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THE GUARDIAN Tuesday September 4 1984 3 OME NEWS and errors of filming in Greeneland Trials Inquest delayed on terror suspects shot by the RUC Second coroner questions files on INLA deaths 1 us cnsr After part of the security Elizabeth Taylor A disaster in The Comedians. James Mason I was amazed at his thoughtjulness Jor others been outstandingly bad," he said. "Mr Otto Preminger bought two options on A Burnt Out Case but did not make it. Having seen The Human Factor, 1 thank God he never made A Burnt Out Case. An author cannot en sqre that the film will be a good one, and I would much rather have no film than a bad one." Mr Greene said he would be seeing the latest adaptation, Dr Fischer of Geneva, for the first time at last night's NFT screening.

But he had seen some of the filming for the television production. He had been stunned by James Mason's portrayal of Dr Fischer and would always now think of Dr Fischer as having James Mason's face. He also said that he had been amazed at the patience, good humour and thoughtfulness for others shown by James Mason. He faced only one directly political question on what he thought of the Falklands war. He had told an Argentinian newspaper that it was a silly war, that the first fault was the British dominance in their long dawn-out negotiations over the years, and the second fault was Argentina's for invading South Georgia, which had never been Spanish or Argentinian, and that the only good that would come out of the stupid war would be the fall of the military junta in Argentina.

Asked why his books were (getting shorter and shorter, he replied equably Because I get older and older." He had a non-fiction book appearing at the end of September, Getting to Know the General, about a Third World politician friend who had been killed, possibly by the CIA. By Dennis Barker GRAHAM GREENE, whose lucrative but punishing dealings with the film Industry have been as labyrinthine as bis early work for British Intelligence, uncovered some of the traumas and satisfactions of having his novels filmed in a Guardian lecture at the National Film Theatre last night The distinguished novelist and perceptive traveller to the world's Incipient trouble spots, whose neat English appearance still belies the fact that he will be 80 on October 2, had stipulated that he would come from his secluded flat in Antlbes only if his-Guardian lecture consisted largely of questions and answers. The demand for seats to hear the writer who has steadily resisted the lure of becoming a public "personality" was so great that even Miss Elizabeth Taylor whom Mr Greene thought a disaster" and personally difficult in The Comedians could hardly have attracted more. Outside the NFT the crowd to greet him Included elderly actresses, who told autograph hunters: "You don't want me: it was so long ago," before signing hastily, and one rather more obsessive autograph hunter who is usually to be seen a fact Greene might relish at all the fashionable London funerals. Mr Greene was interviewed on the NFT stage by Quentin Falk, author of the new book on the making of the Greene films, Travels in Greeneland (published colncidentally with the Guardian lecture and the season of Greene films at the NFT).

Graham Greene: Picture by Roger Tooth. Some of the great filmmakers had made some of the worst adaptations of his books, said Mr Greene. He cited John Ford's "intolerable The Power and the Glory, giving an illegitimate child to the pursuing policeman instead of the pursued priest, which had been the whole point of the book. Joseph Mankiewicz had made a propaganda film for American policy in Vietnam out of The Quiet American, whereas the book had been against American policy. Of George Cukor's Travels with my Aunt, he said someone had smuggled him out a script and it was intolerably bad." Frizt Lang had apologised to him about his version of The Ministry of Fear, saying the script was so bad that he had not wanted to film it.

but had to under his contract. What I do find is that the American adaptations have From Paul Johnson in Belfast An1 inquest into the deaths of two unarmed terrorist suspects shot by the Royal Ulster Constabulary has been postponed indefinitely while a police inquiry takes place, it was announced yesterday. One coroner, Mr Gerry Cur-ran, resigned last month saying that he had discovered grave irregularities in the police files on the case. His deputy, Mr James Rodgers, has said that he is unable to take over because of "professional commitments." Mr Rodgers said yesterday that examination of the documents showed differences between statements originally made to police at the time of the shooting and evidence given during a trial at Belfast Crown Court in which a police constable was cleared of murder. The file on the deaths of Scainus Grew, aged 31, and Roddy Carroll, aged 26, members of the Irish National Liberation Army, have now been sent to a third coroner, Mr Raincy Hanna, of Fermanagh and Omagh.

This means that the inquest, which was due to take place in two weeks, is now not likely to be held until 1985, more than two years after the deaths in December 1982. In April this year PC John Robinson, a member of a specially selected and trained anti-terrorist squad, was cleared of murdering Mr Grew by a judge who said he was satisfied that tiie officer believed he had been fired on and that his life was in danger. The court heard that Mr Robinson was armed with a pump action shotgun and a machine pistol. On the night, of tho operation, December 12, 19S2. information had been received that Dominic McGIinchey was coming across the border from the Republic of Ireland, allegedly on a terrorist raid.

