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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1986.
Colonial Secretary Defends DEN
Suez Canal Action
LENNOX-BOYD
FREE PASSAGE
NOT AT WHIM
OF DICTATOR
London, Dec. 27.
Alan Lennox-Boyd, Britain's Colonial Secretary, said here today that Britain could not possibly have stood by and "let free passage through the Suez Canal be
NATO Council dependent on the whim of a dictator."
Studies Russian Note
Paris, Dec. 27. The permanent Council
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has held a series of meetings. to study the latest notr by Soviet Premier Nicolai Bulganin on disarmament, it was disclosed today.
The nivelings began in De. cember 1 and have dealt with the Peplies 1p di sent to Primer Hulgari.
The Sviet Premier sout notes do ta Uned States, Bri-
1.
MI Lennox-Boyd WHA ferring 122 Th Anglo-French mebirds in Bgypt during his one
New Year's
message on the Brittan Hrondensling Cor- poration's general overseas sep- vice,
To taking the petion we chil DVCT Suez, we were bound to
Influenced by the be
know- Festze that he Cunal was vital supply line for the Coin- monweath," he said
Rubber And Tin
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A
EXTENSIVE
| OPERATION
IN ALGERIA
Algiers, Dec. 27. French infantry troops supported by artillery units and helicopter-borna de- tachments today mounted An extensive military operation north of Talat which resulted
10 in
Malaya, for example, pro- dures a
third of the world's natural rubber and over third of Ita tin, the said. Thirty
of her im- per cent porta
of Algerian rebels killed and and three-quarters all her rubber exports
five captured.
through the Canal,
paxs
"Gvien our responsibility for
out oversias territories, we
tain, France and India urgin,, ¦ couldn't possibly stund by fu
big-powey disarmament con-
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In the area of Dia el Mizon. an infantry attack ended with neveral reitis killed ind wounded.
In the Constantine Depart- nor could ment, a identity check bed to we risk u general conflagration | the arrest of numerous suspects
and the seizure of and radio equipment.
in the Middle East if we tell
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The meeting have been held
conformity with the recenti, decistim by The North Allantle Council of Minis{CTS 14 re- inforce politieni consultationx among menxer countries...
France-Presse.
Toulon, Dec. 27 Sixteen ships of the French Mediterraneon
Fleet-the last of the French naval force which took part in the military inter- vention in Eøp! to retum
antled into their home port here
today.China Mail Special.
theech The power to prevent te added.--Reuter.
Espionage Charge
on
Stockholm, Dec. 27. A Russian-born Swelsh engineer WB3 arrested ร
this evening Goteborg charges of espionage, it was re- ported here,
He was lleged to have nd- mitted carrying out netivities dangerous to territorial security.
--France-ProMBO,
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Meanwhile three farins were sei afire by rebols in the Sersou and Muscura regions.
LEADERS QUESTIONED
Meanwhile in Paris the four leaders of the Algerian National Liberation Front, who #ent arrested several months ago while flying from Morocco to Tunis, were questioned for the Brat line today at the Sante
four
son by Major Giraud, examin ing magistrate for the Der- manent Paris anned forces court,
The
Inen, Ben Bella, Mohamed Khkler, All Ahmed Hocine and Mohammed Bouliaf,
are charged with taking part in organisation atmed at demoralising the French army and nation.
They were arrested when the plane in which they were flying from Rabat-to Tunia was forced to land by French air force planes. The fifth Algerian Na- tional Liberation Front leader, Lucheraf, will be questioned to- HOW-France-Presse
Workers To
Elect Manager
Paris, Dec, 27. Workers of the Peking Shihchingshan Iron and steel plant will elect their Own manager in the second quarter of next year, the New China
News Agency reported tonight.
·Austrian Conscripts.
Take OkE.
top
In ceremonies throughout Austria recently, 19-year-old
of allegiance.
Picture army conscripts took the oath shown French and Sovici milliary bbservers saluting a 3,000- strong march past at Vienna's Heldenplats after the ceremony; picture bottom rives a view of the march past. — Express
Photo.
Nehru's Visit A Success
Washington, Dec. 27.
United Nations General Assembly Chairman, Prince Wan of Thailand, said today the recent visit to the United States of Indian Premier, Jawaharlal Nehru, had been "very successful.”
"Certainly, the United States
is much more appreciated and understood now by Mr Nehru and India," Prince Wan said, adding "and thot will have good effect on the Afro-Asian group."
Prince Wan was speaking after a courtesy visit today to the American Secretary of State,
John Foster Dulles,
After his talk with Mr Dulles, Princo Wan said he was very optimistic about the United Nationa prospects in 1957.
Favoured Formula
Ho sald be favoured the for- mula, adopted particularly dur ing the recent General Assembly debates on the Middle East crisis and events in Hungary, of the Assembly adopting rebolu- tions drawn up in general terms, leaving their execution to the Secretary-General,
preferable
A decision enabling workers He said it was
that 11 was the Secretary
to take a greater part in the maringement of revén state en- | General, rather than a com- terprises in Peking was reached maltee, who should put into at the recent conference of in effect the resolutions of the dustrial atas called by the General Assembly, Peking
city
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the agency with
The Shinchingshan iron and steet plant will hold a workers congress late in January to dis- cuss work, and plans, as well as questions in relations to workers' Speaking of his own work, living conditions. It will also he said: "I will try to, koop elect a management committee. † the spirit of goodwill going”--| -France-Presse,
France-Presse.
