26 June 1986

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26 June PRIME MAIN

1986

MINISTER EVENTS

HM The

Queen

starts

the Commonwealth

Palace ; later attends Flight

reception

Games

Relay

Message

from

to mark 50th Anniversary

Prime Minister attends European Council also attends)

Buckingham

of The Queen's

(to June 27) (Foreign Secretary

EC European Council, The Hague (to June 27)

STATISTICS

BOE:

UK banking sector statistics

BOE:

Financing of the Central Government

BOE:

Money

CSO:

Personal

CSO:

Industrial and Commercial

DEN:

Energy

HO:

Statistics

DTI/ CSO:

Balance of payments (May)

DTp:

New vehicle

stock

(2nd

borrowing

requirement

(2nd qtr)

qtr)

income expenditure

Trends

(2nd qtr)

and saving

Companies

(1st qtr)

(1st qtr)

(April)

on breath tests, England and Wales

1985

current account and overseas

registrations

trade figures

(May)

PUBLICATIONS

DES:

Good practice

in crime prevention

HO:

Consultative

HO:

Church Commissioners ' annual report 1985 (10.30)

document

in schools

(15.30)

on Fire Safety and Safety at Sports venues

PAY DEM:

Scottish further education teachers ; (9,900 ); 20 per cent increase sought; settlement date 1.4.86

2. PARLIAMENT Commons

Questions:

Home Office; Northern

Business

European Committee

:

Communities

Ad'ournment The working (Scotland)

Lords

Ireland; Prime Minister (Amendment

) Bill:

Continuation

in

Debate of the Rating and Valuation Act

(Amendment)

(Mr R Jenkins)

Family Law Bill (HL): Report. Insolvency Bill

(HL)

Ld Chancellor

(Consolidation ): Committee

Company Directors Disqualification (Consolidation): Committee

Bill (HL)

Wages Bill : Committee (2nd Day) Horticultural Approval. Protection Surrogacy

MINISTERS

- See

Development

of Children Arrangements

Annex

Council Order 1986 : Motion

(Tobacco ) Bill: (Amendment

) Bill

for

Report (HL):

Third

Reading

3. PRESS

SOUTH -

DIGEST

AFRICA

Mirror:

The

Office

decision

to express

signal to the rest you remain strongly

Britain

is ready

to call

Britain's

the

South

African

disapproval

of Europe in advance opposed to sanctions

to exert

other

Ambassador

of apartheid

to

the

Foreign

was a clear

of the Hague meeting. Although you want to demonstrate that

pressure.

-

Sun: You ditched your "softly softly" approach yesterday and gave a clear message to President Botha - free Nelson Mandela. The new tough line was thrashed out at a Cabinet meeting where you announced that you would back some sanctions.

-

Star: 'Thatcher give an inch.

-

Express: At the European council you intend to take the leading and dictate what measures would be most appropriate.

to stand

firm on sanctions'.

Mail: You will be staying for security reasons.

apart

You

from the other

are determined

leaders

not to

role

in the Hague

You will offer a carrot in the form of a new peace mission to Pretoria and a stick in the way of a ban on investment, a boycott of South African fruit and vegetables and an end to uranium imports. -

Today: You will fight calls to sever air links and ban vegetables, but go along with an investment ban.

-

Feature futile,

-

Guardian: You are ready to make gestures to governments pressing for sanctions but are still determined that Britain should not take the lead in the economic isolation of Pretoria.

-

The Methodist

-

South Africa's state of emergency will June and may be prolonged indefinitely,

article by Christopher foolish".

The Cabinet Denis Leader saying -

Healey

Church

calls

has ordered had meetings

%lonckton, describing

for world-wide

a further yesterday

and

sanctions

as "feeble,

sanctions.

not be lifted before the end of President Botha warns.

crackdown with

on press

Winnie

reporting.

Mandela

and Bishop

says "Once again (with unnerving imbecility) the Government something unpopular and doing something rather different".

Tutu. is

Hugo Young says the long drawn out history of your resistance to meaningful sanctions means that the most niggardly measure will now have more dramatic impact than it deserves. This is the new management game now being played. Black African members of the Commonwealth diplomatic and economic sanctions against radical measures.

-

fruit

are moving towards collective Britain unless you take more

Times: If Zola Budd and the swimmer, Annette Cowley (South but with a British passport) take part in the Commonwealth could be a black boycott of the Games.

African born Games there

SOUTH

AFRICA

(Cont'd)

-

Times: Dr Boesak, leader of the Dutch Reform Church, in South Africa is far worse than the world realises. to meet British ministers during his visit to London.

-

Telegraph: The TUC yesterday issued a list of 105 trade unionists arrested in South Africa which it has sent to the Foreign Secretary with a demand that-the Government secure their release.

-

34 leading opposition

-

FT P1 lead: Discussions

British companies backed to economic or financial 'Commonwealth may have been going on

Secretary-General

and a number

by the CBI sanction.

penalise UK in the past

of leaders.

have

says the position He would be happy

expressed

outright

over South African sanctions'. few days between the

4. HEALTH/ WELFARE -

-

Sun:

B!:1Ais to press

from

the

Express:

doctors -

M argate

because

Today: Full-page a report by the

back

figures

poverty

-

provisions

line

Parliament of

the

Hospital

for medical

Data has

of the number

Protection

started

records

to be exempted

Act.

advertising

of operations

in Holland

it is having

for

to cancel.

special report headlined "Breadline Britain", based Low Pay Unit. The Government is accused of holding

showing since

that three

you

came

to

million

more

people

have hit

on

the

power.

