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THE GUARDIAN Thursday February 13 1969 I HOME NEWS Soviet defensive advantage in Central Europe Minister to see Mary Bell unit Unions criticise docks plan A warning to students public TVIR HEALEY'S image of Russian ships in the Mediterranean "marking" their NATO opposite numbers like footballers is very good. It could profitably be extended to the whole arena of Russia's defence policy. Ever since the cold war began, "marking" has been a high Soviet priority in the hardware fields. Russia has consistently aped the United States not only in its choice of weapons but in its adoption of strategic doctrines. Following suit Then the US under Eisenhower went for medium and short-range atomic weapons.

The Russians under Khrushchev followed suit. These are the missiles which point at Britain, among other countries. Kennedy turned about face and went for greater conventional By HUGH HANNING forces and weapons under the flexible response doctrine. Yet again Russia altered course in America's wake. Particularly after Khrushchev's dismissal, she went full steam ahead with a programme dramatised by huge tank exercises and the unveiling of the AN-22 tank-carrying aircraft in Czechoslovakia last August.

She too can now get there fastest with the mostest." Meanwhile in strategic nuclear missiles also, Russia is fast approaching parity. In such a sotting it would have been surprising if Russia had not developed a Mediterranean fleet. There is, however, one major lallacy in-this doctrine of parity. It is the massive disparity of Communist strength in Central Europe. Russia's tanks are simply not marked by those in NATO.

This year the advent of the swing-fire missile should at last do something to adjust this imbalance. But as British Government spokesmen have been reiterating, our deterrent to a deliberate invasion of Western Europe remains, as when NATO began, nuclear. In conventional arms it is the West which does not have parity. In other words, Russia is fast achieving parity outside Central Europe, while maintaining superiority inside it. In face of this development US military quarters have been urging that parity is not enough for America, and that only superiority will do.

Mr Nixon's old boss. President Eisenhower, warned future Presidents about this sort of pressure from the military-industrial complex, and fortunately the new President seems to have recognised this reaction for what it is worth. He has adroitly finessed it with a novel and important concept of his own: sufficiency. One hopes he has the courage to stick with it. of the If 1968 was the year of participation for students, 1969 could be the year of discipline, Mr Trevor Pisk, president of the National Union of Students, said yesterday.

The present anti-student mood of the public could easily, turn into an unwillingness to support all education. He was speaking at a conference called by the Council for Educational Advance in London. Mr Fisk argued that student participation should not be regarded as a universal panacea it was something valuable for its own merits but it would not appease all student or satisfy the revolutionary yearnings of a few. Professor Max Beloff said that he was dubious of the value of national agreements, like the one signed by- the vice-chancellors and National Union of Students, arid rejected the idea that it was the duty of student moderates to Keep militants, under control. It was, the-, job of the university authorities to keep order and make learning possible.

He also challenged the value of student contributions to academic discussions. In the social studies faculty at Oxford this term no students had turned up at a staff-student meeting. A high degree of altruism was expected from students asked to participate making decisions that could only, affect their successors. He believed that although there had been quanti- Cricket board is sued over sale of rights to BBC Labour seeks 6d on union fees BY OUR OWN REPORTER moo portion of students in residence had risen by 7 per cent over a decade. But not everything in the garden was lovely and the public, in particular, was not sure what higher education was for whether it was to provide qualified manpower or whether it was something that any boy or girl with sufficient A levels was entitled to, irrespective of later career.

Pointing out that traditional universities had always had their vocational courses and even technical colleges pursued knowledge for its own sake, Mrs Williams said that the Government tried to keep a balance between manpower and other considerations. The Government was anxious that staff and students in higher education should have self-confidence, specially in the public sector. Polytechnics must have parity of esteem with universities, and within a decade they might have developed an outlook to rival the universities'. One of the crucial things in the poly idea was the interaction oi different subjects like art and engineering which could develop new trends and a new sort of education for the whole person, Lord Annan, provost of University College, London, said that a dangerous cleavage had been growing between the public and the universities over the past few months. On a whole range of issues the dons had been criticising the actions of Government and the public, from cost effectiveness to handling of students, criticised the universities.

