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THE GUARDIAN Saturday July 8 1972 11 Belfast. Friday: JAMES McMANUS reports on a new fflight fi-om the sectarian ghettos Refugees from each other executive's housing stock would at least remain intact. They point out that their main job is to provide people with houses and if neither community wants to Jive with the other there is little, ultimately, they can do about it. But the present movements have already been marked by a certain amount of house wrecking. Those moving out either resort to the Farring-, don Gardens tactics to deny newcomers a house, or else vandals from the area -will smash the house to ensure that nobody of a different religion comes in again.

In the Protestant Rath-coole Estate the homes recently left empty by 12 Catholic families were found to be badly vandalised. It is not an isolated case and on each occasion that it has happened both sides blame the destruction on the other. But whoever is to blame the damage leaves the housing executive dangerously short of accommodation in a situation where destruction of property has already led to a housing crisis. The executive's position is a precarious one, and with the growing militancy of the Ulster Defence "Association and the coming of the July 12 Orange parade the stream of refugees can only increase. Their movement is largely motivated not by what has happened to but by what might happen if they stay.

It is a fear that in Belfast today it is very hard to allay. But the housing executive recognises that unless such fears are proved groundless they will be catering for two completely segregated communities. THE' demonstration of Pro- testant militancy and the upsurge Df intimidation during the last month in Belfast has produced a major movement of population in the city which lias further segregated the Catholics and. Protestant communities. Since.

June 7. 142 families, almost entirely Catholic, have moved out of thedr homes in mixed areas and. have asked to be put on the emergency housing, last run by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. The executive now has 325 families on its emergency list a figure far higher than in last August when- the violent aftermath, of internment produced a sizeable exodus of Protestant and Catholic -families from, each other's areas. The largest single group of Catholic families on the move at the moment come from the Oldpark Road area where approximately 40 families have moved out of Manor Street, Rosapenna Street, Cliftonville Park Avenue, and Annalee Street.

Further movement has come from East Belfast, the Donegal Pass in South Belfast and from the Crumlin Road. But the majority of Catholic families have moved from streets all over Belfast where they have become isolated in Protestant communities. There arc in all 215 Catholic families now oh the emergency list two-thirds of whom have applied for rehousing in the last month. The 110 Protestant families on the list include 50 due to be rehoused because of bomb damage to their homes and 60 from the Roden Street area, barricaded in their own estates victure bu Don ilcPhee The arrival by nisht of the Catholic squatters so alarmed the few remaining "Protestants that they called in the local unit of the UDA whose masked club-carrying members persuaded the Catholics to move elsewhere. If the Protestants are forced out of Twinbrook and Suffolk, virtually the last mixed areas left in Belfast.

Pawns in time MICHAEL LAKE in Reykjavik fiPHERE "was a breathless moment last night when the two greatest chess players in the world faced each other over the table on the stage where the world's championship, is to begin on Tuesday and both of them lifted a pawn. At this instance the air seemed to quiver. One of them was going to thrust his pawn down the board and the other would reply. Both men were oblivious to the crowd and to the officials addressing us. Fischer, bursting with "energy was so tempted.

Had he moved there is no doubt we would all have been hooked. The board was displayed to the crowd on a giant closed-circuit television screen and on smaller screens dotted 'around the walls. One could see their fingers touching the chessmen and feeling the weight. We 200 or so far travelled chess fans or journalists were going to be privy to a magic moment in what has for so many years been regarded as a game for eggheads and grey-beards in total stupefying silence. Nothing could be further from the truth here in Fischer and Spassky, both keyed up to such a pitch that they have invested this world championship with the tension of a bullfight, promise a great display of gamesmanship during the next six weeks.

One cannot help being aware of Fischer's presence. He is a very tall solidly built man whose total eccentric dedication to chess is mesmerising. He has great presence'. He twitches, drums his fingers, sprawls in his chair, jumps up. walks around.

