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Britain wouM get a refund
of about £340m on its contribu-
turns to the EEC budget next
year , and receive a further
unquantified amount of relief
from increased Community
spending in Britain on the coal
industry, agriculture, and road
improvement , under proposals
announced here today by the
European Commission.
Mr Roy Jenkin s, the Presi-
dent of the Commission, w ill
put the proposals to Mrs
Thatcher and other EEC heads
of governments at their summit
in Dublin in November 29 and
30. The Prime Minister has said
that Brita in's estimated 1980
budget deficit of £1,200m must
be brought into broad balance.
In a separate move, Mr Finn
OIav Gundelach, the Commis-
sioner for Agriculture, disclosed
plans for cutting fthancial aid
to milk, sugar, beef, and cereal
producers. He claimed that
these proposals would reduce
projected EEC spending on the
farm sector by about £650m
over a year.
Mr Gundelach's proposals
will not be discussed in detail
at Dublin, but their announce -
ment, due in December, was
brought forward to show Mrs
Thatcher and her . EEC
colleagues before the summit
that the Commission is serious
about tackling agricultural sur-
pluses.
The initial British reaction to
the Gundelach plan was d Is-
tinct ly hostile a lthough the
Government, like its Labour
has complained
the heavy charge
on the EEC
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From ilasan A]ffitar
Islarnabad, Nov 22
:i Hugh Noycs . .
Parliamentary Correspondent
Westminster . .
Sir Geoffrey Howe, .QC,
Chthwe l lor of the Exchequer,
set the Govetnment on a col-
lisith course yesterday with the
. European Community, when he
! . made dear in a debate in the
: Commons that the soludons to
:BH fs huge imbaianèe in
! . . .
. contr ibutions to the EEC bud-
P
get must be radical, permanent
, and immediate. - .
Seldom has a government left
itself so little room for retreat
: or manoeuvre and rarely, on
EEC matters, has the Commons
been so united. Opposition and
Government , -MPs for and MPs
against the Community, rallied
. round the Chancellor as he told
them that the pr&bleni must be
; solved at next week's Dublin
sum.mit once and for all. . -
It was not enough for the
Co nmunity to offer temporaty
measures which . would afford
.. relief for a year or two and
which at the end o that thne
would leave Brithin in as
toletal,je a situation as ever.
From the Labour benches
Sir Geoffrey had the h i ll sup .
: of Mr Peter Shore, Oppo-
sition foreign affairs spokesman
and a long time opponent of
the EEC. Gleefully he recited
his warnings of seven years ago,
. when he had told the House
that the present imbalance in
our contr ibut ions would in .
evitabrly take place.
More significantly, Mr Shore
served warning that Britain and
the EEC were now on a colli-
sion course and that the will-
h gness shown to change a
. shortly alter the Second Wo;Id
‘. War and was once chief-of-staff
of the I RA, has a considerable
record as a u intermediary; Be'
negotiated the release of Arch-
bishop Makarios from the
Seychelles and undertook the
talks which led to the release
-of Archbishop Beran, who was
( imprisoned in Czechoslc,valda
He took a message from
Pope Paul V I , to the Hanoi
,Covernment during the Viet-
narn war and spent some time
in North Vietham with Mr
. Ramsey CIark whom Mr Carter
sent on an aborñve mission to
-Ira n to free the Americajj
hostages earlier this month.
The initiative. for Mr Mac-
Bride's intervention appears to
have come from Unesco but
the Ir a nia n Foreign Min istry
then issued an invitation for
him to come to Tehran. Mr
MacBr ide lunched with Mr
.. Bani-Sadr today and was to
, have further talks with him
. tonight.
Nevertheless, it is Ayatollah
. Khomeini and not the Revolue
tionary Council which controls
domestic and foreign policy in
•: Iran, and Mr Bani-Sadr, who is
a leading member of the Coun-
dil, does not appear to have any
-mandate to negotiate on behalf
of the clergy.
. Mr MacBride, however, has
one thing in his favour : during
. . the last 10 years of the Shah's
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Prob lSs have earned much
condemnat ion in the West,
believe s that two possible initia-
tives by the Amer icans might
open the way to negotiations.
He feels that some acknow-
ledgement by the United States
of the ‘C atrocities “ that took
place under the Shah would
P a long way towards cal m-
ing passions in Iran.
