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CITY EDITION when sound matters Automatic MICROPHONES Tel atone: 01-923 6361 37,883 Manchester Monday April 29 1968 Price 6d Hanoi's 9 xtremists win its est tie A task's 4 seats in issues irices erman battle order line on talks site From JOERGEN PETERSEN Hanoi, April 28 Hanoi has not yet decided' on a site for preliminary talks with the United One reason is the democratic, process involved. Not' one manibut many are involved in the decision-making. Sites suggested by the, US are being considered, but all of them from a Vietnamese point of view have weaknesses. Whereas the US has well-equipped Embassies in. all.

countries where she, is represented this is not the case with Hanoi. In-most of the-places suggested by America, Hanoi's representatives would Have 'to turn to third parties for aid in telecommunications, they- feel, would be a second-best arrangement. "if Hanoi save Phnom Penh as its From NORMAN CROSSLAND, Bonn, April 28 The Left-wing demonstrations in Western Germany at Easter are thought to have been the main cause of a sharp Right-wing extremist reaction by the electors in the South-west State of Baden-Wiirttemberg today. Fulfilling its highest hopes, the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party polled 9.8 per cent of the total vote its From ERIC SILVER, Margate, Sunday Mrs Barbara Castle left little room for doubt here this afternoon that she would prosecute the war on prices no less rigorously than that on incomes. She promised that the Government will use its new powers to enforce price reductions when necessary.

In a combative speech, witaout dissent by 1,200 delegates at the shop workers' animal conference, the Secretary for Employment and Productivity unveiled some of the ways she will challenge price increases and force prices down. She will turn a fierce eye on Retailers who preserve their percentage margins when devaluation' pushes up manufacturers' prices Firms whose raw material costs have fallen without being reflected in prices Industries that have gained from technical advances, but have not shared the benefits with their customers and very fast rising profits. 150 British troops for Bermuda By TERENCE PRITTIE, our Diplomatic Correspond ant Britain has sent 150 men of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers to Bermuda to help to deal with the disturbed situation The troops were ont their way to the island by air yesterday afternoon. In addition, a Royal Navy frigate, file Leopard, has arrived at the capital, Hamilton with her crew, of 15 officers and 230 men. The vessel had been in port in the United States.

Rioting on Thursday and Friday nights resulted in considerable destruction and losses from looting in Hamilton, although no lives were lost and only.one man badly hurt The troops have been sent at the request of Lord Martonmere, the Governor of Bermuda. He had already mobilised the -300-strong, Berzhudan Regiment at the weekend, declared a. state of emergency and a curfew, and massed not police in Hamilton. The "British Government regards the dispatch of troops from Britain as entirely justified, especially as the reasons for the rioting are not clear, and there ie therefore no means of know- jig- whether they- will continue. Speakers' Comer yesterday.

Pictures by Peter Johns. Immigrant leaders unite in alliance By onr Correspondent different, origins." There would Food for thought From NESTA ROBERTS, Paris, April 28 Once upon a time there was point, the farmer on afamerofrraine, who went 0f for a walk beside the canal In the Liberateur. "My bacon will case he got hungry he took with save you," said the fanner. Which Wm a nippo nf haoon tn which indeed it did, because it fitted mm a piece or c-acon, to wniui me and what could residents of Lorraine are very be more waterproof best pertormance in any State elections so far and will have 12 seats in the new Land Parliament. Its chairman, Herr Adolf von Thadden, caEed tonight for a Federal election to enable the people to express its will at a time when there was obviously grave dissatisfaction with the political, situation in the country.

If today's results were repeated on a national scale, the NPD would have about 40 seats in the Federal Parliament. Nobody doubted that the party would succeed in polling the necessary 5 per cent to wan seats, but outside NPD headquarters few people had been so nessiiriistic as to believe that the National Democrats would poll more than 6 or 7 per cent. This was the first time the National Democrats had contested the election in Baden-Wurttemberg, and at the last Federal election in 1965 their share of the vote in the State was ,22 per cent. Provisional results are: Christian Democratic Party, 60 seats (against 59 in 1964) Social Democratic Parity, 37 (47) Free Democratic. Party, 18 (14) and National Democrats, 12 (nil).

