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OVERSEAS NEWS THE GUARDIAN Friday June 8 1984 8 Germans want to bury hatchet television channel, after Revenge killings in gaol takeover Council again divides nine against one EEC shorter hours proposal vetoed by isolated Britain From Anna Tomforde In Bonn Allied celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of the Normandy landings have been greeted in West Germany with mixed feelings of indifference, resentment, and regret that a chance has been missed to demonstrate that erstwhile enemies have become friends. The interest of the general public previously largely unaware of the" event was finally aroused this week by television documentaries, the showing of the The Longest Day and the live transmission of Wednesday's ceremonies on the Normandy beaches. National newspapers, led by the Conservative press, gave detailed descriptions of D-Day events, but largely refrained from comment, Many young people believe that "too much fuss' was made about the anniversary, and expressed the fear that good relations we have built up with our Western allies" might have been damaged. While one student joked that he would not have his blue jeans but for D-Day, others took the more serious view that the commemoration undermined European unity. The feeling that the past should, be forgotten was also expressed by scores of people who phoned ARD, the first King Olaf of Norway salutes to the memory of the fallen in Caen, Normandy The EEC Commission, which" prepared the original proposals on which officials have laboured for three years, pointed out, however, that the whole idea is to encourage schemes which have no ill effect on competitiveness.

The text which Britain was unable to approve stated specifically that unit labour costs should not be allowed to rise if hours were cut. The Social Affairs Commissioner, and former Labour MP, Mr Ivor Richard, has promoted the scheme heavily in recent attracting on the way some heavy flak from both sides of industry: The CBI is bitterly opposed in principle, on the same grounds as Mr King. Trade unions, too, have reacted angrily to Mr Richard's suggestion that they must not insist on wage compensation for reduced hours. "I am very disappointed." said Mr Richard yesterday. "We have worked long and hard with the active participation of all.

'the delegations, including the British, and we produced a text which i thought reproduced the points of view of everyone. We are convinced that this is one of the ways to help reduce unemployment. So, it seems, are nine of the 10 countries." Mr King's case he said, had been based on the false premise that competitiveness could best be preserved without the sort of framework strategy proposed by the Commission. But that meant continuing with the employer-union negotiations which has produced the very 33 per cent fall in competitive ness of which he had complained. The French Communist Minister, Mr Jacques Ralite.

told the ministers that unemployment in the Community was costing $200 billion in benefits alone, or 7 per cent of Community GDP. From Derek Brown in Luxembourg Britain yesterday marched briskly out of line with her European partners, by refuslriK to endorse an EEC initiative to alleviate unemployment through shorter working liomn. The Council of Minister divided on increasingly familiar lines: nine against one, with Britain the odd one out. Its isolation was further underlined by the French presidency's refusal to accept the British right to torpedo three years of preparatory work on the proposal. The draft which the nine other countries accepted yesterday will be forwarded to the European summit in Fontainbleau on June 25 and 26, when Mrs Thatcher will have to take responsibility in person for her apparent veto on the employment plan.

The text itself is hardly radical. Without setting targets deadlines, or methods, it invites member States to include reduced' working time in their thinking on ways to deal with unemployment. Even the German Government, embroiled in a dispute with the huge metalworkers' union over their call for a 35-hour week, was able to accept the value of shorter hours as part of an employment strategy. But the British Employment Secretary, Mr Tom King, would have none of it. Competitiveness, lie insisted, had to remain the top priority.

Over a 20-year period the competitiveness of Europe in relation to the rest of the world has declined by one-third. There has been a significant fall in our share of world trade, and with that decline millions of jobs have gone," he said. The best hope for more jobs in Europe comes from improved competitiveness. At the to D-Day celebrations From Paul Webster in Paris A three-man commando- of the banned Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) took over a prison in Ajaccio early yesterday and shot dead in their cells two men awaiting trial in connection with the imurder of the Corsican Nationalist leader, Guy Orsini. The three gunmen later surrendered to police after an at tempt to free two other Corsi- can activists failed.

The killing of Jean-Marc Leccia, alleged to be behind Orsini's kidnap and murder, and Salvatore Contini will re launch speculation on the shadowy assassination a year ago of Orsini, a member of the liberation ironi, on me eve or a visit to the island by President Mitterrand. The front accused the Government of involvement in the killng of Orsini, whose body has never been found. His" death led to rioting and the subsequent banning of the FLNC. Seven men were held in connection with the murder, including Leccia, a leader of the Corsican Mafia, who was arrested in Miami in December. The FLNC alleged that he organised the murder, throw-in? Orsini's body into the sea.

yesterday's raid was the front's long-expected revenge. The FLNC had vowed to kill Leccia and his alleged chief accomplice, Contini, said to have tortured Orsini with a blowlamp. Mr Robert Broussard, the police chief sent to Corsica by President Mitterrand to end FLNC terrorist attacks, said that the three-man commando, two of them dressed as gendarmes, arrived at the prison at about 6 am and forced their way into the cells. 15 detained in Poland Warsaw Security police have raided an underground publishing centre in Warsaw and detained 15 people, the Polish news agency PAP said. The raid took place on Tuesday, said the report, which was published in most Polish newspapers the next day.

