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tsi 1- -r Mt 1 i '-i- '-SV i 1 w1 -i I Vs 1 s-r 4 ft i (- irf Jt 1 7 frfj 1 -o -s fc 1 I Vi-' Si' i -V W- 7 Vf- ii 4 i i 'v i i T-r1 1 'fcv jit: 4 1 i ip 1 i (') 1 1 i I- 1 -) z7 1 f' 1 I- 6 1 1 Vfi 1 -l-V -j 7--' f1 'f i By fiAVID HARRIS Political Correspondent A LTHOUGH the Conservatiye leadership is stepping vyith care Mr" Sam Silkin Did police call as killer held fai Attorney-General seems certain to find himself at the centre of a- political storm this week following slinging rebukes by three judges over his refusal to act against the threatened disruption of postal services to South Africa The Conservatives will probably raise in the Commons tomorrow what they regard as "his political -negligence to uphold the law against the Post Office -Union Mrs Gillian Moran 35 sole survivor of the Derbyshire family stabbed to death by escaped prisoner William Thomas Hughes (right) She is pictured with her hushand Richard who was among those murdered Below The lonely holise near Chesterfiefd where Hughes held the family By STANLEY GOLDSMITH T30LICE have begun an investigation into why the squads of 'men hunting for escaper William Hughes failed to discover that for 2 days he was holding a family in terror at a house about a mile from where he had crashed the taxi he used in his getaway in the snow-covered Derbyshire countryside As the inquiry went on yesterday 35-year-old Mrs Gillian Moran only survivor of the massacre at Pottery Cottage East Moor near Chesterfield in which her husband daughter and parents-in-law died was haltingly reveling details of the ordeal after Huglies burst into their home on Wednesday with a knife Mr Arthur Mitchell Assistant Chief Constable of Derbyshire said that there were suggestions that one or more of the family had been raped s'-v ence The net sale of The Daily Telegraph for December 1976 was: 1291638 COPIES DAILY Tha above Soares sra oarUSad Messrs SaSerys Chartered Accountants in accordance with the formula prepared by the Audit Bureau of Circulation Limited PAY PACT URGED AT LEYLAND By BLAKE BAKER Industrial Correspondent ABOUT 100000 British Leyland workers are being recommended by their shop stewards to accept a new deal providing greater security of income The proposed agreement is ased on new terms for lay-off based sickness and severance pay' In return workers in the car diids-' Ifor: ion are being Asked The company wants to eventually on a' common te for the commencement of new wage deals at all British -Leyland plants datesf-- At -present negotiations for new agreements in the various factories run through most of the year' with dates -for their implementation varying between February Leyland progress towards eliminating piece-work payments in -'favour of flat rates EARL OF AVON The funeral of Lord Avon -will be held in private today The former Prune Minister and Foreign Secretary will be buried in the dwrehyard at Alvedis-ton Wilts after a funeral service -attended only by members of his family 8 i The Opposition is not rushing in this afternoon with its attack partly because the House Will be adjourning he Earl of after tributes to-the Avon but also because it wants to see the outcome of tomorrow 'adjourned court proceedings But it could try to force a censure debate later in the week unless Silkin gives a full explanation to the House Mr Tonf Jackson the leader conceded yesterday that part in the planned international week-long boycott of South Africa in protest ol apartheid had its as Silkin Silent and Not the Last Battlo -P13 Editorial Comment P12 a result of the Appeal decision on Saturday to grant an injunction preventing Post Office employees from disrupting mail and telephone calls After the temporary Injunction which was granted following an application by the Right-wing National Association for Freedom Mr Jackson called off the boycott which had been due to start at midnight last mght During the special sitting of the Appeal Court Mr Silkin was criticised by the judges following his refusal -either to bring proceedings himself over the threatened interference of the mail or to -consent to legal action vUndor tho Office Act it in an offence for a Post Continued on Back Cof 6 TWO DIVERS LOST