Intrigue As Colonel Tim Cancels Talk Amid Security Fears ; Londoner's Diary

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THESE ARE difficult times for mercenaries in Africa following the arrest of Simon Mann for plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea involving Sir Mark Thatcher.

Now the doyen of action men, Col Tim Spicer, has pulled out of a lecture " Private Security Companies in the New Global Era". He was due to give the talk tomorrow night to the Royal African Society in London.

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Intrigue As Colonel Tim Cancels Talk Amid Security Fears ; Londoner's Diary

"This is simply to let you know that Lt Col Spicer has withdrawn from the talk on Thursday as his office received a number of calls to say that there would be a large antiwar demonstration at the meeting," says a spokesman for Spicer's company Aegis Defence Servic...

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