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8.55 9.45 10.25 10.35 11.35 billies. 6.10 6.45 7.15 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.15 11.15 11.30 All rel 3.55 BBC Lucy: Lucy and the Used Car-Dealer.

musical presentation of songs old and new.

Audie Murphy.

THE HARRY SECOMBE SHOW. With and Clodagh Rodgers.

BEN TRAVERS FARCES: 'A Cup Lowe and Richard Briers.

HORSE OF THE YEAR SHOW.

NEWS and weather.

MATCH OF THE DAY.

Conference and speech of the Prime Minister. NEWS FROM ITN.

NO, THAT'S ME OVER HERE.

HAWAII FIVE-O: 'Cry Lie'.

FRAUD SQUAD: 'Double Deal'.

NEWS AT TEN.

THE FROST PROGRAMME. David Frost. ions as above except: 2.30-3.15 The Doctors. 3.15Rugby Union. 3.55-4.15 Trans1 Top Team. 4.15-4.40 Swyn Y Glec:

Weath Scotland Sunda: SATURDAY Mod 'esults Welsh verse 11.17 2.30-3.05 6.50.% ings 6.85-6.50 Set. HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white service above except: 6.15-7.00 Wrth fy modd.

ANGLIA: 10.00 London. 5.10 Making Whoopee! 5.40 Wheel of Fortune. 6.10 No, Ohat me Orer there. 730 Whunder No, That me over Here. in the Sun'. Starring Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler. Wagon train journey across the French Pyrenees. 9.00 London. 11.15 Name of the Game. 12.35 Reflection.

5.10 No, that's over here. fortune. 6.10 London. 7.00 Your stars tomorrow. 7.03 Film: 'A Date With Judy'. With Wallace Beery Carmen Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Miranda, Xavier Cugat and Robert Stack. A girl discovers that her boyfriend has been taking lessons from her sister on how to handle women. 9.00 London. 10.15 Theatre. 11.15 Frost, weather.

Crow her a for do has Crowther's in 7.00 No. me over here. 7.30 Film: "The Story With Robert Hunter and Hope London. 10.15 Theatre. 11.15 Frost. YORKSHIRE: 12.45 ' Lon London. 12.30 smoke. Cartoon 6.19 London. 6.15, Crowther's London. Gunin town. that's here. 7.30 Rhonda African adventure. 9.00 London. 10.10 This is Tom Jones. 11.10 Human jungle. 12.05 Weather.

GRANADA: 10.00 London. 12.30 Cartoon. 2.45 London. 5.10 Greatest show on earth. 6.10 London. 6.15 Crowther's in town. No, that's me over here. 7.30 Tough guys: "Carter's Army". With Stephen Boyd. Robert Hooks and Susan Oliver. tough bigoted officer in Second World War is ordered to defend a dam that the Germans plan to destroy. 8.50 Cartoon. 9.00 London. 10.10 For adults only.

Bonanza. 6.10° London. Londs Cross TYNE TEES: 10.00 5.15 ther's in town. 7.00 No, that's me over here. 7.30 Film: 'Sailor of the King'. With Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie and Wendy Hiller. Frost.

London. 10.10 Theatre. 11.10 SCOTTISH: 10.00 London. 5.15 Adventure time. 6.10 London. 6.15 Crowther's in town. Tarzan and that's me over here. 7.30 the Amazons'. With Johnny Weissmuller. 9.00 • London. 10.10 This is | Tom Jones. 11.10 Match report. i1.25 Late call. 11.30 Don't watch alone: "The Ghost of Frankenstein'. With Lon Chaney Ir., Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Bela Lugosi.

GRAMPIAN: 10.00 London. 5.15 Laredo. 6.10 London. 6.15 Crowther's here 7:30 7.00 No. that's talegal with here. Movie: With Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe and Jayne Mansfield. A district attorney takes to the bottle after learning that he has sent an innocent man to the electric chair. 9.00 London. Match report. i1.25 UntOuchables. Match Trevor Howard. Dra: na for the skipper an ocean-going tug engaged in rescue work when he meets an old friend and his girl Stella. 10.00 Lon-i don. 12.10 Weather.

HTV west as above.

HTV (Wales) colour and HTV (cymru/ Wales) black and white as above except: 12.10 Dan Sylw. 1.10 Sel 'I Sylwedd. Yesterdays. 1.55 Weather trends. Wild. ANGLIA: 11.00 London. 1.25 All Our Farming Diary. 2.30 Jokers 3.00 Randall and Hopkirk (deceased). 3.55 Match of the week. 4.40 London. 7.55 Movie: 8 Esthere pielams hand Suit. Starring Esther Williams Victor Mature. Fight of a physically handicapped girl to become a champion swimmer. 10.00 London. 12.10 Reflection.