The 15 detainees, among them two students at Warsaw University, were all members of an underground publishing group known as Oficyna Wc, (We Publishers), PAP said. They were involved in printing and distributing illegal opposition publications, PAP said. The group used state-owned printing plants and printers for the job, in rc-lurn for high remuneration." thumbs-up nothing grudging in the coverage of the D-Day anniversary. the battles of the second world war none perhaps deserves, the description of epic and dramatic more than that begun by the Anglo-American landings in Normandy on June 6, 40 years ago," the Rome newscpaper. La Repubblica, wrote on Sunday.

It devoted four pages to D-Day. One carried an account of the landings, one an interview with Rommel's son, one an interview with a Frenchman serving with the Resistance, and the last an interview with an American historian about Allied strategy. defiant as its losses Employers threaten to widen lockouts Wednesday's live transmission, complaining that the ceremonies were anti-German." Many said that the anniversary should have been an occasion for reconciliation and not an "exclusive gathering and a propaganda show for President Reagan." Most national newspapers yesterday chose to adopt a forward-looking approach by picking out President Reagan's offer of reconciliations with Moscow, his avoidance of the words "Germans" and President Mitterrand's statement that the enemy had not been Germany "but the government, the system and the ideology. Nonetheless, conversations with ordinary Germans and editorials in provincial newspapers revealed illfeeling about the absence of a German representative at the anniversary celebrations. "There should have been a German representative to show that- West Germany has changed and that we have tried to make up for the damage done," a 25-year-old law student said.

But Chancellor Kohl, who repeatedly denied that he had sought to participate in the commemoration, said in a newspaper interview It is not for a German chancellor to join victors' celebrations of a battle in which tens of thousands of Germans perished terribly." contingent, in liberating Rome, and their determination to carry on their struggle until the annihilation of Hitler's Germany. The Turin newspaper. La Stampa, yesterday carried an article from Normandy which emphasised the reservations of the local population at the time of the landings. The mayor of Colville-Montgomery apparently did not go to meet the British troops with a bottle of wine in his hand, as shown in the film The Longest Day. The Normans did not like the Germans, but they were not very enthusiastic about the landings, and the destruction they would cause, either.

top 4m morning instead of the afternoon, so as to compete on equal terms with Liberation and others. But one obstacle is the paper's' press, which imposes a format too large for simultaneous provincial printing in common with other papers. A new press would require finance from outside. Many of Le Monde's critics inside and outside the staff share the view expressed by one of its journalists this week, that it has become stale and old." Its worst enemy, no doubt, has been its uniqueness which has bred complacency and inertia. The tilt that stole Arctic sun MOSCOW: Fossils of tropical plants found in the Arctic have led Soviet scientists to believe that the earth changed the tilt of its axis about 40 million years ago.

Fossils of palm trees and huge exotic ferns were discovcrd on a recent expedition to the Spitzbergcn Peninsula, Tass said yesterday. Such plants could not have grown so far north if there had 'been four months of winter darkness as there is now, the scientists say. The hews agency quoted one of them as saying that geological data gave no evidence that the Arctic islands had shifted northwards. The only other conclusion was that the earth once had a much more moderate tilt, which meant that the Arctic had sunshine all year round and a relatively hot and humid climate, he added. Scientists had dated the tropical era on Spitzbergcn to a period between 65 million and 40 million years ago, meaning the axis change must have occurred about that time.

Reuter. Stern order HAMBURG A district court yesterday Impounded the magazine Stern's report on Its Independent, investigation of the soi-called Hitler Diaries forgery case, a spokesman for the Public Prosecutors office said. Reuter. The Communist Party's newspaper, L'Unita, in a long article described the landings as the greatest amphibious operation in history, and analysed the exchanges between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. The Rome newspaper, II Messaggero, gave a full page to a description of the landings and a detailed map of Normandy.

It also reprinted its own front page of June 7, 1944. The main story under a banner headline was the allied landings in France. Another story reported a statement by Marshal Badoglio on the success of the Allied forces, including an Italian A group of five critics on the staff have formed a proposals group," accusing the management of defeatism." After drastic slimming of its staff, Le Monde has been hoping to break even next year. But a scheme for a weekend colour magazine was recently outvoted by staff. Another proposal to raise outside capital remains under discussion but critics fear that this could jeopardise the paper's independence.