Students accuse LSE By our own Reporter Governors of the London School of Economics were accused by the students' militant spearheads yesterday of provoking an "intolerable and of being "bent on the destruction of our school." At the same time, some of the moderate students accused the militants of precisely the same thing. The LSE Students Union committee of 23 met with some members of the Students Union council and afterwards saidi that the way the governors had announced the re-opening of the scnooi was unacceptable." One fact that inflames militants, and some moderates, is" that 1 the governors propose to re-open the school with the dis-puted security though modified, still in place. The nosition now seems to be that the students the militants say have been "victimised" will go back on Wednesday with the rest They have been told they can "pursue their academic careers." University news MANCHESTER Mr 'Alexander Donnachie, senior lecturer in physics at University, has been appointed to an additional chair of theoretical physics from September 1. He will also act as leader of the Theoretical High Enesry Physics Group at Daresbury. Mr J.

Hogg has been appointed senior lecturer in the Hester Adrian research centre for the study of learning processes in the mentally handicappad. tfr-Franz Koenigsberger, professor of machine tool engineering, Institute of Science and Techno- logy, will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin tomorrow. Dr A. C. Rose-Innes, professor of physics and electrical engineering, has been appointed chairman of the cryogenics committee of the British Cryogenics Council OXFORD Exeter College.

J. de D. Delmege, bursar of Van Mildert College, University of Durham, since 1965, has been elected bursar and Fellow breach of contract. They maintain that the alleged agreements had no legal effect and that, before selling the BBC, they exhausted all reasonable possibilities of agreement with the companies. Mr Howe said the principal negotiators for the companies were Mr Jimmy Hill and Mr John McMillan, co-ordinating director of sport for all the companies.

The Gillete Cup had been covered by the BBC in 1967. London Weekend offered 5,000 for the 1968 rights and it was agreed it should have an option to renew the agreement to cover the following two years as well. These proposals were embodied in a letter signed by both sides. "Not informed' Later, negotiations began in regard to the Players County League and the board disclosed that the BBC was interested in that competition, but mentioned no interest in the Gillette Cup. "In fact, Mr Griffith had written to Mr Peter Dimmock, of the BBC, to say the board, were' prepared to go a long' way towards making a package deal for both competitions," said Mr Howe None of this was told to the ITV company." The board eventually committed itself to the BBC.

It now claimed that the option offered to the independent television companies was only a "gentlemen's agreement." "We say it was a binding commitment," Mr Howe said. The hearing continues today. In the 'end, witen air CaHaghan bad disclosed the bankrupt state of the party's coffers, they stopped their growling and-agreed-that it was the only solution. Mr CaHaehan met them on their home ground at instead "of Transport House -but this was "mainly to accommodate" ine representatives from the 51 unions affiliated to the who could hardly be' squeezed into the cramped -quarters of Transport 'House. The rjrarty treasurer gloomy mood.

By the end of, the he said, its deficit would' be 146,000, the -highest incite history. The extra sixpences from the 5 million "unionists paying political levies 'would only just be sufficient to wipe out the deficit He reckoned By our own Reporter Dock employers and unions have reached basic, agreement on a national severance pay scheme, a third week's holiday, and improved pensions and sick pay, Mr Tim O'Leary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said in London yesterday. Mr O'Leary, the union's docks group secretary, said this after reporting to a dock delegates' conference at Transport House. The conference also approved a union statement which is highly critical of the recent White Paper on the nationalisation of the dock industry. The employers had agreed to a national voluntary severance scheme based on the already agreed London scheme, he said, but had asked for time to think about whether it should be operated nationally or on a port to port basis.

The agreement for three weeks' holiday would come into force not later than 1970 but it was expected that there would be local starts earlier than this. On pension benefits, he said the unions and employers' had agreed in principle that present benefits could and should be improved. The statement on nationalisation criticised the Government for not recommending 100 per cent nationalisation and especially for leaving out some of the smaller ports and specialised operations in all ports. It also criticised the White Paper for the vagueness of its proposals for increased worker participation. The statement said: "The opportunity has not been taken to make a decisive advance in worker participation." Summing up the view of the conference, Mr OTieary "Should the Government proceed, however, we' wiU take the necessary steps to protect our members from the consequences." Horse owner left 1M Major Dermot Hugh Bingham McCalmont, of Mount Juliet, Thomastown, County Kilkenny, owner of The Tetrarch, said to be the fastest horse of all time, left 1,216,401 (duty 466,366) in- England and the of Ireland.