Re also be lievts that an
investigat ion into the Shah's
reign by the International
Commission of Jurists might
persuade the students at the
Amer ican Embassy to free their
hostages.
Cs I was asked to come here
to see what I could do,” Mr
MacBride said tonight. “ I did
not come . to express any views
on the situation. The syste-
matic torture and brutaBza-
tion carried out by the Sha h
here was one of our main
problems in Amnesty?
The MacBride intervention
probably has little chance of
immediate success. But the
United States is l ikely . to
welcome any mediaflon by an
internat Ionally known states-
man, however controversial his
political views may be. Accord-
ir ig to Unesco . the arrange -
ments for Mr MacBr ide's
mission have been carried out
cc a strictly confidential
basis “.
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inainly by reducing the amount
of sugar eligible for price . sup-
port and increasing the tax on
production. Br itish producers
claim that the quota they have
been offered of 936,000 tonnes
could lead to the closure of
half the sugar beet factories in
Britain.
Mr Gundelach denied that the-
milk tax would penalize pro-
ducers unfairly : “ They are not
being asked to reduce produc.
tion . bth merely S stop inã as-
ing product ion in the future.
The.situatjoñ now is that anyone
can produce ‘ anything he likes
becausi- it is :?t someone else's,
the tazpayers! expense.”
Milk prodUction in the EEC is
running at 15 per cent above
dema nd . The dair y . sector
account for about 45 per cent
of all spending on farm price
SUPPO t anti about 30 per cent
of EEC - budgetary expenditur .
AmOnj the çbrnrniision's pro-
posals or Increasing spend ing
in BHtSi ai& proposals for en-
couraging the Use of coal. in
power plants and subsidizing
EEC-produced coal. That could
he of substant i al benefit to
Br ita in, which is the biggest
coal producer in the EEC.
The Commiss ion document
says dat if Britain join'ed the
European Monetary System it
could . become eligible for in-
vestment loans at subsidized
rates of interest.
The Commission also des -
tribes as “ 3' an It a l ian
plan whereby the EEC would,
over a number of years, devote
an increa sing proportion of
Commu n-jt funds to industrial
Investment , region 1 develop-
ment and farm modernjzatjon.
Hugh Clayton, Agriculture Cor-
respondent, writes : Bri tish
complaints about the cost of
EEC farm policy were rejected
in London yesterday by Herr
Josef Erti, West German
Minister of Agriculture. c c It has
not been my country which has
forced up gricu itura prices in
the Community “, he told men
bers of the Ang io -Qerma
Chamber of Commerce.
‘C Over the pest four years
Our nominal agricultura i prices
have increased by 16 per cent
against nearly 60 per cent in
the United Kingdom.”
Herr En l rejected Bri tish
proposals for small farmers on
the Continent to be kept in
bus iness w ith social payments
-rather than vith high farm
pr ices and said the common
agricu1tura policy did not need
reform. All the nec ssarv in-
strurnent for correcting im-
balances were available
Tate & Lyle welcomed the
plan to aa sugarbeet quotas.
The Company, . which refines
cane sugar, said dumping s in-
pluses outside the Community
had depressed the world price
of sugar and had cost Comma .
nity taxpayer 8 £350m a year.
Mr Sean MacBride : Impres .
sive record as iütermediary.
rule, Amnesty was outspoken
in its condemnation of torture
by Savak, the Shah's secet
police. The Iranian authorities
can therefore scarcely claim
that Mr MacBride represents
the Amer ican Government.
Judeed, he has had no contact
with the United States Admini-
stration prior to his arrival
here.
. Mr
Mr Sean MacBride, a. fosér
I Assistant Secretary-General of-
. the United Nations . and one of'
the founders of Amnesty Intera
national flew . int Tehran to-k
day at the itivitatiqn of the •
Ira n ian Government to tEy to.
break the deadlock Over the
L AmeHcan- ' dipIomats held host-
age . at -the United- C States
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. Embassy here. . . ; .. . ‘
; - . .Mr MacBride, who ‘hGIds the
H NÔbàI prize, t u e Lenin Peace
. prfre and the American Medal
! of Justice, held talks with Mr
A oih a s s a n Bani-Sadr, the Iran-
Ian Foreign Minister, and said
. later that he felt “ the way
could be open for discussions
between the United States and
ijrañ . -
. This is the first time s ince
. the embassy siege began almost
three weeks ago that the Iran-
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: authorities have encouraged
I the intervention of a - poten ti a l
L media±o± between the . two
Ciyuflfraes. . -
r Mr MacBride' was carrying
with him a' message from Mr
Amaduu -Mah t ar M'Bow, the
Dfrector-Genera.j of - U iieàco
. and . ved . i the Iranian
capital . without any pub1-icit
. in the company of a Unesco
• official. - .