Nurse wins 6,500 Farmer seizes on milk quota loophole or 'political' sack Sinn Fein 'should pay for IRA terror' By Paul Hoyland, Welsh Correspondent A dairy farmer in Wales has devised a scheme which, he claims, can save thousands of family farms threatened with closure because of cuts in Common Market milk quotas. Mr Hedley Robinson, who farms 55 acres near Llandeilo in Dyfed, has sot up a milk quota leasing agency. Farmers can increase their quotas and so maintain or even increase the size of their herds by leasing land from others who are giving up dairying. Mr Robinson said. "Everybody is happy because the farmer who leases out the land still has the right to use it for purposes other than dairying.

"I now have quotas for eight and a half million litres of milk available at farms all over the country that are quitting the dairy industry. We are putting them in touch with farmers who want to build up their quotas. It is very much a paper transaction involving farms hundreds of miles apart. The farmer might not even see the land he is leasing." But the Farmers' Union of Wales wants the scheme stopped. It is expected this week to urge the Government to plug the loophole in the regulations which has enabled it to operate.

The union's leaders fear that large-scale producers will take By Andrew Veitch, Medical Correspondent A male nurse who was sacked on the orders of ministers during the political dispute over National Health Service manpower has been given 6,500 compensation by his health authority. A Brighton industrial tribunal lias decided that Southwest Surrey health authority was wrong to dismiss Graham Sutton, aged 56, a part-time nurse looking after mentally handicapped patients, simply because they were under pressure to do so. The decision is seen as a possible test case for the 100-plus NHS administrators who, like Mr Sutton, took early retirement during the reorganisation of the health service and were subsequently rc-cmployed in junior, usually part-time, jobs. Mr Sutton resigned his job as divisional nursing officer and was given a 6,700 redundancy payment. He was taken on again by the same authority as a charge nurse working 24 hours a week at Brookwood Hospital, near waking, Surrey, for less than half his original salary.

Mr Sutton's hew job was to help to carry out government Mr Graham Sutton no question about ability plan went wrong the suspects vehicle was halted outside Armagh. Mr Robinson fired 15 shots into tne passenger aoor, killing Mr Carroll. He reloaded, ran around the car, and fired several more times from close range at Mr Grew. It emerged during his trial that senior RUC officers con cocted a story to hide the part played in the elaborate opera tion by bpeciai urancn omcers who crossed into the Republic, and an army surveillance team, Uncontested claims were made in court that Mr Robin son was told under the Official Secrets Act not to reveal the details of the undercover scheme. Instead, a false story, which was given to the media, talked of the suspects breaking through a roadblock, injuring a police officer.

At one point in the trial the iudee received a note from Mr Robinson giving the names of four officers who, lie claimed, were behind the fabrication. It is believed that one is a superintendent, another a chief inspector. It now seems that these discrepancies are the reasons behind the decision of Mr Cur-ran, the Armagh coroner to resign after 33 years in the courts. A police inquiry, instigated by tho -Director of Public Prosecutions has been in progress since April, headed by officers from Greater Manchester. After the police inquiry was announced Sir John Herman, Chief Constable of Northern Ireland, vigorously defended police tactics also saying that he did not believe there had been a criminal conspiracy to conceal the mission in the south.

This brought a counter-claim from the Irish Prime Minister, Dr Garret FitzGerald, that the chief constable was guilty of extraordinary prejudgment of the investigation. The British Government has already apologised to its Irish counterparts for the cross-border activity. Mr Harold McCusker search for example however, in establishing a link in court between the outlawed IRA and Sinn Fein, a legitimate political party. The New York Irish Emerald Society Police Rand, which angered the Irish government by appearing at a parade to commemorate the death of 10 hunger strikers in the Maze Prison three years ago, was snubbed yesterday by the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Councillor Michael O'Halloran was due to receive the 24-strong band at a civic reception today, but this has been called off.

