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ICS Sileitt 1 visional IRA leader in tilidonderry, said there was no finance cHfce to a crete assurances. "rstxt given He did not see these coming at the moment. The bombing campaign had been designed to cripple tie city: economi CAth6VLimtaoiie liriadoon Avenue area of Belfast leaving their homes yesterday In protest against the army's 'presence around their housbteC Families from the area inarched behind banners bearing the names of their avenues. Picture by, Don mcPhee. LED BY A local priest, Father "Jack Fitzsimonsl nearly Catholics, inarched, silently from the Lenadoon Avenue area of the Suffolk housing estate, in Belfast yesterday in protest against the army's refusal to withdraw from the area.

Talks, between the army, the priest, and local residents broke Skym show Mr.Wfaitelaw that the can do what we like." Five Ghobham depot cally and to reduce' troops Provisionals 7 was uuaccept- The army's offer to 4h 4tA i tu re iuca iu a uiuuiuuiu aoie 10 tnev residents' sacked picket A toughening the army's tactics for dealing with specific incidents now seems certain, but Ministers insist that the army will avoid actions which could be seen, as iaiiti-Catholie rather than anti-IRA. Two, soldiers" were killed by ainlnC' near.Crossmaglen, County Armagh." In Belfast, the IRA used a bazooka during a rocket attack on the combined army-police post in Aaidersonstown a 23-year-old constable in the RUC was killed by gunmen while sitting in a patrol car and the army sealed off the city centre to traffic. The. army said last night that 12 soldiers had died since the end of the ceasefire last Sunday. Mr Whitelaw intends to hold an inquiry into the' number of released internees who are believed to have gone back into service with the IRA.

Lenadoon Avenue was the- scene of Thursday's Berce gun battle between tiie army and the Provisional IRA. The people from Lenadoon Avenue went to the Roger Casement Park about a mile vaway. More than 5,000 men women and children left other parts of Belfast during the weekend. Many of them moved into the Republic, where about 20,000 volunteers are helping to care for them. Some of the people from Lenadoon moved last- night to centres.

A few drifted hack home, but' about a 'third stayed in the park. Early today, after further talks, it was announced that Mr Paul Channon, Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office, had undertaken "to consider the problems presented. to him." Mr Martin McGuinness, the Pro- By MALCOLM STUAllT resent fte aliegations made against them by the(five men I have had to dismiss." Mr Llewellyn said all agreed that the nondocker employees had. been moved to more'menial tasks to allow the dockers to nninarl containers and' to on iobs and; they have not suffered any loss of pay." Chobham Farm, which is owned by London (East) ICD took on 18 registered dockworkers last Monday. On that dav manv of the existing employees found they had.

been sLidf been doina. On Tuesday five of. The five Chobham Farm container depot workers who picketed the newly employed divteers thpre last week have been dismissed from the jobs they were moved to to make -way for the dockers. They have also been threatened UdVC dial VGCIl UUCCUCTJCU vrth court action unless they cease picketing. I personally would be pre- pared to take them back if they ceased their picketing but I don't think the other men would have them," said Mr Bryn Llewellyn, chief executive of "the depot, yesterday.

"By other men I don't mean the dockers but the 52 original employees who have also been moved to other work. They have accepted the situation and MP's the men started their call for Priest iiads container vorkers from other depots who also fear their jobs will go to dockers. They jeered the dockers as they went in to work, called on their original employees to join them -and managed- to turn away a number of lorries. Now the five organisers of the picket have been told that ivnv, ui-wi SS, a which reached the men at the weekend, also say "We further give you notice that unless you desist, from the -picketing the company will be obliged to take legal action against you." It was action against three dockers' shop stewards in the National Industrial Relations month. Eventually -Chobham Farm's management withdrew their action and agreed to employ dockers.

On duty three dockers are due, to report for work today ano the. anti-docker pickets are almost certain to be there, in spite Of threats from; the firm. The five men involved have joined the-, newly formed drivers-; apd warehouseman's action group and are fighting for recognition within "the Transport and General Workers Union, to which the majority of dockers also belong. The leader of the picket, Mr Edward led a delegation of 100 men to lobby MPs last week. "Our men feel they have been trodden upon' and made sacrificial eoats to annease the dockers.

They will probably. remain on picket duty, until there is a reallocation of work," Mr Johns said. The men will also ask their union to fight their -ase. 7 -J-1 withdrawal to- ft- conscience By MICHAEL PARKIN Mr Albert Roberts, Labour some MPs, had he raised IMP for Normanton, Yorkshire, questions in the House for said yesterday hat he could see public relations firms. troops By SIMON HQGGART, Three thousand Catoolics evacuated their homessln the Lenadoon Avenue5' area" of nii.

marcned in silence to a tern- inujr. titv as. a- protest against what they claim. is an army occupation of their. The well-organised exodus left the Lenadoon area of the Suffolk housing estate virtually deserted.