Times: Poverty has increased more power (Child Poverty Action Group

than 50; since the Tories and Low Pay Unit report).

came

to

LAW AND ORDER Mirror: -

A man has been

charged

with

supplying

More calls from MPs for the Home Secretary decision by Wimbledon chiefs not to report

heroin

to Olivia

Channon.

to intervene over the players caught taking drugs.

Sun: The Broadmoor woman patient who escaped the Queen's gynaecologist, has been caught.

and had threatened

to kill

DEFENCE -

Times: Britain SDI contracts.

is resigned

to not achieving

one billion

dollars

of

5. ROYALTY -

Mirror:

Leader

says

that

by

visiting

Handsworth,

the

scene

of

some

of

last year's riots, Prince Charles has shown that he cares-about the plight of his people. Unfortunately the Government and local councils don't. -

Extensive Ferguson.

-

Today: Charles pledges to Rastafarians get the help you need."

NORTHERN

coverage

of the visit

to Ulster

by Prince

"I'll

Andrew

be back

and Sarah

to make

sure you

IRELAND

Times: Paisley 's attack .what to do next.

has exacerbated

the split

in the Unionists

over

POLITICS Star: The by-election on 17 July. -

to replace

Labour

MP John Golding

will be held

Express: Leader says Kinnock thinks he has the answer to the problem of presenting Labour's defence policy to the nation - he will put Denis Healey in charge of selling the policy when it is re-launched in the autumn. But the voters won't be fooled.

WATER

PRIVATISATION

FT: A substantial write-off of water authority debts prior to privatisation was foreshadowed yesterday by the senior civil servant responsible for the flotation.

HOUSING Express: Your has some way Association. need a third

drive to turn Britain into a nation of owner-occupiers still to go, according to a report by the Building Societies Owner-occupation has risen from 59 to 63 per cent but you term to get it to 70 per cent.

6. MALAYSIA -

Mirror: Condemned Briton, Kevin Barlow, won a last-minute reprieve the gallows yesterday. The Pardons Board now meet on Saturday to decide his fate and that of an Australian.

from

STALKER -

Mirror: John Stalker has demanded his job back because he says a police inquiry has collapsed . An official report no longer talks of allegations or complaints against him. Star: Leader overpowering.

says the silence

on Stalker

must

end.

The smell

is becoming

FALKLANDS -

Mirror: In a humiliating climbdown yesterday the Government for trying to cover up the killing of four British soldiers Royal Navy missile in the Falklands war.

apologised by a

7.

TAXES -

Express:

Leader

rates

down

flood

across

says you must

dramatically.

the Atlantic

follow

Otherwise

America's

our

best

lead and get the tax

young

people

will

for more money.

INDUSTRY Mail: American dealers have rushed to buy up 10 months' the new Rover 800 before it is even launched.

production

of

Jim Prior warns that if you and George Younger buy a US "'_`?imrod"you will destroy the British electronics industry and put 2,500 of the country's most highly-skilled engineers out of work. -

When the Cabinet decides storm among the military

defence spending next month there top brass if there are big cuts.

-

Today: Warrington M P, Doug Hoyle , says the Governmentis holding secret talks with GM about the future of DL and Land Rover. DTI and GM deny it

-

Guardian: Ministers are considering plans to abolish legislation restricting the hours and times of work of young people aged 16-18.

-

Telegraph: a strategy

Fifteen shipbuilding and engineering unions have to oppose 4,300 redundancies and yard closures.

could

be a

endorsed

8.

NUCLEAR -

Times: desert

-

P-

Britain exploded a large nuclear yesterday with American help.

± -so

Walker

declarations -

will

today,

in

yet of government

Times:

Efforts

caused

by Chernobyl.

are

being

made

a speech,

commitment to organise

device

beneath

deliver

one

the

of

to the nuclear an

EEC-wide

Nevada

the

strongest

industry.

claim

for

damages

EEC -

Telegraph: store

to

Butter shore

up

that

at £200 a ton to help place. -

Conservatives tonight over

JIM COE

the Common

European

feed

dairy

Market farmers'

the cows

paid milk

£2,000 prices

that produced

a ton to buy and is to

be

sold

off

it in the first

opposed to the EEC are threatening an all-night the European Communities Amendment Bill.

filibuster

ANNEX MINISTERS

(UK VISITS Young

SPEECHES

DEM:

Lord

DEN:

Mr Walker addresses

MAFF :

Mrs

DES:

Mr Walden

Fenner

speaks

ETC)

at Placemakers

visits

AGM of Engineering

Express

visits

Luncheon

Dairies,

Coventry

Club,

London

Employers

Federation , London

Bristol

Consortium

, Warwick

University

and

Lancaster Polytechnic DEM:

Mr Trippier

DOE:

Sir George Polytechnic

DOE:

Mr Waldegrave opens first Northumberland Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Link farm ; addresses Audit Commission dinner, Milton Keynes

DOE:

Mrs Rumbold visits

DOE:

Mr Tracey attends Foundation

speaks

at

CRAC

Young speaks at 'Urban of Central London

London Wildlife Minet

Cambridge

Design

Group ' seminar,

Trust

Holdings plc reception

to launch Sport Aid

, London

DHSS :

Mr Major visits Disabled

HO":

Mr Mellor visits ADFAM

SO:

Mr Ancram attends

DTI:

Mr. Howard addresses Torquay

HMT:

Mr

Brooke

Conf erence,

opens

Housing Trust, Sussex

HQ (Aid for addicts and families)

opening

ceremony

- rebuilding

Trading Standards

British

Association

of sea wall at Luss

Administration

of Women

conference,

Entrepreneurs

Trade

exhibition

TV AND

RADIO

'Too Hot to Handle '; Channel Chernobyl 'TV Eye '.; ITV (21.30)

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