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, FURIOUS trade union lead¬ ers warned of an industrial uprising after the government yesterday announced further pay restraint for five million workers in the public sector.

The statement by Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, freezes the govern¬ ment's overall pay bill but allows for productivity rises. It provoked an outcry from lab¬ our parly leaders and a string of strike warnings from unions in the public sector including firefighters’ leaders who said it brought a national fire strike closer.

But it delighted right-wing Conservative MPs who have been pressing the Chancellor to put spending cuts before higher taxes in reducing the E50 billion budget defidt

Treasury officials main¬ tained that the Chancellor's statement on pay should be seen as a sign of the govern¬ ment's determination to hit its £254 hiifioo public spending target for next year rather ‘ than ah indication that it would need less money, to finance it. and insisted (here were still strong upward pres-

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■ Union leaders announced emergency talks after Kenneth Clarke delighted die Tory right wing by insisting that public sector pay rises must be earned

sures on the target. A senior Treasury official said: "This is basically about keeping public spending within the total the government has set, given that the Chancellor made dear last week that the £254 InOion figure would not be reduced.

“The judgment an how to pay far it — whether higher taxes are needed — is not affected.”

Mr Clarke insisted that toe new pay arrangements to follow this years 15 percent pay limit were not a pay freeze, and the Treasury confirmed last night that jf was going ahead with restoring the pay agreements Tor 500,000white- collar cm] _ serv^n ts which haw been suspended for this year. . ‘ • • .But in pay settlements in

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Independent pay . analysts said that the planned rise in spending by -government de¬ partments of 3.4 per cent would now be available only for non-pay spending.- The only pay increases which wSl be sanctioned beyond 'that would be funded by what Mr Parke tailed, in toe govern- . mem's economic evidence to the ..pay review * bodies, “marked improvements ■ in productivity.”.-.

The Chancellor also made clear he would not. as in previous years, raid toe £7 bil¬ lion contingency reserve to • pay for rises not funded by efficiency improvements.

Local authority leaders ac¬ cepted they would haws to cut jobs or services if they agreed pay rises not founded on higher.productivity.'.

In his evidence, Mr Parke said: “In an increasingly com¬ petitive world, all pay. in¬ creases have to be earned

“We have to break the inflation psychology'that in the past led to expectations of pay increases evoy year unre¬ lated to efficiency improve- . men! or toe ability of the employer to pay." he added."

The Chancellor'S package

was almost wholly in line with proposals put forward by Howard Davies, director-gen¬ eral of the Confederation of British Industry, who wel¬ comed it yesterday. ;;

For the Liberal Democrats. Baddy Ashdown said he saw no Teason why the public sector should be made a scapegoat to appease the right of the Tory party, while Tor Labour John Smith said min- ‘ isters were bound to run into resistance.

The TUC called ail public service unions to emergency talks next week to coordinate a response to the Chancellor's move, with John Monks, the Tile’S new general secretary, attacking • it as “highly provocative”. .

BUI Morris, general secre¬ tary of toe TCWU transport workers, said: “I warn the gewrrunent new that they are making an explosive industri¬ al cocktail which will guaran¬ tee a spring uprising among

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A BRITISH tourist was shot dead yesterday and his giri friend was injured by three men who tried to rob them as they slept in their hired car on a Florida holiday.

Garry Colley. 34, was shot in the oak and Margaret Jagger was injured when the robbers opened fire at point blank range on the car at a well-lit rest stop near Talla¬ hassee. Police believe toe robbers opened fire through toe side windows as Mr Colley started the car and tried to pull away.

Mr Colley. who lived with Miss Jagger in Wflsden, near Bradford. West Yorkshire, was the ninth victim of tourist kfitas in Florida in the past year. Officials yester¬ day launched a full-scale manhunt and offered a $10,000 (£6£00) reward for capture of the killers.

Recent murders in Ameri¬ ca's “Sunshine State" have led to national outrage aver a lack of safety for visitors which threatens to under¬ mine the tourist industry. All Stale-sponsored tourism ad¬ vertising was suspended yes¬ terday “to let the situation settle down”.

Tim Moore, commissioner of the Ftorida TaflF’Cirforce- ment department said Miss Jagger. who was shot in the chest and arm, is expected to recover in hospital. The couple had booked their £200-a-faead discount holiday through Portland Holidays of London, part of toe Thom¬ sons holiday business.

Police have interviewed witnesses to piece together what happened. It is thought - that toe couple, who arrived from Manchester on Thure- . day. pulled oif toe main road at a rest-stop at about 130am

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weapons and began firing. They shot through both win¬ dows."

Police are looking for two or three blade youths in their teens who were seen heading east in a red car with white stripes. Lawton Chiles, the Florida state governor, ap¬ pealed to the public to help with information via a

freephone number. He said all extra law enforcement personnel, induding a Flori¬ da Highway Patrol auxiliary unit of 500 officers, had been ordered to join a co¬ ordinated manhunt

Referring to a new state advisory code for tourists, he said: “They were nol doing anything wrong.” The car had no hire company identi¬ fication on the number plate. After several attacks on tour¬ ists in hired cars earlier this year, companies were ordered to remove number plates with such markings.

Less than a week ago a German tourist was shot dead in a hired car on a Miami motorway. Uwe- Wilhelm Rakebrand, 33. died when he refused to stop after being bumped from behind by an armed gang. Three suspects have been arrested.

The latest attack came only hours after state officials

unveiled a safety videotape for visitors, alerting them to the dangers of holidaying in Florida. It warns of the night risks on state motorways: “Stop only in well-lighted areas, such as service stations or convenience stores. View a map and clear directions before you leave toe airport in your rental car.”

Although the latest death happened in toe far north of the state, at least eight hours’ drive away. Miami officials fear it wiU further damage tourism across the whole state. Florida has 40 million visitors a year in an industry worth $31 billion (£20 billion).

Keith Betton of the .Associ¬ ation of British Travel Agents said yesterday that more than 800,000 Britons go to Florida each year on holiday. “There are serious cases, but they an? rare." he said.

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A GERMAN Lufthansa A320 Airbus carrying 70 people aasbed yesterday on landing in heavy rain at Warsaw and burst into flames. There were conSkting reports about casualties.

A Polish doctor said be saw at least 30 charred bodies in toe aircraft, and a fire brigade spokesman reported that up to 40 people may have burnt to death. Lufthansa said in Germany that, an 64 passen¬ gers and six crew survived after flight LH2904 from Frankfurt ran off the run¬ way’s end at Okerie airport, hit a barrier, nosedived over it and caught fire.

Franz Bertde, toe German -ambassador to Warsaw, was on toe aircraft but survived and is in hospital.

Short loses fourth game

GARRY Kasparov extended his lead over Nigel Short last night with victory in toe fourth game of The Times World Chess Championship.

Short. opened aggresively but was unable to build upon his early advantage as Kasparov first absorbed the British challenger's attack and then fought back with a suc¬ cession of bold moves. Short resigned after 40 moves to give Kasparov a S’a-'a lead in toe 24 game series.

The defeat was particularly disappointing for the Short camp, as the challenger had the advantage of playing white.

Rabin stopover spreads peace

hope to Morocco From Martin Fletcher in Washington

and Christopher Walker in Cairo

Diary, page 16 } Moves and analysis, page 8

WITH the logjam in the Middle East peace process broken at lasT. the momentum increased yesterday with an unexpected stopover in Mo¬ rocco by Yitzhak Rabin, Isra-

' el's prime minister, and the I initialling of an outline peace I accord between Jordan and

toe Jewish state. Mr Rabin said on arrival in

Rabat that the Israelis hoped and believed it possible “to widen relations among Arab states and toe Arab world”. His surprise visit added to optimism that new vistas of cooperation were opening with Arab and Muslim states.

The day after Israel and the FLO declared an end to their conflict. Jordanian and Israeli officials gathered at the State Department to initial an ac¬ cord that lays toe foundation for an eventual peace treat)’ and full diplomatic recogni¬ tion between toe two states.

Warren Christopher, the US Secretary of State, hailed the accord as another sign of crumbling Middle East barri¬ ers. “Yesterday I expressed toe hope that we could see progress toward a comprehen¬ sive peace between Israel and all her Arab neighbours." he said. “Today we take a very important step toward that comprehensive peace.

The semi-official al-Ahmm daily in Cairo declared in an unusually upbeat editorial: “The peace train is moving.” Radical protests against the PLO treaty continued, but for the moment the moderate majority appear to have gained toe upper hand.

in Washington. Israel and

Jordan agreed an agenda for negotiation on security, bor¬ der disputes, economic coop¬ eration. water rights and toe future of toe 1J> million Pales¬ tinian refugees in Jordan.

Yesterday’s accord had in feet been ready for months, but Jordan delayed endorsing it until Israel and the PLO had reached agreement.

Revelling in his new-found respectability. Yassir Arafat, the PLO chairman, continued his public relations offensive in Washington, giving a string of interviews and meeting Senate leaders on Capitol Hill.

Mr Arafat was later flying to New York to meet Boutros Boutros Ghali. toe United Nations secretary-general. This was his first visit to toe LIN since 1974 when he ap¬ peared wearing a holster.

Yesterday Mr Clinton reaped the reward, though he had played no part in the secretly negotiated accord. 1 The front of eveiy newspaper showed him nudging Mr Ra¬ bin and Mr Arafat into their peace handshake.

That picture was a huge political bonus for toe presi¬ dent. but one which presents him with -an equally big challenge. The accord has offered him a unique opportu¬ nity io achieve peace through¬ out the region, and he must not be remembered as toe president who squandered it.

A new Gallup poll yesterday gave him a 47 per cent approval rating, his highest since early in his presidents.

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Public school heads back campaign to ditch A levels

By John O'Leary and Ben Preston

INDEPENDENT school heads joined forces with Lab¬ our yesterday to demand the abolition of A levels, incens- ilying the pressure on John Fatten, the education secre¬ tary. to extend his school reforms into the sixth form.

Leaders of the Headmas¬ ters- Conference, which In¬ cludes most public schools, made A levels their main, target as their annual meeting opened in Oxford. Mr . Fatten is due to address the confer¬ ence this morning.

The heads have been split over the merits of A levels, which the government re¬ gards as the peak of secondary education. Yesterday, howev¬ er. the>p presented a united opposition to the examination, which Robin Wilson, their chairman, said was “past its sell-by date".

Mr Wilson, the head of Trinity School, Croydon, said A levels were too narrowing and encouraged pupils to dis¬ card important subjects at too young an age. Even in inde¬ pendent schools, only a third of sixth formers studied sci¬ ence and 15 per cent took a modem language.

“The urge is there from the pupils themselves." Mr Wil¬ son said. “They are aware that they need their numeracy and languages more than a school undeT the present system is able to provide."

Developing a theme he ex¬ plored last'month in 77re Times. Mr Wilson caked for’ an examination along the lines of the GC5E to be taken a year earlier, at 15. allowing stu¬ dents to then choose from an integrated system of vocation¬ al and academic courses of varying lengths. He registered independent school heads’ doubts about the separate vocational qualifications now being launched in state schools and colleges.

Tony Evans, head of Ports¬ mouth Grammar School, who chairs the conference's aca¬ demic panel, said: “The time has come to review the system. We are not laying down any

particular format, but the options are much wider and more obvious on the Conti¬ nent and we should consider taking more subjects to a later stage here."

Roy Chapman, the head of Malvern College, one of three conference schools offering the international baccalaureate, said students favoured broad¬ er education while parents still saw A levels as the “passport to the educational afterlife”.

He added: “1 am all for the maintenance of high stan¬ dards and rigour, but 1 have become very conscious of the limitations of A levels." f

Heads and classroom teach¬ ers' organisations in stale schools are already pressing for the reform of A levels, with the support of universities. The government’s attempt to introduce breadth in the sixth form by developing AS levels has ground to a halt.

Meanwhile. Labour said its new education green paper would remove the key pillars of Conservative policy for schools. It promised dial a Labour government would abolish national examination league tables and return grant maintained schools to the local authority fold. Both the nat¬ ional curriculum and national testing at seven, 11 and 14 would be reviewed.

Ann Taylor, the party's edu¬ cation spokeswoman, said: “We think the A level is too restrictive an examination and is nor in the best in rerest of pupils, employers or higher education. It is only ministers, sticking their heels in. who say it should remain.”

Mrs Taylor said the exami¬ nation should instead be built on die success of the GCSE, which included continuous as¬ sessment and course work.

Next week, the party will publish a blueprint for 16 to IS education. It will suggest the replacement of A levels with a more flexible system encour¬ aging students to mix academ¬ ic and vocational courses as well as science and arts subjects.

Chancellor demands end to ‘inflation psychology’

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PAY increases for Britain's five million public sector workers must be offset by higher productivity. Kenneth Clarke said yesterday.

In a statement accompany¬ ing the government's evidence to the free pay review bodies covering 1.4 million employ¬ ees, the Chancellor said: “There will be no formal limit on settlements, and different arrangements may apply to different groups. But ii will be necessary throughout the pub¬ lic service fo recognise that growth in pay bills will not be possible at this stage of the economic recovery.

“Government departments will be expected to keep their running costs, including pay budgets for their own employ¬ ees, to their 1993-4 level in cash terms, except where there are significant changes in activity

■ The government believes that wages in the public sector should be subject to as stringent discipline as private-sector pay

above that which can reason¬ ably be accommodated by marked improvements in productivity.

“This is not a freeze on pay settlements and does not pre¬ empt next year’s pay negotia¬ tions. But it will help to ensure that increases in pay do not add to public spending. A similar approach will be need¬ ed for other public sector pay groups, including those whose pay is recommended by the review bodies."

The Chancellor added that he would not raid the contin¬ gency reserve, pencilled in at £7 billion for next year, to save any award that breached the freeze on the £80 billion public sector pay bill

“Hie government will not be

able to accept review body recommendations which go beyond what can be afforded within agreed programmes.”

He added: “In an increas¬ ingly competitive world, all pay increases have to be earn¬ ed. We have to break the infla¬ tion psychology that in the past has led to expectations of pay increases every year unre¬ lated to efficiency improve¬ ment or the ability of the employer .to pay. We must become accustomed to a pat¬ tern where significant real terms increases m pay are not expected each year/"he said.

He highlighted inflation forecasts of price rises of 33 per cent (excluding mortgage interest payments) in late 1993 and 1994 and that the govern¬

ment believed inflation would fall to 2 per cent by 1997-8. He also said that underlying aver¬ age earnings were growing at their lowest rate Since 1967. but were still higher than in key competitors, such as the United States and. Japan. Across the economy, unit lab¬ our costs were falling.

The government believes that pay in the public sector should be subject to no less stringent discipline than it is in the private sector." he told the review bodies.

“The cumulative effects of pay settlements of review body groups in the 12 years up to and including the 1991-2 pay round exceeded that of the private sector," he added. He also said that there was no difficulty in recruiting and retaining staff covered by re¬ view body awards.

Treasury officials admitted that they did not have full con¬ trol over all public sector workers. The government ne¬

The Chancellor leaves the Treasury yesterday: his driver is among the five million public servants affected by-the wages dampdown he announced

Clarke rules out growth in public pay bill gotiated directly with the dvil service unions, covering more than 500,000 staff, and could reject any claim breaching die pay guidelines. Similarly, it had a vein over the review body reports due in February covering the pay of doctors, dentists, teachers, the armed forces, senior dvil servants and judges, nurses and mid¬ wives and professions allied fo medicine. It could not directly determine die pay of groups such as local authority staff.

Ministers believed that, with the pay bill frozen, coun¬ cil leaders would be reluctant to agree pay rises that could only be met by deep cuts in services. Again, productivity gains offered the only realistic wayouL

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Simon Jenkins and Diary; page. 16.

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By Philip Bassett INjOLSnUAL EDITOR

THE government's decision to link public-sector pay rises to productivity increases could result in many employees winning bag wage rises.

Unlike manufacturing, where greater output can Qu¬ easily measured, productivity in die service sector is difficult to gauge. Performance stejj. daros set by the government's citizen's charter are an attempt to measure and improve pub¬ lic-service productivity, but: groups such as doctors say output figures take no acaxi® of the quality of service.

With public-seaor pay ■ accounting for 60 per can <rf all current public spending, the real scope for productive improvements in the non- trading section — the health service, local government, the dvil service — remains reduc¬ ing the number of staff. - Managers in those areas insisted yesterday that pay rises would have to be paid for .by fewer jobs — leaving unions with the problem of reaching a trade-off between pay and jobs.

The trading parts of the public sector, such as British Coal and British Rail, can measure productivity more closely, and pay systems in sudi areas have for many years been, linked ro productivity.

Rightwingers argue that the lower employment levels in now-privatised companies, such as BT. coupled with their high profitability, highlighted the extent of tightening up that can occur. They argued that overstaffing is endemic in the public sector and that the scope for productivity im¬ provement is extensive.

Frank Dobson, Labour's employment spokesman, dis¬ agrees. He asked: “How does a firefighter increase his pro¬ ductivity? Go around lighting a few fires and putting them out again?”

While die value'of perfor¬ mance-related pay remains unproven, ministers and em¬ ployers' organisations such as the Confederation of British Industry, which influenced the Chancellor's policy outline yesterday, are wedded to it

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Diplomat in clash with arms enquiry

By Michael Dynes, Whitehallcx>rrespondent

INTELLIGENCE reports that warned of British companies helping Iraq to rebuild its military capability were not made available to senior Fbr- eign Office officials, the Scon enquiry was told yesterday.

The disclosure came amid some of the sharpest ex¬ changes so far at the arms-for- Iraq enquiry as David Gore- Booth. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, clashed with Lord Justice Scott.

The intelligence reports pro¬ vided strong evidence that sophisticated equipment made by Matrix Churchill, the West Midlands machine tool manu¬ facturer. were destined for two Iraqi arms establishments.

But the reports were never shown to M r Gore-Booth, who was Foreign Office assistant under-secretary in charge of the Middle East during 1989- 92. He was responsible for advising ministers oawhether such exports should be ap¬ proved, the enquiry heard.

Mr Gore-Booth said that after the 19S8 ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq war. Whitehall would have needed “incontro¬ vertible evidence” that exports

would be used to augment Iraq’s military capability be¬ fore they could have been stopped. Suspicions were not sufficient He had consistently opposed granting licences for the Matrix Churchill exports. But at the enquiry he repeated¬ ly refused to answer questions about whether knowledge of the reports would have helped the Foreign Office to argue its case against defence and trade and industry officials, who were eager for exports.

Mr Gore-Booth accused the Scon team of "constantly try¬ ing to get me to take a position on information that is avail¬ able to you now but wasn’t available to me then”. Lord Justice Scott said: “It seems a reasonable line of enquiry. What’S the problem?”

Mr Gore-Booth conceded that "with hindsight” the intel¬ ligence reports may have strengthened the Foreign Of¬ fice’s case. However, “at the time I was not persuaded that all such information necessar¬ ily should have come to me", he said. The individual receiv¬ ing the information decided who to pass it on to.

Clarke urges Brussels to cut commission

By Philip Webster, political editor

KENNETH Clarke sought to improve his standing with the Tory right last night by be¬ coming the first cabinet minis¬ ter to suggest a slimming down of the European Commission.

The Chancellor, clearly out to kill allegations that he is a Euro-fanatic, also gave a warning against tilting the balance too far in favour of the growing number of smaller countries seeking community membership. There was a risk of jeopardising .the EC’s polit¬ ical and. economic credibility.

Mr Clarke said that people were already asking whether a Brussels commission of 17 members was too big and suggesting that, its composi¬ tion would have to be re¬ viewed as the EC grew.

Giving the Swiss Bank Cor¬

poration lecture in London, Mr Clarke spoke about Europe after Maastricht and said he wanted it to develop on the British government’s agenda of free-market eco¬ nomics and a concerted fight against crime. He underlined his objections to federalism, and made plain that he had no early intention of raising ques¬ tions of a return to the ex- change-rate mechanism.

He said: “I saw the ERM as a necessary discipline to en¬ sure that member states con¬ verged their eamomic policies to achieve low'inflation and a stable competitive market in the single market... We were proved wrong when the effects of German reunification caused us to diverge, not converge,, in economic conditions."

| PoWs’ lawyer takes cash claim to Japan A lawyer acting for 12,000 British soldiers who suffered in Japanese prisoner of war camps is flying to Tokyo today to prepare for legal action against Japan. The former PoWs. who have so far failed to gain reparation for tbeir treatment, have been given fresh hope following recent statements of regret over Japan's wartime record by Morihiro Hosokawa. the Japanese prime minister (Michael Evans writes).

John Major, who is visiting Tokyo this weekend, has confirmed that be will raise the issue. However, the PoWs’ hopes for £12,000 each in compensation were dashed yesterday when a Japanese foreign ministry official said that Mr Hosokawa would show sympathy for the way Britons were treated, but would not be offering money. Martyn Day, the lawyer acting for the Japanese Labour Camps Survivors Association of Great Britain, said he would be meeting lawyers in Japan to discuss their next moves.

Heroin woman hopeful Sandra Gregory, 28, the teacher from Halifax, Yorkshire, facing the death penalty in Thailand after adhutting drug trafficking, seemed to be encouraged by her latest court appearance yesterday and expressed the hope that she would be shown mercy. Miss Gregory is accused of trying to smuggle 102 grams of heroin out of Bangkok airport in February. She was arrested when she checked in with Robert lock. 29, of Cambridge, who denies smuggling. The hearing was adjourned until September 21

Children accuse courts Most children aged 1! to 17 believe in harsher treatment for juvenile offenders, a survey published today suggests. Of 605 questioned. 80 percent thought that youth crime was one of Britain’s biggest problems, and 54 percent said the courts were too lenient The survey is being released as part of a youth action conference at Leicester University.

Parkinson injunction Lord Parkinson yesterday won a new High Court injunction banning further publication.of any comments by his former mistress, Sara Keays. about the welfare of their daughter Flora. 9. The hearing followed statements made by Miss Keays on television and the order remains in force pending the outcome of aJurther hearing today.

Council sloth criticised Local authorities were condemned by the ombudsman yesterday for delays in dealing with complaints from the public. Delays were the most common fault in almost 400 cases of maladministration examined last year. In one case a council took four and a half years to assess the need for modifications at toe home of a disabled person.

Sikorski back in Poland — -•-. .-- ouwjimu, me rou wartime leader, were Down to his homeland yesterday afi 50 yrars in a war cemetery in Newark. Notfingbamshi The Duke of Edinburgh attended a service in Newark 1 the general, who.died in a plane crash off Gibraltar,and v attend the rebunal at toe Royal Palace. Cracow, on Fridi

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Florida shooting

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IKE couple shot by robbers in Florida had only taken the trip after the offer of a free flight through a Hoover promotion fell through. ...

Steven Colley, whose broth¬ er Gaiy-had been on holiday with his .girl friend Margaret Jagger, said last night “Gary was supposed to be on one of tiMse Hoover special holiday offers, but they messed him about He got so fed up he booked his own holiday. He wouldn’t have been there if they hadn’t messed about with his holiday.”

Mr Colley, of Brighouse, West Yorkshire, said the fam¬ ily were “shocked and devas¬ tated” by Gary's murder. Lawton Chiles, governor of Florida, has offered a £10.000 reward for.information.

The British travel industry is highly concerned about the security af -traveflecs in the face of crime and terrorism and has set up a working party to address the problem. Nine foreign visitors have been killed in Florida since October.

The attack on the couple in their car in a layby about 25 miles east of Tallahassee comes as tour operators in Britain have been involved in a fight for increased market share in Florida. An estimated

By Marianne Curphey and Paul Wilkinson

800,000. British.tourists trav¬ elled to the state last year.

period. More than half of those who wentto Florida last

^ocoimtmg for 42 percent of" year were -on iheErfnst long- the long-haul holiday market haul holiday, and many ware

The Institute of Travel and' Tourism set up its working party following concerns that tom operators and the Foreign Office gave inadequate or conflicting advice: Working party members will include representatives from-airlines. insurance companies.tour op¬ erators arid travel agents..

Last week, a German tourist was killed as he drove from Miami airport

Tour operators have just begun an aggressive market¬ ing campaign -to sell more holidays m the pre-Christmas

Chiles: announced a ... $10,000 reward

families who booked early to ensure they could stay in the accommodation of their choice in the busy school summer

.holiday period. The Consumers' Associ¬

ation has called for travel . agente to give, detailed safety warnings before allowing cus-

' tamers to book a holiday, but tie Association of British Travel Agents claims this

' scheme could not be policed. A number of tourists in

Florida have been attacked dose to their own hotels. Last month, three Britans were beaten and pistaLwhipped in a hotel forecourt in Orlando. -

:. Florida tourism officials in -London claim that undercover police forces operating around Miami-airport foe arresting . young mm driving stolen cars who might: use them in "smash arid grab” incidents.

However, despite tourist of¬ ficers having fogtalipri “visi¬ tor-friendly" traffic, signs in j the Greater Miami area, and 1 police patrols carrying out 24-

. hour tourist duty to help lost foreigners, they.cannot pre- vwnt indiscriminate attarfrs.'

Tourists attacked, page I

Jailed drink-drive I Bus driver vicar is expected

to keen his narisi By Ruth Guedhui, religion correspondent

PUBLIC support for a vicar jailed for two months far drink-driving has been so strong that he is expected to be allowed to keep Us parish in London..

The Rev David. Lawson* 46. rector of St Bartholomew! the' Great in iSmithfield,--r the oldest pansh diurch ^m^the capital — is inBnaon' prison after being asmeted-afinir third drink-driving offence. Under church law he is auto¬ matically deprived of hfo liv¬ ing, but Dr David Hope* the Bishop of London can appeal to Dr George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, .to let him stay.

The Rev Anthony Winter, assistant priest at St Bartholo¬ mew, said: "He is single, he lives on his own. Loneliness is obviously a problem, but the

> decision rests with the “ bishop.”

The Rev Rob Marshall, of the London diocese, said: “I do not think he will go. I think there is a lot of goodwill for him.

“Drink-driving is a danger-

Lawsom convicted three times for drink-driving

pus thing and “there is no excuse, but people have got to realise that clergy foie real people. If they foe single they are often on their awn. They are on small salaries and have stresxfoTjobs. The offence was

- all down to the Stress Mr lawsozLwas under.. _

"There hfo beena trenten-; dolls' amount of “goodwilL

-Everyme-knows itwasffosaiy1 flring to dcK in ftifo modem secular .world, befog jl vicar is . ah increasingly hard .fob. There’s obviously' a problem,

; we “just aren’t sure exsusjy what it is yet”, : .

Mr .Lawson’s case has high¬ lighted the problem of-stress

- among the dergy, who often crackunder the strain of befog, idealised by . parishioners. Drink is dted as die cause far the breakdown of many.dergy marriages. ' - ’ • -• .v‘-

John Gayford, director of the alcoholic .. unit.. at. Warlingham Ptok hospital fa Surrey and a consultant at St Lukes Hospital for the Clergy, in London, said it was often. a crisis such as a drink-driving conviction that led people to seek help for their drinking.

“I have had nuxedxfoults in the treatment of the clergy. Some are re-established fa ; their parishes. Some-have ! dropped, out completely and one I know committed sukade.” '

He said the problems that caused drinking included shy- 1 ness. “It can be that they have difficulty doing things in pub¬ lic," said Dr Gaylord. “They use alcohol as aprop.” - •..

tion of dergy who develop drink problems, was no higher than in other professions, but it appeared more shocking because of. their public position-

given life for lolling passenger

BvA Staff Reporter

A BUS driver who beat and strangled a passenger as she travelled home from work was jailed for life yesterday.

Angry relatives of the victim applauded .'foe., sentence, faid one shouted “Roast fa beU"as Paul Higfaam, 28. was led .from the dock fo Iiyopiool 'Crown CourT to begin fus sentence: . ~.

Higham was described as a “dangerous man” by Mr Jus-

' tice Mbrlahdafier he admitted murdering lisa Beyliss, a 20- year-dd hospital audiology technician. : Miss Bayliss, who lived

[■withher parents in Winston, ; Merseyside, was the only pas¬ senger when she caught a 320 bus from Liverpool to Wigan after working at Royal Liver¬ pool Hospital at about630pm on November 18 last year, the court was told.'

Rodney Kievan QC, far the prosecution, said Higham, a married mail from Platt Bridge. Greater Manchester, took flie bus through Huyton and then to the A58 which was not on its route, where it was seen parked in a lay-by with- \ out tights for about 45 minutes.

Hifoiam beat and strangled Miss BayEss. left her body in the lay-by and drove back to the bus depot in Wigan. By the time her body was found at 9.15pm Higham was ilia pub. Later an attempt was made to use her Bardaycard to get cadi from a machine near Higham’shome. _A pathologist found Miss Bayliss had been strangled but. suffered severe- bruising and cuts and a broken jaw before she died. Forensic evidence indicated she had been killed after a struggle in the front of the bus-

Star leads a wise man to celebrate Christmas early

By Nigel Hawkes, science editor

TRONOMER (taints mid be pulling crack- d carving Christmas ; todav, cm foe two udth anniversary of h of Christ avid Hughes, of Stef- rnjversity. bases his dons on astronomical historical evidence, points to September gC as the day when was boro in the stable

eoiy has so far had t on the Christian . and neither does

ies enpect it to-TJ6 ai continue to ede- irisfs birth on De- 25 and betieve he 1 1.993 years ago - neither assumption listorical basis, ughes’ theory Is

based on foe star tiiat fed the three wise men to the stable. He believes this was an unusual conjunction of Jupi¬ ter and Saturn, which ap¬ peared in the heavens in 7 BC very dose to each other.

• That Christ was bora well before AD 1 is generally accepted. When the calendar numbering the years from fas birth was originally set oat in AD 525 by the monk Dionysius Erignu* be totted up.tbe fastray.of the Roman empire but overlooked four years of the rule of the emperor Octavian.

As for December 25, that was ebosen. because ft was gage to the winter solstice and the Roman feast of Saturnalia.

Dr Hughes says tfie exact date must fafl between about

8 BC and a couple of years before tiie death of Herod, winch he puts at 1 BG That leaves a fairly km g period fa which : to sefoch for astro- tumoral events that might mateh lhe account in Mat¬ thew’s gospd. -

“Given a ffve-year time slot, you would be a pretty poor astonofoer if you couldn’t come up with sev¬ eral possibilities," he said. >

“Quite a few foebtagiaiis believe foe stoiy of foe star was invented by Matthew, but 1 don’t r

“Even if you do believe in it there are other possibili¬ ties, including a comet that appeared in 5- BC. We’D never know the final answer.” •

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Girl, 14, wins legal aid for access

battle with mother By Frances Gibb, legal correspondent

A GIRL of 14 girl has been granted legal aid to start a court action against her moth¬ er. who is stopping the daugh¬ ter from seeing her baby sister.

The girl went to a solicitor without telling either of her divorced parents and asked for legal advice to sort out the dispute, in which the girl's mother is denying her access to her ll-month-old sister. She was granted legal aid and is expected to start proceedings this week for contact under the Children Act 1989.

The girl's parents divorced in 1983 and the girl went to live with her father. Last October, her mother gave birth to a second child and allowed the girl to visit But in May. mother and daughter quar¬ relled and the girl's 41-year- old mother banned her from visiting her home in South Shields, Tyne and Wear.

The girl then went to Wheldon Houisby & Scott solicitors, to see if legal action could help. Her case is the latest of a spate of child- initiated actions under the 1989 act which enables child¬ ren to obtain legal aid and take legal action if a court considers they have sufficient understanding to do so.

Jo Brown, the girl's solicitor, said: “This is the first case of its kind 1 have come across. The girl... was upset because she couldn’t see her baby sister.

“She is a very brighi young lady. The courts will have to deade if it is in the best

interests of the baby for her to have access."

The girl's father added: “My daughter is a very determined youngster and feels very strongly about this. I will give her all the support she needs.”

Her mother said she did not believe her daughter had tak¬ en the action by herself. “She is getting me back for some¬ thing that happened years ago and I just hope it is an adolescent smut It is terrible what I am going through and 1 just pray she stops this before it gets out of hand."

Last night, the mother add¬ ed: “There is no way on this earth I am going to allow her to see my baby again. Not after this."

The teenager cannot be named for legal reasons, but is believed to have sought legal assistance after reading about the Children A cl Criticising the law. the mother said: “My daughter is just using this act as a weapon to get at me when she is not happy.

“Imagine if every child de¬ rided to take court action when they fell out with iheir parents. The place would be in a right state."

The mother added: “One day she went to a neighbour's house and accused me of neglecting her and being a terrible mother... I told her not to see me any more.

“The next thing 1 knew 1 got a letter from a solicitor saying she was taking me to court. I couldn’t believe what was happening, but I will fight this all the way."

“My Rolex is more than just a watch, in everything that it makes me feel dressed/ I feel its not completely

she does, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa combines a the end of the world for her. I'm sure I will have

remarkable liveliness and spontaneity with an to sing the Marschallin 100 times before I hilly

absolute obsession with perfection. understand the depth of the character.”

She delights in Strauss and Mozart "because Her famous voice is in such worldwide

the women in their operas are contradictory: demand that she is booked up for years to come,

warm and cool at the same time.” Two of her Will her voice stand the strain? Kiri says, “What

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. When she decided to sing the Marschallin

in Der Rosenkavalier, Kiri said it was '"because the

character appeals to me. She has understanding

and maturity and when she lets her lover go,

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Radio 1 chief hows out with attack on ‘dinosaurs’ as chart-rigging claims are rejected

Luddites are accused of

killing BBC from within

By Andrew Pierce

THE outgoing head of Radio I launched a fierce attack yester¬ day on the “modern Luddites" who were rryfog to destroy the BBC from within.

Johnny Beerling gave a bitter valedictory speech to the In the City music convention in Manchester. Mr Beerling. 56. singled our the disc jockey Dave Lee Travis, who an¬ nounced his resignation live on air to millions of startled Radio l listeners last month.

Mr Beerling said: “I don't intend to be tagged along with dinosaurs like DL.T [Dave Lee Travis] and others who resist change. On the contrary. I believe that if broadcasting is to survive and thrive it must constantly look at ways of developing and improving the service h provides for its customers — its listeners. No¬ where is that more true than at the BBC."

He denied reports that he was unhappy about his depar¬ ture from the BBC: “It was my decision to leave.” Had he stayed on unril the corpora¬ tion's charter came up for

Beerling: “It was my decision to leave"

renewal in 1996. there would have been the "vaguely non¬ sensical" situation of a 60- year-old running the BBCs so- called young rock and pop network.

Matthew Bannister, a youn¬ ger man appointed from out¬ side the corporation, will take over from Mr Beerling and intends to rejuvenate the sta¬ tion's image. The decision was announced in June, three months after Radio 1 lost its national pop music monopoly to Virgin Radio.

In a speech which will come as a welcome relief to John Birt, the BBC director general. Mr Beerling said the corpora¬ tion was undergoing the big¬ gest change in its 60-year history.

“There are those within the organisation who do not wel¬ come change, do not want to know how'much it costs to book a studio, an outside broadcast unit, or an editing suite," he said. They were the people who made a fuss about the silly anomalies which fol¬ lowed the introduction of Mr Bid’s market-driven costing system. Producer Choice.

“I have to say that in my opinion they are the modem Luddites who foil to see the need for change," said Mr Beerling. who has run Radio I for eight years. They were like the disc jockeys who had resisted the introduction of compact discs and preferred to play scratchy old vinyl records.

With the BBC effectively on a fixed or foiling income, the only way to make more money available for programmes was to cut overheads. More eff-

Charles Koppelmaa head of EMI in North America, who yesterday said it was fanciful to suggest that rackets were having pop records bought up

icient means of production had to be found and fewer members of staff might be needed.

However. Mr Beerling did admit that the introduction of Producer Choice had caused havoc. Production units were providing facilities the broad¬ casters needed, but had to recover their costs from pro¬ gramme makers who had the choice of going elsewhere if they could obtain the same service more cheaply.

But Mr Beerling insisted the BBC was not dying. "Indeed, it could be said that she will soon be out of the wards and ready to go for a period of convalescence, and be back in full health by 1995. So the odds are on Auntie going on for a good few years yet My guess Ts that because of the universal licence fee. Radio 1 in particu¬ lar will survive."

EMI chairman scorns talk of rackets By Andrew Pierce

EMI'S chairman in North' America, Charles Koppelman. yesterday scorned claims that Britain’s weekly pop charts were being rigged

Mr Koppelman, who was in Britain for an EMI conference, dismissed the re¬ marks of the songwriter Peter Waterman as “fanciful and over die top”.

The speech by Mr Waterman, chair¬ man of PWL Records, dominated the dis¬ cussion at a music industry convention in Manchester. Mr Waterman had claimed that the industry knew there were rackets all over the country having records bought up.

Mr Koppelman who says Mr Water¬ man is “a terrific guy", said there was no evidence for the allegations of wide¬ spread fixing. “There are isolated inci¬ dents, of course. But normally they would be in the form of over-aggressive

marketing and selling. But rigging achieves nothing in die end. Over the years we have learnt die only way to make hit records is to produce' the music that people want to listen to. Pete Waterman knows that top."

Mr Waterman alleged that gangs in cars bought singles to push them into the charts and that record companies gave free copies to shops which then sold mem at discount prices to stimulate sales. He said a senior figure should be appointed to draw up a new set of rules. -

With more than 30 years' experience In the industry. Mr Koppelman said he had heard such allegations before. "Where is the evidence? Pete Waterman is exagger¬ ating this. There are instances whore people will try to have a small effect on record sales. But it is not prevalent and it does not accomplish anything.”

Mr Koppelman denied that artificially distorting sales would automatically lead

to a record being broadcast more oftem. “If it was that easy to do then eveiyquc would do ik independent record com¬ panies would be driven out of business. But they are thriving."

' Despite Mr Waterman’s negative tone, the record industry was thriving, said Mr Koppelman. The strength of the industry was in its diversity. The recent growth m the popularity of classical music under¬ lined the strength of the industry.

Mr Koppelman was not worried about the short-lived popularity of some groups whose appeal was concentrated among fickle teenage fans. He said: "It's not true to suggest the industry no longer pro¬ duces stars of the calibre and staying power of Barbra Streisand. George Mi¬ chael Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen are major stars. They are household names who will go on and, on. I am not a bit pessimistic about the talent that is coming through." -

Man drives 130 miles to cut damp

A man took the law into his own hands when his heavily pregnant daughter had her van wheddamped after leav¬ ing a car park in Blackpool one minute late.

Trevor Barnes drove 130 miles from Darlington, co. Durham, with a pair of bolt cutters to free his daughter Karen. 21. after clampers had demanded £50 to free the van.

Miss Barnes, who was visit¬ ing her sister, offered to pay for an extra 30 minutes, but the dampers refused. Her father said bystanders cheered when he cut off the clamp. “1 was determined they wouldn’t get away with it — any father would feel the same way."

Train used as ambulance Rescuers commandeered a commuter train to take, to a hospital a woman who had fallen 20ft from a bridge onto a railway line in Warwickshire.

The woman, aged 25, could not be carried up the steep em¬ bankment beside the track because of back injuries, so police stopped a train en route to Leamington Spa. British Rail said: “The passengers were not upset by the short de¬ lay and we were glad to be able to help' in an emergency."

Murder charge Alexander Jackson. 34. of Brans holme, Hull, was re¬ manded in custody for seven days by the city’s magistrates charged with die murder of Dianne Hunt, 14. whose bod}’ was found in a house in the area on Sunday.

Shotgun killing Detectives were questioning a man and woman after Alwyn Baker, 68. a former RAF pilot,

-was found shot dead at his home in Hampton, Hereford and Worcester. Police were called after neighbours heard shotgun fire..

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Two tales of a city shatter Bath’s image of Georgian gentility

The dty centre audit highlights increased begging

By Richard Duce

THE popular image of Bath as an elegant Georgian dty has been exploded by an American woman brought in to revita¬ lise the local economy.

While Kimberly Pauraier's fellow countrymen still “do Bath" in daily droves on the tourist trail, their preconcep¬ tion of elegant gentility is revealed as something of a myth in her report, which highlights problems of pollu¬ tion, drunkenness, ram-raid- ing and aggressive beggars.

Miss Paumier, 34. a gradu¬ ate in urban studies from Michigan University, has been hired by Bath City Coun¬ cil and the chamber of com¬ merce as dty centre manager on £30,000 a year to draw up a development plan for the next three years. She was selected from 300 applicants for the post and lives in a flat in the north of the dty.

She said yesterday: “When you first come to visit, it is like a picture postcard srory with everything running smoothly, but when you get under the surface it is like any other dty."

Her 28-page report, now before the council, gives an outsider's perspective on two tales of a dty. Bath, proud of its literary connections with Dickens and Jane Austen, is decribed by Miss Paumier in her dty centre audit as a “beautiful dty. gifted with resources and assets not found in most UK cities". There are 17 museums, many galleries, restaurants and the Theatre Royal.

Yet weaknesses, some of them long recognised by

Bath's residents and workers, are also highlighted in the report which says: □ There is a high level of pollution in the dty. □ Aggressive begging is a growing threat, with tourists affected. □ There is general concern over the numbers of travellers and the number of drunks. □ Bath after dark can some¬ times be a threatening place. □ Large groups of youths, leaving pubs at night and

walking the streets, can prove intimidating □ Ram raiding is a significant security problem.

Miss Paumier also singles out the drab dty railway station, often the vistor’s first glimpse of Bath, as in need of a facelift and is encouraging residents to lobby British Rail.

She wants the council and private enterprise to unite in addressing the city’s draw¬ backs. “It is not a one-person issue. There is an awful lot of

Paumier. "Beautiful dty, gifted with resources"

support within the business community and council for the idea that we need to go forward.

“1 would like to see the city council as an effective and proactive organisation. It is important that you recognise the parts that are working well and also the parts that are not don’t get covered up.

"In the next three years. I would like to see the spa open again and more activity in the arts and entertainment field. I would like to see a compas¬ sionate handling of the issue of the homeless and travellers, fewer vacant shops. I would love io see more done with the open spaces, perhaps a foun-' tain or two.

“In the States, the cities that have achieved the most are those that have pulled togeth¬ er, You need to have a vision. In Baltimore, where I am from, the once seedy water¬ front area has been turned round in 15 years into befog one of the biggest tourist attractions in the States.”

Consortium to bid for new Forth

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crossing By Andrew Collier

TWO of Britain’s largest con¬ struction companies, Trafal¬ gar House and Balfour Beatty, have formed a consortium to bid for work on a second road bridge across the Forth.

The two firms announced yesterday that they have formed a joint venture, Forthspan Limited, to tender for the design, construction and operation of any new crossing of the river.

Ian Lang, the Scottish secre¬ tary, is likely to announce the results of a feasibility study into a second Forth bridge before the end of the year. It is expected that he will give approval to the project which will cost about EZ75 million.

Trafalgar House built the first Forth Road Bridge, opened in 1964, and are cur¬ rently working on the Tsfag Ma bridge in Hong Kong, the second largest suspension bridge in the world. Balfour Beatty also has oonsiderable experience of privately fin an-' ced projects.

Congestion on the existing bridge, which links Fife to Edinburgh, is becoming an increasingly serious problem. The structure was built to handle 14.000 vehicles a day. but was found during a survey last year to be carrying more than 50.000 vehicles daily.

Mr Lang has indicated that a new bridge and associated approach roads would be funded from tolls on both the new and old road crossings. One-way fees could increase from 40p to about EI-25p-

Octopus explosion eats into lobster

fishermen’s profits By Michael Hornsby, agriculture correspondent

A BIG rise in the octopus population of the North Sea is threatening foe livriihocd of lobster fishermen. Marine life experts say the octopuses are multiplying at an unprece¬ dented rate because of over- exploitation of cod and other fish that prey on them.

According to Simon Foster, a marine biologist at an aquarium run by Sea Life Centres in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast, the creature causing foe trouble is the lesser octopus [Eledone drrhosa). the type most com¬ monly found in British waters. It can be up to 2ft long from the tip of its tentades to the top of its head.

"More and more fishermen are finding octopuses in their lobster pots. A lobster trapped inside a pot is easy pickings for an" octopus, which can elongate itself to penetrate the mesh of foe basket The octo¬ pus usually kills all foe lob¬ sters in the pot and then eats them at its leisure," he said.

“Octopuses also eat crabs, but the crab population is very healthy. Lobsters are already befog overfished and preda¬ tion by octopuses is an extra pressure. The octopus explo¬ sion is more of a nuisance than anything else, but it has the potential to become a serious threat

“The problem Is found all round the coast, but is more noticeable in the North Sea because of the concentration of fishing there. It is mainly a symptom of overfishing of cod which feed on juvenile octo¬

pus. With fewer cod around, more and more octopus are surviving into adulthood and breeding.”

The octppusplague is caus¬ ing most difficulty for foe inshore lobster catchers, or “coblemen”, who set foeir pots within 100 yards of the coast- line. The1dahger time is when lobsters change their shells. The new shells are still soft, making their inhabitants vul¬ nerable to attack. Deep-sea pots seem to be unaffected.

Ray Trotter, a Scarborough cbbleman. said: "We are find¬ ing three or four octopus a day, whereas a few years back we might find erne a week. One pot I pulled up three weeks ago had four lobsters and an octopus in it. One lobster was okay, but the other three were empty shells. I swear the lobster was laughing. No won¬ der, it had just eaten the equivalent of a T-bone steak."

Mr Trotter believes octo¬ puses have reduced his lobster catch by 15 to 2D per cent, a considerable loss when lob¬ sters fetch E3.50 to ESa lb at the quayside.

Other fishermen and shell¬ fish merchants agree there has been a sharp drop in lobster catches, but blame it mainly on foe cool summer. Barry McNally, a fish salesman on the West Her at Scarborough, said: “Lobsters like warm water in foe summer when they do most of their feeding. Boats that should be getting 120 lobsters for twd days' wotik are coming back with no more than 50 or 60."

An enquiry was launched after David Stewart. 17, of Honiton, Devon, was found hanging in his cell at Exeter prison. He was awaiting sen¬ tence after befog convicted of criminal damage and breach¬ ing lus probation order.

Stage death An amateur actor. Keith Rawlings, 59, died in front of theaudienoe while making his stage debut in a production of Fiddler on the Roof. Mr Raw¬ lings, of Coventry, is thought to have had a heart attack.

On the trot Two mounted police officers halted traffic and then acted as outriders for a woman in lab¬ our who was being driven to hospital through rush-hour traffic in Taunton, Somerset, ■ff..

Yacht found The two-day search far the yacht Zanzibar, missing off Guernsey, ended when three survivors were recovered from foe upturned huff The three other crew are dead.

Co caine haul Five men. including one armed .and carrying £31.000, were arrested when police raided a former hair salon in London’s Mayfair and discov¬ ered Ikg of cocaine.

Digger crash # A'-friah aged 40 was charged with drink-driving after alleg¬ edly'crashing a six-tonne dig¬ ger as he tried to load ironto a fortyjn Slaugham, Sussex. .

Midnight run A naked businessman had to be rescued by firemen after falling 10ft down a rubbish chute while sleep walking. The man. aged 36, fell down the chute in a block of flats after sleepwalking out of a hotel 50 yards away.

Lazy man about the house cooks up trouble in the kitchen By Robin Young

THE modern married man might say he will help with the housework, but hand him a vacuum cleaner or ask him to change a nappy and he will fade from sight

Yet when it comes to cooking, new- age man is prepared to spend more time in the kitchen than ever, accord¬ ing to a Henley Centre report com¬ missioned by Asda. the supermarket group.

Researchers, who interviewed a representative sample of nearly 1,000 adults living as married couples with children, found that men spend a third more time cooking than they did in 1986.

The report says that more than a quarter of men claim they enjoy shopping for food, while nearly half

say they enjoy cooking. Four-fifths of women say. however, that they pre¬ pare more than half what is eaten and two^hirds say they do almost all the cooking.

In households where both partners are working full-time, a third of men prepare at least half the family’s food. The report also suggests that about a quarter of men have become more accomplished cooks than their partners.

Yet the average man illustrated by the cartoon, spends less than 13 hours a week helping with household chores when women average more than 34 hours of household drudgery.

The survey found that while men spend almost an hour a week cooking for pleasure, half their household work time is devoted to performing

just two tasks: shopping and washing up.

. Compared with women, who spend two-fifths of foeir housework hours dusting, cleaning and doing general tasks, men spend only a quarter of the hours they contribute performing such tasks.

The report also found that women make up almost half the employed workforce. Not since the late 1950s have a majority of women been housewives solely.

Women working full-time spend ten hours a week more on domestic chores than their partners. Those working part-time do more than 22 extra hours — almost as many as women who do not go out to work at alL Their average difference is just over 25 hours a week.

A reason for the difference, foe

report says, is that men employed full-time have a longer working week than women, averaging four more hours a week.

The report also suggests heard-to- break cultural habits are a contribut¬ ing factor. Even where both partners work full-time, a quarter of women still believe foe man’s career should take priority.

It says foe difference is perpetuated partly because girls, not boys, are taught to cook, iron and dean from an early age. The report cites a National Food Alliance survey which found that while 59 per cent of girls aged 12 to 15 knew now to make an apple pie, only 28 per cent of boys of the same age did. □ The Asda Report 2. Working Mothers and . Time (The Henfey Centre, £50, 071-724 6777)

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Ashdown insists policies on local democracy set apart Lib Dems from rivals

Liberal Democrats launch campaign to rebuild civic spirit

By Philip Webster, political editor

AMBITIOUS plans to rebuild the civic spirit in Britain, by active measures to encourage the creation of local and workplace communities, were outlined yesterday by Paddy Ashdown", at the heart of a programme designed to make the Liberal Democrats the political party of the twenty- firsi century.

In a new policy document issued five days before its annual conference in Torquay. Mr Ashdown claimed that only his party- had the vision and the proposals to unlock the potential of the British people. Promising to “reinvent democracy'’, by providing open and" participatory gov¬ ernment. Facing up to the Future anempts to demolish claims by both Labour and Tories that they are the parties of freedom, opportunity and social justice.

With the Liberal Democrats approaching their conference in good heart after two by- election victories this year. Mr Ashdown said: “This year we have proved ourselves in the battle for votes: now we must win the battle of ideas."

The document, drawn up by a committee under Mr Ashdown, sets out a broad statement of principles that will provide the framework for furore policy statements.

Party leaders insist it is not a manifesto, but it contains sev¬ eral policy departures. It pro¬ poses measures to enhance public consent for taxation by explaining more openly to the public how money raised in taxation is spenr. and it backs the idea of allocating specific tax increases to particular areas of expenditure, such as education.

it proposes a set of emergen¬ cy measures to tackle poverty and to heal the rifts in society, including the provision of adequate levels of income support, pensions, housing.

health and community care, and a more progressive sys¬ tem of income and inheritance tax. It proposes increased in¬ vestment in social services, funded if necessary through tax increases.

Outlining proposals to un¬ lock the spirit of community, the paper states: “Liberal Democrats aim to create a society in which individuals are free to realise their own potential and shape their own success. We do not view indi¬ viduals in isolation.

“We know that communities form an essential part of the human experience. Successful individuals need thriving communities.

“But equally strong commu¬ nities can only be formed from self-reliant individuals." It therefore proposes decentra¬ lisation of flower, and control

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of at least a third of govern¬ ment spending to Scottish and Welsh parliaments, the re¬ gions. local authorities and a new' network of neighbour¬ hood councils.

The paper also proposes measures to stimulate local and regional economies through development and en¬ terprise agencies, and provid¬ ing encouragement and support for small businesses.

To build communities of friends and colleagues shar¬ ing common interests, it promises active help for pres¬ sure groups, trade unions, the churches, universities and the media. It suggests planning, transport, housing and em¬ ployment policies’ that can create communities to which people can relate and find the jobs, services and facilities thev need. The document also

promotes employee participa¬ tion and profit sharing in firms.

Setting out the challenges facing the country, the paper says that in Britain people vote out of fear rather than hope, and the state fails to mobilise the talents of the people. Communities have broken down and the problems of racial discrimination, inequal¬ ities for women, a developing underclass and increasing de¬ mands on welfare spending still exist

Mr Ashdown sees his par¬ ty's role as allowing people to develop their talents, nurtured by government, but not con¬ stricted by it “Look where Britain has succeeded — did governments do it?" Mr Ashdown asked.

“Did governments invent the spinning-jenny, build our manufacturing base, design our best-selling cars, discover DNA or win the World Cup? No, people did. The govern¬ ment’s job is to bring initia¬ tive. talent and determination OUL"

At Westminster yesterday, he said the new Liberal Demo¬ crat agenda was set apart from the other main parties. In contrast to Labour it was strongly procure rprise and competition, and was address¬ ing the challenges of the environment and the new world order.

On the economy the docu¬ ment says the aim should be the creation and preservation of wealth in ail its forms: human, environmental and material. It suggests a redefi¬ nition of the means by which economic success is measured.

GDP calculations should include measurements of pol¬ lution and resource depletion, to create sustainable national

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Common themes mask differences between parties

Paddy Ashdown yesterday explaining his parly’s ambition to reinvent democracy

Spot the difference be¬ tween these two state¬ ments: “For too long

British society has tolerated unacceptable levels of inequal¬ ity and discrimination", and “Inequalities are not necessar¬ ily unjust, but those which are should be reduced and where possible eliminated."

The former statement sounds more left wing, more' egalitarian, but actually comes from the Liberal Democrats’ new statement of policy . themes. Facing tip to the: Future. The latter is from toe first discussion document of LatouTs commission on social justice. Much of their analysis is intentoangeaMe.

Highlighting these similar¬ ities is not meant to suggest some secret Lab-Lib agenda as , prelude to a pact — which .

.Labour leftwingers allege in;: criticism of'. the party's modernisers. Lab-Ubbety in ■. the sense of deals over seats Or the tike is not a serious prospect this side of a gener¬ al election. Ad¬ mittedly. coun- . cillors from both parties are co-operating-~ in many county authorities:, pluralism in practice as I^ddy ; Ashdown describes h. :

Nationally, however, nei¬ ther parly is in the mood to co¬ operate, apart from the occasional informal meeting. Indeed, in some inner-city ■ areas such as east London.' they are vehemently opposed to each other.

The real interest in the comparison of the two papers is more fundamental: both documents reflect a similar analysis of what is wrong with Britain. The Liberal Democrat paper stresses difficulties cre¬ ated by declining competitive¬ ness and high structural unemployment and highlights die need for flexible employ¬ ment patterns while protecting workers’ rights, just as recent Labour statements have.

Mr Ashdown's central points of creating a spirit of community and strengthening individual opportunity echo

exactly speeches by Labour modernisers such as Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. There is nothing sinister in this; they are sensible and electorally attractive themes.

Naturally there are differ¬ ences, notably that Labours modernisers do not yet speak For toe party as a whole. Moreover, the Liberal Demo- oats have, by virtue of their smaller size, greater freedom to manoeuvre. They can, for example, be self-consciously radical about recasting the tax and benefit system.

Party leaders argued yester¬ day that the Liberal Demo¬ crats could offer a more balanced approach than either the Tories or Labour. The paper urges both road pricing and higher investment in pub¬ lic transport. Yet it has the freedom of a party whose

' ideas, are not scrutinised as a potential party of government • Mi Ashdown was at pains to identity differences from La-

bour, such as a £ greater empha¬ sis on enter¬ prise, compet-

7 . ition • and - breaking up monopolies, on bong anti-corporafist and op¬ posing vested interests, having a clearer international ap¬ proach and putting a higher priority cm the environment. The real differences are

that Labour is still a party of the unions, toe

big cities and the public sector, while toe Liberal Democrats are a party of the provinces, local councils and toe volun¬ tary sector. These contrasts of origin and perspective over- ^ shadow the convergence of ^ underlying programmes shown by the two documents.

No one attending either of the forthcoming conferences could confuse the parties. There might be a common core of ideas about what a left- of-centre party should advo¬ cate in the 1990s. but that is not going to mean a common platform, let alone an alliance. |

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You shouldn’t be.

With about 650 athletes and officials in the party (not to mention the odd horse or two) the British Olympic Association needed a big airline.

Delta is big,.

We have: more direct flights from Europe to the US than any other airline. We fly to over 250 American cities and over 300 worldwide.

In fact, with 4,900 flights a day in the Delta system, there’s one plane taking off somewhere in the world every 18 seconds. (That ought to be flexible enough for most training schedules.)

We’re experienced, too. We’ve been in the air since 1929 so we know our way around.

As for comfort and care - just talk to some of our regulars in business suits and you’ll know how we’ll look after the people in tracksuits for the next three years.

The fact is, we aim to get Mr. Christie, Mr. Jackson and Ms. Gunnell to Atlanta in tip-top condition.

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THE TIMES WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

• Nigel Short’s early moves in the fourth game lived up to his promise of a display of aggressive chess

• The challenger seemed to • But, despite his queen have learnt from earlier time being exposed, the champion trouble, and it was Kasparov fought back strongly to who struggled yesterday take victory in the endgame

Short goes for the jugular in vain bid to unseat Kasparov

By Ian Murray and Raymond Keene

NIGEL Short lost for the third time in four games against Gam Kasparov in The Times World Chess Championship, surrendering what looked like a winning position as he failed to keep track of the time in a final flurry of moves.

The British challenger had begun well and aggressively, playing a well planned open¬ ing which left Kasparov trail¬ ing on the clock by nearly three-quarters of an hour by the time half the necessary 40 moves were played.

At that point, however, he turned the tables, playing a move which stunned Short and made him lose nearly half an hour struggling to find an answer. With only'a quarter of an hour left. Short still had to make 15 moves and the raskof finding a way of stopping Kasparov then proved too much for him.

The defeat leaves Short trailing by 3'z points to *2 in the 24-game match and means that he has now got to over¬ come the enormous psycho¬ logical disadvantage of having lost again, despite the advan¬ tage of playing White.

"More than once during the game Short seemed poised to take a winning advantage but then hesitated for too long before making a move which the expen commentators fol¬ lowing the match considered to be obvious. “It was almost as though he seemed afraid of winning,11 said Tony MUes. one British grandmaster.

Kasparov'seemed prepared to soak up Short's early ag¬ gression. This meanr the Brit¬ ish challenger revealed some of the secret tactics he has prepared for the openings of the games and which he hoped would be his way of surprising the champion and forcing him to make mistakes.

Once again the dock proved nearly as much of an enemy to Short as Kasparov, however.

Kasparov selected one of the sharpest defences in chess against Short's opening, the Poisoned Pawn subvariation

of the Najdorf system of the Sicilian Defence. Play fol¬ lowed a famous game (num¬ ber 111 between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer from their world championship match at Reykjavik in 1972. Then on move 14 Short varied from Spassky's play with a move which drew gasps from the Savoy audience.

Short had retreated his knight to an apparently mean- ingress square while simulta¬ neously committing himself to the sacrifice of a second pawn. Kasparov had grabbed one hot pawn earlier with his queen in a move that gives the name to the Poisoned Pawn variation.

After 19 moves Short could have forced a draw but instead hurled his last undeveloped rook into the fray.

Short had been moving quickly and confidently in comparison with earlier games, reacting to criticisms that he had been handling his clock badly in games one. two and three. After 20 moves Short held a 24-minute time advantage over the champion and also had a fierce attack against Black's king, which was pinned down in the centre. In exchange, Kasparov- had two extra pawns.

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FOR the duration of The Times World Championship, the chess elite is to be found in London, where the basement of Simpson’s-in-the-Strand has become the grandmaster analysis room. Abandon all illusions about chess, ye who enter here! The reduaio ad absurdum of every idea in every game of the Kasparov- Short match is the sole busi¬ ness of the day.

Chess has always been the only true coffee-house game. The same convivial freema¬ sonry of world-weary masters and wide-eyed amateurs con¬ gregates wherever the game is played, keeping one another in a conversational perpetual check.

For yesterday's sensational game. I sat myself down as

unobtrusively as possible, next to grandmaster Patrick Wolff. Wolff looks far too young to be American champion, but his ebullient earphone commen¬ tary has impressed the audi¬ ence at the Savoy Theatre. We sit at a huge round table, on which are strewn chess sets, computers and books. Nearby is Tony MUes. the first British grandmaster, who speaks with an authoritative cynicism bom of bitter experience.

Professor Nathan Divinsky sits opposite: with his mane of silver hair and gravelly Cana¬ dian voice, his pronunda- menti make him the butt of many disrepecrfol digs, but he gives as good as he gets. Once married to the present prime minister of Canada, the Prof is quite a ladies' man. Seated

next to the delectable Carol Vorderman. star of Channel 4's chess programme. Divin¬ sky essayed the oldest gambit in the book: “What you need, my dear, is an older man

When I arrived. Kasparov had just accepted Short's gam¬ bit in the Sicilian, thereby entering the celebrated "£\>i- soned Pawn" variation — one of the most heavily analysed of all openings. Wolff consults his laptop, which has a database of thousands of re¬ cent master games, and con¬ cludes that even though the world champion is taking a long time over each move, it has all been seen before.

"Nigel's best opening ideas have not been crushing novel¬ ties, but new positional strate¬ gies. I suspect that he is

looking for a long-term plan, not a refutation of Blacks opening." Wolff explained. "The Black queen is isolated and in danger. White has a lead in development, the Black king is stuck in the centre. Bur Black is a pawn up, has the two bishops and a solid pawn structure."

