, Central Bank is worried by the prohibit the importation of mat GRAHAM C. GREENE, opposition’s continuing refusal erials covered by the agreement if Managing Director, to tackle the debt problem as those materials are likely to Jonathan Cape Limited, long as the current military endanger ‘‘national security, public 30 Bedford Square, WCl. government remains in power. order or public morals”. September 9. 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I Airport adds to cost of fortress at a true gross cost it is estimated Despite improvements in facili complexity of maintaining the NET COSTS OF FALKLANDS that roughly £230m would have ties in the Falkland Islands, garrison. GARRISON to be added in the current Rodney Cowton, Defence Corre In roughly the past 12 months 1983/841984/85 1985/86 financial year. spondent, says that it remains a about 16,000 passengers, the Capital coata £m £m £m hard posting for the troops, and great majority of them service As capital construction works, New airport 80 83 57 including most notably the new an expensive commitment for men, have been carried to the Equipment 123 41 Britain. Falklands by sea and air. Works 36 20 airport, are completed, the net costs of maintaining the garrison The maintenance of “Fortress Ascension Island continues to 239 144 57 be an essential staging post on Total will fall significantly, to leave Falklands” constitutes not only a annual net running costs put at diversion of Britain's armed the way south, and although the Running coata 185 190 175 great majority of passengers now about £175m. forces from their Nato role, but Total 424 334 232 also a major logistics effort and make the journey between There may be some reduction drain on financial resources - at Ascension and the Falklands by from that figure, because the new least £424m in the present sea, the air-bridge between the Source: Ministry of Defence airport is expected to achieve financial year. islands continues to function at a annual savings of about £25m in rate of about five or six round It is expected that within the cost of building the new strategic the cost of transporting men and next two to three months all grips every week. airfield which should become equipment to and from the members of the garrison will * The operation of the air-bridge islands. has been streamlined with the operational in 1985 and be have been provided with accom completed in 1986. With the new airport making it modation in the three coastal introduction of the Hercules as fuel tanker for in-flight refuel These figures, however, under possible to reinforce the garrison floating accommodation vessels state the real cost of maintaining very quickly in a crisis, there or in properly built prefabricated ling. This has cut the number of ought theoretically to be scope for in-flight refuellings on every the Falklands garrison. They camps. The Royal Engineers exclude, for example, an annual reducing its size from 1986 have done much work in journey south to two, from the onwards. However, present indi four that were necessary with the cost put at about £40m for the constructing the' camps, laying cations are that large reductions smaller capacity of the Victor back-up in terms of ships and roads and water pipe-lines and men in transit needed to support may not be easy. The elaborate I other services. tankers. installations being created sug Since the end of the conflict a large garrison in the Falklands. L A football pitch, gymnasium There are also many who would gest a sizable garrison. [ *hd squash courts have been there have probably been about 400 air-bridge flights involving challenge the assumption that the A handful of Royal Marines provided, but entertainment still new airport can be built for about more than 1,100 air-to-air cannot be left to defend the new depends heavily on video films. £220m. The Falklands remains a hard refuellings. airport, radar installations and The Ministry of Defence has These estimates, not unreason storage depots. Short of a posting, with troops normally ably, relate only to the net only serving about four months estimated the cost of maintaining negotiated solution to the Falk the Falklands’ garrison at £424m additional cost of maintaining the lands problem, a big garrison is there at a time, with a three to garrison in the Falklands, not the four-week journey at either end. in the present financial year, likely to be needed for the £334m in 1984/85 and £232m in basic costs in men and equipment foreseeable future. I This frequent rotation of forces which would be incurred wher 1985/86. These figures include Tomorrow: The political price. across a distance of 8,000 miles ever they are stationed. To arrive adds greatly to the cost and allocations of £220m to meet the

/knd urged to ‘crippling’ Fortress Falklands It is not in Britain's interests to MP for Woolwich, said the spend hundreds of millions of parliamentary party had deepend pounds for ever to defend the and strengthened its relations with Falkland Islands, Dr David Owen the Liberals. told the assembly. It was clear that the two old From Florencia Varas, Santiago Answering at question time on parties were going to connive to the parliamentary report, the party keep the Alliance squeezed out of The latest wave of anti-govern- three-hour mixed civilian band leader said that he was not arguing the parliamentary scene. The Hou^e mcnl protests, which claimed 10 military demonstation along the that sovereignty should be ceded to of Commons was not recognizing -dead and 30 wounded, has left main avenue of Santiago, the Argentines but that other the political reality in the country, jhilc a deeply divided country. Qn Sunday, a few miles from options, such as a United Nations which was that there were now two trusteeship, should be examined. oppositions almost equally poised During the four days of where General Pinochet was Britain had locked itself into a in terms of the popular vote. protests, marking the tenth delivering his anniversary speech, damaging “Fortress Falklands” But Mr Cartwright promised: anniverary of the coup that a group of unemployed fought policy which was crippling the “We may be small in numbers, but brought the Pinochet regime to with stones against the police. The defence budget. It was in the best we arc going to have a very power, the shanty town dwellers clash claimed the life of a 23-ycar- interests of the Falkland islanders to considerable impact on what around the capital built barri- old worker. Since the anti-govern- find a solution and Britain’s broader happens in the House of Com cadcs, burnt lyres and declared ment protests started last May, he interests should also be borne in mons." mind. their areas "liberated territories was the fifty-fifth civilian to die in He said that the greatest weakness Mr Ian Wrlgglesworth, MP for from the dictatorship." There the demonstrations, of Mrs Thatcher had been that, at Stockton South, said in answer to were many clashes with the riot in his speech, the President the point of victory, she was not questions on the SDP’s attitude police. reiterated his decision to stay in able to show that degree of towards the police and Criminal There w'ere similar protests power until 1989 in accordance magnanimity which would have Evidence Bill that there w-as a ' allowed her to open a dialogue with powerful case for rationalizing throughout the country. In Vina with the 1980 constitution. But at police powers in Britain, but what del Mar, a coastal resort an hour the same time, he asked the Latin America to chart a way forward for the long-term future of the Government had been unwilling from the capital, the highway was country for “understanding and to do was to give proper priority to blocked on Sunday night with sacrifice” to fight the recession, the islands. There were very senous consc- citizens' rights. barricades, protesters threw q-|lc former senator and presi- qucnces for Britain’s commitments “We should be looking at the new stones at vehicles trying lo enter dem of the World Christian to Nato as a result of the high cost of Police and Criminal Evidence Bill or leave the city, injuring several Dcmocratlc Partyi Seflor Andres maintaining so many aircraft, ships to see whether the Government has motorists. Zaldivar, called General Pino- and men on the islands. The SDP learnt the lessons of the standing Throughout the weekend, sup- hct.s address s h without would do its utmost lo get Britain committee and the debate in the porters of the military regime any consequences in terms of out of “Fortress Falklands”. House and country and introduces a energetically manifested their what the country needs”. Earlier, introducing the parlia bill that rationalizes police powers support of President Pinochet, mentary report. Mr John Car and clarifies and strengthens the driving through the capital in “There is nothing new from the twright, the SDP Chief Whip and rights of the citizen", he said. convoys of cars with Chilean flags polilical or economic point of flying and sounding their horns, view,” he said. “The economic “Pinochet, Pinochet”. announcements are basically McMiUan-Scott Associates Public Affairs The pro-government cel- superficial and give no solution to ebrations began last Friday, with a the serious economic situation.” 41 Whitehall London SWL'\ 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 b935 THE GUARDIAN 13.9.83 13.9.83 portress I THE TIMES Falklands details of Belgrano DIARY

' foolish ’ I sinking questioned War casualty : Ian McDonald, the Ministry of : Defence spokesman who became a THE “ Impossible and foo- By Richard Norton-Taylor !gp|j television celebrity as a latter-day lish ” stance adopted by Mr Tam Daiyelt, the Labour Valentine Dyall last year, was tipped Thatcher over the Falkland! j^p whose persistent question- to become chief press officer of Nato. was attacked by the party ing of the Falklands war has iMst i This would have meant that he could . leader, Dr David Owen, when ied contradictory official sta- m: ■ the SDP staged a parliament* JSiMout L .Wing of the g| have done for the West in World War III what he did for Britain during the ary question Ume at its Sal. General Belgrano, said last '•?# Faljklands. We have all had a lucky ford conference yesterday. night that the submarine HMS < escape. He was pipped at the post by Replying to a question by conqueror was watching the , the German nominee. Mr David Moore (Dorset), Dr Arg

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to Fortress Falklasids9 DEFENCE Secretary Michael Heseltine is opposed to the ‘Fort ress Falklands’ policy, Dr Owen claimed. Mr Heseltine ‘knows the arithmetic does not addup, ’ he said, and he pledged that a Social Democrat Government, would prepar: for early talks to end the commitment. Argentina had Britain over a barrel, he warned. They had to spend very little—while Mrs Thatcher was crippling the defence budget and endangering NATO strategy by pouring vast sums into the defence of the islands. Falkland lesson ‘no DAILY TELEGRAPH delay to new frigate’ 12.9.83

By DESMOND WETTERN Naval Correspondent HHENDERS are to be sought from shipbuilders for the A first of 12 planned Type 23 frigates for the Navy a programme worth a total of around £1,300 million, by the end of this year. Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson Controller of the Navy, giving R NR TO RESCUE^ details of the Type 23, denied yesterday that the designing OF WOODWARD had been seriously delayed and that lessons learned in Rear-AdmS Sir John " Sanely ” : i Woodward, the Falklands Task the Falklands had added to Force commander, was taken in • the time taken to order them. tow by a Royal Naval Reserve' The claim in last year’s fast patrol vessel after his yacht report by the Commons Defence was dismasted in high winds Committee that progress on the i yesterday south-east of the IsleH. ships’ design would be still fur- of Wight, ther put back by the Falklands Adml Woodward, a member conflict was wrong, he said. of Hayling Island Sailing Club,* and two companions were towed Although the Navy’s ship into Chichester harbour designers have been working on ’ .x__ a variety of lighter and^cheaper fri designs throughout the 19 dmiral Bryson indicated tha Type 23 owed little to previousm studies, but lessons gained in last year’s conflict would be fully incorporated. FINANCIAL TIMES Missile tubes A feature of the Tvpe 23 | 12.9.83 will be 32 xertical aunch tubes for Seawolf missile to provide defence against low-flying air craft and sea-skimming anti- ship missiles. Launching the missiles vertically from tubes rather Navy may opt for smaller ships than from manually - loaded ramps, as in existing ships, will give a much higher rate of firG BY BRIDGET BLOOM, DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT in the event of an attack by THE ROYAL NAVY is consider- role as a deterrent and as an slim lines of traditional vessels.... several aircraft or misiles from ing building smaller and intelligence gatherer in the Admiral Bo-ceson said mat this different directions. simpler warships in a move North Atlantic Treaty Organise- design, dubbed S90 and But as a model on the British' which could signal a break with lion area and in such areas as produced by Ihorneycroft Giles Shipbuilders’ stand' showed at post-war tradition The aim the south Atlantic or the Gulf, associates, could be considered, the Royal Naval equipment exhi would be to prevent any further It would also have a “very The MoD is evaluating the bition at Portsmouth, where he wae speaking—the earlier Type 24 lightweight frigate, a concern abandoned in favour of the between TmodemTjSton "aSi Bryceson, speaking wi* p^rHcular criticism of its Tj^^,23 in 1978, was to have ca'i^Ptl 48 Seawolf missiles in “b XlVrlXaS ^rfnNpû« made it vertical launch tubes. Admiral Bryson said he still pricesv ' t orcQnm abwt ri'Sm one thircToflheat nresent itlat7on was earlyof dUgL days infor the the formu- ship shipsclear wereyesterday not to thatbe seen the asnew an hoped the first Type 23 will be completed by 1988, the 1981 tar pstimated cost of the Navy’s but his announcement was seen alternative, to the Type 23 get date. frigate design the Type by many observers as the first frigates. _The first order'for newest real sign that the Royal Navy this should go to British Ship- He favoured the ships being 23. ordered in batches of perhaps Announcing the move yester- was prepared to- be more Ûf.eIs fi”!.xtnfye" ?"A w““^ up to three a year, since there dav Admiral Sir Lindsav Bryce- flexible in the face of new ideas be the first of at least eignt would be obvious advantages son,’ Controller of the Navy, in in ship design and ever-rising vessels to .bei ordered, he said for the taxpayer in reducing charge of naval procurement in costs. . restraints ’ there production costs — something the Ministry of Defence, said In the last two years private financial constraints, there that Yarrow Shipbuilders, who that the new ship could not be ship designers have sought to '™“‘^â',Lt°n^baers of Type have a £16 million contract to as powerful as the Navy's interest the Government in a between ‘he numbers o£ lype develop the design, have been present frigates. But it would warship which would be short Ms and smaller ships. ^ _ stressing. have a very useful peacetime and fat compared with the long, BAe defends bid, Page 6 Complementary design But the Navy was conscious of the need to cut costs and the possibility of building a new light warship that might be ! termed a corvette was being considered. It was hoped to build three for the price of one Type 23 frigate. Admiral Bryson stressed that the new ship, upon which design work has not yet started, would be complementary to existing destroyers and frigates and would in no way replace them. The Portsmouth exhibition, at McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs which some 213 British com panies have taken stands, is to 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 be formally opened today by Mr Pattie, Minister for Defence Procurement. 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XU to get 8 pi .. ;: Ill4il!r!?fs • • 2, • .’■ I hospital n A small hospital is to be built in UJHHIrJ1 a remote part of the Falklands 5 Islands in preparation for the ST 2,000 people who will build the 3 island’s £200m airport. o. m■: I'trnfi m 3 The £100,000 unit, which will cn employ a surgeon and four nurses, is due to be open at the beginning C/O of next year and will be sited r it £8.Mto m I ®q about thirty-five miles from Port Stanley, near the proposed airport site. Mr John Silver, managing director of Medco international, said yesterday that the hospital © would be initially for the use of the airport workers, but later would be available to the 3 islanders when the project had been completed. fD Defending the Falklands, page 4 *1 • 1 ^ I-igK'ftf P^ilis ipiiPiipi n) nc M I \D ^3 OO H m tn Observer 11.9.83

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British troops com- an Anglophile but by a captain embassyswaa-v-s in Montevideo he will mtted atrocities during the who earned a reputation as a be well placed to observe the ralklands War. This would hardliner for his refusal at one transition to civilian rule across appear to be the closing J01?1 t0 °bey General Menen- the River Plate, chapter on a horror tale once ez s orc*ers t0 surrender. He had been serving as avidly promoted by a com- Meanwhile, the military’s Ambassador to Peru, a country bination of British °™c^ postmortem examrna- of more than 17 million people propaganda and Latin ?°n war is understood to *mce M79. Chi the face of ♦ imagination ^ve ^een c^Pl^ed- Argen- things his transfer to Uruguay, lArrnrHino to equivalent of the Franks with a population with around Robado >vhn Hh8h Report 1 contame<1 “ IS thick, million, could have been So4 of 5 Marine I ed typewritten volumes will construed by some as a step ^S ba,deZ p^n?m Panted for consideration by “o'™. Se Bnnsh aai ^Tom- £ ^ 0D « to coU- ... > ._j * . ^T1 00September. eagnes, his new appointment htfuen“ of Zas^d -did ARTHUR " GAVSHON was ‘ Promotion. Wallace is noTh^hL. and did rqx)rt Britain has chosen a ?ne of ^ most experienced Z wmmded^ ' * ^ a &*}■ American specahsts m ‘On Selontrary, many of '° “™ “ our heroic wounded had their “ but also in GuatemaiafpSama, hves saved thanks to the help of a & Mexico, Paraguay and proudly the enemy,’ Captain Robacio ne£h^^,,^g““a‘ holds OiSer of the TZ said. LJiarJes William Wallace sets Eagle. The unprecedented tribute to British valour obtained by The Observer last week is contained in an internal document of the Argentine Navy. It forms part of the evidence still being screened by the Argentine military in their belated and controversial post-mortem examination of the war. j » ‘ I have no evidence, in spite of the fact that I fought against them personally and that some I of my men were captured by them, that the Gurkhas cut the throats of anyone. This was just good psychological warfare on the part of the enemy aimed at undermining our morale. * Cap tain Robacio said. Throughout the Falklands War, the Argentines were subjected to carefully-leaked . information from the British Ministry of Defence referring to the Gurkhas’ battle tradi tions. Senior British officers have admitted that many sto ries, such as the Gurkhas’ alleged penchant for taking their enemies’ ears as trophies, were allowed to circulate to . demoralise the enemy.