Many of the staff want the paper to publish in the programmable From our Correspondent In Bonn Talks aimed at settling the strike by engineering workers, now in its fourth week, remain deadlocked, despite an offer by metalworkers to abandon their demand for a 35-hour week if employment prospects improve. Employers yesterday rejected as unacceptable union propos als for a three-hour cut in the 40-hour week by the end of 1986, and the renunciation of the 35-hour demand if unemployment fell to 500,000 by the ena of 198. But the chief negotiator for the IG Metall union, Mr Ernst Eisenmann, conceded that such a fall was unlikely, with unem ployment at 2.13 million. Employers said they contin ued to regard as wrong the union demand for a general cut in working hours for the 3.6 million workers in the engineering industry. They argued that a one-hour cut in hours would push up production costs by 3.5 per half the shares and constitute a controlling minority, was obliged by law to put its continued activity to a vote, because losses had exceeded nominal capital.

The atmosphere of crisis heightened when two board members resigned over proposals to save the paper's financial future. Shareholders were due to meet again later this week to elect a new board. Circulation is down to 380,000 after steady losses, while more vigorous and lively morning papers, especially Liberation, have gained. 544-step Mr Tom King plan would hurt jobs moment, when Europe is facing a further decline in competitiveness in relation to the US and Japan, as ministers we have a responsibility to do -nothing to make the problem worse. We do not see our successful competitors rushing to cut working time.

My fear is that this recommendation would give the signal to create more jobs. But they would be jobs outside Europe." Mr King presented results of surveys in Britain suggesting that firms which reduced working time often had to pay for it by cutting their work forces. (The same surveys, by the Policy Studies Institute, indicated that the same firms tended to have lower overtime, better productivity, and better industrial relations). The Employment Secretary insisted that he was not opposed in principle to shorter hours. Indeed, the trend was already in that direction.

But the EEC proposal was not the correct signal to the rest of the world, when competitiveness was under renewed threat. cent. The union puts the figure at 2 per cent. Employers have offered a 38-hour week for night and shift workers and a 3.3 per cent pay rise, a formula rejected by IG Metall, which says that only 14 per cent of the industry's workforce would benefit. Meanwhile, employers threatened to extend retaliatory lockouts to regions not directly affected by the strike, despite a warning from the Government that this would lead to what it called an unnecessary escalation of the conflict.

Although the walkouts are restricted to Baden-Wuerttcmberg and Hesse, nearly 400,000 workers have stopped work as a result of strikes, lockouts and production stoppages. Negotiations in the printing industry, where the print union is also demanding a 35-hour week, were adjourned yesterday. The union stepped up its action by calling out 16,000 workers at 160 plants, fence" defining the area and stopping Turkish Cypriot refugees from squatting in houses in the ghost town. Dr Ertegun claimed that the new settlement was outside that part of Varosha which Turkey had previously offered to return to Greek Cypriot control as part of a general solution. But recently the unrecognised Turkish State of North Cyprus has been threatening to annex the whole area.

"The security zone between the walled city and the harbour is not something we are going to give back to the Greeks anyway," Dr Ertegun added. He rejected State Department calls to abandon the limited settlement plan, saying that "the Greeks have built this up and exaggerated the whole thing." Dr Ertegun confirmed that a mainland Turkish contractor and some specially-imported workers were involved in building the new airport. It will replace the present Ercan airport which serves both military and civil purposes. It would be conveniently sited for holiday traffic but would also have military potenj'al. will be free to issue a Community passport, with a common basic design.

The European passport will sport a cover variously described as claret, burgundy, or imperial purple. National distinguishing features will remain, like the Royal arms on the British version. There is no obligation for states to replace existing passports, or even to introduce the new ones on the starting day, so it will be several years before they are in widespread use. Their popularity will probably increase df, as ministers suggested yesterday, they further lower the frontier barriers to travel. Italians give From Campbell Page in Rome Italy has had plenty to cele brate in the past few days.

First the thirty-eighth anniversary of the republic on June 2, then the fortieth anniversary of the allied liberation of Rome on June 4. Italians have therefore seen the Normandy landings as part of the tide which swept fas cism away and gave them a better future. Mussolini had been removed about a year before D-Day, in July, 1943, and Marshal Badoglio had arranged an armistice with the British and Americans in September, 1943. There has therefore been Le Monde From Walter Schwarz in Paris IN A new financial crisis at Le Monde, shareholders have voted to continue publishing the newspaper despite losses of over 4 million in two years. At a stormy meeting of shareholders on Wednesday the first of a scries criticism of inertia and impotence were levelled at the management, after circulation losses of more than 4 per cent last year and an even more alarming trend this year.

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