Winners and losers over Trident bid and rare Einstein manuscript sold
On this week in Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind.
InhisstatementtotheCommons, Mr Rifkind said 450 jobs would be cut from the yard’s present workforce of 3,700 by the year 2000, but Allan Smith, Rosyth’s managing director said he believed jobs were secure for at least 18 months.
Mr Rifkind added it had been a difficult decision to make; however, Devonport had to be awarded the contract because it was cheaper over 15 years.
Mike Leece, managing director of Devenport Management Ltd said: “It is a decision which reflects the efforts of all of us at Devonport, a decision for all of us on merit. It is a difficult decision, it has taken a lot of time but in the end they have come to the right decision.”
Steven Spielberg’s film Jurassic Park, which shows in graphic detail a man being eaten alive by a dinosaur, was given a PG rating for release in Britain, but it was to carry a rider warning of disturbing scenes.
The British Board of Film Classification took the decision after the film was shown to 200 children aged between eight and 11. Most children said they had enjoyed it immensely and no ill effects were reported by parents and teachers, althoughsomechildrenadmitted they had covered their eyes at the gory scenes, which includedismemberedbodyparts scattered across the screen.
And finally a rare manuscript by Albert Einstein, in which he solved a problem using the matrix theory for the first time, fetched almost $10,000 at a Paris auction house. The document, the first Einstein manuscript sold in France, was accompanied by a letter from the celebrated physicist to his wife Rachel.