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design (DC) and build for industry and commerce IDC Limited Stratford-upon Avon Tel: 0789 4288 No. 37833. LONDON, TUESDAY, £330m LIFT FOR TRADE FIGURES Britain goes 'back in the black' By CLIFFORD GERMAN, Financial Correspondent THE December trade figures, the first to be issued since the Prime Minister took personal charge of the economy last week, showed a dramatic improvement yesterday. The current account was in surplus by £21 million after showing a deficit of £309 million in November. The Bank of England took advantage of the news to buy more dollars, and the pound rose only just over a quarter cent to close at But stocks and shares responded dramatically.

Government stocks ended with gains of over f1 in some cases, and the share index jumped points to Not quite half the improvement of £330 million in the current account can be explained by special factors. The balance of trade in oil improved by £79 million as stockpiling in advance of the oil exporters' meeting last month slowed The JANUARY 18, 1977. Printed in LONDON and MANCHESTER Wearing white trousers, Gary Gilmore is led from the death cell to a var which took him to His execution by firing squad in an old tannery in Utah 80 DIE' IN State prison. Killer sent hostages out shopping Daily Telegraph CRUSHED TRAIN A BRIDGE crashed on to a crowded commuter train in, a Sydney suburb today what police spokesman called the worst tragedy we have ever had." Police at the scene said the death toll could be as high as 80. More than 100 people were injured.

Rescue workers said the diesel-electric train apparently jumped the rails near the bridge at Glanville while travelling at speed. It hit a bridge support and 45 tons of concrete crashed down on the wooden carriages. Three cars fell from the bridge onto the wreckage. The train was on its way to Sydney Central station from Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains, 50 miles away. Blast danger Leaking gas and fallen power cables added to the danger as rescuers toiled to rescue the 200 people believed to be trapped.

Many rescuers were overcome by the gas. flame and this place wounded blown sky high," said Sam Polistini, a member of the gas company's emergency team. One survivor said the carriage he was travelling in burst open like a sardine tin after a pole carrying cables sliced through it. A witness said he heard a rumble as the train was entering Glanville station, and saw the engine leave the tracks as it passed through the bridge. Screams from wreckage People are wandering around the streets with blood over them, and you can hear people still trapped in the carriages screaming for their lives." A policeman told reporters: There are people trapped inside and there is no way we can get to them in a hurry.

Some have been completely -Reuter, U.PI and A P. "The carriages following slewed off the track," he said. Today's Weather (Midnight forecast) GENERAL SITUATION: Pressure high to low to S. and LONDON, S.E., CEN. ENGLAND, MIDLANDS: Cloudy, outbreaks of rain or snow dying out.

Wind S.E. moderate or fresh. Max. (3-4C). E.

ANGLIA, E. ENGLAND: Cloudy, wintry showers. Wind S.E. moderate fresh. 36-37F (2-3C).

CHANNEL S. WALES, S.W. ENGLAND: Cloudy, rain, perhaps moderate snow falls on high ground. Wind S.E. moderate or fresh, locally strong.

39-43F (4-6C). S. NORTH SEA, STRAIT OF DOVER: Wind S.E. force 4, increasing 5 or 6. Sea slight becoming rough.

ENGLISH S. 5 or 6, locally. 7, veering S.W. and decreasing 4. Moderate becoming rough at times.

ST. GEORGE'S S. 6 to gale 8, veering S.W. 4 rough. IRISH SEA: SW.

6-8. -Rough. OUTLOOK: Cloudy, rain at times, snow on high ground. Weather Maps-P24 8p KNOW YOUR CHILD IS SAFE Britax in a Britax child A SO safety seat "Dry rot Britain' jibe by Prince By PETER GILL PRINCE PHILIP maintains for forthright magazine saiputation interview today which is certain to provoke rage from the egalitarian Left. have virtually left the league of the big powers." he told Director magazine.

