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PERELL1AH ON E. EL FORSTER'S TROUSERS Page 9 "SIIMI IMMnbv P' II HOLIDAYS y1 Cannabis worth 1 seized in London NEWS IN BRIEF Times printers given sacking warning Thatcher faces rebuff on EEC budget Customs officer dies in drug raid PRINT union leaders lace the press after yesterday's announcement: above, Mr Bill Keys (foreground) of SOGAT and Mr Owen O'Brien of NATSOPA. Below, Mr Joe Wade (top) and Mr Les Dixon of the NGA an elderly man with a walking stick who was standing nearby 'Hit him, hit him'." Mr Ray Fowler, aged 33,. of Tilbury, Essex, saw the struggle as he drove down Commercial Road. "Two men were grappling with a third when I heard a shot and a man fell to the ground.

The man ran oil but within yards another three or four men grabbed him and the gun went off again. By this time I had gone to the man who had been hit first to try to help him and a woman came along and put her handbag underneath his head." The alarm was raised by a motorist. He told office workers in the Greater London Council housing department in Commercial Road that he saw the shooting as he drove past. Two schoolgirls who saw the shooting said one man ran across the road with bare feet. Another man was following.

Mrs Gloria Ebsworth, aged 36, who works in a snack bar opposite the scene of the snooting said I heard a loud scream from a lady standing at the bus stop and I looked across the road. "I saw a chap fall as if someone had punched him but then I realised there had been a bang so I assumed he must have been shot. "When I looked across the road there were two men rolling on the floor and it looked Turn to back page, col. 2 from Hampshire regional crime squad. He was shot as he approached a suspect near a lorry the team had been watch: ing in Stepney.

Another who received treatment for a gunshot wound was being questioned at Lime-house police station last night. The shooting happened in a busy shopping area. One man helped police officers in the struggle which followed. Mr Peter Purchase, aged 42, from Orpington, Kent, said he was collecting goods from a warehouse nearby when he heard a shot. He turned and saw the customs officer fall to the ground.

My first thought was for my sisters who were sitting in a van nee: the shooting. I screamed at them to get down and then ran over to help the two policemen who were trying to overpower a man with a small automatic gun." A witness said she saw two men lying bleeding on the pavement shortly after the shooting. "One looked to me as if he was dead already, his face was completely white and there was a pool of blood by him. He didn't move, he just lay there. Warehouseman Lawrence Lane, aged 25, said I saw two men running with three men chasing them, then I heard a shot and one of the three men fell to the ground.

The other two came up to one of the men who was being chased and grappled with him, shouting to Rhodesia plans hit snag LORD CARRINGTON out lined the British plans for transition in Rhodesia at the Lancaster House talks yesterday and was faced with two vetoes. Bishop Muzorewa made it clear that he will not be stepping down as Prime Minister, and the Patriotic Front will not accept the British plan for vesting authority in a British governor and electoral commissioner. Page 6. TYPHOON TIP swept across Northern Japan last night after killing at least 25 people and injuring 247. Thirteen more people were missing and 11,000 were made homeless by the typhoon, which also caused widespread crop and property damage.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA has accused Amnesty International and the CIA of subversion, in an indictment against six dissidents who go on trial on Monday. Page 7 THE CHURCH must treat homosexuals with compassion and" understanding, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday in Bermuda. Dr Coggan was giving his views on a working party report Page 3. INSIDE Business finance 18-20 Classified Advertising 7 Letters 3 Home News 3-5. 24 Overseas News 6-7 Sports News 21-23 WEEKEND REVIEW 9-16 Arts, reviews 10-11 Bridge, chess 13 Crosswords 14 Travel 12 TV 6 RADIO 16 PERSONAL 14 ENTERTAINMENTS 15.

16, 21 The weather DRY in south, rain in north. Details, back page. From John Palmer, European Editor, in Dublin The British Government will be told this weekend that her EEC partners are not ready to meet Mrs Thatcher's demands for a drastic reduction in the United Kingdom's payments to the Community budget. That is despite Mrs Thatcher's warning in Luxembourg on Thursday that the United Kingdom Government wants the summit meeting of EEC leaders in Dublin next month to take binding decisions to reduce the scale of British payments. The matter will be discussed by EEC Foreign Ministers at a special meeting in County Mayo in the Irish Republic this weekend.