Miles: “I suspect that none of the good analysis of the Poisoned Pawn has ever been played. We’re about to see it" Wolff suddenly turns to Mur¬ ray Chandler, one of the strongest British grand¬ masters. who has just joined us. "Do you remember a conversation -we had seven years ago in Palma, Murray, when you said that Bishop to g5 wins against all variations of the Najdorf Sicilian except

the Poisoned Pawn, and that should be a draw?" Chandler did not

A ay goes up: "Novelty!" Short has diverged — no. he hasn’t Somebody finds a game from 1963 in which the same move was played. There is much discussion of whether Kasparov can improve on it. Then Wolff sticks his neck out “I think Nigel's going to win " Roars of disapproval. Wolff sticks to his guns: “I don’t think Kasparov has a due what’s going on here."

At this moment Jon Speelraan, Short’s second, walks in, to delighted shouts. What does he think is happen¬ ing? The smile betrays him, but he waves his hand depre- catingly: "All this thumping; it’s not the sort of chess I

approve of. He who thumps hardest wins."

Then we are interrupted by a VIP, complete with body¬ guard and chaperone from 77ie Times. Brian Clivaz. man¬ ager of Simpson's and one of the unsung heroes of this match, introduces the Russian ambassador. Boris Pankin. Champagne appears and I am offered a glass. “No thanks, I'm working.” i say. “So am IT Mr Pankin replies, but he does not drain his glass and smash it in the fireplace. He is hereto watch the chess.

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FROM ANNE McELVOY

.- IN MOSCOW

IF GARRY Kasparov is feeling aggrieved by Nigel Short's allegations Out he was helped to prominence by KGB con¬ nections, he can take heart at the response to the World Chess Championship in Rus¬ sia. where they are rooting whole-heartedly for their man.

Many MOscow newspapers have ransacked their tiny for¬ eign travel budgets to send a correspondent to London for the event and there are more Russian newspapers repre¬ sented at the Savoy than were accredited for the Vancouver summiL They have hit back against slurs on Kasparov with some tart comments about Short described in one television profile here as “the schoolboyish Englishman of the lypie we all know from

.comedy films" Komsomolskaya Pmvda is

.Kasparov's greatest defender. It responded to Short’s KGB allegation by dawning that he too “has beat revealed to have connections with die Soviet pioneer movement". The logic behind this accusation was tortuous but rested on the effect on the British coach Robert Welch of being beaten by a handful of Soviet juniors on a visit to Moscow in the 1950s and vowing to improve the standard of chess at home.

“Short was one of the gener¬ ation to profit from this study of Soviet youth training." the paper concluded, and followed up this aspertion with the headline yesterday: “Short thinks an awful lot of himself."

Kasparov, an Armenian Jew, who has lived outside the country for some time, is not a natural hero for Russians, but the legacy of Soviet chess superiority still exercises a magical power.

Russian chess is struggling to maintain its profile now that die Soviet union's col¬ lapse has robbed it of a vast pool of talent. The emigration of Jews, who have traditional¬ ly made up many of the country* elite players, and the loss of generous central fund¬ ing has caused more setbacks. The chess pavilion in Gorky Park, where old men gathered for weekend bouts of speed chess, has had to dose because the park can no longer afford to supervise it

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about Nigel Short is that he is a gold Blue Peter badge winner — the greatest award that the greatest of children's tdevision programmes can offer. For Short was that uncomfortable thing a child prodigy: a strange affliction that strikes in three strange and ran Red areas of human endeavour music, mathemat¬ ics and chess. Are they by chance related?

Short, of course, also enter¬ tained Blue Peter viewers with a song from his high school rock band, himself playing a would-be mean ad — a performance which rapid¬ ly brought him back down to human stature.

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gy. At the age of five — I make no apology for making this sound like a story of the Infant Mozart — his father was studying a chess problem in the local paper, the Baku Advertiser or whatever. The infant Kasparov suggested the correct solution, and it was only then that Kasparov’s father decided that he had better start the lad’s formal chess education.

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In most areas of life, excel¬ lence is a matter of degree. Most people can run; so can Linford Christie, only faster. You could draw a smooth curve from me to Linford. Most people can tell a story; one could likewise draw a smooth — if steep — curve from me to James Joyce.

But with music, with math¬ ematics and with chess,

no such curve is possible. At the extreme right-hand edge the line leaps dramatically and vertically off the page. There is. for example, a colos¬ sal difference between tDdng music and being musical. Musical people have a rari- fied understanding — they vanish, in a leap, to places where few can follow. They hear in colours; most of us hear in black and white. You may listen to Bach eveiy day. and his music may lighten your life — but that doesn't make you musical.

Likewise there’s a differ¬ ence between totting up your expenses and understanding

quantum- mechanics. And there is a difference between playing chess competently, and playing 50 games at once and winning them, as the grandmaster writing above me on this page, did the other day.

And it is not a difference of degree, not a matter of smooth curves. It is as if the Linfords of tiie mind do not mind run faster — they take leave of the earth altogether. They fly.

Kasparov angrily rejects this Weird Superman view of the chessplayer. He is con¬ sumed by a mission to ex¬ plain. But whether they like it or not. Kasparov and Short are weird supermen — a pair of gravity-defying Linfords.

I wonder what strange thing it is that these three strange pursuits have in com¬ mon: chess, music, mathemat¬ ics. Something to do with pure thought, I suspect areas where few of us can traveL

Odd that these explorers on the far readies of the human mind can produce something world-changing, like the gen¬ eral theory of relativity, some- tiling perfect like the Goldberg Variations; or something as overwhelmingly bloodthirsty as yesterday's chess match. For it was busi¬ ness as usual down the Oi’ Savoy, another occasion when Short and Kasparov attempt¬ ed to club each other to death with the power of pure thought

Setback for Timman ANATOLY Karpov, the for¬ mer world chess champion, penetrated the heart of Jan Timman‘s position in the sixth game of the rival Fide world championship yesterday and looked set to win, to retake the lead in the match.

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and Karpov were tied. Karpov, playing White took up Timman's challenge by venturing into the sharp Vien¬ na variation of the Queen’s Gambit Timman seemed shocked when the Russian checked his king by plunging a knight into his position.

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"TORJE Rod Lanen, the academic w'10 was Ae go-between who masterminded the “Norway chan¬ nel" — nine months of secret talks 111 Norwegian mansions and log cabins. — said: “We most have seemed like a bunch of eccentrics when we set it up and looking back the chances of success didn't seem great at the time. Bull knew It was the only way to do it*

The architects of the “back channel” — convinced the stale¬ mate and the public acrimony of the Washington peace talks would never yield results — were Yossi Beilin, Israel’s deputy foreign min¬ ister, and Abu Ala the FLO'S financial chief. .These two men both found a kindred spirit in Mr Larsen; what they called “the dick" took place when they met him. Mr Larsen, the director of FAPO. a trade union research organisation, had extensive contacts with both the Israel Labour Party and the Palestinians. Norway was viewed favourably by both sides as a neutral facilitator.

The main idea was that Israel should talk to its enemies and that meant the PLO." said Mr Beilin, a rising star in Labour’s ranks and a dose confidant of Shimon Peres. Ok foreign minister. Abu Ala, the man who knew best the parlous state of the PLO’s finances and its need to reach an accommodation with Israel was also seeking a way to peace when he met Mr Larsen, who offered to help.

So the Norway channel was bom and in January this year the first meeting rook place. Mona Juul, a diplomat and Mr Larsen's wife, was also a key figure. The team's unlikely logistics chief was Evan Aas. the trainer of (he Norwegian women's speed-skat¬ ing team and a FAPO researcher. He co-ordinated the discreet com¬ ings and goings on scheduled flights and drove the visitors to Borregaard. a country mansion.

At Borregaard Abu Ala was joined by Yair Hirschfeld, an Israeli professor of politics. He had been sent by Mr Beilin and

Jane Corbin charts the secret meetings that led to this week's signing of a Middle East peace

accord in Washington

assured Abu. Ala that although well-connected he had no official position and therefore a certain freedom in negotiations. Abu Ala reveals they all took an important derision from the start never to look lock.

By the rad of a long weekend at Borregaard they had hammered out a draft document based on three principles: “gradually* the gradual assumption of power by tiie Palestinians and gradual less¬ ening of control by the Israelis; independence for Gaza; and de¬ tailed co-operation especially on economic development.

By May Abu Ala wanted the Israelis to show their commitment to die secret talks by sending a high-ranking official to Norway

and Uriel Savir, the director- general of the foreign ministry and a confidant of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister, met Abu Ala at the Thomas Heftist villa outside Oslo, it was a tense moment and Mr Larsen deliber¬ ately defused it with a most undiplomatic introduction: “Here is your public enemy number one,” he toid Mr Savir.

Over the next three months the relationship that developed be¬ tween Abu Ala. a man in his sixties and a tough and seasoned negotia¬ tor. and Mr Savir. the urbane diplomat, was fascinating to watch. Mr Larsen describes it as “passionate respect" and Mr Savir himself believed right from the start he was confronting a mao

who could deliver. As the bargain¬ ing reached its dimax at the Halvorsbole HoteL the Palestin¬ ians demanded a whole new raft of concessions. The Israelis refused. Abu Ala resigned on the spot and Mr Savir tokl the gathering it was the end.

Mr Hirschfeld burst into tears and Mr Larsen, the only time he stepped outside his strictly defined role as a facilitator, pleaded with both sides to resume the dialogue. By the early hours of August 20 they were ready to initial the Document of Principles, the result of nine months of work and 14 meetings in Norway.

Mr Peres was in Oslo on pre¬ arranged official visit. His host, Johan Joergen Holst the foreign minister, who was himself in¬ volved in the Norway channel entertained the Israelis at an official banquet at the glitzy Oslo Plaza hotel while just yards away the secret Israeli and PLO groups argued over the final points. Then the Norwegian secret service

smuggled them out of the hotel to the government guest house where Mr Peres was waiting alone.

Mr Holst describes the atmo¬ sphere as serene “everyone had a sense that history was being made". Mr Savir initialled the document for Israel and Abu Ala for the PLO. They they all drank champagne.

Once the deal was made public the final hunile remained: mutual recognition of Israel and the PLO. Last Wednesday, as-Jewish sealers stormed the Knesset and masked Hamas youths brandishing guns rampaged through Gaza, the Nor¬ way channel met in secret in the rarefied almostphere of the Hotel Bristol in Paris to agree the wording of the letters Mr Rabin and Yassir Arafat would sign. ] was in the hotel that night and finally at 5am an exhausted Mr Savir told me it was done. Jane Corbin is a correspondent for Panorama

Diary, page 16

Walls of fear and distrust

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to crumble From Richard Beestonin jericho

WHEN PLO leader Yassir Arafat makes his triumphant return to this sleepy West Bank town, he will probably discover that the state he plans to build has already begun spreading its roots in the fertile soil.

Less than 24 hours after just about every adult and child crammed into the town's square for the biggest street party Jericho has ever thrown, many of the 15,000 residents were hard at work yesterday in anticipation of Palestinian self-rule, which comes into effect here in a month.

The first and still most celebrated record of an event in the long history of the ancient town took place when Joshuas Israelites blew their rains' horns and brought-its., walls tumbling to the ground. Since then Jencibo, in a strate¬ gic position ai the mouth of the Dead Sea. has seen waves of conquerors come and go. but has altered little since men.

At the PLO chiefs residence, a three-floor mansion com¬ plete with swimming pool and gaudy fittings, work on the interior was being finished ahead of Mr Arafars arrival, which could be within ten weeks.

At the unofficial headquar¬ ters of Fatah, the mainstream -PLO faction loyal to Mr Arafat and the peace accord he com¬ pleted with Israel, the entire contents of the ground-floor office were piled rat the pave¬ ment yesterday. Unlike tiie old days, when the sight of furni¬ ture on the street would have indicated a raid by Israeli security forces, this time it was painters and decorators giving the building a facelift for the day when the underground guerrilla group plans to re¬ launch itself as Palestine's ruling political party.

“1 only got out of an Israeli jail 20 days ago. accused only

. of supporting Fatah,” said ^ Abdel Karim Sidr. a leading

PLO figure in Jericho who was still smarting over the £1,400 fine he had to pay the Israeli military authorities. “Now everything has changed. The Israelis contact me every day to work out arrangements for our demonstrations and co¬ ordinate other affairs."

Under the agreement

signed in Washington, Israel will next month band over to Palestinians in Jericho respon¬ sibility for education and cul¬ ture, health, soriid welfare, direct taxation, and tourism, and within four months should him oversecorityto a Palestinian pcficeforce.. .

Although only one trained Palestinian police officer, who has recently completed a course in- Jordan, could be found in the town.- Jericho's businessmen and entrepre¬ neurs have been less slow to respond to the political up¬ heaval taking place.

Buoyed ~by the town's over¬ night fame and tiie sudden influx of journalists and for¬ eign tourists, the focal econo¬ my is experiencing a boom. At Jericho^s humble guest house; the Hisham. Palace hotel, the proprietor has trebled his.? rate, and the town's open-air restaurants have-also; put up. - them prices. . 1 -•■■■. .•.

Assad Sbawa, a focal inisi-V nessroan who owns a small textile factory, already has visions of Jericho becoming an important conduit .for goods and services into Israel and neighbouring Jordan. Earlier this week his workers1 were completing an order^fbr 500 Palestinian Bags. Yesterday they were making shirts for , the Israeli consumer market

Bin the euphoric mood has.' not captured - everyone’s imagination, and Mr Arafat arid his new-found Israeli aHies will still have fo satisfy those unimpressed by the eamcmtic or. political benefits . of his compromise deaL

Uram.; Mohammed, al- Yassini: said she would not believe.that Israel had really changed its policies until she saw. evidence. A survivor from the-village of. Deir. Yassin, a Palestinian txnnrriunily just outside Jerusalem Where more than 250 people were kilted in 1948 during a raid by Jewish extremists, she has never for¬ given her adversaries.

“Nobody will ever forget the suffering and- experiences from Deir Yassin,” said the middle-aged housewife, who was four years old when her father was fatally injured in the attack and her family fled to Jericho- "I want real peace wife the Israelis. But if you give me the choice of staying here or returning to my land, I would go back to Deir Yassin."

Morocco visited by Rabin in first step to charm Muslims

From Christopher Walker in Cairo

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Old enemies: a print dated 1813 depicts Joshua’s Israelites bringing down the walls of Jericho by blowing ram’s horns

Arafat sheds rebel image

LAUNCHING Israel’s new initiative to break down the wall of Arab and Muslim suspicion that has surrounded it since its creation in 1948. Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister, said upon his unannounced arrival in Ra¬ bat: “Following the mutual recognition and the signing of the agreement with the PLO in Washington, we hope and believe it is possible to widen relations among Arab states and the Arab world."

Israeli officials said that the initial aim would be to secure relations with North African and Gulf states which were geographically distanced from the immediate border regions with Israel. The Arab boycott of Israel has already begun to break down significantly in the GuifL

Mr Rabin's surprise visit to Morocco fuelled optimism that new vistas of co-operation with Arab and Muslim coun¬ tries were opening. Officials said Tunisia was poised to recognise Israel soon after Morocco, and there were indi¬ cations that Mauritania. Arab Gulf states and Pakistan, In¬ donesia and Malaysia were moving towards ties.

Mr Rabin arrived in Moroc¬ co in a blaze of publicity, in contrast to his last visit in 1976 when he was forced to travel incognita disguised in a wig and spectacles.

He and his foreign minister. Shimon Peres, were whisked away to the seaside palace of King Hassan who, Mr Rabin said, had for two decades been a bridge to Arab-Israeii relations.

The king's normally secret contacts with Israel, vilified by

hardliners in the Arab world, have been facilitated by the large number of Moroccan Jewish immigrants in Israel, now estimated at more than 500,000. Israel television re¬ ported that an Israeli econom¬ ic delegation led by Rati Edri. the deputy Knesset Speaker, a Moroccan-born Jew. would soon go to Morocco. King Hassan, now pushing for clos-

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er contacts with the European Community, was an impor¬ tant go-between in the com¬ plex arrangements setting up the visit of President Saddat of Egypt to Jerusalem in Novem¬ ber 1977. Yesterday Mr Rabin paid tribute to the king's past role as a go-between. He said that in 1977 the Arab monarch had “laid a stone on the long road to peace that resulted in peace with Egypt".

Last July the secret ties between the two states were strengthened when Arye Deri, a former Israeli interior minis¬ ter, visited Morocco unofficial¬ ly to arrange the repatriation of the bodies of 22 Jewish emigrants drowned when their ship capsized off the Moroccan coast in 1961.

However, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Anbaa carried an editorial headlined "Shalom Rabbi Arafat”, indicating its con¬ tempt for the PLO leader, still hated for his support of Iraq during the Gulf crisis. “The traitor of the cause saw the utmost victory in reaching the White House lawn," it said.

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From James Bone in new york

YASSIR Arafat planned to return to United Nations headquarters in New York yesterday for foe first time since, sporting a.holster, he swaggered into the general assembly 19 years ago and announced: “I have come bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter's gun in the other." This-time the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in¬ sists he is carrying “two olive branches".

Mr Arafat is recognised as a head of state by many of the 184 UN members, and the PLOTS observer mission now goes under the name “Pales¬ tine”, but the United States has consistently refused. to grant him a visa to attend the

general assembly — the last tune he wanted to address members, in 1988, they had perforce to move to Geneva.

Mr Arafat's schedule this time indudes no grand

speeches. Instead he was hav¬ ing a private meeting late in the day with Boutros Boutros Ghali, the UN secretary-gen¬ eral who, when he was an Egyptian minister, helped ne¬ gotiate the Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt The two men were expected to discuss what role the UN could play in imple¬ menting the Israeli-Palestin- ian accord.

Although the UN may be called on to provide election monitors, the main focus of its effort will be to channel eco¬ nomic aid to the parts of the Israeli-occupied territories to be granted self-rule.

Dr Boutros Ghali has al¬ ready established a spedal task force at the request of Israel and the PLO to drum up aid for Jericho and the Gaza Strip. It includes Jan Eli as son. the UN aid supremo; James Jonah, the UN official in charge of the Middle East Gustave Speth. head of the UN Relief and Works Agency in the occupied territories; James Grant of the UN Chil¬ dren's Fund and Chinmaya Gharekhan, the LtN observer at the Middle East peace talks.

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Husain jumps on board the peace bandwagon From Christopher Walker

in CAIRO

KING Husain's determ¬ ination to end Jordan's isote- rion was demonstrated by the speed of Amman's move yes¬ terday to jump on the peace wacon and initial its own

,-as also one of ambles in the it 40-year reign, imentalists op- icision have the i November, at nulti-party elec- 6, to show the ding against It rfaere nearly 70 ; population is

rdan has done guise its anger with which the the. Palestine,

janisarion and me behind its

b?rit, it has been the first of the frontline Arab states to swallow its pride and press ahead with attempts to secure a comprehensive peace of its own. “It could happen within two years. 1 do not think it should take longer than that,” jawad aJ-Anani, a minister of

state at the prime minister's office in Amman, predicted.

According to the new Israe- IkJordanian agreement the two sides will work towards solving the issue of the more than a million Palestinian refugees in Jordan "in accor- dance with international law". Jordan hopes that many ofthereft^eeswmberroain- aied and that it will be offered compensation for those ft has had to care for.

While, the two sides are still

negotiating, the new agenda commits them to refrain from harming each other's security and pledges possible future co-operation in such areas as water, energy, labour, health and education.

With such a high percent¬ age of Palestinian subjects. King Husain has had to avoid being seen to run ahead of the Palestinians. He has also had to keep a wary eye on Syria, with whom he has had trou¬ ble in the past.

The Jordanian-Isradi agen¬ da sets out a framework of issues that the two sides agree on fin; an eventual treaty based on United Nations Res¬ olutions 242 and 238, which call for Israel to withdraw from occupied territories in exchange for peace. In terms of tiie final, deal already agreed, Israel has offered to pull bade from two small uninhabited strips of land.

one near the Dead Sea and the other in northern Jordan, which it seized when Palestin¬ ian guerrillas attacked the Jewish state across the Jordan border after tiie 1967 war.

In addition to confirming the terms of an eventual peace, the king wdD be looking

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to Israel for reassurance that sufficient security precautions have been taken to ensure that violence provoked by die Isra- el-PLO accord does not spill across the river Jordan. New Jordanian restrictions have already been imposed on Palestinians trying to cross.

Inevitably the recent moves towards peace have kindled nationalistic distrust between native East Bank Jordanians and (hose of Palestinian ori¬ gin. With Monday's signing of the accord in Washington, the king has had to accept that Jordan may play a lesser role in shaping the future embry¬ onic Palestinian entity than had been expected-

King Husain, 57, whose health has been weakened by a recent cancer operation, is now banking on Western financial help and renewed assistance front die Gulf Arab states.

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Shevardnadze aims for full power in walkout ■ From Anatol Lteven

IN MOSCOW

EDUARD Shevardnadze, the Georgian leader, resigned yester¬ day as part of his struggle to forte parliament to give him emergency powers. After appeals from crowds of supporters, he later said that he might stay on if parliament sus¬ pended itself for three months and agreed to his demands.

Mr Shevardnadze called for the state of emergency in order to deal

' with rebel supporters of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the deposed presi¬ dent. who have taken control of a large area of west Georgia. The former Soviet foreign minister also hopes to bring to heel anarchic paramilitary groups on the gov¬ ernment side responsible for a collapse in law and order.

For a few’ days the republic had seemed set for a more peaa?ful future, after a Russian-negotiated ceasefire in the autonomous Geor¬ gian republic of Abkhazia.

Mr Shevardnadze has threat¬ ened to resign before in the face of parliamentary intransigence, but

■ Georgia’s leader stormed out of parliament and said he would resign. It was another gamble in his bid for full authority to crush rebellion

witnesses yesterday said that the normally calm and reserved 65- year-old leader “seemed to go completely crazy" when Djaba Yosseliani. a nationalist paramili¬ tary commander, accused him of acting like a Communist boss.

Red in the face. Mr Shevardnadze banged his fists on the podium and launched into a tirade against the deputies. “From this point you may consider that 1 resign, lay down my authority.'’ he shouted. “It is impossible to go on working like this. Every deputy is Dying to pull the wagon in a different direction."

Evidently shocked, the deputies then voted by 141 votes to none, with one abstention, to reject the resignation. However, Mr Shev¬ ardnadze sent back a note saying: “f have made my decision. Parlia¬ ment's decision was Late."

A key voice among those calling for him to stay was die Georgian Orthodox Patriarch. Ilya II. who addressed a crowd outside Mr Shevardnadze’s office. The support of Genera] Gia Karfcarishvili, the defence minister, was also vital.

The general view has been that, if Mr Shevardnadze went, Georgia would be plunged into chaos. Ethnic rebels now control most of the autonomous regions of Abkha¬ zia and Ossetia, and in recent days, a renewed rebellion of “Zviadists", supporters of Zviad Gamsa¬ khurdia, the deposed president, have seized most of the west Georgian region of Mingrelia.

Georgia is full of military bands loyal to rival chiefs. The largest of these is the Mkhedrioni, or cava¬ liers. led by Mr Yosseliani who; as yesterday's debate made clear, is emerging as Mr Shevardnadze’s

- main rival. Mr Yosseliani S forces played a key role in the 1991 coup which overthrew Mr Gamsa¬ khurdia and brought Mr Shevardnadze to power..

In recent months, however. Mr Shevardnadze has made dear his determination to curb paramili¬ tary groups, and ft is expected that if given emergency powers he will use them to this end. Mr Yos¬ seliani ■$ radical nationalist follow¬ ers have also been unhappy with Mr Shevardnadze’s acceptance of the Abkhazian ceasefire.

The odious behaviour of Mr Yosseliani's men in west Georgia has been a key reason for the series erf pro-Gamsakhurdia revolts there. Soldiers and deserters have also been mainly responsible for a catastrophic rise in armed crimes throughout Georgia, which last month claimed the life of Fred Woodruff, the CIA station chief.

Many soldiers are the dregs of Tbilisi, and several commanders emerged from the underworld. Mr Yosseliani himself served several years in jail under Soviet rule for bank robbery.

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Labour win in Norway fails to allay

EC fears From Tony Sam stag in Oslo

AS THE minority Labour government of Gro Harlem Brundtland yesterday cele¬ brated its victory in Norway's parliamentary elections, the no less jubilant agrarian Centre Parry was preparing for what Anne Enger Lahnstein, its leader, predict¬ ed would be “hand-to-hand combat" over the country's application for European Community membership.

Even the European Eco¬ nomic Area [EEA] agreement, under which non-member countries do business with the EC. is anathema to most Norwegian farmers. Their parry has now almost trebled its representation in the 165- member Storting (parlia¬ ment). to 31 seats, largely as a result of its anti-Community campaign. In doing so it has displaced the Conservative Party as Norway's second largest

Public opinion has been running roughly two-to-one against EC membership for some months, and overall support for joining is now thought to be at its lowest level since" the traumatic referen¬ dum of 1972. in which a previous application to join was narrowly overturned at the last minute.

Labour's re-election, with 67 seats, was a function of Mrs Brundtland's personal popu¬ larity and not an endorsement of her long-delayed decision, less than a year ago, to apply to join the Community. Her government's application is supported by the Conservative opposition, but both parties are seriously split over the issue, and it is unlikely that MPs will interpret the election result as a mandate to pursue the application, particularly in view of the increase in support for the Centre Parly.

Even if a new referendum were to return a positive decision, the Storting would still have to approve the

application by a 75 per cent majority. Including the Centre Party. 74 MPS are now com¬ mitted to opposing member¬ ship. with 90 in favour, far fewer than would be required

As voting ended on Mon¬ day. some politicians and jour¬ nalists, even those most committed to Europe, were suggesting for the first time that plans for a new referen¬ dum might as well be dropped altogether. Mrs Brundtland insists that negotiations with Brussels will continue, but success now lodes unlikely.

Even Labour's natural allies in the Storting, the 13 MPS of the Socialist Left Party, are unanimously opposed to membership. Without a dras¬ tic change in parliamentary and public opinion, it would take a far more committed idealist than the pragmatic Mrs Brundtland to force the issue.

Quite apart from opposition to the EC, and a potentially explosive commitment to re¬ voking the EEA agreement, the Centre Party is likely to be a powerful force for reaction in other areas. Norwegian farm¬ ers are already among the most ruthlessly protected in die West and the Norwegian consumer the most restricted in choice of food. The Centre Parly will push for more protection and even fewer imports. It will also resist any attempts to ease Norway’s draconian restrictions on alco¬ hol sales.

Despite a commitment to green issues in its literature, the party is also unlikely to do much to repair the damage to the nation’s image caused by its resumption of commercial whaling this year. On the contrary; Norwegian farmers are quick to exterminate wolves, birds of prey and other perceived threats to livestock, and even the most primeval forest is considered a crop to be harvested like any other.

Gro Harlem Brundtland. who has. led her Labour Party back into power in Norway, but with the anti-EC Centre Party of farmers stronger than ever

Left Bank’s revisionists nail seductive shrink to the couch

From Charles Bremner in paris

British base shelled before new ceasefire

ByTIMIuDAH IN BELGRADE AND MICHAEL EVANS

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TIMES have been hard lately for the intellectual titans of postwar France as one after the other they have bitten the posthumous dust Sartre, we learnt liked to scribble his pensies while high on speed: Louis Althusser, the commu¬ nist philosopher, murdered his wife, though what really discredited him was news that he had not read his Marx.

This autumn the revisionist finger has swung round to Jacques Lacan, the iconoclast psychiatrist whose obscure interpretation of Freud be¬ came gospel for the Left Bank. Lacan, who died in 1981 at 80. is now being cast as a money- grubbing, womanising liar whose system was based on an intellectual fraud. “Was I .-iran a charlatan?" asked Le Point a news magazine, hedging its bets. Le Nouvel Observateur, bible of the Left Bank, wondered: “Should Lacan be burnt?"

Lacan, who entered the elite as Picasso’s doctor, was al¬ ways controversial He was notorious for his arrogance and “brilliantly subversive" behaviour, such as abusing his patients and cutting off sessions after only minutes, a habit which had him banned as a teacher by the Interna¬

tional Psychiatric Associ¬ ation. But his admirers put this down to his genius.

In the new dimate, intellec¬ tuals suggest that Lacan may have been pulling their legs all along and are agreeing with his foreign enemies in the psychiatric wars that his post-structuralist abstractions may simply have been m um¬ bo-jumbo. They are helped by a 750-page biography by Elisabeth Roudinesco, a psy¬ chiatric historian, which paints him as even more odious and deceitful than previously thought She calcu¬ lates that in the 1970s he was consulting ten patients per

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hour simultaneously, running from one to the other, often muddling up their cases, for eight hours a day. five days a week. This enabled “His Maj¬ esty", as she calls him, to dock up about £500.000 a year.

Mme Roudinesco makes much of his career as a seducer, beginning with the time when he made his mis¬ tress type his thesis. Francoise Ginrad, the editor and former minister who underwent long psychoanalysis with Lacan, confirmed his powers this week, calling him a “devil" irresistible to women.

The debate over Lacan is unlikely to shake die faith of the 34 competing groups and schools that claim they are the true inheritors of Lacanism. For these, the relics of the Maltre Penseur are objects of such reverence that his old brown velvet consulting couch brought over £10,000 recently. For a glimpse of his enduring influence, look at the Lonely hearts advertise¬ ments in the Nouvel Observateur, riddled with his psychoanalytical idiom. One Labanesque entry this week says: “Young businesswoman too busy to take care of her ‘me* seeks businessman to take care of his ’you’."

A NEW ceasefire between the Muslims and Croats in Bosnia was announced yesterday, although fighting between the two sides continued to block the main supply route to the centre of the country.

Five mortar rounds fired fry Croat forces frit the British base at Gomjl Vakuf in cen¬ tral Bosnia- There were no casualties.

Jeremy Hanley, armed forces minister, arrived in the region to visit the British troops, accompanied by lieu¬ tenant General' Sir John Wilsey. commander of UK land forces.

The next. British battalion group is already training for winter deployment in Bosnia- Based on the 1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards, the new unit will arrive in Bosnia in early November to replace the Prince of Wales’s Own Regi¬ ment of Yorkshire.

Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, said on a visit to Australia that British troops would remain in Bosnia as long as they could do a useful job. He warned that another winter war would kill thou¬ sands of people but would lead to victory for no one.

Yesterday's ceasefire was agreed between President Izetbegoric, the leader of the

Bosnian government and President Tudjman of Croatia at a meeting in Geneva.

However, the main concern was a renewed war between Serbs and Croats, as fighting continued in the Serb-held enclave of Krajina in Croatia.

As UN officials. continued negotiations in Zagreb and in Knin, the Krajina capital. Serb forces shot down a Croatian MiG 21. Croatian government sources confirmed that foe. fighter aircraft had been shot down after a bombing run in northern Krajina.

Under the terms of a pro¬ posed Krajina oeasefire the Croats are asked to retreat from the areas they have taken since last week: Serbs are sceptical that the Croats will do this since the Croats agreed to pull back from territory they had seized in January and then reneged.

Two baby girls suffering from congenita] heart disease were among 16 people evacu¬ ated from Zenica in central Bosnia for hospital treatment. abroad. They were the first group to leave mainly Muslim central Bosnia. Previously it Had proved impossible to ne¬ gotiate safe passage for those needing emergency treatment through die various frontlines to Sarajevo airport.

Ranks closed as Kohl

wheels to the right

: From RogerBoyes

IN BONN

Germany yesterday embarked on a year¬

long election- campaign that win test the nerves of

-even the most battie-hard- . ened of Bonn politicians.

Wolfgang SchauUe, par¬ liamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). made plain

Berlin that the party pitch in almost 20 local, region¬ al, national and European elections next year would be based on patriotism,

_ traditional German values and law and order.

Helmut Kohl the chan¬ cellor, set out the election markers on Monday, and in openly.backmg a deeply

. traditional CDU pofiti- dan, Dr Steffen . Heil- mann, far the post of German president he emphasised that a return to dassic conservative vir¬ tues was the only way of winning over the voters. However, this shift to the right did not mean that the CDU was about to strike up a coalition with neo- Nazi sympathisers or ul¬ tra-nationalists such as the Republican Party.

That was explicitly ruled out in speeches at the CDU party congress m Berlin yesterday. “We have to 'convince people that you can only demand civic rights if you are prepared to take on civic responsibil¬ ities." said Herr Schauble.

The reasoning is simple for most of 1994. with its crowded election schedule, the German economy mil be fragile at best The ruling CDU could thus choose either to ignore or play down the economy and concentrate on foreign policy. Or it could seek to make a virtue out of crisis and declare hard work and belt-tightening a patriotic duly.

. The second option has been chosen, but it is unclear whether it will make a big enough impact in east Germany, where the CDU has most votes to lose. The chancellor has thus been using the con¬ gress to address the fears of the German population.

He has already placed a tough right-winger in the post of interior minister, and a stronger police force — perhaps reinforced with new powers to bug the apartments of suspected drug dealers or racketeers —- is being offered to those worried about the rise of crime in German dries.

Herr Kohl toned down some of the ruder

remarks about the Social Democrats written into his opening speech, but the party faithful made up for it yesterday with a strong ! attack on the SPD. !

The 1994 election cam¬ paign has thus got under way. and even some of the grumbling rebels on the liberal fringes of the party have been silenced. For the next 13 months, until die general -election in Octo¬ ber, the CDU is dosing ranks.

The nagging question — what happens if Herr Kohl stumbles and is forced into a humiliating new coali¬ tion with, the Soda! Demo- date — remained un¬ spoken yesterday. All the doubts about the leader, chancellor for the past 11

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dissident in ploy to stage Olympics

From Jonathan Mvrsky EAST ASIA EDITOR

IN HONG KONG

IN A transparent effort to secure the Olympic Games in 2000. Peking has released Wei Jingsheng, its most famous political prisoner.

Mr Wei. 42, received a 15- year sentence as a counter¬ revolutionary and seller of military secrets to foreigners in October 1979. The socalled secrets, about China's inva¬ sion of Vietnam, had already appeared on television, but Mr Wei’s real crime was thar in 1978-79 at Peking's short¬ lived Democracy Wall, and perhaps before any other mod¬ em dissident, he blamed the “fascist" Communist Party for China’s backwardness and questioned the legitimacy of Deng Xiaoping as paramount leader.

The son of a minor party official. Mr Wei had been shocked while travelling through China as a Red Guard to see people too poor to wear clothes. He thought of the local officials as “com¬ rades-in-arms of my father, and I seethed with anger".

He also discovered that millions, starving to death in the eariy 1960s because of

- Mao’s policies, bad exchanged their children with others for

• food “Now I could see why the peasants had ccnne ter hate communism,’: he said.

Yesterday, without the usu¬ al emphasis on the former prisoner's contrition, a spokes- : woman it the justice ministry said simply that because be/’ had obeyed prison regulations

_MrWa—ttleviskin yesterday showed him . looking heavier than the gau^ishaven-head ed defendant before the court

/ in 1979S* Was being: released six months early;

This is a standard Chinese’ manoeuvre—politicalprison-.! ers released to. impress an * international audience — arid;' no one’sidease has been more steadily demanded .interna¬ tionally than Mr .Wei’s, They ?

before the Statutory endjof.* : their sentences.- •-.V- V. '.'

Christine Lob, a- member of. _ Hong Kong's.- Legislative Council, commented: “Except • that I am delighted he’s-out.'

- there is nothing good here-He - was ionoceotin the first place . and he' is befog released •; because China is desperate to -; get the Olympics. - -

“ It is always good news; when someone is / released,"; said Rbfaih Munro, of Asia • Waich.-foe interaajfoBallni- man rights organisation. T&t: they leave it .until the last moment They coufonreyen .. parole him,-as they might have three qr four years ago . ^ when it might, have meant " something. Who do they think they’re: fooling. using him as/ ‘ currency like this? - , : :'s- ■ ■ “And how about me 1.000 political prisoners from Tiananmen? ThereVa marine • biologist, Chen Lanfam doing

■ For 14 years China ignored Western - pleas to free its leading political prisoner. Olympic ambitions have given him . liberty but thousands remain in captivity'

18 years right now in Shandong province for speak¬ ing against the army after Tiananmen."

It would be difficult, to exaggerate the importance and die perceived danger to the regime of Mr Wa. Mr Deng is reported to have demanded to be kept informed about Mm. The International Olympic Committee is voting on September 23 on the site of. the2000 games and, although Sydney looks like the winner, the Chinese are pulling out every stop. Mr Wei. in then- judgment is one of the biggest

In 1978-79, when Mr Deng, recently released from his Maoist internal exile was at the height of his. reformist fame, Mr Wei wrote in a series of widely read pamphlets, that “the people should ensure that Deng Xiaoping does not de¬ generate into a dictator ... is your Deng’s occupation-based on any land of legality ... Only by being elected by the people can the leadership gain their voluntary cooperation”. He accused Mr Deng of “flat- tering Mao’s ghost", and of, bang “unable to comprehend

: the uhermisery oftbe people”. - More daringly s^Il. Mr Wei Mamed ChinaV backward-, ness on “disasters caused by ' foe. autocratic refers, by fa$- cism under a MaDdsf-teninlst .

qHiring about Mr tVei that he refused to admit his guilt, but-, yesterday the dSaaTirfate- mem declared that that after his years of “humane treat-:-

. jnenrMrWei'tdd his guards., ' that fie whs leaving prison

to ■wtinthe Olym-. pics may not have been helped ' by die recentmeteoric success, of China’S middle-distance women. runners.' Which has . raised protests anT allegations of drug use itr foe. West- “Drugs." said jjoan Ailfcm, manager of Britain’s national track and field -squad, flatly. Tom McNab, die squad's fir¬ mer coach, recaBs -the'East

. European scandal. An Amer¬ ican runner ‘burst info, tears after, finishing .fifth behind Wang Junxza at the 'world championships last month, and spoke of “sonething illic¬ it”, while IngridKiistiansen of Norway, whose'record fell to Wang, said: * One thing for sure ... she’s certainly riot eating porridge." ./>.'

One would expect Wang’s coach. MaZunrep. who comes from her province, of Liaoning . in China's northeast, as do tbe other wtimen^whoare shred-

1 .ding the interaatfonal'iaford bock, toobject.Hedoes,stren¬ uously: "fruy: kind of talk makes me rely angry. New

■ ffiat we’re strong, they say we did it 'throughdrugs:. TfjjiyYe

; die onesi who are go drug." -'. His wotthen athletes. Mr Ma insists, I“artti-more used -to runningf.foafc men-andmore

. obedient, more willing to sub- mitto the tflsdpUne . pf a

r trainer. Nothing - 'extraordi¬ nary .has happened-. It Was all .due. ta ; scientific:.. training methods.” i'.; • - •

Mr iwia’sriwfobt&r, Which Yesulr rii distance records

: smashed. ib' shaitltefftns.; fo-. dude; finding the giris very .

President Mitterrand of France, 76. looking tired awffrail befog supported by an aide as he arrived at the official residence of President Kim Young of South Korea yesterday. Shortly afterwards M Mitter¬ rand almost Sainted and vomited into his handkerchief (Charles Bremner writes from Paris). He had to be helped from the building. M Mitterrand, who is recovering

from prostate cancer, had flown in from Paris only two hours earlier and officials said he had been slightly overcome by fatigue and the humid heat in SeouL He resumed his duties after a 20-minute rest Witnesses said that M Mitterrand became ill while signing the visitors’ book at the presidential Blue House before meeting President Kim for talks.

;<Qttna^t^ '^eteS; Who ate - jse^iesteredwhenthey arefive or‘six arid sutaected tp long.:

.'rigorbu^an^admiitedly pain- fill training i- ■■‘,

M&says; are frtm^poolr-1^ who-see atfde&s-afea wayot escaping poyerty. and are wilfing to Jim -

From MJchael Hamlyn in cape town

?aft}>uf six toonths ^T_

ggnboar^.Vlfaiii^'^hij 14 yearsm captivity, Mr Weiwas. moved 'from prison to prisoh, includfog one of jibe' most -. notiSfous, m C&nd:s gulag in - Qibghai :;prowhce,': the . Haz^Kz Hevf Jtifc: Salt Farm. ;; c«j‘./ the: 2hbrtheast-r coast.. - described, in moffidaljoomair

hard--;at altitudes ‘ in Oingbal - orovirKe, -in the

the State V: earning frte form?. the gforious accolade. <rf Ad- • • vanced National Sdffodusfry Collective".-

Officials fold foragnerSen-. t

Borarwest. was ofice a patt of. Tfbk/arid is; also the. site of C3mia.’s exteiisive gifiag. -'-.The. ;*MaT femfly", -as. the rimnns hie known, also ftain-

-on, a- spe^l> diet.: indudfog ’sofrslijlf ' forties .“and .sbinfc^. Siing foadeofwannscallM ddrigqiong;Jxiacaa,l and jwin- jerymsect^summer-graiss. .whkfo mehmHtog KaagL use., as an aphrt^siac..? .

•. r Diary,mk 16 . ' teadfog arfide.page 17

UN polHy citange in

From Sam Kiuey dm Mogadishu

ADMIRAL Jonathan Howe the American head of the United Nations operation in Somalia, has been called back to New York for urgent talks with Boutros Boutros Gbali, the UN secretary-general, as the UN faces a severe crisis of ronsejence over its policy m Somalia, which has led to the gloating of more than 500 avilians since June, including women and children. •

Some UH sources m Moga¬ dishu said yesterday that oiey lid not expect the admiral to ■etuni to his p<®t as the UN s medal representative. Some idieve he may be replaced limfoyCarter. the forTna- US resident, who has had regu¬

lar contacts with General Mu- - hammad Farrah Aidid, ; the . fugitive warlord. Others said that Admiral Howe would return, but under orders to “buiy" the arrest onfcr he issued for General Aidid and to open peace negotiations in south Mogadishu. . Military, source^admit they 1 "grossly underestimated'’ General AkttdV support and. his fruiters: battle abilities. Small groups afTnilitia with.' iiglit weapons have defied foe ; better-armed UN farces. The success of the. militia has v raised the question of whether' it will overrun UN headcpiar-; ters. As one UN officer put it. “This is a mess.We arenotthe .

right peopteforAis job. Now we are oh titedefensive^

Steve Rifian.'direcrorcifihe Save - four CbiidrefT -dterity1,; said foe UN shoald' “shelve", the artiest Order for; .General

ations. rih&scniihbf foe cay is in a estate oF“war.'.We are aD at rfefc frbri- stray, bullets and risfcfrdro-- sc mbri&rs /and

diets and 5t almost

: UN-fod-woricers dso fognted- 'that Should ta&';h3; Genets kTlte bwaani-;' farian ims^bn here haS beat ■ forgotten. We have fo see a- pokfical .sofotibB or wt yyflj never be ; able lo^work in peace,3* said asSaior UN^elfef

[ NELSON Mandela, president . of the African National Con¬

gress. yesterday ended a five- day electioneering tour of foe Gape province aimed at reas¬ suring white a5wGolouml

■ voters in foe run-up to next April’s first alTrace general election. “Let us bmy the

.past," he told them in Afri¬ kaans. “What is past is past."

- , Whites and Coloureds be¬ tween foem outnumber blacks in the Western Cape and Mr Mandela was at pains to calm their fears of violence and socialism. He also warned his followers in the black town¬ ships that the violence must stop and that whites were important to the future of

:-South Africa. . ..' He bitterly condemned foe murderers of Amy Biehl. the

1. vdiite American exchange stu- deot who was stabbed and beaten to death in a Cape township three weeks ago. They are animals," he told a crowd of 40,000 in the black

. township of KayeHtsha on Sunday...

He sttid the ANC did not want to frighten whites and drive them away. “We want (hem to remain and help us

• with their skills to rebuild foe country," he said- In the Gossroads squatter camp, re- centicene of battles between feuding groups, he said yester¬ day: ;Tve come hoe to say; Tlease stop whatever you tew been doing. It is eriouifo!’"

■. £ Tb i.mainly white audience m Giroe Town last night, he add: -*nus is-not foe tone for

-ptok. This is not foe time to think Of emigration to Austra¬ lia. "To Coloured audiences in Mitch eOs Plain, he repeatedly referred to their special con¬ cerns. vowing that the ANC would address crime, hous¬ ing, education and unemploy¬

ment when it came to power after next year's election.

He assured them that they had nothing to fear from a future ANC government and repeated his organisation’s commitment to multi-party democracy, regular elections, an independent judiciary and equality before the law. He urged Coloureds not to think of themselves as whites but as blacks, dedaring that they had voted for the National Party in I94S and had promptly been rewarded by having the vote taken away from them.

But it was in his meeting with foe mainly white audi¬ ence that he went furthest to counter foe political demoni- sation of his organisation. Many people, he said, be¬ lieved that the ANC was an organisation only for Africans (blacks), a form qf revenge on the whiles, but be listed many of the prominent whites who f^[Qape Town

camp ■ j KayaUtshaO

IMv fe-'vi

had aided foe ANC in the past, including Helen Suzman and Dr Beyers Naudfc who had been banned for their help, David Webster, a university lecturer assassinated for his outspokenness, and Albie Sachs, crippled by a white terrorist's bomb. On the plat¬ form with him were a number of whites, most of them univ¬ ersity academics and liberal pofitidans.

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US eases Vietnam sanctions

Hanoi: Vietnam has wel¬ comed President Clinton’s de¬ rision to ease American sanctions but said it was a pity the embargo had not been lifted. The foreign ministry said foe remaining restrictions meant American businesses could nor compete fairly for contracts.

American and Vietnamese businessmen, who hoped Mr Clinton would end foe 29-year- old sanctions, were also disap¬ pointed by his decision only to let firms compete for develop¬ ment contracts funded by mul¬ tilateral bodies such as the World Bank. (Reuter)

Tourists freed Ankara: Seven Western tour¬ ists — two Italians, two Swiss, two Germans and one New Zealander — kidnapped by Kurdish rebels last month have been released near Dogubeyazit in eastern Turkey. (Reuter)

Back in hospital Calcutta: Mother Teresa. S3, in hospital for the second time in less than a month, is “doing fine and there is nothing to worry about". Sister PrisiJia of foe Missionaries of Charity, said. (Reuter)

Schiffer loses Madrid: Claudia Schiffer, the German model, has lost her bid for photographs taken of her topless while on holiday in Majorca. A Spanish court also rejected her demand for £4 million in compensation.

Snakes alive Winnipeg: A home has been opened here for stray snakes. Several reptiles, including two Burmese pythons — one 16ft long — have been found in sewers recently. (Reuter)

Axis revisited as Rhine maidens serve Akihito schnapps From RogeIr Boyes

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THERE was avenge sight m Dussefaforf yesterday:- beefy, Rbrnefand maidens ;& kimonos serving tea and srimafps-at a street- festival mfr .confused.; tfatovfefy attempt to

of Japan. - . • *■.. .v»-. • " Ak2uto fold tufr Wife, Mkfai&o. have embaricedon-a Etiretteantourfliarpointe% excludes Britain ahd The Nefoerfands.'whcre'; war memories are etehed deep. This aftanpt to attoid controversy has foe imfoiamaie

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reunion, focusmgmamly on Tosyos wartime allies. Jt^y aod Germany. Indeed one offoe-

n yesterday where at a war cemetay:

Boon c^net^ wbicfr^ contains many war

iS' sopposed to be above politics. And almost .' ttik nfochtime has been devoted to fish talk —

Akfliito has puWished some 25. specialist v&tides on fish — as to the problems, of .EsropbiabJapanese relations.

’But flictbtxr—only the third evennade^^by tbe emperor— raises the question of how the

"im loafers of foe second world war should redefine; themselves as winners of the Cold Wsir. ff&nythmg Germany has much to leans

v front Jlafran. The Japanese were foe first to grasp ^qw to participate in UN peacekeeping rmssu^s, abroad. And Tokyo has been far

; more aisertive in seeking a permanent seat ©n tfatUN Secsrity Counefl. '

-Thereis also a distinct difference in foe way - foaf foeremmtries deal with war guilt Only . :. ,te&hthr Japan has started to1 apologise to

^ South jKqfra about the wartime enslavement - 'of feifreim wmnen. .The Germans have for foe

past JSO years prefaced every statement of : natkfoalinterest vrith im assurance foat it was . .not murniHg to the bad old ways.

A policy conference organised by Klaus Kinkel, the foreign minister, last week showed however that Germany is going through similar motions as foe Japanese as it works out ways of projecting its interests abroad.

Even domestic political rhetoric draws on foe Japanese experience. Helmut KohL the German chancellor, urges teachers and parents to bring up children in a culture of hard work and family obligations, to concen¬ trate their studies, to look after foe elderly.

Gcrman-Japanese co-operation has its roots in foe 19th century, when Prussia signed a friendship treaty with Tokyo in 1S61. But, as everyone tried to avoid mentioning yesterday, the deepest friendship dates from Nan days: foe 1936 Anti-Comintern Pad, the 1937 Berlin- Rome-Tokyo Axis, the pact of 1940.

The emperor's trip is supposed to acknowl¬ edge the legacy and then leave it behind, as both countries try to shrug off foe image of war losers and economic winners.

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From the Ice Age to I’m All Right Jack: a second taste of the Encyclopedia of Britain

Mr Gascoigne’s eye-opener B LIKE Dr Johnson's dictionary. Bam her Gascoigne's new Encyclopedia of Britain is not only invaluable but also idiosyncratic Today’s extract, for example, takes a meandering course from one London institution to another, by way of the Icknieid Way and HWey, not to mention the Ice Age. It follows yesterday’s extract, based on the letter T. Tomorrow will come M, then E and. finally. S.

9 Readers are invited to compete in the Great British Quiz, based on the book. There is a first prize worth £5.000 and five others worth £1.000. while 50 finalists will win a night at a top London hotel. The second set of questions is given below. The daily extracts will not necessarily help with the quiz, though ownership of the book wi!i be useful. It is published on September 24 and quiz entries must arrive by October 1. There will be 20 questions a day, 100 in all Entry details and rules will be given on Saturday. 1CA (Institute of Contemporary

.4ns. London SW1) Founded in 1947 to promote the cause of modem an through exhibi¬

tions and lecrures, the Institute was in Dover Street until moving to its present premises in the Mall in 1968.

Ice .Age Term commonly used to mean the most recent of several glacial periods in which the cooling of

. the earth resulted in the polar ice cap extending far southward. A related

• and equally significant effect was the sinking of the sea level, as more of foe earth's water was piled high as ice. In foe last ice age. which ended about 10.000 years ago. foe ice cap reached

. afrnosi to foe south of Britain (to a line roughly between foe Bristol

f Channel "and East Anglia) and dry ; land joined England to France be¬

tween Dover and Calais. Humans 'crossed from the Continent and lived 'in caves, hunting the large hairy mammals such as the mammoth and

.the woolly rhinoceros which thrived in those conditions but became extinct wifo foe thaw. The cycles of ice uses are not folly understood, but the

,-current estimate is that foe next one ‘ will begin in about 23,000 years.

“IC1 (Imperial Chemical Industries) Company formed in 1926 by foe merger of Britain’s four largest chemical concerns at that time, wifo foe express purpose of creating a group of major international status — a role which 1CI has successfully maintained, though sometimes with foe reputation of a slumbering giant (an image which in !99J attracted the attention of *Hanson). The founding partners in 1926 were Brunner Mond. manufacturers of alkali; Uni¬ ted Alkali, in foe same field; Nobel Industries, an explosives company set up in IS70 by Alfred Nobel, foe inventor of dynamite; and British Dyestuffs. In i992 ICI announced a plan ro split into two: commodity chemicals, paints and explosives were to remain with the existing company; and a new company. Zeneca, was to take over foe speciality chemicals, drugs, agrochemicals and seeds busineses.

Icknieid Way Prehistoric track which followed foe high ground southwest from foe *Wash, through foe hills of East Anglia and foe Chiltems to the Berkshire Downs. It then joined another route, to continue to foe Stonehenge area and probably on to the south coast. The section through East Anglia and foe Chil¬ tems is still much used by walkers.

Ickworth (5km/3m SE of Bury St Edmunds) One of the strangest of English houses, built from 1795 for an improbable character — foe 4th earl of Bristol (1730-1803), an avid collector and traveller (any Hotel Bristol on foe Continent is named after him), who was simultaneously foe free- spending and free-thinking bishop of Derry in Ireland. The great oval rotunda which is the central feature of Ickworth was to a design by an Italian architect (Mario Asprucd). modified by Frauds and Joseph Sandys. The earl, who died before the completion of the house in 1829. had intended to live in the state rooms of the rotunda and to keep his art collection in foe wings which are linked to it by long curving passages.

Immigration: West Indians arriving in Southampton in April 1961, to meet Britain’s need forcheap labour in the postwar years ::

J. Claudius (1934) Historical novel by Robert *G raves, in which Claudius narrates an endearing version of his own eccentric path to the imperial throne through the horrors of Rome in the 1st century AD. Together with its sequel. Claudius the Cod (also 1934). it provided foe material for a 13-part BBC drama series (7. Claudi¬ us 1976) starring Derek Jacobi. .

Ideal Home Exhibition Britain’s largest annual exhibition of products connected with foe home, sponsored by the Daily Mail. The first was held at *OIympia in 1908. The exhibitions have been annual since 1923, apart from foe war years, and have been at •Earl’s Court since 1979. In addition to the several hundred firms exhibit¬ ing their wares, each Ideal Home Exhibition includes some complete show houses built for the occasion.

If Poem by •Kipling, published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) and rivalled only by Polonius’s *“Neither a borrower nor a lender be" as a popular poetic collection of common- sense advice. But whereas Polonius is an old fool. Kipling is entirely serious. His “ifs" are those tests which a boy must pass if he is to be a man (the poem begins, “If you can keep your head when all about you / - Are losing theirs..The ideals are those of the English *public school and foe stiff upper lip: not even your closest friend should be able to hurt you don’t look too good or talk too wise, dream but not too much, feel but not too much, think but not too much. Lindsay Anderson’s film If (196S) is set in a public school of which every flaw is writ large.

“ignorance is bliss" A quotation which has long appealed to school¬ children, unaware of its original

meaning or that it was first applied directly to them. It comes from Thomas •Gray'S Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742, publ 1747). The poet envies the schoolboys their childish ignorance of the sor¬ rows which will come wifo adult life:

Where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise.

“Ignorance, madam, pore igno¬ rance” The disarming reply of Dr •Johnson on being asked by a woman why, in his Dictio¬ nary, he had defined “pastern" as foe knee of a horse.

IlkJey (24,000 in 1981) Town in •Wharfedale in West Yorkshire, best known for the moor-stretching to foe south which features in foe popular song On Ilkia Moor baht'at (meaning “On ffidey Moor without a hat”).

The Illustrated London News (ILN)

Magazine of great significance in that its first issue—on 14 May 1842 — introduced foe era of illustrated journalism. It was the brainchild of a printer, Herbert Ingram (1S1I-60), who had made money as a sideline from the sale of a laxative. Parr’s Life PiUs. His concept — news stories made more immedi¬ ate by specially commissioned wood engravings — was an instant success. The paper was also made eye¬ catching by having news and pictures cm the front page where others had only advertisements. Its content was challenging too; the second issue placed pictures of the domestic life of

the young queen beside others of children working in the mines. When there was revolution in foe streets of Paris in 1848, the editor sent an artist over with ' instructions to. rush drawings back for the wood engrav¬ ers — the first example of frontline imagegathering, now familiar m journalism.

The magazine remained for weH over a century under foe direct control of the Ingram family; the founder’s grandson, Bruce frigramv

was editor for an ex¬ traordinary span, of 63 years (19Q0-63). It was a weekly from its' launch in 1842; in 1971 it became a monthly and since 1989 has appeared only every other month.

I'm All Right Jack

I’m AU Right Jack (1959) Satirical film by the •Boulting broth¬ ers which aimed at many targets, from corrupt management to idle worms, but which was seoi above all as an attack on the trade unions. The rea¬

son was foe brilliant performance of Peter *5611615 as Fred Kite, a ludi¬ crously self-important shop steward.

immigration A politically charged subject in Britain since the 1960s. In the years immediately after World War II. when foe country had need of. cheap labour, immigration from within the Commonwealth was nude easy. The new arrivals came first from the West Indies and then from the Indian subcontinent But alarm in some quarters at their numbers led to a Commonwealth Immigration Act in 1962. In 1968 foe Common¬

wealth fmmigrants Act further.re^ stricted die number of Asians arriv¬ ing .from" Kenya:; By then it was possible for politicians'to jilay on prejudices against ethnic minorities. It was foe year of Enoch *PpweU’s “rivers of blopd" speech, and.*neo- Nazis were making foefr appearance inBrftain. . • ' :"

The present law derives from the Immigration Acts of. 1971 and 1988 and from foe British Nationality Act of 1981. The rorabined effect of these has been to limit permanent entry to •British citizens, citizens of the repub¬ lic of Ireland and certain- Common¬ wealth citizens (those born before 1983 with at least oneBritish. parent): meanwhile' EC regulations: allow residence to citizens Of other EC countries. Any outside these catego¬ ries .who are allowed to settle either have skills in short supply in Britain, or have been granted political asylum.

Imperial War Mtiseam (London SE1) Established by the government m 1917 to display thehisfoiy of World War I and to receive foe' work produced by foe official War artists,; the museum opened in 1920-in the Crystal Palace. It transferred to, its; present building (previously •Bed¬ lam) in 1936. Its theme has remained foe history of war,since 1914, A huge- holding of modem British art (the largest outside foe Tate Gallery) is supplemented - by documents, wrap; ons and vehidra. -Outposts^of the. museum are ~HMS - - 'Belfast. •Duxford airfield and the-*Cabihjet, War Roans.

^ Asterisks indicate:other entries. _

• Extracted from Bomber .Gascoigne's Encyclopedia of .Britain, published by Macmillan onSeptember24,prux E29SS.

© Bomber Gascoigne. 1993

behind la vie en rose

1 Edith Piaf Ipved her image more than men,Charles Bremner writes

Most French people over foe. age of 40 can offer a few key

facts about the lurid, life-of Edith Piaf. foe street singer who became her country’s most reveredj performer. She was bom on a policeman’? cape; she. was blind, for four years of her childhood; as a - teenager, she prostituted her-, self to pay fbrdaiqfoter’s fun-, eral; she was sex-mad said- may have had an affair with Marlene Dietrich.

None of this is true.’accord-. ing to accounts in remirrisc- •_ ences and .three biographies .; ahead of fhe 30fh anniversary' next month of Piafs^Jeafo at -- 47. With the cult in high gear, " ft was timero revisit the legend erf Edith Gassiohifor la Mfirae Piaf..the.'“Little kid sparrow*,: as her first-stage name titled hex. The portrait that emerges' is of- a~ woman whose life was ■ so packed wifo misdry and grandeur she hardly needed to embroider it . ; However, none of the revi-. sionists question thegemus of foe snifter with a voice packed " to murfi, chagrin that as the late Boris Vian said,.“she would'have been z isuccess' singing the phone book". The biographers .agree,' too, .that alfonhghshemay have been a man-eater, and had legions of celebrated kjvers,' including ’ Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour andMaroel Cerdan. the boxer, she was far from the . nymphomaniac of legend. She was .hsiie^ mterested in-sex.. according to some of her part¬ ners; she needed men. to., groom and to compensate .for a lack of setf-confideiHX.“‘*She was neither a woman erf foe bfed. nor foe vfoman vfoo.fefi deeply in love, as . the legend and ther flhtskm she created herself would have it” accord¬ ing to tbuis Barrier, her im¬ presario, who is now 84.

inprig the many mythsfl Piaf enebitiaged was ‘

.foe. story of her birth, . according, to Rem Duclos and Leans Valentin,authors of. rivalnew;biographies both' called Piaf A phujueat 75 rue ’ deBelleviBerecbrdslhatEdifo was bom on the steps. She en-

sfog^ailiannes detivered^hri- as Anita, hermother,' was -being rushed to hospital" by Louis, her father. .

The records show, however^ that the baby, named, after Edith ClavdJ, an - English nurse shot by the Germans, was bora in hospital on De¬ cember 19 1915. Immediately abandoned by her mother, she spent her. earliest ^ years in squalor with, one . grand¬ mother before moving to the care of her . other rate.

back to her Paris home, __j the press she was going

. for further treatment The episode is described by

-Dodos and also by Marc and ■Danielle Bond her accord¬ ionist and secretary for the last IS years of her life, who have produced an affectionate memoir, Edith Piaf. le Temps chine -Vie. The Bonds, in passing.'also ridicule foe re-

. cent claim by Maria Riva. Dietrich’s daughter, that Piaf

- had a Kaison wrth the German

'actress after foe war. They dismiss another

legend: that Piaf refused to ' help her mother when she was

■; in prison. The singer's record during the war, when she lived in rooms at a bordello,

/arid sang to theatres packed with Germans, was not quite

" as respectable as she claimed, according to Dud os. He found ho evidence to support her claim that she had used her .conceits at French camps in Germany as cover for smug-

prodigious love life, during which. Valeritin darmg, foe ran through 200 maim Franceand the Ameri¬ cas, dominates the biog¬ raphies. The woman who spent' her life smging of pas¬ sion and heartbreak,-never really had a man “under, her

•far from the " battered .

orneromer rate,. Potman nf who ran a brotheL -.. 01

legend, the There, foe ■ hiog^ raphers say,; she succumbed to cor-: nea!. . inflamr • matron, which re- - quired her eyes to : be- bandaged; for--; six months: The singer iriade much of th6 tale,of the; restoration of her sight after women . prayedttt a shrine.

dbminated:; her men and : 'used her

Piat the little kid sparrow

$km" as, sbe sang in “Je t’ai danslaPeau".