Spassky is entirely the opposite. Quiet but nervous and with the responsibility for maintaining Soviet domination of the chess world resting on his unhappy shoulders. For there is no doubt that Spassky has been driven to a distressing pitch of nervous tension by the trauma "of the past few days. He is going through marital problems at home, and he knows that if he loses the match he will be discredited officially. Today Spassky went walking, with only one companion, through the streets of Reykjavik.

The air is clear after the events of the last few days, and perhaps he is more able now to relax. Fischer spent the day as usual sound asleep. He did not get to bed until 6. 30 this morning after driving with his police escort like some oriential mogul into the lava countryside of Iceland, and then to the American air iorce base at Keflavik, where he played indoor bowls for the rest of the night. One uncertainty remains over everyone's heads.

It has not been officially cleared up whether the Russians have withdrawn their demands that Fischer should forfeit a game for not having been here last Sunday, or whether Spassky will refuse in any case to accept the point. The match officially began last night with the draw. So there is no legal basis for a forfeit even if there is still a moral excuse for the Soviet demand. The big question is if Spassky's title depends on one game will the Russians demand the forfeit in six weeks' time when the match is over? scene of almost nightly gun battles until, the fease fire came' into eleven "day's ago. But statistics such as these hardly reveal the grave situation in which the Northern Ireland Housing Executive now finds itself.

For one thing the official figures -only take account of cases where displacement by intimidation can be proved by a police report, Over a hundred Catholic families whose only evidence of intimidation is their own fear have moved home recently with the help of the Central Citizens Defence Committee. But. more important, most of the displaced" Catholic families are not, surprisingly, mpving to such Republican strongholds as Ballymurphy or Andersonstown; but to two estates on the outskirts of Belfast: Twinbrook in Dunmurry and the Suffolk estate to -the North. Both are new estates Twinbrook is still being built and are designed to hold a 50-50 Protestant Catholic But because more Catholics than Protestants are being forced out of their homes, and because they will not go to areas like' Ballymurphy, where they fear the effects of clashes between the army and the IRA, the Suffolk and Twinbrook' estates have become unbalanced. It is the Protestant families at Twinbrook -who now feel them- Florida flam ADAM RAPHAEL in Miami bewildered inside the convention hall outside confusion is almost certain to reign supreme.

As well as the Yippies and the hippies, the Black Panthers, the Poor People's Coalition. the National Welfare Rights Organisation, and the National Women's Caucus amongst others have come to town to plead their cause. To cope with this combustible mixture, Miami's enterprising police chief Rocky Pomerance (he changed his name from Arnold when he left the has hired seven psychologists, one psychiatrist and an uncertain 'number of philosophy professors as auxiliaries for his 250-man police force who have themselves been boning up with courses on self awareness and The History and Ideology of Dissent." The city's authorities indeed have been doing everything in their power to make sure there is no replay of Chicago, 1968. A six-acre site near the convention hall known as Flamingo Park has been set aside as a free speech, frisbee and general camping area. Miami's -silver-haired mayor, Chuck Hall, even paid a visit last week to the Yippy headquarters, clasped Jerry Rubin with a revolutionary handshake and cracked What's the matter, I don't smell any pot." Behind the jokes and the relaxed atmosphere, security is tight.

If trouble should break out, nearly 10,000 National Guardsmen and Federal troops are standing by on alert. The city is already saturated with plain clothes agents of every description and persuasion surprise with which their new neighbours appear that unsettles the Protestants on such an estate as well as the threat of isolation. The results can be violent. Early yesterday morning on the Suffolk estate a number of Catholic families began squatting in houses tenanted by Protestants until they felt obliged to move out a' week We are in the heady season of degrees, honoris causa, at the universities. The language is rich and the compliments are laced with learning.

