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THE GUAEDIAM 32 Friday May 15 1987 FRIDAY PEOPLE Think big, American S. Africa expels British TV men decision was a reaction to film broadcast by the two networks of security lorce clashes with students at the University of Cape Town and with trade unionists at Cosatu House Thatcher tells her troops on Johannesburg after a firm to publish Wright book xvatal supreme court decision overturning key as pects ot emergency censorship. The Government was apparently planning to expel the two men with immedi battle eve erage of the Ethiopian famine. He has been BBC TV's correspondent here since 1983. Mr Sharpe, the ITN correspondent has been here eight years.

Written notices of the Government's decisions were delivered to the two journalists by hand yestgerday morning. No explanation was given. The BBC and ITN said last night that they deplored the expulsions and would be appealing against them. The Deputy Minister of Information, Dr Stoffel Van Der Merwe, said that the expulsion decision had followed a hullabaloo around the two of them not so long ago, which could have led to their expulsion. But that was av0rted." He was pretty sure that the action did not herald a government campaign against foreign correspondents.

It is believed that the From David Beresford in Johannesburg SOUTH Africa has thrown out the BBC and ITN correspondents amid widespread reports that a new government crackdown on dissent is imminent. Michael Buerk of the BBC and Peter Sharpe of ITN have been given 10 and eight days respectively to get out of the country after the Government's refusal to renew their work permits. It brings to nine the number of foreign correspondents expelled since the current state of emergency was imposed last June. The expulsion of the two TV correspondents coincides with reports quoting government sources in local newspapers; predicitng a sweeping security clampdown on trade unions, universities, or- Fanisations using foreign unds for domestic politicial purposes and al ternative media publications." The country's main trade union federation, the Con- fress of South African rade Unions, (Cosatu), is regarded as the prime target of the threatened clampdown. Over the last week, the authorities including state radio have been running a smear campaign against the fed- Darker side of skin-lightening, page 10 eration, attempting to link it to torture and murder cases.

It is believed to be the first time the British television networks have had a full-time correspondent expelled from South Africa. Mr Buerk is the winner of a string of television awards, including the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year award in 198S for his cov Continued from page 1 Rabuka hero on sports field By Richard Norton-Taylor further tax cuts and the Tory party chairman, Mr Tebbit, warned that a hung an American company an nounced yesterday that it Parliament could cause a constitutional, financial and in Pitched into dustrial crisis. ate effect, but decided instead to await the expiry of their three-month work permits in order to avoid an appeal to the courts. There is no right of appeal against such an administrative decision. Dr Van Der Merwe declined to comment on whether the BBC and ITN would be allowed to replace the two men.

Mr Buerk was scheduled to leave the country in July and his successor has already been appointed. pians to publish America the memoirs of the former senior MI5 officer, Mr Peter Wright, in defiance of the Brit- Mr Lawson set out the eco nomic agenda a basic income tax rate of 25p and a major lsn uovernmenrs attempts to suppress inem. Viking Penguin, a subsidiary privatisation programme in addition to the third of state-owned industry already privatised. The number of Britons directly owning shares has already trebled since we first a coup ui ine orinsn group, rearson, said that it had decided to go ahead it intends to publish the book, Spycatcher, next SANDHURST trained and montn alter taking legal took office, to one in five of Employers the adult population," he said. We will push the boundaries auvice.

A recent article in the Washington Post detailing the contents of the book, and what it ot popular capitalism stiu iur-ther. And we will continue to offer counting an OBE among his decorations, Lt-Col Sitiveni Rabuka, who led yesterday's coup in Fiji, was passed over for the top job of army commander seven years ago in favour of the then prime minister's son-in-law. Stuck in the number three slot, the rejection has rankled in per make the defeat of inflation our first priority, until we have eliminated it altogether." described as the current American preoccupation with embassy buggings and spy scandals, and the utter failure of the British Government to teachers Mr Tebbit sought to emu tne blood of his audience about the possibiities of a hung make its case an Australian court had persuaded it to publish the memoirs, Viking peace deal Parliament. The opposition parties were united on little else but their Continued from page readiness to risk the confusion and chaos that would result from a hung Parlia sonal rivalry ever since, according to authoritative SOUTC6S. Professing himself to be a simple soldier who wants to get back to his profession, the mustachioed Rabuka, aged 38, is an extraordinary individual.