ATY MIDLANDS: 11.00-1.25 London. 1.30 Mr Piper. 1.45 London. 2.15 Soccer. 3.15 'The Spoilers of Alaska'. With Anne Baxter, Chandler Rory Calhoun and Ray Danton. Gold prospectors in 4.43 Your tomorrow. 4.45 4.45 London. 7.55 stars Film: "The Wages of Fear'. With Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck and Folco Lulli. Four men bring huge quantities of high explosives two hundred miles along bumpy roads in lorries without shock absorbers. 10.00 London. 10.15 This is ... THE STATE visit of French President Pompidou to the Soviet Union is the occasion for a glittering pageant in honour of 'peaceful existence' between the Stalinist bureaucracy and the French capitalist class.

Pompidou and his entourage, including Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann and a small tribe of lesser Gaullist politicians, are being given red-carpet treatAs well as a round tour of Siberia, the Soviet space centre at Baikonur, Tashkent and Samarkand, Pompidou will have several hours of private talks with top Soviet leaders.

There is little doubt that the communiqués speaking of 'amity' and 'mutual understanding' between the participants will be substantially correct.

Before his departure Pompidou explained:

'France remains faithful to the policy defined by General de Gaulle which has as its aim the strengthening of understanding and co-operation between all the countries of eastern and western Europe and first of all between France and the Soviet Union.' TACTFUL He spoke glowingly of his previous trip east, as de Gaulle's Prime Minister in 1967, but tactfully omitted to mention de Gaulle's last excursion, when he returned post-haste bedecked with Stalinist garlands from Rumania to face a general strike of the French working class in May 1968.

DURING US President Nixon's recently-completed whistle-stop tour of friends and acquaintances in Europe and the Mediterranean, the broadest smiles were undoubtedly reserved for His Holiness Pope Paul VI, who received Nixon at home in the Vatican city.

Flanked by an impressive retinue of bodyguards the distinguished guest prudently arrived and departed by helicopter to avoid massive demonstrations in the city of Rome, and affably adopted a cruciform pose for photographers in St Peter's Square.

The cordial exchanges SO widely reported were by no means only formal.

Pope and President have much in common, and not least an intelligence service designed to keep thorough tabs on left-wingers and other potentially 'disruptive' elements.

Naturally St Peter's heir does not aspire to a network the size of the CIA, but Mother Church herself, as revelations in Italy last ADVANCED work-study systems applied to physical handicapped workers are examined in the current issue of the Institute of Work Study Practitioners' journal.

The article, originally presented as a paper at the European Work-Study Federation Conference in May this year, is concerned with 'utilization of . handicapped workers in industry.

It explains that employing such workers involves great problems: they cannot work effectively enough; they cannot work hard enough; they cannot stand the pressure of ordinary industrial work.

The answer is said to be design the work-place to the worker.

EAST & WEST Clearly recognizing that 'democracy' comes a poor second to diplomacy, he refrained also from any indelicate references to the warmth of Franco-Czechoslovak relations.

Reciprocating these courtesies to the full, the -Stalinist propaganda machine pulled out all the stops in celebration of his visit.

Even the minor details were carefully attended to.

CO-OPERATION A recent number of the Moscow 'Literary Gazette' reproduced long , extracts from Pompidou's Father Agostino Zerbinati.

week showed, provides a cover for such activities.

Father Agostino Zerbinati was, until recently, a teacher of religious subjects at the State Art School in the N Italian city of Genoa.

In addition to his obligations to his employers and students, he recognized a , duty of obedience to the diocesian Curia (the Holy Office, an administrative machine of the Catholic Church).

He was thus required to fill in for the Church a report form each year on his work and the SPEEDING-UP HANDICAPPED On the face of it any scheme to improve an operatives' working conditions is fair enough. To design a working environment to suit an incapacitated operator so as to make his work easier is a POMPIDOU VISITS THE preface to his "Anthology of French Poetry. It heartily approved his taste, though finding it 'a little subjective'.

On the more substantial questions, a "Tass' news agency release anticipated 'an even closer Franco-Soviet co-operation in the interests of peace and European and world security.

Getting to the details of what this means, the Moscow correspondent of the French CP daily 'Humanité, Max Leon, explained:

'The situation is favourable, since on the burning questions of international politics — Indoachievement of his students.

Copies of such reports • were sent to the schools involved and to the local education authority.

EFFERVESCENCE But this year priests teaching in Genoa state schools were called to a special meeting and told they would have to fill in— at the Curia offices—a special, confidential report on their experience at work, covering, among other things, the political opinions of students and staff and the formation and activities of any left-wing societies or organizations. commendable - though not a particularly original-aim.

