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HOME NEWS 4 THE GUARDIAN Friday October 7 1983 Thatcher, Lawsonto discuss spending dilemma I ii Doctors work on because of cuts Tenth Aids victim dies Ministers warned over lbn spending overshoot SillPl By Colin Brown, Political Staff Mrs Thatcher will be having talks with the Chancellor, Mr Nigel Lawson, at next week's If fff Jt the start: of the Conservative Party conference, challenging Mrs Thatcher's pledge that "the National Health Service, is safe with us." According to the Bow Group, whose members include: the Social Services Secrdetary, the NHS is safe with nobody, and a fundamental reappraisal, of the welfare state needs to be Tory Party conferecne in By Andrew VeitcK, Medical Correspondent A tenth Aids victim has died in Britain, it was reported yesterday. The man, Mr Raymond BiacKpooi in an attempt to resolve the Cabinet dilemma over the predicted 1 billion overshoot on public expenditure for next year. I I MS. from more than efficiency the Defence Secretary, Mr Michael Heseltine, has also strongly resisted deep cuts in his. budget.

The axe could ultimately fall on either the health and social security budget" or the defence budget, but it also looks likely that the urban aid programme costing 450 million is seriously threatened, despite resistance by thet Environment Secretary, Mr Patrick Jenkin. Mrs Thatchetr is callenged by Tory supporters today to improve the Government's performance on the economy. The right-of-centre Bow Group, in its quarterly newspaper Crossbow, attacks the "monumental complacency and unwillingness of the Government" to' come to grips with the problems of the 1980s. The group say the Government has been reduced to tinkering at the fringe and faces the prospect of a further erosion in the economy. It will also publish a paper on Monday to coincide with carried out.

In a leading article the group says: "If things go on as they are, with taxation at absurdly high levels, with businesses going bankrupt at a record and rising rate, and the cost of the welfare state escalating in absence of any coherent strategy to contain it, the people's judgment will be harsh the next time, and deservedly so. In the same edition, the former Transport Secretary, David Howell, also criticises the Government for, not spending enough in capital investment in the public sector, such as giving the go-ahead to the Channel Tunnel. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Peter Rees, yesterday gave the Cabinet a progress report on his talks with department ministers about his efforts to bring public expenditure for next year down to the planned target of 126.4 billion. Although no decisions were reached at the 50-minute meeting in Downing Street, ministers werel eft in little doubt that unless further progress was made next week, they would have to take unpleasant decisions at their next meeting on October 20. It is understood that the Social Services Secretary, Mr Norman Fowler, has fought hard to preserve his budget By David Hencke, Social Services Correspondent The Department of Health is torpedoing its own commitment to thousands of overworked junior doctors to reduce their working hours by imposing manpower and financial cuts.

Papers to go before next Monday's Norm-west Thames regional health authority reveal that the Government's ini. tiative launched last November is on point of collapse, with little hope of progress over tha next few months. The paper also reveals that senior consultants in tha region have refused to cooperate with administrators in agreeing to go "on call" to cut hours for junior staff. The region, which covers north and west London, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire, is believed to be the first of 14 health authorities to report to the Government on the progress of the plans. Last night a spokesman at the department said that the ministry knew of at least 30 cases where junior doctors were working 24-hour days, and because of resources problems" ministers might have to extend the number doing this.

Under the original plan, ministers wanted junior doctors to work a one-in-three rota to ensure that doctors did not become overtired. Figures supplied by the North-west Thames authority showed that last November some 463 doctors were working longer rotas, while 1,080 worked a one-in-three rota or less. By August this year the number of doctors working long rotas had fallen to 435. Progress after this has been interrupted by finance cuts, and an order to reduce staff by next April. Glover, aged 36, a stock supervisor from Tottenham, London, died at the Midldesex Hospital.

His death was the seventh from Aids in London, and brings the total number of Aids cases in Britain to 24. Most of the 2,100 Aids victims in the US and Europe, have been homosexuals, but others who have died include drug-users, haemophiliacs, and patients given transfusions of contaminated blood. Today, doctors at the Royal Liverpool Hospital report the case of the first British woman to die of the disease, which destroys the body's defences against infection. Aged 33, she was not a drug-user, nor had she had transfusions, and she had not travelled abroad, the doctors note. The possibility of Aids must, therefore, be considered in any patient with infections that suggest that the immune system has been suppressed, they warn.

