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HOME NEWS THE GUARDIAN Saturday January L07S New research holds out the possibility of an important medical advance Lecturer tail ection nearer reast cancer prot Judge defends himself against to recover their losses and anti-embryonic cell factor becomes a kind of: tuniottr accelerator. By Anthony Tucker, Science Correspondent received the inoculations after the cancer inducer the tumour incidence was much higher, with the highest incidence the same substances can have opposite effects before and after tumour initiation. This conclusion has been among those where the time in- 1 "l'r'" i terval was greatest. The clear Injections for protection It has also been one of the against breast cancer may even- central mysteries of breast tuaiiv hprnmp -nrartirai if ihP cancer that although pregnancy tuaiiy become piaciical if tne leads tQ production of theso interpretation of research being anti-tumour substances early carried out at the Medical Re- pregnancy reduces and late Although it is a veiy long way from an experiment vitli mice to a technique providing protection for humans, the apparent correlation of lhe findings with the observed effects in women implies that a mir-n wp iiwn innnK inns nf implication is that an immunity Edinburgh Pentlands), who said that the universities -were seething with resentment at the Government's attitude to finance. By Derek Brown and Joihn Fairhall The 'cash limit control on university spending will be relaxed ito settle the lecturers' pay nrpunsnrv i nrreasns the risk of betoi'o and after imections with T.

4 mirniv eneccive wnnin it oavs. i. breast cancer. searcn councils uimicai ite-search Centre at Harrow proves to be correct. a Known uimour-mciucuig ageni.

way migiu ne rounu iu piuviui: He pointed out that as a re- It was found thai animals ino- immunological protection claim, but only if it is within suit of the nay anoinoly, a pro If pregnancy produces anti-tumour substances, how can against breast cancer. SfS SZZeJ But the further Implication is It has been known for many The next phase of the investi- agent were almost lolnlly pro- tnMf.fl l.oainKl itt Thficn KdUUIl lb iu i laii. dicates that tumour initiation tincation of me active taciors inoculated years that tumour development there be opposite effects from is often accompanied ly the early and late pregnancies production of substances norm- The answer, indicated by really produced only by foetal or search carried. out by Sir Peter embryonic cells, and that these Medawar and Dr Ruth Hunt substances have anti-tumour and reported in Nature, is that follows rapidly after the injec- and experimental confirmation seven clays in advance were slightly protected. But in those animals which tion of a cancer-inducing that the interpretation oi me agent the foetal anti-tumour animal experiment is correct.

Education Minister of State. Mr fessor earned 2 009 or 3 000 Gordon Oakes, said in the Com- ess than an assis ant secretary mons vesterdav in lhe Clvl1 wlUl C011V The news will be a bitter dis- parable responsibilities, appointment for the university A lecturer's starting salary teachers: their three-year-old was 3,333 a year, which Mr demand for correction of the Rifkind described as absurdly pay anomoly which has seen low. Income was often so low them fall drastically behind that lecturers had to claim rent other professional groups is to rebates, rent allowances and be resisted yet again. free school meals for their Mr Oakes acknowledged that children, the anomoly, which began a report that lecturers can 1975 when important pay nego- expect to have the anomaly rec-tiations were cut short by the i.if ied by the Government was first phase of Government pay denied, more or less, by Mr policy, must be remedied "and Oakes. said discussions on a phased re- rphe report( in yesterday's turn to comparability with Times Higiier Education By Gillian Linscott A High Court judge who retired last month yesterday defended himself against allegations by 10 jurors that he had acted wrongly in directing them to acquit in a recent rape case at Manchester Crown Court.

