THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1981.
GOVT MOVE IN SEQUEL TO BIG ANTI-TRUST CASE
Five electrical firms sued
£4,300,000 in RESCUE OF
damages claimed
Washington, Mar. 14, The Justics Department and the Tennessee Vallay Authority today filed a joint (about suit for nearly $12 million £4,300,000) against five electrical equipment manufacturers involved in the big anti-trust case in Philadelphia last month.
RAPED MISSIONARY
Leopoldville, Mar. 14. A United Nations patrol has rescued on American missionary woman, raped repeatedly by Congolese and she now waits with nino fellow countrymon
for permission to fly to safety, officials said to-
night.
A Malayan UN patrol brought the American woman, who was
raped by four Congolese soldiers Province, to the town of Kindu.
in her mission post In Kivu
100 miles west of Bukavu, om- cials said.
for
IN HYSTERICAL CONDITION | Call Fiance
tells of vain backing
bid to save
Belinda Lee's life
San Bernardino, Calif., Mar. 14. "Belinda...Belinda..." that name, half-whisper- ed over and over in a hospital room, told of the unhappy end of another romance-this one the last-for British actress Belinda Lee, The 28-year-old beauty was hurled to her death in a high on the desert speed cmashup
Italian Three They sald the patrol rescued yesterday. the girl from Kamo, 100 miles Alm-muters were injured, routheast of Kindu, where she
Today her dance, described was assaulted on March 5 in the by friends as hysterical, told of to savo her life terror and rape that vainly trying. (about reign of
Bared after
in the last seconds before the Premier
crash. Patrica Lumumba was killed.
She had travelled for the last The UN patrol brought the girl to the hotel in Kindu where three months with the group nine other members of Ameriheaded by Italian movie direc
tor Gualtiero Jacopeiti, 41, to. can missionary tamilles awaiting repatriation
whom she became engaged a chaotic Kivu Province.
The announcement of the suit was made here by
Mr Robert Kennedy, the Attorney-General.
The suit, filed in the Federal On that basis it asks for re- District Court in Philadelphia,envery of $7,478,691
of an expected | £2,671,000) on its purchases. was the Arst long series of similar actions The Justice Department asks for damages against the com- for double damnges, amounting panies by government, state to $1,421,072 (about £1,570,000) and private bodies,
on behalf of five government Named as defendants today agencies, including the Atomic were the General Electate Com Energy Commission. pany, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Fel- eral Pacific Electric Company, and I-T-B Circuit Breaker Company.
Westinghouse later issued the following statement:
"The management of West- Inghouse Electric Corporation believes that its customers have not been damaged by prices they have paid for electrical equip ONLY ONE ITEM ment, and that they received Tho claim relates to only full and fair value.
"Furthermore, electrical one item of heavy
price is only equipment lurge outdoor of one factor in evaluating the and off circuit breakers pur- worth of equipment, value re- chased by the T.V.A. and velved is the fundamental cri- Kovernment agencies between 1951 and 1980.
Air Kennedy said several other major lems were sold to the same agencles during tbla period, and the soil over the circuit breakers was "the
Aral of several conlem-
plated,"
terlan
Studies have shown thal without the value of technolo gical advances provided by the fruitful
partnership 01 the electrical manufacturers and utilities, the cost of electricity per kilowatt-hour to the con- sumer would be twice what it criminal anti-actually is today. alleging the rigging of bids and fixing of prices defend its price and equipment in the case of the damage suit companies among 20 olectrical resulted in hes totalling nearly filed today"-Reuter.
The recent trust car
$2 million
(about £714,000)
and brief juli sentences Yor
seven exccutives.
In the criminal case, GEC., Westinghouse; and Allis-
two
Chalmers had pleaded guilty to allegations of rigging bids on contracts for chreult breakers. The other
named in today's sult entered pleas on "no contest" on this charge.
Today's suit contends that on purchases of more than $25 million (about £8,000,000) worth of circuit brealters during
nino years, the last prices were about 40 per cent higher than they would have been under genuine competitive
bidding
The sul seeks to establish that T.V.A., sponsored by the government, is a private con-
cern and can therefore seck triple damages.