-Her affairs and foe first two of three marriages followed

; foe same pattern. An idealist and a perfectionist, she would take anew lover, often starting him an his own career, as she did with Montand, Aznavour and Gilbert B&aud, then g^ disappointed and drop him coldly for another.

Her only great braribreak • ■ was Cerdan, who

died in in ah air crash in 1949. Far .from the battered woman of legend, the frail Piaf domi¬ nated her men and used her fists. -

While knocking down the myths, many erf them mal¬ icious gossip from 'her own lifetime, none of foe biog¬ raphers challenges

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reality; foe died the jHevious' day, m'; her ' house jpear Mougins Of liver' disease' arid alcoM. and; drug^^ abuse.' Her entourage was determined to; cany om her wifoto be buried, in Pgre-Lachmse. so they hired : an ambulance and-drove all

Rien > ris one. of. many old friends who believe the gran-, deur of-Haf win survive all the inytfis and; revisions. "They have written a lot of non¬ sense;” he says, whlch will end Up in the “rubbish dump that XMie day will be foe repository ofihalka and jealousy”.

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in our theme-parks might be serving a genuine historical purpose

I was handed an unusually (“tractive army recruiting feaf- ter the other day. “Join Tocfay!-

a™s * Photograph of five soldiers standing to atten¬

tion behind a lb-pounder muzzle- laaamg gun 0f the 1870s. I was confined. Have defence cuts re- duj?“ us to such aged weaponry?

“We’re the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers," the man explained pointing to his 1880s uniform with a wide red stripe down the trousers. “We defend Fort Nelson and protKt the dty of Portsmouth. Well be firing that gun up an the ramparts this afternoon.’*

I was getting more confused by the minute, as Fort Nelson gradu¬ ally filled up with all manner of soldiery. There were men on gorgeously caparisoned horses, carrying medieval lances, and foot soldiers with longbows. There was a troop o£ light cavalry wearing shakos and a fetching pale blue uniform; there were first world

Britain’s travellers in time war infantrymen with jolft mous¬ taches discussing with tiie cavalry what a. nuisance wearing puttees could be.

Looking at all this activity was a 14-year-old second world waren- thusiast who had laid out neathr. around him an ertraordmary coK lection of guns, ammunition^ uni* forms ami memorabilia — all bought with pocket manor.

“What you see here," said the Portsdown Volunteer, Is living history. Ifs Bke the virtual reality so many kids are hooked on. oily healthier and more intelligent. They jusf sit in an arcade shovel¬ ling coins into a machine." while were out in the open air. busting a gut -ib get eveqmung absolutely. accurate. Yon team an awful tot of

history doing this." Indeed you do. I entered Fort Nelson an ignora¬ mus but. aha watching the tour¬ nament and listening to the expert commentary. 1 understood one or two significant dungs {such as why the longbow made so much differ¬ ence to our military fortunes) and innumerable minor, ones which, while hardly curriculum history, undeniably brought it to life.

You learn more than you ever thought you wanted to know from these dedicated amateur method actors. Just stand and watch and it all rubs off on you. that relentless anqnnniatflin of detail they all need to “virtually be” a medieval bowman, or one of Palmerston's volunteers. ' - •

Is this the acceptable face of the

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“brown-sign” economy? i think it is. There are now 25.000 of those brown signs along English roads, painting to assorted sites of inter¬ est to tourists, and increasing numbers of these venues present some sort of living history display. English Heritage distributes an

events calendar to its 300.000 members, and it appears that anyone interested in enlivening an empty castle with a manifestation of anything that once happened there, from spinning to cooking to enacting a full-scale battle, will be snapped up.

There is really nothing Disney- ish about all this. These people are serious amateur historians, and seriously specialised, whose activi¬ ties are described in the Living History Register's newsletter.

It can sound comical. Here is Captayne Henry Hzzzard's com¬ pany announcing that it will “do a living history" depicting the sur¬ render of Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, in 1642: “... so we shall march in from Newport and. as

happened, we display our strength, negotiate a surrender, then walk in... and have dinner.” The newsletter carries information about the Dark Ages society, the Napoleonic association, the WW2 Battle Reenactment association and the Friends of Basing House (who are into Tudor and Stuart cooking), as wdi as the Sealed Knot society, which re-enacts bat¬ tles from the Civil War.

Or you can go to KonweU Hall, in Suffolk, and spend a mouth living the

life of a Tudor servant under a despotic master. The newsletter is full of ads from costumiers, spin¬ ning-wheel makers, troupes of early musicians and galliard danc¬

ers. and musket-makers. There is even a video called The Biow by Blow Guide to Swordfighting {in the Renaissance style).

Apart from being good dean fun. more interesting and less deleterious to (he landscape than golf, this living history lark may be useful. The German government has just felt obliged to issue schoolchildren at 500 schools with an official history, done in car¬ toons. of the Hitlerzeit. This is because, since their elders were too embarrassed to tell them about it before, they have been absorbing a dangerously one-sided version of the period from the neo-Naas.

Jeer at theme-park Britain if you must, but at least accept that British schoolchildren, surround¬ ed by animated reminders of successful invasions by foreign conquerors. and battles lost and won. including those of the second world war. get a warts-and-ail view of their past.

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Libby Purves visits a soap opera set to find the world’s best-equipped

game of doctors and nurses A girl lies supine on & hospital trolley. Around her cluster the crash resuscita¬

tion team, briskly smacking veins for intravenous injec¬ tions. preparing electric shock pads and rapping out “20 mills adrenalin .— still no pulse — BEEP — she's flat lined — we can’t lose this and". They busy themselves with defibrillator pads to jerk the figure into me; around them is the familiar, frighten¬ ing array of drip^tands. Even the trolley wheris give an authentically dreadful hospi¬ tal squeak. But nobody in the room is over J 7, and some of the medical team have to stand on tiptoe to reach, across, the patient; who nqw sife up and says “have I got malaria?" in a hopeful way. cnty io be teM “No. a head injury from' a hockey stick. Lie down.”

This is possibly the best- ' equipped game of doctors and nurses in the world. It is also the most purposeful: 90 child¬ ren have been recruited by the BBC from Bristol schools as “Casualty Kids", to be trained in drama workshops on the pen-nanent set of Casualty in a pair of Bristol warehouses, it was Michael Ferguson, the new producer, who decided to bypass the specialist theatrical agents who normally provide winsome child actors tor tele¬ vision. He appeaJecTro local schools for the best of their actors, and set up weekly sessions with Ali Simmons, a drama teacher and former psychiatric nurse.

As a result the programme now has a bottomless, self- renewing well of local talent to

play cycle accident victims, roundabout casualties, joyrid¬ ers, drug addicts and other child protagonists in the eighth run of theBBCs contro¬ versial drama series. ' ' Mr Ferguson took it over after the furore last year surrounding the irmer-dty riot winch ended toe seventh se¬ ries, which even brought an

; admission from the Controller Of BBGL Alan Yentob. that it was “a mistake”. The new broom has said he would “probably nor have done die not, but he is no romantic escapist either. With a trade record including EastEnden and The BilL Mr Ffer^uscn is evangelical: about the social and cathartic importance of realist drarna — “society fee¬ ing’ up to its fears in safe surroundings” In the child¬ ren, hesaid, he wanted “srane- thing different, and more real" than usually available..

Ms Simmons puts it more bakflyt “We didn’t want; teeth to sritiles. We work on react-

Theatre in the operating theatre, a group of the Casualty Kids on their television set in Bristol—“They have to be aware of marks on the floor, and never, ever look at a camera”

stillness, paring it down. They mustn't project as if they were in a school play." Apart from tins Alec Guinness economy of gesture, it saves, time and directorial temper if even Sev¬ en-year-olds have a grounding in toe peculiarities; of; tefe- visian acting. “They have to be aware of marks on the floor,' and never, ever iodc at a camera." Moreover, Casualty being in the business of freez¬ ing the blood of the nation's mothers with its medical real¬ ism. tiie children must learn morerareified skins. “We have date alert of work on asthma.” Ms Simmons says. “Also

dfrogs. panic, fear, domestic violence, housing problems. A lot of these children are from -the inner city; and know about toe problems in toe series. One of our rules' is that nobody turns up drunk or in a mood- altered state.”

Any adult who worries aboutteaching young duKfren to act out trauma for TV may be assured that Ms Simmons and her assistant. Glenn Sup¬ ple. think about that, too. “He and I do talk about exploita¬ tion. We would not work on sexual abuse, for instance. We sue employed by the produc¬ tion company, but we regard ourselves as on the children’s side. We keep all the rules about hours, licensing.'chap¬ erones and pay: they used 60

of our children on location in a fairground scene, and they were all paid £24 a day. But Ah Simmons says that “In the end, we are offering them somthing special, an achieve¬ ment in their own right It* signing them off at the end which worries me".

Sixty of tiie Casualty Kids appear in the new series, starting on Saturday. Most were extras, but eight had leading parts, the most envied being toe goriest “One boy has his arm chopped off.” they told me with awe. "He was eight” says says Ali fondly. “He was having a ball — he had a rubber arm with two bones sticking out and gela¬ tine Mood everywhere, and he kept dashing round tie set

sticking it in people’s faces. That child was a natural. He whimpered beautifully, and nobody had told him to." Daniel Rafferty, J7.

went on location and was pushed over a weir. "On

wires. Fflming is very scary, but you concentrate." Ben Price, a year younger, is in toe first episode. “I’m a joyrider. I get killed instantly, so l don’t get onto the hospital set unfortunately." Seeing his death on screen was “rather odd, actually". Zndi Davis, a tiny blonde angel gar bitten by a gerbil. “I got it wrapped up in casualty. 1 had to say the gerbil’s name. Freddie Kru¬ ger, and thank you. But toe

rest got cutted out”. Indeed, the miseries of professional showbiz are well in evidence: not only did Samantha Cole endure eight solid hours on toe fairground Waltzer. but when she limped onto the Casualty set with a sprained ankle: “I had toe wrong clothes, and they shouted at me in make-up and I felt really embarrassed, and in toe end I didn’t even pet filmed."

She remains loyal, however, maybe recognising that if she had had her moment of glory with a plaster cast or a death- rattle. she would be oul

Realist drama does not permit the return of corpses, however talented, for another episode.

Back in toe resuscitation suite, toe head-injury improvi¬

sation is reaching its climax. Indi Davis bursts in, sobbing “My Mum ... my Mum ... boohooohoo hoo!" The child is heartbreaking. One has a terrible feeling that Mr Fergu¬ son may be saving her up for one of those episodes which nervous mothers have to watch from behind the sofa with a large gin. But on the

word “break!” Indi grins and returns composedly to her marks. "They have to get used to doing take after take,” Ali Simmons says. “Twenty takes is virtually child abuse. I think. Glenn and I defend them from directors, and sit in toe spare ambulance feeding them chips when they get exhausted."

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An old trouper who fights on for the truth Marius Goring is on

the brink of financial ruin as a result of his battle with the ultra¬

left wing of the

acting union

MARIUS Goring does not look like a man who is about to go bankrupt He looks as if he is spending ms retirement gosriptogand mooong m

armchair of toe Garrick

kyite members of toe Workers’ Revolutionary forty, led by Vanessa Redgrave and her brother Corin, pushed through votes on the withdrawal of troops from Northern Ireland and messages of congratula¬ tion to Ayatollah Khomeini on top¬ pling the Shah of Iran.

current book, on the love-life of Kaiser Wilhelm. With a slight prod, however, he launches into a well- reasoned defence of his stand. “We all abhor apartheid and have vowed not to perform in front of segregated audiences." he says. “But we are preventing English actors and ac-

Most actors, scattered around the tresses from making money they

ciuu. inaicttu, —1>--—. — is getting ready for the next actui_a show that has ran and ran. For m vears he has been engaged m a vociferous battle with Equity, toe acting union. If he loses toe next

round he loses everything,_ Goring once hoped to be remem.

bered for his acting career wrth parts in television series sucto as ^ Expert or The Scarlet Now he admits that his pUwjn acting history will be a5 a smbborn opponent of Equity's and his campaign to getBritish television programmes shown

Sooth Africa. . .wrtfhjs The doggedness is the Iegaty ofto

father, a doctor and ^nto^Iogist

who spent his life were disprove a theory thatenmu^s^e

determined by dior attributes. Dr Gonngwas & mus£ hail fan and wanrcd^^J® become an actor or mother, however, had and to appease her he-studietrai

Goring at bay—“I don’t give a damn about who’s left or right**

various universities in Prance and Germany.

Goring was at the University of Munich when he witnessed its take¬ over-by the Nazis. “Until then German theatre was toe most exert¬ ing al the world "he says. "But it died as soon as the stale started to use it • for the proliferation of its own beliefs.” Such observations shaped his conviction dial art can only flourish wtenit is apolitical.

paring the war Goring was briefly a soldier, but then he was called up

±e“spooky people" at the foreis

BBC to Germany. "We derided not to invent things, but to tell the German people the truth,” he says. “By the end, the whole government listened to us for their information. It helped to shorten the war.”

Afterwards, Goring went back to acting and found himself becoming more and more involved with Equity, of which he had been a founder member. The problems started in the 1970s. when a small group of-Trots-

country. were indif- _ ferent to or ignorant of the goings on in JVlV C London. But a small J band of self-pro- jc tfl i claimed1"moderates”. 13 J including Goring, ar*fnt Donald Sinden and at LUI Richard Briers, was . determined to defend 9.CTX a laty majority from having opinions put W6iJ in their mouths. Gor- ing twice tot* Equity 1™?, to court once to en- sure that decisions nrrtf£ could only be taken piUiv after a referendum of ______ all members, and once to prevent union funds being donated to striking miners.

Equity still forbids its members from visiting South Africa and will not allow British television pro¬ grammes to be shown there. Last year. Goring went to court to have the policy declared unconstitutional. He lost and faces bankruptcy over tiie costs unless he can find a benefactor to lodge £20,000.

Goring is obsessed, but he does his best not to be a bore. "My wife [toe

‘My concern is to protect actors’ and actresses’ welfare. I love my

profession’

_ need.” He believes, as his wartime job

ncem showed, that toe best ax way to win round an

rr-ifpo-f- enemy is to infiltrate . ULCLL their culture, rather 9 et nA to an isolate it.

ctiiCl His ambition is to take the Goldsmith

SSeS play She Stoops to Conquer to South Af-

rp T rica, unto an all-black cast "The play is

1Y|T7 about two men who think the owners of

eirwV 311 upper-class home olUH are innkeepers and _______ treat them according¬

ly. It questions why we treat people differently according to their position in society.”

Goring is not the blimpish charac¬ ter some imagine. He spent every Christinas as a child with his black godfather, who had moved from Kingston. Jamaica, to Kingston. Surrey, and eyebrows were raised when he married a German refugee in the middle of the war. “1 don’t give a damn about who's left or right,” he says. "My concern is to protect actors' and actresses’ welfare. I have always loved my profession and I always

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director. Prudence Fitzgerald} said, loved my profession and I a! ‘Don’t for God’s sake mention Equi- wifl. no matter where it leads.” ty,’“ he laughs. He prefers to show Tl „ ,. T , , w, Off his talents with wonderfully JULIA LLEWELLYN enacted anecdotes or to talk abort hi's SMITH

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■ Now you can clutter the loft without going any farther than the post-box When Sir Henry Souvenir (1536-1598)

ai last returned to the court of Queen Elizabeth from his ten-year

expedition to the Orient, he little thought that their opening exchange would pass into history.

“What have you brought for me?" asked his queen.

“It is a box made from the liver of an elephant. Your Majesty." replied Sir Henry, “wrought in strange fashion by the natives, and covered in sea-shells. You can keep fags in it"

“Where did you get itr she enquired. “I cant remember," he said. “I’ve been

everywhere." Thus it was that a pattern was laid: ever

since, people have been coming back from distant parts carrying things to put cigarettes in. which' they give to other people to prove how impressively they have travelled. Some of course, don’t give their souvenirs away, preferring instead to build up a vast collec¬ tion with which to decorate lofts; it is not clear why they do this, but a strong ritualistic element is patently involved, no doubt because the objects are associated with the passing of time and take on a totemistic quality from this association. Souvenirs, for example, can never be thrown away, because to do so would be to extirpate the past of which they are the only record. They are, however, moved around the loft every few years, when their lids tend-to fall off or, in the case of docks, when their cuckoos fall out.

The cuckoo-clock, indeed, is the quintes¬ sential souvenir, in that it exists solely to be bought, sold, carried home, unwrapped, and put in lofts, either by the purchaser or the re¬ ceiver. You never see it cm walls. Invented by the Swiss Tourist Board because Switzerland had nothing to identify it (eg. leaning towers, beefeaters. Taj Mahals, castanets, sphinxes), and because hs two national products, snow and chocolate, melted, the cuckoo-dock came into being purely to give tourists something to buy and take home. Its huge success has. furthermore, led the Swiss to branch out with typically cautious adventurousness: removing the tiny house from which the cuckoo emerges, they have enlarged it in recent years and inserted a music-box. which, when you lift the lid. plays O Mine Papa. and breaks. It's for keeping fags in.

None of this, however, is meant to decry an international industry of quite astonishing creativity: let none impugn the brilliance of an imagination which looks at die Eiffel Tower and sees not a thousand feet of iron, but six inches of salt cellar with a nude in the base and a thermometer up one side, or ap¬ preciates the difference which can be made to a social occasion when its host squirts soda into his guests' whisky' from a titchy Belgian statue. Nor have our own craftsmen been found wanting: a mere mile from where l sit. you can buy a midget guardsman with ten fags in his busby and a gas lighter on the end of his rifle. All over Kansas, at this very moment, recent visitors to Britain will be trying to glue its bead back on. And it is that which is my point the

tourist has had to come here to buy it. In order, that is. to impress the folks

bade home with the horrible geegaws which stand testament to his travels, he has had to fly. trudge, queue, toss in strange beds, gag on strange food, and be parted, often unscru¬ pulously. from his money. Until last week. Last week was a waters hoi—and I speak as one who knows, since 1 have not only stood astride the Great Divide so that the rain fall¬ ing on my left foot drained into the Atlantic and that falling on my right drained into the Pacific. I also have a $25 paperweight to prove it Last week, a company called The House of Windsor Collection announced that it was embarking upon a massive advertising drive to reach 12 million Ameri¬ cans by Christmas. And what is it selling? According to a spokesman, it is selling "a whole new concept: mail order souvenirs".

What. I wonder, will the British Tourist Authority make of that? Cock a westward ear, and you may well pick up the thunder¬ ous sigh of relief currently sweeping Ameri¬ ca. For Americans do not need to come here any more. I know this, because I have just seen the jewel of The House of Windsor Collection. It costs £111. and it is an enamel box with a picture of Windsor Castle on the lid. You can keep fags in it.

Black hole in Smith Square I assume that Kenneth Baker and

Chris Patten are consulting solid- tors. The present regime at Conser¬ vative Central Office is claiming

that they left the party in such a sham¬ bles as to be one stop short of receiv¬ ership. On Monday the current chairman, Sir Norman Fowler, wrote a letter to The Times implying that the party has recently been in the grip of reckless spendthrifts. Stoats and weasels were swinging from the chandeliers and only he. Badger, has been able to save Toad Hafl from ruin. The deficit was already £11.8 million at the start of 1991 (following the chairmanship of Kenneth Baker). Under Chris Patten it rose to £173 million. But Sir Norman has been struggling for 18 months simply to achieve “a more stable footing". Staff have been reduced from 400 to just 250. He hopes for a return to a “sound finandal basis" provided the party can now put “past difficulties and divisions behind us". In abreakwith tradition. Sir Norman means the party to lose no more money this year.

Why do Conservative leaders keep their party organisation in being? They long treated it with contempt, perhaps because it always responded with blind adoration. Lord Carrington hated being chairman, sinoe the post requires its holder “to show a cheerfulness he may not feel" (a requirement he rarely honoured). Lord Whitelaw said the chairmanship was “the worst six months of my career”. Mrs Thatcher refused to appoint a director at Central Office after removing Michael Wolff in 1975. and instead sent “trusty" col¬ leagues to run it for short periods. This meant no continuity and no strategy. Most of her chairmen, such as Cedi Parkinson, John Gummer and Peter Brooke, were unknown at the time. On his fust day, Mr Parkinson did not even know where Central Office was. When he found it, he says in his memoirs, “I was not encouraged."

Mrs Thatcher never dared appoint the one man patently most qualified for the chairmanship. Michael Heseftine, for fear he might make a success of it. Nor¬ man Tebbit and Kenneth Baker were both swiftly undermined when they became mo popular for Downing Street’s comfort Central Office was sup¬ posed to be engine room not bridge. John Major gave the job to Chris Patten, whose ace mirrored his distaste for it throughout his tenure. Now the neces¬ sary insincerities hang limp from Sir Norman Fowler’s lips. At present die food minister. Nicholas Soames, is

No one wants to be chairman of the Conservative party, because no one can

remember what Central Office is for

running for the post in the columns of The Daily Telegraph. Small wonder Alan Clark professes himself mystified that any “serious politician’" should covet such a career move. The marching order to Smith Square is the .dreaded black spot No chairman since Cham¬ berlain has become party leaders

This is all most odd. The Tory chairmanship is the one post apart from leader that is a test of rawpohtical talent rather than Westminster affability. An American politician would leap at such an opportunity a national spotlight a seat in cabinet without the burden of office, and a dear line of sight to those who ultimately deter- • • mine the leadership: the party in the coun¬ try. Yet each chairman serves his term as if in purgatory, testament to de Tocqueville'S the¬ sis that British politics is about dubs, not democracy.

As a result, each new _ chairman desperately portrays his task as Herculean. “Strictly between the two of us." he tells all¬ comers earnestly, “you can’t imagine the state the party is in. Central Office shouldn’t be allowed to run a whelk stall. There is no comprehension of elementary business methods. Bloggs was a good chairman in all sorts of ways, and a great personal friend, but frankly he was lucky to get out when he did. I've had to bring in consultants and plead with Patchy & Patchy to send round their brightest lads. We have no good people, you know, no marketing skills, no communicators, no proper budgeting. We spend money we dont have. Labour thinks we are rich: if only they knew what I know!"

I have lost count of how often I have heard this. Now it is Sir Norman's turn. (And Mr Baker’s to respond: in his new book he roundly blames Mr Brooke and Mr Patten for his own apparent profli¬ gacy as chairman.) And to what effect? Central Office will muddle through. Britain's most trivial but crude sphere of corruption will be activated. Knighthoods and peerages will be

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distributed to help replenish party coffers. The deficit will be reduced or funded, and Sir Norman will plead for a new job and pass the chalice , to somebody else. As Lord Tebbit said with a touch of sarcasm on fearing Central Office, “My report an changes needed in die party organisation was not difficult to writer. Just too difficult to implement.

The Tory party’s management of itself over the past 20 years is a dreadful comment on competence. Central Office is the one department under the leader’s command that runs with no help from Whitehall and no permanent boss, lire: result is a backhanded compliment to

.■ - . Whitehafl. The;organ¬ isation flounders frdm campaign - to - cam-,- paign. New chairmen- oome in. recruit more, staff and reinvent the wheeL Each one pro¬ fesses to have discov¬ ered direct mail or marginal seat .target-

_ ing or indepth polling. Mrs Thatcher told Mr

Baker his task was crudely simple, to win elections. Yet this was a task she regarded herself as able to do unaided.; -

Mrs Thateherts rage for centralisatiod and her aversion to dissent meant that Central Office decayed both as an organ¬ isation and as a channel of contact with' regions and constituencies. She favour¬ ed independent think-tanks and private campaign advisers. By the 1987 election, she was running a personal campaign distinct from Mr Tebbifs at Central Office. When in 1990 she eventually needed grassroots help, it was not' forthcoming. I believe there was great support for her within the party, but she had stifled the means of mobilising it The once-tight threads of loyalty had been allowed ta fray. The political conduits had been dogged.

John Major has done nothing to clear - them. He should perhaps ask fiimsielf whether he really wants a national Con-.. servative party any more. He has continued his predecessor's refusal to- give it a strong director and appointed instead two dose friends, neither with relevant experience, as executive chair?

men. Hie party is near bankrupt The demoralisation of many constituency, partly through the undermining of local

- 'government, starves the party of its one honest and democratic source of money,

: the mass membership, and so forces it bade on big business. The next step w31 be that favoured by many constitu¬ tional reformers: party nationalisation through Tteasuiy subsidy.

National political organisations are like corporate advertising: probably a waste of money, but. nobody knows for sure. Mrs Thatchers scepticism may have been sound. She relied at .election time on a-de facto mntrart in Saairhw with Central Office as subcontractor. Political organisers may bald it as ah. article of faith that a good national cam¬ paign can win an election, bid they hare a vested interest. Constituency associ-

. aborts run local campaigns, and it is hotly contested among psephologists whether.they make_any impact on a local result. Whether national organisa¬ tions are any further bdpmustbe moot

w' •• TT ;• •: -v-~

etween elections, Mrs Thatch¬ er'S communication. with her party in the country retied an her own staffi on private poet¬

ical advisers and think-tanks, and on her dominance of the media through the House of Commons. Perhaps tins was reckless, but she never lost an election. Ten years agofoe Tory party went to the High Court to prove ffbr taxpurpos that it did not exist It succeeded. Sbcn the leadership hot hare the courageof its own lack of conviction?

The party exists locally, where MPs are elected or rejected. It has the leader's private office. .It could develop tbe I9Z2 committee secretariat as a-national'co¬ ordinating committee between eledipjis. as with American parties. The animal party conference could, like the election campaign, bp put out to tender. Why does the Conservative party not practice what ii preaches and privatise itself?.

I think ! know the answer. Conserva¬ tive MP5 like a little “below, stairs" empire of their own,, untrammelled by the rivfl service or modem political science. There they can pfy the masonic rituals of their trade. They can dream of tbe days when intellectual decorum, deference and disciplineruleclat Central Office. They can pretend that the public votes for. prmtiples not personalities, that hustings and speeches and that manifestos matter. Such pretences are tbe .Hippocratic oath of politics. They wfll not lightly be surrendered. Central Office-may be sariy, but it is safe. . ' .

Best Leavitt alone? SIR STEPHEN SPENDER'S old age continues to be turbulent Last year his fury was roused by the writer, Hugh David, who pub¬ lished an unauthorised account of the poet’s life. This week he has gone on the offensive again, accus¬ ing an American novelist -David Leavitt of plagiarising his life as told in his autobiography, the 1948 volume World Within World.

Leavitt’s noveL While England Sleeps, is published in America in October and in Britain in Novem¬ ber. According to Spender, “al¬ most everything Leavitt describes has been taken from my book". In particular. Spender has been an¬ gered by Leavitrs passages abour the Spanish civil war. In World Within World, he wrote of his relationship with a working-class man called Jimmy, who left Spen¬ der in 1936 to fight in Spain. The upper-class narrator in Leavitt'S book begins a liaison with a working-class man called Edward who also, eventually, leaves to fight - in Spain. This, Spender claims, is merely the start

He says: “The whole theme of the book is mine, and there, are about a dozen particular instances I could point to which are from my

book. I feel disgusted. It is outra¬ geous. I feet very angry. He has no sense of history, no sense of what Barcelona was like. And it is also pornographic."

Leavitrs publisher claims Spender is over-reacting. Tony Lacey of Penguin Books says: “Spender was important to Da¬ vid’s understanding of the period And there are some elements that do mirror things that happen in Spender's book. Plagiarism is a very tough word, but if he really believes that I suppose we will be hearing from him.”

The whole tooth IF FOR nothing else, Kenneth Baker's memoirs. The Turbulent Years, wall be remembered for the suggestion that John Major failed to rally to Mrs Thatchers cause at the crucial moment, because he was recovering from a wisdom- tooth operation.

Inevitably, therefore, attention is now focusing on the denial health of another aspirant to No 10, Kenneth Clarke. But at the Garrick Club party for Baker cm Monday night, it was difficult to tell whether the Chancellor had

good news or bad for his prime minister. Lord Wakeham. a man whose denial loyalty can be depen¬ ded upon, was concluding a tale of a recent visit to the dreaded chair, when Clarke mischieviously inter¬ jected: “I never go to dentist’s." Fellow guests, including Michael Portillo and Lord Tebbit, were left to speculate whether his teeth were immaculate or whether the public- sector borrowing requirement might not be the only gaping hole to need filling come November. Watch this cavity.

A family do THIS being the biennial Btoai Brith Jewish Music Festival’s year off. as it were, its supporters are making do with a Rothschild Soi¬ ree. The E65-a-head evening, to be held next month, is well named.

The family theme begins with the venue — Gunnersbury House, a stately home in West London own¬ ed by a branch of the banking fam¬ ily until 1925 — and goes on in the same vein. Edmund de Roth¬ schild. a director of N.M. Roth¬ schild. the bank, and cousin of Lord Rothschild, will host the soi¬ ree, while daughter Charlotte, the soprano, will give a recital of songs written for. dedicated to or composed by members of the fam¬ ily. As for the raffle prizes — two guesses. A magnum of Chateau Lafite Rothschild and a magnum of Mouton Rothschild, each worth about £350. But as for the vintage, the organisers don't know. “We're not sure." says a spokeswoman: “Edmund has already wrapped them up."

• Anyone seeking guidance on a second career would have enjoyed Mondays night’s party for Deceit. the new novel from Clare Fronds, yachtswoman turned millionaire thriller-writer. For among those paying court was the jockey turned millionaire thriller-writer Dick Fronds (no relation). Any chance of Clare returning to her fast love? “/ last sailed 14 years ago. Asking me whether I intend to take up sailing again is like ask¬ ing Dick whether he is going to ride horses again!"

Wok-u-like KENNETH LO, Britain's fore¬ most Chinese chef, has taken time off from his 80th birthday celeb ra¬ tio ns to consider how British , athletes might respond to the cat-, erpillar-powered threat posed by. the record-breaking Chinese.

Lo, who travelled with the Chi¬ nese Olympic team to the 193d Ber¬ lin games as an.interpreter..be^ lieves the perfect diet for an athlete is “a lot of noodles".

A former professional tennis player, Lo is convinced an athletes' performance is dosely linked to. diet “If you eat fish and chips you are not going to run very fasL1 What you need is a good blend of food. I would say you need tppro-

■ dace several dishes. Ry the meat - and vegetables separately. Vegeta¬ bles should be tossedtogether

. ; in flavoured ml 'with garfic. and; ginger. The most important thing is not too much redmeaL.” • •.

Back in business ^ 5 THE rehaffiEfatfbn of President

. Carter continues apace: shedding; a -discreetvtear, at-fbe-White House^OTiTyioiKlay.pfeying a key' role in .attmiptiag:- to- bringing the warring siffes jm Somalia to-

. geffler. anti the' final accolade : an appearance an BBC2V

Newsnight. Jimmy :Carter, ifie ^peaniut-fer^^ trohi Georgia, isf

• - -And hot before time, says Peter Jay, iiowtheBBCs economics e«B-.;

. for; bin for much of :the Carter administration Our, man in Wash¬ ington. “HeiS one erf the great un¬ derrated people in bistory,"~says Jay. “lime and again when foe

. Camp David .talks looked as if they ware on-l.the point of col-. lapse. his" personal energy and

. persuasiveness Induced mem to try again.".::'

His problem; Jay says, was that iiehated politics. THe would never; descend into the political arena to explain his policies. Hp was anti- politics. and that is always aprob- fern if you are a po)itKian.“ _ ;

its own level Anatble Kaletsky

■: on the Chancellor’s public-sector freeze

-1

enneth Clarke seems just to have made his first big mistake. In anrvMmring a CBtHWl limit of

zero far every government department’s pay trill — and then welding onto it a range af.inflewide loopholes — the ChapppITnrlifrs mmfflittHri all the cardi¬ nal errors . ofincomes policies through the'ages^Hehas adopted a provocative and rigid public posture, at a time when political support torhii government is a: roric-bottom. while sympathy for the unfons showssigns of rising, admittedty from a very fow point “He has left his flank exposedto-policy-busting settle¬ ments from groups of workers with popular “special .cases”. Above all. he has taken an aforce more powerful than the Unions, by casually dating the laws Of market econdinks. ’ -

At first sighttbe Chancellor’s conten¬ tion that public sector pay should only rise in ime with productivity sounds like obvious business sense. The Treasury armies;thatpubtfosector organisations with great scppe'fbr -productivity im¬ provements,, such as tire Post Office, transport and rubbish disposal, should be free tcTpaytheir workers more if they become more efficient. Meanwhile, employees in stagnant * departments which adueve^rio productivity growth should have their pay frozen, at least in real terms./

Hie first objection to this policy is the obvious xfifficulty of, defining pro¬ ductivity for many pobKc-sector pro¬ fessions. Should teachers be paid more because their pinnis’ average grades keep rising? Should university lecturers

-have their salaries doubled in' real terms because there are twice as many students in higher education as there were in 1979? SbouMjunidr doctors be expected to work , more 36-hour shifts if they want fe.keep their pay from falling in'real toms? Should more nurses be made redundant from hospi¬ tal wards that are already understaffed? If Mr Clarke answers “no" to such question, he jnnst come up with definitions of inductivity for teachers, nurses, firemen — and even senior mandarins themselves — which the Treasury does accept^-.. .

The Treasury is unlikely to do this, for one simple reason: it is impossible, even -in -prinripfe. to find' a defin¬ ition of productivity that wflL make an “effiderKy-detmniried" pay norm work¬ able in the publkr'sednr, especially in the long. term.' Many public sector activities are, by their nature, labour- intensive services with less scope for the iw«4wini«a>tinfi anrf-tprhnftlftpipal prO-

gres# width ran'.be expected to keep productivity rising rdendessly year after year,.in any wdGkun manufacturing businesses. It every worker's pay were based on his or her own productivity, therefore,. the, parnmgs of manufactur¬ ing workers would rise, steadfly rela¬ tive to fte pay of teachers, doctors, and public officials, as well as other workers in service industries with low productivity growth, such as hairdress¬ ing, chairing companies1 and merchant hanking

Rir blue-collar workers to enjqy continuously increasing pay relative to nursesr teachersand hairdressers might seem manifestly unfair; buf fer the economist, there is a much more impor¬ tant objection — it is manifestly untrue. In reality, manufacturing workers, de¬ spite their high‘productivityrhave not become steadily richer man service employees. Instead, market forces have ennired that; service and public sector workers , share in the benefits of the whole ecanjpy’S.pnxIuctivity growth.

ompeiitiaa in the labour market broadly ensures that people are paid roughly the same rate for

the same job, regardless of. their own enqtbtyerts performance. A cleaner or an accountant should earn about the same, allowing for natHnonettoy factors such as security and pensions, whether he works in a higb-productivity semicon¬ ductor factory: or a labour-intensive hospital. Even mSperialised professions sudvas teaching aikl medicine, competi¬ tion will ensure that in the long run, pay levels are set not by the prosperity of the employers, -but by die demand in the economy as a whole for the type of skills people offer:* .;

Therein lies a major problem for any Chancellor. If*public services have relatively low productivity growth, their cost will tend to-rise steadily relative to national income. Over time, the public sector wfll absorb an reyer-growing proportion of gross' dctaiestic product But the anSWer ‘to this is not to impoverish public-sector workers. It is to lode for new ways of financing public services, as well as promoting efficiency, through privatiration or direct charging. It is also to shift funds to genuine public services, such as health and education, from much cpsttier transfer payments, sudi'as child benefits and pensions. '' All of these objections to puhtic-sector pay freezes mayseeni hopelessly theoret¬ ical and long-term. But by linkingpay so dearly —-andwhmgfy —to productivity, Mr' Clarke has invited the kind of economic objection; that has a way of seating sublirmcaDy into public opin¬ ion. Most people' . in" Britain do not understand what was wrong with the

mentis exchange-rate policy, but . egan to sense it would fail well

before White Wednesday. H' ministers now decide.to take on

such popular groups as firemen, nurses and teachers, they.may well losepopular support. Of course, the- scapegoat may not be Mr Clarke's economic theory, but the, weakness of John Majors govern¬ ment. Perhaps, .after all, the Chancellor doesknowwhatlfoisdoin'g.

\1‘ ,' . • ■

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 151993

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PAYCORNER

The moral of the story is that Mr Clarke should win

■“ to Piglet of A. A. Mines children's stories, then Kenneth Clarke^ his Chancellor, is developing a dangerous resemblance to Tlgger. What tipsets ftglet about Tlgger. it may be recalled, is not only his larger than expected size n thought that Tlggers were smaller man that" he pipes); there is also Ttegers habit of shouting “Worra, worra. worra, worral” and bouncing fer too energetically^ around the forest Yesterday there was ^ty^botfa shouting and bouncing from:

^ Chancellor of the Exchequer first announced his intention not to allow any pay rises in the public sector unless they are paid for by higher productivity. “We have to break the inflation psychology' that in the past has led to expectations of pay increases cyci'y year, unrelated to efficiency improve¬ ment or. tiie ability of the employer to pay?1' hesaid. i Then, in case one initiative was not' enough for the day, he added a speedi cm the: future of Europe for good measure, with passages dearly designed to make better friends with those on the right of the party and to steal the thunder of hisrival, Michael Howard, an crime and immigration. In a phrase that should please the most sceptical of MPs, he claimed that “De Gaulle has been proved right" about the importance of sovereignly; and he rowed back from his earlier enthusiasm for monetary union. . Though the pay policy may turn out to be

less fierce than the Chancellor implies, MPs. on tiie right will be pleased to see him acting as if he is prepared to withstand trade union threats in the cause of economic rectitude.. They know that it is a job he has done well in the past in the departments of both health and education. Moreover, he has taken on allcomers: from hospital consultants to unbulance drivers. Nobody can accuse him of protecting his professional friends while grinding down the working class. •

Mr Clarke has chosen to strike while his opponents are at a low ebb, Although

incomes polities are hard to sustain for more than one year, publiosedor pay rises have already: been kept to a maximum of 15 per

. -cent .this year. That was not a ceiling that .ministers were confident of maintaining — and yet they have done so with ease. Whatever trade union leaders may claim, pubHosector workers are so relieved to be stffi in their jobs — and rightly so — that industrial action for higher pay is unlikely. Andif that analysis is wrong, will the voting

: public ride with tiie unions or the govern- ‘ Jftenf in' another winter, of discontent? ’Although tins administration remains ex-

,-iremely unpopular, private-sector workers have tittle sympathy with their brethren in

. the public sector. Marty companies have imposed pay freezes in the* post two years

-•« and almost all of thear employees have beat Evmgdn fear of redundancy. Equity dictates

- that tiie public sector too should share in this jausterity for more titan one year. ■ - - Whether it succeeds or fells, thepay policy can do Mr Clarke nothing but good. He will not personally have to deal with the unions: -that job will fell to individual spending

, nmtisters. When ministers complain to the Chancellor, he will show little sympathy, pointing to his own unblemished record at winning union battles. If they start to lose tiie public relations battle, it will be the priorc minister himself who win take the flak. Mr Major, who has never held a cabinet post as a spending minister, is .inexperienced in the brinkmanship of pol¬ itical pay negotiations. If he backs down in the face of public pressure, the question will undoubtedly be asked: could Mr Clarke have done tiie job better in his shoes? . The riskof a pay-policy will therefore be taken by the prime minister. If Mr Major, .like Piglet, is feeling a little nervous, it would not be surprising. “Tlgger is getting so

Txnzncy nowadays that it’s time we taught him a lesson," observes Rabbit In The House at Pooh Corner. "If they could think of away

. of unbounang him it would be a Very Good Idea," says Piglet in response.

US takeover of peace ceremony From Lord Menuhin, OM

Sir. It is a mistake of considerable magnitude for the Israelis and the Palestinians to have succumbed to White House temptation. The “cele¬ bration" in Washington of a most kmged-fbr yer stiD very precarious achievement {reports, photographs and leading article, September 14) can only weaken the authority, the stand¬ ing and the following ofYassir Arafat. .Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. ■■ Again, as Simon Jenkins suggests in his admirable article of September U. "Worst efforts of .diplomacy", a most valuable content is being sac¬ rificed for a glossy wrapping. America would better serve the peace by an ex¬ ercise in discretion, if outside wit¬ nesses were needed, the “celebration” should surely have been held in Oslo, not' even in Paris, where the accord was finally hammered out Ideally, it should take place on common ground in a solemn way. part requiem, pan thanksgiving in character.

The log-jam of obstinacy has suf¬ fered its first cradc—we pray decisive — thanks to persistent and coura¬ geous men who dared recognise that they had no alternative but 10 fulfil the win of the majority.

Like Menachem Begin, Arafat is another terrorist turned statesman. May we encourage more such evolu¬ tion rather than encourage good young people to become monsters. Let us never forget that criminals and the law-abiding alike are all made of the same material and are all eventually responsible for each other.

In the Israeli-Palestmi an context both groups of people have proven they are prepared to die for their Holy Land. Now. pray, let them and us aU live for it together.

Yours faithfully, YEHUDI MENUHIN. 110 Gloucester Avenue, NW1. September 14.

I Pennington Street London El 9XN Telephone 071-782 5000

Labour’s role outside Parliament From DrJ. .M. Lewis

Sir, According to Mr David Kemp. QC (letter. September 11). the introduc¬ tion of “one member, one vote” means that “the union block vote will no longer be available to alter the Labour party conference's derision". Yet he overlooks a crucial point: constituency activists at Labour conferences are traditionally well to the left of many trade union “barons" — so that enhancing their power will un¬ dermine, not sustain, the moderate cause.

As Richard Crossman observed, 20 years ago. Labour required activists to organise the constituencies but since these militants tended to be “ex¬ tremists”. a constitution was needed which maintained their enthusiasm by apparently creating a full part}' democracy while ex¬ cluding them from effective power. Hence the concession in principle of sovereign powers to the delegates at the Annual Conference and the removal in practice of most of this sovereignty through the trade union Mock vote (Introduction to Bagehofs The English Constitution. 1963).

This ceased to apply when many un¬ ions shifted radically to the left, but the situation was restored when com¬ pulsory postal bailors made union leaders more representative of their own moderate members. In the con¬ stituency parties, by corurast, a major survey of5,065 members as recently as 1990 showed that 71 per cent still favoured more nationalisation, and that 72 per cent still wanted “nothing to do with nuclear weapons”.

No fewer than 66 per cent viewed “the dass struggle between labour and capital" as the “central question of British politics". Seventy-three per cent thought that workers' “should be prepared to strike in support of other workers, even if they don't work in the same place".

Finally, when asked to position themselves on a left-right spectrum in comparison wife other Labour party members, only 22 per cent considered

themselves to be on the right of the party, whilst 58 per cent considered themselves on its left — including 17 per cent on the hard left.

If Labour is to avoid jumping out of the union frying-pan into the ronstit- uency activist fire, it needs to acknowl¬ edge once and for all that the role of the party outside Parliament is to help, to support, to advise and to warn — but noi to coniTol the policy of the party inside Parliament.

As long as the myth of conference “sovereignty" is allowed to dominate its thinking, the Labour party will remain in a state of constitutional crisis.

Yours sincerely. JULIAN LEWIS (Deputy Director). Conservative Research Department. 32 Smith Square, Westminster, SW1. September 11.

Stable footing? From Mr Peter Hardy

Sir. Suppose the chairman of a public company with negative net assets of £17 million reported a further loss equal to nearly 20 per cent of turnover. Even after cutting the staff by 40 per cent he could promise only breakeven for the forthcoming year. Would the shareholders accept this position?

Sir Norman Fowler (letter. Septem¬ ber 13) apparently thinks he should be congratulated for “putting the party’s finances on a more stable footing". Members of the party might well dis¬ agree. Unfortunately they are given absolutely no say in the matter.

Yours etc, PETER HARDY (Chairman. Party Accounts Scrutiny Committee, The Charter Movement). 2 Devon Cottages. West Common. Gerrards Cross. Buckinghamshire. September 13.

NO GAME

Peking must not hold the jmHenmum Olympics

The release of the Chinese politicalprisoner ism enshrined in the political charter. To Wei Jingsheng yesterday after 14 years of .aBowGhina to hold the Olympics would be miserable captivity was a token humanitar- to confer an undeserved patina of res- ian gesture, apptoienltyintentfed toperriiade .pectebility upon its crumbling gerontocracy, the International Olympic Committee ffOQ 1;. ?A more open China awaits you,” prom- that Peking should hold the Olympics in .fees the Peking bid’s official slogan. Yet this 2000. It should ipsPfre^a mixture of Tehef beam little relation to the autocratic, realityof and scepticism- Mr -: Wei, a wefi-known Chinese political culture. At the end of the democrat activist who was. imprisbneiLfer —capitalist Toad" taken by Mao’s successors spreading “counler-revohhioriaiy prupa- there arostill2,000labour camps holdingan ganda”, had already served all' bin six estimated 16 million prisoners: the horrors months of his 15-year sentence, much of it in.7 of the Chinese gulag or Laogai have been solitary confinement. His release, at. the ^recently and vividly chronicled by Harry eleventh hour does nothing to strengthen Wu, a political prisoner for 19 years. Rsur Felting's Olympic ambitions. \ years after tiie Tiananmen Square massa-

In the next few days, hundreds of officials, ere; judicial execution and arbitrary arrest politicians and organisers of city bids will remain commonplace. At the United Nation descend upon Monte Carlo for the final IOC' - human rights conference m June, the Chin- vote next Thursday. The committee must ese delegation did its best to sabotage the choose from a strong field of candidates led assembly’s reaffirmation of universal hu- by Sydney, Peking and Manchester- All . manrigfats. three campaigns have made impressive Increased contact with the outside world cases for their rides, promising superb, may indeed hasten democratfeation in infrastructure, ideal weather and meticulous' China, .where the antiquated structures of organisation. The Times has backed Man- the totalitarian state are creaking under tiie Chester's bid, which has been rigorously co- pressures of a market economy. The growth ordinated by the entrepeneur Bob Scott and of commercial and tourist relations with the well supported by John Major. The chances West will slowly enhance' the prospects of rtf Mancunian success—which would bring change. But to award the Games to China much-needed investment to the North-West would have a quite different effect, handing — are thought to be stronger than ever. over legitimacy in return for little more than :• Biit even if Manchester foils, it is essential window-dressing in the streets of Peking, that Peking does not succeed. The IOC’s The time will one day enmefor China to hold duty is not simply to ensure that the rail- the world’s greatest sporting event But a lesmiura Games are financially viable, state that so openly parades its contempt for smoothly organised and drug-free; it must international codes of decency does not yet alsra protect the spirit of international ideal- • deserve the trust of the Olympic torch.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

The birthday of Jesus is a date for mysteiy.not precision

to the latest astronomical cakula- f fe the bimillennium of the birth jhrist. This catches high street 3 other money-changers in the emples of Christmas flat-footed time in centuries. ' .

sr 15.7 BC, suits the stars for the changed the world, and about lars have been arguing for nearly . The evidence is scanty, because few recognised the importance of a carpenters son in the stole ot a small town of an obscure

: the Roman empire. The early did not bother to celebrate the f their master, because they is imminent return. Ctotyj™- ies did the official church at t December 25. so replacing foe

■ai of the Dies Invicfi Solis at the ice and symbolising the victory

^^uedtocdebrateChnst, Siuarv 6. Epiphany, as the

i *e moon and the sun, and the

-en creaiea , ^debate has been divided Ao think that it must be

research » rediscover

the real date of Christmas and those who : consider that the search for an exact date misses tiie point The latest scientific calculation follows in the laborious foot¬ prints of James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, who in 1654 established tiie date of

; Creation as 4004 BC by totting up the ages of the patriarchs. ■ ■ Rum the gospels and other sources; the historical window of possibility for the birth of Christ lies between 8 BC and the deafb of Herod the Great in 4 BC. 7 BC was a rare astronomical year of a triple con traction between Jupiter and Saturn, literal astron-

■ omers now identity tiie star that Matthew records thewise men Mowing from the east as tiie second spectacular conjunction of tfiese planets on September 15....

The symbolists have rangedfrom many of the earty fathers, who deplored Christmas as tiie cQpy of a pagan festival to modem puritans. As recently as 1935, the Northern Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland passed the judgment “We would warn the young against giving countenance

. to such a Romanist practice as that of observing Christmas."

No knowledge is useless. But the search for the (fete of Christinas mistakes a miracle

■ for a statistic. What matters is the birth and the consequences that have flowed from it And practical men, not least high street traders, will prefer to stick to the old winter solstice as a suitable time to celebrate, on a date that has more to do with Dickens and December gloom than strict chronology.

Visa factories From Mr Ian Stewart

Sir. The role of die bogus language schools as “visa factories" (report September 13) threatens Britain's reputation for providing quality Eng¬ lish-language courses and value for money. Die industry faces increased competition from a number of coun¬ tries in a business worth some £500 million per annum to the UK

The British Council provides qual¬ ity control to those schools and coll¬ eges which seek membership of its accreditation schemes but this is on a •voluntary basis.

A compulsory registration scheme is one step towards eliminating those “schools" which bring the industry into disrepute but we believe that such a scheme can be effective only if it has regulatory teeth.

Yours etc, IAN STEWART (Assistant Director). English Language Division. The British Council. Medlock Street, Manchester IS September 13.

US anglophobes From Mrs Debra Comer

Sir. Kate Muir (article. August 25; let- . ters, September IQ) should know that in Britain it has been open season on Americans for years, with Yank- bashing a hugely popular sport for both public and press.

As an American permanently res¬ ident in the UK (with my British hus¬ band and son), I can certainly attest to this. After seven years it still amazes me that while ft is rightly considered a bad thing to insult ethnic minorities, the vilest comments are accepted, or even applauded, as long as an American is the target - New that the worm has. it scans, turned in the US and the British are no longer being fawned over. Ms Muir calls ft “gratuitous viciousness". J call ft a taste of your own medicine. Don’t dish it out if you can’t take ft.

Yours truly, DEBRA COMER. 13 Hep Gardens, Henleym-Tbames, Oxfordshire.

. September 10.

Alzheimer’s research From Dr Gemma M. M. Jones

Sir, hi his article of September 7, “Feeling better far asmoke”, Dr James Le Fanu refers to some of my research about nicotine and Alzheimer's dis¬ ease (AD). Your readers may have been left with some misconceptions.

Research about tobacco, which con¬ tains many physiologically active sub¬ stances, is different from research using purified nicotine. In my re- search; purified nicotine was injected in low doses, just under the skin in the upper aim, ar» time only, for each

is true that nicotine significantly “artentkml and informa¬

processing" abilities of AD pa¬ ts. but it would be wrong to sug- thai their improvements made

nperform at nearly “normal” lev- Tnis is because AD patients per- led simpler versions of the tasks i normal control subjects did. ae tasks were calibrated in diffi- y to enable a direct comparison teen panart and control groups of jame cognitive ability on die same . The “attention and information

Rabbit poachers From Mr Brian Alderson

Sir, Francis Greene is well justified (letter, September 8) in bewailing the treatment of Peter Rabbit by Ladybird Books (an associate company of the publishers of the ainhentic edition). He might like to consider, though, the misfortune of the put-upon bunny on the other side of the Atlantic

By an unfortunate oversight Fred¬ erick Wame forgot to copyright the book in the United States market when ft was first published, and thus, from 1902 onwards, it has enjoyed no protection over there.

Publishers immediately began to bring out their own editions —the first from the Altemus Company in 1904. Ever since then the book has been marketed in dozens, if not hundreds.

of different formats with many vari¬ ations of text and illustration.

A summary of these depredations was published earlier this year by Selwyn Goodacre as a contribution to Judy Taylor s anthology. So I Shall Tell You a Story, published by Wame. That book also reprints a classic piece by Rumer Godden. dating from 1963. in which she invents a correspondence between an affronted Beatrix Potter and the editor of the DeBase Publish¬ ing Co. Mr V. Andal.

The progeny of this gentleman are already girding themselves for the “raring and devastating" jobs that will begin on January 1 next year.

Yours faithfully. BRIAN ALDERSON. 28 Victoria Road. Richmond, North Yorkshire. September 8.

Selling Victorian art From Mr Christopher Wood

Sir. Mr David Gould’s rather petulant letter (September 9) calls for an answer. His disparaging remarks about Rossetti and Burne-Jones are especially curious coming from one who used to be a well known collector of Victorian art More than this. Mr Gould was an expert consultant to Sotheby’s Belgravia when they first opened in the autumn of 1971. One can only wonder what has caused him to turn against the artists that he once admired and collected.

It is Mr Gould’s views that are now

“quaint” and “quite erroneous", rem¬ inding one of attacks on Victorian art by the Bloomsbury critics of the 1920s and 1930s.

Mr Gould also over-estimates the importance of auction “hype”. The fact that Rossetti and Burne-Jones are now recognised as two of England's great¬ est artists is the result of 30 years of the combined efforts of art historians, museum directors, auctioneers, deal¬ ers. collectors, and Mr GouJd himself.

Yours sincerely, CHRISTOPHER WOOD (Director). Christopher Wood Gallery. 141 New Bond Street, Wl.

Clash of channels From Mrs Annie Roeber

Sir. So Nicholas Kenyon. Controller Radio 3. has decided to continue his tilt at the windmill of Classic FM*s younger audience (report, September 10). Locking these two stations in competition decreases listener choice and. true to the BBC’s current ageist policies, bypasses the burgeoning per¬ centage of older people, from which Radio 3 has traditionally drawn much of its following.

Yours faithfully. ANNrE ROEBER. 71a Oxford Gardens. WJ0.

Rex recalled From Mr D. H. Brett

Sir. I was nonplussed by the reported statement by Carey Harrison, son of the late Rex Harrison V Difficult lessons in German", Arts. September 2), that his father “despite the fan he married a German, was still passion¬ ately anti-German".

Carey’s father’s sentiments are understandable, considering he mar¬ ried Lilli Palmer, a German Jewish refugee.

Yours faithfully, D. H. BRETT. 2 Crooked Usage. Finchley, N3.

processing” abilities of AD patients improved significantly, at the “simple" level at which they were performing the task, when nicotine was ad¬ ministered.

Secondly, the implication that smoking might be good for AD pat¬ ients is unwarranted from purely a safely perspective: AD patients should not smoke unless strictly supervised because of the very real foe risks.

The use of purified nicotine as a the¬ rapeutic agent warrants careful, ex¬ tensive investigation and, as with the testing of any experimental drug with patients, there is the danger that hopes will be raised beyond realistic expecta¬ tions.

The additional difficulty in working with nicotine is that it is automatically, though often imprecisely, associated with tobacco use. which is justifiably a very emotional subject.

Your? etc. GEMMA M. M. JONES. Institute of Psychiatry. Department of Psychology.

.Section of Old Age Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park. Denmark HAL SE5. September 10.

From M r Harry Cayton

Sir. If there is a lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease amongst smok¬ ers, and this is unproven, it is probably because they are dead of hean disease, stroke, or lung cancer before they have lived long enough to develop dementia.

Research into the effect of pure niootine on the brain should nor be misinterpreted to advocate smoking. We know much about the terrible con¬ sequences of dementias in this society and have every reason to want to av¬ oid them: but 1 assure you this is. and will remain, a non-smoking office.

Yours faithfully. HARRY CAYTON (Executive Director), Alzheimer’s Disease Society. Gordon House, 10 Green coat Place. SW1. Sepiember 7.

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Letters should carry a daytime telephone number. They may be

faxed to 071-782 5046-

Best to disperse Roman treasure? From Professor Emeritus T. E. Allibone

Sir. The wonderful Hoxne Treasure, found last November on the Norfolk- SuffoJk border near Diss, was exhib¬ ited and described in a splendid lecture ai the British Museum on September 7. Initial cleaning and cataloguing has been done and the Roman hoard has been declared treasure trove (report and photo¬ graph. Sepiember 4: leading article. September M). but the final dis¬ position has yet to be decided.

We were told that the BM hopes to acquire the whole of the find so that it can be mounted suitably: only exam¬ ples were on display at the lecture and research will occupy specialists for years.

The cost of acquisition might well exceed the BM’s resources and 1 would like to recommend that other British museums be offered a chance to buy selections from the hoard.

There are. for example, hundreds of gold and thousands of silver coins, a small number of items of jewellery, table vessels, bow Is. etc, and if the BM were to keep the whole collection some items might have io be stored, avail¬ able for research and inspection but not exhibited.

As a former Trustee of the BM, 1 recall seeing enormous hoards of items of antiquity in store, items comparable with those on exhibit, and surely few visitors wall want to see thousands of coins, no matter how ele¬

gantly displayed. It would be far better for them to be

seen by young and old in our many city museums. Private donors might willingly help those museums to pur¬ chase and display selections from the haul.

1 hope the trustees will allow a well judged dispersal of some of the items and thus reduce their own financial problem.

Yours faithfullv. T. E. ALU BONE (Chairman. Research Committee. Trustees of the British Museum. 1969-74). York Cottage, Level Road, Winkfield. Windsor, Berkshire. September 14.

Chef in Crimea From Mrs Elizabeth Ray

Sir, I do hope that at the ceremony at Sevastopol commemorating the great battle of 1854 (report and leading article. August 18: letters, August 28) the name of Alexis Soyer was not for¬ gotten. He was the former chef of the Reform Club who went (at his own ex¬ pense) to the Crimea, to do for the food of the army what Florence Night¬ ingale was doing for the sick.

He revolutionised the whole cater¬ ing system of the army and hospitals, and the field stove that he invented was so successful that it was still in use during the second world war.

His health suffered badly while he was there, but he survived long enough to complete the reorganisa¬ tion of the kitchens at Wellington barracks.

He deserves to be remembered.

Yours etc, ELIZABETH RAY, 66 Regency Square. Brighton. East Sussex. Sepiember 8.

Professional pride From MrsK. D. Smith

Sir. 1 cannot be the only teacher who is fed up with the term "teacher train¬ ing” (leading article, August 27: letter, September 4). I had believed it long defunct by the time I qualified at a college of education 22 years ago.

Horses and dogs can be trained, as can doubtless many people for certain jobs or Junctions. How often, how¬ ever. does anyone speak of a trained lawyer, doctor or dentist? We are their fellow professionals.

Yours faithfully. JESSICA SMITH. I Theresa Avenue. Bishopston, Bristol.

Classical contraflow From Mr Richard Beetham

Sir, Bernard Levin incorrectly quotes (September 7) the New Shorter Oxford definition of boustrophedon as "writ¬ ten from right to left and to left from right in alternate lines".

It actually reads, as it should, “from right to left and from left to right in alternate lines".

Yours faithfully, RICHARD BEETHAM. 108 West End Avenue, Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Sepiember 7.

Uneasy street From Mr Michael Sydney

Sir. On Friday. September 10, West¬ minster City Council resurfaced Little St James’s Street

Yesterday, Monday, Sepiember 13. British Gas dug several large holes in it.

Is this a record?

I remain, your obedient servan t MICHAEL SYDNEY (Director), James Lock & Co Ltd (hatters), 6 St James’s Street. SW1. September 14.

COURT CIRCULAR BALMORAL CASTLE September 14: The Duke of Edin¬ burgh this morning attended cere¬ monies at Newark Church. Nottinghamshire, and at RAF Waddington. Lincolnshire, to mark the Repatriation of the remains of Genend Sikorski to Poland.

His Royal Highness was received at Newark Church by Her Majesty's Lord rjfim-imnr for Nottinghamshire (Sir Andrew Buchanan. Bl) and at RAF Waddington try Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant for Lincolnshire (Captain Sir Henry Nevfle).

Captain Giles InglisJones was in attendance.

The Queen and The Duke rf Edinburgh were represented by the Earl of Carnarvon at the Funeral of the Earl of Westmorland (Permanent Lord in Waiting and farrmrly Master of the Horse) which was held at Sr Michael and AD Angels' Church. Badminton, this afiemooa- BUOJNGHAM PALACE September 14: The Princess Royal. President. British Olympic Associ¬ ation. today attended the National Olympic Committee Meeting and the Annual General Meeting. Cafe Royal 66 Recent Street. London Wl.

Her Royal Highness. President. Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief, this evening attended a Dinner in support of die Lord Mayor's Charities, Mansion House. London EC4.

The Countess of Lichfield was in attendance. CLARENCE HOUSE September 14: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mather was represented by

tt* Duke of Brauforr at the Funeral of the Earl of Westmorland which took place at the Church of St Mfchad and AD Angels. Badminton, this UnETDOOfL

ST JAMES'S PALACE. September 14: The Prince of Wales attended the Funeral of the Earl of Westmorland which was hdd ar St Michael and AD Angels* Church, Badminton, this afternoon. KENSINGTON PALACE September M: The Duke of Glouces¬ ter, President, British Consultants

Air force Northoh to accompany the Mission to Ukraine.

Malor Nicholas Bame is in

The Dudiess of Gloucester. Patron, Netting Hill Housing Trust, this rooming opened Norland North Phase Three, St Ann's Road, London W1L

Mrs Howard Page was in attendance. YORK HOUSE ST JAMES'S PALACE September 14: The Duke of Kent this morning visited Whatman pics Springfield MiD. Fandling Road. Maidstone, and was met on arrival by The Right Honourable The Lord Cornwallis (Deputy Lieutenant of Kent).

His Royal Highness this afternoon visited the Kent Association for the Blind Rehabilitation and Training Cam, College Road, Maidstone, Kent.

