Russians unexpectedly attend United Nations disarmament talks
United Nations, Aug. 16.
The Soviet Union decided today to attend a U.S.-summoned meeting of the
U.N. Disarmament Commission which it had threatened to boycott.
SPY PILOT'S
TRIAL MAY
LAST 3 DAYS
Moscow, Aug. 16.
At today's meeting, the United States asked the Soviet Union to agree to a complete cut off in the production of fissionable materials for weapons purposes.
Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, the chief U.S. delegate, told the 82-nation disarmament commis- sion that when this had been done the United States and the Soviet Union might each sel aside. 30,000 kilograms (about €6,000 pounds) of uranium 235 for peaceful purposes.
A 'FARCE'
If the Soviet Union was not
The spy trial of American prepared to join in a plan of
"U-2 pilot Francis this kind.
then the United
Russia ha step-by-step
Britain's
No. 1
policewoman dies
London, Aug. 16.
Powers which opent to-States would be prepared to | Britain's No. 1 policewoman, morrow after two months join
Miss Barbara Denis de Vitro, has died here aged 54.
of buildup will probably close-down of plants producing
be over in three days.
In addition to the 2,000 guests who will be present in the main- the moth theatre-courtroom, world may be able to witness at least parts of the trial that are expected in be fined for Soviet television.
No one knows get how many of the many hundreds of news- men who are pouring into Mos- cow will be able to witness the American pilot's days in a Soviet court.
The audience will consist
from mainly of delegations various organisations. Admission to the courtroom will be per- mitted only to persons showing invitations. The heads of diplo
missions here have al- matic
ready received theirs.
IDENTITY FIRST
The trial will proceed ac-
courtroom cording to standard
with will begin practice. It Identification of the defendant of his ap- and a justification pearance before the "millory college of the supreme, court."
The entire trial will be trans- lated as it unfolds into English and Russian.
One significant exception common practice will be
lack of a jury.
A judge and two will
to
the
enriched uranium and pluto- nium, Mr Lodge said.
Mr Vasily Kuznetsov, the Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister, promptly told the its meeting was a Commission
farce."
Almost
the lust mo- up to ment it was uncertain whether the Soviet Union would boy-:
The Russians cot the session.
had strongly opposed the con- venting of the Commission, which followed the walkout of the Soviel bloc at the Geneva 10-nation
disimmament talks
last June.
Mir Kuzne soy appeared to be in the best of humour when he confounded predic- tlons by turning up for the session.
Miss de Vitre rose from a £3 a week constable in Sheffield to become the first woman in the post of assistant inspector of constabulary at the Home Office, the position she held when she died.
Her job was to advise on all conditions affecting palice women, Including uniform
iyles,
and
The dowdy long skirts heavy boots in which she first pounded the beat were replaced by a more attractive uniform worn with black nylons.
ADVISER
Miss de Vitre spent six months in Cairo in the 1930's
He went over to Mr Lodge a speetal investigator for and warmly shook his hand, the Central Nargolies Bureau. Mr Ludge is customarily relue- After the Second World War, lant to be photographed shak-she advised the United States a Sovlet dele-authorities on the use of women ing hands with gate, but he returned the Rus police in the American zone of
aniled Germany. greeting and amably.
Sian's
FROPOSAL
Introducing his first proposal, Mr Lodge said the United States was prepared to end production of fissionable materials weapons purposes, on a re- ciprocal basis with the Soviel
assistants Union. decide the guilt or in- nocence of the defendant, who will be the only non Russian Involved in the trial,
It will take place in the "hall of columns," principal roum in an 18th century palace whose function has changed with the times in Russia,
She went to Cyprus in 1957
to advise on setting up women's force there.
Lasl
1
усаг, Miss de Vitre
CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1980.
Picture shows: The man behind the wheel is more commonly seen in the seat of a. Jaguar, Gloved, roggled and crash-helmeted, the Duke of Kent has been quiling a dash on the go-karting circuits of Germany where he is in the Army. The experts say: le shows treat promise and corners like a veteran. Express Photo,
Walked across Australia
to prove doctors wrong
British
musical
for
Germany
London, Aug. 16.
visited the Irish Republic, at A British musical "exported“
invitation of the for the
police,
irish
In 1958, she made history as the first woman to attend
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The transfer of 30,000 kilo-conference of Interpol, the io- grams of U-235 by the United ternational police organisation. States and a similar amount by China' Mail Special.
the
Soviet Union to peaceful uses would mean "an immediate and sizable reduction in the nuclear threat," Mr Lodge said.
amount if used in
Such an
Rebels active
modern nuclear weapons would in west Java
Under the Czars it was the generate an explosive force well scene of Moscow's most fashion-over 1,000 times greater than able balls. Later Lenin
explosive and that of all the high
in world war Stalin lay there in state after bombs dropped their deaths-AFP,'
two-UPI and Reuter.
A British
Crossword Puzzle
2
3
14
to Germany in an attempt to secure a corner of the European theatrical market will open in Munich tonight..
Sydney, Aug. 16. The man who "shadowed" British marathon walker Dr Barbara Moore, along walk in her 400-mile Australia recently, trudg- ed into Sydney today after walking across Australia.
The walker, Mr George Lock- wood, a retired postman, walked miles from Fremantle, 2,800 Western Australia, to Sydney, New
Eve South Wales, in -months.
