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THE GUARDIAN Monday October 18 1976 5 Patients set out their grumbles By ANN CLWYD Hailsham Bill 'would destroy Parliament' mm mw i feffi -Vm By PETER COLE power to interpret an immutable Bill of Rights, Mr Foot said. "We reject the cries of defeatism and despair from the Tory ranks. Lord Hailsham's outburst, with its scarcely veiled attack on Parliament itself, is only the latest exrjres-sion of the doomsday philosophy which seems to have gripped so many Tory politicians and most of the Tory press." Doubts on whether Parliament was capable of handling the present crisis were expressed over the weekend by several politician's. A Conservative backbencher. Mr Patrick Cormack, MP for South West Staffordshire, called for the formation of a coalition government The present coalition of incompatibles, he said, should be replaced by a government with a united sense of national purpose.

People were desperate for true national leadership and hungered for more inspiration. In a message to his consti UP AND AWAY Killer whale Ramu, hoisted in a special "corset," starts his journey from Windsor Safari Park to a new home in California. Picture by Frank Martin It's a whale of a time Railway backers steam ahead By PETER NEEDHAM Twenty-two years of willing work by railway enthusiasts in Wales to extend one of the oldest passenger railways in the world has been rewarded by a grant of nearly 100,000 by the manpower Services Commission. The commission is to spend 98,461 one of its largest grants to provide 42 extra jobs in completing an extension of the Festiniog Railway from its terminus at Duallt to the original stopping point at Blaenau Ffestiniog. Four extra bridges are to be built, 3,300 cubic metres of rock excavated and 1,000 metres of lft llins-gaugc track laid to improve a railway that is already a major foreign currency earner for Wales.

"a most worthwhile project," enthused Mr Bon Aston, the commission's job creation scheme organiser for Wales, yesterday. It will improve the transport facilities available in Snowdonia. It will provide a fair measure of employment in an area which badly needs it, and some of the jobs are likely to become permanent ones." The Manpower Services Commission has already paid 27,000 this year to create 13 jobs on the railway, and the rest of the total cost of 247,000 to complete the extension is being- met by the Wales Tourist Board and the Festiniog Railway Company. The company has a venerable history. Founded in 183C for taking slates to Portma-doc on the coast, the railway originally ran on a combination of horsepower and gravity.

Loaded wagons slid smoothly down to the port and were hauled back to Blaenau by horses. The efforts of bands of willing volunteers had the company running trains again in 1955, nine years after what was almost a final closure. Today, six old and colourful steam engines haul thousands of visitors and tourists 10 miles through Snowdonia National Park on a winding journey from Portmadoc to Ddualt. There the railway stops. The struggle to extend the line to its original terminus has continued since 1954, appropriately-named Flying Tigers Company.

tuents Mr Cormack said that if the Prime Minister who was shackled to a group of colleagues to whom every upset in the sterling crisis was good news, was unable to turn his back on those in his party, then he should hand over to somebody who could. If he suggests that the country does not want to go through the trauma of a general election, he should remember that this is not an inevitable prelude to a char.je of government." Mr Cormack said that unless a coalition government was formed by men of goodwill from all parties, then Britain could lurch to disaster. The theme was echoed by Mr John Pardoe, Liberal MP for North Cornwall, who said Britain would face disaster unless a coalition government was formed soon. The pound would be worth one dollar within three years, there would be two million unemployed, inflation would reach 30 or 40 per cent within two years and Britain faced the prospect of being an underdeveloped nation in the 1980s. will be seeing the Prime Minister tomorrow afternoon.

They then leave to visit France, Belgium, and Denmark. The increasing difficulty of selling British goods to Japan is emphasised by the fact that it is one of the few countries, to which Britain has not increased its volume of exports recently. Last year, Britain imported 672 millions worth of goods from Japan and exported goods to the value of only 308 mil lions, making a deficit of 3M i millions. But the imposition of quotas 1 on Japanese exports is not seen as a solution to the problem, i partly because of fears that the Japanese would then switch their export efforts to other products. The increasing penetration of the Japanese in I world markets is causing con- siderable concern to other members of the EEC as well.

i By JOHN ANDREWS sion for a new dolphinarium but got to think very seriously before you commit yourself to half-a-million pounds," the park's general manager, Mr Len Fair, said yesterday. Leaving behind two grief-stricken dolphin companions, Ramu for the past six years a star attraction for 10,000 visitors-a-day was hoisted by crane out of the water and placed in a specially-designed corset complete with holes for his fins. Then, with six men guarding against any over-energetic flaps of the tail. Ramu was taken by lorry to Heathrow and a waiting DCS, chartered from the in Mr Michael Foot, the Leader of the House of Commons, yesterday attacked Lord Hail-sham's call for a comprehensive Bill of Rights in Britain. He said Lord Hailsham had come forward with obviously carefully considered proposals for tipping the British Constitution into the Channel.

