CABLE BRIEFS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31125, 30 July 1966, Page 15

CABLE BRIEFS

TRAINS HIT J About 50 people, nearly e half of them school children, u were injured when two trains \ collided in the central Japanese city of Nagoya to- I day. Police said only one was detained in hospital.—Tokyo, July 29. 1 1 COSMOS 126 The Soviet Union today ‘ launched Cosmos 126, the ( latest in a series of scientific ( research satellites gathering j information needed before man can be sent into outer • space. Tass News Agency said ' the spaceship's equipment was functioning normally.— j Moscow, July 29. i 1 VENUS STUDY The Space Agency is con- j sidering sending floating laboratories by rocket to in--1 vestigate the dense atmos- ’ phere of Venus and to check up on the planet’s tempera- ■ tures, winds, radiations and ’ chemical nature. Venus is ’ perpetually blanketed by a : heavy atmosphere which so ' far has blocked direct obser- ’ vation of its surface.—Wash- . ington, July 29. LIAISON France today appointed liaison officers with the Supreme Allied Commander tin Europe and other allied i groups following her with- • idrawal from N.A.T.O. mili- ’ tary commands. —Paris, July ’ 29. 1 NUCLEAR TEST J The Atomic Energy Comn mission conducted an underf. ground low-yield nuclear e test at its Nevada test site k yesterday as part of the Plowshare programme to de-

velop peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. A low-yield explosion is the equivalent of up to 20,000 tons of T.N.T.— Washington, July 29. GOING DOWN India’s ruling Congress Party dropped 19 per cent in popularity in the big cities of India between January and May this year, according to a Gallup poll carried out by the Indian Institute of Public Opinion.— New Delhi, July 29. MILLIONS TO ONE The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory yesterday described the chances that the asteroid Icarus might collide with the earth in 1968 . as about a thousand million , to one. Icarus will miss the ' earth by about four million miles on June 18, 1968, ac- . cording to the observatory’s ‘ latest calculations. Cami bridge (Massachusetts), July - 29. [ TO REMAIN The Malaysian Premier. ' Tunku Abdul Rahman, last night announced his intention of staying in office. The official Radio Malaysia broadI cast a statement by the • Tunku saying: “God willing, r I will remain Prime Minister 1 after this year.”—Kuala Lum- - pur, July 29. f MASS CAMPAIGN The much-publicised recent swim in Peking's Yangtze river by the Comi- munist Chinese Party chairr- man, Mao Tse-tung, has startr ed a nation-wide mass swime ming campaign, the New e China News Agency said tob- day.—Tokyo, July 29.