Mr MacBride, who was Irish
Mihister for External Affairs
Ayatollah calls
for unity
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against pagans
Tëhran, &ov 22. Ayatollah
Khomeini, the Iranian religious
leader, today urged the Islam ic
world CC to rise i t t the face of
injustice “, and supp r-t Iran in
:its clash with Amenca.
Addressing a group of visit-
lug Pakistani officers in a tele-
tsed speech, he said this clash
flow amounted to CC Ivar between
the Muslims and the pagans “.
‘C Now that we are busy re-
building over the ruins caused
by the foreign vandalism,
foreign rule, we have come face
to face with Amer ica.
a We hope that brotherly and
Islamic nations who suffered
under foreign oppression, just
as we did, rise in revolt now
that our nation has risen in
revolt ..
C C Ifs a matter of joy that
Pakistan has risen in revolt. As
I saw in the newspaper head-
line today , the whole of Paid-
F Stan has risen in revolt against
America. . . . This is heartening
far our oppressed aation
cc Muslims must
assemble, be one
ante from each
. not .tonsider fra n
cause of dividing
cc Sadly, due to
About SO families of Amen-
can diplomatic offictals in
Islamabaci are leaving by char-
tered aircraft tomorrow after
the violent anti -America n
F demonstrations in Pakistan
yesterday. Non-essenñai staff
members of the Embassy are
also being taken back to Wash-
ington.
Mr Arthur Hunnuel, the
American Ambassador, who has
I set up his temporary office in
the United States aid office,
told foreign jGurflaiIsts today
- that there was no intention of
- breaking relations with Pa id-
s t a n because of yesterday's
attacks on Amer ican miss ions
in Islamabad, Karachi and
! Lahore.
. However, Mr Hununel said
that prompter action by Paid.
s t an authorities could have
prevented much of the damage
: tO lift and property in Islania-
bad.
I Th e Ambassador Confirmed
that the bodies of two uthdenti-
fled Pakistanis and Warrant
Officer BHan E l l is had been
found today in the Embassy
buildinp. A Marine guard was
also k illed in the attack by
I trowd;s aflp'y at reports of
Amencan mvo lvement in the
Occupation of the Great Mosque
an Mecca.
MacBride, - whose views
on press freedom voiced in
his capacity as chairman of the
Internat ional Commission for
‘cc Tses
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of
the
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manifestly unfair
taxation would be
British people
There could
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deliberate and
ments made
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predecessor,
bitterly about
of agriculture
budget.
After a meeting with execu-
tives of the British Sugar Con
poration, Mr Peter Walker, the
Minister for Agriculture, said
that the sugar proposals, aimed
at reducing the Community 's
sugar surplus by one million
tonnes, would put an unfair
and illogical burden “ on British
producers. He called on the
ommissiort to reconside r
these unacceptable ideas 3 '.
British officials were equally
harsh about the Comm ission's
proposals for increased taxation
of mi lk producers. Milk and
sugar production in Brita in,
they argued, met only a part of
domestic demand and Were not
responsible br the surpluses.
Yet because Br itish produceré
were more efficient they would
be disproportionately penalized.
Under the Commission plan,
the tax on milk producers of
0_s per cent would go up to
1.5 per cent on April 1, and
dairies would have to pay a
further tax estimated at 3 per
cent.
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the
Jraxiian assets had caused . con-
siderable auxiety in A me r ica
and Western Europe and could
cause new currency problems
- i the Western world.
Yesterday Tass - Reported
that . the American position had
become more . rigid, and .
accused the White House of
trying to put all the respon-
sibility for the crisis on Iran.
It said that President Caner's
statement That remedies . other
-than peaceful ones were avail-
able to th United States was
being interpreted as “ a dfreer
threat to use military force
against Iran “..
not good enough to rattle the
chains.