Mr O'Halloran said the police officers who make up the pipe and drum band were being used for propaganda purposes. "I am saying to them that they are not welcome in my city," he added. new talks day to discuss European Community affairs, particularly the budget and the enlargement of the community, but they also touched briefly on Northern Ireland. She is due in Dublin in early December for a European Council meeting but is likely to hold the bilateral meeting with Dr FitzGerald before that. The last of their regular meetings was in London last November.

terest above his obligation to the government of the day. Mr John Ward, the FDA general secretary, is expected during a TUC Congress debate on official secrecy today to criticise abuses of the Official Secrets Acts and civil servants' problems when asked to withhold information from Parliament. The Ponting case has sharpened Whitehall debate about the need for a code, which the Royal Institute of Public Administration has been promoting for three years. The debate has also been prompted by Mrs Thatcher's, demands for unconditional loyalty from Whitehall and concern that the Civil Service Is being politicised by stealth. He named the only director he had really enjoyed working with Carol Reed, with whom he made The Third Man and The Fallen Idol.

We worked very closely," he said. We generally stayed in the same hotel and he slept in the morning when I would work, and we discussed ideas over flinch. One moment from The Fallen Idol, when the police interrogation of a wrongly suspected murderess was interrupted by the arrival at the stately embassy of a pedantic clock adjuster, had been something he could not claim credit for. That had been Cnrol Feed's idea. He had been more frustrated by the theatre censor than by the film censor.

The theatre censor was a nice old colonel in the Guards, very nice to chat to, but who didn't help very much. I had trouble with him with my play, The Living Room, because of the scunds of the lavatory flushing." Thames strike is called off By Dennis Barker The Thames Television technicians' strike ended at midday yesterday with normal programmes resumed after blacking out ITV programmes from 11 million homes in the London area for a week and the loss to Thames of an estimated 2 million in advertising revenue. Thames's Euston studios shop of the technicians union, ACTT, yesterday voted 337 to 35, with 18 abstaining, to accept a peace formula worked out in weekend talks at the London offices of the Advi sory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas). The management scored a substantial victory in getting agreement to rostenng accord' ing to need. It was the intro duction of a new duty rostering system for 70 work ers in the central technical facilities department which provoked the strike.

Thames claimed that it would save them 200.000 a year: the union said it would cost its members up to 7,000 a yevr in overtime, overtime lor hours not actually worked will end. But the management dropped its plans for ending the six-day working fortnight, and compromised on the number of hours extra a day it wanted in return for dropping plans for a greater number of working days in a fortnight. Both sides agreed to discuss greater flexibility within the central technical facilities de partment to improve productiv ity, tne talks will continue for up to four weeks under an Acas chairman. Adjustments will be made to ITV programming over the next fortnight so that viewers in tne London area can see some of the programmes they have missed. The last pro gramme in the Mafia series.

Crime Inc. will now be broad cast tomorrow. There will be extra spots for the Crossroads and Coronation btreet episodes Channel 4, whose pro grammes in some regions went out without advertisements be cause of supporting action by ACTT members, returned to normal once London Weekend Television, which was not involved in the dispute, took over programming on rriday evening. It continued normally yesterday. Mr Bryan Cowgill, managing director of Thames Television, said yesterday: "The need for sensible change in the way we conduct our operations has been at the heart of this dispute.

The outcome of a damaging and costly dispute has resulted in substantial progress towards a more realistic and effective way of working. He added that the agreement to discuss flexibility was "particularly important. Mr Peter Bould, chairman of the 500-strong ACTT shop at Thames' Euston studios, said yesterday that the agreement which had produced the return to work was not a retreat for the company or the union. Pop music in diploma course Jazz and pop music are to be taught at London University in a diploma course in musicianship, beginning this autumn. The three-year, part-time course entitled Jazz and Popular Music will be at Goldsmiths' College.

The course tutor, David Burnand, says the new diploma, catering for relative beginners, is unique in Britain, Ice cream war led to murder The company secretary of a GlasEow ice-cream firm told a multiple murder trial yesterday that the firm's vans had been smashed, drivers had been in jured, lie had received tmeaten-ins telephone calls and there had been attempted arson at the firm garage. Mr Archibald McDougall. who works for Marchetti Brothers, was sneaking at tho trial of Thomas Campbell, Thomas Grav. Joseph Steele and Garry Moore, all ot Glas gow, who are accused 01 murdering six members of a Glas gow family by setting fire to th(ir nnme. seven men ap peared at Glasgow High Court on, charges from at tempted murder 10 assauu ana robbery.

Mr McDougall said Marchetti Brothers had 37 ice cream vans which were hired out to drivers' who also bought ice cream, cigarettes and lemonade from the firm. The vans operated on various Glasgow estates. There were three or four other ice cream companies as big as his firm in the city. Last year there was trouble with other firms' vehicles coming into Marchetti's areas. Vehicles were returned to our garage having been smashed up, drivers had been attacked and injured.