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McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-930 6935 * THE TIMES 10.9.83 DAILY TELEGRAPH 10.9.83 Few Falklands troops \ si^ cracked under strain By Pat Healy, Social Services Correspondent EEC AID FOR Psychiatric disorders among enced difficulties in working FISHING BOATS troops from both sides in the during the conflict, according to a Falklands campaign were remark- report of the congress in BMA By Our Shipping ably low, British and Argentine News Review. Surgeon Corn- Correspondent doctors have told the World mander Morgan O’Connell, con- Nearly 50 British fishing Congress of Psychiatry. ' sultant psychiatrist at the Royal ports are to benefit from Only 21 of the British wound- Naval Hospital, Gosport, who £5,548.000 Common Market aid ied, 3.6 per cent, suffered from sailed with the task force, said the to help build boats at places .mental illness, and only 1.5 per news of “a shrink” on board ship as far apart as Falmouth, Ler cent from a combat reaction, was greeted with the same wick, Abersytwyth, Selsey, Scar Another eight were treated for enthusiasm as an accompanying borough and Oban. depression, and three for alcohol- albatross would have been, ism, stress-induced dizziness and pr O’Connell had to adopt a extreme pain reaction. pseudonym when transferring The Argentines reported simi- patients on board other ships l lar figures; only 3 per cent of their casualties suffered from psychi- # Families of servicemen killed HOPE FOR atric disorders. Both the British *n the pranas campaign plan a and Argentine doctors had retum trf t0 the isiands after ARMY CUT expected more cases because of their pilgrimage to the graves last ^previous experience of war . .. ^ftcasualties. Dr Carlos Collazo, p ‘ ... A - psychiatric adviser to the Argen- The Falklands Families ' IN ULSTER tine army, told the congress that ation, which was fo™ed ^ming he had found it difficult to believe the voyage on the Cunard By HUGH DAVIES the rate was so low until he learnt Countess and indudes 178 WITH “informers’’ now that the British experience had families, hopes to re.lu™ 'n “° ’ providing significant been similar. as the first charter flight to arrive information on key figures Doctors on both sides experi- at the new Port Stanley airfield. in the Provisional IRA and U V F leaderships in Belfast, hope, albeit slender, is emerging of a reduction in Army strength. Officially, 10,000 soldiers are still on duty with 7,200 UDR men in the province, costing the taxpayer £96 million a year. Before the troubles, 3,000 men were garrisoned in Ulster. In 1972, the figures was more THE TIMES than 21,000. Six infantry bataliions are on “resident” tours for two years DIARY accompanied, and the sugges tion is that the Army, which now acts in a support role to the police, would like to reduce ^ Disinviting the level to 8,00 or even lower. The blame Sir Robin Day attached to Vast amounts have been bud Tam Dalyell for his embarrassment at geted for maintaining the gar the Edinburgh television festival rison in the Falklands, where continues to reverberate within the about 4,000 troops' are in BBC. This week Dalyell published his position. book A Science Policy for Britain, the result of work begun at Michael Fool’s Fingers crossed request in December 1980, when The figure for the current Dalyell was Labour’s front-bench year is £624 million, with a! spokesman on science. It had been further £684 million for 1984/ arranged that he was to appear on BBC 85 and £552 million for 1985/86. television in Scotland and on the la Northern Ireland, fingers i BBC’s Radio 4 Start the Week. Both are quietly being crossed that • arrangements fell through at the last the “supergrass” strategy is moment. In Scotland Dalyell was told, becoming effective, despite the half an hour before he was due, that he second thoughts of some infor- was not needed and was advised that mers who, under intimidation, the subject would' be “stale kale” are withdrawing their state thereafter. Start the Week said they ments to police. abandoned his appearance because his 5 publishers had failed to telephone. Dalyell suspects some connexion in all this, but was not sunk as definitively as the Belgrano. The independent LBC have him an hour-long phone-in.

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flies into trouble HERE’S a stamp that’s mistake can creep through causing a few blushes. despite all the careful It was produced here for checking.” sale in the Falklands—and Is the stamp worth adding someone's allowed a real to your collection ? schoolboy howler to slip It would be—but you won’t through. be able to. The issue is being If vou know anything about scrapped and a new one helicopters, you’ll spot the printed with the right words. mistake straight away. The Shame ! caption (at the top of the stamp) says that the helicop ter is a Wessex. But—yes, you guessed it—it ISN’T ! It’s a completely different chopper called a Whirlwind. The stamp is part of a Falkland Islands Dependen cies set due for release in October, and is pictured in colour on the cover of next month’s Philatelic Magazine. The Crown Agents, who produce stamps for the Falk ft lands. said : “ Sometimes a ■y

Falkland resident THE GUARDIAN Daily Mail 9.9.83 going home/ 9.9.83 Homesick Archie THE Falklands’ oldest resi dent, Mr Archie Short, 85, who came to stay with his daugh ter in Gedling. Nottingham shire, last year when the con flict started, is returning next month because ‘I’m homesick and miss the cooking/ FINANCIAL TIMES 9.9.83

~~Peron ‘will return when THE TIMES~~

9.9.83 civilian rule restored’ THE oldest ^resident of the MADRID Ex-Argentine sence was deemed absolutely Falkland Islands, who has been President Maria Estela Peron necessary for the Peronists to living in Britain since the con has broken months of silecne wjn t]ie October elections. flict started in April last year, is returning; because he is ”"atleSheindoes°not Sr. Peron, who was ousted by homesick. turn home until civilian rule is the military in 1076 and came Mr Archie Short, aged 85, a restored, officials close to her to live in Spain in 1981. S®J“ retired shepherd, who has said here yesterday. shhe did not want to make any. lived with' his daughter in Sra Peron would only break political declaiations until the Gedling, Nottinghamshire, Argentine armed forces haa since he fled from Port Stan her resolve to return to Buenos ley. said yesterday; “I was Aires before the end of the returned to the barracks. He born and bred there and 1 military dictatorship if her pre- Reuter By David Hewson want to go back. I miss Falk Thames Television faces its lands cooking.” second complaint from the Army in two months over its portrayal of British soldiers. DAILY TELEGRAPH Senior army public relations 9.9.83 staff are to press Mr John Stanley, the Minister of State for the Armed Forces, to make a formal complaint about a Thames schools play about the Falklands, MoD 4over-reacting9 A Game of Soldiers, which is due to begin transmission on Sep THE TIMES tember 28. 9.9.83

The play depicts the dilemma says Thames TV facing a group of Falkland Dispute over Belize children who find a wounded By HUGH DAVIES From the Prime Minister of Belize Argentine soldier during the rpHAMES TELEVISION accused the Ministry of retaking of the islands last year. Sir, There are three facts to During the arguments among the A Defence of “ a gross over-reaction ” yesterday remember when referring to tne children, one of them says that he in complaining about teachers’ notes issued with article on Belize by Mr George has heard that Falkland Island a schools television series based on the Walden (August 12) and a letter in ers Jhave been massacring Argon- The Times of August 23. tlAnscripts. Falklands conflict. a discussion of it in relation to Belize was never a part ot WJ Peter Tabern, the play’s The three-part series, “ A the programme about modern Guatemala. It was a geographic producer and director, said Game of Soldiers,” is to be warfare could be dangerous, entity within its existing borders at yesterday that the reference was transmitted from Sept. 28. The instructions were not clear, the time Guatemala declared its not meant to be taken literally The notes suggest that he said, independence from Spain. and was refuted by other children be given the opi»or- He said; “The Army’s role Belize desires a settlement of the characters in the play*. The tunity to “carry out some re- in Ireland is to support the unfounded claim without prejudice production, which is to appear in search work on war.” police, and teachers may not to its sovereignty and its territorial three 15-minute parts, was seen They say; " What do the be in a position of sufficient integrity. . by representatives of the Falk children already know about knowledge to draw that distinc- Belize understands, appreciates land Islands Government in World Wars i and 2, for tl0n- and thanks the people and Govern London yesterday who also example? Why do wars happen? Thames said that it was be- ment of the United Kingdom for the objected to its content, but Mr Where is there a war going on mused by the Ministry’s re British military presence as a factor Tabern said that he did not now? (A discussion on Ireland action and was going ahead of security and stability in a intend to make any alterations to could be very relevant here).” with the screenings. the programme. turbulent region. Two months ago the Army has upset the military, Officials said the notes wereThis Sincerely, complained about the trans which points out that the Army’s aimed at stimulating discussion GEORGE PRICE, role in Ulster has always been about what was happening in Belmopan, mission of a play in the same in support of the civilian authori- places like Belfast. For ex series which it claimed depicted ties. ample, if bombs were going off Cayo District, young soldiers terrorizing civ- Belize. and bullets flying on the streets, Central America. ilians in Wales. That complaint Discussion ‘ dangerous ’ did children consider that to was made after the play was be a war? September 1. transmitted, but in the latest A Ministry of Defence spokes instance, Mr Stanley, who is now man stressed yesterday that no in the United States, will be declaration of war had been asked to register a protest with made in the province. the Independent Broadcasting Defence Ministers are now to Authority in advance of the be asked to complain to the showing. ( Independent Broadcasting The Army objects to the Authority about the notes. allegation of civilian atrocities, Brig David Ramsbotham, the which it says are unfounded, Army’s Director of Public Re McMillan-Scott Associates Public Affairs something which Thames does lations, said that the Ulster not contest. question was so complicated that 41 Whitehall London SWlA 2BZ Telephone: 01-9306935 HL V "vH I: THE TIMES FRIPAjgglEMBER 9 1983 i I V^TTT; A SPECIAL REPORT Photographs by Brian Harris