Mv Lord and Chancellor, It is not for a university to confess amazement at the infinity of knowledge, still less to impose an artificial discipline on those of its members who pursue the rarer paths of experiment. We enlighten ourselves and. in so enlightening, enlighten society tenebris lux. Even so, mv Lord, it would be a courageous Public Orator who did not betray a diffidence before the very magnitude of the task undertaken bv such as the Jenny Ball Withers Professor of Symbiotic Ecology at the University of Witwatersrand, Jack Doom Syndrome, Fellow of the Royal Society, Permanent Chairman of the Conseil Mondial d'Ecologie Marxiste. Professor Doom Syndrome, whom I present to you today, represents that new and adventurous, school of academic thought which per- DENNIS JOHNSON Doomful Jack ceives not merely the finite quality of this earthly orb hut, through his work on the Inevitability of Failure, the futility of all attempts to prolong its span.

When he says L'ecoiogiste demande enfin la mort valeureuse he expresses the essence of the philosophy which has guided his every endeavour that Man, in seeking the eternal Truth, has it within his own grasp faber or-tunae suae. Professor Doom Syndrome is not and I ask you, my Lord, to bear with me merely a passive ecologist. He has transformed the very word ecology." No longer, thanks to the graduand I bring before you and to those who, however humbly, follow his standard, is the word where the more extreme proponents are lost in the clouds of their own verbal pollution." I defer, my Lord, to the great traditions of this university and the strictures of propriety placed upon me yet I cannot, and nor -would you wish me to, let this pass without the comment not Jack Doom Syndrome. I ask you to honour a man who was born the son of a cobbler in Chapel-en-le-Fnth, a man who, as he grew to maturity, saw the force of Thoreau's words For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself." It is to our discredit, and to the honour of Jack Doom that his philosophy is, as yet. impenetrable.

We cannot put him to a discipline, but we can bow to his learning. Darwin brought us to where we are Jack Doom Syndrome take us back, by much the same process, to where we were: My Lord and Chancellor, I have the honour to present to you Jack Doom Syndrome for the degree of Doctor of Divinty, honoris causa. the estates would quickly become an all-Catholic enclave which is the last thing offioials from the Housing Executive want to see, for such segregation increases rather than diminishes community tensions. The Protestant move would also lead to charges of intimidation, which would only increase pressure on Catholic families remaining in Protestant areas elsewhere in Belfast. So the housing executive finds itself facing the problem of a vicious circle which can only lead to total residential apartheid in Belfast.

It is a situation which has been developing since 1969 when in August that year more than 1,000 families of both persuasions moved home after the outbreak of communal violence. The next major move came after internment in August last year and produced the traumatic sight of 200 Protestant families fleeing their homes in Farringdon Gardens, having first fired their houses to prevent a Catholic occupation. The prospect of another Farringdon Gardens has recently become a nightmare for the housing executive. At the moment their main problem is that continuing tension will produce fresh population movement, and will finally leave Belfast with two communities barricaded into their own estates and areas. In such a situation the unemotive or simply the label for an academic discipline.

An ecologist is a visionary, a fighter for the Truth which he alone can see Vater, gieb Die reine Wahrheil ist ja doch nur jiir Dich allem. Yet not even this transformation wholly describes the case Jack Doom Syndrome is a Marxist ecologist activist and, as such, is the very embodiment of all that is new and worthy and just in that blindness of infinite knowledge with which I began this Oration. Another has said and he is not a member of this university but a person of noble birth much given to prophecy that conservation is no longer a sensible business because people have escalated it to the point Mimes If- (Aierst Two communities could be left selves threatened by the four-to-one ratio that -has suddenly built up against them. Catholic families' appear overnight as squatters' in empty houses and if the. police confirm that they were forced out of their own homes they will normally be made tenants of the property.

