Unionist Council colleagues, so Gerry had to carry the burden in the Convention debates last week. not nake things easy for him. As Fitt's SDLP colleague Seamus Mallon rose to speak, they all walked out of the chamber. The UUUC were protesting at a speech by wallon in which he had branded the Ulster Defence Regiment as The trial of the 14 supporters of the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign opened on MonCraig's turn is not exactly popular with his United Ulster: Belfast where ten of his members were being held for The UUUC did the UVF, spiracy to contravene the incitement to Disaffection Act, and 13 of them face substantive charges (most of them relating to the possession of the leaflet Some Information for Discontented Soldiers) under tie Incitement to Disaffection Act itself.
Al Tourteen ciner picauca nor gunn or relused to plead, some ol them mak ing political statements about the nature of the charges. When Michael Wescott pleaded peace in a world of war; love in a world of hate; free speech for all and an end to politically motivated rials, the judg , Justice Neil MeKinnon, cloTted. I win nave to nave a medici report on you.
The trial opened with a number of
Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report) MENTAL HEALTH: The Labour Government is cutting Ine provisions tor the mentally ill and the mentally retarded in Day Centres by 50 per cent next year BIRMINGHAM: The NHS has cut by one third the number of heart operations at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. People in the prime of life are dying because they cannot get heart operations. Leon Abrahams, Chairman of the Division of Surgery, says: 'We have reached the stage where it has become more dangerous for some patients to be on the waiting list than to undergo major heart surgery.
BARNSLEY: One in six patients on the waiting list of Barnsiev Hospital has been waitina for more than a year.
SOUTHAMPTON: Doctors and social workers have been told that there are no more meals on wheels avalable tor datents SURGERY: A survey by the DHSS of a number of waiting lists in 1971 showed that of a represen tative sample of 5,772 patients in six major surgica specialties 37 per cent had been waiting longer than a year, nearly 20 per cent of this sample had been waiting for more than two vears, and some for foul years and more. Waiting times were particularly long in non-traumatic orthopaedic surgery, with well over 60 per cent of patients waiting more than a vean GLAMORGAN: The Area Health Authority has cut its nursing staff from 4,167 to 3,895. In November there will be 50 nurses who have passed their exams but cannot get a job because Glamorgan says it has no monev to emoroy tem BOURNEMOUTH: Health Authorities have admitted that because of a chronic shortage of beds anc facilities, patients have.died whilst waiting for hospital treatment.
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