Captain Alex Tedey, Scots Guards was in attendance.

Birthdays today Anniversaries Prince Henry of Wales is nine today. The Rev Professor P.R. Ackroytl, theologian. 76; Mr Richard Amefl, composer and conductor, 76: Mr Charles Bone, moral and watercolour painter, 67; the Mar¬ quess of Bristol 39; General Eva Burrows, former international leader. Salvation Army. 64; Dame Sylvia Crowe, landscape architect. 92; Lord Eden of Whuon. 68: Professor Brian Fender, vice-chan¬ cellor. Keele University, 59; Gen¬ eral Sir Victor FhzGeorge-Balfour, SO: Dr Richard Gordon, author. 72 Sir Philip Harris, farmer chairman. Harris Queensway. 51: Lord Kinnaird, 81; Miss Jessye Norman, soprano, 48; Viscount Norwich, 64; Mr Glen Renfrew, former chief executive, Reuters, 65: Sir Clive Rose, diplomat 72 Mr Justice Schiemann, 56; Lady Soames. 71; Sir Peter Studd. for¬ ms' Lord Mayor of London, 77: Mr Graham Taylor, manager. England Football team. 49; Sir Richard Way, former principal. King's College, London. 79: Sir John Williams, diplomat 71.

Memorial service John G. Murray A service of thanksgiving for the life of Jock Murray will be hdd in St James's Church, Piccadilly on Tuesday. October 26 at lL30am. All are welcome.

BIRTHS: Pierre Fournier, en¬ graver and type founder. Paris. 1712 James Femrnore Cooper, novelist Burlington, New Jersey, 1789; Hemy Sweet philologist London, 1845; Dame Agatha Chris¬ tie, crime novelist Torquay, 1891- DEATHS: Sir Thomas Overbuy, writer, poisoned in the Toner of London. 1613; Isambard Kingdom Brand, civil engineer, London. 1859; John Speke, explorer. Neston Park, Bath. 1864; Wiliam Seward Burroughs, pioneer of adding ma¬ chines. Cimronella. Alabama, 1896; Thomas Wolfe, novelist Bal¬ timore, Maryland. 1938; WiQy Messerschiratt, aircraft designer, Munich. 1978. Today is Battle of Britain Day.

Women of the Year Luncheon Princess Margaret will attend the Women of the Year Luncheon, in aid of the Greater London Fund for the Blind, at the Savoy Hold or Monday, October 25. The international guest of honour will be Mile Jeanne Moreau.

The Marchioness of Lothian, founder president wQl preside The vice-presidents are the Countess of Aiiiie, Lady Healey. Mrs Charlotte Baden-PoweiL Miss Virginia Wade and Miss Val Anrison. Mbs Paddy Campbell is otecutive chairman of the luncheon and the vfoe-chairaxn are the Hon Diana Makgfll and Miss Ftodla Benjamin.

School news Friern Barnet Grammar School The Autumn Term at Mem Barnet Grammar School began yesterday. Mrs Jacqueline Dowler, Mr John Evans and Mr Ronald Taylor join the academic staff. Hiren Paid of Scott House con¬ tinues as Senior Prefect Open Days are on September 29 and October 9. The Poetry-Speaking Competition is on October 13. The Annual Prize Giving win be held in the Church of St John the Evan¬ gelist on October 21. Term ends on December 17.

PDckEngtan School Paddington School East York¬ shire began the Michaelmas Term on Wednesday, Septembers. Head of School is James Watson. Im¬ portant dates for the diary: Commemoration Day. Saturday, October 23; Open Day, Saturday, November 6c OM ftxllingtonians, London Meeting, Friday, Novem¬ ber 12 OP Da? at School Sat¬ urday. December 11; Term ends, Friday, December 17.

bomb in April 1992. St Andrew's has been restored at a cost of?6Q0^S wiu^fa^&ed replacing glass could not be recovered but skilled craftsmen matched modem glass to the old- Regular lunchtime services resumed yesterday

Brilliant colours sprinkle the RHS autumn show

By Alan Toogood, horticulture correspondent

The chaplain’s old boat sets off round the world

By Libby Pukves

DAHLIAS, chrysanthemums, roses and even sweet peas are providing much of the colour at die Royal Horticultural Society’s great autumn show. It is sUghtly early for autumn foliage colour, but there is a sprinkling throughout the show, which opened in West¬ minster yesterday.

The centrepiece in one of the halls is a giant exhibit of dahlias from Ayiett Nurseries, of St Albans, Hertfordshire: 85 cultivars grouped according to colour and ranging from toy pompons to giant decoratives. New introductions, like the apricot-coloured waterlily dahlia ‘Apricot Jewel’, rub shoulders with old favourites. The exhibit won a gold medaL

Among the chrysanthemum exhibits is a display of Korean and spray types from Home Meadows Nursery, of Wood- bridge. Suffolk.

Notcutts Nurseries, also of Woodbridge, Suffolk, have a large gold-medal display of trees and shrubs including berrying kinds like sorbus, crab apples and roses. The collection of ornamental fruits, ernes and berries staged by The Sir Harold Hfllier Gar¬ dens and Arboretum, of AmpfiekL Hampshire, ranges from the blue cones of Abies fabri to the polished crimson hips of Rosa nutkana.

Autumn foliage colour can be seen on several stands including Mallet Court Nurs¬ ery, of Taunton, Somerset, who are featuring the oaks Quercus rubra and Q. imbricaria, and maples. Pro¬

viding brilliant leaf colour are the shrubs Spiraea betulifoUa and Euonymus europaeus ‘Atrombens’ in the display from ELF Plants, of Kings- thorpe, Northamptonshire. Chris Bowers,, of Wimbot- sham, Norfolk, has staged a collection of trees and shrubs, many with autumn leaf tints, like Zelkova serrata and the fern-leaved beech, Fagus asplenifolia. Starborough Nursery, of Edenbridge, Kent, has a similar esdhbiL

Late-flowering perennials are also providing much of the colour at tnis show. Kniphofias (red-hot pokers), from “hot" K. uvaria ‘Nobilis* to tire “cool" green and cream ‘Ice Queen’ are bring featured by Rougham Hall Nurseries, of Bury St Edmunds. Suffolk. Hopleys Plants, of Much Hadham. Hertfordshire, are stowing hardy and tender perennials including a collec¬ tion of Salvia patens cultivars with flowers in shades of blue, purple and white.

Among the tender peren¬ nials from Brian Hfley, of Wallington, Surrey, who was awarded a grid medal is a

,oew impatiens — Impatiens pseudoviola, a compact bushy plant covered in small white spurred flower.

Autumn-flowering gentians from Edrom Nurseries, of Coldingham, Berwickshire, are creating a blue pod among the more vibrant col¬ ours of autumn. Two new ones are attracting interest: Gen- tiana multiflora whose stems carry many brilliant due

flowers, and die pale due G. ‘Strathmore', both easfly grown in time-free soil.

The ornamental grasses of Hoecroft Hants, of Dereham, Norfolk, are in autumn attire and many are flowering.

Many exhibitors are show¬ ing autumn-flowering bulbs. There axe miniature hardy cyclamen like C. hederifolium and C graecum from die Cyclamen Society,- of Ewell. Surrey, which was awarded a grid medal cotehicums from Jacques Amand of Stanmore, London; and small-flowered nanus gladioli from -Rupert Bowlby, of Gatton, Surrey-

Bulb specialist Broadlrigh Gardens, of Bishop’s Hull Somerset, is featuring cro- cosmias. Avon Bulbs, orSouth Hetfcerton. Somerset, have staged collections of eucomis

Prints and vegetables are adding to die bounty of this autumn stow. The gold-med¬ al display of vegetables from W. Robinson and Sons, of Fortrm, Lancashire, is colour¬ ful. A new climbing -French bean, "Kingston Gdd’, with yellow pods, is eye-catching. .

Other gold-medal winners are S and N Brackley, of Wingrave, Buckinghamshire

SevenraS^Kent (dried flow- ers); and Tropical Rain Forest of Leeds, West Yorkshire (bromriiads).

The stow, in the Horticul¬ tural Halls. Vincent Square and Greycoat Street West¬ minster, is open today from 10am to 5pm.

A RETIRED Church of’Eng¬ land clergyman and a group of disadvantaged boys will set safl today from Falmouth on a voyage which makes Chay Blyth’s British Steel Challenge seem almost pampered in comparison.

The Rev Bob Shepton, new¬ ly retired chaplain of Kingham Hxfl School. Oxford¬ shire, (which caters for boys with special needs) is leading die first ever school party to sail round the world, round¬ ing Cape Horn "the wrong way” from East to West Instead of Blyth’s custom-built 67ft steel raring yachts, he is doing it in his family boat: an ekterty 33ft GRP Westerly called Dodo's Delight His crews win consist, of four ex- pupils at a'time, with crew granges at such places as die Falkland Islam!* and Tahiti

The ypyage is financed by Enterprise Saji fog, a charita¬ ble trust, and is supported by distinguished yachtsmen such as Robin Knox Johnston and lieutenant Colonel Ewan Southby-Taflyour. “Any voy¬ age of mis kind involves same danger" says Mr Shepton, but Dodo’s Delight and various

Today’s royal engagements The Princess Renal as Eresfomt of The Riding for toe Disabled Associ¬ ation. win BttBid WHbughfo RDA Group 2Jst birthday edroranons at Manor Ann, wfSoaghhr. near Alford, ar 10 JO; will visa the Viking gas Knninal at Thcddfetoorpe, Lincolnshire, at 1135; and will open North Somerootes School Warren

schoolboy crews have previ¬ ously covered 32.000 moles, making four- Atlantic crossings and a voyage to Greenland: and Iceland. -

Geoff Bade, editor of Yacht¬ ing Monthly, describes Mr Shepton as “a very qjjtfeMow- key Chap. The joke is that with his plastic boat and problem kids, he’s got farther titan a lot of seasoned voyagers. The boat might look luce some¬ thing you’d see in any week¬ end marina on the South coast barttte new seam in her mainsail was repair ed fay an bruit ex-sea-captain with die only Singer sewing machine in Greenland”.

Mrs Heather Watson of the . Royal. Cruising Club, a . yachtswoman who has. caadr ' paigned to raise £47,000 for ‘ the cost of the voyage, has no. doubts about the seamanship of Mr Shepton and his crew but insisted on teadringltem: fo cook. “There was tot one , proper vegetable knife on that1 boat," she said yesterday. “TheyH hove to team' to eat properly. A 22-manth expedi¬ tion is a rfiflfoHfit mfor fnfon an eight-week summer cruise". ■

Road. Nor* Samercotes, to 1230. She will visit H31 House nursing home and equestrian centre; Sand Lane, Osgodly, Market Rueo. ar ZJ5s wiD open Efcue 2 dewfopment Lincoln Goody Hospital at:3J5; aadi as Pkiron of the XXXth coign* of EDTA/European Renal Anodtofon.

. and theXXIInd annual conference«f (he EDTNA/European Renal Care Association. wiD attend the opening of the Glasgow Scottish Exfafefdon and ConfacHce Goitre at530. • ■ .*

Forthcoming "marriages Mr JX BBfh-Snrifli and Miss C-L. Temperton The entousnient is announced between David, son ofMrand Mrs a Kigh-Smiih, of borough. Cambridgeshire, hhu Carofirte Louise; daughter of Mr and Mrs HD. Ttaxpenon. of Edgmond. Shropshire. Mr R. Colbey «ndM3wEi.Prfesfey The engagement is announced btoweenktthairi, son of Mr Philip Copity, of Newastle and Mrs Dfqfcne Colbey. of Watford, Hertfordshire, and Emma, daugh¬ ter of Professor and Mrs Detelc Prinriey, erf Melbourne, Australia. MrAJXCourt and Miss S.K. Knight The engagement is announced between Aistair, elder son of Mr and .Mrs Christopher Court, of Leigh. Tonbridge, Kent, and Siwaif, '^nnphtw of Mr and Mrs Patrick Knight, of Wooden. Me of Wight. Mr AM. Dawson and Miss CM. Madver The. tTgageznent is announced between Alexander Murray, son of Mr Alexander Michael Dawson and the kte Mrs Henrietta Daw- KiV of Barnstaple. North Devon, and. Christina Mary, second daughter of Mr Donald Madver and the late Mrs Cristina Madver, cf Arad, Me of Lewis. Mr T.WIG, Murphy xmf Miss CS.E. Medd Theeigaganent is announced between Tm, son of Mr and Mrs Brian Murphy, of Charlbury, Cttfordsfaire. and Kate, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Mead, . of Corhampton, Hampshire. Mr A3>. Pease aad Mias USA Rtgb The engagement is atmounoed between David, youngest son of Mr. DA. rad the Hon Mrs Pease,

, of ArinU Somerset, and LudDa; dan^dB-rftfaelateMrT.H. Regis and of Mrs TJL Regis, of WhwrttiiwwpKfHMf, Nwrirwrishtre.

Mr A. Scymeor ■ad Mbs AJC. Spurrier The ij anraxmeed between Adrian Sean (Addle), twin son of ESke Waltz and Lynn Seyntoar.of London, and Angdina Karen, dau^jtcr of Timothy and Margaret Spurrier, of Brooke,

Mr CJ.L Thompson and Ml* JJP. Many The’ engagement is announced between Christopher, son of Mrs Anihea Thompson and the late Mr Jack H. Thanpson. of Chetnole, Dorset, and Jacqueline, daughter of Mr and Mn Lawrence Morey, of Paignton. Devon. Mr JA. Lasher and ftfinHJh Baad The engagement is announced between James, son of. tbe late Major Ariand Usriv'and of Mrs Ariand-Ihstter, of Windsor, Berk¬ shire, and Henrietta, youngest dau^MgflflieuteoanrCotogfSir SSmon. aud Lady Bland, of EdnbddteKmL

Lord Afesnder RufotJmcs and Mi*‘M.JBadt .. The marriage took place on Sat¬ urday. Sqjwnbo: 4, between Lord Alexander Ruftjs-&aacs and Mi* Mariorfe Barit,' at- St Beter* Onmh. CornwdL The Key Gtyn Evans officiated.

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Obituaries

Diana Pym, political organiser and pMMIene, died on

September 9 aged 84. She was born at Stoke D’Abernoo, Surrey,

on October 18,1908.

DIANA PYM

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DIANA GOUGH — as she was bom — was the descendant of attacking wamors. Her own life, however, was dedicated to mitigating the effects of warfare and injustice — in particular the rending effects of the Greek civil war (1946-49). which resulted in the imprisonment and in many na<a»s the torture of thousands of anti-fascist Greek patriots.

She was orphaned at the age of six when her father. Brigadier-Genera] J. E. Gough, VC, then serving as Douglas Haig's Chief of Staff. was fatally wounded while on a visit in Februaiy 1915 to his old regiment, the Rifle Brigade, at Fauquissan, northern France. He received the lin^ra! honour of a posthumous KCB.

Both Diana Gough's grandfathers were generals in the Indian Army, one. Sir Charles Gough, being awarded the VC for four separate acts of gallantry during the Indian Mutiny of 1S57-58. (Sir Charles's brother Hugh also won the VG)

Her paternal unde General Sir Hubert Gpugh commanded the Fifth Army during the decisive spring of 1918: her maternal uncle. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, was the hero of the Zeebrugge Raid on St George’s Day. 1918; and her cousin, Lieutenant- Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, VC. died leading the commando assault on Rommel's headquarters in the Libyan Desert in 1941.

After taking her degree in history at Newnham College. Cambridge, in 1930. Diana Gough married the future architect John Pym. She was later elected a Labour borough caundUor for Sr Pancras, north London, where she played an active part in housing policy and social welfare. Barbara Castle and Krishna Menon, India's future defence minister, were fellow- coundllors. s

In 1940 she joined the Communist - Party of Great Britain, to whose aims she remained faithful throughout her life. During the war she served as an ARP officer in London (motorcycling through the blackout gave her consid¬ erable pleasure).

(n 1945. through .her contacts with the Greek Cypriot community in London, she became secretary of ffie Greek Maritime Unions. The agency issued the first eyewitness accounts of

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Diana Pym during a peace march in Greece in 1966

the prison camps in Eritrea and Sudan, where members of the Greek National Liberation Army (ELAS), taken in Athens while fighting the British in December 1944, were incar¬ cerated. In October 1945 she was appointed honorary secretary of the newly-formed pressure group, the League for Democracy in Greece, under the presidency of Sir Compton Mackenzie and the chairmanship of D: N. Pritt, QG MP. and for the next 26 years she was the league's unifying force.

The history of the LDG has been summarised in a paper for the Journal of the Hellenic -Diaspora (summer, 1984). with characteristic modesty, by Diana Pym and the former Marion Pascoe, joint secretory of the League, until her marriage in 1952 to General Sarafis, ELAS’S one-time Commander- in-chief. The league’s achievements, however, were, singular; and its broad- based archive, given in 1977 to the Byzantine and Modem Greek Depart¬ ment at King's College. London, consti¬ tutes a unique historical resource.

The league's aims, in response to what it regarded as Churchill's and the Foreign Office’s, duplicitous treatment of the Greek wartime resistance move¬ ment. included the provision of relief to those Greeks, and their dependants, who suffered for their democratic beliefs and . activities. It also worked tirelessly, from a series of small offices permeated with the aroma of ancient dust, newsprint, duplicating ink and sweet Greek dgarerte smoke, for a general amnesty for all Greek demo¬ crats imprisoned for political reasons.

One early success was an emergency campaign in 1948 which roused the British and American governments to intervene to prevent the mass execu¬ tion of nearly 3.000 members of the resistance jaded before the outbreak of the civil war. These executions (100 of which took place before they could be stopped) had been ordered by the Greek government as ajeprisaJ for the assassination of the justice minister. Christos Ladas.

The LDG and its sister charity the Greek Relief Fund, which Diana Pym

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STUART ROSE Stizart Rose, CBE.

designer and typo grapher. died af

CoggesfcaH. Essex; On . September 10 aged 81. He was born on October 2.

1911. .

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Stuart Rose with the Queen Mother Viewing stamp exhibition at Postal Headquarters in 1972 .

STUART ROSE will be best remembered for his lung asso¬ ciation with the Post Office. He served it -first in the grandly titled role of Typo¬ graphical Adviser to the Post¬ master General from 1962 until 1968, and from then until 1976 in the more comprehen¬ sive position of Design Advis¬ er. In I this latter role he was involved in' supervising the maity ways — from The archi¬ tecture of Bust Office counters and the design of pillar boxes and vans, through printed matter and stamps—in which

the Post Office presented itself to the public. The appointment spanned a period during which the Post Office began to change from being a dignified, if slightly old-fashioned. De¬ partment of Stole responsible through the Postmaster Gen¬ eral to Parliament, into being a modem business with avow¬ edly commercial imperatives.

. As Design Adviser, one of Rose’s tasks was commission¬ ing designs for postage stamps, . sometimes from young or untried artists, and helping to guide them through this often unfamiliar work, under the watchful but more remote gaze of the Stamp Advisory Committee.

He did this more or less single-handed with tact and generosity, encouraging the people he had commissioned.

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His success was acknowl¬ edged, in 1973 when a year's stamp issues were jointly giv¬ en a Design Council Award, and when in 1974 he was personally given the Phillips Gold Medal for Stamp De¬ sign. He was appointed a CBE in the same year. After he retired from the Post Office he remained interested in its work from the sidelines. In 1980 he published Royal Mail Stamps (Phaidon) which sur¬ veyed the past history of British stamp design and the more recent developments with which he had been associated, with his cusTomary clarity and fairness.

Stuart Rose, the son of Scottish parents, was educated at Magdalen College School. Oxford, where he was a choral scholar, and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. After a spell working in adver¬ tising at Crawfords, laying out advertisements under the live¬ ly and original eye of Ashley Havinden. he worked for many years as a freelance typographer, graphic designer and print consultant.

He soon, however, began to develop a specific interest in lay-out and design, reflected in his six-year period as an editor of Design magazine, 1947-53. and his later asso¬ ciates hip of the Design Re¬ search Institute, the industrial design partnership, from 1964-68.

It was from there that he went to the Post Office to face the challenge of meeting its changing needs (ironically, the last Postmaster General whom he served was John Stonehouse, who also became the first Minister of Posts and Telecommunications once the Post Office became a public corporation).

Rose was fond of company.

HAROLD INNOCENT continued to organise after her reriro ment from.the league in 1971. was responsible for a series of hard-hitting polemical pamphlets, for innumerable small acts of relief to the prisoners' often impoverished families, for trans¬ lating thousands of letters from British supporters to their “adopted" Greek families, and for maintaining a ceaseless political pressure on mem¬ bers of Parliament

The league will, however, be most widely remembered for its Ions cam¬ paign for the release from life impris¬ onment of the Greek seamen's leader Andonis (Tony) Ambatielos. whose Welsh wife Betty was for manv Years the league’s organising officer. In' 1963 Berty Ambatielos made front-pace news with her scandalous “insult” to Queen Frederika while attempting to present a dignified petition for ”her husband’s release during the Greek queen's state visit to London.

By January 1967. thanks in large pan to the LDG's efforts in keepiiis their cause alive, all but \\ of Greece's political prisoners, including Tony Ambatielos. had been released and it seemed that the league's work might be done.

Then in April came the colonels' coup. Tanks appeared on the streets of Athens and the junta's left-wing oppo¬ nents were arrested en masse. Diana Pym. who, despite disabling arthritis, relished nothing better than the pros¬ pect of meeting injustice head-on. the longer the odds the better, threw herself with renewed energy into the seven-year campaign for the restora¬ tion of democratic government in Greece.

The league, whose aims were now (for the first time) supported by politicians of all parties, found that its records and experience were consid¬ ered invaluable by the many interna¬ tional organisations which formed to combat the junta. With the fall of the Colonels in 1974. the league called a hah to its activities and renamed itself "Friends of Democracy in Greece.” under which title it still exists on a stand-by basis.

Diana Pym had a profound and instinctive love of all things Greek and was perhaps never happier than talking (or arguing) politics with her many Greek friends. She bore long years of ill-health with soldierly forti¬ tude and retained until the end an infectious delight in the exposure of political mischief.

She is survived by her husband, two daughters and one son.

Harold Innocent, actor, died In London on

September 12 aged 60. He was born in Coventry on

April 18.1933.

HAROLD INNOCENT was the sort of hard-working char¬ acter actor who, as is often the case with someone of his talents, never became a house¬ hold name. Yet his fine, manly figure and crumpled features made him instantly recognis¬ able to film and theatre audi¬ ences.

He was an adaptable play¬ er. equally at home with farce and tragedy, though he often seemed to have cornered the market in villains and des¬ pots. These he played as convincingly complex figures. Even in his last screen role as the corrupt Bishop of Here¬ ford alongside Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman in the lightweight Robin Hood: Prince afThiews 11991). Inno¬ cent managed to appear both sinister and at the same rime almost touchingly naive in his greed. That same ability with character was evident when he played the university bur¬ sar in Porterhouse Blue U9S7).

Harold Sidney innocent was educated at Broad Street Secondary Modem School in Coventry. After school he was briefly employed as an office clerk, a role in which he admined to having been “ab¬ solutely hopeless".

He decided to switch to a career in acting, studying at the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramat¬ ic Art. and after his National Service in the RAF, went into repertory. A few years later he made the leap to Hollywood, appearing first in Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1959. before landing roles in tele¬ vision series such as The Barbara Stanwyck Show.

But it was not until he returned to Britain that Inno¬ cent's career really took off. Professional and well-liked in the business, he was for three decades at the centre of impor¬ tant theatre productions at the Nottingham Playhouse, the Lyceum in Edinburgh, the

enjoying the Double Crown Club and the Arts Club. He also believed in the impor¬ tance of design: he was for ten years a governor of his old art school, the Central, and had a long association with the Soci¬ ety of Industrial Artists and Designers (now the Chartered Society of Designers): he was its president in 1965. He saw designers as the guardians of standards rather than as en¬ thusiastic salesmen.

His tastes, too, despite the early Crawford days with Ashley Havinden. were in general for the traditional rather than for the avant- garde: and this was true of his own design work, which was unassuming, careful and im¬ peccable in its own rather traditional idiom. His designs did nor break particularly new ground but he followed his bent with care, skill and assurance. In personal man¬ ner he was unassertive, polite and kind, though he could be tenacious about things he believed in.

Rose listed drawing, mod¬ estly, as a recreation; along with music and the country¬ side. He belonged to a genera¬ tion in which typographers preferred, only half tongue-in- cheek, the lifestyle of the country gentleman to that of the metropolitan professional. During his working life, he and his wife Dodo (Dorothea) divided their time between a London flat in Balcombe Street, within sight of the famous siege, and a farm¬ house in Essex; later they moved to Coggeshall.

In his Essex retirement he continued to enjoy playing the piano and the organ, and he also learnt to be a competent bricklayer. He is survived by his wife and by their two daughters.

Harold Innocent as George III in Nick Dear's In the Ruins at the Bristol Young Vic. 1989

Young Vic. the National, the RSC and the Bristol Young Vic. In his season at the RSC in 1984 he played Edward IV in Richard ill and Boyet. attendant on the Princess of France, in Love's Labour's Lost. In Henry V he played boih the Archbishop of Can¬ terbury- and the Duke of Burgundy (a role he success¬ fully recreated for Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 film version).

It was in Nicholas Hymer's production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III that he was Iasi seen on the London stage, playing the part of Sir George Baker, one of ihe king’s dtvtors. The mad king was a subject he was welf- acquamted with. He himself played George HI in the Bristol New Vic production of In the Ruins (1989).

Unlike many distinguished theatre actors. Innocent's tal¬ ents adapted easily to the small screen and he found employment in many of the television series of his day — Crown Court. The Profession¬ als. Minder. Inspector Aforse and EastEnders (in the last of which he played the part of a child-hating Father Christmas to great comic effect).

As a film actor he was seen in, among other productions. Brazil (1984). The Tall Guy (198S), Henry V’ and Prince of Thieves. But as a jobbing actor, he was wining to turn

his hand to most things, whether it was playing "a tetchy caterpillar in a musical version of Alice in Wonder¬ land at the Lyric. Hammer¬ smith. in 1986. or malting his opera debut in the pan of Sir Despard Murgatroyd in Ruddigore (19S7; at Sadler's Wells. Innocent had first thought that the pan was beyond him — “bui then 1 heard that Vincem Price had once played it, so suddenly it seemed to be possible”. His expressive voice brought him much radio work.

Innocent was a civilised and gentle man who enjoyed the ballet, opera and visiting country hotels with friends the never married). Michael Rudman. the artistic director of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, directed him eight times, and remembered him only once gening cross. Rudman was spending slight¬ ly too much time talking to another actor and Innoceni eventually, in desperation, raised his voice to complain. “Go away. Harold.” Rudman said. “Come back when you feel better." Innocent turned on his heel and said petulant¬ ly: "I will go away but I will not come back and 1 will not feel better." From one of the least temperamental actors in the business, this tiny sulk was as near as he ever got to bad behaviour.

AUSTIN TRIPPIER Austin Trippier, MC,

stockbroker, soldier and sportsman, died on

August 29 aged 83. He was born in Turn Village, Rosscndale, Lancashire,

on August 30,1909.

AUSTIN TRIPPIER was working as a stockbroker in Rochdale when the second world war broke out. He volunteered for the Army, went to the Royal Military Academy. Woolwich, and be¬ came a Gunner. He was then posted to the Northumberland Hussars who were attached to the Royal Horse Artillery.

In 1941 Trippier fought in Crete and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire. He was subse¬ quently posted with his regi¬ ment to North Africa. There, in June 1942. he was severely wounded in the fierce fighting for the “Knightsbridge" pos¬ ition, southwest of Tobruk, in which Rommel completely outmanoeuvred and out¬ fought the numerically superi¬ or British armour. Caprured by the Germans, Trippier was reported missing until located in a ffoW camp in Italy.

After a year he was repatri¬ ated as unfit to fight again. He returned to Rochdale for what, however, turned out to be a brief convalescence. Within four months he reapplied to return to active duty. Eventu¬ ally he returned to his old regiment, the Northumber¬ land Hussars. As a major he was at the D-Day landings, commanding D Battery of the Northumberland Hussars in the assault. He subsequently participated in the Allied ad¬ vance through France and Germany.

Austin Trippier grew up in Rochdale and was educated at Bury Grammar School. An

outstanding sportsman, he was captain of football and cricket.

After leaving school he worked as an articled clerk for Arthur Milne & Co. stockbro¬ kers. in Rochdale. In his free time he continued his sporting career and played in the first XI for Rochdale Cricket Club.

The pinnacle of his footbailing career came when he played inside left for Old¬ ham Athletic, at that time in the first division. In 1935 he started his own stockbroking firm in Heywood which he continued until the outbreak of war in 1939.

When he was eventually demobbed, he returned i"o Rochdale and started up his firm again. He subsequently took over the firm of Arthur Milne & Son. which had first employed him. He became a member of the Oldham Stock Exchange and in 1972 merged with a Manchester firm.

His wife Mary predeceased him in 1974; he is survived by his daughter, who is also a stockbroker, and by his son. Sir David Trippier. the former MP for Rossendale and Darwen. one-time environ¬ ment minister and former deputy chairman of the Con¬ servative party.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR JUSTICES'JUSTICE.

Sir.—At the present time a young girl is incarcerated in the Borough Gaol. Colchester, sentenced to21 days' hard labour for plucking a sprig of lavender from an open garden on a public road.

I have procured a copy of the report from the Essex Standard, which 1 send herewith, together with my card,

SepL 12, I am. Sir, vour obedient servant. J.W.C

ON THIS DAY

September 15 1868

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA

Gortfialty invites all fellows UNSW alumni and their families to attend a cocktail

■ - reception to welcome THE VICE CHANCELLOR, PROFESSOR

JOHN NILAND, AO, On Monday October 4th at ' DENHAM PLACE,

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for further In formation R.S.V.P. by September 27th 1993

“ Victoria Harmer, a young girl, was charged with damaging a lavender tree, the property of Mr. Fowler, cab proprietor. Butt-road, on Saturday night last,

“ Head-constable Downs said it was only right, as the case might be looked upon as one of a trivial nature, to Flaw that during the whole year the inhabitants of both Bun-road and Maldon-road had been annoyed by persons, either at night or early in the morning, entering their gardens and plucking flowers.

“ The case was proved by the prosecutor's son. who saw the prisoner pick a piece of lavender Cram a bush against the wall. Witness ran out directly and took the piece of lavender from the prisoner, when she said

It has been said of letters to The Times that they are the “last resort of the piquant, the idiosyncratic, the nutty, the dotty and the ponyToday, they have pride of place on the leader page: in the 19th century, those of a non-polirical nature, were rucked away as

space fillers throughout the paper.

BONNETS ATTHE THEATRE. Sir.—As I fully share the opinion of the Press on Mr. E.T. Smith's happy idea, will you permit me to say that for the future bonnets d discretion will be permitted to be worn in the dress circle and stalls nf Sadler's Wells Theatre.

English ladies hare found the convenience ot this system on the continent, where ii is universal, and I trust my patrons in Islington and elsewhere will approve the change.

Yours, etc.. J. HA2LEW00D. Sadler's Wells Theatre Sept. 14.

that u dragoon had given it to her. “ Mr. Fowler, in reply to the Bench, stated

that there was no one but the prisoner and her female companion in the road.

“The MAYOR said that this system of depredation was so common in This neighbourhood that it must be stopped, and the prisoner would be sentenced to 21 hard days' labour-

“ The prisoner, on being removed, looking at Mr. Fowler, exclaimed. T hope God will punish you'."

Sir.- If your correspondent whose house is infested with ants will pepf*r well every chink and crevice from which they issue he will obtain a mitigation, if not a eomplvic cure, of the evil.

I have also tried the following plan with good eETect:- Place in every cupboard where the ants appear a saucer of very weak rum and water, sweetened wiLh brown sugar; the liquor will require changing ai least once daily, as the ants flock into it by the thousands.

Your obedient servant. W.S.B.

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20 MARKETING THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 151993

Whether you are a Rising Materialist or in the Chattering Class, the marketing people are watching. Alan Mitchell eavesdrops

Two years after the 1991 census was completed, the data Is becoming available for exploitation by market¬

ers. In the past two weeks, two database firms have produced new classifications of the entire UK pop¬ ulation. drawing on census data. One of the firms, CCN. has divided the nation into 52 distinct groups, ranging from Rising Materialist and Chattering Class, to Graffiti Ghetto and Inner City Towers. The rival CAC1 finds 54 groups.

Geo-demographic databases such as CCN's Mosaic and CACI^s Acorn, which drew on the 1981 census, are already well established in marketing circles. But the power of the new generation of marketing databases, of which census infor¬ mation is just one, is creating an upheaval in marketing, as financial institutions, consumer goods com¬ panies and retailers realise that they can “micro-market" down to the level of the individual.

The database revolution is being driven by three factors. First the census has revealed more detailed information than ever — such as type of housing, how many hours individuals work, and ethnic origin — although it cannot provide details on income levels. Peter Furness, a CACTI executive consul¬ tant says that CAD's census-based data holds between 9,000 and 12.000 separate pieces of informa¬ tion on each census “enumeration district" of 150 households.

Second is the merging of previ¬ ously separate data sources. Cen¬ sus data is being overlaid with data from the electoral roll, post office addresses, company director lists, county court judgments, credit ref¬ erence agencies — and even com¬ puter programmes that guess the ages of individuals from their first names. The third factor is sophisti¬ cated computer techniques such as neural networks, genetic algo¬

Do the ad men snoop too much?

rithms and fuzzy logic. There techniques, developed by the mili¬ tary for pattern recognition, are now being applied to databases to find dusters of like types, or to fill gaps.

The result is ever-better target¬ ing. Unlike previous classification systems usually bared on qual¬ itative research and some head- scratching, these are based on hard facts. Richard Webber. CCN'S managing director, says: “We have quantified many differences in behaviour, from which we can accurately infer differences in atti¬ tudes." He has put a classification on every one of the nation's _ 15 million postcodes — each with about 15 addresses. CACI is going a step fur¬

ther. With Household Acorn, it is offering what Mr Furness calls “a de¬

tailed picture ar household level". But the census is just the start In the next few years, more and more powerful databases will be merged, creating previously unheard of power for the marketer.

Take lifestyle surveys. These are created by specialist companies such as 1CD and Computerised

Marketing Technologies (CMT). Each year, they send out raOlions of detailed questionnaires to consum¬ ers and get hundreds of thousands back: ICDIs latest mailing pro¬ duced 800,000 responses. ICD of¬ fers marketers details of what brands three million named indi¬ viduals buy, where they shop, what their hobbies are. what jobs they do and how much they earn. The CMT-owned National Shoppers' Survey (NSS) has 7 million named individuals and about four million households. NDL, its sister com¬ pany. bas more, but less-detailed. Both CCN and CAD are merging NSS data with their census-based databases to help marketers further.

The second plank of the coining database revolution derives from electronic point-of-sale data gener¬ ated by scanning machines at supermarket check-outs. Every time that green light flashes, the price, brand name, pack size, time and date is recorded.

So far, this information has been used to make the supply chain more efficient. But now most of the big grocers are working on the next step: to link it to individuals’ names and addresses. They will then

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know what you and I buy evezy week, wed: in and week out, and use that information to create promotions and build customer loyalty.

The third plank is customer in¬ formation created by companies in their course of business: bank accounts, insurance claims, tele¬ phone calls, new-car buys, the installation of satellite television, and connection and disconnection

of water, gas and electricity (mov¬ ing house, a trigger for all maimer of large purchases, is a veritable marketing gold mine).

“It is just dawning on companies, especially utilities, just bow valu¬ able this information is," says Roger Braeewell, a marketing in¬ formation consultant with Brann Direct.

Marketers want more sophist!-, cated data for three reasons: to

track performance, to gain in¬ sight and to target Only tire last comes under the Data Protec¬ tion AO, and then only if it in- volves named individuals. .

Data matching—the merging of databases for what they were not originally intended — has been of 'concern to the DataProtection Agency for seme years., says John Lamidey. assistant data protection

■ registrar. He has already per¬

suaded the Driver and Vehicle . licensing Agency _ (DVTA) not to marioa vehicle registration cata.

'• But. according to Mr Laxrndgy. organisations such as the lifestyle data companies realise that ns better to work with the Data Protection Agency rather than to felt foul of it. Complaints about junk mail have, he points out “recently plummeted. “Targeting

: has meant that people are getting less information that is totally irrelevant to them, such as offers forgreerfoouses to people living in high-rise flats.”

iTwiFgri, according to Sean Flana¬ gan, ICD marketing director, as cansumos become maiketing-liter- ate, iheyexped: sophisticated use of tedmology and data. ‘They are saying, T am interested in golf, so send me .information about golf

' And don’t bate me with football”." However, as consumers wake up to the impli¬ cations of the informa¬ tion age, they could

start [laying traps for unwary marketers. Bob Tyrrell diieF execu¬ tive of the Henley Centre, the strategic marketing consultants, says: ..The more predictable you become as an individual, the more

- you ■ might try to make a smokescreen of your behaviour ” -

Smokescreening during the last general election, be suggests, left opinion pollsters with egg on their faces. -The “upper' echelons” of society are already past masters at it, he believes. “’They deliberately change their icons all the time.*

If marketers are not careful, then- bid to build relationships with customers and potential customers using these advanced databases maybackfire, Mr Tyrrell adds. “If consumers trust the organisation, they’ll say. ‘fine*. But if there isn't any trust, theyll think, 'Blimey, am 1 that controlled?'* .

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S ales of The Sun have soared by 368,000 since it started a tab¬ loid price war in mid-

July by cutting its price to 30p. A weekly saving of 30p has gained the paper an extra million readers a day — every paper is read by up to three people—and pushed its share ■ of the mass tabloid market up to 52 per cent

Aftff six weeks, sales of its two rivals have also increased. ‘ although August sales were artificially boosted by special deals with petrol stations. Sales of the Daily Mirror, which now costs 7p more than The Sun, were up 65,000 on June and sales of the Daily Star, still at 25p, were up by 61,000. So the initial effect of the price war has been to increase sales of the three mass tabloids since June by 570,000. Year-on-year, sales are up by more than 100,000.

If the extra sales are main¬ tained over fee new three months — and there are signs that the. Daily Mirror and Daily Star are slipping back this month — the mass tab¬ loids will have achieved a

it reversal of a trend of seemingly inexorable de¬ cline in newspaper sales in the age of saturation news cover¬ age on global radio and tele¬ vision. Until The Sun price

Tabloid sales are bucking the trend. Brian MacArihur

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cut, year-on-year August sales of all popular tabloids have bean down every year for the past five years - and by more than 500,000 in 1991 as the recession hit hs peak.

Tabloid editors who said that the main reason for falling sales was that readers simply could not afford to buy their papers — or that they were buying only one paper instead of two or three — wfll consider themselves vindicat¬ ed. Yet the trend of decline for popular newspapers remains undeniable: until July, sales of The Sun had fallen by500000 in the past five years.

A week ago. The Tunes also reduced its price, by l5pto30p, a 33 per cent reduction, which has, so far, been even more successful for The Times than The Sun, suggesting that read¬ ers of quality newspapers are as keenly interested in pricing as readers of die tabloids.

Sales increases of up to 30 per cent were achieved by The Times last week, indicating that at least 100,000 new buyers either sampled the paper or that many decided to buy the paper for five or six days instead-of two or three.

Two weeks ago it cost £2,70 a week to buy 7fte-7T#ner; now it costs £1.90. a saving of sop, almost enough to buy three extra copies a week, even of rivals.

As The Times and The Sun cut their prices, two utterly contrasting newspaper mar¬ keting strategies are on trial this autumn. News Interna¬ tional, whose chairman, Ry-

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Middle market Today 570,274 +23,728 434 + 18,474 335 D Express 1.454,428. -19343 -131 -73313 -4.79 Dalty Maa 1,708,420 -35340 -2.02 -16339 -036

Market totals 3,734/104 -30355 -081 -71,738 -1.88

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works, sales of The Daily Telegraph will drop below a million iso far it seems to have lost about 30.000}: The Times will increase its lead of 29.000 over The independent ana overtake The Guardian, al¬ though it looks as though neither The Guardian nor 77?e Independent have yet suffered loss of sales. (Nor wifi The Guardian be displeased if The Independent falls back.)

So far. the papers that seem to have suffered are the mid- market tabloids, the Daily Mail and Doily Express. Both papers are following a differ¬ ent strategy of mcreaslns prices (each up 2p last month)

. adding supplements and maximising profit.

News International now at¬ tacks that strategy from above and below. Today maintained Its price at 25p last month and the 7p differential with the Mail and Express attracted 23.700 new buyers; the Mail lost 35.000 and "the Express los: 19.000. Both papers are now also being attacked by The Times (and even more The Daily Telegraph) from above.

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Like The Sunday Times. The Daily Telegraph could probably "increase its price, at

least on Saturday, without significantly losing sales — but the big question for the Tele¬ graph and Mail manage¬ ments this autumn, if the initial success of The Times's strategy is maintained, is

whether they decide to follow Mr Murdoch or simply ignore the gauntlet thrown down from Wapping.

Rarely has the annual au¬ tumn newspaper war seemed mare fasrinatine.

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once rock >n’ roll was the barometer of the generation gap, the mantle ismcrea&ngly tailing to ‘*yoof“television.

Hardly surprising when the likes of Genesis. U2. the Bee Gees. Lulu, Tina Turner and others lurch up the charts, much as they did well over a decade aga

Today, personal entertain¬ ment and, specifically.- the small screen is in the van-, guard of a revolution in popu¬ lar culture, and it is happening in the living room.

The new generation of pro¬ grammes and television com¬ mercials are far removed from traditional youth television. The kaleidoscopic editing, the often presenter-free collision of sound, image and symbol seen in such programmes as Hypnosis, Gamesmaster, Star Test and DeflT, are a taste of television dinners to come.

Bor adults in their twenties and thirties, weaned .on Blue Peter and Animal,, Magic, . attempts to find meaning in the new wave of programmes _ often come to nothing:'; .

The best evidence for this, schism comes from the world • of advertising. Witness the - recent television campaigns - for Pot Noodle and the Sega computer game. Whether it Is ' Golden Wontters psychedelic tripping of its pot-noodle munching news-reader or Sega's mad-pirate techno-bar¬ ber. the elaborate miscellanies with their abundant split- second references to popular films, icons and cultural cues, are almost incomprehensible

The youth cult of zap, crackle and pop Tdevision for teenagers is being transformed, leaving anybody over 20 stranded on a different wavelength

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NeighiHMrs,-BqyYMl&m& Home and Away remain among the programmes mgst watched by teenagers. They also, however, appeal to other age groups. The new breed of “blink-arui-you’ljl-miss-ir pro¬ grammes, with their apparent kalddoscopic chaos)-are de¬ signed to appeal exclusively to the generation reared an video games and computers..* . • ■

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television but in a: fimdaineh- tally different way from their elders. Research ty theHenley Centre for Forecasting, soon to be published, shows that to¬ day^ teenagers are more likely than any previous generation to use the remote control Jo

. avoid advertisements and to watch two television pro¬ grammes at once.

When it: comes to “media- literacy”, modern-youth stands head and shoulders above its seniors.' It is easier

for teenagers with this visual- literacy to absorb different messages simultaneously. Their ability creates a need for more sophisticated visual out- pur which can transcend their impatience with simple tradi¬ tional images and narratives.

Nineties’ youth has grown up and grown old with instant tdevision news, armchair reli¬ gion. wars and tragedies beamed into their homes — all of it directed by the consensus of a global media.

In future, television watch¬ ing wfll become more personalised. Nineties enter¬ tainment revolves around in¬ teraction. Interactive games, interactive computer pro¬ grams so why not interactive television? European cable companies plan to offer view¬ ers interactive coverage of the next Olympics. Instead of watching the choice of the television company, viewers will be able to tune in to the sport they want to watch be it

athletics, swimming or shooting.

As the viewing habits of the young change, there is evi¬ dence that they have started to use television as they might once have used newspapers and magazines, as a reference source to find out particular information. The habit has been called “information- snacking", but it is not simply news that forms such snacks for the television dinner. No better example can be found

than with the global music channel MTV. Unlike conven¬ tional television, MTV has a fluid — some would say non¬ existent — structure, designed with the video-literate youth in mind, designed to be surfed, tasted, to be “grazed upon”.

Such trends point to a growing estrangement with the printed word. As a 10-year- old wrote recently in The Spectator, telling her friends about her clandestine reading habit “would be like saying I

occasionally go to sleep with fish under my pillow”.

The teenager of the 1990s is likely to be the first generation to see a significant revolution in television for young people. They certainly need one. These are tough times for television with budget-conscious produc¬ ers making ever more budget- conscious programmes. Such programmes come incongru¬ ously bolted together with promotional footage from film companies, pop-videos from record companies and, in fact, anything from anyone with a teen-dream to push.

The new breed of pro¬ grammes, the first of which we are already seeing, is set to

polarise the generation gap in ways not seen since the melo¬ dies of a band of Liverpudlians bewildered a generation of middle-class parents three de¬ cades ago.

Youth television ain’t what it used to be. simply because, being young ain’t what it used to be." Who cares if Magpie and sticky-backed plastic have followed Val Singleton’s desk- tidy into the 1970s twilight? The fact is that nineties’ youth and its television are changing at a pace that is likely to leave all but a minority of wily young programme-makers in the dark.

But with an ever more fickle youth audience, it is ironic that winning the attention of this new generation of television graduates has never presented so tough a challenge for television. Children used to watch television. Now it is the other way round.

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THE TIMES TODAY WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 '

Unions threaten pay uprising ■ Furious trade union leaders warned of an industrial uprising after the government announced further pay restraint for five million workers in the public sector.

The statement by Kenneth Clarke freezes the government’s overall pay bill but allows for productivity rises. It provoked a string of strike warnings from unions in the public sector including firefighters’ leaders who said it brought a national strike closer___Pages L 2,6

British tourists shot in Florida ■ A British tourist was shot dead and his girl friend was injured by three men who tried to rob them as they slept in their hired car during a Florida holiday. Garry Colley. 34, was hit in the neck and Margaret Jagger was injured when the robbers opened fire at a rest stop near Tallahassee-Pages L 3

Accelerating peace With the logjam in the Middle East peace process broken at last the momentum increased with a stopover in Morocco by Israel's prime minister and the initialling of an outline peace accord be¬ tween Jordan and the Jewish state_Pages 1.9

Cancer hope Vitamin pills may help to ward off cancer, according to the first large-scale population trial in which deaths from cancer fell by 13 per cent- It adds to evidence that doubling the recommended intake of vitamins and minerals could save thousands-Page 1

Short loses Garry Kasparov extended his lead over Nigel Short to Sb- h with victory in the fourth game of The Times World Chess Championship —.Page L 8

Jet crash A Lufthansa jet carrying 70 pas¬ sengers and crew caught fire after running off the runway while landing in bad weather at War¬ saw's Okecie Airport-Page I

Sixth form reform Independent school heads joined forces with Labour to demand the abolition of A-Ievels. intensifying the pressure on John Patten to extend school reforms.Page 2

Sisterly love A 14-year-old girl has been grant-, ed legal aid to start a court action against her mother, who is stop¬ ping the daughter from seeing her baby sister-Page 3

BBC 'Luddites1 Johnny Beetling, the outgoing head erf Radio 1. launched a fierce attack on the “modem Luddites” who were trying to destroy the BBC from within-Page 4

Civic spirit Ambitious plans to rebuild the civic spirit in Britain, by active measures to encourage the cre¬ ation of local and workplace com¬ munities, were outlined by the Liberal-Democrat leader. Paddy Ashdown ——-Page 6

EC battle As the Labour government of Gro Harlem Brundtiand celebrated its victory in Norway's elections, the agrarian Centre Party was preparing for “hand-to-hand combat" over the country's EC application__Page 10

Shevardnadze riddle Eduard Shevardnadze, the Geor¬ gian leader, resigned in an at¬ tempt to force parliament to give him emergency powers. He said that he might stay on if parlia¬ ment was supended Page 10

Chinese ploy In a transparent effort to secure the Olympic Gaines in 2000, Pe¬ king has released Wei Jingsheng. 42, who received a 15-year sen¬ tence as a counter-revolutionary and seller of military secrets in October 1979__Page II

Pop racket denied EMI’S chairman in North Ameri¬ ca. Charles Koppelman scorned claims that Britain's pop charts were being rigged_Page 4

Happy Christmas to all our readers ■ An astronomer claims we should be pulling crackers and carving Christinas turkeys today, on die two thousandth anniversary of the birth of Christ Dr David Hughes of Sheffield University bases his calculations on astronomical evidence, which points to September 15 in 7 RC as the day when Christ was bom in Bethlehem...Plage 3

Away from the pressures of White House peacemaking. President GHnfnn stretches his musdes against his car after a jogging run. Page 9:

Lord Palumbo: The Arts Council chairman has forged an unexpect¬ ed alliance with Dieter Bock, the joint chief executive of Lonrho, to develop the controversial number 1 Poultry she in tiie City.Page 23

Economy: The revival in British manufacturing was more steady last year than previously thought but has been much less healthy in the early part of this year than die government-believed and may be running out of steam_Page 23

Markets: The FT-SE100 Index rose 32 to dose at 3028.0. Sterling's trade-weighted index slipped from 813 to S1.2 based on a fall from $1.5452 to $1.5440 and from DM24896 to DM24835....Page 26

Cricket Mike Atherton is a sharp observer, preferring to listen rafter than talk. David Miller discusses the pressures of leading England to the West Indies-Page 42

Football: Manchester United re¬ turn to the European Cup tonight after an absence of 25 years. Their manager, Alex Ferguson, said the. team would go for goal to perpetu¬ ate the attacking football far which United are famous Page 44

Rugby union: The Ni^itingaleumt for long-term offenders at Fettham Prison lias one' of the lowest reoffending rates. Inmates team rugby and officers feel that the disdptine and team spirit helps them return to real life—Page 44

Lurid life: The portrait which emerges of Edith Piaf is one of a woman whose life was so packed with misery and grandeur that she hardly needed to embroider it as riie did. Charles Bremner on the chanteuse_.Page 14

Actor’s gamble: Ebr 30 years, Mar¬ ius Goring has been engaged in a vociferous battle with Equity. If he loses the next .round, he loses everything_.._Page 15

Ewar-bottsr targeting: Two yearsr after the 1991 census, data is becom¬ ing available for exploitation by marketers. What companies know ‘ about your personal life_Page 20

Playwrights as poultry? David ' Mamet, whose Oleanna moves into tiie West End tonight, denies that he is a crusader against polit¬ ical correctness. "I'm a big chicken, really I am,” he tells Benedict Nightingale in his first interview for two years --j:___Page 37

Sun-dried Whicker: Joan Collins's asides to Alan Whicker, her fellow judge in a Miss World competition in Sun City, Bophuthaswana, were the highlights rif WhickePs Miss World last night—-Page 37

Celebrating In style: Sir Michael Tippett's Midsummer Marriage, provided New YadcCfry Opera with a centrepiece for die compa¬ ny's 50th celebrations...._Page 38

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The remains of General Sikozski, Poland's wartime leader, were flown to Poland having been exhumed from a war cemetery in Britain Page 2

Kimberly Paumier, an American resident of Bath, who has been hired as city centre manager to clean the Georgian city’s tarnished image Page 4

President Mitterrand, 76, who is recovering from prostate cancer, had to be helped by an aide at the residence of the South Korean president Page 10

THE TIMES TOMORROW

Go west young skiers . ■ Swapping the aprts-ski gluhwein for Budweiser? Dedicated skiers, attracted fay reliable snow records; are off to North America • L. •

Dial M for Motherland ■ Test ybur knowledge at the letter “M” in the Great British Quiz foam Bamber Gascoigne’s Encyclopedia ofBritain •

Dancing in the aisles ■ The Tina Turner story is hardly thefibn to redefine the genre of cinema biography. But the soundtrack is enough to set a deaf person dancing

Pay comer The pay policy can do Mr Clarke nothing but good. He will not per¬ sonally have to deal with the unions: that job will fall to spend¬ ing ministers. When ministers complain, the Chancellor will point to bis record at winning union

No game The rime will come for China to hold the world's greatest sporting event But a state that so openly parades Its contempt for codes of decency does not yet deserve the trust of the Olympic torch. Pag’ 17

Christinas tidings The search for the date id Christ¬ mas mistakes a miracle for a Statis¬ tic. What matters is the birth and the consequences that have flowed fromiL-._;_!_Page 17

SIMO N JEN KINS The Tory party's management of itself over the past 20 years is a dreadful comment on its compe¬ tence ‘Central Office is the one department under the leader's command that runs with no help from Whitehall and no permanent boss ..Is backhanded compliment to Whitehall_Page 16

ANATOLE KALETSKY Kenneth Clarice seems just to have made his first lag-mistake. In an¬ nouncing a cast-iron limit of zero far every government department's paybffi—and then wekflng onto i t a range of mfle-wide loopholes — foe Chancellor has conrmitteri all the cardinal errors of incomes poli¬ ties through the ages Page 16

Lord Menuhin deplores foe fact that the agreement had to be signed

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This is fay no means a final peace. Many crucial disputes remain to be negotiated. Mr Rabin does not have unanimous support in his own country, dot does Mr Arafat

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A myth has arisen to the effect that Israel and foe PLO could have made praoeyearsaga But this is to ignore the deep sources of their animosity — Washington Past

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Wednesday. septanberB. 1993. i

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HOMES 32

A chance to live where the great writers lived

ARTS 37-39

David Mamet and Oieanna: speaking for the first time

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SPORT

United plan to attack in 100th game in Europe

I VACANCIES IN ARTS AND

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Page 31

TIMES / WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1993

BUSINESS EDITOR Robert BaHantyne

RECOVERING

TAYLOR WOODROW

Taylor Woodrow has returned to the black thanks to cost cutting

by the recently appointed chairman Page 25. Tempos 27

SCRIMPING

The Japanese are impressed at British motor component

savings, even at one tenth of a penny -

Page 27

BRAKING

National Express profits slowed down

because of redundancy costs and rail competition

Page26, Tempos Zf \

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Bv Janet Bush ECONOMICS

CORRESPONDENT

THE revival in British manufacturing industry was more steady last year than previously thought but has been much less healthy in the early part of this year than thfr government be¬ lieved and now appears to be running out of steam, according to figures from the Central Statistical Office.

Extensive changes in die way the statistics are compiled provide a dramatically differ¬ ent picture of the path of recovery than the one on which policymakers were.bas- ing their assumptions at the beginning of this week. Yester¬ day’s figures prompted scone City economists to call on the Chancellor, to lower- interest rates again.

Hie export-led manufactur¬ ing boom, hailed as the basis for a sustainable economic upturn, has proved to be fax Iks robust than previously thought—about half as good. Notably, export volumes have turned out to be much less healthy toanthoughL

' The CSO said it had revised down its estimates for manu¬ facturing production in the

. first quarter from growth of2J per cent .to only LZ. per cent. The estimate for growth in manufacturing in the second quarter was cut to only 0.6 per cent from 1.4 per cent .

The estimate for underlying . growth Of manufacturing in¬ dustry, provided monthly by

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■ Revelations of lower growth than previously announced in British output have prompted fresh calls in the City for interest rate cuts to boost the flagging economy

CSO statisticians and treated with an dement of caution, has. collapsed. Only last month, the CSO estimated trend growth of about 5 per cent. This month, it estimates manufacturing is growing at only 15 per cent annually.

Manufacturing output actu¬ ally bounced bade after a sharp fall of Z1 per ant in June, rising 0.7 per cent However, as economists at James Cape! (Minted out. the level of output in July was still 03 per cent below the average growth rate in the second quarter. James Capel noted that forward-looking indica¬ tors remained positive but added: “Further reductions in interest, rales are needed to ensure overall GDP growth retains momentum-’’

Taking the CS0*3 preferred series of three-month figures, year-on-year growth rates in manufacturing appear to have decelerated. Output rose 21 per cent in the three months to July compared with a year ago. The equivalent growth rales were 23 per cent in June and 2.6 per cent in May.

Total industrial production.- whkh includes the energy sector, rose 0.8 per cent in July after a revised rail of 1 percent in June. In the latest three months, total production Was

up by 1 per cent on the previous three months and up 33per cent on the same period a year earlier. Total produc¬ tion was much less affected by methodological changes, rehasing and reclassifying by the CSO tills month. Ian Harnett chief economist at Strauss Turnbull, said: “These figures don't change our view of economic growth overall this year. What they mean is that the manufacturing per¬ formance tins year hasn't been as spectacular but that the dire' performance of last year wasn't as bad as we thought*

The old CSO figures showed manufacturing had picked up in the first half of 1992 but declined again in the second half. The new CSO figures show that manufacturing out- pat rose for three quarters and then flattened — but did not fell — in the fourth quarter.

The main reason for the huge manufacturing revisions was a new way of ca iralatmg

export volumes, taking export prices .as .-WeQ as domestic prices into account. Before¬ hand, only domestic prices were used, exaggerating ex- peat volumes as stating was depreciating. _*_

Crying foul, page Z4 ' Tempos, page 27

SlUON WALKED

Lord Palumbo, left, and Dieter Bock examine a model of their proposed development of I Poultry, in the City

Bock and Palumbo join forces By Melvin Marckus. city editor

Barclays to make 500 comnulsorv iob cuts

By Patricia Tehan, ranking correspondent

BARCLAYS Bank is to make -500 compulsory job cuts in its branches in London and the

.South East, as it has been : unable to meet its job reduc¬ tion targets using voluntary schemes.

It is the first time the bank has -used compulsory redun¬ dancies to cut back its work¬ force and it is thought likely to lead to be further compulsory job cuts in other parts of the country. The jobs are expected to go by Christinas. •

The Barclays move has en¬ raged Bifu. the finance union, which has pledged to fight compulsory dismissals. Linda Gregory, a Bifu negotiating officer,-said the union, which represents 12JXJ0 Barclays staff, will oppose the compul¬

sory redundancies and win be investigating opportunities for industrial action. Btfu wifi meet Barclays managers to riisfiiRg the plan today.

Ms Gregory said the bank had rejected toe alternative of a register of staff prepared to take voluntary redundancy at some stage in the near future.

She said Barclays has al¬ most met its target of 1335 redundancies in London and die South East this year, with 1.111 jobs going. She claimed Barclays had been turning down volunteers.

John Cotton...the bank's personnel director, confirmed that this year’s target for job cuts in. the area had increased, but said the bank's target iff 18,000 redundancies between

1990and 1995 had not changed. Barclays has achieved staff reductions of 13300 since 1990.

Up to now. banks have, for the most part, managed their job. reduction programmes, which are caused by central¬ ising bade office procedures, introduction of new technol¬ ogy and branch closures, through voluntary • redun¬ dancies.

National Westminster cut 950 branch, jobs through a compulsory scheme last year. It reversed the policy this year, when it plans to shed 4,000 jobs, introducing a voluntary redundancy register and a variety of redundancy pack¬ ages in order “to give staff the option of leaving in the way that suited them best".

LORD Palumbo, chairman of the Aits Councfl. has forged an unexpected alliance with Dieter Bock, the joint chief executive of Lonrho, to devel¬ op the controversial 1 Poultry site in the heart of the City.

Although Mr Bock is best known for his “indivisible" role alongside Tiny Rowland, at Lonrho, toe proposed deal is a private venture and will nut involve toe multinational.

A 50/50 joint venture is proposed between the two property developers with Mr Bode putting up funds equiva¬ lent to the value of the Poultry site, which lies next to the Bank of England. Advartia. the Frankfurt real-estate enter¬ prise in which he controls an 80 per cent interest will pro¬ vide “all necessary funding” during the construction stage and will manage the develop¬ ment This will be Advanta’s first development in toe UK.

Mr Bode told The Times-. “We were introduced by mutu¬ al friends at the turn of the year, partly because of our common interests in architec¬ ture and art" Lord Palumbo said: “ 1 needed a founding partner and it was essential to try and find someone sympa¬ thetic with similar aspirations ...We developed an instant rapport from the first moment we met-"

Mr Bode, it may be recalled.

is reputed to have had a similar effect on Mr Rowland during the discussions which preceded his agreement to invest £135 million in Lonrho. Mr Bock’s remarkable ability to conjure up funds is matched only by his reticence regard¬ ing specific financing details. Neither of the developers would be drawn over the cost of the project “because we have not yet had the tender result". Outsiders put the val¬ ue of the Poultry site at about

£25 million, with development costs upwards of E50 million.

Heated debate has sur¬ rounded the Poultry complex, designed by the late Sir James Sterling, for years. Prince Charles described the project, which necessitates the demoli¬ tion of eight listed Victorian buildings that converge on Mappin & Webb, the jewel¬ lers. as something akin to a “1930's wireless set". In con¬ trast, Charles Jencks. architec¬ tural critic, said: "It looks back

to the past without becoming pastiche, and forward to the future, without denying the continuity of culture.”

Work "on I Poultry, which will encompass offices, shops, and two gardens at roof level, one with a 150-seat restaurant, will start next spring. Comple¬ tion is scheduled for 1966 when, according to Mr Bock and Lord Palumbo, there will be a shortage of new top quality office buildings “in the City's inner core".

