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THE OBSERVER. SUNDAY 20 APRIL 1986 NEWSWATCH TURKISH CYPRIOTS ACCEPT UN DEAL Detectives pool ideas as girl's bodyfound Print union aims to recover cash STEVE VINES Labour Editor Call for new professionals in classroom JUDITH JUDO Education Correspondent by JONATHAN FOSTER Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to accept the latest UN proposals for a settlement of the Cyprus dispute, senior officials have disclosed in Nicosia, writes Nigel Hawkes. The Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, is expected to give his formal reply tomorrow. Greek Cypriot leaders, including President Kyprianou (left), are in Athens for consultations about the plan, understood to differ little from one rejected by Kyprianou in New York 15 months ago. As before, the sticking points for the Greek side will be arrangements for the withdrawal of Turkish troops and Turkey's possible role as a guarantor power.

But Turkish Cypriot acceptance of the draft puts pressure on Kyprianou to agree, too. Sarah Harper missing three weeks whose body was found a year later less than 30 miles from where Caroline's body was dumped. would place the printing unions in the same position as the journalists' union, which has ordered its members not to work at Wapping and threatened them with disciplinary action for doing so. Despite the refusal of more than 80 journalists to go to the new plant, the majority about 600 have decided to work there. However, journalists inside WaDpine are Scotland Yard and Essex SPY DISAPPEARS A SINGULAR TREE police now believe one man killed Jason Swift, 14, and considering industrial action if Barry Lewis, six, whose bodies were found last year in Essex countryside.

Traces of there is no settlement after 30 April. SOGAT's funds are currently under the. control of accoun the same tranquilliser drug were found in their bodies. tants acting on behalf of the SCOTLAND YARD has called detectives from more than 20 police forces to a conference tomorrow oa the unsolved cases of 16 abducted children, 11 of them found murdered and five still missing after as long as eight years. Operation Shadow will pool information from each inquiry including West Yorkshire's Sarah Harper, 10, who disappeared three weeks ago from her home near Leeds.

Home Office pathologist Dr Stephen Jones was last night carrying out an emergency post mortem on a girl foond in the River Trent, near Nottingham. Police refused to speculate whether the body was that of Sarah Harper bat a senior West Yorkshire detective went to the riverside scene. West Yorkshire detectives want to compare Sarah's case with the fruitless search for the killer of Caroline Hogg, five, who disappeared from an Edinburgh fairground in July 1983 and whose body was discovered in a Leicestershire ditch. There may also be similarities with the case of Susan Maxwell, 11, abducted in Northumberland in 1982, THE EXECUTIVE of the printing and clerical union SOGAT '82 will consider a proposal to purge its contempt of the High Court when it meets tomorrow. It would then be able to apply for the ending of the sequestration of the union's funds.

This stems from SOGAT's refusal to lift an instruction to wholesale warehouse members to 'black' the distribution of News International newspapers as pan of its campaign against the sacking of 5,500 employees by Mr Rupert Murdoch, after setting up his new printing plant at Wapping. Additional pressure will be exerted on the printing union this week with the expiry of the statutory three-month period barring News International from re-employing sacked staff without paying compensation to others dismissed. It is believed that Mr Murdoch is keen to re-hire some of his employees to provide vital skills. The printing unions fear that some of their members might be tempted to rejoin Mr Murdoch's staff without seeking union representation. This because it refused to call off its withdrawal of goodwill in schools.

Mr Snape said the NUT must not be allowed to veto an agreement reached by the five smaller unions. 'It could be that we offer a new contract only to those teachers who want he said. The idea of two classes of teachers, one paid only for basic duties and the other for extra responsibilities, has already been mooted by the Government but dropped as too controversial. Support for the idea, however, has come from some head teachers as the 15-month teachers' dispute has progressed. It is feared that some teachers will have become so used to life without voluntary duties that they will not perform them even when the dispute is settled.

Some, especially married women, it is argued, might be attracted by the prospect. But Mr Fred Jarvis, the NUT's general secretary, said Mr Snape's plan was absurd He said there would be huge practical problems in employing teachers on different types of contract. You can't have some people employed on one basis and some on he said A RADICAL reform of the teaching profession to create three tiers of staff in schools has been proposed by a head teachers' leader. Mr Peter Snape, general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, said he envisaged a system with a top class of 'professional' teachers who would accept the new contract with specific duties and responsibilities such as covering for absent colleagues and lunchtime supervision. There would be a second class of teacher, paid less, employed for simple classroom duties and, at the bottom, those he called 'educational assistants' who would cover for absent teachers and do lunchtime duty as necessary.