Complicated system (The reason why the nest Parliament will have seven more seats than the old one is due to a condition of the complicated voting system which is based partly on proportional repre sentation, partly on mreot voting. Should a Dartv in this case the CDU receive an unusually high number of seats by 'direct voting, the other parties are compensated by a more generous distribution of seats by proportional The JsTPD. is in seven Its-previous best result in Bremen last October was 8.8 rper' cent. Before that its percentage polls were 7.9 in Hesse, 7.4 in Bavaria, 6.9 in the Rhineland 5.8 in Schleswig Holsteim, and 7 in Lower Saxony. It' now' has.

a total of 58 in State Parliaments. Although the violent swing! to the extreme "Right may' be largely attributable to a backlash of the Easter riots, it is clear that many Social Democrat voters have supported either the extremists, or aDStamea tram voting as a protest against the sfu participation in tne Federal Coalition Government with the Christian Democrats, a partnership which obtains in Stuttgart as well as in this result were repeated on a national scale, the SPD would suffer a crushing defeat in the Federal election next year. Protestant areas SPD. leaders said tonight that the party was bound to support the coalition through thick and thin but it is- obvious that- the Baden WQrttemberg results will have serious consequences for the Bonn Government. Support for the extremist Right was particularly strong in Protestant areas where the Nazi Party had successes in the Weimar Republic.

The CDU, which relies mainly on Roman Catholic support and which, any way, was in a favourable position in the State, has shown itself to be largely immune from severe losses to extremism. Two double murders in Glasgow By our Correspondent Glasgow city police, hard pressed on all sides at the weekend, found themselves yesterday faced with two double murders. Detectives investigating the murder of Mr James Robertson (50), and his 17-year-old deaf mute daughter, Christine, in the Plantation district of the city, were suddenly switched to another tenement flat just over a mile awav in Partick, where John Mougan (41), and his son James had been found dead. Later, a woman was charged with the murder of Mr Mougan and his son, who lived in Muir-park Street. Appealing for help in solving the other murder, Chief Detective Superindent Tom Goodall, the head of Glasgow CID, said the police wanted to know of any male person' with whom Christine might have been associated in recent months.

She and her father, who lived in McLean Street, had multiple stab wounds. They were thought to have been murdered early on Saturday morning, though their bodies were not found until the evening. The discovery was made by Elizabeth Evans, 15-year-old cousin, who lives near by. She and a friend, Patricia Bulloch, who was with her, received hospital treatment for shock. received warmly but not where price cuts were being ask the Prices and Incomes Board to look at them and to invoke the power pro viaea tor in tne new legislation for the Government to entorce reductions.

These were some of the points in mis speecn: Distributors' margins Mrs Castle is expected to refer the first of a series of individual cases to the PIB next week. In its recent general inquiry the board concluded there was' no reasorr why percentage margins on the prices recommended by manufacturers should automatic ally be increased as a result of devaluation. This was, Mrs Castle said, "revolutionary com mon sense. Copper prices Raw materials: In spite of devaluation, the prices of some commodities such as copper, were falling. "I shall be considering whether there is a case for looking more closely at the price oft goBas where copper is an'import- ant raw she important example." These were, it was learned later, for the moment only illustrations.

No decision has. yet been taken about which industries to attack. But cuts in -copper and oil costs would make a broad and significant impact on building, on chemicals, on power supply, on everyone, using road transport. Technical advance Mrs Castle said she would not hesitate to act on recommendations the PIB' would make after investigating the commissioning delays that, had inflated electricity There were, too, she added, all-kinds of private industries because of technical advance or increasing scale, could show cost reductions. "I will name a few synthetic fibres, cars, refrigera-j tors.

If, as we expect, over the next two years the economy grows, the scope for price' reductions on the part of such industries as these will be all the greater." Rising profits: The Minister promised to keep an eagle eye on these. "It may be," she said, that where the profits of certain firms are rising very, fast this could be either because they are unduly raising their prices or because they are maintaining their prices when costs are falling." Mrs Castle ended her 55-minute speech with this assurance I intend' to wage war on unnecessary price increases. I will welcome help from any quarter: consumer organisations, the shopper herself, the trade unions." Biafran call for talks Lagos, April 28 The breakaway Government of Biafra said over the Biafran Radio last night that it was ready to begin peace talks with the Nigerian Federal Government in Dakar, Senegal. The announcement said that the Biafran Government had received a letter from Common wealth Secretary-General, Mr Arnold Smith, stating that the Federal Nigerian Government had agreed to peace talks in London without preconditions with a ceasefire as the first item on the agenda. The radio said the London venue -was not acceptable and that there could be no meaningful talks without a ceasefire.

Major-General Go won, the Nigerian leader, said in Laos that he was hopeful about peace talks with Biafra, but added that Biafra must give a practical sign of ending its scession before he could order a ceasefire. Asked about Biafra's proposal for a meeting without preconditions in Dakar, he said that Senegal had not been ruled out but as far as we are concerned we don't want to say we are fully committed to Dakar yet UPI and Reuter. Business as usual in Biafra, page 8 Shoulder to shoulder at 2,000 in anti-Powell By our own Reporter More than .2,000 demonstrators, white and coloured, and some Jews, delivered the first mass, counterblow against Mr Enoch -Powell and his supporters -yesterday. Marching1 on -Street, behind a' banner insisting Brothers, not enemies hate," they handed letter in at -Number 10.. protesting against: Mr Powell's "racialist" speech.

