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--4 rch 1:. 77 St eeti No. 35,871 3p Saturday, November 3, 1973 Midland Edition 359 3020 Firemen agree to £5 rise and cut in hours Rises of almost £5 a eek were agreed for ritain's firemen at a meeting in London last The new rates and an eight, rs-a-week cut in duties efieetiye from November 7, are fllbiect to approval by the ortie Secretary. Mr. John Hamilton.

a memu er of the Glasgow firemen's sstrike committee, said last night that the new agreement a ppeared to meet the Glasgow men's claim. A statement issued by the ational Joint Council for Lo a Authorities Fire Brigades, who agreed on the rise, said the negotiations were on new pay, hours and duties 'Harter. They included a payent for working unsocial ours under Phase Three. The statement added that ggreat deal more detail" ad to be worked out. Coun- 1 representatives were meeting the Home Secretary on Monday, clEmiNj ussian th ussia announced last night iZt it would refuse to play World Cup qualifying 1 against Chile in I i 'go rater this month.

ccused the International all Federation (F IF A) supporting Chilean reby insisting that the take place as scheduled. titer. 1 think we had better let Daddy light it." peer 'shaken' Lord who had en driving an invalid car Arch Park Corner and le to demonstrate stability, was later in an accident in the ght.a spokesman said last added that Lord Snowwas shaken after the eident on Thursday. The turned over in the ulinds of Kensington Palace. Strike will bite industries in the West nlands will grind to a halt as the result of a 14 1 strike by engineering members over the fine imposed on the li by the Industrial Relas Court.

11 eY include the Austin at Longbridge, where Production of about 1,500 0 forth £1.5 million will 1. pape rs apology Acne Newspaper Publishers' ti sA last night apolo-04'cl in advance to readers behalf of the national 1 4 0Pers about the nontil3cation of papers in tk lon next Monday. assoc sa it or 4 iationtd be the tenth daily loss Publication of national Lirki rs in two years due to AO tria action for political 'Lucky escape A. lii eight-year-old Birminglig' boy escaped with his i a van ran over him le av ge lay hidden in a pile of yesterday, during a t'e of hide-and-seek. ein Leonard Cooper, of i Wall Road, Billesley, een playing with friends Ar on service road off Yardley ate Road.

He was taken to 11 i najor injuries unit at 41 "'ngham Accident his condition was itbi factorv." Police said his ri es were not serious. eserves up tr. (), I twin's official reserves ct rs bY £l3l million during qrl'er, after foreign cur-4eeteY borrowing by the public totalling £123 million. now stand at £2,335 a It was the first rise Se rVeS since June. itY 4 flies in Leopold Trepper, leader of the Russian Orchestra" espionage 111411.3, arrived in London last from Warsaw.

Is to have medical treate, for high blood prese. I ar is art raid impressionist paint- A valued at £950.000, were Yesterday from the Paris, Odernatt Gallery. Nixon knew of missing tapes 5 weeks ago, aide claims President Nixon knew at least five weeks ago that two of the nine secret Watergate tapes, that he agreed to surrender last week to the courts, were missing, a White House official testified yesterday. Stephen Bull, a special assistant to Mr. Nixon, said at a court hearing into the tapes that the President told him on September 29 at Camp David, Maryland, that the tapes were missing.

Mr. Bull, who also told Judge John Sirica th i perhaps two or three, perhaps more other tap Presidential conversations may be missing," said had been directed on September 29 by Ge Alexander Haig, Mr. Nixon's chief of staff, to tak several tapes to Camp David. Gen. Haig indicated that the President wished to begin a review of certain conversations requested by the Senate Watergate Committee and by till prosecutors," he said.

Mr. Bull said he took the tapes and a recording machine to play them to Camp David and set the equipment up for Mr. Nixon. "At the time it appeared that two of the conversations requested were not contained on the tapes that had been provided to me," he said. "Who told you that." Mr.

Douglas Parker, a White House Lawyer, asked. "Ultimately, the President," Mr. Bull replied. "Did anyone else tell you that Mr. Parker asked.