IN EXERCISE Two Royal Marine divers disappeared in Loqh Long near the Clyde estuary during a weekend exercise The body of one Lt Jim Turner- 28 married with a baby son was recovered last night -Turner and CpL Christopher Dunworth 28 married with twin baby sons who were part of a small Royal Marine diving unit from Poole- Dorset vanished during routine diving pf the Loch on Saturday Pictures' P2 'f I Tt '-'N 1 SASKILL -J V- 7 JAMES ALLAN -AN A patrolshot dead a -gunman in a battle yesterday just inside the South Arpiagh border and 2l2 miles from Crossmaglen the I A stronghold It was only' the second time the Army has admitted a killing any of by the A since a company nearly 100 men was ordered in last January by Sir Harold Wilson then prime minister following the massacre of 10 Protestant workers in South Armagh The Army were restri formation about incident which occurred rioting about 215 pjn The local unit at Bess-orook the 1st Btn the Btn the Royal Highland Fusiliers was instructed to make no comment Fired 28 rounds An Army spokesman at head quarters in Lisburn County Antrim 'said that a uniformed SAS patrol heard 'a vehicle draw up near them A man wearing combat clothing and a -mask round his neck appeared from the direction of the vehicle which was- out of right Part of -the patrol moved forward probably from an observer to grab the man who was armed with a shotgun As soon as they did- they came under fire from at least one fther gunman- The SAS fired dff 28 rounds killing the man with the shotgun The rest of the terrorist- gang fled back across the border The dead man was Seamus Harvey aged 20 of Drumma-kaval a parish in Crossmaglen He was a well-known Gaelic footballer Crossmaglen is a notorious trouble spot for the Army and has a high concentration of hardline Republican 1 residents who continually fly the tricolor of the Republic Crossmaglen is staunchly opposed to British control and it is known as the Republic of Crossmaglen Forty-five soldiers have been killed in South Armagh since 1970 TALKS HOLD-UP DUE TO US RicixiRD -v '-t By Our Diplomatic Staff ha Johannesburg The staffing of the Rhodesian settlement talks Is not the faull: of the African: nationalist: Patriotic a statement from Ivor Richard night He said in Nairobi that the cancellation of meeting in Maputo Moxambique with the leader Mr Nkonux and Mr Mugabe was because the date was too early for the British team He now hopes to meet them towards the endc of this Mr Richard-will presumably have to wait in Nairobi where he has already spent five days until the leaders decide vhen and where they can get together No immediate solution Our Diplomatic Correspondent writes Whitehall is clearly reluctant to recall Mr Richard and tacitly admits there is no hope of a peaceful solution in the foreseeable future Smith advised tp talk to P4 WEST AFRICAN MERCENARY COUP FAILS By Our Staff Correspondent in Paris An attempt to overthrow the Lefrwing rigiae of President Kerekou jn tfae West African repubfic of Benia- fonnerly Dahomey failed yesterday Reports reaching Paris said that the State radio in Cotonou' the capital bad announced1 that An appeal was made to all citizens to help round up the in Major Kerekou' Overthrew the civilian government on Oct25 1972-In June 1975' he that 'Michel Aikpe his Interior Minister bb shot after Aikpe was jfoimd inched' with Here- Today's Weather (Midnight (ereeast) Gensral Situation Pressure -high while troughs- approad VT- London SJEJ Csn England Midlands' Anglia freezing fog patches cteariag -dry sunny pens? night frosts Wind -vartv tok becomiog light Uaac 43F eCL 'i'-T- Channel Is r-Dry -canny spcSs and wind jrdnaHe: be- coming SJv moderate 45F TO North Sea Stuait or Dover- Wind force 4 beamiinf Van able- Si Sea -might becoming smooth By lAN BRODIE in Salt Lake City Utah FTER the failure of a last-ditch legal move yesterday Gary Gilmore appeared certain to go before a firing squad today and gets his wash to become the first person to be executed in America for a decade Gilmore a 36-year-old homicidal maniac is due to die at sunrise 749 am (249 pm British time) for two murders committed last Police are trying to confirm whether any officers actually called at Pottery Cottage during the manhunt I would