I myself had received threatening telephone calls. There was also attempted arson at the beginning of the year at our premises," he said. A van could make 2,000 a week, of which 200 was clear profit for the driver, said Mr McDougall. Over the last two years his firm had made a loss because of the cost of repairing, damaged vans and increased competition. He cited the case of Andre Doyle," one of the firm's drivers arid' one of the members of the family killed in the house fire.

Mr Graham Robertson, aged 23, said he operated two ice cream vans between March and August last year in the Haghill district of Glasgow. On the secdnd day another van came into the area and he was conscious of being followed by a blue Ford Escort. He identified the driver as George Reid, one of the accused. He and his girl friend were worried, and their profits were beginning to suffer. He said he asked for police protection.

The four men accused of murder allegedly set fire to a cupboard and door at the family's house. All seven accused deny all the charges, and five have lodged special defences of alibi and incrimination. Also on trial are Thomas Lafferty, John Campbell and George Reid. Lafferty and Campbell are accused of attempted murder and assault and robbery, and Reid is charged with assault. All three deny the charges.

War game under way An attempt is to be made to bring a High Court test case to discover if Sinn Fein can be held financially responsible for the terrorist activities of its military wing, the IRA, writes Paul Johnson. The search for a suitable example was announced yesterday by Mr Harold McCusker, MP. deputy leader of the Official Unionist Party. He said that after taking leal advice it has been decided that the most appropriate example would be where a business had been affected. In this way.

financial loss through threats, intimidation or attacks could be calculated. The example of a woman who had been widowed had been considered, but it was thought that this could run into problems over legal aid and could prove harrowing for the widow. Mr McCusker acknowledged that anyone who brought the civil test case would immediately assume a high profile, but he believed there were brave men in Northern Ireland. In his review of the Northern Ireland emergency legislation carried out early this year, Sir George Baker, the former High Court judge, said the victims of IRA violence should be able to sue Sinn Fein. Sir George said that there could be no reasonable doubt that Sinn Fein was an accomplice and partner of the IRA.

He argued that legal aid ought to be provided to enable court action. There are obvious pitfalls, Premiers fix By Martin Linton The Prime Minister agreed yesterday to hold the next bilateral meeting with the Irish premier, Dr Garret FitzGerald later this year, probably in Dublin in "The agenda is likely to include the British response to the New Ireland Forum proposals on cooperation between Northern Ireland and the Reoublic. Mrs Thatcher met Dr FitzGerald for three hours yester By David Fairhall, Defence Correspondent The army's biggest manoeuvres since the Second World War codenamed Exercise Lionheart began yesterday with the departure of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Rangers, from Dover to Zee-brugge by ferry. The 270 men, with about 70 vehicles, incJjding half a dozen armoured cars, will set up the lines of communication which will move nearly 60,000 men regular troops, Territorials and reservists from Britain to advantage of the scheme and dominate the industry by buying out their smaller neighbours. They argue that such a development would increase the problems of rural depopulation.

They believe that unused quotas should be reallocated. A spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed that the agency was acting within the rules, but pointed out that the amount of quota transferred with a piece of land would have to be a reasonable amount," based on the milk yield. A farmer making a false claim could be fined up to 2,000 and have his quota reduced. The EEC is reducing Britain's milk production by 9 per cent. Mr Robinson emphasised that under his scheme no more milk would be produced than was permitted.

"We are simply moving the quotas around to suit the farmers," he said. It is the only way to prevent the industry stagnating." Ho added: "About 10,000 family farmers in England and Wales are under threat oc-cause of the new milk quotas, but by leasing land the number in jeopardy could be cut by half." Mr Irwyn Phillips, deputy president of the Farmers' Union of Wales, said It is time for the ministry to sort out these loopholes and anomalies and introduce some order into the chaos Germany. More than half of these will go by air, the rest from east coast ports unaffected so far by the dockers' strike. An army spokesman said that the docks situation was being closely watched, but the exercise was expected to go ahead as planned. Its main purpose is to practise the reinforcement of the British Army of the Rhine, whose peace-time strength would be doubled in war by the arrival of reserves and supporting units from the UK.

The exercise ends with a war game played out close to the East German border. policy to rehabilitate mentally ill and handicapped patients before they return to the community. But health ministers were criticised by the Commons public accounts committee earlier this year for not keeping a check on NHS bureaucracy in the wake of reorganisation, and they reacted with an investigation into the number of administrators who had retired and been re-employed. Mr Sutton was one. The chairman of his health authority, Mr Patrick Salmon, wrote to him Ministers have reviewed all cases to see whether there are any exceptional circumstances to justify the continued employment of such staff.