Lord Carrington will join his fellow ministers today from the Rhodesia conference in London. Although most of the other EEC governments concede there is a problem in the scale of British net contributions Fishing limit pledge, hack page they insist that Mrs Thatcher is indulging in brinksmanship in demanding that the other members pay more" so that UK payments would be roughly no more than what Britain gets from the Community. West German sources in Dublin say that although the Bonn Government is sympathetic to Britain's demand for budget reform, no one is ready to meet the full UK demand for a broad balance in contributions. Mr Helmut Schmidt, the West German Chancellor, who was in Dublin earlier this week, gave the Irish Government, which now holds the EEC presidency, the impression that he was not impressed with Mrs Thatcher's ultimatum on contributions. At present the French Government does not concede that there is any serious or permanent problem for the United Kingdom in view of the impact of future revenue from North Sea oil.

Most other Governments believe that the Irish Government should agree to some changes in the system designed to prevent excessive net payments by anv one country, but those would add up to less that one half the 1 billion figure for expected United Kingdom budget payments next year. Lord Carrington will give a warning that the dispute over contributions could sour the attitude of the Government and Britain generally towards the Community. Some Governments have gainpd the impression that unless Mrs Thatcher gets her way at the Dublin summit she may Turn to hack page, col. 2 for midweek return By Paul Keel A customs officer was killed in a shooting in east London yesterday while taking part in an- undercover drugs operation in which cannabis valued at 1 million was seized. The operation, code-named Wrecker, led yesterday to the detention of 23 people.

They were being held at police stations in London last night. The drugs seizure came after extensive Investigations in the past 18 months into the smuggling of large amounts of cannabis into Britain from the Indian sub-continent for distribution from the East End of London to other parts of the country. The Operation Wrecker raids were to have been mounted after a container, believed to have been landed at an east coast port, had been delivered to a destination which was under surveillance. But the customs and police, team shadowing the lorry decided to take emergency action to seize the container when they thought they had been spotted. The dead customs officer was identified last night as Peter Bennett, aged 32.

The Customs and Excise said that he lived in Twickenham, London, with his wife and a son of 12 months. Mr Bennett had been on surveillance work with officers ITV set By Lindsay Mackie Independent television services last night looked set to resume by Wednesday as the votes of striking technicians showed a trend in favour of accepting the latest pay offer. Of the 25 groups of members of the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians in the 15 independent companies, 11 had voted for the deal by last night. A spokesman for the companies said that if the voting pattern held, it was hoped that the ACCT would officially accept the offer on Monday. The companies would then be able to resume broadcasting on Wednesday, ending the 11-week blackout.

The pay deal offers the technicians a 45 per cent increase over two years and is estimated to be worth 3,500 on top of the current average ACTT salary of 8,000 a year. The only group of technicians who yesterday rejected the deal were those employed by Border Television, who voted 32 votes to 25 against. Strikers at HTV Wales and Bristol, Scottish, Westward. would "peak out" at 17b pec; cent in November. The Government's recently introduced Tax and rice index which allows for the effects of tax changes i living standards rose from .13.4 "er cent in the year to August to 14.1 per cent in the year to September.

Department of Employment figure's reveal a vide range of price increases in September including postal, gas- and' electricity charges, plus- rises in the prices, of cars, drink, school meals and passenger By Rosemary Collins, Labour Correspondent ALL 3,700 print workers employed by Times Newspapers will be dismissed with immediate effect from 4 p.m. tomorrow if the last attempt to find a settlement between the company and the National Graphical Association, the main craft union, falls. Mr Hussey, TNL managing director, gave this ultimatum to the general secretaries, of the unions involved yesterday afternoon adding, however, that he was "not looking for failure but for success and re-publication." Lord Thomson, the newspapers' owner, said yesterday afternoon that he hoped very much that the negotiation succeed." He endorsed Mr Hussey's warning that tomorrow's deadline was definitely the end of the long road of nego Leader comment, page 8 tiation which began in April, 1978, with the first warning from management that the newspapers might close. The warning of immediate' dismissal affects 3,700 print staff either currently employed or, in the case of the majority of NATSOPA members, awaiting reinstate merit ron; Monday. It covers memhers of the 1 NGAfc SOGAT and SLADE.