Only the old, the sick, and a number of street vigilantes remained. The rest of Support mt juries A TWO YEAR SURVEY-of 475 criminal trials had found that the majority of people acquitted by Juries had not previously appeared before the courts. Findings by the Oxford Penal Research Unit therefore contradict the views of Mr Robert Mark, the metropolitan police commissioner, that present laws enable experienced criminals to outwit juries. Michael Zander, page 7. Leading article, vage 10.

SPANISH police on Saturday arrested 15 young Britons, in the -resort town' of Benidorm daring a. swoop on suspected drug pedlars." Twelve young men' are being- held in prison but three girls have been released provisionally. -According to the police, detectives found 101b of marijuana and 500, LSD and the tubes' bfcycle tyres." The detained are said to be in their early twenties and' a number' of them" are believed to come from Lancashire. LIEUTENANT GALLEY'S chief defence lawyer said at Salt Lake-City that he would ask for a new trial as a result of the discovery "of a new witness of the My Lai massacre Charles Dean (Butch) Graver, who was a private-. CalleyVs command.

The officer, who is under house arrest, was given a sentence of life Imprisonment in March, 1971, but ft was reduced to 2I years after PresiftetJ Nixon! intervention. WITH THE death on Saturday of Mr Jack McCann, Labour MP tor Rochdale, there are now two byelections The -other "will be in the' 'strongly Conservative constituency' of Sutton and Cbeam; where the MP; Sir RfchartPt Sharpies, has been i 'Mr ObHttorw. paffe-6; PRESIDENT Amin of Uganda, said last; night that lie' had. ordered the deportation of a senior British civil servant' who had become a security He said Mr'JHicBael principal of the Institute of Public Administration, -had passed information to a BritlBh newspaper, the' Observer. 8.1 Leaders '18 BridttB -A'- tetters Chess 4 Motoring X-words-: J4-Se 17 werseasi 12-141 Sport 15-17 Home t- Theatre' guide ...6 i.

oie.atmosphere-here t'-tonighfj vMsiWaatt, for tne residents marcned one raiie -to the Roger Casement Park." a Gaelic, football ground Where offensive en on By bur Correspondent A SKY DIVING CLUB Is to hold an inguiry into how two members of a European championship freefall parachuting team landed on and inside a de Haviland Raplde aircraft at 10,000 feet. One sky-diver, Sir Michael Bolton, aged 33, a technical engineer, of Oakpark Road, Wordsley, Stourbridge, crashed through the roof fuselage of the Rapide breaking both wrists and finishing on the fioor. The other man, Sir Mike Taylor, from the London area, hit the tail section breaking his leg and thigh. He rode the tail for a second or two before fluttering down helplessly in his parachute to land in a field two miles away from the sky divers' base. The inquiry will be held either today or tomorrow, Mr Geoff Webster, aged 52, the chairman of South Staffs Sky-Diving Club, the largest in -Britain, has promised.

He said: "This happened at 8, 40- pm" on Saturday. Our team is the best in Europe. They hold European records, and they were attempting to break the record for a 14-man free-fall link-up. The Rapide was flying in formation with another aircraft, a Brittaln Norman Islander. "Members of the team were in each when the Rapide appeared to drift just underneath the other plane at the precise moment the parachutists were jumping at half second intervals.

"Had Mike Boulton struck the Rapide in any other place he may well have caused It to crash. He went clean through the roof behind the ttiilicfea? -4 7 eensivebcec fall plane i -1 mm food- and beddme had been' The marchers took nothing wim mem out a -tsui tesiueais say mat yesteroajr atner itzsimons some food.HIany did not know several; occasions troops "told a crowd of 1000 people where they -were" going or for moved into occupied fiats, that1' the tinne had come" to but-. others' -had made On Saturday Father Fitz- move out1 Be said their homes hurried arrangements to stay simons chaired a meeting which would be while thev with relatives; or -friends. included two representatives Pre avra But the people The exodus began, after a from ever eet not toW how weekend of confused negotia- district. was Hon between the army and the demand the- army cdnlplete-'-turnitfroaek pagei C0lis5' rio reason why the court inquir ing into the bankruptcy of the architect Mr John Poulson should want to question him about 11.508 he received from Mr Commenting on reports that persons who were paid by Mr Poulson may.

be called before the court, JVfr- Roberts said that if rwere. he would go willingly: But. he could not see why-the -courtrf should Bother about him when all the, he had done for. Mr Poulson had been strictly as, an adviser or consultant on overseas matters only. For that he-had received a salary of 2,500 a Not disputed Mr.

