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Could there ever be coalition s in Ulster ? Page 16 Security concern as man who tried 'ace of the ;stnkd' Deriibcraticf :and\ labour MPs in the strikers, who throughout the day rebuilt to kidnan Princess Anne is Jlster. Mr-Brian Faui^%c5aL‘t3bh Executive’ accepted the postponement barricades that had been removed by .cutive ape^’yesterdayito postpone " 2^ a?ej ^r. ^rrne? ^^nister of soldiers in- the morning. establishment of an effectiveCouncil. I?lnt®df. 0Ut 'th“ if„tbe-v The British Government decided to send committed to a further 500 troops to the province and i By David Leigh In the letter, Mr Bail Mr Ball was an inadequate j Royal security is clearly going described bow he wanted the personality who was completely to defer consideration of a request for to be a source of great anxiety money and documents brought isolated, but had not planned to after the attempt by Ian Ball to to him in an aircraft at Heath¬ hurt Princess Anne. He had even -: .OT?£T : w^ demaM for fresh elections. more than £5m government aid for kidnap Princess Anne in The row airport, London, bound for considered calling the plan off - Dably m,1977-of -1978. ^‘The Social The: concession did not appease the Belfast -shipyards. Mall in March, the first attempt Zurich. He said he wanted the after her wedding “because they ro kidnap a member of the Royal documents brought by one of looked such a nice couple . Family. bis solicitors. Mr Clarke. The “This case is an apt illustration Mr Ball, aged 26. who shot letter continued: of how vulnerable public figures ; Four people in the attempt and No one else will be acceptable. If are to the mentally disturbed , : planned to hold the Princess for he is ill, I want him brought ro counsel said. i a £3m ransom was committed at me on a stretcher. If he is dead, Many security weaknesses * tiie Central Criminal Court I want his body dug up and were revealed by Mr Ball’s yesterday to a mental hospital. brought ro the plane. attack. He followed the Princess He admitted the attack. Mr Ball wrote that he would for several days and his car was Lord Widsery, the Lord Chief require the Queen to come to seen four times at Sandhurst ; Justice, sard he had considered him in the aircraft, where she without being suspected. Ironic¬ j sending Mr Ball to prison would be asked questions and ally, only seven hours before the j because such offences were be required to give a sample attack, a local detective inspec¬ I becoming more serious and more signature to ascertain that she tor, in pursuit of a local burglar, j common throughout the world. was in. fact the Queen. Once searched his car and examined Eut after hearing psychiatric they were in Switzerland, Prin¬ his driving licence in a false ; evidence he committed Mr Ball cess Anne would bereleased. name. ; to Rampton special hospital in Mr Silkin praised the courage Buckingham Palace gives Nottinghamshire. He can be of all those who had tackled Mr details of royal whereabouts to j released only on the direction of Bail in- The Mall, avoiding a members of the public, and they j the Home Secretary of the day. greater tragedy. Princess Anne are also available in newspaper j While the trial was in progress had been remarkably calm, the social pages. A palace official the Queen and the Duke of Edin- court was told. Inspector James said last night: “ We shall carry , burgh were attending a service Beaton, her bodyguard, had on.” The public bad to be able in Sl Paul's Cathedral, only a few tried again and again to stop to see the Royal Family. j hundred yards away. The Duke Mr Ball pulling her our of tbo The royal protection squad of i read_ the le^snn: ‘"■If a man royal limousine, although his police officer*, from which per¬ j imagines himself to be somebody gun had jammed and he was sonal bodyguards are drawn, i when he is nothing, he is delud¬ shot three times as he protected has been recruiting extra offi¬ ing himself ... a man reaps what the Princess. cers. Scotland Yard will not ! he sows.’7 Princess Anne stayed Mr Alexander Callender, the discuss security, but says that j at heme at Sandhurst. chauffeur, was shot as be cried was normal annual recruitment. Mr Ball admitred the attemp- to tackle the gunman, and so The Wahher PPK lighrweighr ted kidnapping, two counts of was Police Constable Michael pistol carried by Inspccror attempted murder and two Hills, who ran into The Mall and Beaton has been examined. It is counts of wounding. still managed to radio for help thought tbat faulty ammunition Mr Samuel Silkin, QC, the despite his wounds. Mr Brian caused it to jam, but its replace¬ Attorney General, for the Connell, a journalist, who ment is almost certainly still prosecution. described