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Urn fSS (g 01 Printed in London and Manchester Saturday August 13 1983 23p -r TRAVEL. Casino royal IMg- PEOPLE I SPORT Pages 1 1 -14? PAGE15l aul V'8 Survivor describes Sri Lanka massacre Recovery falters his gate. Mr Ramanathan, who had a shotgun, fired a single round into the air through a window to try to frighten them away. The army then arrived, according to Mrs Ganesan, and took up positions behind the crowd which began to attack the gate again. Mr Ramanathan fired at them without appearing to hit anyone.

Mrs Ganesan said that a son of Mr Ramanathan, aged about 15, climbed on to the roof of their house carrying an umbrella it was raining and was shot by a soldier from the street and fell to the ground. She fled to her aunt's Turn to back page, col. 8 preter and broke down as she completed it. Mrs Ganesan said that she was a weaving teacher, married to a used-car salesman, living with her family at Muthieyangana Road. Badulla, a well-to-do street which included three.

Tamil homes. At about 10 am on Wednesday, July 27, a crowd gathered outside a bus depot 100 yards away, attacking passing vehicles. She said that her family telephoned the police to evacuate them, but they did not come. The crowd then began to attack the home of a neighbour, Mr Ramanathan well-known locally as a camphor dealer trying to break down lar representations to the presidential office the same day. The President says that no inquests have been held into the Jaffna killings because he was informed too late.

The Jaffna massacres have been blamed on troops going berserk after the murder of 13 colleagues by Tamil terrorists in the area the previous night. But the latest incident to be reported took place 200 miles to the south. The survivors' account was given by Mrs Silvamany Ganesan, aged 36, a mother of three children who belonged to one of two Tamil families attacked. She gave her story, through an inter the army withheld information about the massacres from him for nearly two weeks. But' the leader of the Opposition, Mr A.

Amirthal-ingam, who lives outside Jaffna, has claimed that he telephoned the President the Troops in 'new massacre page 5 day after the massacres took place, Monday July 25. to inform him. "He said 'We'll look into it and do what is necessary to stop it, Mr Amirthalingam reported. At least two other prominent figures in Jaffna are believed to have made simi An account of how a group of inmates, including three clergymen, fought a pitched battle, for their lives has been given by survivors. These accounts follow 'details of alleged army massacres in the northern peninsula of Jaffna including the murder of six schoolboys at a bus stop reported by the Guardian on Monday.

They raise questions about the responsibility of senior security force officers and members of the Government Last weekend- President Jayawardene was questioned during a recorded interview about the basis of evidence gathered in Jaffna by the Guardian. He claimed that From David Beresford in Colombo NEW' EVIDENCE that the security forces were involved in the massacre of civilians is beginning to emerge in Sri Lanka. The Guardian has. obtained a first-hand account 'of a massacre in the southern town of Badulla in which the army and police were allegedly involved in the murder of 14 people, according to a survivor. Details are also emerging of the killings in Welikada prison.

Colombo, in which 52 prisoners died which suggest that they might have been carried out with the connivance of prison staff. a price pc KBSSff Mrst appeals by sacked BL workers fail if this is excluded the fall is still more than 1 per cent. Manufacturing fell by 1 per cent overall, with most parts of industry showing either no change in output or a small fall. In no sector of industry did production actually rise. The Treasury hopes that this fall in output will prove a freak but at the best the June fall underlines the fragile nature of the economic recov ery, and the concern in indus try aoout tne present strengtn of sterling on the exchanges.

The rise in retail prices brines the June index to 336.5. against a base of 100 on Ja nuary 15. 1974. A number or things fell in price last month, including seasonal food, tobacco, household durable eoods and. clothing.

The shar pest rise, after petrol was 'the price of cars. The Government's Tax and Price Index, which, allows for changes in income tax was up only. 3.1 ner cent in July, the same as. in June. The fact that it is rising more slowly at the cuts- 'inh direct taxation last Budget.