Prince With also congratulated the American people on tho support they had given to the UN General Assembly during recent months.
ISRAEL PROTESTS OVER
COMMANDO ATTACKS
Tel Aviv. Dne, 27.
AUTHORITATIVE Israeli
"iduroče bolaldered to- day that the mous rodent Kilatka by Alub · some mandiesoekstituted an “Atsemnari an žulinAIAALIGH, “ They polated, but that the stacks were almed;; at the patruwest song ta
the Medi
Fondati
Furthergiore, in thile, kumse sintrow mone; the prumpeo-
pipeline is to be laid,
The muse BourOGE „out thick (the
ber,
52° máigh :- wide, in
DRUNKEN
DEPUTY
SACKED
Moscow, Dec, 27. Latgian wafers have fired ýna að slitir ‘aspullen in the Latvian Boprenis No- vies because he drank 100 much, the Communist Party organ Pravda dis- so closed today.
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The newspaper said the deputy for the Dundováky Mountain distriot, G. K. Podkala, bad: been dis= mlmed because "he was a drunkind and did not carry on the Instructions of his electars,"
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Мод
deputy
pointed after a by-election,
Under the Latvian con- mitation voters are em. powered to resakit deputies if they fall to carry nut their duties.
The Party organ sald that
white most parlia- mentary deputies were satisfactory," vatern had
pointed out a number of "defects" in
gates work.
nome dele- The defecta were not specified.—United Proba.
US Army May Reduce Size Of Divisions
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PLANES FIGHT RAGING BRUSH FIRE
Malibu, Calif., Dec. 27,
Aerial tanker planes dropped chemical bombs today to help check an out-of-control_brush fire which in a 24-hour period blackened 22,000 acres, killed one man and razed 50 structures in this film colony area.
A de of six tanker planes | ------ WILS thrown into the battle as winds slackened momentarily and gave weary frg fighters their flat hope of bringing the disastrous, mwili-parti blaže under control. It was the worst conflagration in 21 year in
Los Angeles County.
Four tiremen have
been
Illiteracy Rate Cut In Portugal
Lisbon, Dec. 27.
burned, hone critically, and 00 others have suffered Lesser injuries. More than 180 persons were homeless, Hundreds of others were forced to evacuato Dr Salazar Rebelo De Souza, their homes, which ultimately state Under-Secretary for were sovert
by the efforts of National Education, said today more than 1,000 are fighters.
Once-fashionable
Early today, the life burst over into Venturn County on its northern front. On the eastern front, which was headed Lor Ure- heavily populated and once-fashionable movie
colony
ut Malibi, fre threatene Malibu Inn and a cluster of 20 dwellings, all evacuated, a mile
that fleracy had been cut to one per cent among Portugueno children between the ages of ' seven and 11,
Before 1930 more than 71 për cent of this age group did not receive any education at all.
In 1940, the percentage. WEI 40.2. Dr 1900 it dwindled further to 20.3 and in 1955 to a mere one per cent.
to
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anal from the Purific Ocean. Dr Souza spoke this afternoon gathering of national A dirty brown cloud of smoke educators. Pointing to the strides above the 32-mile fire perimeter | made In adult chicklith, he was visible from Hollywood, 25 said: "When a pròjfél of such the are's castern magnitude bas to
started alles from
from nothing.. It is not easy bulldozers to produce petro results,
He pointed out, however, that
Washington, Dec, 27. The United States Army announced today that if was seeking approval of a plan to streamline the size of its divisions to meet re- Santa Monica Mountains to keep this was made reasonably
quirements of combat with atomic weapons.
and
an
font.
^ force
fought along the crest of the
10 of
the blaze from spilling over into possible "thanks to the singular the San Fernando Valley, where dedication and zeal of its helpers roughly 1,000,000 persons resident great personal sacrINCE. ***
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Helicopter
about
The populated portions of the
begin valloy, however, eight miles from the first front and Are dighters believed the
Map Thieves
The Army Department said It had asked President Eisenhower and Mr Charles Wilson, the Secretary of Defence, for per- mission to reduce infantry divi- slons by about 3,700 man, air- DOTT
divisio by about 5.600, reductions in make "minor" armoured divisions.
Pittsburgh, Dec, 27. Although division sizes vary blaze could be halted short of A Pittsburgh Grand Jury to- army the entiered communities that day indiated four persons for peace and war. mokesman said that at present dot the approach to the populathe theft of maps showing the comtry
the location of unexploited oil bélés division nominally tion hub in the centre of 11,455
važloy. meo,
in America and the Nést, Dhst. The State Division Forest The Your persons indiced al- armoured division 14,684 and on
Jack Burke, after á Officer airborne division 17,100,
the copter murvey of the perimeter, legedly had tried to resell the The re-organisations of smaller atomic size divisions said it the 40 to 60-mph winds maps, which belonged to the would begin from January 1 it of yesterday came again if the Gulf of Company of #te the administration approved, the tinder-day brush there could be burgh. Warrants for thaker- no hope of control for three or rest were immediately inhibet. ----
France-Presse. four days-United Press.
In
an
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Army Department said.-China Mail Special.
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