The woman was married at 16, became pregnant four times by the age of 19, was divorced shortly afterwards, and subsequently had two abortions. She had several sexual partners, and suffered pelvic inflammatory disease as well as oral herpes and severe oral and vaginal candidiasis (a sexually transmitted infection). She died four weeks after admission to the Royal Liverpool Hospital, and the autopsy showed her to have suffered from pneumonia as well as the rare skin cancer Kaposi's Defeated SDP man joins GEG in the country. It has extensive interests in defence, electronics and nuclear power. After his resignation as Foreign Secretary last year, Lord Carrington became chairman of GEC which has always been close to the Conservative Party.

But 18 months ago Lord Weinstock expressed his concern at the destructive element in the perpetual conflict between the two big parties," and showed cautious sympathy for the SDP. Mr McNally will be working from London on a number of long-term projects for Lord Weinstock. But he has not ruled out standing for Parliament if a suitable byelection occurs. By John Torode Mr Tom McNally, the former Social Democrat MP for Stockport South has been appointed full-time adviser to the General Electric Company. Before entering Parliament as a Labour MP in 1979 Mr McNally had been, for three years, political adviser to Mr James Callaghan at the Foreign Office and 10 Downing Street.

He had previously served as international secretary to the Labour Party. He was for four years a member of the Commons select committee on industry and trade. GEC, run by Lord Wein-stock, is said to be the largest and most successful company Chay Blyth was in search of another record yesterday as he sailed from Tower Pier, London in the 66ft trimaran Beefeater, for New York. He aims to heat the world clipper record of 89 days 21 hours for the 14,500 mile voyage from New York to San Francisco, via Cape Horn. It was set in 1851 by the square rigger, Flying Cloud, carrying gold hunters to California.

Chay will leave Manhattan on November 10 and will call at the Falklands. Picture by Frank Martin Tom McNally Navy set to order diesel submarine as cheaper addition to 1990s fleet THE ONLY ABSOLUTE UARANTEE YOUR MONEY WILL BE WORTH MORE IN A YEARS TIME By David Fairhall, Defence Correspondent nuclear fleet, which is virtually what the Americans now have, though the Russians have many diesel-electric boats. In the end it was decided that with Britain's limited resources, a new diesel-electric design made sense both for its special operational advantages and because it offered about 2 submarines for one nuclear-powered equivalent that is a cost of 70 million instead of 180 million. However unofficial sources already put the price of the first of the new class at more than 100 million. With a submerged sprint speed of 20 knots and a 50-day patrol endurance 1,700 miles from base, the Type 2400 has a lot less speed and endurance than the Navy's nuclear-powered hunter-killers.

It will be a lot quieter a big factor in a submarine's survival and detection ability and be more easily able to operate in the shallow waters round Britain Its main operation role, nevertheless, will be in the deep North Atlantic, practising with Nato's anti-submarine task forces to set up a barrier that would prevent Soviet submarines reaching the open ocean The Royal Navy's first Type 2400 will take just over four years to build and then go on trials for perhaps another year. The Royal Navy is about to order a new type of non-nuclear powered, diesel-electric submarine its first in 20 years from the Vickers yard at Barrow-in-Furness. Contractual negotiations for the first boat of the class, known as the Type 2400. should be complete this month. At least 10 boats will eventually be built, not all of them by Vickers, to replace the ageing Oberon class in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

When the Oberon replacement was being debated a few years ago, the Royal Navy came close to opting for an all- You can never be certain aboutfuture interest rates and future inflation. So it is difficult to predict what your savings will be worth a year from now. Index-linking is the only way to guarantee the spending power of your savings. And now with the new 2-4 supplement, Index-linked Savings Certificates again offer a unique guarantee the spending power of your Tax-free Repayments are free of UK income tax at all levels (including investment income surcharge) and capital gains tax. Guaranteed growth Index-linked Savings Certificates offer you a completely risk-free investment, the only lumpsum investmentwith a guarantee thatthe spending Engine blamed for crash which killed millionaire lump-sum savings will actually grow next year INDEX-LI A plane piloted by the millionaire businessman, Mr Keith Wickenden, spun into the ground and burst into a ball of fire, probably because of engine failure, a Worthing, Sussex, inquest heard yesterday.

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But the council was not prepared to put the costs on the backs of ratepayers when the council already faced a heavy financial burden to maintain existing basic services. Welsh protesters fined 50 Keith Wickenden paid 650 for old engine was built in 1949 and had been in store for eight years until being fitted. There was severe corrosion to the capsule which regulated fuel flow. In some conditions this fault could cause sudden power loss or fluctuations. Mr Derek Graham, managing director of Southern Air, who fitted the Unit, said Mr Wickenden had been advised to buy a replacement overhauled engine with a life of 1,200 hours but had bought an engine which had already been running for roughly 700 hours.

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