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The Diractor General of the BBC, Charles Curran, has rejected the appeals of the two Portuguese Journalists, Jorge Ribeiro and Antonio Cartaxo, against their sacking trom me •es external ser vice. Despite half-baked arguments about 'professional competence, it is obvious that the two journalists have been victimised to satisty Tory MP Winston Churchill, who launched a campaign in the summer against leftwing bias.

The reputation which the External Service has sought to build up, of being the 'unbiassed voice of democ ratic Britain', has been badly damaged by the case. Several foreign newspapers have carried articles about the affair, and a leading member of the Portuguese Socialist Party has said that the two Journalists were so tair that they did not hinder the BBC's support of the SP's aims and politics!

Ine Bbc nates bad publicity - a phobia no doubt shared by its paymasters in the Foreign Office, and by the 'moderates' such as General Spinola who have got so much free publicity on tue cxterna services airwaves. So it is bad news for them, and good news for the Media Support Grup of the Portuguese Solidarity Campaign, that new information has emerged whish which goes a long way towards proving that the BBC has been 'arranging' with Mario Soares to 'improve' the Portuguese broadcasts - and thus the SP leadership's aw-revoronary activities.

It will be interesting to see how the BBC reacts. Will it continue protesting its complete innocence, or will it open the Water'-gates and challenge us to criticise? Watch this space!

John Sherman been used to back up the Garda collaboration between the Free State and British security forces" has been developed.

Now the Dublin Government (Jurisdiction) Bill. which is at presis almost certain to be passed.

The provisions of the Bill are remarkably extensive. Any person who flees South after escaping from a prison camp in the North, including persons held on remand, could be charged in the South and sentenced by a non-jury Special Criminal Court to up to seven years imprisonment. All cases would be taken before the Special Criminal

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