YESTERDAYS 1970
JACK CHARLTON, pictured above, the Leeds and England centre-half, is to be charged by the Football Association following a statement he made in a television interview at the weekend that he would “do” two players whose names he had in a book.
An FA statement said that the emergency committee would charge Charlton with making remarks likely to bring the game into disrepute. They are also informing England team manager Sir Alf Ramsey that until the matter is resolved Charlton is not eligible for selection for representative teams.
Before going out for a training session Charlton said: “I have absolutely no comment to make”, a message echoed by Leeds manager Don Revie. Jack Charlton was named in the Leeds side to visit West Bromwich Albion at the weekend. MEMBERS of the self-styled Cardiff Black Alliance Movement, which last week demonstrated outside Cardiff Law Courts against alleged police brutality, plan to boycott a meeting in the Docks area of the city at which a senior police officer will be one of the speakers.
The officer, Superintendent Victor Butler, deputy co-ordinator of the Wales (No 8) Regional Crime Squad, is to give a talk called Police And The Community at Butetown Community Centre.
A spokesman for the Black Alliance Movement, which claims a membership of about 100, said they would attend the meeting and warned of further demonstrations when four of their members appear before the court on charges of assaulting police officers.
The spokesman said: “The Black Alliance Movement, formed to combat police brutality and all forms of racialism practised against black people, wish to boycott this meeting and refuse to participate in any discussion with Superintendent Butler.
“We regard the discussion as a conciliation meeting following a number of incidents between police and black people.”
Councillor Manuel Delgado said as far as he was aware it was not a conciliation meeting, nor was it being held as a result of any recent incidents.
He thought the discussion would not revolve around the Butetown area but on a much broader basis. He regretted the Black Alliance Movement would be boycotting the discussion. But, if they thought they could arouse public sympathy in this way, then they must decide their own course of action.
“I’m sorry the Black Alliance have taken this view,” said Cllr Delgado. A 240-bedroom hotel complex costing more than £1,250,000 may soon be built on the outskirts of Penarth. Penarth Urban Council supported an application by Cogan Pill House Ltd to develop two linked multi-storey hotel blocks around the Elizabethan Hotel, near the roundabout at the end of Penarth Road.
The plans have already been given provisional approval for grant and loan purposes by the Wales Tourist Board, and if they are approved by Glamorgan County Council work would probably start next March. The plan includes two six-to-eight story blocks of hotel rooms each side of the present building, with a two-storey restaurant and ballroom at the rear. MONTREAL police let up on the hunt for the men who kidnapped British diplomat James Cross, aged 49, at gunpoint, because of fears for his life.
A ransom note, generally believed to be from members of separatist-terrorist group the Front de Liberation Quebecois (FLQ), demanded among other things that police take no action against the kidnappers. Police have complied. A spokesman said: “A man’s life is at stake. We don’t want to make the terrorists jittery.” The note gave a 48-hour deadline for a long list of demands to be met. AS HUNDREDS of council workers in South Wales continued with their pay
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