Third World, here we come!" He likens the "country's economic crisis to rot in building. You don't know when it starts, but gradually the place becomes uninIn a withering characterisation of the way British society blunts initiative, Prince Philip says: You need not try to provide for your children, because the State says No, a are better able to educate You need not try to provide (well you can try) for your health, because the State says 'No, we can do it for You need not try to provide for your old age, because you have got to be taxed to provide other social benefits, and in any case there is a national pension scheme." Taut formula Prince Philip argues that this feather-bedding is contrary to the nature instinct of the British. Hand offers this taut formula for turning the country's failure into success. We have got to come' back a little and not concentrate quite SO heavily on the unsuccessful and the unfortunate and the create where the enprivileged, but try to terprising can make their contribution, which will also help the under-privileged." He complains about savings income being described as 66 unearned income 99 says investors are forced card of industrial shares into jewellery, pictures, china and objets d'art. Even the trades unions are doing it," he adds.

This completely destroys the system anyway, because what has made one of the strengths our economic strengths-has been the will of people to put their money back to work." Very attractive' 66 This is very attractive and it sounds as if it would work," he says. 6 But if you demoralise the initiative end of the business, you destroy the very thing you are trying to create." Comrade countries." as bloc, behind in all but Prince Philip, calls the Eastern the arms race. The Russian system is a total disaster, total failure." he says. There is wrong with the Russians, it's just something wrong with the system." But Prince Philip extends little comfort to Mrs Thatcher's doctrinaire Tories. I don't think coalition would make any he says.

The commitment to ways thought is SO strong that it would almost be impossible to change them that way." Prince Philip says Marxists have devised a system where the majority in an industrialised society can always predominate. PROTEST AS MPs ADJOURN IN AVON TRIBUTE By Our Political Correspondent The Commons tributes to the Earl of Avon came to a jarring end yesterday as a lone Leftwinger opposed adjournment of the House, the traditional Parliamentary, gesture of respect of a former Prime Minister. But the attempt by Mr Dennis Skinner Bolsover) to force a division on the Government's motion that the House should adjourn for the rest of the day failed when no other MP came forward to act as a teller with him to supervise the counting of the votes. Parliament-P6 TAXI PRISONER ESCAPES By Our Crime Staff Another prisoner escaped from a taxi taking to court yesterday. Terole, Glover, 18, slipped his handcuffs as he arrived at Willesden Court, North London, face a burglary charge a few hours before MPs discussed the escape of William Hughes who later killed four people in Derbyshire.

Glover was being escorted by prison officers from the Ashford Remand Centre to Willesden Court, an overflow for Middlesex Grown Court. ROYAL BABY Queen Silvia of Sweden is expecting her first child in July. The German-born Queen, 33, married King Carl Gustaf last June. By STANLEY GOLDSMITH MEMBERS by of escaped massacred knifeman Moran William family Hughes were to go shopping and take their dog for a walk during the two days he held them captive while police were hunting him. But they were so terrified by his threats to.

kill hostages still at the cottage that they did not raise the alarm and returned home to captivity, Mr Alfred Mitchell, Assistant Chief Constable of Derbyshire, Chief Constable of Derbyshire, said yesterday. The story of the days of terror at Pottery Cottage, Eastmoor, Chesterfield, was told to police by Mrs Gillian Moran, 55-yearold sole survivor of the family. Hughes, who killed her husband, daughter and parents, also sexually assaulted her twice before he was shot by police marksmen on Friday night. While Hughes, who was armed with a collection of knives and two axes, held the family, he forced them to make life at the cottage appear normal. Several business and social telephone calls were made and received.

When council employees emptied the cottages septic Editorial Comment-P12 tank, Mrs. Moran signed their work ticket, and her mother took the dog for a walk. Hughes forced Mr and Mrs Moran to drive him to Sutton-inAshfield, Notts, twice. She and her husband were also made to drive Hughes to Staveley so that he' could rob the factory where Mr. Moran was sales director.

Hughes forced his way into the cottage three hours after escaping while being taken to court at Chesterfield to face charges, of rape and grievous bodily harm. Terror timetable From Mrs Moran's story and their own investigations police have pieced together this timetable of terror. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Hughes entered Pottery Cottage when only Mrs Moran's parents -Arthur Minton, aged 72, and Amy Minton, aged 70-were in. Mrs and her 10-vear-old daughter, Sarah, arrived home soon afterwards followed by Mr Moran, and all were held up by Hughes. WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mr.

and Sarah were put in separate rooms, and of the family. were not allowed to. see them. Both probably murdered that evening, but Hughes. kept up the pretence that a they were alive by taking food to their rooms.