One of the last cases that Sir Robertson Crichton heard before retiring after 10 years as a High Court judge concerned two brothers who were accused of inflicting rape, indecent assault, and grievous bodily harm on a girl. This week a letter from 10 of the 12 jurors on the case appeared in the Daily Telegraph, alleging that the judge had seemed unsympathetic to the girl, and that he had virtually decided the case himself, using the jury merely as his mouthpiece in giving the acquittal. On the first day of the trial, after hearing the girl's evi uuier pruiuasionui siuut), iu supplement, was based on already begun between the uni figures for university recurrent versities and the Association of University Teachers. He could not comment on those negotiations, which did expenditure which me eaiior, Mr Peter Scott, said were included in the Government's White Paper on spending. But not concern tne Department ot nine, ropnivo.fi thp "U7M1p Education and Science but went lh quiicj separ.

on to reveal the important role flgures were given although the Government was playing it is understood mat me figures were included in an earlier draft. those talks. The 1977-8 grant to universities vas settled as a cash Two hundred and fifty stu- limit. It resulted in a 1 per cent dence, the judge said that in his opinion there was no case to answer, but it was for the jury to decide. The jury decided unanimously that the case must continue.

There were two more days of prosecution evidence and then, after legal submissions by the defence, the judge ectcd an Willi me liicviuui yudi, auu wuo cWtot rSi! SeM-SSSS re-would be 5 per cent. Although the new rea at ons re the former figure was about ceive after djdoc ions for rigtittte latter was evidently If S'rS ir, 20 a student to cover the next Tony Hearn, general secretary of the Association of Broadcasting Staff, addiessiiag the meeting of BBC emplojees which voted against an all-out strike meeting of the finance cornniit- universities since January, 1969. Tho cnVioi lippn raicprl hv tee. die during firemen's strike? Mr Malcolm Rifkind (Con, Parliamentary debate, page 19 ewer Why did 1 ended in deadlock the council Officer, air Tom Wat kins, said ance cover should apply norm- St Asaph hotel, the 140 strikers said: The union could not give that the fire service would ally, provided that the brigade reluctantly accepted a peace formula worked out earlier had accepted the men back. any assurance that there would "never be quite the same Community links scheme, suspended be no victimisation at Langley again.

fire station, where there has Elsewhere, firemen are le- been a man working throughout turning to work in advance uf the strike. In fact, the union lhe Monday morning deadline wanted this man removed alto- sct, by the Bridlington confer- gether. This is not acceptable to ence. Nearly 200 IVorthamp- us. tonshire reported for duty Further evidence of the yesterday and several other bri- FBU's determination to go gades are expected to be back ahead with disciplinary action a' work today, despite the clause came from Tht? NnrihamnlimsTiire FBU The employer's side of the NJC meets on Tuesday and this meeting is expected to be 1 til-lowed by one with the union side, when the pay agreement will be formally endorsed.

The local authority representatives on the employers' side face a lengthy agenda, including preparations for negotiating the introduction of a 42-hour week By Lindsay Maekie A scheme designed to rick Kodikara, said it had withdrawn from the scheme. "We got the impression that trie police were using it to give themselves a better image." nrnve relations between By John Ardill, Labour Staff Many fewer people diftd as a result or fires during the 60 days of the firemen's strike than in the comparable period of last year. There -were 184 fire deaths, compared -with 228. Yesterday's developments in the wake of Thursday's settlement of the strike were not so comforting. The "no victimisation" clause in the agreement led to a row in Berkshire, where the county council lias refused to accept a return to work Monday in the Face t-f union demands for the removal of a strike-breaker After talks with loca.1 Fire Brigades Union officials which that day with fire a.ulhoiity chiefs.

The proposal, at line union's request, was to split I3ie rebels up, allocating two to cath of the three round-tlie-clo-ck watches, and giving the seventh new duties at the RTivL station. At present, four of the rebels are on the same watch and I3ie remaining three on another watch. But the strikers, bitt er after nine weeks' picketing, (Lid not accept the authority's package readily. The vo: -i; at the end was by no mea ns unanimous," said the AVatcs FBU national executive member, Mr David Higgs. ordered the jury to bring in verdicts of not guilty on the ground that there was nol enough corroborative evidence.