ir F orce he middle and late aircraft, which will operate in ments of what its role should be. m years of this decade w ill conjunction w ith Nato’s AYVACS Throughout this period it was constitute one of the and with the ground radars. The rationalizing its structure, a —• ! great pivotal periods in combination of these three will process which continues today the history of the Royal Air Force, mean that the radar coverage of with a merger imminent of No 1 Last year it ceased to operate the air space around the United Group, based at Bawtry, with No heavy strategic bombers, though a Kingdom, to a distance of more 38 Group, based at Upavon. few of the Y'-bomber force, which than 1,000 miles, will be very This process has seen the entered service in the 1950s to greatly improved. disappearance of the most famous carry Britain s independent deter- & Partly as a result of the commands in the historv of the OMMil rent, still linger on in other roles, lessons learnt in the Falklands service. Fighter Command, Bom- And now a series of developments conflict, the RAF's capa'city for In- ber Command, Coastal Comand are in train which will update the flight refuelling is being very and many others have all M RAf “ a Senjce‘JJX1 ,arRe,y based Rreat,y extended- This facility was disappeared. Today there are just on 1950s and 1960s technology - already being enlarged before the three commands: Strike Com- 5oonS t0Jnlneilhe threats of the Falkland^crisis by the conversion mand. Support Command and Pf ? 1980s and 1990s. of VC-lOs to tankers, but under RAF Germany. T. J m These developments include: the pressure of events Vulcan By the end of this year Strike, m O 1 he arrival in service in both bombers and Hercules transports the dominant command, will have y m Britain and YY est Germany of the "ere also rapidly converted, and been reorganized into only three ■fi Tornado GR-1 strike/interdictor since then the RAF has bought six UK-based groups: No 1 covering ' aircraft. The First squadrons of TriStars, also to serve as tankers, strike and air transport and these aircraft are already © The Tornado strike/interdic- offensive support operations. No operating. tor aircraft are recognized as 11 handling air defence, and No © From about 1985/86 the being at present inadequately 18 covering maritime operations arrival of the F2 air defence armed. But from about 1986 they plus a headquarters operation in version of the Tornado. will be equipped with two new and Cyprus. ® The ground-based systems for very advanced weapons: the JP-33 Developments of this sort are the defence of British airspace - system for destroying enemy reflected in the RAF's claim to be radar, command and control and runways, and the British Aero- one of the most efficient air forces WmY\ iMHMi L**® mm communications systems - are space/Marconi Alarm anti-radar in the world, with one of the \ Tornado of 27 Squadron in a bomb-proof hangar at RAF Marham, Norfolk being substantially renewed and missiles. lowest manpower-to-aircraft these should be operational during In the 1960s and 1970s the ratios anywhere, and with a 1986. ndcrlined the importance of We are doing the same with And we, I think, demonstrated Sir Keith: It is very considerable RAF was in the doldrums, smaller proportion of the very indeed ... The sensors them © The additional buys of Rapiers and this capability by sending a introduction of the constrained by inadequate re- highest ranks than either the from Honington in selves will be very much more: Nimrod Airborne Early YVarning sources and by changing assess- Army or the Royal Navy. helicopters, so in the long run the Tornado Falklands will not be a great Suffolk to simulate an attack on capable, much more resistant to burden to carry Akrotiri in Cyprus and then electronic-counter measures. The _ . . return... It is a complex oper- command and control and Rodney Crnvton, The Times Defence Correspondent, talks to Just how important is the aijon and it will rcQuirc you to be communicQtions system which enhanced capability for in-flight abjc t0 operate y0ur tankers with will make use of the information Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Williamson, Chief of the Air Staff refuelling going to be, not only in some confidence in areas which the radars provide will be fast and would have been if „w context of the Falklands, but we regard as benign, but there flexible with elements of redun- Sir Keith, how do you see the I have known it, and this has It is an excellent minriHonr^ had lhe Ealiilands experien^01 ?hl°detriment of our ability to more generally in relation to the are limits to the range of Soviet dancy which will make sure that it state of the Royal Air Force today, coincided with an improvement that newequmm^ although th^K^fs appeartjthe Nato commitments. But RAF s Nato commitments? flghlcrs. cannot be taken out. So it is going and us capability to meet the in the morale of the people in the at a time when the quality of our T pn?rity bst- Wc bavc knoÛ hiving said that, we are taking Sir Keith: The TriStars were The air defences of the United to put us in a whole new ball game ândsmadeofilf Service personnel is very high and the u ^deficiency but wew? tcps to replace the equipment bought really on the Falklands bill Kingdom have been very weak for in the air defence business ... * lr Keith \\ illiamson: I count We have come up now a long morale of those people is verv (l?1 had 11C moncy Yo fill the pan and people that arc stationed in because of the complexity of many years. How do you see the As a fighter pilot I am excited JrlfJrer}'/0?Un?{e c° £kC 0Vur 'Tay [ro™ whal I regarded as a high. So I think the RAF at the i?r5 now maklnB sure it P„ the Falkland and by next year, organizing the Falklands air position now? because I have known the mninli! ! lhCr u13^ 31 thc slough of depression that wc were moment is in very good shape P chcd'nUmc- for instance, wc shall have the buy bridge, particularly with the Sir Keith: What we are doing is shortcomings of our existing !hp lime.1 dld 11 JS m in the mid-70s when there is no indeed. Bul of course it is a corrinW of the Phanlom F‘4Js froiT1 -he relatively small fuel carriers like raising our air defence capability ground environment, although I m rr-,v imC u , tbcre 1S comin8 gainsaying that morale in all three What general conclusions relat- business. It so happens tha, United States navy replacing tllc victor and the VC-10. But from the very low level that was don’t want to sell that short. Our mpnf r° lhe arRest reequip- Services was pretty low as a result ing to the RAF would you draw be^.ausc we now have those aircraft that are down in the aithough they were bought for the established after the 1957 defence present radars are jolly good in , ProSrarnme that the RAF of the 1974 defence review, and from the Falklands conflict? a!r/ramcs ,n lbc Tornado wc iri» '--"■''"'d* and tbey W1 bc Falklands commitment, they review, when it was required only peace-time. They are very well nmo cen involved in during my the poor pay and conditions in Sir Keith: 1 don’t think there ab e 10 concentrate on th* clearly have a tremendous capa- to meet the trip-wire threat. We designed, but they are very static . ,n 1 he air force, bar perhaps the Services existing at that time. arc any new lessons that wc have Prolcctive measures. bility to be used within the Nato have known ever since that we and very vulnerable. They are not rapid post-Korean War We had people queueing up to extracted from thc Falklands Until the Tornado came in. scene and any other areas of have not had enough fighters in backed by a fast digital data-link. thnW S,°n *n ~a^ 2 950s when leave the Service, and wc were operation, but there are an service most of our energies mactivity. So it is a very useful this country. YVc have done a andsotherearemanydisadvan- unters and Swifts came in actually having to stop them from enormous number of old lessons nearly all our money w d enhancement of our capability. great deal within the very limited tages to them, and we have been e present programme, with going, and so we had a lot of that have been reemphasized and concentrated on getting »kS , , , ... , resources available to us to conscious of these for a very long Tornado at its centre, is reluctant officers and senior confirmed. Tornado into the air But ik° In the context of a war in North impr0ve the number available, time, providing us with a giant leap NCOs. We have come a long way Certainly thc experience has John Nott defence review of iq5? Europe, would not air tankers be We havc gone up from 60 orvvard in our capability, not. I since those days. made us shift the emphasis on to *n my view quite rightly b;i so vulnerable to attack as to quite Lightnings in the mid-1960s and It is therefore very exciting to might say. before time because the It would be surprising if wc had inflight refuelling capability, both emphasis on the need f drastically reduce their value. wc will havc by the end of 1983 be reaching a situation where aircraft that the Tornado is not because there arc three in terms of having tankers to give improved weapons fits, and that Sir Keith: If you look at a map well over 120 air defence aircraft improvements are incorporated replacing arc old and certainly million unemployed in this fuel and expanding thc capability was confirmed in thc Falkland! of the Warsaw Pact area you can in the United Kingdom and West that wc have been talking about to obsolescent and wc needed country and wc can bc fairly of the majority of our aircraft to war. Many of the measures wc are devise in-flight refuelling brackets Germany. That docs not include my knowledge for 20 years. The iowvh,n5 /non USl. inl° lbc a °j0S£ lhc rccru,l,n8 counter, receive it. All our front-line fixed- now taking were well in hand that would provide, for example, the aircraft wc have in thc fact that it is coming in at the cjs ana jyyus but that is now And this has also had its effect on wing aircraft for the future will before thc Falklands crisis Tornado with a substantial Falklands, and we will also have same time as the Nimrod ta T tu ir t c pcop,e havc £°l *n lbc have a capability to take on fuel. For example, the JP-23t amount of fuel in benign areas, at the missile-carrying Hawks. Airborne Early Warning aircraft Warn"! °re.rÂ,rbr,! EaHy ~frvic^.’ ^°uthfl. w? can 1rclair] The Fa Ik lands, experience, airfield denial weapon which has height, so that they could for A lot of money is being spent on and thc Tornado air defence orovedglJK A.r°nr.fr.nd lr-C lhciT- bo jhmk both morale and combined I might say, with the now been ordered in substantial instance attack airfields in thc improving the ground facilities variant means that rcallv the air En^ronmen. an mLn nnr h?Zr ^P^cnce of,he Israeli air force numbers has been in the process Williaôn^TTT Kola Peninsular or penetrate associated mlh ?he air defence,6J defence of the UK is goine to operational capability^" as^hiehas tan they have been the Beka. Valley has, of of development for quite a long flLfl rnnahn v Uns hieh asi through to Poland and western the VK. How big an advance Ji very much better based fhan it —------* * n anaS mr a long ume. course, also underlined what we time. Thc Mklimds exocricnr^ atl0nat Ca.paDn.lly.,S n.S-nien ...... has been *r any time in pracc-nmr. i II THE TIMES FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1983 Brian Harris ROYAL AIR :m®m THE AIRCRAFT

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:■■■ Tornado follows the terrain 6S^4. - r ■ • •' T. ’ The Royal Air Force operates 30 30 of the two-scat trainer, of 220 to replace two of the four ’ uattPnP«. Tn ni„, apl' . yilk1 different types of aircraft, both on order have entered service, Phantom squadrons, and the two , f j. e UP fixed and rotary-wing, but one of and the first of 165 F2 intercep- Lightning squadrons which carry to nlorn ^ 'm them, the Tornado bomber, is tors will begin to go to the out that task today. SC1U . dap is hi v'r0PC^c i gpm taking up a major proportion oi squadrons in 1985. The policy of maintaining the scene. yin^ 15 lima the technical time and skill of the The Tornado, built jointly by Falklands as a fortress is the other 1?rn Navy 41 t\ fA J Service as it becomes operational the aerospace industries of factor which is placing intense aircraH 0 - P ^ jgjgg&g- in increasing numbers. Britain. West Germany, and Italy, pressure on the RAF inventory'. A continuing part in Nato is " ym A complex aircraft with a has already taken over as Britain’s Not only docs the service played by the RAF with its ____ • 4- w variable-geometry' wing and ad- main airborne nuclear deterrent, maintain the long supply bridge Harrier force, of which there is a vanced electronics which enable replacing the Vulcan V-bombcrs. between Britain and the islands, further 60 on order, due to begin k'm m m- - - it, among other things, to follow now withdrawn from service, and by way of Ascension, nccessitat- arriving with the squadrons in TV% the tciTain automatically to its arc in future to be based in West ing an intensive refuelling oper- 1986. Jaguars. Buccaneers and I mam target in the worst weather, the Germany, superseding Bucca- ation on the way, but it maintains Phantoms. The debate on a Tornado has been ordered in two neers and Jaguars. F2s have been a squadron of Harriers, a replacement for all four types Bl i j 111 main versions by the RAF. Some developed largely for the air squadron of Phantoms, and two continues, with a vociferous lobby y.-.v Ullll 70 of the GR. 1 strike version, and defence of Great Britain, and arc helicopter squadrons in favour of a second-generation i •• t mmI •‘y m Harrier which would combine i

the announcement at this year's Paris Air Show that the British I Government has signed a contract SmSm with British Aerospace for the mi a: development and construction of. n ?/ a demonstrator fighter for the -Jk & 1990s. The single proto-lype will be based on BAe's plans for an a , OVa* mmmm■ ■ agile combat aircraft incorporat mm I m f :v>. ing a great deal of new technology, m ■ including composite materials, mm >M and with electrically-signalled controls replacing the traditional . § % m RAF Central Fund. rods and wires. On the ground and in the cockpit: Tornado crews of 27 Squadron ICAF Association. In-flight refuelling is becoming *an increasingly-important role for L |f: m RAF Club. m m y the RAF, and the service has p , added considerably to its capa- m, - • v-: mi bility in this sector in recent W mis m ^ '3 months. H - i * T m 4?: ONE DEDICATED GROUND CREW During the Falklands conflict in the summer of 1982. the tanker ‘$2* ' * m "3 mm MBa KEEPS THEM ALL AIRBORNE. fleet of Victor K2s was hastily * • J C X- g ; • f: backed up by the conversion of 24 ^ *C~r-n \ i 1 of 60 Hercules transports, six as ^ 1 tankers, and 16 as receivers. Six m Vulcans are also fulfilling the The funds managed on behalf of die three tanker role, and in this year’s wm I i defence White Paper it was j T m

listed RAF organisations arc pait of a much I'"- m> i announced that Lockheed ■if- greater total of some ^2.5 billions administered six l. TriSlar wide-bodied airliners were (' ■ worldwide. Kieinvvort Benson Investment to be bought from British Airways L; J .A.-; for conversion to tankers, and r. r Management is proud to play its part in keeping that four of them would be given . wm•\v, ■m \ "-7 an additional freighter capability. I m ok these RAF funds amongst the high flyers. B. •v In July this year, the first of | Our clients include pension funds, charities, nine ex-airline VC-10s converted $ $3 to in-flight refuellers w-as rolled I $m£ Tt ; - private clients, investment trusts, offshore unit out at the British Aerospace |iS- mi funds and international institutions. lactory at Filton. Bristol, and a mm A i: study is continuing of the possible conversion of further aircraft of / i this type to form a second mRSI ' squadron. The tanker fleet will be <: m used not only to keep aircraft <• ...... —‘ flying over long distances, as in KLEIN WORT the Falklands operation, but to and to give advance warning of contract lor thc^ British Aero- Western defence sources. has a Mach 2 performance at enhance the duration of fighters any incoming enemy threat. on combat air patrol. space Dynamics Alarm anti-radar The Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire altitude, and it can carR a I nesc are the sharp-end/fixed- missile to be fitted initially to B. in service with the Soviet long- weapons load of 10.0001b ^ BENSON Maritime rcconnaissance and wi g aircraft of the RAF, although Tornado and Buccaneer aircraft, range air force and naval air force, jhe Mikoyan Mig-23/">7 Floe- search and rescue duties arc l|1:y Nvould be supplemented in and later to the Hawk, Harrier, is the largest variable-geometry gcr- aiso swing-wing. Is a multi- carried out by the RAF with war by 90 Hawk trainers and Sea Harrier. Alarm was aircrati in operational service in rojc combat aircraft and has INVESTMENT Nimrod SR-2s, and airborne early 11 ■ w,th Sidewinder air-to-air preferred over an American ihc world, with a performance ot demonstrated its ability to track warning by a fiecl of six aging n1' 1 Cs* Sidewinder con- ThSwCo0 V)c Texas Inslrumcnts twice the speed ol sound at high an long-range interceptor, with Klcinwort Benson Investment Management Limited, service. This version of t1C ~ version, to be carried by aircraft types developed by the aircraft's unrefucllcd range is a dash performance of three times 20 Fcnchurch Street, London EC3P 3DB. Nimrod will be packed with the 1 . mado air-defencc version, Soviet Union, the Backfire, 4.500 miles. The Sukhoi Su-24 the speed of sound, and a ceiling most-advanced radars and elec- ^ hantoms. Within the past Fencer. Floggcr and Foxbat, in Fencer is also a swing-wing of lOO.OOOfi. A member of the Klcinwort Benson Group w to “see’’ I®' weeks, the Government has Nato code, some SOO ot which arc aircraft developed as a tifihfcr- L JO horUon placed a £300m fixed price produccd each year, according 10 bomber tor jtrt*un