It is the speed and FBI, secret service, military intelligence, Bureau of Narcotics, and bomb control experts. America has painfully learnt that politics is a dangerous Every time a major candidate leaves his hotel room or convention hall he will be shadowed by army and police helicopters the Democrats are sweeping their headquarters in the monstrous Fontain-bleu Hotel (pronounced here Fountain Blue) daily for hidden electronic bugs and the candidates' staffs are nervously checking the security of their telephone lines. The electronic medium is undoubtedly the real message in Miami, For most of the seven thousand journalists the 3,000 delegates, even the candidates themselves, often the only sense of what is going on in the hot, steamy convention hall will be the image they are seeing on their television screens. The three major American networks are once again joining in their quadrennial rating battle, throwing a small army of correspondents and technicians into the fray. While the New York Times is making do with less than forty journalists, runners, and copy boys, CBS, ABC, and NBC are each taking 400 to 500 to Miami, spending more than $8 millions, three times the total cost of staging the convention.

It will, however, be money well spent if only the small screen can create order, however spurious, out of the chaos and rumours of the hall. As Theodore White noted in The Making of the President 1960: "Every convention is a universe in itself, with its own strange centres of gravity, its own fresh heroes and fools, its own new-revolution of pressure and forces, its own irrecapturaible mood of stage and place." Chicago in 1968 will never be forgotten for its violence in the streets. Miami in 1972 may be remembered if only for the incredible confusion within the convention hall. her recognised talent for swift trouble-shooting and her knowledge of the infighting involved. Shelter would have a first on this agency's services, in return meeting a proportion her overheads.

Audrey Harvey is looking at tentative figures at the moment, to decide from them how much (work and money) she would need to get from other sources. Audrey Harvey used to object that bothered too much about erecting buildings and not 'enough with casework. When Willis took- over, thev agreed to have a closer liaison and "I think Audrey Harvey knows that we are now devoting a great deal of our own resources to this sort of work." Warhol flies in for Trash cuts TRASH Andy Warhol's drug shocker is still not Clear of the film censor. Jimmy Vaughan, who hopes to distribute "Trash" through his company, has been negotiating with Stephen Murphy, the censor. Murphy wants about three, minutes cut (from the total of some 98 minutes) some, sex, that is, and some'', needles.

Vaughan was at one stage prepared negotiate- with Murphy, but riot Not so, much dispute; just that when it to', the point, Vaughan could, not bring himself to authorise cuts in someone! else's The upshot "is Warhol has agreed to fly t'o Britain from New -York, week, especially to, discuss cuts. Which. may hopefully. end one of the longest wiH-they-woh't-the'y film; sagas of the last; few years. preservation and sex, itisprobahly the most powerful instinct that possesses our vile TONT WALK bafefobV JLf the streets of Miami are hot enough to toast a bagel," says the Survival Manual.

Sound advice to demonstrators and delegates alike for the Democratic National Convention which begins next week promises to be a heated and confusing affair. As Norman Mailer rightly put it, Miami's peculiar blend of IOC per cent humidity, 120deg. temperatures and 150 per cent garish architectural horror can only be compared to being obliged to make love to a 3001b woman who has decided to get on top." Aptly, then, as delegates began arriving this weekend from all parts of the country, the first shock for many was a fraternal kiss from a self-appointe -welcoming band of bearded, shirtless Vippies. A disturbing beginning, but it promises to be an even more disturbing week for Middle America as the Democratic Party performs under the glaring scrutiny of up to 100 million television viewers, one of the most radical realignments in its history. Almost inevitably the hundreds of crecpy-peepy television cameras on the floor of the vast convention hall will record scenes of near total bewilderment and confusion for 90 per cent of the 5,000 delegates and their alternates will never have been to a convention before.

Thanks also to the new Democratic reform rules which have revolutionised delegate selection and allowed the McGovern forces to steal up on the nomination almost unnoticed, the television lights will show twice as many women, four times as many blacks aud live times as many delegates under thirty than in Chicago, 1968. How these new delegates will behave, how they will relate to one another, no one knows and few care to predict but one thing is certain the Democratic Party will never be quite the same again. If the mood is likely to' be passes it to David Atten-borough, Director of Programmes, at which lofty height' it is scrapped. But why, exactly Those involved with the programme are left with the impression that- it was adjudged too controversial. But the BBC's first reported attitude, when word leaks out, is that it was not up to standard.

