—- 2 ^ Aima* » tt Bdtfum a m 6a Gundfr *2-75; cuutfes Pe» 225: &tna 90 cerasr Denmark Dkr 16-Ott PteMnd tax !5-0a Fiance F 12-Oa CtnaiW DM 4.0Q: GKnuar sop: Gicece Df 30ft Holland d 4JXk UMi RepnW 60ps MJy L 3JM0; huem- ITERNATIONAL! fcowr* U 55: Maddre er 275: MUM 43c Morocco DIT 25Oa Norway » EDITION 16-Ott ronupU ex 275: 5 pain Pec 225: Sweden Skr l&dft SwiizertaxJ S Fnt 3Mk Tunisia Din 1 JStk USA I3.0Q THE TIMES No 64/'/- SATURDAY AUGUST 1 1992 50p REBORN ON BACK FROM LOST ON WELL FOUND THE WIND THE BRINK THE STREETS IN FRANCE Neil Lyndon dons The chilling story Jah Bones and other A Times offer opens oilies, cleats sheets of how Chris community leaders the door to some of and generally does Bonnington’s luck have no doubt that the best hospitality well for a landlubber nearly ran out in inner city violence in the world at down all at sea the Himalayas is linked to poverty to earth prices Weekend Times Saturday Review Saturday Review Weekend Times Page I Pages Page 12 Page 7 Confusion over British drug testing Banned lifters fight to return to Olympics FROM JOHN GOODBODY IN BARCELONA IN A dramatic about-turn laboratory, Chelsea, may not Dick Palmer, the secretary it was revealed last night have adhered to the interna- of the British Olympic Associ- that the two British tional committee's procedur- ation. said last night that they weightlifters sent home al guidelines. would be gating formal guid- Although there were horn Barcelona in dis- ru- ance from the IOC. However, mours that the two sportsmen Prince Alexandre de erode, grace may return to the M would be allowed back to the chairman of the IOC Olympics to compete. compete tomorrow and on medical commission, said The British camp at the Monday, a spokeswoman for dial he believed that the BOA Olympics was awash with ru- the' BOA said that no decision decision was correct. mours about what had gone was likely until today because Saxton said that he had wrong with the testing proce- of the complexity of the situa- taken Clenbuterol to relieve dure carried out on Andrew tion. Even if they return to his asthma. The drug, which Saxton and Andrew Davies, Barcelona in time to compete, is a steroid-based stimulant is but the British Olympic Asso- psychologically the episode is not licensed fix' use in Britain, ciation in Barcelona refused likely to have caused them a but it is available in Germany to comment great setback. Saxton had for the treatment of asthma. Davies Saxton were and been due to take pan in the Saxton said that be had given out of competition on tested 100 kilogram competition to- some to Davies after he had 11 respectively, July 10 and morrow while Davies was to complained of a "tight” chest results released last Davies: given Clenbuterol by Saxton, who used It to relieve his own asthma, after he complained of a tight chest and Tues- participate in the 110 kilo- Tanias Ajan. the general found traces of a day banned gram event on Monday. secretary of the International anabolic and stimulant con- The BOA and die Sports Weightlifting Federation, tained in the drug Cienbut- said yesterday that separate Council held a series of meet- weightlifters are erol. The tests were carried out in Bar- ings last night to consider Mortgage trap victims win now fighting to return to weight- whether the drug testing car- celona on the two compete in the Games. lifters a few days before the ried out on Saxton and Da- Saxton, speaking from his followed the proto- Games starred. He said that Oxford, said vies had home in Cowley, both sets of tests bad proved right to sell homes at a loss col. Robert Watson, the BOA fie had instructed solicitors negative. treasurer and legal advikr. and would appeal. “I am The latest development will By Rachel Kelly, propertycorrespondent also met the IOC medical innocent." he said, “I have cast a shadow over interna- commission to discuss the done nothing wrong.” tional efforts to damp down THOUSANDS of homebuy- Nobody should assume they periencing considerable diffi- case. There were initial reports on drug-taking in sport a ers caught in the mortgage would get an order." culty for some time,” the Vice Beckett, a yesterday that Clenbuterol Professor Arnold move that has already been trap of owing more than their The case heard at the ap- Chancellor Sir Donald Nich- of the medi- which both men admitted British member undermined by fee test on house is worth may now be peal court involved Anthony olls. said. But in March last who was not taking, was not included on cal commission Katirin Krabbe, the German able io sell up in defianoe of and Margaret Palk. who year — when the mortgage original