the stopped his taxi and tried to take under consideration. The pistol “horrifying” and “almost un¬ Mr Ball’s gun away before he has a reputation for occasional S-36S&S believable” plot Mr Ball had was wounded, was praised, as jamming. perfected in obsessive detail was Mr Richard Russell, a busi¬ Special training for royal •my removedfba^S^ou^onieM^te^^^BnCe Association PataVIwing 4“ overtu rned car as a lookout post at a Belfast barricade still in position yesterday although over three years. nessman, who punched Mr Ball chauffeurs has also been con¬ Mr Ball, a solitary and un¬ three times. sidered. Mr Ball was able to communicative person with a The police questioned Mr Ball force tbe royal car to a halt history of schizoid illness, throughout the night of March without difficulty. He was also assumed two false identities, 20. They were worried lest be able to exploit a very simple f me plea saves Faulkner coalition Price girls used accommodation addresses, might be part of a wider con¬ security weakness : the car doors bought guns in Spain, hired a spiracy or had been used. But were not locked from the Robert Fisk have won their demanddqmaxuldenuuid for fresh addand petrolpeapetrol and oil, embargoed theth British, Irish and Ulster car and rented a house near any political overtones were inside. The car was not 1 , .elections-elections ininthe the province. “by“ by “the:*thethe:strikers, :strikers, became almost governments.eo Bat phase two of no longer Princess Anne’s home at Sand¬ completely ruled out. escorted. r almost resigning en bloc1 -Neither-Neither the massive military -im'unobtainable. obtain Long queues of the Cound] of Ireland, which hurst. He said he had derided Mr John Hazan QC, for the The fundamental dilemma i a long and heated dis- operation inm Belfa^Belfast yesterday ‘ 'motorisemotorists built up outside would transfer functions from on her, after considering a list defence, said the Dlot had been that attackers such as Mr Ball n_ at Ntormont yesterday' morning, in whichwinch nearly 4,0004,000" garagesgarages" which still had supplies Northern Ireland departments to force-fed of potential famous victims, the single desperate enterprise present has still not been re¬ nan Faulkner’s coalition soldiers removed dozens of- bar- while UDAU! men checked their- the ministers and which would By a Staff Reporter because she was a girl and would of a sick man, who wanted to solved. How can total royal . tive watered down the ricades,ricades,nm:,the-innninentarrival" nor theixrnrtrnexiT arrival" credentialscredenti; and jobs to see if provide for a consultative A new controversy developed be easiest. highlight tbe deficiencies in the security be reconciled with the nsd^le agreement, reduc- of yet more'troopsmoro troops from Britain* -^hey-'they deserveddes fuel Electricity Assemblv made up of members last night over the Price sisters, A long ransom note was pre¬ National Health Service. He had inevitably public nature of the ready for- at least-three bbringingnngh^g thetotaltlwratuT ArmyArmy strength -ropphes-supplies were again less than a- of the Stormont Assembly and when die Home Office said that pared, telling tbe Queen how he and possibly for ever the inin NorthernNortiiern IrelandIrejahd'.td- to around-''jit bund-” thirxi, "clclosing down every im-r the Dail in Dublin, has been put efforts to force-feed them had wanted the £3m and a free par¬ money to improve the psychia¬ •s’of the proposed inter- lfi^OCfc''16,700, -madeihade - thethe"' . slirfitestslightest': : portairi.pomnt industry in Northern, off until after the next election been stopped because they were don delivered to him tric services. Trial and background, page 4 mental Counal of Ireland, impressiontmDression on the • .sinkers*^.strikers*' Ireland for the third day in the provincenrorinc.e inIn either 1977 ornr “ refusing to cooperate with feir gesture did nothing to resolve to ■ maintain stop- running, 1978. doctors at Brixton Prison se the “loyalists” whose page. }'-1 - .' With the evident reluctance- The loyalists gave the Council According to the Horae Office, ai strike continued to keep Tte Ulster Worker*’ CouncD, ' ofbf •■ diethe loyalists to end their bf Ireland short shrift. The Rev the sisters have had no food for * industrial and commer- which is running the Strike, did :- strike andan with -such a low state fan Paisley whose Democratic five days. They were jailed forr Bonn intelligence chief Agency urged to ite in a state of atrophy, not bother, to conufcent on the .ofof : chorale-mon in the province’s. Unionist Party is_supporting tbe life in November for their part o.?e.point during their talk* Wesmunsrer 'dedsxdn' to ’defer .

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