P203 CEEFAX 203 Tue 19 Jun 21:12/37 1/3 Mrs Thatcher has told MPs that clashes yesterday between police and miners outside the Orgreave coking plant had "nothing to do with pjacef4l pickjthng" It was mob violence, she said in the Commons this afternoon, and the consequences of giving in to it would bj grave. The Prime Minister rejected anothjt appeal from Opposition leader Mr Neil Kinnock to intervene in the dispute. Mr Kinnock then accused her of "posturing, arrogance, complacency and evasion". - News index 102/202 MoreP203 CEJFAX 203 Tue 19 Jun 21:12/15 2/3 Home Secretary Mr Leon Brittan has rejected a call for a court of inquiry into the miners' dispute. It was not a "useful way forward", hj told the Commons this afternoon. He said hj would consider a backbench call for a legally enforceable limit on the number of pickets. But hj said lack of law was not the problem at the moment. News index 102/202 MoreP203 CEJFAX 203 Tue 19 Jun 21:11/27 3/3 Yesterday's violence at Orgreavj was a riot organised bz people deliberately undermining law and order, the chairman of the Police Federation has said.1 Mr Leslie Curtis said that while it was right to investigate allegations of police misconduct, it was indisputable that officers had acted with maximum restraint against extreme provocation. Hi sbid the Coal Board had failed to enforce an injuction against picketing, and until civil law was activated the campbign to secure industrial ends by violence had to bj seen as a challenge to the rule of law. News index 102/202 More