deci- the International Olympic involved in the runner, whose positive drug their lenders, after a test case bought their home in Heath- and arrears had risen to the lifters, has East Sussex, in April £358,587 - Palk a Committee's list of banned sion to suspend test results were overturned in the Court of Appeal. field, Mr found at substances. Later, after the raised doubts on the IOCs eariier this year. The Interna- The case concerned a 1990 with a £300.000 loan buyer £283.000. He want- guide- to to interest Sports Council confirmed interpretation of the tional Amateur Athletic Fed- couple who wanted to sell from Mortgage Service ed go ahead stop competition accruing of the debt, that the substance was cov- lines for out of eration found that the testing their home for nearly £70.000 Funding. Mr Palk made on most has questioned three payments, but with his but Mortgage Services re- ered by the IOC list, it was testing. He protocol had not been less than their mortgage debt there into liquida- fused to let selL won suggested that the tests car- whether in this case observed. to avoid building up further business going him They as.both tion. was unable to meet any a possession order so they nal out by the King’s College were tests for the drug .The timing of the an- arrears. They were stopped by anabo- more. Realising could not could let the property on a a stimulant and as an nouncement of the test results their lenders, who insisted he market cope, he decided to sell. Continued on page 14. ad 5 lic agent on Saxton. Davies and Jason they wait until the improved. Bui the appeal “As everyone knows the Professor Beckett, who Livingston, the British sprint- Leonard provoked an- court has ruled that lenders housing market has been ex- Weekend money, page 19 used to run the British drug er, had already tests were should not be allowed to spec- control centre, believes that if ger because the nearly three weeks ulate at borrowers' expense there tests .were not carried carried out Cheshire three men arrived and the couple should have out for both stimulants and before the the right to sell. agents the positive in Barcelona. Livingston’s anabolic The ruling could have im- should not have been suspension has not been al- result plications for more than a dies at 74 well-known tered by yesterday’s declared. It is million people whose mort- Beckett and Dr development By A Staff reporter that Professor gages are higher than the Sri Lanka..! his successor David Cowan, their properties and LORD Cheshire. Britain’s Simon Barms, page 2 value of at the British drug testing borrowers war pilot, Greatest show, page 10 305,000 who are most decorated- laboratory, have been fre- the hill motor pages 26. more than six months in The crisp clear beauty of died yesterday from involved in scientific Olympic reports, quently cleared by a doctor arrears. neurone disease. He was 74. 27v 3U Saxton: said he had drug disputes. country, it's tea plantations and a As a bomber pilot, he took There have been a number pan in 100 missions, wit- of complaints from families fascinating array of historical and nessed the bombing of Naga- in this position to the build- source society ombudsmen. In saki in 1945. and was riiaiuu»1 4 fined for protecting ing archeological sights awarded the Victoria Cross. some cases, borrowers were MELINDA WlTTSTOCK barred selling as arrears He later set up the the Chesh- BY RICHARD FORD AND make Sri Lanka the Homes, mounted, but after their ire Foundation Source A. mation or flouting the law, He welcomed the identified only as repossessed, the which provided care for die 4 and Box Pro- area". homes were CHANNEL Justice Woolf urged but it was a dilemma of their perfect holiday judge's refusal to sequestrate Lord sold at a lower price disabled in 45 countries. ductions were fined £75,000 recognised lenders assets, as had both companies to reconsider own making. He was court yester- Channel 4’s and then claimed on their Leonard Cheshire for contempt of him. that the life of Source A could destination. been requested by the Direc- their refusal to identify mortgage indemnity insur- introduced to the Lords last after refusing to reveal com- day “The situation here is that be at risk, but said the pub- informant tor of Public Prosecutions. ance. Some lenders can make }«ar. and his last major the identity of an own admis- panies should have realised Choose from Neither company will face Source A, on his insurance claim only by lic came last alleged widespread col- an appearance who sion, was a party to serial that there were some circum- Ul- further punishment for con- repossessing the properties.