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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 18, 1960,-

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Pakistan plans new constitution An Admiral

Stay-down

strike ends

Dover, Feb. 17. The last 127 stay-down strikers at Betteshanger colliery near here came to the surface today after spending 152 hours-over six days some 2,100 feet underground.

Wives bugged and klaxed the bearded strikers, A band play

"Keep The Home Fires Burn ing" as the men, protesting at reettinctay nolices, marched past hundreds ot cheering colleagues to the pit baths.

Thy had been ordezexi up by their union

their to prevent health bel affected, but surtice strike of 2,000 men al Bottes hanger will continuo, - Reuter.

PROBE INTO FAILURE

OF PARLIAMENTARY

DEMOCRACY

Rawalpindi, Feb. 17. Within a few minutes of his installation as Presi- dent of Pakistan today, Field-Marshal Moham- med Ayub Khan appointed a constitutional commission to investigate the failure of parlia-| mentary democracy in the country..

comTM

The 12-member commission government expects the will recomanend a "dirm and mission to submit constitutional stable system of government proposals which will break away which will replace the military from western models.

imposed dra October regime 1958.

The commission has been en- Joined to take account of Pakis- Pakistan's old constitution tan's present educational stan- was rorogated when the armydards and a young nation's poli- took control and ender the teal immaturity. political corruption and misrule which Infected the old regime.

The commission's terms of re- ference plainly indicate that the

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ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES

The constitutional and ad-

ministrative changes already carried out by the Ayub govEIN- ment-the most algnificant of which were cllmuxed by Sun- day's presidential election In which the people were repre- sented indirectly by their local councillor

cpeclaily .re- commended to the attention of the commission.

Emphasis is laid us the needi to incorporate the Islamic principles on which the govern- ment evidently largely bases its hopes of binding together the verie? peoples of Paklsian, among whom religion is almost the sole common de.

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President Ayub'a annouNICE- ment. thum redeemed electoral pledge repeated in a broadcast following Sunday's vole, which gave htm -overwhehaing mandate

proceed with the making of the constitution and to servo president when the as first time comes.

The commission task of

faces the

Determining the cause of the failure of parlia- mentary government in Paki

tan which led to the old con- stitution being abrogated,

Submitting proposals aimed at securing 3 "Cemocracy baned on the

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A British Crossword Puzzle

12

ACROSS

iraute controllers of current How (8).

7 The relish given by opics (5).

8 Got through the viva yore in

country style? (8),

10 That "sicp me and buy na

follow (0).

13 How the games Anished (7).

15 Gin basis, perhaps, but not, we hear, for a quick one (4).

17 Hangs around (7).

IB Strong point (7).

20 Bird run over by a train (4).

21 Are they Indigenous to Coney

Island? (7).

26 Mallycoddle (0).

27 Junior officer was not imp partial and sat down (8),

20 item in the sports programme.

with a level start (5).

10 Goose-stopped with support

from below (8).

22

129

26

DOWN

1 On the move in East Ireland

(5).

2 Schoolboy's punishment often

aoclated with the rod (5).

3 Part of a flower (5).

4 Polable kids (4).

5 Some athletes take it in their

stride (6).

Complete? this puzzle (0),

Seen, perhaps, in the fore- head but not in Hindhead! (6).

11 Another name for Alice (B).

12 Would walljower be a suli- able theme for one? (8).

14 So curtain malerial will give

consolation (0),

13 Fog-ends (6).

16 Spout (5),

18 One gets Bille credit on the

river at the decisive moment (0).

10 Wood coming down, perhaps

(0).

22 Augured ill, maybe (6).

23 Not, apparently, an

occupied bit of land (3).

21 US. condition? (8).

24 Money-melting herb (4)-

the and tolerance, cquailty consolidation of national unity ard a firm and stabiv system of government."

Both East and West PaRis- represented lan are equally

on the commission, which In- cludes members from trade, Industry and agriculture, and Hindu site In for Pakistan's -largest -minorily.-Neuter..

Why I failed to kill the Governor'

Field

Nicosia, Feb. 17. Marshal Sir John Harding escaped death from an Eoka terrorist bomb in March, 1956. when he was Governor of Cyprus, because he slept with his bedroom door open, the would-be assas- sin claimed today.

In a story published in the Times

of Cyprus, Neophytos

SIR JOHN HARDING

Fidel Castro (left), the bearded Prime Minister of Cuba, and his quesi, Anastas Miko- yan, the Soviet Deputy Premier, so lahing on Treasure Lake at Ctenaga de Zapata, in the swamplands of central Cuba, recently, during their three-day lour of the interior of Cuba. rlos-producing Castro's government has launched plans to turn the Cleriaga de Zapata into area and 4 tourist centre-AF Phalo.

Did the Russians delay

release of moon photo?