He told reporters on arrival that doctors warned him in 1957 to give up walking because of high blood pressure.
Heroes'
Woman in flames MURDER TRIAL OF AFRICANS
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, Aug. 16. London-born Mrs Lilian Burton died of a beating received after she struggled in flames from her car which Africans had set on fire, the pro secutor said today at the opening of the trialTM here of four Africans charged with murdering her.
Previously it trad been be lieved that Mrs Burton, 39- years-old mother of four child ren, died of burns,
The accused Africans pre Edward Ngebe, 27, unemployed clerk, Chanda John, 28, painter, Robert Karina, 18, and James Phiri, 20.
Mr Paul Counsell, for the Crownz, said that on May 8, after an illegal meeting in | Chifubu African township, near
Ndola, several
of crowds Africans went to the Ndola- Mufulira malm rond.
"One of the crowds stopped Mrs Burton's car," he said. “
"Ngebe poured petrol over the car and Mrs Burton, set- fing them alight,"
welcome Kicked and beaten
for 21
Eoka men
Mr Counsell continued: "Mrs Burton got out with her two young daughters and Chanda and Phiri-kicked and beat them.
"I intend to produce medical evidence that as a result of the beating. Mr Burton later died in Ndola Hospital."
(Mrs
Burton's doughters, Nicosia, Aug. 16. New independent Cyprus who were with her at the time, Rosemay, 12, and Debble, four, gave a heroes' welcome were not seriously injured and today to 21. Eoka men recovered in hospital. Her two when they returned here other children were at home at by air a few hours after the time of the attack). the last British governor, The Case continues,--China Sir Hugh Foot, had salled Mall Special, for home.
The archbishop Makarios ad- dressed them at Nicosia stadium, where their arrival was one of the highlights of a day of his- "I just had to prove them tory-making and rejoicing in the wrong, so I started this mars-island, independent for the first thon" walk," he said-China tine in its 3,000 years of record- Mall Special.
ed history,
A gay musical about under-Man wanted on
world life in Soho,
cosmopolitan district, "The Crooked Mile" has been trans-
latest inte
German and will feature a cast of 'more than 100 with an orchestra of 60.
OPPORTUNITY
Gemmell Presented by Dan Bandung, Aug. 16. and Reginald Woolley, who British There has been an upsurge brought the successful
of terrorist activity in musical "The Boy Friend" to Broadway, The Crocked Mile" west Java with the apron for six months in London's proach of Indonesia's in- West End. depence day tomorrow,
After its opening at the Gar- Twenty-seven villagers have ner Platz Theatre, Munich, it been killed, at least 17 wound-will be played throughout Ger- ed, and homes and vehicles, many. burnt in raids on townships and estates in the past week.
West Java is the main strong- hold of the fanatle Dorul Islam rebels, whose aim is to establish a theocratic state in Indonesia Reuter,
fraud charge
Nassau, Aug. 16.
A man wanted in Southerni Rhodesta on 16 counts of fraud left here in police custody to- day en route for London and eventual return to Africa.
There were scenes of wild
13 MINERS
TRAPPED
Johannesburg. Aug. 16. Thirteen .miners bave beer krajiped by a rock- fall in a goldmine within Johannesburg city limits, spokesman for the mine company Bounced today.
The fall of rock' abort 2,500 feet underground was caused by severe earth tremar which shook Jobah- nesburg this morning.
Thirty-four African inineworker aid one while miner were trapped, le spokesman sald immediate rescue operations were started and -22 Africans brought out safely.- Reuter.
Priest charged with rape surrenders
San Antonio, Aug. 16. The Rev. John B. Foit, Roman Catholic priest charged with assault to rape, sur- rendered to officers today and Immediately asserted
8-month voyage that he is innocent.
in trawler
Auckland, Aug. 16.
Fr Feit made $10,000 bond, signed by two priests and a con- struction Arm Executive,
Miss Maria America Guerra, 20, a student at the Pan-
enthusiasm among the thousands Ten English migrants, in-American College in Edinburg,
of Greek Cypriots who jammed
the airport and roads nearby to
welcome the Ecka men
The crowd broke the police cordons is the aircraft touched down.
REPRIEVED
cluding two women, sailed Texas, brought the comptain into port here today after against the priest.
an
eight-month voyage She said she was scized as she from Britain in the 75-knelt to pray in the Sacred Heart foot Scottish trawler, Catholic Church on March 23. Aberdeen Angus.
She said she bit her assailant an
a finger as they struggled, and
Fr Feit, surrounded by a mass
Since leaving home in he fled. The plane door was opened November, they had weathered with difficulty under pressure of a hurricane in the Bay of Bis-of reporters and photographers, the cheering people, many whom were in tears.
of cay,
Islands.
and seen
South Seas declared today:
The skipper, Mr L. C. Rogle, a former army offoor, said the I am not a fugitive and have party alt put up money to buy the trawler. It now would be
When it did open, the first man Lionel Arthur Willis, identi- cut was a leading Edia man who
was sentenced to death for carry fled as the defendant in a casting a gun but reprieved. Involving £6,000 was escorted by Detective Sgt. Roy Javis.-- The crowd litted him and sold here, and money refund AP,
others shoulder high-Reuter. | ed--China Mail Spedal.
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