DELTA Davies gets the answer he wants

iere we have it The people e spoken on state pensions, ording to Howard Davies, lenfiral of the CBI: **The ready to support a tong-term to move to equality at 65.” je of this confident statement rvey of 880 people commis- m Gallup by the CBI, which women hot getting a state ar a further five years when complies with European ity case law to make every- ame. ft found that, of those g an opinion “52 per cent r wish to see 60 adopted”. 81 therefore states baldly: ople want the government to state pensions at 65. rather t to meet toe costs of equality id Mr Davies sagely rea- rhese findings show that have a much better iding of the realities of tins t issue than is generally ap- ■ Do you smell a rat here? ieht 'Ohs was one of those designed; cynically and [y, to crane up with tee ie questioner wanted. ual question asked said: 11

cost an additional " ' £4 billion per year, which would have to be paid in terms of either cuts in oth¬ er areas of social security or an in- _ —-. crease in income tax. Would you wish to see age 60 adopted on this baas?” Phew. No phasing-in hat and, it seems, no other ways of raising tax or cutting spending. Astonishingly, given, this lead-loaded question. 48 per cent of people, and probably a majority of men, stiO wanted retirementage at 60.

Indeed. 60 per cent of those over 45 were prepared to defy the gun pointed at their head. Until this suivey, 1 would have found ft hard to faelkveso many would pay the heavy cost , of what most apart from theTUC, have tong thought an impracticaLoption.

Imagine what toe answer might have been had the question been

spread hospital -♦- closures or VAT

on food. On this GRAHAM basis, do you fa-

SEARJEANT —-- > 65? The CBI did

not ask this ques¬ tion. Indeed, it

did notask respondents whether they favoured equalisation at 65 at all merely assuming that was toe sole alternative and enquiring how long the transitional period should be. Yet Mr Davies claims that the

answers “offer clear pointers for government policy" that the

public will support equafify at 65. Really. One wonders whether the rest of toe advice with which Mr Davies continually bombards toe Cabinet is based on similar authority.

The serious debate is not even about toe question the CBI asked. There are two financially practical

^aflpeo^th* would

phrased somewhat differently? Say: if - and widely canvassed alternatives to the retirement age for women was equal state pensions at 65. The first is moved to 65, up to a million people that the age should be fixed to have a would eventually be added to the neutral effect on. public finances. 63 unemployed, many of them with according to the government actuary. young families, wiB3 would have to be The second, more imaginative, aller- kept by the ^ stale, requiring wide- native is that men and women should

be offered a choice of retiring at any time between toe ages of 60 and 70. with their pension varying according to how earty they retire. Whitehall is suspicious of this option, assuming ail are workshy and would retire as soon as possible-

The flexible decade of retiremrax hardly comes in toe bright but silly category: it is promoted by toe English and Scottish actuaries. Their thinking is grounded in toe realities of toe world of work. The norm of a single retirement age no longer fits the way most people choose, or are obliged, to five their lives, as CBI members know. Vast legions of men in their fifties have been pushed into permanent unemployment retire¬ ment or semi-retirement while many women find their careers stunted by retirement at sixty.

Government could and should be allowing people choice that could really improve their lives. How interesting it might have been had toe CBI asked how people would respond to that choice. I can only assume that toe CBI was so desperate that it dared not offer real alternatives or even ask people to back its own antediluvian idea. Had it done sa the public would surely have rejected it.

1993 1992

£m

Turnover 428.3 402.3

Profit before interest 33.0 32.6

Profit before tax 29.1 31.0

Earnings per share 12.5p I2.7p

Ordinary dividend 4.2P 4.2p

aWe will continue ro seek strategic acquisitions

which develop our businesses and, as our markets

come out of recession, an increasing emphasis is

being placed on internaliy generated growrh wirh a

number of key commitments already made."

Geoffrey Wilsun,

Chairman

Copies of rhe Interim Report tor the six months ended 3rd July 1*93 from

which the above is an extract are available from 17th September from the

Secretary, Delia pic. 1 Kingsway, London WC2B bXF.

Telephone 071-S36 3535.

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Mjj 24 BUSINESS NEWS THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 151993

Public sector cries foul as CBI tactics payoff By Phiup Bassett

INDUSTRIAL EDITOR

HOWARD Davies, director-general of the Confederation of British Indus¬ try, managed 10 contain himself admirably yesterday in describing the new public sector pay restraint announced tv Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor, as a "sensible ap¬ proach ... and one which the CBI has been advocating for some rime".

In fact, after this year’s IS per cent pay limit was set following the urging of the Mr Davies, formerly of the Treasury, the Chancellor's new pay package adopts virtually every¬

thing the CBI pressed him to do on public sector pay. As Dive Brooke, general secretary of the IRSF tax staffs' union, put it yesterday. “If Howard Davies had asked the Trea¬ sury for toast with jam on h as well, he probably would have got that too."

What Mr Clarke announced was music to the CBI's ears: no specific pay settlement figure, no increases above rises indicated by current cash planning unless justified by perfor¬ mance, different pay arrangements for different bargaining groups and a darapdown on the work of the pay review bodies. All but a clean sweep.

Mr Davies will today move to stave

off some of the criticism of his role from public sector unions — they regard his intervention as inappro¬ priate, especially when the CBI has done nothing to restrain the earnings of senior company executives—when at a meeting of the CBI’s council he will urge private sector companies to maintain low pay increases.

Public sector unions will regard. such moves as little more than cynical exercises in covering trades. They have seen such CBI exhorta¬ tions over the years, and seen them ignored. They do not believe the CBI has any powers to influence pay set bv its own members and thus see his

impact on public sector pay as unfair. The unions’ problem is poartly that. they have none of the influence. enjoyed by the CBI with this govern¬ ment. though the advent of John Monks as TUC general secretary could improve that But the. unions were- also slower to make contact with the-Treasmy over pay this year.

Earnings figures since the Conser¬ vatives came, to power show the public and private sectors swapping pay leads — usually because the' private sector tends to stream ahead, prompting large pay increases in the public sector to catch up.

Figures from the government's

Elusive Gatt deal haunts IMFs

annual meeting By Janet Bush

ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT

THE annual meeting of the Imemational Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington next week will be overshadowed by disappointing growth in the world economy, notably in the industrialised countries, and by the ever more pressing need to condude an interna¬ tional deal on world trade under the auspices of Gatt

In its annual report, the IMF said thai though world economic activity had recover¬ ed slightly, the upturn was bel¬ low expectations and charac¬ terised by “a persistence of low or negative growth in most in¬ dustrial countries, together with high levels of unemploy¬ ment and continuing structur¬ al impediments to growth."

The fund expressed particu¬ lar concern over continuing economic downturn in Japan, “economic stagnation or de¬ cline" in most countries in Europe and a further weaken¬ ing in the performance of much of Africa. It also noted continuing and, in some cases, worsening economic develop¬ ments in the countries of the former Soviet Union. But it welcomed the "impressive" growth in many developing countries, particularly in South East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

The IMF will give an updat¬ ed world economic outlook next Wednesday at the start of

■ The International Monetary Fund says the world economy has recovered a little. But the fund is still concerned by lack of growth in most industrialised countries

its annual meeting. On the ag¬ enda will be the need to contin¬ ue coordinating world econo¬ mic policies to achieve non-in- flationary. sustainable growth where industrial countries have been underperforming.

The Fund will also examine its progress in stabilising and reforming former centrally planned economies of eastern Europe, which will include a discussion on whether a new allocation of SDRs (special drawing rights) may be need¬ ed to bolster reserves of devel¬ oping countries without forc¬ ing them to borrow more ex¬ pensively on capital markets.

Another important consid¬ eration will be what should replace the Fund’s Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facili¬ ty. loans conditional on eco¬ nomic reforms for the world’s poorest nations, when the cut¬ off for commitments comes in November. The Fund's discus¬ sions so far suggest something similar to me ESAJF will continue.

The report did not entirely pin the blame for economic stagnation in Europe on per¬ sistently high interest rates but suggested European coun¬ tries should undertake exten¬

sive reforms of their labour markets to make them more competitive. In the case of France, the IMF highlighted the rigidities it said were inherent in generous unem¬ ployment benefits and the minimum wage law.

It expressed disappointment In Britain's wage performance — despite the fad that unit labour costs have fallen to historically low levels. The IMF said that, although there had been a significant deceler¬ ation in wage rates, this was still disappointing given the “severity of the recession and foe rise in unemployment".

It also reiterated its view foot Britain, and many other European countries, should take prompt steps to tackle its fiscal position but “in a way which would not stifle recov¬ ery".

On the tribaiations of the exchange-rate mechanism, the Fund suggested future crises could be averted if frequent, small changes were made to ERM parities in combination with greater efforts to promote economic convergence. It also suggested an increase in foe supply of official reserves or official lines of credit. Robert Crandall, who cut back San Jose operations

1992 New Earnings Survey suggest that the overalL level of public sector pay wa^ then iii gher than that in the private sector—a weekly-average of £307.80 compared to £30330. Figures for tins year will be unavailable until the end of the- month, but" the government's monthly , earnings fig¬ ures show that rises in privatesector• manufacturing industry have re¬ mained stubbornly stuck at Sper cent while those inthe service sector have. fallen consistently to almost half that — driven by the low increases in the public sector.

Winter battles, page 2

Vicious price war

aimed atUSAir from Phiup Robinson

TN NEW YORK

THE first direct '.attack on USAir,. British - Airways’ American associate; starts tip day, with a vicious price war. which will cut fores by up to 86 pq-cent and offer one-way flights for as little as £13 ($20).

’ It is being dubbed the peanut war. Those .airlines attacking USAirt primary route along America’s East Coast are "no frills" carriers, with peanuts foe closest to a meal being served.

The fight comes amid more dire warnings of the state of the US aviation industry. American Airlines, its hugest carrier, said, it would cut 5,000 jobs by foe end of ,next year, ground 11 DC-lOs and cut capacity by 43 per cent

The attack on USAir comes from Southwest Airlines and Continental Airlines and will, cover more than 50 short-haul routes, mouth west Airlines will begin its service today, claiming advance bookings of 89,000 passengers. Continen¬ tal Airlines wfll join foe fray on October L

Southwest, based In Texas, has built itself into the seventh largest carrier, dominating 100 short-haul routes. When it moved into San Jose in June, its service was so popular that Robert Crandall, American Airlines’ chairman, cut back his company’s operations.

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THE European Commission has removal one of foe main roadblocks to an EC-wide deal to reduce steelmaking capaci¬ ty by conducting an agree¬ ment with Spain over state aid to its troubled steel mills.

British, German and French steelmakers had warned the commission that they would be unable to ooramit themselves to the Brussels plan for the volun¬ tary reduction Of 30 million tonnes of crude steel capacity, and the elimination of 19

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A commission spokesman said yesterday that Brussels was aboutfo approve the mam ■ elements of the Spanish agree¬ ment which foresees lower aid and. privatisation of a planned mil]. An agreement with Italy concerning Eva, its hugely indebted steelmaker, is expected by the mid-October, foe spokesman added.

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? tional gearing look like being somewhat delayed- In spue of ’.patchy and sometimes .difficult trading conditions. Delta increased turnover, in the half year to July 3. by 6 per cent to £4283 minimi, and operating profits from continuing operations from £26-2 million to £27.1 million. _

In June 1992, Delta acquired foe balance of Data Cromp¬ ton Holdings, which partly explains foe rise in tlrc interim interest charge from £1-62 million to £3.9 million and foe fall from FI 57 million to £690,000 in the charge for minority m- terests. The interim pre-tax profitTs £29.1 million, compared with £30.9 million, and the interim dividend is held at 42p, out of net earnings of 12L5p (12.7p). Gearing at interim balance sheet figtp was a modest 28 per cent (26 per cent). 128 percent (26 per cent).

Trans World slides TRANS WORLD Cbrarminications, the USM<$upted irate- pendent radio station operator, is paying an interim dividend of 03d (nil) in spite of a 35.7 per cent slide in first-half profits. Pte-tox profit fell to E2S4.000 in foe half year to end-June. down from E39SJOOO last time. The group, which runs four stations serving the North West Yorkshire and north Wales, saw turnover edge up to • £5.71 million (£5-69 million). Earnings fall to 03p a share, down from Up last time. The shares were unchanged at 57p.

Clyde on target for profit CLYDE Petroleum, which in March raised a net £342 million via a rights issue, said it is on target to make profits and reinstate dividends in October 1994. The company said foe average'sterling ofl price received was higher in foe first half of 1993 at EIZ21 a barrel, but a planned maintenance shutdown meant lower oil sates income. Underlying profit for the half year to June 30 was £53 million (£6.7 million, re¬ stated). The pre-tax loss for the period was £163 minion (£11.8 raiffion loss), including a £2L6 million exploration write-off.

Goal Petroleum rises GOAL Petroleum achieved an 25 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £4.93 million in the six months to June 30 on an unchangedtnrnover of £20.9 mittkm: Production fell by 13 per cent, but the fall was offset by an increase from £10 to 01.49 in the sterlingoil price per barrel. Oil’s dollar price was 5 per cent lower. Cash generated from operations of E14 million in foe half year was deployed go field development, acquisitions of £4 million arid an exploration, and appraisal programmeof £S million. -

Avonmore 16% ahead AVONMORE Foods, the Irish dairy and meat group, increased interim profit by 16 per cent helped by foe contribution from ten .aanositions and two joint ventures made last year. Pre-tax profit for foe half year to July 3 rose to Ir£113 million (£103 million), from IrE9.6 million, on turnover 54 per cent up. at Ir£514.7 million. Operating profit rose strongly in the dairy and agricultural divisions. The

.meat business .was hit bydifficaltconditions in the European market The interim dividend on A shares is 135p, from 1.45p.

Lazards top in takeovers LAZARDS is well out in front in the annual competition between foe City's merger and aquisffion advisers, having chalked up 19 deals, worth a total of £2.42 billion, in the first half, according to Acquisitions Monthly magazine. After ranking number three last year, Lazards was this year boosted by its handling of Kingfisher's E1.04 billion acquisition of foe French Darty group. The magazine’s latest survey shows UBS in second place in foe first half this year, with Morgan Grenfell in. foird position.

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TAYLOR Woodrow, the build¬ ing contractor and property group, returned to the block in the first half of the year with pretax profits of £10.1 miffiQn. against £16.9 million losses in die same period last year.-

ln spite of the Improvement, the interim dividend has been maintained ar last years token Oip and is not likely to be in¬ creased at the end erf the year. Colin Parsons, chairman, said: “I am-mindful of the interests of shareholders, but at the moment I am seeking id rebuild the balance sheet and strengthen the company.”

Mr Raisons said that recent structural changes “have put Taylor Woodrow back on track towards the. level erf performance which our share¬ holders expect".

Group turnover rose from £594.4 million to £622.6 mil- lion. Earnings per share were lJp, against a 3.7p loss per share in the 1992 first halt

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experiencing poor margins. Taylor Woodrow said. “Al¬ though conditions are highly competitive, the company sees no reason at this pointwhy it should not achieve its initial objective of eliminating con- trading losses in 1993." it said.

Contracting turnover Ml from £435.1 million to £4185 million, but the division re¬ duced its losses from £10.4 million to E3.4 million.

Mr Parsons said: "We realty do not feel that there is going to be aqukk upturn in major contracting. He spoke of “ra¬ zor thin” margins and erf over¬ capacity in the contracting sector and said that Taylor Woodrows own order book was substantially lower.

Worldwide housing and lots sales worldwide rose 34 per cent to 1,095, in the first half and die division is seeing continued improvement into the second Half.

Housing, Taylor Wood- row^ second-biggest business.

Kingfisher flies to 31% advance

By Our City Staff

KINGFISHER, the Wool- worths to B&Q group, defied the patchy recovery on the high street with a strong rise in profits, boosted by a first- time contribution from Darty,

... the leading French electrical * i retailer acquired this year.

Pre-tax profits rose 31 per cent from £625 million to £82 million for the six months to July 31. F-yrfiifiinp a £16.1 minion contribution from Darty for the last two months of the period, operating profit from Kingfishers British re¬ tail operations still rose 8 per cent. Progress 1 was made across the board with all the major chains showing like-far- like sales growth and gaining market share.

Sir Geoffrey . Mukahy, Kingfisher's chairman, said the “robust performance" re¬ flected the groups .strategy of ddivering “maximum value and everyday tow prices" to customers. The aggressive pricing strategy, squeezed margins, but Sir Geomcyjn marked contrast to many of his rival retailers, insisted the group’s aim was to drive

volumes, not margins. “By holding up a margin umbrel¬ la, you allow weaker competi¬ tors into the market,” he said. However, he also acknowl¬ edged that reducing costs was now at the top of Kingfishers agenda to improve margins and push prices down former.

The benefits of the strategy were evident , at B&Q. where the "Key DIY" campaign, which guarantees low prices cm core products, pushed sales up 9 per cent Wocrfwortfa’S Street Value campaign helped deliver a 12 per cent rise in sales while Super drug's selec¬ tive . price promotions in suncare products1 and. per- fiimes Hflwri market <h»n» .

SfrGeoffrity said Ihe recov¬ er in consumer spending had been “patchy" and predicted

: the high street would remain highty competitive in the fore¬ seeable. future. The/Raich econmnjralsoremained shig- gishwfthiioupturn expected until nextyear.

The interim ^dividend is lifted from 42p to 4.4p.

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contributed E9L3 million to turnover , and profits of £3.9 million, after £16.4 million- losses in the first half of 1992.

Property businesses made a pre-tax profit of £65 million, up from £42 million in the same period last year. The company said it was still too early to fom a view about the likely year-end valuation of the properties and gave warn¬ ing that "there may well be scree write-off at the year end as a result of lower valuations of the portfoh'o", particularly the Canadian portfolio.

The trading and financial business saw profits fall by £2.6 million* to £3.1 million, though turnover was up from £50.7 million, to £555 million.

Gearing at the end of the six months was cut to 27 per cent from 44 per cent at the end of 1992. Net debt.has been re¬ duced by E87 million to £1415 million.

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MANUFACTURING efficiencies in¬ cluding round-the-clock use of machin¬ ery helped Polypipe, the plastic piping and fittings maker, to boost the total dividend payout on tite back of in¬ creased profits for the year to end-June (Martin Flanagan writes).

A final dividend of 1.44p makes a total

of 2.10p, against 1.97p last time, while taxable profits have risen by more than II per cent to £17.1 million.

The performance owed little to Polypipe's markets, which remained difficult but more to product develop¬ ment, investment in plant and tooling and expanding the core business. .Acqui¬

sitions contributed about £50.000 to pre¬ tax profits, said Bryan Stock, finance director. He added that the payroll In the year had increased by 100 to 1,680.

Polyprpc spent about £125 million to improve production plants. Earnings per share in the period rose from 6.69p to 7.40p.

TRINITY International, the publisher of the Post and Echo newspapers in Liverpool, is to convert its ordinary stock units into ordinary shares with full voting rights.

Pre-tax profits rose from £7.4 million to £9.4 mil bon in the six months to June 26. and the interim dividend is in¬ creased from 27p to 3p. Earn¬ ings per share are 9J2p |8.Sp).

The 12 management shares, which are the only Trinity shares to have full voting rights at present, will each be convened into ten ordinary shares. These will be sold in the market for the benefit of the company.

Philip Graf, chief executive, said institutional investors were unable or unwilling to invest in ordinary stock or shares which carried limited voting rights. The enfranchise¬ ment of the ordinary stock units should, therefore, in¬ crease the number of institu¬ tions prepared to invest in the company and should enhance the marketability of the com¬ pany’s shares.

Mr Graf said the return of consumer confidence meant an encouraging start to the third quarter for the papers.

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Reuters shines as arbitrageurs and US TECHNICAL factors resulted in another subdued trading session as arbitrageurs con¬ tinued to unwind their trad¬ ing positions before the expiry of me September options on Friday.

It is proving to be a long, drawn-out affair that has been complicated by stock shortages among the market- makers in the cash marker. The situation was complicat¬ ed by Salomon Brothers roll¬ ing over a large number of contracts in the financial future from the September to the December series.

In the event, the FT-SE 100 index managed to reverse on early fall of 105 before seeing some of the steam taken out of the rally by an early setback on Wall Street on the back of

disappointing inflation fig¬ ures. The index eventually closed 32 up. at 3.028. with turnover of 593 million shares swollen by several modest programme trades.

Renters climbed J4p, to £1550. ahead of a presenta¬ tion for brokers and fund managers in New York last night

Northern Foods feD Sp to 273p. hit by profit downgradings from Hoare Govett and Nat West Securi¬ ties. J Sainsbury eased 4p to 462p, after one market-maker began trading displaying an offer price lower than the bid.

which created initial confu¬ sion among other traders..

Sage Group, the accoun¬ tancy software specialist, jumped I3p to 407p. after giving a sneak preview of its. new product range to ana¬ lysts. The company was reck¬ oned to have mode a favourable impression.

Steel Burrill Jones tum¬ bled 86p to 161p after plung¬ ing into the red with interim losses of almost £4 million, against a profit of £6-23 million last time. The divi¬ dend has been cut and the group is bearish about pros¬ pects, saying that trading conditions are tough and that provisions will need to be made for the possible out¬ come of litigation.

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among the other insurance brokers. CE Heath fell I4p to 396p, Hogg Group lOp to 218p, Lloyd Thompson tip to 307p. Lowndes Lambert 13p to 415p. PWS 4p to 67p and Sedgwick Group 4p to 186p.

Rothmans International B was a weak market, foiling 17p to 661p as worries about

the future of its status as a. constituent of the index in¬ tensified. Investors were switching into BAT Indus¬ tries. up 7p at 466yp.

The recent strong run t in shares of Meyerfhternatioh- al came to' a grinding halt with tite price sliding 2p to 406p.on news that tite role of

chairman and chief executive had been .split. Richard Jewson, who held, the pos¬ ition, is to. leave at the end of the year and will be replaced by John Dobby. the current managing director..-

Kingfisher lost.-air. early _ lead toiinish lp lower at 645p, in spite of'reporting a rise of almost £20 million in half-, year pre-tax profit to £82 million. Hus included a £19 million contribution from the recent ■ French acquisition . Darty. Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy. chairman, said that the group was now firing cm all cylin¬ ders. with B&Q. Comet and Superdrug'all reporting an increase in sales.

Things are also looking better at Taylor Woodrow, lp down at 119p, after returning

to tite black in the first half with pretax profit of £KU mfllibri.against a loss of E&9 million for the corresponding period. The construction group reported paidiy trad¬ ing, but evidence of.recovery

'msomeofnsmarkets. However, currrat; trading

conditions were described as anaemic fry Geoffrey Wilson, chairman of , Delta,- whose shares fell 43p to Slip. Delta reported a drop-in first-half pre-tax profits from £30.9 million to £29.1 million: The figures were hit by increased interest charges.

Heywood 'Wnfiams cele¬ brated a.52;per cent rise in’: half-year pre-tax ."profits, tb - £7.7 million before disposals, by gaining 14p to 352p.

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mained at I54p after a 16 per . cent rise in interim pretax profits to lr £112 nullkm. The

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. chairman, is bullish about -current trading prospects.. . □ GILT-EDGED: Gilts turned easier, after the latest inflation figures from the US and closed with sizable lasses on the day. The December series of the Rmg gilt finished £®b lower at £1135/i6. with 65,000 contracts completed.

The worst foils in the cash market were concentrated at the longer end, where Trea¬ sury 9 per cent 2012 foil £3/8 to £117** f 32. In shorts, Trea¬ sury 9b per cent 1999 was £J/aloweral £112,5/ie. .

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Domestic and General ahead for tenth year DOMESTIC and General, the domestic appliance break¬ down insurer, completed a tenth successive year of profits growth in spite of the prolonged recession in the high-street. The USM-quoted company yesterday reported a 24 per cent leap in pre-tax profits for the year to end-June 1993 to £7.7 million. D&G. in which Eagle Star, the composite insurer, has a 10 per cent stake, lifted its final dividend 3p to 15p. taking the total for the year to 215p. up from 18p. Earnings per share advanced 24 per cent to 75.63p.

D&G. which has about 15 per cent of the market, provides insurance through leading appliance manufacturers such as Zanussi, Grundig and Electrolux and high-sireet retailers such as Comet Gross premiums increased by 275 per cent to £55.8 million while other income rose by £35,000 to £526.000. Investment income rose from £5.85 million to £6.1 million.

Watmoughs lifts payout WATMOUGHS (Holdings), the contract printer that has operations in Britain, Spain and eastern Europe, is making further investments in plant to help it handle an increasing flow of contracts. Pre-tax profits for the six months to June 30 rose 24 per cent to £657 million on turnover that was 18 per cent higher at £655 million. The interim dividend is being raised from 2.7p to 3p a share. The group plans a one-for-one scrip issue and is to redeem its 5 per cent and 6 per cent preference shares. The shares rose !6p to 748p.

Steel Burrill Jones slides A £3.9 million interim pre-tax loss after heavy provisions at Steel Burrill Jones, the insurance broker, knocked 86p off the shares, which dosed at I61p yesterday. Steel provided £4.4 million against reorganisation costs and £3 million for pos¬ sible insurance market costs arising from complex litigation. The loss per share was 7.62p. compared with earnings of 8.77p last time when a profit of £62 million was recorded. The interim dividend is cut from 425p to 3p. Steel said second half profits are likely to be similar to the first halfs.

Nynex awards contract NORTHERN Telecom, the Canadian telecommunications company which owns the UK group STC. has won a five-year $1 billion contract to modernise the communications equipment of Nynex, the New York telephone company, which will indude upgrading 125 million customer lines. Nynex holds 11 cable television franchises in the UK and wants to compete with BT for local telephone services. It also has plans for a $1 billion project laying the longest undersea fibre optic cable to link the UK with Japan.

National job cuts Inflation news drives

Dow lower at midday By Philip Pangalos

A COMBINATION of job cuts, fore rises and competi¬ tion from British Rail put' a brake on profits at National Express. Britain's biggest scheduled coach operator.

Pre-tax profits at the Birmingham company foil from £1.06 million to £585,000 in the weaker 28-week period to July 10, with the slide largely due to exceptional redundancy costs of £427,000.

National Express, which was floated in December, makes most of its profits in the second half of the year and the group is paying an interim dividend of 2j5p, against a pro forma 2_37p. Earnings per share are lJp (02p).

The main UK Express Coach Travel division, which operates inter-city coach ser¬ vices, was hit by its fore rises in March and price competi¬ tion from British Rail.

Adam Mills, deputy chief executive, said trading at the National Express operation has been tough, though there hare been fragile signs of recovery. “As far as British Rail is concerned we’re just girding our loins: we're equipped to handle the situa¬

tion," Mr Mills stressed. But he added that the “aggressive" competition from BR is not likely to ease until after the privatisation issue is resolved.

Scottish City link, which, was bought in May. performed in line with expectations and helped the coach division keq> trading losses to £621.000after the redundancy costs, against £211,000 previously.

National Express has hit the acquisition trail with centred of Eurolines Nederland since July. This will be added to the group's continental European coach operations. The main¬ land European business in¬ creased operating profits to £462,000 (£411,000) and has added services to Poland, Prague, the south of Fiance and Brussels.

Total turnover dipped to E57.7 million (£582 million), but turnover from continuing operations was marginally ahead at £57.4 million (£56.9 million).

National Express shares eased 2p to 268p, against last year's 165p a share placing and offer for sale price:

Tempos, page 27

New York' ^ Wall Street shares continued' to trade low¬ er at midday, unable to escape the undertow of a soft bond market and unfavourable in¬ flation data. The Dow was down 25.16 at 3,609.06.

“Everyone -believes that if you get bad days,, they will be really bad, and it takes just one bad number to touch off a correction, and flat's what you have today," Hugh John¬ son, of- First Albany Carp, said. Tokyo — Shares ended lower on broadly-based profit taking after Monday's rallies, in which the Nikkei average posted a new year's closing high. The Nikkei yesterday

dosed down 20032. or 0.95 per cent at 20,947.79. Brokers said that investors had tended to be sidelined before today’s holiday and tomorrow's re¬ lease of a new. economic stimulus package. “ITS now a tug of war between expecta¬ tions over tite economic mea- sures and the actual souring of the economy." Yasuo Ueki. of Nikko Securities, said. □ Sydney — Shares dosed at their lowest in almost a month, hit by tumbling gold prices and a lower Australian dollar. In moderate trading volume, the ail-ordinaries in¬ dex sank 25.4, to 1,912.9. its lowest dose since 1394.7 on August 18. (Reuter)

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Heywood goes shopping as profits leap By Sarah Bagnall

HEYWOOD Williams, the cash rich building products group, is on the lookout for further acquisitions with above aver¬ age growth potential.

The group, which in March disposed of the bulk of its UK glass division to Pilkington for £95 million, acquired LaSalle-Dertch. an American distributor of building products and furnishings and prefabricated housing and recreational

vehicle maker, for- £42 million in June. The deal was completed too late to contribute to results for the first six months of 1993. The company had net cash of £183 million at end-June.

Interim pre-tax profits leapt from £5 million to £22.7 million, boosted by a £15 million exceptional profit on the glass division sale. Without that, grading profits rose 52 per cent to £7,7 million.

Ralph Hinchliffe, chairman, said: “Overall the group has experienced a

solid improvement in the first half of 1993 which 1 now expect to continue for the foreseeable future." The interim dividend was held at 43p. '

Profits from UK operations almost doubled to £62 million. Profits.frara US operations rose from £12 million to £L4 million but those, from continental Europe dropped from £1 million to £387.000. -■ _: '

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RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 1993

■ Premium income up 17% to £163.6m.

■ New life single premiums and new SERPS-related premiums up 81% to £27.2m while new annual premiums fell by 12% to £9.9m.

■ General business premiums up by 29% to £53.5m. •

■ General business underwriting loss increased to £7.0m due to reserve strengthening and new business costs.

■ Post-tax profits down from £7.5m to £5.7m.

■ Interim dividend increased by 12%.

Britannia makes call for £3.75m

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BRITANNIA Group, the loss- making property developer, is raising £3.75 million through a one-for-one rights issue to shore up its balance sheet, enabling it to exploit future land acquisition opportunities for housebuilding.

In the short-term, the funds will be used to repay borrow¬ ings. The group is continuing to refocus on construction and house building by reducing its commitments to property development

The shares are being offered at 35p, a 15 per cent discount to yesterday’s opening price of 41p. In the first six months of 1903, Britannia Homes made

a profit after interest of £277,000 on turnover of £5.9 million. Overall in file six months, the group made a pre¬ tax lqss of £868,000. compared with a lass of £155,000 last time. The group made further provisions of E750.000 against falls in land values. .

Britannia has contracted to sell or realise property assets worth £3.5 million. After con¬ struction. and other costs, that will raise £2 million.

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carmakers from Japan.

Kevin Eason reports

o n the grand scale of auto¬ motive achievements, the success of a small group of workers in the West Mid¬

lands was almost beyond embarrass¬ ment. Their mission was typical of this post-recession age in which managers and workers are under daily pressure to cut costs. The workers at Advanced Engineering Systems had succeeded, but there was much shuffling of feet when they took their results to the managing directors office.

For die cost reduction amounted to a tenth of a penny. If they thought that less than spariding achievement would bring the wrath of Frank Burns, the managing director, an their heads, they were hopelessly wrong.

Their factory may be at Tipton, in the heart of the Black Country, but the philosophy is very much New Industri¬ al Britain via the Japanese quest for manufacturing perfection. That means every cost reduction and every design improvement is a success, one step, no matter bow small, towards the ulti¬ mate goal. As Mr Burns said: "We were almost too embarrassed to men¬ tion the saving to Toyota, but they were delighted that we had kept on making progress.”

AES is one of the companies revital¬ ised by the invasion of carmakers from Japan. A division of Unipart, AES is one of three manufacturing companies in the group which were third division by Mr Bums’s own admission. When first Nissan, then Toyota and Honda set up their manufacturing plants in the UK. the first reaction from the British motor industry was to send for the smelling salts.

If the carmakers knew they had a fight on their hands, the component makers got ready to lie down and die. The Japanese notion (rf efficiency was alien to so many, there seemed no realistic chance that ffiey could win any of the £2 billion worth of supply contracts that would be available.

On its first application to Honda to supply plastic fuel tanks firm its Oxford Automotive Components busi¬ ness, die Japanese sent back a simple A4 sheet detailing nearly200manufac¬ turing faults. Mr Bums and his team should have been daunted. Instead, they sent bade a new tank and a sheet of their own A4 paper halving the , ’ number of design faults. ■

That helped dindi die contract not die fact that Oxford Automotive was good at die job, but that its manage¬ ment was desperate to win and to learn. Nowtherompanyis sale suppli¬ er of fuel tanks to Honda's car plant at Swindon. Wiltshire, where it is due to make 100,000 Accord models a year within two years, and is expected to add a second car soon.

The success of Unipart Industries is probably typical of the revolution among Britain's automotive compo¬ nent makers. Component makers are

, the Cinderellas of the motor industry.

Rank Bums talks to Lisa Jones at AES, where the smallest savings count

Manufacturers win all die praise for their latest cars, but few people under¬ stand that cars are a mass of tip to 30,000 separate parts almost entirely supplied by outside contractors.

Component makers , employ- three workers for every one in car manufac¬ turing. A report for the Society of Motor Manufacturers knd Traders by Cardiff Business School’s Centre foe Automotive Research, to be published soon, estimates that 140,000 people work in component manufacturing companies, with annual sales worth Q4.7 billion. Exports are worth £3 billion, compared with imports of just £800 million.

Five erf the top ten component com¬ panies in Europe are British, including Lucas, GKN and Pfikington, ana numerous foreign companies, such as Bosch, have mowed into die UK to take advantage of cheaper labour costs, exchange rates and tiiehgh productiv¬ ity of British workers, as well as-die

introduction of Japanese car Anns'. However, a raff of smaller companies have thrown themselves at the oppor¬ tunity presented by the introduction of die Japanese carmakers.

' The reward has not just been Japan¬ ese business in the UK. bilt the atten¬ tions of Europe's carmakers, which could add another £1 bilUon of work by 1995. Volkswagen is doubling com¬ ponent spending in die UK to £400 million a year, Ford Werke is spending almost ESSO million a year here — 16 per cent of its total components budget and more than in any other nation out¬ side Germany. Also in the queue are Meroedes-Benz and General Motors. There can be no disputing the

attractions that a lower ex¬ change rate has conferred on UK suppliers. But the reason

for searching out UK suppliers is that the Japanese carmakers nave turned them into some of die most efficient in

the world. That is no overstatement for dozens of companies — such as Unipart Industries —- have been turned from lumbering, outdated bastions of British industry into the sort of highly* efficient factories of which economists dream. It is the culture, the thinking of both management and workers that has made the difference, encouraged

• by die Japanese who. unlike City investors, can see beyond this year and are prepared to make a commitment swathing over the long term.

When Oxford Automotive discov¬ ered it was sole supplier of Honda’s fuel tanks, the company had no up-to- date assembly line. Managers simply went to Japan and bought one: Intro¬ ducing it into a factory steeped in traditional practices was more difficult. A team of six was picked to run the line placed in the dead centre of the factory with 350 more workers lookine in. There was no bonus system, no dock¬ ing on, no foremen. They carried out their own maintenance and made their own quality checks. The result was that a failure rate of me tank in everv 100 went to one in every 400. For Unipan, the bonus was that

die rest of the factory was forced to take notice of the new- assembly line and workers

were soon clamouring to run a similar system. The story was similar at Uni¬ part’s Premier Exhausts where old working practices of demarcation and clocking-in were scrapped and the 230 workers given "staff status", so that they now get sickness pay. paternity leave and a 38-hour week — the son of benefits once reserved for white-collar workers.

In three years, the earning power of those workers has risen from £66,000 sales per employee to £158.000. or a total £36 million for a company which scratched £] million worth of turnover in 1989. Performance was good enough to calch the eye of one Scandinavian carmaker, which is shortly to an¬ nounce the placing of a £5 million a year contract with Premier.

The Japanese revolution soon rip¬ pled throughout die entire business and Unipan jumped at the chance to become a chosen supplier to Toyota's new £800 million plant at Bumasmn in Derbyshire. However, the company was not experienced at the sort of preci¬ sion machining being offered to AES. a business 80 percent owned by Unipan and 20 per cent by Beans Engineering, which owns the Reliant cars business.

The contract was to supply those parts that no one sees and that do nor cost very much, such as flywheels and knuckle joints which are only about £3.50 each, yet without which the vital driveshaft of a car cannot work.

Umpart simply sent executives to Japan to learn from the Japanese. Mr Bums explains: “What you learn from die Japanese is that they have no long¬ term contract with you but that they do have a long-term commitment They are anxious to teach ami to help. You can improve by learning from them and every improvement is treated seri¬ ously, not criticised in any way so long as they believe you are committed to helping them cut costs and improving the

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Flying in a virtuous circle LISTENING to Sir Geoffrey Muicahy describe his vision of the future of retailing is rather like listening to some Old Testament preacher delivering a particularly gloomy sermon. Sir Geoffrey foresees a future of low growth, intense competition, demanding cus¬ tomers and downward pressure on margins. The trouble is, he is probably right

Kingfisher, however, has a strategy which should allow it to cope and even prosper in this unforgiving environment. The basic Kingfisher theory is that lower prices gener¬ ate higher volumes which, if properly managed, lead to lower costs, permitting even lower prices. Kingfishers latest results sug¬ gest it is at least half way towards completing this “virtuous circle".

Aggressive pricing and carefully pitched price promotions have increased like-for-like

sales and market share across all its British chains. The next step, as Kingfisher acknowl¬ edged yesterday, is to manage costs down too. Although there has never been much excess fat. there is scope io reduce costs through expansion of Epos, which is only just being rolled out in some of the chains, and rationalisation in the number of suppliers. Tight management of the supply chain is something Alan Smith, the new chief execu¬ tive and a former Marks & Spencer man. knows about. There are probably lessons to be learned from Dany ioo, which is price competitive yet achieves margins above 10 per cent - more than double the rest of the group.

Although margins were squeezed in the first half, cost ratios improved in the second quarter. The signs are that Kingfisher’s virtuous circle will start to revolve soon.

ofapennyi fry die- Japanese — where British managers might yawn and ask for another coffee.

Taylor Woodrow COLIN Parsons. Taylor Woodrow's chairman, is showing admirable determ¬ ination in his drive to repair the group's balance sheet. The disposal of four Austra¬ lian shopping malls com¬ bined with a shrinking housing landbank cut debts by £87 million in the first half, and reduced gearing to 27 per cent.

While debts will rise again in the second half, the cash raising exercise has turned TayWood’s stock marker for¬ tunes. A month ago, the group looked an odds-on certainty for a rights issue before long. Now the chances appear less than even.

While the group looks more robust than it did six months ago, Mr Parsons must still prove die value of its unpromising collection of businesses. Contracting

needs the mosi urgent atten¬ tion. since it lost £3.4 million in the half, and its order book is declining rapidly, making it increasingly difficult to cover overheads. Margins in the property division are also ioo slim and it will return to losses in the full year, after another provision of up to £10 million. Finally, the group must demonstrate the worth

of its worldwide house¬ building subsidiaries since none has much size in its own markets.

TayWood could return to losses in the second half, after its provisions. The shares trade on more than 20 times next year's earnings and will see scam rise in the nominal dividend until 1995. so they have risen far enough.

CONTRACTING CRASH

Manufacturing HOW fortuitous for Kenneth Darke that the Central Sta¬ tistical Office has seen fit to tinker with its production figures in the run-up to his November Budget The sharp downward revision in manufacturing gives him a far more secure platform on which to order die expected cut in interest rates.

If die figures had remained unchanged, Mr Darke would have had difficulty justifying a rate cut on the grounds that the recovery was slowing, wheal manufac¬ turing output was rising at almost 3 per cent a year. As it is, annual growth of 1.7 per cent, and a rise of just 0.1 per cent between the past two quarters, suggests an econo¬ my that has almost stalled.

It is difficult to believe that the change in export pricir and reclassification of oddities as nuclear fuel and coke ovens could alone have influenced the figures so heavily, and the suspicion must be that the CSO has taken die opportunity of the rebasing of the index for a fundamental review of its statistics. Whatever the rea¬

sons behind it, a 1 per cent downward revision of previ¬ ous figures would be alarm¬ ing for any investor who still had deep faith in official statistics. But the gilt mar¬ kers rather limp reaction to die figures shows that most were unmoved by such ruc¬ tions in the data. Gilt yields are already predicting lower base rates in any case. All the Chancellor needs now is a subdued figure for August retail sales, which are pub¬ lished today, and the case for a November rate cut wifi look thoroughly convincing.

National

which fell more than 1 per cent to £57.6 million in the first six months. This augurs well for margins in the busier second half.

The acquisition of East Midlands Airport, has used up almost all die cash Nat¬ ional Express raised at last year's float. Given the group's difficulties in intro¬ ducing a new fare structure into its main business, inves¬ tors should hold back until management proves it can handle a more diverse spread of activities.

Hevwood eyw Williams BY selling most of its glass division to Piikington in Jan¬ uary and buying LaSalle- Deirch, the American building products distributor with the proceeds, Heywood has gambled that the Ameri¬ can economy wifi carry its earnings further and faster than domestic recovery. Since the business it sold lost £364.000 in the first half, and LaSalle made $2^ million in just four months, the outlook is promising. Particularly since Heywood is still left with cash of £18.8 million.

Express IN its first interim figures since flotation. National Ex¬ press bewails aggressive pricing from British Rail, as if its state-owned competitor was not playing fair. The company is dearly not accus¬ tomed to such competition from that quarter, although it may have to get used to it after privatisation.

Although the competition damaged National Express’s revenue, the company at least showed it can control costs.

THE TIMES CITY DIARY

Capel director returns to roots AFTER 34 years al James Capel — making him far and away the longest-serving di¬ rector — David Heron, elder

' statesmen of the convertibles scene, is heading far new pastures. Heron, deputy chairman of the London Inter¬ national Financial Futures Ex¬ change, is moving to Smith New Court in January to shake up the derivatives desk —a move that heralds a return to his roots. “I wanted to do something fulfilling in the run-up to retirement," said Heron, 51. who was previously head of derivatives at Capel and is masterminding efforts to raise corporate capital tor Lloyd’s of London. After tak¬ ing the firm into. Singapore and Hong Kong in spent ten years an msBtatKm-

, al sales with Peter Qumnen j ■ before turning his attention to

options. Much has changed at Capel since he rignedug m 1965, fresh out of Christ's College, Finchley. *T wa*! jhe

a public schoolboy, he re^~r’’ -Army first lunch there, all the others were old Etonians.

LORD Levers neph^MM*" oel Lever, has defected from Smith New Court afar years to sign up analyst at had nine years at tke &mk o?

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tin: threat ^ “"S'ShfeS Mercury and the cable tele¬

vision companies that it is to spend £13 million over the next three years on a consumer re¬ search programme. The Brit¬ ish Market Research Bureau will conduct half-hour door-to- dcor interviews with 10,000 customers a month m an at¬ tempt to find out what would lead than to switch to compet¬ itors’ services. Meanwhile, telephones around Britain will be ringing as two other firms ask another 60.000 customers whether they could ever possi¬ bly think of using anyone but BT. You have been warned. .

Doing the rounds BANKING staff are more prone to drink yuppie “design¬ er” beers than other pin¬ striped types. So says Tim Turner,-managing director of the Griffin Inns arm of fife west London brewer, Fuller Smith and Turner. Fullers opened a pub called The Mira, near Tower Bridge, in the summer of 1992—just a Filo- fax’s throw from Barclays Bank's temporary head office, the Lomfon Ccrnnnodities Ex-

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change and the International Petroleum Exchange. “It has done great business and has obviously benefited from its proximity to those organis¬ ations," says Turner. “What we have noticed is that we sell a lot of designer beers, tradi¬ tionally associated with yuppies. We have noticed they are very popular with the Bar¬ clays staff." And the boys from the petroleum and commodities exchanges? “Oh no. they are more inclined to the cask ale."

Changing gear WORD that Ford of Europe's former head of publicity, Rog¬ er Hayes, is to become direc¬ tor-general of the British Nuclear Industry Forum, the industryis trade association, prompts the question: what form of transport will he choose? In his time at Ford. Hayes, an ex-Reuters journal¬ ist, had a sporty Sierra Cosworth for himself, a Jag¬ uar for his wife, and a Fiesta at the holiday home m France. “1 did a deal with ftord,“ he says coyly. No battery-powered cars here. As though promot¬ ing the nuclear industry were not tricky enough, he has also joined the board of Matrix, a consultancy that counts die European Bank for Recon¬ struction and Development among its clients.

STAFF of Morgan Stanley in Canary Wharf rushed to their windows yesterday when an unidentified man ms spotted abseiling down the side of neighbouring CSFB. Another high-level departure? Alas, no.lt turned out to be the win- dew cleaner.

Jon Ashworth

Power firms’ excessive profits put a blight on industry From Mr M. E. Simons Sir, British industry ami espe- dafty power intensive com¬ panies and their customers cannot afford ever higher charges from duopoly private power companies. With a rise of 20 per cent in power prices for key customers since April, examination of the accounts of the power companies is apposite.

In the year to March 1992. National Power's operating profit was 11.2 per cent of sales and in the year to March 1993, with operating profits of £599 million, it was 13.8 per cent at a time when modi of British industry was in grave reces¬

sion. Operating profit in 1992- 3 was a fabulous 19 per cent on net fixed assets plus stocks and debtors. PowerGen's return was 20 per cent.

Whh recent price hikes and spikes, operating profit will rise even more.

HM Treasury may welcome booming profits to facilitate a good price for its remaining holdings in the power com¬ panies. Surely, wise counsel will take into account that penalised UK industry will wfli with unnecessary high and unpredictable power costs. Government tax take will be hurt and there will be further shrinkage in our industrial

base with avoidable job losses. Let them reflea what the French treasury would do under like circumstances.

One asks whether non-exec¬ utive directors fully appreciate that unbridled quest for shorter-term profits will lead to an urgent investigation by Professor LmJechild. head of Offer, the electricity regula¬ tory body. The sooner that this is initiated, the more likely it will be that industrial recovery will not be blighted by unac¬ ceptably high and erratic pow¬ er costs. Yours faithfully, MARTIN E SIMONS. 24 Granard Avenue, SW15.

Only non-smoking local residents need apply Feeling the pinch

From Mr Martin Morton Sir. The tobacco industry (and through it the Chancellor erf the Exchequer), the Depart¬ ment of Transport and staff looking for work in London must afl beware developments here in my office, however small and unrepresentative we may be.

"When I recently replaced my secretary I was under overwhelming pressure from the existing office staff here to ensure that whoever came was anon-smoker.

Additionally, having recent¬ ly employed secretaries who travelled from their homes to London on. British Rail from Huntingdon and Haywards Heath respectively, I was look¬ ing for someone who either didn’t travel by train or if he/she did, then was double sourced in terms of their ability to get to work. In recent years, strikes, the weather (snow mid leaves), foe IRA, objects on foe line, shortage of staff/railing stock, break¬ downs, fires an the train or cm the trade, signalling difficul¬ ties. lack of security m railway

car parks and a range of other “acts of God” including on one occasion being shot at by wild fowlers, have all mitigated against the effective availabil¬ ity of those of my staff who are solely dependent on British Raff.

Increased investment, pri¬ vatisation or permanent good weather are all unlikely to cure these problems at once.

At a time when staff are more readily available, those who are at a travelling disad-

. vantage (and who smote), are going to be last in the employ¬ ment queue. Yours faithfully. MARTIN MORTON (Director), Off and Chemical Plant Constructors' Association, Suites 101-105. (5th Floor), Kent House. 87 Regent Street, WL_

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Instead, today’s pensioners are victims of the massive inflation of the post-war years, particularly from 1970 on¬ wards, and taxation ap¬ proaching 50 per cent of income for much of their working lives.

However prudent they were in investing for their retire¬ ment, they are feeling the pinch now because prices, par¬ ticularly of basic Hems, are still going up. while incomes are falling.

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pressure to cut rate after output falls

By Rodney Hobson

JAPAN and Germany report¬ ed a rise in their respective trade balances despite a slew¬ ing down in both economies. The figures put increased pressure on Japan to produce an economic stimulus parirngp and possibly a discount rale cut ahead of the IMF meeting next week.

Japan’s gross national prod¬ uct fell 0.5 per cent in the April-June quarter, equal to a 2 per cent annualised fan Gross domestic product fell 0.4 per cent in the quarter.

Economists fear that the fragile Japanese recovery seen in the first quarter is giving way to a further downturn. Tsutomu Tanaka, of the Eco¬ nomic Planning Agency, blamed weak personal con¬ sumption and a decline in capital investment

German GDP rose 22 per cent in the first half of 1993, although this was a less robust performance than the 75 per cent surge in the comparative period last year.

The figure included lower than expected growth of 62 per cent in the old East Germany, confirming that re¬ cession in the West was hold¬ ing bade recovery in die East

Japan's trade surplus ex¬ panded in August to $75 million, up 7 per cent on August last year. The finance

Quarto calls for £9.5m

growth fund By Martin Flanagan

QUARTO, the publishing, marketing and production ser¬ vices company, yesterday an¬ nounced a £95 million rights issue and the acquisition of Scafa, an American publisher and distributor of ait and photographic reproductions.

The rights money will pay for the acquisition of Scafa, provide a war chest for future acquisitions by that company and help to reduce Quarto’s j borrowings. . , Laurence Orbach, chair-

.'man and chief executive of Quarto, said that far the past 14 years, an had been a pivotal force of the business, account¬ ing for 30 per cent of sales. The Scafa acquisition, he said, would push that to 37 per cent of total turnover.

Quarto is issuing 4.6 million new shares at 225p a share. The cash call is on the basis of three new ordinary shares for every 11 held, and nine new ordinaries for every 55 con- vertible preference shares.

Quarto said that in the half year to end-June, it boosted pre-tax profits by 20 per cent to £1.63 million on sales up 18 per cent to £195 million.

Earnings per share jump 25 per cent to 6.4p and the interim dividend rises 24 per cent to 2p.

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EBC (Inf) Pre-tax: £562,000 EPS: 3.03p (2.9p) Div: 1.75p (1.75p)

% TORDAY& CARLISLE (Int) Pre-tax: £17,000 EPS: 0.36p (3-1P loss) Dhn NH (nil) MAGELLAN INDS (lot) Pre-tax: £174,000 loss EPS: 0.4p (0..4p) Dhr Nil (nH) LONDON FORFAIT (Int) Pre-tax: £10.5m (£8.4m) EPS: 8.03p (6.41 p) Dhc 3.2p (2L9p)

LOPEX (lnt) Pre-tax: £144,000 EPS: 0.38p loss Dhn Nil (nil) ALEX. RUSSELL (Int) Prosaic £632.000 EPS: 0.75p (0.68p) Div: 0.5p (Ip)

s SS£W EPS: 1.0P (2-4P) Dhn 0.9p (1-1PJ

JAMES PINLAY (M Pre-tax: £3.8m (E3.6m) EPS: ip (1.8p) DlW 2p (2p)

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pre-tax: £4.2m (£3.6m) EPS: 14-Sp (11 -Sp) Dhr. 3-25P (ml)

Profit rasa from £481,000. Profit margins, especially In buflefing and maintenance, are the principal concern of the company

£353,000 toss In 1992. Shake-up eliminated losses at Oldham Signs but DM1 Europe profits fell and wifi be lower for fuH year

Previous Interim toss was £93,000. Exceptional £496,000 for holding to DunkekJ and losses foBowtog the safe of the Slbc brand Development of International network of offices continues with opening of Paris office. Further organic growth is expected

1992 loss £602,000 and loss per share 3.2Ap. Signs of improvement to some activities and board expects to pay final dividend

1992 profit £621,000. Burton Roof TBe Plant new to luU production, Second half trading profits are expected to be much better

Profit is down from £352,000. Increased enquiries for ratal! and commercial reftirtrfshmert and ■ signs of new projects being planned

Kenya profits are expected to be at least as good as last year. PemWance of profits has begun with all of 1991 and part of 1992

Profit down from £411,000. Fufl year results are uncertain and depend on whether orders deferred from first half come-through New computer systwn has brought stanffleant gains tn UK and will be imptarnented throughout German operations In the second half inures distorted byjmim asset

to £i.7m?PreHax loss In 1992 was £2.2m

JUUMJ HERBERT

ministry said imports had increased in volume because of the strong yen. It said it hoped the surplus would shrink after an objected ex¬ pansion of domestic demand generated by economic stimu¬ lus measures.

However, analysts expect the current trend to contmue in the short term. Nobuyuld Saji, senior economist at the Nikko Research Centre, said: “Basically, there is no signifi¬ cant change in the undenting trend, but Japan’s surplus might grow in the coming months as the crude ofl import price is expected to fall."

Analysts said car exports could shrink but semiconduc¬ tor exports would continue to grow.

The German trade surplus is likely to deteriorate in the next few months because of the strong mark.

The Federal Statistics Office said the trade surplus rose to OM65 billion in June from DM512 billion in May. The surplus in the first half of the year was DM22.6 billion, compared with DM133 bfl- j lion in the first half of 1992.

Economists stud the figures will be less encouraging once the effects of the mark's appre¬ ciation since the turbulence in the European exchange-rate mechanism start showing up.

Insurance losses grow at United

By Sarah Bagnall

INSURANCE CORRESPONDENT

UNTIED Friendly, the life assurance group, reported a worsening of general insur¬ ance losses in me six months to end-June, in contrast to other insurers.

Pre-tax profits Ml from £95 million to £6.1 million, reflect¬ ing a sharp rise in general insurance underwriting losses £rum£l«7niilKonto £7miUicm. The. interim dividend was lifted 12 percent to 55p.

The deterioration reflects the strengthening of reserves, particularly in toe motor ac¬ count United - has also changed its underwriting and selection criteria and incurred additional costs because of an expansion of property and motor business. Net premi¬ ums written in the general business account advanced 29 per cent to £535 mfllion.

John Rampe. chairman, said the outlook is Tor a substantial improvement al¬ though the account is still expected to show a small underwriting loss in the seo- and half.

Tbtal premium income rose by J7 per cent to £1635 million, partly due to the life business, which lifted premium income from £98.7 million to E1KXI million.

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BAA cleaning goes first class

By Co un Narbrouch

Liveried deaners from ISS working under their company's trial contract from BAA ar Heathrow Terminal 1

Jeyes raises payout despite profit slide By Philip Pancalos

JEYES Group, the household cleaning products company that issued a profits warning in June, has raised its interim dividend as it sounded a confident note on prospects, despite reporting an 82 per cent slump in first-half profits.

Jeyes blames increased marketing and promotional costs and a delay in seeing a positive response from the moves, for a

drop in pre-tax profits to £374.000 in the 28 weeks to July 17. against £2.11 million previously. The group, whose products indude Parozone bleach and Wet Ones, saw turnover in the first half advance to £58 million (£35.9 million), reflecting 1992*5 acquisition of Globol. the German maker of domestic insecticides, lavatory’ cleaners and air fresheners.

“Our markets are strong, our core businesses are growing and our profit

improvement programmes are well under way. We ire optimistic that we will realise the savings which we have identified and restore the business to its profitable growth plan.” the company announced.

Earnings plunge from 9.4p a share to 13p. But the interim dividend is raised to 33p (3.1p). reflecting the company's increased confidence. Jeyes shares added 4p to 540p.

BAA, the airports group, has started to pay more for clean¬ ing at Heathrow Terminal I in a radical deal with ISS. the Danish-owned cleaning com¬ pany. that swaps the tradition¬ al cleaner for upmarket liveried operatives.

The deal for the annual £25 million to £3 million contract allows BAA for the first time to budget for the quality desired instead of for costs of materi¬ als and labour.

Roger Cato. BAA operations director, said that the experi¬ mental deal, which went live on July 4. was already show¬ ing results. He quoted a duty manager who said that she could “see the advantage from added value from day one". The two-year initial deal with ISS cost “marginally more" than the contracts with other companies that it had re¬ placed. but brought improved cleaning, enhanced image and better staff attitudes, he said.

Unlike cleaners at other air¬ ports and other Heathrow ter¬ minals. the specially chosen and trained ISS workers, to¬ talling 114 at Terminal I. are to operate as information assis¬ tants too, Mr Cato said.

The different cleaning phi¬

losophy was what BAA liked. Mr Cato said, noting that the cleaning industry in Britain has been very much geared to low price, which was not the route BAA wanted.

BAA decided to review- cleaning aboui 18 months ago when looking at main areas of spending. Cleaning the termi¬ nals at Heathrow alone costs about £12 million a year.

David Openshaw, manag¬ ing director of ISS Airport Services, formed for the Heathrow deal, said that the £300 per head had been spent on smart uniforms for airport cleaners and detailed training.

ISS recruited people with no ties with cleaning or airports and trained them in-house. Senior staff regularly go to ISS's “quality institute” in Copenhagen. Mr Openshaw said that'ISS sought to moti¬ vate workers through partici¬ pation and good conditions. Terminal 1 workers will cam at least £5 an hour and work 40 hours a week.

ISS, which plans a New York listing next year, has increased profits every year for 31 years. It is on target to boost pre-tax income by 10-15 per cent this year.

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npiihh Fund inc JJ290 127X0 040 N Alher fTTTj -dO- ACE 11290 IZ7X0 040 PMttK Smite Gas Irnr* hutment 194.10 20240 030 250 PitiGJU 44.48

-CO-ACC 27200 292*0 070 250 smaller CDS DO? I84A6 rrr InU Crfwrii 33270 358.90 l.to SpcdoISla 277.71 * -do- ACC 37280 39800 1.90 -da-acc 11

Japan Gen 193.90 207JO 1X0 BM Of British S025 ■'•in TT -do- ACC 19200 2D9JO 090 IlmtV-rvmTK

MngC t folio Inc 97.47 10200 020 iuo Euro Spec Stn 51*4 54X1 • OM 049 -do--Acc 10260 1OT.S0 OJD am ■CO- AH * aw

Monthly Income 16200 175*0 flTO 160 aio mi Tech • aio Only Inc S237 56.77 0jQ7 *39 ■ -J- K 78.01 8443 * aw 1*1

-Co-Acc 54.13 57*7 “ oxa 239 11690 12* TV - 044 1.15

HILL SAMUEL UT MANAGERS N1A Tbwer Adt&SCOlKbc Road. Croydon 081686 4355 British 9103 - 021 2.13 rrrei I-Ut'-I hril

FRIENDS PROVIDENT MANAGERS capital rzzi a. ft?!) L82 46030 air.'T.IH Castle Street SaUsfemy. WBn. SP1JSH Dollar m n DroBne: 072241)411 Adfflinfonlfaw 072 411622

European Far Eon rki

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0*6 034 LONDON* MANCHESTER

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Euro Gth Dm ■ IIVJ ■ K»'.T * 037 005 High Yield no io 117.70 - OlO 4*6 Oenoal SUB 8709 -do- ACC ■IMI 129.161 * 034 06$ Income 154.10 -ax 110 Infmnr 6509 8907

flirt rat Dfct 139*2 147 J7? - 016 *78 liul 23800 ► 1*0 018 rmr>rn rattans 1 5908 ■do-Are 238*8 252361 -027 *78 japan Tech 7*07 8028 • 022 wnerion 5906 6422 • 033 030

inU Glh Dlst 8217 87.41 • 022 on NatRstmees 56.93 - 074 047 -do-Acc SSJO 9075 - 023 a» security 309.90 XI 40? - 200 US TW of In* Tnuts AU4

Nth Amer Din ■pjri 18301 ? 1*3 079 Smarter Cm - OJO Ml -do-ACC 199.48 • 106 074 SpcdoJSm. LSS

Pic Bastn Dfcu P*fTl 279XA • 074 PM IQ Smaller Co* - am ■ p.vi ;< i«i ft-ft ■ • -du-ACC 267*3 284*9 » 076 EM I .J.1 r- TIM

INVESCO FUND MANAGERS LTD II Dewskre Square. i—(™ EC2M 4YR 0716263434. Deafin^ 0800010733 UKSpedattitTnuls Smaller Cos 27 JB Special Features . 2».<B -do- ACT JSJ3

29.457 - OH LI! 31.80 -OJI US 3753 -014 IX

General Funds (JK Growth 5682 6066 *017 1.76

hull E * W7 1 "rym ,r .1 ■11

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*1 ‘1 mw -l il/tfll HT .i • 1 1 Wvl llrr.4l Llsl 1

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Exempt FUnds Exempt 154-50 European acc 125.00 European Dlst 1I7X

161.90 - 050 454 13240* * IX IA5 124X1 • IX L45

overseas Growth Fond* American Oth 4*73 European Pert -do-ACC

Euro Small an French Growth -do-AJX

HongK/chln* InU Growth -do-ACC

Japan Pert Accum Units Japan Stallr Cos

IZ7X uix 2272 7181 77JB 72.91 5470 5470 3601 3601 41-08

51841 1)4.90* 139-lOt 2520 7759 8287 7786 5*11 5*11 3*26

ShtapmeAsean 906 -do-ACC 9242

SonCb i?«t *«!■ Ki.?n

4263* 9*55 99-25

29900

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UK Sm Hr DM IO640 .11200 * U0 ... do-Acc M77X 11450 * LlO ...

