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
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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..
в
"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.
GT-
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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