THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, ' FEBRUARY ́ ́§, · 1981; ·
De Gaulle Bourguiba to Loot in Peter discuss Algeria burglary less
invites The captain
Paris, Fab. 8..
to high post
Lawford
than reported
went on a week-long
spree
Canterbury, Fob. 0.
An Australian yacht cap.
tain, Alfred Gain, 35, spent £33 on liquor and cigarettes in a week-long sproe, East Kent quarter sõssions was told today.
General de Gaulle today proposed a Negro appointed
February 18 meeting between himself
Now York, Feb. 8. and President Habib Bourguiba of
District attorney Frank S
Gain had lived for eight Hogan told today that; Washington, Feb. 8.
months on board his '£3,500 Tunisia to discuss the Algerian situa-
the loot in the rather 40-ton
yacht Fioranla AL The Senate Banking Com- tion, it was learned here tonight.
mittee today approved Presi- mysterious Pator Lawford] Ramsgate, the prosecution said, burglary was nor more but left it when ho found I The meeting, regarded as an important move to-dent Kennedy's nomination of
Weaver, Robert
53-year-old i than $2,000.
was leaking and went to a hotel wards peace negotiations over Algeria, was New York Negro, to be Federal
that Original reports were
in the lowb made during an hour-long meeting between Housing
The about $30,000 worth of jewellery the French president and the Tunisian In-ted States to which a Nethe and $1,000 in cash were taken Barcelona, Spain, Mra Ngaire
from the Savoy Hilton suite of formation Minister, Mr Mohamed Masmoudi, has been appointed---Reuter.
Prezident Kennedy' rister and brother-in-law whd. shey were in Washington last mofith for the inauguration.
Mr Masmoudi, former Tuni- atan ambassador in Paris, fal expected to fly back to Tunla tomorrow to confer with Presi- dent Bougaibo on the invitation before the Preddent leaves for hts annual health visit to Swit- zerland.
According to reports from Tunis, President Bourguiba will consult the Algerian Insurgent leader. Mr Ferhat Abbas before going to Switzerland
'CATASTROPHE'
The President is belleved anxious to meet General de Gaulle as too long a delay in geling negotiations going be- tween the French government and the insurgents could be "a catastrophe,"
Mr Abbas is expected back in Tunis tamerrow or Friday after
a visit to Southeast Asia.
French
government circles described this moraine's father Gaulle between General de Rnd Mr Masinaudi s "very Ballsfactory."
tendency
While there is no here to regard Algerian pence
New sue
Administrator.
to which a Negro
York to electric
company
New York, Feb. 8.
New York is to sue the General Electric Company for damages for overcharging, Mr Robert Wagner, the Mayor, said here today. The company was one of 29 electrical groups fined in Philadelphia this week on charges of illegal price fixing and "rigging" bids.
Mr Warner said the city
and all com would sue any
which had supplied pantes
nuinment und
either had
patiations as already pleaded guilty or offered no de presidential circles are reason-
fence to the Pederal charges. that the ably optimiste
De
The city will not stand idly Gaulle-Bourguiba meeting will
conerele step in that " he add. prove a direction.
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He gave no Indication how much the city would seek in donnages from General Electric. FACE CONSEQUENCES
Is Washington. President French sources here say that Kennedy told his press it the insurgents fail to open ference today that he hoped the peace talks, the French govern- business conmunity would con- ment will press on with its aider what slept meant to "shadow" of plan for setting up autonomous take to lift the institutions
which in Algeria, with monopolistic practicca bringing more and more Mos hact led to the Federal charges. lems into the administration The Justice Department In
and with Intensifying economic Washington sald it expected to development,
The French
fie a series of suits to recover
nre prepared to sue the Government lest as a
talk on reasonable terms as
result uf Lire identical-bids
Boon as possible, but say that, practice alleged
to have **
If the insurgents make rellmi- tended over the past six years.
conditions too difficult
nary
The Anti-Trust Laws permit General de Gaulle is willing to the Government to face the consequences—Heuter. recovery of the actual
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ANNOYED
Police were annoyed because they heard nothing about the maiter until they read about it the newspapers several days Jater.
They got even more so when : the British-born actor and his wife Ignored picus for them to get in touch and make a com- plaint.
So for no one has been charged with the alleged theft, -AR
Moslems, Hindus battle
Jubbulporo, Feb. 8. Fresh violence flared be- tween Moslems and Hindus in this control Indian city today
as military and police units patrolled the streets after a night in which acid was thrown and houses burned.
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amount they think they lost, Two deaths in the latest in- the official Newcidents brought Mayor
Wagner said would
triple death roll to it. Latest seek York
poris give 38 people Injured, damages from General Electric,
(white 388 people have been ar- General Electric later said in rested sine last night. a statement that if the type of
A curfew is in force and the damage suit threatened by city's district magistrate Mayor Wagner was filed "it wifi | night described the situation es of course Le vigorously "tense." he said: "There is panic defended."-Reuter.
among the people."-Reuter.