Julia Langdon adds Dr David Owen, the leader of the Social Democrats, yesterday demanded an immediate summit of the finance ministers of the world's major currencies to co ordinate international moves to prevent any rise in American interest rates. He said that the health of the world economy meant that a discussion could not wait until the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank scheduled for next month. Dr Owen said that the Chancellor should demand a public statement from the United States guaranteeing no further rise in the Federal Reserve prime rate. He also called for fiscal action by America to reduce its budgetary deficit. The political earthquake of 1979 has turned Managua, the capital of Nicaragua into one of the strangest cities on earth.

Jonathan Steele begins a two part study of the Sandinista achievement and the nation at the centre of a Central American storm Men apart Many years ago Germaine Greer urged the infant feminist movement to get his job." So who got hers Guardian Women begins a series on the men who moved into a woman's world Hiya, learning Education Guardian on the perils encountered in pursuit of a PhD Refuge Seekers of political asylum can find it now in Brixton. Society Tomorrow investigates person was represented by a senior shop steward, Mr Bobby Fryer, who was present throughout most of the discussions. No statement is expected from the Transport and General Workers' Union, to whom the 13 sacked workers belong, until all the cases have been heard, although Mr David Buckle, the TGWU's Oxford district secretary, may call for an emergency formal meeting with BL. BL said nothing officially yesterday about the hearings. They were arranged because the 13 were dismissed for giv ing false- references and in formation about their academic uualifications when'.

thev applied for. jobs. It is thought that the seven men and six women are members of the In ternational Marxist Group. Information about the position at Cowley and the 13 who were dismissed was given in a letter to hourly paid workers, by Mr Doug Dixon, the plant director. He said that the people involved had all obtained jobs by deliberate de ception.

They had given addresses of private houses throughout the country when asked for details about their previous employer. Forged documents had been submitted when BL wrote for references. A number of the sacked workers are university era duates and they are all young. Some of them have been at the plant for more than a year, out several are more recent re cruits. 5- I Tanzi, theatre, said the Mermaid.

Report page LORD Miles, with his wife Josephine, making an emotional appeal yesterday to save the Mermaid Theatre in- London; Speaking in front of the -wrestling ring set of the latest production, Trafford 9 rase By Hamish McRae, Financial Editor The annual fate of inflation rose to 4.2 per cent last month, ending a lengthy period of falling inflation. Industrial production fell sharply and surprisingly in June to the lowest level this year. The Government has been trying to prepare public opinion for this rise in the retail price index for some time, but it has given no sign that it was aware that the industrial recovery might falter in midstream. While individual companies have reported that demand has remained at a low level, the Confederation of British Indus- inflation success, page 16 try has said that industrialists Have become more optimistic Jjjiout their prospects in recent months. 317 per cent in May and June resulted mainly from, the increased mortgage rate, which accounted for 0.3 per cent, while the increase in petrol prices accounted for another 0.1 per cent.

The Chancellor, Mr Nigel Lawson, said last month that the rise would be temporary and would not herald a resurgence of inflation. The fall in industrial production in June breads the pattern of a slow but reasonably steady rise since early lst year. The June index, at 102.7, is nearly 2 per cent down from the May figure, and cannot be accounted for by a summer lull in output, for the figures are seasonally adjusted. The fall is partly accounted for by a reduction in North Sea oil and gas production. But ENGLAND'S Nick Cook, (above), a late addition to the Third Test team, bowled his side into a commanding position' against New Zealand yesterday, taking four wickets In his Test debut.

Cook, who was called up from his match for Leicestershire on Wednesday to deputise for the injured Phil Edmonds, took three of his wickets in the last 40 minutes of play as New Zealand faltered to 176-6, 150 behind England's first innings total of 326. Meanwhile in Helsinki there was a surprise success for Britain when Colin Reitz won a bronze medal in the 3,000 metres steeplechase Reports, page 11 Foot in By Malcolm Dean The latest in electronic court security passed every test but the last when a prisoner, jumped over the dock in Brad' ford city court yesterday. The imposing Bradford court building, which opened just over a' decade ago, was designed, to keep security, as unobtrusive as possible, on the principle that 99 out of every 100 offenders who appear before the justices do not even contemplate running away. -lif NEWS IN BRIEF By Keith Harper, Labour Editor British Leyland yesterday rejected the first batch of appeals by workers sacked after claims that they had been involved in a Trotskyist plot to infiltrate and disrupt its plant at Cowley, Oxford. The rest of the cases will be heard on Monday, when similar decisions are expected to be reached.