The programme makers understandably regard that as a professional slight, and protest. Up ladder it goes again, via Andrew. Osborn down comes a revised, authorised statement for the BBC's press office, to the euect that it was a very controversial subject which could not be dealt with fully within the programme's 50 minute, snd so was withdrawn. Standards The impression of some, of the few outsiders who have seen the" episode Is that it is not spectacularly better or worse than the general, run it had to, be very much better, given the subject. Political censorship? Just plain colt feet? Or a bit of all three Or a shadowy BBC balance of all three? In the IRR kitty HOW healthy do the books look' at the1 Institute of Race Relations these: days'? There were 'dark threats of Immi-, neht bankruptcy If the council didn't 'get' vote oconfi-dence, that stormy, meeting, in April dark words that it was already 50,000 -'In.

the' red. There: was a' Vote of no most- council mem- bers resigned. A couple of months-: as the IRR's director; Professor Hugh twere I rather (. little easier noV.S;000 MISCELLANY Burnet for BBC? So wrote Bevis Hillier about collecting antiques in the first of a series-'Going, Going, which appeared in The Sunday Times Magazine last Sunday. The second pull-out instalment of this Guide appears this Sunday Like all of the series, it will be both a picture history of antiques and a practical guide to buying them.

There's also a specially designed binder available sbihat you can keep them for future reference. So this Sunday, give that powerful instmct a chance and keep collecting of the deficit has been met with part of a Ford grant and other resources: a modest 11,000 promises to. trickle in, first fruits of the appeal the old council launched to industry. A third of the donors have confirmed their contributions a third are sitting the rest feel uninclined to support a new more radical grass-roots insti- tute. The institute has scratched its univerity-tyoe research-programme, and will hang on in Mayfair for the last few months of its lease (cheapest to do).

But worries are far from over. The IRR's main Ford grant runs out this year. It has' approached a cluster of charitable sources like Rown-tree (from which it is hoping for Ford hint that they misht help, but only on a matching basis with the British charity. Whatever happens," it- looks like precious little margin for manoeuvring for the people at Jermyn Street. -i Tr oubl eshooter for Shelter OLD homelessness fighting hatchets may soon be buried between Audrey Harvey, late of the Child Poverty Action GroupCitizen's Rights Office, and Shelter, formerly the butt of her undisguised criti- 'cism.

Mrs Harvey agreed to withdraw" from the CRO directorship this spring, made1- approaches to Shelter. The chance -of over, such a 1 on the seemed to Shelter's John, Willis, too good to moss. He. will propose a l. -deal with her to his trustees later, this- month.

The 'iidea is that Audrey Harvey, should, set ate agency for extreme or exceptional homejessness cases on, which she could use ALASTAIR BURNET, editor of the Economist -but whose face is better known for his early stints at ITN's News at Ten link-man and more recently on various Indepedent Television current affairs spectaculars may shortly be switching channels. Negotiations are not yet concluded, but it is almost certain that Burnet will figure in the BBC's shake-up of its Current affairs television programmes this autumn. He is likely to appear as. one of the regular presenters of Panorama, there is also the possibility that he, will be available for "election specials," major Interviews, and some other current affaars programmes. Whose doom, 'whose- watch 'HOW A BBC television play gets to dropped-' 1 a lengthy business, almost worth; a' television documentary in itself.

i To begin Stuart Douglass, a reasonably well-established television writer, some years experience, turns in 'a script for a Doom watch episode. About the rise to power of a British politician, "on-anv anti-sex, and violence Balance is nnuT-v ill i .11 examining the events though -the; Inquiring; a Government committee, whlch allbws --a -variety, pf the programme -Is tltlnrt Saw Drill Violence," and scheduled for July 24. But jls obviously a politically hot one. It has 'to be referred upwards. After.

informal ladder it'goes, formally, First -to -Andrew, Osborn', 'Seriesi'liwhb passes ilMbvPaul Fox, Controller. BBC-1, who ii GimMe CONTINUES THIS SUNDAY.