The 500 journalists and management staff, as well as the small number of members of technical end maintenance unions, employed, will not be dismissed if the talks with the NGA fail, but kept on the payroll for the time being. The journalists in particular will be fully consulted over the future of the newspapers' titles in the event of closure, a TNL spokesman said. There is still no intention of selling the titles, although a queue of would-be purchasers is already forming with Mr Tiny Rowland, the Lonrho chief executive, most vocally to the fore. Mr Hussey re-emphasised yesterday when he met the union leaders that any sale was out of the question. There is a wide range of BL chiefs vote plea By a Staff Reporter Sir Michael British Leyland chairman; said last night that he wanted a whacking big majority in the forthcoming ballot of the workforce over Leyland's plan to cut 25.00U jobs.

He said We cannot deliver a recovery plan unless the overwhelming majority of the work force support it." Sir Michael, interviewed on commercial radio, went on: "If we have overwhelming support from our employees, then I think a government of either political persuasion would find it extremely difficult to make the real crunch decision and say No funds But if the vote was less than overwhelming among the iou.uuu Leyland workers, the Government attitude could well be a "practical problem;" Sir Michael said. "I want a 'yes' vote hut I do not want 'yes votes from no Vauxhall deadlock, page 3 and "is no more an ultimatum than it was last night," said Mr Joe Wade, general secretary of the NGA, whose officials have bc.un two further days of talks on pay and manning levels the areas that divide the two sides. Asked if he thought agreement could be reached ly 4 p.m. tomorrow. Mr Wade said he was hopeful.

The negotiating team from the NGA is once more being led by the union's president, Mr Les Dixon. At the end of the last round of final negotiations which ended in the early hours of Thursday morning, Turn to back page, col 7 Granada (London), Tyne Tees. Thames (Euston), two ACTT shops at Yorkshire, and TV freelances all accepted the offer. Channel services have not been affected, as a separate deal was negotiated with technicians. The strike began on August 10, when the ACTT called out all members not already sus- Technical blow to Lancastria's hopes, page 4 pended by management after rejection of a 15 per cent pay offer.

A later offer was rejected earlier this month. The other unions, the National Association of Theatrical Television and Kine Employees', and the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, have not been in dispute and are now voting on deals worth around 22 per cent for one year. Early results show that most NATTKE members are voting for the deal, and EETPU shop stewards have recommended their 750 members to accept a one-year offer. Mr Alan Sapper, general secretary of the ACTT said yes These and other increases pushed the official retail "rice index up 2.3 points, or 1 per cent to 233.2 in September. The biggest increase was a rise of 3.2 per cent in the index measuring tobacco prices.

The 5p increase on school meals helped to push the index measuring school meals up by 2.9 per cent. Among increases already in the pipeline are a 9 per cent rise in coal prices and further increases in electricity and gas charges. It is emphasised in White hall that while' prices have Scotland's Number One Quality Scotch Whisky Rising inflation rate hits 16.5 options under review and these will be fully explored," he said. "Times Newspapers will not be going out of business. There will be no intention of abandoning any part of the goodwill and other rights which have become attached to our various businesses over many years.

"On the Times Newspapers would continue as in the past to endeavour to exploit these assets to the very best advantage in every way open to it." The union leaders accepted the final deadline philosophically. It "makes no difference at all" to the position NEXT WEEK PARLIAMENT returns next week with a crowded programme of legislation designed to help create the new, Thatcher Britain. Simon Hoggart on Monday looks at the new Bills on the way and ponders what will happen to the Prime Minister if her nostrums do not work. MANY people in Uganda now. know the power of the gun; many possess guns and will use them if they are not listened to; there are an average of five murder sa night in Kampala.

In Monday's Guardian Third World Review, a Ugandan describes the turmoil he sees in his country today. And with Chairman Hua about to visit Germany, Siegfried Biuschschluter looks at.Germany and the ThirdWorld. LETTERS between Eleanor" Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok, lound by Professor David Adams at the FDKlibrary in New York, reveal art intense and lasting relatianshipyafter the 1940 election "Hick" secretly moved into the White Hquse to be with Eleanor. Adams, who himself knew both worften letters and the efiecMhe friendship hadbn'Roosevelt and the New-peal; exclusively in Guardian Women on Tuesday. terday that the latest offer was worth 45 per cent over ten months.