Only -a deputation.of 10 -leaders allowed into Downing was rfcy 50, policemen- and two police coaches. The rest 'Stood in' yVhitehall.shouting, Unite, Black and White" and Arrest Enoch." One 'compulsive' rhymer struck Enoch' Powell," but-found himself shouting alone. Then, at a rally 'on the steps of the Ministry of one of the' leaders, Mr George Clark, of. the' Notting Hill Community Workshop, told the' marchers' they symbolised "The( millions of -people in this country who. represent some kind of decency, some kind of stand against'' the nauseating rubbish talked by Enoch Powell last weekend." Slow slide -But, it was very clear, Mr Clark that the country had been taking "a long slow slide" into an, anti-immigrant' position.

It might be on the brink' of a black-wHite struggle comparable with that in the United States. Mr- Clark asked -the- marchers' to resist this in their factories, shop floors, tenants' associations, and community associations. "I think this is the first great wave of an anti-racialist movement," he said. Six leaders went to Mr Powell's Turn to back page, col 5 first suggestion" not7 out' of stubbornness for practical reasons. Having just arrived from Cambodia I -can state that 'the Cambodian, Government, is 'most willing to permit Washington to install all.

the necessary facilities. Saving time As seen here it is far easier for the US than for Hanoi" to improvise in this field. 'The farther the site goes from the scene the slower -the -possibility of North-Vietnamese reactions to suggestions -by: Washington's representatives. Phnom- Penh would give" a better of Hanoi reacting quickly" in the long run time. The North consider that the US must know, of this 'factor and say Washington's "moving about a.

hadlv disguised obstruction. Confidence here, will not be -built-up in a couple'-of -weeks. In Washington it was reported that the US had ruled out the possibility." of "Phnom-'Penh' Warsaw as sites-for the. talks. (Copyright reserved) Race pacer killed acting "pacer" in the Isle, of Man's" annual walking race round'' the island, 17-year-old "David "Conibear, of First was Tin collision with a.

car. He died-in hospital. v. After that the onlv other thine left to be done was fish up the, safe from the bottom "of the canal, which frogmen did. It turned out; to have, been stolen from the mess Verdun and, surprise, -urprise, all that was inside was one franc.

hard indeed find tin moral, of this but it all happened near Nancy yesterday. to tne. Please send me the FREE full' Servowarm 40 now. OU Information Service. I Mrs Castle repeated that withheld I shall not hesitate Left wing holds its ground By JOHN TORODE, our Labour Correspondent Mr Wilson and his senior Cabinet colleagues failed to make much impact on left-wing members of the Labour Party National Executive during seven hours of talks at Downing Street This was in spite of warnings from 'both Mrs the iiiiuiric iui dim "PrtT.U' yi'ittr anil XT bf'tfrtr he Government failed to put its economic house in order would lose next trade union member of the Executive -commented after the' meeting that the Govern ment's policy thinking was is -negative as ever.

During the. Mr. Harry Nicholas repeated the and. General 'Workers' Union warning no Government could control wages by legislation. Mrs Castle argued" strenuously that'her-pro-ductivity-irased attitude -was new and far' from Advice sought After insisting that in future she intended to intervene actively in wage talks before they reached crisis Roint to make sure- that productivity was being examined, she went on to reveal plans to invite leading industrialists and trade union officials to give advice in dealing with such problems.

They would work through the new incomes policy division of her Ministry. The scheme would be similar to that pioneered by the Department of Economic Affairs. Although Mrs Castle did not spell out her plans, I understand she intends to set up a two-tier system of outside experts. At the top will be the" advisory groups of industrialists and unionists. Below tiiem will be brought in full-time productivity experts to deal with the efficiency of particular industries on a "trouble-shooting" basis.

Mrs Castle has been impressed by tile efforts of the Ministry of Labour (as then her Department was) to modernise industrial relations in the docks and rail ways. But she feels that more expertise is needed. The warnings about the pos sible1 loss of tne next election came after four leading union members had attacked incomes policy. They were Mr Nicholas, Mr prank Chappie, of the Electrical Trades Union, Mr Joe Gormley, of the Mineworkers, and Mr William Simpson, of the Foundry "Workers. Mrs Castle said that if there Turn to back page, col 3 On other pages MR HEATH fails to move Powellites 4 BIAFRA Business as usual 8 FLOOD of Kenyan Asians ebbs to a trickle 9 POLICE surgeons told to look out for head injuries 16 Arts 6 Si 7 Crosword IS Duchene's column 16 Finance and Industry 11 Home news 2, 4, 5, 16 Homer 2 Leiden and letter 8 Motoring 10 Overseas news 9 10 Sport 14 15 This Week 2 TV and radio 2 Weather forecast 16 Women 7 Classified advertising Appolntmtnts Senior and Executive 12 6f 13 Public 12 13 Full index 2 to WJ "i partial.