~~r? V ROYAL AIR FORCER Brian Ha s RECRUITING~~

~~High-tech, but square-bashing~~

Behind the glam our of the front- line strike and comes first fighter behind the squadrons, head] 1 ne-catching With the introduction into the year, so placing strains on both and accommo- aid RUS ?/ COasla^ rcscue Wessex inventory of increasingly com- instructors and Sea Kjng helicopters plex aircraft, aircraft systems, dation. A national unemploy- lies the —arc used bv anonymous world of the RAFs cngines and weapons in recent ment level of more than three workhorses of the air university air squadrons. years, the RAF has become a million has resulted in it being The Service operates high-technology service. It is easier to fill the quota, and in equivalent of that the annual recruiters being more selective. a medium-sized a~&TJgg!*SXi: new not surprising airline from its bases at basic trainer to replace the cost of training the men who fly No academic* qualifications and Lyneham 1 10 Jet Provosts still in service A Brize Norton with 13 BAe the aircraft, and the men and are required for entry by airmen VC 10 airliners women who keep them air- and airwomen into most of the ™ ssszzz ^fSS"JStSband“ borne, comes to £200m. 128 trades in the RAF, but the world „ , r r abroad' but ,he choice was Teaching a pilot to be the direct-entry technicians require complete master of a jet such as two O levels at grade C or a Tornado, Phantom, Bucca- equivalent, and engineering troops°Thiny*of theTCtles^' priorifiis^n P* neer or Lightning will cost up to apprentices require four O £2m. Sixty per cent of all RAF levels. Both groups of entrants tradesmen are in engineering are expected to have a math- trades, where the learning ematics or science subject ss-* spxtz1**** m process is lengthy and expens- among their results. In recruit ive. ing ground-based officers the The training task never Service aims for one-third a small fleet of Andovers 1934, when the first , ceases and as many as 15,000 of university graduates, but a essentially the BAe HS 748ft °f a fleet of 12 Cierva C-30A | the 90,000 in the RAF pass minimum of five C-grade O- autogiros. manufactured under i airliner which it uses th rough one or other of the levels is accepted for some .ranSpon d for Ihc callbrat^ 2,000 courses which can be branches, of ground electronics aids. has 140 helicopters of five mam mounted each year at 12 major Generations of former airmen will be interested to know _ Several ...aircraft types which types carrying out a wide ranee of training establishments or smal- many would imagine went out of different tasks. * ggasgtMl "tv-:V. -> icr schools at operational bases, that the six-week initial training service a long time ago are still W-. - •U:< ; The Service is very conscious course for airmen and airwo- opraHicd „by ,,he„ raf They chl?oor"sro,?hreBro!,.^m of the size of its training bill, nien includes the traditional ico,ccC 1951), the Hume/U9e54d fo^TX" iv£ waT'sen^toTh' which encompasses not only “square-bashing”, in addition mWrnmmm* “in-house” courses but those to lectures on RAF history. 111 with the other Services, in standard of dress, organization, Pemb^^sV,948'' 3nd ^ m m PCAbn™kmeb(C'r9'Aversions of ,he ha*le A"aWiC C°"Ve>°r- »"<* “ 'mm pp||§ universities and polytechn' s hygiene, and discipline. since been replaced. The «ând m industry. The n-.d, On completion of this in- Canberra continue to be used, Puma, the RAFs other heavy f objectives, syllabus content, itiation the recruit joins a including the photographic re transport helicopter is a product | flSfiMS teaching methods, and teaching course where he or she is taught connaissance PR.9, and the T. 1 7 ol an Anglo-French development ajds arc constantly monitored the trade chosen on joining. electronics warfare aircraft which r, • . , _ , and manufacturing accord, which H to ensure that they are relevant Such courses may last a few tests Britain s air defences by also produced the smaller Gazelle mm to changing operational tasks. months to more than a year, cluttering the radars and issuing used by the Service mainly for The training machine also although in the case of appren- false commands to fighters. training. has to be extremely flexible for tices learning esoteric aircraft, About 60 Hunters remain on The older Westland Wessex has Iff the annual quota of new engine, and electronics trades, the inventory', with their main training and search-and-rescue entrants to the Service varies the courses stretch over three role that of training. Devons Keeping the aircraft on target: control tower officers at RAF Marhara are (SAR) roles, and the larger considerably. It was 3,000 in years. used as communications aircraft, Westland Sea King is mainly 1982 but has risen to 8,000 this Then follows pre-employ operating mainly from RAF involved in SAR. Both aircraft ment training on the specific Northolt, London, while' the types have saved hundreds of equipment which will be used - Pembrokes do a similar task lives around Britain's coasts, either at an operational station, based in Germany. The RAF has winching up yachtsmen from j—* or at a basic-training school, or announced that it is to buy four stricken boats and injured crew. | occasionally in industry. cAe 1.5 execuuve jets, known m men from the decks of tankers : After the Falklands conflict most arrival of a Vulran u . DiFnnAro,A, . . . f . r ... dplira1(, nrerisinn oneration Rankers are assessed for nc Service as Dominies, and and oil ngs. of the glory was scooped up by the the blue made iS aw"1^ out of in the world as the RAF operated capacity demands for this facility potential promotion to NCOs rCfnlChpXPef n ' f,nl In add,l,on to Germany and Royal Navy and the army. For and think. AndwhaM?tm?Sl0p a shuttle ^ the Falldands war far exceeded mayTt^nfoSted or officers from the day they eventually the Falklands, the RAF keeps weeks they basked in the cheers of was that if tte Raf hey,lJlou«hl amis and equipment for the navy anything then available. This led error, may be taken tor granted. join (20 per cent of all engineer broke* hC Dev°ns and Pem' aircraft on bases in other less- the nation. Port Stanley it conM°U d reach to Pick up °onn lhetheir 1long 8 voyageyg Joto brilliantbrilliant improvizationimprovization byby thethe The most important watershed officers, and 5 per cent of all RAF. and by industry. Vulcan since the re-capture of the The" new 125s will be the 700. The RAF was meanwhile tITing ^ and Hercules aircraft were«« rapidly Falklands was the completion last XsT sTcted Treêm"^ October of extensions to the runway at Port Stanley. This fleet of 125s already operating United they4.suPport quest of the islands - the bombing RAF Hamers and their crew* th nfl earned 5,000 tons of Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft X2 training to prepare them for from Nonholt as com mum? theTlsaflT^t^Se^'in of Pon Stanley airfield, which « had to adaptô S^ment and 5,000 men to was dev.sTdaTinSKd TnTvc allowed RAF high performance, increased responsibilities. The cations aircraft are of an earlier Belize 80 Hamers in on|y brjcfly denied its use to the P atl"? from ships, shared in Ascension. weeks. supersonic Phantom fighters to be courses are intensive and last based there and thus give the version, powered by Rolls-Royce with .h Argentines - was more than a ! ,ie achievcmcnts of the cJ1 A'rhe short-range RAF vertical/ M “ 1*ICIC dl!^ uiui for up to three weeks. Viper engines. For fleet commo- fal eAxcept,on of the marginally relevant attempt to ge^ Hamers- Sea J,? take-off Harrier’s flew out to J£?fMorecnoethan than 600a air-to-air\ islandsislands better air cover than they Inftiai lraimng for ground- nality, the older 125s are to have [cam flvinaVArT£,WS ,aerobatlc inoMheact. P 8 c But the recaptUrc of s jent the Royal Navy’s refuellings were earnedcarried out in thisthis had enjoyed before or dunngduring the based offlcers isS done at the l7h3Tsr V,PCre rep!aced TFE and the1In fact .he RAFs contribution oflogiri./s™5 ^feraft w.th the task force. Those period and‘"ftileJ only a Tsixm /SSrefuelling $ “conflict,f'0'’ . RAF College, Cranwell, Where attempts failed. All aircraft got OoTmhfnLAFasUTraUarrrflr°f M ^ T' ^back to Wbase, though in Zone ‘^33^ h^f instance only after embarrassing diversion to Brazil. ssssssssxPStudent pilots n f°r valuation asreplaceraentsfor isIandsssissaaiaass- indisnensaWc Ihc RAF was needcd a ,furth" e>Bht “rTriT.S?Since the war the RAF has of the Phantoms, moreover, has 0n to specialized training on vSÂsssa&a, :hi.r™»4' "tspm,, saMwassc*

steps towards flying.4'ra m the Service ..A|> !yls n.?m‘1,tan'.i.yw effectiveness,rasvussrsTas*aac there Ascension, it has been said’ ^ Although the RAF was already making about five flights a week. s£szgg&s£~* cations,3* sucha tas ^aofficersr in the nas since been evidence that the briefly became the busiest airport increasing its air-to-air refuelling The RAF is concerned that this RC^ Continued on next page I I THE GUARDIAN 8.9.83

~~Lessons of modern i i warfare upset MoD I By John Ezard a suitable subject to be shown ! Thn Ministry of Defence said by-schools television. Frankly, N~~

television series which sets the * n l0 young people. British Army’s role in North- LVigadier Ramsbotham and ern Ireland within a context of other MoD officials said yester- i modern warfare was suitable day that there was “ not a for showing to children. scrap ” of evidence, for the sug- The Irish link is made in gestion of a civilian atrocity notes for teachers to be issued against conscripts. Mr Monk with a three-episode Thames said: “ It sounds thoroughly Television schools play due to slanted and calculated to insert begin transmission on Septem- into young minds the idea that ber 28, A Game of Soldiers, something like this happened based on last year’s Falklands even if the plav is presented conflict. as fiction.” attacked ***** W“ “ through!? The Pla>”s Producer and dir- slanled’’ bv the Falkfand ector> Mr Peter Tabern> said Islands Government represents lha P^y, by Jan Weedle, did tive in London, Mr Adrian ?°‘ Iac‘uall£alleSe .that Monk yesterday, because its j13^ billed conscripts, plot hinges on an unsubstan- incident was based simply tiated belief that Falklands ^S3^0!1 ^vlc*®n^e *bat the civilians carried out atrocities f0C3 14 a|klauds defence force against young Argentine cons- .,ac* resisted actively during cripts. the occupation. The rest But this issue was overtaken was “ invention.” by a criticism made later by It had been included to help the Army’s director of public teachers prompt classroom dis- relations. Brigadier David cussion on the way rumour Ramsbotham, who spoke out was believed and embroidered after studying the teachers’ as it spread through a com- notes and a programme synop- munity. sis with other Ministry of De “ It is like the rumour dur fence officials. The notes suggest that, after ing the first world war that watching the play, teachers Russians were seen passing should broaden classroom dis through East Anglia with snow cussion by encouraging re on their boots,” Mr Tabern search into questions like: added.TT “ Where is there a war going However, neither the atrocity on now ? A discussion on Ire- allegation nor the role of land could be very relevant rum°ur are mentioned in the here. How does modern warfare *br.e? Pa8es of teachers’ notes differ from wars fought 50-100 which accompany the pro- years ago ? Have the reasons gramme, for war changed at all ? ” Mr Tabern said in reply,to Brigadier Ramsbotham, who Brigadier Ramsbotham’s com- commanded the 39th Infantry plaint^ about Northern Ireland : Brigade in Northern Ireland “ I would not disagree with the from 1978-80, said : “ The role brigadier’s constitutional point of the Army in Northern Ire- about war and Northern Ire land since 1969 has been to land. But when it comes to support the civilian power, what goes through school- There are objections to even a children’s minds in relation to hint that it is relevant to a dis- — let us call it - armed con cussion of war. flict, I would think Northern “ From what I have seen so Ireland is likely to creep into far, I question whether this is the discussion.”

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~~RUSSIANS LEARN~~

~~FROM LESSONS~~

~~OF FALKLANDS~~

By DESMOND WETTER Y .Yaval Correspondent JgRITAIN aimed to recapture the Falklands last year with “ little bloodshed,” and much of the success of the operation was due | to the “ high level of professional training ” of the Servicemen, according to senior Russian Many Russian accounts make officers. much of American assistance for the British forces, but they An analysis of comments on the conflict in Russian concede that the lack of air publications over the past year has been prepared by borne reconnaissance and tadar early-warning, coupled with the Dr Milan Vego; a former Argentine planes having three Yugoslav naval officer. times the range of the British Sea Harriers, were important Dr Vego was partly trained disadvantages for the Task in Moscow before he defected Force. v to the United States. The success of the San Carlos \ landing showed “ the increased FALKLANDS He says that initially the Rus \ sians were doubtful of the significance of amphibious British success because of the assault forces” and underlined ‘ UNFINISHED the necessity for the Russian long lines of communication. Navy to have modern landing They claimed the British Task ships and to provide high quality BUSINESS’ Force was fulfilling the role of a training for troops in amphi Nato “ vanguard detachment.” bious operations. By Our Political Staff Although it used tactics and Admitting that he “ nagged equipment developed for use in Inadequate radar on and on ” about the Falklands, mn Nftouarea> !ts success owed Surface warships played the Mr Tam Dalyell, Labour M P moic to punitive expeditions main role in the fighting and it for Linlithgow, told a TUC overseas because many senior was only due to them that the fringe meeting in Blackpool yes officers had served in Aden, British “ accomplished assigned terday why he was the most per Borneo, Kenya, Malaya and else- missions.” But the “ lack of sistent critic of Mrs Thatcher where. large multi-purpose aircraft over her handling of the conflict Dr Vego’s compilation of carriers ” contributed much to with Argentina. Russian reports on the Falk- the loss of British ships, He said: “ It is chiefly because lands was published yesterday British ships generally did the Falklands are unfinished in the September issue of the not have “high resistance to business, and time is not oh i». P"t!sh J0U™' NaYv attack by Argentine aircraft. our side. International. It appears to especially in regard to Cruise “If there is no prospect of confirm that at least one Rus- missiles with low-flight traiec- negotiations with Argentina, s,an submarine was present for tories ” (sea-skimming), while and compliance with the United A«,a„rfv0f COnfllCl aluminium superstructures in Nations’ request to resume dis in the South Atlantic, some British ships made damage cussions between Britain and Argentina, there will sooher or U.S. assistance co“[,ro1 ™ore JfPcu‘t- The radar in British ships was later be a replay, of uncertain While British nuclear- outcome but certain bloodshed.” inadequate against very high- powered hunter-killer sub or very low-level targets ; marines operated in close co there was a lack of British ordination with surface ships, electronic countermeasures they were more noisy than the (jamming); a low level of Argentine diesel - electric • effectiveness in intelligence powered submarines but they interpretation of intercepted had more modern tsonar under-, , enemy communications and in- Ar^nt ^ CC l°n systems and the adequate training of warship tra?n?Htme CreWS were poorly crews in radar surveillance and iramea. electronic ■ intelligence gather The Russians’ view on the ing. sinking of the Argentine cruiser Although the various Russian General Belgrano by the sub accounts claim that the number marine Conqueror was that it of British ships damaged was was of value for ‘ demoralising higher than was actually the the personnel of the Argentine case, Navy and demonstrating the there is a tremendous might of English weapons ” as degree of unanimity in the well -as for “ securing the analysis by various senior neutralisation of the Argentine officers most of which fully fleet for the rest of the con- endorses the views on the con flict ”. flict of senior British officers.

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~~DAILY TELEGRAPH 8.9.83 4 SUN’S ’ LIES~~

OYER YC i CONDEMNED By ROBERT BEDLOW Industrial Staff ^FHE Sun newspaper’s fabricated “world exclusive ” story of an interview with the widow of Falkland’s V C Sgt. Ian McKay has come in for further condemnation from the union leader of the

■ newspaper’s journalists and from the editor of ITN. Mr Malcolm Withers, Father of the Chapel (Branch) of the National Union of Journalists, said yesterday that the Sun was guilty of “ lying and deceit.” Mr David Nicholas, editor of ITN, said that the Sun’s excuse that it had “ lifted ” material from an unscreened interview between ITN and Sgt McKav’s widow Marica was totally wrong. He said: “We certainly did not make anv material available to the Sun. We checked with all the material not used, and the interview did not take place. If Mrs McKay had said the words alleged then obviously we would have used them our selves. They did not appear. ‘ Insensitive deception9 Mr Kelvin MacKenzie, Sun editor, was said by Mr Withers iV to be responsible for the fabri 3 cation. He said: “ It is only one of many instances of lying and deceit practised by the Sun since Kelvin MacKenzie re placed Sir Larry Lamb as editor.” The story which sparked off the dispute was sent to the Press Council which described it as “ a deplorable, insensitive deception on the public.” In an interview with the N U J publication the Journalist, Mr Withers said of the McKav story: “I condemn both the paper and the editor for pub lishing this deception, and also for a string of similar incident; even if, in themselves, the.\ have appeared less serious.” Mr Withers said that journ? lists were being coerced to writ what they knew to be uncheck' stories, with regard to accurac.

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\ Plan to ‘blur FINANCIAL TIMES 7.9.83 and erase’ border, says Paisley By Brendan Keenan in Dublin THE REV Ian Paisley, MP, claims he has documents which reveal plans to establish an Anglo-Irish inter-parliamen tary body and develop cross- border links on a wide range of subjects including energy, education and sport Mr Paisley says these sub jects will be discussed at a summit meeting in November, between Mrs Thatcher and Dr Garret FitzGerald, the Irish Prime Minister. Officials in Dublin were is sceptical about Mr Paisley’s '■^ims and believe he may .ve acquired normal Civil Service discussion documents which would be drawn up in advance of any summit meet ing. *T A Northern Ireland Office official said they had always believed that cross border co operation benefited both j Northern Ireland and the Republic, but in no way com promised Northern Ireland’s constitutional position. Mr Paisley claimed there was a plan to “ blur and even tually erase ” the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. He complained particularly about what he said was a proposal to give voting rights to citizens of the Irish Republic living in Northern Ireland. Official sources concede that a November meeting between Mrs Thatcher and Dr Fitz Gerald is likely, although no definite date has been fixed. But Dublin sources were doubt ful that anything as sweeping as Mr Paisley’s claims would emerge from it. They do believe that Anglo- Irish relations are “back on the rails” after the problems caused by the Faiklands crisis. The Irish would like to see an inter-parliamentary group established as an adjunct to regular contacts between ministers, but Mrs Thatcher has always said that this is a matter for parliament rather than the Government. The issue of voting rights could be a thorny one. The Irish Government has intro duced legislation to give the franchise to UK citizens living in the Republic, and, when this is passed, Irish citizens in Northern Ireland will be the only group in either country who are unable to vote in their country of residence.