Owreseos income Ponds Global lac. 0956 fell *051 *45 md Bond $051 sum* ox sx

KLEINWORT BENSON UNIT TRUST UTD N Fcadtnwh Screw lxOn 60 on $066600 Deafiag: On ta7354

5479 5859* 12420 Dim 21050 223.90*

10 5384 57JBT

CSpOal Growth Trusts . .——-— 9187 9688

7582 SOM 1«X 149.10 Bill 8988

2J4SD 29200 45600 4&5LJD

tSpsaal 8HL9Q 277X 231.90 aw.ro 28*70 307.10 10*70 11250

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57.74 * 030 UM

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LAURENCE KEEN UNIT TRUST MANAGEMENT I Whfc Han YartL loadon SEL 8714*7 5966 nxOmeGlh Inc 5456 5*01 - 084 431

LEGAL * GENERAL OT MANAGERS i B^11 R*?d- Hdsu* Brentwood Eire Emp 0277227360 DcaBar *277696395 EquhyDia 4«B0- Equity acc 86*6o Eqofcy income 9906

For Easton I97X ntediatcast 5*99 Gttr 9786 Global Growth TUB

Japanese Oeeiieiu LquUy FariflcGth

7*39 KMX WIW

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51.451 -007 587 1ISX ... 5M 7586 » 086 045 6083* * 041 4.70 BIX *043 ...

11080 - OX 005 97.X -041 047

LLOYDS BANK UNIT TRUST MANAGERS ETD Motabsoen Use. OMhan Kent ME44IF 0634S343I3 Belaneed 339X 350.70 * 2X ZX

-CO-ACC 72400 77030 • *70 240 Omul Euro Gth 55.12 5*03 *089 IJ4 ■do-ACC 5*25 BIX * OX 1,14

Extra me 2S2X 265UO - 070 259 -do-ACC 62620 66*20 - LX 259

German Gth lux 117.40 - ax 009 -do-ACC H70D 12220 - ax 009

Growth Puri 51MB 546X - IX 035 -do-ACC - 51380 54680 - IX OJS

income 4Kuo suuo - ix 24J -do ACC 12370 13170 - 400 341

Income Port sux 546.10 - uo 404 •do ACC S20W 554X - LlO 404

Apan Growth 107X 11480 *0X001 -do ACC KPJ» 11470 *070 001

MasterTtwt 54X 5*09 - OlO IX -do ACC toil 6295 - 011 IX

N American Gen igs.ro iwx + ox aoi -do AIT 21450 22*20 * LOO 001

NAm Sm CD Bee 14070 149.70 *0X 001 ■do ACC 14260 L52X * QX 001

PariDc Casio m SO 232.10 * 090 089 -0O-ACC 230.40 24580 * 080 059

Small CDS Ret 328X 345.70 * 020 XS -dO ACC 42700 450JC- * OX 229

UK Growth -8087 8604 L» 227 -dOAce 9988 10IX - 200 227

Serekcs/XJnk American Oen 38090 -dO AtC 470X

Americas Me 415.90 -do ACC 4T6X

AinSmCDAK 12480 AastaHaAoc 1X.70 Capital 723.10 4io acc tarn

ACC 42300

497X 4)900 50290 UIX 16800

» IX OJB 4 1.70 OM • IX 023 • IX 022 • OX ... -4X 1.15

Cuui pad ul DMdand

MSX 936X 3*50 4070

764707 - 220 217 8$4!0 - 250 217

- 9-00 0.98 - 5X 253 -mow

4403

46.10 $421 27X

100.10 71 JO

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High me -no Acc

md Growth -do-Acc

inn me upas oen at Japan -5m (lr Cos 163J0 MldUnd BOX -dOABC 19270

Kecorery 39X -dO ACC 6240

Second Gen B7X -do ACC IB7X

smaller o» 65.ro -do ACC 125.10

Trustee «2X OnriboodS 7118.92 ChartfnndJ 686-10 Pension ex l 90280 NAAdFtHC3 14921 -dO ACC 3 7I2HJ

4*50 57X 2*80

10UO 7SXr

13040 UE60 57X

172X 6400

3HX 4 LX 0600 71X

17T20 69X1

12240 45.10

00.10 92*40

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... 6.75 . * 230 6.75

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■dip ACC IflLW 17270 * 000 L9I usmoKBa "121.40 peso - Oja 222 -dfr-ACC 137 JO 146.70 -OX-242

MARTIN CURRIE UNIT TRU More cut s CMt TenM* JEH12ES. ammsisz - EeseuMto . 8*45 . 9409 '- Far Bast t44TO uuo * income Growth 7501 7*63? - European 74-62 T9 41 * fnhAmtricBa 57.19 stun - OK Growth IIAt sus — lid Growth [0030 10650 • Charities 11210 U2XT - iminnome . 70.75 jsjjt - Jhpan 5*92 «$$ *

002 04) OX 016 LI4 239

4MB LOP OM U) 043 1.98 OX 033 OX 2S7 021 4-12 OX ...

MEHCURV^Furff MANAGSRS LTD X) nqmba M BG4RtA& m 2S>2tMO American ittn l»M0 - on) ... do-acc soma mat. * lh ... ox na.ro (cn.70 sx -dO-AOC 130.90 130.90 ... 5J6

EmgMkBAcc 9*63 103.90 *020 ... EuroperoGdl ' 20PX 222301 » 210 072 do-ACC 225-30 2590OT * 220 072

General 49*30 31*70 - 3J0 ZJ3 dO-ACC 9JOW 9UX - 6X 231

Global DU 133.10 DM * 050 5JB dO-ACC 14*90 I56X ♦ OX 222

Income 147.50 J57XI - lid 4D dtp AJX 219.10 2X260* - L40 4JJ

inietnatimu 4iuto 437X * uo om dq-ACC 54*80 582.3ft

Japan Acc istUO 21*80 NtM Europe 1S3X 16340 -dO-ACC 15500 166JS

ttmoy 308.90 JZ7X -do-ACC 387.ro 413-50

European Inc 77*3 BL29 do- ACC 10080 10670

Brit Bin* drip 72U 8055 do-ACC BOX 9200

PDrifobO 77.78 8271 do-ACC 8*44 9405

Gold General 10*40 11640 -do-Acc 11080 11*10

Pacific 9928 10600 do-ACC 40*70 iu.ro

UK Smaller Cm 5*84 dO-JUX 6287

US OM * IX ... * LOO IX * U0 IX - OX *74 - OX 274 * 041 296 * OX 296 -045 2D - 053 212 - 021 274 - 025 274

- 9.10 QX - 030 079 * 040 0.79

606JT • 009 IX 6*19 -OlO IX

MIDLAND UNIT TRUSTS LTD 192 Eyre Street Sheffield. SI 3RD ~ " 0742520200

0742529076 59-50 6042 7*® 4039

-dO ACC Brittsh Dfet do ACC

European C2h -dO-ACC

Extra HJgB Inc dO-ACC

FT-SE100 Index -dtfr- Atf

cm mod mi

63-64 * 6462 * 8240 - 96-67 -

187.® 20040 23SJB 251.60 72X

5101 5*52

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income

japan Gth - dOACC Mandarin acc. Math Amcrimn do Acc

7*93 • 13200 MIX * SOX 5275 -

SAX - 60411 -

IS8X 16480 - 23*50 251.90 - 552IO 59IX - 28200 31240* - 61940 66250 - 36*80 39440? * 58*20 41*30 *

112 IQ USX 16160 17500 20640 22080

004 256 001 256 OtJ 203 015 203 230 002 4jo am 004 540 aio 540 005 259 005 259 009 649 020 649 010 436 OX 4JG OX 210 ax no ix ... LX ... IX 079 i m nur zx ax

MORGAN GRENFELL INVESTMENT FUNDS 130 X tofo-r On* Loadon EDM IUT

071 American Gth DeposhlK Deposit Acc Euro Gth ACC tump* loti am JSpan Trader UK Equity Inc

dO-ACC UK Ind Tractor USEq UdTrkr dO-AOE

Aslan Trader

8260Q3 278-10

99.94 123.78 317X L37X 177X 81.19

I6SX 20270 149.10 19100 Mj I7SX

295.10 9*947

1227V 338X 147.90 18*40 8602

177.70 217.90 159 hOr 20290? 21140? I99X

* LX ... *001 *13 * 002 6.13 * 220 ... *ntn ... * on ... * 013 ... - OX 173 -OX 173 -070 302 * IX 1.46 * L90 L46 * 050 043

MURRAY JOHNSTONE UNIT TRUST MANAGEMENT 7 Weal NBe Sl, (BaseoarGZZPX, 83CIM933 American Inc 167 JO L7140T » OX L73 European 6555 6*751 • 024 IX Olympiad SOX 60.711 *006 038 Globa] Bond 4907 49.60? *006 60S Smaller Cos 7L7I 7497 - 046 LI9 SquBywrame on o*4B - 054 501 UX Growth 8*66 89A3 -058 L73

NM UNIT TRUST MANAGERS LTD He BBua Gentr* Norm Harbour; PartoaocUh. Eamdrie* 0705372222 DeaBam. 0TO53WD9 American Am . 4704 50.17 -as lh Amttaflinacc , 3CM0 zsx - 550 ... Conxtou* do-Am

European * do-Am

Emaiacnme dp-ACC

Far East GQ gut Prd me Gold

-do-ACC Income- dn-Aee .. .

nutmattonal -dO-ACC

Jap sm cos acc 5 pure Mly Acc smorCMAcc xpcdaisns -do-Am

TWqro -do Arc '

64K 69-24 - IX IX HUS 7493 - L4S JJ2L •. 180 19140 * IX 090 I93X 20550 - 2X. 090 7SX 8QWJ - COS 550

1I7X 125 - 010 SX 177 IMX *130 009

6089 6420? - 001 *]fl 3*21 42M - 244 ... 42-3 4240 -203 55.15 SWC

J68X 180 3092 .1216 4*42 4205

37050 99*30 21*70 2MX 2*85 2*87 3292 3907 8*89 9079

- 002 470 - OX *70 *022 006 * 032 066 * JX ... *OSO ... *003 060

3*47 - 005 L73 4201 -OJB L73 95X 9684

ax • ax....

NAP UNTT TO LOT MANAGEMENT LTD 35 Foaaftria SL Maachanr M22AF •MZI7SZ2 NAP UK Growth 6*98 7445 -OX 262 NAPGhFSdlilt TOW 8271T -001 5X NAP Higher Idc 31460 22*30 -OX 449 nap UK income io*ao imao -ax 34* NAP Unl 91.79 9765 • 004 L77 NSP Smaller Om J9X 8447? -009 IJI

NEWTON FUND MANAGERS 71 Queen Vktmta SL liadw EC4V4DR 071B2 960 Goiaal global Growth income UK1KM

17291 18502 *045 202 30938 329L13? * 1.77 106 11445 121.76 * 014 1.93 214.94 22*06 - 015 270 0701 14549 - 125 *70

PEARL UNIT TRUST XTD PO B« 500 rctoherrod PE2CBR 073347000. DeaQip OSMCKn Growth 145.10 15260 - IX 243 dO-ACC 257X 27050 - 1.70 243

Income 234X 24*80 - 070 225

New York (midday): DOW Jones- 3609.06 (-25.I6J

2356JM+2.1)

SftP Composite 458.43 (-3^3)

Tokyo: Nikkei Avge

FT 30 share:

Brussels: General_6692J0 (-23^71

33947.79 (-20032} Paris: cac 585411*201}

Hong Kong: Hang Sen*-

Zurich: ska Gen 555J0 (*5-3Q

. 747185 (-213

Amsterdam: CBS Tendency ...

London: ft A AU-share FT 500 -

1252 1+0.9} FT Cold Mines

1506.10 (-033) 1623-95 (-050)

_1$541 (-5.9)

Sydney: ao

Frankfurt

19129 f-25.4) FT FUed Interest. 124-83 (-016)

FT Govt secs aigatas

... 102-34(053 - 28175

DAX. SEAQ Volume .

1880.57 (+aJXfl USM (Daastmi} 593.1m

MS-32 (-0.11)

■V*. - —jt j"£ • ■

Fust Dealings Last Dealings Last Declarator! R»r Scttfemenr

August 23 September (0 November 2S December 6

Cafl options were lalten out on 14/9/93: Aegis Group. Babcock ImL CamOTi Si taw.

DoomJnuein Gold, Eurotunnel Ex-Land* PSP, Psion. Stundwidt, Signet, Wembley.

Put* Caft TuDow Oil

FT-SE KX) Previous open m men: S65Z3

Three Month Sterimfi previous open Uueresc:

Three Mth Eurodollar Prertom open Interest 8642

Three Mth Euro DM Previous open Intense 555350

Lous Gift Previous open Interest M452

Japanese Govmt Bond

German Gov Bd Bund Previous open Inheres?: 130720

German Gov Bd Bobl Prevtous open Interesc I4J4S

Three month ECU Previous open Interest 24609

Euro Swiss Franc Previous open Infcresc 39923

Italian Govmt Bond Prevtous open Interest: 60213

tiFFEWnONS

Series Caffls

Oct Jau Apr Od Jan Apr

Aim Lyon 550 Sl’j W: 684 5 17, 174 C592M bOO 18 29', 38*: 21 334 39 Argyll — 300 15 234 30 7 15 18 WJ Ito 4 104 17 264 33 354 ASDA_ - 57 B — — 14 — — (■631 67 1 — — 6 — — BOMS 460 J9 47<i S7 ♦1 12 17 I’OTI) WO IS. ZPi JT: 19 30 354 BrMtwwi 340 Iff. 304 W ir* 23 za r364'<> 390 6'. 174 254 314 404 45 BP- W IJi 21 2b 6’i Iff, 17 PMO1,] 330 2V »■> IV, 28 314 344 Br Steel.. 100 11 154 1B4 34 7 9 nos no 4<i 10 14 84 IS, 144 c«»_ - BOO 44 624 774 11 ITCbFI 850 18 36 51 35 404 55*1 CU_ $80 42*i — — 44 — — fHilJ,il US 12, — — 25', — — 1C1- t>8l 65 824 — 34 IS.- — r736i 750 17 374 49 X 41 56 Klnsnshr. 63’ 2S<, — — Iff, — — rwiy 6» I5<i 344 484 2b 34 Land See.. 650 34 464 S9 8 20", X 1*6711 700 8‘, 22 34 35 47-, S24 m as_ 360 34'. 41 48 3 7 104

3W 12 22-, 30 13 184 2Si Ml West.. 460 35<i «4 $34 44 12 194 riso'O $00 II 25 31 22 294 394 Salnsbury 460 IBS 304 W, 134 74 284 r 4614 500 S 14 72 42 484 524 Shell_ 650 H 324 .1*4 15 25 J6 ffidSTJ roo 2S 12.- 18 Sff, 574 ts7 Smkl Beta. 3W 31 42 51 8 184 234 IMOB) 420 15 ZPi 36 224 Morense^ 220 Iff: 27. 264 4’, 104

240 ffi 12 104 154 214 24 Tralalgu-- . 92 12 — — 24 — — fion 101 5 — — 64 — — Unilever, low 314 354 664 23 42 ciOM'il UOO If 324 45 SS Zeneca— TO) 374 58<i OT IS rwo 7SJ J3 *4 444 434 56

Series Oa Feb Mot Od Feb May

GmdMeL 430 25 36*, *1 74 204 244 P432J 460 64 17 244 31 Lidbroke- 180 214 27 29 4 9 144 n«y 330 1 16 IB4 1*4 19 Unl Bl5C — 360 14 26 30 17 2o r»» 390 4 14 174 4tft 454

Sepiembn 14,19M Tot 43483 Cat Puh 13300 FT-SE Caft 3«3 Pot 4Wo

•tindertymi: security price i

r»nc Pan

BAA- 900 AS 534 69 17 36 32 C8I94J B50 19 29 44 424 524 SB Thornes W S50 24'.- 314 C 17 23 274 rs564l 603 S 12 194 52 S54 584

Series Not Feb May Not Feb Mot

BAT lt)d _ 450 33 46 _ ffi 15 — 1*4681 475 IT4 304 — 194 264 — STB- 360 2S4 334 37 P, 12 16 C38Q4) 390 S', 16 214 214 274 31 BrAero— <20 324 50 Sff, 294 44 SI (■-130 460 164 334 424 SS4 6S 7S BrTeJan- 390 37 424 IT, 3 84 104 (*410) 433 IS 224 294 Ufi :i4 234 Cadbury _ 453 254 374 41 94 174 264 1*46741 493 a 184 224 36 41 494 Guinness. 460 26 38 47 144 23 304 P4OTI 500 V, 21 274 384 Iff, S3 GEC- 330 X 264 33?: 64 12 IJ4 D4C8 360 64 13 184 244 284 294 Hanson — 240 18 22 24 44 9 114 (“2511 260 7 12 144 14 19 214 LASMO — IX 14 104 22, 6 9 12 1*12741 130 0 15 IS 104 144 IT Lucas- IW 19 234 26 S a 104 ri544l 160 64 ii 144 15 18 21 Ptildnem.. 140 22 25 27 3 7 9 1*1554) loO 9 134 16 II 17 184 Prudential 330 17 264 W. 104 144 21 P3384I 360 54 124 154 » 324 384 Bed land- 50U SS 67 724 10 IS 20 1*54841 550 214 38 45 31 364 53*. Royal Ins 288 30 38 — 5 84 — 1*3001 317 12'. 21 — 174 22*.- — Tesco_ 200 214 Z7 30 44 8 12 l-ZIM 220 94 16 19 14 IS 23 Vodafone 46Q 43 514 61 1) 22 264 1*4831 500 21 V, 394 32 43 47 will lams - 30) 314 304 <24 44 9 14 [”3291 330 12*, 22

FT-SE INDEX

2S4 17

[•RC841

224 20

2900 2950 : xuo 3050 3100 : IIS)

Cans Sep J36 87 38 8 ,

oa 147 104 38 19 8 Nov IM IZ8 93 84 41 to Dec 187 (49 116 % 63 44 JkUl 260 — 107 — 146 —

puts Sep 4 4 28 73 123 Da •*, 18 31 53 88 IX Nov 21 33 49 70 09 137 Dec 33 46 63 64 112 146 Jun to — 122 — 170 —

Series Crib

Sqi DeeMarSep Pals Dec Mar

Abby fUL 390 13 27 374 | 11 184 l*W3 420 1 13 22 20. 27 344 Aimtrad _ 35 64 8 9 1 2 3 P4II 49 14 5 64 14 34 54 Barclays - 500 7 3th 424 2 17 28 P50S4J 550 1 Iff, 194 47 494 574 Blue drc_ 280 3 16 2S4 34 19 2* 1*2*9 330 1 84 17 234 324 36 BrGfcs- - 300 30 33 374 1 5 8 rx*4i 330 14 114 20 ff. 17 Zh DCwfis - 220 17 28 34 1 84 14

.1*2354} 340 2 154 23 6 18 Z34 34 I (■341) 260 7 Iff. 21 2ffi 334

HillMWi _ 160 f>'l rj 17 I II 134 f 16441 180 1 5 9 17 25 264 LonitKj- _ 110 104 16-1 20 | 54 9 n 191 120 14 11 IS4 24 •h 14 Sears_ HO 64 10 13 1 ffi 6 nis LZO 1 34 74 64 104 114 Thm Eml. 950 41 744 88 1 194 3th rw 1003 34 43 59 124 414 534 Tumid re - 220 5 17 2Z*j 14 104 144 (*2251 249 1 8 13*i Iff, 224 264 TSB_ _ 200 7 164 214 t 8 14 PX51 220 1 74 124 17 194 25 Wellcome. 700 27*1 584 78 14 34 47 my 9 750 1 334 54 » 62 73

Saks Sep Dec Apr Sep Dee Apr

Glue— _ eco 27 SO 70 14 37 55 1*62541 650 14 20 484 27 084 83 HSBC— - TOO S 39 61 54 38 584 PTO04J 750 1 104 304 52", 71 884 Hauer _ 1550 354 97 42 2 514 S34 risen 1600 3 724 15 27 754 1064

Safe* Sep Dec Feb Sep Dee Feb

R-Snyoe- 137 10 16 184 0*1 74 ffi PI45I 156 04 74 104 13 10 21

Safes Oa DecMar Oa Dee Mar

FlMns- 160 13-t 17 23 5 94 N ri671 180 4 74 14 164 22 26

Safes Nov Feb May Nor Feb May

EAStmEIC soo 58 654 71 3 84 II IS48M SSQ 2l*i 32 394 174 26'. 10

Series So? Dee Mar Sep Dee Mar

NaflFwr 3® 24 32 404 1 7 11 1-383) 390 [ 14 234 84 21 244 Som pwr. ISO 184 294 — l 6 — 1*367} 390 I S’, 14 844 27 314

|v:v •>-'v r. -~.t • -•-•-.usRe'ifiSSK

GNI REPORT: Cocoa continued on its i^mard march, fuelled by rumours of defaults on Indonesian shipments. However the main driving foroe remains the growing realisation that the projected 1993/4 supply deficit, together with the agreement to sell the ICCO buffer stock wfi] mean an effective reduction of 400,000 to 500.000 tonnes in world inventories, or nearly 42% of global reserves.

LONDON COMMODITY EXCHANGE COCOA

Sep-B44-043 Dec-948-946 Dee-881-880 MOT--960-959 MAI -905905 May-971970 May-917-916 «1 __980 SLR Jill — Sep - . 937-936

Sep . Not. Jan . Mar

volume: 15671

ROBUSTA COFFEE (S) - 1368-1360 May_1268-1262 - 1293-1291 Jul _ 1265-1255 — 1274-1272 Sep-1265-1255 — 1266-1264 Volume: 3051

Spot: unq May-

AUg-

RAW SUGAR (FOB) Dec- Mu .

unq May. - Aug.,

unq

WHJTTE SUGAR (FOSI May

Spot: 2926 AOg Ore- 275-5-750 Oct Dec- 2690680 Dec MU-27225-720

MEAT A LIVESTOCK COMMISSION Average tamoet: prices u representative

markets on September 14 tpfkglw) Pig Sheep G8--6723 7*51 (*/-}--4J2 -236

Eng/Waies- 6*93 7*76 l*H--236 -2X NM-*14.4 -340

Scotland:-MX 7528 1*<S ---7.77 -5J3 t$H--28.7 -T*?.9

Cattle 1X99 -4J5

12024 -283 -110

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User 22422 23916 - UH l .K ■dn-Aix 23*57 25127 - IX Ll(

DK Small COS 8U4 9*38 -024 U» -do-Acc HM05 IUX -028 101

WAVERLEY UNIT TRUST MANAGEMENT UD U Ctrarioor So. Edhrimrefa EH24EQJ 0HZS1B1 AoRanmcoid isjo 1*52 - ix 050 ndfleaadn - 3409 3*26 -ax ax OnwHanGUl 3S40 JUt -012 ... GMalBond m 8*8 tun -O0C0-686 Penny Stare 2608 ZL74. -O76 05D

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Period Opai High Low OoseVoitimc

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DfC 93 _ 96*3 96*3 9048 96.47 755 Mar 94 ^ 96*0 96*0 9042 9642 128

Dec 93 - 9295 9298 9301 9293 41019 Mar 94 _ 9448 94*0 94/45 . 12266

Sep 93 _ 113-26 113-29 113-11 113-15 428 Dec 93 - 113-34 113*30 11KB (1>V0 70364

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1I10O’ 112-39 110*9 111.12 210*2

2355 . 0

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101-15 10U1 101.14 10123 2357 0

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Dec 93 „ 114.10 114*9 113.90 11400 21752 Mar 94- 11400 U4JOO 11280 11284 12

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1993

ACCOUNTANCY

Buckingham: NN43 (12). N4N3 (121.N4LU12) Ncwosdc N406 (l 8) Reading: LNI4 Salford: TN94 (16) Wales. Bangor. WOO (16)

AMERICAN STUDIES

Salford: 04 NC (24), FIQ2 (18j

ARCHAEOLOGY

Glasgow: V602 (16)

BUSINESS. STUDIES

Buckingham: N120 (12). C8N1 (121 Exeter LI 12 Ulster P9N1 (14). N140 (18) Wales. Aberystwyth; C7N1 (10]

CELTIC

StMaiysCtrffcCQIS. FQ15 Wales. Aberystwyth: QSOO (18)

CLASSICS

St Mary's Coll: CQ18. FQ88. QQ58, GQ18

COMMUNICATION STUDIES_

Edge Hill Calk P434, LP33, MP93. PQ33 Ulster. Y460 (14) Wales. Cardiff: PW4 5 (22)

COMMUNITY STUDIES

Bradford & Ilkley Community Colt 1521.L510.N7S3 COD of St Mark & St John. Plymouth: N1WI Edge Hill Colk LM3X, MTJC5. M910.LM8X.MVXt

CREATIVE ARTS_

Wales, Cardiff PW45 (22)_

DANCE_

Brecon Hall: W4W9. W460. W4 P4. W4WJ

DRAMA__

London. Queen Mary & West R2W4 (20). R2WK (20). R8W4 (20), R8WK120). WR42 (20). WR48120) StMary’fcGoQ: WFLI.GW14. QW59, QW54

DUTCH

London. UC: T222 (12), TR22 (14)

ECONOMICS

Buckingham LI00/LI02 (12) Hull LI 00 (18) London. Goldsmiths: Y615 (12) London. Queen Mary and West LG 14 (20) London, UG LG 14

*ij Reading: LI00 (20). LI 12 (20). LUO (14). LN14 (20) Salford: FLI1 (10), LI00 (16). LI 12 (18) Strathclyde G1L1 (CDD) Ulster LI 00 (16) Wales. Bangor LI 00 (16)

EDUCATION

Waks. Aberystwyth: VX13 (20)

EDUCATION (PRIMARY)

Edge HUlCoO.E2VB.E2EX.E4Gl. E4V8. E2EX, E2G1 Sc Mary'S CoD: E4FI

EDUCATION (SECONDARY)

CoU or St Mark* St John, Plymouth: E7W2 SI MaiyVCofl: E747. E757, E758. £750, E752. E711. E722. E753. E725_'

ENGUSH

Buckingham: Q3VI (8).Q300{8). gV3I(8).VlQ3(8) Igr Hill Cb(L- R1Q3, LQ33. LQ83.

PQ33. QV31. QT32, MQ93 London. Goldsmiths: QV31 (20) Si Marys CoQ: QF31.QC31

ETHNIC STUDIES

Edge HH1 Cott LT35. MTX5, RTI5. LT85.TV51

EUROPEAN STUDIES

Edge HOI Colt LT32. QT32. LT82. MTY2

CSLondan. Queen Maty ft West RZT2 ■(16). WR48 (20)

London. SSEES: T1 18 (18) Essex T9 Y4 Salford-T2T9 (20), F101 (14). F103 (14), F3R2/F3RF{8|. HL3T2, H2T2.T9T2 (20) Strathclyde KIT2 (BBB). H2T2 (CCO.H1NUCCO Buckingham: N140. Y220, LIT2 (10J.M351 (8)

FINANCE

Ulster N300I16) Wales. Bangor N400 (16). N340

FRENCH

I

Edge Hill Colt R1Q3. LR31. RT15. LR81.RV11 Halt FIR1 (12J.G1R1 (12).RlOO London. Goldsmiths: R100U2), RR12 (10) London. SSEES: RR18(20)

.Reading: RIOO(18pO. NRl 1 (20) Salford: G5R1 (14) UMIST:QR11 (14).GR5l (14). Rl 10(141 Waks. Bangor RI01 (15)_

GEOGRAPHY

Edge Hill Galt LV81. LSOO. LL38, LQ83. LT85, LM8X, LR81 Exeter F800 Glasgow: F800116J, FF68I16) St Mary’s CoU: FC81. FF8I.GFI8. FQ85 ' _

GERMAN

Bath: NR 12 (24) HulLGIR2(12). R200 London. Goldsmiths: R200 (SI. RR12 (81 London. Queen Mary*Westfield: R2W4 (20). R2WK (20). WR42 (20). R200 (18). GR12 (IS). R201 (18). R202 (18). K2NI fl8). R2T2 (18J.RQ21 (18). RQ2C(ISL RR2V (18). RR82 (16). RT2F (18). TTGY

■»t (IS),TTYG (18). WR42 (20) ‘ f London. SSEES: RR28 (20]

London. UC R200(20). RR27 (>4). TR22 (14) Reading: NR 12 (20) Salford: C5R2 (14) UMIST: GR52 (14), R202 (14) Wales. Bangor R224 (15)_

HEBREW

London. UC 0960(18)

HISTORY

Buckingham VI30 (81. QV31 (8). Q3V1 (8), V1Q3 (8) Edge H31 CoQ: VlOO, LV31. QV31, TV’S I. MVX1. TV21, MVY1, MV91

Hull: VI26 London. Goldsmiths: VI00 (18). QV31(20) London. SSEES: V100 (20), w 18

. (20). RV81 (20) ) London, UC V500(20LV149(18)

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HISTORY OF ART

Buckingham V430 (8)

How the Vacancies Sendee Recruitment for aits anuses is gather¬ ing pace as universities and colleges start to withdraw from clearing. The traditional universities are moving

particularly quickly as the new academic year looms. Demand is high for modem languages, history and humanities.

However, today’s list of arts and social science courses shows that some former polytechnics are still struggling to fill vacan¬ cies. There me about 30 new courses added to The Times Degree Vacancies Service.

Although the traditional universities look like taking up to 10.000 more students than they did last year, despite the government's attempt to halt expansion in the arts and social sciences, other institutions have accepted the need to consolidate. Surprisingly, the Poly¬ technics Central Admissions System now expects its overall number of students placed to drop this Autumn. Several institutions are ^tanning to withdraw from clearing at the end of the week.

All the courses listed still had vacancies

yesterday. The codes foUowhig each university or college name are those appearing in the. UCCA or PCAS handbook tor 1993 entry. Where a figure appears in brackets, it grvesthe institution's estimate of die number of A-Iewri points required for entry.

Points are calculated on the normal UCCA scale; using a maximum of three A-levds. An A grade is worth ten points. B eight C six, D four and E two. An A grade at AS-krve! counts as' five points. B four. C three, D two and E one point

A number of helplines are operating during the clearing period, which fHffShespa Septtn- ber'24. The official; gervice, operatcd from. Middlesex University, can be contacted on-jjBr 801 3000 (a queuing system prevents the number from ringing engaged, but often means a long wait) for caifcrs: .■ • •The Times listings are compiled from universities’ own returns. Not all institutions are included: becan.se some jWoyideTnfmn^ don to the admissions bodies and official agencies only. .. " 7"'

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•Thames Valley L322. (Mv oTW EagbratUOO, 1322,

:L3G5.

S&XETtAND - TECHNOLOGY

draowiefcV400

HOME ECONOMICS

Wales. Cardiff N750(16)

HOTEL AND CATERING

Buckingham: NI20/N127 (12) Wales. Cardiff: N70Q

IRISH STUDIES

SI MaiysGod: FQ15, QW54, FQ85. - QV58. QW54. QV51. LQ35. QQ58

ITALIAN

Hulk R300 London, Qneen Mary and West R300(14) London. SSEES: RT31 (20) London. UCR300( 14) Reading: NR13 (20) UMISTTrR83 (12). RR8H (12)

JAPANESE STUDIES

Sslford: F3TK/F3T4 (8). G5T4 (14) Ulster N1T4 (14)

JEWISH STUDIES

Loodoa UOV149 (18)

LAND MANAGEMENT

CranffekL Silsoe N802 Reading: N800 (16), NE02 (10)

LAW

Buckingham: M300 (12). MC39 (12)

LINGUISTICS

UEA: VQ71 (20) UMIST:GQ51114), Q112, QRli. QR12

MAN AG EM ENT STUDIES

Bath: NR 12 (24] Edge HiD Coll: N126 Exeter LI43. LI44 Hull: NN12 (IS) Reading: NRI i (201. NR12 (2Q). NRl 3 (20) Ulster NN59 (16). N740 (14). N940 (14)

MARKETING

CranffekL SUsoe D450 Wales. Aberystwyth: LN 15 (14)

MODERN LANGUAGES

Leicester T900 (20) London. SSEES: T120 {18). T140 (13).T]30(18), T150 (18J.TI60 (I8).TI70(18).T180U8).RT31 (20). RT81 (18) Salford: TN94 (16).T9T2(20). T2T9. RT 16 (18). RK12 {18). RRC4 (18). RR13I18). RR14 (18). RT26 (18). RRF4 (18). RR23 (18). RR24 (18). RT36 (18). RRH4. RR34, RT46 (18) Sheffield: TE97 (18) Strathclyde: G5T9 (CCCJ. GIT9 (CDD)

MUSIC

Newcastle W300 (12) Reading: W300 Ulster W302 (14) Wales. Cardiff: W302 (18). W300 (18)

POLITICS

BudonghaimML! 1 (8), MVl 1 (8). Y618(S). Y651 (8). MM 13 (12) Loodoa Goidsnutte: Y615 (12}

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Cambridge Ref Studs Centre: V800 (17)

RUSSIAN

Essex: R810 (14) London. Queen Mary & West R8W4. R8WK.WR48 (20). RT8F(16). RW84 (20). KTS2 (16J.GR18 (16) London. SSEES: R800 (20). R810 (18). RR 18120). RR28 (20). RTS I (18J.RV8I (20) Salford: F3 R8 / F3RV (8) Wales. Bangor R800(12)

SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES

Hull: R7001I6) London. UC: R700 (12). RR27(I4)

CHTHI ADMINSTRATION

London. GoWsnriths: L402 (16). Y615I12)

SOCIAL SCIENCE/STUDIES

Edge Hill Cofl: L300. LT35. LP33. LM3X, LQ33, LR31. LL28. LV31. LT32. LM3Y, LM39

SOCIOLOGY

Salford: L3Y6 (18). L300(18l St Mary'S CoCt CL) 3. FL83. LQ35. GLI3

SPANISH

Hulk G1R4(12). R401

THEATRE STUDIES

Ulster W420 (16)

THEOLOGY

Edge HiD Colk E2V8. E4V8 La Sainte Union Coll; V840 (8) St Mary's Colk VF18. VC 18. QV58. GV18, VC8 1, E725

URBAN STUDIES

Edge HID CoO: M900. LM3Y. LM8Y

WELSH STUDIES

Wales. Cardiff: Q520 (161

WOMEN'S STUDIES

Edge HOI Coll: LM39. MP93. M910. MQ93.MV91.M915

ACCOUNTANCY

Brighton: N420 (14). NT4Z (J 4) Dundee. Inst of Teetr N400 (4) E London: N420 Glamorgan: N420 Glasgow. Catalonian: N400 Gwent: NN34 (10), AFC2 (4). NNI400),MN34 (10) Hertfordshire GN54 Humberside N420 Lancashire N400 Leeds Metro: N420 (14) London. Guildhall: N400 Luton N420 Northwnbria: N400 INcttingiam Trent N420 N London: N400

Portsmouth: N400 Sheffield, HaDam: N'400 South Bank: N420, GN14 Southampton List N400. NM43 Sunderland: NG41.G560.N1N4. N400 Swansea Inst: N400 (6) Teessfcfe:N420 Thames Valley N400. NT42. ■ NM43 UnivofC England: L1N4 Wolretmnpton: N4Z0_

APPUED LANGUAGE

Brighton: T900

ARABIC

Westminster. QT36, RT86; TQ61. RT16. RT26. RT36, RT46

ARCHITECTURE

DcMontfortK 100(14} E London: K100 Greenwich: K300 Kent Inst KIQO Kingston: K300 (10) Rofaen Gordon: K100 South Bank; K100.KI 08 Univ of C England: K100. K260, KI99.K280

ART AND DESIGN

E London: V4O0

ARTS (RELATED)

De Montfort W999 (14) E London: K100 London Institute W160 Plymouth: Y404

BANKING

tuadon. GoildhalL NI20

BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE

Dundee Inst L730 (4) E London: L602

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Buckinghamshire Coll: N1T9, NI22.F910 Dr Montfort N122 (12) Greenwich: N423 Gram ColL NISO(IO) Humbenade: N170 Luton: N122 Southampton Inst NI22 Staffordshire NF19 Teesside N131. N153 Thames Valley N122 Wolverhampton: N141

BUSINESS LAW

London. Guildhall: M340

BUSINESS STUDIES

Buckinghamshire N1R1, N1R2, NIR3. N1R4. N1T9. N122.N120 Cheltenham ft Gloucester. N1 T9. NN13.N3N1 Coventry N1RI.N 120 Colchester lose N720 De Montfort N120 (18) Dundee. InstoTTedu N120 (4). N130 (4). N140, N550. F1N1 E London: N120 Glasgow. Caledonian: N120 Greenwich: G4N! Grant NN14 (10), MN31 (10) Humbenide: N170. NR 17, NIT9. LN11. H120. D450. FI99. M340 Leeds Metro: T810. NI20, F1N1 London. Guildhall: N120 Luton; N121 NE Wales Inst N167, N100 (4) N London: G532.N124. N120 Note CtolfcN 120 North Cheshire CoD: NP14. W4N1. YN51 Northumbria; N1T9.N120 Queen Margaret'S Coll: N550 Robert Gordon: NIJ1 Sheffield Hallam:N121 Southampton Inst G562. G568. N120.NM13 South Bank N LT9 Staffordshire: N100. Nlll.N 120, N110 N122. N123. N140.N199 Sunderland: N120. N140. N400 Swansea lust- N120 (10) Teessidc N] 53, N125 Thames Valley N LI 1.NI20.H3N1 UnivofC England: Y400. M390. N122. N120 Univ ofW England: NY11 W London: G5N l, F6NI. L8N1. NVI1.W3N1 Wolverhampton: N140, LI NI

CHINESE_

WesuninsterT3QJ.T3Rl.T3R2. T3R3.T3R4.T3R8.TQ31

COMBINED STUDIES (ARTS) _

Bath Cod: Y100 De Montfort Y400 Gwent Y400 (41 Lancashire: Y400 London. Guildhall Y400 NE Wales CoCfc QV31 (6) Plymouth: Y404 Swansea Insc Y300 (8) Sheffield. Haflanr Y400_

COMBINED STUDIES (SOCIAL SCIENCES)

Glamorgan: Y300 Luton: Y400, ML300 NE Wales Inst F910 (41 N Cheshire ColL Y400 Swansea Inst Y3O0

COMMUNICATION STUDIES_

Falmouth Art/Design: P438. V480 Gtamoram: P300 Greenwich: NN1S.H621 Humberside: P300 North Cheshire CoH: Y400 Queen Margaret CoD Edinburgh Y400 Robot Gordon: P379 Southampton Insc P300, P30S West Surrey An/Design: P400 (12)

COMMUNITY STUDIES

Bradford & HWey Comm Colt L521. LS10.N753 Luton. L521_

CONSUMER STUDIES

N London: N700 South Bank N980, N988_

CONTEMPORARY STUDIES _

Humberside Y3 02

CREATIVE ARTS_

Sunderland: W432 _

COUNTRYSIDE MANAGEMENT_

Cheltenham & Gloucester D955. D9F9. F9D9 Middlesex: W299, FN9X South Bonk K201

CULTURAL STUDIES

Cbdrenham ft Gloucester: V8L6, P4L6.ViL6.W4L6 - Grant W299 Portsmouth: L610 Univ of W England: Y301

DESIGN

Bournemouth: W250.W299, ' W223.W235 Colchester Luc W204 DrMcmiforcWNZl (12) E London: V400 Humberside: W23 5 London, Gufldhatt W204 Middlesex: W299. W240 Plymouth: W2S0 . . Salford UCW200 (B) Sunderland: W432 TressWe V480 West Surrey An/Design: W230 (12)

ECONOMICS

Coventry; LI00 (14) . De Momfon: LI 00 (12) E London: L100.LIIO Greenwich: LI 14 Hertfordshire: LI 00 Humberside: LN11 Kingston: FL81 (12). FL3I (8). FL61 (10), GL11 (8), LI 00 (14) Lancashire L100 London, GnOdbaJL LI 00, LI 90. M3L1.Y400 Middlesex: UR1.GLM1 Portsmouth: LI 00, LL18 Sheffield HaBam: N800 Thames Valley LR11. LR12, LRI4. LI 00 Univ of C England: LI N4. L1T2. LI Ml. LI M3, LI NI. L1N5 Univ of W England: L100. L3G5 Wolverhampton: L1N1.LI00

EDUCATION (NOT TEACHER TRAINING)

Cheltenham & Gkmchester V8X3, M9X3_

EDUCATION (PRIMARY)

Brettoo Halt EW29, EW59. EW53. W420 Brighton: E400 Chehenhain & Gloucester E3W3, E3V8. E3W2. E3F8 Sheffield HaQam: EY51. EW72 South Bank E200, E501 West London: E500 Wolverhampton: ESOO

EDUCATION (SECONDARY)

Bath: ESOO (4) Brighton: E7X7.E7X2 Cardiff Inst E7Q5. E7W3 Cheltenham & Gloucester: E4W4, E4V8, E4W2, E4F8 Greenwich: EW54. EW72 NE Wales IHE: E7N1 (4) Sheffield. Haflant EY7I.EF73. EF7I W London: E7X2

EDUCATION (TEACHER TRAINING)

Cardiff low E5V8. E5Q3. ESW3 Northumbria: EG71, EF73. ER71, ER72.EJ79 Oxford Brookes CE15

ENGUSH

Cheltenham <ft Gloucester: QV31, LQ83 Kingsrao: Q300 (12) Luton; Q300 NE Wales Inst QV31 N London: Q300 South Bank Q3L3.Q3L7 Westminster QR38. QT36. TQ3Q, QR34

ESTATE MANAGEMENT

NE Wales (nst N800 (4) South Bank N800. N808 UnivofC England: N800 Westminster N800

EUROPEAN BUSINESS

Buckinghamshire: N1R1.NIR2. NIR3.N1R4 Cardiff Inst N140 Coventry NIRI (10) Dundee. Lost ofTeck N140 Hertfordshire: YI00 Lancashire: N140 Leeds Metro: N4Z2.T810 Middlesex: LIR1. NeneQdkNlRl.NlR2.NlR3. NIR4 Northumbria; M3R1 Oxford Brookes N140 Portsmouth; Nl 40 Sheffield. Hal lam N1R2, NIR4, NIRS.N1R3.N1RI Sunderland; N140 Tcessidt NI T9 _ Thames Vafley NJ99 Wolverhampton: N141.NI40. NT 19

EUROPEAN MARKETING

Hnraberside NR1C. NRIF.NRI4. NRI1.NR12

EUROPEAN STUDIES

Coventry N120(16).T2Q0(12) E London: JT92. T200 Glamorgan: N ] 40 Lancashire: T200 Middksec V199 N London: T200 Nonhombria: T200 Nottingham Trent T200 Plymouth: T200 Ponsmoatte'niOO South Bank T200 Southampton Insc T2Q0 Thames VaOey T200 Unh of C En^and: LI T2 Westminster K4RI. K4R2 Wolverhampton: T20Q

! FASHION_

Somhampnm Inst W225

FILM STUDIES_

E London: ¥400 Southampton Inst W510

FINANCE

| Brighton: N420( 14 LNT42 i E London: N420

Gwent NN34 Humberside: N420 - - Leeds Metro. N422. N420 London. GmldhaS: NUO. N399 N London; MOO Nottingham Trem: N420 South Bank N420 Teesride N420 UnivofC Engtmd: N420

FINANCIAL SERVICES

OKtenhamA Gloucester N3NI. NN13 Gtegcw. Caledonian: N124

, Hnmbcradr N399 | Lancs N 3 99

London, GuildhaQ: N399. Y400 I Portsmouth: N 3 00

Sheffield. HaOam: N30O Wotvotoraptore N399

FINE ARTS

Southamptoa Inst WIOO.W 108. N8I2.N813

FRENCH/FRENCH STUDIES

Rrlptoon- W7QQ BaSSSmhiieNIRl Cowenoy RRfi RR14. RF13. RF23 Kingston: FR81 (12). CR! 1 (I0L FRi l (8). FR31 (6), FR61 (12), GR11 (8). R1 DO, RR12. RR14 Louden. GofldhaiL T299. M3L1. L800.Y400 - Middlesex; N IRC N London: R100 - Northumbria: RRL2»RR18 Portsmouth: RR1Z.RR14.F8RI. F6R1.G1RI.F3R1.R110 StBffbnfohire: G5R1.G5RO. GRM1, M350 Thames Valley RRG2, RRC4. QR31. RR12. RRl8, RR14.RR16. LR11.MR31 Westminster. K4R1. RRl 8, N830. RR14

FURNITURE/ART RESTORATION

Bournemouth; W223 . Buckinghamshire CWk J450. J455 London. Guildhsdt J570. J4 99

GEOGRAPHY

Cheltenham & Caottccster FL88. LV81. FL9V, FLS8, V8L8. F9LW. LQ83 Gteenwkfa: LSOO Kirtgaon: FF81 (10). FF86 (8). F.G81 (12). FG85 (12), FL38 (8). FL81 (12). FR81 (12). FR82 (10); FG85 (12), CFI8 (12). L800 Lutorc Y400 N London: LSOO. F899 Portsmouth: F800. FG85, FG81, FG84.F8R1.F8R2 South Bank F8F9 ■Staffordshire: LLl 8. LSOO Univ of W England: Y301

GERMAN/GERMAN STUDIES

Buckinghamshire Nl R2 Coventry RRl2. RR24 De Montfort M3R2 (22) Greenwich: NR52 Kingston: CRI2 (6). FR12 (8LFR32 (6). FR82 (10). RRl2 Loodoa GuMbatl: T299, Y400 Northumbchu M3R1. RRl 2, RR24. RR28 Portsmouth: RR12.F8R2.F6R2, GIR2.F3R2 Sheffield. HaOam: NTR2 Staffordshire: G5RF, G5RG. GRM2, Thames Valley RRC2, QR32. RR12. LR12. MR32, RR28, RR24. RR26 W London: FL68, FV61.F6N1. F6G5 Westminster: K4R2. RR28. N8R2. RQ21.RR24

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Southampton Inst W211

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

Gwent B999 (4)

HEALTH STUDIES

Derby B995 E London: B990, B991. B992. B9N1 Middlesex: BG94

HISTORY

Chchedliam ft Gfotrcester. LV8J, VIL6. VIV8, VIM9. V8M9, QVR1. Kingston: VI00 (12) Lancashire VI00 Lontkm. GuDdhaJL- M ] 42, Y400 London IHE:W299 Luton: VI99 Middlesex: VI99 N London: VlOO Nortiumbris V199 Portsmouth: V10Q Sheffield. HaBam: VlOO Staffordshire: MV94. RV44, V460. VK42.VR42.WV14 Teessidc VlOO Univ ofW England: Y30I W London: LV81, VW13, NVl 1. GV51.FV6I

HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN

De Mention: V480 (14) Landdn lust WZ99 Sheffidd. HaQam: V40O Staffordshire: WRI4vWV14. MV94. RV44.LV14 Teessidc V480

HOME ECONOMICS

Sheffield, Haitian: N7 50 South Bank N750, N781.N788

HOTEL, CATERING AND INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT

City ColL Norwich: N720 Lancashire: N720 . Leeds Metro: N720 N London: N720 Queen Margaret’S Coll Edinburgh: N7N7 Robert Gordon: N 720 South Bank N720 Thames Valley: N 721 Univ of C England.- N720

HOUSING _

Cardiff Inst K4 72 Sheffield. HaQam. K472

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT_

Southampton Inst N620 Teesade: N620__

HUMAN IT1ES/MODERN STUDIES _. .

E London: L602 GIanurms:Y301.YG31 Greesw^fc Y400 Humberside: Y301 Larocr QV3I_

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

E London: G561 Glasgow: NIGS Greenwich; G561 N London: G560 Nottingham Trenc GCM1.GFM3, GFM1.GFM9.GGM1 - - Portsmouth: GL53. G599 Staffisdsfabc G5R1, G5R2. GSR4. MG95. RG45, RK22. RK42, G56I.LG1M • Sundoteat H108 UniuefW England: L3G5-.- - - WoJvCTtamptortG5b].GN51 '

INSURANCE

London. Guildhall: N120. N330

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Greenwich:N140 Lancashire:NT 19 t Norffiombifo: N1 T9 Sheffield. HaHanuNlR2.NIR+, . N1R5.N1R1, N1R3. N2T4 Thames Valley: NJ99 Westminster. N1T9

INTERNATIONAL . MARKETING

GreenwidcNR52. NR?4

INTERNATIONAL . RELATIONS/STUDIES

PortStnoadETN25 .' Staffordshire: Ml48 *;

ITALIAN Ttnrir,nghanwhnffg.Ntlt3 Portsroonth: RR34 WestmmslerT3R3.RR38.RR34 -*

LAND MANAGEMENT

De Montfort: N800 (10) . E Looc&he S8O0, K399 Greenwich; N800 Mkkfle*acW299 . Portsmouth: N600 Sheffield HaOam: N800 Westndnsten N830. N8R2 . . .

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Greenwich: K300 Kingston: K300 (10) Leeds Metro: K300 .

LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT ‘

E London: N800.K399 Middlesex: W299

LANGUAGES FOR BUSINESS

Leeds Metro: T810 Souffi Bank N1T9, T810. T899 WotvezhamptocE NT 19

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Portsmouth: R600.H620. RR46 Thames VaHey.RR 16, RR26, RR86

LAW

Coventry M340(2(B.MT32 (18) De Montfort M3R2 (22) Dundee last M310(4), M390(4) B London: JM93 Glamorgan: M3 00 Glasgow. Caledonian: M3N1 Humberside: M340 Kingston: M300 (18) London, GtukffuU: M340, M3L1 Nene CoD: MN34 " Norttaanbria: M3R1 ' - - Sheffield. Hallain: M301 Sooth Bank M300 Soathamptm hut M300. NM43. NM13 -- - . Staffordshire: M3 50 Swansea Inst M300(14) Thames VaBq*NM43, M310. M330.MR34.MR32.MR31 UnivofC England: L1M3.N300

LEGAL STUDIES -

Dundee Inst M390 (4) .Gwent MN31{10).

LEISURE STUDIES

Baddnghaizafalie Colk. Y502 Cownny Y502 fI4) Luton: Y5Q2 H Cheshire CoQ: YN51 . Southampton IflStY502.N718 . Thames Valley Y502

LIBRARY STUDIES

Leeds Metro: PP12 UnivofC England: PP12

LINGUISTICS

Bortsnonth: TN25. WcstmuHteR RQ8 LTQ31.JQ61, RQ21.RQ41

LITERARY STUDIES

Middlesex: Q203, Y3 02 Univ of W England: Y3 01

MANAGEMENT

Bngmoo. N7yv(L2)

De Montfort WN21 (12), NN14 (12) . E London: CN11 Glasgow. Cakdonian; N1G5. M3NI.N399 Hertfonishire: GN42 Hundnade: D952. D234. NI70 London. GnOdhaO: L499. M148 London Institute: J530 Middlesex: FNY1.FN9X N Cheshire Coll: NP14, JW51, W4N1 Robert Gonton: N720 Sheffield. HaOam: N400 Sooth Bank HN 71 Univ of C England: LI NI

MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Cardiff Inst H7NI

MARKETING

Humberside: NR 1C. NR l F, NR14 London. Guildhall: N120 Southampton Inst N500 Teessute N500 Univ of C England: LI NS

MEDIA PRODUCTION & STUDIES

Cheltenham ft Gloucester JMM9. P4W4.P4L6 CUmomur: WP44 Lancashire: P600 Luton: F400 N Cheshire COlb NP14 Robot Gonton; P500 SaIfoidUCH998 Sheffield. HaBam: P400.; Sontfounpton. f400 ' Sooth Bank P500 Ihdv oTW Engkrat Y110, Y301

MODERN LANGUAGES

BoumetaottfcTSTO - . •; - Brirfaoiu TWO. Ontenj^ni ft Gfoacester: N1T9 LaSaimg Uoatm CoQ: Q3T9 (12), TZTOI12? - :.V'.V V - Northumbria:RK12 R<fomGotdorrP379. Soufli Bank T810, T899 Stt£6brdstert:RHJ2,RR18.RR24, RR28. KR4R:": . Wrtnahriarn mi3&Qt36J£M13fc- RM43.RQSIvRRl8.RKj8.RR38,

RR4B. RT86. T3Q3 WolmhamptoirTVOO

MODULAR SCHEMES

Gwent Colt Y40G . - i LancMWre:Y400 . • •

n ojaw:i Qrity J‘aft

MUSIC

BatbCcfl:W300 . Colchester hist W3GQ :

. Salford TJC:W304 W London: W3N1.W3G 5. FW63. VW13

PERFORMANCE? movement STUDIES'-.

rhritraham A Gtoueesccr: P4W4 De Montfort W901 (Iff) N Chedure Colt W4N1

PHILOSOPHY

N London: V700

POLITICAL ECONOMY

E Loudon: MI 00. Staffordshire; LF19. LV14. LLl 8, LG IM . -

poLracs/ GOVERNMENT • .,

Coventry: M9Q2 . London, GufldhaU: M142.Y400 N London: L510. Ml 00 ... Norffi^bamTrerrt M158 Plymouth: Ml 00 Portsmouth: MI 00 r. South Bank Ml 00, Ml OS : TeessiderM-lOO UnivolCJfo^landiLlMl - UmvoTWEngfar^i MIOO. L3G5

PORTUGUESE

Portsmouth: RR45

PSYCHOLOGY

Hnntberride: CSO0 Loodoa. Giuk&alhG 599. Sooth Bank Q3L7 .

PUBLIC/ SOCIAL - ADMINISTRATION

Glamorgan: Ml 48, M140 LnXoreM140 ■ • Sheffield HdbntM140. M143 1tosWcMt40.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Southampton Inst Mt48’ -

RETAILING

Dundee rmcNS50. N130

RUSSIAN/RUSSIAN STUDIES

Northumbria: RR 18. RR28.RR4S PortsmootieRSlO Thames Vaflqc QR38. RR 1 S.JUt28. RR84.RR86 Westminster: RQS1, RR2S.RR38,- RR4S.RT86.QR3S '

SOCIAL POLICY

Brighton: L400 .- E London: L310 LmdkmTGBikffiaB: L499- * Middlesex: FN9X N Loudon: L402 . nymoutb: L404 < . RHtsmoatfa:L402 . RobertGonfan:M148"^ Soath Bank L402 Soutiuznpioa Inst: Ml 48, TZOO Sttffinrthlrire: MI48 '

SPA3SI5H/SPANISH J.STUDIES. ..

Coventry RR14. RR24 Kingston:RRl4 rrm/W, GnQdhalL Y400 Northumbria: RR48. RR24 pDrisuwiitfa: RR46.RR45. R410 StaffonUnie G5R4. G5RT. GRM3. RL42 tbamesVaBey: QR34. RR14, RR 16. KB24,HR26,ttR84. RR86. LR14. A£R34- •*'' Westuauster. RR48.T3R4.QR34. RQ4L RR14. RR24.RR34. RT46

THEQLOGY , .

CfiHfthftam & GSoocester V8 L6. V8M9. VIV8, V8L8 W London: VW83...

TOURISM AND TRAVEL

HiunlxB sjdBTM740 - Lutorc N741 ..i . Queen Margaeft Coll Edinburgh N7N7.-. . South Bank Y502 j;

TRANSPORTAND DISTRIBUTION

London. Go3i3xdl:.Nl20

URBAN STUDIES

Coventry LK84 (12) K420, KY4S E London: K460 - Leeds Metro; K464 N London; K460 Sheffield.- Hanam: £460 South Bank K440, K448

VISUAL ARTS/STUDIES

Derby: V400 ■ JUmoirth: V480. . •NeseCottWlOO Staf&Hdshhc MW9I.WV14 WestnrinstecK46Q

WOMENS STUDIES

rhrift-nhaxn ft Gfoacester: P4M9, V1M9.V8M9 , .Coventry ML93 (12) E London: M903 Gtamargan:M903 LancasrareM903 - - Sheffield, H»nmre mooj . StaBwdshirc:MG95.MIfl].M494, MW91 1 UnivofWEn^a»fcY30I

COURSES OUTSIDE PCAS

Gwent Coih BSc (Hons): Business and Accounting (10), Accounting andiegal Studies (10),

-Amramlng and Finance (10L Accountancy Foundation Course (iti)- Business and legal studies

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As properties go, the deal sounds unprom¬ ising. The house has limited central heat¬

ing, must not be altered, costs £11.000 a year to rent and is likdy to be visited by hun¬ dreds of strangers two or three afternoons a week during the summer months.

Yet the National Trust has been overwhelmed by interest from prospective tenants who want to take a ten-year lease on Max Gate, the house that Thomas Hardy built and lived in on the edge of Dorchester. Dorset, from 1885 until his death in 1928.

The trust has already held two open days for viewings, and is starting to sift applica¬ tions so it can draw up a short¬ list of people to interview. ‘

Such is the lure of houses with literary associations. For all that Keats wrote “O the flummery of a birthplace* Cant! Cant! Cant!" on visiting the birthplace of Robbie Bums, as a nation we dis¬ agree. Kate Marsh, the author of Writers and their Houses, a guide to authors’ homes, says: “We are a nation blessed with some of the world's greatest literature. The houses where writers lived give us an inti¬ mate glimpse into their lives: the view' from the window, the surroundings that may have provided inspiration.”

Sometimes, too. there are intriguing features to be seen: Carlyle’s sound-proofed study at Cheyne Row. Chelsea, or Shaw's revolving garden hut which moved to catch the sun at Ayot St Lawrence, Hertford¬ shire, or the mirror that Dar¬ win kept propped up in his study at Down House in Kent to warn against unexpected visitors. And there is the architectural interest of houses which may have survived only because of their literary con¬ nections as vernacular houses

Not far from the madding crowd Our fascination with literary idols ensures that their old homes find a ready market Rachel Kelly says

Wanted: a tenant for Max Gate, the house near Dorchester that Thomas Hardy built

of that period, says Ms Marsh. She is clearly preaching to

the converted: witness the sheer numbers that visit the Brontes’ parsonage in Haw¬ orth. West Yorkshire or Jane Austen’s cottage, at Chawton. Hampshire. Estate agents confirm that a house with literary associations will tend to sell. Aldworth House. Lord Tennysons's home in West Sussex, was priced, in Knight

Prank & Rutley’s phrase “pro¬ vocatively” at more than £600.000 earlier this summer. Yet more than 90 possible buyers visited the house which inspired Tennyson to write "You came, and looked and loved the view/ Long-known and loved by me,/ Green Sussex fading into blue/ With one gray glimpse of sea”.

At least ten buyers wanted to bid. so the estate agents

invited best and final offers and sold the house by informal tender. Seven submitted sealed offers and the house was finally sold for more titan £1 million.

Although Max Gate is de¬ void of any Hardy memorabil¬ ia — which is housed at the Dorset County Museum, where Hardy’s study has been recreated — it is not without literary interest. A substantial

Victorian red-brick house on three floors, it has a pets’ cemetery on its grounds where Hardy buried his dogs-and cats, notably Wessex, a terrier who bit John Galsworthy, but fawned on T.E. Lawrence. Wessex has a granite tomb¬ stone bearing the epitaph. "Faithful, unflinching".

Certainly, there is enough for Hardy enthusiasts to wish to make a literary shrine of the house. Although the trust has agreed to increase the amount of access the public has to the house (at present by arrange¬ ment only). the Hardy Society would ideally like more. An uneasy peace has settled on Max Gate, although feathers have been ruffled, and letters sent to The Times. David Bett. director

of the trust’s regi¬ onal office, says: “The trust has wel¬

comed a move from the Hardy Society to help make special visits available for Hardy enthusiasts to the house. But as the contents of the house are on display in the Dorset County Museum, we fee! that visiting the interior would be disappointing for all but com¬ mitted Hardy enthusiasts.”

One plan would be to resite tike Hardy memorabilia at Max Gate, but given that it is the centrepiece of .the muse¬ um. which has ambitious plans for expansion, tins seems unlikely. The trust and the Hardy Society are still negotiating. “I think weal] feel it would be nice to do more ■ and to have the house open, but we have to come up with a viable proposition," Mr Bett says. "Meanwhile, we still need a tenant”

9Anybody interested should con¬ tact Symonds Q Sampson (C005 264172). Writers and their Houses is published by Hamish Hamilton at £20 Hardy's birthplace, built in .1800, a favourite with National Trust visitors

Ancient panels from buildings decaying in France are finding another lease of life in the frames of new houses in Britain

The British love affair with the Elizabeth an ^sfyle house has long been acknowl¬

edged by housebuilders, as the catalogues full of “Tudorbethan" styles amply demonstrate. Few are built with authentic oak beams because such wood is expensive and shrinks if old. but is prone to movement when new. Mock Tudor therefore often looks any¬ thing but authentic.

Now two builders believe they have found a solution: recycling derelict buildings from the French countryside. Once located, they can be dismantled, the frames treated and repaired and shipped to Britain for use in reproduction Tudor homes.

Roy Thomas, a timber-frame

Elizabethan French without fears builder, and Joseph Waniszyn, a pine furniture restorer, had long bemoaned the shortage of oak in Britain. Two years ago. they received a telephone rail from Roger Cripps. an English builder living in Normandy, teUing them that the countryside was littered with old buildings that were about to fall over.

In order to overcome the prob¬ lems usually presented by old or all-new structures, Mr Thomas and Mr Waniszyn are using original materials with modem techniques to create a traditional.

but leak and draught-free house. Timber from the old French

farmhouses, bams and cider presses will be used as secondary frames, providing decoration and insulation. New timber will form tiie important structural aspects of the bunding, like the roof.

Mr Waniszyn says: “Purchasers will get a unique property. The outside will be 500 years old. but there will be no flakmg timber, no cracking walls and no gaps or draughts. And it will need little maintenance."