"No, sir." Mr. Bull said that the tapes that Mr. Nixon told him were missing were those of conversations on June 20, 1972 with the former Attorney General, Mr. John Mitchell, and on April 15, 1973 with the then White House Counsel, Mr. John Dean.

Mr. Richard Ben-Veniste, a lawyer for the special prosecution force, told Judge Sirica that the White House had not proved that the tapes never existed Glimmer of hope in Chrysler dispute Technical Security Division of the Secret Service's Office of Protective Intelligence, said he did not ask what use was made of the tapes when he gave them to Mr. John Bennett, a special assistant to the President. There was a glimmer of hope that secret talks aimed at settling the 13-week Chrysler dispute would be successful, a union official said last night. Mr.

Sims was asked how he could justify the actions of his subordinate, Mr. Raymond Zumwalt, in keeping records of the checking-in and checkin -out of the tapes on scraps of brown wrapping paper. The talks at an undisclosed place in London, between Mr. Peter Griffiths, Chrysler's director of industrial relations, and Mr. Roy Sanderson national industrial officer of the Electricians' Union, were adjourned last night until Monday.

Mr. Sims, who conceded that the notes had to be carefully examined and recopied when public disclosure of the tapes' existence was made in July, said that Mr. Zumwalt was a technician, not an administrator. Asked if he was satisfied that Mr. Bull was acting on the authority of President Nixon in withdrawing tapes from time to time, Mr.

Sims said: Yes, sir, I asked Mr. Bull." This means that a mass meeting of striking electricians planned for tomorrow at which it was hoped a return-to-work formula would be put to the men has now been postponed until Wednesday. At the end of the 31 hour talks, Mr. Sanderson said: "We are making some progress. I think you could now say there is a glimmer of hope." The meeting was an extension of secret talks which began in London on Thursday night.

Memorandum dictated. The White House has said that investigations showed That the conversation with Mr. Mitchell took place from an extension telephone outside the recording network in the White House and that the recording machine ran out of tape during the Dean conversation. "We believe that a complete inquiry to solicit all the facts is mandated," Mr. Ben Veniste said.

He also said that while he recalled clearly occasions on which Mr. Bull returned some of the withdrawn tapes, the log showing the traffic in tapes did not indicate anything but the complete return of all tapes. In Key Biscayne, Florida, where Mr. Nixon was spending the weekend, the Presidential spokesman, Mr. Gerald Warren, said that Mr.

Nixon dictated a memorandum of his recollections of the meeting with Mr. Dean and that this record was still in existence. Haldeman to be called He said that the prosecution would call the former White House chief of staff, Mr. H. R.

Haldeman, and his former aide. Mr. Larry Higby, the Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Henry Peersen, and the Federal Aviation Administrator, Mr. Alexander Butterfield, who revealed the existence of the tapes on July 16.

Mr. Haldeman has been subpoenaed to testify next Thursday. He said he did not know if a similar record was made of the conversation with Mr. Mitchell. Mr.

Warren said that Mr. Nixon dictated the memorandum on a private tape recorder in his office shortly after his April 15 meeting with Mr. Dean. Mr. Nixon's lawyers would be conferring with Judge Sirica about ways of making the information in the memorandum available to him, Mr.

Warren added. The Russian Press, which once shunned any discussion of the Watergate scandal, has begun carrying reports of moves to impeach President Nixon for his possible involvement in the case. Mr. Louis Sims, the Secret Service agent who supervised storage of the White House Watergate tapes, said that when tapes were checked out to a Presidential assistant, no record was kept of who listened to them. Mr.

Sims, who heads the Work continues Meanwhile. car production was continuing and the firm said it was prepared to implement "without reservations" all the recommendations of the Campbell report which the union has rejected. A redundancy plan for 8.000 workers would not be applied while work continued, said a spokesman. The 4,000 hourly-rated production men at the Chrysler engine factory in Coventry yesterday accepted a pay rise of £2.41 a week as part of their annual wage review. It is within the Government's £1 plus 4 per cent limit and gives top skilled production workers a weekly wage of just over 47.