After detailed consideration they have informed me that in their view there are no such grounds in your case." Mr Sutton was being, dismissed "because of instructions received from the Department of Health and Social Security." There was no question of this decision reflecting on (his) personal ability." The Royal College of Nursing, which is concerned about government cuts in front-line health jobs, took up the case. The authority conceded that Mr Sutton had been unfairly dismissed but refused to reinstate him. The tribunal said in its decision His dismissal had come about as a result of criticism in Parliament of the number of prematurely retired employees who had been reemployed." It said he should be reinstated. Public pressure could not be accepted as an argument for not reinstating him. Mr Sutton, who was dismissed in June, accepted the 6,500 compensation from the health authority and is now out of work after 34 years with the health service.

He said at his home in Camberley, Surrey, yesterday: "I am very sad. The patients are missing me and I am missing them. good grades in the main science subjects, particularly in the physical sciences, should find a place. There is a shortage of qualified candidates tor metallurgy, nursing, classics and Russian. No vacancies have been reported in veterinary studies, forestry, and law.

Only applicants with very high A level grades stand a chance of a medicine, dentistry or medical science place. A few vacancies are reported for English combined courses and there are a few places left for candidates with good language qualifications. conduct servant should withhold from current government policy "the last ounce of commitment and invest that in the Civil Service itself. That approach is not welcome in the current administration. But civil servants say there is no reason why they should not have their own code of ethics, as do other professions, notably doctors.

The US code asks civil servants not only to expose corruption wherever it appears but also to put the public interest above that of their department. The inquiry will be conducted by the association's machinery of government committee, chaired by Mr Alan Healey, a DHSS assistant secretary. More university places Civil servants start inquiry into code of By Wendy Berliner, Education Coricspondent A few more students appear to have got a university place this year after a slight increase in the number agreed by' the university urams uommitiee. Last year some 69,000 candidates were accepted for university entrance out of 173,000 applications. This year the grants committee has allowed the universities scope to take on around.

5,000 extra students, but without increased cash. Despite this, there appear to be fewer vacant places. Candidates with average to titlements. Earlier this year it was disclosed that DHSS officals were asked to ignore their statutory duty of confidentiality over legal aid application. Civil servants are also concerned about drafting answers that are replies to planted parliamentary questions or designed to withhold information or mislead MPs.

Sir William Armstrong, head of the Civil Service during the Heath administration, argued that officials should be concerned more with "the continuity of the realm rather than for the success of the party. Mr Richard Wilding, head of the Office of Arts and Libraries, has written that a civil Teachers of English, Modern Languages. Science. Technical Teachers. Specialist Teachers of the handicapped Doctors, Nurses, Midwives.

Physiotherapists. Agriculturalists. Foresters. Fishermen, Accountants, Potters. Weavers, Community Workers and Engineers of all disciplines.

Building and Mechanical Trade Workers. Voluntary Service Overseas requires applicants skilled these ana many other fielas to work with communities in the Third World It's challenging work but it's more than just ajob You'd have the satisfaction of helping a developing country towards self -reliance Applicants should be aged between 20 and 65. without dependants and willing to spend two years overseas on a small allowance based on local rates ot pay For lull information, complete the coupon below I am intenested in oiunteermg Please send me By Richard Norton-Taylor "The First Division Association, which represents about 8,000 senior Whitehall officials, has begun an inquiry into whether civil servants need a code of ethics to set out their professional responsibilities, and limit their obligations to their political masters. The FDA executive's decision was taken after Mr Clive Ponting, a senior Ministry of Defence official and an association member, was accused last month under the Official Secrets Act of leaking papers relating to the sinking of the Belgrano. He said afterwards that he believed a civil servant must ultimately place his loyalty to Parliament and the public In The traditional and widespread Whitehall view is that a code is unnecessary and that it is better to rely on unwritten rules.

But a growing body of opinion argues that in a less gentlemanly world some clearly defined rules of behaviour are needed. Whitehall observers point to several areas where civil servants increasingly face a conflict of loyalties, despite the constitutional convention of their politcal neutrality. They point to the Home Office immigration department, where officials have not informed people about their rights, and to the Department of Health and Social Security, where officials do not inform potential claimants abou. en I Name- I Address. roEnouinesUnit Voiunarv'serviceOverseas.

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