Sir Robertson Crichton said yesterday at his home in Altrin-cham, Cheshire, that the jury in the case had been understandably swayed by emotion and that there might have been a serious miscarriage of justice if he had not directed it to acquit. It had been about the most unattractive case he had known in 40 years of legal experience, he said, and he could not blame a jury for being emotionally swayed. There are two essences of corroboration. One is to corroborate that the crime was committed. That was clear, the poor girl had been horribly assaulted.

The other is to prove that the individuals standing in the dock are the ones who have actually committed the crime, and that is where the prosec-tution failed," he said. The judge said that he thought th jury had been right to decide to go on with the case after he had suggested on the first day that there was no case to answer. He thought that it was nonsense to suggest that he was using the jury as a mouthpiece, and absolute nonsense that he was unsympathetic to the girl. Mrs Kathleen Baker, the juror who organised the letter to the paper, said yesterday that she was angry about the judge's comments that the jury police and black people in a London borough has been sus. The police did not automatic- ie ally ask neonle if they wanted a nampsmre wnere local uinuii secretary, Mr Terry "Wire, said with tne l'iiu, ana pay negotia officials Have decided to sus- that his members would answer tions wiiu me of Fire Officers Firemen in Chvyd, North has made things worse.

Haison officer to be pre rit, tne reports of police nl- The scheme which began last treatment of detai ned blacks April, involved the appointment not faller) and the CRC of seven civilians agreed by had forme(j the belief that the police in Hackney and the local lice onl made 1se of lJle CRC as police liaison officers hari xm. Wales, voted last night to return to work on Monday, pend 50 firemen from member- fjre calls as soon as their ship from Monday appliances were ready for In Derbyshire, where three action, although hey would mt strike-breakers were reviled as have insurance cover until Mon- filthy rotten Matlock scabs day. But the" local authority side when they crossed picket lines nf the Fire Service National yesterday, the Chief Fire Joint Council said that insur- alongside the seven strike breaking rebels at Rhyl. After is still running high, a.ncl I see a 90-minute meeting at a a very testy week ahead. cult black to deal with," said WX1U WUUIU uc in advise when members of minority groups were arrested.

It was particularly intended to help blacks as the relationship be Mr Kodikara. Local police had appeared reluctant to set up the scheme and had only done sir after the PPf1 arl War? Husbands, too, at risk from anaesthetics tween the police and oiack com munities is no better in meeting at Scotlaiii rarcl with xiai.ii.iicj limn ii. our tne tnen commissioner, sir inner city area. Robert Mark however, that the risk of miscarriage stems from the stress under which operating theatre staff work rather than from the ham University's anaesthetics long ago. In the other three department, has identified five cases only the father was in- seriously deformed babies out volved with anaesthetics.

Of the 135 Children of 75 anaes- Thp rislr In mimen who work 6 Hammer used on dogs' This kind of liaison was pioneered in the London borough of Lewisham five years ago where there are now between 15 and 20 liaison officers. thetists in the Birmingham in nnnraiinp theatres has bppn gases but Dr Tomlin claims that Chief Inspector Gcodall, community liaison officer at Hackney, said last night that the police had been satisfied with the scheme and that indi By Hugh Hebert Social Services Correspondent Working in an operating theatre is already recognised as a risk for a pregnant woman who may have a miscarriage but there is now also some evidence that men who work in these conditions may father deformed babies. This new evidence lends to confirm tliat it is the waste anaesthetic gases in area. The defects are confined recognised by the D1ESS, which his findings reinforce the argu-to the nervous system or the jn 1975 sent out a circular re- ment that the gases must be in-main muscle-and-bone frame commending measures to re- volved. The Lewisham CRC said yester vidual members oE the CRC bad been swayed by emotion.