Britain might
back neutral
in Laos
zone
London, Feb. 8.
tu-
The Earl of Home, Foreign Secretary, today in- dicated Britain might back the proposal of Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia for a neutral zone consisting of Laos and Cambodia.
Speaking on Laos in a foreign from Laos Awe incur on in- policy speech to the House of creasingly heavy responsibilly," Lorts, he declared; "Our chief Diplomatic observers recalled alm is quickly to achieve 2 that Prince Norodom Sihanouk, cease lire and then to consider | Cambodian herd of state, has how the situation of neutrality written two letters on the Lao- which was goined in 1954 can tian crisis to Mr Macmillan as be restored, either in Leos well as suggesting to the United alone or perhaps in the wider Nations General Assembly
by proposed
Prince neutral zone in Laos and Cam- Sihanouk of Cambodia."
bodia. In the letters he proposed n 14-nation conference on the Laos crisis.
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1 Bad-tempered crusineean?
(4)
4 One, perhaps, on
(7)
8 Drug source. (4)
crutches,
9 Ruler dragged in the mire?
(4)
10 Two men on the surface. (7)
11 When young, little plagles.
(4)
12 Nothing on but fish? (4)
14 Highest upright at sea. (7)
17 Praise to the skies? (5)
30 Part of the skeleton of
boat (5)
22 Raises mud or drops flour.
(7)
28 Take precedence. (4)
27 Greek character. (4)
28 They grow in hands. (7)
29 Don't walk. (4)
30 Personal overhead? (4)
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4 Body of a plane? (5)
5 That's why. (6)
May be read or sung. (5)
7 Puts on board. (5)
12 Reputed. (4)
13 Fail to find. (4)
15 Gives one the cold
(4)
16 Ordered verbally. (4)
shivers.
18 Some tax returned? (B)
20 Wine, (0)
21 May be climbed to
(0)
23 Do that again? (5)
24 Bird-man! (3)
success.
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD--Across: 1 Thrash, 5 Bunch,
8 Laden, D Madman, 10 Aisle, 11 Tears. 12 Bent, 13 Point, 18 Drains, 18 Credit, 20 Broam, 22 G-lad: 23 Beams, 20 Yucca, 20 Easter, 27 Anono, 28 Wells, 29 Trusty. Down; i Time bomb, 2 Nadlanes, 3 Slat, 4 Hansard, 8 Bear-pit, 6 Unison, 7 Colon, 14 Isolates, 16 Tenderly, 10 Demoans, 17 Ailment, 10 Itascal, 21 Route, 24 Saar,
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Lord Home said he thought it must be in the interests of the Soviet Union as much Britain, its Sesto allies and the peoples of the countries Involved that the fighting in Laos should end.
Queen watches U.S. DENIES
from peaks
as Duke goes
on a hunt
Saidu Sharif, Pakistan, Feb. 8. The Queen wearing blue slacks and a silk head- scarf, went out with binoculars on the show- capped peaks of the northwest frontier today and watched the Duke of Edinburgh shoot a mixed bag of hill partridges and duck.
bult stretch
MANNED
SPACE FLIGHT
Washington, Feb. 9.
A spokesman of the National Aeronautics And Space Administration today de- nled a statement by an American éclöntist Sydney that the United States plánánd to put an a astrandul into orbit around the earth in six week's time.
along the same path.
Mr
The #pokonan thought Warren J. Hook was referring Plans are
by will see the road being being made
to a suborbital flight wherea their host, the Wall of Swat, which will eventually
man would be sent straight up for a mountain goat hunt to- to the Soviet, Afghan and in the air and roturn to earth morrow, and Pakistani ometals Chinese borders. sold: "Our informatice is that
INFORMALLY
I had not yet been decided the Queen will shoot tomorrow."
The Queen was dressed | whether the nost muching of There, with a blonde from Plans for the host are still n_t | informally throughout today's Redstone rocket would be
final.
"strictly private propemme, manned suborbital flight, Banyard, 28, he ran up a bill of Today the Outen contented Sho were" a` light-brown wool SOME TIME AWAY £00 lo a week, the court, herself with being an onlooker three quarter length coni, But orbital flight was "some heard.
ut two separate shools-for slacks, cad scarf and stout time away, probably as much.
on a year certainly not in sixt But when the hotel manager 10rtridges in the morning and brown walking shoes."
duck in the afternech-and Blanket-swathed tribesmen weeks or six months,” presented him with his account
were on the roads to cheer tho President Kennedy sald al he had no ready money and he officials reported that the Duke
had a
Queen "pretty fair" bag.
conference she drove out twice his press
that he and Mrs Banyard left early in
today from the Swat capital. knew nothing of the Sydney the moming without, paying. It
Saldu Sharif.
normally was alleged,
slepy little mountain town, has been brought to life by the Queen's visit, its bazaara festooned with bunting and royal portraits--Router,
FINED
Gain, who said he was the role bereficiary of a £10,000 trusa fund in Australia, was fined £100 and ordered to pay £52 10s. costs for obtaining credit by fraud,
The prosecution said he had previous convictions for dishonçaly in New Zealand, fraud in Germany and theft in Cambridge.