not wish to comment on' this because I am still making inquiries on this Mr Mitchell said This is a very important point and we would want to be sure that anything I say on this is absolutely He said officers concentrated on isolated bouses mil 'tins buildings My instruction was that police should gain admission to houses to satisfy Police did check outbuildings at a public house 300 yards away Rape Law Warning P13 from the cottage but did not visit a farmhouse only 100 yards away said Mrs Winifred Smart who lives there It is now dear that Hughes held members of the Moran family all complete strangers to him as captives in separate rooms Mr Mitchell said: Mrs Moran told us in general tenns that Hughes arrived on Wednesday What happened there was done under fear of their lives What was done at the house' was made to appear as normal as It is believed that Mr Arthur Minton Mrs 72-year-old father was killed before other of the family possibly members to terrorise them into not seeking help By the time the- alarm was raised and police had readied the cottage Hughes bad killed Mrs husband Richard sales manager of a plastics company who was found with stab wounds on the landing Hd' had also murdered their 10-year-old daughter Sarah found with her throat cut in a bedroom Mr Minton found in the lounge and his 70-year-old wife who had fled through a side door to the road Buried in snow looks as though Hughes dragged her body back into the garden- and covered it with snow Her throat had been said Mr Mitchell The final three killings occurred' before Hughes left the house Mrs I' holding Mrs Moran at knifepoint mud MrMitchelL Then i the dramatic chase -vhichended in a police marksman "killing Hughes at a roadblock at the Cheshire village of Rainow near Macclesfield Four shots were fired hy two officers said Mr Derbyshire Nofixedtermonlysbt notice of withdrawal audyour moneywiU earn SHAH SEEKS $500rn FOR OIL LOSS By ROLAND GRIBKEN Business Correspondent T3ERSIA is' planning to raise $500 million (£2924 million) from American and European banks to -cover budget deficits which are expected after the fall in her oil income Reports from Teheran yesterday said $200 million (£117 mil- lion) would be needed in current financial year and balance in the next Persia is reviewing its budget commitments and switching more of its trade to an oil barter instead of 'a cash basis to cushion the fall in revenues: The two-tier price system that emerged from the split in the racks of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries last month is forcing Persia and other oil states with ambitious industrial programmes to re- view spending plans Eleven OPEC states including Persia raised prices this month by 10 per-cent while Saudi Arabia the biggest OPEC producer and the United Arab Emirates are attempting to undermine the move by limiting their increase to five per cent- few the year Sharp fall oil income last year ia estimated to have reached $22000 million million) against a forecast $18000 (£10526 million) Revenue has fallen sharply so far this month after the price rise but is expected to recover in -the next two months when companies increase oil lifting Mr Dell Trade Secretary will be reporting back to the Cabinet this week on the outlook for British exports to Persia in the wake of the decision to extend' the oil barter principle from military to civilian trade He expects a large part of business will still be carried out on a credit basis But he recognises that there could be major problems in disposing of the more expensive Persian oiL More military deals involving the sale of British tanks armoured cars and ships are being negotiated on a barter basis There are doubts about whether Britain will get the re? maining $400-million from the $1 200-million loan negotiated with Persia SHAH ATTACKS 1 The Shah of' Persia said in an interview published yesterday that Western Europe suffers from bad- leadership and ineffective government Tbese factors rather than international economic problems would be the main cause' of a Communist take over b' In an exclusive interview with Newsweek the Shah said he could create economic 1 upheaval Western Europe leading to Communist rule societies are -not well run- You