"That shows how far the companies have crumbled," he said We haven't got all we wanted, but the ITV companies could have paid more and they should have paid more. The offer currently under consideration went out to the 6,000 ACTT members without recommendation from the union executive. It also contains clauses on the introduction of Electronic News Gathering. The companies' spokesman said last night that a stipulation that the dispute go to arbitration if companies could not reach local agreement constituted an advance on the deadlock of the past three years. But ACTT members will see the ENG clauses as the result of management climbdown, as the companies were originally adamant that a national agreement be reached.

The pay offer consists of a 17i per cent increase backdated to July 1, 1979, an increase (on the new salary) of 7 per cent on January 1, 1980, and then a further 15 per cent increase on that salary, on July. 1, 1980. per cent risen quite sharply partly because of the Budget VAT increase employees are receiving the second instalment, of their tax rebates this month. The underlying rate of inflation as measured by the an-nualised rate of increase over the past six months (excluding seasonal foods) stands at almost 23 per cent. This largely reflects the once and for all effect of the VAT increases.

When this passes out of the index measuring the last six months the annualised index will drop sharply. Leader comment, page 8 puzzles to be got rid of, something that, didn't fit or threatened their policies in some way." The planners said the Warrens' four-room concrete prefab was a storage hut and refused to allow its use as a house or its replacement with a permanent' dwelling. Even though he has since established himself as a serious farmer. -the eyes of his nedfchbburs. Dr Warren still falls' oul 61 Me planners' -a farmer because his project is not -commercial.

His local councillor, Lady who has been supporting his case, said: "A farm has: to be to be viable, -which I suppose commercial, before we wfll allow a building on the site. He is By Victor Keegan, Business Editor Britain's inflatioi. rate rose to 16.5 per cent in the year to September the highest rate for over two years. This comparer with an annual rate of 15.8 per cent in August. The increase is broadly in line with forecasts made in the Budget; that prices would rise by 16 per cent in the third quarter of the year, compared with th- same quarter of 1978.

The increase is also in line with another. Government fore; cast, made to assess increases in pensions, that inflation ftw. Dr Warren's profession planners 7 By Nick Davies concrete prefab because it does gral parts of human progress." Research scientist Dr Donald not conform to their of a When the Warrens moved on Warren has spent nearly four real. home. to their plot near years trying to persuade his Since February, 1976, Dr Cleeve Prior in the Vale of local riuncil that he is not a Warren, aged 32, has been Evesham, villagers saw them' as crank keeping his wife and fined 50 and 60 for.

failing to yet another group of rash idea-four young children in a lonely obey an order to leave the pre- lists who might scar the land-hut for the sake of some fab, and has appealed u'risuc-- scape with their makeshift bizarre experiment. cessfully to the -locaI As far as Dr. Warren. is -con- government and, The. fact that they were cerned, he and his family are lost two planning-applications, drinking purified" rainwater col-running the Food and Energy This week ttfeanjcUatferred lected prefaVs doing something rather unique which doesn't conform to our guidelines." Dr Warren who describes agriculture as "growing food, not money" has sunk his 6,000 savings in the project, and is determined not to give up.

"I had a fairly promising conventional career in food science, but this came forward as something which obviously' needed be done. It was almost impossible not to do it" He 'believes- he has finally persuaded the council to take him. seriously but until the planners find a. formula to allow him to stay in his prefab, he remains officially an unwanted immigrant -under threat of eviction. nesearcn centre, trying- to -its aecisionJuniruu.jKH".

wu uiumcwj' build a model of the country ication. hore only added to farming economy' to see' how it' Both Dr Warren and his wife; The council even heard taat-will function- without the-aid Linda, have Cambridgedegrees they. wero using their own; of machines and in natural science and Dr faeces to fertilise the land. But the planning authorities. Warren has' a PhD food Dr Warren said1: "The coiin-of Wycbavon Council- in- Wor-- pn'-nas-been'l'sbme 'Sfvcs- torn-.

cestershire doubted. thafi.Dr supported Warren is a real farmer or a -and also by Sir Peter Scott because they never botheredsto genuine researcher' and-'-have-wlwhaSisaid' that their -ideas -find -out what told him he cannot live in his are likely to emerge as inte- think they saw us as something ARTHUR BELL ESTABLISHED 1825 -ANDSTlLLANiNDEPENDENTCOMRfliWy;.