THURSDAY MORNING Mrs. INDEX TO OTHER PAGES PAGE Home News 2, 3 and 13 Foreign News 4 Arts Notices 9 Births, Marriages Deaths 26 City News 15, 16 and 17 City Prices 16 Court and Social 10 Entertainments Guide ......25 'Let's do it' Gilmore shouts -and dies By IAN BRODIE in Salt Lake City WITH a defiant cry of "Let's do it," Gary Gilmore met the death he had so earnestly pursued, in front of a firing squad in an old tannery at Utah State prison yesterday, 18 minutes after an icy sunrise. He died strapped in an oak chair with a black corduroy hood covering his head' and a white target pinned over his heart. From a black canvas cubicle eight yards away, the barrels of calibre rifles protruded from five tiny slits. One gun fired a blank in the execution volley.

The other four bullets tore through Gilmore and punched a small cluster of bloodstained holes into the chair's black upholstery. All four hit the heart, said State medical examiner Serge Moore, although Gilmore did not die clinically for a further two minutes. Within 10 minutes his body was speeding in a blue Ford station to a Salt Lake City hospital, where it was to be used for transplants and Texas Execution Delayed, and Picture-P4 research. A nurse was putting drops into the eyes to preserve the corneas as the car slipped through gates. The execution, at 3.07 p.m.

British ended a 10-year moratorium the death penalty in Americatter a frantic series of last-minute legal manoeuvres to save the 36-year-old double murderer who did not wish to be saved. But the State of Utah was as eager and determined to kill Gilmore as be killed. To this end, State officials thwarted a maverick judge, who had issued a midnight restraining order, by rousing three other judges from their beds, flying one' of them to another, State on a special plane, getting the order reversed in a pre-dawn session. In the process, the American judicial system was exposed for all its cumbersome complexity, bordering in this case on the macabre. Dying with dignity now open the floodgates to renewed capital punishment, set off a wave of revulsion against the death penalty.

In the space lad seven hours, Gilmore was told would be shot at sunrise, then that he would not, and finally, four minutes before sunrise, that he would. He reacted to the postponement with fury, screaming obscenities at the TV set in the Continued on Back Col. 5 The law was stretched to the limit and Gilmore died -with dignity, by all accounts. It is still too early to tell whether the night's events will SORENSEN REFUSES CIA JOB By STEPHEN BARBER in Washington 18p MINIMUM LOAF, BREAD MEN DECIDE Daily Telegraph Reporter 'A MINIMUM retail price of 18p for a standard white loaf was agreed yesterday by bread deliverymen's representatives in Manchester. Voting was 64-63 in favour.

They heavily defeated a proposal by their union, the United Road Transport Workers, that the price should be 17p. The agreed price is 1p lower than the 19p which has recently been imposed by some union members in the Counties. Mr Jackson Moore, union general secretary, said, that anyone selling below will not be. supplied with bread. The decision will have to be ratified formally by an emergency meeting of the union's executive committee next Saturday, but Mr Mooren said he was confident the delegates at yesterday's meeting report to members today, the nationwide 18p minimum will come into effect immediately.

Hattersley accused Hattersley, Prices Minister, of Moore, accused Roy political opportunism and gimmickry over his forecast of 8p off a loaf. He must have read the Bible story of loaves and fishes. They sent hire to Iceland, but he failed with fish. Now he is having a go at the loaves." The Consumers' Association last night condemned the delivery men 6 6 for penalising shoppers and pushing up prices." back spokesman said: Such methods of re-introducing resale price maintenance cannot be tolerated." PILOT IN BLAZING V-BOMBER SAVES A TOWN The pilot, stayed at the controls of blazing RAF Vulcan bomber yesterday until he was sure it would crash well clear of a small market town where dozens of children were leaving school. He ejected safely seconds before: the plane crashed in a beet field half a mile from Spilsby, Lincolnshire.