He is a Methodist lay preacher who says he relies on the Christian reli sum. The Government is appealing against the decision by the New South Wales Supreme Couf in March that the memoirs should be published. It recently brought a contempt the expansion of nursery and ment, in the hope of gaining special needs provision, as well as the issue of teacher professional support time all partisan advantage Mv ma-pose is not to deal issues which Mr Baker's order such visions oi Britain stag totally ignores," they said. we believe that mere is gering into constitutional crisis, financial crisis and industrial crisis, but to make much that can be gained from such discussions as it is abun our own case. borough's women's committee, in place of the pair of serving females, Messrs Guy Roberts and Richard Hoddlnott.

Diana Fawcett, who chairs the committee, regards the move as childish and disappointing. I can only assume it is a wrecking tactic," she said. And Mr Roberts wasn't rushing to dispel the notion yesterday, promising to rip into loony left feminism which he defines, in a jokey way, as, for example, providing creches for one-legged lesbians. (Pause for barking laughter). We are going to show them up and make them look as silly as we possibly can," he said, sounding just a shade short of wholly constructive.

Insomniacs Anonymous should be getting in touch with Des Wilson, urgently. Not only is the Liberals' president heading the overnight team at Alliance HQ (10pm to 10am), addressing early evening meetings and conferring at morning planning sessions. He'salso writing a book, of words, to be completed within 72 hours of the election grand final. It's a blow-by-blow account of the Alliance campaign. Most significantly the title has yet to be fixed.

Either Battle for Power or Balance of Power it rather depends on the rest of us, you see. US servicemen at Lakenheath, Suffolk, have been told to pack it in. No more t-shirts or bumper stickers employing the initials L.I.B.Y.A. to convey the message: Lakenheath Is Bombing Your Ass. CJ Silence hung over the Home Office yesterday on the tricky question of two parking tickets, slapped on its ministerial cars and paid for, eventually, by the public purse.

The fines appear in the list of 279 picked up by government service cars in 1986, drawn up at the request of Tony Banks, Labour MP for Newham North-west. The list reveals a major effort to stay off the yellow lines, and within the law, by drivers at the Department of Energy (157 fines in 1985, only 37 last year) and precious little improvement elsewhere. gion as a basis in tne ouua-ing of standards and the maintenance of discipline." He is something of a hero to Fijian sports fans, having set national discus and shot-putting records in addition to representing Fiji in the national rueby team. He was dantly clear thaft Mr Baker's imposition has totally failed to bring peace to the schools or The Conservatives wanted to provide more opportunities for people to shape their own lives. This meant the right to Secret rites, page 21 case against three British newspapers the Independent, the London Daily News and the London Evening Standard for publishing details of Wright's allegations.

The Government claims that the publication interfered with injunctions it had already obtained against the Guardian and the Observer. Denents to tne education service which paretns desperately need for their children. It is only through sensitive discus spend more ot tneir own money, to have far more say on where their children went to school, and to enjoy more freedom within their trade sions that the prooiems wnich Mr Baker has created can be resolved." unions. The two largest unions, the Mrs Thatcher did not give a on a rugby tour of Britain in 1970 and played for the team as late as 1977. Two years previously he captained the Fijian athletics team at the South Pacific Games in Guam.

He commanded the Fijian contingent in Lebanon in 1980 (a year later he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire) and National Union of Teachers complete answer to a request and the National Association of SchoolmastersUnion of trom Mr Sydney mawell (Lao. Ealing Southall) to promise to disown any candidate who Women Teachers, which rep resent three quarters of classroom teachers, have already fllPT fF T.1FE Mnran Karinsh. the four-vear-nld Israeli eirl given a life-savine liver again in Sinai in 1983. As a veteran, he opposes the Gov transplant at Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge, three weeks ago after a 45,000 whip-round on her flight to Britain, and nurse Suzanne Curran leave for London. tries to stir up emnity between white and black people." She replied All people who are here for permanent settlement have the same rights and the same responsibilities and we must continue Mr Alan Kellock, president of Viking, told the Guardian last night that the decision had been triggered by recent newspaper reports based on purloined copies of Spycatcher.