After numerous bequests, he left an annuity of 100 to Bryan Marshall, the trainer, of Berkely House, Lambourn, Berkshire, and the residue to his 'son, Victor Hugh Harry McCalmont, stating that he had made in his lifetime other and- substantial provisions for my beloved wife June and for the children flf our marriage." 6987' 1 niMPA By our own Reporter Mr Fred Lee, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister responsible for the North, is to visit Eed Bank approved school to see security arrangements for 11-year-old Mary Bell, sentenced to life detention at Newcastle upon Tyne for the manslaughter of two small boys. After a meeting with Mr CaHaghan, the Home Secretary, Mr Lee said he wanted to satisfy himself of the safety of the wing at the school to which Mary was recently moved from a London remand home Mr CaHaghan stood firmly, by his conviction that the best place for Mary was the new, girls' unit at the approved school for boys in Mr Lee's constituency at Newton. 'Asking too much' Mr Lee, in a protest to Mr CaHaghan, had said that to bring people such as Mary Bell into the region, and to expect his constituents to take it calmly, was asking too much." Mr CaHaghan pointed out that Mary would be with others in a self-contained secure unit for girls who would at all times be under strict personal control Mr CaHaghan invited Mr Lee accompanied by the chairman of the local authority to visit the school to satisfy himself of security arrangements. Mr CaHaghan was also anxious that residents at Newton should be satisfied that the unit was secure. He would not object if other responsible people wished to visit the unit later.

Mr Lee said he had accepted the invitation. He was happier about the but was apparently still not fully convinced that the school was the best place for Mary. In Newcastle upon Tyne the Conservative leader of the city council, Councillor A. Grey, said that Mr Lee's attitude was disgraceful." "It is quite shocking that the Minister who has been given special responsibility for the North should discharge his responsibilities in this way. Mary Bell wag a product of the sort of environment in which one would expect Mr Lee to be taking a special personal interest." Wining and dining in coal barges By ERNEST DEWHUKST MANCHESTER Dy night with dinner and drinks on the Rochdale Canal.

The prospect is both imminent and imaginative a city which is publicising its. potential as a conference and tourism centre and the licensed restaurant which will make the scheme possible is undergoing the last phases of fitting out in a dry dock at Stretford. It is being built splendidly on two old coal barges. The barges are to be moored at Canal Street in the city, on the remaining one and a half miles of canal open to navigation. The floating enterprise will be called simply "The City Barge Restaurant" Mrs Beryl Young, a Manchester night club owner, is behind the scheme, and has been granted planning permission and a provisional licence for it.

She said yesterday that the barges are perhaps 40 or 50 years old and were in use until about three years ago. The Rochdale Canal Company is supporting the scheme. MP retiring Mr' Ben aged .62, Labour MP for Paddington North since ,1953, will not contest the next general election. He. says he feels that he ought to hand over to a younger man.

shopping in Walsall. They arrived at her mother's home about 5 p.m. or 5 15 p.m., then returned home. A month later, police 'questioned her husband, and looked at his car. He told them he had arrived home at 2 p.m., "It was wrong," she said, but' she did not say anything about at.

With husband by Mr K. Mynett, QC (defending), she said she had answered police officers' questions with her husband but denied she had been lying. She knew from the start of an interview on September 5 that police were inquiring about the murder and that it was important to be trjuthful and accurate. She agreed that her husband was saying he had been continuously in her company from about 1 45 p.m.1 until about 6 30 p.m. Asked why she did not correct her husband when he was telling police he got home about 1 45 p.m., she replied Because he came home and ate his meal and acted normally without any signs of emotion or anything.

By RICHARD BOURNE, our Education Correspondent tative expansion at universities there had been a regression in educational standards. He said the university year ought to be lengthened and the work load made heavier for statf and students. Mrs Shirley Williams, Minister responsible for higher education, said that in spite of unprecedented expansion inside and out- Tariq Ali 'not invited' By our own Reporter Pakistani students, both in Pakistan and Britain, made it clear last night that they have not invited Tariq Ali to return to Pakistan to lead the revolutionary democratic movement, and that further, they do not, think he is fitted to such a task. Mr Ali had been reported as saying that he had received such an invitation. side universities there had been no deterioration in many traditional aspects.