Indeed, the Chancellor, with
the Prime Minister sitting be-
side him, seemed only too well
aware that he was head ing
down a plath from which the
GovenmeM could return othy
in gjGry or in ignominy. If no-
thing was changed at Dub1i'n
Sir Geoffrey said, B r itain,
seventh in order of gross
national product, would be by
tar and away the largest con .
tribu .torr to the Community
budget in 1980.
The Chancellor said he was
not wedded to any panicular
solution. One method would be
an entirely new and separate
mechanism. Another could be a
single rule limiting Brita in's
net contribution i i i a way which
would satify the Government's
overa]j objective. A further
method couid be to raise
receipts per head
Parliamentary report, page 8
The Ru s s i ans have fre-
quently tried to curry favour
with Ayato11ai i Khomeini . They
were particularly angered by
Western reports that the Rus-
sians had he'ped to block the
Iranian request for a Security
Council debate on the situa-
tiun, and put out an urgent
npwsf lash deny in g that the,
Soviet Union had played anyL
actlje part in the deliberations.
the sugar
million to
Commission aims to cut
surplus from three
two million tonnes,
Air controllers
in France
unite,
Smoke was still coming from
part of the embas sy bui lchng
here today. The Amer ic an
I Centre in Rawalpinth and the
Eritish Council Library were
also the target of arsonists
while two schools, including a
Br itish missionary-nn institu-
tion, were also attacked.
The Pakistan Government
today annou nc that it would
strengthen forces protec t Ing
all _tholomat ic missions. Presi-
dent Zia ukHaq visited some of
I the buildings set on fire yester-
I day.
The Cabinet has aiso ordered
an inquiry into yesterday 's
inc idents to find out if the
-Situat ion was exploited by
. 4' vested interests “. -
Today the city and the
capita:1 were heavily patrolled
by the ütops. Most life was
normal but a part of the main
shopping area was dosed for
the second day.
P a kist a n radio said that
President Carter had expressed
appreciation to General Zia by
telephone for sending in troops
to protect the Americans
during the demonstrations.
lit an attempt to exploit the
tensions between the United
States and Iran, the Russians
have gone as near as possible
to supporting the Iranian sei-
zure of the American Embassy
without actually doing so.
In the past week the Soviet
media have given widespread
coverage to accusations that
the United States was putting
pressure on Ir a n , threztening
to use military force and
; hounding Iraañan students in
A me r ica.
Reporting by Tass has been
I carefully selective, giving pro-
minencè to the statements of
Ayatollah Khoinenini that the
embassy was a centre of
espionage while saying little of
. the situation of the hostages or
of appeals by the United
Nations Security Council for
their release.
More than a week ago Tass
rejected American accusations
that the Soviet press had been
. i:ssu.ing• “ completely unaccep-
! ‘ b1é ,, commentaries r on the
cr.is is It also denied that its
reporting had been tenden-
; saying it was svell known
that the Soviet Union . upheld
all ptixiciples of interhational
. law.
Since then Tass hü reported
p that the A meric a n ca mpaign
aga inst Ira n has intensified.
The Ir a ni a n Foreign Minister
has been quoted as saying that
I r a nian citizens in America
. were hounded and insulted by
inthviduá l A merica ns and by
officia ls. Reports from New
York said the freezihg of
must
resume ban
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propa-
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made people afraid of these
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This public stance contrasts
curiously with the private
opinions of Russians in all
fields, ‘who express amazement
that the Americans should
have tolerated the situaion for
so long. They privately admit
that the seizure of the embassy
is a gross and unacceptable
violation of intenational law,
which the Russians themselves
could never condone.
Yet they justify their public
attitudes by saying, in effect,
that the Anericaas are fair
game, and that anyway the
American press would have
done the same if the situat Ion
were reversed.
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Bànn, Nov 22
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The Americans have accused
the Russ i ans of encouraging
the Iranian students in broad-
casts beamed to Iran from a
radio station in Baku called
the National - Voice of . Ira n.
Monitors in the West yesterday
:repon d that for the first time
. the radio station had urged the
release of the hostages. But
this call has not been repeated
in the Soviet press,. which
never refers to Soviet foreign
language broadcasts.