However, this is not the real purpose of the exercise. It is the time studies that are the real issue.

The paper explains that the Speed test for picking up a small object. The operator moves his hand from rest on a metal plate to pick up a nut from the box.

The 'performance-time' is recorded to the nearest thousandth of a second by the electronic counter which is attached to the plate and to the box by wires under the table. China, the Middle East and eyen European security-their points of view have grown closer, are often parallel and sometimes coincide.' Appetites whetted by the Bonn-Moscow treaty and the blows they helped to strike at the Arab revolution, the Kremlin Stalinists clearly hope to persuade Pompidou to put his full weight behind a European 'security' conference.

Accordingly, all class questions must be thrust out of sight.

The Stalinist press is silent on Gaullist repression of the French labour movement and the laws God Knows As Monsignor Patrone, director of the Genoa Catechismal Bureau, subsequently explained, this/extra form was required by 'the present moment of particular effervescence in the places where we live and work'.

Father Agostino, who did not attend the special conference, was highly put out when faced with the new form.

As he disarmingly explained, he refused to fill it in and justified his decision as 'a matter of conscience'.

His 200 or so fellow priests teaching in the city felt no such qualms and apparently completed the forms promptly and worker must be given a series of speed tests on dexterity, accuracy, co-ordination and learning ability to find which actions he can perform normally and to isolate the disability.

These tests are based on the basic manual operations of the Methods-Time-Measurement (MTM) system-reach, move, grasp, position and turn with the 'standard' MTM times as a base.

REACH TEST

For example, a reach test is made by getting the worker to sit with his hand resting on a metal plate. He reaches forward from this and takes an engineering nut from a box.

The 'performance-time' for the action is recorded by an electronic counter connected to the plate and box.

A grasp test is made by giving the worker ten nuts to hold in one hand. These have to be slipped one at a time on to a metal rod.

Tests for turn are made by giving the worker a handle to twist. After the tests, which last for six to eight hours, spread over two or three days, a full MTM analysis of the operative is said to have been made.

Following this, the worker is given manual operations to perform which have been planned and analysed, using MTM. establishing collective guilt for demonstrations.

The bloody colonial war being waged by Pompidou's troops against the liberation fighters in Chad is passed over.

French employers, against whom Communist Party trade union militants are in bitter struggle, appear in 'L'Humanité's' columns as praiseworthy participants in Soviet economic development-most importantly Renault, scheduled to share with DaimlerBenz and Fiat in building a giant lorry plant in Siberia.

Truly, rose-tinted spectacles are the order of the day.

accurately.

Father Agostino was shortly to discover, however, that a conscience of his type is a serious obstacle to preferment in the Church-he was suspended from his post. • PROTEST His fellows among the lay teaching staff protested and Genoa students demonstrated against his victimization.

And, to the horror of the Church authorities, the matter exploded into a national scandal.

In a final irony the issue was taken up by the secular capitalist press — who themselves have a record for vigorous whitewashing of spying and provocations by the state intelligence services against the left wing-as a stick to beat the Christian Democrats.

have engaged, with the support of fascists and monarchists, in parliamentary manoeuvres to defeat the divorce bill before the Senate.

If divorce becomes legal in Italy, some of the credit must go to the humble and chaste Father Agostino, and his view that what God wishes to know about the left wing he should find out for himselt.

The resulting performance level at these is then compared with that of a 'normal' person. The final table shows what actions the operative can perform normally and those which are affected by the disability.

The worker is then given tasks and a working lay-out which can avoid the difficult elements and enable him to achieve 'normal' MTM times.

DWARF

Examples are given of the case of a dwarf, where it may only be necessary to reduce the dimensions of the working area, and a worker has one hand which does not function properly.

Here, work is specially arranged so that the good hand does all the complicated and straining movements.

The system which has been developed by the industrial management section of the Norwegian Institute of Technology is claimed to be suitable for 'ultilization of older workers and re-education of It states that results so far 'indicate that the efficiency of a handicapped worker in some cases may increase by about 50 per cent'.

Hiding behind the genuine need to provide a trade, therapy and rehabilitation training for the handicapped worker, the work-study consultants evolve speed-up systems to turn even disabled workers into speeding automatons.

The early concepts of the craft training, both for physical and psychological purposes, are now swept away and he or she must become a top speed manipulator in some light engineering process (assembling door-locks and bicycle bells are two examples given).

It is true to say that at its time of crisis, capitalism can allow no worker to dictate his own speed of working which he finds reasonable, safe and comfortable.

He must either be made to conform to the pace required for maximum profit-or go to the scrap-heap.

PAGE FOUF Saturday, October 10, 1970