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~~Spain tries~~

again on Liberal move to avert clashes By Anthony Bevins, Political Correspondent The Liberal establishment more ‘“corporate style of leader- He says that the weekly Gibraltar yesterday moved to head off the ship”, which includes the election meeting of Liberal MPs is From Richard Wigg possibility of damaging in-fighting of a deputy leader by all party “indifferently attended” and that Madrid breaking out at the party members, and the election of a it needs to be forged into a much Spain yesterday mounted a assembly, which starts in Harro- chief whip and parliamentary more effective instrument. diplomatic initiative to try to gate on September 19. PartV chairman by the party s 17 In an attempt to set the tone for break the deadlock with Britain Mr Paul Hannon, chairman of MPs. They are hoping that the the assembly, Mr Hannon says in over Gibraltar when Sehor the assembly committee, said - issue can be thrashed out on the the same newspaper “We have a Fernando Moran, the Spanish yesterday that the much-heralded “rsl day of the assembly, week of media exposure at our Foreign Minister, met Sir confrontation between party Mr Hannon said yesterday: “I disposal and it would be a tragedy Geoffrey Howe, the Foreign activists and the leadership over would not anticipate that ques- to throw away this opportunity by Secretary. control of the election manifesto tions relating to the internal concentrating on internal dis After talks which lasted for might not take place. management of the Parliamentary putes”. more than three hours, the The constitutional amendment Liberal Party would be one of the Among the controversial de Spanish spoke of an atmosphere on the manifesto, which would key issues. A commission of 500 bates will be a Young Liberal of great cordiality and under remove the party leader’s "final people is hardly the ideal body to proposal for a “phased with standing, but the British sounded authority” over content, is tabled try to sit down and grapple with drawal” of troops from Northern a lot more cautious, and empha for a closed-session debate on the the details of any proposals for Ireland “to be replaced by UN or sized that no decisions had been second day of the assembly. reform of the organization and EEC troops if necessary". In a taken. But Mr Hannon said yesterday administration of the party.” debate on the Falklands it will be The two ministers agreed to that it was number six in a three it is expected instead that the proposed tliat small island continue their talks, which also and three quarter hour private matter will be handed over for communities should have their touched on East-West relations session on party business. There detailed discussion by the party’s autonomy guaranteed inter and Spain joining the EEC, at the was a chance that it might not be executive. nationally. , UN General Assembly in New reached. Mr Stuart Mole, the Liberal Dr David Owen, leader of the York in about three weeks. candidate for Chelmsford and a Social Democratic Party, will It was disclosed that another attend Emphasizing the exploratory possible area of conflict, the case member of Mr Steel’s staff, says in the assembly for a fringe nature of the meeting, with the put for changes in the leadership the latest edition of Liberal News: meeting at which Liberals will two ministers getting to know structure by Mr Cyril Smith, MP “It is curious that unhappiness have a chance to put questions on each other’s positions on the for Rochdale, and David Alton, with David Steel’s rather clois the Alliance. Mr Wedgwood Benn Gibraltar question, British MP for Liverpool, Mossley Hill, tered style of leadership should is billed for a debate with Mr sources afterwards denied that could also be avoided. spawn propopsals for change Michael Meadowcroft, the MP for which are very much in the same Leeds, West, on "The Politics of there was any question of doing a The two MPs have proposed a deal, with Spain lifting the border styles.” the Left”. restrictions in return for Britain granting immediate equal rights for Spaniards on the Rock. These will come automatically on Spain’s accession to the EEC. The British sources also NOAH’S Ami described the Lisbon agreement as the only existing framework for tackling the Gibraltar question which, they said, Britain BOUNDFOR remained ready to implement fully. /Alemorial plan Yesterday’s meeting was the Sixteen cottages in South FALKLANDS first at ministerial level to discuss Yorkshire for young disabled the Gibraltar problem since total servicemen are being planned as a By JOHN PETTY disagreement emerged over .memorial to Sergeant Ian McKay, Shipping Correspondent Spain’s continuing border restic- who was awarded the Victoria tions and sovereignity claim to A “ NOAH’S ARK ” is to Cross posthumously after the set sail for the Falk the Rock when Senor Moran met Falklands conflict. Mrs Margaret Thatcher and Mr lands in two weeks time. Pym, the then Foreign Secretary, The tiny Dina Khalef, only in London last March. 357 tons and under the flag of Speaking before they met, Qatar, will sail from Poole with Senor Moran had argued that 171 sheep. 24 cattle, 20 horses, what was now needed was a way four goats, five pigs and some out of the situation created by the working dogs. Falklands conflict which, he The animals are needed to re mamtame’d, had produced a stock the islands following the “climate of nationalism” in war and the occupation by the Britain, making it difficult to Argentines. proceed down the path indicated Some cats and budgerigars by the Anglo-Spanish Lisbon are already on the way in Royal Agreement of 1980. Navy ships. Sehor Moran had refused to Money to buy the animals 1 detail exactly the contents of the comes from the Falkland Spanish initiative before his talk DAILY Islands Fund subscribed by the with Sir Geoffrey, but indicated public. “ There is no Govern that what he hoped for was at TELEGRAPH ment money involved and we least agreement on.a timetable for 7.9.83 are trying to keep down costs.” future meetings on Gibraltar. said the Crown Agents, who Sir Geoffrey will have an booked the ship. i audience with King Juan Carlos The voyage will take about today 28 days, with private veterinary surgeons and specialist animals j handlers on board. The Ministry of Agriculture has provided experts to inspect the Dina Khalef to ensure her suitability.

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TWENTY, J T - nine - year - the boiler burst just as the old London photographer ship was leaving harbour Rory Coon an is hoping anc* 120 passengers were for better luck today sent off home or to hotels when he sets out once t0*TawaiJL fl^rther news- more on his delaved m ow • Centaur is set to three-month round trin *ai1 again thls afternoon. ovaP'P tn Sf £ trip Among those awaiting its voyage to bt Helena. arrival is TV camera- Victoria111, liv*?s in ™om3in Cindy Buxton, the d col4leagu,e heroine of South Georgia, Stuart MacKay are travel- now making a film on isfaSnd° tnlemf?aUn AUnntiC Ascensi°n- Coonan. whose •™?d fnii ^ fhe Photographs are on show *7** photographic at the National Portrait uliifno0f tne people of st- Gallery, will be delivering u . Photographic equipment to be exhibited m London AngliaMlss Buxton TV. on behalf of next May as part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of St. Helena’s incorporation as a British colony. The only way to St. Helena is by RMS Centaur,

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6.9.83 boohs from Argentina By JOHN IZBICKI Education Correspondent ABOUT 200 consign ments of books 30rt(;d from Argentina and intended for univer- „ ldra.nesi including cBod eian, at Oxford, w■tSl?tt Polar Besearch Institution at Cambridge and the British Library, are to be re-exported, it was disclosed yesterday. J’??0 books have been pmhedrfby Customs since the embargo on trade with Argen atnDovner doecks°W being St°red forMLXowya"’dLabOUr MP a critic of the Government’s Falklands Policy has demanded a* special debate about the books. Dalyell also called for Parliament to intervene to save Xd °m being b“™* « andUk-JL°ke-^a for Cust°ms thrrpEvfSe S3ld iast ni®bt that books bei^d ^“royeT °f the giv‘eIhetheiTp0proriun,'r;Ultdo £l ArffPnVthe book§’ either back to Argentina or to any country hehesaidn° b3D 6XiStS 011 them’”

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the bbranes. Indeed, we regret very much the side- effects caused by the trade em oargo with Argentina. “ We should like to see a full resumption of trade with that country but there has been no sign of any willingness to do so on the part of the Argentines." Only journalistic anateda], suchOT. as Jle\vs c°py a°d film are exempt from the embargo.

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ANYONE with four thou sand plus to spare and a yen to shake former Falklands Governor Sir Rex Hunt (now Civil Commissioner) by the hand could opt this year lor a winter cruise aboard the Lindblad Ex plorer, which sets out on a South Atlantic expedi tionary cruise from the Chilean port of Punta Arenas on December 13. Christmas Day will be spent at sea off South Georgia, Boxing Day the ship will be berthed at Grytviken, and N e w Year's Eve will be spent in the Falklands, cul minating in a party hosted by Sir Rex and Lady Hunt.

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i» Philip Marchington’s “ San Carlos Observation Post from the exhibition at the Mall Galleries. v(T ■ SjC) ART / Echoes of the Falklands -HOBS of _ acfi^fn ^fgjg Og, -EgSS the Falklands, and memoriesevents, are of plentiful earlier intraumatic the 38th sSMt

s“oE“ArtltseS ^bfK^nigt exhibition has a short run until rePre^”^ Sa Rnval °rnros of LoGkPlts> Grimsby , showing storey and others recall North »—gsekSs stassr — The Mall. The visitor is greeted by four Such works demonstrate one In his introduction to the sons of these paintings, hanging on a screen, 0f the legitimate roles of the catalogue David Cobb remarks Go^Down to the Sea by David Cobb, the President. Society. Most of those that it costs no more to devise I Must Go Down to, me All are scenes in the Falklands concerned with what is widely a scheme of paintwork that Agai , „ and they now belong to the acclaimed in modern art tend to makes the best of the qualities the sKy .... P & 0. have little time for illustration, of a she afloat just as the TERENCE MULLALY Other paintings of the recent It is, on the other hand, one same is true with a she

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FINANCIAL TIMES White Paper, which noted that Data on the “ estimated cost of com 5.9.83 prehensive improvement and £6bn plan development of the army and imports from RAF Rapier” amounted to 5')o £1.27bn. to improve It is understood that the Argentina ministry has so far signed con S tracts with British Aerospace Rapier t for about £100m of the pro ‘inflated’ ’9 i gramme. Improvements planned ( for the towed system include a By Christian Tyler, air defence new surveillance radar. World Trad® Editor By Bridget Bloom, 1 While British Aerospace Defence Correspondent 1 T CLERKS at the Department of ] Dynamics is the prime con tractor for Rapier, other defence :-il’ Customs and Excise have been British Aerospace Dynamics /it*accidentally inflating the companies involved include ?!' Group, backed by the Govern Marconi Space and Defence figures for British imports from ment, has started a programme ! ' Argentina, while Customs Systems and Ferranti. to improve the towed version of Rapier is designed to attack officers are busy impounding its Rapier air defence system. i Argentine goods at UK ports. : aircraft flying low to escape The programme, which has radar detection. Its original ;_r The Department is blaming Defence Ministry support, will towed version, in service with /C “keying errors by computer be completed at an estimated the RAF and the Army, has V operators” for £95,000 of the cost of £1.27bn over the next accounted for most export sales .. £241,000 worth of Argentine 10-15 years. so far. goods recorded as having The Ministry expects the full A tracked version, with mis entered Britain in the first scheme to cost about £6bri at siles and launchers carried on , i half of this year. present prices, considerably a single vehicle, which is just V>! Since Argentine invaded the more than the original £5bn entering service with the Army, Falkland Islands in April last estimate for Britain’s contro was developed originally to m year imports have been versial Trident nuclear meet an Iranian order. • banned, except for personal deterrent. Competitors for Rapier in. a effects, newspapers, news film Rapier development dates cut-throat market include the and periodicals. The Govem- from the 1960s and the improve Franco-German Roland, the ment is likely to continue the ment programme is designed to French Crotale and the U.S. ban until Argentina formally take the system into the 1990s. Chapporal and a variety of anti 'declares a cessation of hostili- The total expenditure repre aircraft gun systems. i ties. sents roughly the amount spent Customers include Switzer - According to Customs and by the Defence Ministry on the land, Singapore, Qatar, Oman, A Excise, another £58,000 of the whole of the defence equipment Abu Dhabi, Australia, Brunei, - first-half figure was due to late procurement budget last year. Zambia and, in an “offset” deal entry of documents related to Both the Ministry and British on Trident, the U.S. Air Force goods that came into the Aerospace hope for substantial in Britain. country before the embargo. sales of Rapier, which British Aerospace so far has - Goods worth an estimated overseas failed to persuade the U.S. to ' £20,000 had been sent to Britain is believed to be Britain’s buy Rapier for its Rapid De :. ..by post. The balance remains largest single arms export item. ployment Force and a 20-year ! unaccounted for. But some of Sales to 10 countries in the effort to sell it to Norway failed last decade have earned more j 11 it. such as a consignment of when the U.S. clinched a deal •o'* animal hides seized at than £1.4bn. Turkey became there this summer. the 11th country to buy Rapier . , -ji Northampton two months ago, Rapier’s performance in the q may have been illegally im- last month, with a contract Falklands is being used by ported. worth £146m for 36 systems. 'British Aerospace in an effort According to Customs figures The first public indication of to boost sales. supplied bv the Department of the improvements was a two-line Trade. Britain took delivery of entry in last July’s Defence £69.000 worth of office and data- processing equipment. £116.000 worth of machinery and trans port eouipment and £30,000 worth of textile yarns from ai‘ January through .Tune. Meanwhile. the Customs people are being assailed by complaints from scholars and .librarians that the import ban ! r. is being too strenuously operated. The librarian of the Institute of Economics and Statistics at £

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torpedo £ Argentine restrictions for French By Our Banking Correspondent British companies in Argentina Other restrictions, outside the fishing boat for Navy arc still being discriminated remit of the IMF, remain in force, By Rodney Cowton against by the Argentine auth- British companies arc said to be I By a Staff Reporter Defence Correspondent oritics, according to Whitehall denied access to public sector A new British lightweight anti sources, although they arc now contracts. They also have to The severe gales of the weekend submarine torpedo, claimed to be being allowed to remit dividends operate under an Argentine do not necessarily -mean that the the most advanced in the world, from the country. overseer and arc forbidden to sell summer is over. I will come into service with the Last month British banks were, any local asset or property, But the London Weather Royal Navy and the Royal Air in effect, forced to delay signing a Britain lifted financial sanc- Force within the next few weeks. $1.5bn international loan for tions against Argentina last Centre said yesterday that there Argentina because of pressure September and the government would be no return of the The Stingray, which has been from the Government. It said it would like to see a resumption of heatwave and said the next few under development for more than new wanted evidence that Argentina normal trading relations. But days will continue windy. 10 years, is one of a was no longer blocking dividend Whitehall officials say there has generation 1of computer-con- payments. Once the International been no positie response from There is serious concern for the trolled "smart” weapons. Thc Monetary Fund formally con- Argentina, safety of the five or six-man crew United States is working on a firmed that Argentina was allow Britain maintains a ban on i on board the French fishing vessel similar weapon. ing British companies to repatri- imports from Argentina, imposed t Renie Berccaux which has been Stingray has a very advanced ate dividends, the government in April 1982. According to the i missing since Friday despite an system and once launched in the withdrew its objections. Department of Trade and Indus- i intensive air search. The last general vicinity of a target it can British companies have con- try, the only exceptions are news r known position of the boat, from conduct its own search and firmed that they have been material and non-commercial t Concarneau in Brittany, was 250 navigate to strike it in the most allowed to take money out. But a imports, r miles north-west of Land’s End. favourable way in the most spokesman for the Department of Last month’s political dispute c vulnerable areas. It can dis c The gales have blown rare sea Trade and Industry said: “We over British bank participation in tinguish, between real targets and understand it is operating on a the Argentine loan is believed to \ birds to Britain, including one objects which might be mistaken r whose nearest colony is on the casc-by-case basis. We will be have stemmed directly from for them. monitcring the situation closely.” intervention by Mrs Thatcher, c Falklaqds - a seven-inchcs-long The torpedo is said to be highly Wilson fm Petrel, an Antarctic resistant to electronic contermea- species of which only about ten sures and is claimed to be capable have been recorded previously. ( of penetrating all known submar More than 80 Sabine’s gulls from | ine hulls. the Arctic, have also been swept Development of Stingray began GUARDIAN onto land. in the early 1970s at the Admiralty Underwater Weapons 5.9.83 In Snowdonia the A5 London- Establishment at Portland, but in Hollyhead road was reopened last 1978 Marconi was given a £200m night after being blocked for 38 contract to complete the develop hours by a landslide, and in Milford Haven experts were ment and produce the torpedo. examining the damage caused It is believed that in the when an ocean-going tug was Stingray's acceptance trials every flung by mountainous seas onto torpedo fired which was intended the BP jetty at its Angle Bay to score a hit did so, and almost terminal. all of them were in the vulnerable central sections of the targets. The Fruit farmers in the South-East torpedo is designed to be have been badly hit and some launched from ships, helicopters apple growers have lost a third of or fixed-wing aircraft. They were MP tries their crop. carried with the Task Force to the Falklands before they had official- "Iy~-TSTTTf5Tctcd their acceptance to save P trials but were not used. t .3 books A LABOUR MP yesterday called for swift action by Parliament to stop Customs % men burning hundreds of ROMNEY SHEEP'? books destined for libraries DAILY and universities but seized at Dover under the order banning TELEGRAPH TOR FALKLANDS imports from Argentina. Nearly 200 Romney Marsh Mr Tam Dalyell, a persistent sheep are to be shipped to critic of the Government's 5.9.83 the Falkland islands later this Falklands policy, said that month. The sheep from wind many rare volumes could be swept, but rich, grazing burned under the order. They grounds of the Marsh area on were sent from Argentina to the East Sussex-Kent border ! the Bodleian Library ' in will be used to re-stock the I Oxford, the Scott Polar Re islands’ sheep farms still search Institution in Cam suffering from the aftermath bridge, and many leading 1 of the Argentina invasion. universities. A spokesman for the Mr Dalyell. who represents Romney Marsh sheep breeders Linlithgow, has written to the society said: “They are a Speaker, Mr Bernard Weather- hardy breed and will withstand ill, asking for a debate on the the rigours of the South issue when Parliament resumes Atlantic weather.” next month.