I was enormously impressed with the common sense of the jury. It behaved with great gocd sense and it is quite wrong to say that we were for instance, two babies were born with dislocated hips. In one case, both parents were anaestetisls and in another the mother had worked in an operating theatre, though duce pollution by waste All the deformed babies in anaesthetic gases. Hie methods hjs survey are girls. Some rc- of "scavenging" the gases ports from abroad have sug- are still being improved, and gested tha anaesthetists tend are under review.

t0 produce a much higher than Some doctors have suggested, average proportion of girls. day that the scheme appeared were still working as friends to work well and was being f0r detained persons, lut vari- cxtended. Posters advertisi'ig 0Us problems needed to be the scheme were to be put up sorted out. There will be a in all local police stations. meeting at Scotland Yard about But in Hackney yesterday the the scheme's difficulties later chairman of the CRC, Mr Pat- this month.

By Michael Mozris IISPCA members will form a picket outside a local authority the air which cause the trouble. Dr Peter Tomlin of Birming- swayec'. by emotion, she said. She thought that the prosec-tuion had been making out a strong case, and, like the rest of the jurors, felt strongly that the trial should have run its course. Tory bets men igrants protest to depot leday as one of the society's inspectors studies the efficiency or otherwise of a machine for electrocuting unwanted animals.

This follows allegations that an operator has used a hammer to subdue pets( mainly dogs, or to finish tJicm off. The society's local branch called for an investigation when it was told that a defective over delays offered pay deal Bates dies, By Melanie Phillips The Joint Council for the for us a problem lecause or the 10 years since our establishment in 1967 immigrants have Tory backs neutron bomb for NATO By our President Carter's call to unpolitical Staff prove the deterrent strength of the NATO alliance in conven-Strong support for equipping tionai anH other forces NATO with the neutron bomb. Uonal 'ma otner lorcts-which destroys human beings Mr Jack Jones, leader of the and not property, came yester- Transport and General day from the Tory defence Workers' union, called yester-spokesman, Sir Ian Gilmour. He day for income tax cuts and in-told a meeting of lite "West Ger- creased public spending, to take man Christian Democratic party a mighty swipe at unemploy-in Kiel that it was highly un- ment. Addressing a rally in likely that the East-West im- Coventry, He also renewed his balance in arms could be re- call for a four-day week as a By our Labour Staff Welfare of Immigrants lias sent daily brougnt to us tne proa A new pay deal for 2,200 a sharply-worded open letter to lems they experience as a result the Prime Minister, Mr Cal- of British imniigra-tioii proce- dures, and we have had to bear laghan, on his return today wit 1n fhp arlrJ iis.

By Michael "White, Political Staff The Conservatives" Increasingly convoluted jirc-election manoeuvring on trade unions and incomes policy sustained another twist yesterday when the Shadow Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Howe, drew back from petrol tanker drivers who have been threatening to strike over nom nis visu to tne jjimaii suu crimination with which those a 30 per cent claim is to be continent and Egypt. The letter procedures are appli-ed. taken to the Department of "We therefore hope you will Employment. The proposals were put for draws attention to the "injustice and discrimination of British immigration procedures, and calls on him to sct up sn urgent investigation into the now respond to our request that you state your views on the present immigration procedures in Bangladesh, which you felt it machine was being used. Two members of the society found the bodies of animals left in a disused lavatory, incluiding a dog with head wounds.

The investigators were sent to the scene in Frog Lane, Wigan, where Mrs Helen Dean, the society's branch secretary, was told that dogs were sli 11 being destroyed by a niachime that was not working pToperly She said they had not known of a hammer being used until thfcy arrived, and were then told by, the operator, who did not rea I' ise that they were from. 'ihe society, that when a dog was violent he had to use a hammer to subdue it and get it in lite electrocution macliine. ICe further told the investijators, ward by Shell-UK at a meeting inappropriate to comment on while in Dacca." application of such procedures by the British High Commission The letter adds that, contrary to Government nLedsos. the in Dacca. committing a future Conservative Government to immediate abolition of all wage controls.