The accepted offer includes two extra days holiday. Border blast A border customs post at Tullydonnell, near Forkhill, Co. Armagh, was blown up yesterday by eight armed men who had earlier hijacked a Post Office van. Literary Luncheon The Birmingham Post will again be presenting a strong cast of authors and personalities when it holds its second literary lunch of the new season on November 28. They are: Alistair Cooke, doyen of reporters in the English-speaking world, historian of 20th century America and star of the much-loved radio feature, Letter from America; Marie Herbert, wife of Arctic explorer Wally Herbert and explorer and anthropologist in her own right; and Robert Dougall, television announcer, ornithologist and now autobiographer.

The luncheon will 6 held at the Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Wednesday, November 28. Tickets will cost £2.90 each (exclusive of wine), and ticket-holders will have an opportunity before and after the luncheon of meeting the speakers and of buying signed copies of their books. The reception will be at 12 noon for luncheon at 12.30. The speeches will begin at approximately 1.45 p.m. and the luncheon will end at about 3 p.m.

An application coupon for tickets is below. The old and the modern in policewomen's fa shion are demonstrated by Pauline Dee (left) of the Thames Valley Constabulary, and her elder sister, Rosemary Pedersen, who has been in the Birmingham City Police for six years. Pauline, in the uniform of the 19205, and Rosemary are working on the police stand a the Careers for '7l exhibition at Bingley Hall, Birmingham. I'll marry paralysed boy, says girl, 18 Penny Smith spoke last night of her determination to marry her boy friend although he is paralysed from the neck down and may spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. The man she wants to marry, Graham Hendley, aged 20, of Grange Lane, Sutton Coldfield, yesterday told a judge at Chester how much he wanted to marry her.

He had been awarded £60,000 damages in compensation for the injuries he received in a motorcycle accident on his way to Penny's home in March. He said: "She has stood by me. I would like to marry her very much but it is up to Penny." Accident Last night, at her parent's home in Ogley Drive. Falcon Lodge, Sutton Coldfield, Penny, an 18-year-old shop assistant said she would' marry him no matter what happened. She said "I have asked him to marry me but he says: until I get out of this I think he will be out of it some day." They have been going out together for two years and had been planning to get engaged until the accident occurred.

Penny also spoke of the night it happened and of a premonition that sent her to the Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, within minutes of the crash. "I had been waiting for him to arrive and I decided to walk into town. I told my mother ti tell Graham which way I had gone if he came," she said. "I heard an ambulance on the way. I just knew it was Graham, and I went to the hospital and asked an ambulanceman if there had been an accident with a motor cycle.

"He said they were just bringing a case in. They told me I had to identify him. I thought he was dead. I was terribly frightened," she said. Since then, Graham has been at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, but he is allowed home for some weekends.

Devoted Penny's mother, Mrs. Celia Smith said she would be perfectly happy to see the couple marry, despite the problems that would face them. "They are devoted. We hope and pray that science will produce some way to help him recover," she said. The damages were awarded against Mr.

Sidney Wallis of Hollydale Road, Birmingham, whose car collided with Graham's motor cycle. Part of the money will be used to pay for alterations to Graham's home so that he can live with his parents. Weekend joint safe despite power ban Britain's housewives will have no trouble cooking the weekend jointdespite the overtime ban by power workers. The Central Electricity Generating Board said last night that they did not expect any weekend blackouts. A spokesman said: "Demand does not come anywhere near that on weekdays.

We should be able to cope easily." The overtime ban by 30.000 engineers, now in its third day, has already hit power supplies all over the country. Eastern Electricity last night issued a warning that householders might face long delays in having their supplies restored if there were breakdowns over the weekend. A spokesman said: "While we hope some restorations of supply may be possible, it is unlikely that any breakdown which requires repair work will be tackled until normal working hours on Monday at the earliest." The Electrical Power Engineers' Association had, however, undertaken to take action where there was danger to life. The power men are claiming extra money under a year-old agreement hit by the pay freeze. The crunch is expected to come on Monday.

when shops and offices switch on with industry and homes after the weekend's low power demands. Responsibility Leaders of the engineers' union have warned that the ban will go on "until a satisfactory settlement is reached." An Electricity Council spokesman said last night "All the evidence so far suggests that the engineers have been acting with their usual sense of responsibility, and have so far avoided causing any widespread disruption to electricity supply. More people could face inconvenience through local faults during the weekend, in some cases until Monday. Area boards had been advised to "bring up to date plans for protecting the public should the situation deteriorate." Not all power stations are required to generate all the time so the closure of one or two would make no difference to supplies. An example is Worcester power station, which will remain closed until next week because of a fault.