New York, Feb. 17. An American mapping engineer beeves the Russians SUR- creded 'in taking pictures of the unsech side of the moon several months before they re- teased the photographs,

on

Mr D. Eiaffield draws this con- clusion from a 24 Inch long Hungarian stamp first released January 1960-nine Russians months before the announced their third - Lunik had sent back pictures of the hidden side of the moon.

Soviet satellite It showed

whizzing past the moon.

who Mr

worked Hatfield, several months on preliminary mapping of the front side of the moon for the U.S. Gov- ernment poverd which he

stamp picked up Hitc

thint something was different..

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"First," he said, "I looked at it under a magnifying glass. I knew what I saw wasn't the moon na I knew it from work- ing with it for some time." Then, using his mapping equip

meni, Mr Hatfield enlarged the stamp to 36 inches long.

Ace

The artist who designed, that stamp had drawn the roverzo of the moon," he concluded. Scientists at a nearby jet pro- pulsion laboratory disagreed,

Mir Haffield's suspicions about the moon seemed comfirmed 10 months later when the clamp was changed-lo com- memorate the It launching of tho picture. taking moon rocket,

Khrushchev, visited this coun- try. I think this stamp means they look the pictures with their Brs Lunik ta January or maybe earlier. But they said nothing about the plo- turcs.

"The Lunik sbot itself was

big enough triumph," he said, "They held back the pictures.

goes to her reseme

London, Feb. 17.

The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Charles Lambe, today defended a daughter of the former President of Vietnam against charges that she knowingly took clothing into Great Britain without paying duty.

Miss Lysette Van Tom, a 31- year-old student, denied that she was trying to avoid paying £700 duty on four dresses and s coat when she arrived in England from Paris,

Admiral Lambo told London Sessions Court that he had Arst met, the girl in the Far East and vouched for her "honesty."

the

Admiral Lambe, who said he and his wife are unofficially acting as her guardian while she studies at the Courtauld Institute, said that Miss Van Tam could not afford to buy her clothes England because of currency regulations und found it mare convenient to purchase them in Paris.

FOR CLEANING

Customs officials claimed Miss Van Tam fold them he had taken the clothes to Paris for cleaning.

Admiral Lambe said that dur- ing the war against the Com- munista, Miss Van Tam was sent by her father to Singapore, where she stayed with themi før two months.

Since that time, Admiral Lambe told the court, he had econ her in Paris and in Eng-

land.

ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES LAMBE

"She was captured by t Communists in the days of the Communisty war there," Admiral Lambe | ssid, "and stie had a lot of un-

pleasant

need

atrocities."

experiences and wit- unpleasant

SORTID

fatias, who

prisoner, and

Paris in 1956.

ther tokken went to live in.

along with

Also ww

Admiral Lambs sald he Ind "Implicit trust" in her honesty and could not envisage hew Admiral Lamha sald the girt | breaking the low “in any wayj, eventually cscaped from the UPI.

Fight took

place in

cabin of slain

woman, court

told

Boston, Feb. 17.

I believe they used the stamp The skipper of the Dutch freighter Utrecht testi-

to establish their priority on

the pictures"in "case there was

any doubt later.

The only thing that was "If we had fired successful

changed on the tiny blue and

stamp

Yellow

was the date und the addition of The hammer and sickle fag on the moon. Mr Halfield took an enlarged ploture of the new stamp and compared it with the first.

"They are the same," he said. "That's why I think the Russians actually 100% the plettres of the back side of the moon earlier than they said and then timed the re- Jean for the greatest pro... paganda triumph.

"You know, they released their

pictures Åutst before

pilot takes rocket plane

in power dive

Edwards Air Base,

Fob. 17,

Tost pilot Scott Crossfield withstood pressure of more than six times the force of gravity today as ho pulled out of the first stoop power divo svor made by the X-15 rockot plano.

The sleek streamlined plane, after being dropped from. It "mother" bomber, flow only to 50,000 feet, then nosed over in an almost vortical dive,

GREAT PRESSURES

It reached a spoed of 1,400 mph before Crossfeld pulled it out of the dive, and ni he did no subjected himself and the to great strains and

Sophocleous, 24 a former em- ployee al Governmont House, plane un-tale how he placed a bomb pressures.

under Sir John's mattress.

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Aeront) i Resist, 5 An-cay,

I was the highest gravity

"I sot the thermosent on the stress the plane bad yet t bedroom radiator at 07 degrees countored In its various fest to ensure a constant hep soflights. that the bomb would explode when I wanted.