longer about Payments." from -Mr Poulson in 1967,. 1968. anda960 To prove that-the salary had been properly-accounted for, and income- tax paid he produced i-his' cash book and cliallenged. nie to name a year audi a month. 1.

offered August, 19S6 He. opened the at that month and the under income 208. 6s; 8d" one -of i' his Salary of Pial directly 5 into the bank. For that salary he said ne thS so withdrawal from the area. In fact the army, as a.

concession to, the residents, was already evacuatine Four of its 'seven i c.hnnt ih Bats, Vesteraay, the priest and members of the local tenants' association met Colonel Jeremy Reilly. ccniiaander of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of fusiliers. Father Fitzsimons sail tile concessions had not been enough but was told that the army could not evacuate any more posts as itiider orders to. i rnrtmediatplv. arrange.

merits1' Were frnade to' implement the" 'threatened exodus. At1' ai-' omen air mnoflnt, city. By lastrnight about 6000 people Jiad left Belfast to stay rtelnd? in ref mVs, lrs. 'the Bepublic. Londonderry -yesterday had its qutejest period since the truce ended.

No. bombs" went xff for over' 30 "the -atmosphere tense, frinei Tobias Mo316y. -aged" 18, of died in hospital In eay atier in-Residents claimed he had been'lri near-tne nean 1 of-' Bnffsidei Mr local people, svltb were led bv a Driest' Father, Jack Fitzsimons. At lssue was the army's occupa- tion. of the Oliver Plunkett area.

xne over tne vantage they moved into the estate on.Thurs- dav night to halt the heavy, in Faulkner's statement 7 Leading article 10 Peter Hildrew 11 Tougher line likely back aeatnst thptr nerm'a nent" postin 'Lenadoon Avenue4, The army claims that all OCCUDied Were the flats it 'soldiere "hittulg a gunman tri" the area at, the same time. In' Belfast thr IRA used a rocket launcher again to attack the" Ahdersonstown police' station; number of armed men entered a cafd on' the Glen 50 yards from- the- police and locked the staC in a oauK bazooka i i rn, i a -Rlntrlii- shell nierced the staUdn'siiflremeslr-. screen.and.expioded just before 'am thp ovamiatinn frnm The'. US? Bbb'by ISCUer. ID -SUJIUS; mux' on a' table', and fired picket, joined by another 30 At his examination In bankruptcy, Mr Poulson said that Mr Roberts had been recommended to him by the Spanish Government for.

a hospitrt' building project in Tenerife." He seemed, to be persona grata with the Spanish Government." Mr Poulson" said. Mr Roberts: is1-chairman of- the Anglo-Spanish parlia mentary committee and was decorated isabeTa' la Caolica in 1957. which is about the same as a Knight Commander here," Mr Roberts It was given, to him for his efforts in promot- ing good relations between the two countries. Mr saw nothing unusual 'lna: Labour JSC? being was Dromment Rieht-win'E Labour were members of the joint parlia- mentary committees' for Eastern" European The. days have been a strain for.

Mr Roberts. He accused some. 'newspapers of "witch hunting" him. What made the situation worse was that he led fairly exnosed'Jife in the Villageof. Oultpn'v near Leeds, andtnid- not-live; hij-reJaV tive London; Nevertheless, ne.

nan receivea many i calls expres- cine irom-i: con win Fischer n' the position of games; down; whn rhamnionshlo a -point, the' he-. swUngr abouti iri his- chair m.m1 AnllMA- A Ca TirVtnt" 'clear Silversmiths -1. use a asama rKor Mr William Whiteiaw is to call for an Inquiry, into reports that many released- internees' have gone back tb "active in the IRA part in gun troops. The police and. army are to" be' "that at least two men killed- in gun fights last week had recently 'beenreleased Kesh.

-It is'alsd understood' they have evidenceithat many of the 5S4 soldiers fbSj youths von the' tne' wall. small naar given mpre in return tnan members chairmen: But ia- House Commons are hie used the House, of, ednimons.Vor His-privileged am -KP; torfurtherthe interests Leading article, page nager 'afteir 'a: feeaV: released from detention -r -1 fon to me iNortnern ireiauu vmcc and will stiff en'Srotestan't- protests about" any further release of the 346 meatM interned de.taihed: i undec Special -1 The ''ir violence continued Ireland nrAnlrAMd' nltttmiCTri tJT lower fWvel'than'last Two. soldiers; nuiea wnem a land mine1 exploded undera fiatrol strongly Repub-XeaStti viilaoe. vof Crossmaalen. Aether soldier witbrthemwas saidV- 'tha'i-'-two -soldiers-killed iiSwe're MichelstJrahanUaaged; 24, filnelp? from Mirtdlflsbrnueh.

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