Cabled Briefs

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32235, 2 March 1970, Page 13

Cabled Briefs

Request Granted Senator Edward Kennedy has been given permission to examine the accuracy of the transcript of his testimony at the inquest into the death of Miss Mary Jo Kopechne. Judge Wilfred Paquet, of the Suffolk Superior Court, granted Senator Kennedy's request yesterday, six days after it had been filed. — Boston, March 1. Fatal Pilgrimape Sixty-one people were [drowned when a motor boat carrying Christian pilgrims sank off Jaffna, 200 miles [ north of Colombo. The vic- ■ tints were making for the shrine of St Anthony of Padua ;on a tiny island seven miles off the Ceylon coast. The bodies of 31 of the dead have 1 been recovered.—Colombo, March 1. Helicopter Toll The Americans have lost their 1500th helicopter to enemy action in the Vietnam war, bringing to an estimated SUS3SOm the total value of helicopters thus destroyed. This does not include a further 1924 helicopters described as lost in operational accidents in Vietnam. North Vietnamese' and guerrilla ground fire has averaged one helicopter a day so far this year.—Saigon, March 1. British Withdrawal Malaysia’s Director of Operations (Tun Abdul Razak), speaking to reporters in Kuantan, said that there were many things to be discussed before the British finally withdrew from Malaysia and Singapore next year, and that there would be at least one more meeting of ministers from Malaysia, Britain, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand before then. The venue, however, had yet to be decided.—Kuala Lumpur, March 1. Snow Search Ends Soldiers have dug the last missing body, that of a Swiss Army lieutenant, from the avalanche that engulfed houses and the military headquarters at Reckingen last Tuesday. In all, 29 bodies ,have been recovered from the mass of snow—l 9 of them, Army officers who had been billeted in a converted hotel on a training exercise. One man died in hospital from injuries received when the avalanche crashed down, bringing the death toll to 30. —Reckingen, Switzerlad, Mar. Belfast Blast Belfast’s eleventh bomb attack of the year took place this morning, blasting to pieces a statue of the nineteenth - century evangelist, Hugh Hanna. No-one was injured in the blast, which was [less than 100 yards from the [scene of an explosion in a club last week, in which four i people were hurt.—Belfast, March 1.