The one -sided coverage of
Iran appears to be motivated
. by Soviet reckoning that
sooner or- later the Amer icans
will use force, with a conse-
. quent violent an t i- A me r ic an
reaction throughout the Mus-
lint world froth which the Rus-
sians whose relations with the
Khomeini regime have been . in-
creasingly strained . in recent
months—could benefit
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nations join u in this fight,
I which is a fIght between Islam
I and blasphemy, between our-
se lves and Amer ica, between
I s lam and blasphemy.” . UPI
and Reuter .
that
Mr
Ideologists frequently
that the role of the
press is to support the p
of the, Soviet Commuthst
and state.
Vance meets
assert
Soviet
olicies
Party
the majority of flIgli
off from the country 's
They had called off th
which has ben gotug
more htan three weks,
hours to await the mite
talks last night with l v i
Machenaud, director of Air
Navigation.
The cc ,ntro l lers' representa-
tives said after the meeting that
although they had been able to
talk about the whole range of
their claims from better pay to
higher manning levels, they had
been left in no doubt that M
Machenaud was in no position
to negotiate.
The authorities have taken
disciplinary action against 42
contro llers at Lyons airport
and 36 at Aix-en-Provence, lay-
ing them off for periods of
between one week and three
months, because of their
support for the union ban on
allowing aircraft to take off.
The unions do not meet again
until Monday to decide their
next step. .
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Pairick Brogan
Nov 22
Mr Andrei Grotnyko, the
: Soviet Foreign Min ister,
; warned West Germany tonight
%that the Nato plan to station
med ium-range nuclear missiles
in Western Europe would only
. worsen the situation on the
Continent. It would, he sug-
! gested, undermine the chances
of success in disarmament nègo-
tiations.
Mr Gromyko was speaking at
a banquet given by Herr Hans-
Dietrich Gensc l-ier, his West
German counterpart, after a
day of talks dominated by the
Nato plan and proposals by
both East and West for nego-
uatians on arms reduction.
Whatever may have been
said during the discussions,
which offic ials reported were
held in a “ very good construc-
live sp ir it “, Mr Gromyko pub -
liicily mainta ined aTheit in
milder tones the bitter Soviet
criticism of the plan.
- He rejected the Nato argu-
ment that it is forced to adopt
missiles to counterbalance the
Soviet SS2Os deployed in the
East.
If Soviet policy,
does a volte-face, the
obliged either to eat
wh ile they are stiU
assume that readers
able of compar ing
written three weeks
what is proclaimed
truth today. Soviet of fi
publicly unabashed by
tradictions this entails.
line appears to
Eastern Europe,
t German news-
calling the ‘take-
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two ministers also reviewed
bilateral relations which, they
agreed, were going well and
were a very important factor
in efforts for détente.
Mr Gromyko agreed with his
hos t that the situation in West
Berlin, especially vulnerable to
expressions of Soviet dis-
pleasure because otf its isolated
position inside East Europe,
should remain peaceful. They
agreed to seek pragmatic solu-
tirn ls to the city's outstanding
problems.
One guest who was to be
CGflSPIC1IQUs by his absence at
the banquet In Mr Gromyko's
honour was Herr Franz Josef
Strauss, the opposition candi-
date for the chancellorship.
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Herr Strauss is displaying an
ostentatiously cool attitude to
the Soviet visitor. Aides said he
had not made any special effort
to an-ange a meeting with him
and pointed out that Mr
Gro rmyko had not shown any
particular anxiety to see Herr
Strauss.
It appears that Herr Strauss
has been expecting an invita-
don to Moscow for some time
and did not wax t to appear to
be pressing for it.
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The 13 hostages
I fl-bran retunnd to
States this morning,
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They were met at the airport
by Mr Cyru s Vance, the Seat-
tary of State, who said that the
I Government 's ch ief concern
must be to obiamn the release
of the remthiing hostages bthng
held by m i litant Mus l im
. students.
The 13 have yet to meet the
press and give an account of
the conditions under which
they were held. A White House
spokesman said yesterday : C
is clear that they were sub-
jected to very sop]ñsthcated.
arid subtle techniques, and it
1s also clear that their tveat-
- went has been at the very least
omewhat more harsh than had
been previously reported.”
: A State Department
man said today that in
attacks yesterday
American Embassy
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