Gain's counsel, John Gower, rald: His tragedy has bean that he knows that trust moncy is there and will always settle his debts. He bought this yacht 10 settle down and behave hirn-
self. ite did some work
towing other essels in the North Sea.”—UPI.
chartered it out and
Ship sends SOS
The Dikto tagged 31 hill pariridges out of 73 shot by the party, which went but on the Зауа called forested hill-top Gall for a five-hour shoot soon after breakfazi,
REMOTE STATE
The Queen and the Duka are spending two days of Potal relaxation" in the remote state of Swat as guests of the Woll, General Mangul Jahanzeb.
The Queen stayed behind left for the when the Duke morning shoot with the two sons of the Wall, the Walihad and
the Shahzada of Swat.
Later the Queen and the Wall Eaw an exhibition by an Italian archacologica! mission digging for Buddhist relles, and then drove through the colourful bazaar hure before joining the shooting party.
| Congolese stone
consulates
Elisabethville Feb. 0, A crowd of oxcited Africans today stoned the United States Consulato building
here and paraded shouting
hostilo slogans in frönt öf the British Consulate and United Nationt Headquär- tors.
The Duke was not in sight) when the Queen and the Wall The incident occurred follow- arrived, and they waited 35 ing a speech by Katanga Prest minutes. Tho
then Queen
dent Moise Tehomba at “Leopold walked three-quarters of II" stadium here this afternoon mile towards the shoot and | in which he violently denounced watched the Duke through UN, Secretary General Deg binoculars before he rejoined Hammarskjold's proposal to dis her,
arm regular troops in the Congo and attacked the U.S. for its ap- parent support of this plan.
report, and had no information on whether the Russian paik was manned
In Canberra, the Austrálian War Supply Minister. Mr Allen Hulme announced today that' a Black Knight rocket fred at Woomers lart night' reached a height of $50 miles' and returned to cart GO rilles from Hla Inzaghing pad. The purpose of the firing was to measure radio polacTM from outer space, but measurements of lonosphere and observation of re-entry phenomena had also been made. Reuter.
Mac visit to China report denied
London, Feb. 8. Official sources here tonight ::: categorically denied press revi ports claiming that Mr Harokt Macmillan, the Prime Minister, al was considering visiting China in the autumn for talt with
Tokyo, Feb. 9. A Japanese
Chinese leaders. vessel today caught fire off the Japanese Pacific coast and has radioed for help, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency reported.
Later the Queen saw the Duke wade through flooded paddy field at Balogram, eight miles The Agency sald the Are from here, in search of duck.
Maru aboard the No. 2 Yuko
Tomorrow the royal couple started in the engine room but will drive to Bahrain, a beauty no details were available.—AP. | spot 40 miles to the north, and
a
THE
(Lord Home's speech Indicated Britain might back the lilen of a neutral zone, but did not favour an International confer- ence until a cease fire had been achieved),
The essence of the Geneva agreement of 1954, to which Leral Home said it was for the Soviet Union and China sub- Mr Khrushchev, the Soviet scribed, was that Laos in in- Prime Minister, to buy whether ternational poilties would be! ho was going to use the
genuinely unaligned.
Stop the fighting "The most practical step is to send back the International Control Commission now. I would not be necessary them to work out new
of elaborate terms
for
and
Laotians, the Congolese and the Cubons as pawns in the cold war, or open a new chapter Di real coexistence.
Urging Russin to cancel the propaganda war, Lord Home said if the Russlank decided to proceed with it the West wouħi
counter attack. reference,
nor to summon a conference.
"When that has
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Propaganda was directed first to of all against Brish colonial Luos and hit reported back, polley. Hostilly to the West hy that, we suggest, would be the new nations was regarded by the time when we should consider Russians as a criterion of truc together if any ather further indeperlenco steps are needed.
But Britain with 100 million
The immediate thing to do wiinegres of how (Lbern] is to stop the fighting and stop coloring policy, was not pr it quickly."
pared to become the victim of
"frame-up"
Lord Home declared: "Our rola interest in Laos is law A order that the country shouki be independent. We seek no adventage for ourselves there,"
Korea pattern
On the Congo, Lord Home
He raid he could speaks-for-and: "If the Russian attempt to
Communini world,
́establish themselvON~~~te" "-the
Britain, the United States and Congo had succeeded there the Beato nilies when he cald
would now be an East-West that they sought no forward defensivo post there against the armed frontier in the Congo on
the pattern of Korea."
The Foreign Secretary aid He very much hopod Me that Mr Joseph. Kazayubu, the Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Congo President, who had Minister," "would respond be called a round tatile-conference, cause every day the Interna was "making progress, toward Uonal Commission was withħaká, dn agreed sõlülith.”—Reuter.
The consulate was not dainage and no injuries were reported. Katorga palice succeeded in dis persing the crewd without incl-
dent-- AFP.
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The reports said that the pur- ( pose of the visit would be to start a move to bring China into the family of nations,
The officials, in denying the reports, said that these had "no
whatsoever." foundation Reuter.
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