Mrs Thatcher lias Icld colleagues privately lliat her antipathy to pay guidelines and sanctions is such that she would scrap them on arrival in Downing Street. With increasing signs that the Tories are anxious to turn up the volume in rtat could be election year, it was being said at Westminster yesterday moved by negotiation. The means ot reducing unempioy- Wcst would therefore Itave to ment. improve its own forces, The main thrust of the In this connection I regret Budget should be to increase the apparent hesitation by spending power and provide many European governments 3'3S th worst off over the so-called neutron should be given the greatest bomb even tlioupli the nelP- A bl8 cut in income tax Supreme Allied Commander fr the working populat.on has stated that there is a clear essential and this should be reciuirement for it" he said done bv tne tax band, requirement 101 11, i.e sai. shouJd be It notes that Mr Callaghan growing complexity ef the entry told Bengali journalists that certificate system hus come to "immigration is a problem for be used as a deliberate policy us, and not for you," and it of administrative delay to cut approved of his statement in down on immigration from the Dacca that British immigration Indian subcontinent, laws will be administered as Michael Bates, the actor who played the Indian bearer Ranji Ram in the BBC television series It Ain't Half Hot Mum has died, aged 57, in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London.

He had been ill for about IS months. Mr Bates was born in India and was an officer in the Indian Army. He appeared in another popular BBC series, Last of the Summer Wine, and had a long list of films to his credit, many with a military flavour. He played Field Marshal Montgomery in Patton and also appeared in the controversial film, Clockwork Orange, and the successful West End play, No Sex Please, We're British. Mr Bates once said that he rather liked not being noticed too much.

I like to feel that if I'm not recognised I've created a character the public don't associate with me. It either means I've got no personality or I've managed to deceive them all. with Transport and General Workers' Union officials at the London offices of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service yesterday. Afterwards the two sides said that the approach to the Department of Employment had been mutually agreed and would take place on January 20, the day when senior shop stewards hold a conference to decide whether to stage more industrial action. Last night's joint statement said that this conference would go ahead, but its commencement would be delayed until the Department of Employment she said, that he sometimes ha The British Government, one an increase in the tax allowance of those which has made 110 de- for the elderly to take most of cision on the neutron bomb, them out of taxation altogether, came' under heavy attack from combined with a big increase in Sir Ian for its defence cuts.

He pensions. to finish them off will a hammer. He did not seem to thin he was doing anything wrong', Sit-in settled she remarked. lie said the-y that the Shadow Prices bpoKes-man, Mrs Sally Oppenheim, may have been encouraged from above to plan a blistering radio attack on the Price Commission this weekend. With senior Labour Ministers now talking publicly about the were vicious.

When asked to show th.e fairly and impartially as possible." The letter goes on It is impossible to conclude from the record of the British High Commission in Dacca that this is the case at present, or that there are not many families permanently separated by unjust refusals or subjected 1o prolonged delays. "Immigration is a problem At the other end of the scale we should see big increases in child benefits. The nation can now afford this, and claimed tnai me rany, whose current programme calls for more cuts, was now to the left of the Italian Communists in defence policy. The Conservatives. rn (he place where the animals were put after being killed, Bie took The sit-in dispute on the Brent Bravo oil platform has been settled.

About 80 workers employed by and Offshore started a sit-in on an accommodation platform alongside Brent Bravo last Saturday over a wages claini. it can afford to build more the investigators into the dis houses and hospitals, and de- used lavatory, where there were other hand, were convinced that velop a really good public trans four dead dogs. One of the in the West should respond to port system. vestigators saw a collie do advice could be relayed to tne stewards present. The threat of a strike by the drivers there has already been a one-day stoppage by TGWU tanker drivers in the Birmins-ham area in support cf the claim has led to speculation about the possibility of rationing and the use of servicemen to drive tankers with a head wound.