"It would have taken several days to repair anyway, but with the overtime ban it will take a little longer," the CE spokesman said. But if faults occur outside working hours engineers, on union instructions cannot repair them until the following day. New rules to beat pollution New international rules that should go alng way towards beating marine pollution were announced in London yesterday The code, which will lead to big changes in tanker construction, was drawn up at a four week International Marine Pollution Conference. Miss Penny Smith Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke, born in Salford in 1908, dates his interest in American affairs back to his student days at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took a first-class degree in English and was active in university drama. After visits to America on Fellowships he decided to settle there in 1937 and became an American citizen in 1941.

Since 1948 he has been The Guardian's chief United States correspondent, and he is equally well known as the C's expert on American affairs. His radio talks, Letter from America, have been widely admired and loved by a generation of listeners. This year he became an honorary KBE for his services to Anglo-American understanding. He is the author of a number of books, notably an outstanding account of the Alger Hiss case, A Generation on Trial. His new book is based on his popular television series on the history of America.

Marie Herbert Marie Herbert was born in Ireland, but from the age of six to 18 she lived in Ceylon and India, where her father was a Professor of Veterinary Science. She then spent three years at drama school in London and afterwards taught speech and drama until, in 1969, she married the Polar explorer, Wally Herbert. She has been twice with her husband to Greenland, and looks forward to going back as often as possible. She taught herself thelanguage and made friends with the Eskimos, who often do not make friends even with each other. Her book, The Snow People, is a record of a year spent living with the Greenland Eskimos, who told her tales of the past and explained the day-to-day pattern of their lives.

Wally and Marie Herbert took their baby daughter, Kari, with them, an infallible way of getting in touch with the child loving Eskimos. Robert Dougall Robert Dougall, born in Croydon in 1913, began his career with the BB in 1933 as a pioneer announcer in the Empire Service. When war came he transferred to work as a reporter during the London Blitz. He spent three years with the Royal Navy, part of it at the Russian end of the Arctic convoy route. He returned to the after the war, and later took up broadcasting assignments in Kenya and Singapore.

He then became a member of the C's television news team after years as a leading radio newsreader. He quickly became a national figure as a relaxed but always serious and dignified reader of news, much of it depressing, as he admits in his autobiography. He has developed a great interest in bird-life and for the past three years has served as President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the largest conservation body in the country. Meir plan for both to pull back Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel has proposed to President Nixon that Egyptian and Israeli forces pull back from opposite sides of the Suez Canal, informed sources said in Washington yesterday. Mrs.

Meir is also reported to have suggested the creation of a neutral, demilitarised zone on each bank of the canal, to be policed by the United Nations emergency force now in the Middle East. Senators who met Mrs. Meir yesterday said she was continuing to resist any major alteration of the ceasefire line until Egypt released an estimated 370 Israeli prisoners. President Sadat returned to Cairo yesterday from a swift round of secret talks with his key backers in the October war against Israel, Cairo radio announced. Common strategy The broadcast was the first formal announcement from any Arab capital of Mr.

adat's visits to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. In Kuwait he met President Hafez Assad of Syria and the ruling Sheikh of Kuwait and in the Saudi capital of Riyadh he met King Faisal. Egyptian officials said the talks were to formulate common strategy for progress towards a negotiated Middle East setlement and for a renewal of hostilities of the Israelis did not withdraw to positions held when the first U.N. ceasefire came into effect on October 22. The officials said Egypt was not prepared to give up any military positions it pre.

sently held on its own land west of the Suez Canal. UP Reuter, COLOUR TODAY in the SATURDAY MAGAZINE The power game: an action-packed look at the water-skimming world of powerboat racing. NEXT WEEK Detente: John Falding, just back from Dublin, discusses the new mood of mutual understanding between Britain and the Republic. Lorry battle: the residents of Streetly take their battle against lorries to the courts. POSTSCRIPT JAMES CLAYTON Monday to Friday a personal view.

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