WORLD NEWS REPORTS SUMMARISED

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33290, 30 July 1973, Page 13

WORLD NEWS REPORTS SUMMARISED

s |State funeral “j Israel yesterday gave a “ i State funeral to Mr Arye . iLouis Pincus, the South ''African-born chairman of the s . Jewish Agency and World J i Zionist Organisation, who ’died last Tuesday, aged 61. e Thousands of people, including the President of the ; State (Professor Ephraim |‘ Katzir), Cabinet Ministers, v members of the Knesset s (' arliament), and Jewish t leaders from all over the ‘ world, filed past the fiagdraped coffin as it lay in j state. —Jerusalem, July 29. t norma Levy Norma Levy, the key figure ii ; - the call-girl scandal that -I led to the resignation of two -Biitish Government Ministers, • has begun divorce proceedings against her husband, • Colin, who, two weeks ago. iwas arrested in the Spanish ■■resort of Denia, near Valent fcia. after she had alleged that > he tried to kill her. Still de- ■ gained in a Spanish prison, he >;is wanted in Britain on a ' charge of living on immoral (learnings; she is on bail on : a prostitution charge.—Lonidon, July 29.

'Youth birched Raymond Ellis, aged 18, eiwho was convicted of bell (heading seven ducks with his elmother’s carving knife, and d I of damaging a flower nursery, o ; was given 12 strokes with the IJ birch in Guernsey yesterday, I- and sent to prison for one e month. The birching was the n first on the island for two ;, years, and was administered t in the Guernsey Prison after h Ellis had been medically e examined. A boy, aged 14, who was with Ellis was a ordered to receive four strokes of the birch, but sentence was deferred, pending an appeal. — London, July 29 2 Fresh approach 11 A new white political group 3 which aims to mobilise sup- ■ port for “urgently necessary” ■.change in South Africa has • decided to throw’ open its • membership to all races. The ’■loosely-knit group, the Ver•jligte (Enlightened) Action J Movement, has been established in an attempt to stimulate a fresh approach to 1 1 South Africa’s political probI lems, and to help change' 1 rigid positions among Parlia- ■ mentarv parties, — Pretoria,' I July 29 .

Mysterious meat ban Uruguayan meat exporters have been banned from exporting beef bought from “ suppliers after July 1. The ban, which has not "been pube licised by the Government, ’’’ and for which no reason has e been given, was disclosed e when frozen beef exporters' ° I received an order yesterday “Trom the National Meat Insti'r tute. — Montevideo, July 29. d s E.E.C. aid r! , After an all-night, session,) ' the Common Market Commis- ) sion has agreed to a plan to spend 2,400 million units of accounts (about SNZ2,IOOm) j over the next three years to . help to develop the “back-! > ward” regions of the com-1 s munity. The main bene- ’ gificaries of the fund, due to ; I come into effect next year.: Jare likely to be parts of Brit-' Jain, Italy, and the whole of, J Ireland. All are heavily depen-’ Jdent on farming areas where; ) a large proportion of the work . force is employed in declining > ■industries, and regions with - a high rate of outward migra,!tion or persistent unemployment. —Brussels, July 29. I

[Floods in India 5 I Hundreds of people are believed to have been drowned JI in floods caused by heavy ‘'monsoon rains in two North jlndian states. In Simla, the (capital of the hill state of ’lHimachal Pradesh, at least Jl2O people are missing, be.llieved to have been carried ’’away by floods from the River ' Sirsa; and in Uttah Pradesh. " people have been drowned in ' the Moradabad district, where floods from the River Ramganga have swamped large areas.—New Delhi, July • 29. , Conviction quashed The man on the back seat i of a bicycle built for two may i pedal, but is really only a (passenger, a British Court of Appeals judge has ruled. Judge Geoffrey Lovegrove allowed an appeal by Mr : Norman Howson, aged 24, against a conviction and a i £lO fine for careless cycling and ignoring a red light. ; Agreeing with the submission by Howson’s counsel that “all he could do was follow the leader,” the judge upheld the conviction of Kenneth Graham, aged 25. the front-i iseat rider. —. London, July 29j

[Killed by coconuts A girl, aged two, was “'killed, and her aunt, aged 26, h ;was injured yesterday in a e l hail of coconuts falling from J* a 50-foot palm tree on a ’*• beach in Waikiki. The police j I say that a cluster of 57 coco--nuts fell. — Honolulu, July :r, 29. i, ” Blasts in Milan ■r Bombs exploded in the d cafeteria of a Milan publishy ing house and a nearby bookshop during the night. Leaflets published by an extreme Right-wing clandestine it organisation, Mussolini y Action Squads, claimed a responsibility for the attack, if *■ Oil discovery r Another oil strike has been 1, made in the rugged Indoa nesian province of Irian Jaya g.(formerly West Irian), accordJing to a senior official of the a I State-run Pertamina Oil t • Company, who has confirmed /a Denver, Colorado, announcement by the Petromer iTrend Corporation that it had -[struck oil in its Walio No. 1 i)well, at a depth of 2800 feet.,

I ,It is the third discovery of oil! lin Petromer’s programme in sjthe province, and producton' J,iof 30,000 barrels a day from I a 'the previous finds is expected. Jto begin in September — “ Djakarta, July 29. a. e! i- Pipers claim y Pipe-Major Dennis Roddan.i of the British Army, claims to; have played the highest notes e ever heard: he says he achieved a world record by playing “Scotland the Brave”; to passengers on a flight from, 5 Munich to West Berlin at ai ° height of 16.000 feet. — 1 London, July 29. I Saturday in A. York A hot summer Saturday in ; ’ New York, during which the i temperature reached 30 de- . grees Celsius, ended with the : city police reporting: 11 J lpeople shot, one fatally; two c stabbings, one fatal; and two ■ cases of “floaters” (people ' found drowned in the rivers I around Manhattan) —all in a nine-hour period. — New, ■ i York, July 29. j