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itgfsf [notebook sS-pt-i fefewthZderbo0irdt0 ^sor^ThMrkCha^0n’S ted8«ttog a flood of protests Kdu“oWlibt^S At *Dover to toe customs key phrase and complaints from its Scott Polar Research Institute iTe af9ms ^Nothmg m this hcence members. to acquire or publish materials A^entSeiSud toatX ^ autho^e Ale importation Dr A. Matheson, the keeper relevant to the Falkland th?DeDartment of Trade wto of “V 8°°^ whjchA have been of the printed books to the Islands, their dependencies and not tolow“ to the coun^ “ported from Argentina.’ National Library of Scotland the British Antarctic Territory, imd,r IW‘tTi Any goods mcluded books. received a consignment of whether published in the UK or tadP rh A embargo on Goods for which the Depart- books from ArgS last elsewhere.

S'fV’ ““ Pi2”p.«bnrto?,VSS *3£'S',SS KK Trade Minister Paul Channon faces a button storm, and Argmiii'B oil congress stand Is bare. iêrstofd'f SF haVe T not "eeirTto^have ên represlmattons "to^Mkhsten whom w^recetoe^Mânnuto Barney Hayhoe, said in a increased rather than dimi- British scholars are prevented London University, Mrs thI rigorously applied. and Department of Trade civil grant-in-aid of £20,000 and to written answer to a parhamen- nished.’ from reading the wo* of other Travis, said: ‘ At the height of TnQhWp fn y Jre'!8’ Mr Harry Fairhurst, a libra- servants. the polar research section of the ^ question on 29 July that, Government policy is based British scholars, the Falklands crisis the Foreign can StnHipR r aftmT^n!?ri'’ f?r 35 years> nms to® These got nowhere. Here is a E?feign ^d Commonwealth y«? hooks sent from Argentina on ^ notjon that the more Mr John May, a director of Office were ringing us for TTnivprQitv o London Standing Conference of typical example of such Office, who rely on our library Johbrariesm the UK, including pressure is keot on May and May Ltd, a second- information, hoping we had others AH* kLi/113117 National ^d University Libra- exchanges. ®j“d. information services for diefiodlei^5 were being held Argentina here the more likely ^ and antiquarian book- books that they hadn’t. Now HflWh books are nes in London, a registered On 24 Tune the actma their own research purposes.’ up by HM Customs and Excise. ■> ;f *-h ja wuaf J[ aeDer in Salisbury says he has they’re stopping the same Cusoi ** ‘harity> whose Purpose is to director of Xe Scott pSK U ^ hooks he listed were 7he /importation’ of the had a consignment of 25 books books from coming in.’ Excise Depart- further the cause of all the Research Institute in Cam- Iost t0 toe library, the gap 8°ods concerned ’ was , ' toeranfiscation of on the history of music seized At the Dover customs parcel miaht Week* They umversity and national libraries bridge, Dr T. E. Armstrong would in all probability never Prohibited. the 4,000 Argentoe brochures by the customs at Dover. The depot, a helpful Mr Darler, Th* fntbiUkied' • wh° form its members. wrote to the International he filled. Such books went ®ut the answer was buried brought m for the World books were published in who is in charge there, con frmr? Arainf^ 0n ^ uni5rts The book-banning has come Trade Policy Division of the raPidly out of print. ®?d httle noticed. Then last Petroleum Congress at the Buenos Aires between 1923 and ceded that ‘ a considerable nn7 eff5ct to a head, he says, only inZ DoT Y °f He ‘begged’ the Interna- month the alert Times Literary Barbican in London last week. 1981. Mr May has been m number ’ of book parcels had Cabinet derkinn ! rd a tbree months. The British He enclosed an invoice for ti°naI Trade Policy Division to z!Pri?ted a sharp But no one I spoke to can see touch with HM Customs. He been seized, and were now iSuced m the fn™ ^rary had some problems books that had bên prevented reent- comment. Ringing round the why books should be lumped in understands the books are Crown property. He was statutory instrumpn/d^Jo,3 ^?fore that, but it is only since from reaching the institute It did not. The reply, from S. Cranes, the mstitutes of the same category. ‘ likely to be destroyed- awaiting instructions on how to the to *** ”er that the The books, L înmd out* L‘ Hod^ ^d * "as the American studies, ______^ His bookshop sports and dispose of them. Trade, Standmg Conference has star- concerned issues ofsovereignty Government’s aim to maintain Hon° ars,Pr?fes1slonal organisa- Fm I H9 exports scholarly music books I asked Mr England at ^ y a total embargo on all Argen- *ons> and booksellers, I have I wr- r***** I all round the world. He Customs and Excise headquar tine goods. Argentina was fônmered uniform hostility 1 ^ mi I wonders what other countries ters what the Commissioners of discriminating against British ^chng into incredulity about I I will think when they hear that Customs had in mind. He firms, despite undertakings not slân. § *?* ***$*£ 11 a Govenunentls seizing stressed that the books did not to do so. ‘Any shift in our Po with, there is a I I such books and threatening to present any special problem. position would send entirely §f°era* s®nse of shock, even 1 destroy them. ‘We treat them as perfectly the wrong signals to the fig?* that it should be a L F i very few paraUelsm modem ordinary goods, like textiles.’ Argentinians’ and hinder £ntlsh Government not a 1 ifi J times,’ he says, fa such a They would be disposed of. British efforts to get the Jctftorship that is applvintr ^....a ^ ''m '' uolicy. This is at0^.s?2Ufe They could be pulped. Or reciprocal lifting of all remain- a ban. Second, it if 4,000 hm u uaA £nd threat to destroy books burned? Mr England paused, ing sanctions. The licence was verywhere pointed out that 0chure«s®,z ’ from a possibly remembering some rt:t tried .oget the policy ^'SJSSSSj JS^gSSSS thing about book- burning, but he went nobly ahead. ‘Could changed, workingquietly v:5 .0ut oewspapers and The Oxfo^Ûniversity on music puD^w Thor be.’ ‘within the system.’ Now, not Th^ S? ^titute nf ^cs and a°nhundred yfXaJnPH Mr Paul Channon could not immediately say, when I called S™te,cy„radyf.„ him, why newspapers and periodicals were allowed in but not books. He was, he said, ‘unbriefed.’ Mr Channon promised me a SdT.^S'S^S i •ofa.1979'1”'1*„ Zgijgn* statement after he was briefed. and libraries; Sir Keith Joseph, should not be j Air Harold 'ciakerti°re^ 5, hnoeS to b® ,f think he’d the Minister of Education, Ind Ration of any adv«er toLtojS^^ r&-1 don,kTwicked When it came, it merely Mr Channon. ‘All the replies import^ Mr^nn ^ 88 a WStavedone^mt^g and repeated the Government’s were to concert:’ no dice. 5; library worldwh^?;^ m ““detnic “.0n cus»f ^,ness, disturb 8 and position. Yet only two months ‘Censorship’ is now the word A^toRenamed ‘Fu ^lnot ^ve sei7ed?tfnttotbe 5*ctressiflg•, uûud tHa ago—as the people I spoke to McMiJJan-Scott Associate being used by Mr Fairhurst. ^fês Zto ^ fourntoh^ a *** fhicb is » *%££&# “^dtuteof unfailingly reminded me—Mr Channon was the Minister in 41 Whitehall LondonSW1A2UZ Telephone **| A T— a. d3£’0t.^ss charge of libraries. SUNDAY Storm brewing TELEGRAPH over 41? 4.9.83 y Falklands airport cost By NORMAN KIRK1IAM, Diplomatic Correspondent S°mu!H-mi 11 ion1 pound ah'- cither ?™mtt,souSr5ffiSS t ,slfU1 "T

! , “outh*Afnca'ar.fl^ A£?de$E to ty ifs'uth to b° to bring z storm of critic- influpnrpfl iivUr??ffir!,°itw.aVfi j?e? 0ne expert source in Port ■ism among MPs as the work thenecessary materials^amf ?.tanleyu also Precast yesterday begins this autumn. cquipmenti^ So^ America that V* project take Experts on the islands believe countries and the prospect that cons[derah^rSnrn°hl,fminfleteVua that the total cost of the air- Argentina would bring pressure E ? rlPPn ob ? t°.r, th.e port, ancillary buildings, two on her neighbours not to offer Siv ™ a?°^c^nt whlch .1S access roads and a new harbour Britain such help. relying at present on expensive facility nearby will reach £400 Another factor is that the mill- &>ht%e-Sw“51°n Witb million or more rather than the tary base at Ascension Island m * re luellm2- £215 million being allocated at the British staging post to the * A cons°rtium, Laing-Mowlem- present by the Government. Falklands, is not equipped as a „ ey Roadstone won the over- Port Stanley sources also re- foajor port to deal with build- a contract for the airport and ported yesterday that a string |n6 supplies and workers mov- announccd that supply contracts \ of cargo vessels is to carry in& down to the Falklands. were going to several British building materials, equipment. An advance party of gcolo- corapames- fuel and even drinking water gists and surveyors has arrived ■) tor the project from South already on the Mount Pleasant Africa instead of Britain or site and one of the first tasks South America. is to instal a jetty and landing A Government announcement facilities at Mare Harbour so in June that the British work that supplies can be shipped in. force. , of„ up to 1,400 . would.. The new airport, which is travel to the Falklands via to be equipped for instrument South Africa has already landings in zero visibility will prompted some criticism at have an 8,500 ft runway to take Westminster. large jets and a 5,000 ft cross ihe supply of large quanti- runway.

EMayings of the,week’ OBSERVER <0\jS WE haven’t exactly lost it, but we can’t lay 4.9.83 our hands on it at the moment.—Defence Ministry spokesman on the Falklands surren der document. I FIND so much to emulate in Winston.— Mrs Thatcher.

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ARGENTINA : UN IS WRONG DAILY THE UNITED NATIONS decolonisation committee TELEGRAPH FALKLAND has once again in New York passed a resolution in its Third World wisdom proposing direct negotiations between Britain and Argentina including the

3.9.83 KNITWEAR sovereignty issue. It might have been thought the committee would by now have registered the fact "that Britain fought and won a war to stop the BOOM Argentine occupying the islands by force. Over the years this bombastic body has proved the most J)EMAND for hand- superfluous of the U N‘s many spawning bureau knitted garments made cracies, obsessed with American colonies in Puerto with Falkland Islands’ Bico and the Virgin Islands, with South Africa and wool is so heavy that the Lake District firm who are Rhodesia, while ignoring Soviet and Cuban activity the sole British distri in Ethiopia, Angola, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan butors of the wool are and Eastern Europe. The committee retains “ on its preparing to employ 500 agenda ” some 20-odd countries—14 being British more out-workers to knit dependent territories, with some like Gibraltar, St garments at home. Helena, the Falklands, Bermuda, who want to Viking Wools, of Hawkshcad, maintain links with the mother country. So Britain ! have applied for planning per- can ignore its deliberations. 1 mission to build a £200.000 ware house on a former refuse tip so The British position is that by her actions, i they can store enough wool 1o Argentina has forfeited in the foreseeable future any keen up to 600 knitters sup possibility of a change in sovereignly, and the first plied. need, anyway, if civilised relations are to be restored They already use about 50 is for Argentina to end the state of war. With knitters, who collect wool from the islanders being in a state of shock, the existing premises. overwhelming desire is to remain British, so there “We were originally just sell is nothing to discuss. It has been a cardinal princip- 1 ing the wool, but there has been j of all British Governments that the islanders should a clamour for finished pro- j ducts,” the firm’s proprietor, Mr have the right of self-determination and that ti e j Alan Gaynor, explained yester local inhabitants must be consulted before there can day. be any change of status. All this matters much more “We have now established a than the entertaining and unimportant question of l countrywide market for hand- what Mr Michael Foot did or did not say in private knitted garments in the wool and are getting inquiries from to Sir Bobint Day about the sinking of the Genera! Germany and Japan.” Belgrano. Me said that home knitting With the political situation inside Argentina was proving ideal employment uncertain and murky, no British Government lor local women as they could however well disposed can contemplate talks. The collect the wool when they military regime is largely discredited. Elections ! wanted it and then knit a - I sweater a week at home. later this year may well produce a civilian Government, although if the past is any guide, Argentina will continue to suffer from misrule whether it is civilian or military. Civilian administration does not mean the country has embraced democracy, and it remains to be seen .f the military will really surrender their interference in politics. Britain may well have problems in the future concerning the cost of defending the Falklands. At the moment there is no alternative.

