THE 'CHINA 'MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH ́2, 1981.
Britain gets cool reception
BID TO RESOLVE EUROPE TRADE
SPLIT OFF TO
POOR START
London, Mar. 1.
Britain's proposals for overcoming Europe's trading split, launched in the Western European Union meeting on Monday by Mr Edward Heath, Lord Privy Seal, ap- peared to diplomatic observers here to- day to have got off to a bad start. The main reason for this was seen by observers as lying in the manner in which Britain had acted towards the French Government.
The British proposals were jably, esprelally as it is having made to the W.E.U. meeting in balance of payments difeulties Paris and publies d at time with Europe mnd the rest of the when a delegation of French woriel,
enlleirls was on its way to ben-1 The British would
doubtless
Motels will greet
visitors to Russia
Moscow, Mar. 1. New routes will be open to foreign tourists in Russia this year with specially equipped camping grounds and motels provided for those travelling in their own cars, the Soviet news agency Tass reported today. ·
The Soviet Union expects 180,000 foreign tourists dur- ing 1961.
A new Great Caucsus ring route will cooneel Kharkov, Rostay on Don, Krasnodar, Tbilisi, Sukhumi, Sochi and Novorossuak, Tase said, Reuter.
Maltese Labour
don to discuss with the Brillch try to avert any American ecol- government ways of overcoming nest by arguing that a settle- the trading split. The French ment of the European trade split delegation has been reported as would bring great benefits to learning about the launching of the western world as a whole The the British properals from news-,nd would fulfil a majer chjve. ive of Amellem foreign polley.
papery.
In recent months British-Reuter.
ofer is have already had similar discursit na with West Get.non government delegations,
ANNOYED
.
Careers now little exure for surple if the French felt an- noyed at Entain exploring the matter with the two ciner mout important amber of
Common Matiret, then making known its progusala a few hours befeg discussions with them.
A
Brilish spokesman has denied that the Anglo-French talks were a failure, saying that further talks were to be keld tater. But there hus
common
DANCER STAGES COMEBACK
a
Las Vegas, Mar. 1. Eleanor Powell, the movies dancing queen of two de- cados
ago, received standing ovation tonight in а spectacular show business comeback after an absence of 14 years.
Party official
to lose post
Valletta, Feb. 28. Maltese Labour Party said
Mr tonight that Anthony Pellegrini was due to lose his post as party general secretary next May as he had not been nominated.
'DR_ZHIVAGO’
Boris Pasternak
wrote sincerely: Russian says
Moscow, Mar. 1.
The Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg wrote today that he is convinced the late Boris Pasternak did not intend "to damage his country" through his novel “Dr Zhivago.”
The Ehrenburg portrait of Pasternak - generally sym- pathetic appeared in a five- page extract of his autobio« graphy published in the organ of the Soviet Writers Union, New World...
It breaks a two-year Soviet silence un the merits of Pas- ternuk us a novelist and poet. This followed the uproar which greeted the republication abroad of Dr Zhivago, a saga of re- volutionary Russia.
Ehrenburg said that Pasternak did not suspect that "a bar made of his book and that this political sensation would be blow would be inevitably turned by another."
STRIKING PAGES
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He wrote that "Dr Zhivago” bad "grieved" him but he was convinced that Pasternak wrote sincerely. There were many
was replying to The party statements made by Mr Pelle-striking pages on the nature of Krinl earlier today, when he love ll too many devoted to announced his resignation. at things the author did not sex thelding party leader Mr Dem or hear. Mintoff as unfit" and "dictu- torlat.'
for
re-
In a statement the party said 10 Me Pellegrint had failed secure nomination election at the party's annual conference next May.
The statement sald Mr
The crowd watching her frat | Pellegrini, had voted for all
executive policy de
elected
one.
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no offleist clal that show at the Sahara Hotel they made progress.
whole sho's booked for 北 Me Heath Incheb d the pre-month stand-demanded her r yasals by mying Britain was turn for three curtain calls, ready to consider
consider it the highest or harmonisex invit for awtribute I ever had," said Miss materials and
manufactured Powell. It took a lot of gluc goods Imported from pulside to put me back together but Into the two European tradita there i am.” groups,
the Common Market A capacity crowd and the European Free Trade watched the show.-UPI. Association.
He also offered- direulons en possible relacions In Britain's Commonwealth proferences.
REACTION
Under the circumstances,
reaction is be- have been one of
initial French lieved to
extreme coolness.
The United States, Japan, and Europe's "forgotten five" -Spain, Ireland, Iceland, Greece and Turkey would.
understood,
it was
outside be
British proposed common
harmonised torlif area.
the
or
of
he was
that
national cisions since Jast May
Answering his charge Mr Mintoff was unit to lead the Catholic workers of Malta,' the parly
Pellegrini bald Mr had boasted publicly recently thul he had never entered 050 | church for the past 25 years.-
China Mall Special.
60,000 miners idle
as unofficial strike spreads
Doncaster, Mar. 1.
Observers speculated whether A wages strike in north England coalfields spread
today to another seven collieries, making more than 60,000 miners idle.
the United States would regard
the discrimination implied
the British proposals unfavour-
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Strike leaders were trying,10 York- spread the strike from shire to Lancashire, where they hid
already received some support.
So far hi collieries were idle and
10 partly hit, Leaders of the unomclat strike-believed to involve about 40,000 netive participants have said in defiance of their union they were prepared for a long and bitter fight.
LOSS OF OUTPUT The regional council of the 039,000-strong National Union of Mineworkers was today re peating its call for an iramediate
return to work,
No further negotiations were scheduled at present between employers and the union on the inen's demand for a 10 per omt
in
and contract rates 411 minimum guaranteed payments
£3-58. a shift,
rise
ot
By today the loss of output since the strike began last weekend exceeded 300,000 tons -or over £1 millon-Reuter,
DEATH OF
NATO CHIEF'S MOTHER
Minneapolis, Mar. 1. Mr Mario Nomtad,
81.
mother of General Lauris
Norstad, Supreme Com- mander of NATO, died on Wednesday in Son Jose, California.
of a She was the widow former Minnesota Lutheran
was
“Dr Zhivago" has not been published in Russia, Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 but the award Soviet branded by the authorities as "hostile political act" and the author was ex- pelled from the Soviet Writers Union.
When he died last May, aged 70, his death was reported only briefly in the back pages of Soviet newspapers two days later.—Reuter.
Col. Trinquier
discovered
in Salisbury
BORIS PASTERNAK
Conflicting
testimony
in Cronin
case
Dania, Fla., Mar. 1.. Charges of leaving the scene of an accident against Princess Margaret's for mer builer still stand after the municipal court Lesti- heard conflicting mony today.
KENYATTA
The Queen's
farewell broadcast
New Delhi, Mar. 1. The Queen declored in a farowell broadcast tonight the impression the cdrios away from Indio is that of
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