Speaking at a party rally in Cambridge, Mr Foot, who is one of the two contenders for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party, said that Lord Hailsham, who had advanced the need for such a Bill in the Dimbleby Lecture last week, had put forward a plan for destroying the sovereignty of the British Parliament. It was the most comprehensive scheme for the destruction of Parliament as the centrepiece of the constitution since the time of Charles I. Lord Hailsham had proposed that the final word about what should be done in this country, particularly at times of economic crisis, should be taken from the Cabinet and the Commons and handed to lawyers and judges, who would be "given the Crisis on Britain's huge trade gap with Japan will be the main topic of discussions today and tomorrow between a visiting delegation of Japanese businessmen and the Prime Minister, Mr Edmund Dell, the Trade Secretary, and "the Confederation of British Industry. Mr Dell will be pursuing two lines of thought on ways in which the trade gap might be closed when he meets the delegation, led by Mr Toshiwo Doko, this afternoon. On the one hand, he will be trying to persuade the Japanese that they could take more British exports, and on the other, he will pass on the growing fears of certain sectors of British industry that the Japense are making it increasingly difficult to stay in business.

Following the joint TUC-CBI submission on imports last trade with Japan Slicked down with five gallons of grease and sprayed constantly with jets of iced water, Ramu the killer whale, yesterday winged his way from gloomy London to the sunnier climes of California. At 19 feet and 4J tons, Ramu the only killer whale in Europe had simply got too big for his pool at Windsor Safari Park He now goes to the bigger waters of San Diego's Sea World dolphinarium. The Safari Park's managing director. Mr Ronnie Smart, said yesterday He is very good natured and we are sorjy to lose him." But at a growth rate of 2ft-a-year, 10-year-old Ramu needed a bigger pool. We've got planning permis- Welsh Welsh language campaigners decided yesterday to intensify their protests at the delay in setting up a Welsh language television channel.

Inauguration of such a service was recommended two years ago in the report of the Crawford Committee, which was set up by the Government to decide priorities for a proposed I fourth TV channel. The delay led the annual ference of the Welsh Language 1 Society, held at the' weekend at iTalybont, near Aberystwith, to Sea World are paving for the 30,000 trip and are also giving the Windsor Safari Park two pilot whales and three dolphins as compensation for an animal described as priceless." With all the elaborate precautions laid on there should be no worries over Ramu's health. Veterinary surgeon, Mr David Taylor, said yesterday We reckon he'll be out of the water only 18 hours. That's nothing really. After all, they are mammals and they breathe air.

The only worry is that their skin mi slit dry out or that their own wei-rht might harm them eventually they would get i sores." the Government's decision to mark time over a Welsh TV channel on cost grounds, while pushing ahead with a television service for British servicemen and their families stationed in Germany. According to a statement earlier this year by the Welsh Office, setting up a Welsh channel would cost about 9 millions. Shortly after, the' Under-Secretary for the Army, Mr Robert Brown, put the capital cost of the German service at 8 millions. This service began transmissions last month. air their protests By HAZEL DUFFY week, which called for a tightening of existing machinery on controlling imports, Mr Dell can be expected to try to deal with the problem by asking the Japanese to exercise voluntary restraint on those exports to Britain which are causing most concern.

Mr Doko, leader of the delegation, is president of Kei-danren, the Federation of Japanese Economic Organisations. He is also adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. His delegation includes the top men in many leading Japanese companies, such as the Sumitomo chemical company, Mitsui Shipbuilding and Engineering, and the Mitsubishi corporation. The delegation arrived in Britain on Saturday. As well as holding a conference with the CBI.

which will cover broad topics of mutual interest, they r. GmDDIjfu More than half the patients interviewed in a survey at Cwmbran, Gwerrt, have problems in making an appointment to see a doctor. A substantial number did not feel they were treated with courtesy and consi deration by the doctors' receptionists. The survey, carried out by Cwmbran Community Projects Centre, asked 100 patients what they thought of the service, provided at one particular doctors' practice in the town. Three people, involved with the local community newspaper, claim they were struck off the doctors' register because the paper published reports of plans to investigate patients' compIaints.Now their local community health council is suggesting that GPs should become salaried employees of the National Health Service.

Results of the survey hav been sent to Mr Leo Abse, MP for Pontypool, calling for a challenge in the system, so the patients can effectively voice their grumbles and influence the way GPs organise their practices. Mrs Jenny Barnes, a social worker, who organised the survey, said that her husband's name, as business manager of the Community Newspaper, wa3 printed on the back of the paper along with the names of two other people. Shortly afterwards, they all received notice from the Area Health Authority that their doctors did not wish to treat them any longer. All were patients of the practice under investigation. The three families included six children under 10.

"I felt frightened and wondered what on earth we had done," said Mrs Barnes. I know that the other families were more frightened because their children are younger. One of my children, has asthma and we were worried about finding another doctor quickly. BMA challenged Almost 10,000 consultants and doctors joined forces at the weekend to challenge the sole bargaining role of the British Medical Association. The newly-formed British Hospital Doctors' Federation pledged "not to rest" until it obtains negotiating powers.

HE ilWiliMillJK, By our Correspondent support unanimously a militant resolution calling for "a campaign of direct action that could include occupying and causing restricted damage to central government property and that of the broadcasting authorities." Mr Aled Eurig. the vice-chairman, said yesterday During the next week or so, we will decide the exact form the action will take." Members of the society point to an apparent contradiction in A DAY IN THE USA. Louisville Pittsburgh Miami St. Louis Newark ban Francisco New York San Jose Oakland Tampa Oklahoma City Tucson Ontario (Calif. Tulsa' Washington Phoenix Wichita Because TWA offers more than any other airline.

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