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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33424, 4 January 1974, Page 9

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1 hr crash toll i The body of a boy, less than two years old. was found yesterday tn the wreck-i [age of the Italian airliner, [that crashed near Turin Air[port on New Year’s Dav. [bringing the death toll to 39. —Turin, Jan 3. Death in Antarctic A seaman of the Japanese: [Maritime Self-Defence Force died yesterday after falling into a deep crevasse near Japan’s Antarctic observation base of Shows Leading Seaman Fumio Shintani. aged 23, was on a brief weather- [ research walk near the Japanese ice-breaker Fuji, which is now resupplying the base.' and died after being picked up from the snowcapped cre,vasse for treatment aboard the vessel. It was the first! [fatal accident involving a I member of the expedition[support ship in the Antarctic since 1955. when Japan first opened her base there. — [Tokyo, Jan. 3. Mishap at sea One person is known to 1 j have died and nine others are missing, feared drowned, after a motor-boat with 23 people aboard caught tire and 'sank off the southern Chilean, [port of Puerto Monte last [night.—Santiago. Jan. 3. 5.4. tragedy Five Africans were killed and 22 were injured when their holiday coach careered: off a bridge near the Eastern 1 [Cape Province town of Kidd's: Beach yesterday, and landed, [on its roof, in a river. —I iKidd’s Beach. Jan. 3.

Thailand and China

The Thai Cabinet has i agreed in principle to bring [forward the lifting of Thai[land’s 14-year-old ban on! . trade with China. The bill [ lifting the ban was originally! • promulgated by the Thai military regime that was overthrown in October, and! : it was due to come into force, in February. The advance-: intent follows last week’s; [visit to China by the Deputy; [Foreign Minister (Mr Chatichai Choonhaven), during iwhich China agreed to sell: [Thailand 50,000 tons of diesel! [oil.—Bangkok, Jan. 3. Popular crossing The new Bosphorus Bridge i linking Asia with Europe has .recouped 14 per cent of its [$NZl5.5m construction costs ;through toll charges in its [first two months of operation, according to the Turkish Bridge Authority. Between October 30 and the end of 1973, more than 1.695,500 ve[hides used the bridge — 35 per cent more than planners had estimated. — Istanbul,! Jan. 3. Newspaper banned Publication of the Karachi daily newspaper, the "Star.'' [has been banned for two months because it reported that large sums of money had been withdrawn from banks after they had been nationalised. An announce-■ ment by the Government of, Sind Province, of which Ka i rachi is the capital, says that [ it has taken the step “to prevent and combat activities' prejudicial to public order.” —Karachi. Jan. 3. China and the pill Between 10 million and 15 million women used birthI control pills in China in 1973. 1 reports “Ceres,” the magazine of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, adding that [the figure represented 10 to [l5 per cent of China’s esti- 1 [mated 100 million married 1 [women of reproductive age. 1 —New York, Jan. 3

Snow II hite ostracised Snow White and the seven i dwarfs have joined other vi< tints of cultural ostracism m ■ Czechoslovakia. A recording ■ of the famous children's tale , is among about 1000 records withdrawn from circulation (under an order which came into effect with the end of the Old Year. Others include ; recorded language courses in ■ Russian. German. French English. Spanish and Chines 0 ; —Prague, Jan 3. Detente offer : The Indian Foreign Ministry has disclosed that ; India has proposed to Pakistan that the two coun '.tries should meet to discuss ; the restoration to normal of relations severed since the war ot December, 1971. The 1 Indian Government has sent a Note to the Pakistan Go\ 1 ernment. suggesting that delegations from both sides [ should discuss a variety of '■ pending issues, including ' economic co-operation, the restoration of communications, and overflights over each country by the other s national airline.—New Delhi, ' Jan. 3 : Obituary I The American country and Western music star, Tex Ritter, has died suddenly in Nashville. Tennessee, at the age of 67. A singer, song writer, guitarist. author, broadcaster, and actor. Mr Ritter was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974. He was also interlested in politics, having run unsuccessfully for the United [States Senate and the Go\ ernorship of Tennessee — Nashville, Jan. 3