Recycling old materials is well-

established in France, where builders have been converting the old bams to houses for the past ten years, restoring the property in exact detail The two British build¬ ers plan to be more flexible and to rebuild houses to developers' specifications.

“We can restore the building to how it was. or design a house based around the oak panel." Mr Thomas says. “It is a question of what people want They usually look for something unusual when building their own home.”

From locating the appropriate

French building to building the house in England takes six months. Acottage-size house in the country will cost about □70,000. including the plot “Well follow the customers wishes",' Mr Waniszyn says, "so it ran be as ex¬ pensive as they want."

The two men admit that it has taken a while to establish their business and that while investigat¬ ing the possibility of transporting the timber they met others who had tried and failed. Mr Waniszyn warns self-builders that it can be difficult to find <L/pk)t iif Britain.;

But the order for the first two houses is about to go through. In anticipation of the housing market picking up. James Willis, a proper¬ ty developer, has ordered two Tudor homes, which he hopes“will be built somewhere in the South. He says the tact that the homes are largely original will be a good seflingpoint

Mr Wills adds: “Nobody rise is doing anything like this. It is much cheaper to build a house this way than to renovate. Thave already. interested a few people." -

Other' would-be - self-builders1

have contacted Mr Thomas direct . More than 25^000 took the plunge last year and built their own home. About half chose to build with the help of kits from specialist housebuilding firms, and oversaw the project themselves.

Others work with .builders land architects direct Mr Thomas esti¬ mates that his: firm will be able to build a maximum of ten Tudor homes ayear. ; For some at Jeasti their Tudor

homeswffl be only half mock.

; Jennai Cox

9 Boy Thomas Tlmbeiframe will be ex¬ hibiting' at the National . Self-Build Homes show at Alexandra Palace. London, from Thursday to Sunday. 10amto6ptrL - • 'J.

Parts of an old bam from the French countryside go to make up a traditional-style house in England. The result is a home that its builders hope will appeal to buyers who want traditional-style house? with easy maintenance

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18-21 Jeaun Street, London SW1Y MU' Tdepboae 071 7347341

Chairman’s PA c£l9,000

Wonderful opportunity for a bright, well educated young secretary to work for the truly delightful Chairman of highly regarded West End Pic This is a classic senior role where recognising priorities, keeping calm under pressure and using your well developed social skills are all part of your busy day. Skills 90/60/audio, age 24-30. Degree/A’leveJs preferred. Please call Virginia on 071-434 4512,

Crone Corkill ST MAUR’S SCHOOL, WEYBRIDGE, SURREY

INDEPENDENT GSA SCHOOL

SECRETARY AND PA TO HEADTEACHER

RECRUITMENT CONSU13ANT5

^SW14- SECRETAKY/RA for a senior role, reporting to the MD

ofavaysoccessfal

This stimulating and important post will become vacant on 1 November, 1993.

The successful applicant will be required to demonstrate experience and ability in the following areas:

* Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills.

* First class organisational and communication skills.

* A high level of initiative and problem-solving skills.

* Outstanding secretarial and word processing abSity.

* Diplomacy and discretion.

St Maur’s is a highly successful and dynamic Christian school community in the Cathofic tradition.

Personal and professional qualities are more important in this key rule than recent experience in an academic environment

Please telephone Joyce Davidson on 0932 820314 for further information.

A letter of appication and curriculum vitae should be sent to Mrs. Maureen Dodds, Headteacher by Wednesday 22nd September, 1993. Please give

names, addresses and numbers of two referees.

Legal Secretaries

& Assistants £14,000 - £20,000 pa

Central London No matter how reliable and competent the partner, how enthusiastic and energetic die feeearner, many practices have long realised

their dependence upon a first-class team of Secretaries and Assistants.

These support staff; though unqualified, love the law no less and often are multi-slcilled and experienced in Commercial and Insurance litigation, Corporate Finance and Commercial Transactions. Capital markets, Industrial Contracts, Employment, Matrimonial, Insolvency and Receivership, Property and Conveyancing, Personal Injury and Criminal work.

Office Angels in Holbom, with 274 professional practices within a short walk, have become an entrepot for high caEbre temporary and permanent legal secretaries. Please call: Linda Long, 071-430 2531.

Director’s Secretary/PA c.£l 7k + benefits • Berkshire

Our client, a major pic, is seeking a dynamic and outgoing

Secretary/PA ro their Managing Director and Finance

Director, preferred age range 25-30.

Firet-chu* skills and PC literacy are required tor this

demanding role and knowledge of Wind Perfect 5.0 and

Symphony would he an udvanrage. Resourcefulness,

confidence and a sense of humour are vital.

The remuneration package for the successful candidate

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assurance, pension scheme and 25 days annual holiday.

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necessary experience, please forward your resume without

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4th Floor, Ocean House, The Ring, Bracknell, Berkshire

RG12 1BL, quoting reference number SSTIMI5/9.

All application* will be re-mured directly to c*;r client.

Closing dare - 30th Sepieinbcr *93 JBA ■ 'jffrrtntt/mrn/

discretion, anil wogfttw!

Age 21-28, degree or ‘A’ levels, shorthand, hnoncKs experience. Salary cJE18,000,

__ car, own mng and"

Morse 081-876

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Dynamic Solutions PR - £20,000

Entrcpcneurial Chairman of a leading public relations consultancy seeks a polished, energetic PA. Having eaabUsbcd an impressive client base the Chairman plays an active role is the running of the company and is iiMUiimeatal in new business devdopment is the UK and abroad. The role requires an experienced board level PA with excellent comnmnicarion skills, a good business brain, sodal awareness and an adaptable- and organised approach. In candidates be used to working with an exacting and dynamic attentive, have a sound CV and &3b of 100/60/WP. Age 27-35, ATevels preferred. Ream call Ften timha on 071-437 £032.

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MERIX>IA££ URGENT

SENIOR PA £17300 + bank bens To work for die bend of a highly successful fund management co. You w21 need excellent secretarial drifts & a strong personality to take on this demanding, top levd position. Call EmSy Aldrich.

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EUROPEAN DESK

£15,500 + bank bens

join this lively, busy team waking for a . large investment bank near 5l Pauls - banking experience not essential, but you must enjoy working., in a financed environment, call Barbara Sherwin.

Around the World £15,000 pkg Age 19-22

Join this'large, globally renowned company and you will know char you are working for the best in the field. Sfouoed In iaotasric offices you wQl eofoy a good social life and extremely generous benefits including paid oyer time, and free lunch. Working for a cosmopolitan team of young executives, you win.be kept busy oang.your excellent secretariat skills (50+ wjmb typing. + shorthand preferred). If you have mntfmnm of five CLerds and want to get yarn- CV. off to a flying start then please call Katy Osborne" on 071-437 6032.'

Hobstones -REcmiTMgHT -Consultants.

PA TO DIRECTOR GENERAL C. £18,000

The country's leading cancer charity requires a professional PA for the Director General. The successful applicant wiU have excellent communication, organisational, PC and audio skills, if you have the personality and professionalism for such a role, send a detailed CV to:

Ms CV Hambfott, Petsarmef Manager. Maris Curie Cancer Caro, 28 Bffignm- Squars, London SWlX 8QGL Closing date: 22nd September 1993.

4 Would yon like regular, 4 challenging woric. a 3 good hourly rate rad a < friendly, professional 4 service? If you have * experience of more

than 2 computer j packages and speeds of

40 + wpm

call Andrea or Racbd immediately.

GRADUATE appointments

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SECRETARY/ ADMIN

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application form write,

phone or fax:

JOHANNA THOMSON

Apollo Magazine 29 Chesham Place,

London SW1X8HB Td: 071-235 1998 Fax: 071-235 1689

SECRETARY

for newly established fund management company

based in SL James’s. Good [ S/H. WP (MS Wad) &

aflmm tirilH, wodugOD own hritiaiive. Excellent prospects. Salary cfl 5k.

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CV.nMLCat Anthony Lipton

125 New Bond St London W1 9AF-

PARTNER’S SECRETARY Corautting Actuaries, Barnett Wadtilngham 6 Company require a fut-ftiw secretary fix their office at Chatfont Hal In Chalfbnt St Peter.

AppBcants should be hitfity maHvated, used to deakng writh acftrtniatrafion Issues, possibly

with some pefsoonei/recnitment experience and be able to take responsfoilty in the office.. You should have experience of audio and WordPerfect 5.1 (or other rimdar wordprocessmg

package) and be used to working in a busy environment within a small teem

An attractive salary wtf be oSered according to experience, together with Rfe assurance, BUPA and 22 days annual hoflday.

ChaKonl HaB b a non-smoking office.

Applications fri writing enclosing your CV to:-

Mrs. Wendy Smith

Barnett Waddlagham Sr Company Chaffont HaH, Chatfont St. Peter

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE SL9 ONP

strictly no agencies.

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY/PA

£15228 minimum The National Institute for Social Work is an

independent body working towards improving the

effectiveness and quality of the personal social services.

We are looking for an administrative secretary and PA

for the Research Unit

The job involves taking responsibility for administration

and secretarial support for the Unit including supervising

one secretary and acting as PA to the Director.

Applicants must have: 4 years secretarial experience;

60 wpm copy typing, 90 wpm s/h or GO wpm audio:

excellent grammar and presentation of work;

experience of working unsupervised and under

pressure; and experience of office management,

dosing date for completed applications: 30th September;

Interviews; 20th October.

Application form and job description from;

Jufet Gardner, WSW, STawstodc Mace, london. WC1H 9SS.

Tet 071 387 9681. CYs are not acceptable.

Ho agenda.

The Institute is working towards equal opportunities.

We are committed to employing people

withcfisabflitKS. NISW

LONDON: Bilingual PA/Saeratarv to prevUa both admtnfcwarive and aacmtartal support. Ram

opportunity to uaa a badqpound In togal/company aacratarlal admMsvation, plus fluent French and -

good skOa (EngHah ahonhand). Dynamic > C20K. kaamaUonai anwironmant. To

PARIS: ff you five kr Parte or are about to move there, there era 3 openings tar exceptionally

bffingua! PA/Saoretariea with at laaat 3 years' experience. Ring us tor details.

Multilingual <-'»er«,icei

071 836 3794

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INT’L PROPERTY c£14,000 SW1

.Two young surveyort

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PLEASE CALL f 071-373 7779

X JIGSAW

PROJECTS SECRETARY

RDM IM. one of Uro UK’s leading da» management companies requbwa rrojecre Secretary to work in onr Head Office within walking distance of London Bridge.

This varied paririan, reporting to tbeSraior Business DOvetopment Executive, wiE *Wta war seorowrial skate to toe fWLYou must teve

emoienceof Word Perfect for Windows asd Spreadsheets (Loos or Exa£} conimnmcaiion and ocganfcottiotuu skills, tot will need to be able to produce woric trf exceDem

environinent- Prevtone experience of Project Management would be very usefuL

To apply for this position please &x or scad your CV induding details of current salary and or salary expectations to:

Miss Janene Granger

BDM House, . - 114-118 Southwark Bridge Rd XxRkkm SEI OEF.

OOL 071261 1462. '

highly i r whim te

successful Join this smoif bur Monogemcnt ConnJtoncy anti movbig to prestigious new offices. You;

- assist 3 dynamic exeojflves, manage their busy dories and be mponsfcte for the day to day

- running of the affibe. There vriffra lots of de*. contact and corporate aintertolnment. Basic bookkeeping ond in deptis system knowledge jndudng Desk. Top PubEshteg would be on advantage. 60 wpm Typing. Dtcefcnt prospects.

Please telephone 071 628 9529.

Elizabeth Hunt : Recruitment Consultants

SHORTHAND SECRETARY Croydon Solicitors require experienced

shorthand conveyancing secretary for senior : partner. Wang experience preferred. Must be able to work on own initiative.

Salary cSI4,500.

Write with CVtn Ref, RS. Andersens, 11 George SUN, Cmydoa CR9 INS

START-UP!!! £20K

drill* to mi the

As this is a startrtgi ataman his reqnhcs a pmaezhe aetf- starter, with hqh enetxy end exaOaA tmuianSra*im riolh, who is gpod.» ini fisting systems, handling prestigioBS don, and Is flahb md aptnoaehsble.

Yoar role wiU be and there tr potaflfclTo repdUMl jnh- 1WnTmi|^MiMw/rjwiwnithy h nefbl French a wlvsnuge. Possible lap to Bean.

SUQs nsefid/60 A*e 24-3S.

071-726 8491

Angela Mortimer ECRETAR1AL RECRUiTMENT CONSULTANCY!

Software Success.1 £18,000

lownore, ^cawing international, -sofiwxrc company in EC2 requzres an cfSdeot «d friendly PA catibrc secretaxy for thi* busy office. In addition te providing tredtamal BoppoR,dcafiag with izavd itineraries, omegwadenoc and tefephone h'aonn you moat be open to atthting m aU odux areas,

pvcpiritioa of miti co- aidmatian af coaferences.' A - background in software or finance would be ideal fix this idued environment where you will heed to use your discretion. Shoriband and Windows eaperienocxre a distinct advanuge and 55+ typing a most, piaaae can Jassks Trench on (971) 377 9919.

Hobstones —Recruitment Consultants-

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MAY DAY! MAY DAY! MAY DAY!

Young Senior Secretary In Banking

to £18,000 + Ml bank bats (£22,000 pkg)

Join this dynamic Merehant Bank in the City and yon will never look bock! Besides good camimiaication skills, you will have definite POTENTIAL to PROGRESS. Assisting at DIRECTOR LEVEL, yon win have a good education and wand secretarial drills' (Shorthand 80 appreciated) Preferred age 21-30 years.

Pbosw TODAY for as IMMEDIATE interview 071374 2921

5 London Wall Bondings, Finsbury Gras, EC2M 5NT Bee Com).

Bond Street B urt/P/t.

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-deffls. pfeare caD.as imrwedislly for farther detafls.

PROnotTY £lfiJ000 - RL Director ; - Aadiu Secretary - •

: Sccreauy £14400 - Office MsmsujSccnaay

CBAKTXY £]2flCD - Seaclary/Exeadhe Aaristam

071*293692

flhx:Cn4 22 SeafeSSaUBp Street, Wl

VTi *295580

SPORTING PERSONALITY? IfiK

Are you ready for a Bfaof strawbanias and champagne? Than join this exciting madia company - a major force for TV Spotting events based to Wimbledon as Sh/PA td their new Sales bfrector. You will be tial^ng with major TV networks and Heads of Sporting- Federations, organising his extensive International travel itineraries and running-tha office Jin his absence. Skate of 100/60, European language(pref thtiten) and confWont-pereonwflty essentiaL -

CaH Angdk 0^ 071-638 9205 dr; ' V Lynn in 071-486 6951

carreer* movma

TV-PA TO FD

to £21,000 Ftea nractor of Mfi kunm TV On nab n^Bec to m Mm and itar. Most Inn &w InM op la Huan field. Bred attnueftam and tesmsfeg mdc endraomet 80 S/H + 50iyp/WP. ZS-32.

PDBUSH1NEPA

£20,000 Arryoo a pallslrsd. ewaer srerstay who rents to aorii lor a dymte. BOkg pte» M0 - Mflor Pablishlng Moose. Astatine, orgmad appraeA k eswrttal as you attend top. nwetioga out orozahn co mete and canhnnere ok. Fol sec/adu*! beck up. ® S/H/55UP/W4W and gauadahaat eon 2838.

CXRSR MOVES RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS

124 GREAT P0HHAND STREET

-LONDON WIN 5PF THiWI 636 6411 FAX: 871836 2459

MD’s Assistant Battersea

£20,000 Highly rocoenful Dinxt Markcting co require Exec Asst/PA for charming Managing Director. Become frdly involved at an admininrative/ muyinwn feveLtiamna on the MIXj behalf and pricritoing Us day. If yon thrive under a high level at involvement and year organisational skills are 2nd to noae, then this is the opportunity you have been waiting fori Shorthand SOvpnt min, age 27-45: Please call Septate on 071-434 4S1> to Crone CnrMH.

Gone Corkill

MD MASTEBLOCK KtCIUITMIMT

SENIOR PA

£17,500 Mayfair bared company are looking far a 'dynamic PA to work far their Fmancad Director. .Yon nil] abo be involved with personnel and nnmint the office. HTyon have 3-4 years experience a! senior level 60 wpm typtof and arc tooldas for a chafienging job that is not wholly secretarial

Please call DESI os 071-938 1718.

SEC/PA Established property

practice inWest Kensington requites firat.

dass set^pn to spocteliae . to residential safes. Mast

Tjelnight tsith good «""«!

. ric31sdL.tale.to tree own initiative. WP experience

essential. &£I5,000. r..

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Challenges of work at the cutting edge WMe traditional secre¬ te jobs continue to be hard to find, medi¬ cal secretaries remain

•JE*™ S4 31 b°^e and O^reeas, according to Pat Brown of the Medical and General Employ¬ ment Agency. Therewith quatifica- oons-i from AMSPAR (the

Asoaation of Medical Secretaries, Practice Administrators and Recep- tiansts) are particularly valued , There is ^a wide ranreof openings for medtcaJ secretaires: They c£i

work m hospitals, private clinics, gerajl practice, public health and pathology laboratories, or for drug ronpames or research associa¬ tions. Many AMSPAR members work m the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, where English is the mam language in the hospitals

Medical secretaries who come into contact with patients — and many do — have an extra role, almost like that of a social worker They are often the first to see an arnaous patient, and must provide information and reassurance. In many cases, a busy GP or consul¬ tant wifi leave the administrative tasks to a medical secretary, includ¬ ing responsibility for financial mat¬ ters. Some medical secretaries move on to become practice administrators.

Medical secretaries are not usu¬ ally paid as highly as legal secretar¬ ies. unless they work in the Middle East, where the salaries are tax-free and the accommodation is provid¬ ed free.

The rewards for medical secretaries are more than financial.

Joan Llewellyn Owens meets the assistant to a surgical team

But the work has other rewards, liz Versleys. personal assistant to Sir .Magdi Yacoub, ax the Royal Brampton National Heart and Lung Hospital, in south London, has worked with him for 12.years and has enjoyed every moment

“The first transplants began a year before I started, and it has been a privilege for me to be working with a pioneering team in cardiac surgery and to see ._ the progress that has been made"

Liz's first job, after com¬ pleting a two-year course for medical secretaries, was in the typing pool at the Char¬ ing Cross Hospital in cen¬ tral London. After five months there, she moved on to become a locum secre¬ tary, standing in for depan- mental secretaries. After a further five months, she was ap¬ pointed secretary to three ENT consultants.

When she married and moved house, she found die travelling to work difficult, so she took another past in the X-ray department of the London dime "After having worked with consultants and pa¬ tients, I soon realised that it wasn’t the job for me. So when my husband showed me an advertise¬ ment for a medical secretary for a cardiac surgeon at the National

Heart Hospital in London, I decid¬ ed to go for it”

■Although Liz was not aware at the time, the job was for a clinical secretary to the then Mr Yacoub. Fbr six years, she worked for him at the-National Heart Hospital, tak¬ ing shorthand notes on ward rounds and sitting in on dinics.

It .was on ihe wards that Uz realised that she had an excellent

The responsibility and being able to make

decisions in his absence is important to me’

memory—she could nearly always remember a patient’s blood group. So. when there was an offer of a heart donor, Mr Yacoub would ring her at home to find out to which blood group the patient belonged.

“As well as typing up his notes. I wrote his letters to patients, and gave them instructions on the telephone about what they should do when they were coming in for heart suigery. After that, when they saw me in the dime, they felt they

had someone widi whom they could identify and could aiwav's ring for advice."

She also had to keep the consul¬ tant informed about all the known facts or. the patient, including the name of the doctor who had referred there¬

in 1986. Mr Yacoub became the first British Heart Foundation Pro¬ fessor of Cardiothoradc Surgery at _ the National Heart bid

Lung Institute. In I9S7. Ii2 moved to the Rovai

Brampton and helped Kim to build up his new academ¬ ic research department The clinical and the academic work was now becoming too much for one person to handle, so in 1989 she took on a new clinical secretary. Now she deals mainly with the academic side.

Sir Magdi undertakes many lecture tours and is invited all over the world as a visiting professor. Liz makes all his travel arrange¬ ments and organises the annual conference at the National Heart and Lung Institute. This involves arranging the soda! side for partici¬ pants as well as dealing with the nitty-gritty, such as posters and programmes. She also liaises with the television company which transmits from the operating the¬ atres to the lecture theatre.

Having been with the Sir Magdi for so long, she has a shrew d idea about how he is likely to react io certain situations.

Often researchers come to her with a query, and up to a point she is able to say: “1 don’t think you should do this without seeing the professor."

Sir Magdi also leaves her to draft his letters, having told her of any points he wants to malic. “Being able to make decisions in the professor’s absence ana having responsibility is very important to me," she says.

Although' Liz does not wish to obstruct any member of the profes¬ sor's department or clinical col¬ leagues who have a need to see him. at rimes she has to be firm. “He is in so much demand from patients and staff a: all levels that you must ensure that he has a breathing space after a complex heart opera¬ tion.

"Every secretary gets to know who her boss wants to see and who he does not." Clearly, a medical secretary's job calls for many qualities, including tact, discret¬ ion and a particular interest in people.

AMSPAR courses provide a thor¬ ough knowledge of the National Heafth Service, medical terminol¬ ogy and medical secretarial prac¬ tice. as well as the skills that every secre:ar. needs.

9 Medico! and Genera! Emplovment Agency. 071-935 9426: AMSPAR. Tavistock House Sorth.. Ta\istock Square. London WCIH 9LX.

PETER TTUEVnOR

Liz Versleys, personal assistant to Sir Magdi Yacoub

TO ADVERTISE CALL: 071 481 9994 LA CREME DE LA CREME FAX:

071 782 7828

/ A Senior

Secretarial Role

Career Outlook

c.£16,000 + benefits Central London

If woddqg on yourown initiative nxUtzndai&pf presenudan'sre as imponmt to. you asthe provisioo pf a consjflentiy.hi^t qnafi^secraiiri^ Msv^ 6ep tins is me . rote where you ^gain considerable career satisfaction.

PPP bone of die UK's leading medical insurance coi^anks. Central to qorsocceas is the Strategic CcsnoHJiKaiioits Aincuoa wtriicfa is responsiblefor directing the Group’s coamuBkatiocs links with is key audiences Grinding die mafia, politicians and leafing tietisun mflkers wchititbe healthcare industry. You win. wort as a team with the Cfenentf Manager of StrategBCanununications. offering support and organisation skills to tins key senior manager. Prioritising ywu-work, you will be haiclling internal and external enquiries, from all levds including Directors, with tactjmd diplomacy, organising diaries, confirming arrangements; and

ensuring the GaieralMaMgrris fully briefed for all meetings. Mamiamngan efficieni filing system, undertaking financial admin and producing high quality

documentation, frequently from yoorowif draft, waU also be a pan of your senior

secretarial remit

Do yoo measure up? In addition w first class sprtaml skiBs, we win be sceking someone with demonstrable qualities of reliability, resourcefulness and initiative. You mis be experienced in advs^ Wotmriect5.l while a knowledge of Lotus 1-2-3 would be ideal. Your use ofEngfish will l*perfect You will have fxrrfWit conrnmiif-imnn drills- a high standard of personal presentation and ideally

1* a non-smoker.

In addition id the competitive salary, we offer a pesticioiis wort environment in

Tavistock Square together with competitive benefits including LVs, interest-free

season ticket loan and subsidised mortgage (alter a tpafifying period}.

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PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO MANAGING DIRECTOR Managing Director- of busy medical and clinical research company requires a Personal Assistant to run him. The. successful person must be pleasant, outgoing and competent The duties indude everything firm arranging international meetings, typlng/word processing w maintaining files. Knowledge of Word Perfect 5.1 or Word Perfect for Windows would be helpful, fluent foreign language would also be a distinct advantage.

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Salary: £14,779 pa-£17,291 pa phis

£1,181 pa Lon don Weighting Avacancy has arisen fora WMme Personaf Assistant to Ihe General Manager. The successM candtdaie wll have experience of working as a personal aaslstanna a senior manager In atorge orgstisaiion. She/he wIS be able to work on her/his Infflaflw and deal whhcomplexbaues. Appfcaras should possess proven office skffla. Induffirq audio typing and be used to working under pressure. Experience of WordPerfect and Excel would be an advantage, although training will be given If requfced. Diplomacy, sensitivity and a good sense of hunour wfll be highly valued. The Authority lean equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from aH sections oi die community. Applications are also welcome from those wishing to jab share. The Authority has a ■No Smoking" pofcy for all Its premises. Informal enquiries would be welcomed by Margaret Griffiths, Business Manager, Enflald and Karrtgey FHSA on 081 440 9384 ext 27S. For an appBcation fbrm and a job description, please contact the Personnel Department on 0814409384 ext 270 or by post from Enfiekl and Haringey FHSA, Hatorook House, Oockfastere Hoed, Barnet, Harts B44 0DR. Ctodng dam: 24th September 1993.

METAL BROKERS PA

£18,000 Leading Enn of Metal Brokers urgerrdy needs a well tKganued and enzhusiasdc PA to help run then bray Managed Fund Department. Working alongside the MD and the Office Manager you ■win be co-ordinating detailed marketing presentations, organising exhibitions and providing full secretarial support. Financial experience is preferred, and vkffli of B0/50/WP are cnemial.. Age: 24-35. Ptcaac caQ Ansae Bonstom fas sa imtneriiain imarvi— an 8T1-3T7 8827.

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The City's youngest and fastest-growing underwriting

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Aged 22-35 pref Skills 60 typing/80 shorthand

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TEMPTING! We are handling some of the most interesting and well paid temp assigments in town - particularly for charismatic young Secretaries. You wiU be a word processing wizard (preferably Word for Windows/WordPerfect) with S'bright lively mind and excellent presentation. Shorthand would be the icing on the cake. We pay up to £9.50ph and we're very nice people to do business with I Can you resist the temptation to call Cross Selection.

Tel: 071-377 5500

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£12,000 - £18,000 Due to Their continued success and exp¬

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poDshed and ambitious you can choose from

a wide range of superb opportunities. If you

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management company listed on the stock

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initiative is desirable.

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posirion please call Sarah Cowper on

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could be the place for you. Excellent secretarial skills are essential (80sh/60typ/audio and good WP /MS word

for windows an advantage); Age 24-30; salary c£ 17,000 + superb benefits. Please telephone <7hinma on 071-454 4512,

Crone Corkill 1 RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS '

DESIGN CONSULTANCY requires Secretary/Receptionist

Play a key rote in this creative and dynamic company which specialises in high profile design

projects for international clients.

As well as dealing confidently and stylishly with front of house and answering telephones, the position involves word-processing ro presentation

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experience, wdl-prescnted. computer literate (Apple Mac preferred) and capable of working on

your own initiative and under pressure.

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derads of salary expectation to Clare Nash. Fumeaux Stewart Design & Communication,

24 Beaumont Mews. London WIN 3LN

DIRECTORS SECRETARY

FOR GROWING ADVERTISING AGENCY

The Directors of a medium sized but growing

advertising agency are seeking a Secrelaiy/PA to

help them develop the company further.

Applicants should have all the usual up-to-date

secretarial skills but will also need initiative,

flexibility, the ability to deal with clients and

(perhaps most importantly) a sense of humour.

Since teamwork is an essential part of the culture,

prima-donnas and Queen Bees need not apply.

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parking space.

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8JJ, detailing previous experience and telling ns

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A Bi-Lingual (German) PA/Secretary with experience at Senior Level is required for The Managing Director for Europe of an expanding international service company located near Heathrow Airport. Expert short-hand, WP and organisational skHis are essentia! as well as the ability to work under pressure. An attractive salary and benefits package is being offered.

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SECRETARY/OFFICE ,, , ;

PA TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE Expanding PLC is seeking wel presented and enthusiastic

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ATTRACTIVE SALAR Y CENTRAL LONDON

A confident P.A. is required to work for two busy Partners of a leading International executive search firm.

The successful candidate will probably be aged 25-35, educated to ‘A’ level standard, possess excellent organisational skills and able to work on own initiative and, at times, under pressure. Good audio/typing speeds and experience of WordPerfect 5.1 are essential.

Please fax CV on 071 930 8085 or telephone Charlotte Neal on 071 930 4334 for farther details.

SECRETARY TO MANAGING DIRECTOR

Holidays and Leisure Hemel Hempstead

This very responsible rale demands an experienced mSappoNc seamy who will be nyrtwl to provide xo Mnmt MN.MU...I service to amr Managing Director.

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PA to Chairman £20,000 neg.

Charismatic Chairman of loading West End Pic needs a real PA who can be fuQy refed on to organise and co-ordBnate a hectic busmess schedule. This is a high profile role requiring

someone with excellent secretarial, organisational and communication skifla,

together with experience of working at M.D. or Chairman level within a blue-chip •

organisation. Age 28-32. Skitts 100/60.

The Recruitment Company 071-831 1220

The £24,000 Challenge

The dynamic Managing Director of a large- US Company operating throughout Europe needs a. Seemary/PA to run his business life, attend inertings and act at his PR ambassador. Is a fast-moving and competitive world you must be quick on die uptake, highly organised, and relish total involvement. Age about 3a Skilb 110/70. -

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David Mamet’s provocative play Oleanna has come to the West End. The author talks, for the first time, about this piece and its place in his work to Benedict Nightingale David Mamet thinks, or

hopes, he has not given art interview for two years -or more. He

stopped talking to journalists, he says, partly because he finds self- analysis foreign to him. partly because he didn't know the answer to most questions. Mamet “Inter¬ views make me fed foolish, stupid.” Me: “But tfaafS ridiculous" Mamet “See what I mean?" .

Yet there we were, deep in MamefS adqpdve state of Venncnt talking about his life, his times, and bis brilliant Oleanna, the play that is about to move from the Royal Court to the Duke of York’s. It was an unexpected occasion, inn then he is an unexpected person. He has a somewhat macho public imagp thanks to Glengarry Glen Ross and the other tough-talking plays be has set m his native Chicago as weD' as to his enthusiasm for hunting and collecting knives. But behind, the beard ana dark glasses I found ' a courteous, " reflective, -gentiy- humorous man. fonder of.quotng Aristotle than Hemingway, and with nary a hint of male swagger. '

As we strolled past the pretty clapboard houses and Victorian- period shops of the little town of Montpelier, Vermont, he seemed to . be exchanging nonstop pleasant¬ ries with passers-by: “Hello, how's business?” He went to college m die area, moved bade 15 years ago, and is now deeply ensconced there. He was much involved in a successful campaign to prevent the dumping of nuclear waste in the local mountains. He few- his poker¬ playing friends out to take part in his movie. House of Games. Yet though die place dearly satisfies his craving for roots, he knows he can never quite belong.

“There’s a story of a man who came hum the city, lived here all his life, and said one day, ‘irs great to be a Vermonter'. And this old fellow said, ‘you ain’t a Vermonter’. And he said, ‘alright I’m not. but my children were bora here, and they'll be Vermonters’. And the fellow said, ‘if the cat crawled into the oven and had kittens, would you call them muffins?' ”

Actually, that sort of feisty tradi¬ tionalism is one reason he loves New England. He has learnt to appreciate the toughness of foe Vermonters, too: ‘'The weather is harsh, the earth is hard, the whole idea of Yankee ingenuity is very real. People take pride in making do with very little."There is also, be feels, a kind of energy in the sou that helps him in his own work.

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Behind this is a story that one of Mamet's friends told him. A young academic made a loose ztezutrk one day in class and spent the next two years being pursued through the university's judicial system, not by the student he momentarily offend¬ ed, but by one of her advisers and against her wilL He wen his case, but at devastating personal cost

For Mamet, that was confirma¬ tion afOrwelTs belief, "that when thought-control comes, it will come from ffie left and not ihe right". It was also an example of what he calls “die absolutely virulent erup¬ tion of a new puritanism” He thinks it_'no- coincidence that McCarthyite political correctness appeared'''as the Soviet Union disappeared. America has always Ilkedto think of itseffas a saviour—

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anybody’s mind about anything’

“and for that there have to be bad guys we have to be saved from". :

But that was only one of the play's original ingredients: Writing it. says Mamet, was “less like programming a . computer, more like my two daughters going into the kitchen and mixing wbat they call a potion, which means opening everything they can get their hands on and dumping it into a bowl” The recipe for Oleanna also included his own highly sceptical ruminations — derived from his experiences as a teacher of acting as well as his memories of studying at a liberal arts college — about the very purpose of a university. . ^ “Somewhere in Jonathan Wild, HeHing says that education is useless except in. those instances where it could almost be said to be superfluous: That struck a great response with me.” Indeed, Mamet came to modi the same conclusion that the professor in Oleanna {“to a large extent a ndsonneur charac¬ ter") expresses to his uncompre¬ hending student College is prolonged “hazing", or ritual bully¬

ing. endured by its victims in return for the diploma that gives greater status and economic power.

But does this mean that the play's sympathies are altogether with the professor and against the student who finds him patronising, sexist and worse? Mamet says not He finds it deplorable that women continue to be treated as second- class citizens and feels they are right to demand fester change. He also thinks the play more even- handed than some have supposed. “1 agree with whaf she says as much as with what he says. She may do some things that are dishonourable, but then so does he. Bor me, ifs a play about the uses and abuses of power, and the corruption is on both sides."

But isn't there part of him that would like to be seen as a crusader against political correctness? “Hell, no. Thai’s not what 1 intended and rm certainly not that courageous, rm a big chicken, really I am." He sees Oleanna more as an attempt at a classically structured tragedy, with a stray logical yet surprising enough to excite fear and pity, than as a didactic play. “And what tragedy reveals is that none of us have any idea of what's going an. that we’re in the grip of fete and of our own characters, that we try and fail, thatwe*re all in the same boat."

Certainly, he does not see Oleanna as a topical polemic, a genre he dislikes: “I think Virginia Woolf, God bless her. was right. You can't write in anger. You can’t write to flog your ideas. Writing is not a political tool and drama never changed anybody's mind about anything. It'S my job to write about what I know and see as accurately as 1 can and keep my political ag¬ enda. whatever that may be. out of it If drama has a function, it is to delight us.” S ome have, however, chosen

to see Oleanna as political¬ ly offensive and have been less than delighted. Early

in the play's first run in Cam¬ bridge, Massachusetts, a row of right-thinking Harvard professors stood up at me end and booed it "We had actors yelled at when they left die theatre, and fistfights on the sidewalk, and screaming argu¬ ments between-men and women. People get very angry at the play.”

Not that controversy is a new experience. "Ftora the time I started writing plays 25 years ago. I thought they would throw me in the dink, and it may still happen. It used to be because I used very vari¬ ous, Ithoughtvery funny language. When we did Oleanna, I thought they were going to bum crosses on . the grounds of the theatre."

Above left Lia Williams and David Suchet in the Royal Court production of David Mamet’s Oleanna, transferring to the Duke of York’s Theatre from tonight Above: the playwright

Giuseppe THE Philharmonia and irs music director. Giuseppe Sinopoli. are to part company when his contract expires in 1996. The Italian-born conductor, whose assodation with the Philharmonia goes back to 1984. has always enjoyed greater popularity abroad than he does in London. The decision to end his tenure is. apparently, mutual.

This leaves the Philharmonia with two, not totally unrelated, problems. First, it must prepare a bid for Arts Council funding — along with the LPO and the RPO — in the contest initiated by the council’s derision to withdraw funding from two of the four London orchestras. Second, it needs a new musical director. Or at least to persuade Lord Justice Hoffmann, chairman of the panel which will award state funding to the orchestra with the best bid. that it has a new director in mind. The smart money is on Christoph von Dohn&nyi, currently with the Cleveland Orchestra, to take over.

• DID you know that 1993 is the European Year of Older People and Solidarity Between Genera¬ tions? Well if you didn’t, Sadler’s Wells Is out to remind you with its festival by older people for older people. “Full Swing”, from Octo¬ ber 18-23. aims to celebrate “the positive contribution people con¬ tinue to make to their societies once full-time work and family commitments are over. After a conference devoted to arts and older people, there will be theatre performances by over-60s groups, addressing such issues as Alzheim¬ er’s Disease and sex and the older person: poetry by Gavin Ewart (who began writing poetry full¬ time at the the age of 55); and die Lontano ensemble playing music by Mina Real and Alma Bethaney. who began writing music in their seventies and fifties respectively.

Last chance... THE extraordinary number of marriages between major artists in the 20th century is a subject which has much exercised critics. They are the subject of “Partners”, the major summer show at London 5 Annely Juda Fine Art (071-629 7578), where we may judge between the Arps, the Delaunays. Larionov and Goncharova, Rodchenko and Stepanova. Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hep worth, or even Alan and Janet Green. The exhibition continues until Saturday.

Somehow it is hard to identify Mamet the adopted Vermonter with all this ferocious ado. He is, he says, a happier, calmer man than be was. thanks mainly to his sec¬ ond wife, the Scots-born actress Re¬ becca Pidgeon — “it seems to have pleased the Almighty for no concei¬ vable reason to have granted me a new life, and I'm very grateful". He and she variously garden, ride, go camping, play with their pet labra¬ dor. He even claims to take pleasure in worrying about his work, which he ruefully describes as “vast periods of sitting around, punctuated by waves of feeling I've lost my power and shock at its momentary reappearance".

Certainly, that is a worry he can afford to take lightly, for he seems to have dozens of projects in train, among them a triple-bill about being Jewish in Chicago called 77ie Old Neighbourhood, a novel about Vermont called 77ie Village, a movie derived from Hasidic folk¬ tales called Russian Poland and the film version of Oleanna itself. And more is doubtless to come.

given his sharp observing eye. his obvious enjoyment of the oddball and offbeat,’his relish for shea- human perversity, his zest for hearing and repeating anecdotes.

“Did you know what Clinton said on the radio the other night? He was talking to Caribbean heads of state and someone gave him a speech to read, and it was obvious he’d never looked at it before, and he said, 'Pm very happy to be here with you gentlemen today, as our countries are bound together by our common interest in fighting, drug trafficking, and by our com¬ mon history’. He put a comma where a comma didn’t belong, and as a result truer words were never spoken- God it was funny."

It wouldn’t a bit surprise me if some such happy maJapropism turned up in Mamet’s next Glen¬ garry or House of Games. To meet nimbi his Vermont habitat is to fed the signs are good. He will be teasing and shocking and delight¬ ing us for years to come. • Oleanna is ai the Duke of York's i071- 836 5122) from tonight

Not all musical tragedies happen jpj# on esyfalk stage.W2Lf

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TELEVISION: Lynne Truss joins Alan Whicker and Joan Collins in a time-warp

Under the fierce glare ITT _ of a tropical sun. in I f|f| an outdoor amphi- JL W

theatre, Alan Whicker sub- ^ outs to a massed-dickmg when she left our screens, it photo-opportunity of alarm- seems that Miss World did jug dimensions, and looks not just vanish away, leav- smtabfy sheepish. Far he is mg a poignant tearstained surrounded by 83 giggling heap of white high heels. Miss World hopefuls in swimsuit and in-fitting ti- swimsuit5 and sashes, and ara. Alas, no. Instead, she the location is Sun City. Bo- fulfilled those agfrold aspi- phuthatswana. Things rations of the beauty queen. could scarcely be worse. In Yes, she travelled, met perfectly phrased Whicker- - people, and helped little ian voice-over, he larkfly children, admits his problem: “Here I At the start of last night’s

Too good a joke to miss ness") had it not become increasingly clear that “Miss Wond judge" was a role Alan Whicker had been

heap of white high heels,. put on this earth expressly swimsuit and in-fitting ti- to perform. He was brilliant ara. Alas, no. Instead, she fulfilled those age-old aspi¬ rations of the beauty queen. Yes, she travelled, met

am judging a. Beauty con¬ test in. South Afnca! How.. Politically incorrect can you get? WelL at least I’m not Wearing a. Fur coat"

At the start of last night’s Whidsert Miss World (TZV) our intrepid reporter told how he had innocently travelled to Sun City (well, perhaps innocently isn't die

Alan Whicker amid the Miss World contestant*

'Twenty years ago the word) to interview its cre- Miss World contest from ator Sol Kenner, but some- the Lyceum Ballroom or die how got roped into this.

Hall would com- Poor chap. One might have mand viewing figures of 27 , believed his qualms (those million in tins country. Bvx- Tnods to “political correct-

at it — from comfortably sparring with die other cele¬ brity judges (Ivana Trump, Joan Collins, Sidney Shel¬ don). to joking with the beauty queens, to grappling with die marking system, to being frankly astonished by the eventual result What made it such

enjoyable tele¬ vision ■ was the

chance to eavesdrop on the judges — mainly the banter between Whicker and Col¬ lins — as die whole ghastly event unfolded. “Who voted

for thatT they spluttered when the best national cos¬ tume award went to Miss Canada in huge red-and- white Indian head-dress.

Meanwhile Ivana Trump, in insipid pink, worried openly about provi¬ sions against terrorists. “I em forking about de verse situvation dare could be," she insisted, but the other judges refused to share her concern. They kept laugh¬ ing. Sidney Shddon. clutch¬ ing his sides, knew exactly what to do when the shoot¬ ing started: “We get on the flora!"

And so it went on, over three weeks of preparation for the taig show. While the beauty queens practised their smile-and-wave rou¬

tines in the background, the judges and presenters were going haywire. The MC needed autocue in letters 18 indies high, and still couldn’t read it (“Welcome to Miss World 1999," he proclaimed, eventually, on the big night).

The judging was diligent, incredibly difficult, and re¬ sulted (mvstifyingly. for Whicker) in Miss Russia winning the crown. But if you can’t laugh, what can you do? A sense of weary hysteria overtook Whicker and Collins, which was great Watching the beau¬ ties parade in their swim¬ suits, Joan Collins confided in an undertone," For young girls, they've got the worst arses I’ve ever seen. They’re all dropped." “Perhaps they're tired." ventured Whicker “Perhaps they drop in the afternoons."

As I Pagliacci unfolds, / l the real tragedy can be / J happening elsewhere. I ' / In the orchestra pit a 4 musician who has given his life to music realises that a passage he once knew backwards is now beyond him.

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UARVUTS ROOM: Akson Steadman and Carmel HcShany ,n Soon McPherson's sturdy, loucfwig comedy about a Honda lank* at a ime of era® Transfer after its Hanwead sefro* Comedy, Patflor Street. SW1 [On-687 10451 Previews longhl. 8pm l-Wnros.

Coftseum, St Mamns Lane, WC2 (On- M6316l),?30praB UtTSUKO UCHIDA: The parfct renowned for her subtle approach performs a programroof Haydn. Schumann and Schubert WiemoreHafl.Wigmare Street Wi (071-93521411. 7 30pm Q

PAPER FLOWERS: Linda Marlowe ptays a lonely woman tasanared by a chanametc mfet. Oairtd ThrettaH Brash premiere -itf me award-nmning drama by Crsban piaywnsfn Efron Wofff Waterman*, -U). ttgh Street. Brandotd (Ml-S6B11761 Opera icwfihi. 7 30pm. then Tue-Sal. 7 30 pm

LA BOH SHE ?*an Eduards 'tonducts her fru wv production as ENO's music tSrecax Siaptwi Prwon cSreas. with oeagns by TcOas Hohetei Tt» rasi includes the American soprano Roberta Alexander, making her house debut, as well as John Hudson. Jason Howart Cheryl Barfer and Andrew Slater

THE WILTON DIPTYCH Thefirsrroa new settas of NanonoJ Gaiety e:\Mxticns Lndor the genera label. "Making and Meaning". Is derated m the myntenes attached to the Wflton Diptych, a haunong mage ai RKftad IT bang presented to tho virgin and child by the sairts. Ednwnd. Edward and Jonn the BapDrf National Qoltery. Tralatgor Square. WC3 (071 -839 33311. Mon-SaL 103m- 6pm, Sun, 2-Bpm. To Dec 12 B

THE CREATION: Tatang a break from The Third European Coograss of Sugary currently at lha South Bar*, members of tho medical profession kne 14: fora performance of Haydn's

BIRMNGKAM: After a year's absence Ronnie Scott mates a wetoomsreturn tome dub booing hw name Accompanied by he trade* the accompSshed earmphonrri and raconteur ml perform on (our conoacunve nohts. Ronnie Scoffs. Broad Street. (021 - 643 4S2S1. Toreght-Sai. 7 JOpm. Q POOLE: As pan oiuw Bournemouth . unhostras oaniccwivartebraaons the BSO under Fkchard Hckox performs a programme oi Nicotal. Mendetssohn and Dvol ah. Sotora on the wofoi <s Vasw? Vasstev Weasrx Hall. Poole Aits Centre, Kingfend Road, (0202885222). 7 30pm S CAMBRIDGE: My Imagination Took a Journey is an ahtanon of works by George Romney. Though hers remembered primarily as a ponraa pasdor. te drawings take us mio a different world, hill of stum und efrang and sometimes a hM ol PuseiL FltzwflBain Museum. (0333 332W0) Tueo-Fn, 2-5pm.Sat. IDam-Spm. Sun, . 2.15-5pm. Ural Sept IS.

□ ARCADIA: Tom Stoppard m spar* J«g form bnngs tcgeihei love, cham theory and much Hse With Feiotv Kendal and Emma Fielding National ILyaefton). South Bank. SEi 1071-9^822521 Todw.2 15pm and 730pm ISOfTjms (SOI

THEATRE GUIDE songs n the 1930s Strand Theatre, Strand. WC2 (071-930 8800) Mon-Sat, 8pm. mats. Hi aid Sal, 4pm. I35min&,

CAB OUSEL The NaccnaTs smash-nit ■rereion oi the Badgers and HarnnK-rstein musical has arrived n the West End Mronaei Hjryden and Joanna Btcwn jUi head the raw Shaftesbury. ShafteSfcuiy Avenue. VVC2 (071-379 53S9 Mon-Sal 7 30pm. mar;-Wed. Sffl. 230pm lEonais

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□ HAIR: The Age of Aquarius dawns Man AnoUHf Swes revival Michael Eegdanw dkecis CM Vic. Waterloo Read. SEI i07l -9X8 76161 Mon-Sat. 7 Jfipm. mats Fri. Sat. 4pm IflCroms

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MOONLIGHT: A man on ha cfoathbed rages against me dying rt ffie light Ian Hokn, and Anna Masse-,• Edward C? Souza head a strong cast in (Veer s lascirtaung new play Almeida. Akriesia STOet. Nl i0? 1-359 44041. Mon-Sal 8pm. mat Sat Jpm. eOmms

□ Of FAUNA: Power, potties end purashmanl at an Amercsn isvwrMy Great parfannances by David Suchet and Ua WSkams n Pinter's produchon of MameL DiAe of York's, St Martel's Lme. WCX (071-838 5122). Mon-Sat 720pm. mats Thurs, 3pm and SaL 4pm.

□ RACING DEMON: Revival of David Hae'6 braong drama on the rradem-. Church of Engfcmd. again nfth Michael BryarLRehard Pasco and the exceflerit Oliver Fort Davies. National Theatre tOkvier). South Sank. SEI (07t-S2822SBJ. Previews tonigtt. 7 i5pm Opens Oct2,1030am. B

□ THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS: Sai Thomas. Desmond Bamt m FVandello's Iasi play, compiled by Ovules Wood. Puzzling but a must (or Ians Dtredadby WikamGasMl

THE SEAGULL Pad Shefley's anractnre producKn of Chdcbv in a translation by Mctaei Frayn. Orange Tree. Clarence Strew. ftemond (081 940 3633). Mon-Sal. 7 45pm.'mats Thurs, 230pm and Sal 4pm lB0mns.Q

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■ SUNSET BOULEVARD. Tnumpn tor Pan Lupore as the tatted starn Lloyd Webber's success. Ade^iW Theatre, Srrana VYC2 (Q71 344 0055). Mon-SaL 8pm. mats Thurs and SaE. 3pm.

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New York City Opera is celebrating its fiftieth birth¬ day in characteristic style— daringly — with last week’s

production of The Midsummer Mar¬ riage (the first performance in New York of any Michael Tippett opera) and next month with three world premieres of American works staged an successive days. Not even Wexford would risk that

But this, runs very* much to the company's form since it was founded at the behest of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1944. U occupies much the same position as English National Opera in Britain. “Seats are cheaper than at the Met — top price less than £50. The State Theatre is smaller.— 2,800 (all things are relative) as opposed to 3.500. The repertoire is much more adventurous — it has • staged 26 world premieres and count¬ less first New York performances, recently of such pieces as Die Saldaten, Doktor Faust and Moses und Aron and. like ENO. championed Janifiek.

It has made a pennt of encouraging American composers: important new works fay Copland. Ai^femo, Glass. Floyd, Rorem and Pasatieri have been. staged there. And virtually every American singer of note has passed through the NYCCTs stage door.

Unlike ENO, it does not play the year round: with the Met all of 20 yards away in Lincoln Center, that would be too much of a good thing (at least Covent Garden and the Coliseum are separated by a leisurely seven-minute stroll). The two seasons — m winter and either.spring or summer, depend¬ ing on circumstances — box and cox neatly with the senior house in that you seldom find them playing "at the same time. And, unlike ENO, the approach to language is . flexible, and the ap¬ proach to surtitles less so: Tippett's

New York City Opera is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in its traditional

ground-breaking way, says Rodney Mfines opera was sung in clear English, but it wasstill titled, provoking some unhelp¬ ful laughter (I wonder if the composer ful laughter (I wonder if the composer really wanted you to hear all that stuff about blood and sperm?).

That there will be tides for the three new American operas next month is not the point, rather that all three have been taken over bom commissioners who failed to stage them: Hugo Weisgall’s Esther from the San Fran¬ cisco Opera, Ezra Laderman’s Marilyn (no prizes for guessing the subject- matter) from Washington, and Lukas Foss’s Griffdkui from a television company. Knights in shining armour rather than fools, one prays, rush in to .the rescue.

The company has had its ups and downs — a highflying, starry period under die directorship of Beverly Sills, and its fair share (more, perhaps, even by operatic standards] of financial crises—but under the general director¬ ship of Ibe 46-year-old conductor Christopher Keene it has as definable, an artistic profile as. ENO. as recent repertoire and the amazing three- premiere week would suggest' ‘r

As well as serving up standard works plus operettas and musicals, it is doing its bit to keep opera. — and specifically native opera — alive and well cm a scale to which few other Amerwan companies aspire.

The Tippett production was surpris¬ ing'in many ways, and surprises are always a good thing in the opera house. The imagery of the piece is so complex on the surface that the over-riding temptation for producers and design¬ ers is to hurl a whole lot more images

.. at it, like pebblendash, and. hope that.' some of.them will stick. The most stril^aspaiofFrancescaZambelto’s staging was its utter simplicity — if, as has been suggested, not too much money was available, then this has been turned to advantage:

Kevin Rupnik's permanent set is a raked, bare, rectangular false stage surrounded, by drapes with a. delicate suggestion df Monument Valley point¬ ed on them. A Bierstadt landscape is flown in for the second act, and there is spari^ use of Native American syin- bolsin^neomrmerAfj^mmerAfGr-- riage is as universal as The Magic Flute, and can take any visual 'st^e., The cast wears everyday dothes. And that’s it, but any suggestion of lade of Visual stimulation would fail to take mto account Heather Carson's light¬ ing, which bathes tire stage in subtie,' gently changing washes of colour.

At first, Zambelto’s directum seemed simple almost to a fauh. The gates and

■■ foe stairs for .Marts and Jenifer's" various journeys, much referred to m the text, are notable by their absence;

- .the imagery of predator(female) and prey (male) in the Ritual Dances is ignored. But as the evening progressed Zam betters attention to dear ruurative values, her emphasis on reconciliation

' of Opposites rattier than confutation —her eye Was an the outcomefoam foe very beginning—fell into place. _•

There was a beautifully lyrical quality to Susan Marshall's choreogra¬ phy — a duet for the leading dancers suspended on ropes toe* foe breath away with its stow-moving grace — and the non-Tippettian rntroddetian of

a female dancer to balance Strephan and help him guide Jenifer and Mark through foeir ordeals seemeda highly positive glass/ The finale, with the entire company (including" a resurrect¬ ed King Fisher) in-, a Woodstocky cuddle-in of peace and love, careless of gender, bathed Jh fight and gsr/mg at foe audience, was extremely moving— at least it .was to this incurable old .romantic.. ■ J

The great strength of Zambello’s thoughtful, dear, exceedingly grown¬ up staging was that it left the music to tell foe stray fas was true of her memorable Assedio di Calais at Wex¬ ford two years ago) and that is a rare enough quality in opera production. Her Earis Court Tosor may have been more cluttered, but her mainstream British debut next year — La rondine in Leeds arid Khbvcmskchbm for ENO —is eagerly awahed.: '

A ' nd of coarse this'music is admirably qualified to carry

/ % foe evening: its freshness. X A-datfog and bewiktering in¬ ventiveness grow evermore thrilling as the years pass: Keene conducted with enough energy and youthful exuber¬ ance to excuse foe odd untidy comer, and. drew especially fine work from foe chorus. There was some very impres¬ sive-’ singing from.the young tenor Dennis McNeil as Mark — a free, ringing top—and from Jacalyn Bower- -Krritzer asSosqsms.

As can happen with anyone less than a Suttjerlarra (who created the role) as Jenifer, Elizabeth Futral stole tbe female hOTpiirs': as Bella, nicely partnered by Brad Cresswett’S Gnedi- ble Hulk of a Jack. Jan Opalach was a rangy, teraer-likfi King Fisher. Tlifoett was present and the audience rose to its fret to aedaim hint Fie had at last arrived on Broadway, and it seemed he had found a moist congenial home.

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GALLERIES: In his latest work, Lucian Freud reveals and dissects both bodies and minds, says Richard Cork

ike his grandfather Sigmund, Luaan Freud in-

.vites men and women to J enter his sanctum, lie down

and submit to an unwavering scrutiny. Most of the figures in his raesinenc and masterful show of recent work at the Whitechapel Art Gallery m east London are stretched out, and seem to be absorbed in private thoughts.

Same close their eyes, as if reverie had given way to sleep. But there is nothing relaxed about these reclin¬ ing dreamers. They still appear tense and expectant, uneasily aware of the invisible observer who tries so zealously to define their solitude.

Unlike his grandfather, though, Freud refuses to stay within the prescribed limits of an analyst's session. His sitters find themselves posing for hours at a time, often early in the morning or late into the night They are just as likely to rest on floorboards as lie on a bed, and most of them are naked. The decorous Sigmund would never. have encouraged his patients to strip off and expose their blanched, defenceless flesh. Nor would he have positioned them in a bleak room, unalleviated by the rugs, drapes and rows erf companionable statuettes which lined his consulting rooms.

These supremely uningratiating images derive a lot of their power from the staricness of the figures' surroundings. Nothing is permitted to soften the direct, unsettling en- . counter between model and painter. The woman in the Tate’s magisterial canvas stands in front of a towering pile oLrags. Crumpled and smeared with pigment, they serve only to accentuate her insecurity as she

. leans against them. Rather than supporting her as she succumbs to exhaustion, they threaten to over-

. whelm and even smother her. As for the nude in a closely related

canvas called Lying by the Rags, she appears to Have given way to weariness altogether. While die rags press down on her from the top of the picture, she seems resigned to the possibility that her body might slide down the knotted, light-reflect¬ ing floorboards which fall below her as vertiginously as the side of a cliff

Although there is no suggestion - that the people in Freud’s work suffer from the psychological dis¬ tress which afflicted his grandfa¬ ther's .clients, they are far from

blithe. Nobody smiles in this exhibi¬ tion- The children who make a rare appearance in one painting end up as sombre as die adults. Several figures shield their faces with arms or hands, in an apparent attempt to hide some vestige of themselves from the painters avid eyes. Bui most of them accept the inevitability of exposure. Because they have posed far him before, they know that Freud will subject their flesh to an almost clinical examination.

In a superb 1988 painting tersely called Naked Woman, the white sheet she lies on is handled with streamlined fluency. So are the floorboards beyond the bed.

Several figures shield their faces, in an apparent attempt to hide some vestige of themselves

brushed in as smoothly as the surface of a calm, dark sea. She appears to be hovering above them, adrift and helpless.

Freud's pigment becomes far more heavily worked as he tackles her body. It gathers in encrusted, granular deposits around her breasts, ribs and knees. Veins are disclosed beneath the blanched skin, and her knuckles redden as she tightens her right hand into a fist This is an uncompromisingly north¬ ern nude, a stranger to the sun perhaps stiffening herself against the cold. Although quickened by Freud’s eadsummate marie-making, which responds with supple, dart¬ ing deftness _to her living presence, she is laid out like a cadaver on a mortician's bier..

An awareness of death informs everything in litis show,' even though a copse appears only once. A small 198? charcoal drawing of The Painter's Mother Dead might go unnoticed, overshadowed by the earlier, far larger painting of the same woman. There, in an assured canvas that heralded the onset of Freud’s mast formidable period, the

mother lay awake on a bed. Al¬ though her son made no attempt to disguise the signs of old age pepper¬ ing face and hand, she gazed alertly towards the ceiling.

But ifte paintings praanmynow to the charcoal drawing, where her once-resohne features have crum¬ pled at last, reveals how much the earlier painting had been concerned with mortality as well Dressed in pristine white clothes summarised with unusual lightness, Freud’s mother seems to be preparing herself for the end with silent stoicism.

Most of his sitters are younger. . and thoughts Of extinction could hardly dominate their minds. They are however, preoccupied by a consciousness of isolation. One of the most commanding exhibits is alive with the flowing, attenuated forms of two women stretched out on the familiar form of a narrow iron bed. They lie close together, and yet seem oblivious of each other. One doses her eyes, while the second figure stares wistfully in the direction of her thin arm jutting off die bed to dangle in space. This projecting limb, suspended and alone, sums up Freud’s vision of the figures he studies. He sees them above all as vulnerable, and notiiing can deflect him from a relentless desire to explore their frailty.

One naked woman, seen from above, appears to hang upside- down. Although she clutches her own thumb, tike a child bent on reassuring herself, the gesture ends up accentuating the woman’s need for consolation. Even when Freud focuses on a married couple, in a picture called lb and her Husband. their conjugality fails to oust the' disguiet Both figures are asleep, and the man has thrown a protective arm around his wife's waist But there is an air of desperation about . the gesture, and the storm of paint- slashes covering the wall behind with their emphatic presence seems to intensify the anxiety.

The underlying belief that each of Us remains solitary is given its most overt expression in the biggest painting Freud has yet produced. And the Bridegroom is a prodigious performance, juxtaposing two con¬ trasted figures resting naked on a bed. The man is a colossus, and his body takes up much of the available spare The woman, pale and slight, manages to find a place beside him

Leigh Bowery, the performance artist, is the subject of Freud's Naked Man. Back View (1991-2)

though, and he turns towards a grey screen tom just above his forcefully upthrust knee.

The outcome should be depress¬ ing. and some viewers , will recoil from Freud’s flinty refusal to offer any consolation. But I find die grandeur of And the Bridegroom. combined with its rigour and perspi¬ cacity. a source of immense satisfac¬ tion. At the age of 71. Freud is at the peak of his power and painting by far the finest images of his long career. He never steps extending himself, most unpredictably in the pictures devoted to the performance artist Leigh Bowery. Whether erect in a chair or sprawling on the floor with one cavalier leg slung on a

mattress, this shaven-headed man- mountain has stimulated Freud into producing some of his most ambi¬ tious. flamboyant work.

Part sumo wrestler and part Rubensian odalisque. Bowery has tiie ability to fuse pugilism with voluptuousness. Seen from the back, on a stool scarcely able to withstand his weight, he looks like a fleshy embodiment of Yeats's “rough beast", waiting to tyrannise the world. From the front, though, aggression is replaced by insouci¬ ance as he bares his genitals and dares us to feel embarrassed.

Bowery’s utter lack of inhibition has acted on Freud like a tonic, daring him to push towards a

greater flamboyance. Sometimes it hovers dangerously near rhetoric, but Freud is far too disciplined an artist to indulge in empty showman¬ ship. His latest self-portrait is. for all its full-length nudity, taut and densely considered. Standing in open shoes, he holds a palette-knife in the air. His face is heaped with successive reworkings, testifying to his tenacious dissatisfaction and mistrust of facility. But there is iron certitude in the thumb gripping the paint-clogged palette, and his knife is poised in eager anticipation of the pictorial dissections yet to come. • Lucian Freud: Recent Work is at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. London El (071-3770107) until November21

A feast for the

eyes, not the ears The architecture of a Czech palace overwhelms the

music in a UN- inspired concert

It seemed a long way to go to a concert by air to Vienna, then by road

(passing Haydn’s birthplace in Rohrau) to the Slovakian border at Bratislava, north¬ wards through the Czech Re¬ public towards Brno, west¬ wards into the Moravian highlands (passing through Jihlava. where Mahler grew up) and finally arriving at Zdar nad Sazavou. It is a pleasant, friendly little town and just outside, on the road to Prague, there is a magical, world apart

As you enter the narrow gateway you see a tum-of-the century schoolroom and hand¬ some dock tower on the right a Gothic church in front a partly Renaissance and partly baroque residence to the left Behind these buildings are converted stables and, on the other side of a struggling garden, an 18th-century single¬ storey house backing on to a lake with a forest beyond and a chapel spire just visible above the trees. ' You could call it the Kinsky Palace. Certainly, it belongs to the Kinsky family, as it did up to 1948 when it was faxen over by die communists. Tne house and the 24.000 acres that go with it were recently res*01™ to Radslav Kinsky ty the new

revtfoat saved thepalace^s hs association with ^ greatest and perhaf»tije«^ original of baroque architects, Jan Sandni. It was hewho applied the “travagndy m- congruQus baroque det^w to the modest Gothic, rntetm of the church, mdudmg^| characteristically distof™ piers carrying the organs on SteriS rf the nave: not

A concert in progress in die Kinsky Palace at Zdar

used for worship during the communist regime, it was reasonably well preserved as a work of art •

Itwas Santini who designed the residence which, since 1955, has housed an important book museum far the National library in Prague. It was also Santini who designed the house by the lake: used until recently as a bookstore, it is now the decaying home of Count and Countess Kinsky.

just outside the estate, on the other side of the road to Prague, is Sandra’s playfully designed cemetery* with curved outer walls and three little chapels. In the forest behind the palace is Sandra's masterpiece: die Chapel on the Green Hfil. eccentrically but triumphantly inspired m structure and decoration by the tongue and star symbols associated with its dedicatee, St John of Nepomuk. .