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NOT IDENTIFIED She was not identified. The Malayan patroi visited another American missionary family who insisted on staying at their
post be- the they operate
only schant
tha district at the
In
la
year ago.
"When the tyre blew out, I was sitting in the back seat be hind her," Jacopelt told a friend. "I tried to hold her. then all of a suddon the car started to turn around... and she was out of the cár.
cause secondary.
MORE THAN 100 MPH Maniema
The station wagon, which road worker estimated was go province.
They where Identified ng Mring more than 100 miles and Mrs Ternisira and three hour, skidded
1.100 feet after children.
Their school its left rear tyre blow. It leap atituated at
Kokumba, cast of ed a ditch and landed upside down. "Miss Lee, thrown 63 fect, Kindu.
was unconscious but alive when police arrived. A doctor pro- the nounced her dead before ambulance arrived. She suffered a skull fracture and broken neck.
Meanwhile, more nune and priests arrived here today with tales of terror and suffering at the hands of soldiers who ran wild in Kivu after Lumumba's death
Three nuns and six priests arrived in one plane this after- noon. One said at the airport, "there was a day when we saw hell"-UPI.
UN is told
'ANGOLA
SITUATION
POSES BIG THREAT TO WORLD
PEACE
Jacopett, with a broken leg, emergency surgery. underwent Friends said he was under seda- shockt lives and suffering from and grief but was out of dan- ger.
Mr. Butler backs voluntary organisations
London, Mar. 14. Mr R. A. Butler, Home
Secretary, said today the British Government would watch with great intor- est" the development of President Konnedy's pro- posed “peace corps” help in under-developed countries.
to
But he told questioners in the House of Commons, who had urged a similar scheme, that the Government thought it wise to base plans on the present voluntary organisas
s
These organisations were in auch with the Government and had expressed their pleasure that this was so.
"It would be a great mis- take in this "country if we under-estimated the will and importance of the voluntary organisations," he added. ....... The Amerifan schchto pro- "He just keeps calling her vides for Americans with ex- name over and over," Michael Perience in health, teaching, agriculture and other skills, to Guarial of Los Angeles said.mpart their knowledge while "They were very much in living with the people in under- love with each other."
Others Injured were Puolo Cavara, 34, also an Ilallan movie director, who suffered a bruised and sprained ankle, and the driver, Nino Falenga,
43, who
а suffered
fractured shoulder blade. Falenga Ilves'in Hollywood and was the Italians' adviser. He said they probably were going more than 80 at the
time.
IN HONGKONG
United Nations, Mar. 14.
Ghana told the Security Council Loday that the situation in Portuguese Angola posed great threat to international peace and security."
Guarini said Miss Lee joined: the group. in Hongkong and together with them
"a
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developed countries.--Reuter,
Makarios
London
London, Mar, 14. Archbishop Makarios, Pre-
of Labour
paper
London, Mar. 14,
Mr Ted Hill, Chairman of
the Trade Union Con- gross, today called on Britain's Dight million sub- trade unionists - to scribo a halfpenny a week to run the Daily Herald -Newspaper themselves.
Dur
The Dally Herald, ́indepen- dent leftwing mouthpiece, would always be in trouble "until
movement is big enough to face its responsibili ty," he said in an article in the offelal journal of the Boiler- makers' Society, or which he is general secretary.
The Dally Herald is in the Odham Press Group, re- contly acquired by the giant Dally Mirror organisation after a financial battle with Mr Roy Thomson, Canadian newspaper magnate.
Mr Hill told his union mêm-
bers: "If we really want to keep the paper as a Labourand trade union paper then we will have to try to and the money to do so.
"We have an income of over. £20 milion year, and yet wo cannot find a paltry halfpenny per week per member to sub- sidise and support a first class family newspaper unul it is ablu į to pay its way.”
The TUC owns 40 per cent ‹ › the Dally Herald shares, China Mall Special,
UK envoy
to Thailand named
He
to
London, Mar. 15. Mr Dermot MacDermot, 54, Under- at present Assistant Secretary for Southeast Aslan Affairs, has been appointed new British Ambassador Bangkok. the Foreign Ofice announced today.
Sir Richardi succeeds Whittington Who Is retiring from the Foreign Service,
Before talding up his present appointment, Mr MacDermot visited
was ambassador in Djakarta.
