Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 7

i i 1 1 EVENING STANDARD SATURDAT JULY 8 3 Standard Foreign News Desk iri view at a Press conference guerrilla groups described his death as a The fall of a leader will not deter us in our struggle but rather strengthen Our determination to continue until the statement said explaining Hie PFLP point of edited was a Lebanese publication In a statement after Kana-fani's assassination today the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation the central body for the Sex theory in gravel pit murder TI CHASSAN KANA -FANI official spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was killed instantly when a bomb exploded in his car in Beirut today Palestinian sources said Kanafairoi 36 a weil-knewn 'novelist in the Arab world iind believed to rank about fourth or fifth mi Pcf-wLar Front liiearchy His niece was also killed Pop girl dies in holiday crash A GIRL of 18 died today and 17 people were Injured when a pop group's van and a holiday coach were In collision at Margate girl was in a van belonging to the Orgazm group from Basingstoke It crashed imo the side of the home of Mrs Betty Stevcnton in Harts-down Road The roach party was from an Eastbourne hotel Firemen and police helped rescue the trapped passengers from lxlh vehicles Two (toil dcon and a woman died and two men were serioiHy injured in a on the A3 at Swanscombc Cutting Kent today At leu-H five more people were injured when a car crashed through police bollards marking t-lie crash and collided with a stationary police car Chief chess arbiter flies home REYKJAVIK Saturday New com Mirations which miht further delay the start of the Boris Spasuky-Bobby Fischer world chess match arose today when tihe chiet whiter left Revkiavik Lot-hit S-hmicl a West German Grand Master picked bv the International Chess Federation a arbiter said he was going home because his son had been injured in a Ira flic accident Meanwhile Fischer has dunged his headquarters to the royal suite of the luxurious Loflleidir Hotel after clandestine move firm his rented villa on the oilier side of the capital lie made the move yesterday after complaining that he wa unable to sleep properly in the daytime because of noise mad? bv" building workers nearby FORECAST for this evening Cloudy occasional rain or drizzle: from 6 a in tomorrow until midnight Rather cloudy some bright or sunny spells rain or drizl' later Maximum temperature 20 (68 Fi Wind southwesterly moderate OUTLOOK Continuing un Mettled some bright spells SEA CROSSINGS Moderate SHADE TEMPERATURE 3 piii: 61 M6 C' Barometer iota -8 millibars CiO-Oin) falling West Bank by the Israelis to carry out assassinations in reprisal for the Tel Aviv Aiiort massacre He said they were believed to be looking in particular for Dr Wadi Haddad head of the Popular Front's foreign operations branch who is alleged to have master-minded the massacre Kanafani a personable Marxist intellectual probably tile best-known of all PFLP officials to newsmen reporting the Arab side of the Middle East conflict is survived by his Danish widow Annie and tlwee children He issued statements and edited and published the weekly A1 Hadaf magaaine which supported the Front small fishing village of Zierek'ee And because of the overcast skies and the rain there were few bystanders to see the nostalgic flash-hack to hyegone sailing days as (he barges Ethel and laird Roberts sailed majestically out of the Port of London These working barges of the Iasi century which sail Standard Reporter MURDER SQUAD detectives were today trying to And the London address of Paul Duval who may have been killed because he rejected the sexual advances of another man by the bomb which some reports said went oit when he switched on the Ignition of his car near his Beirut home Master-mind His death immediately led to speculation that it was an Israeli reprisal According to a ranking Lebanese security official elements in Beirut have been inquiring within the ltu-t week of the whereabouts of various PFLP leaders The officiai said th unidentified persons were believed to have been sen: from the occupied TWO OF the old Thame sailing barges make their way through heavy rain under Tower Bridge today heading for the open sea and the coast of Holland There they were to join 136 privately owned Duleh craTt in the three day annual Dutch It a Regatta being held at the GIIASSAN KANAFANI (left) After the airport massacre Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh said the Front information activities would be curbed in the country However Kanafani maintained the magazine he under the flag of the-Thames Sailing Barge Club are preserved in full working trim and are usually hired out on passenger charter It is the first time that anyq Thames barges have takrn part in the annual Dutch race which this year coincides with the centenary of the Dutch Hat bottomed barge Yard murder chief quits DETECTIVE CHIEF SUPT Peter Shemming the man who was praised by an Old Bailey judge yesterday for his work In the Leatherhcad golf course dismembered body case Is to leave the police to join a club venture He is quitting the force after 25 years to join a Chigwell Club in which James Bond actor Sean -Connery and footballer Bobby Moore have a stake Mr Shemming said: shall be joint general manager and take up my position on July 24 I hope to have the club open by the end of July" Heathrow planes hit SCOPES of European flights from Heathrow Airport suffered average delays of an hour today because of air traffic congestion over France and Germany A snowball effect was expected by this evening Paul in his early twenties was found stabbed through the heart on waste land near a gravel-pit at Coinbrook Bucks on Thursday nigat The spot wa a haunt of homosexuals and one theory is that the killer was attracted to Paul becau-e of hi gaily-coloured clothing striped sports shirt pink and purple trousers and suede lace bolt Detective Chiot Supt Bill Wright of Scotland Yard said: appeals that there was a struggle and Paul was stabbed We are still looking for the murder weapon" Police searching for two men in connection with the murder appealed for help from motorists who may have passed the spot Death probKbly occurred between 9 pm and midnight on Wednesday" said a police spokesman One man is described as 22 years old -aft 9in tall and wearing purple trousers with pink flares from the knees and pink pockets Tlie other was also about 22 5fi Sin util with dark neck length hair and wearing' dark flared trousers and possibly a dark coloured garment similar to a macintosh in brown or khaki and half belted Tories retreat over Rents the salient we have opened up" he told a Labour local government consultative conference on housing and education in Ijondon Environment Secretary Mr Peter Walker said today that Labour's claim that the 11 fair rents" Bill would mean all rents going up £1 a week ki October could not be further from the truth Speaking at Worcester he aaid: "The Labour Party are having their last fling before the country fully realises the massive benefits of the Government's Housing BiM" Of the 5000000 council house tenants about 2250000 would have no further increase until next AprJ the maximum increase would be 50phr less" said Mr Walker THE Government Is in partial retreat on it's "fair Housing Finance Bill Shadow Housing Spokesman Mr Anthony Crosland said today He urged Labour councillors to make a last-ditch effort to slop it becoming law The Government he said was increasingly shaken by the ferocity of the Labour opposition to the Bill Yesterday's decision to tell three authorities -Birmingham Newcastle and they would not have to raie council hoiwe rents by the pro-liosed £1 a week in October slKiwed that the Government would retreat under pressure and that it was worth continuing the tight Wc should seriously exploit yrxr-.