He also said that as a publisher, the company had an obligation to the Peter Wright, who was in poor health. It is known that Pearson's lawyers have been agonising for some days about the likelihood of action by the Government. Government lawyers were not available for comment last night. agreed to early discussions. The employers intend to invite the other unions, representing teachers and heads, to join the talks, and restore schools to ernment intention to puu out of the UN forces a welcome source of revenue to make that absolutely clear." iie ftrime Minister told the for rural Fijians, who are despatched abroad after brief 1 .1, 'Four held in dioxin scare Governor is defiant Rover still in the red normality after three years.

They are anxious, however, that their initiative should not be capitalised on by Mr Baker, who has already claimed early 1922 Committee It is going training un ia-imuiiui iuuia of duty. An ethnic Melanesian Fi- to oe a longer manitesto man usual saying we are moving iian. Rabuka was born' in the credit for the likely suspen forward. She went on to identify five central points. The first was that the econo By Andrew Cornelius sion of teachers' strikes during the election camaisn.

village ot ureKeniwai, snaring the eastern Fijians' antipathy to the western chiefs. my was in very good shape Hover, the state-owned vehi which may be announced on indeed." The second was that cles group, is today expected among wnom tne present Monday. Leaders of the NUT and the to announce losses, ol about prime minister is a promi nent. if now derided, fleure. governments had to be very strong to do things that only governments could do set Althoueh Rabuka is said to 700 million for last year.

The losses follow a government injection of 680 million two months ago to write off have the full suuport of the the rieht framework for indus army, which is 91 per cent Fijian, the military is by no debts in the Leyland truck NASUWT yesterday repeated their denials that any decision had yet been taken to call off ihe rolling programme of strikes around the country during the general election campaign. They are campaigning against the loss of their negotiating rights, which was try and commerce. It was not just a question of deregulation but of getting regulation right. She would also do more on means a homogeneous body, being divided along tribal subsidiary which has now been merged with DAF trucks of Holland. trade union reform.

lines. Rover, lost 210 million in Her third point was that tax incentives had enabled Britain Rabuka's wife, a primary school teacher, is from a to retain people like scientists, eneineers and managers. prominent family based in the same village as the previous Drime minister. The cou By a Staff Reporter Police were questioning lour people in London last nighl after allegations that blackmailers had threatened tc release a cloud of the toxic substance Dioxin over Cyprus unless the island's government paid them S15 million. Mr Petros Voskarides.

a Cypriot government spokesman, said that the poison story was true and that some arrests were likely in Nicosia, the island's capital. We have had absolutely marvellous co-operation from Scotland Yard," Mr Voskarides said. It is believed that the threat was to release the gas from mountains above the capital. He added that a blackmail letter had been sent to President Spyros Kyprianou. Nicosia has a population ot 120,000 Greek Cypnots in the south and 68,000 Turkish Cypriots in the north, plus an estimated 10,000 foreign residents.

Enterprise had returned after seven successive years of Continued from page 1 new council of ministers was Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, a former prime minister who led the country for the first 17 years of its independence from Britain, before being' defeated in elections held a month ago. The British Government yesterday expressed concern at the developments, but the Foreign Office appeared to be adopting a wait-and see approach despite Ratu Sir Ganilau's defiant stand. Australia and New Zealand were quick to condemn the coup, but ruled out any military intervention at this stage. In the capital Suva and elsewhere in the Fijian archipelago, there was little evidence of military activity night and the streets of the capital quiet. Both Suva and Nandi airports were operating The- Governor-General was last night said to have been in communication with the Queen, in her capacity as head of state.

ple occupy married quarters in the Queen Elizabeth Army Barracks, outside the capital, growth. Unemployment 'still falling' Continued from page i 21 per cent in the South-east since 1979. In some parts ot" the South the black spots were worse than in the North. Some areas of London were trying to cope with unemployment betweeen 40 and 130 per cent. The Liberal leader, Mi-David Steel stressed that there should be a proper election debate on why the country's resources were being so wasted.