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TIMES From Sir David Lane boosts jobs % X In the forthcoming public expen The growing demand for hand- Sir, Other readers, too, may have diture review one must hope that Mr knitted garments in Falklands 3.9.83 been disturbed today (August 24) by Norman Fowler and Mr Kenneth Islands wool has encouraged a Lake the contrast between (a) a television Clarke will stand firm against apy District firm to try to employ more documentary on the “Lifeline to the further Treasury pressure for cuts in than 500 more outworkers to knit Falklands”, which made clear its the NHS, and that other ministers garments. astronomical cost, and (b) yet Viking Wools, of Hawkshead, will support them. It must surely be have applied for planning per another report in your columns of possible to keep total public the harmful effects of the financial mission to build a £200,000 expenditure under control, including warehouse on a former refuse tip in squeeze on the National Health an adequate share for defence, Hawkshead where it can store Service. without subjecting to still greater enough wool to keep up to 600 All of us admire the heroism, in strain a service which is used and knitters supplied. their different ways, of the men who appreciated by the great majority of Mr Alan Gaynor. the proprietor, liberated and are now defending the the people. said yesterday: “We have now Falkiands and of the doctors, nurses Yours truly, established a countrywide market and others who strive to maintain for hand-knitted garments in the standards in the NHS (and for DAVID LANE, wool, and are even getting orders 5 Spinney Drive, ^/cj from overseas. We have just had whom my wife has recently had Great Shelford, two fantastic inquiries for hand- cause to be grateful). Yet are we not Cambridge. knitted garments from Germany in danger of getting our spending August 24. and Japan, but need new premises priorities badly wrong? to enable us to cope.”

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Trade sanctions as a bar to learning From Mr John Gillard Watson Sir, Notification was recently re ceived here that the Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, vol. 49, “Proceedings of the 43rd THE TIMES Session of the Institute”, held at Buenos Aires in December, 1981, 2.9.83 had been seized by the Customs. This was on the grounds that importation was forbidden, but an application could be made for an import licence. The application was duly made to the Department of Trade and Industry, but was refused by the International Trade Policy Division. The reason given was that the ban on Argentine imports imposed on SUNDAY TIMES April 7, 1982, would remain “until 4.9.83 such time as we can bring Argentina ! to restore normal trade relations with the United Kingdom.”It was argued that “any shift in our position would send entirely the a7 wrong signals to the Argentinians r® and hinder our efforts to achieve a mutual lifting of sanctions.” Charity King’ rakes off Since then notification has also been received that five volumes of Comercio Exterior Argentina 1979, published by the Instituto de Falklands widows cash ^ Nacional de Estadistica y Censos, _ _ 4.. ______, ______... , . have been seized similarly. Both sets \LLAN STEIN, the businessman . . and 11 >s "°w run °nra day-to-day J of items are liable to forfeiture and "'ho was exposed in The Sunday by Iain Scarlet basis by two of his close legal proceedings will be taken for Times as • the brochure king who ------— associates Steve Marr and thf» rnnHpmnatirm tiiA orv^Hr or cheats chanlics. is now known to ...... r Harvey Collier. I 1 have made a profit of some 've sawrtl?e f,6urcs in For the South Atlantic Fund s ^ £25,000 out of the souvenir Prinl- said one of the organisers Gala. Corawell produced up to 3 f_rf.it„r_at 1 programme for a charity gala held asl wcek« we had no way of 100O programmes at a maximum t afoM3IIT ™hlch’ 11 ,s to raise money for the South knowing the sort of price Stein cost including the printing, evident, will fail m view of the Alianlic Fund. was charging Tor advertising space commision and overheads, of \ 1 above-quoted letter. The glossy 116-page com mem- in thc programme The news about £19.000. The brochures < I do not question the object of the orativc brochure consisted almost cam

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YA Falkland Islands farmer. Tim Miller (left), who was arridentally blinded in an eye by an RAF bomb, with his bride and British pen-pal sweet 0 heart, Elaine Hood, a nursing auxiliary, after their marriage at Manchester register office yesterday. The best man, Fit Lt Mark Hare, had dropped the bomb.

Sharp practice ^HERE WERE. I gather, personal as well as professional reasons for Fleet Commander-in-chief Admiral Sir, William Staveley’s recent visit to the Falklands. Apart from inspecting ships and naval units, he laid a wreath at the war memorial commemorating the Battle of the Falklands in 1914 in was destroyed. It was his grand father. vice-Admiral Sir F. C. Doveton Sturdec, who commanded 1 the British South Atlantic squadron. Sadly, however, Sir William was unable'to see his grandfather’s sword once proudly' displayed in the Faik- lands council chamber. It was stolen last year by the invading Argentines. 1

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vately that Mrs Thatcher had had no low cost alternative than to order the sinking of windmills AN UNUSUAL new design the Argentine cruiser of windmill which could cut General Belgrano. dramatically the cost of elec But he did not dispute tricity generating using alternative energy was shown the interpretation which Sir in Australia yesterday. Robin put on his views. It has been developed by The Labour leader, who is Derek Taylor at the Open on holiday in Venice, concen University’s Alternative Tech trated instead on stressing nology Group in the UK. The his support for the Shadow design has a very simple Cabinet’s recent call for a design and needs little Commons inquiry into the material to build. sinking. Daily Express The windmill spins on a Sir Robin was challenged dur- | verCcal axis and can harness ing a debate at the Edinburgh j wind coming from any direc Festival on Wednesday as to , 2 9 83 tion. The group at the Open why he had not pressed Mrs | University is looking for an Thatcher or Mr Foot on the * industrial company to take up issue when he interviewed them ■ the project. during the election campaign. Britain firm In practice the Taylor The challenge came from Mr < design resembles an inverted Tam Dalyell, Labour M P for ( on Falklands cone. Mr Taylor has envisaged Linlithgow, who has been seek l BRITAIN told the United having one or more blades ing to prove that Mrs Thatched ' Nations last night that it . with fixed or variable tilt ordered the sinking to ensure would not discuss sovereignty angles. conflict at a time when a over the Falkland Islands Peruvian-inspired peace plan 1 with Argentina. The initial wind turbine was reputedly being accepted by * The move came as the which is being shown at the Argentina. i UN’s decolonisation committee Solar World Congress in voted 19—0 in favour of Britain and Argentina resum Australia is a two-blade “V” :o Over the mark ing talks. . .. type with a fixed tilt angle, Soon after his reply, Sir Robin Britain’s UN representative, and bracing wires. This is quickly realised that he had Sir John Thomson, told the a relatively simple design in committee Argentina had which the blades are attached been goaded into overstepping shown no regret for its the mark, and he subsequently invasion of the Falklands bv their roots to the hub by promised an apology to Mr Foot. last year. means of a “flapping” type Among MPs of all parties hinge in much the same way yesterday, surprise thet Sir as conventional horizontal Robin should have breached a type wind turbines. ! confidence was overshadowed by Mr David Sharpe, at Queen dismay that they could expect Mary College’s Department of to face a continued and unre Aeronautical Engineering in lenting campaign from Mr London, has been working Dalyell over the Belgrano sink with the Open University on ing.' the testing and design of the Mr Foot, who with retire system. ! ment barely a month away had Advantages for the new hoped to complete his holiday design are claimed at being undisturbed, dictated to his multidirectional harness of office at Westminster a state the wind, self-starting of the ment reading: turbine so avoiding the cost “ The Shadow Cabinet recom of a starling device or the mended a few weeks ago that use of stored or mains energy the matter of the sinking of the for starting as is required on Belgrano should be investigated other types of vertical axis by a Select Committee of the machines, and simple blades House of Commons. which are relatively inexpen “ I am sure that this is the sive to make. right way to deal with the matter : and to have a proper investiga ELAINE WILLIAMS tion. I am sure the wrong way to deal with the matter is by public declarations about private conversations.” J \ 1 I!P;s5S!|iPI«sIf!III?I| \ inffgfs^fgftsta

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( FINDINGS ) /tJN wants A series reporting on research: DESIGN talks on Falklands New York: The UN Deco lonisation Committee yesterday adopted a resolution calling for renewed talks between Britain and Argentina to resolve the dispute over the Falkland Islands. The vote on the Argentine-backed resolution was 19-0, with five abstentions. Neither Britain nor Argentina i is committee members. Britain, in advance of the vote on the Venezuelan-spon sored resolution, ruled out re suming the long-drawn-out negotiations that were broken off last year (When Argentina invaded the islands to assert its 149-year-old claim. The Bri tish Ambassador, Sir John The memorial that moves Thomson, expressed “ a degree Apart from a motley collection of steel tripod, made up of telescopic of disappointment” that the regimental memorials, some modest aluminium alloy sections protected by committee, charged with pro cairns and crosses, and the small plastic, and reinforced with carbon moting the principle of self- Falklands Government plaque, there fibre which could fold into a Hercules determination, did not show is no single national monument to transport plane. It would have the more regard “ for a people those who died in the Falklands War advantage of being capable of being whose future is at stake.” last year. It is a lack that has inspired erected in Britain before departure so The resolution makes no a London-based group of designers, that people who will never get to the reference to self-determination, architects and engineers, called affirming only the need “ to Faiklands could see it. And as for the take due account of the inter Transfer, to come up with a design for significance of the tripod shape, ests of the population of the a major landmark that would be Transfer says: “It would look as if it Falkland Islands.” Britain and strong enough to serve as a permanent had just landed on the island, in Argentina are requested “ to memorial, but which would be light exactly the same way as the men and resume negotiations in order ,to and portable enough to be flown out to equipment who took part in the action find as soon as possible a pea the South Atlantic, and helicoptered there. We thought that a simple, ceful solution to the sover into position. strong shape would be much more eignty dispute.” They came up with a 40 metre high powerful than tons of marble”. Earlier, Sir John said Argen tina had shown no regret for the invasion and appeared to preserve the option of a 0 funther resort to force. self-determinaion. The Argentine Ambassador, Mr Carlos Manuel Muniz, There were no votes against the /Falklands resolution which would have been allowed to address the commit tee, along with Sir John, as an a measure of support for Brtain, interested party, said that the setback for while five countries. Australia, “ decolonisation and recovery Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, of the Malvinas ” was a per Norway and Sierra Leone ab manent priority objective of all Britain stained. Argentines. • British rejection: Britain, in Two elected members of the From Our Correspondent advance of the vote, ruled out New York Falkland Islands government, resuming the negotiations that Mr John Cheek arid Mr Argentina once again won a were broken off last year when Anthony Blake, addressed the diplomatic victory at the United Argentina invaded the islands committee earlier, along with Nations as the 25 member Sir John Thompson, the British two former islanders who Decolonization Committee yes representative, expressed “a favour links with Argentina, terday overwhelmingly endorsed degree of disappointment” that Mr Derek William Rozee and a resolution calling on the British the committee charged with Mr Alexander Jacob Betts. and Argcntie Governments to promoting the principle of self- Mr Cheek said : “ We look to i resume negotiations over the determination did not show more the United Nations to support sovereignty of the Falkland regard “for a people whose future and protect our right as a Islands. is at stake.” people to determine our own Nineteen members of the future, to decide the form of emmittee decided that the prin government unden which we ciple of negotiation promoted by wish to live and to live in Argentina throughout the debate peace and security from was more important than Britai’s further aggression.”— claim that the paramount issue in AP/Reuter. the dispute was the protection of the Falkland Islanders* right to Daily Mail 2nd September 1983

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Belgrano that the Argentine cruiser Belgrano By Defence Correspondent had to be sunk and that Mrs Thatcher THE flagship of the inquiry had no alternative but to order its Falklands task force, the torpedoing. carrier Hermes is to be By JOHN HARRISON, withdrawn from full Political Reporter Although he has written to apologise to Mr Foot for betraying a confidence, operation service MR Michael Foot has nearly two years earlier reacted angrily to the way he has in truth nothing of which to be than planned because of Sir Robin Day broke a con ashamed. a shortage of sailors. fidence by revealing that the Labour leader backed For one thing, he was sorely provoked At the end of this year Mrs Thatcher’s decision to and goaded into making his statement the 24-year-old ship will sink the Argentine cruiser by superbore Mr Tam Dalyell. put into Devonport for General Belgrano. maintenance and her crew In a brief comment relayed For another — and this is much more to will then gradually be run via Westminster from his the point — surely it is one of the down and transferred to holiday retreat in Venice, Mr highest duties of a Journalist to Ark Royal, a new carrier Foot insisted that the circum stances surrounding the sink expose humbug especially among the now being built- ing of the Belgrano should be high and mighty. For the rest of next year investigated by a Commons and throughout 1985 she committee of MPs. JThe posture of Mr Foot and his party will be used as a training At the same time, however, over the Belgrano was a classic bit of ship in Portsmouth before Mr Foot’s aides confirmed being de-commissioned and that, on guidance from Navy hypocrisy. either sold to a foreign chiefs at the Ministry of De Labour leaders positively seethed with navy or scrapped. fence, the Labour leader readily accepted that Mrs moral indignation, kept on demanding In dock Thatcher’s Falklands War an inquiry and all along implied, when Cabinet had no option but to Ark Royal, a sister ship order an attack they did not openly suggest, that Mrs to the other new carrier, Thatcher had blood on her hands Illustrious, will not be Infuriated because she had deliberately had the ready for operations until Argentine cruiser sunk in order to the end of 1985. The issue immensely So for nearly two years embarrassing for the Labour scupper United Nations efforts for the Royal Navy will be left Party — came to a head in peace. When all the time their leader with only two operational sensational fashion in Edin secretly agreed that Mrs Thatcher had carriers, Invincible and burgh On Thursday when Sir Illustrious. Robin revealed that Mr Foot no choice but to order the sinking of For much of that time acknowledged in private that the cruiser. one of them is bound to be he considered Mrs Thatcher In dock for repairs and had no alternative. Doubtless efforts will now be made by maintenance- Sir Robin — who was pro the Left to oust Sir Robin from his The 1,350 crew of Hermes voked into the admission by position in the BBC for failing to will ease the Navy’s man Labour MP Tam Dalyell dur power shortage slightly. ing a debate at the Edinburgh observe the rules about not divulging International television festi information obtained on a ‘lobby’ But the planned run val — has written to Mr Foot down of the total number to apologise. basis, but his detractors must not be of men in the Navy is still What is certain to infuriate allowed to succeed. going ahead. Labour Left-wingers is the In March 1981 there were^ fact that Mr Foot appeared The contribution of Sir Robin to serious 66,360 men in the Navy ready to accept the judgement political debate in this country is compared with 63,638 to of Navy chiefs at a time when almost beyond price. day. A further 10,000 are proposals for peace were scheduled to go within the emerging from Peru which, in He is the one interviewer in broadcasting next three years. their view, might have pro who consistently pricks the preten duced a ceasefire. sions of inflated public personalities and makes them address those questions they would prefer to dodge. Long may he go on doing it. Daily Mail 2nd September 1983