All this was oommissranea not by the Kinsky family but by Vaclav Vejraluva, abbot of the Cistercian monastery that built the Zd^ palace and occupied it until Kinsky^

Dietrichstein ancestors boughi it in the 19th century.

Last week the Zdar palace provided the setting for the third in the annual series of concerts organised fra- the United Nations Fund for Dis¬ abled People in the so-called lost palaces of Europe.

The concert was actually more an architectural than a musical experience. The acoustic in the Gothic church at Zdar is-not bad, and the Independent Chamber Or¬ chestra of Bohemia under the direction of Hynek Farkac is pretty good. But eariy classical music by Karel Staznic and Josef Myslivecek is nothing like as colourful as Santini’$ baroque decoration. Not even Haydn's Violin Concerto in G, stylishly played by Andrea Cappefletti. still less a few tuneful trifles by Dvorak, could break the architectural spelL The occasion, which benefited the Olga Havel Foundation most handsomely, was no less valuable and no less memorable for that.

Gerald Larner

THEATRE: Triumph for one playwright, embarrassment for another

Kitchen sink, sinking kitsch Land of die Living Theatre Upstairs,

Royal Court

ON ONE level. David Spa¬ cer's new play is a kitchen sink situation. Two sisters, Karen and Frances, wash up, talk about tiie crud on telly and get drunk cn a carton of plonk. Indeed. Land of the Living looks, in brief flashes, like a television soap or sitcom.

But Spencer’s brilliance is to take the trite realism of those genres and move beyond it to far greater truths. He selects a slice of ordinary life and shows it shot through with grief. These Yorkshire house¬ wives suffer domestic violence and marital strife. Both are struggling to break free from their family past and cope with bereavement the anger, guilt and loneliness caused by their mother's suicide.

Spencer is psychologically searching. He plants depth charges- m his characters. In the midst of the mam action, fraught interior monologues surface or memories cut in, the latter played out by two young actresses depicting Frances and Karen as dhildren (Sarah Doherty and the quietly in¬ tense Michelle Hardwick). Scenes can shift gear in a split second. The adult Karen tells lightbulb jokes: suddenly, Frances is screaming and violent. So too, naturalistic dialogue flows into the pattemistic, or grammar falls away, leaving a stream of consciousness dial has the hnpresSkxrastic sweep of a Greek tragic chorus.

The production has its prob¬ lems. Shimon Cashel's set is confused and ugly. There is a television set on a box of quartz drippings and a sink set in a section of churchyard wall like some fitted unit from the Stole Age.

Stiff foe combination of the concrete and abstract does fit Spencer's mixed styles, and the drippings crushed under¬ foot disturbingly echo the suppressed explosions going off inside file characters.

Long, static monologues are broken up by the speakers stepping, between para¬ graphs, into different spot¬ lights. This blocking, by

MARILYN MNGWILL

Nicola Redmond and Tom Mannion conduct a frank exchange of views in The Baby

director Sue Dunderdale. is aimless but surprisingly unintrusive. principally because Sue Devaney and Lorraine Ashbourne power through problems with their charged, sensitive perfor¬ mances as the older Karen and Frances,

Devaney (Karen), as tough and funny as she is wounded, delivers monologues with en¬ grossing filmic naturalism. Ashbourne (Frances, nick¬ named Frantic) is wild. She rides a couple of untamed soliloquies, keeping a firm grip through over-alliterative poetic lines that lurch to and fro like a bucking bronco and would have a less determined actress out of the saddle.

Stiff Spencer’s blend of vibrantly colloquial dialect with passages approaching verbal expressionism is en¬ grossing, bold and — with a little tinkering — could be consummately theatrical.

Land of the Living. Spen¬ cer’s sequel to Killing the Cat, takes on socio-political issues including wife battering, homosexuality, incestuous love and the legacy of broken homes. But it does so with humanity and delicacy. Above all, Spencer depicts women's

' lives with great perception.

Kate Bassett

The Baby Bush

GLASWEGIAN playwright Chris Hannan has been spo¬ radically successful for nearly a decade, from the warmly received Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (1985) to his last play at the Bush, the prize-winning Evil Doers.

But into every writers life a little rain must faff unfortu¬ nately drenching the just (the audience and cast) as well as the unjust. Hannan’s new play sprays this venerable fringe venue with undirected, unfo¬ cused pretensions as wildly as a wonky showerhead.

The setting is ancient Rome. The dictator Sulla has just died and already factional politics are throwing the popu¬ lace into confusion. The action centres on Macu, one of the professional waiters paid to keen over the dead (today they are called critics). She is a wild-looking woman whom Nicola Redmond, tall, broad¬ faced. red-haired, makes into a formidable Boadicea figure.

The squalid quarter she inhabits is a hornet's nest of potential troublemakers. The Scottish, Irish and Brummie accents of a multi-rad al hub of cultures draw intriguing par¬

allels between Rome at the dawn of its imperial glory and London, well past the fag-end glow of its own.

Polly Irvin’s production fails to make anything significant of this: but then the writing is too busy skidding uncontrolla¬ bly through political plotting and the domestic life of the neighbours to the psychology of the damned, the driven and the despairing.

Diffuse and sprawling, the action unwisely flounders into humour, not all of it intention¬ al. “What's taken you so long?" asks Pompey's mis¬ tress, bumping into him after a dvil war. We can but echo the question.

Macu's obsession with avenging her child, killed by Pompey's activists, emerges as the core of the play, but as she seemed mad long before the event occurs, it is hard to know what norm to judge her by. Tom Mannion’s sturdy Wocky (a name that must reflect the multi-cultural Rome of 78BQ never explains his patient devotion to a raving nutter.

And Charlie Caine flails helplessly as Pompey. a part that seems rewritten or cut down to foe point of unintelli- gibilrty since foe play’s pre¬ miere in Glasgow in 1990.

Martin Hoyle

RADIO

Giving until

it hurts Two rather different forms of love were picked out in foe first of.

the new Radio 4 series on charities. The Gift Homes (Thursday). Ten million people a week do something for charity, and we heard first foe voices of the women who devotedly toil away at teles, like the “raffle queen” who runs ail foe local raffles, and the woman who just finds a “lovely inner contentment" in helping. Very sympathetic.

Then we heard the voice of a professional fund-raiser, who believes that he should be well paid because “no one works effidenily in a hairshin" — but who also spoke about love. Gening money out of people, he said, was just like wooing them sexually — you risk rejection, but if you win. you settle down in a stable rela¬ tionship. with the money com¬ ing in regularly. Very practical.

The programme, presented by John Skrine, did not try to adjudicate between these ap¬ proaches. but it was a quite compendious survey of the many facets of charity. The most interesting point came at foe end — the revelation of a hostility to charities from some of the people they want to help.

There is now a radical lobby for the disabled which believes that the appeal to pity — the representation of the disabled as tragic or pathetic — does them more harm than good. This group would happily see the money dry up if the disabled started to be offered jobs, just like other people. The danger with that utopian atti¬ tude. it seems to me. is that, some of the disabled are likely to end up with foe worst of both worlds: neither jobs nor financial help.

Another new series on- Thursdays on Radio 4, Cau¬ tionary Tales from the French Countryside, consists of half-hour playlets by Judy Leather, recorded in France. The first. The Magic Potion. began well with Melvin, an exasperated complaints of¬ ficer, leaving his family to go to France. He gets a job behind the bar in a British pub in a small town, where he finds he can mix magic cocktails. This enables him to get hold of a beautiful, ardent Frenchwom¬ an and to win the lottery.

The moral of the tale proved to be that, all the same, magic cannot make you happy — because you lose your self- respect if (hat is how you get things. What was absurd was setting the story in France and producing it there. We heard a few French voices in the background, but this simple fable could liave been located in any milieu. And it was very- simple, too.

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40 SPORT THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER IS 1993

Arsenal anticipate test of strength

on return to Europe From Keith Pike in odense, Denmark

GONE are the days when a crip to the Continent repre¬ sented a flight into the un¬ known for British football teams, when contrasting cul¬ tures and tactics could flum¬ mox the best this country has to offer. The first leg of Arsenal’s European Cup Win¬ ners’ Cup first-round tie here tonight promises few sur¬ prises and, perhaps, even fewer goals.

The freedom of movement European players now enjoy —plus the trusty video record¬ er — dictate that neither Arsenal nor Odense are likely to catch each other unawares in the Odense Stadion, where a heavy pitch saturated by five days' almost continuous rain should favour the strong rath¬ er than the skilful.

Yet familiarity with the style of their opponents and the conditions has bred anticipa¬ tion rather than contempt in George Graham, the Arsenal manager.

“I am excited by European competition," he said yester¬ day. “It is important for Arsenal but also for English football that Manchester Uni¬ ted, Aston Villa and Norwich do well. We want more teams involved and success is the only way."

Graham has been given an insight into Odense's streng¬

ths by John Jensen, his mid- field player, who joined Arsenal from Brondby after his goal helped Denmark gain an unexpected victory over Germany in the 1992 Euro¬ pean championship final.

Jensen rates Odense as probably the best side in Denmark today, even though they lost their flawless league record, and leadership of the table, in a goalless draw at home to Aalborg on Saturday. They are skilful but physically strong, just like a typical English team. Jensen said.

It was a view confirmed when Graham and his squad watched tapes of Odense's recent victory over Brondby. “They are very industrious and looked a good all-round side." he said. “I was quite impressed."

The Danish exodus into Europe was led by Allan Straonsen and has since been illuminated by the Laudrup brothers, with the likes of Schmeichel. at Manchester United. Molby and Piechnik, with Liverpool, and Jensen presently strengthening Scan¬ dinavian links with the FA Carling Premiership.

But it is a Cameroon inter¬ national. Alphonse Tchami, who could most threaten Arsenal's security. A speedy and direct striker, he has

replaced the now retired Lars Elstrup, once of Luton Town, and is expected to lead foe Odense attack in front of a five-man midfield that in¬ cludes Steen Nedergaaid. who scored foe only goal in their preliminary-round victory over Publikum, of Slovenia.

Arsenal, whose first venture into Europe began with a 7-1 victory in Copenhagen 30 years ago, are now beginning their tenth campaign. As a player at Highbury. Graham savoured victory in the 1970 Fairs Cup final against Ander- Wht but the manner of Arsenal's home defeat by Benfica, which ended their European Cup challenge two seasons ago. still rankles. "We learned that we must be patient as well as positive." he said.

With Dixon injured and his captain. Adams, suspended, Graham must reorganise his defence, moving Keown to the centre and either bringing in Lydersen at full back or mov¬ ing foe versatile, and now fit, McGoldrick back from mid- field. where foe energy of Parlour. Selley or Hillier would be a useful asset

The vibes are negative but Wright as ever, is champing at the bit and a goal from him could leave Arsenal nicely positioned for the second leg.

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Monaco Villa shooting for financial goal Lee confirms bid plan to restore

From Peter Ball in Bratislava, Slovakia

good name yesterday

promised to restore French honour when they meet AEK Athens in file first round of the European Cup tonight Mona¬ co, drafted into foe competi¬ tion to replace the champions. Marseilles, who have been banned because of allegations of attempted bribery in a French league game last sea¬ son, meet foe Greek dub in foe first leg of their tie in the Principality.

Henri Biancheri. Monaco’s general manager, said yester¬ day: “We must now seek victory for the whole reput¬ ation of French football."

“The European Cup is hard¬ er and more prestigious than the Uefa Cup [in which they were due to play Tenerife of Spain before being switched to the senior tournament]. We will have to rase foe level of our play.” the Monaco coach, Arsene Wenger, said.

The European Cup-Win¬ ners’ Cup game between Hajduk Split and Ajax, which was ordered to moved out of Croatia because of renewed fighting in the dvD war in the former Yugoslavia, will be played on Friday evening in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

BEHIND foe flamboyant im¬ age, Ron Atkinsoa the Aston Villa manager, has a cautious streak, and he has embarked on the dub’s latest European campaign with his fingers crossed. Yesterday, as Villa arrived in the capital of the fledgling republic of Slovakia, be was concerned both about the quality of foe opposition and his team's recent lack of goals.

Atkinson’s caution is under¬ standable. for he goes into this game with a large finan¬ cial responsibility bearing

down on him, knowing that Doug Ellis, his chairman, is hoping foe dub will make £5 million from a successful run to fund the redevelopment of foe Holte End.

“In terms of a name our opponents are not one of the glamour teams in Europe, but I think we have the hardest game of any of foe English teams in Europe, without any doubt” Atkinson said, adding for good measure that the UEFA cup is especially de¬ manding. “This competition can be the hardest to win as

there is an extra round and you cant expect an easy entry like you might get in the Cup Winners' Cup."

Atkinson at least found one straw to dutch at yesterday, suggesting that the experience his Irish quartet — McGrath, Townsend Houghton and Staunton — had gained play¬ ing against the Baltic States recently, will be useful prepa¬ ration in terms of style.

Slovan Bratislava's record in the Czechoslovak league in its final years was good and with 15 years in the various

Norwich must look to Crook By Our Sports Staff

THERE is no substitute for experience in Europe. Flaying in one of the Continent* three premier competitions places unfamiliar, sometimes un¬ comfortable. demands on players used only to foe do¬ mestic game and all too often a club's first taste of life at such an elevated level has been a bitter one. Norwich City, nov¬ ices tonight in the first round of the Uefa Cup, may need aD the experience they can call on in their first leg of their first- round tie with Vitesse Arnhem.

The Dutch are veterans of

the European scene, the peren¬ nial fourth dub in Holland with realistic ambitions of mounting a serious challenge to Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven. Norwich have never played in Europe before and only a handful of their players have done so with other chibs. The contrast has not been lost on Vitesse, who are disarmingly confident of their chances in the first leg at Carrow Road.

Arnhem are in form, too. Lying third in the Dutch League, they have won four of their five matches this season.

for Norwich will be guidance, even more usual to their playmaker. Ian Crook. Crook. 30. was a member of Tottenham Hot- spurt Uefa Cup-winning squad in 1984 and is thus their most experienced European campaigner.

“I would like to think I’ve got something to pass an to the other players, although to be honest it’s so long ago I’ve almost forgotten it myself." he said. “Arnhem’s style should suit my game and I'm confi¬ dent foe other players can adapt to European demands.”

European cups they have more recent experience than their opponents. But the sale of Peter Dubrovsky to Real Madrid has deprived them of their outstanding forward.

On paper, Villa have more than one forward in that bracket but they have not been proving it recently. Dean Saunders admits that his scor¬ ing comes In busts, and he has been going through a thin spell with only two goals in 21 matches. He had a similar experience at Liverpool two years ago. when European matches finally enabled him to break the spell, nine goals coming from three games.

Saunders is hoping that the pattern mil be repeated. "I cant put my finger on the reasons why the goals have dried up. It just happens every so ofien.One or two against Bratislava might get things going far me again." That may depend on the service he receives.

Townsend, who was the main injury doubt with a nagging hamstring problem, is expected to be fit to make his dub debut in Europe at foe age of 30, and that should help, as should die return of Houghton in place of Whifongham.

to control City By Our Sports Staff

PROBABLE TEAM J44-2): N Sprtc — E Bonn. P McGrath, 8 Two, S Staunton —- R Houghton, G Cowans, AJTmmaand, K Rteharaon — r ■ D Saunders, D AOdnson.

FRANCIS Lee yesterday accel¬ erated his £15 million takeover bid for Manchester City. The former Manchester City play¬ er and his consortium formal¬ ly approached City with firm proposals.

Bernard Halford, the City secretary, said last night “We have received a letter and it will be dealt with through foe appropriate channels."

Lee, 49. and the other two members of his consortium met lawyers and financial advisers in Manchester and then announced their move. Lee publicly announced his intention to buy out Peter Swales, die City chairman, on September 6 but now intends to keep secret details of the bid.

A statement issued by the consortium, which includes Colin Barlow, a former City player, read: “We have had a meeting with our professional advisers, Kuit Stemart. Levy and Co and KPMG Feat Mar- wide. They are in die process of writing to the dub to establish contact with the di- rectors of Manchester City JFC pic.

“It is proposed there should be confidentiality cm both rides in the best interests of foe dub. so yon will appreciate

.fom it wifi be inappropriate to comment at this stage. You will appreciate foot we must honour the confidentiality pro¬ posal that we have input to the dub." -

Swales, who chums Lee feces opposition from another prospective buyer, spent the day at his Maine Road office but made no comment about developments. WoukH* buy¬ ers wifi want to examine GtyS bodes before deciding whether to meet Swales* £25 million asking price. • .

Across the Ptenmnes, Mid¬ dlesbrough have appointed a new chairman. Steve Gibson. 35, wfaDhdds20per cent (if the shares in the cfob and runs BulkhauL a shipping com¬ pany, replaces Qiui Hender- son, who; stepped down hr ApriL Henderson, the framer ICI chairman, remains on foe board.'.

With the team doing wdl in the first division and Gibson a supporter of Lennie Lawrence, the manager* position app¬ ears secure. □ Keith Alexander, foe Lin¬ coln C5ty manager, has placed II firsHeam players, an foe transfer list after a poor start to the season. Lincoln are third from bottom fa foe Endskagh Insurance League

Sevilla put Maradona move on ice

THE Spanish dub, Sevilla, confirmed yesterday that it had blocked the transfer of Diego Maradona to Newell* Old Boys of Argentina. Sevi¬ lla's vice-president, Josfc Ma¬ ria del Nido, announced that the dub, which dismissed Maradona during the sum¬ mer after the Argentinian had played for it last season, had written to foe Spanish football federation informing it of the refusal to facilitate the move.

Maradona played last sea¬ son for Sevilla after a contro¬ versial transfer from Napoli on completion of a 15-month world ban for drug abuse. He consistently looked over¬ weight and unfit; missed sev¬ eral games at foe end of the season through injury and left Spain just before his contract expired on June 30.

Maradona’s agent Marcos Franchi, said in Buenos Aires last week he had agreed terms with Newell* Old Boys for foe 32iyear<tid former Argen¬ tina captain to resume his career with the Rosario dub.

The attempt by the comedi¬ an, Freddie Starr, to buy Exeter City has been turned down. The dub* directors Issued a statement saying: The board does not consider foe approach by Mr Stair to be in the best interests of Exeter City Football Chib.”

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Angto-ftaBan Cup Qualifying round Nottm Forest v Notts County ............ Southend v Watford (7.45) -.

West Bromwich v Peterborough (7.45)_

Scottish League First division Hamilton v Clydebank_ FA CUP: Rrat quailing round replays: teuton vTow Law; Wlnstard v OssettTdlrm; St Helens v Ftosasnoeie; Khowetay v SaRbrd; Brigg v Droyisden; Lymtaglon v Peacehaven end Tetecomba; Newport AFC v TrowtettJgs; Ttesrton v Womeeur, DIADORA LEAGUE: prerrtv dhMort Chesham v Hteton; Molraey v DorUng. FtaS dMstare Berner Rsob v QvKart s Pes*. Second Artetan: Coder Row u Cheitoey. NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE: Premier dMMon: Bfatap Auckland v BrtrSraton; Ftaebrood v Banown Hontech v More- eambe: Wtaefud v Accrington Snrtey. Fhat dMatan: Congteton vAefSi; Paisley CqMo vAOrstoa CARLING NORTH WEST COJN7ES; FfesrdiMon: Psnrth v Present. 8EA2ER HOMES LEAGUE: MkflBnddF Vtetan: VS Rujpyv Bridgnorth. GREAT MftLS LEAGUE: Premier dMNpn: CredHon v Ltekeant Mnehasd v Brora. Tontagmn v Taunton; wedbuy v Cntapertoem. JEWSON LEAGUE: Premier dMstare CMahorW vWaBon; SohamvHteton PONTTN5 LEAGUE: Run dMUon: New- casta v Boeon (70); Yore v Sheffleld wed

r Second dhfctant Bemetey v Stoke S; Grtrmby v Burnley (7j0): HadderelWd ten Vale; OMham v Badtpoot (7.0):

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. RUGBY UNION Club matches Carfiff v Penarth _ Met Potoe v Efiher (7.45) ..— Worley v Durham .....- Proton Grasshoppers Wale Of Line Rotherham vLaeck (0.0)..

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wffl first have to play with an auffffipfy that ha^hfgn absent from most recent domestic performances.

..--IfezigeraJiave felted to win iaaty of fodr past four premier divisionffiuniesandrtisdcar that theyhave felt the abseiue of such as Goram, Brown, McCall and McCoist But foe depth df their squad should have equipped them to cope with the casualty 8st

It is harder a surprise to discover that Walter Smith, foe Rangers' manager, has beep tempte&to field McCall this evening, although the player has beezrout or action since the opening game erf foe season wfaiferecovering from a groin operation. . ...;v

“I (font want to rush l^at back ahda few days ago I was refoctanl to conader him for induskm. he has swayed me by his eagerness to pfey in this game; It wffi be mfiKnit to decide whether he plays," Smith said yesterday.

He must balance foe advan¬ tage he maty, get from McCall's reintrodnetion against the demanding fix¬ tures of foe next fortnight, during which Rangers must play a premier division flx- ture at Aberdeen, a league cup semi-final against Celtic and foe^ return leg of this tie in Sofia. - - .

There is also the example of Duncan . Ferguson, trim has yet to show that be has regained the sharpness he lost during a four-month layoff because Of injuries. Smith recentty admitted that he re¬ gretted asking too much too soon affoe forward.

Fergustm would be a con- ridenfofe asset If his conoen* tratkm could be guaranteed, but since be is to be sentenced cm an assault change at Cupar Sheriff Court tomorrow morning. Smith mutt gauge foe player* mraalecardnilty.

Rangers' assistant manag¬ er,- Ardne Knox, who has watched foe Bulgarian cham- pfonSrheffeves (hey are suni- lar m style to CSKA Moscow, whidi should be. warning enough that Rangers could be in fra a frustrating night The Russians held mem to a goalless draw at Ibrox in foe final match of foe European Champion?League.

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LANFRANCO Dettori is to nde as first jockey to Shaikh Mohammed's principal train¬ er. John Gosden. from the start of next season.

All three parlies have agreed terms for the new alliance, which effectively seals the fate of Shaikh Mo¬ hammed’s retained jockey for 1992. Michael Roberts, who signed a one-year contract at the start of the year.

Gosden is among a group of the shaikh’s vast' array of trainers who are uncomfort¬ able with Roberts even though the reigning champion has achieved greater success in group one races than his predecessor, the American. Steve Cauthen.

Gosden’s admiration for Dettori’s skills has been evi¬ dent recently by his desire to engage the 22-year-old’s ser¬ vices whenever possible. Dettori partnered Silverdale in the St Leger on Saturday, when Roberts was in Ireland riding Opera House, and he rode the shaikh’s. Anna Of Saxony to victory in die group three Park Hill Stakes three days earlier. Roberts, riding the same owners Iviza, fin¬ ished sixth.

In addition, the Italian is a regular work . rider at Gosden "s Stanley House Sta¬ bles in Newmarket. Shaikh Mohammed bought the prop¬ erty and completely renovated it before Gosden returned from California to take up residence in 1988.

Pencader likely to miss rest of season

By Richard Evans

RACING CORRESPONDENT

PENCADER one of the top two-year-olds in Peter Chapple-Hyam’s Man ton yard, is unlikely to run again this season due to illness.

The Caerieon colt disap¬ pointed behind the Geoff. Wragg-tramed Nicolotte at Doncaster last week and was subsequent!}' found to . be off-colour and have a temperature. The juvenile had previously won the Yattendon Stakes at Newbury in a record dine and the form of the race has worked out extremely .. well with numerous nxn-

By Julian Muscat

Speculation on Roberts's fixture has been intense since he lost the ride on Barathea in the Prix du Moulin ten days ago. That coK, trained by Luca Cumani; is part-owned by his breeder. ■ Gerald Leigh, and rumours of a rift were fuelled when no party came forward to accept responsibility for the decision.

Such uncertainly has under¬ mined Roberts^ confidence, a vital attribute 'to' any jockey, although toe South African has hardly helped his cause by

Munro banned

Alan Munro’s third breach of the new whip regulations yesterday cost him a four-day ban. starting Friday, and the ride on leadmg fancy How’s Yer Father in die Ladbroke Ayr Gold Cup on Saturday. Munro promised fo modify bis riding style after using the whip above his shoulder.

incurring a series of suspen¬ sions for most minor infringe¬ ments at regular intervals throughout the season.

It remains unclear whether Roberts will be offered a reduced retainer to ride Shaikh Mohammed’s horses outside Gosden's care. •

Last season Roberts rode 208 winners to emerge as champion for the first time; he wil] be keen fo reestablish himself as a contender for

diampionship -honours nod year. His tally of 90 winners this season sees him languish- ihg'maghtbplace, 50 winners adrift of Pat Eddery.

Dettori; in contrast, tes. been in superb form as a freelance after parting com-, pany uath Oimani at the end of .last year. His application for a lucrative riding post in Hong Kong was turned down amio . controversial circum¬ stances; but foe young.ItaHan ha& rebounded from-that dis¬ appointment by riding. 114 winners to date. * 'J .-

Other Arab.':'''patrons., ar Gcsdexi’s stable are otpeeffid to continue, using foe jockeys foey retain, but Dettori can nevertheless■.'took forward to riding T-a; staggering assort-, mem-flf. well-bred thorough¬ breds. Gosden handles for. Darky. Stud. • Management,' Shaikh.. Mohammed's Euro- - peanbloodstodc obmpah}’.

Dettori wfll become Shaikh Mohammed's third retained jockey in die four years since he elected to create the pos¬ ition. After Cauthen rejexed a financially-reduced contract at the end of last year, the Irish champion, Michael Kinane. was offered the job but turned it down. Roberts accepted the post, only for him to be replaced after just one incom¬ plete season.

Officials at Darley Stud Management plan to confirm Dettori’s appointment when Roberts’s contract expires at foe end of the year.

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1992 NO C0RRESP0NDMG RACE

FORM FOCUS

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5.35 ANGELS ONE FIVE APPRENTICE HANDICAP (£2.853:1m 3101yd) (5 runners}

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FORM FOCUS PROCESS BttMJ txto Sujitn Mass Head uii 14-M5» totiiwa peker; tHSKafl * Krtftipan nm «. goctfl on rmiurete val MON PEulNAMOlA 1SI 7Hi Gi 13<Q Lady Ltoesy

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(14-1) PwiCBSsOwonS-fiar. iJrwi V/. 2Jb« T Baron Tmb: Q00. £2.60. E> 60. E670 DF. E16G0 CSF S50 5S. Tncas: S76&S9 4JBlft*dH.Trw(«imoiJi^mlL 5-Trf- for. Prints Handcapper's top rannal. Z Weslenr® ©-1};3. Across The &iy Til-1). ObsdanGreyS-l p-lw Stan Nft PoptC Scans, Ctzad. 2l fel J Berry Tale C4.40. rt .00, £2 SO. £2.9a PP £16.70 CSF. 13931. «3S(7T3yd) (. AmoretLfWwwr.S-irflY. TTMiOhrert nap), 2. Tarfua IS-D. 3. [Ass Mahjong (7-1) 9 ran. 3. M P hasiam. Toie E3flO.ClSO.E170.t2M OF 090 CSF £1333 Tncast E6T-53 S-05 (9 43yd) 1. Breakfast Boogie K5 DuffiBC. 1 MO lav}. 2. Red**"*® (5-2». 3. Scere Of Power i6-l). S ran B. a J Fanstaee Tow COO. El.20. CJOO DP- Cl40 CSP- £* £6. Plawpot £46.60.

Sedgefield Sting: good 2.10 (an 54110yd hdie} l. Hunmanbjr Qeo (C ttetara. &-1): a Red jam Jar (5-D. 3. wgtinaia-H ae8sFei3-Hai 13ran (VR ftfeaiWs fancy 41 & PRcaumcw Tale £23.50: £430. £2.10. £2.10. DF E32 10 CSF. {St 71 Tncas: £351 OR

Yarmouth Going: soft

230 (lrn 3 iWyt^ 1. Gwieek p Bobrson. S-ll. 2. Searrsa (IM lave 3. TropjcaUioSQ

3rn (Im 21 ?iydl I. Forthwith ilA Htife, 4. 1): 2 Seek The Peed (13-1): 3, ftoee Ato (7- 2 jl-taX Carnpara 7-2 i-l» B isr>. NRr Suprise Surprise a. 71. J Hite. Tttie. £530. £!-». £3.10. CT£0. OF- C2330 CSF- W0.63 330iet3«^ 1. Stafaa MB IA Uackay, 7-1}. 2. Mks WWStignam <8-l). 3. Menytiri Uakt

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240 (3m 31) :0yd IkW-, 1 Sa»tefie«d(A Uaguue. 3-4); 3,3a2isnna Ttne (4-5 law. 1 h's A Pry 116-li 4 ran -?(. 4L M«s L Penafl T«p-£2B0 DF £1 70 CSF £4.36

3.10 (2m El dil 1. Cross Cannon (A Urrnacn, ii-dfa] " Wifcary Sc-aa (6-11. 3. GdedFcrAUypb 131). 6 ran Hd. 121 J Heftena Tore. £1 B0 £1 10. tl2T> OF £5SO CSF £855

3.40 Brfi V c*V '• West Vflth nw Wind (T Reed 3-2l. 2. &ptosi* 5t««1 m-Btav). 3 AtioftirSfE-:) 5 ran il 71 MOflds Tffie C6BC.E2JC' Cl W DF £629.CSF-£1067 4.10 I2ni 11 IlCNd htJer ' On Gotrien Pond IN 5-< »/i. 2 Srwrp Sensaiw i3-l), 3. CJtahenoei IS-11 4 ran Id 71 G Mock Tctie C200. DF. C?6P CSf. £506 4.40 (2-n £i 110/d hflfa) 1, sangrav Cay fF Peres:. 13-8 laiii. 2. Run lAis!)- n0-l); 3. Famer'i »!>os£ (&-*) 13 ran 2*M. r*. L Urgn Tc*e- «3J0: C3P. C3 £240. OF £S eo CSF. £13 10 Pteeopor £57.60l

D Forthwith won Yarmouth’s first listed race yesterday, foe John Musker Stakes, by five lengths from Seek The Pearl.

YARMOUTH THUNDERER £30 Jade Green. 3.00 Port Sunlight 3.30 Muhl Al Hawa. 4.00 Nigel’s Lucky Girt. 4.35 Bashtul Brave. 5.05 Tortuga. 5.40 SHAMGAAN (napj.

Our Newmaikei Correspondent 330 Storm Canyon.

uCWG: SOFT 0RW-6F-1M. HIGH NUMBERS BEST

2.30 COUIttGE NEWTOWN SELUNG STAKES {£2.490:1m 2t 21yd J «?rannosl

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3.00 GOLDEN JUBILEE CHALLENGE TROPHY HANDICAP (£5.628 1m 2121yd, (11)

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3.30 FOSTERS NORFOLK FARMERS CONDITIONS STAKES (£4.230:6l3ytf)(6)

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THUNDERER 2.10 Rita’s Joy. 2^40 Mumtaz FJypasL 3.10 Westfield Moves. 3.40 weUwotdouthink. 4.10 Antananarivo. 4.40 Mohican Brave. 5.10 Tatami.

GOING: GOOD TO SOFT SIS DRAW: 5F. HIGH NUMBERS BEST

2.10 HUMBER ESTUARY NURSERY SELLING HANDICAP (2-Y-O: £3.049: 7f 100yd) (IT runners)

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2.40 TATTBISALLS MAIDEN AUCTION SERIES STAKES (2-Y-O: £4.110; 7f 100yd) (13)

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U. I U RAMBO DANCER HANDICAP (£4.045 1m3f 216yd) (14)

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COURSE SPECIALISTS TRAM51S: l Coraw. 6 tan 19.421 £ HCaaL iBIiam 40. eaCft PC«e. 7tnrei9. 36 SV P Hant. 5 ftom T4.35 ?%. M Srouie. f2 tram 46. »0V Mn M Revelry, 19 tan 80 2381 JOCKEYS: S D YWFam, 3 Horn 16.1&9V ¥ Daley. 40 tan 22! T8 04. A Muse. 10 nm S3. ISSI8 Hr,non. 12 tab fli. 14 flt. A MsGione. J tan 23.13.0% S Pofe. 11 tan 86.1184.

mis THUNDERER 2.15 Urban Cowtx Andronicus. 3.45 Mohana

GOING GOOD

. 2.45 Preenka Girt. 3.15 Thus iflathal. 4.15 Acre Hill. 4.45

2.1 5 ALL WOOL AXMINSTER NOVICES HURDLE (£1.516 2m 31) (12 runners)

1 PW DAWCTOWN STRUTTER 1230 IBi ft Pincuttoe 7-11-0 Tracy Turns

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2.45 ROYAL SEATON CUUM1NG HURDLE ;£1,544:2m 11110yd) (0)

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4.00 SHADWELL STUD APPRENTICE SERIES HANDICAP (£3,611:7f 3ytJ) (15i

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4.35 JOHN SMITHS HALVER&A7E RATING l;i3I.Yi:il T-Ui S, kriti UJ.Iffl?

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5.05 MILLER PILSNER LIFEBOAT MAIDEN STAKES (2-Y-O- £4 .'•75 712yd) fl9.

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5.40 KRONEWSOURG1664 NORTH SEA HANDICAP l£4.556 ImSydifll}

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3.40 SNOWY GRAY MEMORIAL MAIDEN STAKES (£3.525:2m 35yd) /8)

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42 SPORT the times Wednesday September is 1993

England expects - and so does Atherton David Miller talks to the man on

whose young shoulders the hopes

of a cricketing nation are resting

There is an unusual feel¬ ing when interviewing Michael Atherton. This

boyish young man. who leads England's cricket team to the West [ndies. is only 25. modest and unassuming in manner. Yet beneath the mop of short¬ ish blond hair, the dear blue eyes gaze ar you unwavering¬ ly, giving an unmistakeable sense that it is you who are being interviewed

The Australians this sum¬ mer experienced, occasionally uncomfortably, that penetrat¬ ing, unflinching stare when he was at the wicket

There is the dear impres¬ sion that England's new cap¬ tain, taking charge at one of the lowest moments in the country's cricketing history, is a sharp observer, preferring to listen rather than talk. During an hour or so, he never once laid claim to what he intended or expected, to achieve. Yet he exudes leadership.

There is not much of that quality about, whether you look at politics, industry, the church or sport West Indies have not lost al home for 25 years, and Atherton is heading for the bears’ cave, but is anything but intimidated while remaining realistic.

"This is a break-point" he says calmly. _ The younger players are keen to do something. Improve¬ ment de¬ pends on the base of play¬ ers you have around you. You don't get many good captains of poor sides. I am not for a

‘Improvement depends on the base of players

around you. You don’t get many good captains of bad sides’

moment saying we're bad but they 've not been beaten for so long. We*re trying to set a plan for two or three years, long term. Previously. England have been playing tour by tour, using older players. They ve not been doing it"

The inference is that if the captain has had anything to do with it — and he left small doubt that he had — then today's party will represent a quiet revolution: a new Eng¬ land. uncomplicated by for¬ mer rebel tourists or ailing, ageing reputations. Atherton is his own man, and hopes to generate a fresh spirit of collective comradeship. His nature rides that uneasy line between being gregarious and selective, something critical for any captain.

"You need to feel you Ye playing with males.” Atherton says in his measured way, the phrase carrying an equal ring of the Lancashire of Cardus and the Fenner's of May. “Obviously the first point [of the tour] is selection. It was a reasonable side at the Oval, the attack for the first time this summer looked decent I'm hoping to progress from there.”

It is easier, he reflects, to generate spirit on tour; and important when you go as underdogs to a hostile envi¬ ronment That spirit manifest¬ ed itself at the Oval against Australia. Today’s will be a younger party, reflecting that victory.

The making of Atherton took place steadily if unspec- tacularly. Captain of most teams at Manchester Gram¬ mar School — “something lve

always found comfortable” — the same experience with Cambridge, outclassed by the counties, might have been intimidating. Instead, he learned to cope. Handling players who were over¬ whelmed. he learnt not to blow a fuse every five minutes. He developed further with the Combined Universities XI. uniquely reaching the quarter- final of the Benson and Hedges: and, significantly, es¬ tablished a close friendship with Nasser Hussain, a player whose abilities he values.

Along the way, he was acquiring, too, a retentive memory: important, he ob¬ serves wryly, if you stay around long enough to play against teams or individuals twice. At the same time, he was gaining a 2M degree in history at Downing College, another vain, coincidental poke in the eye for college entrance tutors actively preju¬ diced against games players.

Aged 21. he was a candidate for the West Indies tour of 1989-90. and was keenly disap¬ pointed when omitted, instead being selected for the A tour of Zimbabwe. “In retrospect, that did me good," he said- “Keith Fletcher was the manager and I developed my batting to the __ extent that I

was good enough [for England] the following year, where I hadn't really been the pre¬ vious summer."

He pays tribute to the master tech¬ nician, Geoff Boycott, who was coaching

the squad prior to Zimbabwe; showing how Atherton's feet were commendably quick but wrongly placed, causing him to play across the pad, a common fault. He worked diligently at technique during that tour.

Atherton's concept of cap¬ taincy is less one of helping to advise fellow batsmen, or his bowlers, on technique than making sure that the side's emotional chemistry is right

This is something that has long been missing: a sense of service. Gooch was dedicated and loyal, but less than inspir¬ ing. Gatting* indiscretions are wdl documented and Gower's captaincy by osmosis, an impression that the game developed around him rather than through him. equally apparent Botham’s buccaneer attitude, notably on the Jackman-interrupted West In¬ dies tour, when it included roistering along the coast in the Jolly Roger, was undistin¬ guished. The last truly percep¬ tive captain was Brearley (1977-81), the only long-term post-war captain to have won more matches than he drew or lost 18-9-4.

“In the modem game, the captain's technical influence is less, because most teams have a manager and/or coach," Atherton said. “My role is the match situation — though I'm not exactly totally experienced! — which is wholly mental over five days. Everybody can play. You do look at technique, bur the most important quality is character, tenacity, people with a bit of ticker. It was these players we chose towards the end of the summer.”

Michael Atherton gazes into what the future holds for him and the team he must mould into a winning combi¬ nation. "We’re trying to set a plan for two or three years,” he says. Photograph; Ben Bradford/Allsport

Atherton is not convention¬ ally. outwardly tough, as mea¬ sured in millimetres of chin stubble. It is more a mental, intellectual resilience. You sus¬ pect he may be immune to media harassment. “If things start gong wrong, there’ll be criticism, as always" he said. “But I think I’m tough enough inwardly to handle that, strong enough still to make my own judgments and stand or fall by than. The last thing you should do is whinge about injuries, illness or the wicket You have to be honest" He is not dismissive of the press, however, recalling that news¬ paper-power probably first pushed him into the side 3121.

He questions the extent to which the Oxbridge factor is in

any way a complication- There is the old story of someone in the Lancashire team initialling Atherton's Jot-bag F.E.C.; os¬ tensibly “ Future England Qq> tain", but capable of another, more mocking interpretation. An article in the Sunday

Telegraph contrasted the difference in back¬

grounds between Atherton and Stewart, the two potential successors to Gooch. Both men were big enough to ride it “1 think the Oxbridge con¬ sciousness is still there” Ather¬ ton says. "Look ax the comparisons made between Hurd and Major at the time of Thatcher's replacement But the difference between Alec [Stewart) and me is not as

wide as made out He men¬ tioned the Telegraph article to me, it annoyed him, but he joked about it and has been excellent since I was appoint¬ ed. I hope I would have been the same, and I didn't have his expectations."

Atherton did not consider that he would be selected: that Goochs recommendation was probably for Stewart, the vice¬ captain, but he thinks the Oxbridge factor was never relevant "Much was made of the Gooch/Micky Stewart re¬ gime being anti-university" Atherton reflects, “but I don’t go by that They stuck by me, except in India last winter, when I felt harshly treated. Besides, I want to be draught of as a Lancashire cricketer."

A measure of Atherton'S maturity is that he feels the captaincy will help rather than hinder his batting. He was happy with ins performances in the last two Tests, given die added burden of leadership.

“If I have a bad time [with the bat] in the West Indies, it won’t be because of the cap¬ taincy" he says. “I can still go to die wicket isolated, totally concentrated, not taking with me die responsibility far other players, only die responsibility of being captain, which 15

positive. If I'm not getting runs, maybe (hat will change, I admit.” You sense, however, that here is a player with a degree of control over his and others’ destiny. It should be a fascinating winter.

Neale steps into Gifford’s shoes By Alan Lee. cricket correspondent

PHIL NeaJ& who has never played at international level nor previously been a part of the England set-up. was yes¬ terday the surprising choice as cricket manager of this winter’s A-team tour to South Africa. He will be .joined by Bob Bennett as tour manag¬ er. in charge of a party to be named at Lord's this morn¬ ing. when the senior squad to tour West Indies In the new year mil also be unveiled.

Neale retired from playing last year after 18 seasons with Worcestershire, ten of them as

captain. A strong character, though with an understated public profile, he is now director of cricket al North¬ amptonshire and. at 39. has perhaps been earmarked as a future manager of the full England side.

Norman Gifford, die Sus¬ sex manager, was told only last week that he had lost his post with the A team and, as he did an admirable job in Australia last winter, the de¬ sire for a younger man and continuity may be behind it

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The political unrest in Strath Africa is already threat¬ ening an itinerary which in- dudes exhibition matches in

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the townships. If tbe tour goes ahead at alL it wfli require calm management and diplo¬ macy horn all concerned.

Diplomacy never was tbe strongest suit of Chris Mid¬ dleton, whose turbulent years as chairman of Derbyshire ended yesterday in a reluctant and ironical resignation.

It was Middleton, earlier this summer, who orchestrat¬ ed a campaign for Ted Dex¬ ter’s removal as England chairman and then proposed on radio that he should do the job himself. Having dis¬ missed three senior staff in mid-season and overseen his dub's tumble towards bank¬ ruptcy. Middleton eventually had to go because, [ike Dex¬ ter, he had lost ail credibility.

Malcolm Marshall has played his last game for Hampshire. Injury win keep him out of tbe final champ¬ ionship match of tbe season, against Essex when Hamp¬ shire may give a debut to Jim BovilL a former Durham University student

Robin Smith will also miss the match. He is to have an operation on a shoulder inju¬ ry to give himself plenty of time to recover before the tour of the West Indies.

Cullinan proves stumbling block

AN UNBROKEN partnership of 103 for the sixth wicket between Daryll Cullinan and the wicketkeeper. David Rich¬ ardson, pulled South Africa but of trouble on the first day of the third and final Test match against Sri Lanka in Colombo.

South Africa, who lead 1-0 in the series, were in danger of being bowled out cheaply on a pitch that had been heavily watered when they tost half the side for 128 before tea. Then Cullinan. who has hit 14 fours in his unbeaten 84. and Richardson, who completed his half-century just before the close, carried the score to 231 without further toss.

Cullinan, who made 52 in the second Test, which South Africa won by an innings, completed the second half- century of his international career off 91 deliveries. He was always severe on the boll ball in an innings that has so fast lasted 266 minutes.

Kepler Wessds, the South Africa captain, celebrated his 36th birthday by winning the toss and he and Andrew Hudson had a watchful open¬ ing stand of 51 before both fell in the space of four balls.

Hudson provided the spin¬ ner. Kumara Dharmasena. with his first Test wicket when THlekeratne took a superb catch at short leg. Two runs later, Wessels was bowled by Dulip Uyanage, back in the side because of an injury to Widcremasinghe.

The off spinner, Muttiah Mnralithatam, had five best figures of tbe seven bowlers used with two for 32 off 22 overs. He daimed'tbe wickets of Jonty Rhodes, stumped by Dasanayake for seven, while Brian McMillan was given out caught off bat and pad.

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Atlanta, and to trailing camps In the United Slates over die next three yeans. ItwiH be the first time British Airways has not transported the team to the Games. The deal is said to be worth several mfltioa pounds.

Nearly 1,000 competitors in. up to 25 sports wffl be able to train at Florida State University at Tallahassee in humid conditions similar to those expected in Atlanta- There will be a two-week long training camp in each of tbe next three years at approximately, half, die cost at Britain’s national sports centres such as Crystal Palace.

Langer withdraws GOLF Bernhard Langer, a key member of tbe European Ryder Cup team, has withdrawn from the LancOme Trophy, which starts at Saim-Nom-te-Bretftche, France, tomurrow. But tbe German still intends to play against the United States at The Bdfry, Sutton Cokifield. next week.

Longer, ranked No 3 in tbe world, has suffered from neck trouble since the United States Open this year. He was forced! out of the European Masters in Switzerland, after seven holes of the first round, because of a recurrence of the problem and did not play in the European Open atUckfidd last week.^“I wanted to play this week bat I don’t want to do anything to prejudice my playing at The Belfry," he said.

RFU seals another deal RUGBY UNION: The Rugby Football Union -(RFll) yesterday added the Cooperative Insurance Society (CIS) to its portfolio of backers (David Hands writes). The CIS has struck a deal worth £750,000which links it to tile divisional and county championships for the next three years. The Manchester-based society, whose previons sporting associa¬ tions have been with bowls and nigby league, has the right to withdraw after one year if it is dissatisfied with either the timing of the two championships or the television coverage in years two and three.

Wales call up schoolboy RUGBY LEAGUE: lestyn Hams, a 17-year-old schoolboy, is the youngest player called up for the Wales squad to play New Zealand at Swansea on October 3. A goai-kicking centre or foil bade, Harris recently signed for Warrington from the Oldham St Aimes amateur dub. His grandfather, Norman, represented Wales in 1947. SQUAD; RActtaman [Cardif ktdana ATIJ. ABawnan (Wanfciam}. QConlaffiradfotd Nor- Vwm),JDminPNMngKXLcapQIJDMraiixMlkjiiadIKaBOiarinpnn),P^ii! J QHDh* Kt Hfltaml. A mm (VUMnafl), 1 nBito(Wantng(on], M Jonm (HUQ, [WrfaArtd TrimM. M Moranftjf^, P Konnatt (S*n*W], G fWc» (%«di4o-Ya*g. (Wnmngtort, P topttkfc (feefaato HoawsJ, I S&Mms.{H4). A Sultan (Si h WBaras (Catfciej. P WBtems (SbSdrS. D Young (Safanjj.

Browns upset 49ers AMERICAN FOOTBALL: James Jones, an offensive tackle, ran for a oneyard touchdown and Mtehad Jackson made a diving catch on a 30-yaid scoring pass from Bemie Kosaron Monday, helping the Cleveland Browns to a 23-13 upset of the San Francisco 49ers. After the 49os had levelled tbe scores at 13-13. Cleveland moved in front, for good when Jackson made his sensational catch with 32 seconds left in the first half The 49ers committed four turnovers and wasted a field-goal attempt m the fourth quarte- while frying to cut their deficit to seven points. '

Cup’s weekend switch GOLF: The 1995 Walker Cop matrirat Royal Porthcawl has been switched from midweek to Saturday and Sunday. September 9 and IQ, to aDowmore spectators to attend. Last month, die United States won the biennial match against the British Ides’ amateurs by a record 19-5 margin in Minnesota. In 1996, the Amateur championship wfll be at Turnberry the St Andrews Trophy, against tbe Continent of Europe, will be at Woodhall Spa; die British. Seniors’ Amateur returns to Blairgowrie; and milestone and Seaton Garew host the boys’ and youths’ championships.

Doyle leaves WPBSA SNOOKER; Ian Doyle, right, manager of Stephen Hendry, the world champi¬ on. has resigned from' me' board of the game's govern¬ ing body, die World Profes¬ sional Billiards and Snoo¬ ker Association (WPBSA). Doyle tendered his resigna¬ tion after a resolution to give the board extra powers over the day-to-day running of the game was heavily de¬ feated at an EGM in Black¬ pool last week.

Taylor joins Wales RUGBY UNION: The Cardiff No 8, Hemi Taylor, has pledged himself to Wales after being cleared to play for his adopted country. He wfll make his debut for Wales A against the Japanese touring party In their opening game at Stradey Park, liandti. on September 29. Bom in New Zealand. Taylor, 28, qualifies for Wales after serving the six- year residential qualification. He Joins the English-born Rupert Moon, a scram half and Tony Copsey. a second-row forward, as players who have aligned thonselves with their adopted homeland.

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Inside Story: The New Principal BBC], 930pm

As principal of Battersea Technology College. Michaei Clark must have one of the roughest jobs in education. The college is a revamped inner diy.comprchenshe with a terrible record. Truancy is high and discipline pour, ln ihe national league of exam results it came 4382nd out of 4,400. Clark calls the figures “depressing, but an interesting starting point". The cameras follow him through a year of reforms inspired by the college's political master, the Conservative Wandsworth council. First to fed the wind of change are the teachers, who have to reapply for their jobs. There Is a plan to reintroduce selection, denounced by aides as a return to ll-plus. Jenny Gaytan's film gets to the guts of the matter and pulls no punches.

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A revisionist view of the amphitheatres of an deni Rome seeks to rescue them from the sanirisadon of the history books and Hollywood films. Far from being places of innocuous spectacle, the programme argues', they offered violence, cruelty and mass murder." The film claims to be based on the latest historical research. It reconstructs a typical day's entertainment, which started with animal fights and went on to the execution of criminals and the slaughter of condemned prisoners. After lunch, gladiators slugged it out with swords and daggers. So much for Roman civilisation. You might have thought that the arrival of a Christian emperor would have changed things, but the games continued as cruel as ever.

The Late Show: Big Boy's Tale BBC2,lU5pm

Pieter McDougall has been dubbed the macho man of British television drama His work draws unflinchingly on the violent culture of his native Glasgow and usually manages to offend somebody. His 1978 work. Just a Bo/s Game, was described by one critic as “the nastiest, most senseless piece of television drama I have encountered". With his walrus moustache, pig-tail , and heavy Glaswegian accent. McDougall comes across as an intimidating figure. Admirers, who indude Jeremy Isaacs, the director John Mackenzie and Billy Connolly, insist that he has a tender side as wefl. This Late Show profile is useful background to the latest McDougall play. Down Among the Big Boys, which stars Connolly and is on BBC1 on Sunday.

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6.35am Open University: Managing Schools

655 Wealher 7X0 On Air Ame (Overtue No-6 in

B ftett): Rave* (Le Torribeau de Couperin); Dvorak (Romarce In F minor, Op 11); Balfour Gardiner (Ovwtureloa

JanacoK (TafSs.tiun 9X0 Composers of the-

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(Michael Chance, counter¬ tenor. Roger VHyiotes.. piano)

4X0 Choral Evensong from Sheffield Cathedral

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Relative Values The Castries. Radio 4. SDOpm. Preview writers are caughi on the horns of a dilemma by programmes such as this. Reveal the denouement and you stand rondemned as a spofl-sport. Keep mum and you are accused of being boringly unhelpfuL 1 have sailed for the latter, befieving that it would be unforgivable to tell you who became the unlikely second wife of Cass Castree. a L&ncashlre club singer and piano player, when his first wife suddenly died. Peter Davalfe

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Sharpe: only doubt

HERE in Budapest, where Manchester United resume acquaintance with the Euro¬ pean Cup after a 25-year absence, the past comes for¬ ward to greet the present with affection. The match tonight against Kispest Honved is United's hundredth game in Europe, and Alex Ferguson, their manager, is planning for his team to go for goals to perpetuate the message of attacking football for which United are famous.

But when Eric Cantona, whose Gallic thrusts have put such inspiration into English football, steps on to the turf at the Bozsik stadium tonight, he will have a kindred spirit in the stand in the the person of a portly, aging figure. For Cantona is. in spirit, in his gypsy wanderings and his

Convicts find escape on

rugby field Andrew Longmore meets young

offenders who benefit from

sport’s reforming qualities

When Tony Bellott was sentenced to three years for rob¬

bery at the age of 15, he hardly saw die prison doors as the gateway to a better future. He might view it differently now. Every Saturday. BeDott is given special leave to play rugby for Staines and his discovery that aggression can be channelled into more pro¬ ductive avenues than street thuggery might yet prove to be the turning point of his life.

Before he arrived at Fel- tham prison for young offend¬ ers. Bellott had barely heard of rugby, let alone played it Strangely, in the language of the street spoken fluently by the majority of the 750 in¬ mates, rugby is regarded as unacceptably violent But Bdlotfs natural athleticism did not escape the notice of the physical education staff for long and he soon mastered the basics, graduating to the prison team known, with a laconic touch, as the Black Sheep, and made famous last year for a narrow defeat by Eton in the public schools’ sevens tournament Quite how the prison side qualified for such a competition is open to debate, but they acquitted themselves nobly.

Yesterday, this year's in¬ take, divided by skill, united in enthusiasm, was put through its paces by Phil Callow, the Cambridge Univ¬ ersity rugby captain. For some, it was a chance to tty something different for oth¬ ers. a good way of gaining acceptance. For all, it was a welcome relief from the bore¬ dom of a cell.

Yet the exercise is more than mere leg-stretching and letting off steam. For the past four years, rugby has been at the heart of an effort to change attitudes and prompt self- discipline so that release will not simply lead to a swift return behind bare. The long¬ term offenders' unit at Fd- tham has one of the country’s lowest reoffending rales.

"Rugby doesn't have the street cred of football which is good. Boys come to the game without feeling they have to behave in a certain way,”

John Gunning, the manager of the team and the senior officer of the long-term unit said. "Most of the lads in here have never played rugby, but they find it needs coacentra- tioa discipline, control toughness and that it encour¬ ages a sense of team spirit But the aim is to exert a control mechanism so that they can be accepted back into real life more easily.”

Rugby has taught lessons in accepting defeat as well “They come across opposition bigger and stronger than them, which knocks some of the macho stuff out of them."

With the short time avail¬ able and selection always subject to the whims of the courts, it has been difficult to teach the more specialised arts of the game. That is not really the point “We have never won a scrum or a Iineout in our lives," Roger Coombs, the chief PE instruc¬ tor. said. "But we manage to win some games.” British Airways second XV, the oppo¬ sition for the first fixture of die season, should be wanted. There are. though, un¬

foreseen hazards in the rugby programme. No

sooner had a brand new scrummaging machine been proudly unveiled than three inmates used h as a conve¬ nient leg-up for an escape attempt It has had to be chained to a tree ever since. On the whole, escape is con¬ fined to the mind.

By the end of a vigorous ten-a-side yesterday. Callow had formed plans to bring his whole Light Blue XV down from the ivory towers and on to (he windswept plains of west Middlesex. "We’re aware of how privileged we are compared to these guys. For all its aggression, rugby is a friendly game.” he said. It has certainly captured Tony Beflotfs heart

"I'm out of here in January and I wont be back. It! definitely continue playing. This is my game now," he said. One thing is certain, if he ever did try to make a run for freedom, no one would ever catch him.

belief that the game is nothing without the improvisation of the individual, a latter-day Ferenc Puskas.

The ground for their meet¬ ing is more Kidderminster Harriers than Wembley, a small, unpretentious arena of non-league standards. But, being Honved and situated in the Kispest district where Hungary changed the course of international football in the 1950s. it should be an inspira¬ tional hunting ground to Cantona.

His younger brother al¬ ready plays in the Hungaritoi league. He, as was seen with that breathtaking swivel shot which bounced against the Chelsea crossbar on Saturday, is in the mood. He still travels as a man apart, a silent, musing figure among the Uni-

Rob Hogfaes reports from Budapest, where

Alex Ferguson’s team renews its links with

the European Cup tonight after 25 years

ted party. But there is a confident air to him. and in the eye there is the same look as in that of Puskas. 66, who was recently repatriated to his home city.

Those of less than middle- age may need to be told about Puskas. Anyone over that mark may both shudder and glory in the memory, for it was be, the “galloping major” who captained and inspired the Hungarian team that in 1953 stripped England of their "in¬ vincibility” by winning 6-3 at Wembley and then the fallow¬ ing year luring England to the

Nep stadium and completing the rout 7-1.

So much was made of the wiles of the Hungarian man¬ ager. Gustav Senes, and his imaginative football that dev¬ astated the rigid English style. But those who were in the dressing room at Wembley will say that after Sebes bad spoken until his players were bored to a stupor, be left the room, whereupon Puskas told the players now they would play.

"In a word, it was all about improvisation," Sandor Bares, who was preklent of the

Hungarian FA at the time, said. A players jpme; then as now. a game imported to Hungary by Harry Perry, a British athletics enarh

There was little athletic about Puskas. As he warmed up at Wembley one West Ham player. Jimmy Andrews, nudged Malcolm Allison, say¬ ing: "Look at that little fat feflow, we’ll murdertberal"

Murder was in the left foot of Puskas. He may have looked like Gascoigne after a long summer holiday, but he scored £3 times in 84 interna¬ tionals. and with Sandor Kocris he inspired the Hun¬ garian national team to win 43 of 51 matches in foe first five years of the 1950s. But in the European Champions' Cup Honved, who provided five players as the nucleus of that

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The reason?-A'toxn of hist¬ ory. Honved was cm tour. When Hungary's 1956 upris¬ ing began, hajf of them defect¬ ed, ana Hanved’s place in tbe football azioaUr disappeared with them. In the body of Puskas it transferred to Real Madrid, and his partnership with the Argentinian. Alfredo di Stefano, became tbe imperi¬ ous power of the European dub scene.

Todays Honved has no great players, nobody to change the game at a stroke & la Cantona, no scintillating winger Jffke Ryan Giggs, possi¬ bly not even a player of the calibre of Lee Sharpe, who is the one doubt in the United team. Suffering from a groin

strain that Ferguson now re¬ flects began while Sharpe played for England last Wed¬ nesday, he is rated no better than 50-50 to play.

Otherwise. Manchester United will be unchanged from the game against Chel¬ sea. with DRm Dublin on .standby to replace Sharpe and - make his first senior game for United since he broke his leg over a year ago.

History is on the side of United. They have never lost a European game at Old lYaffard. and when Ferguson managed ah inferior United team to win the 1991 Cup Winners’ Cup, his side scored ten goals in five victories overseas. Thai as much as anything back in the 1950s, is both the burden and tbe otpectotitm of tradition.

wants proof By John Goodbouy

INTERNATIONAL athletics officials yesterday sprang to” China's defence in the contro¬ versy over whether the coun¬ try's women world record- holders are taking drugs.

Although; Wang Junxia, who broke the 3JXJ0 metres

_ world record twice within 24 " hours, mid other members of

her training group have been- condemned tor taking perfor¬ mance-enhancing substances, the accusations were de¬ scribed as “irresponsible” by Professor Ame Lgungqvist, the • Swede who heads the medical commission of the Interna¬ tional Amateur Athletic Feder¬ ation CtAAF).

"It is a major tragedy of the struggle, against'doping that * file atmosphere has been poi¬ soned in this way," Ijungqvist said. .

“Earlier, such a perfor¬ mance would have been ap¬ plauded and rewarded ami those who had succeeded would have became stars; Now they've, become the vic¬ tim of suspicion.

"1 do not take it tor granted that they are dipped unless l have die proof"

The IAAF carries out out-of- competition tests using its own affinals in China, and has decided to spend a further £170.000 next year on testing, particularly in that country.

Ijimgqvist described the ac¬ cusations made on Monday by Joan Allison, Britain’s ath¬ letics team manager, and Lynn Jennings, tbe American former world cross-country

dxampion, as that of an "intel¬ lectual approach”.

Ma Junren. the coach to Wang and Qu Yunna, the 1.500 metres world record- breaker, has denied the accu¬ sations, saying the perform¬ ances came, from intensive running; often at altitude, and also diet

- . The Chinese foreign minis¬ try yesterday .also refected die accusations, saying that drug- taking is prohibited, with any¬ one found guilty being disciplined:

Linford Christie, Britain's 100 metres world champion, stepped into the debate with a plea that they be considered “innocent until proven guilty ”.

Leaving for a competition in . Japanon Saturday, be said he

believed that the perfor¬ mances had beat the result of hard work and determination ahd .that it was wrong to accuse die Chinese of drug- taking without evidence.

“Instead of knocking them, we should try. to find out what they are doing. They say they are dean and legal, so maybe we should try to learn from them,” Christie said.

Dick Palmer, the general secretary of the British Olym¬ pic Association, pointed out that at sports such as table tennis, which rdy on skill. China had been outstanding for years. “I am sure it can trawl through the country to find some athletes."

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