"But the flavorsor opened hán

8 Prose, @ Mantun, 10 Btpop, 11 Rivet, 13 Deed, 13 Nepal, 16 Tester, 10 Creels, 20 Bincar, 22 Ammo, 23 Tramp, 25 Matti, 20 Martha, 27 Lavel, 28 (a)Utter, 29 Diddle. Dow: 1 REME dion, 2 Sentença, 3 Spur, 4 T-ruin-de, 0 Aaments, # Eat-ter, 7 bedroom door that night, which Aroma, 14 Promoted, 15 Lo-mon-a-do, 10 Terrier, 17 Slammed, delayed the explosion until the 10 Rattle, 21 Mo-ult, 24 Pal-I : (rov.), .

} <ina Mall Suggs1

The x-15 in designed to fly if about 100,009 Yóet and ni sprotal inqusand miles, ATS hour, probiow the outer Umta of the

*thosphere and the betoning of anker-Reuter,

Mr

picture-taking rockel, meon then the Russians could al- WAYS point to the postage stamp to prove they had the pictures first," he added.---- UPI.

Snails

go

on a

mission

Nicosia, Feb. 17. Ton thousand white wrigg- ling snails went on mission today that may save the lives of man (ost in the desort.

The snails, weighing a quar- ter of a ton, left El Adem RAF base near Tobruk, North Africa, bound for Farnborough, Eng- land, aboard a Royal Air Force Britania.

The problem is this: Snails can be found under many shrubs growing in the desert, Why can't they be dug up and caten by men without food or water?

Researchers at Farnborough went to contact experiments on the snails to see if they are poisonous.

CHANCE DISCOVERY

Dr Bazarik, of the Institute of Aviation Medicino hore but who ima boon working at El Adem, told Unitet Prom Inter- national the possibility of ving on snails had been discovered by accident, when a F. offieur lost in the desert lived on them.

fied today his radio operator, Willem Van Rie, admitted he had a fight with Lynn Kauffman in her shipboard cabin,

Loan for Malaya

London. Feb. 17. As agreement providing for a £214 million loan tram Great Britain to Malays for purchase of feloptionto and tele-com- munications equipment was signed here today—AFP.

Actor's entry into U.S. doubtful

Toronto, Feb. 17. American officials said today

Capt, Albert Do Bruijn told a hushed courtroom at Von Ric's trial on a charge of staying Miss defendant Kausman that the also admitted a romance with the American divorcee thin sluded intimacies.

The captain said the admis- sions came when ho, saw Ven Rio ka Brooklyn New York, police station on September 30,

Ves the day that

Rio was arrested for the death of the 23-year-old girl.

The girt was found murdered after the end of the voyage from Singapore with her ployers, Professor and Mrs Spector.

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DENIES INSINUATION

Another wildcas Junita

vas Mrs Spector, wife of the orientalist from Singapore,

Mi Kaufman "ircated na one of the family," had worked that Canadian actor Dou- ; for them for dıree yours.

Mrs glas Campbell, son-in-law

Spector Indignantly denied of Dame Sybil Thorndike

an insinuation by de- and Sir Lowis Casson, Jr. that there may have been force atturmey Walter Powers may not be allowed to en- something more than a mar′′O ter the United States be- employer-employee relationship cause he attended a left-between Mip Kaufman and

Professor Sprator. wing pence rally here. Campbell tried to board airliner for New York last night, but was turned back.

an

The U.S. Consul Gesterni herFA Mr Robert B. Memuninger, salų it was because he had not Aled his permit to work in New York. Campbell expected to go there to rehearse a television part--- AP.

Charges against

12 U.S. firms

But she admitted that sha and Miza Kaufman had had "disagreement" from time to Uzne-AP.

Feat duplicated

Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 17. Mary Call Collins, 17-year- old daughter.

Florida Governor Leroy Collins, was

of

dnfedted by Kay, Lamb yester day'tis à content for May Queen At Leon. High School here,

Thirty-one years ago, Kay's Philadelphia, Fob, 17/ moiner, now Mrs Marion Lamb, Twelve electrical equipment defeated Mary's mother, Now manufacturers, Inchiding the | Min Leroy Collins, for the, samo nation's two largest, Genstal honour.--UPI. Electric Company and Weating-

Electric Corporations,

a Federal

OBJECTED

Experiments have already shown, Dr Bazarsilic added, that houro 1,000 shafts are sufficient to pro- were indicted by vide nine pints of juice which Grand Jury today on anti-trust ia enough for one man to surcharges of price fixing, vive in the desert.

Yesterday the Orand Jury

London, Feb, 17, Maurton Mending, 13, and One man, he added, could col-Indicted live Arms Genstal

Electric leet this amount in two hours.

and Westinghouse Pamela Cooper, 18, yesterday were fired, from a "fiahlonable This could be the answer tormong them for complring desort survival. Why it hasn't to fix prices and rig þils in the women's hair-outing anion bo

found before, don't suio of heavy electrical equipei suuré thury, refund to have their

long had cul

been

Soutt Crossfeld

know."UPI,

Iment-AP.

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