Mr Snape. who was addressing association members at Christ Church, Oxford raised the possibility of teacher unions negotiating an agreement on a new contract which would exclude the National Union of Teachers, the largest union, which represents nearly half of Britain's teachers. The NUT has been expelled from talks being conducted under the auspices of the arbitration service, ACAS, A spokeswoman said yesterday that the conference would try to glean new leads on cases which have gone High Court, and SOGAT leaders are concerned about their inability to organise the biennial conference in June. Brian Gentleman, the junior civil servant at the Department of Trade and Industry exposed last week as a Czech spy, has disappeared, writes Nick Davies. Gentleman, 27, has not been seen since last Monday when he went to Scotland Yard for a second interview with the Special Branch.

According to a 20- 20 Vision documentary on Channel 4, he obtained highly sensitive details of Rolls Royce aero engines from Department of Trade files and passed them to Colonel Miroslav Merhaut, then military attache at the Czech embassy in London. Scotland Yard did not arrest him and say no charges are imminent. A last-ditch bid to save the world's rarest tree from extinction has been launched at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, writes Denis Herbstein. Two twigs and some spindly blossom, cut from the lone survivor of the cafe matron (Latin name Ramosmania heterophylla), were flown in from the Indian Ocean island of Rodriguez, near Mauritius. Kew hopes to propagate several hundred saplings for replanting on Rodriguez, where the tree once covered much of the island's 40 square miles, until the advent of large-scale logging.

Since 1940, the cafe marron was thought to be extinct, but a last bedraggled specimen was found by local schoolchildren. cold' from criminal mtell igence and missing persons' There is also concern about the tiles. impossibility of providing a service for the majority of the The cases include Genette Tate, 13, who vanished when delivering newspapers in East union members who are not involved in the Wapping Devon in August 197s Mar dispute. tin Allen, 15, son of an SOGAT leaders are aware Australian diplomat's chauf' feur, who disappeared in the London Underground on Guy Fawkes Day 1979 and Colette Aram, 16, dragged screaming into a car and victim to a NEW CHARGES AGAINST WALDHEIM that their original blacking instruction is being widely ignored by members outside the London area and so question whether it is worth persisting with defiance of the court when this action is producing little result. savage sex attack near her home in Nottinghamshire in November With only two weeks before the Austrian presidential election in which the former United Nations Secretary-General, Dr Kurt Waldheim (right), is still clear favourite, new charges arising from his wartime role have been made by the World Jewish Congress in New York.

It alleges that, in important memoranda, he gave different dates for his whereabouts with the Germany Army in Greece to avoid linking his presence with the 1943 deportation of 42,000 Jews from Salonika, subsequently exterminated at Auschwitz. Elan Steinberg, the Congress executive director, said We think it is part of the same pattern of a constant revision of stories, which has revealed a lack of candour at best and deceitfulness at Ar NUJ CLAIMS MIX-UP RIGHT AND WRONG i fern Leaders of the National Union of Journalists say there has been a misunderstanding about its annual conference's decision to send condolences to Colonel Qadhafi for the American attack, writes Steve Vines. Jake Ecclestbne, deputy general secretary, said yesterday the union thought an appeal to Qadhafi might help secure the release of John the British television, journalist kidnapped in Beirut. But one member: of the NUJ's national executive said protests since the decision have heightened the. possibility of a breakaway union being formed for journalists on national newspapers.

POETRY CONTEST More than 15,000 entries have been I received for the Young Observer -National Children's Poetry Competition, sponsored by the Water Authorities Association. Apart from the individual prizes, there will be 1,000 for the best group of poems from a school. The judges are Ted Hughes, Roald Dahl, Sue Townsend, Blake Morrison and Janni Howker. The closing date is Friday 23 May. For further details or submission of entries, write to Young Observer Poetry Competition, 8 St Andrew's HillLondon EC4V5JA.

The Sunday Times was right to criticise the way an old people's home' at Didsbury, Manchester, was run by Manchester City Council, but wrong not to allow the authority to state its position more fully, says the. Press Council. In a ruling published today, the council says the report, on the Aranmore rest home, contained minor inaccuracies, but was a proper subject for press report and comment in the public interest. In a further ruling, the Press Council concludes that a complaint against a sensational News of the World headline, Scandal of dogs that kill one child a was" justified, despite the paper's assurances that its report was based on research findings at Manchester University, LABOUR PROMISES New grants for housing improvement and crime prevention and additional help for first-time house buyers are to be announced by the Labour Party on Tuesday to spearhead the launch of its nationwide 100,000 Freedom and Fairness campaign, writes Adam Raphael. The commitment to give more help to house owners will be a big feature of Labour's strategy in the run-up to a general election.

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