Earlier the four other crew members had ejected safely. The crew were: Flight Lieutenants Bob Aspinall, 30, of York (captain); Neil Ryder, 27 (copilot); John Critchley, 26 (radar navigator); John. Clark, 45 (navigator plotter), all from Lincoln; and Vernon Prior, 45, of Waddington (air electronics officer). STRAND HOTELS SOLD TO FORTES Trust Houses Forte Ltd, have bought the Strand Hotel Group of 35 hotels in Britain, and four Knott Hotels Corporation properties New York and London, it was announced yesterday. The Strand hotels, worth £271 million, include the Cumberland, Regent Palace and Strand Palace Hotels in London, the Ariel Hotel at Heathrow Airport.

19 Falcon Ians. and major hotels in the were said have cost provinces. Then Knott Hotels million. down. Trade in completed ships, another traditionally erratic sector, showed an improvement of £59 million.

Exports rose by £137 million to £2,362 million while imports fell by £193 million to £2,541 milion, bringing the deficit on visible trade in goods and materials down from £509 million in November to £179 in December. The surplus on invisible trade was estimated at £200 million in both months. The volume of exports rose by four and a half per and prices went up on average by two per cent. last month, while the volume of imports fell by seven and a half per and import prices rose by one per cent. Deficit cut Apart from the fall in oil imports, arrivals of all other major types of raw materials and semi-finished goods fell, but of manufactured goods, especially machinery, rose.

The dramatic improvement in the December trade figures produced only the second current account surplus of the year, and the fourth since 1973. The late improvement helped to cut the deficit on the current account to £295 million in the fourth quarter from £555 million in the third quarter. The deficit for 1976 as a whole was £1.526 million, a further improvement on the deficit of £1.656 million in 1975 and £3,323 million in 1974. Until the autumn a further deterioration had been expected. Richardson's optimism Mr Gordon Ba Richardson, Governor of the land, said last night that a series corrective measures has put Britain's money policy back on course.

There is now a framework for firm decisions and for keeping a grip on monetary developments, he believed. Last summer there was a marked acceleration of monetary expansion due to the concurrence of continuing high public sector borrowing, a resurgence of inflationary expectations and increased bank borrowing associated with foreign exchange. pressure. These developments forced us to a series of corrective measures. We are now back on course." Monetary targets had been period ahead, were not enagreed then IMF for the tirely inflexible.

do not expect it to be necessary, it is open to us to revie targets with IMF they appear to be leaving insufficient. room to meet the financial needs of industry." said Mr Richardson. City Comment-P15 SAVING IN NORTH SEA OIL By Our Business Correspondent North Sea oil output is on target to meet between third and a half of domestic demand this year and produce a £2,000 million balance of payments savings, the Department of Energy said yesterday. Production from seven fields is now running at the rate of 27 million tonnes a year, equivalent to more than a quarter of consumption. THEODORE SORENSEN, nominated to be the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, stunned Congress yesterday by announcing that he had asked Mr Jimmy Carter to withdraw the nomination.

He made the announcement to the Senate Intelligence after reading out a lengthy statement to the effect that he was entirely qualified for the job and denying what hie called 66 scurrilous and unfounded personal attacks which have been anonymously circulated against He was withdrawing because he felt that the controversy around him would either -fr handicap the new administration if I am rejected or handicap my effectiveness as director if I am confirmed." Four-star rating Senator Daniel Inouye, the committce chairman, was plai staggered. not expected," he said after a short silence, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, he said, had carried out a thorough security check into Continued on Back Col. 3 RHODESIA HANGS 8 TERRORISTS By Our Salisbury Correspondent Eight Africans convicted, of urban -terrorism were hanged at dawn yesterday in Salisbury Central prison, the Rhodesian Justice Ministry confirmed last night. All had pleaded guilty and all were members of Bishop Muzorewa's African National Council. They were convicted and sentenced to death last September for acts of terrorism Days of festivities in South America Mrs Gillian Moran.

Moran was allowed out of the house to buy cigarettes and newspapers for Hughes. She had the chance police, but decided not to because she feared for her family's safety. THURSDAY NIGHT: Hughes forced Mrs Moran to drive him to Sutton-in-Ashfield. He told her one visit was to see friends and the other to. pick up Continued on Back Col.

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