It would be a tragedy if we just debate the statistics themselves and whether they are going up or down," he said. Figures also issued by the Department of Employment show that the underlying increase in earnings in the year to March was Ti per cent, similar to the increase in the year to February. Overtime in manufacturing iuring March was 12.4 million hours a week. For most of last year this figure fluctuated between 11.5 and 12 million hours. the first half of 1986, and is still struggling to regain profitability despite the appointment of a tough new chairman, Mr Graham Day.

Since taking over last year, Mr Day had announced a series of disposals, including the sale of a 60 per cent stake in Leyland Trucks to DAF and the 'management buy-out of spare parts business -But desDite a drastic revamp Her fourth point extolled the virtues of wider onwership a fundamental article of Tory faith." Now, 64 per cent of the where it is oenevea tne prime minister and his min isters were taken. Rabuka was head bey of part ot the ettect ot Mr liaK-er's legislation. It is understood that membersof the NUT executive are in favour of abandoning the strikes at least for the time being, in spite of the public rebuke they gave Labour's education spokesman, Mr Giles Radice, when he asked them to call the campaign off at their annual conference last month. The NASUWT executive, however, is furious at suggestions that the union's were about to call off the strikes. It meets today and may vote to continue the action, which would split the two unions' hard-won unity against the Government.

An announcement is expected on Monday. population were nome-owners and the Government wanted many more. Savings are keeping their Queen Victoria School, an establishment for indigenous Fijians, but failed to matriculate. Recognising his leadership qualities ana athletic nrowess. the armv value, Mrs inatcner said.

This has been a savers' gov ernment. AH of this is bring of the marketing image of the Austin Rover volume cars the group is still struggling to increase its car sales in tne UK. recruited him at the age of ing about one nation in a way that no previous government 18. He underwent tnree vears' officer training in New Mri VDav- is confident his has been able to deliver. Her fifth point was that Zealand before a short course at Sandhurst.

He strategy. oMorgins closer links with Honda will eventually Kyprianou was relieved at the people now felt good about President extremely arrests. being British. return fedyftr to profitability. spent seven months in Hong Kong as commanding officer with the 6th Gurkha Rifles.

A close friend was quoted yesterday as saying He is a level headed officer. It is difficult to believe that he would have launched a coup on his own." Take no notice it's a party political broadcast on behalf of the Green Party." PEOPLE DIARY afoon 2) 5 5 f'i- yfL-rr -XC TronECASr chart 2 BIRTHDAYS ine jwemDer tor Finchley, a Mrs Thatcher, was responsible for presenting to Parliament yesterday a petition, bearing just over 2,000 v. signatures, calling on the Constance Cummings, actress. 77; Joseph Gotten, 82. and Jack Watson, 66, actors; P.

C. T. Daniels, Welsh rugby football international. Commons to step in and prevent a closure 30; Ted Dexter, former Eng land cncKei captain, oz; and job losses in the constituency. It was raised by Finchley Labour Party.

John Davies, Labour candidate for the seat, went along to Westminster with the ln Krog, jazz singer, 50; Mike Oldfield, composer, 34; Zara Phillips, daughter of Captain Mark Phillips and Princess Anne. 6: Anthony SEA PASSAGES 1.9 K'55 Cloudy LONDON READINGS and Peter Shaffer, twin .35 12 54 Showers AROUND THE WORLD F22 72 C20 68 17 63 13 55 8 46 C18 64 13 55 112 54 Las Palmas Lisbon Locarno London Warsaw "Wasliingin Wellington Zurich petition, which opposes next year's closure of the Lucas CAV works (450 playwrights. 61: Ralnh .44 13 us snowers .41 12 54 Rain North Sea: Rough. Strait ol Dover, English Channel (E), St George' Channel, Irish Sea: Mainly moderate. (Umctittme, reports) 18 64 fi AnHcie, Steadman, cartoonist, illustrator, 51.

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Coasts exposed to the fresh or strong northerly wind will already be seeing some showers though, and during the morning more will develop in inland areas. Some will become heavy, with the chance of hail and thunder in places, especially the east. It is possible that well-sheltered areas in the west could stay dry. It will feel cold virtually everywhere. Outlook for the following 48 hours Becoming mostly dry and less cold with sunny periods, especially in the south.

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