There had been a slight improvement in the favourable staff -student ratio, there had been no deterioration in grant giving, there had been a slow reduction in the amount of student wastage, and the pro he really ought to be asking for a shilling but this was something for the future. 'Mr CaHaghan ended his bleak introduction by pointing out that perhaps the party should he thinking in terms of a built-in regulator to get if out of its consistent financial mess. Some peopb on the-national executive are already thinking in terms of phased increase of a further sixpense over a five-year period. The trade union leaders went away, having given their grudging consent'to the increase. Callaehan' wfll-be renortins p.the events to 'the next meeting 'fortnight's time.

The proposal will be put "to the party's Brighton- conference in October, ana if passed will come into effect from January 1 next year. 3 millions to the British Travel which will cease to exist. Grants for hotel development will be paid for. projects on-which work started after March 31, 1968, but before April 1, 1971, and which were completed or will be completed before April 1, 1973. The proposed British Tourist Authority will operate as the tourist board for England, and one member of it will be chairman oi an advisory committee representative of English regional activities.

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The report says that court practice showed "notably greater emphasis on fines and imprisonment for possession of cannabis than of other, dangerous drugs, but less use of probation and conditional discharge." Mr Bottoms questions the relevance of lumping fines and imprisonment together. His own analysis shows that the custodial rates (prison, borstal, detention centre, and approved school) for possession of cannabis and of the. 1964 drugs are virtually the same. They are much lower than the rates for the hard drugs. Telephone 061-834 am Tourism Bill published fMr, I fabulously Jhowdoe i fjy'B unfg Four independent television companies sued the Test and County Cricket Board in the High Court yesterday over television rights for two major events in the cricketing calendar, which eventually were sold to the BBC.

The four companies allege breach of contract by the defendants over the 1969 and 1970 Gillette Cup knock-out competitions and the Players County League. The England cricketers, Ted Dexter and Ramon Subba Row, the MCC president, Mr Ronald Aird, and the director of sport for London Weekend Television, Mr Jimmy Hill, and a number of well-known sporting journalists were listening to me case. 'Offered Mr Geoffrey Howe, QC for the companies, said they offered 27,500 for the rights in both competitions, Later the BBC offered the same figure. "The BBC offer was accepted and the companies learned from the press and a letter from the board that the defendants were irretrievably committed to the BBC in respect of both competitions Mr Howe told Mr Justice Megaw. The companies, London Weekend Television ATV Network Ltd, Granada Television and Yorkshire Television claim damages and an order to prevent the board from implementing the agreements they have made with the BBC.

The board, its chairman, Mr Cecil Gerard Alexander Paris, and Mr Stewart Cathie Griffith, (secretary of the MCC), deny Football fan to pay 100 award A young Chelsea supporter was ordered at London yesterday to pay 100 compensation to a teenage Liverpool supporter whom he was said to have kicked after a match at Stamford Bridge last month. Mark Lenihan (17), of Abbey Road, Hampstead, who nad pleaded not guilty, was also fined 50 and ordered to pay 20 costs for assaulting James MeMichael, age 16, unemployed, of High-bank Drive, Garston. Mr Seymour Collins, the magistrate, said This young man suffered very severe injuries. I am going to hit you through your pocket." Mr Andrew Patience, defending, said that Lenihan was not responsible for all the injuries received by Mr MeMichael. He was very ashamed of what he had done.

1 didn't think he was the person concerned in it." She said it was last November 15 when she first went on the times she had given. Until then she had believed the original times true because she did not believe her husband was connected with it." On November 15 police called for her at work, took her to her fiat, and then to Hednesford police station, where she remained for about five hours, with very senior officers most of the time. She went to bee her husband in prison the following Monday, but did not tell mm sne had been persuaded to alter the times. Dr A. Usher.

Home Office pathologist, said Christine had been suffocated probably by the pressure of a hand across her nose and mouth while she was being sexually assaulted. He thought she had died the eve-ning of August 19, but said it could have been as late as the following day. He thought the offence had occurred at the spot on Cannock Chase where the body was found. The trial was adjourned until toaay. Proposals to promote in1 Britain, which were -announced; by the Government last year, have been incorporated the Development of Tourism Bill which was published -yesterday.

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