have no government TAIWAN REFUSED MISSILES By CLARE HOLLINGWORTH Defence Correspondent QHANG CHING-KUO Prime Minister of Taiwan and son of the late nationalist leader Chiang Kai Shek recently approached the British Air-por considerable Rapier missiles Although the Rapier an up-to-date missile was exclusively designed as a defensive weapon the Government when approached by-BAC advjsed that the subject should 'be pursued no French partners are believed-to oe engaged actively in attempting to persuade Peking to tike up options on Concorde But more -important a deal such as the proposed Rapier one would-seriQusly offend the Communist Government in -Peking For the' Communist Chinese envisage that- whed President Carter has' made his gesture to Tdseffc Russia and discovered his efforts to achieye meaningfnl dStente he 'vriu ta are fruitless he wilt take steps of the to carry out the terms Shanghai cornmnniqub- signed in February 1972 by President Nixou Kissinger This anticipated moves Towards tixe full diplomatic recognition of the Repubnc by the United- States wtricb necessitated the American abrogation of the mutual defence treaty -with Taiwan COMPUTER CLUES TO tXx xmjdgers Addresses of people who have disappeared without --paying taxes are- regularly supplied to the Inland Revenue by the Swansea computer centre where all driving licence and vehicle tax records are stored it was disclosed today Mr Brian Walden'- Labour MP for Birmingham LadywOod-who has been trying for fceven years to get Parbament to- pass a Bill for the protection of privacy said: It is very pienacing Although the Inland Revenue have a statutory Tight the moral principle involved i 3'- Equal to N7 1 -J summer Justice Byron White of the Supreme- Court yesterday refused to block execution The -'application was filed on behalf of two other men on death row The American Civil Liberties Union contended that death -would prejudice their appeals The judge announced his decision after telephoning other members of the Supreme Court Lawyers resubmitted their application to Justice Thiirgood Marshall but the clerk of the I J- court said' was unavailable' There will be vociferous demonstrations against Gil- Gilmore Becoming Big Buslhesr-r-P3 execution from groups opposed to the' death penalty who fear the shooting will im-peril the lives oi 355- other On death- rows But locally there is no overwhelming sense of outrage A belief in blood atonement is 'buried deep in the traditions of- the Mormons who founded Utah: There has been no lack of volunteers for the of five each to be1 $175 (about £100) -rifles wifi be poked through slits' 25 feet from Gilmore One weapon win contain a blank so that no member' the squad will ever be sure he fired a fatal bullet Utah is the only state to permit executions by firing rsquad and (Elmore those it in preference to lunging after refusing to appeal and -asking to be allowed to like a Last week he: was reported to-be forward -to getting It over But the weekend his mood was more Continued on Back CoLv3 IS IF It 19 29 and 21 Programmes 21 Topics 11 MiMMaiia US HOMES TESTED FOR POISON By Our Washington Staff American scientists are 'making second tests- at Moscow flats housing American and other diplomats to discover whether the Russian authorities have acted on complaints that the -water supply contains potentially harmful a amounts of (pride and mei cury Initial' tests last August showed that the water believed to be times LATE NEWS vHtt58 039 36 DIE TN BUS i Thirty-six kffled -15 when "train struck level in UPL EARTH5LIP THREA1 About inhabitants i Mexico Fetrolla Sottana Sicily ordered -by government to abandon homes when earth blip threatened homes follo sv RS'CBMdE3 Two Americans arrested charges FBI Christopher John 23 vand Andrew nLeef25Whol Verdes Calif brnia passed secret-defence docu ments and fHm' to Seviei AF 'Vjt TV and Radio ITognunmea and Entertainment Guide v-r Thointorost Quoted is W6abovoharata I nowpridonChelsaaSharMnnda flumantoo la given that tha efifforential wffi bo mrintainod at not loss ttun thn rrntm nwLI rara above the rate Cholsoa Shaioo t- paid on from time to time bu may open your account with any sum tom £500 to accounts)4 -r 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