The operator said that the dog TO-s vicious and had bitten three need for a permanent pay framework, Ilrs Thafdher is evidently attempting to woo the unions with the prospect of free collective bargaining. But the party's need to look both ways was again emphasised by Sir Geoffrey, who last weekend presented hawkish face in attacking the unacceptable political role of the unions. Yesterday he was more circumspect on incomes policy. children, and he had hit at Cautious support for reservoir witb a Hammer, Mrs Deasn added. Masters5 draw The RSPCA branch has seist a report to the society's head All those most closely involved have emphasised that strike action was only expected or would only be considered at th-; end of the long road of negotiation.

Yesterday's meeting raised hopes that the strike threat may be averted. By Ann Clwyd for a year because the Severn that, should there be any dis- will also create a new water re- a tniwmf. in representatives felt there were agreement between Hie two creation area to back up the not enough safeguards in the water authorities tin supply, much-visited Elan Valley sys- heV-iuse of nrfviotv in FnttiH Devolution Bill for Midlands costs and charges, the ultimate tern of reservoirs. dcidaTO ratepahyers sible powers of a future Welsh retanes of btate. 327 less lor 1neir water from assembly, is to go ahead, XJ snoum De Wales, the Midlands and April because of an unexpected An agreements seek parlia- exportetl at a pnce- Wessex will probably need surplus for the Welsh Water mentary approval for enlarEing The authority's fear has not water from the enlarged Craig Authority and 3.5 millions the Craig Goch reservoir in Deen completely removed.

A Goch reservoir in the 1990s, from some English water auth- mid-Wales at a cost of 40 'nill- spokesman said yesterday, we Severn Trent is lc pay 80 per oritics. lions, was signed at Brecon yes- shall be monitoring, the pro- cent of the cost of enla ret ng the. Th lower charge will terday by the chairmen of the Brew of the Wales Bill and a reservoir and the Welsh Water ther b8ctwecn Severn Trent Water Authority small committee has been set Authority 20 per cent. someone living close to a Welsh and the Welsh Witor A.uthor- to take action if necessary. The increased storage will be reservoir who now pays about 'ty- J' Parliament agrees -work Ministers at the Department used to increase the flows of 42.85 for his water and could begin in the early lS80s.

0f the Environment and the the rivers Severn and TVye dur- someone living in Birmingham The project had bcn delayed Welsh Office have already said ing dry weather. The reservoir who pays 40, Cyanide found Police officers in 'Yorkshire and Norfolk spent yesterday searching for two cannisters of cyanide which could kill with a sniff." One, swept from a bird sanctuary on the Norfolk coast in the recent storms, was found a few miles away, and the other, lost near Widdop reservoir on the moors above Hebden Bridge, was collected by the police last niuht from a farmer ivho found Hotel blast quarters at Horsham, and to th local authority and the Wigaji MP, Mr Alan Fitch. It is asking people not to take dtogs to I) exterminated by the machine because of its alleged inefficiency and because of circumstances involving the use of -a hammer. A society inspector, Mr Bill Watts, said he expected to bea.t the depot today to s-ec the machine in use. He said Tire allegations by two members of.

the Wigan branch will be investigated, and with th blessing o-f the council, which wants a clean book." Jonathan Mostel of Trinity College, Cambridge, -ind Jonathan Speelman, a recent graduate from Worcester College, Oxford, each need a draw for an international master qualifying performance in the final round of the Hastings Chess Congress today. The final round pairings include a game where J. Speelman plays J. Meslcl. Result! Round 12: Shamkovlkh 1, Botlerlll 0.

Round 13: Webb Mcstcl Round 11: Hon i. Sax Shamkovltcti 1, Webb Tlid.il! 1, Kauan 0 British Ladies Match. Hartslon beat Jackson and leads 2-0. At least 15 people were hurt last night in an explosion in an hotel at Shaw Street, St Merseyside. Police said the cause of the blast was not known, but the cas board was it shortly after it fell off a gamekeeper's car, making an examination..