Whatever the outcome of that battle of the noble titans Carter and Ford, some at east can reac ine sions. in сантота Governor Edmund Brown Jr has removed the carpet from the lobby of his Sacrafinish acrylic wood floor -taxpayer $3,100. Brown has also banned sleeping bags, food and drink from the office. The reason for all this puritanism: an attempt to reduce the number and lenath of sit-ins protesting cutbacks in social services!
Cutbacks are of little concern to Lady Beaverorook. wno lasi week nanceo over £10,000 to hire a 227-seat jet to take her to Canada. Apparently this was the only way she could travel in tne company o her two dogs. Had she taken a scheduled flight the dogs would have had to suffer the incioniy of travelline in ine caree hold. Lady Beaverbrook was having none Amazing as this tale is, it is equally amazing that John Junor of the Sunday Express should seek to defend my Lady's action in his weekly column, saying: 1 do not understand the implied righteous indignation'. Of course, there is absolutely no cornection between the Sunday Express's defence of Lady Beaverbrook and the fact that the Beaverbrook family owns the Express newspapers.
* And while we are on the virtues of our tree press, t note the reaction or Times to the events in Thailand. A five paragraph article reported how the rightwing coup had upset arrangements for a public school reunion.
Trent College in Derbyshire • annarentiv has a tradition of educating Thailand's ruling class and the reunion was due to take place on the day or ine Coup I also see that the latest statistics from America show that twice as many psychiatrists commit suicide each year as do mental hospital patients. ney must nave een notir priorities of The Times, resolved to endorse the anti-racist policy of the TUC, together with the establishment of conciliation bodies as the first SICP complaints against individual journalists in dealing made under the NUJ's code of conduct and race guidelines. The latest of these, supported last week by the union's Book branch, is against the Daily costing the