Mr MacDermot started his Tahlu, Hawall, Los Angeles and
the old Las Vegas, Nevada, She had no sident of Cyprus, arrived here career in the Foreign Service
with thelr project, connection
by air today from Nicosia to join as an interpreter documentary film
Consular Alming of a
Prime British – Japanese
Service, He has served In called "The
The Ministers conference. Woman In The "The wind of change which World." The group liad planned
The Commonwealth leaders at many capacities in Japan and has come to be identified with to ity to Rome today, then re- their session yesterday agreed Marla and ranks as a leading Mr Macmillan, Prime Minister | ti
on Far Easterts their family of alfairs. of Britain, has become a hurri tiaca to New York city to shoot unanimously that Cyprus should. British expert cane," the Ghanaian delegate, film,
semaining one-fourth of the be admitted to
nations as the 13th member.
Ho hay also scryed in Mr Alex Quatson-Sackey, dew
The Archbishop told reporters washington, and New Orleans. For the actress it was a
by differences
at London Airport: "In spite of of the past and that bitterness,
our relations with the United Kingdom are
good. The past is already gotica
clored, "Portugal cannot pre-violent end to a life marked
and ausation and remances
onded unhappily.
vent this hurricane from blow... ing through
oppressed
down-trodden colonies."
in
Mir Quaison-Sackey Gald The British Vice-Consul there had been many distur- Los Angeles sald, after receipt bances in Angola, in West of a table from Miss Lee's that the body will bo
the Commonwealth
....
forw
Asked for his views on
Africa, but a "bamboo curtain"ated in Los Angeles. No apartheid, ho said: "A policy of
had prevented the world hear-
ing of them.
REFORMS
ilme
has been
Been Bet Among Miss Lee's friends was Carlon, Liberia and the netres AnDa
Kash who United Arab Republe tabled a telephoned the hospital several resolution in the Council call times today. She told a ing for a sub-committee to examine statements concerning porter she had been a friend of years but Angola, and "to conduct such Mios Leo for many enquiries as it anay deem had not seen her on her last necessary." It also called on visit to Hollywood,AP. Portugal to consider urgently introducing reforms in Angola,
Earlier, Mr Emmanuel Dadet, of the (former French)
the Congo, naid
Portuguese had committed "numborlesa atrocities” in Angola, Franço and Britain bad gained “ad- miration and respect” for tak- ing account of changing con- diona in Africa, so why could
not Portugal do the same, he
asked.
He said entire families had been deported from Angola, and Portugal had contracted with South Africa to send Angolan laboutern to work in South, African mines-Reuter,
New Nepal order
8 survive
bomber crash
Yuba City, Calif., Mar. 14. An eight-jet B52 long range bomber, carrying an un- armed nuclear bomb, crash-landed and burst into flames today hear Yuba City.
racial discrimination cannot bo excused by any mora) standards, and repugnant and con demnable."
Asked whether he thought South Africa should stay in the. Commonwealth, he replied: an F1 newcomer to the con- ference of the Commonwealth and I don't wish to express my vidws at the moment." Rouler,
Papuan defence
corps
The Hague, Mar. 14.
A Royal decree' published in the stato gazetto today confirm- ed
establishment of
tho
aboard the Papuan defence' All Eight men Mather-based swopt-wing air New Guinea
-Reuter.
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Crops for Dutch craft survived. Two suffered The decree said the Governi broken legs.
ment considered 16 "desirable" Kathmandu, Mor. 14. | Two nro trucks crashed while that Papuans were given The Nepal government today rushing from Beale Air Fores opportunity to take part in the Issucti Q nay order which base; to the scene in afforts to detence of their own land. would entitle the government "save the 30 million plane. One The decree skid that 'milliary to demand that any Nepalese fireman was killed. Severai | training is coupled with train-, citizon return to this counity were injured, d
ing for various crafts to be
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citizenship rights, tinas crow parachuted. Two of the The Papúan Dolence Corps 18 Enters, 21. Side, 23 Alms, 20 Tights, 20 Bcd, 81 Bed, 32 ponty,
survivors were taken to Prów was established about a year. Raw, 34 Ass, 30 Trace, 37 Rouse, 38 Err, 30 Irene, 40 Doles. or impetsomment,
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