Investors in Britain's pounds 3bn bioscience sector are increasingly worried about the apparent inability of the police to deal with these militant campaigns against activities that are, however distasteful in some instances, legal. The legislation announced yesterday should help. He would do crazy actions, just so he could get the final hit with a flick to the wrist or such a simple movement that the audience would gasp at his audacity. And then a courteous smile, a nod of the head, and a knowing look, as if he and the onlookers were sharing some special secret.By the 1970s the lightning-fast tearaway had been replaced by a supreme technician with the footwork of a dancer. A rival team manager reckoned Pawlowski had eight different ways of moving forward - each calculated to induce a different reaction.

He also joined the army, eventually rising to the rank of major. He took to fencing comparatively late, as a 16-year-old, concentrating on sabre. By 1953 he was runner-up in the world under-21 championships and was part of the team that took bronze at the senior world championships, Poland's first such success since 1934. At the next championships, he came fourth in the individual event behind three Hungarians, who had long exerted a stranglehold on sabre fencing.At the 1956 Olympics, Pawlowski took silver, and the following year won the world title outright, a success he would repeat in 1965 and 1966, as well as winning Olympic gold in 1968.

In 1959 the Polish team, with Pawlowski its spearhead, finally upset the Hungarians to win the gold medal, which they did again in 1961, 1962 and 1963.Pawlowski was slightly built and about five feet nine inches tall, but he was exceptionally graceful, his body advancing and retreating with such control that his torso seemed not to move as his legs carried him away from his opponent. Freed after 10 years in an exchange with other spies, he was taken to the bridge that divided Cold War Berlin but refused to cross over, saying that he was a Polish patriot. Pawlowski was born in Warsaw in 1932 and studied law at university there. Then in the mid-1970s he was found guilty of spying for the West and sentenced to 25 years in prison. To the applause of the audience, she sprang on to the platform and physically dragged her old fellow student away from the instrument.The slight female was Susan Bradshaw.Susan Mary Bradshaw, pianist, teacher and writer: born St Mellons, Monmouthshire 8 September 1931; died London 30 January 2005.. JERZY PAWLOWSKI was possibly the greatest fencer of all time and certainly the most charismatic. He allied a formidable list of victories at Olympic and world championship level with exceptional speed and athleticism in his early days and superb technique and grace in his maturity in a career stretching over 20 years. Cardew, playing the piano, perpetrated a version called 292 for Henry Flynt, where the chosen sound was created by crashing the whole forearm down on the keyboard.