The management claimed yesterday that there had been no shop floor ripples as a result of the hearings. But evidence emerged which suggested that management was aware of plans- to infiltrate the plant and took steps to City Notebook, page 16 prevent it by scouring- its personnel department and examining the credentials of new recruits. Management had obtained a document from a leftwing organisation. It is unsigned but it sets out details of how many people were required for the recent launch of the Maestro. It instructs people about how to get their cover stories right in order to get relatively well-paid jobs in a key industry, and it advises comrades from outside Oxford to report first to an address at a private house in Bullingdon Road, Oxford.

There was no reply at the house yesterday. At yesterday's hearings each Lord Wigg dies at 82 By Will Bennett Lord Wigg, the Labour politician who broke the news of the Profumo scandal in 1963 and who was for some years a powerful figure within the party, has died in London, aged 82. For the past five years the former Paymaster-General and ex-chairman of the Horserace Parliament's punch-up man, page 15 Betting Levy Board had been suffering from myasthenia gravis, a disease which attacks the muscles. Lord Wigg entered Parliament as MP for Dudley in 1945, but did not emerge as a leading figure within the Labour Party until the 1960s, when he played a crucial role in securing the leadership for Mr Harold Wilson. In 1963 he was tipped off about the association between Mr John Profumo, then Conservative Secretary of State for War, and Miss Christine Keeler.

After carefully assembling evidence he broke the story to his own party leaders and then to Parliament. His effectiveness as leader-Turn to back page, col. 4 INSIDE Blacks at risk under France trip ruling ffH ff3 it I Coaches curb hint THE TRANSPORT Minister, Mrs Lynda Chalker, yesterday invited evidence on whether the 70mph coach speed limit on motorways should be lowered. Lorry limits may rise, page 3, Mystery virus ONE child has' died and 17 are seriously ill in the West Midlands after contracting a mystery kidney virus. Page 3.

Lifer's death A DRUGS trafficker gaoled for life in the handless corpse" murder trial two years ago died suddenly at Parkhurst prison yesterday. Page 3. bribed A BRIBED prison guard helped the Italian financier Licio Gelli to escape from gaol In Geneva, it was revealed yesterday. Page 4. Miles, who founded the he would fight plans to sell 2 picture by Garry Weaser have no official status and the French fear that people using them might stay in France.

It is unclear, however, how the French immigration service will treat black British citizens travelling on excursion cards, since the criteria for rejection so far appears to have been skin colour rather, nationality. Although' the French' have said their change in practice was prompted by the new British Nationality Act, the Home Office says this argument does not stand- up and that the French' are using it as an excuse. Before and since the Act, some holders of British passports have not had the right of abode in Britain. If the French were worried about Britain not allowing people to return from France they could have started controls long ago. Recent events have shown that their real concern is not returnafoility but illegal immigration.

They fear that the unofficial cards are too easily available and could be used, for example, by. someone facing de-Turn to back page, coL 4 defendant, however, was undeterred; He to the front door and with one. kick burst th0 lock, ran out 1 across the civic precinct, and escaped among city centre shoppers. Mr Philip Alton, the clerk to the Bradford: justices, said ruefully We thought it was a good We were the first magistrates' court in the country to employ the concept of perimeter security, but obviously the strength of the locks: will have to" be looked at again'' For a minimum of 200 you can invest in a unique worldwide spread of penny share companies selected for their exceptional graven potential Investment in such companies is of course quite speculative, but rewards can be infinitely greater man heavily priced shares. The aim of Arbuthnot World Penny Share Fund is to achieve maximum capital growth (estimated gross starting yield is 2 p.a).

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were installed under the desks of the court clerks -which, when pushedj sounded the alarm', and also electronically locked the front door, and other; exits. Yesterday the. new system "failed the test. Five defendants were in the dockv Three were, granted bail but two others were, remanded in custody. As the rbailed were; being let- out of the-dock one of the two remaining 'defendants jumped; By Stephen Cook The Government said last night that only British citizens should travel to France on excursion cards provided by travel companies.

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