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t Labou? leade.' Mr ‘Michael everyone concerned that the attacked by Tam Dalyell and I fh°e’'“benefit' o? Foot, had told him during Belgrano was not an election gave an honest answer. I think cneese tor ine Denem oi ihe election camnaien that he issue. I had better leave it at that, cameramen. thought the Prime Minister Labour leadership candi- But later he said that he He also said that the daily was right to order the sinkin- date, Mr Ro-v Hattersley, who would be writing to Mr Foot to Party press conferences were of the8 Argentine cruiser Boh shared the platform with the apologise for breaking a confi- superficial set pieces which had grano durfng The Falklands Liberal leader, Mr David Steel, denceT given little idea of the realities 0 famnaisn and Mr Tom King for the “I am sorry that during the of the campaign. “He told me: ‘She had no ^nes, asked Robin when cut and thrust of a lively pro- He comDlained that the option but to sink the Bel- Mr 1- oot had told him tins. fessional argument I disclosed Alliance had not had a fair grano.’ I did not think it was Sir Robin replied that it was the gist of what Michael Foot share of broadcasting time in an election issue and nor did during conversation at a pnv- had said privately to me.” he relation to its strength in the Michael Foot,” Sir Robin said ate meeting. he said. country. during a debate at the Edin- . Mr Hattersley. obviously fur- “I am writing to Mr Foot to Mr Steel was looking tanned burgh Television Festival on jous. said : I am not saying it apologise for this disclosure, and healthy after his illness coverage of the election. is not true. I am saying I and to explain that it was jf a post-mortem on the He was replying to an angry would not want to have a Pnv- made only in the heat of the election campaign just before intervention by the Labour ate conversation with you. moment.’ ' the Liberal conference was not MP, Mr Tam Dalvell, who Sir Robin replied : ‘ I knew The question of lack of the ideal cure for lhe de. wanted to know whv Sir Robin we-would not get through the coverage of the Belgrano issue preSsion he is said to have and other television inter- afternoon without you making reinforced a number of criti- been suffering. viewers had not followed un a cheap remark.” cisms during the debate that questions about the sinking After the debate Mr Hatters- the election campaign was un- Ileffcrs union block call, put to the Prime Minister by ley said: "I think it is ex- provocative and unreprcsenta- page 2; Shore criticises Mrs Diana Gould, during the tremely wrong for an live of ordinary life. Scargill, back page

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no option but to sink the ship. 'Day will , Gasps Trom audience There were gasps from the audience at this apparent : breach of confidentiality. apologise Mr Hattersley, a member of the panel, asked in what cir cumstances Mr Foot had made this comment? Sir Robin replied: “ He told me in the course of a conversa over Foot tion during the election. In the interests of truth I am not going to rely on lobby terms but to say what he said. “ If, of course, he says he quote did not say it, and if, of course, you’re saying this is untrue, I By GRAHAM PATERSON will apologise. But he said it to Political Staff me personally.” V Mr Hattersley immediately gIR ROBIN DAY is to retorted: “I’m not for a apologise to Mr Foot moment saving it’s uni me — for disclosing yesterday I’m just saying I mustn’t have any privaLe conversations with that the Labour leader you.” • : had told him off the record that Mrs Thatcher ‘ Honest answer ’ had had no option but Sir Robin said afterwards: "I to sink the Argentine gave an honest answer because cruiser General Belgrano. 'lam Dalvell was being very provocative.” A row developed over the Later he added: ” I am sorry disclosure between Sir Robin that during the cut and thrust and Mr Roy Hattersley,' a of a lively professional argu Labour leadership candidate, ment I disclosed the gist of what during a debate at the Edin- Mr Michael Foot had said priv intcrnalional Telc- ately to me some months ago I.burgh _ ’ about, the sinking of the Bel | vision Festival on the media grano. I coverage of the General “ I am writing to Mr Foot Election. . to apologise for this disclosure, The flare up came after Mr and to explain it was made only Tam Dalyell, Labour MP for in the heat of the moment in Linlithgow, complained that answer to a challenge from Mr Sir Robin had not raised the Tam Dalyell.” subject of the sinking of the Sir Robin’s use of lobby terms Belgrano during his pre-election refers to the convention where interview with Mrs Thatcher,. by some political journalists Sir Robin replied: “I didn’t speak to politicians on the ask Mrs Thatcher because I understanding that their words didn’t think it was an eleclion will not be used in print. issue, nor did my editor .nor did anybody else I met. nor. did Mr Michael Foot, who told me personally ‘ I thought she had I

~~THE TIMES THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1 1983~~

Falklanders to put case at UN From Zoriana Pysariwsky, New York ; The Falklands sorereignty issue draft resolution on Tuesday has become a distant rather than a requesting Britain and Argentina to resume negotiations and pressing preoccupation for most expressing its support for the members of the UN Decoloniza renewed good offices mission tion Committee. undertaken Late last night it was due to by Senor Javier Perez begin debating whether Britain de Cuellar, the Secretary-General, and Argentina should resume on the basis of last year’s General negotiations. Assembly resolution. In the more subdued atmos Senor Perez de Cuellar briefed phere. debating skills and powers Sir Geoffrey Howe, Britain’s of argument of the two main Foreign Secretary, about his opponents are expected to lake on recent visit to southern Africa, added importance. The dazzle or where he was trying to find a dreariness of their presentations solution to the Namibia problem. could make a lot of difference to ^ _c . members torn between supporting _ Tbey 1 75 ™mVtes Jhe Argentina as a member of the Mr John Cheek: Plea for Foreign Office yesterday during non-aligned movement or Bn- self-determination ^hat UN sources described as tain, in deference to its role in “very much a pnyate visit by the international diplomacy. which Argentina interrupted their aecretary-uenerai. . , „ , , .. _ wav of life. Whitehall officials were at Mr John Cheek and Mr Tony y . oa;ns t0 DOint out that the Blake, elected members of the Argentina and its Latin Amen- n" ^s only touched on Falklands Legislative Council, can supporters are expected to . the discussions were due to begin the proceedings paint Britain as an imperialist dunng tne discussions. as petitioners. They, as well as power bent on retaining its The UN conference on Pales- Britain are expected to empha- remaining colonies for strategic tine, the Gulf War Chad and size self-determination as the purposes. The principle of nego- Afghanistan were also on the issue of paramount importance in tiation will also be emphasized. agenda. The Secretary-General the conflict and the brutal way in Venezuela began circulating a flew back to New York later.

~~/ Bravery award for Navy diver By Rodney Cowton, Defence Correspondent A Royal Navy deep-sea diver books and cryptographic equip- using a diving bell to carry the~~

nSSSfll SiSSS o ever undertaken by a Royal Navy hazardous and dark conditions equipment in the sunken diving team”. and despite becoming entangled . . He is Petty Officer Michael pn two separate occasions with It is believed that much of the Harrison, aged 33, who has been hanging debns, Hamson perser- aclivity centrcd 0n Coventry in the Navy for 18 years. hfmselfat'gravffpcrsonal risk. ** "«* of Fa.k- The medal was; 'won while The action was jn depths of The recovery of the material h*VCJmp'nu*'nmt °pnninment from more lhan 300 feet> and waS has been regardcd as a sensitive documents and equ p carried out by a team of 27 naval matter by the Royal Navy not ships sunk during the Falklands only beJausc it was highly lhe* material recovered has not The operation was conducted classified, but also because ships been^pecified but If is thought1 to from a chartered vessel, the 7,000 lost off the Falklands have been have included top secret code ton Stcna Seaspread. It involved designated as war graves. THE TIMES THURSDAY SEPTEMBER I 1983 Financial Times Thursday / September 1 1983 Day to apologize Britain firm to Foot over on FalkSands By David Tonge, Diplomatic Correspondent confidence slip BRITAIN yesterday told Sr Javier Perez de Cuellar, the Sir Robin Day, the broadcaster. Sir Robin said afterwards: “I United Nations Secretary an honest answer because General, that it .remained T- Da,yen was being very opposed to negotiations with sudden bulbil At ^uring^ debate Tedded: arn scry the Argentines over the sovereignty of the Falkland with Mr Tam Dalyell, Labour MP that during the cut and thrust <>f a Islands. , „ , for Linlithgow, at the Edinburgh lively profession ^ument Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British international television festival. about tele]Jls,°n election co e g Sir Robin said that Mr Foot I disclosed the gist of what Mr Foreign Secretary, explained to had told him he believed Mrs Michael Foot had said privately Sr Perez de Cuellar Britain’s Thatcher had no alternative to to me some months ago about the demand that Argentina should sinking the Argentine battleship, sinking of the Belgrano. make a formal declaration of the Bel era no 1 am wntmg to Mr Foot to the end of hostilities before The admission stunned the apologize for this disclosure, and relations could be normalised, audience of broadcasters and to explain it was made only in the let alone any negotiations be journalists, which included Mr heat of'the :moment in ainswertoa considered, Argentina links David Steel, the Liberal leader, challenge from Mr Tam Dal yelk declaring an end of hostilities Mr Roy Hatlerslcy, and Mr Tom Mr Richard Clements, one o to Britain accepting negotia King, the Secretary of State for the Labour leader s a‘dfcs’sa*dv^snl tions. Transport, as chief guests. Mjchael Foot w a y Despite the costs of main Mr Hattersley immediately holiday. He is not contactable a taining troops in the Falklands, asked Sir Robin where and when the moment. the British Government’s view Mr Foot had made the remark, e is that the issue of sovereignty and if it was made in private. Sir Mr Neil Kinnock, the fa oun has to be left to one side until Robin said that it was and Mr candidate to succeed Mr Foo , the islanders’ confidence in Hattersley retorted: “I won’t have called for a full-scale "lv^sl|ga^1° Argentina has been built up. a private conversation with you into the sinking of the Belgran . Sr Perez de Cuellar’s own again’” Bul *l was noled at the time that view is closer to that of the 90 The broadcaster replied: “I when the demand was put to Mr countries that voted in favour knew we would not get through Foot, at Labour s campaign press of early negotiations at the UN the afternoon without you making conference on June 2 he refuse General Assembly a cheap remark.” to endorse Mr Kinnock: s view. Mr Dalyell had asked during Earlier m the debate, M the festival’s debate on tele- Hattersley said that the Labour vision’s general election coverage Party had lost the general elect‘ why he had not questioned Mrs because of its own failings, not Thatcher on the sinking of the because it was the victim of Belgrano. Sir Robin said that both antagonistic newspapers and he and televsion editors did not television companies, think that the sinking was an “This election was determined election issue before the first television camera When Mr ‘Dalyell took up the moved into the first press subject again, Sir Robin rounded conference , he said, on him and shouted: “Mr Foot All that the media could do was did not think that Mrs Thatcher to magnify features which e e had any alternative to sinking the already established by the parties, Belgrano. He said it was not an he said. We lost the genera election issue, and that he did not election for the Labour Party- want to talk about it when I Labour had found itself interviewed him.” squeezed between the presuppo As Mr Hattersley left the debate sition of defeat and the media’s early to catch a train to another interest in the newness of the function he said that Sir Robin’s Alliance, and increasingly neg remark had been a breach of lected the issues completely, Mr confidence. Hattersley said. The Standard 1st September 1983

Falklands UN clash I United Nations, Thursday the question of sovereignty | BRITAIN and Argentina over the Islands. He said Argentina had | clashed when the UN’s shown no regret for last year’s a Decolonisation Committee invasion and appeared to pre S took up the question of serve the option of a further | the Falkland Islands dis- resort to force. fi pute. Argentine ambassador Car- Britain’s representative Sir los Manuel Muniz said the John Thomson, rejected a “ decolonisation and recovery draft resolution, sponsored by of the Malvinas ” was a per- Venezuela, calling for a re- manent priority objective of sumption of negotiations on all Argentinians.

Invincible sails again WIVES and sweethearts lined Portsmouth harbour today to wave farewell to the Invincible — which is leading a Naval Task Group on an eight-month deploy ment to the Far East, It is the first opportunity the Navy has had of carrying out such a deployment since the Falklands’ war. With the Invincible will be six warships. > Belgrano attack

~~DAILY MAIL ft 1st September 1983 Foot hacked Maggie’~~

~~By JOHN HARRISON~~

A REVELATION by inter- ! viewer Sir Robin Day last ' night threw the Labour Party into a new paroxysm I of shock and embarrassment. During the General Election 11 campaign declared Sir Robin, [I Labour Lleader Michael Foot had | said privately that he agreed with the decision of Mrs Thatcher s I War Cabinet to sink the Argen- I tine cruiser General Belgrano I an attack that cost 368 lives. S The revelation is bound to embarrass ;| Mr Neil Kinnock. a staunch Foot sup- I porter and the man almost certain to be I Mr Foot's succer/.or as party leader. At the election. Mr Kinnock noisily I demanded an impartial inquiry into the I sinking. The depth of the Labour Party s em- II barrassment is underlined by the fact that more than 150 Labour MPs signed a Commons motion calling for an indc- ' 1 pendent inquiry. Sir Robin broke the confidence during a flare-up with Labour MP Tam Dalyell : at the Edinburgh International Televi sion Festival Questioned Mr Dalyell had asked during a debate on TV’s General Election coverage why Sir Robin had not questioned Mrs That cher on the sinking of the Belgrano. Sir Robin said television editors and he him self did not think the sinking was an election issue. When Mi- Dalyell took up the subject again. Sir Robin shouted : ‘Mr Foot did not think that Mrs Thatcher had any alternative to sinking the Belgrano. He said it was not an election issue, and that he did not want to talk about, it when I interviewed him.’ ......

Robin where and when Mr Foot hnd I made the remark, and If it was made in I private. Sir Robin said yes. and Mr I Hattersley retorted : 'I won’t have a ' I private conversation with you again . II The TV presenter snapped back : ‘I 1 knew we would not get through the I afternoon without you making a cheap 1 remark.’ . , . , I Sir Robin said later that he intended I to apologise to Mr Foot for the breach I of confidence. He said : ‘I gave an honest I answer because Tam Dalyell was being I very provocative. , ■I *i am sorry that during the cut and I ^sV/ed II ,F T aSfwfhing^to'Mr'Footm’ apologise Turn to Page 2 mCol. 2 >

~~DAILY MAIL 1st September 1983~~

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Foot and Belgrano Mrs Thatcher was forced Defence Secretary, sir John 7W£ Continued from Page One to devote a good deal of time Nott, stormed out of a Day at her election news con interview. During the elec for this disclosure, and to ex ferences explaining the course tion Sir Robin had an acri- PA&Y plain it was made only in the of events which led to the monious vvith heat of the moment,’ decision to sink the Belgrano. Mrs Thatcher§ldurfng which Labour MPs headed by Mr she frequently addressed him Mr Fcot, on a visit to as 'Mi- Day’. A Venice, said at his hotel last Dalyell have campaigned for night : I have absolutely an inquiry into the Belgrano Sir Robin also l.ad an angry 0 nothing to say.’ attack, made by the nuclear clash at election time with submarine Conqueror. Many senior Labour figures Mr Hattersley. sir Robin believed that the sinking of And in July the Shadow told him ‘Chuck it, Mr Hat the Belgrano was the one Cabinet, led by Mr Foot tersley. You knew perfectly weak spot in Mrs Thatcher's proposed to Labour MPs the well that this is not a party Falklands campaign. idea of an investigation by a political broadcast.’ m Commons Select Committee. Mrs Thatcher has consis It coloured the attacks on This was agreed by the Parli tently refused an inquiry into I 'AHCHteC A her conduct of the war by amentary Labour Party. the Belgrano affair. Nor is % ftxrr Pt Mr Kinnock and by Labour The disclosure of Mr Foot’s she willing to publish the deputy leader Denis Healey, real opinion on the issue is log of the Conqueror as the $I rt Kiri 6 M V \ who later apologised for unlikely to lead to any attacks critics have demanded. of M&m accusing her of glorying in on him as the 70-year-old slaughter.’ David Steele’s appearance geuwopm Labour leader has only four at the TV debate marked his One of the few moments weeks before he leaves office. first return to public life since + x during the campaign when The revelation is another the start of his summer sab Mrs Thatcher appeared to be embarrassing moment for batical. discomfited came when she Sir Robin involving senior He made no comment on ‘Trust Robin Day to open was questioned on the sinking politicians. his mouth and put Foot by housewife Diana Gould Sir Robin's revels, ru in it !’ during a Nationwide TV talk- At the Tory Party Confer leave others in. ence a year ago, the then said.

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