And once about -the same the barge', Liberateur, loaded wiltli 200 tons of potash, was-chugging up the canal when suddenly it hit a safe. Well, the master of the Liberateur did not know then that it was a safe, but he knew, that it had made a fair" hole in his bull, and that his potash was getting wet, At this OFFER Servowarm are making this fantastic offer to anyone installing Servowarm 40 central heating now. Great ideal You'll have today's this new leather look' Immigrant leaders in Britain yesterday agreed -on "militant action" against racialism under'' the banner of a 'new' Black People's Alliance. Fifty delegates, 1 representing 20 immigrant organisations, met for sue hours in a semidetached house in Leamington Spa and pledged support for the unity, of coloured-people Britain. A statement afterwards said: "With a view' to bringing about that unity for militant action to combat the organisations have decided to come together under the banner of the Black People's Alliance." Delegates refused to 'say what Abuse for first coloured policewoman Britain's first coloured policewoman.

Mrs Sislin Fay Allen, who starts her first day's work in Croydon today, is already thinking -about leaving the force because, she says, she has received 1 "dozens of and abusive For every nice letter received there had been others full of abuse. I do not know whether I will stick with this job or not," she said. "It is not an easy decision to make." they meant by militant action, -but some hinted at industrial action. said Only time tell." Mr Jagmohan Joshi, convener of the new steering committee, said': 'have decided to a million coloured workers. We have decided, to go all out to consolidate and strengthen the relationship between black people in this country 'coming 1 from image was well summed up in A leading article on an adioin- ing page headed "crisis of conscience," says the crisis in Britain today exists because the country lacks the kind of leadership required by the challenge of race problems.

The Nation adds that both the Wilson Cabinet and the Tories Mr Heath are "trying as bard as they can to bow to public opinion on the race question and yet not appear racialistic" be meetings on a regional and city oasis. Asked if there was -any suggestion of violence, he replied: "We are not the people who create Detroits. Detroits are-forced on, us." Mr Joshi is general secretary of the Indian Workers' Association of Great Britain, which organised the meeting. He said that racial relations in, this country were moving towards the establishment of a racial society. "Mr Powell's speech has simply hardened our attitude towards racial discrimination and brought -us closer It was not-a question of taking up arms.

"But. if our families are. attacked, if the situation is going to get worse, then we will have, to do everything-possible to defend our families, our lives, and our property." Steering committee Other members of the steering committee' are Mr Roy Sawh, chairman of the Black Power Movement in Britain Mr Abdul Matin, president of the National Federation -of Pakistani Associations in Britain Mr Tony Huq, the federation's chairman Mr Zakaria Chaudry, the federation's general secretary; and Mr Ivan Kelly, an official of the West Indian Standing Conference. A.number of previous attempts to unite 1 the many immigrant organisations failed, one of the main stumbling-blocks being the split -of interests along Black Power Marxist lines. The Marxist groups have insisted that the struggle is basically a class struggle in which' collaboration with white workers is essential.

Now, after Mr Powell's speech, the approach of the Black Power section of uniting on- a colour basis has won the-day. Mr. Heath in West Midlands, page 4 in Africa April 28 Karanja is much admired here as a youthful and dynamic history don at University College who wai drafted as a diplomat to assume Kenya's number one foreign posting at independence four years ago. This episode got headline play in the whole of the East African press. Thus the instruction of the British Ministerial delegate to the Human Rights conferenc in Tehran, Mr Goronwy Roberts of the Foreign Office, to issue a call for "a new United Nations programme to exchange views" on problems has not impressed.

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This is an accolade that can hardly bolster British prestige, coming from that particular quarter. The tarnishing of Britain's i fill This offer appeals colour booklet on To Scrvnwarm Resentment 1 I There is much Resentment here over the incident when the Kenyan High Commissioner in London, Dr Joseph Karanja, was heckled by dockers at the door of the House of Commons and told to go back to Jamaica. Dr African Governments in the Commonwealth this smacks of pubIic relations rather tiian race relations. As one placidly remarked, a single prosecution of a racialist docker or racialist MP would be more impressive than a lot of words spoken at Tehran. SHEpherd's Bush 0638..